474: Expedition

Soon, Sima Zhen, Shangguan Zhi, and Nangong Jidi began to get busy.

Their primary focus was the second task: inspecting and drilling the Drone swarms.

Although they had been following up on the first task, establishing and perfecting the database could only truly be done once they reached the front lines, so they prioritized the Drone mission.

Currently, Future City's Drone technology has developed to a point far beyond what the outside world can imagine.

Measured by external technology, many of Future City's Drone features are actually redundant because they are simply unnecessary.

For example, anti-interference and anti-shielding functions are primarily meant to prevent enemies from using electronic jamming and shielding to disrupt one's own Drone control.

However, the Ming Empire currently possesses no Drones at all.

While the Snow Eagle Country, Flying Lion Country, and War Bear Country do have them, they are not their primary combat force, and their development in this area is still in an Elementary stage; they haven't even developed jamming tactics yet.

Therefore, these black technologies of Future City have no practical use for now.

However, for Future City, their vision has long extended beyond the Blue Planet, aiming instead at those higher civilizations in the Outer Star Domain, including both Cultivation civilizations and technological civilizations.

Only by taking precautions now will they avoid panic and total collapse when they encounter them in the future.

But this does not mean that Future City's Drones can rampage across the Blue Planet unopposed.

One must remember that this world is currently a high-martial arts world, possessing many powerful Xuan Practitioners.

Cultivators are also quietly developing in the shadows and may well emerge after some time.

These individuals possess formidable combat power, and many avian creatures even have the ability to engage in aerial combat; they can all pose a significant threat to the Drones.

Therefore, Future City's Drone department has focused on developing the Drones' evasive capabilities, durability, recovery abilities, and balanced flight capabilities.

The goal is to ensure they can dodge in time when facing powerful attacks, possess strong protection when hit, self-repair as quickly as possible when damaged, and maintain balance to avoid being smashed to pieces when shot down, among other things...

Additionally, when the Drones encounter severe weather, such as strong winds, heavy rain, thunderstorms, or snow, they have corresponding solutions to ensure the realization of combat objectives...

This placed extremely high demands on the construction of the Drones.

Fortunately, these people are experts among experts, and many innovative ideas have been proposed one after another, enabling Future City's current Drone fleet to possess extremely high combat capability.

With the mass production of Drones, swarm tactics were proposed, and a large number of swarm combat tactics began to be drilled.

At the same time, the upgrade of tactics, in turn, forced the Drones to develop more functions, such as higher sensitivity and recognition, faster reaction capabilities, and stronger autonomous combat capabilities.

Watching the busy scene in the Drone department and the Network department, Qian Xiaosen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This was one of the main forces participating in the front-line battle.

Next, of course, he would go to coordinate the combat vehicle department, the laser department, and the electromagnetic department.

These were the big guns; with their participation, Qian Xiaosen was confident that he could blast the Sea Clan to pieces!

After a day and a night, Future City's combat team was fully prepared and ready to set out!

Long Yuan's figure appeared at the city gate.

Beside him were two high-ranking officials, Zhu Huan and Duan Hu, and behind them were Cultivator Geniuses such as Tianbao, Bai Qiming, and Meng Hongdie.

These Geniuses were not participating in the battle this time.

Their faces were full of regret, but there was no helping it; it was not yet time for them to take the stage, but the future held a vast Star Domain for them!

In fact, countless people in Future City were watching the scene of the team's departure through various light screens.

Their faces were full of pride and anticipation because many of the teams and equipment setting out this time came from their departments, or even from the hands of each and every one of them.

At this moment, everyone felt a shared sense of honor!

The light screen at the gate of Future City emitted mesmerizing light and shadows.

Countless starlight flashed by, countless lands flashed by, countless rivers and mountains flashed by.

Suddenly, a light gate appeared, as if a silver beetle had emerged from the source of a river, followed by a second, a third... continuously.

They quickly divided into twelve small squads, each with twelve armored vehicles.

After forming up, the armored vehicles simultaneously activated light screens on their decks, displaying the space inside the vehicles.

It could be seen that the space inside each armored vehicle was extremely large, divided into individual combat units.

Some were storage areas, logistics areas, training areas, and so on; in the middle, there was even an area for entertainment and leisure!

This was a vast plaza where all the team members were gathered, waving to Long Yuan and the others outside, with bright smiles beaming on every face...

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." The people of Future City were excited!

They were moved to tears, cheering frantically and waving, giving encouragement to these comrades-in-arms...

For them, the time spent striving in Future City was simply a transformative experience.

Everyone here had grown and been elevated; they already possessed higher horizons and ideals, and their thoughts had long drifted toward the more distant starry sky and the future...

Long Yuan just smiled and waved at them.

There was no impassioned battle mobilization because it simply wasn't needed!

For the outside world, such a combat team was nothing more than a dimensionality-reduction strike.

All they needed to do was not be too showy and attract the attention of even stronger entities...

Under the gaze of everyone, these silver armored vehicles began to rise silently and flew toward the high sky!

Moreover, during their flight, they constantly changed their colors, allowing themselves to blend completely into the surrounding environment.

Ordinary people would find it very difficult to discover their existence; only some strong individuals could notice them through the sound of air breaking and energy fluctuations...

According to the plan, eight of these twelve combat squads were heading to the eight Tier 3 base cities near the coast of Nanyue Base, two were heading to support Yingtian Prefecture and Linhai City, and two were stationed at the Zhoushan Delta to prepare in advance for the planned counterattack.

Qian Xiaosen was the commander-in-chief of this expedition.

He was mainly going to Yingtian Prefecture and Linhai City because he needed to deal with Prince An, Qin Yuan, and others; it was better for him to step forward.

Moreover, the fighting there was bound to be extremely fierce, and his comprehensive coordination skills were also needed.

"Young Lord, when will the Sea Clan arrive?" Zhu Huan asked, unable to help himself as he watched the constantly ascending combat vehicles.

"Soon! Their vanguard has already approached Shanhai Pass.

I hope the Northern Army can hold them off!" Long Yuan said.

"The Young Lord has no confidence in the Ming Army's Northern Army?" Zhu Huan asked suspiciously.

"That depends on the situation at the time.

I don't know too much about the combat effectiveness of the Ming Army, after all, such a major war hasn't occurred for hundreds of years..."