The search party led by Su sent back news one after another in the afternoon.
Taking the incident as the starting point, a carpet search was carried out on the area within 500 kilometers. With the hard work of the soldiers with average abilities between the third step, the progress of this task was extremely fast. In Sue"s report, Zero and the other two captains could see. There was almost no trace of the three-hundred-kilometer area, but when the range expanded to about four hundred kilometers, the search party gradually discovered some marks of wheels.
At five hundred kilometers, the search party found dense car tracks. Judging from the tracks, the rider owned no less than three four-wheel-drive vehicles and more than twenty modified motorcycles. This was already the size of a medium-sized fleet, and they also had the ability to fight flexibly. Judging from the traces left behind by the group of bandits, they were heading towards the south of the coastline.
Although the search party continued to follow them, the clues stopped after they reached a distance of 700 kilometers due to the environment and mutated beasts.
Although Sue"s report stopped there, it gave them a general direction in which the robbers would leave. Thus, in the war room provided by George, a map of the area south of the coastline appeared above the light screen on the wall of the war room.
From the topographic map, it can be seen that the southern part of the coastline has more urban ruins, which has a lot to do with the fact that the southern part of the coastline is mostly plain. At the same time, there were a lot of mines in the known southern region. These mines were currently being excavated and produced by a small number of large companies or financial backers. However, most of them were abandoned mines from the old era.
It could be said that the southern regions of the plains had far too many places for the bandits to hide. Taking the city ruins and abandoned mines for a general count, the few of them could see more than a hundred hiding spots like this, or even more.
In turbulent times, unlike the old era, there was a perfect communication network and monitoring system. Even if the robbers hid in the no-man"s-land, they could still deduce the approximate location of the target based on the information mentioned above. In the new age, as long as you were not afraid of danger and went into the wilderness, it was not easy to find the target. Moreover, judging from the size of the enemy fleet, they could deal with dangerous situations and had a certain supply of food.
In other words, even if a lot of manpower and material resources are used to search for possible hiding spots. Even if the robbers didn"t move, it would still take them at least three to five months to locate.
Obviously, they did not have the time to waste with the robbers. As such, the atmosphere in the combat room was somewhat stifling.
"Among the items they have seized, most of them are metal components. These things are no different from trash to armed mobs. As long as they are sold, they will have value. As far as I know, there are many underground black markets in the wilderness that can be supplied with dirty goods. Maybe we can monitor the situation of these underground black markets to get information on the robbers. " Anthony suggested like this. As the captain of the vanguard team, he had always been meticulous and specialized in reverse thinking. In this pa.s.sive situation, his proposal had a certain degree of feasibility.
Through the intellectual brain in the meeting room, a few photos were displayed on the screen on the wall. On the light screen, it showed several pictures of the dead. Looking at these photos, Zero said, "We"ve already done a preliminary a.n.a.lysis on the corpses of the victims. We know that the other party has at least one person with the ability to sense their domain. The heads of two of the corpses were severely injured. Judging from the injuries, they should have been killed by a blunt weapon like the warhammer. Combined with the degree of deformation of the metal components on the SUV, the strength of the killer was at least two levels higher. However, we still have to pay attention to the fact that the average soldier of the guard is at least at the second step, while captain Sam is at the third step, which means that the killer"s ability should be at least at the fourth step. "
"What do you mean by saying all these things?" Rankin cried out impatiently.
Zero looked at him and said silently, "I want you to know that this group of robbers has a fourth stage fighting domain ability user, a perception domain ability user and at least fifty armed bandits. Such a team, even if they have the stored food, it will soon run out. "
"I see." Anthony nodded and said, "You mean, we can monitor the bases of the major cities south of the coastline. If a large amount of food is found to be sold, it can be tracked and eventually found the hiding place of the armed mob. "
"Not really." Zero shook his head and said, "That was similar to your suggestion just now. We need a more proactive way to find out where they are hiding. "
Rankin asked, "Then what can you do?"
Zero laughed and said, "If we were to make a gesture to the bases in the big cities to capture this group of armed mob, they definitely wouldn"t be able to get supplies in the cities or bases. In this situation where there is a lack of food, if they hear that a transport car filled with food is going to travel from Phoenix City to Remter, what do you think the armed mob will do? "
George slapped his thigh and said, "Of course we have to do another one in case we starve to death."
"That"s it. If everyone has no objections, I suggest we begin. " Zero said lightly, "And the code name for this operation will be "Hunger Games"!"
The deafening sound originated from the power generators in the mine, which were taken from a looting operation by the wolf thieves and became the power source for the new base. However, the generators were powered by the old-fas.h.i.+oned diesel fuel. In this new era, where solid combustion was increasingly being used, diesel was already a scarce resource. Currently, the new base only had three to five days of normal supplies of diesel, which gave the Spirit Fox a headache.
The new leader decided to give up his base at the Ruins Stadium after crossing the border and taking over the wolf thieves. Not long after they left, the t.i.tan City army began to encircle and annihilate the stadium. Of course, it was futile.
After that, Bandu carefully selected the abandoned mine just five kilometers from the coastline road behind Remt as the new base. At present, the base has been partially rebuilt to facilitate the life of the wolf thieves.
The restoration of the electric power system was one of the modifications. But now, the exhaustion of diesel has made the fox"s mind hurt. However, this was not the most important thing. Without the power supply, the most they could endure were the dark lights in the mines. What really bothered the Ghost Fox was that they were running out of food.