Aside from not letting everyone make one final charge to have some fun, the overall battle situation was so perfect it felt like a dream.
For a moment, the ragtag security team at the 12th Garrison Station all felt like they were dreaming.
They had fought four battles against unknown Xenomorph monsters within three days, suffered heavy losses, were exhausted, and even lost their Commander and were forced to abandon their base.
They were in a state of self-doubt, merely mechanically obeying the orders of the "Moon People."
And then, they suffered zero casualties… If the opponents were still the Sand People barbarians with primitive weapons from before, it wouldn’t be strange.
But the key was, the opponents had upgraded their weapons and even had tanks!
The soldiers were excited and held Yu Lian in awe, but he seemed not at all happy, expressionlessly telling everyone to clean up the battlefield.
So cool! That's a good man!
Belinda gazed foolishly at Yu Lian, who was expressionless and deep in thought, until Doctor Banks nudged her to get to work, and she then ran off, her face flushed.
If it weren't for her plain looks and ordinary figure, this might have been the start of a side quest.
Yu Lian, however, truly felt there was nothing to be happy about.
Even if barbarians drove tanks, they wouldn't become a modern army; otherwise, the princely soldiers in his hometown with Thief Eagle planes and Rabbit armored vehicles wouldn't have been beaten so badly by guerrillas.
Moreover, the Sand People were not a very intelligent race to begin with; they were physically strong and had keen senses, but their intelligence was relatively poor—that was the Balance of life.
More importantly, lacking the accumulation of history and civilization, they were destined not to be smart.
Compared to killing dozens of Sand People and their mounts, the subsequent spoils of war were what Yu Lian cared about more.
After all, with another battle, everyone's already limited ammunition was running out.
Those homemade biological batteries couldn't be used either; otherwise, a few more minutes would surely burn up the black panther car.
Now it's good; if worse comes to worst, just dismantle the batteries from these Frankenstein tanks and install them.
Vehicle energy packs are not necessarily universal, of course, but I'm already using homemade biological batteries, so why worry about this?
Back in the day, ah no, in the future, I even participated in super large-scale construction projects like converting luxury cruise ships into battlecruisers.
The Sergeant Major soon returned with a very joyful expression.
This was the first time Yu Lian had ever seen her smile.
Well, it must be admitted, although this girl had a bishounen style, or to be harsh, was a tomboy, she was still very beautiful and feminine when she smiled.
"We captured 20 Type 67 White Raven rifles and 15 crystal battle-axes and swords, we…"
"Discard them all," Yu Lian said.
The White Raven rifle was designed by the Empire's Skyfire Design Bureau over 70 years ago and is considered the most widely equipped famous rifle in the Universe.
Its advantages are simple structure, durability, extremely low cost, and ease of manufacture; its disadvantages are insufficient kinetic energy, mediocre power, and unsatisfactory accuracy.
Now, even the Empire's local defense forces no longer equip it.
However, this famous rifle is widely equipped in second and third-tier countries, as well as various underworld organizations, making it impossible to trace its origin.
All in all, these were a bunch of generic, white-board, broken guns for cannon fodder, even more cannon-fodder-like than the C10 rifles everyone was currently using.
"Collect their bullets," Yu Lian added.
If there was any value, it was that the White Raven also used 9mm steel nail bullets, which could be somewhat compatible with the C10.
Ina nodded and added, "The tanks are severely damaged, but Uncle Karl said the energy packs can be taken out for our black panther car to use.
Also, the last tank can be repaired and moved."
See, I don't even need to intervene; there are already skilled tech experts among my companions.
And we even captured a tank; although it's a Frankenstein of various origins, that plasma cannon is certainly not fake.
"Oh, don't throw away my homemade batteries when you dismantle them! They'll still be useful later."
"Hmm, I won't throw them away.
I also want to study their structure.
I feel like if I add a bit more material, they could be used as bombs."
So, you're already interested in all sorts of homemade, unconventional items now, huh?
"Also, there are twelve prisoners."
"Oh?" Yu Lian felt a headache coming on, thinking, why didn't you prefer death over surrender?
What happened to the Sand People never being slaves?
"I've already executed all of them.
Sorry, Commander, I didn't wait for your order."
"…" Although he already knew this girl would be so decisive in the "future," Yu Lian was still a bit speechless.
"Commander, I'm just a security team grunt; my future is here.
Executing prisoners of war is no big deal in this extra-galactic colony.
But you are different; you are a Moon Person with a great future and cannot be stained during a small internship."
Yu Lian thought, while that logic was sound, the way this girl, like an experienced veteran, was treating him like a naive rookie who hadn't been through the wringer of society, was subtly infuriating!
If I told you about my past life's experiences, it would surely scare you to death.
"…Clean up the battlefield and prepare to set off.
We'll pass through the canyon, and if we encounter an open area, we'll stop to rest."
"Don't worry, no one will be pursuing us for a while," Yu Lian added.
He really didn't know what else to say.
In such a narrow canyon, it didn't look like there would be an open area ahead, and it was uncertain whether the Sand People would send a second wave of pursuers, but for some reason, Ina felt Yu Lian's attitude was very confident, so she instinctively believed him.
What she didn't know was that just after everyone left in the captured tanks and black panther cars with newly replaced batteries, an almost transparent liquid slowly seeped out from the solid rock wall at the site of the scattered corpses and abandoned vehicles.
Those liquids were like marching ants with a unified command, quickly enveloping all the corpses of the Velociraptors and Sand People, as well as the several abandoned vehicles, silently decomposing and dissolving them into the finest particles, which were then completely absorbed by the liquid.
Soon, the ground returned to its previous quiet state, and the liquids slowly disappeared into the rocks, leaving no trace.
Ina also didn't know that the mountain pass they had entered, which Yu Lian referred to as the mouth of the mountain ridge "fat like a lucky cat," became indistinct after a gentle breeze swept through it.
It remained an integral part of the mountain wall, unchanging through the ages.
However, Yu Lian, who was leading everyone to eat dry rations in the open space in the middle of the canyon, knew that all of this had already happened.