Chapter 125: Ye Xing's Highlight Moment
Ye Xing's final count stopped at 24.
The Apollo Soldiers saw him looking around but did not stop him, because in their view, even if he was truly plotting something, he would absolutely not be able to report the intelligence he obtained back to the camp.
It was physically impossible.
But in reality, Ye Xing, Jubian, and Black Smoke were staying here precisely according to Salty Fish's strategy.
They were bait.
The reason for leaving three was Lu Yuan's suggestion.
This was precisely to allow Apollo to separate these three individuals for cross-interrogation, thereby creating the illusion that he could completely control the intelligence and the situation!
Including the dozen or so new players who died in power armor, it was all to make the entire plan seem more realistic.
Strictly speaking, seventeen military exoskeletons couldn't be considered a drop in the bucket for Cangyuan, but compared to the gains that could be obtained after winning this battle, it was worth the extravagance.
These players would all receive massive amounts of experience and a considerable amount of "death benefits," enough to compensate for their regret of not being able to play online for a day.
Salty Fish was indeed a talent.
According to his plan, Black Smoke and Jubian's identities were "technicians," and they genuinely understood technology, so no matter how they were interrogated, they wouldn't expose themselves.
As for Ye Xing, he was the core of the conspiracy.
The entire plan was actually built around him alone.
Everything else was a cover.
"You! Come over here!"
After entering the transport plane, an Apollo Soldier roughly pushed Ye Xing into a small cabin, not forgetting to add a kick to his backside.
Two minutes later, the squadron leader walked in and threw a greasy pad to Ye Xing.
"You will now draw the layout of your camp and all underground cave structures. I will ask you about the specific function of each place."
"Okay, no problem."
This was too simple for Ye Xing, the Chief Investigator; he could draw a large area in minutes. He reached for the pad, but the other side had no intention of letting go.
"I'm not finished yet. Once you've drawn it, we'll beat you up, and then you'll draw it again. If any part is different from before, we'll beat you to death! So I'm warning you, think carefully before you draw."
Oh, it seems he's not stupid after all. He's finally showing some signs of being an elite.
Beat, you can beat, there's nothing that can't be beaten.
Players have a pain threshold. Go ahead and beat him, I'm just afraid you won't make a move!
Ye Xing wanted to laugh internally, his acting skills erupted, forcing out a bitter expression, and quickly completed his artistic creation.
"Hmm, it does look like you've received drafting training," the other party took Ye Xing's map and squeezed his power armor gauntlet. "It's a pity rules are rules. This is work, no personal grudges involved. Please understand, hehehe."
You motherf***er...
The squadron leader waved his hand, and three other power armors surrounded him, performing the Apollo Eighteen Bronze Men, punching and kicking the poor Ye Xing.
After a few seconds of beating, Ye Xing completely lost consciousness, falling down like a sack full of potatoes.
"Squadron leader, this guy can't take a beating. He seems to have passed out."
"Alright! Stop for now. These natives are inferior races, with very poor physiques. It's normal for them to faint."
Ye Xing would of course faint, because he forced himself offline.
After the consciousness connection was severed, Ye Xing sprang up from the bed, sat in front of the computer, and typed furiously on the keyboard.
Player community, launch!
At the same time, Lu Yuan was sitting in front of the computer screen in the camp office, holding a cup of coffee, waiting for Ye Xing to send good news.
He had been drinking this coffee for over a month. Although it was refreshing enough, he was truly getting tired of it.
Once the rice yield completely satisfied demand, he could try planting some good tea leaves, which he happened to have in the seed bank.
While he was fantasizing, Ye Xing's intelligence had already been posted in the community.
【Jin Yi Ye Xing】: "Attention, attention! Apollo reinforcements have taken the bait, just took off from the Moon Mine 15 minutes ago!"
"Holy crap, Ye is awesome!"
【Caoyuan a Caoyuan】: "What is the scale of the reinforcements?"
【Jin Yi Ye Xing】: "One transport plane, 24 fighter jets, approximately 30 power armored infantry, plus some support personnel, no less than 10."
【Caoyuan a Caoyuan】: "In reality, that's a full aviation group."
【Fengqi Loulan】: "Good, strong, I like it."
【Bei Hai Xian Yu】: "What is the current flight status?"
【Jin Yi Ye Xing】: "They should be moving at full speed. The environment I'm in has an equivalent gravity of about 1.5 times, and it maintained that level until I temporarily went offline."
Lu Yuan secretly applauded in his heart.
Beautiful!
This was the reason Salty Fish designed an entire plan around Ye Xing!
Currently, having completed the special mission "Airdrop Oasis City" assigned by the Executive Officer, this Chief Investigator had leveled up to five.
His perception attribute had exceeded 20, completely surpassing normal human cognition, and in some aspects, he could be compared to precision instruments.
Even without observing the outside from the porthole, even with his eyes covered the entire time, Ye Xing could understand his current acceleration, roughly which direction he was accelerating towards, and whether he was turning or performing orbital maneuvers, by sensing the subtle overload changes inside the spacecraft.
This was a task that only Ye Xing could complete!
Whenever the transport plane's flight status changed, he would force himself to faint and go offline, sending the specific physical sensation data to the player community.
Salty Fish had already anticipated that Cangyuan's "captives" would be beaten, so passing out was normal, at least it wouldn't seem unnatural.
Nan Guo de Xue would constantly monitor Ye Xing's posts and, based on the intelligence he provided, input the corresponding parameters into the previously recovered supercomputer, solving the orbital differential equations in real-time to calculate the approximate position of the Apollo support forces.
This was the "method" Salty Fish came up with.
It fully leveraged the advantages of the ultimate "over-game" cheat skill of 【Player Offline Communication】, as well as the inherent characteristics of not fearing death, pain, or torture.
When this strategy was finally fully revealed, everyone in the player community expressed their admiration.
"Really despicable! So insidious! Haha, I like it!"
【Bei Hai Xian Yu】: "You flatter me, just a small trick of feigning injury~"
【Jin Yi Ye Xing】: "Holy cow, it's my flesh that's suffering, I really got beaten—"
【Bei Hai Xian Yu】: "(3) You also get triple mission experience, right?"
【Jin Yi Ye Xing】: "Shhh!"
【Victory Male God】: "What?! Extra experience again! Why don't I ever encounter such good things!"
【Mi Mang De Da Chui】: "Exactly, it's infuriating! And it's triple!"
【Ying Ji Chang Kong】: "After this mission, he'll probably be level six, where's the justice in that."
【Jin Yi Ye Xing】: "...Everyone, keep chatting, I need to go online."
"Sigh—when I can play later, I'll probably just kill people and grind monsters. Being a strategist feels like it kills brain cells.
Salty Fish, how did you come up with that? Could it be that the official developers leaked information, gave hints?"
【Victory Male God】: "Spread the word, Salty Fish has a shady deal with the developers!"
【Bei Hai Xian Yu】: "Don't falsely accuse me. I was inspired by Sister Xue's self-destruction and realized that a player's life is actually a resource with a 24-hour cooldown."
【Nan Guo de Xue】: "Huh?"
Lu Yuan leaned back in his chair, nodding with satisfaction.
The entire plan was executed very smoothly. Nan Guo de Xue had already sent him the calculated data. It was estimated that in 2 hours and 10 minutes, the Apollo reinforcement forces would arrive in Li Star's low Earth orbit.
When they were about to approach the surface of Li Star, the entire force would definitely perform an orbital maneuver to precisely land near the Devil Mountain Camp.
And this orbital maneuver would certainly not escape Ye Xing's superhuman perception.
That would be the moment the interception operation began.
An hour later, Ye Xing felt a sudden weightlessness inside the transport plane, meaning the engine had shut down. One minute later, gravity returned, clearly indicating that the transport plane had turned 180 degrees and begun to decelerate.
He fainted again, reporting the news.
Hearing that the enemy forces were acting exactly according to the planned schedule, Lu Yuan's heart couldn't help but race. This was, after all, the most expensive battle in terms of equipment in the conflicts between the two sides so far!
He opened the camp communication.
"All personnel, attention, interception operation begins."
"Mission codename, 'Free Electron'!"