Since the heavy rain was caused by a large number of weather missiles draining the clouds in a very short time, the heavy rain did not last long before it stopped.
The sky returned to a state of cloudless blue sky.
Due to the evacuation of the highest rat king, Luo Xun and Yin Yan were still able to hunt the middle and lower rat kings by relying on bioelectromagnetic radar. Shortly after Fanyang's reinforcements arrived, the rat army quickly collapsed completely.
Some rats no longer blindly and madly attack, but turn around and flee up the mountains on both sides without looking back.
Of course, there are also some rats that seem to be completely overwhelmed by the battle, and are still attacking the defense lines of the human army at all costs, or they simply turn around and rush towards the army or the convoy of reinforcements in Fanyang City after losing orders from their superiors.
The behavior of these idiots is naturally to seek their own death.
The voice of the commander on the other side sounded from the traveling communicator.
The other party said with regret: "What a pity."
Zhou You knew what the other party was regretting.
Judging from the configuration of the rat army and the response of its combat command system, the rats that can participate in this battle are definitely the best of the best.
If they can all be wiped out here, the living environment of humans in the surrounding areas will definitely be greatly improved.
It is a pity that as rats become smarter and smarter, and their combat thinking becomes closer and closer to humans, rats are no longer as eager to die as before, but have become more life-saving.
Especially the more intelligent the rat is, the more he cherishes his life.
Zhou You even had a vague premonition in his heart.
He believed that the rats that had experienced this battle and then successfully escaped would be able to grow up quickly and become rat kings of all walks of life after returning to the wild, posing a new and huge threat to humans.
Although Zhou You and the scientists did not understand the social structure of rats at this time, Zhou You's conjecture had actually been secretly consistent with the rat's military exploits system.
Although the operation of the rat army today basically ended in failure and failed to achieve the core strategic purpose. It failed to capture important human captives alive and kill the holders of these knowledge, causing heavy damage to human society. But in the eyes of the rats,
In the subtle operating laws of society, this action is not a complete failure.
The rats asserted their strength.
At the same time, humans were forced to mobilize the residents of Fanyang City, interfering with the normal production of humans in Fanyang City.
Although the rats failed to kill the scientists, they killed many elite human warriors, destroyed many vehicles, and verified many new weapons and some new combat ideas.
In a way, the mice won.
The best of the surviving rats can still be improved by their military exploits, awaken stronger wisdom, and gain stronger brain control abilities.
Due to differences in physiological structure and language, humans are currently unable to send intelligence personnel into rat society, and we can still only rely on speculation about the operation of rat society.
Zhou You's speculation is absolutely correct.
After the rats completely escaped, the scene entered the mopping up phase.
Zhou You originally planned to return to the convoy to replace the humanoid armor and help the National Academy of Sciences convoy with damaged tires and transmission structures to replace tires and repair vehicles. But what he didn't expect was that Fanyang City's reinforcements and Rongcheng's army both carried armor adapted to the current human body shape.
Integrated car repair device.
The main auto repair devices promoted here in Fanyang City are some crawler-type robotic arm robots.
The Rongcheng army has integrated military logistics vehicles used by the original army. The prototypes of these vehicles are heavy trucks, with lifting devices, short-cut wheel removal robotic arms, and electronic diagnostic equipment with complete data packages.
But it is much easier to use than traveling around this "person".
Traveling around was also leisurely, so I just wore armor and wandered around the surrounding mountains. I could not only keep alert, but also try to figure out the current level of civilization of rats by observing the corpses of rats, the armor left behind by rats, and various equipment and facilities.
"Hello, Mr. Zhou, you have been famous for a long time, like thunder. When I saw you today, you are indeed a young hero, a dragon and a phoenix among men, amazing."
Just when Zhou You reached the foot of a mountain, a steady baritone voice sounded behind him.
Zhou You turned around and saw a middle-aged man wearing coarse military green clothing walking slowly, accompanied by several soldiers.
This man is not very tall, has dark skin, thick eyebrows, and has an air of self-reliance and dignity.
He walks with square steps. And if you observe carefully, you can find that his stride length is highly consistent in almost every step.
Although it was only the first time for the two parties to meet, and there was an obvious change in the voice of the previous telephone communication, Zhou You could still confirm at a glance that this was the army commander who had communicated with him before and was actually responsible for commanding today's battle.
Zhou You had admired the other person very much before, but now when he saw him, he immediately felt a strong military temperament coming from him.
Zhou You smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "Hello."
The other party walked up to Zhou You, stretched out his hand, and shook it tightly, "Hello Zhou You, my name is Zhang Jing. Commander of the Special Operations Independent Regiment of Rongcheng Military Region."
Zhang Jing did not introduce his military rank and position in detail, but Zhou You speculated that the other party should be a senior colonel at least.
Of course, in today's era, military ranks in the past may not be meaningful. What is more important is ability and ability.
Next, the two discussed for a while, finalized some consensus on the exchange of technical reserves between the two parties, and then went about their business again.
Unlike Zhou You, Zhang Jing was a relatively pure military personnel, so he didn't know much about technology. He basically only nodded to the many requests put forward by Zhou You.
However, although the other party was not very knowledgeable, Zhouyou did not just take advantage of the other party, and did not hide any secrets. He shared all the core information such as the "Guide" on regional networks and communication technology at the bottom of the box.
But what Zhou You has to admit is that these original state machines do have two brushes.
Whether it was those grenades, single-rotor aircraft, or those fully functional logistics vehicles, they all made him jealous.
Generally speaking, this technology exchange makes a lot of money from traveling around.
Zhou You then led more than ten elite combat troops to search around the hillside.
One of the soldiers carried an action camera almost as big as a human head today, and was responsible for photographing and recording the many tools left behind by the rats.
Zhou You saw the assembled parts of the heavy crossbow, and also saw the steel claws that should be installed on the mouse's feet.
There is a lot of soil embedded in the gaps between the steel claws. These are probably tools used to enhance the ability of mice to burrow, just like human hoes.
Zhou You picked up the steel claw and observed it carefully.
After watching for a while, he pulled the corpse of a rat with a hole in its head from the side, and put the steel claws on the ground onto its claws.
At the same time, Zhou You raised the steel claw in his hand and ordered to Tang Dahe beside him: "This steel claw is used to be mounted on the left forelimb. There should be more than one specification here. Please take some people to look around for more."
Let’s take a look and see if we can find all the four-legged steel claws.”
Tang Dahe immediately accepted the order and left, while Zhou You continued to examine the steel claw.
The more he looked, the tighter his frown became.
The manufacturing precision of the steel claws is very good, and the connecting parts are fastened very tightly.
Zhou You found that he couldn't figure out how mice used their fangs and claws to create such steel claws using only imagination.
He had a guess in his mind.
He believes that these steel claws should be made by human workers.
After waiting for a while, Tang Dahe and some guards indeed brought steel claws of different specifications, which were suitable for the mouse's limbs.
"These things are 100% designed and manufactured by humans. Although today's mice are very smart, they cannot have this kind of industrial design ability."
Zhou You concluded this.
In the small Kangyue County, there is a "little smart guy" like Duke who misbehaves with a good person and risks his own life to join the rats.
This country is so big and has so many people, so it is not surprising that there are more of these Crouching Dragon and Phoenix chicks.
In addition, it is also possible that rats have learned to enslave humans, perceived the benefits of holding human captives, and no longer regard humans, creatures that compete for control of the earth, as pure food, but instead began to coerce humans to work for them.
The possibility that some people, faced with life and death threats, have no choice but to become workers of rats and contribute their wisdom and labor is not small.
Zhou You will not comment on people who do this as a last resort after being captured.
After thinking about the steel claws, Zhou You and others walked halfway up the mountain, and then saw a relatively large hole hidden under the roots of a tree.
Zhou You greeted the people beside him, and everyone prepared their weapons and armor, then installed small LED light beads on their helmets and filed in.
This cave is truly unique, and the space inside is very large.
The height of the inside of the cave actually reaches nearly one meter, the depth is more than one meter, and the width is also nearly one meter.
There are many tools densely arranged, and there is even a mouth-mounted saw specially designed for mice.
There are also knock sticks that utilize the principle of leverage.
There are even nails.
I continued searching around and saw some semi-finished products.
Semi-finished products include wooden sticks, planks, and some wheel and axle structures.
Some combatants with good memories and quick reactions recognized these things immediately.
"Isn't this the same flatbed truck used by those rats digging mountains before we arrived in Kangyue County? Why are there wheels? Are these flatbed trucks used by the rats to pull dirt?"
Zhou You nodded and said: "After all, the flatbed truck is not an advanced thing, and it is also very suitable for the size of rats, so it is not surprising that rats in other areas have figured it out at the same time."
While everyone was talking, the voice of Yin Yan, who was still patrolling in the air, sounded in Zhou You's earphones.
Yin Yan told him that she did find a large number of flatbed trucks in a hollow behind the mountain that the rats had not had time to take away when they evacuated.
This discovery further proved Zhou You's speculation.
As he watched, Zhou You suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he pointed the action camera at the flatbed truck and turned on the action camera's measurement mode.
The standard length of these flatbed trucks was quickly measured.
The length of the wooden boards is between 1.5 decimeters and 1.7 decimeters, and the length of the wooden sticks is about 4 decimeters.
Equivalently, the wooden stick has a redundant length of 2.5 to 2.3 decimeters.
This is not a good enough design, it can even be said to be a failure.
The stick is too long.
Nowadays, these flatbed trucks are equipped with wheels, and the difficulty of pulling is much lower than the tools of the mice digging in the mountains in Kangyue County. Therefore, there is no need for such a long connecting rod. You only need to tie it to the back of the mouse with a sling.
That’s it.
Furthermore, although the size of mice is long, most of it depends on the length of their tails. If the tail is not considered and only the body is considered, the average body length of mice is actually a little more than one decimeter.
So even if there are no wheels and the board needs to be rubbed on the ground, such a long stick is not needed.
"Something is wrong. Even though these flatbed trucks are all wheeled trucks, the design ideas of their frames are very similar to those of the rats in Kangyue County. They are all wrong. The prototype of this thing is similar to that of the rats in Kangyue County.
The inventions and creations of the Mouse Tribe are of the same origin!"
Zhou You made his own judgment.
But he had new doubts in his mind.
The distance from Kangyue County to Fengquan Mountain is about 70 to 80 kilometers, which is not too far.
After all, so many days have passed, so if there are any fast mice, they can indeed migrate here from Kangyue.
but……
He remembered another thing.
"Yin Yan, first check to see if there are any mice ambush in the woods. If it is safe, go down to the ground and carefully inspect the wooden carts, especially the wear and tear of the bearings. Also, you can tell the difference between freshly cut wooden carts and
Is there any difference between wood and wood that has been chopped down for days?”
Yin Yan over there replied that she couldn't do it, but there was an old carpenter in her forties in the action team under her command who was very knowledgeable and could have people fly over by drone.
Zhou You waited for about ten minutes before a reply came from over there.
Yin Yan told Zhou You that the old carpenter believed that although the previous heavy rain had made it more difficult to judge, among all the wooden carts, some of them had indeed been manufactured for several days.
In addition, the old carpenter also discovered other abnormalities.
Some carts do not seem to have a wheel and axle structure installed at the beginning. Instead, they use wooden boards to drag on the ground. There are obvious signs of wear and tear.
Zhou You checked the time in his mind and came to a preliminary conclusion.
According to the old carpenter, the earliest wooden carts were manufactured almost at the same time as the rat he first encountered in Kangyue County trying to hollow out the base of a large power supply tower!
This shocked Zhou You.
How did the rats on both sides come up with inventions and creations so coincidentally and at the same time when they lived dozens of kilometers apart and had no effective way of communicating information?
Just when Zhou You was extremely confused, Hua Yin's voice finally sounded in his earphones.
"Zhou You, where are you now? I'm back in the convoy. Come here quickly. I have something very important to tell you."
Zhou You said yes and immediately returned on his own, letting others continue to collect intelligence and take photos.
Seven or eight minutes later, Zhou You saw the dusty Hua Yin in Sun Shu's car.
Huayin's first sentence almost gave Zhou You half of the answer.
Huayin said: "I just used a satellite phone to check information with my colleagues in the capital. My colleagues told me that they suspected that mice have regional-level global brains."