The one-hour rest period ended.
The "test run" Lieutenant Dong Ye had announced never came. Perhaps it had been canceled outright through the "back door" reserved earlier, or perhaps Field Officer Fang Shu's on-site inspection had taken its place.
Mobile Fifth Company was given no extra time. A new mission had arrived.
In fact, no specific orders were even needed. The dull, rumbling vibrations felt at the temporary encampment were clearer and more violent than during the previous glacial avalanche. Meanwhile, the Blessing Power transmitted from the Main Base seven hundred kilometers away by the "Xuan Crystal Array," along with the dazzling trails of light it formed, proclaimed one thing—
A more brutal battle had begun.
As the commanding officer of Mobile Fifth Company, Ronan immediately received instructions from his superiors. Based on his own understanding and a brief exchange over the command channel, he relayed them to the entire company.
"According to brigade headquarters' requirements, over the next two days and twenty hours, we will push the Foundation Module 'Extension Augment' forward by one hundred and fifty kilometers... to here."
Ronan marked a point on the projected three-dimensional map of the Asteroid Battlefield. It lay far beyond the glacier blocking their path, at a major crustal fault zone.
A faint stir passed through the temporary encampment.
The standard Foundation Modules currently manufactured and deployed on the Asteroid Battlefield were two kilometers long. Their usual practice had been to install them in parallel, two layers at a time. In other words, over the next twenty hours, they had to install and connect one hundred and fifty standard Foundation Modules, while also performing the corresponding maintenance work.
Even if the initial installations were handled by the "Positioning Vehicles" dispatched from the Foundation Module Catalysis Repository, and the frontline engineering brigade was