Matthias wolfed down his bread and wiped his mouth. "I'm almost done, sir. Give me another hour and we the communicators should be ready. However, the signal range is limited at the moment. It’s no longer than twelve kilometers."

"That's good enough. We'll need to send in our men to scout our areas, and it’s dangerous to go in blind."

Matthias nodded. "I'll have them ready as soon as possible."

"Good.”

Oliver walked over and handed Adrian a slab of meat that some engineers had bought from a supermarket and left it at the base for good. However, Adrian took a packet of compressed biscuits and said, "Distribute the meat to everyone. Make sure that our rations are distributed fairly so that nobody is discontent.”

Food was precious to everyone at the moment, and it would only become even more scarce in the future. They were all eating leftovers and emergency rations, and there was little hope of finding more food from the land at the moment. If their rations ran out, everyone would be