Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 4 Azjan bug incident
On the Mozi scientific research ship, Chen Xiaomeng brought several beetles killed by Qin Xu to the experimental platform, and put several other live beetles into jars for research.

Putting down the laser cutter, Chen Xiaomeng took off his protective goggles and said while uploading the data.

"This beetle seems to have a high desire to attack, but in fact it has no attack power."

"Are you sure? But the fall of the outpost is a fact."

Qin Xu saw that Chen Xiaomeng's homework was finished and walked over.

"That should also be done by other bugs, and has nothing to do with this beetle. Except for its unreasonably hard shell, all other indicators are normal."

Chen Xiaomeng thought for a while and came to a conclusion.

"I also found the reason why the shell is too hard. It is a special crystal component. Its shell was originally normal, but it came into contact with this crystal during the growth process and fused with the crystal, thereby achieving an increase in hardness. A leap forward. I extracted part of the crystal and sent it to Liu Wenhan's laboratory an hour ago. I believe the results will be available there soon."

Sure enough, not long after, Chen Xiaomeng's communicator emitted a 550A sound.

"Acquire 1% progress in crystal composite coating technology."

After several days of work, Chen Xiaomeng finally closed his eyes comfortably and stretched out.

When he opened his eyes, he found that Qin Xu was looking at him without blinking. Chen Xiaomeng was stunned, "What are you doing?"

"When you finish stretching, you stretched for a minute, which is outrageous."

"I want you to take care of it! I've finished stretching, what happens next?"

Chen Xiaomeng glanced at him, but then recalled the scene of Qin Xu standing in front of him, stomping the bug under his feet with a handsome kick, and then hitting its head with a headshot.

Immediately his face turned red.

"Then, then...then what did I want to ask? By the time you finished stretching your waist, I had forgotten what I wanted to ask."

Qin Xu was interrupted several times, and when the words reached his lips, he suddenly forgot what he wanted to say.

I covered my head and thought for dozens of seconds, and finally remembered.

"Then when do we leave?"

"Where are you going?"

It was Chen Xiaomeng's turn to look confused.

"Of course, fight back to the outpost!"

Qin Xu said very seriously.

Chen Xiaomeng smiled, "We are a scientific research ship, and our main job is exploration and investigation. Fighting is not what we want to do."

"Then you don't want this planet anymore?"

Qin Xu said doubtfully.

"Of course, but we have to ask our army."

A behemoth reveals the tip of the iceberg in the small window of the research ship.

Qin Xu took a few steps forward. Although he didn't hear any sound, he could clearly feel a huge sense of oppression.

A huge spacecraft was slowly passing over their scientific research vessel, which was as big as a sesame seed.

The large transport ship of the Earth's United Nations Ground Combat Force is about to arrive at Alpha Centauri I.

On the ground of Planet Alpha, one prismatic tank after another drove out of the troop carrier, and the neatly lined infantry quickly built a solid line of defense in the open space in just an hour.

The J-25 fighter jets in the sky cut back and forth across the sky, locking on the coordinates of 38 possible insect nest locations provided by the Mozi research ship, and one after another ground-penetrating missiles were fired from the J-25's bomb bay.

The ground-penetrating missiles rushed nearly a hundred meters below the ground before exploding with a bang. The insect swarms were awakened and densely packed out of each hole.

The heavily armed helicopter carried more than a dozen missile pods and locked onto hundreds of targets instantly.

The missile bay that covered the whole body immediately fired thousands of guns. The missiles soaring into the sky drew countless white smoke and plowed the ground covered with insect swarms over and over again.

Qin Xu almost didn't recognize him when he landed on this continent again.

"Isn't this a forest? How about a forest as big as mine?"

"The insect nest of the insect swarm is there. What can be done? It's okay. The vegetation coverage of this planet is very high. Losing this small area of ​​forest is nothing. The ecosystem can still withstand it... it should be."

At the end, Chen Xiaomeng was not sure, because when he looked up, he saw that the visibility was only a few tens to a hundred meters at most, but now he could directly see the horizon from one end to the other.

Turned around, good guy, at a glance, it was all the horizon, and there was nothing left, only pieces of burnt ashes remained.

"What about the Army?"

Qin Xu looked around and found that except for the scientific researchers who had logged in again, there was no one left.

"They withdrew."

"Withdrawn?"

"It is our right to call for army support. But this is not a war after all. Once the target is cleared, the rest is still our own work."

Chen Xiaomeng explained.

The outpost was re-established, and after a month of hard work, Chen Xiaomeng and a group of scientific researchers finally understood the overall situation of the planet.

85% habitability, 20 zone giant terrestrial planet.The reason why it was increased to 85% is that the unknown atmospheric components were analyzed.

Hallucinogenic atmosphere, the modifiers for planets are happiness +10%, population birth rate +30%, crime rate +500%.

After analyzing the components, the corresponding gas is released for neutralization, eventually turning the hallucinogenic atmosphere into a fantasy atmosphere, and the correction to the planet is only +5% happiness.

Therefore, the current habitability of the planet is 85%. After urbanization is completed, the habitability will be as high as 105%, which is higher than the Earth's parent planet.

The reason why the area was changed from area 16 to area 20 is because the geology here is special and the underground world can be hollowed out to build underground unmanned factories.Mining zoning increased by 4 more than originally expected.

This is undoubtedly great news.

The scientific researchers have been working day and night on the ground for so long, which can be regarded as a worry.

Everyone took off their helmets and went outside the outpost to breathe fresh air...

Of course, it would be better if the surrounding area wasn't a vast stretch of black land that had been indiscriminately bombarded.

Qin Xu knocked on the door, and a voice asking to come in came from inside.

"Everyone is celebrating what a person is doing in the laboratory."

Qin Xu came in with two drinks and placed one on Chen Xiaomeng's workbench.

Chen Xiaomeng had just finished the work at hand and smiled and said: "I have liked to ask why since I was a child, and my father often scratched his head when asking. Later, he bought me many copies of One Hundred Thousand Whys, and gradually I stopped asking. Him."

"why?"

Qin Xu said subconsciously. As soon as he finished speaking, he realized something was wrong and said awkwardly, "I mean, why didn't you ask him."

"Because my dad is smart and always asks me why before I ask him why. If I don't know, he says it's in the book he gave me. In order to answer his questions, I read it over and over again. Those books slowly memorized everything.”

As he talked, Chen Xiaomeng's mind wandered to nowhere.

"So you are here?"

"Of course we are studying why. The beetles in the swarm already know why its shell is so hard, so why does another bug in the swarm that can destroy the outpost have such ability?"

"Have you researched it?"

"The data has just been uploaded, and the 550A side should still be processing it. But it is estimated that it will take a long time to go from theory to verification."

"why?"

"The power of the beetle is due to that special crystal, while another huge and powerful knife bug has a special DNA segment. Biological cultivation takes time, and the Earth Research Center has already started the Azjan Bug Project . Once successful, they will appear as our ground combat weapons."

"Can they be controlled?"

"Yes, or in other words, the DNA in this bug has obvious traces of human editing. In other words, they may have been ground warfare weapons of a certain civilization."

Chen Xiaomeng answered.

"But I didn't feel how strong they were. Weren't they wiped out by our army in one fell swoop?"

"That's because there was no street fighting. If this was a modern metropolis, I guarantee you that our army would be completely defeated by these bugs."

Qin Xu thought about it seriously, and then showed an expression of sudden understanding, and then said: "I don't understand."

"..."

"Oh, let's go eat. The bugs and everything are gone. Everyone asked me to come and ask you to eat, but you just chatted for so long and said a lot of nonsense that I didn't understand. I gave in. You're gone. Let's go eat."

Qin Xugang wanted to grab Chen Xiaomeng's hand and drag her out to eat, but as soon as his hand touched her, he was kicked out of the door.

Over the endless sea, a landing craft hovered alone. Suddenly, a detection instrument was thrown out of the landing craft and fell into the water with a thud.

Then the landing craft moved some distance and another detector dropped from it.

"Why is it always me..."

The spaceship flew all the way, and Qin Xu threw it away and said aggrievedly.

The detector itself is not heavy, but because it needs to be fixedly sunk to the deepest place and heavy objects are tied to it, it is still quite heavy in general.

What's pitiful is that Qin Xu is responsible for all these more than 100 detectors.No one around me had any intention of helping.

Chen Xiaomeng expressed deep sympathy for this and took out a tablet and placed it in front of Qin Xu who wanted to strike. "How about you analyze the data and we move it?"

Qin Xu looked at a bunch of messy characters on the tablet, and then there were single characters that he could understand, but when connected together, he had no idea what they meant in Chinese, and his head suddenly shook like a rattle.

The smile on Chen Xiaomeng's face became more and more kind, "That's right, hurry up, there are more than 50 here."

"Ah? Forget it, let's do it slowly... But what's down there? I've thrown away more than 100 cameras, haven't you seen it clearly yet?"

Qin Xu said while working.

"That's not a camera, it's a sensor."

While answering Qin Xu's words, he was thinking about another thing in his head.

"More than 100 are enough, what is that sensor called?"

Qin Xu said.

(End of this chapter)