dark moon

Chapter 524 New Base

"Ouch~~~~", amidst the cry of death, the four-meter-tall beast collapsed, and dark blue blood gushes out like a fountain from more than a dozen arm-thick holes on its body, and the blood quickly fills up. It hit the ground, forming a small puddle, and a group of fist-sized flying insects quickly gathered and hovered over the blood pool, making an annoying buzzing sound.

"Hoo", a flame suddenly came out and swept over the blood pool. Under the high temperature, the insects were carbonized into powder before they could make any reaction, leaving only a pungent burnt smell in the air.

There was a sound of metal clashing, and two metal puppets with a human-shaped upper body and a hemispherical lower body came out from behind a pile of stones. The front end of one of them's right arm was still steaming, and it was obvious that the flames came from there.The two metal figures moved staggeringly towards the corpse. In front of them, more than 30 spider-shaped metal puppets clung to the ground, crawling in and out quickly.Before the humanoid arrived at the corpse, the spider puppets had already arrived. The ends of the two forelimbs of these metal spiders had turned into two high-speed rotating circular saws at some point. The giant beast's tough skin and thick muscles were sawing in the circular saw. It was like butter under a hot knife, it was cut easily.

The metal spider skillfully cut the giant beast into pieces, but only selected a part of the best quality skin and put it into the storage cabinet inside the body. The remaining parts were far away within a kilometer or two of the surrounding area. After all this, the puppets regrouped and began to move in an arc along a certain fixed route.

"Boom", the humanoid puppet's two arms turned into weapons suddenly raised to the sky, but soon put them down again and resumed normal movement. Immediately, a shuttle dragged a long tail flame across the sky, heading towards a certain Fly to a fixed target.There is no doubt that this is the vehicle that the volunteers are riding in. Through the display equipment, the captains all saw the scene of patrolling puppets hunting giant beasts. Excitement, novelty, excitement, and various emotions blended together, making the ship The elders even breathed a lot faster. Although they still tried to remain reserved, Shuer looked no different from the wild barbarians who tried to stay calm after entering the city.

From an aerial perspective, it can be seen that this is a wasteland with sparse vegetation and wide views. The surface is relatively dry, but there are several fixed water sources.A large number of wild beasts live around the water source, and the loud howls of wild beasts can be heard no matter day or night.

In the middle of the wasteland, directly opposite the shuttle, a giant humanoid puppet nearly ten meters high stood there. The puppet was motionless, as if sleeping, but the scanning system in its body was continuously working. The two live ammunition weapons on board are also moving slowly.

This is a giant puppet called the Thunder Hammer by the Brown Star people. The main energy cannon on the chest can penetrate the tail armor of the battleship, and it can also cause considerable damage to the front armor. Shuer and the others have done confrontation tests before. Well, then no one is ready to try again. The giant beast face on this planet will probably be directly vaporized under the energy cannon, and not even the residue will be left.The two high-speed machine guns on the shoulders of the Thunder Hammer are one of the few live ammunition weapons in the standard equipment of the Metal Puppet. The firing rate of dozens to hundreds of rounds per minute is enough to destroy a hill as solid as a mountain in a few seconds. Rocks were blasted to pieces.

Within a ten-kilometer radius centered on it, hundreds of mechanical spiders and dozens of ball-shaped combat humanoids are patrolling, ensuring that no dangerous creatures can approach the feet of Thunder Hammer, because it is right under its feet. At the foot, a metal platform surrounded by several independent buildings has been built. An orange cross is painted on the platform, which looks particularly conspicuous from the air.On the outermost edge of these buildings, a row of metal columns are used as fences to separate them from the outside world. However, if you look closely, you can find that they are not ordinary metal columns. Protective energy is emitted from the columns and intertwined with each other to form a hemispherical shape. The light curtain locks the building complex inside.

The color of the light curtain is very dim, almost difficult to detect with the naked eye, and seems to have no effect. However, it can be seen when small insects fly by. They hit the light curtain as if they hit some elastic obstacle. , were bounced far away, while medium-sized creatures like humans were not affected. In other words, the resistance of the light curtain was not an obstacle to their power. With a little force, they could break through the light curtain and enter the interior. .

The shuttle circled several times over the camp to lower its altitude, then aimed at the platform marked with a cross and dropped vertically. As if alerted by the sound of the shuttle, the two captains who had arrived first came out from the building next to them.

As soon as it came to a stop, before even the roar of the engine equipment had dissipated, the cabin door was eagerly opened, and a group of captains rushed out of the shuttle like a charge, not caring about the two greeters. Say hello, pass them by, rush to the brown soil immediately, step hard on the solid ground, jump around like crazy, some even hold up a handful of slightly moist soil and put it on the ground. Sniffing greedily in front of the nose.

"Your Excellency Shuer." When he turned around, he found that Nina and Ryan were not as crazy as the others, but were following him and Moria. "Please don't blame them for their gaffe. Most of our ships I have never set foot on the real surface of the earth. From birth to death, I have always been on a spaceship, so I am so excited now. This excitement is not only because of the possibility of stopping and escaping, but also because Setting foot on the ground is probably the long-cherished wish of most captains."

"Oh?" Shuer raised his eyebrows, "Supposedly with your technology, it wouldn't be difficult to get down to the ground every time you repair supplies in the galaxy. Why don't you go there usually?"

"This is a rule that has been in place for thousands of years." Old Man Ryan shook his head and sighed, "The possibility of accidents on the ground is much higher than on the spacecraft. And the captain died in an accident and no new heir emerged. What will happen? It's a very troublesome thing, so it's better to avoid it as much as possible. And more importantly, everyone comes from the ground, but they have been wandering all their lives. Once they land, their fighting spirit is wiped out. Therefore, from the beginning of the Sleep Plan, the captains There are strict rules at the time, unless there are some special circumstances, or encounter the highest level of crisis, otherwise it will never be allowed to land on the surface of the planet."

"Okay." Shuer sighed, "No wonder the previous ones also behaved like this. I was still wondering what their habit was of rolling around on the ground suddenly."

"Ahem, cough, cough." One of the members of the measurement team who came over coughed a few times with a reddish face and changed the subject, "Fellow compatriots, welcome to our new home."

　I’ll watch the documentary Dinosaur Planet again
　　
　
(End of this chapter)