According to the ex-factory price of the future military industry, the cost of a ground-supporting ground-penetrating bomb that can be launched from a synchronous orbit is about S$5 million. The combat parts of the incendiary bomb must be about 5.5 million. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

200 rounds of ground-penetrating bombs is S$1.1 billion. As for those mass bombs and batteries, they must add up to about one or two hundred million.

If it was really a cannon fire, it was ten thousand taels of gold.

Less than two weeks after its departure, the expedition reached out to headquarters for supplies worth more than a billion dollars. Even if Jiang Chen's family business is as big as it is now, he has to sigh that this thing is really too expensive.

In fact, not counting the consumption of the expedition, so far, the money spent by the Star Ring Trade and the Future People Group on Mars adds up to S$20 billion. On the other hand, if you don't count the relics of the Gaia civilization of unknown value, the value created by the Martian colony is less than half of this number.

This is also the most painful part of farming on an alien planet.

You don't even know what fruit your seeds will grow from until the crops grow.

But fortunately, the front line sent not all bills, but also some other things.

In mid-February, through a comprehensive analysis of stratigraphic information and fluctuations in life signals, researchers at the Martian colony concluded that there was a more than 80 percent chance of a devil's bug nest in a granite-like natural cave about a kilometer deep in the northern part of the colony.

If the intelligence is to be trusted, this may be the shallowest devil bug nest ever discovered in a Martian colony.

Upon learning of this information, the Expedition immediately dispatched ground troops to encircle and suppress the Devil Bug Lair at this coordinate.

Using a drill cart with a large drill bit, the Expedition excavated an inclined tunnel into the target formation at an inclination of 30 degrees. Before being modified, this type of drill truck was usually used to build undersea tunnels on Earth, which is more than enough to cope with the relatively loose rock environment of Mars.

At the same time as drilling, the engineering vehicles behind also followed closely to lay steel brackets to the tunnel wall, poured cement, and cast them into concrete walls to prevent devil bugs from destroying the tunnel.

Who says humans can't make holes?

The expedition's marines proved that humans not only make holes, but also build roads along them. The concrete wall, supported by A-shaped steel, could not collapse the tunnel even if the devil worm slashed a string of cement chips on it.

The moment the drill truck rushed into the devil's nest.

The chariots behind rushed in, shooting at the devil worms that pounced on them.

A bloody massacre began.

In the face of a kilogram mass projectile that was accelerated to N times the speed of sound, the armor of the devil bug could not play an effective role in protection at all. However, with eggs behind them and their backs to their nests, they simply couldn't let go of their hands and feet to burrow into the ground and fight the invading Star Ring Marines.

A hoarse roar echoed through the tunnel, then drowned out by the sound of cannonballs.

Green blood splattered everywhere, and in just ten minutes, at least fifty adult devil worms fell in a pool of blood. Except for a few devil worms who saw that the situation was not good and retreated in a hurry, there were no more devil worms that could still move in the entire pot-shaped cave.

Having solved the biggest threat, the soldier wearing the exoskeleton jumped out of the rear hatch of the infantry vehicle, and quickly rushed in the direction of the devil's eggs with a folding steel wire fence, laying a "safety belt" between the infantry vehicle and the eggs.

This kind of barbed wire cannot be retracted after unfolding, and the strength is very high, especially in the longitudinal direction.

With all this done, the six infantrymen formed a loose formation, set up their rifles, and took up a defensive position near the devil eggs, waiting for the researchers in the car to come out and collect specimens.

A devil bug suddenly attacked from below!

However, after the two pairs of scythes pierced the barbed wire, they could not bite together and got stuck in the barbed wire. The medics immediately rushed out, dragged the soldiers who had flown out from the outside, carried them on stretchers and sent them back to the infantry vehicles.

And the devil worm, whose front teeth were stuck in the steel wire, could only twist its head frantically, trying with all its might to pull the front teeth out of the deformed barbed wire, only to find that it was all in vain.

The Marine soldiers next to him immediately stepped forward and filled dozens of mass bullets at the head of the devil bug, finally making it stop making noise. Several researchers in heavy hazmat suits stepped forward again, carefully digging the half-human-tall eggs out of the ground and placing them in large freezers for storage.

New enemies are constantly rushing up from below, and then moths crash into the wire fence.

These devil bugs, which were not afraid of death, caused a lot of trouble in sample collection, but fortunately, there were no casualties except for two Marine soldiers who were slightly injured.

Once the samples were collected, the Marines began to evacuate from the tunnel mouth in an orderly manner, leaving behind only a dark green sap and scattered stumps.

All eggs are to be sent back to the Star Ring City for study.

The Transwarp Trade had never gotten such complete live eggs, and this operation could be described as a bountiful harvest!

And in addition to those eggs, front-line field researchers also found a special flesh-red fungus in the cave.

These fungi are so small that they grow almost as one with the rock, and if you don't look closely with a magnifying glass, you might mistake it for hematite.

After analysis, the field researchers on the expedition confirmed that this fungus may be the kind of oxygen-making fungus that can survive in an anaerobic environment as the researchers of Star Ring City guessed, providing oxygen and food for Martian creatures such as devil bugs to live underground.

Specimens of devil bug eggs and oxygen-making fungi were loaded onto a rocket, and after more than a week of flight, the cryogenic pod containing the specimens was recovered by the port of Star Ring City.

These specimens have caused a new round of sensation among researchers from all over the world.

As for how they have refreshed the understanding of the geobiology community, and what new breakthroughs have appeared in biotechnology and chemical technology...... Jiang Chen was almost not interested in making a fuss with them.

It's almost March.

The new nation will vote for its own president.

Although he is not a candidate, as the behind-the-scenes controller of the new country, he still has to work hard for this election.

In addition, at the end of the same month, the precedents for the US election will also begin, and the Future People Group and the Boston Consortium have poured a lot of chips into Joseph Kennedy.

Hillary's party. Support has fallen to freezing points and it is unlikely that they will win the caucuses. There are only two people left in the most hopeful, one is Kerry, who is backed by the Morgan consortium, and the other is Joseph Kennedy.

Exactly who will emerge from the caucuses will represent the people. It is still unknown whether the main party will participate in the decisive battle in November.

Temporarily entrusting the Martian colony and researchers from various countries to Kerrwin, Jiang Chen began to focus his work on earth affairs.

The first day of March is also the last day of the Martian Creatures Exhibit.

Jiang Chen came to the open-air venue next to the Heart of the Ocean Pavilion, stood in front of the lens of the media, and delivered a speech at the closing ceremony of the exhibition in front of all the tourists who visited the place, and to all the audiences who sat in front of the TV and computer to watch the live broadcast.