"Basin?"

The location Claire pointed to was under a huge basin covered by thick ice, and the ice was gray-black blocking the view, so Fang Ning didn't pay attention to the anomaly here when he scanned the universe in his palm before, but now the spacecraft flew above the basin and scanned it carefully, especially the radar of the scientific research ship was stronger than that of all his warships, and the photos taken were clearer and the angle was better, and it could be seen at a glance that there was a huge colonist city under the thick gray-black ice.

It is a huge basin with a diameter of several hundred kilometers, surrounded by mountains that stretch for tens of thousands of kilometers, and a large river runs through the basin that divides the colonial city into two halves, north and south.

Through the ice, it can be seen that the colonial city was built on both sides of the river, but the main body is on the north side, especially near the high mountains near the edge of the basin, there are a large number of tall and sci-fi buildings that surround the area like tall towers.

The towers are surrounded by hundreds of meters of walls, which are clearly the heart of the colonists' city, and the mysterious signal comes from the tallest tower in it.

On the flat ground in the center of the base, there are several strangely shaped spaceships, two of them are parked on the ground, one is broken in two and falls on the ruins of the building, it is estimated that this spaceship was originally floating in the air, and the colony behind it was suddenly destroyed, I don't know if it was attacked or for some reason to fall.

The intact spaceship is still in its intact form, but I don't know if it can be opened, after all, it has a history of more than 200,000 years.

The fleet patrolled over the base and took hundreds of virtual photos, but to Fang Ning's surprise, no trace of monsters was found in this still intact colonial city, but some humanoid skeletons with skeletons much larger than human beings were found, which were estimated to be the population creatures of this civilization.

Claire has been very excited since she came to the sky above this colonial base, and kept urging Fang Ning to send someone down to collect some materials and come back to study.

However, he ignored her urging, since the last time he turned his face, the next action was not decided by her, but by Fang Ning, and he couldn't help it.

To appease her for the time being, Fang Ning parked the fleet over the core area of the colonial city, and after waiting for a while, a small fleet of eight frigates flew in the distance, and an unfamiliar communication came in.

After connecting the communication, a white man who was chewing and didn't know something, wearing a cowboy hat and holding a bewitching beauty appeared on the light screen, Fang Ning knew at a glance that this was a girl, because he had also bought one before.

The cowboy said hello:

"Hey! Brother, maybe we can discuss and explore this base together. ”

Fang Ning shook his head:

"I think you can go to other places to see, there are many ancient base ruins on this planet, we don't need to fight for a place."

Cowboy spreads his hands:

"That's a pity!"

After saying that, the communication was turned off, and the fleet went around the base in a circle and left.

Waiting for him to leave, Fang Ning couldn't resist Claire's urging, and ordered the fleet to choose an open space and start bombarding the ice below with the coil cannons on the frigate.

The coil cannon is a second-level kinetic cannon, and it is also a type of electromagnetic cannon, which can fire hard metal warheads, and has a 50% bonus to the energy shield, but it is not effective when attacking the external armor of a battleship, and it is 50% weakened.

Arm thick metal warheads are pushed by the Abe force of electromagnetic fields, both in terms of rate of fire and range much higher than that of traditional artillery, and the ice several meters thick is torn apart on the spot.

A series of hundreds of cannons were fired, and the ice in an area with a diameter of more than a kilometer was blown to pieces, and then Claire couldn't wait to send a small team of scientific research drones to descend.

Just as they began to explore here, the first colonial city had been cleared out of seven or eight open spaces, and the ice had been blasted to reveal the colonial city that had been frozen for an unknown number of thousands of years.

Most players don't have Marines in their fleets, i.e., ground forces, and can only send drones or intelligent robots down, but two players have a Space Marine unit in their fleets that are sent down to quickly clear a safe area.

The so-called Space Marines, that is, the standard ground forces of the Galactic Empire, are divided into first-class three-star ground forces according to the civilizations of the stars.

They are uniformly dressed in high-strength combat armor, which can resist the attack of almost all gunpowder weapons, and the weapons are unified as electromagnetic rifles, with grenade devices, which can launch grenades to attack fortifications, and at the same time, there are chemical thrusters behind the combat armor, which can give them short-range flight capabilities, whether it is crossing harsh terrain, or quickly evacuating, or even flying directly to the spacecraft parked at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters to evacuate quickly.

This kind of interstellar soldier can only be regarded as a low-level army in the stars, and the recruitment price is not high, about hundreds of thousands of star elements can recruit a company of interstellar soldiers to work for you, which is very popular with players who specialize in starry sky exploration.

The two teams of Space Marines walked apart and searched the ruins of the city beneath the blasted ice.

A small team of five Space Marines came to a building about fifty or sixty meters high to check the safety of the surroundings, one of the fighters took out a 20-centimeter-long metal bullet from his body and loaded it into the grenade compartment under the electromagnetic rifle full of science fiction, slapped the bullet into the gun with one palm, and pulled the trigger on the door of the building.

"Bang!"

With a small sound, the muzzle flame of the grenade erupted, and a flash of fire flickered, and the next second the gate exploded open, and countless fragments scattered in all directions, revealing a swarthy gate.

A soldier pulls out a large-caliber flashlight and turns it on, and the dazzling light illuminates the door, revealing a huge workshop, a building that is an unknown factory, and many unfinished unknown metal machinery inside.

The squad leader of the five people quickly reported to his superiors, and soon the news spread to the flagship of the ship group in the sky, and the four players were studying in front of the flagship sand table, the sand table was a holographic projection of the base below, and the scene of the explosion just now was clearly projected in front of them.

The four of them discussed, one of them passed on the order, and the team of five listened to the order and began to move forward, preparing to enter the building to investigate.

Entering the door, the team leader felt a chill that could not be stopped by armor, looked up at the inside of the building, and whispered in the team channel:

"Be careful, everyone!"

"Roger...."

"Roger...."

The building was full of cold machinery, and the cold made the machinery full of ice edges, and some places were covered with ice, especially the floor was covered with a layer of hard ice, as if it had crossed a layer of crystal.