But having said that, I have to confirm what happened, and it's just speculation now.

Fang Ning thought about it for a while and decided to send another exploration team over to take a look.

The new team is more of a team dedicated to investigating anomalies than prospectors, and their mission has nothing to do with reactive metal mines, and their main goal is to investigate the causes of the inexplicable mutations.

To this end, Fang Ning specially selected elites from the Lost Army, including a fifth-level high-level genetic warrior.

He didn't dare to let him go, if it was really as he guessed that there was a hidden existence under this ground, even with the strength of the thunder hammer, there would be danger, he didn't dare to let him get into danger.

After the team set off, he told Zhao Ke about his guess, if it was really as he guessed, they had to plan ahead, and if the situation was too bad, they might have to evacuate here.

Zhao Ke was a little surprised by this matter, she specially looked up some information, but the Palamon Lord Kingdom did not know much about the new star field, all of them were from the discovery of the new star field to the present, and there was no previous information, but in the spirit of caution, she also agreed to prepare more.

She suggested that if the situation was really too bad, either they would leave this area near the wild plateau and go to the other side of the planet to redevelop, or they would simply leave the planet and they would prepare to explore the depths of the new star field.

Fang Ning had no opinion, when he disconnected the communication and re-entered the game, he suddenly remembered that when he first landed on the planet, the two servants of light had said that there was a very strong will on this planet that was strongly hostile to them, and they didn't dare to come down.

This was an obvious reminder, but he didn't pay attention to it at the time, and he forgot about it later.

This also proves that there is indeed a higher life form on this planet, or will.

"Wait for the results of the exploration!"

Sure enough, the benefits are not so easy to get.

In the days that followed, he did not continue to increase his investment in the base, but focused his attention on other regions of the planet, especially those far away from the wild plateau.

Fang Ning was ninety percent sure that if there were really high-level lifeforms on this planet, there was a high probability that they would be hidden in this dangerous barbaric high-level depths, and there might be some terrifying monsters hidden in the depths of the planet's sea, but there would definitely be no high-level lifeforms.

Every few days, the exploration team would leave a video box with a full recording on the road, and put it on the road they had explored, and every once in a while, a robot would follow them to recover and send it back, so that Fang Ning could also indirectly grasp their whereabouts and understand their findings.

The video shows them quickly following the enclosed mine to the site of the previous accident, where they find the distorted former exploration team members, all of whom are twisted into unrecognizable monsters, all of them as sane as beasts.

Clean up the freaks, collect their badges, and store them in a box with the video for the bots to collect and bring back to base.

The team soon arrives at the place where something happened before, and the Captain of Exploration explains in the video:

"I could feel a strong wave of anger, resentment, and fear affecting my emotions."

This is explained by Fang Ning, this is the second video he has gotten, and the huge light curtain shows that after the exploration captain finished explaining, he ordered the team to start digging blood mud.

The exploration team members of the lowest level and the third-level elite genetic warriors are many times stronger than the previous exploration team composed of ordinary people, and the ubiquitous power in the mine can make ordinary people deform into monsters, and it has no effect on them, and large chunks of blood and mud are dug out and piled aside.

Fang Ning squinted slightly and looked at it for a while and gave an order, asking the robot to bring a piece of blood mud to study it next time he took the black box, he always had a strange feeling, but he couldn't say what it felt for a while.

On the third day, a new black box was delivered, along with a piece of blood mud, which was sent directly to the base research institute for his scientists to study.

Assistant Xiao Yezi sent the black box and two documents over, Fang Ning dealt with the two documents first, all of them were material applications and damage reports made by the person in charge of the base construction, he took a look, and was about to approve it, when suddenly the door was opened. Bang' was opened, biologist Ji Xiang and biological geneticist Li Sanjiang pushed open the door at the same time and rushed in, the two of them gasped and seemed to be running in a hurry, each holding a material in their hands, with shock and joy on their faces, which made Fang Ning's frowning brows loosen, and he watched the two rush to the office and wave the materials and said loudly:

"Your Excellency the Governor, look what I've found!"

Fang Ning took the materials handed over by the two, and first handed over the two documents to Xiao Yezi, who was the assistant arranged by Zhao Ke for him.

Pick up the material again, and it reads - Active Metal Mine Cave Blood Sludge Analysis Report.

He glanced up at the two of them with expectant expressions on their faces, and looked down carefully.

In less than a minute, his eyebrows involuntarily raised, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes, and he patiently read all the two reports, and he exhaled lightly and said:

"You're saying that the blood mud is not dirt, but a clotted blood?"

"Yes!"

The two of them answered categorically, very affirmatively.

Fang Ning didn't doubt it, although the level of the two of them was not high, they were also serious scientists, and even Li Sanjiang, who was originally an apprentice, had accumulated a lot of experience after studying a large number of animals and plants on this planet, and had been promoted from an apprentice to a first-class genetic biologist.

Although the level is not high, it will not make a low-level mistake such as treating mud as blood, which is a small experience that can be affirmed by apprentices.

Fang Ning rubbed his chin and looked at the report again, looked up and said:

"And then, do you have any discoveries or guesses?"

The two glanced at each other, Ji Xiang helped his glasses and said:

"Through the analysis and research of the existing materials and the situation we know, we have a bold guess that under the active metal mine, there is a super-large giant beast corpse buried, and the passage we dug may be the blood vessels of the giant beast corpse, and these blood sludge are blood clots clotted in the blood vessels."

"This ....."

Fang Ning didn't know what to say for a while, this guess was really bold, bold..... It's not impossible, in fact, in combination with what they say and what is in the report, he himself is inclined to this speculation.

"So what?"

"I need more research materials, preferably fieldwork!"

"Yes, I'll arrange for a force to protect your past."

At this time, there is no need to talk about any danger, no matter how dangerous it is, you have to go over and see it.

If it is true as guessed, the corpse of this super-large giant beast hidden under the bottom of the mine for several kilometers is most likely a small Leviathan, which is a little contribution to the universe in his palm, how can he let it go.

In the universe, those with a body size of more than 1,000 kilometers can be called Leviathan, which has great research value for scientists, and has a huge contribution point value to the universe in the palm of Fang Ning.

Fang Ning was in a hurry, these two were more anxious than him, they couldn't even wait a day, and they were ready to set off that day.

If he could, he actually wanted to go over, but unfortunately he couldn't get out, and he had to guard against the competitors around him.

For such a long time, there have been many enemies around him, more than a dozen guilds and four legions have landed on the planet, especially those four legions, they have the wealth to directly buy several player bases within thousands of kilometers around, including the Thunder Tiger base.

He only knew it when he received the message from Xuelu, but it was too late, and they went all out for the first landing, and the entire division and more than 100,000 combat troops landed en masse.

This can't be helped, the nearest player base to him is thousands of kilometers, where can he control such a distance.

Fortunately, none of them sent warships down, or they didn't have warships that could pass through the planet's atmosphere and enter the interior of the planet.

There are no warships, even if hundreds of thousands of ground troops attack the base, he is not afraid, in the war of the interstellar age, the ground forces have always been as an auxiliary existence of warships, and in some fortresses or fortress planets, there are a large number of anti-aircraft weapons that can also resist small fleets, on this planet, no one can block the attack of warships and guns, even if they are all tied together.

However, a head-to-head confrontation is the worst option after all, Fang Ning and Zhao Ke have discussed, try to solve it by diplomatic means, and at the same time, show off their muscles and show their strength so that they don't dare to really use force.

Don't look at the fact that there are frequent wars among the stars, and it is common to hear about which guild is at war with which guild, but in fact there are very few cases of wars between guilds and guilds.

That's because there are too many players and guilds in the regional channel, and there will always be a conflict of interest between the guild and the guild that is too big to fight, which is often heard, giving ordinary players the illusion that there are frequent wars between big forces.

In fact, disputes between guilds and guilds are usually resolved through diplomatic channels first, and only when the interests and demands are too different and the negotiations break down will war.

It's a very simple truth, the battle between the guild and the guild must be a big battle with 10,000 ships as a unit, in ancient times, there was a saying that 'a cannon sounded gold ten thousand taels', and a large-scale battle in the interstellar era will make people die of heartache.

No one's property is blown by the wind, and it is not easy for the guild to accumulate so many warships, and it is impossible to fight at the slightest dispute, otherwise the rich guild will be tossed and defeated after a few major battles.

Not to mention expensive interstellar warships, even ground forces are not cheap, the employment fee of a division is about 10 million, which generally refers to a month's time, the monthly maintenance fee is about 100,000, about 100% of the employment price, and the direct buyout fee is 10 times the employment of 100 million star dollars.

This maintenance fee may not seem like much, but this is a basic maintenance fee, and if you buy it out directly, all the expenses that should be consumed by the troops will be solved by the player, and the maintenance fee will naturally rise to one million.

Fortunately, players don't need to pay a salary, otherwise few players can afford it.

Regarding the diplomatic negotiations, it was handed over to Zhao Ke to deal with, she was familiar with this aspect, and Fang Ning was only responsible for showing her strength behind her.

Diplomacy must also have enough strength, otherwise people will fight directly, why diplomacy with the weak?

These legions probably had the same thoughts, so although they each bought a base and landed a large number of land forces, they did not immediately attack him, and they did not even warn.

If there is no such good thing on other planets, it is estimated that they will directly send a fleet to blow up his base first with a wave of orbital bombardment, and only if the fleet of this planet is useless, there is no way.

Six days later, Fang Ning received the first exploration report from the scientific research team, which contained a detailed analysis of the blood sludge and the mine environment in addition to the normal exploration report, confirming their previous suspicions.

They dug up a large piece of blood sludge to the left and right and up and down to dig deep, and after digging out a passage dozens of meters wide, they found that there was a layer of biological structure similar to the blood vessel wall at the edge of the blood sludge up and down, and although it was too long to be fossilized, the biological structure was indeed a blood vessel wall.

In other words, they were in a blood vessel with a diameter of forty or fifty meters, and the active metal deposit was actually in the body of a Leviathan corpse of unknown size.

After reading the report, Fang Ning had a very bold idea, perhaps, this active metal was actually the polymerization of trace metals contained in the body of this unknown Leviathan.

As we all know, even the human body contains trace amounts of metals, Leviathan is a creature that devours everything, and it is normal for the body to exceed the metal standard, when the Leviathan dies for I don't know how many thousands of years, even the corpse begins to become a fossil, metal deposition, convergence, absorption of residual life activity into active metal is completely possible.

"That's really..... Amazing and scary! ”

I don't know how there is such a terrible life form, and I don't know how to evolve such a large size.

Now that it had been determined that there was a Leviathan's corpse beneath the mine, he had to take advantage of it, and he had to go into the depths of the Leviathan's corpse himself.

Although it is a bit risky, it is not beneficial to not go, and it is so far away that you can't fly into your bowl out of thin air.

After making preparations, let Thunder Hammer sit in the base, he set off with a team of about 100 people, including four fifth-level high-level genetic warriors, although they were not as strong as Thunder Hammer.

At this time, he naturally couldn't be stingy with the contribution of the universe in his palm, he consumed 0.5 contribution points, and blessed himself with a million mixed energy shields, with the ability to fly, which could isolate any harmful damage to him, including mental impact.

As for his subordinates, they don't have to worry about it, the worst are all third-level elite-level genetic warriors, and the general danger is beyond them, for his subordinates, the safety of his leader is the biggest problem, and managing himself is the greatest protection for them.

He didn't bring anyone with him except this subordinate, but after entering the mine, he would join the scientific expedition team led by Ji Xiang and Li Sanjiang.

After a day of staying in the cave they had excavated, Fang Ning personally inspected the excavated cavern and determined through the universe in his palm that it was indeed a half-petrified Leviathan corpse.