Chapter 14: Resolving the Crisis
On this day, Zheng Feiyu drove the mecha out to set up beacons as before, and now they arrived in another area. The topography of this area is clearly different, it is mountainous, and the mountains have many bottomless hollows, which are connected to each other, giving people a sense of danger.
"Zhao Feng, what's the situation around now?" Zheng Feiyu asked through the communication channel. Originally, her task could not include this area, which is equivalent to not doing this task, there will be no punishment, and there is an additional reward for doing this task. And the whole reward is comprehensively evaluated based on the quantity and quality of completion, plus Zheng Feiyu has just broken through to the third level in the past few days, which makes her confident, so she decided to try her luck.
The drone controlled by Zhao Feng has already detected the area near her, and now there is not much difference between him using mental power to control the drone and using the flight control system to control the drone, and there are red dots flashing on the detection radar from time to time, but the overall situation is quite calm. During the monsoon period of the Aster Star, the primitive creatures on the planet all went underground, and very few of them went above the surface. "Report to my sister, everything is normal, no abnormalities found."
"I asked about your surroundings, I really shouldn't have listened to you, and parked the ship at the edge of D651." Area D651 is adjacent to this area, and the danger level is two, and the edge may reach three, which is still relatively dangerous.
"It's alright." Zhao Feng switched the lens, and it was normal near the spaceship. "Besides, there's nothing here that can threaten the ship, so be careful of yourself!"
Zheng Feiyu smiled and opened the navigator, which had the beacon location she marked yesterday. The purpose of these beacons is to monitor the biological activity in these areas in real time and provide corresponding intelligence analysis. If useful information is found, humans may be able to carry out timely and accurate attacks on these areas.
Searching for the traces of the Amethyst Monster is the main purpose of Zheng Feiyu's beacon this time. Once discovered, she will report the information, and the human powerhouses will flock to the area. They are all here for the Amethyst Crystal, which is the crystal nucleus of the Amethyst Monster. It can only be born in the high-quality Ziyao ore vein, and the Obsidian crystal nucleus contains extremely rich and pure spiritual power, which is an unavoidable treasure of heaven and earth. It is non-toxic, anyone can take it, and the user will have a certain chance of being raised to the next level, and it is more about the ability to improve themselves in an all-round way. Of course, there is also an upper limit to the ascension of Obsidian Crystal, and the highest record is that a seventh-level powerhouse has become an eighth-level king, making the entire star region a sensation.
Zheng Feiyu arrived at the scheduled beacon node, and she was cautious because the scanner showed that there were many creatures deep underground. It was more than ten times denser than the previous areas, and the hollows with interlaced teeth also contained inexplicable dangers, and she suddenly regretted coming to such an area. But now that I've been promoted to the third level, I still have the power to protect myself.
Now Zheng Feiyu is driving a standard mecha, with a fourth-level combat ability, and at the third-level she is already able to exert most of the mecha's abilities. So she was a little relieved that the electromagnetic rifle had been loaded, and the laser cannon had also completed the energy storage preparation. Alert all around and start setting up beacons. The first beacon lasted more than twenty minutes, and after confirming that everything was okay with the beacon, she breathed a sigh of relief and began to walk towards the other nodes.
Things went unexpectedly well, but many things were unpredictable, just when she had just finished deploying one, and there were not many tasks today, an accident appeared, and a huge digger came out of the cave near the beacon, and the target was the mecha piloted by Zheng Feiyu. For the diggers on Aster, the human steel toy is their delicious snack. They can easily tear through the protective armor of the mech, swallowing the entire mech into their stomach with sharper mouthparts.
Although Zheng Feiyu had been prepared, she was obviously stunned for a moment, and then the electromagnetic rifle in her hand quickly fired, and she came to an emergency evasion beautifully.
The mecha quickly completed the roll, and the ultra-high-speed electromagnetic rifle bullet hit the digger in mid-air, and the severe pain of the impact made the digger's position deviate by a little, which was very critical, so that Zheng Feiyu's mecha just dodged its attack. The digger swooped down and landed on the ground, letting out a low roar in his throat, and blood oozed from four fist-sized bullet holes on his body. This injury is dispensable to it, the size of the digging rat is somewhat similar to the mouse, only larger, 6 meters long, 2 meters high, the fur is light purple, and the recovery ability is extremely strong, it is a common level 3 low-level creature on the Aster Star.
The sound of the electromagnetic rifle firing interrupted Zhao Feng's state, and he was concentrating on using the drone controlled by his brain waves to make tactical moves in the air. Zhao Feng quickly switched the picture, and what caught his eye was an ugly mouse, well, he was a long-term insight. "Sister, what's that?"
"Diggers." As she spoke, she kept pulling the trigger of her electromagnetic rifle. To deal with the digger, unless the electromagnetic rifle hits its vital point, it can only cause a slight interference effect, even if the digger is hit by the electromagnetic rifle a thousand times, it will lose some blood, almost no impact on the action.
It was the first time Zhao Feng had seen such a situation, he restrained his mental power, let the drone switch to the flight control state, and wanted to focus all his attention on this battle, after all, this world was still too strange to him, and he didn't know how the people of this world fought. "Sister, be careful."
"Help me keep an eye on my surroundings." Zheng Feiyu confessed. This is also her first actual battle, and she doesn't have much confidence in her heart.
The digging rat lunged again as it dodged the electromagnetic bullets, and the massive creature was very agile. This time it chose a very tricky angle, which is the shooting dead angle of the electromagnetic rifle. Zheng Feiyu still quickly deflected the mecha, trying to dodge, but this time, the predetermined digger would not miss again, and he didn't know how it did it, so he actually twisted his body in the air, which was simply beyond the dynamics, and still locked the mecha and pounced.
"Be careful." When Zhao Feng saw this situation, he suddenly felt bad. If the controller of the mecha is him, he has many ways to deal with it, and the best way to deal with it is to crash into it head-on like a mouse. The digging rat that changed directions in the air seemed ferocious, but in fact, it also blocked its other retreats, and it had no more room to turn around.
Zheng Feiyu didn't seem to expect the sudden air turn of the digger, but she still made a quick response, her choice was to retreat from the mecha, which seemed reasonable, but it was actually the worst response, Zhao Feng knew that it was going to happen, it happened too fast, and he didn't have time to prompt.
saw Zheng Feiyu throw down the electromagnetic rifle, pull out an item from the mecha's leg, and then swept it in front of him, only to see a flash of cold light, and a sharp and piercing scream came from the digger. It was a cold weapon, which was really beyond Zhao Feng's expectations, he didn't expect that in the interstellar era with such advanced technology, there were still cold weapons, and it was this sudden cold weapon that resolved the crisis faced by Zheng Feiyu.
Electromagnetic rifles can't really effectively kill and injure mice-diggers, Zheng Feiyu knows that what is really effective against rat-diggers is cold weapons, swords and the like. The swords referred to here are not swords in the traditional sense, but war blades for mechas. Generally, cold weapons with a length of more than 3 meters and a width of more than 50 centimeters can be called combat blades, except for special combat blades.
The mechs are also equipped with a combat blade, which is a combat dagger, similar to the military dagger of the 21st century. The blade of the dagger is 21 meters long, which is comparable to the long sword of the 21st century. But if it is paired with a mecha, it is the appearance of a dagger.
The appearance of the dagger not only surprised Zhao Feng, but even the digging rat was unexpected, and it directly collided with it. After the terrible scream, a terrible wound about three meters long and 30 centimeters deep appeared on the head of the digger, and the cut of its skeleton could be seen, and it was obvious that this blow had caused it a heavy blow. However, the huge impact force of the digging rat still caused the mecha to stumble, and it lost its center of gravity for a while, so that Zheng Feiyu did not cause fatal damage to the digging rat.
The digging rat broke away from the mech, its little head was bleeding profusely, and its lilac fur had turned dark purple. It's not surprising that the blood of the creatures on the planet is purple. It is said that the digging rat has suffered a lot of damage, and it should retreat in time, as long as it wants to escape, Zheng Feiyu really can't stop it. Crypts and potholes extend in all directions, which are excellent escape routes. The digger glared at the mech, and slipped into a small cavern. I don't know how it got in, but the hole is more than twice as small as its size!
Zheng Feiyu breathed a sigh of relief, the second pounce of the digging rat just now still scared her, being inside the mecha, the impact of the digging mouse was still transmitted to her body, making her a little depressed. Fortunately, she coped and injured the digger, otherwise she would have to entangle with this disgusting digger.
"Sister, be careful, that digger hasn't stayed away yet." Zhao Feng noticed the drone's scanned imagery.
"I see it, this thing is very vindictive." As she spoke, she put the battle dagger back in its place, and walked over with the wounded digger on her back to pick up the electromagnetic rifle and mount it, as if she hadn't found the digger. The diggers seemed to be waiting for a better opportunity and did not act.
"It doesn't look like it's coming out, and diggers are generally very careful." Zheng Feiyu sighed. "Go to the next location." She began to orient, orienting herself on the navigation map.
But the digger didn't play its cards according to common sense, it actually came out of the cave and tore at the arm of the mech, and in its opinion, as long as it destroyed the arm of the mech, the mech would not be able to hurt itself.