Looking at the ice bear lying on the ground in front of him, Morning Star smiled wryly, what else could he do, originally he just wanted to buy them with a meal of cooked meat, let them be his own mounts, and send him to find a place where the infected survived, but no one expected that these guys who ate cooked meat for the first time were too self-controlled, and their stomachs were round and unable to move. In desperation, Morningstar could only let them be lazy, after all, sharpening knives is not a chopping woodman, and when these guys are rested, riding them to find them will be much faster than running around this cold planet alone.

There was nothing to do, and Morningstar walked to the distant mine. This mine is a semi-open-pit mine, there is a huge pit more than 30 meters deep, there are three mines at the edge of the pit, but two of them are in disrepair, the entrance has collapsed in half, only a few holes are faintly recognizable. Morningstar followed the road all the way to the bottom of the pit, and found nothing out of the ordinary, but found a clue at the entrance to a collapsed mine. A slice at the entrance to the collapse was filled with tiny craters that Morningstar had seen many times on ItGleason as the corrosive acid of the sickle cockroach. The scythe cockroach can fight close or far, slashing with its two sickle-like claws when it gets close to its target, and spitting acid from its mouth when it is far away, and the hole at the entrance of the collapse is the mark left by the stone after being hit by this acid.

Morningstar didn't continue to explore the cave, this kind of mine that has not been maintained for more than ten or twenty years must be full of dangers, maybe after entering the hole, touch any piece of wood, or kick any small stone will cause the mine to collapse, and then being buried alive in the mine and waiting for death is not a way for Morningstar to accept death. According to Anomaly and Abbather, the Alien is not a race that can move at temperatures of minus 20 degrees, although they have hard bone armor on the surface of their bodies, and their bodies are strong enough, they are still helpless in the face of low temperatures, although they will not die, but they will enter a frozen state, which is very similar to the suspended animation state of the Pusenchus. And the traces of this collapse Morning Star will not be mistaken, it is definitely left by the sickle cockroach.

Full of confusion and questions, Morningstar returned to the Ice Bears' resting place, and when he saw that the big ones were still asleep, Morningstar sat down next to the leader, leaning against his furry belly and closing his eyes.

Soon after, the ice bears woke up, the food in their stomachs had been turned into energy, and their spirits were rejuvenated by sleep, and the morning star and the big black cauldron were on their backs, and the dozen or so ice bears reappeared on the snowfield. Over the next three days, Morningstar and the Ice Bears found four more mines, but they had been abandoned for many years without any clues. In the past three days, after each mine, more than a dozen ice bears will be divided into two teams, one team will stay with Morning Star to protect Morning Star, and the other team will go out hunting, the big black cauldron has played a key role, and now it has been regarded as a treasure by these ice bears, and they will be carefully wiped after each use, for fear that something will go wrong. In the past three days, Morning Star has also tried his best to communicate with these ice bears, because Morning Star knows that sooner or later, they will reach their destination, and then they can no longer let these ice bears follow him, fortunately, the effect is not bad, although there are still obstacles, but compared to three days ago, there has been great progress.

Morningstar didn't teach these ice bears how to make fire, just like when humans first appeared, the first time they ate cooked food was probably just because they picked up a beast that had been burned by the fire, but at that time they hadn't discovered the use of fire, and Morningstar was just a fire that came out of nowhere.

Another night passed, and as Morningstar approached another mine on the Ice Bear Leader, Morningstar knew it was time to part with his new friends. The ground was littered with the footprints of the humans, and not far away there was the sound of machinery roaring in the mines, and Morningstar jumped off the back of the leader of the ice bears, touched the heads of the ice bears one by one, and after driving them all away, he touched the edge of the mine alone.

"Finally found it!" Morning Star, who was lying in the snow, looked at the scene in the mine, and said with a hard fist.

In this mine, more than two dozen infected humans are busy transporting boxes from the nearby processing plant to the mine. Morningstar's eyesight was so good that even with his eyes, he could tell by the clothes and appearance of the busy infected in the mines, that there were seventeen of them in charge of the transport. The Empire has evacuated most of the personnel stationed on the Liv II, and the remaining people, except for the infected, should all belong to the missing list of the 200 people. The factories around the mine are still in operation, and it is impossible for a plant of this size to be fully automated, and at least 20 to 30 people must be in charge of the normal operation of the machinery. In other words, Morning Star needs to sneak through the eyes of these nearly fifty people, not including the possible surveillance system.

Having made up his mind, Morningstar began to feel towards the factory. Along the way, Morning Star was extremely cautious, observing each place for at least five minutes, just to find the surveillance cameras. An hour had passed, and Morningstar had successfully touched the edge of the factory, but had not noticed the presence of any cameras. It stands to reason that after human beings enter the interstellar sea voyage, things like the monitoring system should exist everywhere, even in the area where ordinary people live, without violating personal privacy, the monitoring system will cover the largest area, not to mention the factory area responsible for production. But in this mine, there are no monitoring facilities, if it is not for the person in charge of the mine who is greedy for this part of the funds, it is the Heavenly Mandate Sect that destroys these monitoring in order to prevent their own small actions from being discovered, no matter which one it is, these people are all bad intentions and have done good things and helped Morning Star a lot.

The factory building in front of Morningstar was supposed to be a smelter, and the temperature in the factory building was obviously high, but there was no smoke coming out of the chimney on the top of the factory. Morningstar entered the factory through a broken window on the third floor in a few jumps, and the sight really scared Morningstar.

Crystal Energy Reactor! This product, which was jointly developed by the three parties more than ten years ago, actually appeared in this place! The crystal energy reactor is based on the energy output device on the space ship, which can be used for civil and industrial production of advanced technology, and was jointly developed by scientists from the Republic, the Alliance and the Empire more than ten years ago. Although it has been on the market for more than ten years, there are still not many industrial facilities that may use such reactors, and it is often only those state-controlled enterprises that have the conditions to use such things. The existence of the crystal energy reactor also explains why the factory is still operating, but there is no smoke coming out of the chimney. Because crystal energy is a cleaner energy source than nuclear energy, safe, radiation-free, pollution-free, as long as it does not explode, it is the perfect energy source. A mining planet like Cliff II, such a small place is obviously not qualified to use the Crystal Energy Reactor, and it is absolutely impossible for the Empire to use such technology on a planet that will be abandoned in a few decades, that is to say, these things were built by the Mandate of Heaven Sect in order to study the Death Plague Virus.

"He's so rich!" Morningstar said silently in his heart.

With a glance, Morningstar turned his attention away from the reactor and saw that in a room not far away, there were three people sitting at a small table talking, although they couldn't make a sound, but it could be seen from the lewd movements and exaggerated expressions of those guys that they were not talking about anything good.

Morningstar took out a thumb-sized spherical object from the backpack behind his waist, and after gently squeezing it, the spherical object silently broke open, revealing a six-legged insect. The little bug looks like a spider, but it is indeed a combination of Psicentus technology and alien insects, and has nothing to do with the spider that humans know. This little bug is a bug that was modified by the Pusenchus as a biological basis provided by Abbathhar, and can easily understand the user's commands, such as where to go, whether to act, and whether to explode or return after the action is over.

Under the command of Morning Star, the eavesdropper quickly followed the railing on the third floor to the wall of the room next to the projection road, and the conversation between the three people in the room also appeared in Morning Star's headphones.

"Hey, I really didn't expect you to have a leg with that woman, I really don't know how you did it, teach me some experience, let me try it too."

"What experience can you have, it's not like you haven't heard of her stories, if she takes a fancy to you, she will take the initiative to come to you, otherwise any method you use will be useful."

"That's right, I heard that half of the men in our group have had a leg with her, don't worry, sooner or later it will be your turn."

"So you've got it too?"

"Hey, that tastes, that's good!"

Morningstar snorted, knowing that there was nothing good that the group of guys were talking about. Although he didn't want to listen to the conversation of the three men in the room, Morning Star knew that he had to insist, because Morning Star still had too little information, although it had been determined that these three people were the people in the list of two hundred missing people, and it was also determined that the list of two hundred people was the researchers sent by the Mandate of Heaven Sect to Liv II, but Morning Star did not have the slightest information about their personnel deployment, so he could only choose to continue eavesdropping.

For six hours, Morning Star's ears were almost cocooned by the words of the three men, I really don't know how capable the woman in their mouth was under the bed, there was not a single repetition in the six hours, and the three men's mouths said no less than fifty scenes of joy with that woman, even Morning Star, who thought he was already ridiculous, had to admire this woman's experience in this regard.

It seemed that it was time for the shift change, and the Morning Star's ears finally stopped talking about the woman's various postures, and the three of them were obviously much more serious than the previous three, and they were all talking about the study of the death plague on Liv II.

From the conversations between the three men, Morningstar learns that the factory he is in is a place responsible for purifying a special amount of metallic elements that are essential to the cultivation of the new plague virus. The infected people, who had been carrying boxes outside, carried the finished metal from the factory to the transportation tunnel in the mine below, and then crashed and sent to the underground test base. This news was important to Morningstar, giving Morningstar the direction of his investigation and knowing what to do next, which was to infiltrate the underground base from the passage in front of him. But this process is far more dangerous than Morningstar's eavesdropping, and it needs to be considered in the long run.

Morningstar also learned another piece of information from the conversation between the three of them, which was why Liv II became the experimental base of the Mandate of Heaven Sect. Unbeknownst to the Empire's mining department, the owner of Liv II, beneath the planet's surface, there is a sizable force of insects. Later, due to the harsh climate of Liv II, the temperature became lower and lower, so this alien insect unit could only choose to dig an underground tunnel network under the ground to avoid the invasion of cold climate. But even so, this group of alien insects was still affected by the climate, and they all entered a state of suspended animation, and slept under the surface of Lief-2. Decades ago, when Lief 2 was being developed, there was an accident and the mine collapsed. In order to rescue the trapped workers, the rescuers accidentally dug a wormhole with alien insects dormant when they reopened the passage, but this news was blocked by the person in charge of Liv 2 at the time, perhaps for profit, or for their own career, in short, the person in charge at that time hid this secret in his heart and did not tell anyone. But later, this news was somehow learned by the Heavenly Mandate Sect. Since the alien worm is an indispensable part of the process of cultivating the dead plague virus, and the birth of the virus requires the extraction of a special substance from the alien worm, the Manifest Destiny Sect began to infiltrate the Liv 2 star. In follow-up research, mad scientists from the Mandate of Heaven Sect discovered that the dead plague virus made from the special substance extracted from the dormant insects of Liv 2 was far more stable than other dead plague viruses. As a result, the Mandate of Heaven Sect began a large-scale infiltration of Liv II. But at the same time, the Empire also strengthened the population import and security forces of Lief-2, because the mineral deposits here are rich and worth investing. At that time, the Mandate of Heaven Sect did not have the courage to confront the empire head-on, they chose to operate secretly, first bought off the officials of the empire on the Liv 2 star, and sent those scientists in charge of research to the Liv 2 star in batches, and then the equipment used for the research, after more than ten years of operation, they used the original swarm tunnel network in the underground of the Liv 2 star, and established a huge base. As the research work unfolded, more and more materials were needed, and the smuggling from outside the Leef-2 could no longer meet the needs of the base, so the Mandate of Heaven Sect increased its control over the Lif-2, and finally succeeded in controlling the management system on the Lif-2 in its hands, and began to use the resources produced by the planet to supply the base's research. It is precisely for this reason that the Empire's intelligence department slowly noticed the abnormality of Liv II, although they did not figure out what was going on here, but more and more people were sent to investigate, making the Mandate of Heaven Sect feel that this planet could not continue to stay. It just so happened that the development of the new Death Plague Virus had reached the end of the process, and there was already a stock of Death Virus enough to change the distribution of the human camp, and the citizens of the Empire on the Liv II had become living beings of the Mandate of Heaven Sect experimenting with the new Death Plague Virus. After more than ten years of research and manufacturing, the Mandate of Heaven Sect has basically killed the dormant insects hidden deep under the surface of Liv 2, and the rest are now suffering from a tragic slaughter, even if they are ready to evacuate Liv 2, the Mandate of Heaven Sect still does not want to give up the special substances in the bodies of these dormant insects. At this moment, the mad scientists of the Heavenly Mandate Sect, in addition to sorting out the research materials of these years, are extracting special substances from the bodies of the remaining dormant insects that are still alive by killing chickens and taking eggs.

If it was a few months ago, before Morning Star met Quinn and Abbathhar, he would not have felt any dissatisfaction with the Heavenly Mandate Sect's method of slaughtering alien insects, but after contacting Quinn, Abbathhar, and even Wangcai and Balloon, Morningstar's opinion has already changed, and the alien insects here, Morning Star wants to save them, not only that, but he also wants to destroy those dead plague viruses that have been developed, and kill all the people involved in research here.

Ordering the bugs to return, Morningstar's headphones heard the whispering of the three people in the room talking quieter.

"Huh? Did you hear anything? ”

"What sound? Didn't hear it. ”

"Is it the sound of those things outside carrying goods?"

"No, it's like a bug crawling again, it's very weak."

"No kidding, can there be bugs in this environment? Isn't it time to go home, to leave this hellish place, you're so excited. ”

"Maybe ......"

A cruel smile leaked from Morningstar's face, and he whispered, "Go home? You don't deserve a home, so stay here and be buried with those who have been infected with the plague, and with the insects! ”

The bug returned to Morning Star's hand, and at Morningstar's behest, it went into a dormant state, and a mucous membrane gradually appeared on the surface of its body, which then quickly hardened and turned into its previous spherical shape. Putting the bug in his backpack, Morningstar returned and jumped out of the factory, and not far in front of him was the entrance to the dark mine, which was also the entrance to the underground base.

Break in? It will make Morningstar's previous efforts completely meaningless, even if the madmen of the Manifest Destiny Sect destroy the Death Plague Virus, it will only make Morningstar's purpose partially achieved, and the infected who were rescued and quarantined by the Empire will still die. Sneak in? This is obviously reasonable, but how can it be done? Morningstar looked around, a smile on his face when he noticed the volume of the box on the infected's shoulder.