The earliest human settlement in the Kprushi Sector was Tassanis, a tenacious and intelligent race that has been developing here for more than a hundred years... It's only a little over a hundred years, and this time is just a drop in the ocean compared to the history of mankind and the other two cosmic races in this star field.

So except for the cities that are settlements, the rest of the planet has become very desolate due to climate change, and the reincarnation of the hundreds of kilometers from New Gettysburg to New Detroit, nearly half a day's journey, is also a perfect experience of this law.

Thanks to the "Don't Look at Incivility" statue that they got from the dead Samsara Jenny, the Samsaras once again have the ability to shield from psychic detection, so the journey is fairly unimpeded, and apart from the occasional corpse and fly of the fugitive, there is hardly any organic matter in the wilderness that can disturb them... In fact, there have been cases where survivors have seen trucks asking for help, but no matter whose turn it is to drive, this situation has been directly ignored, even Nangong You and Lei Kai, who have a full sense of justice, understand at this time that they can't put the entire team in danger because of what they think in their hearts.

Now it was Du Zhenhuan who was driving, and Xue Qiong also returned to the roofless container behind the truck. He had a solemn expression, holding the statue in his hand, and beside his leg was a small pile of hexagonal strips of crystal ore that had been cut to federal standards, adding up to about five. Xue Qiong said slowly: "I have basically figured out its energy consumption rate, so if you calculate it, our inventory is enough to support a day at most... But fortunately, it wasn't all used to activate the magic array in the first place, otherwise it would be even more difficult now. ”

"So much consumption?" The bald head took the statue and asked with a frown, "What about direct charging?" Like me? ”

Xue Qiong shook his head, "No, it seems that this statue can only be powered by energy crystals or gems, and the energy you output is all dark attributes, even if it can be injected, it will definitely not be compatible..."

Nangong Youye raised his eyebrows, but he didn't speak... Originally, the situation everyone is facing now is also because she made a mistake in the battle and the portable crack generator was destroyed, so if it were to discuss this topic now, she thought that she was the least qualified to speak.

"What about this?" Xiao Yun touched the necklace around her neck, which was given to Xue Qiong when she first entered the space and didn't understand the value of life crystals at all, and it had soul trap and energy storage functions, which was really the second best magic battery in the three-person team after the bald head.

Xue Qiong thought for a while, but still shook her head, "Still can't work... Your necklace can only absorb and store soul energy, and it won't work to charge it directly, you can only rely on killing to recharge... So what about the statue while you're charging it? You always have to take it out and hang it around your neck. ”

Hearing him say this, Xiao Yun also pouted a little unhappily, while Xue Qiong turned her eyes and said to Kai Ruigan, who had recovered to the same level: "Look, this is the situation we are facing now. Do you know where you can find enough crystal ore in New Detroit? ”

But now Kai Ruigan's thinking is still stuck in the past, Xue Qiong said that this statue can block the Zerg's spiritual power detection and tracking. As a soldier, she first realized how terrifying this thing would be on the battlefield against the Zerg, but she suddenly sank into a shocked emotion, until Xiao Yun stepped forward and patted her on the shoulder, and Xue Qiong said the situation of the statue again, and Kai Ruigan came back to his senses.

"Hmm...," said Kerrigan with some regret, "I have a combat map in my individual system, thanks to the Spy, but it was damaged during the lightning strike... Huh? ”

Kerrigan seemed to remember something again, and asked Masashi, "Does that lightning strike in New Gettysburg have anything to do with you?" ”

"I don't know." Xue Qiong preemptively replied, neither affirming nor denying, "The last client gave us a few pieces of broken paper, a few gems, and said that they would be placed in the four corners of the city, so we did so, and then we left the city, which happened to be less than an hour before the lightning strike...

Kerrigan was a little inquisitive and aggressive, "Who entrusted you?" ”

"I'm sorry." Xue Qiong politely and gracefully refused to answer, "Not divulging any information about your employer is the professional ethics of our interstellar mercenaries. ”

Kerrigan waved his arm twice and said disdainfully, "Look at the way it looks now, there are bugs everywhere!" Could it be that there are other living people who will talk to you about work ethics at this time? ”

Xue Qiong pretended to think for a while before saying, "Okay, that client is called Samir Duran, a federal second lieutenant... To be honest, we also think it's strange that a second lieutenant can come up with so much money. ”

After throwing the pot off casually, Xue Qiong pulled the topic back into the distance: "So about the crystal problem, can you think of any way?" ”

Kai Ruigan obviously thought about who this Duran was first, and then thought about Xue Qiong's question again after no result, and then said: "Although I can smell the location of the military base with my nose, I still have to go to the place to find it, and no one knows how many of them are that the Zerg has not yet looted." ”

This answer was not very good, but it was still within the range of Xue Qiong's expectations, so he was not too disappointed, and turned to the guy who was listening to the song in the corner and asked, "Mike, what about you?" Do you Star Spirits have any ways to find crystal ore? ”

Mike shrugged his shoulders, didn't take off his headphones, and said directly in his unique rhythm: "Yo, yo, Ai~er's Templar Library seems to have ~ such a course, and there is no one in the high~level Templar who can't." ”

But he added: "But the old ~ son is the Dark Sanctuary, you don't know ~ let alone me ~ was born in Shakulas and has never been to the El ~ liquid in his life..."

"Liquid you uncle!" Xue Qiong slapped her face, and her glasses were crooked. Although he thought he had become accustomed to Mike's way of speaking in the past two days, an inexplicable pain always rose every time he heard it.

"Wait!" Kerrigan rubbed his temples, "This guy is a star spirit?!" ”

"Ah, yes." Xue Qiong pulled casually, "Actually, several of us have been interstellar pirates since our grandparents, and my grandfather is the boss." Back then, the old man accidentally suffered in the territory of the Star Spirit, and it was all thanks to this cousin of Brother Mike who took a hand when he was young, and he was lucky that all of them picked up a life, otherwise how could there be me... That's when Mike started to mess with the old immortals. Thanks to this, we all have a few ancestral ghost tricks, and we also have some old friends in the field of star spirits, although the pirate group has now been changed to a mercenary group..."

Mike's nose wrinkled in the corner, as if it was a little itchy, but he rubbed his whole face, he was still an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years, and he even needed to use such a big movement to hide his laughter.

Kerrigan was still a little unconvinced, "But as far as I know, the first time humans came into contact with the astral spirits was last year..."

Xue Qiong snorted with his nose, which is often referred to as sneering, and put on a very disdainful look, "Then as far as you know, have you ever seen a star spirit that can disguise itself as a human?" So that's all as far as you know... We are all very low-key, even Uncle Jim didn't know these things back then, if it weren't for the fact that we can't protect ourselves now, you are not a woman who can only play soy sauce, since you will also participate in the future battles, so you can talk about each other more, and it will be more convenient to fight in the future... Otherwise who would be talking to you about this? ”

This passage mentions Jim Reynolds, echoing the bald head's previous words, and the bald head calls Jim Renault "Jimmy that kid", and Xue Qiong calls him "Uncle Jim", so he "unintentionally" shows that he is a generation younger than the bald head, and at the same time, the existence of the family-style crime syndicate in his mouth becomes much more real.

The scripts that Xue Qiong uses to fool the plot characters have always been so interlocking, and every suspicious detail can find its explanation, and there is basically no way to verify... Not to mention that he made the bald head who seemed very believable, first told a lie that the other party would absolutely believe, and then left it to himself to explain the things that were more difficult to believe.

So looking at the expression on Kerrigan's face now, she should have been convinced.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the truck had already reached the suburbs of New Detroit. I have to say that because the immigrants in the Kepru Star District are basically Westerners, they have brought the sparse taste for naming cities, and almost all cities are named after adding "new" to the name of a city on the earth, and this naming method also exists in the Age of Discovery on the earth, such as New Jersey, New Zealand, New York (New York) and the like, but I didn't expect that this way has not changed even in the era of interstellar colonization.

When they were still some distance from the city, the reincarnators and the two accompanying characters abandoned the big truck on the side of the road and walked on foot instead. Because according to Kerrigan's vague memories from several satellite photos, there are also several hives in the eastern suburbs of New Detroit, and since the city is only powerless to resist by the Federal Army, unlike New Gettysburg, there are Star Spirits and Koha Sons, so the bugs are absolutely lawless in this city... You have to be careful.

After the reincarnators gave up their means of transportation, although the speed cannot be said to be slow, it is still much slower than driving. By the time they reached the edge of the city, the sun had sunset.

The city was much more damaged than New Gettysburg, before the lightning storm, of course... In particular, the wireless communication system in the entire city has been completely destroyed, and the reincarnators who had no plans to come here earlier could not download the electronic map or anything at this time, so they had to find a tourist map in a convenience store that no one else used to make do with it first.