"That's right! They may not be on the surface at all! Yuan Li excitedly grabbed the arm of the excavation team and asked, "Underground!" Have you ever found any large spaces underground? The kind full of plants! ”

"Neurotic, you!" The excavation team couldn't help but scold, "If you find this kind of place, Lao Tzu will make a fortune, okay!" Still need to mine hard here? ”

Yuan Li shook his head, "Whether or not such an underground space really exists, it is meaningless for us to continue to search on the surface. We've got to go down. ”

"Where?" The excavation team was shocked, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Of course it's the mine." Yuan Li laughed, "If it's possible, I'd even like to retrace the path that Jason walked." ”

"Cut! You're really insane. You don't even have a proof of excavation, and you still want to go to the mine? ”

Yuan Li turned his head to look at him, "Compatite, what's your name?" ”

"Daimyo Xu is strong. What's wrong? ”

"Strong brother!" Yuan Li said excitedly, "We are not only compatriots on the earth, but also fellow Chinese villagers!" For the sake of this, you have to help me too! ”

After speaking, Yuan Li grabbed a large handful of star coins from his arms and stuffed them into his hands.

Xu Jianqiang scratched his head, "It's not this problem. Even if I smuggle you down the mine, you won't be able to get up! The inspection of the mine is stricter than that of the mine, and if you smuggle some raw ore, then I will be unlucky! ”

"You see, I said we're starhunters, and we're not interested in mining or anything like that. Besides, we have already signed an agreement when we go through customs, and we will never have the idea of buying raw ore. Yuan Li continued to persuade.

"Then it's not so easy to smuggle you down." Xu Jianqiang's face was embarrassed.

"Strong brother." Yuan Li patted him on the shoulder, "I see that you are also the leader of this team, and you should have some positions." ”

"That's right. But it didn't work. ”

Yuan Li smiled, "It's useful, of course it's useful, as long as you give us a commission, you can take us down openly." It's been so long that you've never come across a place like a nest of native species? ”

Xu Jianqiang couldn't help frowning, "You mean...... Those crawlers? ”

Yuan Li nodded vigorously.

"You're crazy! We can only use ten people to deal with one, and just three of you want to take out a nest? ”

"We're Star Hunters, and anything is possible for us." Yuan Li said confidently.

"It's a real neurosis." Xu Jianqiang thought for a while and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

Yuan Li responded seriously, "I'm very sure." ”

Xu Jianqiang thought for a while, "Okay, okay." But I can't do it. Come with me, and I'll take you to the captain. We've really dug up a little nest these days. ”

"Great! That's enough for us! ”

Xu Jianqiang sighed and waved his hand to signal Yuan Li and the three of them to follow.

Along the way, Xu Jianqiang explained to them the basic situation of the underground now.

After so many years of mining, humans also have a certain level of understanding about these native species of large reptiles.

The body strength of these big reptiles is very high, and the skin is very thick, probably because of the extremely high content of energy crystals on this planet, the reptiles are extremely resistant to energy weapons, and the beam weapons are almost useless.

On the contrary, they are not very resistant to live ammunition weapons, but their thick skin is like a natural body armor, and the bullets of assault rifles can break the skin but cannot penetrate the body, and it takes ten people to besiege and set fire to a large reptile.

And the races that mine the raw ore here, they have enough hedron filled energy weapons, but they don't have enough metal warheads, and sending a lot of manpower and material resources to annihilate the native species is not a good deal for them.

Therefore, the humans who are mining raw ore on Locke have all tacitly thought of the same method.

That is to use a small energy shield to separate the living space of humans and reptiles.

Reptiles are fast underground, and their mouthparts are as sharp as blades, but they evolved to cut through the hard surface layers of Lockax, and there is nothing they can do about energy shields.

Alien highly intelligent beings use various energy shields to isolate their mining areas and underground passages, so that they can protect themselves from the threat of large crawlies.

And in the expansion of the alliance's highly intelligent lifeforms, there will always be many large and small crawler nests.

From two or three to dozens, if you dig into a large nest, even if you immediately unfurl your shield, you are likely to be broken by the reptiles' frantic attacks.

Whenever this happens, it must be a big battle, and there is no good way to avoid it, so you can only consciously avoid it after digging the tunnel dug by the reptiles.

But no one knows whether it is raw ore or reptiles that they dig out with this chisel.

"Wait a minute," Yuan Li suddenly asked, "There's no way to detect it in advance?" ”

Xu Jianqiang glanced at Yuan Li, "It's so simple, X-ray, thermal energy, infrared, everything that can be tried has been tried." ”

Xu Jianqiang said and stepped on the ground under his feet twice, "This stone is impenetrable!" ”

Yuan Li nodded silently, "I see." ”

"Speaking of which, if you really have the ability to deal with that little nest that we dug up by the reptiles, let alone allow you to go to the mine, the captain may be able to pay you a lot!"

Yuan Li smiled, "Of course it's the best." ”

"Alright. We're here, come in. ”

Yuan Li looked up, although it was the place where the captain of the brigade lived, it was just a simple small tent.

In the distance, there are many more luxurious and comfortable human buildings in densely populated places, and as one of the first races to discover this planet, the excavation area obtained by humans is undoubtedly the largest, and the location should be relatively close to the location where Jason first discovered the spaceship.

However, that place should be far from Yuan Li's current location.

After Xu Jianqiang walked into the tent and reported to the captain, Yuan Li and the others quickly got permission, and at the same time, they officially received the commission, and the reward for solving the small nest was 500 grams of energy crystals.

The density of the energy hedron is very high, 500 grams is actually only a small bag, but it is enough to fill the energy of the beam rifle ten times.

On other planets, the price is about 10 star coins per gram, but Yuan Li believes that these crystals should not be worth a few dollars if they are traded here privately.

And the consumption of these hedrons should be about the same as the consumption of sending soldiers to extinguish a reptile.

Yuan Li saw these small abacus very clearly, but this reward was still cost-effective for Yuan Li.

After all, his purpose was only to go to the mine, and as for whether he could get rid of the reptiles in this small lair, he didn't really care.

And Xu Jianqiang, who came out of the tent with Yuan Li and them, his mood at this moment was exactly the opposite of him......

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