"But now that there are so many ruins of towns under the sea, how on earth are we going to determine which ruins are hiding the other party's control center?" Spred asked helplessly.

"From what we have so far, we haven't found anything special about the ruins of the town other than the one we're focusing on. Even judging from the number of attacks on the other side, the difference in the number of attacks on each ruin is not more than three at most, so this cannot be used as evidence to judge the peculiarity of a certain ruin. As soon as Spred's words fell, Atlas added.

Just when everyone was sad because of the little girl's words, suddenly, the familiar siren sounded in the command cabin. Before Zhou Xin opened his mouth to inquire about the attack, Atlas reported in a panicked tone: "Brother Captain, it's bad. Our mining site on the planet was discovered by the other side, and now that place is under attack. ”

"Sure enough, it was inevitable that the other party would find out in the end?" Zhou Xin sighed and muttered to himself. However, because this situation had been expected for a long time, after hearing the little girl's report, Zhou Xin's mood fluctuations were not drastic, and he was even a little glad that the other party found out after so long. While this series of thoughts flashed through his mind, Zhou Xin adjusted his emotions in just a few seconds and asked, "What is the situation there now?" Although a few days ago, just in case, he had ordered some combat equipment to be sent to the collection point as a defense, but judging from the capabilities that the other party had shown so far, Zhou Xin was still quite uneasy about those combat equipment that was mainly used in space and on land.

Sure enough, Atlas replied, "Not long after the opponent started attacking, the combat robots that had been deployed around before had already launched a rapid counterattack. However, the overall attack effect is not very ideal, and the attenuation of the energy weapon used as our main attack weapon in the marine environment is quite serious, and the range and power are greatly affected, even if it hits the target, it cannot cause significant damage to it. In contrast, the few kinetic weapons on the robot may be better used. However, even kinetic weapons are significantly weakened by the seawater, and they cannot play a more effective role than interfering with the trajectory of the attacker. ”

As if guessing Zhou Xin's worries, after reporting a series of bad news, the little girl immediately comforted: "However, the number of attackers who appeared this time is not much, only dozens. Although the combat robots are not capable of attacking at the bottom of the sea, they are more than enough to resist the attacks of the other side. ”

"It's not a question of how many attackers there are." However, Dart was not relieved by such comfort, he looked at the screen and frowned and said, "The key problem is that the place has been discovered by the attackers, even if the number of opponents is not large this time, it does not mean that they will only send the same number of attackers in the next attack." And, after discovering the defenses we have deployed, it goes without thinking that their attacks on mining sites will increase in the future. We must prepare for this in advance, otherwise, the next attack of the other side may not be so easy to resist. ”

After analyzing the possible situation next, Dart asked Zhou Xin, who nodded again and again with a solemn expression, "By the way, haven't you developed an attack device that can be used underwater before?" ”

"Yes, yes." Zhou Xin replied with a wry smile, "However, the scope of use is limited to environments containing a large amount of liquid water. Considering that there are not too many planets in the universe that contain liquid water, even if they do, they may not be attacked. In order to save space, they did not carry equipment specifically for underwater attacks, but simply recorded a complete set of related manufacturing technologies in the database. As he spoke, he subconsciously glanced at the screen, "Who would have thought that we would encounter this situation by such a coincidence." Then he added, "Moreover, judging from the underwater activity capabilities shown by the other side during this time, there is still a certain gap between the performance of the underwater attack equipment we use and theirs, and even if it can be used, it will not significantly improve our current passive situation." ”

"The performance of our underwater equipment is not very far behind theirs." Spred said with a regretful tone, "But before the underwater equipment can be manufactured, it is obviously too late to manufacture the relevant manufacturing equipment." ”

"If there's really no better way, then we can only make some of our underwater equipment first." Zhou Xin said helplessly, "However, I'm afraid this won't play a decisive role." ”

"It's better than nothing at all." Spred said in the same vein.

As he spoke, seeing that his attack did not take advantage of him, the few dozen attackers turned around and began to retreat. For their departure, the battle robots did not pursue, to be precise, they did not have the ability to pursue, and could only watch each other disappear into the field of view of the camera little by little.

Looking at the departing figures of the attackers, the mood of most of the people in the command cabin did not relax in the slightest. After everyone was silent for a while, Zhou Nobunaga sighed, and then asked the people around him for advice with a heavy tone, "Okay, the current situation is quite bad for us, and the maintenance progress of the Voyager is obviously far from reaching the level where it can support long-term warp flight, so the mining points we set up on the planet cannot be easily abandoned." But under the attack of the attackers, I am afraid that we may not be able to hold the mine in the future. Do you have any thoughts on what we should do next? ”

"That planet is so big, there must be more than one place on it that is suitable for mining. Otherwise, can we continue to collect resources in another place? After a while, a man said in an inquiring tone.

"It shouldn't work." After a brief thought, Zhou Xin shook his head and said slowly, "Regardless of the time consumed by the transfer itself, judging by the current situation on the planet, even if we can move to a new place, those attackers will probably find us in a short time." ”

"What's more." Atlas also added, "During this period of investigation, people have not found an area with more resources than the current collection point, and if they leave, it will further affect the maintenance progress of the spacecraft, and then form a vicious circle......