This spaceship is flat as a whole, with a silvery shell more than 100 meters long, slightly smaller in size, and not much in tonnage, but it is equipped with many armor and weapon platforms that are not commonly used in civilian spacecraft, and it is obviously a semi-armed exploration ship.

"Qi Ying, whose spaceship is this?" Zhuang Xiaolin's face sank like water, and anyone could see that he was very unhappy now.

Qi Ying was slightly embarrassed, she originally thought that only the Violent Tiger Mercenary Group of the three information recipients came, this was the best result, but she didn't expect that after so long, a second one came, which complicated the situation. However, she still said truthfully: "This is Schroeder's Silver Leaf spaceship, he is also an interstellar explorer like me, a senior military general in the biochemistry department, and there are about thirty crew members under him. ”

"Schroeder?" Zhuang Xiaolin frowned and asked, "He usually mixes with rotten sea stars, right?" I've heard about it a few times. ”

"That's right, it's him."

Qi Ying was surprised, when she sent a message asking for help, she deliberately chose three people who did not intersect. If all three of them came, so that she could be balanced in the middle, but Zhuang Xiaolin recognized Schroeder, which would be a little bad.

At this time, one of the mercenaries shouted: "Commander, this ship is damaged, and it is very serious. ”

Everyone looked up one after another, because the distance was too far, the camera inside the power armor could not shoot the spacecraft more than 1,000 kilometers high very clearly, so they didn't pay attention to the situation of the spacecraft before, but if they looked closely, they could still vaguely see that the shell of the spacecraft was damaged in many places, leaving traces of being attacked by artillery fire.

This discovery made everyone's hearts sink.

The Orion Nebula is located in the heart of the Steelmane Empire, but Schroeder's spaceship has been attacked, and you know on your knees that their tracks have been discovered by the Steelmane Orcs!

Unless Schroeder has already killed the steelmaned orcs, everyone will suffer, and in the worst case, the steelmaned orcs will also chase them into the depths of the nebula......

Qi Ying was also so anxious that she jumped to her feet, and scolded regardless of her image: "Schroeder, bastard, pig teammate, if he attracts the steel-maned orc, I won't be done with him!" ”

Zhuang Xiaolin waved his hand and said loudly: "Hidden!" ”

Everyone immediately understood what he meant, their group of people was too conspicuous on the ground, and if they continued to move towards the North Pole, it would be easy for Schroeder to find their whereabouts and expose the secrets of the North Pole.

Everyone quickly found a cliff and hid inside, observing the movement of Schroeder's spaceship through the cracks in the stone wall.

I saw that the spacecraft adjusted its flight trajectory and slowly approached the battleship of the mercenary group, remaining relatively stationary a hundred kilometers away, and then stopped moving. Needless to say, the ship must be communicating with the battleship, but the battleship didn't seem to respond, and soon after, the ship sent drones down to search the planet's surface.

The target of the drone is also the plain where the stone text is located.

As expected, drones crashed one after another, gradually figuring out the speed limit of Mach 7.

Seeing this scene, the mercenaries had no misfortune and waited for the spaceship to send people to land on the surface, preferably on that plain, and then get stuck there, so that they would not want to rush to the North Pole in time.

However, after waiting for nearly two days, Schroeder's spaceship did not send anyone to land, and there were no other actions, which made everyone a little dumbfounded.

"Xiaolin, we can't wait any longer, we've already wasted two days, and there are still ten days left before the stellar energy will explode." Qi Ying persuaded, looking anxious.

In her opinion, it doesn't matter if Schroeder participates in the exploration of the relics of the super civilization, one more person will have more power, and as for the distribution of the harvest, it is easy to discuss afterwards. She was mentally prepared when she sent the message for help, knowing that she could not monopolize the benefits.

Zhuang Xiaolin paced back and forth at the bottom of the cliff, looking up at the sky for a while, closing his eyes and pondering for a while, his face was ugly and about to drip water.

After a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, let's go and keep walking, I want to see how capable this Schroeder is." ”

The group walked out of the bottom of the cliff and headed towards the North Pole.

Everyone paid attention to the spaceship in the sky as they walked, and sure enough, in less than half an hour, a landing plane broke away from the spacecraft and flew towards the North Pole.

Zhuang Xiaolin looked at the landing plane from a distance, and suddenly said: "Stop, don't go yet, so as not to attract the rock giant to be aware of the danger in advance." ”

A group of people laughed maliciously and stopped in place, waiting for the landing plane to arrive. The landing plane flew at a speed of less than Mach 7 and took more than an hour to fly over the procession, landing in an open field hundreds of meters ahead.

"Now that you're down, don't even think about going back."

Zhuang Xiaolin watched the landing plane, snorted coldly, and ordered: "Let's turn around and stay away from them." ”

"Hahaha, look at how they deal with the solar crystal nucleus!" The crowd resolutely returned the same way and distanced themselves from the landing aircraft.

The hatch of the landing plane opened, and more than a dozen samurai wearing power armor rushed out, just forming a formation, the sun crystal nuclei within hundreds of meters around were awakened by the landing plane, the ground rolled, and hundreds of rock giants broke through the ground, and these armored warriors opened fire without hesitation.

The gunfire only rang out for a second or two before it stopped, and the laser rays flashed in the crowd, destroying all the firearms and weapons in an instant, and injuring a small number of people. In a panic, the landing plane tried to take off, but it was shot down just a few seconds after climbing into mid-air, and it exploded with a bang.

Seeing this group of people suffering from what they had experienced, the mercenaries couldn't help but laugh.

The explosion of the landing plane caused the people below to stagger, and hundreds of rock giants frantically besieged it, and in less than a minute, the group suffered heavy casualties, and only six people remained. If it weren't for a tall man in silver armor, holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, blocking most of the rock giants, this group would have been wiped out.

"Qi Ying, you cheat me!"

The man in the silver armor roared loudly: "I risked my life to come to this planet, and you didn't save me?" ”

With his roar, the solar crystal nuclei within a radius of a thousand meters were alarmed, and more rock giants appeared, surrounding them from all directions. This change caught the other party off guard, stunned for a moment, and immediately took the four surviving subordinates to fight and move towards the mercenary team.

Zhuang Xiaolin was about to let everyone continue to retreat, but Qi Ying stopped him and said, "Xiaolin, save him." ”

"Why?" Zhuang Xiaolin's expression was gloomy, he wished that the other party was all dead and that there was one less competitor.

Qi Ying thought for a while, took out a glass test tube, which contained the solar crystal nucleus that had just been collected in the past few days, which was not large in size, only one-third of a grain of rice, and said lightly: "As long as you save Schroeder, this solar crystal nucleus is yours." ”

Zhuang Xiaolin hesitated for a few seconds, nodded and said, "Deal." ”

With a wave of his hand, he let the team move forward, quickly approaching the position of Schroeder and the others, and more than a dozen rock giants immediately discovered them, and the nearby underground solar crystal nuclei also crawled out one by one and attacked the team.

"Get out of the way!"

Qi Ying shouted, and the mercenaries in front of her knew what she was going to do, and hurriedly stepped back.

She put her palms together, her whole body emitted a blue-white light, her mental power surged, and a large amount of cold qi gathered between her palms, forming a fist-sized ice bead in an instant, and she raised her hand and launched it.

This large ice rosary flashed away, the speed exceeded the speed of sound, and a huge amount of cold air radiated in all directions during the flight, and finally exploded more than 300 meters away, the cold wind howled, and the ground within a radius of 300 meters was frosty and white, and the rock giants within the range were all frozen to the ground, unable to move, like ice sculptures.

The mercenaries seized the opportunity and rushed forward, taking advantage of the rock giant's sluggishness to clear a safe passage.

After sending out the ice rosary, Qi Ying was not idle, the crescent moon shape on his waist rose into the air, spinning at high speed like a cold moon, turning into a blue phantom and cutting back and forth in all directions, its edges were extremely sharp, cutting off the rock giants one by one, and the killing efficiency was more than ten times higher than that of the mercenaries.

While killing the rock giant, Xin Lin secretly observed Qi Ying's battle, and couldn't help but sigh, the range of sorcerers was indeed much larger than that of military generals.

In addition to the Ice Rosary and the Moon Wheel Weapon, Qi Ying also cast a variety of ice-based techniques, one after another ice spear and ice blades condensed out of thin air around her, and the cold was everywhere, easily killing the approaching rock giants, like a fort, wantonly swaying energy.

Qi Ying killed more rock giants alone than everyone else combined.

Of course, Xin Lin also saw that it was Qi Ying's unreserved explosive mental power that could be so powerful, and it couldn't last too long, otherwise, she would be able to rescue Schroeder herself, and she didn't need Zhuang Xiaolin to make a move at all.

A few minutes later, the surrounding rock giants were wiped out, and the two sides converged on a frozen ground.

At this time, there were only three people left on Schroeder's side, except for him, and all of them were injured. On the mercenary group's side, because of the existence of Qi Ying and two generals, there was no attrition.

"It's up to you."

The sharp edge in Qi Ying's eyes disappeared, and the chilling chill on his body also subsided by more than seventy percent, and the moon wheel weapon was also retracted. In just a few minutes, she had consumed most of her mental power, and her combat power was still there, but on this dangerous planet, she had to retain some of her strength to defend herself, and she didn't dare to do her best.

Zhuang Xiaolin and Schroder snorted coldly in unison, ignoring each other, but still let their men form a cylinder formation and unanimously resist the siege of the rock giant.

There weren't many rock giants left, only a few dozen, which wasn't enough to pose much of a threat, and as one rock giant was shattered, the battle was coming to an end.

Bang......

At that moment, there was a loud thunderclap in the sky!

Everyone looked up, and their faces suddenly changed wildly, only to see that Schroeder's Silver Leaf spacecraft was belching smoke and falling from orbit. I don't know what kind of attack the spaceship was under, there was a large black hole in the middle, the hull of the ship was almost broken in two, and after falling into the atmosphere, it quickly disintegrated, turning into debris and falling to the ground.

Before everyone could figure out what was going on, a huge laser ray appeared out of thin air in the sky, with a diameter of more than ten meters, like a laser giant sword, piercing the sky and shooting at a target in outer space.

At the end of the field of vision when everyone adjusted the power armor, a vague black shadow appeared in space tens of thousands of kilometers away, and the mercenaries shouted in surprise:

"Battleship of the Steelmane Empire!"