Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Crystal Jungle

"It seems that what we found before was the village of the Martians," Chen Peilin looked at the report in the personal terminal and sighed sincerely. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "I'll just say that since the Martians are at the level of fourth-level advanced civilization, how can the architectural taste be so bad, judging from the height of the Martians, the buildings around the airport before were simply shack areas."

"You're an afterthought, it's just hindsight." Zhuge Wushuang pouted. "If you want to say that this Jack Company Commander is really lucky, the Martian city can be found by him, but what is his ability, but don't venture in, otherwise the whole army may be wiped out, it is a monster's lair." Zhuge Wushuang was a little worried that these newly elected commanders would rush forward for the sake of military merit.

"No, I've seen his information, a senior non-commissioned officer who graduated from West Point Military Academy and has been in Afghanistan for many years, has a good ability to command on the spot or adapt to changes, and once set a record of leading three soldiers to successfully escape from the encirclement and interception of 200 terrorists." Chen Peilin is very confident in this Jack Company Commander.

"I think we'd better prepare an artificial light source, we can't activate the spar reactor in there anymore, otherwise I don't know if the people below can hold on to the monster tide when the time comes, after all, no one knows what monsters are inside. Or wait until they have figured out the underground and prepared to complete it, and then activate the energy center and wipe out all the creatures underground. Zhuge Wushuang suggested cautiously.

"That makes sense, but can we get some air support for the troops inside? It is very important to grasp air supremacy when there are few people, and before the underground space was limited, the gunboats sent in were simply chicken ribs, and they could not be used at all. But now that the underground space is so large, there should be no problem for small gunboats to fly in. When the time comes, if you encounter a monster cluster attack, it will be good to bomb it directly. Chen Peilin thinks that sending gunboats is a very good way.

"Yes, yes, but how do the gunboats get in, judging from the database, the smallest gunboat we have is also a 'behemoth' with a length of about fifty meters. If this thing had been left for a year ago, as long as one could have been able to annihilate all the aircraft carrier battle groups in the United States," Zhuge Wushuang felt that it was not very reliable to stuff such a large gunboat into the underground space.

"It's not easy, digging a hole won't be over, just bombarding two cannons with energy cannons and you'll be done. The energy cannon is not a blasting weapon, so it will not collapse. And there is no oxygen underground, and even if there is, the teams below will not need it, and our oxygen is all self-prepared, so we are not afraid of underground air leakage at all. Chen Peilin looked at Zhuge Wushuang with a stupid expression.

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“…… Have you been to see her lately? Zhuge Wushuang was bored for a long time and began to divert the topic.

"Who are you seeing?" Chen Peilin didn't seem to react.

"You know who it is." Zhuge Wushuang glanced at Chen Peilin.

"She's colder than before, like a block of ice, and you can feel the chill from a long distance," Chen Peilin thought for a while and sighed. This is not a good phenomenon, as Chen Peilin's chosen collaborator, if it is a piece of ice, then even if Chen Peilin is talented, he will have to abandon it ruthlessly.

"I can't let her go on like this anymore, I have to find a way to get her to adjust." Zhuge Wushuang also looked a little helpless.

"What's your idea?"

"Didn't you discover the city of the Martians, why don't you let her go in and have a look," Zhuge Wushuang tried to suggest.

"It's too dangerous," Chen Peilin's voice hesitated.

"Wouldn't it be nice to have someone escort her. Give her a more advanced protective suit, the one with a space shield, I know you have a threatening tone of "Zhuge Wuyi, if you dare not take it out, I will make you look good."

Chen Peilin touched his nose, "Then are you going with her or me?" ”

"Of course I'm going," Zhuge Wushuang replied excitedly.

"Why do you have to go?" Chen Peilin asked unconvinced.

"I won't mess up if I leave the fleet, can you?" Zhuge Wushuang's eyes rolled around a few times, and finally found a good excuse.

"I ...... Well, you go to her, go back and equip me for you. Don't make any mistakes," Chen Peilin repeatedly advised.

"I know, I know, it's really verbose, mother-in-law's" Zhuge Wushuang said excitedly, and then his figure flashed and there was no trace.

"Bad guys, none of the men are good things" Natalie's voice sounded in Chen Peilin's ears.

"Gotcha! I must have seen it from the Korean drama, this girl was also poisoned" Chen Peilin sweated on his forehead.

"I'm just concerned about my subordinates, okay?" Chen Peilin tried to explain.

"Humph......"

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"Squad leader, what do you see shiny down there?" Private Eugene gestured to the far side of the passage.

"Nonsense, you can see down here so high? Even if you can see that we are using the night vision function of the helmet now, there is no visible light source, how can there be something shiny, you don't have nothing to say" The squad leader's voice was a little angry, it was really chattering, the squad leader thought to himself.

"Really squad leader, you see it's lit up again," Eugene pointed down.

"I said you can't be quiet for a while...... Hey! Really, what the hell is it. "I saw that something flickered occasionally under the dark city, like electricity passing through a neon sign, and then it fell into darkness again.

"It's not going to be a glowing Martian creature. I heard that the earth's underwater creatures also emit light. "The squad leader's uncertain guess.

"But the eyes of the Martian creatures we met have deteriorated, and the deep-sea fish glow for prey, so they have no reason to shine." Eugene retorted, but evolutionarily speaking, everyone thought Eugene's words were more convincing.

"Then report the situation here to Company Commander Jack, I think he should have an idea, and if it doesn't work, he will contact the general headquarters" The squad leader thought about it, and still felt that it was more reliable to report truthfully.

Suddenly, the surroundings became brighter, as if it were daytime, and fortunately the soldiers' helmets had an automatic light filtering function, otherwise it would have been so bright that there was a high risk of blinding.

"Squad leader, what's going on?" Eugene asked.

"I just received a notice that the follow-up troops have arrived, and what has just been lit up is an artificial sun, dozens of them. You see, there is floating above the valley, and the gunboats have been transferred. Everyone was waiting here for a small landing craft to pick us up, and our destination was an area below the canyon. The squad leader began to convey orders.

"Squad leader, look below!" Eugene's words were full of shock. Transparent artificial light source, I saw that the Martian city under the canyon is covered with tall crystal plants, different colors, transparent, green, blue, pink, purple all kinds of crystal plants decorate the city into a bizarre world. In particular, the top layer of the crystal jungle looks even more brilliant and charming under the illumination of artificial sunlight.

"It's so beautiful, I'm going to take some back to the beautiful Mariliana, she's going to fall madly in love with me" Eugene's eyes lit up. It was as if he had seen the wonderful scene of Miss Mariliana's warm fragrance.

"Do I want to take some back and give them away?" listened to Eugene's words, and the people around him also thought in their hearts.

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Eugene sat on the landing craft and looked at the fairytale crystal world below, his eyes blurred. "It's so beautiful, it's a masterpiece of God," Eugene thought to himself.

Their team's goal was to explore a transparent crystal forest below near the edge. The crystal forest is not very tall, and the highest is only about ten meters. These crystals are more like weeds growing out of the ground, in no order, growing together in a staggered manner, completely filling the entire pavement.

This has brought great difficulties to the team's mission, and in such a dense crystal jungle, a spider-like road traveling mecha will definitely not be able to drive through. Later, if you encounter an emergency in the crystal jungle, you can only rely on the weapons you carry and the support of the gunboats in the sky.

However, not being able to explore the pink crystal jungle not far away made Eugene very sorry. You must know that pink represents love, and it is definitely the only magic weapon to attract women. After the mission, you must go over there to get some pink crystals, Eugene searched the surroundings alertly, thinking about it.

"Everyone, cheer up, be vigilant, the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are, don't you even know this point? Don't let carelessness ruin your life. Company Commander Jack's words rang in his ears, and the soldiers who were still addicted to the crystal world immediately calmed down.

Everyone began to organize their equipment and prepare for the next unexpected situation. This is not some heavenly paradise, I don't know how many murderous monsters are hiding in the crystal forest, and if you are not careful, you may die without a place to bury.

The landing craft hovered over a low crystal jungle, and the team members jumped out of the landing craft one by one, and then covered each other, and searched forward in a Y formation. The team's destination is a tall building in front of them, which the command center believes may be a research base for Martians.

All the crystals in this area are centered around that building, and the closer you get to the building, the more vigorous the crystals will become, and there are other teams around the team searching in shards. The destination of all the squads was the tall building.

"There shouldn't be a disgusting Martian creature like a scorpion in here, the space is so small, the scorpion can't move at all." A GI next to Eugene whispered to someone nearby.

"Bang!" As soon as he finished speaking, the unlucky guy was whipped out of nowhere by the creature, and he broke three thick crystal pillars in succession before stopping. Fortunately, with the protection of the suit and armor, the unlucky guy was fine, and even then, it took a long time to get up.

"Enemy attack! Alert! Try not to use an electromagnetic rifle and be careful of ricocheting and hurting people. Half of them switched to energy firearms. The squad leader's voice came from the command line.

"Bang bang!" Two more guys were knocked off and lay on the ground, twitching hard, and I don't know how they were hurt.

"I saw the attackers! The target is a reptile, like a snake, whose skin will change color, beware! The soldier, who had managed to get up, gasped for breath and reported.

"Switch to a life detector and see if it works," the squad leader ordered.

"See, see, just twenty meters in front of you, oh my God, there are so many more creatures like this around us," one soldier exclaimed.

"Everyone gather around on guard, don't be left alone, and move quickly towards the destination," the squad leader quickly gave the order as he began to attack the target.

The high-energy beam fired from the energy rifle accurately sliced a serpentine creature in two pieces in the middle, and the health signal slowly faded. Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the weapon in your hand works, you're afraid that the monster is immune to the weapon, and then it's troublesome.

"Whoosh" a basilisk flexibly slashed between the crystal jungle, attacking everyone, everyone was frantically pulling the trigger, and a beam of energy continued to cross between the crystal jungle, reaching two pieces of basilisk, dazzling white light flashed in the crystal jungle, like a kaleidoscope dazzling.

Some energy beams will disappear strangely after hitting the crystal jungle, and the crystal jungle is still intact. But more basilisks came around, and everyone was desperately trying to destroy the basilisk, and no one noticed the strange scene.

"The electromagnetic machine gun and the energy machine gun all gave me a large area of strafing, and the efficiency was too slow." In a hurry, the squad leader commanded in a loud voice.

"Electromagnetic gun bullets will ricochet!" I don't know who reminded me.

"The muzzle of the gun is lowered, and everyone hides behind the crystal pillar"

The alloy projectiles spit out by the electromagnetic machine gun rained down on the basilisk, and many basilisks were directly beaten to pieces. The energy machine gun shoots beams of light at a high frequency and flies into the snakes, and the life signals around the life detector continue to disappear, until the last basilisk life signal turns from light to dark, and all the basilisks are shot in the charging line.

"Whew... Call... Call... Call...! Eugene gasped for breath, and the fierce fighting made him a little overwhelmed, and randomly leaned against a nearby crystal pillar, making a short break after the battle.

"Huh! No, I remember that I hit this crystal just now. Eugene hesitated. During the battle just now, a basilisk passed behind the crystal pillar in front of him, but he was holding an energy machine gun to strafe it, and the basilisk was killed, why is the crystal okay? Holding the energy rifle at the crystal is a shot, and after the energy beam hits the surface of the crystal, the brilliance disappears after a circle, leaving no trace.

"Squad leader, there is a situation!" Eugene said.

"Alert!" The squad leader shouted reflexively.

"Here's the situation," Eugene shouted.

"What's the matter?" The squad leader asked with a frown.

"Look, squad leader," said Eugene as he shot another shot at the crystal.

"Huh! It's strange that crystals can absorb energy, which is a strange phenomenon. The squad leader also felt that this phenomenon was very strange.

"Squad leader, have you noticed any difference in this crystal?" Eugene asked, taking a closer look.

"What's the difference"

"It's getting darker." Saying that, Eugene picked up the energy machine gun and kept shooting at the crystal, only to see that the crystal was transparent and gradually became white, and then turned into dividends, red, green, blue, and finally turned into dark purple before it stopped changing.

"A very important phenomenon!" The squad leader immediately realized what the problem was.

The color of this crystal changes as the absorbed energy increases. The squad leader turned on the recorder to record this phenomenon, and at the same time packaged the image and uploaded it directly to the command center through the command link.

Under normal circumstances, grassroots soldiers do not have the authority to contact the command center, and will only do so when something major happens. However, this phenomenon in front of him is too important, so the squad leader directly reported the situation. If the application is good, this is simply an energy battery, even if it doesn't work, put this crystal on the surface of the battleship, it is more effective than the external armor alloy.

"Eugene, you have made a great contribution, and the above will definitely give you credit" The squad leader was very excited, after all, this discovery also has his credit in it.

"Thank you, it's everyone's work," Eugene smiled happily.

"Alright, the team is moving on to the goal!" With the order of the squad leader, the group continued to search towards the tall building in the center.