Li De and Kliman walked on the front line for more than an hour, Kliman told Li De about his youth, and Li De also shared his childhood by the garbage dump with Kliman.

Kliman felt very sympathetic to Lide's childhood, and the two talked until late at night before going back to their respective homes.

At 7 o'clock the next morning, the mining team was all ready. This time, in addition to a dozen miners and more than 30 marines, the front-line troops also allocated a transport team of ten trucks to go to the newly discovered mine site together.

This time in the car, Li De felt the pins and needles in the seat. Because Li De's good luck seemed to run out, today he was assigned to the same transport car as Vasily. At this moment, the two were sitting in the shaking transport car, and the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing.

"Boy! Looks like you're in luck. Vasily looked at Li De with ill will, and said with a smile on his face, "It seems that you didn't beat you hard enough yesterday!" ”

Li De laughed twice, now he didn't have the heart to provoke. Although he was inexplicably stronger now, he knew that there would be bugs or Puldormans attacking them at any time in the place where he was going in front of him, and the Marine in front of him who saw that he was not instantaneous was the key to whether they could survive.

"I think you kid still have to be careful, don't come back after this mission!" The big man saw that Li De had softened, and as he spoke, he stretched out the two fingers of his right hand, pointed to his eyes, and pointed at Li De together, with a fierce expression on his face.

The convoy traveled more than a dozen kilometers and came to the back of a small hill. The car stopped, Li De and the others got out of the car and saw the crystal reflecting blue light not far away.

Clark, with his sunglasses and military hat, has a meaty face that is forever holding his mouth, like everyone owes him money. "Let's get to work~!" Clark shouted, and everyone got busy.

The miners ran to find their own miners and activate these bulky machines. Let the SCV machine qì people get off the transporter.

Engineers began to direct vehicles, build temporary fortresses. This kind of fortress was transformed by combining two combat vehicles, and the area is not very large when fully unfolded, but it can accommodate more than a dozen people. The sturdy Cheng dù is good, and it can withstand the attacks of ordinary zergs.

Kliman led the miners to work in the mines, directing the SCV to collect the crystal mines in an orderly manner.

Clark looked at the miners who were ready for work, nodded slightly, and then turned to look at the engineers who were installing improvised fortifications and the five squads of Marines digging trenches and foxholes.

Each of the five squads that came with the mine robbery mission had six marines, but due to an accident by Li De yesterday morning, one squad was missing one person. Clark was also worried about this matter for a while last night, after all, it was a bad sign that the mission was reduced before the mission started.

"I don't think it feels good, it's like digging a hole and jumping on your own." While a Marine dug his own foxhole, he complained.

"The pit should be dug deeper, but the slope behind it should be gentle, otherwise those insects will run over, and you will not be able to jump out of the pit you dug, then you will really dig a grave for yourself." Clark said fiercely, but suddenly there was some bad feeling in his heart.

After a while, these dozens of people had already prepared a temporary line of defense. With the crystal mine and the hillside in the back, there are more than two dozen foxholes, in which various weapons and simple protective plates are erected.

The temporary bunker built by the engineer is already in shape, although it cannot resist the explosion of the blaster, but it can still play a good role in protecting against the general impact.

At present, one engineer is reinforcing the improvised fortress, another is adjusting the fire system, and another is establishing contact with the base.

Kliman walked around the edge of the mine and saw that everything was going very smoothly. Miners are working with sparks flying with welding torches, and two miners in charge of carrying them are loading their first batch of quarried crystals into transport trucks.

In order to ensure efficiency, they even cleared space in the transporters that had previously loaded the soldiers, and then prepared to transport those vehicles back with them as well.

As soon as the communications in the temporary fort were established, the engineers had already informed Kliman and Clark, and the two of them returned to the fort as soon as possible.

The screen opens, and the face of General Douglas appears. The general looked good, and it seemed that the smooth passage of the mine robbery had made it important for the general to have some good news to report back to the Alliance Military Department.

After just a brief phone call, Kliman and Clark also felt the general's joy, and their nervousness slowly eased.

Li De was operating the miner robot next to the crystal block, using a welding torch to cut a crystal that glowed with a light blue color. The flame sprayed by the welding torch is also blue, and the sparks flying in the air give it a wonderful feeling.

"I heard that this was a battlefield before? What was the situation at that time? A voice came out of the communicator. In a boring job, everyone chats with team communication.

"It was a terrible battle! Our defenses are almost crumbling. A voice replied.

"I just didn't happen to be on duty that day, I slept in the barracks on the front line, and when I was pulled up, there was already a firefight, and those TM bugs rushed this way for their lives. TM's never seen anything like that. Another voice said.

"That battle was much worse than you think." A middle-aged man's voice rang out through the loudspeaker. "At that time, the Zerg sent at least a few thousand giant mantis to frantically charge our defenses. Our defense line was not defended in time for a while, and they broke through a hole. ”

"When we fought that day, was this mine full of bugs?" Li De asked.

"Yes, it was only later when we were cleaning up the bug corpses that we found out that there was a mine here." Every time the army defends against an attack by the Zerg, it will immediately clear the battlefield. After all, with corpses strewn all over the ground, sentries and scouts were unable to spot new enemies in time.

Li De didn't continue to listen, and after skillfully cutting off the crystal with a welding torch, he turned in another direction.

Li De's muscles were like a conditioned reflex of a mechanical operator miner, and the welding torch flew across the surface of the crystal pillar, cutting in a special rhythm and manner, and the efficiency seemed to be about twice as high as that of the rest of the miners.

Kliman came to the mine to see how it was going, and he was surprised to see it. Together with the sentries beside him, he looked at the blue sparks like dragons and phoenixes, and shouted loudly, "This TM is the correct use of the welding gun."

After four hours of hard work, when it was time for the first rest, Li De squatted on the edge of the machine, casually ate some rations distributed by the army, and drank a sip of the ale wine he had secretly brought with him.

Looking at the blue crystal mine with both eyes, Li De suddenly felt cold, dropped the lunch box, quickly jumped on the machine, opened the communication channel, and shouted into the microphone: "This is a conspiracy of bugs, there is an ambush here!" ”

Just as he shouted the first syllable, there was a roaring sound in the distance, which was the sound of the convoy that had collected all the fruits of the labor of the shift and was heading for the base.

Clark also happened to be at the communicator, and when he heard Li De's words, he pressed the call button in a questioning mind and was ready to question the voice that came out of nowhere.

At this time, the earth suddenly trembled. Countless hard giant thorns emerged from the ground, more than one meter long giant thorns annoyed the vehicles of the transport convoy, pierced the wheels of the vehicles, more than a dozen cars were all paralyzed in a few seconds, the drivers on the car were directly pierced through the cockpit of the giant thorns through the body, and some fell into the jungle of giant thorns as soon as they got off the car.

In less than half a minute, a few hundred meters or so away from the mine, as soon as the transport convoy started, there was a scene of hell on earth, and everyone was shocked.

"Fuck! All ready to fight! Clarke's yelling came from the communication system, "Karin, cover the Kliman and miners advanced fort, Hobbs, fire cover." Kirb, go and take care of the engineers, Matata, foxholes. The order was swiftly given.

At the same time that Clark gave the order like a cannon, the ground around the makeshift fortress began to crack, and countless huge insects crawled out of it. These bugs are the lowest level of attack creatures of the Zerg, and humans call them "giant mantises".

They both have six long legs, and their flattened, oval bellies are supported by four large, crab-like feet. The whole body is covered with a hard carapace, and there are two feet like praying mantises, which are not only sharp but also barb, which can be used as weapons. At the same time, their mouthparts are very large, like giant pincers, and they are said to be able to bite off armored soldiers in one bite.

Kliman and those miners had never seen this kind of formation in their lives, and they stood in the mine one by one. If it weren't for the shouting of Karin's team, who was in charge of guarding the mine, pulling Kliman's arm and running forward, Kliman would definitely not even be able to step away.

The first few giant mantis to jump out of the ground were suppressed by the heavy machine gunners and two machine gunners in Karin's team, but they still hit a mining machine and dragged the miners inside out. In an instant, human flesh and stumps were sprinkled on the ground, mixed with the corpse of the giant mantis that had been machine-gunned into a pile of rotten flesh.

There were more and more bugs, and there were only six people in Karin's team and the captain Karin. One of the stout black men was their main firepower, holding a high-rate 945 rotating machine gun as he swept away the bugs that were swarming at them, and retreated, and behind him covered four miners, the wolf running back with a look of horror on his face.

The other two golden-haired soldiers, armed with semi-automatic rifles, formed a point of fire together, firing at the swarm, covering the steady retreat of the five miners behind them.