In many Imperial armaments, a certain amount of zirconium is contained. Especially in the power armor, the elongation and hardness of the steel are closely related to the amount of zirconium added to it. Zircon is ranked seventeenth in the blue list of mineral resources in the Empire, and is a strategic resource that must be absolutely controlled and hoarded in large quantities.

"We're rich!"

Hengrui inhaled excitedly, and almost his entire body trembled: "It's actually Zircon, I really didn't expect to find it here." If there's a whole vein here, we've really come to the right place. ”

Su Hao's face also showed a faint joy. He nodded, and quickly assigned everyone's responsibilities: "Old Mo, you immediately take a second sample of these rocks, Heng Gerui will probe the distribution of rock formations, and I will be responsible for guarding." The action should be fast, I wonder if the time situation here is the same as the original world? I don't want to spend the night in the wilderness. ”

More than an hour has passed, and the basic survey work has been completed. The answer is not as good as one might think. These rocks do contain zirconium, but they are not intact veins, but rather some similar elements that remain on the surface.

"I knew that gold coins, like beautiful women, couldn't just wave and smile at us."

Hengrui straightened up stupidly, patted the sand on the surface of the armor, looked at a piece of zircon in his palm with regret, his expression was a little helpless, and he said quite self-deprecatingly: "It's really a joy for nothing." I thought I was getting rich, but I didn't expect to just pick up a little change that others don't want. ”

The expression on Mo Xingkui's face was much more indifferent. He picked up his short-barreled rifle, put away the detector, and explained, "Let's go! We should look elsewhere. Perhaps, there will be a better harvest than this. ”

Just as the three of them put away their tools and carried their backpacks, Su Hao suddenly stopped, raised his left hand, and made a silent movement.

The wind, from a distant place, brings some sounds that do not belong here.

Very messy and not a grammar that humans can understand. But it is certain that the voice is very miserable and full of despair. It's like someone's dying roar, or screaming.

Su Hao quickly determined the direction, pointed to the direction of six o'clock with his back to the rock, and whispered: "It's over there." ”

There is a mountain beam tens of meters high, blocking everyone's view.

As they climbed the mountain beam, the explorers saw an unusually tall gray shadow.

It is a bizarre creature with an appearance that resembles a bear on Earth. The two front paws are unusually thick, and the shoulders and back are covered with fine scales, and the surface is shiny and flowing, constantly reflecting a dazzling light. The alien bear is over eight meters long and has long legs that bend backwards like a bird. With each jump, it curls up, unleashes great force with its thick thighs, and its body bounces straight like an accurately calculated cannonball, hitting every target it locks on.

There are four humanoids wrestling with it.

Su Hao couldn't tell if it was a real human being? But they are at least as much as they are, with the same physical characteristics. They were holding weapons such as knives, axes, clubs, and so on, as if they were hunting, and as if they had been attacked suddenly. The screams were made by these humanoid creatures, but no one could understand what they were trying to say.

As soon as Su Hao and the others stopped, a humanoid creature had already been pounced on by the alien bear, grabbed its legs and lifted it upside down. The monstrous giant monster opened its fanged mouth and first stretched out its claws to clasp the top of the humanoid's head, spinning it as hard as a bottle cap. Under the gaze of Su Hao and the others, the poor humanoid creature broke off its neck, and the alien bear opened its mouth to bite the shoulder of the prey that had lost its head, and drank the blood gushing out of it desperately.

The other three humanoids immediately gathered around and slashed at the Xenomorph bear's body, but they were firmly blocked by the fine scale armor that covered the skin, unable to do any damage.

This kind of fighting is clearly asymmetrical. Su Hao and the others watched the battle for no more than two minutes, and another humanoid creature was killed. It was grabbed by the alien bear and tore open its abdomen, pulled out its intestines, and then abandoned it in the air, screaming, and falling to its death on the hard rock.

A humanoid creature with a spear lunged forward and stabbed at the bear's soft chest. The giant beast was very agile, dodging to avoid the attack, roaring and trying to bite the other person's flesh, but was pounced by another humanoid creature next to it, grabbed the back of the previous attacker, and pushed it to a safe distance. Enraged, the beast bounced again, grabbed the right leg of the humanoid creature that followed, lifted it effortlessly above its head, as if grasping some kind of toy, grabbed its ankle, and smashed it into the ground.

That "fluttering" sound was terrible. Su Hao saw that the flesh and skin of the captured humanoid creature were blooming, blood flowed, the bridge of the nose collapsed, and the left eye was smashed out of the eye socket. It screamed, but couldn't break free from the xenomorph's claws. The other humanoid creature who was pushed to the side appeared to have injured its legs and feet, and although its face was full of anger and fear, it could only lie on the ground and struggle, and could not get up for half a day.

Hengrui clenched his standard short-barreled rifle in his hand and asked eagerly, "Do you want to save them?" They look just like us, all humans. ”

Su Hao didn't answer immediately, but quickly replayed every detail of the scene he had just seen in his mind.

That alien bear was very powerful, and its comprehensive strength was equivalent to that of a third-order evolved person in the third-stage world, and it was the top-level kind. Humanoids are weak, and although they have weapons, they can't deal with scaly beasts. All in all, even if the alien bear is killed, the surviving humanoids will not pose a threat to the exploration team. This is very important, Su Hao doesn't want to just save someone and be stabbed through the heart by the other party from behind.

If it weren't for the ignorance of this world, Su Hao wouldn't have made a move at all. The reason why I came here was originally to collect benefits. They were out-and-out predators and conquerors, not preachers with the Gospels in hand.

There's another important point: being able to craft weapons means that these humanoids are intelligent. In comparison, they should be easier to deal with and better communicate with than that savage behemoth.

No matter what situation he encounters, Su Hao admonishes himself that he must be calm and make the decision that is most in his interests at the first time.

"Let's go! Help those two unlucky guys! ”

After saying this sentence briefly, Su Hao arched his body, jumped up like a cheetah, constantly changing his running path between the rocks and sand, and rushed towards the alien bear in the middle of the valley below.

The beast's senses were very keen, and it instinctively threw away its half-dead prey, turned away from the ugly and hideous head, and looked this way with a vigilant and fierce gaze.

Su Hao's speed was too fast.

The alien bear didn't even know what was going on, only to hear the wind in his ears, followed by the rough and muffled sound of gunfire, and several figures that were faint from the high speed of movement. The alien bear instinctively turns sideways, trying to respond to the sudden appearance of the enemy with its back. Its scale tissue is very thick and hard enough to rival the strongest shields. However, before the body could be completely deflected, a blazing energy shot from a distance had already hit the abdomen, and the alien bear felt unbearable pain, his eyes were stimulated to widen suddenly, and his movements involuntarily became sluggish. When it clutched its wounded and bleeding abdomen, it tried to crouch and bounce away, but it saw a flash of snow-white light in front of its eyes, and heard the noise of a small hedron engine running at high speed.

The Chainsaw Sword is the most common chainsaw weapon in the Phase 3 world. The surface has sharp serrations driven by the machine, which can be used to cut enemies alive. This thing is indestructible, and some of the serrations use a single-molecule blade, and even heavy steel walls can be easily sawed through, let alone ordinary biological cuticles, or scales.

The cooperation of the three people was very tacit, Su Hao and Heng Gray were responsible for remote suppression, and Mo Xingkui rushed to the front and brandished a chainsaw sword to cut off the head of the alien bear. When the huge headless monster toppled over on its back, the dust on the ground was also lifted heavily, and blood gushed out from the severed neck, which was quickly absorbed by the dry ground, leaving only a dark red wet earth.

Su Hao carried a short-barreled rifle in one hand, strode in front of the humanoid creature that had been pushed away before, and while raising the gun to aim at the other party, he used his left hand to open the language translation system of the power armor.

There have been a variety of debates within the empire about AI technology. But whoever they are raising about the invention of intelligent language simulation systems. This is a complex algorithm that can use the speech of different scenarios to compare and judge the language used by humans, so as to generate independent new language patterns in a short period of time. Of course, incorrect simulation judgments in the early days are inevitable, but as long as the two sides continue to come into contact and have more unfamiliar voices as the judgment criterion, a new language system will be born.

When you get closer, you can see more clearly.

By the standards of the third stage of the world, this is a young man who is about twenty-five years old. He has a strong physique, and although his body is thin, his muscles are solid. The temperature in this space field is very high, like the height of summer in the third phase of the world. It had only a pair of leather shorts, no shoes, and a thick layer of calluses on the soles of its feet.

The man's gaze was grateful, but also wary and guarded. Su Hao watched it struggle to get up from the ground, watched it make a gesture that seemed to be a thank you, and watched it stagger towards another seriously injured person not far away.

It was a middle-aged man in much the same attire. It fell to the ground, the wound was oozing blood, the left eye did not know where it flew, the eye socket became a shocking blood hole, the breathing was very weak, the entire lower body was twisted and deformed, the legs and feet were also twisted off from the opposite direction, and it lay on the ground dying.

As for the other one, the humanoid creature that had been slammed on the rock by the alien bear before, had already stopped breathing.

Hengrui and Mo Xingkui also turned on their respective intelligent language systems, collecting conversations between the two humanoid creatures.

Although there are smart computers with powerful learning capabilities, it is difficult to communicate with each other in a completely unfamiliar world. Nearly half an hour passed, until the seriously injured middle-aged man on the ground died completely, and the young man with injured legs and feet hugged the corpse and cried bitterly, and then picked up the severed alien bear head from the ground and knelt down in front of Mo Xingkui, Su Hao basically understood what the other party wanted to express.

That's gratitude, it's a way to acknowledge that the other person is stronger than you. As for why he chose Mo Xingkui instead of Su Hao, it was entirely because Mo Xingkui killed the alien bear with a chainsaw sword, and Su Hao and Heng Rui just stood at a distance and shot at a distance. In contrast, of course, Mo Xingkui, who is in hand-to-hand combat, is more courageous.

……

The young man's name was Kaka. It sounds a lot like a virtual character from a cartoon on Earth, but the meaning here is that it represents a chicken butt.

There are indeed hens here, and of course there are eggs. At the very least, this bird is about the same shape as a hen on Earth, and the taste is not much different. Kaka's father, a middle-aged man who died of serious injuries, ruthlessly slaughtered the only hen in the family on the second day of Kaka's birth. The fat and oily chicken butt tastes evocative, so Kaka's father took it for granted that he gave his son this name.

This is the kingdom of the Red Griffon.

Where there is a kingdom, there are naturally kings and nobles, rich and poor ghosts.

Kaka belongs to the poor ghosts.

Not the entire space realm is short of water, there are several rivers in the Red Griffon Kingdom with abundant water. However, fertile land adjacent to water that is easy to irrigate belongs to the wealthy. Poor people like Kaka can only cultivate on barren dry land, and naturally there is no harvest.

The living will not be suffocated by urine, and finding a way to earn money has naturally become the highest goal in the heart of every poor ghost.

Kaka Daddy is a guy with a lot of ideas. He stubbornly believes that he must find a wife first. Because Kaka's mom ran away a few years ago. It is troublesome to not have a woman around a man, and it will also lead to some unnecessary additional expenses. For example, go outside to find a woman, or some widow in the village, etc...... In order to solve the problem, Kaka and his son invited two other young people in the village to go out hunting together.

It's a giant bear-like monster called Thorny Bear.

This guy is very savage, tough and fierce, not to mention, and he especially likes human flesh. Thorny bears are very popular in the Red Gryphon Kingdom, where skins can be sold for a high price, and meat and bones are also purchased by special personnel. Under normal circumstances, as long as one adult thorny bear is hunted, it is enough to maintain the daily expenses of Kaka father and son for a whole year.

A living person is the best bait for a thorny bear. As long as you walk into this arid and water-scarce barren area, you can cut a small wound on your body, and the smell of blood will immediately spread with the dry wind. You don't have to go too far for the thorny bear to come to you.

Hunting thorny bears has always been the job of the bravest hunter or warrior. Kaka's father was also poor and crazy, so he thought of such a deadly solution. You know, as long as there is a bite to eat in the bowl, no one will want to deal with such a monster. But there was no way, Kaka and his son had eaten up the last stored food before they set off, and they would starve to death if they stayed at home anyway, so it was better to come out and fight.

As a result of his desperate efforts, Kaka became an orphan.

An intelligent language system can automatically translate a variety of questions into the common language of the world. Kaka loaded the huge bear corpse onto the flatbed truck, and walked towards the village with Su Hao and the others who had just saved him.

It has always been Mo Xingkui who is asking questions, he is the warrior that Kaka admires the most. When they were talking, Su Hao followed by and listened carefully without saying a word.

The biological master of this space realm is also an evolutionary man.

Judging from the previous battles, Kaka and his father's actual physique is about the same as the early stage of the first level of evolution. According to Kaka, there are some "warriors" in the village who are stronger than him. According to this inference, the human physique in this space realm should be weaker than that of the third stage world, that is, the main world. If calculated as a percentage, the weakening rate is about 15 percent.

If there is no power armor, Su Hao can also kill the thorny bear. It's just much more difficult and not so smooth.

Warframes have strong protection and attack power, and the user's abilities are also significantly increased. But no matter what, it will never be able to turn a Level 1 Evolver into a Level 2, at most it will allow the user to gain similar abilities, but it will not be able to further improve in terms of agility.

Kaka, who returned to the village, caused a stir. Many people gathered around to watch the giant thorny bear, and after the amazement and surprise, the focus shifted to Su Hao and other strangers.

"I've never seen this style of armor. Where do these guys come from? ”

"Look at the weapons in their hands, what is that? A pipe, is it a blowgun? ”

"These three guys look so weird. The head is so small, but the body is so big. Could it be a variant of malnutrition? ”

"Hey! Kaka, shouldn't you treat me to a good meat? Hahahaha! ”

More and more people came to watch the excitement, from a few to dozens, and it took less than five minutes before and after. It was evident that the Kaka family had no status in the village, and almost everyone was looking at Kaka with malicious eyes, circling back and forth on the huge thorny bear carcass. There were even people who deliberately grabbed the minced meat of the thorny bear from the flatbed, and one piece was not enough, and grabbed another piece.

Su Hao and the others turned a blind eye to this, and just walked quietly next to Kaka, collecting more voice sources.

Kaka looked scared, if it weren't for Hangre's help, he wouldn't have been able to drag the bear back alone. He himself didn't know what the origin of Su Hao and the others was. But they saved themselves after all, at least, it seemed more accessible than the scheming fellows in the village.

Su Hao never thought of being a nanny. If Zircon hadn't been discovered here by accident, he wouldn't have followed this ignorant young man into the village. Inhabited means it's relatively safe. If that's okay, consider setting up your forward base here and then returning to the Phase 3 world with more personnel and equipment.