It stands to reason that if all the snow in such a large pit has melted, there should be a pool of water in it. But when they looked at it, they found that there was not a lot of water in it, but the soil was very moist. So where does all the snow-covered water go? It can't all be evaporated as water vapor.

Several people stood on the edge of the pit with guns in their hands, looking underground, the pit was at least ten meters deep and at least seven or eight meters wide. A few land marching soldiers stood on the edge of the pit and stretched out their heads to look down, and several flying soldiers circled in the sky and looked down.

"It's a big pit," several people sighed. In the Old Earth era, there were frequent reports of sinkholes, mostly due to over-exploitation of groundwater, but also for other reasons, but most of them were man-made. Therefore, it is not excluded that this pit was caused by man-made, when the snow star human race was not extinct, the city caused this huge sinkhole due to the overexploitation of groundwater.

Hua Hu, who was flying, asked, "Boss, why don't we go down and explore a few angels first?" ”

Xia Xingcheng waved his hand and said, "No, safety first!" Send a few drones down to see first. ”

Xia Xingcheng said that he would let one of his soldiers operate a single soldier computer and control several attack drones to investigate. The information that the drone found after going down made everyone a little surprised, because there was a cave at the bottom of the pit that extended horizontally.

Mingyue muttered, "That's true." ”

Xia Xingcheng turned around and asked, "You detected the soul wave just now?" ”

"No, I'm guessing."

The drone stopped at the bottom of the pit and waited for instructions, and the soldier operating the drone asked, "Captain, what next?" ”

Xia Xingcheng didn't answer him, but stared at the picture fed back by the drone, and asked Mingyue at the same time: "What did you think of?" ”

Mingyue said: "It can be seen from the cave below, it is about four or five meters in diameter......"

Seeing Mingyue paused slightly, Xia Xingcheng asked, "Then what?" ”

Mingyue thought for a moment and said, "Could that be a wormhole?" ”

"Wormholes?" Xia Xingcheng didn't understand what she meant, and he didn't know if what she was talking about was a wormhole in physics or a wormhole in the real sense.

"Yes, wormhole," Mingyue said, the humans are here to block the invasion of the Zerg, from the sky, from the ground, but they didn't expect that there are insects attacking from the ground. Bugs, they can't make holes, so what are they called? What do you say, Captain Xia? ”

Xia Xingcheng nodded and said, "You mean to say that a large wave of insects have quietly come to the human defense line through the ground?"

"It's not impossible."

Xia Xingcheng thought about it, and said to the soldier who controlled the drone, "Scout the wormhole."

The soldiers began to control several drones to enter the wormhole for reconnaissance, and Xia Xingcheng connected to the brigade headquarters and briefed the brigade commander on the situation here. Then he ordered everyone to rest and stand by, and let the few flying Taítans land as well.

Everyone looked down, and at the same time looked at the picture fed back by the drone, the wormhole below was unexpectedly very deep, and the drone flew in for a long time without reaching the end. Not only did it not reach the end, but there were also a lot of forks, and not a single bug was found before reaching the fork.

What's next? It's time to make a decision again. Xia Xingcheng only thought for a moment and said, "We can't always spend time here, we have to keep moving forward." Captain, you're watching this hole right here, I'll leave more drones here, and I'll let them automatically search for every fork below. ”

The captain said on the channel, "Okay."

Xia Xingcheng said to the team again: "Let's continue to move forward, be careful not to get separated."

A road was chosen at the crossroads, which was the opposite road, and while walking forward, one of the soldiers on land called Tank said: "You say, what does this zerg eat?"

This land soldier, called Tank, carried a plasma Gatling gun in both hands. Gatling is considered a heavy weapon among individual weapons, and can only be equipped with a strong soldier like a tank.

Another landbound soldier who walked with him, nicknamed Datou, said, "I don't know, but I guess they must like to eat a lot of meat."

The tank glared at him, but Mingyue said, "Organics."

"How do you know?" the tank asked.

Mingyue said, "Since landing, have you found an animal? Animals other than biters. ”

Both the tank and the big head shook their heads, and the big head said, "Don't say it, it's true, it's strange, it's really an animal that hasn't been found."

Mingyue said: "Their food is mainly hydrocarbons, such as oil and natural gas."

"But animals, including indigenous humans, are not oil, so how can they be wiped out?" Big Head asked.

"Because they also have a characteristic, a strong sense of territory," Mingyue said, "There can't be any living creatures in their territory!" This includes all animals, including humans, as well as their own kind who are fighting for territory. So, on this planet, you can see a lot of plants, but you can't see animals. ”

Both the tank and the big head nodded, thoughtful.

Mingyue said again: "This is also the reason why our warships will be attacked in orbit, because their territory extends to tens of thousands of kilometers of orbit.

"The Zerg have powerful radio technology that can detect our location by detecting our electromagnetic signals, or they can create signal interference to shield the entire planet and disconnect us from the fleet. And the area we are in now can play a natural role in interfering with the Zerg's signals, so it has not been attacked. ”

Tank said: "Sister Mingyue, how do you know so much? You're awesome! ”

Mingyue was one of the older people in Company A, so many soldiers called her sister.

Mingyue just smiled, but did not answer him, but said in her heart: In the three years that my sister has been in the fleet to the Snow Realm Star, she has conducted hundreds of soul wave reconnaissances, can she not know this?

After Mingyue enlisted in the army, he joined the eight ships. And the eight ships arrived in the Anri system seven years earlier than the other fleets. During the three-year voyage of the Eight Ships, Mingyue was ordered to use soul waves to conduct soul wave reconnaissance on the Snow Star while conducting daily Marine training. Of course, all this is done in secret.

Listening to the three of them talking, Xia Xingcheng suddenly asked, "You mean that the Zerg eat oil?"

Mingyue said: "It's possible."

Xia Xingcheng seemed to realize that something was wrong and said: "Hurry up and let the drones in the cave stop investigating, all fly out, and be on guard at the entrance of the cave."

(End of chapter)