There was a period in the home planet of mankind called the Age of Discovery, also known as the Great Geographical Discovery, which refers to the extensive transoceanic activities and major breakthroughs in geography around the world from the 15th to the 17th centuries. These ocean-going activities facilitated communication between the continents on the home planet, and with it, many new trade routes were formed. With the opening of new shipping routes, cultural and trade exchanges between different countries increased substantially, and colonialism and free trade began to rise.

Although people have mixed reviews about that epic and magnificent era, it is undeniable that the pioneers are worthy of respect. Think of a sampan-like ship with enough supplies to break into the moody oceans, searching for new routes through stormy waves, storms, reef whirlpools, and battling murderous pirates. And some of these pioneers, for one reason or another, sometimes make cameo appearances as pirates in addition to their "own work", and the deepest reason for their behavior seems to be for two words: profit!

In the era of star aviation, this is just replacing the ocean with the sea of stars, and the situation is actually very similar.

In the early days, because human beings inherited the legacy of prehistoric civilization, they laid shipping lanes and supply points along one interstellar gate after another, and set up settlements and colonies on planets with conditions similar to those of the home planet. As for the remote star fields beyond the shipping lane, they are marked in gray on the star map, just like the "fog of war" in the game, waiting to be explored, so this kind of exploration is also nicknamed "opening the map".

The Star Voyage exploration ships are basically owned by quite powerful scientific research institutions or consortia, and below this level are large and small mercenary groups, which are the main forces of "opening the map"; At the top of the starship are governments, which will dispatch "joint fleets" when they encounter difficult situations. The mode of dealing with the problem is nothing more than using orbital weapons to carry out long-range strikes from space, or sending air-based fighter groups and ground-based mixed mech units to conduct contact operations.

At that time, humanity had been hoping to discover other sapient races, not inferior species such as the natives of the planet who were incapable of resisting when slaughtered.

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"Commander, I think it's sent this time! The lower races of the Stone Age, the lower grades of the heavenly ladder colonize the planet, these 'Titans' should be very suitable to bring back as miners...... Ha ha! I seem to see a lot of military mechs beckoning to us! ”

A middle-aged man with black hair rubbed his hands excitedly and said to the strong man next to him.

"Stone Age? Zhang, you're not entirely right. Don't you see those tribal warriors with metal weapons in their hands? The strong man rubbed his rosacea nose and pointed to the primitive people sitting opposite him like a hill dressed in animal skins and wearing animal bone necklaces.

The dark-haired looked in the direction and saw one of the primitives playing with a crude bronze metal object that looked like a hollowed-out blunt knife. Of course, with the size of these primitive people, who are almost all more than three meters tall, it may be more appropriate to call them daggers.

"Uh-huh! Maybe it's a demonic weapon. Zhang was amused by himself after speaking.

Rosacea smiled, took out his stainless steel flask, poured a large sip of whiskey, and then said to Zhang with a little impatience: "The translator hasn't found a language to communicate with?" You go over and see how long it will take. We'll stay in that stone temple tonight, it looks pretty spacious. ”

Zhang answered and walked towards the end of the campfire.

Just as a few primitive people came over with an old man in a priest's robe.

Upon closer inspection, it can be found that the priest is noticeably shorter than other hominids, but he is also nearly two meters tall.

"Hetoga." The priest pointed to the top of Zhang's head.

After being stunned for a moment, Zhang curled his tongue and replied. Then the two sides chattered and obviously communicated.

"What's going on?" Seeing this, rosacea also came over, listened with his ears fixed for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

Just as the conversation seemed to come to an end at this time, Zhang turned his head, hesitated, and said, "He said a dialect of our Baiyou people..... He also said that there was a dark-haired human before us......."

"What?!" Rosacea exclaimed, then lowered his voice and asked, "How is that possible?!" It's a gray color on the star map, and we only updated it on the supply point's starnet two months ago! ”

He added...... The man called himself a 'Traveler'......" blinked, also in disbelief.

"So that man should be a nuclear powerman, a lone ranger?" Rosacea frowned and said, "But, doesn't such a nuclear power person need more government funding and rewards?" ”

"Commander, the Three-Tooth Priest also said......" Zhang swallowed his saliva, and continued with a complicated expression: "Please leave immediately after the supply and rest ......"

"Leave?!" Rosacea shook his head slowly, his eyes were very resolute, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you know what the situation is in the group now...... Besides, no amount of primitive accumulation can avoid this kind of dirty thing. Didn't you Baiyou people say that? God doesn't take it, but suffers the blame! God gave it to us humans, and the nuclear power didn't ask for it, so should we miss this opportunity? Sheet....... Go and tell the brothers to begin to wear their armor! ”

Seeing that Zhang wanted to speak and stopped, rosacea directly made a gesture of preparation to the dozen or so members sitting around the bonfire.

When the members of the regiment climbed into the exoskeleton armor and activated the weapon system device, the twin-rotor landing ship not far away also took off, hovering over those primitive people with bad intentions. The rotors raised air currents and shrouded both sides in smoke and dust, and the bonfire was swept up in light and dark; Under the starlight, the glade turned a bleak gray.

"Zhang, are you alright? Why can't you give up? Rosacea pretended to pat Zhang on the shoulder relaxedly.

The priest concluded...... It's not 'please leave as soon as you're done with supplies.' Zhang took out the handheld computer, clicked into the gimbal interface of the drone, and continued with a solemn expression: "He said...... Otherwise, it will be considered an invasion of the 'Quabasnia' tribal alliance! Boss, I've been your deputy for so many years, you must believe me this time, at least after the drone is done scouting! I have a very bad premonition! ”

"The signal source here is unstable, you go back to the landing ship to monitor the drone first, and I'll just stay here." Rosacea saw that the video transmitted from the gimbal interface had snowflakes or flickers from time to time, so he said, "Five minutes, I'll wait another five minutes." ”

Zhang nodded, didn't say much, stepped on the foot ring of the elevator and returned to the front compartment of the dual-rotor landing ship, and began to download the data transmitted back by the aerial camera.

"The estimated download time given by Zhi Brain is three minutes and forty-seven seconds, which means that after the download, you can also briefly conduct a comprehensive evaluation of this planet, at least try to see if you can find the reason for my restlessness." Zhang's knuckles tapped a few times on the seat handle, then turned his head to look at the split screen on the side of the console.

Condescendingly, from different angles, many things can be seen clearly.

More than a dozen exoskeleton armors had been quietly arranged in an arc of skirmishers in the smoke and dust, and those primitives were in the area where they were subjected to a saturation attack from land and air.

And those primitive people who are completely unaware of the crisis, some are "rescuing" the barbecue in their hands from the smoke and dust, gnawing off the golden meat pieces by two, and throwing away the huge skeleton that is completely clean; Others were talking in casual whispers; One of the primitives saw that the priest was choking on the smoke and dust in the sky, so he walked under the twin-rotor landing ship, whined at the camera, pointed to the distance, and then walked back, seeing that he meant to let the iron lump fly aside and stop for a while; Not far away, primitive people were slowly walking out of the temple, and soon an old man wearing a second priest's robe appeared......

"These giants are exaggerated enough, but how big does it have to be for an animal to have such a big skeleton?" Zhang saw that the data of the drone had been read to more than 90 percent, and there was no warning from the intelligent system, so his mood was also relaxed, and he was distracted, muttering: "Does that temple have a negative floor?" How else can you fit so many primitive people? Well? These two priests don't seem to see each other often, why do they seem to be noisy there?? ”

A primitive man who looked younger in terms of physique and hair did not mingle with his own people, but curiously walked up to the nearest exoskeleton armor, and touched and knocked on the strange thing that was similar to his size.

After a while, the mercenary group members inside the exoskeleton armor probably felt a little impatient, and finally couldn't help but stretch out their iron palms to push the other party.

Since this pushing action was a bit sudden, it could be seen that the primitive man instinctively shook his left shoulder and unloaded, and then slammed his right shoulder into the arms of the exoskeleton armor with a slap on his right shoulder as if he had a spring on his foot.

Since the composite glass in the exoskeleton armored cabin is visible, it can be clearly seen that a mouthful of blood inside is sprayed directly on the glass, and the neck is obviously broken at a strange angle; The entire exoskeleton armor flew out of a distance of more than ten meters under this impact, and only fell into the mud with a bang after knocking down several large trees. Judging from the degree of deformation of the exoskeleton armor, the members of the team inside are afraid that they are more than lucky.

The initiator froze there in the last exerted position, blood gushing out from a fist-sized wound on his waist, and soon pooled into a large puddle of blood in the mud beneath his feet.