"Bang ——!"

A deafening gunshot slashed through the woods, and Yashi weighed the pros and cons and finally chose to strike first.

The opposite side seems to be the same.

At the same time that the bullet burst out, a two-meter-tall black shadow sprang out of the woods.

It was a four-legged beast.

It has a low body, sharp front claws, thick hind feet, and dagger-like fangs!

It doesn't look like a mammal, it's a bit like a reptile.

The beast-like appearance resembled a creeping wolf, but there was not a single hair on its body, replaced by oily scale armor!

What made Ye Shi's heart tremble was that this guy's ability to perceive danger was not weak.

As if sensing his attack, it prejudged and avoided his trajectory in a femina seconds before he pulled the trigger.

It looks like a coincidence.

However, for the perception players, Ye Shi knows very well what it is!

"Be careful!"

There was an exclamation of hindsight from the communication channel, and the distance between the two sides had quickly narrowed from twenty meters to within ten meters.

Not because he was wearing power armor, Ye Shi quickly moved the muzzle of the gun to catch up with the trajectory of the alien, switching to the fully automatic mode and pressing the two shuttles to shoot past.

Experience in the wasteland had taught him that even wearing power armor didn't mean he was invulnerable.

Especially "dangerous species" such as the Claw of Death, which can still hang rookies wearing power armor and fight!

"I see you!"

The bullets suppressed the xenomorph's movements, and the xenomorph dodged left and right for a while, and finally got shot.

The 7-millimeter bullet pierced its scales, leaving bloody bullet holes in its body.

"Roaring ——!"

The xenomorph let out a painful wail, and the two mung bean-like eyes flashed with fear.

But—

It didn't turn around and run away, but instead burst out with the courage to fight to the death, using all its strength to make a final charge, opening its bloody mouth and biting towards the door of Night Ten's face.

The swift bite was like an oncoming truck, and Ye Shi could even smell the bad breath in his face.

However, he is a seasoned veteran player, and even if he is not known for his strength and agility, he will not be overwhelmed by this monster.

Sideways to dodge the terrifying bite of the huge mouth, he set up his rifle and blocked the whizzing front paws with the butt of his rifle, then pulled out the grass cleaver hanging from his waist and slashed at the beast's neck with lightning speed.

Driven by the power armor and muscles, the sharp blade was like a speeding electric light, directly chopping off its head.

Dark red blood gushed out from the gap in his neck, dripping on the emerald green grass with a "bang" sound.

Looking at the hot blood that subconsciously dodged, Ye Shi's face showed a surprised expression.

At this time, anxious voices of concern came from the communication channel.

"Are you alright?"

"Small scenes, big problems."

Yajuchi shook his head, glanced at the grass chopping knife in his hand, wiped the blood from the wide leaf on the side, and then inserted it back into the holster.

This place is a bit of a cult.

Unable to help but glance at the misty grass again, he muttered and continued.

"Good fellow...... Is this blood particularly acidic? ”

What's even more outrageous is that the blood-soaked grass actually seems to be moistened in the slightest mist, and it grows more vigorously.

What a hell of a thing.

Jiang Xuezhou's voice came from the communication channel.

"It doesn't have to be acidic, it could be something dehydrating that we don't know about...... There are samplers and test tubes on the ship, can you please take some samples if you can? ”

"No need to be so polite, I was going to do it."

"Wasteland Online" has always had the task of collecting xenovaries, and there are a lot of contribution points and silver coins rewarded.

This thing is an alien species on another planet, isn't it much more awesome than some polar bear?

Ten times the night went back to the spaceship, took off the professional sampling tools, collected the blood, saliva and tissue cells of the xenomorph, labeled them and put them in the cryogenic sample box.

And in the moments when he was busy, the smell of blood from the corpse of the beast had already attracted a large number of strange little guys.

Among them were flying insects with straws, round beetles, a bunch of small reptiles that resembled ants but did not resemble them, and small four-legged beasts that wandered around the edge of the bushes and tried to come up but did not dare to approach.

Wearing power armor, Ye Shi is not afraid of these bugs crawling on his body, but he still finds it annoying.

"Go, go, play."

Looking at more and more insects, in desperation, he could only pull out a white phosphorus bomb and pull the ring and throw it aside.

As the harsh white light lit up, the pungent smoke drifted around, finally driving the insects away.

Taking advantage of the escape of those insects, Night Ten immediately hurried to complete the sampling work.

And just after he finished work and returned to the research ship, the head that had fallen in the grass not far away had been gnawed away and exposed white bones.

Ye Shi suddenly had a feeling that this place was like an enlarged version of the Baiyue Strait.

Unlike the latter, however, he didn't find anything around that resembled the original strain of Nago.

There seems to be a simple food chain relationship between species here, and there is no deeper DNA exchange.

“…… Could it be that Gaia is dead? ”

He didn't know if Gaia had the concept of death, but he couldn't help but feel so confused in his heart.

Especially since he landed until now, the threat he has encountered is only an alien species.

He had expected the opponent to be the entire planet.

In fact, this is not only the confusion of Ye Shi, but also the confusion of Jiang Xuezhou.

It's not that safe, but it doesn't seem to be as dangerous as they thought.

Of course, it's also possible that they haven't been on the planet long after they landed, and the huge planet hasn't realized they're coming......

“…… We'd better hurry up, maybe get out of here before Gaia realizes our presence. ”

"I try."

After replying to Jiang Xuezhou's words, Ye Shi moved the corpse of the dead beast to a distant place and buried it, and then returned to the vicinity of the spaceship, scattering some feces from the beast's intestines around it.

This is Jiang Xuezhou's suggestion.

It is said that the feces of carnivores are able to repel other wild animals.

Although I don't know if this wilderness survival method on Earth still works on exotic planets, Ye Shi still endures his physical discomfort and complies with it.

After doing this, he rubbed his armored gloves against the trunk of a nearby tree, and stopped when the bark was almost off, and then dragged large bags of equipment out of the research ship.

All of this equipment was made by Jiang Xuezhou using materials from the engineering repair room of the Orion missile cruiser.

These include temporary base stations for medium-range signal reception, ground-based weather observation stations, charging stations for drones, solar panels and metallic hydrogen batteries, and more.

With these devices, it will be possible to ensure at least a "non-stop network" for his activities within 50 kilometers of the research ship.

It can be seen that Jiang Xuezhou is really heartbroken for his safety, and Ye Shi has never worried about his safety so much.

In the past, when he was doing tasks around Dawning City, he and his good brothers of the Burning Corps had always used their faces to explore the grass, and when they died, they all returned to the city early.

Finally making all the preparations, Night Ten carried the half-man-tall supply box on his back, and groped his way towards the signal from the black box on the wreckage of the twin missile cruisers, followed by a quadcopter drone.

I remember that the background information on the official website said that the Federation of People had built a network of roads and a rail transportation system connecting colonies between colonies on the planet Gaia, and the largest human community even had a population of one million.

However, for some reason, Jiang Xuezhou's drone flew several times in the sky and saw nothing but the lush rainforest.

The traces of civilization had been erased, and all that remained was the savage, strangely shaped plants.

Night Ten can only wield a grass chopping knife like a pioneer in the classical period, trying to make his way through the gaps between tree trunks and vines, and praying that he will not encounter any strange aliens along the way.

To be honest, he thought more than once that he would simply throw an incendiary bomb and burn the ball.

But thinking that this planet is so alive, he can only endure this impulse.

Gaia may not have noticed his presence yet, but it would be hard to say if he set a fire.

Luckily, perhaps the beasts around him also felt that the depths of the forest were full of danger, so he didn't encounter the ferocious carnivores he had before along the way.

As for the poisonous insects that attacked him from time to time, they were all blocked by the shell of the power armor.

The only thing that scared him out was once.

That was when he was walking through a relatively open broad-leaved forest.

Dark brown branches were wrapped between the twenty or thirty-meter-tall trees, like sun-dried vines.

At first, Ye Shi also thought it was a vine, and without thinking much about it, the grass chopping knife in his hand raised his hand and picked it up.

As a result, the moment he struck the rattan net more than ten meters high, the dark green blood rushed him all over in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the whole "dead net" seemed to come to life, splitting into brown pythons as thick as wrists, and "roaring" from the air as if it were raining.

The snakes writhed on the ground and pounced on him as if they were going mad, as if to kill him here.

Looking at the dense group of snakes, Ye Shi only felt that the san value was crazy, and in a hurry, he pulled out the incendiary stick and danced wildly, and only through the pungent smoke and flickering fire did he break out of the encirclement.

After stumbling through the woods for a while, and making sure that the writhing snakes hadn't caught up, Night Ten breathed a sigh of relief and threw away the extinguished incendiary stick in his hand.

The quadcopter drone staggered behind him, and Xiao Jiang's voice came from the communication channel.

"I analyzed the photos I had just taken...... It was supposed to be some kind of snake creature from the phylum Reptiles of the phylum Chordates, which were connected end-to-end in a web from tree trunk to trunk. By all indications, they have no teeth and should not be interested in prey larger than their mouths...... You just need to go around that time. ”

"Damn, neurotic...... panting Ye Shi supported his knees with his hands, and scolded in his mouth, "It's okay to hang in mid-air and pretend to be dead, Lao Tzu thought it was a vine ......"

"Well, actually, they may ......" Jiang Xuezhou suddenly lost his voice halfway through speaking, but Ye Shi, who was out of breath, became curious.

"What could be?"

Jiang Xuezhou hesitated for a while, and finally said in an unspeakable voice.

"They...... Probably in copulation. ”

"Poof!"

Hearing the voice coming from the communication channel, Night Ten almost didn't choke on his own spit.

All right.

I was offended.

“…… Okay, okay, forget the minutiae, the valley I photographed in the sky is just ahead. There's a lot of vegetation density there, and it's high, and the signal isn't necessarily good, so you have to be careful. ”

Not too embarrassed to talk about this topic, Jiang Xuezhou quickly broke the topic back on track.

"Got it."

It just so happened that I didn't want to stay here any longer, so after resting for a while, I continued to move forward with the box.

As you enter the area around the valley, the terrain becomes much more rugged and the wildlife is noticeably more active.

Especially after passing through a bush, he found a row of dents on the ground, about half a meter wide and more than ten centimeters deep, like the footprints of some kind of large creature.

“…… I'm afraid there's some big guy around here. ”

It seems that there is a water source in the vicinity.

Taking a few photos of the marks on the ground, Ye Shi was a little vigilant in his heart.

Just as he had predicted, just as he had passed through a patch of grass, the sound of gurgling water appeared in front of him.

The quadcopter drone following him flew first, and Ye Shi also sped up his pace and followed.

Soon, a meandering stream came into his view, followed by a beautiful sight that he had never seen before.

Pagoda-thick trunks stood around the winding stream, dark brown trunks covered with colorful moss and broad leaves about the height of a man or two.

Tiny particles of light linger between the trees and leaves, like spirits dancing in the air, merging into a galaxy of brilliant lights in the air.

And on the edge of the tree-lined stream, more than a dozen giant mammals, originally four or five meters high, were burying their triangular heads, prostrate on the river's edge to drink quietly.

The beauty of the scenery made the night eleven so unrelenting that he almost forgot the danger of the hidden murder.

As if sensing his gaze, the triangular head that was prostrate and drinking raised its head.

But perhaps because they didn't sense danger from him, they buried their heads again before long, and continued to lick the sweet stream as if he didn't exist.

"What a beautiful ......"

Xiao Jiang's voice came from the communication channel, and it was obvious that she was also attracted by the magnificent scenery in front of her.

"Indeed, even the forests of Baiyue Province are a little less interesting than here...... The only thing that puzzles me is where Gaia has gone. ”

Coming back to his senses, Yeshi whispered a silent sentence and followed the stream to find a way to cross the river.

It was at this moment that he suddenly noticed a dark green crystal deposit lying near the upper reaches of the ground.

"It's ...... Crystal mines? ”

With a surprised expression on his face, Yashi walked towards the crystal clear rock mass.

I saw rows of dark green crystals that seemed to grow on the rock wall, spreading along the cracks to the depths of the rock mass.

Are there copper veins in the vicinity?

Thinking so, he leaned closer, but was surprised to find that there were beetle-like insects crawling under the diamond-like crystals.

Their backs are condensed with dark green crystals, which travel back and forth between the crevices and the surface of the rock.

From time to time, dark green crystals fall off their backs, and that seems to be the source of these dark green crystals!

"This is actually some kind of organic material?!"

Ye Shi was greatly surprised, and took out a palm-sized awl and knocked it on the ground.

It's quite hard, and it's harder than a diamond, and it even scratches the surface of the awl!

At this time, Jiang Xuezhou's excited voice came from the communication channel.

"Pick some more!"

"Know...... I'm getting it. Night Ten hurriedly replied and knocked a whole rock down from the wall.

Sure enough, women like shiny things.

Of course, it may also be for scientific research purposes.

In fact, not to mention Jiang Xuezhou, Ye Shi himself was also very curious about what this thing was, and how many silver coins could be exchanged for bringing it back to Earth.

Speaking of which, I don't know if this thing appeared in the last few years, or more than 200 years ago.

If it had been the most recent one, he might have been the first to discover this dark green crystal.

As is customary in Wasteland Online, the first person to be discovered has the right of first naming.

When the time comes, will it be called "Ye Jing" or "Night Crystal"?

Just when Ye Shi was secretly having fun in his heart, there was a sudden sound of Suo Suo's movement from the nearby trees.

Hearing the voice, Ye Shi subconsciously raised his head, but he was stunned for a moment.

I saw a light-green-skinned figure standing there.

The man held a half-man-high javelin in his hand, the tip of which was the dark green crystal.

Those dark blue eyes stared at him intently, as if they had been broken by the iron bumps on his body or something, standing there motionless.

Seeing the light green skin, Ye Shi's heart instantly rose to his throat.

"?"

Mutants?!

But—

How is this possible?!

He remembered very well how the mutants were born, an accident that occurred at the Biological Research Institute in the Clouds in the year 44 of the Wasteland Era.

No matter how fast the mutants reproduce and how strong their vitality is, they won't be able to reproduce on the planet Gaia, right?!

At this moment, he didn't have time to think about it, his index finger had already picked the safety of the rifle and put it on the trigger.

But at this moment, there was a rapid shout from the other end of the communication channel.

"Wait a minute, Night Ten! This guy may not be a mutant! Don't rush to do it yet! ”

At the same time as this voice sounded, the sound of Suo Suo came from the grass, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of figures had appeared under the woods.

The moment they saw the group of "little green men", the "triangular faces" who were originally lying by the river drinking water raised their heads and howled, then turned around and ran.

It can be seen that they have suffered a lot from this group of "little green men".

And at the same time, Ye Shi saw a scene that made his jaw drop even more-

I saw a winged dragon flapping its wings flying through the air!

Unlike the pterosaurs he had seen in the Dinosaur Museum, the creature also had dark green crystals on its body, and the tips of the spears in the hands of these little green men seemed to have been ripped from the big one.

It's a hunting party!

Night Ten's head spun fast.

Just when he couldn't decide what to do, an older elder suddenly walked out of the twenty or thirty figures.

The old man's skin was wrinkled, his mouth was a messy beard, his eyes were full of tears, he was babbling in a language he didn't understand, and then he fell to his knees.

This action startled Ye Shi, and it seemed to scare the group of little green people behind him.

But soon, the old man turned back and said a few words, and the sturdy young men also put down their weapons one after another, and fell to the ground with reverent expressions.

"What are you doing here? Get up! ”

Ye Shi cried and laughed, but remembered that they might not understand what he was saying.

But just as he was thinking this, the old man popped out of his mouth a stumbling human couplet.

"Meet...... Primogenitor...... My lord. (End of chapter)