The entire planet is covered in a thick layer of ice that stretches as far as the eye can see.

There was nothing on the surface of the planet, no green in sight, only iceberg after iceberg and violent storms rolling across the surface of the ice.

Ten frigates hung inside the planet against the strong wind, and in the bridge of the command ship, Fang Chen checked the signal of the archaeological chip and the signal from the planet again, and after determining the specific location again, the battleship accelerated and sailed into the distance.

In less than half an hour, the battleship was moored over a huge valley.

It looked like a huge river valley, with towering mountains and plateaus on either side, only two or three thousand meters high on one side, five or six thousand meters high on the other, and a huge valley two or three kilometers wide in the middle, also covered with thick ice, from which the signal came.

The battleship made two turns back and forth over the valley and finally determined a certain position.

Then, Fang Chen opened the universe in his palm, released a hundred unmanned mining robots, and took out a mining cutting laser spray gun to cut through the thick ice on the ground.

Now he didn't know what the archaeological site looked like underneath, and he didn't dare to bombard it with naval artillery, lest he accidentally damage it.

During this cut, eight frigates flew in all directions, ready to reconnoiter the situation on the planet.

Time passed, and five hours later, the thick ice on the ground was cut open to reveal a passage that led directly to the bottom of the ice hundreds of meters thick, and through the drone reconnaissance footage, it can be seen that there are many building debris at the bottom of the thick ice, near the plateau, which seems to be part of an abandoned base.

Then, under his command, the mining robots dug around the abandoned base to expand the site.

The project lasted four full days before the abandoned site and surrounding ice were excavated.

At the same time, the frigates sent out to reconnoiter have also returned, the eight battleships have not found anything, and the entire planet has not found anything abnormal.

After the scene was cleaned up, Fang Chen sent an engineering team down to clean up the rubble.

Two more days later, the ruins were cleared, and the wreckage was cleared, revealing the outline of an abandoned base.

There is nothing to study in the abandoned base, you can see it at a glance, and the archaeological target is not this abandoned base, but there is a huge artificial cave on the side of the abandoned base near the plateau, and the real core of the base is underground.

It is worth mentioning that this abandoned base was not abandoned naturally, but was destroyed by an attack.

There are many craters and traces of laser cannon bombardment in the base.

The frigate slowly lowered its altitude, Fang Chen opened the universe in his palm, and a heavily armed fifth-level clone squadron and a 20-person elite genetic warrior squad walked out, including 5 armored vehicles and 5 small combat platforms, and entered the artificial cave under the command of a squadron leader.

This artificial cave is quite large, and although it cannot accommodate frigates, ordinary armored vehicles and combat platforms can still enter.

The full name of the combat platform is an all-terrain multi-functional combat platform, which can be suspended, has retractable wheels, and also has mechanical legs and mechanical arms to walk, and can adapt to any terrain.

It can accommodate up to ten fighters to operate various weapons on the combat platform, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

Something like archaeology, of course, doesn't need to be risked by him, the commander, himself.

However, he can enter the underground with his subordinates through the team's own communication system, and can command in real time.

The inside of the artificial cave is very cold, and the stone walls are covered with a thick layer of ice, but only the ice at the entrance of the cave is thick, and the ice becomes thinner the further you go.

There is no lighting in the cave, and you can only look around through the lighting of drones.

Fang Chen could see the artificial traces on the walls through communication, and there were also some remnants of lighting equipment, but now they have experienced I don't know how many years they have broken down.

Running down the hole, there were still tracks left on the soles of the feet, but they were broken in places, and there were craters and shelled bullets.

After walking down for about a kilometer, I saw a railcar parked on the track, which had obviously been blown up, and there were several dead bones and scattered robots on it.

Check the skeletal morphology, not a human, it should be a humanoid.

And this skeleton has a lot of metal structures in its body, and it looks like it should have been mechanically modified.

The robot is not in human form, and the inspection material should be T2 level technology, which is not high.

As the team progressed, more vehicles and corpses began to appear, including humanoid bones and broken robots, all of which were walking outward, seemingly fleeing from the inside.

The corpses were all of the same species, and their bodies had been mechanically altered to a greater or lesser extent.

"This is a civilization that takes the route of a mechanical ascension?"

The team continued on their way, passing through the dense mass of debris and bones, to the end of the passage, where they saw a huge plaza behind the blasted open gate, filled with dead bones and robots.

The team slowly approached the entrance of the cave, and suddenly heard a cacophony of machinery coming from inside:

"Alert: Organic organism detected, organic removal program activated!"

"Alert: Organic organism detected, organic removal program activated!"

The alarm seemed to be a signal, and many of the robots that had fallen to the ground in the pile of bones in the square suddenly turned on red signal lights and began to shake.

However, most of the robots were damaged and unable to move, and only a few were still able to move, dragging their broken bodies and picking up the weapons at hand, standing up and rushing towards the passage.

"Prepare for battle!"

Five armoured vehicles were lined up, each with four heavy impulse machine guns and four laser launchers and two small anti-aircraft electromagnetic guns aligning the muzzle alignment channel.

When the first robot poured into the passage, a crisp gunshot rang out, and a deshelling bullet flashed under the impetus of the electromagnetic force, easily shattering a robot with a sphere but eight metal arms on its surface that could shoot lasers.

The battle signal sounded, followed by a continuous burst of gunfire and laser strafing.

In addition to the armored vehicles, each of the five small combat platforms is equipped with a total of twenty heavy pulse machines with laser launchers and four small anti-aircraft laser cannons.

In addition, the clone troops and elite genetic warriors are each equipped with laser launchers or electromagnetic rifles, and the combined firepower within the range of the small hole is extremely ferocious, and the robots inside are as many as they die, and they can't break through their firepower network at all.

The frenzied killing lasted for more than twenty minutes, and I don't know how many robots were destroyed, and the wreckage of the cave was piled up.

It was only at this time that the number of robots that came slowly decreased, but they did not dare to take it lightly, but continued to guard the entrance of the cave, an unmanned reconnaissance robot slowly drove towards the entrance of the cave, and with the help of the equipment above, Fang Chen saw the whole picture of this underground base.

It's a very large underground space, with a central hall alone measuring nearly two hundred meters in diameter, and many passages extending to other places around it.

The floor and ceiling are made of all-metal, with thick load-bearing columns standing on the base, and the floor is littered with wreckage and discarded instruments.