Aurora Soldiers

Chapter 145 Crystal Mine

In the middle of the night, the news of the victory in the grain storage warehouse had spread throughout the Qingshui City base. The survivors cheered and were busy. Bags of grain were sent into the mountains and transported to nearby fortifications for storage.

"With so much food, we no longer have to tighten our belts and dig in and out to live!"

"Where are we? I heard that the entire grain storage warehouse was knocked down by us. Do you know how much grain is in the entire grain storage warehouse? A hundred thousand tons! If it is well preserved, it will be enough for us people to eat for ten years! "

"The monsters were actually defeated. I heard that this was an unprecedented victory. The monsters were so frightened by our soldiers that they hid in the city and did not dare to come out again. The monsters searching the surrounding mountains and forests were also scared. Everyone has been evacuated, didn’t you see that we didn’t meet a single monster along the way?”

"It's incredible. The monster was defeated by us. I originally thought this operation was very dangerous and many people would die."

"Who says otherwise? I heard that the original action was indeed unfavorable and was ambushed by monsters. However, Captain Zhang from the south who was invited back by the base killed three new monsters by himself. The last one was even more frightened. He had to commit suicide on the spot. Without the commander in chief, the monster army began to collapse."

"Really or not, is it really such an exaggeration?"

"How can it be false? Have you been to the woods next to the base? Those three trees were chopped off by that man with one knife. They were big trees that could be hugged by one person. It would have taken us a long time to chop down one of them, but we couldn't. He cut three trees with one knife! I heard that he could cut a truck in half with one knife. Without him, this operation would have been in vain."

"Then we have to thank them properly, otherwise we wouldn't know what's going on in our base area."

"Who says it's not the case? After this battle, if the monster wants to search the mountain again, it will have to be more careful. We will all be much safer."

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The survivors in the base area were busy transporting food while chatting about the victory just now. The achievements of Zhang Chengguang and his team quickly spread among the survivors and were talked about by everyone.

On the other side, Zhang Chengguang and others returned after chasing the monsters. Now that the overall situation was decided, everyone was already very tired after fighting, so they followed Ding Dafeng and others back to the base area.

"The heroes are back!!"

"Thank you! Heroes from the south! Thank you for your help!"

"We Qingshui City people will always remember this kindness!"

"Captain Zhang! Everyone, come and see! It's Captain Zhang who can cut a truck in half with one knife!!"

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As soon as Zhang Chengguang and his party returned to the base, they were recognized by the survivors. The crowd rushed up and burst into cheers.

What the hell is a truck that can be cut in half with one knife?

Zhang Chengguang looked puzzled, wondering when he had ever done such a thing, and why there were always strange rumors.

At this moment, a passage opened in the crowd, and Mayor Xia came up with a group of high-level officials from the base area. He excitedly held Zhang Chengguang's hand: "I can't thank you enough for your kindness. We Qingshui people will understand this kindness." remember."

"Mayor Xia made a strong statement."

Zhang Chengguang said with a smile, this is a matter of mutual benefit. In this battle, he killed three new creatures, plundered a large amount of vitality, achieved the six meridians, and his strength was greatly enhanced. Strictly Generally speaking, he was the one who gained the most from this battle, followed by Li Hu, who had broken through the realm.

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Mayor Xia and others also knew that Zhang Chengguang and his party were exhausted from the battle, so they led them to rest first and provided various supplies.

The group of people rested until dawn before coming out of the room and meeting with Mayor Xia and other high-level officials in the base area who had not slept all night.

"In this battle, we killed nearly 600 monsters, but we also sacrificed nearly 500 soldiers, and nearly 800 people were injured to varying degrees. The casualties were not low, but judging from the results of this battle, this was indeed a battle. Big win that matters.”

"The monster army is guarding the city and does not dare to move north easily. We have obtained enough food to survive better in the mountains and forests, and to gather more survivors."

Mayor Xia introduced the data of this battle to Zhang Chengguang and others in a deep voice.

Of the team of more than 5,000 people, nearly 500 people died and 800 people were injured to varying degrees. This is no longer a small number, but there is nothing that can be done about it.

In this operation, they were on the attacking side and fell into an ambush set by monsters.

Most of the casualties were caused after the two ambushing new bodies appeared. At that time, everyone fell into despair and panic, and almost collapsed. In a short period of time, they suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the surrounding monsters.

If Zhang Chengguang hadn't killed the new ones in time to boost the morale of the army, there would have been even more casualties.

"The situation is safe for the time being, but you cannot relax yet and must be prepared at all times."

Zhang Chengguang said in a deep voice that he had not seen the equipment and creations produced by monsters in Qingshui City. It seems that the monsters in Qingshui City are one step behind the monsters in Guangjiang City in this regard, so some information may not be understood by Qingshui City.

So he informed everyone of the information he knew and some of the professors' speculations.

"Is it a technological creation of monsters? There may be a more advanced monster civilization behind it, which will further invade the earth after the sky changes?"

The information brought by Zhang Chengguang made Mayor Xia and others whisper.

"In fact, we have already made some guesses about this matter. We already had a hunch when we discovered the dark green crystal mine. Monsters should know this kind of thing better than us. Unfortunately, Qingshui City still has our research here. The conditions are so bad.”

Mayor Xia shook his head.

There are also universities in Qingshui City, but the quality level is not comparable to the universities in Guangjiang City. What's more, most of them fled in a hurry and did not gather many capable technical personnel. Therefore, even if they obtained the dark green crystal mine and electricity For a while, research on berries didn’t make much progress.

From here we can also see the foresight of Colonel Luo and others at that time. In the early stages of the disaster, they took huge risks to search and rescue survivors at important locations in the city, thus saving many important talents.

"This is exactly what I want to say. There are many well-known professors and scholars from various universities in Guangjiang in our base area. Before going back, we hope to take some of the dark green ore back for research." Zhang Chengguang said.

"Of course there is no problem. Including our research results during this period, we can make a copy for you to take away with you."

"In addition, we also hope to establish communications with your base area so that we can exchange information and cooperate. When you leave, we will send a team of elites to accompany you to the Guangjiang City base area to understand the situation. , I wonder if you can agree to this request?"

Mayor Xia asked.

"Of course this is the best thing, and that's what we have in mind."

Zhang Chengguang showed a happy smile on his face.

The Qingshui City base controls the location of the dark green crystal mine, which may be an extremely important resource. Only by contacting each other and exchanging what they have, can they better fight against monsters.

"I will ask our researchers to take you to understand the specific situation in a moment."

Mayor Xia said.

"By the way, I heard that there is a Taoist master here among you. He was hit by purple lightning in the sky change not long ago and survived. Instead, he awakened a kind of precognitive ability. I wonder if you can let us meet him?"

Zhang Chengguang said.

Hope is in the south.

He was greatly interested in anyone who could make such prophecies before they even arrived.

What kind of abilities will humans who survive under purple electricity awaken?

To a certain extent, if it weren't for this prophecy, their group would not have met the people in the Qingshui City base area, and the people in Qingshui City would not have believed them so easily and carried out such an important action.

The success of last night's battle was due to many achievements promoted by this master.

"I'm really sorry about this. Master Rongde has consumed too much since he made the prophecy, and he hasn't been able to wake up until now. I'm afraid it will take a long time to wait for him to wake up."

Mayor Xia sighed and said.

"That's such a pity."

Zhang Chengguang said regretfully.

He was a soldier and had no experience in treating illnesses and rescuing people. He could only ask Mayor Xia to provide specific information and physical data about Master Rongde. After returning to the base, he would hand it over to the professor and others for analysis to see if anything could be discovered.

After a conversation, Mayor Xia asked the researchers to take Zhang Chengguang and others out of the conference room to learn about the specific conditions of the dark green crystal mine.

And they continued to get busy.

The transportation and storage of materials, the coordination and arrangement of personnel, and the handling of emergencies, they are now the busiest group of people in the base.

Led by a middle-aged man wearing glasses, Zhang Chengguang and others arrived at a room.

The research department in the base is relatively simple, with only a dozen researchers, headed by the doctoral researcher named Qian Wenchao who led them.

After the group entered the house, Qian Wenchao took out a piece of dark green crystal ore and showed it to Zhang Chengguang and others.

This thing feels cold to the touch, and feels similar to amber. You can vaguely see a lot of sand, gravel and other impurities in it. Obviously, the original purity of this crystal is not very high.

"After our research, we found that this kind of crystal ore is unstable. If it encounters a flame, it will easily become unstable."

Qian Wenchao did an experiment for everyone. He took some powder made from crystal ore, then lit a torch by drilling wood, and stretched the torch towards the dark green powder.

Bah, bah, bah! !

The powder quickly burned, emitting fire, and soon turned into ashes.

"At present, we have only discovered its deflagration-like properties, but its power is far from comparable to the most primitive gunpowder. We think this may be because the purity is not enough, or other materials need to be proportioned to improve it. Energy efficiency, but the time we have to obtain this ore is too short, the research conditions here are too poor, and our harvest is still very little."

Qian Wenchao said helplessly that their manpower was not professional enough, their equipment was rudimentary, and their research progress was very slow.

"It's really amazing. According to the changes in the rules of the world today, the essence of flame burning should be the release of energy caused by the collision of vitality, right? How can these stones contain vitality?"

Gu Ningqing curiously took a look at the dark green crystal ore. Stones and ores should be dead objects. This ore can release energy, why can't other ores before?

"Actually, it is not accurate to describe it as an ore. We used a microscope to observe it and found that it has biological qualities. In addition to the doped inorganic ore impurities, the dark green crystals that really work are made of a Made of strange tiny bacteria.”

"The energy release seems to be caused by some changes in the bacteria stimulated by their vitality."

"Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call them 'bacterial crystal mines' or 'worm crystal mines'."

Qian Wenchao said.

(End of this chapter)