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Chapter 313 Mass Mining

Regarding Ling Qi's speculation about the disappearance of the worm, Chu Hong also joined in the fun and put forward his own opinion: "There is also a possibility that the worm has hidden deep in the floating island, and the detection waves of this kind of prospecting radar can only penetrate more than ten kilometers deep. strata, it’s normal if they can’t be found.”

"Come on, old Chu, insects will eat up all organic matter. If they still exist on this floating island, will there be so many plants growing?" Ling Qi denied his statement, and he was sure that there would be no insects on the floating island.

Xiao Rou analyzed from the perspective of natural evolution: "I may have encountered natural enemies, but I can't imagine any natural enemies for Zerg!"

When they were discussing on the maintenance spacecraft, the spacecraft in the valley had already cleared a large area of ​​the mountain, and then stretched out another mechanical arm with a shield facility on the top, and began to dig a hole in a certain position.

At this time, the team that went to other areas to explore successively detected two places where the mucus crystals of the mother insect were suspected to exist.Guan Tong couldn't hide his excitement and said a few good words in the fleet channel, thinking that this exploration will yield good results.

The excavation in the valley stopped suddenly. Ling Qi paid attention to the progress report and knew that they had dug through the original cave in the mountain.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a hundred soldiers flying out of the battleship driving individual combat aircraft.This individual combat aircraft is like a closed motorboat, even smaller in size.It is equipped with automatic energy guns and energy cannons, powered by energy blocks, driven by force fields and ion thrusters, and is very flexible.

These fighters drove the aircraft into the hole, and they were divided into ten squads. The squad leader shared the vision of the entire fleet, so that the rear could keep track of the frontline situation at any time.

Ling Qi saw through their vision that the ten teams entered a cave with a width of more than 20 meters through the entrance of the cave, leading to the depths of the mountain in a winding way.On the way, they saw some forks leading to other directions, but they did not disperse. They just placed a monitor at these forks and continued to move forward to the deepest point.

After going deep for about six kilometers, ten pathfinding teams entered a huge underground space.The inner diameter of this space is more than one kilometer, and it is irregular in shape. There are many holes around it, one of which is more than [-] meters wide.

Under the illumination of the searchlight, light was reflected from tens of meters in the middle of the ground, part of the cave wall, and the inside of the largest cave entrance.Looking at the pattern, it can be confirmed without further confirmation that these reflected light are the mucus crystals of the mother insect.They are like adhesives, penetrating into the soil of the cave wall and mountain, and solidifying into a mixture that is infinitely stronger than reinforced concrete.

On the ground, a thick layer of mucus provides a comfortable breeding environment for the female insects.

"It's developed, at least a sixth-level female insect. There are at least thousands of tons of high-purity crystals on the ground!" There was a voice of drooling in the fleet channel, and it was unknown which team member it was.

Ling Qi was a little disappointed when he heard that, if it was only level six, it would be of no use to him.His car does not need to strengthen the hull, and does not use these catalyst-grade crystals.What he needs is enough Ninth-level or even God-level female insect viscous liquid to fully strengthen all the matrices on the car.

"Since it has been confirmed, this place will be designated as the No. [-] crystal mine, and the development will be carried out as soon as possible. The largest hole should be the direction where the mother worm leaves, and two teams will be separated to explore its exit, so as to facilitate the entry and exit of the collection spaceship. The rest of the team will stay alert .” Guan Tong regained his composure and issued such an order on the fleet channel.

"Received!" The two teams flew into the largest hole, and after a few minutes passed through an even bigger valley two kilometers away.If the previously detected position is here, it will save a lot of trouble!

The spaceships and warships in another valley rose, crossed the main body of the four ridges, and moved to the position of the largest hole.Four small mining spaceships and twenty transport speedboats flew out of the spaceship, and they flew into the cave one by one.They first came to the underground space to mine the crystals with the highest purity. A mechanical splitter was stretched out from the mining spaceship, and the crystals were cut into pieces with plasma knives, and then transported to the transport speedboat.

On the planet, a conveyor belt would be erected during mining like this, but obviously there is no such time on the floating island.Moreover, the viscous liquid crystals of female insects in each wormhole are generally not much, and they are relatively concentrated. When the conveyor belt is set up, they have already been mined and transported.

Just like at present, at this speed, they will be able to mine the No. [-] mine in a maximum of two hours.

At this time, two other worm lairs were also confirmed, one of which was level three and the other level five.

The mining work was carried out in an orderly manner, and new insect lairs were discovered one after another. The total number reached more than 80, and the content varied. The highest level was eight, which was only one level away from what Ling Qi needed, which made him feel like a cat scratching his head.

Seven days later, nearly [-] crystals were mined in total, mainly concentrated in the outer two-thirds of the area.The spacecraft in charge of monitoring issued a warning, and the floating island was thrown up by the impact of the waves to reach the apex, and began to fall back under the action of gravitational balance, entering the "spring tide" stage.At this stage, it will be more and more impacted by the sea water, and the height of the high tide will be higher and higher.When it falls back to the lowest point, the sea water can submerge most of the floating island, leaving only a small amount or even nothing above the sea surface.

The fleet seized the time to mine the outer tidal flooded area.Five days later, the total number of mining sites reached more than 500, a large area of ​​the outer area was submerged, and the area of ​​the floating island exposed to the sea was less than [-] kilometers, and it was still shrinking.However, the shrinkage rate has decreased.

The fleet began to explore the middle area of ​​the floating island. "There should be a ninth-level wormhole in the middle area!" Ling Qi thought so, full of anticipation, and began to think about how to infiltrate the frontline team.

It was not until another day passed that Ling Qi found a chance.The mining ship of one of the mining teams broke down. The maintenance engineer of the warship entered the scene to try to repair it, but found that the most troublesome matrix was damaged, which was beyond his ability.

Just when Guan Tong ordered the mining ship to be towed out and handed over to William, Ling Qi took the initiative to say: "Let me go and have a look. If it can be repaired on site, there is no need to tow it out."

"It still needs to be dragged out, repairing in the wormhole will affect the work." Chen Fan, the leader of the exploration team, said.

"That's fine, tell them to drag it out first, I'll go down now." After Ling Qi finished speaking, he drove the maintenance spacecraft to land from an altitude of [-] meters.Neither Guan Tong nor William made a sound to stop them, and acquiesced to hand over the job to him.

This worm cave is only level five, and it is located in a relatively flat area, but the environment of the cave is very complicated, with complicated twists and turns, and Ling Qi doesn't want to get in.The damaged mining ship was also towed out by a transport speedboat as he descended to the surface.

(End of this chapter)