This game is so weird!

While the remaining players fought against the orcs, the 20 remaining members of the task force and the two elite squads A and D from the Security Government Alliance finally completed their reconnaissance of the mine and found a map of the mining area.

At this moment, the seven squads were sitting in the underground lounge inside the mine, discussing their attack plan.

After a day of exploration and investigation, combined with the mining map they found, Marcus and Bard finally confirmed the location of the resonator in the deepest orc cave in the mining area, as well as the route to the target location.

Dom and Cole stood on either side, unfolding the mining area map vertically. Marcus pointed to the deepest Im energy pool and said to the player captains, "This is the deepest Im energy extraction pool in this abandoned mine."

"The intelligence we received from command center indicates that the entrance to the Orcish underground lair is located here. Once we reach this point and successfully detonate the resonator to complete the mapping of the underground network, our mission will be accomplished."

Bard and the five player captains nodded. Marcus raised his finger along the path on the map, poking at the two areas in the middle one by one, and arrived at the lounge in the upper left corner.

"The shortest route to our lounge is through an abandoned mine shaft down to the ground, then through a naturally formed underground cavity to reach the mining pool."

"Understood, I'll go down and kill them all!"

After two days of fighting, guided by Marcus and Bard, the players didn't think much along the way, focusing only on killing and enjoying themselves. They were almost all immersed in the joy of grinding, falling into a path dependency of Marcus leading the way - encountering the orcs - killing them all.

There's a reason why the Three Lights game has remained popular on Earth for so many years. Thinking about so much is nothing compared to the thrill of shooting!

Especially with the Orc army's ammunition supply at the mine entrance, while ammunition might not be unlimited, it's certainly not a problem in the short term. Most players also have more than ten magazines of ammunition in their backpacks. Night Rain and Wooden Fish even scanned the mortars and stuffed the shells into their bags, ready to manually throw a Tsar Bomba at any time.

With their firepower greatly enhanced and having slept soundly while taking turns on night watch, they had no reason to worry about the orcs. They only wanted to find the next wave of orcs and then eliminate them as needed.

Night Rain and his companions were also helpless. The newcomers didn't know the situation here and couldn't analyze it, so they could only enjoy the simple battles and have fun!

Marcus was speechless when he saw the fanatical gazes of his allies. "I'm already considered a combat fanatic for the security government, how come you guys are even more fanatical than me?"

Seeing that he couldn't reach an agreement with them, Marcus looked at Bard, who nodded helplessly, before continuing, "In that case, let's get going as soon as possible. Let's eat something and set off!"

"Okay!" "OK!" "I'll do as you say!"

The player captains split up, each sending someone to follow five NPCs as planned. They also separated one person from each of the players to form a five-person team to follow the captains to Bard's side.

During their day and night of traveling together, Bard greatly admired Night Rain and Wooden Fish's courageous actions in the battle against the Orc snipers. After learning that Bard had been a researcher, Wooden Fish, also a tech geek, found himself quite compatible with him and they agreed to upgrade the players' equipment together that morning for future battles.

Along with the other four players, Muyu and Yeyu sat around Bard, taking out welding guns, impact cannons, and some metal plates from their backpacks to study them together.

"Where did you guys get this from?!"

When Bard saw the mountain of materials, his eyes widened. He picked up the impact cannon that was placed on top of the materials and examined it closely. He then placed it on the wooden fish and tried to put it in place, but he couldn't find anywhere to hide these things.

"Use the space backpack." Muyu pointed to the satchel on his side, took out half a mortar shell from it and put it back in.

Seeing that Bard was still staring blankly at the backpack, he simply took it off and handed it to him.

"Look, but once the backpack is bound, only the user can take things out of it, so it's probably unusable."

Bud reached out and took the backpack, weighing it in his hand. The bag, which didn't look big, felt much heavier than its size. He tried to open the closure, but the backpack didn't budge, as if the two pieces of fabric at the closure had always been joined together.

"Hmm..." After studying it for a while without figuring it out, Bard returned the backpack to Muyu and asked curiously, "Can I have one of these backpacks? I can trade some of my own inventions for it."

After thinking for a moment, Muyu realized that, just like players, nomads could join guilds to complete tasks and earn contribution points.

Similarly, creating new inventions or scanning new blueprints is also possible. Exchanging inventions for contribution points should be no problem. The only question is which blueprints players can unlock, or which items they can buy with contribution points.

"It should work, but I probably can't use it if I give it to you directly. You can exchange new inventions for contribution points at the guild and then buy them from the guild."

"The process is just like Dom wanting to exchange contribution points to buy clothes."

Hearing this, Bard narrowed his eyes. So it was that pile of orc corpses? In that case…

"Alright, we'll continue the research after we return to your frontline base."

"Let's get back to the main point. What do you want me to renovate?"

"oh!"

At this point, Ye Yu and Mu Yu became excited and handed over the impact cannon. "Captain Bard, this is our impact cannon. It has a battery and a unique field control device inside. It can launch objects by charging up."

Bard took the unassuming shock cannon and examined it carefully.

Night Rain continued, "We want to disassemble the force field control module and battery inside, and then combine these metal materials to create a suit of armor that provides full-body protection while allowing users to control the force field with their hands for projectile attacks!"

"We've prepared all the diagrams!"

After speaking, Ye Yu took out a schematic diagram. They had previously used the base's design station to design the blueprint, but unfortunately, they got stuck at the step of dismantling the impact cannon. The design station popped up an illegal operation warning and could only generate a finished schematic diagram without providing a production blueprint. After forcibly dismantling it, inexplicable problems occurred, such as the field control failing or becoming uncontrollable.

Naturally, this protective armor cannot be directly generated at the base's workbench.

"Oh? You mean you want to make a power armor!?"

Bard's eyes lit up. He had previously studied the differences in physique between humans and orcs and had also wanted to research power armor. Unfortunately, due to limitations in battery capacity and his position, he was unable to advance his research as an elite soldier.

I never expected that these extraterrestrial visitors would have the same idea as me?

Have you solved the problem of small, high-energy batteries?

"Well……"

Night Rain and Wooden Fish exchanged an awkward glance, and finally Wooden Fish slowly spoke up: "We haven't thought about the power armor yet. We plan to combine the shock cannon with the COG combat armor first. Once worn, it will be operated manually, providing high defense while also having certain functionalities."

"However, we do have high-energy batteries. In addition to the small batteries in the impact cannons, we also have a type of power battery used in submarines, although it is a bit larger."

"Snapped!"

Bard clapped his hands with his fist. "I'll take this job! As for the power armor, we can study it together when we get back. If the power battery doesn't work, we can try Im Energy."

After saying that, Bard pointed to the mine outside the lounge, exchanged a glance with Muyu who seemed to have thought of something, and they both chuckled.