At 6:40 in the morning, the busy preparations came to an end.

Ren Zhong and other six people took a cylindrical suspension elevator with a diameter of eight meters and went all the way down to a depth of nearly 300 meters underground.

The cylindrical elevator door opens, and what comes into view is a spacious and bright huge barrel hall.

On the circular wall of the hall, numbers from 1 to 48 are spray-painted in black letters on a white background, a total of 48 numbers.

Directly below each number are 48 refurbishment positions for rock boring machines.

Parked on the machine stand is a conical spiral drill bit shaped like a cone at the front, and a cylinder like an oil tanker with a diameter nearly half smaller than the drill bit at the rear.

The whole thing looks like a flying monkey firecracker.

It is completely black, with no welds visible on the surface.

Under the orange-yellow light, the spiral drill bit at the top reflects a purple quartz-like luster.

Ren Zhong could not tell with the naked eye whether the material of the drill bit was metal or a crystal like diamond.

At this time, his breathing became slightly faster.

Struggling alone on the Origin Star, he thought he had been hardened by the cruel reality in Starfire Town, but he didn't expect that his emotions would be violently aroused by a machine.

This machine is a cutting-edge rock boring machine from the interstellar trade.

Although he had already seen the video information about it in the manual, when he actually stood under it and raised his head to face the real thing, his heartbeat couldn't help but accelerate.

Countless years have passed and countless light years have passed. Memories that cannot be forgotten and may never be touched again come with a fierce attitude like a tsunami.

In his mind, he suddenly recalled an ancient anime that he had watched when he was ten years old and had some leisure time from his busy schedule.

From the perspective of children in the 2040s, this is an ancient antique with a simple story structure.

But it left a very deep impression on the young Ren Zhong.

The young man's heart once jumped following the drill bit that could destroy heaven and earth.

"Tianyuan Breakthrough, Red Lotus Lagann"!

Who gave the name of the rock boring machine?

So apt.

coincide?

Or did someone do it deliberately?

What species is the advanced civilization above the Source Star?

Is it human?

With some doubts, Ren Zhong, who was fully armored, grabbed the pleated black leather lasso bag placed on the shelf raised from the ground next to him, stepped inside from the door opened at the back of the cylinder, and walked through the narrow corridor.

, enter the cockpit, and then sit in the driver's seat.

The design language of this driver's seat is in line with human ergonomics, the riding comfort is excellent, and the wrapping feeling is very good, like lying on an inflatable sofa.

A strip of self-sensing restraint straps extends from both sides of the driver's seat backrest and seat cushion, firmly restraining Ren Zhong without feeling depressed.

Two joysticks sprouted from the left and right sides.

The giant screen in front of Ren Zhong lit up simultaneously.

At this time, in the center area of ​​the giant screen, there is exactly the same three-dimensional structure projection as in the exploration map.

Flashing green dots representing the six volcanic rock boring machines of the Linwang team appeared on the edge of the uppermost cylinder of the stereoscopic projection.

There are also 42 yellow dots representing other excavators located inside the cylinder and at various locations underground outside.

Unexpectedly, Yu Junren, the spokesperson of the evil capitalists, has forcibly extended the working hours to 14 hours. Even Huang Shiren is worse than Huang Shiren, and there will be people starting early.

Ren Zhong is complaining silently, and the working class at the bottom is also so internally involved, the capitalists must not be ecstatic?

Even if he didn't extend his working hours to fifteen and a half hours, he could still praise Yu Junren for his kindness.

Lin Wang's voice sounded in the communication system.

"Today is the first actual combat. It is mainly to familiarize yourself with the operation. I have sent everyone's excavation route plan to you. Unless encountering a beast, no one is allowed to deviate from the route today. We do not seek merit but seek no fault. This

The value of the rock boring machine is more valuable than our lives. If it breaks, we will all die."

Bei Lihui: "Understood!"

"OK."

…

The wall of the hall opened by itself, revealing the gray and black rock wall behind it.

The anti-gravity engine started, and the rock boring machine floated slightly and pushed forward.

The top drill bit gradually accelerates and the rotation speed continues to increase.

Ren Zhong carefully pushed the right joystick forward and stepped on the accelerator with his right foot.

The rock boring machine moves forward slowly.

The drill bit penetrated into the rock wall, swirling the soil around and scattering rock debris.

There was a slight vibration in the cabin, and then it became stable again.

A few seconds later, the heavy boring machine sank into the rock and soil.

In the cockpit, Ren Zhong clicked with both hands.

Ghost particle communicator, activated.

Tremor Scanner, start.

Energy induction detector, start.

…

As one instrument after another was opened, the parameters appearing on the giant screen in front of him became more and more abundant.

Ren Zhong read the planned route sent by Lin Wang at an extremely fast speed, and then transcribed it into the central control system of the tunnel boring machine through a brainwave link.

Frankly speaking, he can hang up and lie down next.

Anyway, he basically has no combat missions.

When encountering a beast, proceed three hundred meters in advance and an alarm will sound in the cabin.

When it is within a range of two hundred meters, the detector can give a general judgment of the energy level, strength index and type of the beast.

The squad system will also automatically synchronize information to other people.

Don't worry about the heavy tasks, just take a short detour. Today he just needs to run as far as possible, cover enough mileage, and pretend to be working hard.

Others have to rush out of the tunnel boring machine from time to time to fight the beasts. They hardly have to go out of the cabin and basically don't have to do anything. They are more leisurely than Sima Wan, who specializes in collecting corpses.

Of the million-dollar salary offered by Chenhui Company, Lin Wang only considered one-tenth of Ren Zhong's salary, which was one hundred thousand. This is the reason why.

But Ren Zhong was not idle, he was not relaxed.

He has turned on the geomagnetic sensor on the rock boring machine, and a large amount of geomagnetic data is flooding in as he continues to dig deeper.

Compared with the geomagnetic sensor he used in the abandoned mine, this product of advanced civilization technology is simply incomparable. Its measurement accuracy and calculation speed are astonishingly fast.

He didn't even need to stop, he just kept moving forward at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.

Ren Zhong's eyes were fixed on the geomagnetic induction data scrolling down rapidly on the left side of the giant screen, and he did not dare to blink.

He actually wanted to use an ordinary tablet computer to make tabulations, enter data, and automatically check and draw graphs as he had done before. That would be much easier.

What’s really annoying is that the central control computer of the tunnel boring machine does not come with this slightly customized function.

In order to prevent any abnormality, Ren Zhong did not dare to bring his computer with him at all, so he could only rely on naked eye observation and crazy annotation in his mind, and then used his own space geometry thinking to barely outline the magnetic field line model.

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The intensity of his thinking is not inferior to that of when he participated in the national high school physics competition.

Only when he encounters a "powerful" beast that he must take action himself, will he reluctantly stop the tunnel boring machine, jump out, use the tunnel behind the tunnel boring machine as a fighting space, and stab it randomly with his gun.

Time flew by, five hours passed in the blink of an eye, and it reached twelve o'clock at noon.

Lin Wang gave another order, announcing that excavation would be suspended and that he would rest for twenty minutes and have a meal.

While Ren Zhong was hurriedly cooking, he glanced at the team's hunting report for the morning.

sharp!

There were twenty-three level four ruin beasts, including ten killed by Lin Wang alone, five by Bei Lihui, three by Song Qianlian, and two by Pan Fenglian.

In addition, there are three fourth-level ruin beasts, which are of special breeds and strong strength, and can be defeated by the cooperation of two or three people with combat capabilities.

So far, we haven’t encountered any powerful products that require the entire team to assemble.

The number of third-level ruin beasts is up to sixty-four.

On the contrary, the number of second-level beasts has become smaller, with only about twenty.

Among them, Song Qianlian killed more than ten, Bei Lihui killed several, and Ren Zhong killed three.
To be continued...