A bird's-eye view of the alien planet from high in the sky.
The camp built by Qiao An and the others was connected to seventy or eighty conveyor belts, spreading in all directions like a spider web.
A large amount of steam erupted over the camp, making the surroundings as smoky as when civilization first entered the Industrial Revolution.
In the southeast, a group of monsters are attacking the oil collection station here.
Their bodies are stronger, their feet are sharper, and each knife can leave deep scratches on the building.
The upper turret locks onto the target and can be ejected when launched.
"Bang!"
One monster died on the spot.
Then, the turret fired another shot, but a certain monster jumped directly, avoiding the shells and sweeping across the turret's firing port.
Sparks bloomed, and the turret mouth suddenly bent down.
"Si~ha!"
The monster roared and ran towards the next turret, while the monster behind it destroyed the mining facilities built on the mineral point along the way.
Sirens sounded in the camp.
"Tsk...this kind of monster has evolved again." Qiao An frowned as he looked at the images transmitted back by the drone.
As the camp develops, the conflicts with monsters seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
Sometimes they even sneaked into the camp to carry out attacks. Fortunately, Joseph was equipped with attack devices in the camp, otherwise it would have been dangerous.
Later, they installed a reinforced block on the ground, which prevented the monsters from decapitating them.
"Ha~" Joseph yawned and walked out of the room, looking helplessly at the bird's eye view.
"Breaked through again?"
Qiao An nodded.
Joseph sighed, "Hey, forget it, there's only one month left anyway, and then this land will be given to them."
They have almost saved up the construction materials for the communication station. As long as the microcrystalline components are used to form the sensors of the communication station, this crisis will be successfully ended.
According to the current manufacturing speed, the task will be completed next month.
"I hope so." Qiao An looked at the picture transmitted back from the turret. The monster that destroyed the turret finally fell on the second line of defense.
And there are nine such lines of defense.
It can be said that the three of them were able to pass the level without doing anything.
"Hey, my brother has been holding it in for a long time." Joseph had already begun to fantasize about his happy life.
They have been on this planet for ten months.
Even if it is a permanent scientific research project, it can only last for three months at most. This experience is really terrible.
"Hey, don't you have Ellie?" Joan looked at Joseph and smiled.
Since they extracted oil resources, they have refined many synthetic items, such as clothes and silica gel.
"Hey, I'm not a Puritan like you. I won't suppress my desires."
"Besides, it's better for me and Ellie to be together than Johnny. He spends time with crude oil beasts every day. I can't stand the smell..."
Joseph spread his hands and said that he was like this and couldn't change.
Qiao An didn't tease her much, and the time for the two of them to joke around passed by.
In these long days, there were only three living people. If victory was not in sight, I would have suffered psychological problems.
Johnny, as the sociology expert among the three of them, goes to study crude oil beasts every day. Fortunately, everyone is more rational, otherwise no one knows what will happen.
Crude oil beast is their name for monsters.
They are indeed very strange creatures. Even now that Qiao An has built the geothermal power station, after further research on the crude oil beasts, the energy output is actually almost the same, which shows how special the existence of the crude oil beasts is.
It's as if someone went back to the 18th century and told people that there is a substance that can make a vehicle travel five or six hundred kilometers by adding only twenty or thirty liters. They must have scolded it for being fanciful.
The crude oil beast is such an existence. The more you study it, the more magical it becomes.
After a while, Johnny came out of the research room, with some excitement on his face, and came to the console to enter the newly discovered data.
"What? Did you find anything else?" Joseph approached and asked.
Qiao An also turned his head.
Johnny nodded while typing, "Yes, I made a major discovery!"
"There's a reason why these crude oil beasts are able to produce so much energy."
"I got a result after testing 324 crude oil animal carcasses."
"Although their body structure is very special, it is nourished by a special element. That element is very powerful. These crude oil beasts only have some aura to achieve such incredible performance."
Just being contaminated with some aura, the crude oil beast turned into such a powerful structure?
Johnny's words surprised Joan and Joseph.
If this identifies a new element, it would be no less than a major discovery of fusion energy!
"Then are you sure you have discovered what kind of strange element it is?" Joseph was extremely curious and asked quickly.
Johnny shook his head, "We cannot capture this element with our equipment alone."
"I just discovered traces of new elements."
"When the crude oil beasts burned, the weight change was very unnatural. I detected that there was another element present in them."
After listening to Johnny's story, although Joan and Joseph were a little disappointed, they also ignited fighting spirit.
When the communication station is established and the star base is contacted, they will be able to know exactly what the newly discovered element is through advanced equipment!
The data kept updating records, and the three of them chatted on this topic for a long time.
Until the alarm sounds.
They looked at the surveillance screen and discovered something very unexpected.
The crude oil beast strikes again.
But this time they were not walking on land, but flying crude beasts, densely packed with nearly hundreds of them.
Based on their original appearance, they added a pair of fleshy membranes extending from their backs, and now they look a bit like bats again.
It seemed that the ground could not be conquered for a long time, so they began to change their strategies and their own forms.
"This monster evolves so fast!?"
"Fake, if it's in the ocean, are the land, sea, and air all present?"
"Higher neuron systems, extremely adaptable cells, they are really intelligent!"
The three of them commented on this and discussed how to solve it.
The turret, even if improved, has a limited range and is weak against air.
This requires Joseph to redesign a new defense blueprint.
"The damn crude oil beast, can't it stop for a while?"
Now is not the time to develop new defensive weapons. Joseph picked up the modified laser gun, put on the equipment and walked outside.
Naturally, Joan and Johnny will not be left behind.
Now that a new crude oil beast has appeared, how can we stop moving forward, cross the line, and start a close-range battle with the crude oil beast in the air?
Small lasers were fired continuously in the camp, occasionally hitting a flying crude oil beast and causing it to fall to the ground, and then be hit by the turret.
But at the same time, a new alarm was issued. On the edge of the camp where resources were being collected, multiple worms stretched out on the ground, with many mouthparts open and looking to infiltrate people.
Their body surface squirmed for a while, and then they sprayed out a corrosive liquid, which was directly sprinkled on the building facilities or turrets.
After a while, the building that was touched began to react, collapsing as if it were molten steel.
Look at this situation.
Joan, Johnny, and Joseph felt heavy.
The Crude Beast not only evolves, but also knows how to coordinate tactics, which is not a good thing.
