Seeing that the pulse was weakening little by little, Chen Feiqi quickly put the test tube into the freezer.
David looked at the map, adjusted the compass, and pointed in the northwest direction.
"The strategic point is in this direction."
"March in defensive posture, start." Chen Mo waved his hand.
The three teams of people formed a tilted arrow in front and back, heading towards the unknown ecological circle.
It was unusually quiet in the Straker ecosystem, with no sound at all.
Apart from the terrain, there are only huge umbrella-shaped objects like trees.
It looks like a shiitake mushroom magnified hundreds of times.
"Is this a biological sample to be collected?"
While Chen Mo was asking, Chen Feiqi had already walked to the mushrooms with the test tube and freezer.
Holding the engineering knife, Chen Feiqi scraped the umbrella and found that the surface of the umbrella was extremely solid. It would be difficult to make a microscopic section of the scraped bits.
With his super power activated, Chen Fei raised his hand and flashed purple light, and inserted the dagger into the tree trunk. As the dagger cut, a large piece was cut off.
Blue fluid flows from the trunk of the tree.
Chen Fei's eyes lit up.
Only the outer three or four centimeters of the trunk of this umbrella are made of extremely solid enamel, and the inside is blue floc and liquid.
Take out the test tubes, fill them with floc and liquid respectively, and put them in the freezer.
"Is this an animal?" Chen Mo looked at the umbrella for a while before he said.
"What should I say?" Chen Fei put away the freezer and looked at Chen Mo.
"There is an extinct creature on the mother planet called a horseshoe crab, and its blood is blue."
"This proves nothing."
"Hemoglobin shows the color of iron oxide, so the blood of most organisms is red. But the oxygen-carrying group in horseshoe crab blood is copper, and copper oxide can be blue or green, so..."
"I understand what you mean." Chen Feiqi said thoughtfully: "Do you know that there is a plant on the home planet called the dragon's blood tree?"
"Um."
"Dracaena trees contain rich red resin in their stems. Is it possible that dracaena trees are also animals?"
Chen Mo smiled.
"That makes sense, but I didn't think carefully."
"I'm curious how you know about iron-based and copper-based things." Chen Fei looked at the corps leader.
"I used to be a college student."
"What a coincidence, so am I."
Chen Mo nodded without answering.
The group continued to drive in.
Strangely enough, Sexon and Root, whom the group was on guard against, never showed up, and the enemies they encountered in the first wave turned out to be bulldogs.
After marching for nearly an hour, the Rangers penetrated less than three kilometers into the ecosystem. Just when Chen Mo was about to send out scouts to check the surrounding situation, the Rangers finally encountered a creature with a slight vibration in the carpet.
A wave of less than fifty adult cattle dogs lurked from behind the umbrella and came up from behind.
If I were careless, I might be in trouble right now.
But fortunately, the last one is Chen Mo.
"Attention, all teams, enemy attack! Don't shoot!" Chen Mo ordered to Nie Bo, the telepathic psychic.
Nie Bo closed his eyes and used his thoughts to create a communication network among the people in the advance team, silently conveying Chen Mo's message to everyone.
Everyone in the Ability Wu leaned back, preparing to deal with the enemy attack.
The bulldog has been hanging behind the team, neither attacking nor leaving.
This situation is very abnormal.
You know, cattle dogs are famous for being violent and extremely aggressive.
Chen Mo felt vaguely that something was wrong.
The behavior of the cattle dogs is very similar to the methods used by hunters in the old days of the home planet to drive away prey.
Gather all the prey together and start hunting.
"Focus on me and prepare to fight."
"Okay!" Nie Bo responded.
After glancing at the status of the superpower Wu people, Chen Mo pulled out the special alloy blade behind his back.
"Five supernatural powers follow me, the rest of you are on standby!"
Chen Mo ordered the end and swooped out.
After being trained by the lioness, Chen Mo is now different from what he used to be.
The speed between vertical jumps is even faster than that of a Level 2 pure speed superpower.
Amakawa Yosuke was stunned for a moment, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he rushed out.
The bulldog didn't seem to expect that the group of intruders would take the initiative to attack. Before the leader had time to organize a counterattack, the carbon steel bowie knife that Chen Mo took out was pierced through the head.
Facing a group of second-level mutants, the cattle dogs were slaughtered without any effective resistance.
Among them, Chen Mo single-handedly killed seventeen cattle dogs.
That's almost half the size of the cattle dog population.
Although Chen Mo has not yet used his famous stunt "Phase Blocking", his explosive fighting skills have already convinced all the bounty hunters.
Cattle dogs are known as 'bronze heads, iron bones and tofu waist'. Who would have thought that the sap-like captain could punch the brains out of a bull dog?!
We need to equip him with technological gloves. I'm afraid even the exoskeleton mecha can beat him to pieces, right?
Chen Feiqi slowly followed up with the vanguard task force.
He did not let go of the cattle dog carcasses lying on the ground. After repeatedly checking several cattle dog carcasses, he found that the canine teeth of these cattle dogs were much larger than those of normal cattle dogs. The canine teeth of these cattle dogs were covered with a layer of gray.
enamel.
It reminds me of the outer skin of those umbrellas.
Chen Feiqi remained silent, took pliers and a screwdriver, knocked out a canine tooth and placed it in a test tube. Chen Feiqi guarded the freezer and looked at Chen Mo.
"how?"
"There's trouble."
"Um?"
"I've seen a lot of cattle dogs, but this is the first time I've seen one with an enamel layer on its teeth."
"New variety?"
"No, the physiological structure is similar to that of a normal cattle dog, but look..." Chen Feiqi turned over a relatively intact body of a cattle dog.
There is a very faint trace of wear on the scales on the bulldog's neck.
It's really hard to see if you don't look carefully.
Chen Mo narrowed his eyes.
"Artificial domestication."
Chen Fei nodded.
…
Several crustacean creatures about one meter long were using infrasound waves to communicate with their companions.
This creature looks weird—at least from an earthly perspective.
The turtle-shell-like bulge covers most of the body, and the exposed head is like the front half of the ancient millipede (if you are afraid of bugs, don't go to Baidu).
The thick, scorpion-like heavy tail behind it drags on the ground, its six legs are thick, and the place where it contacts the fungus carpet is as big as the mouth of a bowl.
The eight compound eyes are on both sides of the head, shining with a faint blue reflection under the sunlight.
After communicating with infrasound waves for a while, several creatures reached an agreement and left their nests one after another.
…
It has been four hours since the Rangers entered the ecosystem.
We have marched six kilometers from the entry point.
The eternal night is approaching, and at 4:30 in the afternoon, the sky in the northern hemisphere of Russia has slowly darkened.
Chen Mo observed for a long time with a military telescope and discovered the first live water point on the map.
"Prepare to take river water samples, task force on alert." Chen Mo waved forward: "60-degree direction, 380 meters."
"Received." Chen Fei nodded: "Have you seen Animal World?"
"What?"
"A popular science program from the home planet." Chen Fei laughed and said: "In the African prairie, when zebras drink water, they are most likely to be bitten by crocodiles and dragged into the water."
"be safe."
Chen Fei nodded.
Not long after, Ability Wu and Chen Feiqi, who was following the sample, touched the river.
This river is on the satellite map and intersects with the Saar Lake outside. It is regarded as living water.
But looking at the bubbling water, no one could connect this river with the crystal clear Lake Sal.
"Wear a respirator. The bubbling methane is methane. Don't see open flames." Chen Feiqi warned: "Unless you want our entire regiment to explode into a sea of flames."
Chen Mo expressed his knowledge.
Under the cover of the task force, the special team gradually approached the river.
There was no ambush.
Chen Feiqi carefully used a dropper to sample some river water and put it into a test tube.
After tightening the seal and putting it in the refrigerator, Chen Fei was about to leave when Chen Mo suddenly stood up.
"withdraw!!!"
A purple ball of light flew from nowhere and hit the river with everyone's surprised eyes.
"boom!!"
The purple light ball has clearly reached the methane ignition point.
The concentration of methane in the air has reached explosive concentrations.
Almost instantly, except for David who held up the team's energy shield, the entire team was dragged into the sea of fire!
Chen Mo and others didn't even see the enemy's face!
"Lannizi!!!" Chen Fei, who was living in the sea of fire, roared wildly.
The non-mainstream iceberg girl woke up from a dream, her body flashed with supernatural light, she clasped her hands together and pushed forward, and a blue ripple swayed far away.
Ice crystal-like mist quickly spread throughout the explosion area.
As the explosion flames gradually subsided, Chen Mo vaguely saw several figures retreating from the other side of the river through his telescope.
"Nineteen o'clock, four hundred meters! Fire!"
Chen Mo shouted.
"Da da da!"
The advance team's light firepower began to saturate the place where the figure had just stood up.
After almost all the ammunition was fired, Chen Mo ordered a ceasefire to rescue the wounded.
Because Chen Feiqi called for timely support, except for Lei Wen who was closest to the explosion point, the others only suffered varying degrees of burns.
In fact, the tactical skills of the bounty hunters are quite good. At the same time as Chen Mo ordered, the few who were not seriously injured had already started to drag their companions to find bunkers.
And the figures who rustled and detonated the methane river did not appear.
After everyone retreated to a safe place, Chen Mo ordered the advance team to continue vigilance and began to check on the situation of the five superpowers.
The expressions of the bounty hunters gradually became serious.
The number of troops was already reduced without even seeing the enemy.
Er Chen examined the body expressionlessly.
The burns looked horrific, but they were just skin injuries. Raven's real cause of death was a fist-sized wound on his chest, which was almost a penetrating wound.
"Did you see anything?"
"It's a type of energy weapon like a laser." Chen Mo rubbed the edge of the huge wound with his hand. His fingers were covered with shredded black scorched skin: "The amount of bleeding from the wound is not large... The high temperature has burned the wound and stopped the bleeding."
The smell of burnt corpses was extremely pungent.
Chen Feiqi squinted his eyes.
"It should be after the explosion and before the fire is extinguished..."
"I saw it." Chen Mo interrupted Chen Feiqi: "It's the same kind of purple energy ball as the energy bomb that detonated the methane river... I really can't believe that the native creatures of Ross actually have thermal weapons."
Chen Mo thought for no reason of the purple light at the tail of the alien Root on the floating ship.
"Very bad."
"Indeed... it's already beyond the worst plan." Chen Fei said with a bitter taste in his mouth.
Chen Mo pulled off the nameplate from the corpse's neck.
Raven.
A man who was punched twice by Chen Mo.
As the price of trial and error to crack the Straker ecosystem.
