Chapter 24 Subspecies (1)

The next day, the snow stopped and the wind stopped, and it was rarely sunny.

In the morning, Jiang Jianming and Tang Zhen got off the mecha together. The former was calm as usual, and his mental state had recovered to the point where no one could tell that he coughed up blood last night.

On the contrary, Tang Zhen had two dark circles under his eyes, and his whole body exuded the aura of the collapse of the three views.

In fact, his three views have indeed exploded: a crippled human actually wants to go to the crystal nest, my dear, a crippled human... a crippled human being! !

Tang Zhen rubbed his hair into a bird's nest in desperation.

"...Jiang Jianming!"

Jiang Jianming walked away as if nothing had happened, and the young master of the Tang family followed behind, chasing and chatting: "I tell you, this is not over!"

Jiang Jianming returned him lazily: "Huh?"

This man is also pretending to be confused!

Sleep and wake up as if you didn't say what you said last night?

"You know that it is impossible for disabled humans to reach the crystal nest!!"

Tang Zhen was suddenly excited, his temples jumped wildly, "The concentration of crystal particles there, even a new human being will cause a 'crystal chaos' to die on the spot, and you can't get close even if you're full of tranquilizers you can't even get close! !"

"Um……"

Jiang Jianming slowly touched the pocket on the left front chest, and the bullet case that Garcia returned to him was still lying in it obediently.

He smiled silently, "Don't you have to go, it depends on the situation."

"you!?"

Tang Zhen was even more impatient, pointing at the sky like a poisonous oath: "Do you think I really won't report you to the superior? Go to the crystal nest, let's see if I won't stab you in front of the old marshal..."

Jiang Jianming patted him casually on the shoulder: "Okay, okay, let's talk about it... don't make trouble for now, the commander is going to give a lecture."

They returned to the team first, and then six people gathered together to line up with the big team.

Later, Lieutenant Colonel Huo Lin announced to everyone the requirements for this field experience.

There are eight squads of officers in the adaptation period this year. The fortress has already arranged eight chips with positioning in advance, and each team needs to travel to the location of the chip in the mountain, and in the process cooperate to hunt down a C-level alien creature.

The time limit is five days, and each team must return to the assembly point within a limited time, hand in the chip and the real crystal ore taken from the alien creature.

The score is given by the commander after comprehensive judgment. The less time spent, the higher the quality of the crystal ore, and the less damage to personnel and mechas, the higher the score.

The eight teams drew lots to determine their respective travel paths, and the coordinates of the positioning chip were transmitted to each person's wrist and mecha.

"This time the points will be counted proportionally to the merits," Huolin said loudly with a grin, "both to lift my spirits, making a career and throwing a corpse into the wilderness is often one step away—"

"Now, the experience officially begins, let me run!!"

The six people of the third team were all ready to go and got on the mecha.

Suddenly, Beimaner said on the team's internal communication channel: "By the way, since we have started teamwork, shouldn't we have a captain?"

Jiang Jianming smiled: "Then Miss Bei, come."

"I!?"

Beimaner's shocked voice sounded in the channel.

Jiang Jianming: "Among us, you are the most suitable."

Li Youfang snorted: "Why do you say it's suitable? Of course, Miss Bei is really excellent..."

Jiang Jianming said lightly, "Yes, both you and Tang Zhen are stronger than Beimaner in terms of combat power, but any of you will quarrel when you become the captain, won't you?"

Li Youfang: "..."

Tang Zhen: "..."

They were talking in the channel, and the six IPs were already running, quickly leaving the assembly area behind and stepping onto the rugged iceberg.

Thanks to the mecha cross-country morning exercises every morning these days, they have completely acquired the skills to drive the mecha over mountains and mountains.

Bei Man'er said seriously: "Actually, classmate Jiang is suitable. When I went to the ice forest to fight red caterpillars last time, Tang Zhen and I got such high grades because we listened to the advice of classmate Jiang."

Jiang Jianming just laughed it off, as a human being with a remnant crystal, it is impossible for him to be the captain... at least not yet.

What's more, Baimaner's ability and personality are indeed the best person to reconcile and guide the entire team.

After Tang Zhen and Li Youfang nodded, Qiao and Allie didn't raise any objections, and the matter was settled.

It is not easy to travel long distances in the snow-capped mountains. The mecha manipulation takes a lot of energy and energy, especially in this season, when the sunny weather lasts for a while, there will be snowstorms, and it is more difficult for the mecha to run.

Jiang Jianming's body actually couldn't bear such high consumption. Fortunately, he had Seth, so when he was tired, he asked Zhinao to help him drive for a while. In this way, it was much easier than other teammates.

All went well on the first day. They walked two-thirds of the way in one fell swoop, encountered two waves of D-level alien creatures in the middle, and several new crystal humans released crystal bones, which were cleaned up by three and five.

The road was dangerous at night, and they pitched their camping tents in the evening. In the early morning of the next day, the six continued to explore the mountains along the positioning, and finally found the chip box embedded in the rock in a forest.

"Here... I got it."

Li Youfang manipulated the robotic arm to remove the chip box and handed it to Baimaner, who put the chip box into his mecha storage.

"Okay, the first stage goal is complete!"

Beimaner breathed a sigh of relief, blinked and said, "All that's left is to kill a C-level alien creature, but it's really strange, how come there are so few alien creatures along the way..."

Originally, according to the plan they negotiated halfway, if possible, it is best to kill a C-level alien creature on the way with more physical energy.

But unfortunately, there is no trace of C-level alien creature activity along the way, and even D-level is rare.

Ellie touched her arm and whispered, "I don't feel right."

Baimaner: "There's enough time, let's walk forward first."

So everyone continued to march, but things did seem to be a bit abnormal. After a long time, they did not encounter alien creatures... This time, there were no D-levels.

By the evening, Li Youfang was already in a hurry.

"Time is running out. If we can't find any C-class alien creatures, then we can only go back!"

The time limit for this experience was five days, but they drew lots on a route with a gradually lower altitude. When you come, it is downhill, and the return journey becomes uphill. You must set aside enough time to meet the deadline.

What's more, the strength of alien creatures across a level is a gap. It's not easy for them to kill a C-class, but until now, they haven't even found a suitable target...

"—Wait, stop."

Suddenly, Jiang Jianming's voice came from the channel: "The speed of the mecha slows down."

His voice was cold and calm, and his aura completely overwhelmed these little officers who had just left the school. It would be better not to speak quietly for the past two days, but when they opened their mouths at this time, the five people did it subconsciously.

Li Youfang involuntarily slowed down before he came back to his senses, and was suddenly a little annoyed: "stop what, there's no time!"

In the cockpit of the IP, Jiang Jianming stared at a certain data on the mecha screen, "The concentration of crystal particles is too high, this is not normal." He sent the data out, "Be careful."

"Hey, wait," Ellie raised her voice happily and said, "The concentration of crystal particles is high, doesn't that mean that there may be C-class alien creatures nearby?"

Jiang Jianming: "I can't see the traces of alien creatures yet. If it can affect such a far range, the other party may not be an ordinary C-level."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the surrounding environment again - it was the canyon. They had passed through the sparse forest and came to a canyon.

The terrain is not too narrow, and there is not a lot of snow, but the shadows cast by the high mountain walls on both sides still give people a lot of psychological pressure.

Beimaner raised her voice: "Listen to Jiang, let's walk slowly and see the situation first!"

She looked at the map, thought about it, and then said, "It seems to be a low basin further ahead. Let's go around the edge to observe the situation first."

Half an hour later, six power stations were on top of the frozen rock and saw the scene below.

"Oh my God……"

I don't know who murmured in shock.

As expected, the altitude is getting lower and lower. At the exit of this valley, the terrain becomes open, and a huge creature is lying in the lowland.

a spider.

Or a creature similar in shape to a spider, its body is almost the size of a hill, the main body is black, with red-gray stripes interspersed, and thick hair grows on the body.

It seemed to have fought something, and two of its eight legs were crippled, leaving only six intact. The transparent crystals condensed from the crystal particles merged with the insect's carapace, meat chunks, fluff... and the oval abdomen wriggled regularly.

Joe's face turned pale. "No, I...are we going to hit such a big guy? Bigger than a red caterpillar..."

Ellie kept rubbing the goose bumps on her arm: "It still looks so disgusting!"

"Tsk, isn't it just a big bug." Tang Zhen raised his eyebrows and waved his hand, "Okay, Xiao Jiang, don't go down, let's get closer to see the situation."

Opposite the communication channel, Jiang Jianming was silent for two seconds.

Then he said: "...If it's just to check the situation, I'll go."

Jiang Jianming's eyes glanced at the snow-white bracelet on his hand, "I have a mecha with higher defense."

Li Youfang disagreed, and he gestured from here to the low ground where the giant spider was lying: "No. This distance, plus you can't fight, use mecha to lurk close, check the situation and then turn back - no matter how fast you move, How about an hour or two?"

"If we are sure to fuck this guy, we have to touch it again. It's another hour. It's a waste of time."

He firmly said: "So we still have to go. If we are sure that we can kill it, then we will do it on the spot!"

After finishing speaking, Li Youfang gave Jiang Jianming a playful laugh again: "Anyway, with or without you, our team's combat power is the same. Xiao Jiang is not in good health, so take a rest."

"..."

Jiang Jianming ignored this guy and just frowned and stared at the giant spider from a distance.

He made a lot of preparations before coming to Yin Beidou, one of which was to recite the common alien biology map. But the one in front of him... he didn't know it.

This is actually not surprising. There are only a small number of alien creatures that can be discovered and recorded by humans. What's more, the further you go to the depths of the interstellar space, the more bizarre the forms of the creatures are, and it is impossible to classify them at all.

It's just... Now those five teammates are all newcomers in the adaptation period, no matter their ability or mentality, they are not enough to adapt to the situation like a real soldier.

Jiang Jianming even thought to himself: If he was alone, he might just go up and shoot a gun, but what about his teammates...

"Maner." Tang Zhen said suddenly, "You are the captain, you decide."

"I?"

Beimaner was stunned for a while, then frowned hesitantly, "I..."

On the one hand, she felt that the situation was indeed a bit abnormal, and perhaps she should be cautious; but on the other hand, she felt that Li Youfang was right. If they give up the opportunity in front of them, they will lose this experience.

And not to mention, let a sick disabled person investigate this kind of thing alone...

Even a normal new human can't do it!

Half a minute later, Beimaner bit her lower lip: "Let's go with five people! It's just that no one is allowed to attack without my order."

Jiang Jianming thought about it for a while, but did not stop it, but said, "Okay, but don't rashly approach the range within 100 meters, and share the image with me when the time comes. The purpose of the experience is just to experience, it's not worth the effort."

Beimaner nodded and agreed: "Student Jiang, we will be careful. If we are not sure, I will bring everyone back."

But as soon as the voice fell, Jiang Jianming saw the communication corner of the screen flicker.

Berman's face popped out on the screen—she was talking to him in a private communication.

Beimaner still bit her lower lip, with a trace of nervousness in her clean eyes, and whispered, "...but classmate Jiang, if it happens, in case something happens...you must go first and leave us alone. "

Jiang Jianming knew what Beimaner meant: because he is a disabled human being, he can't help if he rushes up at a dangerous moment, it is better to run one by one.

He didn't argue anything, didn't answer, just said, "Be careful."

Private communication hangs up.

Baimaner said: "Let's go together!"

The next second, five M-IP 18s jumped up.

The blue-black mechas lowered their postures along the landslide of the mountain and ran down together.