Chapter 55 The situation is different
"It's their choice. They are afraid of death and dare not go out. There is little others can do." Fan Li used to be like Wu Qingqing. He always felt sorry for them, but later he realized it was just a waste of energy.

They just want money.

Residents who stay where they are are rarely good people.

Every time we passed an intersection, residents wearing filtering respirators would run out to see who was coming.

Old-school hover cars have a deep engine roar.

The special sound may mean that the boss is here to recruit people to go to the mining area, and the residents are looking forward to new jobs being released.

When they saw that it was a military vehicle, they all looked disappointed.

Su Xiaocai noticed, "There are no children among them."

"Most of the children were sent away." The adults were reluctant to leave their homeland, but the children did not have this concern.
Most of Huang Yangxing's children are abandoned orphans, and a small number were cruelly sent away by their parents.

Wu Qingqing felt very uncomfortable. A good planet was reduced to a small living area.

"If only we could find the mother nest."

"You'll find it eventually." Li Leilei comforted.

The group entered the government building, took off their helmets, breathed in the fresh air, and felt refreshed.

The air outside was very turbid. They just opened their helmets and took two sniffs and almost suffocated.

It was two o'clock in the middle of the night, but it was still daytime outside. "If you are not tired, go eat something and follow us out to kill insects and adjust to the time difference." said an instructor.

This is the first time I've heard of this method of adjusting time difference.

Wu Qingqing asked, "Coach Fan, is this how you all adjust to jet lag?"

Fan Li whispered, "You haven't been stationed here for long. Taking two days off to adjust to the time difference is not in line with the purpose of your training."

"What is the training purpose for us?" Seven curious babies pricked up their ears.

"If you can't practice to death, then practice to death. Don't you know that?"

Okay, okay, Instructor Fan has also learned how to joke.

No kidding.

Because these students have outstanding performance, general training cannot help them improve, so they have to go to the battlefield to train.

Su Xiaocai was the first to say that it was no problem.

She was not tired. To be exact, she was only tired mentally during these days, and her body never sent out any signs of fatigue.

This is very unusual.

Su Xiaocai wanted to know what caused her change.

Insect killer is the best way to observe.

She brought a lot of nutritional supplements, one tube of which could keep one full for more than ten hours.

The students were overjoyed to see him kill insects on his first day at Huangyangxing.

Get ready to do something big.

Fan Li needed to do other things, so Su Xiaocai and others were left to other instructors.

Just got assigned a room and put down my luggage.

The students gathered again, first took a car out of the city, and then changed to driving mechas after leaving the city.

Outside Huangyang City, there is only hard land, cracked in pieces, like a dried-up paddy field.

The mecha stepped on it and found it was very hard.

Upon closer inspection, we realized that it was man-made, probably for the purpose of searching for star gold mines.

Most star gold mines are hidden in hard rock layers. They are not very deep, but they can only be found by cutting through the rocks.

This area of ​​Huangyang City just happens to meet the characteristics of star gold deposits.

"People in Huang Yangxing have a special liking for star gold and are persistent in getting it." They even don't let go of the gold at the doorstep.

"For so many years, no one has discovered that there is star gold in this place. It's funny." Huangyang City has an interesting origin. The leader instructor told them the story of Huangyang City. "Mining was not allowed in the newly transformed Huangyang Star. You also know how uncomfortable it is for businessmen to watch this land with potential but not be able to mine it. At this time, a mine owner came up with a brilliant idea. He became the developer who contracted this place, bought this land and built a building..."

When building a building, you can dig deeper to make a foundation or build an underground city.

If you can dig up star gold, you will make a lot of money.

As long as you can dig up something valuable, you won't lose too much.

Unfortunately, the developer dug for hundreds of meters but found nothing. No star gold was found, and the dungeon was not built. He could not make back his investment and directly declared bankruptcy.

"Is he still alive?" Su Xiaocai asked.

The instructor said, "I am still alive, but I don't dare to play real estate anymore. Now I am just an ordinary small boss."

Real estate is a bottomless pit. If you don’t have vision and ability, it’s best not to touch it.

"Hehe, maybe we can find something that he didn't dig up." Wu Qingqing lied.

"The first one to discover has priority development rights. Don't forget each other when you become rich." The teammates all laughed. If this were true, the developer would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.

Five instructors, along with more than forty students, searched for traces of the insect people outside the city.

Teach them how to act as you go.

Su Xiaocai turned off the microphone, "Wisdom 03, turn on the scanning mode and record my body data. If there are any traces of insect people, tell me."

"Okay, Master." After receiving the task, Wisdom 03 asked curiously, "Master, why don't you ask Wisdom 01 to help you? It is an expert in this area."

Wisdom 01, Wisdom 02, and Wisdom 03 are all artificial intelligences and are aware of each other's existence.

The scope of jurisdiction is very different.

Wisdom 01 has not been used by Su Xiaocai yet, and Wisdom 03 is very curious about where it has gone.

"It! It cannot be used for the time being. If it is used, this mecha may be scrapped. This mecha cannot withstand its misbehavior."

Acting recklessly?

Wisdom 03 cannot understand.

In its mind, Wisdom 01 should be like a boss and should set a good example.

"You will see it eventually. Dear 03, please scan it for me first."

"Okay." Wisdom 03 was temporarily placed in a sphere similar to Wisdom 02.

After it had a body, it became more clever and lively, and gradually tended to be closer to Chibi Maruko.

Su Xiaocai quietly threw out dozens of thumb-sized detection balls.

The detection balls are controlled by Wisdom 03 and roll in all directions. They are small in size and can roll through any terrain.

The detection results were fed back to Wisdom 03 after a short while.

A three-dimensional map popped up, showing Su Xiaocai the distribution locations of the insect people.

There are actually ten places where insect people are hiding within a radius of ten kilometers.

After the detection ball has explored the road, it rolls randomly again, exploring wherever it rolls to. They are disposable items and cannot be recycled. The cost is not cheap, but their ability to explore map details is definitely dozens of times ahead of its peers.

Wisdom 03: "They are covered with a thin membrane that blocks today's detectors.

There are two or three of them that don’t have this membrane on their bodies. But where they are, there are thousands of insect people hiding.”

It was obviously a trap designed by the insect people.

Su Xiaocai's heart sank. There were too many of them, too dense.

There are no less than three thousand in a ten-kilometer radius.

The instructor was teaching the students how to read the detector. Their detector tracked traces of Zerg people seven kilometers away.

The student asked excitedly: "So can we go now?"

"Do you remember what we said? We can't find out where the mother of the insect people is." The instructor asked them: "Do you know what this means?"

Junya's students quickly answered, "It means our detector is not perfect. Since it can't detect it, it means the result of the detector may be wrong."

The instructor praised: "That's right, the detector is not omnipotent. The Zerg evolve too fast. Even if the mother body is not on Huangyang Star, we must be careful of the ambushed Zerg."

Junya’s student smiled triumphantly, but unfortunately he was inside the mecha cabin and no one could see him.

Captain You and Captain Feng of Junhui were regretful that they were one step too late.

As for the students in military training, they did not have the awareness of being competitive in this regard. Wu Feiyang yawned and just wanted to kill the insect man quickly and show off himself handsomely in front of Su Xiaocai.

"We recently lost two soldiers. This time, we will also be cautious. When advancing, please be alert to the surroundings."

"Yes."

After walking about 500 meters, the instructor stopped and said, "Look at the traces here, they are very fresh."

The insect people have paths to walk on. The reason why the instructor said it was new was because there had just been a sandstorm and the dry land was covered with fine sand.

The fine sand flowed underground, and strong winds swept away part of it. The traces of nature were obvious.

But the places where the insect people walked were different.

Only the claws of the insect people can scratch out irregular paths on such hard soil.

"There are many different kinds of insects, be careful and you will survive." The five instructors who led the way dispersed in four directions and used another instrument to detect the ground. An invisible wave spread across the ground, and soon, the image was transmitted back, and there was no sign of life. Su Xiaocai looked at the image sent back by Wisdom 03's detection. Thirteen stone-shelled insects were lying in ambush in the mud under her mecha's feet.

"Your detector has not been replaced for many years." Su Xiaocai asked.

"It was changed two years ago." The instructor replied while testing, "Did you find anything?"

It's probably a similar detector.

To deal with evolved and mutated insect-men, we really need different types of detectors.

Like the current body of Wisdom 03, it integrates several detectors and instruments that can perform complex data processing, but this kind of multifunctional detector seems to be something that only artificial intelligence can handle.

Even a detector as diverse as Wisdom 03 is still not as useful as the detection ball, which is a real pathfinder.

Of course, every profession has its own specialties. When it comes to detection and analysis capabilities, Wisdom 01 is more advanced.

Wisdom 03 is at best a substitute.

Su Xiaocai told them: "I think we have it underground."

The soil underground kept shaking, and all the students flew up. The next moment, the insect people broke out of the ground and dust flew.

Su Xiaocai was still there.

"Run." The instructor went back quickly. How could there be students who were indifferent after knowing about the appearance of insect people?

So unprofessional.

Wu Feiyang, who always paid attention to Su Xiaocai, took a breath and asked, "Where is my Caicai?"

"What do you mean your vegetables?" Wu Qingqing pulled out her gun and shot at the insect man who walked out of the dust and fog.

The insect man's camouflage shell cracked, revealing a hideous appearance.

Wu Feiyang also attacked the unprotected insect man, "Aren't you worried about her?"

"If she wanted to escape, she would have flown away long before us."

The rolled-up sand fog boiled violently, the fog became heavier and visibility was almost zero.

"Master, four insect men are approaching you." Wisdom 03 showed the position of the insect men and quickly simulated their attack routes.

Su Xiaocai controlled the mecha to jump up, turned on the forward energy under his feet, pulled it to high power, raised his legs, kicked away the two approaching ones on the spot, and the dagger popped out, and the blue tip of the knife easily pierced the insect man's shell.

Press the insect man to the ground and rub it to cause fatal damage.

The rolling of sand lasted for about a minute.

Everyone saw the situation inside clearly. Su Xiaocai put away the knife. There were dead insect people all around. The last insect man was stabbed in the vitals by the dagger and died silently.

The mecha was unharmed, but the dagger was broken, the blade was bent, and the energy slot at the tip was empty.

"This weapon is so useless." Su Xiaocai missed her self-repairing transforming weapon.

"Wuhu." Hu Ping whistled, looking so cool.

Although we didn’t see how Su Xiaocai killed them the whole time, many of the more than ten insect men were amputated and dismembered.

It took less than two minutes to do it.

"Xiu!" Liu Xun said, "Cai Cai, can't you leave one for me?"

Su Xiaocai looked at the mecha's energy consumption of 03% and the Wisdom prompt, "Master, you are overusing the mecha, and the mecha's performance has decreased by %. Please pay attention to the rhythm."

Wisdom 03: "Master, I am not an expert. I suggest you use Wisdom 01."

"I said you can't use it. Be good and be my navigator." Su Xiaocai also wanted to use Wisdom 01, but it really couldn't be used for the time being.

Wisdom 03 had no choice but to continue to act as the navigator, "I'll do my best."

The instructor wanted to scold Su Xiaocai for being radical, but when he saw the corpses of insect people on the ground, all his words went down his throat.

"Are you OK."

"Yeah, it's okay." Su Xiaocai pushed the curled dagger back into the ejection slot, "These insect people can disguise themselves as stones."

When they curl up, they look no different from stones and have very low IQs.

"There should be a bug warrior behind them." Without the bug warrior's orders, the Greedy Ones would have come out of the ground to eat people long ago."

"Are you sure?" the instructor asked.

"We were standing on it just now, and it took at least two minutes for it to come out." This is enough to conclude that there are insect warriors behind them. Without a warrior to command them, the insect people can't suppress their innate appetite.

The instructors looked serious. Wherever there were insect warriors, it often meant that there were at least several thousand Greedy Ones nearby.

"Go back first, we need to report the situation."

"Just going back like this?" Junhui's senior student couldn't believe it, as they had only been out for a short time.

Instructor: "If you have the confidence to face thousands of Greedy, we have no problem."

For people like them, it would be difficult for them to break out of the encirclement when surrounded by thousands of greedy people.

Instructors are responsible for students' lives and cannot take risks.

"Master, are we just going to come out like this?" Wu Qingqing pleaded.

The evil disciple knows how to take advantage of being spoiled.

Su Xiaocai, like Su Laodi, can't stand people close to him acting like a spoiled brat. "Instructor, I support going back, but on the way back, I think we can search for other insects ambushing us. How about searching around the entire Huangyang City?"

Huangyang City is not far from here, and it will only take a few minutes to get back. Searching along the way will help us understand the distribution of the insect people.

If more traces of insect people can be found, it means that Huangyang City has been surrounded and they should consider retreating instead of continuing to train here.

Wu Qingqing praised the master, saying that it would not delay them from sending someone back to report, and the students' safety would also be guaranteed.

The team leader instructor thought about it and thought that this might be a good idea.

He adopted Su Xiaocai's suggestion, sent an instructor back to report the truth, and tried his best to arrange for the students to leave.

There was no need to go back. Wu Qingqing and the others seized the opportunity and began a carpet search, taking out their respective detectors to see if there was anything abnormal.

It’s no wonder that the detectors prepared by the students themselves were very diverse and they really discovered several ambushing insect people.

More than forty students attacked the ten newly discovered insect men.

Wu Feiyang shot the insect man in the head with one shot, and he swung the muzzle of the gun and said arrogantly: "It's not difficult at all, Caicai, do you see my heroic appearance?
Others: Are you blind? You didn't see the sharp backhand strike of the sword.

Su Xiaocai smiled and said, "I see, you are great, keep up the good work."

Hearing Su Xiaocai's laughter, Wu Feiyang became even more excited and vowed to dig out all the insect people's hiding places.

"Idiot." Wu Qingqing opened the team's private channel and cursed.

The teammates looked at Ji Heng.

Ji Heng: Do you really have to attack me, the captain?
He is just called Ji Er, which doesn't mean he is an idiot. Only idiots like Wu Feiyang are.

Since Su Xiaocai had shown off before, everyone had a good impression of her. Talented people like to admire each other.

Afterwards, Su Xiaocai no longer stole the credit or took the initiative to attack, and she knew the limits very well, which made her even more popular.

All the students loved to get close to her and ask her how long she had been flying the mecha, how she practiced, and how she killed the insect man just now.

Su Xiaocai spoke generously, without being arrogant or impatient, and in a nice way. Junhui and Junya’s students felt the urge to take her back to school.

Huangyang City is surrounded by flat land on all sides, with a wide view, making it easy to attack but difficult to defend.

The only advantage of this terrain is that you can retreat at any time and the shuttle ship can take off at any time.

As they searched, they arrived at the other side of Huangyang City.

There are not many people left in this once glorious city, and on this side away from the military base, one can only see mechas holding their ground in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The students waved to them enthusiastically, saluted with their mecha arms across their chests, and then continued their patrol.

"Hahaha, they saluted us. Every time I see that, I think they are so handsome."

"The mecha itself is very cool, and we are also very cool."

"Thick-skinned and shameless."

"Am I wrong?"

Su Xiaocai said sincerely: "You are all really handsome, no need to ask back."

With Su Xiaocai as a middle school among the three schools, the atmosphere between the students is very friendly and they are quickly integrating into the tacit understanding.

Wisdom 03 has been recording Su Xiaocai's physical data, as well as the insect man ambush point discovered by the group.

Su Xiaocai even marked all the places where the insect-man detector could detect insect-men.

The situation is very serious. Huangyang City has been surrounded by insect people, and the denser they are the further out you go.

Huangyang Star has become like this, why do the insect people still want to gather together and kill the few living things on Huangyang Star?

It quickly got dark and the temperature dropped rapidly. Frost spread across the earth. The temperature was over 50 degrees during the day and minus 60 degrees at night.

After the last ray of light disappeared from the earth, the students returned to the military base.

Today's insect extermination went very smoothly. The students were in high spirits and expressed their feelings about the insect extermination one after another. The mood remained high.

(End of this chapter)