Chapter 1,249 Egg Specimens!

According to the ex-factory price of Future People's military industry, the cost of a ground support earth-penetrating missile that can be separated and fired from a synchronous orbit is about 5 million Singapore dollars. Counting the combat parts of the incendiary bomb, the cost is about 5.5 million.

Two hundred earth-penetrating bombs are equivalent to S$1.1 billion. As for those mass bombs and batteries, the total amount must be about 100 to 200 million.

Sure enough, the sound of a cannon brings a thousand taels of gold.

The expedition had only set off for less than two weeks, and it reached out to the headquarters for supplies worth more than a billion Singapore dollars. Even though Jiang Chen's family business is as big as it is now, he still has to lament that this thing is too expensive.

In fact, not counting the consumption of the Expedition, the total money spent by Starlink Trading and Futureman Group on Mars so far totals 20 billion Singapore dollars. In contrast, excluding the ruins of Gaia civilization whose value is unknown, the value created by the Mars colony is less than half of this figure.

This is also the most painful place for farming on an alien planet.

You don’t even know what will come out of the seeds you plant until the crops grow.

But fortunately, what was sent from the front line were not all bills, but also some other things.

In mid-February, through comprehensive analysis of stratigraphic information and life signal fluctuations, researchers at the Mars colony concluded that in the granite-like natural caves located at a depth of about one kilometer in the northern part of the colony, the possibility of existence of devil bug nests exceeds Eighty percent.

If the intelligence is reliable, this may be the shallowest devil bug nest discovered so far in a Martian colony.

After learning this information, the Expedition immediately dispatched ground troops to encircle and suppress the devil insect nest at the coordinates.

Using a drill truck equipped with a large drill bit, the Expedition dug an inclined tunnel into the target formation at an angle of thirty degrees. Before modification, this kind of drill vehicle was usually used to build undersea tunnels on Earth, which is more than enough to cope with the relatively loose rock environment of Mars.

While drilling, the engineering vehicles behind also laid steel supports to the tunnel wall, poured cement, and cast concrete walls to prevent devil insects from damaging the tunnel.

Who says humans can't dig holes?

The Marines of the Expedition proved with facts that humans can not only dig holes, but also build roads along them. The concrete wall supported by A-shaped steel can't collapse the tunnel even if the devil bug smashes a bunch of cement chips on it.

The moment when the drill truck rushed into the devil insect nest.

The infantry tanks behind them filed in and fired at the devil bugs that rushed towards them.

A bloody massacre began.

Faced with a one-kilogram mass bomb accelerated to n times the speed of sound, the horny armor of the devil bug cannot provide any effective protection at all. However, there were insect eggs behind them, and with their backs to their nests, they could not let go and burrow into the ground to fight with the invading Halo Marines.

A hoarse roar echoed in the tunnel, then was drowned out by the blast of cannon.

Green blood splashed everywhere, and in just ten minutes, at least fifty adult devil bugs fell into a pool of blood. Except for a few devil bugs that hurriedly retreated when they saw that the situation was not good, there were no more devil bugs that could still move in the entire pot-shaped cave.

After eliminating the biggest threat, soldiers wearing exoskeletons jumped out from the rear hatch of the infantry vehicle, holding the folded steel mesh and quickly rushed towards the direction of the devil's eggs, laying out a "line" between the infantry vehicle and the eggs. seat belt".

This kind of barbed wire cannot be retracted after it is unfolded, and its strength is very high, especially the longitudinal strength.

After doing all this, the six infantrymen stood in a loose formation, set up their rifles, and took a defensive posture near the devil eggs, waiting for the researchers in the car to come out to collect specimens.

A devil insect suddenly attacked from below!

However, after the two pairs of sickles pierced the barbed wire, they could not bite together and got stuck in the barbed wire. The medical soldiers rushed out immediately, dragged the soldiers who were pushed out from outside, put them on stretchers and sent them back to the infantry vehicles.

The devil bug, whose front teeth were stuck in the wire mesh, could only twist its head crazily and try its best to pull its front teeth out of the deformed wire mesh, but found that everything was in vain.

The Marine next to him immediately stepped forward and fired dozens of rounds of quality bullets at the head of the devil bug, finally stopping it from causing trouble. Then several researchers wearing heavy protective clothing came forward again, carefully dug out the eggs that were half a man's height from the ground, and put them into a large freezing chamber for storage.

New enemies are constantly rushing up from below, and then they hit the steel wire like moths flying into flames.

These fearless devil bugs caused a lot of trouble for sample collection, but fortunately, except for two Marines who were slightly injured, there were no casualties.

After collecting the samples, the Marines began to evacuate from the tunnel entrance in an orderly manner, leaving only dark green juice on the ground and scattered stumps.

All eggs will be sent back to Halo City for research.

The Star Ring Trade has never obtained such complete living insect eggs. This operation can be described as a bumper harvest!

And in addition to those eggs, frontline field researchers also discovered a special flesh-red fungus in the cave.

These fungi are very small and grow on a kind of coarse sandstone, almost growing into the rock. If you don't look carefully with a magnifying glass, you might mistake it for hematite.

After analysis, the field researchers on the Expedition confirmed that this fungus may be the type of oxygen-generating fungus that the researchers from Halo City speculated could survive in an anaerobic environment, providing oxygen and food for Martian organisms such as devil bugs to live underground. .

The specimens of devil bug eggs and oxygen-generating fungi were loaded onto the rocket. After more than a week of flight, the cryopod containing the specimens was recovered by the port of Star Circle City.

These specimens have caused a new wave of excitement among researchers from various countries.

As for how they have refreshed the understanding of the earth's biological community, and what new breakthroughs have appeared in biotechnology and chemical technology... Jiang Chen is almost not interested in making a fuss with them anymore.

It's almost March.

The new nation will vote for its own president.

Although he is not a candidate, as the behind-the-scenes controller of the new country, he still has to work hard for this election.

In addition, at the end of the same month, the preliminaries for the US general election will also begin. The Future Man Group and the Boston Consortium have invested a lot of chips in Joseph Kennedy.

Hillary's support within the party has dropped to freezing point, and she is unlikely to win the primary election. There are only two people left with the most hope, one is Kerry, who is supported by the Morgan consortium, and the other is Joseph Kennedy.

It is still unknown who will win the preliminary election and represent the Democratic Party in the decisive battle in November.

After temporarily entrusting the Mars colony and researchers from various countries to Kerwin, Jiang Chen began to focus his work on things on Earth.

The first day of March is also the last day of the Mars Biology Exhibition.

Jiang Chen came to the open-air venue next to the Heart of the Ocean exhibition hall, stood in front of the media's cameras, faced all the tourists who visited this place, and all the viewers sitting in front of TVs and computers watching the live broadcast, and delivered the closing ceremony of the exhibition. Speech.