too late, organism

"Can I talk to them about the flying machine?"

"We should hurry up and organize the militia."

"I am the mayor! With the power given to me by the prosperous townspeople! I want Bailey to drive your broken boat and take Hyde to the Foch Plain. Along the way, you must obey Hyde's arrangements and don't rashly fight with those people. Contact, or I swear! I'll tear down that wrecked ship of yours and feed you mouthfuls!"

"And you! Hyde! I know you're doing it for safety, but sometimes we have to trust the goodwill of others."

Diane picked up the map on the communication platform, folded it, and handed it to Hyde.

"During your reconnaissance period, I will gather another group of militiamen. The follow-up depends on the news you bring back, so be careful and come back early if you don't find anything wrong."

"Well, I'll be careful."

After Hyde took the map, he walked out of the communication room.

And Bailey, who still wanted to say something, raised an eyebrow at Diane after seeing Diane's finger pointing at the door of the communication room, and then walked out of the communication room.

After Hyde and Bailey left, Rita walked up to Diane who was rubbing her right thumb at her temple.

"Are we really going to call up another militia?"

"Of course not! The harvest season is coming soon, and we don't have any extra manpower to waste in this kind of place."

diane shook her head

"If I don't say that, that old insecure guy in Hyde is going to do something stupid. Do you remember Yurov?"

"Uh... well."

Of course Rita remembered the hapless Yurov.

That was when Rita had just graduated from Umoyan Second University. Rita was about to return to Prosperity Town and just met her senior, Yu, who had just inherited a merchant ship from his grandfather and was determined to become a great captain. Love.

After learning that Rita's hometown is a frontier planet, and has a passable specialty, a special ham and relatively cheap food, Yurov drove his Pilgrim and Rita to Prosperity Town.

As a result, Yurov's behavior of inquiring about grain production and special products in the town made Hyde mistake him for a pirate with malicious intentions.

If Rita hadn't discovered Yurov's disappearance in time, and let Diane, who had just become the mayor, mobilize the townspeople to look for Yurov.

I'm afraid Yurov will not only experience the torture techniques Hyde learned in the army, but also make Prosperity Town lose an excellent partner.

In the prosperous town on the other side of the planet, Diane asked Hyde and Bailey to go to the Foch Plain to find out.

Catcar is struggling with where to find enough materials to be able to build an orbital mining station on Hyperion I.

In order to quickly analyze the technology of the Koprulu star area, the cat car took almost half of the Central Research Institute of the Holy Roman Empire, and half of the ship was filled with various research facilities and production machines on the colonial ship.

But they didn't bring much material to build the new colony.

After using most of the raw materials it carried to build a star base near the star for contact with the Empire itself, the cat driver has no resources to build other space facilities.

Originally, according to the vision of the cat car, such a large planet, you can find minerals by digging casually, and it is not a problem to develop the Hyperion galaxy together.

Especially in the interstellar era, it is not those first-level civilizations that are still held back on their mother planets, and they have to develop every bit of mineral deposits without eating or drinking.

The open-pit mines and rich mines are occupied by the locals, and it won't hinder other people's business to mine the shallow medium mines by themselves.

But it's clear that nature doesn't want to reason with cat cars that are taken for granted.

In the area where the Lombard colony ship landed, there are quite a lot of gold and silver mines, and there are even shallow gem deposits, but there are no metal veins that can be used for industrial construction, not at all. The cat car is very big.

Although silver is a good conductor at room temperature and can improve the performance of many electronic devices, gold, as an inert metal, can also improve the quality of those devices and reduce maintenance costs.

But as a building material, gold and silver are too soft, not even as hard as some bronzes, so it makes sense that gold saints can't beat bronze.

So even if I am willing to use gold and silver as materials to build a space station like some tyrants with no brains, the material properties of gold and silver itself will make that space station look like a biscuit soaked in milk, soft and squishy directly into a mass of postmodern art.

Why didn't the group of gold diggers search more?Such a large gold and silver vein is buried under the feet, which is buried at a distance of more than 4000 kilometers, and the land has to be cultivated in the end.

Do people in this star area generally have poor eyesight?Looking at the mineral distribution map scanned by the scientific research ship in front of him, a question mark popped up on Maoche's head.

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Thanks for the [really wonderful] reward (bow)

Chapter 23 22 We are passing hunters

Although there is no material to build an orbital mining station on Hyperion I, this does not mean that the cat car on the Lombard just landed on the surface of the Hyperion III planet has nothing to do.

In order to allow the colonists to quickly establish settlements after arriving on a new habitable planet, these large colonial ships have undergone a thorough modular design.

Unlike the modular design of naval ships for subsequent upgrades, almost all cabin sections are spliced ​​on the keel in a special order like those wooden buildings that do not use metal at all.

After using the structure of these compartments to fix them to each other, and then open the internal fixed force field that will not fail even if it is directly hit by the main gun of the battleship, these compartments are firmly fixed together as if they were forged as a whole. Afterwards, these cabin sections are completely wrapped with an integrally formed armor plate.

When the cabin section of the ship needs to be upgraded, an industrial laser cutter with an output power comparable to that of the main gun is used to cut off the armor plate, replace the corresponding cabin section, and then replace it with a new armor plate.

If there are a lot of cabins that need to be replaced, all the armor of the battleship that needs to be changed will be cut off, and then the entire one-piece armor will be re-covered.

Although the modular design of the colonial ships is the same in principle, these colonial ships do not use the expensive integrated armor plates of military ships, and the internal fixed force fields used can only ensure that the ships will not disintegrate during the voyage.

And after the internal position of the colonial ship is closed, it doesn't have to be like a military ship. It can only be dismantled by experienced senior engineers in the dock in a specific way.

You only need to use the crane on the colony ship to dismantle the cabin sections of the colony ship in order from top to bottom.

And these dismantled cabins became the first batch of buildings in the new alien colony. These dismantled cabins ranged from small metallurgical factories to personnel dormitories, from small military factories to regional communication stations Everything is available.

Cat Che, who has been transferred from a big tech master to a colonial governor, is naturally also responsible for the approval of urban construction, in case some talents with big brains who can raise an aircraft carrier battle group, use water and electricity equipment and urban drainage systems, and create The appalling shit cycle power generation is such a smelly thing.

Or if urban traffic is designed to take the wrong intersection, you have to go around the viaduct for a day. Zhuge Kongming saw the Baguazhen version of the viaduct and wanted to like it.

So when Mao Che, who was obsessed with urban planning and could not extricate himself, received a message from the patrol team and found two suspected scouts outside the city named Third New Rome by Mao Che.

Maoche once thought that his communicator was aging, which caused him to receive the wrong message.

If you don't consider the option of digging through the center of the earth, the nearest human settlement is more than 2 kilometers away, so you don't have to get lost to come here if you get lost.

Even as the old saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, my new Rome has not yet built roads, why did you come here.

With question marks on his head, Maoche connected to the surveillance channel of Third New Rome.

Because they were going to have a friendly contact this time, the patrol team pretended that they didn't notice that the two people wearing optical camouflage nets and auspicious clothes approached the locals near the Third New Rome, but left the two Out of the line of sight of people, a surveillance drone was released to monitor the two.

Because it is known in advance that there are not only super big bugs lurking underground in the Koprulu star area, but also a large number of invisible units. Before getting the corresponding samples to make specific detectors, it is just for insurance.

The enhanced exterior kit and UAV equipped by the cat car are equipped with all the miniaturized detectors. The infrared detector and high-definition optical lens are only the basic configuration, and the life detection device and the underground fluctuation detector are only just right. , the millimeter-wave radar and the gravity sensing device can be regarded as foolproof.

When seeing the local humans in the two Koprulu star regions, like fireflies in the night sky, lying in the grass and looking at the Third New Rome, which is transforming from a colonial spaceship to a city, Maoche thought that this might be a A chance to make contact with the humans in Prosperity Town.

Because the last time Ava used the 25mm caliber C-10 "tank" rifle to restore it to parts, the cat car with some psychological shadows was ready to replace it with the T-45D "White Devil" enhanced exterior kit, Then go to contact those two local humans.

After being severely beaten by the [One Pound Meat] commando led by Fabio, the Academy of Engineering designed the T-300D based on the CMC-45 power armor.

What stands out is a larger, four-meter-high body in order to be compatible with triple 15mm mass launchers and six 107mm rocket launchers.

Stronger, a small reactor comparable to a light tank, and a micro-shield generator capable of continuously resisting the direct fire of the main gun of a discovered tank, as well as the track structure matched in the anti-joint walking device, so that it can be used in off-road mode using tracks. In addition to reaching 80km/H, after switching to the walking mode for complex environments, it can still maintain a speed of 30km/H.

So after being equipped with the T-45D "White Devil", I felt that the cat car that I had strengthened had the characteristics of not being able to train recruits and carry out the characteristics of the Holy Roman Empire because it could not show aggressiveness. Hit it to death. Even if you are killed, change your body and continue tomorrow.” Live ammunition exercise.

The hairy Fabio and his group of old brothers went to "greet" the two guests from afar.

"Did they bring all the people from a planet?" Bailey, who was wrapped in an auspicious suit and lying in the grass, looked at the Third New Rome, which was under construction in the distance. In his impression, it was the most prosperous town. In the lively Harvest Festival, there will not be so many people. The people who are active outdoors seem to be several times that of Prosperity Town.

"Not that many people, but it's not too much difference. Where did they get such a big ship?"

Even the well-informed Hyde was amazed in his heart after seeing the huge mountain-like colonial ship parked in the distance.

Even as a veteran who had served in the Tyranid Federation Army for ten years and had seen many battles, Hyde rarely saw such a spaceship the size of a city.

"Okay, now that I'm sure they're not malicious, it's time to go back."

Hyde nudged Bailey, who was lying beside him, gently with his elbow.

"You haven't even had contact with them, how do you judge, if they want to attack Prosperity Town, now is our only chance to stop them."

Bailey elbowed Hyde's arm away impatiently.

"Stop them? Listen kid, I know there's a little problem between us, but this is not the time to get emotional, see that ship? If they want to attack us, just use this ship to land on Prosperity It's ok, or do you think the two anti-aircraft turrets in Prosperity Town, which are about the same age as your grandfather, can deal with it?"

"And those giants, don't you think those guys are just for looks? The pipes on their bodies are about as thick as siege tanks."

Hyde reached out to hold the telescope that Bailey was holding and was looking at the construction site in the distance, and pointed the lens of the telescope at the patrol team wearing T-45D patrolling outside the city.

"We can sneak in and quietly overload their reactors, just like in the movie, BOOM and the problem disappears, and Hyperion is still our Hyperion."

"Okay kid, put away your fantasies, now let's go back to Prosperity Town and let Diane and the other townspeople decide what to do."

Hyde snatched the binoculars back from Bailey, stuffed the binoculars back into the pocket on his leg, and slowly crawled behind him.

"Damn old man! We should at least sneak in and see what they want to do! If they want to attack Prosperity Town, they will definitely start preparing now. This is our chance to judge whether they are a threat."

Knowing that he couldn't sneak into that city alone, Bailey muttered as he followed Hyde.

"Keep your voice down, I don't want to draw their attention because of you."

Hyde turned around and gave Bailey a hard look.

"They can't hear it from this distance. We should sneak in, old man, and don't look like a coward! If they mean something, this is our chance to save Prosperity."

"Shut up! Boy, I seem to hear something."

"I didn't hear that, you are too nervous, old man!"

Bailey held his breath, but only heard the sound of the wind blowing through the grass and leaves, and the sound of insects.

"No! Damn it! We've been found!"

Hyde bounced off the ground like an electric shock, pulled Bailey who was still lying on the ground up, and the two stumbled towards the grove where Bailey's "Hot Dancer Girl" shuttle was parked in the distance.

"Run, boy! We need to get on the spaceship!"

"What did you hear, old man! I can..."

Before Bailey had time to say the rest, a dozen giants, painted in the same black livery as the metal giants seen through the telescope earlier, with the words SCP written in white on the breastplate and shoulder armor, were lined up. The horizontal team approached themselves from the small bushes in front of them.

"Boy, don't talk for a while, let me deal with them, and then act according to my wink."

After Hyde finished speaking, without waiting for Bailey to answer, he raised his hands high and shouted at the metal giants approaching at high speed.

"We are just two hunters passing by, curious about what happened here, we have no malicious intentions!"

"Or we'd better run, old man!"

Seeing the metal giant still approaching at high speed, Bailey's legs felt weak.

"Shut up and put your hands up after me."

After Hyde turned his head and glared at Bailey, he continued to shout to the giants.

"We had no malicious intentions, we were not carrying weapons, we just wanted to see what was going on here."

"sand……!!!"

With the sound of the tracks rubbing against the soil, those giants who used the tracks on their legs to maneuver at high speed were like ice skaters. After kicking up a piece of dirt and broken leaves, the giants stopped in front of Hyde and Bailey. .

"We have no malicious intentions!"

Until then, Bailey, who had been hesitating to run away, raised his hands with a shout.

"Of course, I believe that you have no malicious intentions. I am Carter Carr, the director of the SCP Foundation. You can call me Carter."

One of the metal giants folded up the tracks on its legs, walked up to Hyde and squatted down, using the optical viewfinder on the breastplate to look at Hyde who looked very calm in front of him, and everything else seemed to be sifting chaff. Bailey.

"It's just that it's far away from Prosperity Town, and we haven't seen the two of you have aircraft or other vehicles. We want to know if you two need help. I talked to your mayor not long ago. If you need it, we I can escort the two of you back to Prosperity Town."

"Of course! Thank you very much Director Carter. I am Hyde Barba, a hunter in Prosperity Town, and next to me is Bailey Ivan, a mechanic and pilot in the town. We went hunting not long ago, and the aircraft appeared some It crashed and we came over to see if we could get some help after seeing you guys land nearby."

Hyde looked at the cat car's viewfinder without changing his face and said, if they hadn't found their intact aircraft in the woods before, the cat car would have almost believed it.

However, playing stupid at this time can effectively avoid embarrassment, and Cat Che didn't expose Hyde's lie, pretending not to find the shuttle they hid with branches and camouflage nets.

"Then welcome both of you to the Third New Rome as guests."

Maoche stood up from the ground, and after beckoning to the two veterans of the [One Pound Meat] Commando, the two veterans wearing T-45D walked up to Hyde and Carl, and stretched out their hands to signal them to do it. to his arm.

"The city is still under construction and there will be some mess. I hope you don't mind. I will arrange the best room for you. If you are interested, you can go shopping."

After seeing Hyde and the cat car sitting on the arm of the T-45D, the cat car put down the tracks on its legs again, and led the other veterans in a way that was neither too slow nor too uncomfortable due to the oncoming wind. Discomfort and speed that affected the conversation headed for Third New Rome.

"Why did you run so far for hunting? This place is at least 2 kilometers away from Prosperity Town."

"I just came here to see what's there. There are only mangy goats near Prosperity Town. It's no fun hunting things that are only bones. We just want to see if there is anything worth hunting on this side of the planet."