Under the guidance of Lily's good nose, Hao Ren found the first piece of debris of the crashed spacecraft.
It was a large piece of twisted metal plate and an ellipsoidal equipment cabin that did not seem to be of use. They were entangled by many burnt cables and tubing, giving off a pungent burnt smell. After a day and a night of cooling, the heat on the wreckage had subsided, but it was clear that it had experienced a very violent explosion and burning, which had almost melted its shell.
The debris, which was about five or six meters long, fell between two huge broad-leaved trees. Its fall created an impact crater with a radius of about ten meters. The two broad-leaved trees on the edge of the crater were in completely different states. One of them had been killed by the high temperature and the shock wave. The trunk was broken, and the crown was burned to a few carbonized branches. The other tree was lush and still stood upright on the edge of the crater. Even its branches and green leaves were full of vitality as if they had just grown.
There was no doubt that the second tree was derived from the tentacles of the First Born poking out of the surface. It was the nerve point that the huge and terrible creature inside the planet used to perceive the outside world. Standing on the edge of the impact crater, Hao Ren knew that he had fallen into the eyes of the First Born.
But as Zorm said, when a First Born grew to maturity (usually lying in the center of the planet, it could use its tentacles to poke out from any place on the surface), its perception would change. The "microbes" around the tentacles would no longer attract its attention unless the microbes produced a powerful energy reaction that could destroy the main tentacles, or emitted a special, stimulating, or provocative aura.
Of course, Hao Ren would not do that. So he and the other three retracted their auras and carefully came to the impact crater to examine the cooled wreckage.
"This should be a radar cabin. The metal plate above is part of the radar cabin's protective cover." The MDT floated next to Hao Ren's head and scanned the structure of the wreckage with a blue light beam. "The inside is also completely destroyed. It seems that the impact was very strong, and every part of the spacecraft was greatly compressed. The tentacles of the First Born must have released something like a stagnant force field. The aircraft that was diving at full speed instantly decelerated from extremely high speed to zero. Without an inertial stabilizer, no vehicle can withstand such a degree of speed change. "
"There should be other wreckages nearby, maybe in a better state." Hao Ren looked up and looked around. "I remember that one of the spacecraft was destroyed in the process of dropping, and there was a clear deceleration before it was destroyed. It should be intact."
Lily wrinkled her nose. "No matter how intact it is, it fell after the explosion."
But having said that, the husky maiden, as a good dog … a good dog demon, was still very diligent when looking for things. Her nose was even better than the MDT's simple version of radar in this environment. It did not take long for her to find more wreckage crash sites.
There were more debris than expected. If every screw that fell was counted, Hao Ren felt that the four spacecraft might have disintegrated into five-digit pieces and fell in this area, and their scattered range could even exceed a radius of ten kilometers. But not every piece of debris was worthy of attention. Hao Ren was looking for the large debris that might have the cockpit.
If only he could find the body of the pilot …
The second large wreckage they found fell into a depression a few hundred meters away from the radar cabin. This wreckage was a few meters larger than the radar cabin. It had two parallel metal rails that looked like accelerators, some broken tubes, and several sintered and deformed coil structures. This mess of things was tangled together and stuck in the middle of the depression. The water that originally accumulated in the depression had been evaporated by the high temperature, leaving only a cracked muddy ground.
"This should be a weapon module. It looks like a part of a magnetic rail gun," the MDT analyzed again. "There should be more than these acceleration rails, but they are the only ones left. Let me see what this is … a high-temperature superconductor, a high-efficiency capacitor pack, and … Huh? A projectile stuck at the end of the rail slot? Good material. "
"Who knows what you're talking about?" Wuyue scratched her head, her tail slipping impatiently on the ground. "Just tell me if their weapon technology is advanced or not. Can you tell the scale of the survivors' industry from this?"
"The entry-level technology of the magnetic rail gun is not too high-end. The people on Earth have almost come up with it. But the mature magnetic rail gun is certainly not on the same level as the early prototype," the MDT said as it bumped the two rails on the wreckage. "What's left of the wreckage is only this solid but not technical part. The real high-precision structure has been destroyed by the high temperature. I can only analyze from the material. These survivors are pretty good. Such a magnetic rail gun can penetrate anything that humans have built so far, including the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and the Great Pyramid of Giza. Of course, I think the plasma bombs they dropped yesterday are more powerful. At least when dealing with the First Born, a monster whose tentacle can reach hundreds of kilometers, bombs are more effective than naval guns. "
"To manufacture and maintain such a powerful large aerial machine, there must be a complete and stable industrial system," Hao Ren scratched his chin. "And this industrial system must have the ability to continuously produce these weapons for consumption, which requires raw materials. There were a total of six aircraft in yesterday's attack, and only two returned alive. I believe that in the process of fighting against the First Born, this kind of loss is absolutely very common, or even more serious … "
"Survivors are not as simple as just surviving. They must at least have the complete strength of a country, both in terms of industry and population. They must have raw material production and factories, and they must have ancillary industries and a population base to support these things. All of these also need a territory that is not too small. Otherwise, relying on ancient weapons left behind from the previous civilization will not be enough to last for thousands of years, "Vivian nodded." The 'ancient gods' on Earth who became extinct after a generation or two is a ready-made example. "
Hao Ren waved his hand and summoned the patrolling autonomous robots to start cleaning up the wreckage of the railgun in front of them and collecting the scattered debris around. These autonomous robots were the batch that Nolan modified last night. Although some of their tentacles were equipped with laser rifles and protective force field generators, the remaining tentacles could still perform basic engineering work.
Hao Ren felt that it was necessary to permanently modify a batch of autonomous robots into this half-combat and half-support model, especially when exploring a dangerous and mysterious planet like this. Maybe he could give this modified robot a new name: Frontline Universal Model?
"Collect the larger debris," Hao Ren explained to Vivian while commanding the autonomous robots. "The laboratory on the spacecraft is still usable. We can take it back and let Nolan use the onboard analytical computer to study it."
The collected debris was carefully sorted, packed into storage containers, and kept in Hao Ren's never-filling Dimensional Pocket. Meanwhile, Lily went deep into the forest to look for other debris.
After a while, Hao Ren suddenly heard a gunshot coming from the forest. Along with it was Lily's short cry of surprise. "Whoa!"
"D * mn it! Something happened to that dumbass!"
Hao Ren screamed, turned his head, and ran in the direction of the sound. Wuyue and Vivian followed closely behind.
But halfway there, they saw Lily running out of the forest. As she ran, she shouted, "Mr. Landlord! Mr. Landlord! I see her! I see her! And she shot at me! "
Seeing that the husky maiden was still alive and kicking, Hao Ren's heart was finally at ease. But then, he was stunned. How could she be so cheerful after being shot? Did she really get so happy when her whole family was killed?
And she had found the surviving pilot?!
"Are you hurt?" Hao Ren first looked at the husky maiden up and down. "I heard you screaming just now."
Lily raised her arm. "Just a superficial wound. It happened too suddenly, and I couldn't react in time. When I saw the bullet, I couldn't dodge it, so I had to block it with my arm. Speaking of which, the aliens' guns are more powerful than the earthlings'. I thought I could catch the bullet … "
Hao Ren glanced at the rather scary wound on Lily's arm and muttered that the husky had a big heart. He then pushed her to Wuyue. "Wuyue, treat her."
Wuyue summoned a healing water ball and wrapped it around Lily's wound. The gunshot wound immediately began to wriggle and heal. Seeing that Lily's injury was not serious, Hao Ren turned his head and looked in the direction where the enemy came from. "Just ahead?"
"Not far ahead. But after shooting at me, the guy seemed to have fainted. I think the guy was too badly injured …"
Under Lily's guidance, they quickly found the crash site in the dense forest.
The largest piece of the spacecraft had crashed here, and the plants near the crash site showed signs of severe fire. A pile of metal debris lay quietly in the circular space. Seeing this scene, Hao Ren's first reaction was: how could anyone survive such a tragic crash?
Then he saw the "survivor" in the middle of the wreckage.
It was a woman, or at least judging from her figure, she was a "woman". She lay lifelessly in the middle of a pile of twisted pipes and metal. Many parts of her body were burnt black. Her left arm was missing, and her right hand was still holding a black weapon — it should be the gun that injured Lily. The lower half of the woman's body was empty. Her lower body had been blown to pieces. Only some broken cables poked out from the broken holes, and occasionally some sparks jumped out.
This was the "survivor" that Lily mentioned.
Vivian carefully looked at the broken waist of the woman who looked like a robot. She turned her head and rolled her eyes at Lily. "Well, it's really quite 'injured'. I suspect that you didn't even notice that she was a robot. "
"I didn't see it clearly before," Lily scratched her head. "She suddenly shot at me, and I just stared at the trajectory of the bullet …"
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