034 Star Plants

The mining vehicle was drilling rapidly. When the alloy drill bit collided with the rock formation, fist-sized gravel flew everywhere, making crisp impacts.

Behind the mining truck, five Fire Sun terracotta warriors, wearing basic civilian exoskeletons, stood upright, holding a tungsten shield in their left hand and a tungsten spear in their right, scanning the surroundings carefully.

Song Chi stayed on the Sky, which still had the dark matter energy shield activated. The survey was coming to an end, but he remained vigilant. If there was no error in the survey instrument, then the object emitting special energy fluctuations must be in these last two fragments.

Suddenly, Song Chi saw a black shadow flash out of the corner of his eye. Before he could issue a warning, the shadow rushed behind one of the Fire Sun terracotta warriors at a terrifying speed.

The heavily armed Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors didn't even have time to react before they were pulled several meters away by the shadow. Deep dents appeared in the exoskeleton armor on their bodies.

This was far from over. After one blow, more shadows shot out from the fragments below, quickly attacking all outsiders above the fragments.

Song Chi clearly saw that the exoskeleton worn by a Fire Sun Terracotta Warrior was completely scrapped after being lightly twitched by a shadow.

These shadows were long black vines, and the vines were covered with sharp barbs, which were extremely terrifying.

Fortunately, the Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors are just puppets and do not have the pain sensation of conventional carbon-based life forms.

Song Chi took a long breath of air. Fortunately, he was cautious enough and did not turn off the "dark matter energy shield". Otherwise, the few blows that had just struck the Sky would have left several holes in the shuttle.

Outside, the Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors, who had reacted, stood back to back, thrusting their tungsten spears at the attacking black vines, making sharp metal collision sounds. The black vines were actually harder than weapons forged from tungsten.

The other two Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors on the Sky quickly jumped off the shuttle to support the Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors surrounded by black vines. At the same time, the Sky slowly took off under Song Chi's control, hovering in the sky for dozens of seconds and launching a response.

Although the firepower carried on the shuttle was not strong, it could still cause some slight impact on these black vines.

The ship's secondary guns continuously fired, and Song Chi quickly analyzed the battlefield situation.

Judging from the hardness and attack power displayed by these black vines, it was obvious that they were all at the first level, and not the first level like the Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors. They were most likely at the peak of the first level.

Ten minutes later, Song Chi had a guess. Behind the countless black vines, it was probably the same entity. Their coordination and cooperation were so tacit that they steadily suppressed the seven fully armed Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors and could still divide their forces to attack the mining vehicles.

Such a coordinated joint attack would not be possible without a common command matrix, and the vines themselves reminded him of a special creature.

"Star Sea Plant."

The developed root system was as hard as metal, and it was enough to affect the life energy position of the starry sky. These were all in line with the characteristics of the star sea plants he had encountered before.

Coming to this conclusion, Song Chi quickly thought of a countermeasure. If it was really a star sea plant, then it only needed to eliminate the activity of its body, and these troublesome root systems would be naturally neutralized.

Thinking of this, Song Chi cast his eyes straight on the mining truck below.

This unknown star sea plant was obviously disturbed by the operation of the Furious Tiger mining truck, and then began to fight back from the inner core of the fragment. If this is the case, does that also mean that it is directly below the location where the mining truck was working before? Where is the unknown star sea plant?

As he thought about it, Song Chi's eyes moved to a hole more than one meter deep in the debris below, which was where the mining truck last dug. There was a guess in his mind, and Song Chi was not the kind of person to hesitate, so he immediately took action.

The secondary battery continued to assist the Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors, but the shuttle of the Sky turned around, and the nether energy main gun on the bow of the ship was aimed directly at the rock pit that was only half excavated.

The dim light gathered and the energy storage turned on.

It seemed that the black vines felt a threat from somewhere, or were alarmed by the energy fluctuations produced when the psionic main cannon was charged. In short, the black vines that were attacking the seven Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors split in half instantly and moved quickly towards the Sky.

The length of the black vines covered with sharp barbs was astonishing. Even though the Sky was already at an altitude of nearly 100 meters, it still did not escape their attack range. In less than two seconds, nearly ten black vines swept all the way to an altitude of 100 meters.

Bang bang bang!

The black vines hit the Sky one after another, causing the suspended shuttle to shake. Song Chi remained unmoved and ignored these attacks, still maintaining the charge of the main gun.

If it were a second-level star plant, he would definitely run away immediately, but at the peak of the first level, it could not threaten the dark matter energy shield, at least in a short period.

Why is Song Chi obsessed with continuously keeping the energy shield of the Sky activated? Isn't it just to ensure his own safety?

As an orange quality energy shield, strengthened to the first level, if it could be easily broken by creatures of the same level and different civilizations, it would not be worthy of its orange glory quality parts.

After another two seconds, when the nether energy at the main gun port of the ship's bow had gathered to the extreme, the energy storage of the nether energy main gun was officially completed.

"Fire!"

The fire button was pressed quickly, and a dark energy ball with a diameter of dozens of centimeters shot downwards. It was so fast that it hit the center of the rock pit below almost instantly.

Boom!

In the violent explosion, gravel flew away, and when the fire light dissipated, the rock pit that was originally only more than one meter deep was now close to four meters deep.

Song Chi had already expected this, as the nether energy main gun's current enhancement level was only level 5. Coupled with the fact that it was a standard colorless main gun, its power was naturally not that great.

The joystick in his hand was pulled back, and at the same time, the Sky was also rapidly moving upwards, avoiding the strikes of those vines.

Although the dark matter energy shield is strong enough, attacks that are unnecessary to withstand must be avoided.

After the nether energy main cannon strike, a short buffering time is needed. The split black vines could no longer cause devastating damage to the Fire Sun Terracotta Warriors on the fragments. Song Chi could rest assured to stop the firepower of the secondary cannon and control the Sky to dodge and maneuver.

When the 8-second buffer time passed, bursts of energy fluctuations came from the main gun port at the bow of the Sky again, and the charging of the nether energy main gun was started again.