Let you raise pigs?But kicked me out of the classmate group?

Qin Hao looked at White and Roca, both of whom had unpleasant expressions.

When we were tracking the copper powder earlier, only the two of them didn't go to the cave, so they haven't been cleared of suspicion yet.

"I'll go back to the cave and search again!"

Loca suddenly spoke, gripping the bronze spear in his hand tightly.

"I must prove I am not a traitor!"

White also stood up.

“I’ll go with you. We can also check the remains of the extraction device; we might find clues about the traitor.”

Qin Hao nodded and told Aji and two other team members to follow them.

As soon as the four entered the cave, Aji squatted down and sprinkled copper powder. The powder followed the previous path and extended deeper into the cave, finally stopping in front of a pile of rubble.

"Use a shovel to dig it open!"

Loca used his spear to pry open the rubble, revealing a destroyed antimagnetic extraction device underneath.

The device's energy lines are still connected to the core interface, and on the ground next to it, there is a metal plate engraved with the word "Cole".

"It's Cole!"

Arya arrived suddenly and understood immediately upon seeing the metal piece.

She shouted, "He was Old John's assistant in 1995! He participated in the Blue Crystal experiment back then, but later disappeared. I never expected him to join the Crystal Raiders!"

At this point, the detector showed that the device was still slowly extracting energy. After another 3 hours of extraction, the core concentration would reach 85%.

Van der Sar, an expert standing nearby, immediately began disassembling the device and used the old energy synchronizer parts left over from before to cut the energy lines.

The concentration finally stopped rising and stabilized at 75%.

But just then, gunshots rang out from outside the cave.

The allied forces launched a general offensive, with the main guns of 10 warships firing simultaneously. The outer copper fence was instantly destroyed, and Ali's men were fighting and retreating.

"Withdraw the core! Quickly!" Qin Hao shouted.

Everyone immediately ran towards the core area.

The coalition soldiers had already crossed the minefield and were firing their anti-magnetic rifles at their team members.

Ali led the remaining members to form a defensive formation, with bronze shields in front and blue crystal tranquilizer darts continuously being fired at the allied forces.

"Pulse turret ready! Aim at the bottom of the warship!" Aria suddenly shouted.

While hacking the communicator, she discovered that the shield interface of the coalition warship was at the bottom, which was their biggest weakness.

The four pulse turrets adjusted their angles simultaneously, increasing their power to 4%, and the pale blue pulse beams struck the interface at the bottom of the warship.

"Boom!"

The shields of the three warships exploded instantly, and the warships went out of control and crashed in the desert.

The guardian of the crystal also gathered its remaining energy, forming a pale blue energy wall that blocked part of the main cannon's attack.

"Retreat quickly!"

Seeing the situation was dire, the allied leader ordered a full-speed retreat.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as the coalition warships disappeared into orbit around their home planet.

But Qin Hao knew that this was only a temporary retreat.

Cole hasn't been captured yet; he still has a guiding rod, and the coalition forces will definitely return.

Kam's wounds have been treated, his antimagnetic suit has been replaced, and the radiation level has dropped to 0.2 Sv/h.

Looking at the pale blue light on the core's surface, he suddenly said, "The nameplate just sensed an energy signal from deep within the mother planet, originating from the same source as the core. There might even be a second blue crystal core."

Aria immediately turned on the detector, and sure enough, a faint energy curve appeared on the screen, originating from the Earth's core.

"Cole's target might be the second core! He snatched the energy rod because he wanted to use it to activate that core!"

Qin Hao gripped the bronze plaque in his hand tightly. The plaque glowed with a faint blue light and pointed towards the center of the earth.

"We need to find a second core player before Cole!"

He looked at his teammates, each with a determined expression on their face.

He continued, "The road ahead may be even more dangerous, but we have no way back; we can only move forward!"

The winds of the home planet's desert carried sand and dust, stinging my face.

Qin Hao is leading his team forward in the direction of the energy signal.

On the monitor screen beside Aria, the curve became clearer and clearer, showing that there were still 10 kilometers to the core, and the energy intensity was 1.5 times that of the core on the surface of the mother star.

Kam's bronze nameplate grew increasingly hot, its surface patterns gleaming with a pale blue light, as if guiding them in the right direction.

"Watch out, everyone! There's an ambush ahead!"

Ali suddenly stopped and pointed to the sand dunes not far away.

There was a faint metallic reflection behind the sand dunes; it was the Allied forces' anti-magnetic rifle.

The team members immediately took cover behind the rocks. Aria adjusted the detector, which showed that there were 10 coalition soldiers hiding in bunkers behind the sand dunes.

"Use the pulse pistol!"

Qin Hao pulled out a pulse pistol from his waist. This was a special modified version of the Pulse Pistol by Van der Sar for the expedition team. Although it had low power, it was capable of penetrating antimagnetic armor.

Ali led three team members around to the side of the sand dune and suddenly launched an attack. Blue crystal tranquilizer darts accurately hit six soldiers. The remaining four were about to escape when they were tripped by Aji's copper mining shovel and captured on the spot.

They learned some startling news from the captured soldiers.

"Cole has reached the second core! He's activating the core, preparing to use its energy to detonate the cores on the surface of the mother planet, causing the blue crystal energy of the entire mother planet to spiral out of control!"

"We need to speed things up!" Qin Hao immediately ordered.

The team members moved quickly along the sand dunes, covering the 10-kilometer distance in just one hour.

From afar, they saw a huge cave, which glowed with a blinding pale blue light.

The second core is inside.

They saw Cole standing next to the core, holding the stolen energy rod, preparing to insert it into the core's interface.

"Stop!" Qin Hao shouted as he rushed over.

Cole turned around, a sinister smile spreading across his face.

He shouted back, "Too late! I've already activated the core's self-destruct program. In one hour, both cores will explode, and none of you will escape!"

As he was speaking, he suddenly pressed the remote control in his hand, and the entrance to the cave was instantly sealed off by rubble, trapping them inside.

"Don't panic! Let's all find the exit together!" Ali tapped the cave wall with his copper mining shovel and suddenly heard a thumping echo.

"There's a side tunnel here!"

The team members immediately began clearing away the rubble, soon revealing a side hole that was only wide enough for one person to pass through. Inside, there were blue crystal patterns that led to the other side of the core.

As they circled around to the core from the side tunnel, Cole was trying to insert the energy guide rod into the interface.

Arya suddenly activated the pulse transmitter, and a pale blue pulse struck Cole's arm, causing the energy rod to fall to the ground.

Ali seized the opportunity to rush over and knock the remote control out of Cole's hand with a copper mining shovel. The team members swarmed in and pinned Cole to the ground.

"Why did you betray us?" Qin Hao stared at Cole and asked, wanting to know why he had sided with the Crystal Raiders.

Cole sneered, replying with disdain, "Old John killed my family back then in order to monopolize the Blue Crystal technology! I'm going to destroy all the Blue Crystal cores and make all his hard work go to waste!"

As he spoke, he struggled violently, and suddenly spat out a miniature antimagnetic bomb. With a loud bang, rocks began to fall from the top of the cave.

"He's going to run away!"

Ali wanted to give chase, but his path was blocked by rubble.

Cole seized the opportunity to escape through the side tunnel, leaving behind only one sentence.

"The main force of Crystal Raiders will arrive in three months, and none of you will be able to escape!"

The team members quickly cleared away the rubble, while Aria rushed to the core to check the self-destruct sequence.

"Thank goodness! It's just a basic program; I can crack it!"

She took out her laptop, quickly entered the code, and 10 minutes later, the self-destruct program was successfully shut down. The detector showed that the core energy was stable at 60%, with no risk of explosion.

The Guardian's energy body also arrived. Looking at the second core, he said weakly, "This is the backup core of our home planet. It was specially built by the Blue Crystal Civilization to prevent the main core from being destroyed. Cole activated the backup core's energy transmission line. If it had been any later, the main core would have been detonated."

Qin Hao breathed a sigh of relief and had his team check the cave.

Suddenly, Aria's detector went off again, and the screen showed a large amount of energy signals outside the home planet's orbit, indicating that it was a reconnaissance ship of the Crystal Raiders.

"They are scouting the home planet's defenses," Qin Hao said, frowning.

"The main force will definitely arrive in three months, so we need to prepare as soon as possible."

He contacted the Earth-based team, and Pang Wanshan's voice came through the communicator.

"The Earth's mineral veins are currently safe. We have produced 500 new pulse turrets, which can be transported to the home planet for support at any time!"

Chief Karuba took the communicator and said, "Our tribe has organized 200 armed personnel, and the Karu tribe has also sent 150 people, who can join the defense at any time!"

Qin Hao looked at his teammates, then glanced at the two stable blue crystal cores, and a surge of power welled up in his heart.

"Three months from now, we'll be right here, fighting the Crystal Raiders to the death!"

His voice was very firm and echoed repeatedly in the cave.

three days later.

Inside the cave at the second core of the mother planet, pale blue light flowed down the rock walls.

Arya was staring at the energy transfer control panel, her fingers flying across the keyboard.

With eighty days remaining before the arrival of the Crystal Raiders, the dual-core linkage is crucial to defending against the main cannon. However, the transmission efficiency on the screen suddenly plummeted from 70% to 20%, like a kite with a broken string.

The concentration of antimagnetic elements in the second core soared to 65 percent, and the red warning light next to the control panel flashed wildly.

"What's going on? What happened?"

Qin Hao leaned closer and touched the outer casing of the control panel with his fingertips, which was still warm.

Aria spread the 1995 experiment log on the table, pointing to the page on dual-core linkage fault handling.

She turned to Qin Hao and said, "Old John wrote in his log that we need to use a copper energy-conducting ring to absorb excess antimagnetic elements, and also need the Karuba tribe's energy-stabilizing prayers to calibrate the frequency."

She looked up and continued, "The energy-conducting ring that Kam brought is in the main core, we need to go and retrieve it. Also, we need high-purity copper ore powder, which the Karu tribe has."

Qin Hao immediately dialed Kam's communicator. On the main core, Kam was helping his team reinforce the copper fence.

After the communication was established, Kam immediately said, "I'll go get the energy guide rings now; three should be enough."

After hanging up the phone, he contacted Karu, a member of a tribe in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was monitoring the copper ore purity report.

"The copper ore powder is fine, but once the linkage is established, we need to train 10 core maintenance personnel for our tribe. Otherwise, the energy station will keep malfunctioning, and copper mining will be affected."

"Deal!" Qin Hao agreed immediately.

"Pang Wanshan's logistics truck will deliver anti-magnetic plates to help you reinforce the energy station."

Two hours later, Kam carried three copper energy rings toward the second core. Just as he stepped into the canyon between the two cores, his feet suddenly gave way to nothing.

Suddenly, the ground collapsed, creating a 3-meter-deep trap. The energy-conducting ring fell into it, and the antimagnetic spikes at the bottom of the trap instantly pierced the outer shell of the ring. The surrounding antimagnetic mines were then activated, and a faint black interference wave spread out within a 10-meter range.

"It's a trap by Cole! Everyone be careful!"

Kam pulled out his walkie-talkie and called for help. Ali's patrol team arrived quickly.

The team members held up blue crystal radiation detectors, which beeped loudly as soon as they approached the trap.

It was the antimagnetic elements in the landmine that reacted with the blue crystal component of the detector.

"Throw copper smoke bombs!" Ali immediately ordered.

The team members took out smoke bombs containing 500 grams of copper ore powder and threw them around the trap.

The pale green smoke dissipated, the interference wave weakened instantly, and the landmine was temporarily disabled.

Aji ran over carrying a copper mining shovel, an old tool he brought from a tribe in the Democratic Republic of Congo, its head sharpened to a fine point.

He lay down beside the trap, shoveling away the rubble one scoop at a time, while Aria used radiation-resistant cables from a Congolese machinery factory to make a simple sling and lower it into the trap.

"Be careful! Don't let the energy guide ring break again!" Aria shouted.

Kam lay on the sling and slowly picked up the three energy guide rings.

Fortunately, only the outer casing was damaged; the internal components remained intact.

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