My apocalyptic heroine has come true

"Last night's attack cost us nearly 200 energy points?!"

After Fang Ming told Xia Xiaochi his guess, Xia Xiaochi's reaction was the same as Fang Ming's.

She covered her chest with her hands, feeling a pang of heartache.

That's a full 200 energy points! !

During this period, in order to reach the goal of a total of '5000' as soon as possible, Fang Ming and Xia Xiaochi lived frugally and recycled every energy crystal. They also turned down the dispersal lamps at home as much as possible, and weighed the energy consumption and benefits before throwing the garbage into the decomposer.

Although the Ark Shelter now has more than 4000 energy points in stock, which seems like a lot at first glance, these are the result of their hard work in collecting and saving them carefully!

Xia Xiaochi's eyes turned red with heartache.

I didn’t make any money in the whole night, and I was even deducted 200... How can I accept this?

The plan to destroy the mutant spider's nest is imminent.

"Think on the bright side."

Fang Ming looked at Xia Xiaochi's red eyes and comforted her.

"Although the energy consumption is high, we at least know the upper limit of the defense of 'Regenerated Iridium Titanium Alloy'. Those mutant spiders won't be able to defeat us anytime soon."

In fact, after figuring out the defensive capabilities of his own shelter, Fang Ming felt relieved.

He was prepared to be blown up at any time, and even planned to send Xia Xiaochi to another place to avoid danger.

Now I have enough confidence.

"…We need to hurry."

Xia Xiaochi wiped her little face and nodded vigorously.

During the conversation, each of them flew an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft over the ruins of the 0331 shelter.

Since this operation requires very high precision in operation, Fang Ming did not use the one-button control capability.

He manually controlled the joystick and flew the drone around the ruins of Shelter 0331.

The last time I came here, I could only observe this place through Xia Xiaochi's perspective.

Now, Fang Ming changed to a wider bird's-eye view.

Everywhere on the ground there were hollowed-out, highly decomposed corpses, traces of life shattered in the cracks, and ruins so collapsed that their outlines were difficult to discern.

The tragic situation of the ruins of the 0331 shelter was clearly visible to Fang Ming.

Fang Ming sighed inwardly for a while, and quickly controlled the drone to lower its altitude.

According to the route map provided by Xiao La, Fang Ming quickly found the entrance to the cave that led deep into the ground.

The entrance to the cave is two meters wide, which looks wide enough for several adults to walk side by side.

But as we went deeper into the cave, the two-meter-wide entrance quickly narrowed to less than one meter.

In just a ten-meter distance, the one-meter-wide space was reduced to a narrow corridor that was only wide enough for an adult to bend over.

In fact, on the way to Shelter 0331, Fang Ming had seen many similar entrances.

But Fang Ming wasn't sure whether this entrance led to the mutant spider's lair or where the mutants hibernated during the day. He didn't have the time to investigate these routes, so he chose to go directly to the existing safe passage that had been confirmed by Xiao Ba.

It is ten o'clock in the morning.

There are less than two hours left until noon, the time when the mutant spiders are at their laziest.

Fang Ming did not see any signs of mutant spiders on the road.

It was dark all around and the camera could not capture any light source here. Fang Ming could only use the thermal imager to determine the general outline of the route.

In the picture, the image taken by the thermal imager is almost dark blue, which means that the surrounding air temperature is close to 0 degrees.

Moreover, judging from the undulating contours of the cave walls, this is probably a steep cave.

Karst caves, also known as soluble rock caves.

If it were placed on Earth in the 21st century, this type of cave would be divided into three categories: carbonate rocks, sulfate rocks, and halide rocks.

No matter which type of cave it is, the minerals it contains are a great fortune.

But at this moment, Fang Ming had no time to think about mining. He had only one thought in his mind.

Find the spider's nest and destroy it.

As for the method of destruction, Fang Ming's first choice is targeted blasting.

Carefully controlling the joystick to move forward, Fang Ming heard intermittent "clicking" sounds behind him.

He frequently switched the perspective to Xia Xiaochi's and saw that the drone controlled by Xia Xiaochi stumbled and hit the wall several times.

At this time, the wing of the small reconnaissance plane in Xia Xiaochi's hand had shown signs of slight damage.

Fang Ming sighed and said.

"Xia Xiaochi, go wait for me in heaven."

"...I'm sorry, Brother Fang Ming." Xia Xiaochi lowered his head in shame.

Actually, it’s not her fault.

The drone is quite difficult to operate, especially in such a narrow, curvy and rugged terrain with stone pillars blocking the way from time to time.

If Fang Ming didn't want to confirm the safety of this road with his own eyes, he wouldn't have sent the drone to such a place.

"It's okay, it's just right for you to go up there and keep watch for me." Fang Ming shook his head.

"Okay, then I'll go wait outside..."

"Ok?"

In Fang Ming's ears, the girl's originally clear and gentle voice was replaced by another kind of snowflake-like noise.

As if affected by some kind of signal interference, Xia Xiaochi's voice suddenly became intermittent.

Fang Ming quickly switched the scene to Xia Xiaochi's perspective.

"The signal seems to be bad in here."

Inside the Ark Shelter, Xia Xiaochi, standing in front of the monitor screen, raised his head and spoke to Fang Ming.

The two of them stopped chatting using the voice function of the reconnaissance plane and turned their attention back to the room.

Fang Ming couldn't help but nod. "Xiao La also told me yesterday that his remote control car completely lost signal after going deep underground."

Fang Ming didn't pay much attention to this at the time.

It now seems that the signal below is indeed very poor, even to the point where unmanned reconnaissance aircraft become unstable.

Is it because the distance is too far, or is it that the space material here is not conducive to signal transmission... or to put it more broadly, those spiders even have the ability to interfere with signals?

Fang Ming pondered for a moment and felt that the last possibility was unlikely.

This ability to interfere with signals should be beyond the reach of spiders.

Whether it was Fang Ming's Ark Shelter or Shelter 2737, their attack method was manual aiming. Their weapons lacked mechanical aiming, let alone tracking capabilities. Signal jamming was not a necessity for the mutant spiders at this stage.

"...Could it be a metal mine?" Fang Ming suddenly thought of it.

After all, if there are metal mines all around, it does form a natural signal barrier.

Fang Ming didn't think much about it and controlled the drone to descend for more than half an hour.

It's almost noon now.

Xia Xiaochi wandered outside for a long time. Whether using a high-definition camera or a thermal imager, she did not see any signs of mutant spiders appearing. However, as Fang Ming went deeper into the cave, he saw many traces of mutant spiders living there.

The deeper he went, the more Fang Ming saw blue energy crystals scattered in the corners.

The heat of the energy crystal is higher than the temperature of the air, so it can be seen at a glance under a thermal imager.

Seeing this, Fang Ming quickly switched the camera to a high-definition camera.

The picture froze for a moment due to unstable signal transmission, and soon reappeared.

Feces, broken legs, spider webs, egg sacs...

The scattered energy crystals emitted a faint blue light, and Fang Ming used these light spots to barely see the surrounding environment.

No wonder the air quality here is poor.

Judging from this environment, it is probably almost as stinking as hell.

but……

Since there is feces on the ground, it means that these spiders are eating.

Thinking of the pile of victims buried under the ruins of Shelter 0331...

Fang Ming took a deep breath and continued to dive.

"Brother Fang Ming, a spider appeared."

At this moment, Xia Xiaochi's voice came from another direction.

Fang Ming casually opened Xia Xiaochi's drone interface.

Sure enough, he saw swarms of mutant spiders moving on the ground.

They didn't move very fast, as if they were just strolling in front of their own home.

Fang Ming zoomed in on the image and discovered that most of these spiders were larger "killer-type" spiders.

Unlike the smaller 'suicide' spiders, this one is up to three metres tall and primarily kills its prey with its legs.

Their spider legs are about two and a half meters long, and their silvery-white shells have completely hardened into metal, emitting a chilling light in the sun.

Fang Ming roughly counted them and estimated that there were about four hundred spiders that came back this time.

They were like well-trained special forces teams, each drilling into a different hole in the ground.

When they reached the entrance, the spiders squatted down and curled up all their legs.

The abdominal cavities of these spiders were not large, and even with their limbs folded up, they were only slightly wider than a human's shoulders. Fang Ming was surprised to see that the spiders were descending in a very deformed posture.

Fang Ming had a guess about this.

These spiders are very small when they first appear.

The tunnel is now the size it was when they first left the nest.