The three sets of power armor modified by Layton all have their own characteristics: the one worn by Lao Gou is a standard type. In addition to the energy shield, the main weapons are the electromagnetic machine gun hidden inside the arm armor and the rocket launcher mounted on the shoulder armor. Although there is nothing particularly outstanding about it, it excels in basic performance and balanced capabilities in all aspects.

Ke Lan's armor has both command and reconnaissance functions. Layton installed high-power communication equipment on the inside of the helmet, directly transforming it into a small mobile base station, and also added an external cable socket on the back. As long as the cable behind him is not cut off, Ke Lan can always keep in touch with the base.

As for the chest, arms, shoulders and other parts of the armor, Layton removed the heavy weapons and equipment and replaced them with several monitoring equipment and detection instruments: thermal infrared cameras, low-light cameras, small sonars, vibration detectors... As long as they were found in the base, he installed them all at once - anyway, there was enough power and there was no need to worry about the load problem.

As for Zhuo Ligetu's armor, it was a complete melee armor, highlighting the word "rough" throughout - a large-caliber rapid-fire shotgun, a heavy gun shield with rivets, and a chainsaw sword powered by a crystal engine. In addition, Layton also equipped Zhuo Ligetu with the most powerful Nov3 shield generator.

"My goodness, this thing is too powerful, isn't it?" Lao Gou waved his arms vigorously, and immediately there was a whistling sound, "I even think I can smash a tank with one punch."

"As for light tanks, that's certainly possible," Layton said... If we were to say who made the most money this time, it would undoubtedly be him - taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Layton refurbished his mechanical prosthesis once again, and the original silver-white appearance was replaced with a more visually oppressive ochre red.

"Let's go. We've been busy for a while. It's time to go and take a look at the scene." Ke Lan called to everyone.

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Mine No. 7 is not too far from the base of the Soma Consortium, and the walk takes about half an hour. There is a not-so-large semi-permanent camp at the entrance. The camp is divided into two areas. The smaller area is used for the daily life of miners and security personnel, and the other larger area is filled with a lot of heavy machinery and equipment for processing the raw ore transported from the mine.

But now, this camp has completely turned into a small military base - located at the front line is a metal trench made up of fast-expanding modules, with a large-caliber heavy machine gun mounted every six meters on the trench. Except for the space left for personnel to pass through, the rest of the space is filled with ammunition boxes and weapon racks.

At the rear of the trenches, four "Sledgehammer-class" siege tanks were lined up in a row, with their 180mm cannons aimed at the dark mine entrance in front of them. If the trenches on the front line were about to be breached, they would not hesitate to carry out indiscriminate bombardment, and if necessary, they could even block the opening by collapsing the tunnel.

"This scene... I'm starting to wonder if there's a thunder beast hiding in the mine." Seeing this scene, Lao Gou couldn't help but complain.

"It's not a bad thing to be cautious, but I always feel that if something happens to us down there, these people will bury us directly in the mine." Ivan whispered.

"I'm worried too, so I asked Liao Zilang and Youyi to stay outside and keep an eye on old man Manstein - we have the leverage over him now, so he won't dare to order the siege tanks to open fire." Ke Lan said.

The team going down the well was composed of a total of six people: Hound, Layton, Asano Akira, Ivan, Zhuo Ligetu, and Ke Lan himself. Since there was no extra power equipment to give to Liao Zilang, and his physique that could withstand the water from the middle sea could not resist the horrible acid, Ke Lan simply let him stay to act as Yui's bodyguard, and at the same time to monitor Yui and Manstein.

The high-voltage power grid used to block the entrance to the tunnel was pushed to one side. Ke Lan finally checked the equipment on his body and the cables connected to his back, gave a thumbs up to the other five people, and took the lead in entering the mine.

The so-called mine on Leviathan was not actually dug by humans, but existed originally. All humans did was to chisel open the rock layer covering the entrance of the mine.

The entrances to these mines should actually be the pores on the surface of Leviathan's skin, while the deeper tunnels are formed by the blood vessels in Leviathan's body - this is a more generally accepted statement. As for whether they are blood vessels, trachea, or neural ducts, it is difficult to say clearly.

When Leviathan was first discovered, some people tried to drill on its surface in an attempt to find richer mineral veins... However, this project lasted less than three months before being abandoned.

The tissue of Leviathan is extremely hard, and even the diamond drills used to extract oil on Earth find it difficult to penetrate it... But it didn't take long for people to find that there was no need for them to drill at all - almost all of the crystallized ore in Leviathan's body was concentrated in these already existing pipes... If compared to the human body, these crystals are like blood clots accumulated in blood vessels, and the mining process is equivalent to clearing the blood vessels of Leviathan.

"I'm wondering... maybe the 'blood' flowing in Leviathan's body is actually a kind of liquid energy, and these crystalline minerals are the remaining part after the liquid energy dries up. Otherwise, the existing scientific theories cannot explain the body functions of a giant beast like this..." said Ivan, who was walking at the end of the team. His eyes were always focused on the wall of the tunnel - as a biologist, being able to enter the body of a prehistoric giant beast to conduct research was enough to make him excited for several days.

"This conclusion sounds very fantastic, but maybe it is true... After all, there has never been a shortage of fantastic things on this broken planet." The Hound commented. He walked behind Ke Lan on the left, holding a grenade launcher in his hand - but it was not loaded with lethal grenades, but flares - if the team was attacked, the old dog's first priority would be to illuminate all the hiding places of those unknown creatures.

"I just hope that what we encounter won't be so fantastic." Layton's position was right behind Ke Lan. He was responsible for providing protection to Asano Showa and Ivan who were not equipped with energy shields.

"We have walked 650 meters. Another 50 meters ahead will be the end of the mining area. Beyond this line will be the unexplored area." Ke Lan said in a deep voice. He had been paying attention to the movements of those detection instruments, but the deeper they went, the more serious the interference to the instruments became.

"The places where the previous teams were attacked were all 300 meters away from the mining area. That should be the border of the territory of those unknown creatures."