Chapter 16: Empty Jellyfish

Somewhere in the dark of the twilight line of Ramu, before dawn in this area.

Chen Ming's spacecraft deliberately chose this time to break into the atmosphere.

As the orange-red flames produced by high temperature gradually appeared in Chen Ming's field of vision.

The retractable metal plates gradually rose on the surface of the portholes of the spacecraft to isolate the heat from the outside.

The temperature inside the spacecraft rose slightly, but it was generally stable.

During this period, all Chen Ming could do was wait.

But soon, the hull suddenly shook slightly.

This was the buffer system of the landing module, which indicated that the spacecraft was about to approach the surface.

Not long after, the metal plates protecting the portholes were retracted, and the most dangerous period before the spacecraft landed passed.

The light of the stars refracted from one end of the horizon of Ramu, bringing a scene that had never been seen before into Chen Ming's eyes.

A forest of green plants with many shapes like snail shell patterns.

Chen Ming's eyes were full of curiosity, and he couldn't help but want to go over and take a look at these novel plants.

However, Chen Ming restrained himself immediately and did not forget what he had to do.

Find a specific landing location.

You can only see the general terrain in space, and the map in the terminal cannot be accurately depicted in meters.

So the final landing location must be confirmed on the spot.

Chen Ming's idea is to find a river to prioritize his water supply.

But he can't land directly next to the river to prevent floods or other possible dangerous creatures.

In addition, Chen Ming's requirements for the landing location are not high.

So he quickly found a suitable place.

The top of a small hill, there is a certain arc next to the hill, but the top is relatively flat, which is very suitable for the spacecraft to dock.

And as long as you walk a distance to another hill next to it, you can see a river not far away.

After confirming the location, Chen Ming prepared to land.

Just when the spacecraft passed a forest, a group of things suddenly flew up from the forest and pounced on the spacecraft.

A group of basketball-sized creatures that look like blue balloons.

Chen Ming's spacecraft was slowing down to land, and he didn't have time to get rid of them.

Almost instantly, these balloon creatures covered the entire porthole, completely blocking the view of Chen Ming's captain's room.

At the same time, Chen Ming also felt a clear vibration on the spacecraft.

It was this group of strange creatures that were hitting his spacecraft.

Chen Ming immediately gave up landing and immediately accelerated the spacecraft, intending to consider it after getting rid of these things.

But after the spacecraft entered the atmosphere, the main engine at the tail was shut down, and only the secondary engine was still running, and the speed could not be increased at all.

He could only barely squeeze out the balloon creatures blocking the front, and the distance between the spacecraft and them was still not widened.

Moreover, the main engine of the spacecraft did not operate in the atmosphere at all, and the consequences of running it might be worse than being chased by this group of balloons.

This was the landing site he carefully selected, and Chen Ming did not want to give up so easily.

He could only let the spacecraft fly up a distance and hover in the sky.

He barely pulled a little distance away from the balloon group.

Looking at the increasing number of balloons following the butt of the spacecraft, Chen Ming frowned and took out the terminal and took a photo of them.

Then he searched for images in the e-books that introduced the planet.

Chen Ming had no hope at first, but he didn't expect that the terminal would quickly find the corresponding creatures.

A page full of densely packed small characters was displayed on the terminal.

However, Chen Ming's attention was now focused on controlling the spacecraft, and he couldn't be distracted to watch it, so he pressed the voice playback button.

"Air jellyfish, also known as balloon jellyfish, has a docile personality and lives in plains, hills and other areas..."

"Docile? It doesn't look like it."

Chen Ming's brain actively skipped the meaningless content broadcast by the terminal and grasped the key points.

From their behavior just now and the content captured by the external camera of the spacecraft now, it can be clearly seen that this group of air jellyfish looks like they want to eat people and are very aggressive.

Could it be that I have stepped into their territory?

As soon as this thought came to Chen Ming's mind, the voice also broadcast this paragraph.

"…The main way of moving is to wander with the wind, and they have no sense of territory…"

"?"

Chen Ming controlled the spaceship to dodge several empty jellyfish, and glanced at the content on the terminal during this interval.

The text was not clear, but Chen Ming could see the pictures that matched the text.

It can be clearly identified that the empty jellyfish in the picture and the spaceship chasing him are the same species, and there is no such thing as other subspecies with more violent personalities.

Chen Ming took another look at the large group of empty jellyfish chasing after the spaceship and shook his head slightly.

That's no way.

Chen Ming connected to the cameras of the two machine guns without any psychological burden.

The machine gun turned around and fired directly at the rear.

As long as the large-caliber bullets touched them a little, they would directly cause these balloon-like jellyfish to deflate and lose their ability to float in the air.

If the bullets hit them head-on, they could even directly smash the jellyfish, exploding into a ball of crushed light blue gel and slightly darker body fluids.

Seeing that the machine gun was very effective against the jellyfish, Chen Ming began to shorten the distance of his circling and gradually guided the not-so-smart jellyfish into a ball.

Each shot fired by the machine gun could penetrate the huge balloon bunch composed of the entire jellyfish, with extremely high efficiency.

But as time passed, the bullets of the machine gun were being consumed rapidly, but the number of jellyfish behind the spaceship did not decrease.

Even some jellyfish appeared in other places around and flew towards Chen Ming's spaceship along the wind.

Not only were they replenishing the number of jellyfish, but they were also blocking the direction of Chen Ming's flight.

Chen Ming couldn't avoid a large group of empty jellyfish several times, so he had to hit them and smashed them to pieces.

Only the gelatinous substances and their light blue body fluids were left.

Seeing that the number of bullets was reaching the bottom, and the number of empty jellyfish hitting the spacecraft was increasing.

Chen Ming was even thinking about how to escape.

Just when the number of these empty jellyfish was so large that Chen Ming couldn't handle it at all.

An empty jellyfish approached the port side of the spacecraft and got close to the machine gun. The fire from the arc that kept flashing at the muzzle slightly touched it.

The next moment, this empty jellyfish.

Exploded.

At the same time, the terminal placed on Chen Ming's leg happened to broadcast this part.

"... The interior is full of flammable gases and fluids, easy to explode..."

The explosion of this empty jellyfish ignited by the machine gun fire was like a chain reaction.

It directly detonated the body fluids and gels of other empty jellyfish stuck to the spacecraft armor.

The spacecraft was shaking violently.

The terminal fell to the ground, and the voice broadcast stopped abruptly.

"Fuck."

Chen Ming barely managed to maintain his body shape in this violent shaking, and quickly fastened his seat belt.

He looked at the terminal on the ground, which was not sure whether it was broken or accidentally touched a button and stopped working. There were more and more empty jellyfish outside, and few bullets left.

There was also a machine gun firing rate that could not keep up with the growth rate of empty jellyfish.

Chen Ming now knew that with only the two machine guns of the Iron Ore, he could not clear these empty jellyfish while ensuring the safety of the spacecraft.

If it was bombed again, the spacecraft might even crash.

Chen Ming did not hesitate, stabilized the attitude of the spacecraft, made the bow directly perpendicular to the ground, rose again, and flew into the sky.