Chapter 8 Pirate Gunboat
As for the small electromagnetic radar, it was placed at the highest point on the edge of the annular crater. This radar was not big, so you could just move some rocks and pile it there to cover it up.
Finally, small water purification equipment and medium-sized cold storage are placed at the bottom of the main core cabin, and all food and water are stored in the cold storage.
Then 50 first-level clones were put into the base to assign different tasks, and a small base was formed. It took him more than half a month in total.
As soon as the base was built, he couldn't wait to take two ships and sail to the asteroid belt tens of millions of kilometers away to prepare for mining.
The three ships left sublight speed an hour later. When the spacecraft entered the normal material plane, Li Qing stood up from the command chair and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling glass of the bridge. There was a trace of surprise in his eyes. He saw a line of left and right lines in the cold starry sky. The edge of the dense meteorite belt cannot be seen, but deep in a pile of gray meteorites not far away, there seems to be a huge artificial creation.
Let the mining ship and industrial ship stay in place, and the frigate slowly approached. As soon as it slid into the meteorite belt, it saw a strange-shaped spacecraft flying out from behind the huge man-made creation.
The frigate shuttled around among the meteorites, observing from the angles of the gaps in the meteorites, and found several strange-looking and old-looking spaceships in succession, until it saw one of the spaceships spraying water with two welding guns. The dazzling mining laser was cutting a meteorite, and he realized that this thing was a wild armed mining ship.
This is also a type of wild monster. It usually appears in the asteroid belt. It can also mine, but it has a small amount of force. If it is destroyed, there is a probability of getting some collected raw ore.
Correspondingly, generally when wild armed mining ships appear, there must be a mining base and a fleet to defend the base. The specific fleet size depends on the size of the mining base.
It is worth mentioning that if this kind of mining base is not cleaned up for a long time, its scale will slowly expand.
As the ore collected slowly increases, the mining base will expand, and then more armed mining ships and escorts will be generated, and more ore will be mined to expand again.
This kind of expansion is very slow. If you ignore it for a year, you may only add a few mining ships. But in theory, there is no limit to this kind of expansion. If you leave it there for hundreds of years and ignore it, you can still develop a huge base. There may even be cruisers or even battleships in the escort.
It is absolutely impossible to have large mining bases in high-security and low-security areas, even in low-risk areas. Only when they are far away from player activity areas and no players come for a long time will these refreshed wild monsters slowly grow.
After observing for a while, Li Qing determined that the escort team had nearly twenty frigates and one destroyer, and then gave up the plan to take action. He returned with the mining ship and industrial ship and took a detour to the other side 10,000 kilometers away and entered the meteorite belt. .
With the frigate escorting the ship, the captain of the mining ship controlled the mining ship to enter the meteorite belt and start mining.
The captain of the mining ship is a very ordinary whiteboard captain. Like ordinary players, he also has five brain slots, that is, five skill slots. Currently, four slots are full.
They are Mining Ship Operation LV3, Mining Robot Operation Skill LV4, Space Geology LV2, Mineral Analysis LV2, and Mining Technology LV3.
This so-called brain slot is actually a skill slot. There are five basic brain slots for all players. After that, every time advanced basic modulation or deep prosthetic implantation is performed, one more brain slot will be added, regardless of advanced genetic adjustment. Or prosthetic implantation, the maximum limit is five times, which means that only five brain slots can be added.
In addition, if the player has the opportunity to successfully ascend genetically, spiritually, or mechanically, 5 general-purpose brain slots will be added at one time.
If there is an opportunity to achieve a second high-level ascension based on the original ascension, 10 general brain slots will be added again.
This is the so-called first-stage ascension and second-stage ascension.
Of course, the benefits of ascension are not limited to this. This is just about brain insertion.
Each additional brain slot allows you to learn how many skills at the same time, but this does not mean that everyone can only learn so many skills.
You must know that most skills exist in the form of skill chips. By inserting the skill chip into the brain plug, you can obtain the current skill. It is plug-in and use. If there is no need to take out the skill chip and insert another skill.
The removed skill chip can be saved and needs to be re-inserted later, and the skill level will still be the original level.
So in theory, everyone can be an all-rounder and master all the skills in the world.
The premise is that you have so much energy to improve so many skills.
It is worth mentioning that most skill chips other than basic skills can be traded, such as mining ship operation, mining robot operation, space geology and other skills can be traded. If you don’t want to spend time and effort learning, just directly Purchase these skill chips to use.
However, the skill chips purchased directly cannot be continuously upgraded. The level you buy will always be the same.
Li Qing himself only had five brain plugs, but after awakening the talent of Son of the Star, he directly adjusted the number to 20 brain plugs, four times as many as ordinary people.
And before leaving the Jinmen Galaxy a few months ago, I spent several million to buy a large number of zero-level skill chips that can be improved, and I am going to use my ten times experience bonus to brush up my skills.
Now he has six skill chips loaded, one of which is the basic naval command skill LV3. This is a basic skill and cannot be traded.
The other five are frigate operation LV4, space geography LV3, space perception LV3, signal analysis LV3, and evasive maneuver theory LV3. These skill chips have been equipped for a long time, and they have been accumulating experience for several months. Now they have been upgraded to LV3.
And because he has been on the frigate, the frigate operation skill has been upgraded to LV4.
Basic Naval Command Skills: Basic skills of naval commanders.
Attributes: Command fleet speed +5% per level, weapon fire rate +3%, weapon damage 2%, basic command ship capacity 200, ship capacity +50 per level.
Frigate Operation LV4: Each level of frigate operation increases the speed by 5%, the starting speed by 3%, and the turning rate by 3%.
Compared with basic command skills that apply to the entire fleet under the commander, frigate operation is a captain's skill and only takes effect on a single ship commanded by the captain.
However, at this time, Li Qingzheng is also the captain of this frigate. The effects of the two skills are superimposed, with a speed bonus of up to 35%, plus a 35% speed bonus of the third-level plasma thruster, and a 10% bonus of the afterburner. Success, a total of 80% speed bonus, making the frigate's speed as high as 216,000 kilometers per hour, faster than ordinary destroyers.
The frigate patrolled silently for about an hour, watching the mining ship find an ore-bearing meteorite and releasing the unmanned robot to cut the meteorite. Only then did Li Qing look back and find several skill chip equipment that were useful for mining from the many skill chips he had bought before. Go to the brain slot, and then drive the frigate along to look at the floating meteorites.
Space geology allows players to analyze the condition of meteorites by observing their surface conditions. The higher the level, the more useful information they can obtain. At the same time, innate attribute perception can greatly increase the experience and effect of this skill.
Mineral analysis is based on the clues on the surface of the meteorite to analyze whether there are minerals in the meteorite, what minerals are there, how much content, etc.
Similarly, the higher the level, the more accurate the analysis, and the innate attribute perception also has a bonus to this skill.
Even though I have just learned it, I quickly got started with the super high innate attribute bonus. The ten times experience gained quickly. I have reached LV1 in one day. The effect is not inferior to the LV2 and LV3 levels of ordinary whiteboard captains. I can already pass through the surface of meteorites. The remaining mineral traces indicate whether the meteorite contains minerals.
As long as there is an ore, regardless of whether the content is high or not, the palm universe will be opened, and then a cannonball will be blasted out, and the impact force generated by the explosion will be used to push it into the entrance of the palm universe.
Space is a vacuum environment. As long as a meteorite of several hundred meters can be pushed, it will keep moving forward slowly.
He was not in a hurry, practicing skills and collecting at the same time.
All the meteorites collected in the palm universe were thrown into a pile. Although he could use the power in the palm universe to smash them all, he did not process them for the time being and planned to crush them all at once when he collected enough.
The days of mining are very boring. The employees on the ship can still play games, but he has to stay on the bridge all the time and has no time to spare.
But if you want to make money and become a strong person, you have to endure loneliness.
Fortunately, ten times the experience and super high innate attributes allowed him to improve his skills very quickly. Watching each skill level up at an extremely fast speed, this feeling of satisfaction filled some emptiness.
"Bang!"
The sudden piercing siren brought Li Qing back to his senses. He quickly checked on the mixed fleet command interface and found that the industrial ship parked behind was under attack.
View the prompt panel:
"Tip: Being attacked by the pirate gunship's second generation electromagnetic gun (medium size), causing 244 points of kinetic energy impact damage to the industrial ship's energy shield."
"Tip: Being attacked by the second generation electromagnetic gun (medium size) of the pirate gunship, causing 248 points of kinetic energy impact damage to the energy shield of the industrial ship."
The frigate immediately stopped gliding, slowly turned around and sailed outward, and at the same time ordered the industrial ship to approach it.
Five minutes later, the industrial ship passed by the frigate, and two pirate gunboats flying between the meteorites in front could be seen on the huge floor-to-ceiling glass of the bridge.
"Why are there wild monsters here?"
Although it was strange, he did not move slowly and immediately ordered:
"Navy guns ready."
The staff officer sitting behind him immediately issued the order to each gun position on the frigate, and Li Qing heard the sound of gunners taking up positions at each gun position one after another.
The distance between the two sides quickly approached, and soon they entered his own firing range. Li Qing did not hesitate to order the warships to attack horizontally, with the muzzles of three electromagnetic guns on one side pointed in the direction of the enemy ships.
This frigate has five S small arms slots and is equipped with three electromagnetic guns and two machine guns. The third-generation machine guns have a range of only 60 kilometers, and the third-generation electromagnetic guns have a range of up to 400 kilometers. They can wait and fire in advance.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three obvious air-piercing trajectories cut through the void and hit the pirate gunboat on the right. A transparent light film appeared out of thin air some distance away from the ship's hull to block the shells, exploding into three groups of flames and three circles of ripples.
"Tip: Your third-generation electromagnetic gun hits the pirate gunship, causing 120+25% shield adjustment value = 150 points of kinetic energy impact damage to the target's energy shield."
"Tip: Your third-generation electromagnetic gun hits the pirate gunship, causing 110+25% shield adjustment value = 138 points of kinetic energy impact damage to the target's energy shield."
"Tip: Your third-generation electromagnetic gun hits the pirate gunship, causing 114+25% shield adjustment value = 143 points of kinetic energy impact damage to the target's energy shield."
With three prompts in a row, he could clearly see that the shield of the pirate gunship on the opposite side was slightly distorted. At the same time, after causing damage to the target, the attributes of the pirate gunship also appeared in front of him.
Pirate Gunship (Artillery Core-Modified): A common frigate for pirates.
Properties:
Basic hull: 1000
Basic armor: 500+porcelain gold armor (small) 400*3=1200 points of armor.
Basic shield: 500+ first generation energy shield (small) 500*2=1000 shield value.
Base speed: 120000 km/h
Default tactic: swarming tactic.
Fleet slot size: 1.
Artillery Core (Default)
Components: energy core, super-light components, thrusters, detectors, combat computers.
Weapon slots: M1, S4.
Universal slots: S5, A1.
The weapons are all second-generation electromagnetic guns, but there is a slot for a second-generation electromagnetic gun (medium size).
The moment he opened fire, the two medium-sized electromagnetic guns of the two pirate gunboats were ready. Two sky-breaking trajectories were seen. Li Qing clearly felt that the warships were shaken twice in a row, and the energy shield dropped by nearly 500 points in an instant. Shield value.
However, the five general slots of his frigate are equipped with three third-generation energy shields, each of which can add an additional 1,000 points of shield energy, and three additional points of 3,000. Adding the base 1,000 of the battleship, a total of 4,000 shield energy can be carried. Eighty-nine waves.
But he was not a fool and could not face him head-on. After a series of attempts, Li Qing immediately ordered:
"Tactical detour, approaching target No. 1."
The opponent is fully equipped with long-range electromagnetic guns. If you only have three electromagnetic cannons for long-range bombardment, you will definitely be at a disadvantage. You can only rush into the combat range of the machine cannon and use the super-fast rate of fire of the machine cannon to quickly defeat the opponent.
If it were in the open space, Li Qing's tactics would not be easy to implement. The wild monsters would also have simple AI and would know how to use their own advantages.
But in the asteroid belt where meteorites are everywhere, once the battleship dives into the meteorites, the enemy's long-range electromagnetic gun will be difficult to aim, and they can only chase him to find him for battle.
Li Qing sat upright, staring at the radar scanning screen. There were too many meteorites blocking the way, and the enemy ships scanned on the radar screen disappeared and appeared. However, he could determine the general position of the two pirate gunboats, and even had super high perception and mental skills. The spirit allows him to think calmly, simulate the nearby battlefield terrain in his mind, directly simulate the situations he may encounter next, and then combine different situations to simulate battles.
This is a very magical state. Normally, only combat computers can achieve it after collecting enough information, but he can achieve it with the human brain alone.
Of course, this is because the combat scope is small. If it is a large-scale battle, there are too many battleships, or the opponent is a player with too many variables, he will not be able to simulate it.
But this is already very strong, and it is completely overqualified to deal with wild monsters.
PS: The attributes of the frigate have been readjusted and are based on the current situation (end of this chapter)