Chapter 9 Victory and Learning Skills
Under his precise control, and with the help of powerful memories to simulate the battlefield, the frigate used different meteorites to cover up its figure. After quietly touching a meteorite more than 400 meters away, the warship fought.
About a minute later, a pirate gunboat flew out from behind the meteorite, without even noticing the frigate hiding behind the meteorite.
"Fire!"
With an order, the three electromagnetic cannons and two machine guns that were ready to fire fired shells at the same time.
The electromagnetic gun fires one round, and the automatic loader on the gun position is rhythmically ejecting the stored metal electromagnetic gun shells. The electronic scan confirms that the shells are OK, and uses a transmission belt to transfer them to the gun position, and then scans them again before loading them into the gun box. , refill the muzzle, and then wait for the target to be aimed and fire again, with an interval of 25 seconds.
But this is only the theoretical maximum speed. In actual combat, regardless of whether one's own warships will move, the enemy's warships will also move. Coupled with various interferences in the ever-changing battlefield, it is actually difficult to achieve the theoretical maximum launch speed.
But machine guns don't have this problem. The shells of this weapon are like bullets. A total of 5,000 shells are connected to the machine gun in an ammunition box. They can be fired continuously like a machine, but the speed is not as fast as a machine gun. , one is fired in about two seconds.
After capturing the pirate gunboat under Li Qing's order, the frigate kept the distance between the two sides at about 20 to 30 kilometers. The two machine guns continued to spit shells, which continued to hit the energy shield on the surface of the pirate gunboat. Every pit.
The damage of the third-generation Huoyu cannon is 25-30, with a range of 60 kilometers. The correction is the same as the electromagnetic gun, +25% shield damage and -50% armor damage.
The two concentrated fire broke through the pirate gunboat's weak energy shield in just ten seconds. Countless bullets hit the thick armor of the pirate gunboat, sending sparks flying everywhere.
Although kinetic energy bullets have a 50% damage reduction correction to armor, they cannot withstand the rapid fire rate of the machine gun, which keeps pouring out firepower while chasing. At the same time, he still has time to control the battleship and use enemy battleships and surrounding meteorites to avoid another pirate. Gunboat attack.
Although the commander of the pirate gunship felt something was wrong and wanted to get rid of this situation, this ordinary wild monster warship could not match him regardless of its configuration or commander's skills. No matter how he avoided it, he could not get rid of him. He was chasing him and he exploded. , the burning debris broke into two pieces and hit a meteorite, causing a second explosion.
War is the best catalyst. In this kind of actual battle, the experience of both naval command skills and frigate operation skills increases very quickly, much faster than usual.
After killing a pirate gunboat, the frigate's energy shield still had a shield value of more than a thousand. With almost no pause, it turned around and killed another pirate gunboat that it had been chasing for so long.
Withstanding the bombardment of a total of five electromagnetic cannons from the pirate gunships, one large and four small, three third-generation electromagnetic cannons and two machine guns focused their fire like crazy until the battleship's energy shield was broken and the thick alloy armor was blown into pieces. , sinking the last pirate gunboat in a way that almost destroyed both sides.
After carefully counting the damage to the battleship, Li Qing couldn't help but curse:
"YY bastard, hundreds of thousands are gone."
If the energy shield is gone, it can be restarted, but it requires a standard energy block to reactivate and recharge, which is 100,000 stars.
This is the minimum standard. Even if a battleship's shield is gone, it needs at least one energy block to be reactivated. If there is enough time, it can be slowly and automatically recharged. If there are still combat missions that require rapid recharging, it must Consume a large amount of energy blocks to replenish directly.
It is worth mentioning that if the energy shield is not completely broken, even if there are only a few points of energy shield value left, you can rely on the battleship's reactor to slowly recover after the war, without the need for additional energy blocks.
Only when the shield is completely broken does the energy block need to be reactivated and recharged.
In addition, the damaged armor needs to be repaired. Use alloy materials to repair the potholes blown up by the electromagnetic gun shells one by one. Forget the labor cost, you can only do it yourself here, but the material cost is estimated to cost tens of thousands of stars.
In addition, this battle consumed a total of 33 electromagnetic artillery shells, each costing 1,500 star yuan, for a total of 49,500 yuan.
A total of 320 machine guns were fired, and a shelling shell cost 150 stars, a total of 48,000 stars.
Ammunition consumption is normal. After all, not every shot can hit the target.
All in all, the ammunition consumption alone for this battle was 97,500 star yuan, plus the maintenance fee of at least 150,000 yuan for an energy block, the total loss was about 250,000+.
The results of the battle were astonishing. After cleaning the battlefield, no accessory drawings were revealed, only 7 pieces of wreckage. Each piece of wreckage was sold to a recycler for 110 stars, for a total of 770 stars, a loss of 250,000.
Yes, this is the harvest of a normal war. If no ship accessories or blueprints are revealed, there will only be a loss of blood.
Although the fight was intense, these two pirate gunships were indeed the simplest wild monsters, equivalent to seeing two slimes in the novice village in the game. It was unrealistic to expect such wild monsters to explode.
And this is the normal state. It is impossible to explode at every turn.
With some emotion, he consumed a standard energy block to reactivate the shield, and then continued mining.
Half a day later, the battleship's shield slowly and automatically returned to complete, and he also collected countless tons of mineral-containing meteorites into the universe in his hand during this half-day.
The mining ship under my command spent most of the day slowly cutting the meteorites, crushing them into small pieces, and then collecting the ore-containing meteorites into the mining ship. It could only fill half of the cabin, and the efficiency was much lower.
Li Qingmo made an estimate and used the universe in his palm to collect meteorites one by one. Not counting the large amount of useless rocks in the meteorites, the simple collection capacity is thousands of times that of a mining ship. If a large number of useless rocks in meteorites are removed, the efficiency is estimated to be that of a small mining ship. Hundreds of times that, equivalent to hundreds of small mining ships mining.
And this was not his limit. Because of his lack of strength and fear of attracting wild monsters wandering in the asteroid belt, he did not dare to make much noise at all.
According to the best plan in his mind, if there is a cruiser or a powerful concussion bomb is prepared, one can be placed in the center of the meteorite group and exploded, causing a large number of meteorites to collide and move. At that time, the cosmic channels in the palm of the hand will be opened in all directions. Devouring moving meteorites is the most efficient.
It is a pity that the cosmic channel in the palm can only be opened and cannot generate attraction. Otherwise, it would be more efficient to swallow it in place.
Li Qing did not wait for another half day for the mining ship to be filled before going back. He directly left the mining ship to mine on the spot and drove the frigate back to the base first.
Returning to the sky above the base, a black hole opened directly in the open space next to the base. A large number of ore-bearing meteorites, which were crushed halfway by the power of the universe in the palm of the hand, into the size of a standard washbasin, flew out of the black hole, and were accumulated in the ring-shaped meteorites due to the small gravitational influence of the satellite. A mountain formed at the edge of the pit's bottom, and large amounts of accumulated dust rose up to cover the entire base.
It really piled up into a mountain, quickly exceeded the depth of the crater, and spread outside the crater.
I put about half of it out and stopped putting it away. If I put it down again, there would be no place to pile it up.
Then the ore crushing, screening and refining equipment was turned on. Two ten-meter-high transport robots modified from mining robots moved the meteorites as big as a washbasin to the entrance of the ore crusher. Amidst the rumbling sounds, the meteorites as big as a washbasin were Beaten to pieces, then triaged and screened.
The rocks are spit to one side, and the screened raw ore is distributed to the conveyor belt on the other side and sent directly to the refining furnace not far away.
The so-called refining furnace does not directly refine the raw ore into high-purity mineral materials, but only purifies the raw ore.
For example, it is enough to crush the raw iron ore, extract the iron ore and smelt it, remove the impurities, and directly smelt it into pig iron ingots that still contain a lot of impurities.
The next step is to make steel or add other ingredients to make various alloys. That is the task of the alloy casting factory. His equipment here cannot do it yet.
But in the future, if he has the capital, the interior of the high-dimensional fortress of the Star Witnesses in the Palm Universe can be repaired a little. He will also build a base there and set up an industrial production line to specialize in the production of various industrial finished products. This will make more money than selling raw materials. Much more.
The normal standard price of iron ore is 15 stars per square, but if it can be sold for 150 stars per square after refining, the actual refining degree of the iron ore is definitely not ten times different. With one more process, not only does the raw iron ore take up much less space , and earn more.
The only problem is that the output is not high. A complete set of equipment is operating at full capacity 24 hours a day, and the total output is less than 10,000 cubic meters.
Deducting machine rest and routine maintenance time, even if the daily output is 8,000 cubic meters, it is only 240,000 cubic meters per month, which costs 150 stars per square meter, or 36 million.
Of course, this is when all iron ore is included and there are no other high-value ores, but there is not much difference. Iron ore is indeed the most abundant in the meteorite belt, and other ore types combined do not account for more than half of iron ore.
"So, the problem now is that there are many mines, but the production cannot keep up."
"I remember that a few players in this galaxy have established bases. I will pay a visit in a few days to see if I can buy one or two sets of equipment."
Now of course it's time to repair the frigate.
Li Qing selected several configurations from the many skill chips he purchased before and put them in his brain, namely engineering, mechanics, industrial theory, maintenance system theory, hull reinforcement theory, armor reinforcement theory, energy shield reinforcement theory, There are fourteen skills in total including frigate construction research, frigate long-distance maintenance theory, frigate modification theory, mining ship construction research, industrial ship construction research, transport ship construction research, and outpost construction theory.
It covers battleship construction from theory to practice, as well as repair and maintenance and other related disciplines.
Anyway, there are enough brain slots, 20 in total. If you want to learn other battleship construction skills and there are not enough brain slots in the future, you can take out the unused skill chips and replace them when not in use.
A total of fourteen skills are just part of the battleship construction and maintenance system. Normal players don't have that much brainpower to learn so many skills. Most of them can only choose to specialize in one aspect.
When it came to actual maintenance, Li Qing learned another skill in controlling the maintenance robot, otherwise he would not be able to control the ten-meter-tall maintenance robot.
The maintenance of this frigate is simple. It's just that the armor has been blasted with some potholes. Just melt the armor material and repair the potholes. It includes welding technology, but there is no special welding skill, but it is combined with a series of other small maintenance skills. All are included in the theoretical skills of the airframe maintenance system.
The ten-fold experience bonus and super high innate attributes allowed him to get started quickly. One repair was equivalent to dozens of repairs, and several skills were changed from level zero to level one on the spot.
Unfortunately, many theoretical skills require professional knowledge. It does not mean that you can improve by just starting. I can only download more professional knowledge next time I go to Tianmen and take the time to take a look.
With his current memory attributes, he can basically read ten lines at a time, have a photographic memory, recall one thing from another, and quickly digest the knowledge.
After repairing the frigate, he worked on the base for a few more days, repainting the exposed exterior walls of the base, repolishing the wear and tear caused by the maintenance robots, and repainting the appearance of the ore crushing, screening and refining equipment placed outside, accumulating Little experience.
"Too little."
The base has just been completed and is still very new. There is no need to repair it even if you want to.
After standing in the base and looking at the frigates parked in the sky for a long time, he finally sighed and gave up the idea of using the sentry guns of the base guards to attack the warships to gain experience.
"Take your time."
There will be plenty of opportunities to gain experience in the future. For example, mining ships and mining robots can be maintained once every time they go back and forth. In the future, if you earn money, you can buy more mining ships or warships. Then you can gain experience frequently, even to the point of vomiting.
On the second day after the maintenance was completed, Li Qing left the base in a frigate and flew to another asteroid belt outside the star system, preparing to find the personal bases of several players in this system.
I have circled the inner asteroid belt before and found no player bases. They are probably all in the outer ring.
There is no need to control the mining ship. Just mine in a safe area. If you find the enemy, run away directly. When the mine is full, transport it back directly, or let the industrial ship transport it back.
Industrial ships are actually comprehensive ships that integrate transportation, maintenance, towing, salvage, engineering and other functions. Their transportation capabilities are not as good as professional transport ships, but they are stronger than mining ships, and this kind of ship can also It is very easy to use for towing large containers for long-distance transportation.
The frigate ran directly to the asteroid belt in the outer circle of the galaxy at sub-light speed, and then contacted the player named Yang Yunbo whom he had met before.
Not long after the communication was connected, a young man with a loyal face appeared on the light screen. He was stunned for a moment when he saw Li Qing. The next second he seemed to remember and showed a stunned expression, waving:
"Brother, have you built the base yet?"
Li Qing nodded:
“It was built less than a week ago.”
"Where to build it? Inner ring or outer ring?"
"Inner Ring."
"It's okay there. There are a lot of iron ores there and it's stable."
"By the way, where are you now? I want to come and visit you."
Yang Yunbo's face lit up with joy and he said:
"Welcome, come here, I'll prepare."
Li Qing immediately received a coordinate and checked the star map. It was not too far away from him. He asked the deputy captain to check the coordinates. The frigate's hyperspace engine began to charge and prepared to enter the sub-light speed state. (End of chapter)