Chapter 11 Tun mine
Almost without stopping, he recalled the mining base he saw when he first came to the asteroid belt. It was not a mining base like this one. Maybe he could give it a try.
He flew out of the asteroid belt, walked around in the direction of his memory, and quickly found the mining base.
Still using the same method, he took action outside the detection range of the opponent's radar and stole the three mineral balls that were circulating around the mining base.
This mining base is larger than the previous one. There are nearly thirty frigates in the escort team, but unfortunately, there are only three mineral balls stored around the base.
But this is not a problem. What can I ask for from the mines that come for free?
Next, we continued to change places and followed the asteroid belt. After the fourth hour, we discovered the third mining base, and found that there were eight huge mineral balls surrounding the mining base.
But
The scale of this mining base was larger than the previous two. The most important thing was that his radar was even stronger than his. It was discovered just as it approached the maximum detection range of the radar, and then a destroyer and a dozen frigates rushed over.
There is no other way. We can only run away. If we are slower and caught up by the destroyer, we may not be able to escape.
The basic speed of the frigate is only 130,000 kilometers per hour, and the basic speed of the destroyer is 140,000 kilometers per hour. According to the radar configured in this mining base, there is a high probability that large-scale deployment of third-level weapons and accessories has begun. The speed of third-generation thrusters is already comparable to With him, as long as there are other acceleration accessories or skill bonuses, the speed may be a little faster than him.
Since destroyers are far more powerful than frigates, once caught, he may not even be able to escape.
However, although this mining base cannot be built, the base cannot be run here. Li Qing plans to go around this galaxy first, and then go to the outer asteroid belt after the inner asteroid belt is completed.
When I was chatting with Yang Yunbo and others before, I heard them say that there are more than a dozen mining bases in the outer ring asteroid belt, and they all go to harvest them. Then they can go home and sell the mines. It is not a problem to sell them for hundreds of millions. , this frigate can be strengthened by then.
For the next whole week, he wandered around the asteroid belt, looking for possible mining bases.
He actually found two mining bases, and neither of them could detect him.
But the problem is that one of the mining bases probably just went through a round of expansion and ran out of ore. It only accumulated one ore ball, while the other one accumulated four, and the total was only five.
After that, they never found any other mining bases. Instead, they encountered many pirate ships and gunboats wandering in the asteroid belt.
When they saw the lone ones, Lin Lin killed seven pirate gunboats, losing more than two hundred electromagnetic metal shells and thousands of machine gun shells. The total income was dozens of pieces of wreckage, with a total value of several thousand stars.
This left him speechless on the spot.
After returning to the base for some simple repairs, I gained some maintenance experience, and set off again to fly to the outer ring of the galaxy.
"It's too difficult."
On the way, Li Qing calculated his income and expenditure these days. In the past few months, he had paid tens of millions in salary alone, and he had no income.
If you exclude the ore balls stolen through cheating this month, the income from mining alone by a mining ship seems to be around 20 to 30 million. After deducting the time cost, you will earn nothing at all.
People like Yang Yunbo and others have been here for so long, and everyone has a mining fleet. The one with the largest number is Yang Yunbo, who has been around the longest. He has a fleet that includes one large, four medium, and thirty-eight small mining ships. The fleet includes one large, three medium and three small transport ships.
In addition, he also established planetary material collection mines on several desolate planets in the galaxy.
With this income support, he can afford a cruiser, a destroyer, and five frigates.
Of course, this does not mean that Yang Yunbo can only afford so many. With the income of so many mining ships, he can afford to raise another one, but he does not.
He is just an individual player who only wants to make money. His biggest wish is to make a lot of money and become a rich man in a small place. He has no interest in conquering the stars and the sea.
Having a cruiser is mainly used to deal with the wild monsters that occasionally spawn near the base and mines. The ship is too small and some wild monsters cannot be dealt with.
The other players have similar ideas to Yang Yunbo. They are all individual players who are focused on making money. Their mining fleet is slightly inferior to Yang Yunbo's, and their warships are also inferior, but combined they can still make up forty or fifty ships.
The six people raised a total of three cruisers, eight destroyers, and more than forty frigates, which required a total of hundreds of large, medium and small mining ships.
Li Qing calculated carefully and found that not counting weapons and ammunition, the crew wages and basic maintenance fees alone cost tens of millions per month.
"Outrageous!"
"Those military leaders own a division-level fleet, how much is their monthly expenditure?"
Li Qing himself comes from a military lord, so he certainly knows the size and composition of the fleet. A division-level fleet has at least two Titan super flagships, and between 20 and 30 flagships, including dreadnoughts and dahangs.
There are about 10,000 battleships, usually the elite template Crusader class, and occasionally there are excellent template Lord class heavy battleships.
There are about 20,000 cruisers, and most of them are a mixture of the elite template Patroller class and the excellent template Nightwatch class. Occasionally, there will be a Night Stalker class battlecruiser whose combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of a standard battleship.
There are about 50,000 destroyers. Elite template hurricane level, excellent template storm level.
There are about 200,000 frigates, including the elite template Raptor class and the excellent template Black Hawk class.
It is worth mentioning that the specifications of the division-level fleet are just a standard module. Different military leaders will make adjustments according to different situations. Some may have more large and medium-sized ships such as cruisers and destroyers, and some may focus on development. Battleship.
With so many battleships, frigates alone theoretically require 100 billion star yuan in salary and maintenance fees every month. Adding in the expenses of other battleships, the monthly salary alone is probably more than 400 billion, which is simply
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However, compared to the income of the powerful warlords, it is nothing.
After all, with a population of tens of billions and billions of players, you don’t know how much you have to collect every month just to collect taxes. Add in other industries, and you still have more than enough means to raise a division-level fleet.
“There is a long way to go!”
Li Qing clicked his tongue and lamented how difficult it would be to raise a huge fleet on his own.
There must be a huge force to support it, just like a team and a legion. This is to gather the strength of everyone to rival those military leaders.
Although there is a huge difference in comprehensive combat capabilities, any legion is already qualified to threaten the military leader.
After all, there are tens of thousands of warships in total. Although they are just a mob in the eyes of the military leaders, in a battle, even if they win, they will suffer huge losses. Therefore, the military leaders are mainly tolerant to the legions within their sphere of influence. , or even directly invest in it.
For example, the Li family in Qinghe, in addition to the fleet within the family, each house has its own supporting legion, which can be drawn into the battlefield at critical times. This is their potential strength.
Li Qing sent a message in the communication channel, to the effect that he wanted to go around the outer asteroid belt.
Several of the dozen wild monster mining bases in this asteroid belt are not far from their mining areas and may be discovered by them, so let me tell you in advance to avoid misunderstandings.
This time he didn't run around blindly, because he had the coordinates. Yang Yunbo and others saw them occasionally before and recorded them casually. They passed them to him when they gave him the coordinates of a nearby star map. He didn't have to run around and went straight to the destination of the coordinates.
Two hours later, the frigate appeared in a mixed asteroid belt.
The fast-flowing meteorites gave him the best cover, and he continued to steal mineral balls from a long distance, using his old tricks.
One, two, four, until the fifth day, he stole all the mineral balls from the 11 wild monster mining bases on the coordinates in one go.
It was no surprise that most of the radar sensors in these wild monster mining bases were inferior to him. Only two were similar to him and were discovered early by the shipboard radars of two destroyers. However, he took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy destroyer to patrol to the other side. Steal quickly, then turn around and run when the destroyer reacts.
After getting rid of the pursuers, he returned again and continued.
It took more than a dozen times to finish stealing.
Among these 11 wild monster mining bases, the lowest number of accumulated mineral balls is two, and the highest number is eight, for a total of 42. Adding the 14 accumulated before, the total is 56.
The price of a single stone is not clear. After all, in addition to iron ore, there are also a lot of gray spar, silver spar, and limestone. There are also a small amount of slightly higher value copper-like ores, gneiss, crystalline quartz-like crystals, etc. , the most valuable of which is that one of the ore balls is entirely filled with silver-like ore. From a distance, it looks like a huge gray-silver ductile iron.
The raw price of silver-like ore is 78 star yuan per square, and the price of iron-like ore is 15 star yuan per square. The price is exactly five times, which means that this mineral ball is comparable to five ordinary mineral balls.
When he returned to the base, it was only a few days before he and Xia Qi agreed to go to the Burning Ghost Galaxy to sell minerals, but at this time there was a problem that stumped Li Qing.
How should a total of 56 mineral balls with a diameter of about five kilometers be transported?
It is a good idea to transport it by towing. Industrial ships also have this equipment for towing, but small industrial ships do not have the transport capacity and cannot pull it at all. This is at least the transport capacity of large industrial ships.
Although there is no resistance in the starry sky, theoretically even a large planet can pull it.
But the theory is just a theory. In fact, even if a large planet can be forced out of its orbit, it will not be able to pull it away under the strong gravity of the star within the scope of the star's gravity well.
It is unrealistic to ask Xia Qi and the others to borrow them. The transport ships they have on hand are all bought according to their ability. It may not be a problem to borrow such a small transport ship, but the 56 ore balls he has on hand are not something that several small transport ships can haul. Gotta go.
Crushing and refining is a good idea, but I only have one set of refining equipment, the output is too little, and I don’t have enough time.
"It really hurts my head!"
Li Qing did not expect that he would be stumped by this. When he came out of the Jinmen Galaxy, he never thought that he would encounter such a problem.
The original idea was that even if a large amount of mines were collected, they could be put into the palm universe first, then find an unmanned system near the Jinmen system to reload and sell them back and forth, which would only take a little more time.
But you can't do that here. There are only so many individual players in this star field. It can be said that there are only a handful of them. He keeps selling back and forth like this, so it is easy for others to notice.
After being troubled by this problem for two whole days, Li Qing finally.
It's not a flash of inspiration, but after considering countless possibilities, he naturally thought of a way to cover it up.
As we all know, there is a treasure called a treasure in the sea of stars.
This kind of thing is also called an ancient relic. The conditions for its formation are extremely harsh and it is very precious.
Because the conditions for the formation of ancient relics are extremely complex and elusive, the types of relics are also elusive. As long as conditions permit, anything can become a relic and thus have magical effects.
Then here comes the point.
Li Qing was thinking carefully, considering that there would always be times when this thing would be exposed in the future, so instead of covering it up and letting others guess, it would be better to show it off himself.
It is better to control the functions and effects displayed on your own than to have others guess at random.
At least others know that this is just a relic with a huge space. There may be greedy people, but they will definitely not be big shots.
A big shot maintains his identity and cherishes his reputation. At least it is impossible for him to do anything by force until the benefits are not enough to make him give up the reputation he has maintained for a long time.
It is worth mentioning that some of the treasures such as relics cannot be snatched, and some can be snatched, but the conditions are very harsh.
The ones that cannot be snatched away are those that cannot be snatched away no matter what you do, even if you kill the owner of the treasure completely, you cannot get it.
What can be snatched is also extremely demanding. First, you must find a very powerful psyker to suppress the relic, and then find a treasure called psionic crystal, which is what is left after the death of a powerful psyker. Psychic energy and soul crystallization.
It is necessary to melt the spiritual energy and crystallize it into a spiritual liquid to wrap the relic, isolate the connection between the relic and its owner, and then kill the owner of the relic.
This killing means complete killing.
As we all know, players can be resurrected after death, but they will lose a certain amount of life depending on the cause of death. Only when all life is exhausted can they be considered completely dead.
The three elements of depriving heritage:
Very powerful psyker.
The crystallized soul of a powerful psyker.
Completely kill the owner of the relic.
Only the combination of the three can forcibly seize a treasure.
Of course, this refers to the relic that has recognized its owner. If it is a relic that has not recognized its owner, the difficulty of capturing it will be greatly reduced. If the holder of the relic is killed within a period of time, it will drop directly.
In addition, some special relics themselves do not have the function of identifying their owners. No matter who holds them, they can use them and trade them. The conditions for such deprivation are just as simple.
Most low-level relics do not have the function of identifying their owners, and only a few special relics and high-level relics have the function of identifying their owners.
Li Qing publicized that he had recognized the owner of this relic, and that it had a single function and only had a huge independent space with no combat function, so as to minimize the number of coveters. So.
(End of chapter)