Chapter 10 Burning Operation
Two hours later, the spacecraft appeared in front of an asteroid with a diameter of just over a thousand kilometers.
This asteroid is located on the edge of the asteroid belt, and its surface is covered with craters of various sizes. Its gravity is smaller than that of a normal asteroid of this size, and is not enough to pull surrounding meteorites.
This place is far away from the main sequence stars of the galaxy, and the temperature is very low. However, there is no water vapor on the planet, so there will naturally be no ice. There is only a thick layer of dust that has accumulated for an unknown period of time.
On this asteroid, there are actually three personal bases not far apart.
When Li Qing arrived at Yang Yunbo's base, he received a public communication channel from Yang Yunbo. When he opened it and entered, a light curtain popped up and was divided into six interfaces. Each interface had a player, five men and one woman, all attacking him at the same time. Wave:
"Welcome Brother Li Qing to settle down in this galaxy!"
He waved in surprise:
"Are you together?"
Yang Yunbo shook his head and said:
"We're not together, but it's too far away from the Jinmen Galaxy, there are too few people, and it's boring, so we all communicate more and play together."
The frigate stopped in mid-air and entered the base on a small aircraft of only five meters.
Yang Yunbo's base is also a small base. The main core cabin is the same as his, but there are probably twenty or thirty auxiliary cabins piled up here. The outside is full of raw ore, and further away, mountains of waste are piled up. It has expanded to a certain scale. , the bases of the two nearby players are also about the same size.
The aircraft entered the main core cabin door for routine disinfection inspection. The door opened and a burst of cold air spurted out.
Yang Yunbo and three other players, two men and one woman, were standing on the steps waiting for him. He quickly said hello and introduced himself to each other.
The other three players are named Xia Qi, Ning Xi, and Lu Yanqi. Among them, Lu Yanqi is Xia Qi's girlfriend and she is quite beautiful.
As the owner, Yang Yunbo had already prepared food and drinks. A stone was chiseled into a tripod shape and stood on the ground. There was a groove like a tray on the surface, with many wire troughs drawn on it. He didn't know how to make the stone trough warm. It becomes extremely high, and the thinly sliced meat slices are spread out, and there is a sizzling sound, and it can be turned over in two seconds.
The five of them ate barbecue and drank drinks while chatting.
Most of the time, Li Qing asked them about the situation of this galaxy and nearby galaxies, and they answered.
Through understanding, there were originally six players in this galaxy, and now there are seven players including Li Qing. They can usually chat with each other. Among them, Yang Yunbo, Xia Qi, Lu Yanqi, and Ning Xi are all based on this asteroid. Both players are based elsewhere in the asteroid field.
It just so happened that the two of them had something to do with the asteroid belt today, so they wouldn't be able to come for a while.
"If you had told me earlier, they would have come."
Yang Yunbo spread a palm-sized piece of grilled meat with sauce, rolled it up, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it and ate it. He took another sip of the drink and said to him:
"You've made the right choice by coming to us. It's too difficult for a person to survive outside. When I first came here, I was alone and dying of loneliness. Every time I collected enough ore to refine it and transport it out, I was afraid of returning to the base. Gone.”
"Haha, I have such worries too."
"But don't worry now. If you want to go out then, let us know and I will send two ships to your base to help you take a look."
Li Qing quickly thanked:
"That's too much trouble."
Yang Yunbo waved his hand and said:
"It's no trouble, let's help each other."
Li Qing nodded:
"We really have to help each other, otherwise it will be difficult to get along."
"By the way, how often do you usually go back to Jinmen? Maybe we can go together."
"Jinmen? We rarely go back, maybe only once every three or four years."
Li Qingqi said:
"Does your mine have to be maintained for so long before you sell it?"
Xia Qi, who had been eating, raised his head and said:
"You may have misunderstood. Our mines are not shipped back to Tianjin to be sold."
"Where is that?"
"Going north from here, in the JM-N-381 system, a large team called the Burning Ghost has established a team headquarters there. There is a third-level star fortress, occupying the JM-N-381 system as the center. In the thirty or forty galaxies, all the ores of individual players and small teams around them are basically sold to Burning Ghost.”
"Well! That"
Just as he spoke, Ning Xi finished eating a piece of barbecue, raised her head and said to him:
"You have to note that although we sold the mines to Burning Ghost, the reputation of this team is not very good nearby."
"Tell me about it."
"This Burning Ghost team moved here more than thirty years ago and started to establish a base. I heard that they originally started by looting. Later, they were cleansed after establishing a formal team, but there are some things that are ingrained in their bones. They are stingy and vindictive. , greedy, because his team is the only one nearby to purchase various ores on a large scale. He keeps the price extremely low and can only purchase it at 90% of the market price. The newcomers will lower the price even lower, but the industrial goods sold are It’s 20% more expensive than Jinmen.”
"But there's no way. It's too far away from Tianjin. It takes four or five months for the fleet to go back, and another four or five months to come back again. It takes nearly ten months to go back and forth. It's too time-consuming. The two phases On balance, I can only save ten months by earning 10% less.”
"In addition, people who burn ghosts are very stingy and vindictive, but they stay within the team's sphere of influence most of the time and rarely go out. I will send you a complete star map later. Take a look. Don't run to them if you have nothing to do. Go mining on your own land to avoid getting into trouble with them.”
Li Qing smiled and said:
"Don't worry, I only have one boat now. I can't dig all the local mines, so I can't dig elsewhere."
After some small talk, he found that although several people had different personalities, they were all easy to get along with.
Most of them are very standard individual pioneers. They don't seem to have any ambitions. If they are ambitious, their abilities are limited and they have no achievements. They just want to dig some mines and make some money while they are young, and then sell all the ships and mines when they have almost made enough. He would go back to the United Empire of Humanity to find a stable colonial star to settle down and become a financially free tycoon. He had no intention of traveling across the stars.
The most active ones are Xia Qi and another player. After mining, they occasionally go out on adventures, but they don't go far.
Li Qing likes to be neighbors with such people, which brings peace of mind and peace of mind.
But he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he accidentally scanned the eyes between Xia Qi's girlfriend and Yang Yunbo, which seemed a little strange.
He didn't dare to think too much and just thought he was wrong.
After eating and drinking together, everyone got to know each other and chatted. Li Qing took the opportunity to ask more about the nearby situation and obtained a more detailed star map. The farthest point was the JM-N-544 galaxy.
Li Qing was in a good mood after returning from Yang Yunbo's base.
This trip was very rewarding. I met a few friends and learned about the situation nearby. Unlike before, I was completely blind.
However, they do not have extra ore crushing and refining equipment, so they need to buy it from the Burning Ghost team.
However, in a month, Xia Qi and the others will mine almost the same ore and prepare it for sale. They agreed to go there together to have a look and find the way. Newcomers who have no one to guide them will definitely be priced down.
Returned to the base, rested for only one day, and continued mining the next day.
Although the mountains of ore at the base are piled up, they are far from being digested.
Anyway, the space in the palm of your hand is almost infinite, so it doesn't matter if you keep it there.
Returning to the asteroid belt, the mining ship continued mining. Checking the previous records, there was nothing unusual.
Although very few people come here, and the wild monsters that spawn from time to time gradually accumulate, but the distance is nothing compared to the starry sky. There may not be a single living thing found within hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
Next came another boring day of mining. The only thing better than before was getting the communication channel opened by Yang Yunbo and several other players so that they could chat.
This communication channel is similar to a regional channel. It is formed with the player's radar as the fulcrum. You must have a radar to join. You must have permission from others to join. You must be in the current galaxy. You cannot communicate without this galaxy.
Although the radar they used was not advanced and could not communicate in real time, there was a delay of about a minute, but it was still much better than not being able to communicate before.
The frigate advances along the edge of the asteroid belt, and as long as it encounters meteorites containing minerals, it will be collected into the universe, regardless of the mineral content.
Others still need to consider transportation costs and refining costs, but he doesn't need anything.
Time passed day by day, and half a month passed before I knew it.
On this day, he was doing a routine mining. He opened the universe in his palm and put a floating meteorite into a huge black hole. After losing this meteorite barrier with a diameter of several kilometers, there was a large empty void behind it, and a huge artificial creation at the end. Looming, several armed mining ships are surrounding the huge man-made creation.
"Here again!"
Li Qing glanced at the mineral balls piled up next to the huge meteorite embedded in the huge artificial creation, and couldn't help but swallowed.
The ore ball means that there is no place to put the collected ore, so a special method is used to piece it together into a huge ore ball. Many mining players will do the same, and then use a tractor beam to bind the ore ball around the base and swim around the base, waiting for it to be harvested. Only when enough ore is accumulated can it be transported away in one go.
Obviously, this wild monster mining base has collected a lot of ore, so much that the base cannot hold it.
If there are no accidents, after a period of time to accumulate more ores, the base will convert these ores into resources, and then refresh more mining ships or escort fleets.
At this stage, players can rob these ores, which are raw ores that can be sold directly for money.
But
Li Qing glanced at the fleet patrolling not far from the base, headed by a destroyer.
With my current strength, I definitely can't do it.
But
He left a message to everyone else in the communication channel:
"Brothers, I found an anomaly here. There is a mining base. The ore is piled into balls. There is a destroyer and more than 20 frigates. Are you interested in doing something?"
After almost two minutes, Ning Xi replied:
"Can't do it."
At this time, another player named Zhang Weiji who was not here last time said:
"This makes no sense. The most indispensable thing in the asteroid belt is this kind of wild mining base. We have found no fewer than ten here, but none of them are interested in dealing with them."
"Ah"
Li Qing asked in surprise:
"Can't the six of you do it together?"
After almost two minutes, Zhang Yunbo responded:
"Of course it can be done on a small scale, but there will inevitably be losses. With more than twenty frigates plus one destroyer, the firepower is quite fierce. A frigate will be destroyed after just a few hits. If you lose one, even if you take Going to the base is also a loss.”
"This kind of mining base will at most drop some wreckage, as well as the ores in the base. There is a very small chance that data chips or blueprints will be dropped, but the drop rate is extremely low. The asteroid belt is the least lacking of ores. It just takes time to mine. In order to It is not a wise person to take risks with such a small probability.”
"You only have one ship now and your strength is too weak. Don't think about anything else in the early stage. Make money first to buy more mining ships and build a fleet to make money. Only when you make more money in the future will you consider configuring more warships."
"Oh!"
Li Qing stopped talking. They had been around longer than him. If they said they couldn't make it, they definitely couldn't make it.
Putting away his thoughts, the frigate turned and left.
But just halfway through, the frigate stopped again and returned.
Li Qing stood in front of the bridge glass and looked at the distant scene in the void. He held his chin with his hand and had a bold idea in his mind.
There's no doubt that you won't be able to defeat him, but that doesn't mean you can't get some benefits.
This wild monster has limited AI. Now he is observing the base from a distance, but the base and the surrounding escort fleet have not noticed him. This means that the base's radar is not as good as his third-generation radar. The sexy idea in his mind is now actionable. room.
It's very simple. Open the palm universe outside the detection range of the mining base's radar and steal the mineral balls piled around the monster mining base.
The base cannot be conquered, but stealing a mine is still no problem.
Anyway, the maximum distance of the opening of the universe in the palm is determined by the visual distance, that is, it can be opened within the maximum detection range of the radar.
His radar detection range is further than that of wild monsters, and they can steal minerals from a long distance, and they don't even know where the enemy is.
The opening space in the palm of the hand is not invincible, but it is definitely not something that can be shaken by the attacks of ordinary wild monsters.
As soon as he thought of it, Li Qing first walked around the area and found a huge meteorite hidden behind it. Then he looked at the picture of the wild monster mining base coming from the subspace radar sensor in front of him. With a thought, the mining base was displayed on the light screen. Surrounded by a mineral ball with a diameter of four to five kilometers, a huge black hole gap quietly opened in front of it. The mineral ball swam with inertia and silently penetrated into the black hole.
Then, Li Qing felt a mineral ball made of pure ore with a diameter of nearly five kilometers appearing in the universe in his palm.
"YES!"
He waved his fist vigorously and closed the exit of the universe in his palm.
Looking at the radar screen again, several frigates were flying back and forth where the ore balls disappeared, as if they were stuck.
Normally, how can the AI with a little bit of wild monsters understand what is going on? It has probably never been encountered before, so that there is no way to deal with this aspect in the AI logic, which leads to conflicts in the logic, resulting in similar card bugs. Such strange changes.
Li Qing was very excited when the attempt was successful. Even if it were all iron ore, the total value of the ore ball just now was definitely tens of millions.
There are six such mineral balls in the mining base. If you take them all away, the total income will probably exceed 50 million.
It's a pity that it is raw ore. If it is refined ore, the total value may exceed 500 million.
But no matter what, it's all for nothing.
After waiting for a while, Li Qing repeated his old trick and stole the other mineral balls one by one in the same way.
The escort fleet guarding the mining base saw the emerging black hole and launched an attack, but no attack could destroy the black hole at all.
After stealing all the mines, the frigate quickly retreated. Li Qing's consciousness returned to the universe in his palm, and he was very excited.
Not only were these six mineral balls worth over 50 million stars, but through his actions just now, he seemed to have opened a new world, and countless more outrageous operations came to mind. (End of chapter)