Chapter 38 A frozen alien space station? (Please subscribe)
After deducting about 2 billion yuan in salary for two years, he can make a net profit of 37 billion yuan in two years. This income alone is enough for him to maintain a fleet of a certain size.
In addition, every time I return to the Jinmen Galaxy, I can make a little business trip and earn money from the ever-expanding mining base
Well, when the base is in place and can directly smelt the alloy, we can expand the alloy production, and then even the cost of shipbuilding materials can be saved a lot.
You must know that the most needed material for warships is the alloy used to build the hull and armor. If the alloy can be produced self-sufficiently, it can save at least 15% of the cost. Just the warship blueprint and materials he has on hand is 5 billion+ of additional income.
"Well, this development speed is okay!"
At any time, it is the most difficult to make the first pot of gold. Once you get through the early accumulation stage, you will make money much faster in the future.
They didn't stay in Jinmen for long. After all the ordered supplies were delivered to the designated warehouse one by one, and then stored in the palm of the universe, Li Lie and others were almost ready.
This may be the last time they went into business. This time they also spent all their capital. All the money they earned before was invested and loaned out, and nearly 400 billion star dollars of goods were purchased.
In addition, they didn't know where to find a matchmaker and found a large caravan that was going to the outpost. The two parties negotiated and charged a transportation fee of 3% of the total price of the caravan's goods.
After witnessing Li Qing opening the passage and taking a very large transport ship into the universe in his palm, and then releasing it in another galaxy a while later, the head of the caravan's eyes suddenly shone, but before he could speak, Li Qing He directly stated that he did not want to be a professional businessman. Apart from stopping by when he returned to Tianmen every once in a while, he would not make money from this, which directly dispelled the thoughts of the person in charge of the chamber of commerce.
For this kind of chamber of commerce, this method of transportation is safe, cheap, and fast.
But for those businessmen who rely on transportation and escorting, he has directly destroyed their jobs, and they will definitely not let him go.
Maybe with the support of the Chamber of Commerce, I won't be afraid, but it will be very troublesome.
In addition, he himself never thought about becoming a professional businessman, so.
This chamber of commerce named Yu Qi originally planned to transport only about 900 billion worth of materials. However, after seeing Li Qing demonstrate the throughput capacity of the palm universe, it temporarily increased the total transportation volume to about 1.5 trillion goods in one go. .
According to the agreement, he can get 3% of the total value of the goods, which is 45 billion star dollars.
You can get 30% of the money before departure, the other 30% when you arrive at the outpost system, and you can get all the money after unloading the cargo.
30% of 45 billion star dollars is 13.5 billion star dollars.
With so much money, Li Qing conveniently ordered two more medium-sized steel refining furnaces and two medium-sized alloy furnaces, spending a total of 4.4 billion star dollars.
It also spent 1 billion star dollars to buy out 10,000 first-level clones, and 1.5 billion star dollars to buy out 10,000 first-level robots. Most of the skills loaded for them were basic base maintenance and colony-related skills.
After that, there will be no more, and all the remaining money will be saved for later use.
Half a month later, a fleet consisting of one battleship, twenty-one cruisers, seventy destroyers and three hundred frigates left the transit base and sailed into the vast sea of stars.
The battleship belongs to the Yuqi Chamber of Commerce, and half of the entire fleet belongs to the Yuqi Chamber of Commerce.
If we were to escort a caravan with a total value of nearly two trillion yuan, the fleet would be severely lacking in strength and would definitely be robbed midway.
But if a pure fleet goes on the road, there won't be any problems.
A pure fleet is difficult to deal with and does no good. Even if pirates see it, they will not intercept it.
The journey was uneventful. Two months later, the fleet arrived at the outpost, released all the caravans from the Chamber of Commerce, Li Lie, and others, settled all the payments, and left.
Li Lie, Li Qi and others stayed here to clear the goods, while he headed north back to the team headquarters.
He planned to find a suitable star system in the star field farther away from the Jialan team to establish a mining base, and at the same time, he would get the industrial system in the universe in his hands.
It is worth mentioning that Li Lie and Li Qi suddenly made money by following him during this period that they could not make in the previous years. Coupled with the spiritual power he showed and the magical relics, it is even more so now. After becoming a core member of the team, when he left, both Li Lie and Li Qi asked him if he wanted to form a fleet.
Although he didn't say it clearly, the hidden meaning was that he wanted to hang out with him.
Li Qing did not refuse, but he did not have enough money at the moment and had no intention of forming a fleet immediately. He just told them to accumulate some money before forming it.
The fleet began to jump after leaving the outpost, and it took four days to rush back to Galan Star Castle.
There are not many active players in the headquarters system. Most of them are directly affiliated with Yu Yuefei's team, or there are some small and medium-sized teams within the team. The slightly larger teams have their own affairs.
The Jialan team itself is jointly formed by several large and medium-sized teams. Each large and medium-sized team within the team has its own independent mountain faction. The largest factions have even established their own teams far away from the Jialan galaxy. The base is strictly operated according to the specifications of the Star Castle.
It was obvious that these big teams joined Jialan because they either just wanted to pursue beauties, or they just wanted to form a team to capture a living planet and make a lot of money. They had no intention of joining the Jialan team permanently.
Yu Yuefei probably knew this, so she never paid attention to their behavior,
“It’s also a weird team!”
But the eldest brother didn't talk about the second brother, Li Qing thought the same way.
Through the authority of core members, he obtained the basic situation table of the forty-four galaxies and surrounding galaxies in the Jialan-controlled star field, as well as the team's surrounding power table. Li Qing thought about it carefully and decided not to put his base within the Jialan team's sphere of influence. , but continue to go north and find a suitable star system in the uninhabited star field.
Anyway, his shipyard warehouse is all in the palm universe, and there is only a base and mining ship outside. Unlike other players' bases, which are troublesome to put down for recycling, his can be recycled at any time.
During a short stay at Jialan Star Castle, Yu Yuefei was not there, and she probably went back to Jinmen to build ships with the dreadnought blueprint.
There were several other cores in the Star Fortress. He had met them before when he joined the core team and signed a contract. After a brief chat, the fleet left the Star Fortress and continued northward.
The so-called power control of the star field does not mean that if you declare that the galaxy is yours, it is your sphere of influence, but that a supply outpost must be established in the galaxy, and a patrol fleet must patrol the galaxy at regular intervals to form a substantial impact on the galaxy. Only occupation counts.
For example, the surrounding systems of any large team's headquarters will be controlled, allowing players within the team to establish personal mining bases within the system.
But accordingly, all mining and other income in the system controlled by the team must pay taxes. The tax rate varies depending on the team, with a minimum of 5% and a maximum of 30%. The tax rate will be increased during wartime. If the team is at a disadvantage in the battle, the team The leader has the right to temporarily increase the tax rate to a maximum of 100%.
It seems unreasonable, but this is a set of tax rates that human civilization has explored over the past 10,000 years since it entered the new universe.
After all, the team has created a safe galaxy environment for you to mine without worries. Is it reasonable to charge some tax?
When war comes, if the team falls into a disadvantage or is even wiped out, the individual players under the protection of the team will lose more protection.
Of course, Li Qing's choice to establish a base in the wild galaxy was not because of this tax. What he would be levied was only a mining tax. The money earned through the Palm Universe shipbuilding transaction was not subject to tax, which had little impact on him.
The main reason for this is that the galaxies near the team are basically saturated.
Although the Jialan team is not a legion, there are a lot of players. However, there are only 43 galaxies under actual control except the Jialan galaxy. There are dozens of people in each galaxy, hundreds more. It is basically saturated. Where to go? There are a bunch of people.
Instead of being crowded in a galaxy with a bunch of people, it's better to find a suitable galaxy outside and have it all to yourself.
The fleet left the Jialan Galaxy, the jump engine started, and the jump started directly. The second jump left the team-controlled star field.
After jumping five times in a row, they crossed a distance of one hundred and fifty light years before stopping. Five destroyers, twenty-one frigates, and a medium-sized industrial ship appeared at the edge of the gravity well of an unfamiliar galaxy.
The fleet rested here for a while and did not continue jumping. Instead, it used sub-beams to enter the galaxy.
This is a very ordinary single star system, a K-type orange star with a mass that appears to be about the same as the sun. There are seven planets in the system and no asteroid belt.
The fleet just skipped it and went directly through the star system to the gravity well on the other side, found the wormhole and left through it.
There is no jump on the next journey, one by one, looking for suitable galaxies.
His current location is about 150 light-years away from the Jialan galaxy, which has exceeded the active area of the team within Jialan. Except for a very few adventure players or some small and medium-sized teams, there are very few There is a single player running here.
Traveling through galaxies one by one, time passed day by day. Nearly a month passed quickly, and I traveled through more than 20 galaxies without knowing it. I still couldn't find the one I wanted. On the contrary, a shipyard had been built in the universe in my palm. Hundreds of frigates.
Including the two months from Jinmen to the outpost, as well as the 100 ships previously stationed, a total of 400 bare frigates were already stationed in the universe in his palm.
If we return to the outpost now, we can sell a full 10 billion star dollars.
"Buzz!"
The energy tide of the wormhole exploded, and a destroyer and five frigates emerged from the wormhole.
Fifteen minutes later, Li Qing's main fleet passed through the wormhole and appeared in a strange galaxy.
"Dip! Dip!"
Before he could check his surroundings, the ship's radar sounded an alarm and detected a planet 80,000 kilometers away from the fleet. The alarm sound came from the surface of that planet.
Without the need for him to give orders, the vice-captain of the ship immediately ordered the crew to scan that area, and soon the scan results appeared in front of Li Qing.
It was a planet with a diameter of about 7,000 kilometers. There was a satellite. The scanning screen showed that the surface of the planet was covered with a thick layer of ice. However, on the surface of the thick ice layer, a huge piece of ice was scanned. Building silhouette.
"Why are there buildings here?"
"Destroyer No. 5 and frigate No. 20 and No. 21 escort the industrial ship over for a look."
The four warships broke away from the fleet and sailed towards the frozen planet, stopping about a thousand kilometers away from the planet. A minute later, the real-time scanning screen appeared on the light screen in front of Li Qing.
"The wreckage of the space station?"
Although covered with thick ice, the battleship scanned it closely and found that it was not the building as imagined, but a huge space station wreckage that fell into the planet and was then covered with thick ice. It looked like a building from a distance.
"The main guns of the No. 5 destroyer are ready!"
Li Qing drew a circle on the edge of the space station wreckage on the scan screen and passed the command to the captain. As he gave the order, the muzzle light flashed slightly, and several alloy cannonballs were ejected from the muzzle and fired towards the target location.
"Boom boom boom!"
Several shock waves covering an area of more than ten kilometers exploded, and ice fragments flew all over the sky. They were swept up by the violent hurricane on the surface of the planet to form an explosion of ice fragments and swept into the distance.
A piece of scrap metal falling from orbit into the planet can create a powerful shock wave, let alone an electromagnetic gun.
The electromagnetic gun on the battleship has no special performance in space battles, but if it is bombarded on the planet, you can immediately intuitively feel how powerful it is. One shot is as exaggerated as being bombarded by a nuclear bomb.
A large circle of ice surrounding the ice-frozen space station wreckage was completely blown to pieces. Even the space station wreckage was affected, and large areas of ice were lifted and cracked.
Then, the small industrial ship slowly entered the interior of the planet under the escort of two frigates.
Although this frozen planet has an atmosphere, it is very weak, and the planet's gravity is far lower than standard gravity. Therefore, frigates with only one core module in the overall structure can land inside the planet, while warships with more than two modules above the destroyer cannot land.
The two escorting frigates used small electromagnetic guns to blast away the ice on the surface of the space station's wreckage. The industrial ship began to scan at a close range, and then transmitted the scan information to Li Qing through the battleship communication.
In less than an hour, the entire space station wreckage was scanned, and it matched a certain piece of data in the battleship's internal database.
This is a space station of the Shatta Tribe Alliance.
"Why is there a space station of the Shata Tribe Alliance here?"
Li Qing was a little confused.
Although this place is not too far from the Shatta Tribe Alliance, it does not belong to the Shatta Tribe Alliance's territory.
Centered on the outpost, to the east is the United Sand Tower Tribe. Its current location is nearly 450 light years northeast of the outpost. In theory, continuing eastward is the United Sand Tower Tribe, but in fact, it is east of the outpost. There is a strong isolating interference zone between it and the northeast.
Not only is it covered by thick nebulae, even the fifth-level jump engine cannot be used, and most of the wormholes connecting the key galaxies there are unstable.
Although it is possible to travel through unstable wormholes, there is a high probability that some unforeseen accidents will occur when traveling through them.
The best outcome is to throw you directly into an unknown galaxy, the worst outcome is to throw you directly into subspace, and that's it.
So.
"Why did the Shatta Tribal Federation build a space station on the other side of the isolation zone? And why did it give up?"
Well, to be precise, they were forced to give up, because through scanning, you can see the remaining impact fragments and energy weapon melting holes on the space station, and there are metal shells embedded in some places, indicating that the space station did not fall naturally, but was shot down.
So the question is, who shot this thing down?
Li Qing asked the industrial ship to use a tractor beam to retrieve some fragments and residual metal cannonballs, and then transferred them to the Palm Universe, preparing for scientists in the laboratory in the warehouse area to study them to see the age and metal composition of these wreckage.
As for the wreckage of this space station.
After circling the planet for a week and finding no other man-made buildings or valuable things, he chose to leave.
The fleet did not jump, but traveled through the galaxy at sub-light speed, looking for other planets in the galaxy.
But after spending several days circling around, no other space stations were found. Instead, a large anomaly was discovered on a satellite of one of the gas giant planets - a large pirate fleet with five battleships and base.
Twelve hours later, the fleet left this galaxy and entered the next galaxy through the wormhole.
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