Chapter 105: Shocked to hear about the Tarth Raider Civilization
An extremely large fearless flagship, a slightly bloated flagship aircraft carrier that is even larger than the fearless flagship, more than two thousand battleships, and more than fifty thousand large and small battleships.
The dark hull, the rough design style, and the LOGs that come with each fleet all prove that this huge fleet is not a wild monster or anomaly, but a wandering force in the wild.
The main reason why Li Qing was in trouble was that the mechanical ascension battle body did not know what method it used to sneak into this fleet.
"Too bad!"
After rubbing his forehead, Li Qing felt a dull pain in his head.
I can't beat this.
Two flagships, how to fight?
The key point is that this is not a wild monster but a wandering force in the wild. Although it is not clear what level the technology level is, judging from the many wandering forces in the wild that humans have encountered over the past tens of thousands of years, the probability of level five is quite high.
Dare to wander in the dangerous starry sky, you don't have to be strong.
The fleet did not dare to approach, but only dared to observe from a distance. He watched the fleet slowly glide through the distant starry sky without any movement.
After sitting quietly on the command chair and waiting for almost an hour, Li Qing suddenly sat up straight and ordered:
"Return to the previous galaxy."
Li Yuan did not ask why, and immediately ordered the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that the fleet had withdrawn to return and prepare to return.
As many unmanned reconnaissance planes withdrew, several unmanned reconnaissance planes in one direction did not respond and the contact was interrupted. After waiting for a while, Li Qingzheng was about to ignore it and return as planned, but suddenly one of them had already lost contact. The unmanned reconnaissance drone suddenly returned, and then a strange communication came.
Li Qing was stunned for a moment, and carefully checked the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft with a little vigilance to make sure that it had not been tampered with. He was silent for almost a minute before deciding to connect the communication. Then a tall man sitting in a black hall The alien figure appeared in front of him.
The alien figure was extremely tall, about four meters tall. The body was somewhat human-like, but instead of human legs underneath, it stood on four legs. The whole body was covered with a thick black cuticle, and there were many incomprehensible lines on the surface. There are two pairs of arms, one pair is as soft as octopus tentacles, and the other pair is thick and powerful. There is a circle of barbs on the back of the head, and a strange and ferocious head in the middle of the body.
The head resembles a dragon's head covered with cuticles, but has no horns and no hair on the head, only a layer of spikes.
A pair of vertical pupils stared closely at Li Qing, and the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft turned over and translated the language:
"I'm glad to see the human pioneers here. I am the commander of the fifth vanguard fleet of the Tas civilization. On the order of the supreme King of Tas, I went to the southern sector of the Zutar star field for reconnaissance."
"King of Tarth???"
Li Qing immediately recalled in his mind a famous wandering and plundering civilization that the teacher in the noble class had told about before, called the Tas Wanderer, also called the Tas plundering civilization. A neutral wandering force in the southern part of the spiral arm.
It was a powerful alien civilization whose main body was called Tas. I heard that this civilization’s home planet was plundered and destroyed by other civilizations when it just left its own galaxy. The remaining Tas people became a wandering civilization.
They formed a wandering fleet, continued to plunder and grow while wandering, and continued to absorb other alien life forms. Now they have become a powerful wandering civilization that is not inferior to the Star Sea Lords.
This civilization has no fixed territory and wanders back and forth in the Heroic Arm. It remains neutral or has good relations with powerful civilizations such as the United Empire of Humanity or the Brunwan Alliance, but specializes in robbing and plundering some weak civilizations, or accepting certain civilizations. Or the employment of forces, they are famous among human civilization.
The main body of this civilization is the Tas people, but it does not exclude the addition of any alien species. There are even many human wanderers joining it.
The fleet in front of us, with two flagships and a total size of 50,000, is just a vanguard reconnaissance fleet of the Tas Wanderers. There are dozens of such fleets in the Tas Civilization.
When you see the reconnaissance fleet of the Tarth Wanderers, it means that its main fleet is not too far away from here.
Li Qing was suddenly alert, but on the surface he still responded politely and said in a deep voice:
"It's an honor to meet the glorious Tas. As you said, I am a pioneer. I was commissioned by the United Empire of Mankind Expeditionary Force to perform reconnaissance missions in this star field."
"Expeditionary Force?"
Natas was slightly confused and asked:
"The United Empire of Humanity is ready to develop the Zutar star field?"
"Yes."
The person on the other side was silent for a while and then said:
"The great King of Tarth was hired by a civilization in the nearby star field to deal with an invader."
Li Qing was surprised, and an unpleasant thought came to his mind:
"Dear Tas, I don't know which civilization it is, and who is the so-called invader?"
"Sorry, we cannot reveal the customer's name."
The Natas man was silent for a moment and then added:
"But judging from the customer's introduction to the intruder, it should not be you who are dealing with it."
Not us?
Li Qing's mind turned quickly. Apart from the human expeditionary force, there were only three major alien civilizations nearby, namely the Shata Tribe Alliance, the Shar Civilization, and a civilization called the Sivis Council.
Now it has been determined that it is not targeting humans, and the possibility of Shar civilization is unlikely. The species evolved from this plant itself advocates peace, and its strength is at the bottom of the three major civilizations. Whether it is the Shatta Tribe Alliance or the Sivis Council, it is better than Shar Civilization is stronger, and it is impossible to hire predators for unnecessary reasons.
Then only the two civilizations united by the Sivis Council and the Shatta Tribe can do this.
Analyzing one by one, among the three major civilizations, the Shata Tribe Alliance is the strongest. At this stage, it is not only at war with human civilization, but also with the Shar Civilization and the Sivis Council. Moreover, the information Li Qing obtained from the expeditionary force came from Look, in their three-sided battle, two sides actually have the upper hand.
Excluding the Shar civilization, the only possible employer is most likely the Sivis Council.
Of course, this is his best guess, and he is not sure yet, but it is indeed the most likely.
If so.
Li Qing pinched his eyebrows and felt a little headache.
The strength of the Tasse Predator civilization is simply not something that this third-level civilization can compete with. Their participation in the war can immediately break the regional balance, and it is unknown whether it will affect the strategic plan of the expeditionary force.
"I wonder when will the respected Tarth Wanderers launch an attack on the invaders? I wonder how big the scale of the hire will be?"
The Tasman opposite thought for a moment, raised his head and said:
"According to regulations, I cannot reveal customers' secrets unless you can pay me 10 million cubic meters of minerals."
Li Qing nodded immediately:
"I can pay."
A transport fleet sailed towards the huge fleet in the distance. After a while, the Starman in the communication said in a brisk tone:
"Very good, the ore you provided is very pure, I like it very much."
"We are heading to the destination according to the coordinates provided by our employer. According to the coordinate distance and our speed, we will arrive at the predetermined location in two to three years, and five vanguard fleets will jointly attack the target."
"Two to three years!"
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief. Two to three years ago, the expeditionary force had already launched a full-scale attack on the southern provinces of the Shata Civilization. If they acted quickly, they could capture the reef nest before the plundering fleet arrived.
Moreover, the Tas plundering fleet arrived just in time, which could increase the pressure on the Shata tribe alliance and make them have more scruples, thus giving the Jialan Army more time and preparation.
After chatting with the leader of the Tasse plundering vanguard fleet for a while, before leaving, he left a communication method for Li Qing and opened the reputation of the Tasse plunderers, initially neutral.
With this communication, he can use the high-purity metal just now to find the Tasman named Tass Anel to improve his reputation, buy information, or hire them directly.
However, with neutral reputation at this stage, you can only hire a small fleet. If you want to hire this large fleet with two flagships, you must at least be respected.
There are only three ways to gain reputation. One is to help them in some ways, the other is to receive some tasks issued by them, and the third is to give money and resources to earn money directly.
There are many uncertainties in how to gain reputation with the Tarth Raiding Fleet. It is unreliable to simply earn reputation, and since they wander around, it is inconvenient to earn reputation, so most of the ways to increase reputation are through krypton.
Increasing the reputation of the camp not only increases the upper limit of the mercenary fleet, but also ensures that it will not be robbed by the Tas people. Generally, the Tas wandering fleet will not accept plundering missions targeting high-prestige customers.
Li Qing considered that the Tas fleet would join the battlefield in three years to avoid any surprises, so he decided to attack first.
In the name of the Jialan Legion, he sent away a full 100 million cubic meters of refined metal, worth 39 billion star yuan. This was what he had accumulated before, and his reputation changed from neutral to friendly. From now on, everyone in the Jialan Legion will see the Tas Wanderer. All are initial friendly reputations.
This is just the beginning. There is not much metal in the village now. There will be a wave of krypton in two or three years. At least the krypton will be respected and guaranteed not to be hired by other teams to attack.
Even if it develops in the future and supplies are sufficient, we can continue to earn money.
After all, the reputation of a powerful force comparable to the Star Sea Lord is still worth krypton. If it can reach the highest reputation, it can directly hire a super fleet comparable to the Star Sea Lord to serve you.
Although the employment conditions and demands will definitely be ridiculously high, at that point, no matter how outrageous the demand is, it won’t be a problem.
Li Qingwen didn't even ask about the mechanical ascension battle body. He left this galaxy and stopped in the next galaxy.
No matter how the mechanical ascension battle body blended into it, he could not directly ask for help from Tas Anel. The Tas people themselves welcomed any wandering civilized race to join, even the mechanical ascensioners were not excluded.
A frontal impact is even more impossible and cannot be defeated.
Then you can only use other methods, that is... wait!
Unless the mechanical ascension battle body has been staying in the Tas Wandering Fleet, there will always be a time to leave. Anyway, there is a token that can keep track of his movements at any time, so that he is not afraid of sudden escape.
The fleet arrived at the outer ring of the galaxy, where there was an asteroid belt. While there was nothing else to do, he opened the universe in his palm, collected the meteorites from the asteroid belt into the universe in his palm, and put them directly into the Forging Furnace of Light for refining.
Most meteorites contain minerals, but it is a question of more ore and less minerals, purity, and the value of the minerals they contain. The value of the minerals in many meteorites is too low, and no one likes to dig them.
For Li Qing, there is no question of value and content. Anyway, there is no problem of refining cost in the Light Casting Furnace. When he sees meteorites, he stuffs them into the lava and extracts the valuable ones. The worthless ones are directly smelted and converted into matter. Exchange raw materials to convert some high-value minerals.
As the fleet slid through the asteroid meteorite belt, behind it was a huge hollow channel, and all the meteorites on the way were collected and refined.
It's so direct, it's so rough.
In one day, nearly 13 million cubic meters of high-purity refined steel metal can be refining and converted. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the nearby meteorites have high mineral content, and more than 20 million cubic meters can be converted in one day. The most is 54 million cubic meters of high-purity steel.
The price of steel is 390 star yuan per square meter. Taking the average daily output of 18 million square meters, the revenue is 7 billion+ per day. With 30 days in a month, the combined income can be as high as 210 billion star yuan.
For 12 months a year, that’s 2.5 trillion in revenue.
“It’s really profitable!”
But in fact, the income should be far more than this. If he really wants to make money from this, he can go to some meteorite belts with higher mineral content to collect, and adding 50% to the income should not be a problem.
"Okay."
Anyway, nothing happened, so Li Qing squatted in the asteroid belt every day, constantly opening the black hole door in the universe in his palm to collect meteorites.
Since the last time the Palm Universe has been repaired, the black hole gate has a certain gravity. It cannot be forced to capture the ship, but the unconscious meteorites can still be easily captured. There is no need to send out a large number of industrial ships to use tractor beams to collect the meteorites as before.
Time passed unconsciously, and a month passed quickly.
During this period, he spent most of the time outside, mining and looking at the tokens.
The guy has not moved, and has been moving along with the Tas Wandering Fleet. He has no intention of going out and leaving, which makes him a little doubtful whether this guy wants to make a home in this plundering fleet.
He continued to wait patiently. Anyway, there was nothing major at this stage. There was still a year and a half before the expeditionary force's military operation. Yu Yuefei and the others were handling it at the legion headquarters, so he didn't need to worry about it. In his free time, he mined ores and entered the palm universe from time to time. Let’s talk about shipbuilding experience and communicate with many scientists.
Unconsciously, more than half a month passed. Li Qing, who was mining as usual, suddenly received a message from Chu Hanqiu, the chief engineer of the Palm Universe——
"Fortunately, we have successfully redesigned the frigate mother chip."
Li Qing was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed. He immediately put down his work, dived into the universe in his palm, and appeared directly in the scientific research level engineering area.
Several servants of light had been waiting for a long time. Li Qing took the chip that exuded a faint golden light, patted their shoulders hard and praised:
"Thank you for your hard work. Well done."
"You can take a good rest for a month, and then start the next design step after one month."
Many servants of light had smiles on their faces, and Chu Hanqiu said:
"It is our honor to share your worries!"
He nodded and said nothing more. For the Servant of Light, the recognition of the Son of the Star is the best reward. There is no need for other rewards or rewards. (End of chapter)