Chapter 204 Accidentally discovered planet of life
This thing cannot respond. Before it is turned on, it can only receive messages and cannot respond. After sending this message to Li Qing, there was no response.
Li Qing wrote down the date of the official meeting and stopped studying it, focusing his eyes again on it.
To be precise, there is an asteroid located more than 10,000 kilometers away from the wormhole. The sensor found that there is an open-air automatic collection device that is still operating on the asteroid.
An open-air automatic collection device was found in the void three to four thousand light years away from Jialanling. It looks like it is used by humans and is still in operation. This is very interesting. It shows that there are human players active nearby for a long time. .
The frigate flew over the asteroid, and you could see that the open-air automatic collection device was quite large. The nearby warehouse was filled with collected asteroid materials. When the frigate approached, it suddenly received a warning message, which roughly means this. It is privately owned, please do not damage it.
Li Qing did not touch the collected asteroid material, but used the battleship computer to connect to the mining base and search it, and found the coordinates of a nearby small-scale star field.
Including this small open-pit mining base, there are multiple automated mining base networks within a range of about seventy or eighty light years nearby.
Li Qing incorporated this star map into his own star map, carefully analyzed the locations of these automatic mining bases, and roughly locked a star field.
Not surprisingly, the players who placed these automatic mining facilities may be in that star field, and they are definitely not from Sanhua Trading Company. There is no logo LOG of Sanhua Trading Company in the base.
The battleship continued to move forward, heading straight to a certain direction in the galaxy.
The star map also included the location of hyperspace lanes in nearby galaxies, saving him the time of traveling around the galaxy to find hyperspace lanes.
Traveling through four galaxies in a row, no players were seen except for various unmanned mining facilities placed throughout the galaxies. However, there are more and more unmanned mining facilities. This shows that there are indeed players here, but there are not many players. , so most of this kind of mining uses unmanned facilities and collects regularly.
Finally, when passing through the fourth galaxy and entering the fifth galaxy, I saw a large transport fleet collecting supplies from an unmanned mining base on a frozen planet.
He did not hide his whereabouts, and was discovered by the other party almost instantly, and then an unknown communication was picked up.
When the communication was connected, a figure that surprised Li Qing appeared in front of him.
"Eh? Why is it you?"
The person on the other side was also stunned, and then said with a look of surprise:
"What a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet Director Li Qing here."
The player opposite turned out to be a man named Ning Chao from the Leiyun team that he had not seen for almost two years. He asked enthusiastically:
"Why did Commander-in-Chief Li Qing come here? This place is far away from the outpost!"
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Li Qing asked in surprise:
"How long have you not been back? Haven't you been back since the last time we were separated?"
Ning Chao nodded:
"Yeah, we haven't been back for two years."
"No wonder, do you know that the outpost has been moved and is no longer there?"
"Where did you move to?"
"The Reef Lair, the capital of the southern province of Shatta, is now the Galan Galaxy."
Ning Chao was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately and said with a surprised look on his face:
"Did your Jialan Army capture the reef lair and seize a living planet?"
Li Qing nodded with a smile.
"Congratulations!"
"Thank you. By the way, why have you been squatting here for two years and not going back for so long?"
Ning Dynasty:.
After being silent for a while, he said:
"It's okay to tell you that we have discovered a living planet in this star field."
Li Qing:? ? ?
"You found a living planet here?"
He looked at Ning Chao in shock, feeling extremely speechless for a moment.
"Your luck is extraordinary!"
The home planet of the Hel people was discovered two years ago, and a bunch of treasures were dug up. Now they have directly discovered a living planet. This is incredible luck.
"You shouldn't talk nonsense about things like this, aren't you afraid of what I might think?"
Li Qing was just talking and had no idea.
This place is too far away from Jialanling, three to four thousand light-years away, with a large blank area in the middle. It would be inconvenient to manage both sides if this side is taken away.
Although there are star gates that can communicate between the two sides, things like star gates can be easily cut off. This is not another star field, it is the Zutar star field. Nebula interference is everywhere, and the connection of the star gates is inherently unstable. Truncated.
Once cut off, both sides will become isolated islands, and the enemy can defeat them individually.
Although with his ability it is easy to cross the distance of thousands of light years to support him in a short period of time, this situation will become a weakness of his.
As long as he develops step by step, he can seize another planet within a few hundred light-years of the Jialan Galaxy in the future. Why go so far to grab one and find a weakness for himself?
Besides, this planet already has an owner, and he's an acquaintance, so it's even harder to attack.
Ning Chao laughed and said:
"This place is more than 3,000 light years away from the outpost. The waterway is inconvenient and there are no players. It will be useless if you rob it. If you want to buy it from our boss, we will give it to you cheaply."
Li Qing:.
"Don't be ridiculous!"
"I'm not kidding. I have to go to mine now and I don't have time to take you there. I'll give you the coordinates. Our boss is right there."
After saying that, Ning Chao sent him a detailed star map.
This operation made Li Qing stupid. When did the life planet that players dreamed of become so unpopular, and he wanted to sell it to people when he saw it.
The star map showed that the living planet was only two galaxies away from here. Li Qing thought that no matter how many questions he asked, he might as well go and see it himself to see what was so special about this living planet that they would rather sell it.
Saying goodbye to Ning Chao, he jumped directly according to the star map coordinates.
Half an hour later, the battleship appeared at the edge of the gravity well of a certain galaxy. Then he opened a communication with a name he had not contacted for a long time. Someone responded after a few seconds, and opened it to reveal the figure of Lei Gang, the leader of the Thunder Cloud Team. He looked surprised. Asked:
"Brother Li Qing, why are you here?"
He smiled and replied:
"Wandering around for nothing, I happened to find brother Ning Chao in a nearby galaxy. He gave me the coordinates."
"That's such a coincidence. Where are you? I'll send you the coordinates. Let's meet and talk."
"Okay."
After receiving the coordinates sent by Lei Gang and calibrating a little, the battleship directly used psychic transmission within the galaxy to cross a distance of more than 2 billion kilometers. It appeared in a starry sky and saw a star tens of thousands of kilometers away at the first glance. The gray planet, as well as the two fleets docked in orbit on the left and right sides of the planet, he saw at a glance the Sanhua Trading Company logo on the fleet on the right.
The size of the two fleets is not much different, both only have about two hundred ships. Judging from the docking positions, they seem to be in a stalemate with each other.
The frigate quickly sailed towards the left fleet, and several similar frigates came over. Lei Gang and several familiar members of the Leiyun team warmly welcomed him in the communication.
"Brother, you came just in time. We would like to find an opportunity to send someone back to the outpost to find you."
Li Qing touched his head and asked:
"Don't you want to ask me to sell this living planet to me?"
"Correct, that's what I thought."
Li Qing looked at the huge planet covered by a thick gray atmosphere below the orbit. The situation inside was completely invisible from the outside. The sensor initially detected that the radiation content in the atmosphere was ridiculously high.
He held his chin and pointed at the planet and asked:
"Isn't this a wasteland planet that has experienced a nuclear war?"
Lei Gang nodded and said:
"Yes, this is indeed a wasteland planet."
"Then what's the use of buying this thing? It's difficult to develop at a long distance and the investment is too high."
Wasteland planets are also called dead planets. Generally, after the indigenous technology on living planets has developed into the atomic age, the indigenous people with nuclear weapons can easily use nuclear weapons because some wars are out of control, causing the planet to enter nuclear winter and become a dead planet where normal organisms cannot survive. .
This type of planet is classified at the bottom of the third category, and is only slightly better than the fourth category planet.
If placed within the United Human Empire, this problem would not be a problem. Although nuclear radiation and dust are difficult to clean up, they are nothing compared to the value of a living planet. A large number of military leaders are willing to spend a lot of money to purchase and modify them.
But this place is located deep in the Zutar star field, far away from the hinterland of the United Human Empire. It is extremely inconvenient to travel. The cost of transformation and immigration is extremely high, which is very uneconomical.
Lei Gang laughed after hearing his complaints:
"Of course this wasteland planet alone is not valuable, but there is still a large population on this planet, and there is an ultra-rare resource on the planet with very rich reserves. It is still very cost-effective to simply buy it and use it as a mining star."
Li Qing was interested and asked:
"What is a super rare resource?"
"Star Diamond!"
"???"
Li Qing said in surprise:
"There is a star diamond here? How is this possible?"
"I thought it was impossible at first, but I secretly went down to look for it, and I can indeed dig up star diamonds, and the reserves seem to be quite abundant. I have dug up more than 100,000 diamonds now."
After saying this and waving, a member of the Thunder Cloud team took out a box and opened it on the table, revealing transparent crystals as big as eggs and like diamonds inside. Circles of invisible twists emerged from these egg-sized crystals. emanating from it.
He reached out and took out a crystal and held it in his palm, and immediately felt that his spiritual energy was beginning to get ready to penetrate into it.
"It's true!"
He sighed.
The so-called star diamond is an ultra-rare resource whose formation principle has not been determined yet. Because the formation principle has not been determined, it is impossible to infer its formation cause and environment through the principle, and it is impossible to find its storage place through the environment.
This thing can appear anywhere. There are records of its appearance in planets, meteorites, and asteroid belts, but the reserves are not high. Like this situation where so many star diamonds appear in a living planet at once. , haven't encountered it before.
The function of the Star Diamond is very simple, perfect for gathering energy!
They are commonly used in T-slot doomsday weapons and higher-level super weapons. They are very valuable. A piece as big as an egg is sold on the market for more than one billion stars. The Thunder Cloud Team dug up more than 100,000 pieces, which are worth hundreds of billions. Xingyuan.
Li Qing asked strangely:
"This thing is so valuable, why are you thinking of selling it?"
Before Lei Gang could answer, a member of the Leiyun team beside him said:
"It's not Sanhua Trading Company and others who are causing trouble. We obviously discovered this planet first, but they insisted on stepping in and forced mining. They also kept destroying our mining facilities. They couldn't be beaten again and again, but they didn't want to give up, so they had no choice but to sell it. Well, Commander Li Qing, you are so powerful, you are definitely not afraid of them.”
Lei Gang also nodded and said:
"I feel ashamed for dragging you into the water, but we are really unwilling to give it up like this. Don't worry, I will give you all this planet and the mining rights in it. Just give us one yuan. Anyway, we have already mined millions worth of 100 million star diamonds, earned.”
"That's it."
Li Qing thought for a while, and if he didn't need money, he could do it.
Of course, the main reason was that the company across the street was from Sanhua Trading Company. Now that he saw them, he remembered what happened before, which made him particularly annoyed.
Lei Gang's team couldn't hold on anymore. If he didn't take over the planet and the star diamond mine on it, he would be benefiting them in vain. He was very unwilling to think about this.
"Yes, I can receive it here."
Of course, he won't really give just one dollar, but he won't give too much either. Ten trillion will buy the planet plus mining rights, as well as the mining facilities on the planet and some automatic mining facilities in nearby star fields.
After the transaction was completed, the Thunder Cloud Team did not leave immediately. Instead, they handed over to him seriously and told him everything about the situation on the planet. At this point, Li Qing was surprised to find that one of the two remaining species on the planet turned out to be Helicopterus. Er people.
According to Lei Gang, there are two possibilities. One possibility is that this planet was once a living planet that the Hel people were colonizing, but the mother planet was gone before the colonization was completed. The remaining colonists had no support, and there was nothing they could do for a while. Without the planet's natives, the two sides fought for who knows how many years, eventually triggering an uncontrollable nuclear war that led to the destruction of the planet.
Another theory is that the ruined remnants of the Hel civilization escaped from the territory of the original civilization and accidentally discovered this living planet, so they began to invade the planet, which eventually led to an uncontrollable war that destroyed the planet.
Either way, it is certain that the Hull people were invaders.
However, Li Qing didn't care about this. It didn't matter who invaded whom. Humans often do this kind of thing, and he was not qualified to say anything. What he was curious about was how many of these Hull people were left on the planet.
Compared with the Orbs who evolved from sea spiders, the Hel people who look very similar to humans are more in line with his aesthetics. In addition, he has a large number of Hel people talents. If possible, he can finish digging the star diamond. The Hull people were then packed up and taken away.
After asking Lei Gang, he was a little disappointed. Lei Gang didn't know how many Hull people there were on the planet.
This planet has been shrouded in nuclear radiation for who knows how many years. Most of the creatures inside have mutated. It is very dangerous in the wild. Even the interstellar era army cannot defeat the mutated creatures in some places. The political power inside has long been fragmented and gathered one by one. The dirt was scattered on the ground, making it difficult to count the number of people. (End of chapter)