Chapter 9: Pirate farming
It reappeared, having crossed a distance of more than a hundred light years, and appeared at the edge of the gravity well of the XL-D-48 star system.
Levi started radar scanning immediately. Compared with the most basic first-level electromagnetic radar on the mining ship, which only has a detection range of one thousand kilometers, the seventh-level void pulse sensor on the escort ship has a detection range of up to one million kilometers, instantly covering the entire range. Everything is scanned and listed on the light curtain in front of you, and classified according to type.
Li Wei glanced at the four columns of data on the light screen and said with some surprise:
"So lively?"
The first column of data is meteorites floating in the void, including detected asteroids, detectors disguised as meteorites, etc.
The second column is the NPC and player ships.
The third column is the ships of wild monsters, including pirate rebels and so on.
The fourth column belongs to unknown, and all unrecognizable objects are classified into this category. If the unmanned detector put down by the player cannot be identified through disguise, it will also be classified into this category.
In addition, there is a fifth row of loot that has not appeared yet. If there is loot nearby, it will be displayed here.
At this time, the second column representing NPCs and player ships on the light screen in front of Levi was crowded with dense numbers. At a glance, there were hundreds. He pressed his index finger on the armrest lightly and thought: < br>
"Directed Scan!"
Soon a battle scene popped up in front of him. Hundreds of warships were fighting among a swarm of meteorites. Dazzling lasers, kinetic warheads piercing the starry sky, missiles trailing long tail flames, and fires caused by violent explosions. Levi carefully examined the scene. As well as the limited information in the galaxy regional channel, I quickly understood what was going on.
Two player teams hanging around nearby have been fighting over a newly refreshed anomaly, and they have been fighting for a long time.
The so-called anomalies refer to various powerful monsters that are randomly refreshed in the wild galaxy in addition to wild monsters, such as pirates and rebel leaders, or pirates and rebels’ military bases, criminal groups’ secret bases, etc. Use other games The terminology is used to describe it as BOSS, which is extremely dangerous and has rich rewards.
There are only five levels of abnormality, with level one being the lowest and level five being the highest.
Unlike wild monsters, which in most cases only drop some materials, in addition to high bounties, anomalies will also drop blueprints for warships of all levels and high-end accessories, or some rare equipment, or even relics, etc. The higher the difficulty, the more rewards. The richer.
In addition to difficult camp missions, the biggest source for players to obtain battleship blueprints, the second-ranked source is to obtain abnormality.
But it’s too difficult to clear anomalies, and this thing is not a mission and has no restrictions. Anyone can grab it. Even if you don’t have the strength, you can’t keep it even if you find it.
After Li Wei understood that this was an anomaly, he immediately lost interest, especially when he learned from the regional channel that the anomaly that was refreshed this time was a second-level rebel base. He had only one ship and could not break through the first-level base even if no one interfered. Not to mention the second level, not to mention the rebel base itself is the strongest of all the bases.
After a long detour, after twelve minutes of acceleration, the battleship entered a sub-light speed state and flew to the other side of the galaxy.
The XL-D-48 star system is a standard single star system. The central main sequence star is a relatively young star like the sun. The spectrum is yellow. The galaxy is slightly larger than the solar system. The diameter of the star from the edge of the gravity well is about 50 astronomical unit.
After the battleship entered the sub-light speed state, its speed was infinitely close to the speed of light. It took him five hours to get from the jumping point to the other side of the galaxy.
The advanced jump engine can only reduce the pre-acceleration time to enter the sub-light speed state and reach the maximum speed faster, which is infinitely close to the speed of light. It is impossible to exceed the speed of light, so like other ships, it can fly as long as it needs to.
The universe is vast, and it takes several light years to travel from one galaxy to another. Without a jump engine, you may fly to your death without being able to fly to the next galaxy.
Ripples rippled in the void, and suddenly a spaceship jumped out with a flash of light, startling the six frigates that were spawning monsters nearby. They quickly focused their fire to kill the entangled pirate gunboats, retreated far away, and observed carefully.
The battleship that had just jumped out was within the warning range of the five nearby pirate squads. They were not as vigilant as the players. They immediately surrounded the escort ship when they saw it.
"Warning, the battleship is being locked by an unknown fire control system, please pay attention to avoid it!"
"Avoid a DI."
After discovering that there were only five ships, Levi immediately felt relieved. He tapped his fingers, adjusted the angle of the battleship's tail flames, and moved the muzzles of the four large dark energy annihilation ray cannons sideways to aim at the target.
"Fire!"
Large Dark Energy Annihilation Ray: Causes massive damage to enemy ships by twisting and crushing matter with dark matter.
Type: Instant, Energy.
Damage: 650-880.
Rate of fire: 20 seconds/shot.
Hit: 90%.
Range: 600 kilometers.
Modified: +50% armor damage.
Four thick energy beams left four bright tracks in the void. One end was on the escort ship, and the other end was connected to the central bridge of the pirate gunship. The terrifying power directly melted the pirate gunship through a huge hole and perished on the spot.
"Holy shit, what kind of battleship is this?"
The three players who retreated far away were shocked when they saw this scene. You must know that even a cruiser can hardly sink a gunboat with four guns. In other words, this strange-looking ship is more powerful than a cruiser. Even stronger.
"Let's go, it won't be good if you are misunderstood."
Several players ran away quickly.
Levi saw it but didn't take it to heart. He was controlling the battleship to retreat while aiming his guns at the second gunboat.
At the same time, there was a reminder in the corner of his eyes:
"Skill experience +1."
At the same time, the experience pool has also changed from 0 to 1, which can be freely allocated to learned skills.
The lowest level monsters at the first level only have one experience point, while the pirate cruiser has 5 experience points. As the pirate gunships are better equipped and have higher AI, their experience will also increase.
Dark energy beams flashed continuously in the void, and all five gunboats were destroyed in just a few minutes.
After sending out a drone to salvage the wreckage, Levi turned his attention to the pirate gunboats cruising not far away.
Ten ships
Twenty ships.
In less than an hour, the hundred pirate gunboats needed for the mission were killed, but not a single pirate cruiser was killed.
It's not that we haven't encountered them, but pirate cruisers are usually the flagships of small pirate bosses. When they appear, they are escorted by a large group of gunboats. There are at least sixty or seventy ships in a group, which is not easy to deal with.
He planned to clean up and kill the surrounding ordinary pirate gunboats first, and then use kiting tactics to deal with them.
Relying on the advanced Pioneer warship, Levi cleaned up the nearby pirate gunboats with very high efficiency, killing them from one end to the other end more than a million kilometers away, and then changed places and plowed back again. It took him two days to clear out the pirate gunboats. The scattered wild monsters in a large area around the area were cleared, and a total of more than 600 pirate gunboats were destroyed.
If it is not very valuable in terms of tasks, if you repeat it six times, you will be rewarded with 180,000 star coins.
The trophies are not very valuable. The total of all the wreckage is less than a thousand units, which is just over a hundred thousand, and the total income is only about 300,000.
After deducting various wear and tear and maintenance costs, as well as the time for rest and searching, you can earn about three million a month, which is not enough to fully equip a Haiyan-class frigate.
If it were replaced by an ordinary player, he would be unlucky and sink a ship, and half a month's income would be wasted.
Therefore, it is really impossible to make money just by farming ordinary wild monsters, or the efficiency is too low.
Of course, Levi is not relying on this to make money. His target is these small pirate bosses. These small bosses in pirate cruisers who lead a large number of gunboats have a very small chance of revealing various blueprints of warships and accessories, or various As long as one of these data cores can be exploded, the income will be higher than grinding level one pirates for a month. (End of chapter)