Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 10 Asteroid Ring
the next day.

The first thing Chen Ming did after waking up.

It is to clear out the temporary storage space of the overcrowded working chamber and smelting furnace, so that it can continue to work.

Although the smelting furnace will automatically expel the metal ingots inside when the space is filled.

But it was obvious that the metal ingots piled on the floor at the exit of the storage space had blocked the opening for discharging the metal ingots.

After spending some time getting rid of the messy pile of metal ingots, Chen Ming returned to the living cabin to wash up and regain his energy.

He returned to the storage cabin and took inventory of what he had gained during his rest time.

Overnight, the weight of iron ingots in the storage cabin reached 419.5 kilograms, followed by copper and tin, 51.4 kilograms and 43.3 kilograms, and then the aluminum that Chen Ming needed most now, 11.5 kilograms.

There are also some scattered metal ore products, which basically weigh between a few hundred grams to several kilograms.

But what caught Chen Ming's attention the most was the dozen grams of gold.

Such an achievement couldn't help but make Chen Ming nod slightly.

The time required to collect an asteroid is basically about an hour.

If you include the consumption of flying in the middle of a night's rest, you can gain so much beyond your expectations.

Although the most collected iron is not valuable, the quantity of other metal minerals is actually not too small.

At this rate, even if we only move around the mining space station, we should be able to collect the materials needed to repair the landing module in about ten days.

What's more, the spacecraft computer will be able to obtain the planet's orbit data and the space station's revolution data around the planet this afternoon.

This means that Chen Ming no longer needs to have the spacecraft follow the space station to lock the location of the space station.

After that, you can go deeper into the asteroid ring to find the minerals that Chen Ming needs most.

In this way, the efficiency of obtaining minerals will inevitably be higher, and the time to start repairing the landing module will also be earlier.

But Chen Ming also has to pay attention to it later.

The probability of obtaining asteroids with high ore content in asteroid rings far away from the space station will increase, but correspondingly, the number of asteroids themselves will also increase.

This means that the spacecraft may hit an asteroid after flying two steps, and the weapons guidance system of the spacecraft needs to lock on to the asteroid and crush it in advance.

As long as the speed is not too fast, some scattered stones are just scratching the armor of the spacecraft.

But to be honest, Chen Ming felt that this guidance system was a bit unreliable.

The spacecraft operation manual states that the spacecraft's weapon guidance system uses a dynamic object scanning program to scan image signals to lock on asteroids.

This means that errors may occur during the image scanning process, and some asteroids may be missed.

This requires Chen Ming to pay more attention to himself.

So Chen Ming chose to open the spacecraft armor panel and pressed the repair button.

After a burst of mental exhaustion, the metal ingots melted into a liquid with a metallic luster and seeped out of the ship's hull. It only needed to flow through to restore the armor to its original state.

The pieces of armor exuded a thick color again, and Chen Ming still found it unbelievable even after seeing it twice.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't repair all the damage to the spacecraft's armor at once, which would make him mentally unbearable.

So he just restored the durability of all the armor of the spacecraft to over 70%, so that it could withstand at least a few hits from asteroids.

If the armor durability is reduced to a dangerous level, it will be enough to have the ability to evacuate from the asteroid belt.

The rest of the morning was still spent by Chen Ming flipping through the e-books on the two terminals.

At noon, I took a short break to recuperate my energy.At around two o'clock in the afternoon set by Chen Ming himself, the spacecraft suddenly prompted that the space station's orbit was locked.

Chen Ming, who was a little sleepy after taking a nap, suddenly felt full of energy.

Sitting back in the captain's seat, a picture of a camera connected to two 22mm caliber machine guns appeared in the center of his sight.

The surrounding area is covered with everything seen by all the external cameras on the spacecraft, and you can see all directions outside the spacecraft without any blind spots.

Chen Ming really couldn't think of a way to solve the error in the guidance system other than repairing the armor to make the spacecraft more resistant to asteroid impacts.

So in the end, the only thing I could do was control the flight of the spacecraft myself and assist in the control of the weapon guidance system.

If the computer misses the asteroid, you can make up for it, and if the computer misses it, you can make up for it.

If neither you nor your computer can see it, there's nothing you can do.

The spacecraft can still withstand being hit a few times.

Chen Ming sat on the chair and moved around a little, becoming familiar with the overall control of the spacecraft.

Even if you are distracted from controlling the two turrets, you still need to control the movement of the spacecraft itself, and you still need to pay attention to all the cameras on the outside of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming didn't feel any jerky or rushed.

It's as if he is the brain of the spacecraft, and all the equipment on the spacecraft are his own organs, like arms and fingers.

Being distracted is nothing compared to what Chen Ming is doing now.

Chen Ming enjoyed the feeling of being in control of everything in the spacecraft for a while, and then started the scanner.

An asteroid ring area with medium density was found at a certain distance from the space station.

After all, this was the first time to actually control the spacecraft and weapons into a dangerous place, so Chen Ming felt that it was better to play it safe.

After you gain experience and become proficient in controlling the spacecraft, you can then go to more dangerous places where asteroids are denser to collect minerals.

After a period of flying.

The spacecraft entered the area in front of the spacecraft from the side close to the space station, where a medium number of asteroids had been scanned in advance.

Through the fine scanning function of the asteroid scanning detector, the minerals inside the asteroid are scanned.

Soon, the scanner found an asteroid that looked ordinary on the outside, but the scan results showed that the internal aluminum content was very high.

Chen Ming immediately moved to let the spacecraft get closer.

On the way closer, Chen Ming controlled two machine guns to fire from time to time, crushing the asteroids that were about to hit the spacecraft.

With the assistance of the guidance system, this matter was relatively easy for Chen Ming.

At the same time, the automation system of the work chamber is executing and will soon capture the asteroid that has entered the towing range.

Although the work cabin can work under the control of Chen Ming's consciousness, a work cabin will not burden Chen Ming in controlling the operation of the spacecraft.

However, Chen Ming still chose to let the computer control this part of the function, and he focused all his attention on the spacecraft driving and weapon systems to prevent the spacecraft from being hit by the dense meteorites and asteroids here.

After all, if you do one thing for a long time, your concentration may be lost, let alone two tasks that need to be done for a long time without making mistakes.

Chen Ming also chose the safest method in this regard.

The purpose is to allow my previous plans to proceed smoothly and step by step.

(End of this chapter)