Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 11 Rare Ore

The asteroid with extremely high aluminum content was quickly pulled to the left side of the spacecraft under the control of the spacecraft computer, within the range of the mining laser.

The mining laser crushes the minerals, and the traction device captures the crushed ore and transports it to the smelting furnace.

The internal ores are precipitated separately according to the different melting temperatures of different materials.

Finally, it is poured into a mold and cooled into a standard metal block.

Everything went as smoothly as yesterday.

The amount of aluminum provided by this specially found asteroid is even close to one-tenth of the amount needed to repair the landing module.

This is a bit more than the amount of aluminum dug out last night.

Such efficiency made Chen Ming feel a little excited and let the scanner continue to scan the next asteroid.

However, after starting the scan again, there are no asteroids with such high aluminum content nearby.

But this is a normal situation. Although Chen Ming was a little regretful, he didn't worry too much.

He continued to drive the spacecraft and flew to the next asteroid that contained important metal minerals.

Today will be a busy day.

Scan, analyze, mine, smelt, transport.

Although most of the work can be performed by computers, Chen Ming still needs to be under overall control. At least the transportation can only be done by Chen Ming.

Moreover, Chen Ming still needs to concentrate on staring at the meteorites that come out from behind some asteroid from time to time.

At the end of the day, not only my brain and eyes, but also my hands and feet were a bit out of control.

But correspondingly, the gains are also considerable.

Mining in areas with dense asteroids is very efficient. Not only is the mineral content inside each asteroid very high, but it also takes much less time to move between different targets than near a space station.

Even excluding the first asteroid collected with extremely high aluminum content, the amount of minerals collected today is almost equivalent to the amount of minerals collected in three consecutive nights.

During today's day and last night, half of the materials needed to repair the landing module were collected.

If this progress continues, Chen Ming will be able to find a landing place on the Ruimu planet below at the latest the day after tomorrow.

Chen Ming smoothly closed the panel in front of him that displayed the materials inside the storage cabin.

We are almost here today, both physically and mentally have reached the limit, and we must rest.

Continue tomorrow, and tomorrow, you can try to enter a more densely populated area of ​​​​asteroids.

Mining may be more efficient.

After Chen Ming made his plans, he prepared to withdraw from this area and return to the space station.

But at this time, Chen Ming suddenly discovered that the scanner seemed to have found an asteroid surrounded by many asteroids whose internal composition could not be scanned.

Chen Ming's expression suddenly became serious.

There are many possibilities for the interior of this asteroid not being picked up by scanners.

But the biggest is probably only two.

One is that it contains some kind of rare ore that cannot be scanned by the relatively basic asteroid scanning detector of the Iron Ore Number.

Second, it contains the same things inside the asteroid that was collected by the mining space station and whose internal composition could not be scanned. Those bugs seem to be named Thorne Zerg.

Of course, Chen Ming actually knows that the probability of the latter is not greater than the probability of the former.

But Chen Ming had just seen the tragic situation of the space station before, and now he had to have such doubts in his heart.

Chen Ming thought about it for a while, but still didn't plan to let this opportunity go.

Now that I have decided to give up my identity as a company, I will go to the pirate space station.

Then your personal terminal must not be taken out and used at will, and the same is true for the wages in the salary card.

But Chen Ming has always understood that having no money is absolutely impossible, so he needs some start-up capital.

Depending on local conditions, these rare ores are the best first pot of gold for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming also knew the dangers involved.So Chen Ming's plan is to use mining laser to nourish it from a distance first.

Peel through the asteroid's outer rocky layer to see what's inside.

If it is a normal mineral and he is dragged to the vicinity of the spacecraft for normal collection, if it is something else, then this distance is enough for him to escape.

The spacecraft gradually approached the asteroid that could not be scanned.

The machine guns on both sides of the spacecraft opened fire under Chen Ming's control, shattering the asteroid and other asteroids closely surrounding it.

Then he slowly adjusted the hull, pointed the Type II mining laser transmitter at the mysterious asteroid, and fired the mining laser.

The power of the laser weakened after passing a certain distance. It only shattered a small part of the asteroid's outer shell, but there was no reaction inside the asteroid.

Chen Ming stopped the mining laser when he saw this, and immediately saw a dark blue ore with a metallic luster in the area where the laser had shattered.

The spacecraft's mining laser has no way of crushing these dark blue ores at this distance.

The asteroid seems to have lost some momentum due to the shattered gravel, causing it to be pushed further and further away.

Chen Ming immediately used the tractor beam to fix the asteroid in place.

As the asteroid rotates, lasers are used to remove all the rock layers surrounding the internal minerals.

Soon, a whole group of dark blue minerals appeared in Chen Ming's field of vision.

There doesn't seem to be any problem.

The size of the asteroid is not that big. After shattering the outer rock, the remaining part cannot fit a complete insect.

Even the half-human-sized insect eggs that Chen Ming had seen before could only be squeezed in, and part of the outer tissue of the eggs might be exposed somewhere.

This is truly an asteroid that contains rare minerals.

After Chen Ming confirmed it again and again, he put down his worries and used a traction device to pull the ore back and fixed it next to the spacecraft.

Some are looking forward to what this dark blue metal ore will look like after smelting.

only……

Chen Ming looked almost close to the dark blue ore. The continuous mining laser could not even leave a mark on the ore, and he didn't know what to say.

The intensity of the mining laser of my own spaceship seems a bit insufficient.

Looking at the intact dark blue ore, Chen Ming opened the panel of the Type II mining laser.

【Type II Mining Laser】

[Manufacturer: Cinda Rockwell Mining Company]

[Strength: Level 2]

[Applicable environment: basic metal ores]

[Durability: 89%]

[Available operations: Replace/Repair/Renovate]

Mining lasers are also a product of this subsidiary called Sindar.

The second level of strength on the panel allows it to collect most basic minerals, but it obviously has no effect on the dark blue mineral in front of it.

"Wait, what is transformation?"

Chen Ming suddenly noticed that there was an option in the column of executable operations on the panel that he had not seen before, transformation.

Chen Ming was subconsciously wondering, is this something he picked up after reading a few transformation books before?

Chen Ming was a little unsure. After thinking about it, he reached out and tapped it.

[Modification option·Type II mining laser]

[Advanced Lens] [Energy Gathering Ring] [Cyclic Wave Oscillation]

(End of this chapter)