Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 33 Coping Methods
However, the temptation just now is not without good news for Chen Ming.

First of all, Chen Ming can confirm that the psychic pulse produced by the psychic pulse generator is not directional, otherwise he should have felt the influence of the psychic pulse just now.

Secondly, it can be seen through the video recording of the spacecraft camera.

When he discovered that the machine race was hostile, he immediately chose to fire back, and nearly half of the machine gun bullets fired hit the target.

Although almost all the bullets that hit the two combat machines were bounced off by the seemingly worn-out armor, they had no effect.

But the bullet that hit the Psychic Pulse device at the back did damage part of its shell.

Even that little damage looks like it will be repaired soon by the four-handed repair machine clan.

But as long as it can cause damage, it means that Chen Ming does not have to kill the mechanical race before he can dispose of the psychic pulse device.

And Chen Ming's purpose was not to kill the mechanical tribe from the beginning, but to destroy the psychic pulse equipment so that his hunting could continue.

However, even if Chen Ming's target is not the mechanical race, the difficulty has been reduced.

Chen Ming had to at least thicken the armor of the spacecraft to the point where the large electromagnetic weapon could not be penetrated by a single shot, so that the spacecraft could hold out in the hands of the two mechanical clans until the moment the equipment was destroyed.

Chen Ming opened the spacecraft armor panel.

The transformation interface is opened.

There are four modification options shown above.

[Heavy Armor], [Explosive Reactive Armor], [Multiple Buffer Armor] and [Armor Material Replacement].

If you want to deal with the mechanical weapons with exaggerated penetration capabilities, [Heavy Armor] or [Armor Material Replacement] are obviously very suitable.

However, Chen Ming can't find any material stronger than aluminum-steel composite material.

So among these two options, he could only choose [Heavy Armor].

This is the simplest and crudest method of thickening and weighting the spacecraft armor.

At the cost of losing a certain degree of maneuverability of the spacecraft, more powerful defensive performance is obtained.

But after selecting the transformation option, another problem appeared in front of Chen Ming.

The amount of materials required to modify the spaceship armor is very large, which is not at the same level as the materials required to modify the pistol before.

But half a month has passed since Chen Ming landed on the planet from space. Most of the metal resources collected at the beginning have been consumed in transformation and repair.

There is not enough material in the storage cabin, and it will take some time even if it takes off again to collect from the asteroid belt.

But Chen Ming immediately thought of a compromise.

Just take advantage of the spaceship you have on hand.

Chen Ming had clearly seen the three machines before. They had no components such as wings or jetpacks, which meant that they were restricted to the ground.

The spaceship can fly, as long as the attitude of the spacecraft is adjusted so that only the bottom of the spacecraft is facing the mechanical tribe.

Then Chen Ming only needs to strengthen one side of the bottom armor.

It can save a lot of time in obtaining materials for transformation.

In this way, the time cost spent on mining is acceptable to Chen Ming.

But there is another question before Chen Ming.

I went to space to obtain enough materials for transformation at once and then landed.

Or should I choose to go up to the sky and collect minerals from the asteroid ring during my normal work breaks, such as at night.

Chen Ming is thinking.What you have to do must be to achieve your goals as the first priority.

And my highest priority goal has always been to obtain enough food.

Collecting ore in space at once is really fast for solving the two problems of modifying the spacecraft armor and destroying the psychic pulse equipment.

But this also means that Chen Ming will be completely unable to hunt in the past few days, and the second batch of crops he just planted will be wasted due to lack of care.

I can't eat the guaranteed food.

So after thinking carefully, Chen Ming still felt that it was best to continue hunting during the day.

Even though the existence of psychic pulse makes hunting very difficult, the difficulty does not mean that it is completely impossible to do it.

To be honest, as long as the next hunt can be successful once or twice, Chen Ming can completely run away regardless of the farmland, the camp, the mechanical tribe and their psychic pulse equipment.

Therefore, continuing to hunt during the day, waiting until night to go to space, and relying on the automatic mining function of the spacecraft itself to collect minerals is the most suitable mining method for Chen Ming.

Moreover, the spacecraft previously stayed on the ground at night mainly to rely on the spacecraft's camera to protect farmland at night.

Now half a month has passed, and Chen Ming has already completely reinforced the fence and laid out a large number of traps outside the fence.

Basically, it is unlikely that farmland will be damaged by animals in the middle of the night.

Therefore, taking off the spacecraft at night is also an option for the spacecraft to fully exert its full effect.

The only disadvantage of this approach is that the spacecraft repeatedly enters and exits the atmosphere, which leads to a significant increase in fuel demand.

Chen Ming didn't want to worry about fuel at this time. Anyway, if he ran out, he would go to the space station to get it. The space station had plenty of it.

Having almost considered the issues that should be considered, Chen Ming turned his attention from thinking about the issues back to the present.

In fact, my first trial just now should be considered a success.

He knew about the situation of the Machine Tribe and their equipment, and also knew that the armor of the spaceship could not withstand a shot from the Machine Tribe's large electromagnetic weapon.

If I finish modifying the spacecraft, I will still be in the same mess the next time I come here.

Then Chen Ming will decisively give up the current idea of ​​​​causing trouble with the mechanical tribe.

Choose safer but slower ways to get food and plan later.

The spacecraft returned to the temporary camp shortly after.

After repairing the damage to the spacecraft, Chen Ming continued his daily work, farming and hunting.

Anyway, Chen Ming has experienced psychic pulse personally and knows very well that the impact of psychic pulse on people is not too exaggerated.

The psychic pulse generator that cannot be processed for the time being should not have any fatal impact on him at least in a short period of time.

After Xiaoshi experienced a psychic pulse, he seemed to recover from anxiety much faster.

As long as I can get through the last few days, I won't have to suffer from the psychic pulse in the future.

The daytime passed quickly.

Before night came, Chen Ming controlled the spacecraft and returned to space again.

Near the still dilapidated abandoned mining space station, the highest mining priority was set for the most common iron ore.

Then Chen Ming started the automatic collection function of the spacecraft.

(End of this chapter)