Chapter 6 Mining in Progress

In the dark starry sky, a whale-shaped mining machine, like a star in the sea, floats silently in the universe.

Qin Yue lay on the chair and looked at the scenery of the universe for a while, but the universe is not like the blue star. The trees on the blue star will move and the clouds will float, but the planets, stars, and nebulae in the starry sky will not change for decades, hundreds of years, or even tens of thousands of years.

The unchanging scenery is monotonous like a sticker.

After he got tired, he finally turned back to Zhizi's interface and started writing and drawing.

Unlike the high mental power in his previous life, his mental power is only 2.56 now. Although he is much smarter than ordinary people, he still can't compile a system in his mind. Many things still need to rely on documents.

For example, planning development, future development ideas, etc.

"Zhizi, how far is it from the mining star?"

"0.001AU, the current flight speed is 810,000 kilometers/hour, and it will arrive in about 20 minutes. Do you need to play a song for you?" Zhizi asked.

"Okay, one!"

After two songs, the asteroid belt finally arrived.

This is a popular mining area, so Qin Yue can see a ship passing by from time to time.

These miners are also very efficient. The asteroid belt, which was originally shaped like a CD, has been mined thinner.

On Qin Yue's side, he saw an asteroid shaped like a potato with pits on it, rolling in the air and flying towards him.

This is a planet with obvious radiation. The system on the spacecraft has concluded through spectral analysis that the main component of this asteroid is carbon.

"Carbon is not bad, just in time for use!" Qin Yue said, letting Zhizi sail next to the asteroid and relatively stationary with the asteroid. At the same time, he picked up the mining equipment and began to operate on the asteroid.

First, use a large drill to make a hole, and then use something similar to the Luoyang shovel to nail it in and dig. With one nail, two cubic meters of ore can be opened.

This mine contains not only black carbon blocks, but also graphite and shiny diamonds. However, carbon can be used to make steel, and graphite can be used to peel graphene, but diamonds are not very useful.

He kept poking and poking. Soon, other miners passed by and circled around him before leaving.

Qin Yue knew what they meant. Carbon was not a precious mineral among minerals. Only newbies would treat it as a treasure.

He circled around twice, of course, to look at newbies more!

Unfortunately, Qin Yue was not a newbie in the conventional sense.

"Zhizi, export the flying blade material technology."

Flying blade material is a nanomaterial with extremely strong toughness and hardness. It is acid-resistant, heat-resistant, cold-resistant, and corrosion-resistant. It is a new material with strong universality that has been widely used 40 years later. It is mostly used in spacecraft decks, shells, engines, missile shells, robots, and space elevators.

And this material and new material is carbon.

"Unfortunately, I am not a scientist. I don't remember many classic materials. Zhizi, I will rely on you in the future!" Qin Yue looked at the drawings in his hand with a face full of emotion.

Zhizi:.

Throw the drawings to the Xinghai system, and the system automatically imports them. However, there is only carbon now, and other minerals are not enough, so we have to dig.

Qin Yue glanced out the window. The efficiency of the Giant Whale X6 was not very high. It took half an hour to dig 6 cubic meters of ore. However, this is also the characteristic of minerals such as graphite. If it is an iron-nickel meteorite, it doesn't need to be so strenuous. Just use your claws to grab large chunks into the cabin.

Another half an hour, a simple calculation, the carbon collected is enough for a period of time, Qin Yue immediately retracted the equipment, then turned around and continued to go deeper.

He didn't have much time. As the country gradually opened up genetic drugs, those geniuses known to later generations would soon enter the star sea and then be collected by the country.

He didn't want to compete with the country for talents, but it was obvious that he would grow faster with the plug-in. These people in his hands could create greater value!

Anyway, there is no room for them to perform in the next few decades. Following me in advance can be regarded as selecting talents in advance!

As for why he still needs to recruit people even though he has a plug-in

He knows his own strengths and weaknesses. His scientific research ability, command ability, and learning ability can only be said to be average. He can beat everyone on Earth and can also lead the boss civilizations in the early stage. But later, once he develops beyond the level of his previous life, he will be defeated if he uses his half-baked command level to deal with the enemies he encounters.

After sailing for more than ten minutes, Qin Yue encountered the second meteorite.

The asteroid belt is like this. In various pictures, it looks like densely packed stones, but in the vast universe, these stones are actually very far apart. Two of them may not touch each other for tens of thousands of years.

It's the same for miners. If you are lucky, you can always discover new asteroids, but if you are unlucky, you will have to sail for a long time without seeing a meteorite.

Qin Yue's luck seems to be very good.

"It's a silicon-based meteorite." Zhizi reminded.

"Fuck!"

The composition of meteorites in the asteroid belt is generally divided into three categories.

Carbon-based meteorites, silicon-based meteorites, and iron-nickel-based meteorites.

Carbon-based means that the meteorite contains a high carbon content. This type of meteorite is located at the outermost part of the asteroid belt, that is, the side closest to the sun, with a total content of about 33%.

Silicon-based means that the meteorite contains a high silicon content. This type of meteorite is mainly in the middle of the asteroid belt, with a total content of

Iron-nickel base means that the meteorite contains a high amount of iron and nickel metal.

If you don't know what silicon is, you can understand it as various stones.

This kind of ore is undoubtedly the lowest value. Only when building a space city will someone come to dig stones. Who needs this?

After bypassing this meteorite, Qin Yue continued to move forward and soon found another meteorite. Unfortunately, there was already a ship next to this meteorite.

Qin Yue silently bypassed it. There are no weapons installed on the current mining machine, but there are weapons on mining ships, even merchant ships, and cargo ships in the future. Generally, if there is no need, everyone will be cautious when encountering it in an unregulated star area.

This can be regarded as a continuation of the previous habit.

"Ding, there is a call request for access!" Zhizi suddenly said.

"Answer!" Qin Yue said.

"Hello, hello, are you the giant whale next to me? My ship is full. Can I lend you some space? Don't worry, the fee will be paid!"

"My ship is full too, you can find someone else!" Qin Yue replied casually, and then continued to move forward.

"Full? You're kidding!" On another ship, the driver, no, the captain, looked at the direction Qin Yue was heading and chuckled.

A fully loaded ship, going deeper, are you going to dig air?

But wait!

According to convention, the rental fee is not low. Your empty ship needs to find minerals and dig, which is a time cost, but if I give you the rental fee, you can go back now, and you won't lose much!

So, why are you in such a hurry to run in?

The driver thought for a while, immediately pulled out the mechanical nails from the meteorite, then turned the spacecraft around and followed.

"Master, there is a ship tracking!" said Chieko.

"That's perfect!" Qin Yue smiled and said, "Turn back, I remember he just lay on that meteorite, it was an iron meteorite, since he doesn't want it, then it belongs to me!"