Star Lord: Rob the alien race and you will get a hundred times the reward

Chapter 9 Frequent Accidents
After the minerals were sent into the cargo spacecraft, the return speed was much faster. The two spacecraft jumped all the way back through the channel and returned to City 315 in less than seven days.

Before entering the 315 city star system, Liu Wen's attention was attracted by a star system next to it that also had many spaceships coming in and out and many warships patrolling.

Through optical images, we can see a huge stellar structure orbiting the star, and the space cities in the star system are filled with lights.

"This is the administrative star of the Blue River Empire in this area. It is a combination of several administrative stars around the main universe." The blue fat man looked envious. Others have all kinds of welfare benefits since they are born, unlike them who have to work hard for everything.

Liu Wen glanced at the giant star structure in the distance and drove the spaceship into the starry sky of City 315.

"Welcome back, Xinghai. Please follow the tower's instructions to enter the dock. Your serial number is docking station C-2368."

As soon as we entered the city, the automatic guidance communication from the tower came in.

After delegating power to the spacecraft's intelligent computer, the computer controlled the warship to descend along the guided route.

Liu Wen took a step ahead and took a shuttle to accompany the transport ship to the mineral exchange point to discuss that the minerals could be transported directly to the Interstellar Alliance Building, but if the amount exceeded a certain amount, it would be necessary to make an appointment in advance and send it into a subspace.

"Exchanger Liu Wen, 535,104 cubic meters of spiritual copper ore, each cubic meter can be exchanged for 2 contribution points, 85 cubic meters of spiritual gold ore, each cubic meter can be exchanged for 12 contribution points, 1,389 cubic meters of spiritual zinc ore, each cubic meter can be exchanged for 2 contribution points, the total exchange contribution points is 1,074,006 points, would you like to exchange?"

"One million and seventy thousand contribution points? I'm going to make a fortune!" Liu Wen quickly chose to redeem them.

One second later, the contribution points were credited to the account, and a red envelope of ten contribution points was given to each member of Zhao Fei's team who was driving the cargo spacecraft.

"With these one million contribution points, the fleet will no longer be a problem. Besides, the spaceships in the main universe may have to be replaced. The current ones are still a little insufficient." With the money, Liu Wen felt that his back was straightened a lot.

"There is still a mineral deposit that needs to be excavated. If I want a hundredfold harvest, I must have at least 100 million contribution points." Liu Wen pondered whether to wait for a while to avoid the limelight before going, or strike while the iron is hot and quietly transport the mining equipment over first.

They returned to the Xinghai and found Fat Blue and his companion, and the three of them got together to discuss how to spend the money.

As the blue fat man looked up the information, he said, "You said before that you needed two medium-sized transport ships, and you also needed to buy a set of mining and ore-refining equipment. If you choose good or bad ones, you will need nearly 300,000 contribution points."

"We need to prepare some spiritual energy materials to assist in our cultivation. We can also prepare some auxiliary cultivation equipment. Even the most basic ones will require tens of thousands of contribution points."

"Finally, we have to deal with our actual safety. The quality of that gunboat is too poor. We should exchange it for a Level 5 frigate or Level 4 destroyer from the Interstellar Alliance now. The price from the Interstellar Alliance is just a 10% increase in transportation costs, which is still within our budget. It is about 300,000 to 400,000 contribution points."

"After calculating like this, the remaining contribution points are less than 100,000." Liu Wen rubbed his hands, feeling that the contribution points were really not enough to spend, as they had already run out before he had done anything.

"Boss, it's good that we can earn such a big sum of money. At least we don't have to pay anyone's salary. I looked online and found that other teams have to pay salaries and purchase various equipments. The main universe also has various expenses. They spend money like water. No matter how much money they earn, it's not enough." Frog stared with his two bulging eyes, as if he didn't even ask for salary.

The blue fat man poked the frog's smooth head and said: "Just be happy. If we hadn't played together since we were young, we wouldn't have the good things we have now."

Liu Wen ignored the two people who were making a fuss and started checking the prices of various items he needed.

"Why is a level 4 destroyer battleship not as valuable as a level 5 frigate battleship? Is the gap really that big?" After comparing the prices of the two battleships, Liu Wen was a little confused.

After discussing with Fat Blue, Liu Wen decided to purchase a level 5 frigate, whose main feature was its flexibility in mobility so that he could run away immediately to save his life if something went wrong.

But there are not just one ship, but two, one for the main universe and one for the second world.

Produced by An Ning Heavy Industry of the Blue River Empire, this is an ordinary version of a level five escort-class battleship. It is flat-conical in shape, 480 meters long, 208 meters wide, and 63 meters high.

A curvature engine that is 500 times faster than the speed of light, a space jump engine with a jump distance of 80 light years, an antimatter-grade reactor that can provide energy at 350 degrees instantaneously, and a conventional propulsion engine that can reach a maximum of 55 percent sub-light speed.

Equipped with interception force field, deceleration force field, particle traction beam, space disturbance force field, four thousand degree energy shield, two thousand degree deflection force field, space anti-interference force field, shipborne intelligent combat central system, space wave radar, and space-time detection radar.

Six photon cannons with an effective range of ten light seconds and a damage of three hundred and fifty degrees, two particle beam cannons with an effective range of ten light seconds and a damage of three hundred degrees, two gamma ray cannons with an effective range of twelve light seconds and a damage of three hundred degrees, and a Doomsday Type III close defense matrix.

The selling price is 295,000 contribution points, and one of the ships will have an additional 10% transportation fee, for a total of 619,500 contribution points.

More than half of the money was gone, and the remaining money could only buy a medium-sized transport ship, which cost 180,000 contribution points, and a small fully automatic mining and smelting ship, which cost 160,000 contribution points.

A total of 960,000 contribution points were spent, and only more than 110,000 points were left of the more than 1 million points received.

After leaving 20,000 to 30,000 as reserves and purchasing enough fuel and maintenance materials, there are still more than 20,000 contribution points that can be used on the three people.

The psychic materials consumed directly by psychics are two to three times more expensive than ordinary psychic materials, and their value far exceeds the value of the psychic energy they contain.

But this is normal. Edible psychic materials are consumables and there is no need to worry about not being able to sell them. Many psychics want to quickly condense psychic energy, and edible psychic materials are the easiest way to do it.

The blue fat man went to the Interstellar Alliance and exchanged materials for practicing spiritual energy, half of which were prepared for the original body in the main universe. The express fee accounted for one-third of the material cost. The more he had, the cheaper it was, which made the blue fat man heartbroken.

The battleship arrived very quickly in the second world. They were notified to receive it in less than half an hour. The three of them packed up their things and moved directly to the level five battleship.

The reason why Liu Wen chose this ship is that this frigate-class battleship produced by Anning Heavy Industry has a certain ability to resist space interference, and it can also be forced to jump away under the anti-interference force field of others. Its life-saving ability can be said to be greatly enhanced.

The main universe informed us that it would take three days to deliver it, but it arrived on the same day as the psychic materials.

After the cargo ship and mining ship arrived, the three of them immediately weighed anchor and set sail, heading towards area 121 again. As for whether they could get in or not, they would have to wait and see. It didn't matter where they stayed now.

After replacing the Xinghai with a level five battleship, the Xinghai's intelligent combat center was used as the core of the fleet to remotely control the actions of the other three spacecraft.

Since the mining ship's navigation ability is relatively poor and its space jump capability can barely reach fifteen light years, the speed of traveling to the 315-121 star field is also much slower.

It only took seven days to reach the destination before, but this time it took nearly twice as long, and that was when the waterway was clear.

On the way, Liu Wen received the warships transported by Anning Heavy Industry. He didn't know how the other party managed to get Paradise Island to allow him to drive directly into the Paradise Island dock.

On the day they received the battleship, Liu Wen and his two companions moved in, and spent a large amount of credit points to have a good meal to celebrate.

As for the gunboat, Liu Wen did not sell it, but just left it there. After storing up five million credit points worth of fuel, the battleship drove directly into the starry sky and stopped in the void where there were no spaceships.

In the second world, when the fleet arrived at the asteroid belt in the 121 star field, it received a communication from a long distance away.

"Excuse me, is this the Xinghai team?"

After taking a look, it was an unfamiliar communication, but I could recognize the Xinghai, which should be one of the human teams in the 121 star field. "Yes, this is the Xinghai team, I'm Liu Wen."

"Hello, Captain Liu. I am Don Hall, a member of the Sunset Team. Are you planning to enter the star field?" Don Hall continued, "There are alien warships patrolling everywhere in the star field right now, so several of our teams have temporarily withdrawn."

When Liu Wen came before, he brought fewer detectors and the monitoring range was very narrow. He had contacted those detectors before, and apart from the enhanced defenses of those mining sites and frequent patrols by warships, no other intelligence was discovered.

Liu Wen naturally chose to believe the intelligence of the Sunset Team, which had been operating for a long time. He had no intention of taking two frigate-class battleships to test the strength of the aliens.

"Okay, thank you for the information." Liu Wen chatted with the other party about where several human teams had gone.

As a result, we got the information that they all returned to Blue River Administrative Star or 315 City to rest. Originally, these team members did not stay here all the time. They also arranged two or three people to come on duty every once in a while, and transported the collected minerals away when they were handing over the shift.

At other times, we also explore other star fields or form groups to enter the subspace battlefield. We also implement diversified development and do not put all our eggs in one basket.

The fleet drove to the outside of the original channel, but due to the movement of the asteroid belt, the previous channel had long disappeared. Fortunately, there were channels obtained from several teams.

Liu Wen simply drove the fleet towards the coordinates given by the golden finger, but he went around the asteroid belt instead of going directly into the star field.

After looking at the coordinates that were still changing and comparing them with the star map, I determined that the coordinate location was opposite the asteroid belt.

"Release the detectors and see if there is any passage to enter." This time Liu Wen brought more than 200 detectors, and the level 5 battleship also had 40 built-in level 5 detectors.

Ten detectors were launched by a level-four battleship named Frog Prince by Frog. The authority of the detectors was transferred to the Xinghai. Its own intelligent combat center was highly intelligent and was much better at controlling the detectors than Liu Wen and the other two.

Through the calculation of the intelligent center, a barely passable channel was soon found.

He did not rush in, but instead directed the detector to go deeper and expand the detection range to see if there were any alien warships near the target.

It took three days, with the probe traveling at 2592% sub-light speed, to travel a distance of light seconds. After confirming that there were no alien warships and fluctuations in space curvature within half a light time, Liu Wen found a new route to enter the star field.

"This is the correct coordinate." Liu Wen looked at the asteroid in front of him and fell into deep thought. The diameter of the asteroid was less than 1.2 kilometers. If the golden finger was correct, this asteroid should be worth at least hundreds of millions of contribution points.

"Could it be that the minerals are richer?" Liu Wen could only guess: "Send a geological probe to that asteroid. I think there may be minerals on this asteroid."

Neither Fat Blue nor Frog objected. Since they had already bought the mining ship, they had to go mining. They had to explore all the way there anyway, so it didn't matter which one they explored first.

"Oh my god! There really is a mine here!" The blue fat man was stunned when he looked at the detection data sent back by the geological detector. His blue skin showed signs of turning red.

Frog's eyes widened: "Boss, you are amazing!"

"The test data shows that the spiritual energy content of the minerals is similar to what we have robbed before, and most of them are copper mines, with a total of nearly 50 million cubic meters!" The blue fat man's voice trembled. This amount is too large, worth nearly 100 million contribution points. How many teams have dug in the second world for decades and have not been able to dig up so many minerals.

There are many starry sky minerals, but most of them are actually just ordinary metal minerals. Except for various natural high-energy metals, ordinary metals are not valuable at all. After all, psychic minerals are only a minority in the universe.

"Fat Blue, quickly arrange for the mining ship to start mining. Frog, continue to observe the surrounding environment. Once we find alien warships coming, we will retreat immediately." Although Liu Wen was also happy, he had already expected this, so he arranged the work immediately.

The blue fat man took the initiative to supervise the work of the mining ship, while Frog continued to guard the detection radar, guarding against any alien warships that suddenly appeared.

The mining of asteroids went smoothly. The mining ship was deployed directly in the void, using a tractor beam to fix the asteroid, and then wrapping it with a binding force field.

After drilling a hole and sending a stun bomb into the core of the asteroid, the high-frequency shock wave easily decomposes it from the inside out.

The mining ship will pull the meteorites that have been broken down into small pieces by the high-frequency shock waves into the crusher, grind them into even finer particles, and then screen out the minerals containing spiritual energy, compress them into a cube, and send them to the warehouse for storage.

The blue fat man watched the mineral reserves in the cargo hold of the mining ship continue to increase, reaching three hundred cubic meters per hour. The meteorites screened out were about six times the minerals. He really didn't expect that he could become so rich by just finding an asteroid!

Every once in a while, the blue fat man would transfer the collected minerals to the transport ship to prevent the mining ship from being abandoned in the event of an accident, so the minerals would be transferred to minimize the losses.

Two days later, Wazai discovered traces of alien warships in the detector and quickly notified Liu Wen to go online.

"What's going on? How far away is it from us? Is it coming towards us?" Liu Wen asked a lot of questions right away.

Frog pointed at the star map and said, "They are less than two light hours away from us. There are two escort-class battleships in total, and their energy response is that of a level 4 battleship."

Liu Wen frowned and looked at the collection. He had collected less than half of it, just breaking through 25,000 cubic meters, and was still a long way from 50 million cubic meters.

"Open the restraining force fields of all spacecraft, separate the minerals, and move out of the asteroid belt." Liu Wen made a prompt decision. This place is already close to the asteroid belt. Even if it is pulling more than 200 million cubic meters of minerals, it will only take more than half an hour to rush out if it is accelerated to 15% sub-light speed.

After we leave the asteroid belt, if these aliens dare to chase us out, we will fight them!

Fat Blue and Frog hurriedly used the binding force field to divide the minerals. After sharing them between the transport ship and the two warships, the volume each of them was reduced to only one-fourth. They then began to accelerate and run outward along the route they had been preparing.

The two Yakson escort-class warships had already discovered the Star Fleet, but they were located in the vicinity of the asteroid belt, filled with tumbling asteroids and scattered meteorites as dense as star dust. Sublight speed was already the limit for the spacecraft.

After discovering through radar that the Star Fleet was fleeing, the two captains decided not to chase them any further. After all, they had been dealing with the human mining team for a long time, and it was okay to give them a beating occasionally, but once they were really pushed into a corner, they themselves would face retaliation from the human fleet.

But just as they were about to watch the Star Fleet leave and then return, the radar detector suddenly reported something: one of the target ships was the battleship that had destroyed the mining site and taken away all the psychic minerals.

When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. The two captains, without any discussion, ordered to speed up and catch up. They must leave this human fleet behind. At the same time, they sent the information back to the base. As for the problem of not being able to win, they just have to ensure that they don't let the other party run away, and subsequent reinforcements will arrive soon.

Liu Wen was leading his fleet on the run. He saw through the installed detectors that the two alien warships had actually accelerated again. He immediately urged them to speed up and leave, and also ordered the Xinghai to throw a few camouflaged booby mines behind them.

"Alarm? Where does the alarm come from?" Liu Wen and the other two suddenly received an alarm. After looking around, they realized that it was a warship from the main universe sending the alarm.

Liu Wen quickly asked Fatty Blue to go out and see what was going on. He still had to keep an eye on the fleet and didn't dare to go offline at all.

Not even a minute after Fatty Blue went offline, he came back in and said to Liu Wen in a panic, "Old Liu, something happened on Paradise Island. The butcher from the Blue River Empire is coming with his fleet to Paradise Island and they're almost there!"

"Butcher?" Liu Wen was also shocked. "Wasn't he transferred to the Royal Guard Fleet? Why did he bring the fleet to Paradise Island?"

"No, you'd better get off the line immediately and take the shuttle to the infant nursery to pick up the little foxes. Don't take that gunboat, just take the shuttle, bring your weapons and go quickly. You must pick them up." Liu Wen looked at the alien warships that were still chasing him and getting closer and closer, and cursed in his heart that he came at the wrong time.

(End of this chapter)