Chapter 10 Asteroid Rings

The next day.

The first thing Chen Ming did after waking up.

It was to empty the temporary storage space of the smelting furnace in the working cabin that was full, so that it could continue to work.

Although the smelting furnace would automatically discharge the metal ingots inside after the space was full.

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

After spending some time to deal with the messy metal ingots, Chen Ming returned to the living cabin to wash up and regain his spirits.

He returned to the storage cabin and counted the gains during his rest time.

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

In addition, there were some scattered metal ore products, the weight of which was basically between a few hundred grams and a few kilograms.

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

Such results made Chen Ming nod slightly.

It takes about an hour to collect an asteroid.

If the rest time for one night is counted, the consumption of flying in the middle, it is beyond his expectation to have so much harvest.

Although the iron collected is not valuable, the amount of other metal minerals is not too small.

At this efficiency, even if he only works around the mining space station, he 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 planetary orbit data and the space station's revolution data around the planet this afternoon.

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

After that, he 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 advanced.

But Chen Ming has to pay more attention in the future.

The probability of obtaining asteroids with high mineral content in the asteroid ring 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 weapon guidance system of the spacecraft needs to lock the asteroid and smash it in advance.

Some fragmented stones are just tickling for the armor of the spacecraft as long as they are not too fast.

But to be honest, Chen Ming thinks this guidance system is a bit unreliable.

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

This means that there may be errors in the image scanning process, and it is very likely that some asteroids will be missed.

This requires Chen Ming to pay more attention.

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

After a mental exhaustion, the metal ingot melted into a liquid with a metallic luster and seeped out of the hull. Just flowing through it can restore the armor to its original state.

The pieces of armor exuded a heavy color again. Even though Chen Ming had seen it twice, he still felt a little incredible.

Of course, Chen Ming did not repair all the damage to the spacecraft armor at once, as that would make him a little exhausted.

So he just restored the durability of all the spacecraft armor to more than 70%, so that it could at least withstand a few asteroid impacts.

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

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

At noon, he took a short break to get enough energy.

At about 2 pm, which Chen Ming set himself, the spacecraft suddenly prompted that the space station's orbit had been locked.

Chen Ming, who was a little sleepy because of his nap, suddenly became energetic.

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

All the external cameras on the spacecraft were spread around, and all directions outside the spacecraft could be seen without blind spots.

Chen Ming really couldn't think of any way to solve the guidance system error in the whole morning except to repair the armor so that the spacecraft could withstand a few more asteroid impacts.

So in the end, he had to do this, controlling the flight of the spacecraft himself and assisting in the control of the weapon guidance system.

He would make up for the asteroids that the computer missed, and the computer would make up for the ones he missed.

If neither he nor the computer saw it, there would be no other way.

The spacecraft could still withstand a few hits.

Chen Ming moved around a little in his chair and became familiar with the overall control of the spacecraft.

Even if he had to distract himself to control the two turrets, he had to operate the spacecraft's own movement at the same time and pay attention to all the cameras on the outside of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming didn't feel awkward or flustered at all.

It was as if he was the brain of the spacecraft, and all the equipment on the spacecraft were his organs, and he could use them as if he were his own arms.

Dividing his mind into two parts was nothing compared to what Chen Ming was doing now.

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

At a certain distance from the space station, he found an area of ​​asteroid rings with medium density.

After all, it was the first time to actually control the spacecraft and weapons to enter a dangerous place, so Chen Ming thought it would be better to be safe.

After gaining experience and becoming proficient in controlling the spacecraft, he would go to more dangerous places with denser asteroids to collect minerals.

After a period of flight.

The spacecraft entered the area with a medium number of asteroids scanned in advance from the side close to the space station.

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

Soon, the scanner found an asteroid that looked ordinary in appearance, but the scan results showed that the aluminum content inside was very high.

Chen Ming immediately moved the spacecraft closer.

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

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

At the same time, the automation system of the working cabin was executing, and soon the asteroid that entered the traction range was captured.

Although the working cabin can work under Chen Ming's conscious control, a working cabin will not burden Chen Ming to control the operation of the spaceship.

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

After all, if you do one thing for a long time, your attention may be scattered, not to mention two things that need to be done for a long time at the same time without mistakes.

Chen Ming also chose the most reliable way in this regard.

The purpose is to make his previous plan proceed smoothly and step by step.