Chapter 11 Rare Ore

The asteroid with a 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 crushed the minerals, and the traction device captured the crushed ore and transported it to the smelting furnace.

The ore inside was precipitated according to the different melting temperatures of different materials.

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

All the processes went as smoothly as yesterday.

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

It was a little more than the amount of aluminum dug last night.

Such efficiency made Chen Ming excited and asked the scanner to continue scanning the next asteroid.

However, after turning on the scan again, there were no asteroids with such a high aluminum content nearby.

But this is the normal situation. Although Chen Ming felt a little sorry, he didn't bother too much.

Continue to drive the spacecraft and fly to the next asteroid containing important metal minerals.

Today will be a busy day.

Scanning, analysis, mining, smelting, and transportation.

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

Moreover, Chen Ming needs to concentrate on the meteorites that pop out from behind the asteroid from time to time.

After a day, not only the brain and eyes, but also the hands and feet are a little out of control.

However, the corresponding harvest is also quite a lot.

The efficiency of mining in the area with dense asteroids is very high. Not only is the mineral content inside each asteroid very high, but the time spent on moving between different targets is also much less than near the space station.

Even if the asteroid with a very high aluminum content is excluded, the amount of minerals collected today is almost equal to the amount of minerals collected in three consecutive nights.

Today, half of the materials needed to repair the landing module have been collected during the day and last night.

According to this progress, Chen Ming will be able to find a landing site on the planet Ramu below at the latest the day after tomorrow.

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

That's about it for today. My body and spirit have reached their limits and I have to rest.

I will continue tomorrow, and tomorrow I can try to enter the area with more dense asteroids.

The mining efficiency may be higher.

After Chen Ming made plans, he was ready to withdraw from this area and return to the vicinity of the space station.

However, at this time, Chen Ming suddenly found that the scanner seemed to have found an asteroid that was surrounded by many asteroids and whose internal structure could not be scanned.

Chen Ming's expression suddenly became serious.

There are many possibilities that the interior of this asteroid cannot be scanned by the scanner.

But there are only two biggest possibilities.

One is that it has some rare ore inside that cannot be scanned by the more basic asteroid scanning detector such as the Iron Ore.

The second is that it has something like the asteroid that could not be scanned when it was collected by the mining space station, which seems to be named Thorn Zerg.

Of course, Chen Ming actually knew that the probability of the latter was not much higher than that of the former.

But Chen Ming had just seen the miserable state 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 he still didn't intend to miss this opportunity.

Since he had already decided to give up his company identity and go to the pirate space station.

Then his personal terminal must not be used at will, and the salary in the salary card is the same.

But Chen Ming has always understood that it is absolutely impossible to be without money, so he needs some start-up capital.

According to local conditions, these rare minerals are the best first pot of gold for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming also knows the dangers involved.

So Chen Ming's plan is to use the mining laser to irrigate from a long distance first.

Irrigate through the stone layer of the outer layer of the asteroid to see what is inside.

If it is a normal mineral, it will be pulled 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 fired under Chen Ming's control, shattering the other asteroids that were tightly surrounding the asteroid.

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

The laser weakened after a certain distance, and only shattered a small part of the asteroid's shell, while the inside of the asteroid had no reaction.

Chen Ming stopped the mining laser upon seeing this, and then saw a dark blue ore with a metallic luster at the place where the laser shattered.

The mining laser of the spacecraft had no way to shatter these dark blue ores at this distance.

The asteroid seemed to have lost some momentum due to the shattered rocks, 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 rotated, the laser was used to remove all the rock layers that wrapped the internal minerals.

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

It seemed that there was no problem.

The asteroid was not large in size. After the outer layer of rock was crushed, the remaining part could not fit a complete insect.

Even the half-human-sized insect eggs that Chen Ming had seen before could only barely squeeze in, and it was not known where part of the external tissue of the egg would be exposed.

This was really an asteroid containing rare minerals.

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

Some people were looking forward to what this dark blue metal ore would look like after smelting.

It's just...

Chen Ming looked at the mining laser that was almost right next to the dark blue ore, and couldn't even leave a mark on the ore. He didn't know what to say.

The strength of his spaceship's mining laser seemed a little insufficient.

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

[Type II mining laser]

[Manufacturer: Sinda Rockwell Mining Company]

[Strength: Level 2]

[Applicable environment: basic metal ore]

[Durability: 89%]

[Performable operations: Replace/repair/transform]

The mining laser is also a product of this subsidiary called Sinda.

The second level of strength on the panel allows it to collect most basic minerals, but it obviously doesn't work for the dark blue mineral in front of it.

"Wait, what is transformation?"

Chen Ming suddenly noticed that the column of executable operations on the panel had an option that he had never seen before, transformation.

Chen Ming subconsciously wondered if this was something he had read before and then got an extra copy of the modification books.

Chen Ming was a little unsure, so he thought about it and reached out to click it.

[Reconstruction options: Type II mining laser]

[Advanced lens] [Energy focusing ring] [Frequency oscillation]