Chapter 33: How to Deal with It

However, the test just now was not without good news for Chen Ming.

First of all, Chen Ming could be sure that the mental pulses produced by the mental pulse generator were not directional, otherwise he should have felt the influence of the mental pulses throughout the whole process.

Secondly, Chen Ming could see through the video recording of the spacecraft camera.

When he found that the mechanical race had hostile behavior, he chose to fire back immediately, and nearly half of the bullets fired by the machine gun hit the target.

Although the bullets that hit the two combat mechanical races were almost all bounced off by the seemingly worn-out armor and had no effect.

But the bullets that hit the mental pulse device at the back did damage part of its shell.

Even if that little damage seemed to be repaired by the four-handed repair mechanical race immediately.

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

And Chen Ming's goal was not to kill the mechanical race from the beginning, but to destroy the mental pulse device so that his hunting could continue.

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

Chen Ming also at least thickened the armor of the spacecraft to the extent that the large electromagnetic weapon could not penetrate it with one shot, so that the spacecraft could hold out in the hands of the two mechanical clans until the equipment was destroyed.

Chen Ming opened the panel of the spacecraft armor.

The modification interface was opened.

There were four modification options displayed above.

[Heavy Armor], [Explosive Reactive Armor], [Multi-layer Buffer Armor] and [Armor Material Replacement].

If you want to deal with the mechanical clan's weapons with exaggerated penetration ability, [Heavy Armor] or [Armor Material Replacement] is obviously very suitable.

However, Chen Ming can't get materials with higher strength than aluminum-steel composite materials now.

So he can only choose [Heavy Armor] from these two options.

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

At the cost of losing a certain degree of maneuverability of the spacecraft, in exchange for stronger defensive performance.

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

The number of materials required for the modification of the spacecraft armor is very large, which is completely not on the same order of magnitude as the materials required for the previous modification of the pistol.

But half a month has passed since Chen Ming landed on the planet from space, and most of the metal resources collected at the time have been consumed in transformation and maintenance.

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

However, Chen Ming immediately thought of a compromise.

That is to use the advantages of the spacecraft on hand.

Chen Ming saw the three mechanical families clearly before. They did not have components such as wings or jetpacks, which means that they were restricted to the ground.

And the spacecraft can fly, as long as the attitude of the spacecraft is adjusted so that only the bottom of the spacecraft is facing the mechanical families.

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

It can save a lot of time to obtain materials for transformation.

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

But there is another problem in front of Chen Ming.

Should he go to space to obtain enough materials for transformation at one time and then land.

Or should he choose to take time to go to the sky and collect minerals in the asteroid ring during the usual work, such as at night.

Chen Ming is thinking.

What I have to do is definitely to complete my goal as the first priority.

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

Going to space to collect ore at one time is indeed faster than solving the two problems of spacecraft armor modification and destroying the mind pulse equipment.

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

The guaranteed food will not be eaten.

So after careful consideration, Chen Ming still thinks it is best to continue hunting during the day.

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

To be honest, as long as the next hunting can be successful one or two times, Chen Ming can completely ignore the farmland, the camp, the mechanical race and their mind pulse equipment and run away directly.

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

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

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

It is basically unlikely that farmland will be destroyed by animals in the middle of the night.

So launching the spacecraft at night is also a choice to fully play the role of the spacecraft.

The only drawback of this approach is that the spacecraft repeatedly enters and exits the atmosphere, which greatly increases the demand for fuel.

Chen Ming didn't want to worry about the fuel problem at this time. Anyway, if there is no fuel, he can go to the space station to get it. The space station has plenty of fuel.

After considering almost all the issues that need to be considered, Chen Ming put his attention back to the present.

In fact, his first attempt just now should be considered successful.

Knowing the situation of the mechanical race and their equipment, and knowing that the armor of the spacecraft can't withstand a shot from the mechanical race's large electromagnetic weapons.

If I modify the spacecraft, the next time I come here, I will still be as embarrassed as now.

Then Chen Ming will decisively give up the idea of ​​​​making trouble for the mechanical race at the moment.

Choose a safer but slower way to get food, and then make plans.

The spacecraft returned to the temporary camp soon.

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

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

The mind pulse generator that cannot be handled for the time being should not have any fatal impact on him at least in the short term.

After experiencing a mental pulse, Xiao Shi seemed to recover from anxiety much faster.

As long as he could survive the next few days, he would not have to suffer from mental pulses anymore.

The day passed quickly.

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

Near the abandoned mining space station that was still in ruins, the highest priority for mining was set to the most common iron ore.

Then Chen Ming activated the spacecraft's automatic collection function.