Chapter 21 The Pioneers' Panic
Tang Yaqing left the Fire Rock Beast and told Duan Ming that the latest wave of acquisition spaceships would arrive in three days, asking him to pay close attention.
When the Tang family's acquisition spaceship took the first batch of top-quality ice ore away from the Flame Beast, Duan Ming's Universe Pass account also had a considerable income: 300,000 star coins!
When Duan Ming drew the Yishen Star, the Han family wanted to exchange it with him for 20 million. Compared with 20 million, these 300,000 are indeed nothing, but you have to understand that this is just the "fruit of his labor" for a few days. Now Duan Ming has a "gold mine" that can move!
Seeing that there is little ice crystal ore left in front of him, the Fire Rock Beast under his feet has also obviously become a circle larger.
Interstellar creature: Large Fire Rock Beast.
Current level: Level 4.
Experience value: 1038 points/4000 points.
Body length: 502m.
Skills: Absolute obedience, building link.
Trust value: 87/100.
Talent: Swallowing rocks, directional evolution, increased speed.
Fire Rock Beast successfully reached level 4!
Duan Ming murmured: "It's time to make some changes..."
Relying on the energy jet structure and Fire Rock Beast's speed-increasing talent, Duan Ming guided Fire Rock Beast to move towards the next nearest ice crystal belt.
Moving forward in the universe is a very dangerous project. You must be careful of meteorites and stellar fragments that may hit at any time, and be wary of the backhands of other pioneers, not to mention all kinds of known and unknown powerful star beasts.
"Bug Girl, how many worker bees can you control at the same time now?"
The Bug Girl came to Duan Ming, with two short whiskers on her head curled up, with a proud look.
"Master, I can control seventy worker bees at the same time!"
Duan Ming nodded with satisfaction, raised his hand and touched her short whiskers: "As we move forward, you will spread out the worker bees to escort the Fire Rock Beast within a certain range."
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In the next five days, Duan Ming was only responsible for resting leisurely with his eyes closed. When he woke up, he studied the development trend of the Fire Rock Beast. When he was hungry, he had food produced by the food storage, and the rest was left to the Fire Rock Beast and the insect girl.
But Duan Ming obviously overlooked one thing: the feelings of other pioneers.
When he opened the chat area, Duan Ming found that his itinerary had long become a hot headline in the chat area, causing quite a stir.
"Has everyone heard about it? Recently, a group of worker bees were found in our seventh area D area. They seemed to be looking for some prey and surrounded a thousand-meter-long star beast. Be careful if you encounter them!"
"You said so! Just yesterday, that group of worker bees happened to fly over my head and almost scared me to death!"
"Hahaha! The above is amazing! You are too timid, aren't you?"
"Bullshit! Wouldn't you pee if it were you?"
After closing the chat area, Duan Ming frowned. Why does this sound so much like himself? A group of worker bees, a huge star beast, that is, nearly a thousand meters, a little exaggerated...
It's only 733 meters!
At this time, the interstellar call rang. Duan Ming took a look and found that the number was familiar to him, so he answered it.
"Duan Ming? I'm Captain Lindenwan."
Duan Ming was stunned. The military captain who gave him the Tang family number last time?
"I'm Duan Ming. What's the matter, Captain?"
"I need to confirm one thing with you. Are you heading northwest 134 now?"
Duan Ming glanced at his interstellar wrist. The direction shown on it was indeed northwest 134.
"Yes, is there any problem?"
Lindenwan paused for a moment before continuing, "Then I'm relieved. Recently, many pioneers have reported to the military and the government that groups of worker bees have been found in the D area of the seventh domain, causing a certain panic. It should be related to you, right?"
This question is really difficult for Duan Ming to answer.
He would not easily let outsiders know about the existence of the insect girl. He had previously let the worker bees escort the fire rock beast, and he did overlook this point. Now he needs to use an excuse to get away with it.
After thinking for a while, Duan Ming explained: "You mean those mosquitoes? Those are not worker bees, but the research project assigned to me by the institute. These mosquitoes have been radiated by the sun and mutated into something similar to worker bees. No wonder other pioneers made mistakes. You can ask the institute for confirmation!"
After hearing Duan Ming's explanation, Lindenwan breathed a sigh of relief. He had indeed heard about this matter.
"I understand. In this case, I will work with the institute to issue an announcement to eliminate the panic of the pioneers."
After the call was hung up, Lindenwan's efficiency was quite high, and a system announcement sounded in the chat area.
Rumors stop at the wise. In recent days, there has been a panic caused by the gathering of suspected worker bees in the seventh area D. According to this announcement, it is not a worker bee swarm, but a mutated mosquito made by the research project of 7D32C5 pioneer Duan Ming. Please don't worry.
Seeing this announcement, Duan Ming, who was drinking water, suddenly sprayed a mouthful of water, hitting the face of the insect girl in front of him.
The insect girl looked at Duan Ming aggrievedly: "Master, you should brush your teeth..."
No wonder Duan Ming reacted so strongly.
The first bird to stick its head out gets shot. After a short period of silence, the pioneers of the Seventh Domain had forgotten the existence of Duan Ming, and now this announcement has pushed him into everyone's vision.
He shook his head helplessly: "The matter is done, we can only take one step at a time. Improving our strength as soon as possible is the only truth to survive in this star field."
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Looking at the ice crystal belt that he arrived in five days, Duan Ming felt that all his efforts were worth it!
This ice crystal belt is more than ten times larger than the previous one. Not only that, this ice crystal belt not only has ice mines, but also other metal mines.
Touched the back of the Fire Rock Beast: "It's time to improve your food."
The Fire Rock Beast couldn't help but make a few loud noises to respond to Duan Ming's joy.
Release the insect girl's body, let her go to the ice crystal belt to attach herself to the Zerg base, and let the insect girl's clone control the worker bee to carry the ice crystal in front of her and send it to the mouth of the fire rock beast.
The reason why other metal mines were not chosen first was that the current level of the mineral processing center was not high enough to refine multiple minerals at the same time.
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On the other side of this ice crystal belt, several asteroids were gathering together. Zhang Qiang looked at this ice crystal belt.
"Xiao Wu, the image of Duan Ming has not been developed yet?"
Xiao Wu stood not far away, operating an interstellar computer, and a photo was slowly developed from the printer next to it.
When Zhang Qiang saw the image on the photo, the half-smoked cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground.
"Fuck! What the hell is this?"
Xiao Wu also came forward to take a look, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth trembled slightly twice: "Brother Qiang, why don't we go back the same way? We can't beat such a big star beast!"