Chapter 3 The Space Beauty Falls From the Sky!

"Oh? The size has increased, and the curvature of the horizon has also slowed down. It seems that the Fire Rock Beast has grown a lot."

After waking up, Duan Ming first confirmed whether the ground under his feet was stable.

And the Fire Rock Beast did not disappoint him.

Interstellar creature: Large Fire Rock Beast

Current level: Level 2

Experience value: 76 points/200 points (current number of biological buildings: 2, 2 experience points are obtained every 10 minutes. Swallowing rocks can increase the volume and gain additional experience points.)

Body length: 135m

Skills: Absolute obedience, building link

Trust value: 200 (67/100)

Talent: Swallowing rocks, directed evolution

Up to level 2, the skill of swallowing rocks from only one system has increased to two.

Building link allows Fire Rock Beast to manipulate a non-biological building on its body.

"Building link skill activated, target building: Glued plant greenhouse."

The effect of the glued plant greenhouse is to produce glue, which is used to glue other asteroids to the pioneer's base to expand the volume and area.

The Fire Rock Beast felt that a building on its back seemed to have become a part of its body, and it could not help but make a "rumbling" sound happily.

The magma-colored lines gradually spread to the greenhouse, and the adhesive plants that received the heat grew wildly, producing countless adhesives.

These adhesives gradually spread all over the body along the lines on the Fire Rock Beast's back, and the surface quickly dried and hardened, as smooth as floor tiles, as if adding a layer of tough skin to the fragile body.

There are not many interstellar creatures like Fire Rock Beasts. The main reason is that various asteroids often hit it and break its fragile body apart, and lose vital signs.

With this layer of adhesive, it can withstand more violent impacts. As long as the body does not decompose, it can recover by itself even if it is cracked!

The Fire Rock Beast's happy mood is displayed on Duan Ming's pioneer watch through the system.

...

In fact.

Adhesive alone is not enough. Even if every collected asteroid can be glued to the pioneer base, ordinary pioneers still cannot capture distant asteroids.

The way the Earth Union responded to this was to sell "mining claw guns" and "expansion nets".

A large building like a mining claw gun can be used to retract an asteroid after hitting it, just like a shark gun. Its advantage is that it is durable, but its disadvantage is that the recoil when firing will push the development base to other locations, and it is extremely expensive.

The main reason is that it takes a lot of resources to send a building of this size to the asteroid belt, and the earth has an atmosphere, which makes it more difficult to launch large rockets. It can only be purchased from starports on other planets, and the shipping cost is higher.

The expansion net can cover the asteroid and glue it immediately. After that, the pioneers only need to approach the captured asteroid and use the adhesive. The advantages are simple, convenient and cheap, but the disadvantage is that it is not durable and will break down after one or two uses.

However, Duan Ming has a fire rock beast.

As an interstellar creature, the fire rock beast is born with a biological engine and moves slowly in the asteroid belt by controlling gravity.

In this way, Duan Ming saved the money to buy a mining claw gun.

But he still prepared two expansion nets as a backup in case an excellent celestial body floats by and he is unable to capture it.

…

Turn on the radar and scan nearby asteroids.

Ores that could only be seen in textbooks and demonstration videos in the past, such as spar, burning rock, dry charred rock, anorthite, orbelite, hydroborax, ice crystal ore, etc., are now within reach.

The buildings required to refine these minerals are larger than the mining claw cannon, and at least 10,000 square meters of area must be reserved on the development base. Asteroids are originally irregular in shape, and it is still a long way for most pioneers to reserve such a large solid and stable area.

However, Duan Ming has a better way.

"Fire Rock Beast, taste each mineral and report the evolution option to me."

Yes, with each level up, Fire Rock Beast can choose an evolution option. Whether it grows into a large mining space station or a large interstellar biological warship, Fire Rock Beast has unlimited possibilities.

…

Thanks to the air shield generator.

The hum of the resource recycling machine, the crackling of the glued plant fruit, and the rumbling of the blood flowing in the rock beast can all be clearly heard.

Cnidary turrets are biological buildings that make a sound like bubbles.

[Interstellar creatures: Cnidary turrets

Current level: Level 1

Experience points: 0 points/10 points (experience points can be obtained for each attack or kill. If other biological buildings are linked, the experience point acquisition ratio can be increased)

Body length: 4 meters

Skills: None

Trust value: 85/100

Talent: Spike Jet]

[Spike Jet: Spray high-speed bone spikes at a slower frequency to attack distant enemies]

…

Duan Ming opened the chat area, and various pioneers were exchanging their experiences.

"What a pity! I just saw a super-sized asteroid, but I didn't bring an expansion net with me, so I just let it float past!"

"Expansion nets are very cheap. No matter how poor you are, you should bring a few. The same goes for the Earth Alliance. Why can't they give us a few expansion nets as standard?"

"The Earth Alliance only needs your scientific research data. They only care about the admirals of those star ports. Who cares if you are a small pioneer?"

"Wild crystal star beasts are found wandering around K7635Z2 on the star map. Brothers nearby, be careful."

"I forgot to turn on the sunscreen shield when I left the base just now. Now my scalp is red and my hair is starting to fall out. What should I do!?"

Some complained, some asked questions because they didn't learn the knowledge well, some regretted it, and some encountered star beasts and were attacked as soon as they landed. The experiences of the pioneers were different.

Duan Ming looked up at the sky and recalled his experience.

"Wait? What's that in the sky?"

As soon as he looked up, Duan Ming saw a strange-shaped celestial body about one kilometer away, with an outline like a space capsule!

He quickly took out the telescope and saw that the space capsule was as round as an egg. There was a pretty woman in the light green translucent life-sustaining liquid. She was wearing what looked like ancient armor, or perhaps a life-sustaining device.

This space capsule was different from any survival capsule Duan Ming had learned, and the color of the life-sustaining liquid was unheard of, but he immediately decided to save it!

Although he didn't know how this space capsule drifted to the asteroid belt, if he continued to let it drift around, it would sooner or later hit an asteroid and break apart!

The people inside were in extreme danger now!

"Fire Rock Beast, do you see that space capsule? Come closer!"

The lava-like blood of the Fire Rock Beast made another rumbling sound, indicating that it knew.

"Faster, can you go faster! Cnidocyte turret, fire spikes to the back! Use the recoil to accelerate the Fire Rock Beast!"

The Cnidocyte turret obeyed the order, changed direction, and fired spikes.

The Fire Rock Beast approached little by little, causing ripples in the gravitational field.