The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons Chapter 11

  Chapter 11 Mining

   Almost didn't stop, he recalled the mining base he saw when he first came to the asteroid belt, and this is not a mining base, maybe he can try it.

   Flying out of the asteroid belt, turned around in the direction of memory, and quickly found the mining base.

   Still in the same way, they started outside the detection range of the opponent's radar and stole the three mine **** that were circulating around the mining base.

  This mining base is even bigger than the previous one. There are nearly 30 frigates in the **** team, but unfortunately, only three mine **** are placed around the base.

  But this is not a problem. What requirements does Bailai Mine Energy have?

  Next, I continued to change places and walked around the asteroid belt. After the fourth hour, I discovered the third mining base, and found that there were eight huge mineral **** around the mining base.

but

  This mining base is larger than the previous two, and the most important thing is that his radar is even stronger than his own. He was discovered as soon as he got close to the maximum detection range of the radar, and then a destroyer and a dozen frigates rushed over.

   There is no way, this can only run, slow down and be overtaken by destroyers may not be able to run.

The basic speed of the frigate is only 130,000 kilometers per hour, and the basic speed of the destroyer is 140,000 kilometers per hour. According to the radar configured in this mining base, there is a high probability that the third-level weapons and accessories have been deployed on a large scale, and the speed of the third-generation propeller is already comparable to On him, as long as there are other acceleration accessories or skill bonuses, the speed may be a little faster than him.

   Given that destroyers are much more powerful than frigates, once caught, he might not even be able to run away.

  But although this mining base can't be done, the base can't run here. Li Qing plans to go around this galaxy first, and then go to the outer asteroid belt after the inner asteroid belt is completed.

When chatting with Yang Yunbo and others before, I heard them say that there are more than a dozen mining bases on the asteroids in the outer ring, and they all ran to harvest a wave. Then they can go home and sell the mines. It is not a problem to sell hundreds of millions , when the time comes, this frigate can be strengthened.

  For the next whole week, he wandered around in this asteroid belt, looking for possible mining bases.

   It really made him find two mining bases, and he couldn't be found in either.

   But the problem is that one of the mining bases is estimated to have just expanded a round, and the ore is used up, and only one ore ball has been accumulated, and the other has accumulated four, which adds up to five.

  After that, no other mining bases were found, but many pirate raiders and gunboats wandering in the asteroid belt.

   When they saw the single ones, they went up. Lin Lin always killed seven pirate gunboats, lost more than 200 electromagnetic gun metal shells and thousands of machine gun shells, and received dozens of pieces of wreckage, worth thousands of stars.

   This left him speechless on the spot.

  Go back to the base for simple repairs, gain some maintenance experience, set off again, and fly to the outer ring of the galaxy.

"too difficult."

   On the way, Li Qing calculated the income and expenditure of these days. In the past few months, he had paid tens of millions in wages alone, and he still had no income.

  If you exclude the ore **** that were stolen by cheating this month, the income from mining by a single mining ship seems to be about 20 to 30 million. After deducting the time cost, there is no profit at all.

People like Yang Yunbo have been here for so long, each of them has a mining fleet, and the one with the largest number is Yang Yunbo, who has been here for the longest time. There is one large, four medium, and thirty-eight small mining ships under his command. In the fleet, there are one large, three medium and three small transport ships.

   In addition, he also established planetary material collection mines on several barren planets in the galaxy.

   With the support of these incomes, he can afford one cruiser, one destroyer and five frigates.

  Of course, this doesn't mean that Yang Yunbo can only afford so much. With so much income from mining ships, he can afford to raise another one and so many, but he didn't raise them.

  He is just an individual player who only wants to make money. His greatest wish is to make a lot of money and become a local tyrant in a small place. He has no interest in such things as conquering the stars and the sea.

   Being able to keep a cruiser is mainly used to deal with the wild monsters that occasionally spawn near the base and mines. The ship is too small and some wild monsters can't handle it.

  The other players have the same idea as Yang Yunbo. They are all individual players who only focus on making money.

  Six people raised a total of three cruisers, eight destroyers, and more than forty frigates, and a total of hundreds of large, medium and small mining ships were needed.

  Li Qing calculated carefully, not counting weapons and ammunition, the crew salaries and basic maintenance costs alone cost tens of millions per month.

   "Outrageous!"

   "Those military masters have a division-level fleet, how much should they spend every month?"

  Li Qing himself was born in the military master family, so of course he knows the size and composition of the fleet. A division-level fleet has at least 5 Titan super flagships, and between 20-30 flagships, including dreadnoughts and Dahang.

  About 2,500 battleships, usually the elite template Crusader class, and occasionally the excellent template Lord class heavy battleship.

  About 7,500 cruisers, most of them are elite template patroller class and excellent template night watchman class mixed, and occasionally there will be night demon class battlecruisers whose combat effectiveness is not inferior to standard battleships.

   There are about 25,000 or so destroyers. Elite template hurricane level, excellent template storm level.

   There are about 100,000 frigates, the elite template Raptor class, and the excellent template Black Hawk class.

It is worth mentioning that the division-level fleet specification is only a standard module, and different military masters will adjust it according to the situation. Some may use more large and medium-sized ships such as cruisers and destroyers, and some may be the main force. Develop battleships.

  With so many warships, the frigate alone theoretically requires 100 billion stars in salary and maintenance fees per month, plus other warship expenses, the monthly salary alone is probably more than 400 billion.

  However, compared to the income of the powerful and warlord, it is nothing.

   After all, with a population of tens of billions and billions of players, there is no way to know how much to collect every month just for tax collection. Adding other industries, it is still more than enough to raise a division-level fleet.

   "There is a long way to go!"

  Li Qing clicked his tongue, lamenting how difficult it would be to raise a huge fleet by himself.

   There must be a huge power support, just like a team and a legion. This is to gather the strength of everyone to stand up to those military masters.

  Although the overall combat power varies greatly, any legion is already qualified to threaten the military master.

After all, there are tens of thousands of warships in total. Although they are just mobs in the eyes of the military masters, if a battle is fought, even if they win, they will lose a lot. , or even direct shares.

  Like the Qinghe Li family, in addition to the fleet within the family, each house has its own support army, which can be pulled out and put into the battlefield at critical times. This is their potential strength.

  Li Qing sent a message in the communication channel, to the effect that he wanted to go around the outer asteroid belt.

   Some of the more than a dozen wild monster mining bases in this asteroid belt are not far from their mining area, and they may be discovered by them, so let me tell you in advance to avoid misunderstanding.

   This time he didn't run around blindly, because he had coordinates. Yang Yunbo and others saw them by chance before, and recorded them casually. They passed them along when they gave him the coordinates of the nearby star map. He didn't have to run around, and went straight to the coordinate destination.

  Two hours later, the frigate appeared in a mixed group of asteroid belts.

  The fast-moving meteorite gave him the best cover, and he continued to steal the ore ball from a long distance like a trick.

  One, two, four, until the fifth day, he stole all the **** from the 11 wild monster mining bases on the coordinates in one go.

Not surprisingly, most of the radar sensors in these wild monster mining bases are inferior to him, only two are similar to him, and they were detected early by the shipboard radars of the two destroyers, but he took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy destroyers patrolling to the other side, Steal quickly, turn around and run when the destroyer reacts.

  Wait to get rid of the pursuers, and then return to continue.

   It took more than a dozen times to steal it.

   Among the 11 wild monster mining bases, the least two accumulated mineral **** are the most, and the most are eight. There are a total of 42 **** in total, plus the 14 **** accumulated before, a total of 56 balls.

The price of a single piece is not clear. After all, in addition to iron ore, there are also a lot of gray spar, silver spar and limestone, and there are also a small amount of copper-like ore, gneiss, crystalline quartz-like crystals and the like. , the most valuable of which is that one of the ore **** is full of silver-like ore, which looks like a huge gray-silver ductile iron from a distance.

  The raw ore price of quasi-silver ore is 78 star yuan per side, and that of quasi-iron ore is 15 star yuan per side, a full five times the price, which means that one mine ball can be compared to five ordinary mine balls.

  Back to the base, it was only a few days before Xia Qi agreed to go to the Burning Phantom Galaxy to sell mines, but there was a problem that stumped Li Qing.

   There are 56 mineral **** with a diameter of about five kilometers. How should they be transported there?

   It is a good idea to use the way of towing to transport it. Industrial ships also have this equipment to tow, but small industrial ships do not have that capacity, and they cannot be pulled at all. This is at least the capacity of large industrial ships.

  Although there is no resistance in the starry sky, even a large planet can pull it theoretically.

  But the theory is just a theory. In fact, even if the big planet can be forced out of orbit, within the range of the star's gravitational well, under the constraints of the strong star's gravitational force, it cannot be pulled at all.

It is not realistic to ask Xia Qi and the others to borrow them. The transport ships they have are all bought according to their own ability. It may be no problem to borrow such a small transport ship, but the 56 mineral **** he has on hand are not enough for a few small transport ships. have to go.

   Crushing and refining is a good idea, but I only have one set of refining equipment, the output is too small, and there is no time.

   "What a headache!"

  Li Qing didn't expect that he would be troubled by this. When he came out of the Jinmen galaxy, he never thought that he would encounter such a problem.

  The original idea was that even if there is a large amount of mines, they can be put into the palm universe first, and then they will be reloaded in an unmanned galaxy near the Jinmen galaxy, and they will be sold back and forth again and again, which will only take a little more time.

  But there is no way to do this here. There are only so many individual players in this star field, which can be said to be one of the few. He keeps selling back and forth, and it is easy to be noticed.

   Having been troubled by this problem for two whole days, Li Qing finally.

   It's not a flash of inspiration, but after considering countless possibilities, I naturally came up with a cover-up method.

   As we all know, there is a treasure called Relic in the sea of ​​stars.

   This kind of thing is also called ancient relic, the conditions for its formation are extremely harsh, and it is very precious.

  Because the conditions for the formation of ancient relics are extremely complex and elusive, the types of relics are also unpredictable. As long as conditions permit, anything can form relics and thus have magical effects.

  Then here comes the important point.

  Li Qing is thinking carefully, considering that this thing will always be exposed in the future, instead of covering it up and letting others guess, it is better to show it yourself.

  It is better to control the displayed functions and effects by yourself than others to guess.

  At least others know that this is just a relic with a huge space. There may be greedy people, but they will definitely not be big people.

  Big people maintain their identities and cherish their reputations. At least it is impossible for them to rob things before the benefits are not enough to make them give up the reputation they have maintained for a long time.

   It is worth mentioning that some treasures such as relics cannot be snatched, and some can be snatched, but the conditions are very strict.

   Among them, the inalienable belongs to no matter what you do, you can't get it even if you kill the master of the relic.

What can be robbed is also extremely harsh. First, a very powerful psychic must be found to suppress the treasure, and then find a treasure called a psychic crystal, which is left behind by the powerful psychic after death Psionic energy and soul crystallization.

   It is necessary to melt this psionic energy and crystallize it into a psionic liquid to wrap the relic, cut off the connection between the relic and its owner, and then kill the owner of the relic.

  This kill means to kill completely.

   It is well known that players can be resurrected after death, but they will lose a certain amount of life depending on the cause of death in battle. Only when all life is exhausted can they be considered completely dead.

  Three elements of deprivation of heritage:

   Very powerful psyker.

  The soul crystallization of a powerful psyker.

   Completely kill the Lord of Relics.

  The combination of the three can forcibly seize a relic.

  Of course, this refers to the relics that have already recognized their owners. If they are unrecognized relics, the difficulty of capturing them will be greatly reduced. If you kill the owner of the relics within a period of time, they will drop directly.

  In addition, some special relics themselves do not have the function of identifying their owners. Anyone who owns them can use them and trade them. The deprivation conditions are as simple as this.

  Most low-level relics do not have the function of identifying the owner, and only a few special relics and high-level relics have the function of identifying the owner.

  Li Qing publicized that this relic has recognized its owner, and that it has a single function, only a huge independent space, and has no combat function, so as to minimize the number of coveters.

so.

  (end of this chapter)

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