My ship can be upgraded

The quality of the asteroid belt in this asteroid belt mining area in the airspace near KQ-03 is not high, but even if it is a low-level energy crystal, Wang Dong does not dislike it.

What’s more, in the early stage, the system’s demand for low-level energy crystallization is higher.

Continuing deeper into the mining area, thirty minutes later, the Minemaster II slowly slowed down.

“It should be almost.”

Wang Dong estimated the depth of the depth.

Further inside, even with the driving skills he brought back from his rebirth, it would be a little reluctant.

In fact, if it weren’t for energy crystallization, Wang Dong would not have gone deep into the mining area to this extent.

Valuable minerals like energy crystals have a greater chance of being deep than the periphery of the asteroid belt ore area.

Outside the mining area, it is visited more often, and even if there is energy crystallization, the probability of being taken away by people is very high.

Switch the mode of the probe to mineral exploration, and Wang patiently controls the spacecraft to swim.

The stream of particles emitted by the probe’s external antenna is kept aligned with the target, and depending on the size and texture of the object being explored, the search report will be formed for different lengths.

While carefully paying attention to the surrounding airspace environment, Wang Dong manipulated the spacecraft to maintain a relatively stable flight attitude to ensure that the detection particle stream did not detach from the target celestial body.

It’s a technical job.

Of course, it is also individual work.

Not every asteroid, or asteroid fragment, contains minerals.

Moreover, the value of minerals varies from one mineral to another, depending on the type.

“Such a large volume, 32 seconds to get the result, the probability is garbage. Sure enough, iron ore. ”

“28 seconds, ha, copper mine, garbage.”

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Talking to oneself, one of the common habits of interstellar miners.

The complex celestial environment in the mining area of the asteroid belt makes long-distance communication difficult.

In this case, using self-talk to relieve emotions such as tension or anxiety has become a natural choice.

Over the next hour, Wang Dong carefully checked the small celestial bodies that might have minerals in the nearby airspace one by one.

The results are not encouraging.

Not to mention the energy crystallization he hoped for, even the mineral species with relatively high value were not found.

However, Wang Dong was not discouraged in the slightest.

Miners.

Even interstellar miners are just as bitter.

You don’t see the miner’s song.

“One, two, three, four, five, mining is really hard, all dug is copper, the purity is five.”

Interstellar miners are similar.

In the interstellar era, conventional minerals like copper and iron are really worthless.

However, these minerals are often the most abundant.

This cheap mineral alone, even if the cargo hold is filled every time, will not make any profit.

Mining also requires capital.

Just spending an hour sifting is nothing.

After probing the nearby area, Wang moved the eight-way rudder and began to shift positions.

Luck came.

Just change the area and it turns out a lot better.

“85 seconds, good guys, gas mine.”

……

“112 seconds, haha, look what I find, Yu Titanite!”

More than forty minutes later, Wang Dong made a good discovery.

Gas is a condensate gas mine, which is expensive, thousands of times higher than copper or iron ore.

The pylorite is even more unusual, this silvery-white metal after refining, with extremely high toughness and hardness, is a high-quality material for battleship armor.

Its price is thirty times that of gas mines!

In Wang Dong’s experience, in addition to energy crystallization, titanite is one of the most valuable mineral species in this asteroid belt mining area.

Although Wang Dong’s main goal is energy crystallization, there must be some normal harvests.

This piece of titanite came just in time.

Skillfully adjusting its flight attitude, the Mine II aimed its broad belly at the asteroid where the mine was located.

This is a guy with a diameter of more than three hundred meters, not too big, but it is also close to the upper limit of the processing of the second type of minemaster.

Next is the key.

Wang Dong wanted to get the Minemaster II close to a distance of less than 100 meters, so that the magnetic lasso could catch the core of the asteroid.

No matter how small the asteroid is, its mass is also a behemoth compared to the Mine Type II.

At such a close distance, the gravitational relationship between the two is enough to affect the flight attitude of the Minemaster II.

If you accidentally hit an asteroid, it will be a big trouble.

This is the interior of the asteroid belt.

After the impact, both Minemaster II and the asteroid may be affected, change the trajectory, and fall into a gravitational turbulence.

Wang Dong is not a novice, and he has not yet reached the real depths of the asteroid belt, and with his technique, he is at ease.

The eight-way rudder in his hand, constantly slightly operating the eight directions of the hull to adjust the engine, the Mine Master II smoothly and firmly continues to slowly approach the asteroid.

The disturbance of gravity on the flight attitude is often offset by the micromanipulation of the azimuth adjustment engine in the first place.

There is no need to deliberately calculate, nor to look at the general data prompts on the shipboard light brain, relying on the subconscious reaction, Wang Dong completed the entire approach process perfectly.

The instinct of interstellar miners has long been familiar to the body.

After aligning and approaching the asteroid, the abdomen of the Mine II opened widely.

First, four large magnetic lassoes are magnetically bound to the asteroid as a whole after catching it.

The process is five minutes.

After completion, Wang Dong slightly released the eight-way rudder in his hand.

Magnetic binding temporarily unites the Minemaster II and the target asteroid, which is a prerequisite for the entire mining operation process.

The next process is much simpler.

From the belly of the Minemaster II, multiple large mining drill bits stick out and follow the mineral distribution detected by previous probes to begin destructive mining of the asteroid in front of you.

There is no need to worry about the deformation or abnormal displacement of the asteroid during this process, or the random scattering of debris.

With the aid of magnetic restraint, these are not a problem.

Mining drill bits made of high-strength alloys are the most expensive components on the entire Minemaster II.

Driven by a powerful engine, the mining drill bit devastated and peeled off the outer rock of the asteroid and plunged deep into the asteroid at a fairly fast speed.

More than five hours later, with the assistance of the ship’s photobrain, the mining drill bit completed the operation on the entire asteroid.

In the cargo hold of the Minba II type, there are more than 100 tons of titanium.

The asteroid in front of you, with one-eighth of its components, has turned into an aggregate of scattered rocks.

Although there is still a lot of volume left, the titanite contained in it has been completely mined.

Wang Dong leisurely operated the Mine Ba II, first put away the mining drill bit, and then withdrew the magnetic lasso.

Then push the eight-way rudder and quickly leave the asteroid.

After a few minutes, the asteroid whose magnetic confinement inertia disappeared, scattered a large number of scattered rock blocks around, and its own trajectory began to deviate.

This sets off some chain reactions nearby.

Wang Dong has long since left.

This is the daily work of interstellar miners.

Brutal and direct, yet delicate and discreet.