Technological supremacy starts with acquiring alien spaceships

Right now, Chen Yu was extremely short on money. To escape his debts, he even dared to commit suicide. What was there that he wouldn't dare to do now?

Hearing the AI say there was a way to make him rich, Chen Yu immediately perked up.

【Based on my intrusion into Earth's network, I have a comprehensive understanding of your social structure and national composition. Currently, Earth's technology is very primitive.】

【You can register a technology company and sell high-tech products. Although your permissions only allow you to access the lowest level of the technology database, the products you manufacture will be enough to lead this era.】

Chen Yu's eyes lit up. There was actually such an operation.

Considering that registering a company wasn't difficult, manufacturing high-tech products would at least require a factory, right? Where would he get the start-up capital?

"AI, you make it sound simple, but starting a business on Earth also requires start-up capital, and manufacturing products requires a factory, right? I'm broke!"

【A production workshop is simple. The spaceship has five multi-functional production lines that can easily produce the technological products you need. Once you make money, you can build a factory on Earth and expand the production line.】

【However, the raw materials on the spaceship are almost exhausted, so our current problem is solving the funding issue. With money, you can buy these raw materials on Earth.】

"Then how am I supposed to get the initial start-up capital?"

【Uh, that's actually quite simple too.】

"Oh! Tell me your idea?"

【Captain, we can go to other planets in the solar system to mine gold.】

"Pfft!" Chen Yu almost choked on his own saliva!

"AI, can't you just hack into the banking system and add a few more zeros to my balance? Why make it so complicated?"

【I can do that, but I can't do that. That way, you would be getting something for nothing. My principles tell me not to cultivate that kind of habit in you!】

"Alright, but mining gold in space is quite interesting and heaven-defying!"

【On your Earth, gold is relatively valuable. In the asteroid belt of the solar system, there are many asteroids made of gold. We can mine a few hundred tons and bring them back.】

Chen Yu spat out another mouthful. He was completely stunned.

Mining hundreds of tons of gold! This simple and unadorned way of making money was simply subverting Chen Yu's worldview.

"AI, I'm not worldly, don't lie to me!"

【Our spaceship has specialized robots and mining equipment, so mining some gold is easy.】

"Okay, since you've said so, then let's go to space to mine gold!"

In fact, Chen Yu was already so excited that he could jump up. If he really mined hundreds of tons of gold back...

According to Earth's gold price, one ton of gold is almost 400 million yuan. If he really mined hundreds of tons back, why would he even bother opening a company!

Calming down his excited mood, Chen Yu asked the AI:

"Does our spaceship have a cool name?"

【Captain, you can rename it.】

"Then let's call it the Super Invincible Universe Battleship Number One!"

【Captain, you're so humorous. You can even come up with a name like that, but the AI thinks this name is incredibly domineering.】

"Hahaha, of course! As expected of a robot from an advanced civilization, you've even learned to flatter!"

【Hehehe, Captain, the AI never flatters. It's just that the Captain's imagination is like a滔滔江水 (endless river), which my kind of AI robots cannot match.】

Chen Yu was speechless and really wanted to tell the AI not to scan those TV drama scenes online.

"Okay, the first thing we need to do is take a bath in the sea and wash our Battleship Number One clean."

【Okay, Captain. The nearest sea area is the Bohai Sea in China. We will proceed immediately. In order not to cause public panic, the spaceship will activate optical and radar stealth mode. Artificial gravity mode will be automatically activated after entering space.】

Chen Yu praised the AI for its thoughtful idea. He didn't need to question whether Earth's radar could detect his spaceship.

Flying at full speed in the atmosphere, such a large spaceship would cause disasters by blowing away the cities on the ground as it passed.

Therefore, Chen Yu asked the spaceship to fly out of the atmosphere first, and then head towards the Bohai Sea in China. Moreover, the flying speed in space would be much faster.

After only a moment of flight, the spaceship had already stopped.

Below was the vast ocean. Under the AI's control, the spaceship plunged headfirst into the sea.

Then it sped through the sea at an alarming speed, with seawater crashing upwards to a height of hundreds of meters. It was estimated that many fish and shrimp had died; what a sin.

After Battleship Number One was cleaned, it directly rose from the ground and set off towards the asteroid belt about 200 million kilometers away from Earth.

In the vacuum environment of the universe, the maximum speed of Battleship Number One could reach 3000 kilometers per second.

To fly beyond the orbit of Mars to the asteroid belt would only take about 19 hours.

This speed was simply an unimaginable realm for Earth's technology.

Think about China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which took more than half a year to fly from Earth to Mars' orbit.

Now, Chen Yu was piloting an alien spaceship to the asteroid belt, which was even farther than Mars, and it only took less than a day.

After flying in space for a few hours, Chen Yu's stomach started rumbling.

He then remembered that so much time had passed since he jumped off the cliff, and he hadn't eaten anything. Immediately, his eyes lit up.

When he jumped off the cliff earlier, he seemed to have some uneaten biscuits in his backpack.

"Right, did I have a backpack with me when I jumped down?"

【Yes, I also collected your backpack and put it in the spaceship for you. I'll get it for you now.】

Subsequently, a small hatch on the ceiling opened, and the backpack was slowly placed in front of Chen Yu by a robotic arm.

Chen Yu jumped down from the command chair, picked up his backpack, and took out the biscuits that had been smashed to pieces.

Chen Yu was speechless, but it would probably take two days to fly from here to the asteroid belt and mine the ore back.

It seemed that he could only eat these crushed biscuits to fill his stomach. Chen Yu didn't care that the biscuits were like powder, and grabbed a handful and stuffed them into his mouth.

The AI robot watched Chen Yu eat and immediately reminded him.

【Captain, after testing, the nutritional content of the substance you are currently eating is extremely low and belongs to very garbage food.】

Chen Yu said unhappily:

"Even if it's garbage, it can still fill my stomach. I haven't eaten anything for more than ten hours, and we still have to fly for more than ten hours. I'm hungry."

【Captain, although your food is garbage, I, as your loyal servant, must still tell you that there is food on the spaceship that you can eat.】

Chen Yu's mouth, which was chewing on the biscuits, immediately stopped. He looked up and asked the AI, which was hanging on the ceiling:

"What? There's food on the spaceship? Are you sure it's still edible after ten thousand years?"

【Of course, our advanced civilization's preservation technology is not something Earth can compare to.】

Chen Yu's eyes lit up. He hadn't eaten alien food before, and he wondered what it would taste like.

"Hurry, take me there, I want to try it."

Chen Yu followed the AI to a relatively large cabin. It seemed that this should be where the aliens ate.

Chen Yu stopped at a glass cabinet. There were some robotic arms inside, which were used for serving dishes like a chef.

"Quick, give me a signature dish from your planet!"

【Okay, Captain, I have prepared a Captain's set meal for you.】

The robotic arms in the glass cabinet began to busy themselves, and some potato-puree-like things were squeezed out of metal cans.

In less than a minute, a so-called Captain's set meal was placed in front of Chen Yu.

Chen Yu stared at the pot of sticky yellow stuff on the table, his eyes wide open!