Be a bodyguard?

For Shen Rui, it is not a choice, after all, he is alone in Andromeda, he has no friends, no power and no money, so he needs to find a way to settle down here before he can think about anything else.

Smiling slightly, Shen Rui nodded and said, "Okay, from now on, I will be responsible for your safety." ”

Old Bolton let out a long breath and said in a deep voice: "This is good, this is good, we will set off in more than ten hours, you take a rest first, and I will have someone call you when the time comes." ”

Shen Rui slept in the guest room, and when the cargo ship was loaded, he boarded the ship with the old Bolton to prepare to leave, and his grandson Bolton Jr. was left in the mining area, which is said to let him learn the operation process of the mining area, but Shen Rui found some strange smells from this farewell of the old and the young.

Little Bolton said goodbye to his grandfather with tears in his eyes, as if it was not goodbye, but life and death, Shen Rui frowned slightly, didn't say anything, and boarded the elevator inside the cargo ship with old Bolton.

The large cargo ship was huge, hundreds of stories high, and the command and logistics lounges were located at the top, and it was possible to walk along the spiral staircase in addition to the elevator, but that was too hard for an old man like Bolton Sr.

The top of the cargo ship suddenly opened up, and the command room was 300 square meters, equipped with all kinds of navigation and control machinery, and there were transparent windows above and around it, so that you could see the vast sea of stars.

The medical room, the dining room, and the staff lounge are all under the command room, and the area is not small, but in fact, the command and living area only occupies a very small area of the entire cargo ship, and most of the space is used to store cargo, nuclear energy reactors and quantum jet engines, the space jump engine is at the end of the cargo ship, and there is also a rest room for mechanics there, and the two mechanics hired by the old Bolton work at the tail end of the battleship.

The captain of this cargo ship is called Levi. A middle-aged man in his thirties, a high-achieving student who graduated from the Academy of Astronautics, has a goatee, is calm, and does not talk much.

Captain, first mate. The navigator, two mechanics, cook, and doctor were all served by the same person, and Shen Rui was surprised to find that the huge cargo ship actually had only six employees, and most of the work was done by mechanical automation.

Cleaning is a group of round and flat semi-intelligent robots, running around the cabin lively, finding where there is dust, quickly use its own vacuum cleaner to suck it. In addition, they are responsible for checking the safety equipment in every corner of the cabin, which is very interesting.

Xiao Ba lay on Shen Rui's shoulder incognito, tilted his head and looked, as if he wanted to go and play with those little robots, after all, he was still a child, and he was very interested in finding interesting things.

Old Bolton introduced Shen Rui to Captain Levi, stating that Shen Rui was his hired bodyguard, and Levy nodded and said, "Mr. Shen Rui." Even though you're a warrior, it's still the captain who has the final say on this ship. So please be quiet unless you have to. ”

Shen Rui nodded, indicating that he would respect the captain's authority.

After meeting with the members of the ship, the elder Bolton took Shen Rui to the warehouse, only to see huge metal cabinets neatly arranged, and different kinds of ores placed in different areas, like mountains. Spectacular.

Shen Rui pursed his lips and said, "The mine can produce so much ore every month, your company is really not small." ”

Old Bolton looked a little embarrassed and said: "Don't make fun of me, the scale of our company is not ranked at all, if it weren't for some high-grade ore production with good profits, I'm afraid it would have been unable to support it for a long time." ”

"Take the Andromeda mainstream, a medium-sized Hercules-class cargo ship, as an example. The length of the Hercules-class cargo ships has reached 135 kilometers, and the width is 42 kilometers, and we can't even build a medium-sized cargo ship with the ore we produce in a month, and as for the larger cargo ships, the length is more than 1,000 kilometers, and the raw materials consumed are even more amazing. ”

"Don't look at the mining volume of the major mines, the consumption is even more amazing, in general, the current mining in Andromeda is still in short supply, after all, in addition to civilian cargo ships and merchant ships, the major empires also have to build cities and warships, all need a large supply of minerals, as long as the population of our Andromeda continues to increase, there are still wars between the major empires, and the demand for minerals will never end."

Speaking of his old business, the old Bolton is full of confidence, the mining industry has always relied on economic development, as long as the economy and population are high-spirited, the demand for minerals will be more and more, which Shen Rui also agrees.

Walking all the way to the middle of the warehouse, Bolton Sr. pointed to a row of large containers and said: "You see, this is not only the ore, but also the hope of our family, after so many years of hard work, we finally found the red spar, a key catalytic ore in the metal smelting process." ”

"To manufacture the strongest hardness and toughness of the tri-titanium alloy, a certain amount of red spar must be added on the basis of titanium ore, the demand for red spar is very large, but the output is very low, for any interstellar miner, the mine that can mine red spar is a rare cash cow."

"These red spars were mined in a small secret mine in our family, and it took three years to accumulate the number of twelve containers, and in the past three years, our Bolton family is afraid that the secrets of the mine will be known and those mining giants will come to rob them."

"But it's a pity that it's still a hundred secrets, the mining giant Khalifa already knows that we have the matter of the red spar mine, and they let out their words, either hand over the mine or die."

"But we really can't hand over the rare mine, that's our family's hope, if we can sell these twelve containers of ore smoothly this time, we will have enough funds to fight against the caliphate, so this transaction is important to our family, it must be successful!"

Shen Rui nodded and said, "That's why you hired me to protect the safety of this transaction?" ”

Old Bolton said bluntly: "That's the case, we have saved up red spar for three whole years, and one shot is enough for us to get a large amount of money to arm ourselves, and even if everyone knows that we have a red spar mine in our hands, we must weigh whether it is worth fighting with our armed fleet, in Andromeda, force is king." ”

Shen Rui didn't say anything, and took old Bolton's money to keep him safe all the way, which was his duty.

The journey was terrifying, the spaceship was not like a ship in the sea, it jumped through a wormhole, and the jump distance was different depending on the type of ship, the fastest spacecraft could cross a distance of 100 light-years at a time, while the bulky cargo ship could only jump 5 light-years per jump.

After sailing in space for a whole week, Shen Rui followed the old Bolton to finally reach the destination of this trip, the free trading of minerals on the planet, RP117, the mineral black market. (To be continued.) )