An invisible light wave swept through the purple mist in the metal disk, and a light curtain fell in front of Fang Ning's eyes, and a series of analysis data on it slid down to see him in the clouds, this kind of professional data he couldn't understand.

Fortunately, there were professionals on the side, and an apprentice with glasses pushed his glasses and said:

"Your Excellency, Commander, after analysis, this is an energy crystal with ultra-high activity, with a pure energy composition ratio of 99.5%, and other gaseous substances are unknown, and further analysis is needed to know the results."

Fang Ning pinched his chin and thought for a while, and asked:

"I'll leave the professional business to you, I just want to know what it's worth."

"This...."

The two apprentices hesitated for a moment, but the apprentice just now said:

"It's not certain yet, but it's certain that it will be valuable."

"Okay, I'll leave the research to you, write an application and send it to me if you need anything."

"I need more crystals for research."

"No problem!"

Fang Ning came to the command cabin of the giant god soldiers, and the light curtain showed that there was a crack in the ground that was difficult to see if not carefully in the dense jungle in front of them, and after thinking about it, he turned to Thunder Hammer and said:

"Prepare, set up a small outpost here to transport a batch of crystals back to the base every day."

This high slope is the edge extension of the wild plateau, strictly speaking, it is already a part of the wild plateau, Fang Ning led the team to the edge of the plateau according to the map that he had learned and did not think about, and then walked along the edge to the other side, a subordinate suddenly disappeared, only to find that this crack in the ground covered by lush vegetation was only a few meters wide, and the bottom was full of mountain rocks, and the mountain stones were embedded with this kind of purple-black crystal, and the subordinates brought a piece of purple and black crystals when they were rescued.

It was initially proved that the value of this crystal was extremely high, at least higher than the value of most ores, so Fang Ning built a sentry post first and occupied the territory first.

That's the case on the planet New Atranta, the planet has no owner, so whoever discovers something valuable first will belong to whomever it is.

Fang Ning was in a good mood when he discovered this mineral deposit, and he was not interested in continuing to explore, so he went home directly.

But instead of going straight back, he made a detour, ready to go to the Thunder Tiger base where he didn't think about it, and it was a neighbor, so it was still necessary to string the door.

The Thunder Tiger base is about 500 kilometers away from his base, but this is a straight-line distance, and if you really have to walk around and around, you can't go around for thousands of kilometers.

The giant god soldier stepped out of the distance of dozens of meters, the super complex terrain was like flat ground for him, every step down was startled by a small insect beast living under the lush vegetation, where the huge giant god soldier passed, this huge size alone was enough to deter and scare away most of the fierce beasts, but it had no effect on the small poisonous insects.

Along the way, poisonous insects were constantly alarmed to join the team attacking them, and more than a hundred elite genetic warriors each had two alloy machetes in their hands to accurately cut in half the insects that were larger than their fingers, so there were insect corpses everywhere on the ground all the way.

As for the smaller poisonous insects, they can't get close to them at all, although the third-level genetic warriors are the lowest level under Fang Ning, they are considered the main force of the elite when placed under the hands of other players, and their powerful physique is not a joke, and with a single punch to shake the air, they can shock a large number of small poisonous insects to death.

More than two hours later, the team came to a mountain range of more than 2,000 meters high connected by five or six mountains.

The Leihu base is a military base that has been established for two years, it is said that it was established together with more than a dozen good college classmates, and the scale is many times larger than the temporary base built by Fang Ninggang, which is a base that integrates mining, military, and small residence on a large silver-like supermetal deposit.

In addition to the large number of ground troops recruited, a large number of human or humanoid slaves were deliberately purchased, as well as a small number of NP immigrants.

Their plan is very simple, rely on the mineral deposits to make money, and then continue to expand the base, and eventually plan to expand the base into a city, when the time comes, there will be enough funds and safe territory to attract a large number of NP human immigrants here, so as to establish a large colonial city.

In the end, Fang Ning guessed that the planet would most likely form a colony centered on the expansion of the base established by each player, and an alliance composed of a large number of player colonization bases would rule the planet.

Then, the alliances attack or unite with each other to form a huge force, and it is estimated that in the end it will still form a unity.

But this is destined to be a long time, Fang Ning did not come with this intention in mind, he just wanted to establish a base and find some valuable mines to make some money.

If you want to build a force, the most important thing is not warships, but money, and if you have money, you will have force.

There are too many lessons from the past, and he and Zhao Ke both decided to be self-reliant and not accept capital investment, so they must have a stable economic source, and in the game, there is no more economic value than a sustainable mineral deposit.

Turning over the Poison Dragon Mountains, on the other side is an ultra-wide gentle slope that stretches for more than forty or fifty kilometers, and the Thunder Tiger base is built between a high ground and a valley in the middle of this slope, and the silver-like supermetal ore they mined is in this valley.

However, at this time, this base is being attacked by a large number of planetary beasts, a huge base with a diameter of more than two kilometers, of which the bare buffer open space on three sides is surrounded by dense fierce beasts, and the high walls of the base are spewed out of batteries and bunkers to spew out flames and tongues of fire, tearing the fierce beasts that hit the base to pieces.

There were many types of beasts, but the most common one was the size of a cow, covered in black scales, with six legs, a large head covered in thick bony armor, and many palm-length bony spikes on it.

This fierce beast looks ugly, extremely fierce, and the bone spikes on its head can still be launched, looking at its speed and the effect of the attack, it is estimated that the power will not be worse than that of the gunpowder weapons of the Earth Age, this should be the fanged beast that Xue Busi once said.

Fang Ning observed it, the base defense that they had learned without thinking about it was quite strong, plus they had encountered this situation many times, and they had already gained experience, so it seemed that it would not be a problem to hold on.

Even so, he did not keep observing, and directly ordered his subordinates to prepare for the attack.

The two giant god soldiers raised their huge arms at the same time, and the parts at the top of the arms quickly rolled into a huge cannon muzzle aimed below, and there were two soft 'bangs', and a second later, more than twenty kilometers away, four large craters with a diameter of more than fifty meters suddenly exploded, and countless gravel stumps burst out in all directions.

The terrifying power did not affect the attack of the beasts, but the defenders on the base were startled, and soon found two tall giant gods on the top of the mountain.

Xue Bu thought about it, looked at it with a photoelectric telescope, and said to his companion with a smile:

"Don't worry, that's a subordinate of the new base on the other side of the mountain."

As he spoke, he sent a message to Fang Ning, and soon got a response, he turned around and said to his companion with a smile:

"He's here to support us, ready to respond."

The cooldown time of the Titan's small matter smashing cannon is only thirty seconds, and every thirty seconds is four shells, blasting out four huge craters with a diameter of fifty meters and a depth of twenty meters, and no matter what beasts are in it, all of them will be crushed.

The battlefield was already so big, and the two giant god soldiers bombarded all the way, and when they were only about a kilometer away from the base, they had already blasted out twenty or thirty waves, and the periphery of the base facing him was blasted out of hundreds of huge craters by him, and thousands of alien beasts were killed by the bombardment of eighty or ninety percent of them.

Then, there was no then, and even the most ferocious alien monsters were blown up in the face of this terrifying weapon of war, and they scattered in embarrassment.

The fifth-level five-star giant god soldier has surpassed ordinary frigates in terms of armor strength and weapon power, which is equivalent to two frigates bombarding with naval guns, which is irresistible to life on the planet.

As soon as the beasts on this side fled, the other two beasts also fled one after another, Fang Ning's huge team came to the edge of the base, the gate of the base was wide open, and he came out with a group of players, and enthusiastically welcomed him into the base.

Fang Ning stayed in the Thunder Tiger Base for a few days, mainly to learn from them and ask about some information about this planet, and he didn't think about learning and his classmates knew everything about his inquiry, as long as it didn't involve privacy and information outside of his own interests, he basically didn't hide it.

After spending a few days at the Thunder Tiger base, he was also invited to visit various areas of the base, including the areas inhabited by the colonists and the mining area, and even went down to the bottom of the mine for a tour.

During the visit, Xuebu mentioned several times their willingness to ally with Fang Ning's base.

Obviously, his great strength made them slightly uneasy, and they took the initiative to mention the alliance.

Fang Ning thought about it for a moment and responded, anyway, he had no other purpose.

The covenant is a systematic notarization signed by Fang Ning personally and the high-level officials of the Thunder Tiger Base, and the two sides shall not harm the interests of the other party in any form, and the two sides shall help each other when the other party faces threats from within the planet New Atalanta.

In addition, the covenant also agreed that the Thunder Tiger Base would give up the development of the western area of the Poison Dragon Mountain Range, which means that they would only develop to the east of the mountain range in the future, and would not cross the Poison Dragon Mountain Range and enter Fang Ning's side to explore and develop.

This is not bad, in return, Fang Ning took his subordinates and summoned a frigate ship to cooperate with a force of the Thunder Tiger Base to serve a valley where large fierce beasts gathered more than a hundred kilometers away from the Thunder Tiger Base, clearing the obstacles to the eastward advance of the Thunder Tiger Base.

By the time Fang Ning returned to the base, it was already half a month later, and as soon as he returned to the base, he received a series of materials, all of which were from the research report of that scientist's apprentice on the purple-black crystal, almost one a day.

He sat in his office and read all the reports for a while, pondered for a while, snapped his fingers, pressed the bell on his desk and said:

"Prepare, I'm going to Temporary Base One."

The first few days of the study were of little value, and it was not until the eighth day of the study that there was progress, and the latest two days of the report said that great progress had been made, which made Fang Ning very interested, and he had to go there in person.

took the escort ship, and soon came to the No. 1 temporary base, and met the geological apprentice named Huang Zhi in the base laboratory, he was studying the crystal that had changed greatly at this time, and said with a happy face when he saw Fang Ning:

"Your Excellency, Commander, I've determined what this ore is."

Without waiting for Fang Ning to speak, he explained to himself:

"This is a piece of Becerian stone, a high-energy crystal, each containing twenty times more energy than a standard energy block."

The corners of Fang Ning's mouth curled up involuntarily, although it was mentioned in the report, he was still very excited to hear it with his own ears.

The name Becerian Stone he had heard for a long time was a rare and efficient energy ore, which contained powerful energy, and had at least ten times more than ten times the standard energy block according to the quality, dozens or even hundreds of times more pure energy, which was a kind of energy that could be directly utilized and was quite valuable.

The piece in his hand now only had twenty times the reserves of the standard energy block, and the purity was not very high, but Fang Ning was already very satisfied.

You must know that the price of energy has always been extremely strong, a standard energy block contains 10,000 units of energy, and the price of each piece is 1,000 star yuan, and the energy contained in this piece of Becerian stone is 20 times that of the standard energy block, that is, 20,000 star yuan a piece, which ........

"I'm going to be developed!"

Fang Ning looked at the purple-black crystal in his hand that had faded a lot, and felt that it was a lump of gold in his hand, and in the crack on the edge of the No. 1 temporary base, there were still a lot of Becerian stones.

"But Your Excellency, Commander,"

Huang Zhi's voice interrupted his sweet dream, and he pointed to the Beserian Stone in Fang Ning's hand and said:

"The Becerian stone in this pit of this planet contains a special active toxin, and it should be that the ubiquitous toxins on the planet have been integrated into it for hundreds of millions of years, so after the mineral deposits are mined, the active toxins need to be refined first."

"Is it difficult?"

This is the most important thing.

Huang Zhi hesitated for a moment and said:

"It's very difficult to refine under the current conditions."

"That means it's easier if the conditions are higher?"

"Yes, it is necessary to build a medium-sized or higher industrial refinery for large-scale refining and purification of toxins."

"That's it!"

Fang Ning pinched his chin and thought about it, and did not make an immediate decision for a while, but said to him:

"You put your work aside for a while, and take some people to explore the reserves of mineral deposits under the cracks in the ground."

A complete industrial-grade refinery costs a lot of money, he must first determine the mineral reserves, if the reserves are large, then it must be built, if the reserves are small, then it will not be drawn.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Fang Ning returned to the base and took out the newly acquired map from learning without thinking about it and looked at it.

After the alliance was formed, the Thunder Tiger Base gave up developing to the west of the Poison Dragon Mountain Range, so it was useless to explore the area west of the Poison Dragon Mountain Range before, so he simply gave it to Fang Ning generously when the alliance was formed.