In the face of overwhelming power, no matter what the Pangorid trolls think and do, they can't interfere with the fleet's exploitation of resources.

The efficiency of the interstellar mining equipment is very gratifying, and every resource point in the world is constantly producing a variety of raw materials, and batches of minerals are filling warehouses one by one, and the daily income is quite considerable.

During the mining process, some exploration teams discovered more resources deep underground, which led to a further increase in the planet's valuation.

Han Xiao looked at the report and felt comfortable.

Mining those civilized resource planets in the Shattered Star Ring, although the benefits are not small, but after all, they are sharing dividends on other people's territory, which is somewhat constrained and not free enough. And mining the shining world resource planet that he found can be made a big fanfare, as long as it is not destructive mining, the empire will not interfere much.

These rare materials can be sold to the empire, or they can be brought back to the Broken Star Ring for wholesale sales, Han Xiao temporarily hoarded them, and let the professional marketing personnel take charge of the sales, and try to sell them at a high price.

After the construction of the Star Gate was completed, an imperial team crossed over, said hello to Han Xiao, and joined the ranks of collecting resources, bringing professionals to take over the education of the natives.

After completing the simple handover, Han Xiao recovered some of his manpower.

After the initial exploration of Panguried, the next step is mining, and he decides to stay on the planet for two days to allow players to move around before setting off to explore the next planet.

Now that all Legion players have explored the first planet and have some understanding of the mechanics of the Shining World Quest, players who encounter a resource planet are faced with a choice, which is to choose to stay and mine resources.

Ordinary players naturally refuse, how can they give up the entire forest because of a single tree, but many first-line guilds in Huaxia are just the opposite, because most of the core backbones of the guilds follow Han Xiao's main fleet movements, and the rich resources of Pangurid Star make them reluctant to give up.

For the guild, ten birds in the forest, it is better to have one bird in hand, they need long-term resource points to provide income for the guild, the four giants of Huaxia and the first-line guild have many members, leaving a group of peripheral manpower to mine resource points here.

Because the output of large-scale mining equipment belongs to the legion, these guilds purchased a batch of worker bee armor from the legion and distributed it to the left-behind personnel to mine it themselves, and this part of the output is the long-term income of the guild.

Players have their own ways to generate income, and Han Xiao will not stop it, this is just a small profit, and it will not allow him to hinder players from exerting their own subjective initiative, so that the more these guilds are full, the more they identify with the legion.

The club guild of Lao Russia and Laoao from the constellation corridor has developed a group of peripheral personnel during this time, and they have reluctantly allocated people to stay at the resource point, thinking of a piece of the pie. Seeing this, the four giants planned to wait for the large army to leave, and then let other first-line guilds help, and find trouble for these outsiders, so that this group of foreign guilds could not collect resources with peace of mind, as long as the large army left, the manpower left on this planet was equivalent to being slaughtered by them.

In the 4.0 version of the previous life, the guilds of various countries destroyed each other's resource points in the shining world, and now the guilds of old Russia and Australia are in the base camp of the Huaxia Guild, and the Huaxia Guild will not sit idly by and watch its competitors develop with peace of mind.

Because Han Xiao let some players cross the star field in advance, the guild competition appeared earlier than in the previous life.

……

Pangurid, a certain area of the sea.

The wind is stormy, and the waves are raging.

A mining base was located at sea, motionless in the churning sea, a semi-circular energy shield looming, enveloping the entire base, and the waves crashed against the shield, leaving patches of white foam.

At the edge of the base, a soldier wearing underwater working armor carries detection equipment on his back, and one after another, some of them are players. There is a vein of molten crystals beneath this base, and these people have gone into the water to probe the sea.

Kaede Moon also accepted this task, she wore underwater armor, cruised underwater, and soon dived thousands of meters.

The view was full of dark blue water, and in the distance, the sea water turned into pitch black, full of unknown fear, and there was silence in my ears, except for the sound of the dripping sound of radar detection, the sound of my own breathing, and the thumping of my heartbeat in my chest.

This silent and terrifying atmosphere made Feng Yue tremble a little, and she almost wanted to shrink into a ball.

"Let's go back...... It's a big deal not to do this task...... "Feng Yue was scared in her heart, although her combat power had reached level B, the character's attributes would not bring any mental bonuses to the player, and she felt that she might have a slight fear of the deep sea.

Just as he was about to ascend, the radar suddenly sounded an alarm.

"A large lifeform has been detected! The goal is approaching! ”

The surrounding sea water surged, Feng Yue's body was uncontrollable, drifting with the current, she hurriedly opened the stabilizer, and the armor ribs spewed white light, which stabilized her body.

Before she could look around, the radar showed a point of light rushing towards her at the speed of a missile.

Feng Yue turned her head in panic, and suddenly, a huge monster suddenly appeared in her field of vision, with countless claws and webs, and its head was like a plesiosaur, opening its bloody mouth at her.

Her eyes went black and she was swallowed in one gulp.

After the hunt, the monster slowed down and was about to enjoy a delicious meal, when its massive body suddenly convulsed, looking extremely painful.

The next moment, a blinding blue light exploded from the monster's body, shattering it in all directions.

Boom!!

Purple blood and minced flesh splattered in the sea, and Kaede Moon's armor was stained with a viscous liquid, mixed with blood and gastric juice.

Looking at this bloody scene, Feng Yue hurriedly opened the new mode of green and healthy Xiaoqing, and then felt that the picture was much more harmonious.

She was just frightened, and forgot to resist for a while, and after she came to her senses, she used the combat power of a B-rank mechanic to take out an ordinary beast very easily.

Feng Yue retrieved the explosive battery beside her, and was about to float up when the radar suddenly prompted her to detect an abnormal metal object, which was in the tattered body of this monster.

"What did I find?" Feng Yue's eyes moved, as a plot stream player, her curiosity has always been strong, and she intuited that she might have discovered some hidden elements.

After hesitating for half a second, she stopped floating, enduring disgust rummaging through the monster's corpse, her palm releasing magnetic force.

Clang! A metal artifact of about a meter was absorbed into the hand.

It looked like some kind of detection probe, tattered and full of signs of corrosion, and the surface was dented in several places, like a creature's bite marks.

[You discover an unknown probe]

[Unknown Probe: This appears to be the wreckage of some kind of space probe, badly damaged, far more technological than the natives of this planet, and seems to be from another civilization, perhaps containing some information that you can try to identify, or give it to a special person in exchange for a reward...... Alternatively, you can try to fix it and activate it, which will have special consequences, choose carefully (requires mechanical ability)]

[You earn 6 Personal Exploration Points]

"It's a hidden quest item!"

Fengyue's eyes were shining, and she instantly left the fear of the deep sea behind, and repeatedly looked at the unknown probe in her hand, full of interest, she liked to dig into this unknown plot the most.

Without saying a word, she immediately returned to the base with the props, and without even taking off her armor, she hurriedly began to identify the detector, her mechanical ability met the requirements, and the panel quickly popped up the results.

[Identification complete!] You get the [Broken Location Beacon], this thing uses space beacon positioning, long-range quantum connection, gravitational space voyage and other technologies, current status: severely damaged, system failure, all functions stop running]

"The level of science and technology is not low." Maple Moon was surprised, this has reached the level of a galaxy-level civilization, which means that Pangulid has been discovered by a certain civilization?

It is also possible that this beacon may have broken in the universe, lost its positioning ability, and was finally captured by the gravitational pull of Pangurid, fell into the deep sea, and was swallowed by sea creatures as food, otherwise Pangulid might have had visitors a long time ago.

Maple Moon is entangled, this beacon is valuable information, and if you hand it over to the legion for processing, you will definitely be rewarded.

However, she couldn't help but be curious, and wanted to repair this beacon to see what the "special consequences" in the prop introduction were and who they would attract.

After hesitating for a while, Feng Yue gritted her teeth, and curiosity prevailed.

[You use [Intermediate Repair] on [Broken Locator Beacon]!] ]

[Judgment in progress...... If you pass the judgment, your level, intelligence, professional knowledge and skill level will meet the preconditions]

[Repair progress 2%...... 14%…… 35%……]

[Repaired, you get [Barely Repaired Locator Beacon]!] ]

Fengyue was happy, and without saying a word, she chose to activate the beacon.

DiDi ...... The beacon's indicator light illuminates, sending invisible quantum location data to the receiving end of an unknown force.

[You trigger the hidden quest [Beacon of Unknown Origin]!] ]

[Mission Description: You have found a high-tech locator beacon on an indigenous planet in the shining world, you don't know who dropped the beacon, but you choose to repair and activate the beacon to send the location information, maybe this will attract unknown forces......]

[Mission: Contact the unknown forces that delivered the beacons]

[Reward: 300 XP, 70 Personal Exploration Points, [Daring Explorer] Skill Fragment x1 (2 Fragments to Craft)]

[[Bold Explorer]: Special skill, when exploring unknown locations, identifying unknown props, etc., you can use this skill to gain inspiration, force a part of the information, can be reused on a target, and the cooldown time is 7 days. Each time you use it, you will gain the negative status [Reckless], and your luck attribute will be reduced by 60% for 14 days]

[Note: As long as you are brave, the universe is my home]

[This quest is linked to the main quest of Shining World, you can report the situation to the faction to which the main quest belongs and get help from the NPC faction (highly recommended)]

"Bonus skill shards? This kind of quest reward is so rare, and you can even ask the faction for help...... Does it mean that the consequences of activating the beacon are serious......" Kaede Moon was surprised.

As soon as she thought of turning it in, the figure of the regimental commander came to her mind.

……

"You've found beacons of advanced civilizations on this planet?"

Looking at the beacon in Feng Yue's hand, Han Xiao had a look of doubt in his eyes.

Originally, he thought that Feng Yue was just here to learn skills, but he didn't expect to bring him a hidden prop.

At present, only the Empire is developing this area, so this beacon can only come from an unknown indigenous civilization in the shining world, and according to the technological content of it, the person who put it should have a galaxy-level development level.

And this beacon uses conventional thrusters and gravitational flight technology, even if it flies for hundreds of years, the speed is limited, so the civilization that drops the beacon should be in this galaxy.

However, Han Xiao remembered that in his previous life, there was no native galaxy civilization in the southern border galaxy of the Gaolu Star Cluster, and the exploration materials of the Red Empire did not show that he had encountered a galaxy-level civilization here, and he had not heard of similar incidents from those NPCs who explored during the version update in his previous life.

Could it be that the civilization that dropped the beacon has long since perished, and now only the ruins remain? This possibility is not impossible.

But Han Xiao took the beacon from Feng Yue's hand, and a prompt popped up on his panel, which also triggered this hidden mission, and the task requirements indirectly indicated that this unknown force still existed.

Han Xiao's heart moved, the initial exploration of the shining world in his previous life was during the version update, and the player later restored the exploration through various data records and character relays, and now this incident may be a hidden plot that even the empire did not discover in the previous life?

Feng Yue didn't know that Han Xiao could also accept the mission, and was thinking about how to explain that she knew the beacon's useful information.

At this time, Han Xiao spoke:

"I'll study this thing for a while, and maybe I'll find some problems."

Hearing this, Feng Yue thought that this was a task prop to hand in, so she did not refuse.

Seeing Feng Yue leave, Han Xiao carefully studied the beacon in his hand, his eyes flickering.

"I didn't expect this kind of unexpected discovery in Pangulid, this group of players' ability to find hidden tasks is still reliable." Han Xiao smiled secretly.

The reward of this hidden quest made his heart flutter, [Daring Explorer] is an identification ability, which has reached the realm of special foreknowledge, which few players possessed in previous lives. Although it is not helpful in combat, it is a miracle skill in doing quests and discovering hidden plots.

It is only known that there is a chance to get skill shards when triggering hidden quests, and there is no fixed way to get them.

Although the skill is very limited, it is also useful for himself, not to mention far, just say that the strange data left by the alien god, so far there is no clue, Aesop can't predict any picture, if he gets the skill of this professional counterpart, maybe he can get some clues.

"It's a pity that it's not a complete skill, only a skill fragment." Han Xiao was slightly regretful.

Shaking his head, Han Xiao immediately entered the field of vision of the quantum network, studied the beacon, and deciphered the other party's positioning data code - this beacon uses quantum link technology, which means that he can use the ability of a virtual mechanic to track it backwards.

The mission requirement is to contact this unknown force, and it seems that you only need to wait for the rabbit, but in fact, there is another mystery.

The Shining World is not like the explored universe, there is no order like an interstellar society here, and the indigenous civilizations here are still in the dark period and do not know each other's existence, so once the beacon is found to be activated, it means a war for the dropper.

Contact is tantamount to facing an attack from the dropper.

Therefore, instead of being approached by the person who put it on the door, Han Xiao is more willing to take the initiative to send someone over, anyway, the request is just contact, and whoever finds the other party first can do it.

After searching for a while along the quantum link, Han Xiao suddenly opened his eyes, opened the star map, looked for a while, and pointed his finger at the location of Pangurid Star several star regions away, which was also within this galaxy.

"Found you."

Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, he remembered that in his previous life, there was no indigenous civilization in this place at all.

After thinking about it, Han Xiao snapped his fingers, and the Youzu who surrounded him immediately merged and formed and stood in front of him.

"Master."

"I have a task for you." Han Xiao said slowly: "You take some mechanical beings and some mechanical troops, follow the direction of the beacon's data to find the guy who dropped the beacon, and if they attack, you will subdue them." ”

"Understood, master."

Youzu nodded, making a rustling sound of metal grinding, and then he split into a number of floating guards, flew out of the room, and immediately went to form a team.

Because it was too abrupt to rush over a few star regions, and it was a waste of time, Han Xiao didn't plan to go out in person.

Now that he has mechanical life to take charge of himself, coupled with the [Quantum Infinite Transmission Channel] so that mechanical soldiers who are not around can also get a mechanical power bonus, his mechanical legion already has the ability to go on expeditions, and it also has super A-level combat power from countless light years.

Super A-level mechanics are feared in the sea of stars, which is one of the reasons, the ability range and battlefield range are the most terrifying of all professions!