The Tomahawk took off again, and under the guidance of the cat-people patriarch, it flew to some of the selected mountain villages. The tantalum and niobium star is very large, and there are countless cat people living in scattered places, according to the environmental characteristics provided by Ling Qi, after mobilizing the clan to screen, he still does not dare to guarantee that there is a place for Ling Qi to find. There are some particularly remote villages that even they have not discovered and recorded.

In fact, it is really difficult to find, so many years have passed, but the village below has not changed much, Xiaorou every time she goes to a place, she just briefly glances at it and shakes her head slightly, indicating that it is not their village. After more than 30 consecutive years, a dilapidated village in the mountains finally surprised her face. On the other side of the mountain, there is a mineral deposit that is still being mined.

This small mountain village doesn't even have a name, there is only one number 486 in the file registered by the cat people, and there are only a dozen simple huts built of bamboo and wood in the whole village, hidden in the mountain stream, it is difficult to find if you are not specifically looking for them, but fortunately, the cat people found them and registered for the record.

More than 100 meters of spaceship cast huge shadows and pressure on the small mountain village, and more than 20 cat-people men and women came out of the houses and other places, looking up at the sky. The spaceship could not land directly, so Ling Qi let his car levitate in the air and flew to the ground in a speedboat.

The patriarch of the cat people took the lead in getting off the speedboat, which made the originally nervous cat people relax, and they chatted around him and asked, I heard that they just accompanied people to see the place, and they looked at the speedboat and the big spaceship in the sky curiously.

Then Ling Qi took Xiao Rou's hand and came down together. There are no roads here, only natural mud paths, and Catwoman feels a distant familiarity. She jumped slightly, looked at the twenty or so villagers, and found that there was no impression. There was no education for children here, and she was so confused when she left that she only remembered being caught while looking for wild fruits in the mountains.

But her impression of the environment became clearer and clearer, first pulling Ling Qi around the village for a while, finding some things in her memory, and then suddenly pulling him to run towards the corner of the village, and finally stopping in front of a dilapidated cave house.

The patriarch of the cat man and more than twenty cat people who were also short in stature followed, and one of the cat people meowed and spoke to the patriarch, and the patriarch asked Ling Qi: "He said that this is his home, what are you looking for?" ”

Ling Qi and Xiao Rou glanced at each other and saw that she obviously didn't know this cat man, so they asked, "What about the family who lived in this house five years ago?" ”

According to Xiaorou, she has parents and a group of siblings, and there are many family members. The cat man spoke again, and the patriarch reluctantly continued to act as a translator, telling Ling Qi: "He said that the original family had two amazing brothers, very capable, and could drive machines, and the family had moved to the big city." But they didn't know exactly where they went, they drove a big sampan to move. ”

Ling Qi nodded, didn't say much, and returned to the car with everyone. When there were no outsiders in the bridge, he said to the little cat woman, "Xiaorou, if we ask the patriarch to help investigate, we should be able to find out their location." But don't make a big fuss, lest someone know about your relationship with them and put them in danger. ”

He could see the protective mentality of the patriarch of the cat man towards the clan, and believed that the old man would not leak it out even if he knew the special blood of the little cat woman.

Xiao Rou nodded and said: "Xiao Rou understands, I just want to see them and know that they are doing well, and then Xiao Rou will leave a large amount of credit for them, and then continue to go on adventures with my brother." ”

After the two got to know each other, Ling Qi invited the cat-man patriarch to the bridge and told Xiaorou about her identity. Xiao Rou also communicated with him in the clan language that she remembered.

The old cat man looked at the little cat woman in shock with wide eyes and muttered, "It turns out that our race can continue to evolve and reach the same level as the human race?" ”

He obviously didn't know about the existence of bloodline awakening and transformation talent, he just thought that this was the direction of the evolution of the race, and his beard trembled with excitement.

"If the patriarch can help Xiaorou find her relatives, the deposit of 10 million credits can be used as a reward for you to use as funds to develop your clan. But be sure to keep Xiaorou's existence a secret, because she has a terrible enemy outside, and she doesn't want to lure the enemy in by revealing her identity and bring disaster to her clansmen! ”

Ling Qi explained to him solemnly.

The old cat man sighed: "The unicorn is right, you are a good person. But even if I don't get credit, I should help her find her relatives, she's our clansman! ”

"Patriarch Grandpa, that's my brother and I's intentions, you can take it. Xiao Rou knows that there are still many people living in the mountains who are not guaranteed to live, and will give you another credit to improve their living conditions. After Xiao Rou finished speaking, she transferred three more star coins to him.

She originally had four star coins, and the remaining one star coin was intended to be kept for her family. Ling Qi didn't interfere with how she used it, but instead touched her hair encouragingly, the money was originally hers.

The patriarch of the cat people almost stared out of his eyes, and repeatedly checked the information on the account in disbelief. With such a large amount of money, he felt that even if he packaged and sold all the cat people, he would not be able to make money.

Ling Qi told him what Anu would do after earning 20 million credits, and suggested that he could refer to it and organize some knowledgeable clansmen to discuss how to use the funds.

They then left the mountains and returned to the main city. The patriarch of the cat people began to organize an intra-clan federation and sent out a mission to find Xiao Rou's family in several small and medium-sized cities near the deep mountains. It was not difficult to do this, and the small village was registered, and it was enough to ask the community.

It takes time to find someone, and Ling Qi asks Anu where his people have obtained the flanoton, intending to find them himself.

This gem is so powerful that it increases the attack power of the energy weapon by 10% if it is embedded with one, and more importantly, this increase does not require additional energy output. With the Tomahawk's current Level 5 energy tank, it can support a salvo of four destroyers at the same time while taking into account both shield and main thruster output. If you give up the shield, you can also support two more guns, reaching a six-gun salvo, and blast the conventional fifth-tier warships in one fell swoop.

"If you can inlay ten flenching stones, or even if you only inlay five to increase your attack power by half, you can compete with a tier 6 battleship! Well, the unicorn people have found two, I wonder if the other groups involved in mining have found them? ”

Ling Qi felt that he could also announce an acquisition information first. He gave the image of the Flenchstone to the Unicorn Patriarch and asked him to help inform all the tribes involved in the mining about the high price for the gem.

This method really worked, and only half a day later, a bear man contacted Anu, and then connected with Ling Qi through him.

"Do you have that fiery red gem?" Ling Qi looked at the majestic guy projected on the communicator and asked, he was not as tall as Anu, but he was even stronger, and his body was full of strength.

The bear man scratched his head, and said angrily: "I don't have it on my hand, but I saw it in the mine, I can take you there, will you pay me?" ”

"Yes, if you take me there, I'll pay you a lot of money, whether I find a gem or not. Of course, if you really find it, the reward will be more! Ling Qi assured him.

The bear man's fat face showed joy: "Great, if I have credit, I can take my brother to heal." ”

Ling Qi asked that his address was in another city, so he flew directly over in the Tomahawk and took him to the mine he said.

The location of the mine is far from the city, more than 300 kilometers, and it is still operating normally. Although the specific work is mainly managed by the indigenous people, they will also arrange for people to supervise and guide the mining companies to ensure that the minerals mined by the indigenous people will not be sold to other companies by the indigenous people.

The Tomahawk landed next to the mine, where there was a leveled field for cargo ships to land. A young man ran out of the building wearing a mask, he knew the bear man, this guy was originally an employee here, he heard that his brother was sick, and he took leave to take care of him at home for the past few days. Seeing Ling Qi and the others coming down from the spaceship, he immediately asked the bear people what their origin and purpose were.

"Let's look for a fiery red stone that is far away from the current area of operation and will not interfere with the work on the mine." The bear man explained to the youth. The young man frowned and refused, not wanting to do such an uncontrollable thing.

Ling Qi looked at him, this was like a civilian college student who had just graduated for a year or two, and was assigned to this kind of place to earn income, and he belonged to the bottom of the little people. He showed his identity certificate as a pilot of the Rose Fleet, and said solemnly: "This is the task of the military, I hope you will cooperate!" ”

The young man was obviously stunned, and after carefully checking the proof, he did not dare to obstruct it again. Such electronic documents are non-editable program documents and cannot be falsified. But he asked to accompany him to the mine.

Ling Qi asked him to find a nail hoe, and took the opportunity to look around and saw that there were several refining workshops in operation. Instead of burning carbon fuels, they use high-energy reactors for their energy supply, which not only does not require a large number of trees to be cut down to destroy forest vegetation, but also emits very little exhaust emissions, so it is no wonder that the damage to the ecological environment is limited.

"The world's sense of sustainable development is still very strong, from the bright blue star to the tantalum and niobium star, you can see this kind of protection of the ecosystem, it is estimated that this is also an ideology formed after suffering a big loss." Ling Qi felt a feeling in his heart. Tantalum and niobium satellites are less expensive to modify than many planets, if not for the widespread presence of toxic gases in the soil, or for the removal and purification of toxic gases.

The mine is very large, the entrance is eight meters wide, and the double track is set up, and the upper and lower columns are separated. They rode a minecart into the cave from the downtrack and followed the bearman's instructions to glide deeper into the mine.

"I found it on top of a passage on the third floor, and it was still embedded in the rock, with only a little bit exposed. If it hadn't been for the minecart malfunctioning and stopping for a while, I wouldn't have noticed it. ”

The bear man explained the experience of discovering the gem at the beginning, Ling Qi listened and observed the mine, and the experience of going down to the mine for the first time found that it was not the dark and depressing as he imagined. Lamps are installed on the walls of the cave to ensure that the cave is illuminated.