For gatherers, star systems with asteroid belts other than the Kuiper Belt are the easiest to develop, because they have access to sufficient material resources in the early stages of colonizing star systems, and do not need to think about fighting the gravitational pull of the planet when mining the planet.

"Eh, wait for me, don't speed up so fast, a moment of slowing down will consume more antimatter."

"This resource is consumed, and we can't go beyond the planned time, which will disrupt the initial arrangement."

"That said, the production of antimatter is low, and it will take time for the Great Construct to stock up on enough amounts, and we need to prepare for the next voyage."

After entering the star system, the tasks are initially assigned, and the sub-light creatures are divided into groups, at which point the two sub-light creatures are traveling together, using antimatter propulsion to the asteroid belt.

This star system has two asteroid belts in addition to the Kuiper belt, and their destination is the asteroid belt of the outer ring, which is located in the sixth orbit of the star system.

This distance is still relatively time-consuming at the current speed of the two organisms, spanning a distance of more than ten astronomical units, consuming forty-three rotations to reach the asteroid belt in the outer circle.

"You go that way, I'll go this way, and act separately, which is the most efficient."

Upon arrival, the gatherer received a radio message from his kind.

The gatherers don't mind splitting up, this is to speed up the progress, for the development of the race, how can there be any objections?

However, before splitting up, the gatherer itself still has some problems that need to be solved by their kindred, so when it expresses its agreement, it also asks for questions of nature from its kindred.

"Yes, but can you give me some water?"

"You're running out of water? There's no need for water on the voyage, right? ”

The same people find it strange that they need very little water during their voyage, and only when they colonize the stars, they will only use water in large quantities, so when they go to the next star system, they will carry a small amount of water resources, which are used for the development and construction of the destination star.

But now the collector asks it for some water resources, which is puzzling, and replenishing water resources is a supplement, and everyone should not lack this part of the resources.

It soon came to its senses, and the gatherer explained why he needed water, for the simple reason that it was being consumed.

"When I was traveling at sub-light speeds, I encountered a small mass of matter, and the annihilation reaction slowed me down, so in order to restore the speed, I used some water resources to produce hydrogen gas masses, so that the antimatter propulsion could complete the acceleration without depleting the original hydrogen reserves."

"I see, that's why you just said saving antimatter."

In this way, the doubt will be solved, because the consumption of antimatter is more than other contemporaries, so it will be more scarce in this regard, and then there is water resources, because water resources are consumed to produce hydrogen and oxygen, although water reserves can still support development, but certainly not fast, because the quality of these water resources is carefully calculated and added to the sub-light speed organisms, not a gram less.

"Do you still have plenty of antimatter reserves now?"

"The reserves are small, and it is reluctant to continue to travel light years with star orbits, but this is not a problem, and when the antimatter giant structure is bred, my antimatter reserves can be replenished again."

The collector replied to the inquiry of the same family, for what happened, it was also relatively depressed, such a small probability can let it meet, the key is that it did not think too much when producing hydrogen and oxygen, completely forgot the role of these water resources after arriving at the star system, and directly used it, so now it is very embarrassing.

One of the tentacles of the same species of their own organism is easily pierced like a sharp knife into a cream cake, and then the tentacles open the gap between the proton lattices, and the water storage part acts as a water pipeline to transfer liquid water from the organism to another organism.

"Here you go, these are water resources, don't waste them, water resources are not standing resources, and I don't have many on my side."

After transporting the water resources, the people did not forget to tell the collectors.

"Got it." The gatherer replied.

"I'll see you later, then."

"I'll see you later."

The two sides split up and went to explore everything in the asteroid belt in a left and right bow.

Due to the lack of water resources, the collectors were the first to search for asteroids rich in water resources, such as ice meteorites, and at the same time replenish water resources, and along with the beehives and other biological factories that can process and disassemble compounds.

The Hive will be the main spearhead of the asteroid belt's looting for resources within the asteroid belt, both as a material processing plant and as a maintenance station for living organisms.

The processed material resources will be stacked to facilitate the use of the tribe, and with the processed material resources of the hive, the resource mining in the asteroid belt will only increase exponentially.

However, the premise of all this is that there must be such a large ice meteorite, if not, it is empty talk, the problem is here, without water resources as a start, it will be quite difficult.

"The first step in development is to find a meteorite rich in water resources"

The gatherer whispered to himself, it stretched out its tentacles and made contact with the meteorite, and on the microscopic scale, it can be seen that the tentacles have a large number of cilia, and the function of these cilia is naturally to carry the material on the meteorite, so as to judge the proportion of the meteorite's composition.

"No, this one isn't, it's an iron-nickel meteorite, next."

Somewhat disappointed, the gatherers left the asteroid and headed to the next asteroid of similar size, hoping to find the resource they were looking for.

However, the results still disappointed it, and it could only keep searching for meteorites suitable for camping in meteorite after meteorite.

"No, this is a ferrochrome meteorite."

"This one is also an iron-nickel meteorite."

"Carbon-silicon meteorite"

"Carbon-sulfur iron meteorite"

After searching again and again, the collector finally found the ice meteorite he had been searching for.

"This is it! It's an ice meteorite! ”

"The volume of this one doesn't fit very well, so I chose it."

The collector impatiently touched the tentacles with the ice meteorite, and the part of the tentacle that made contact with the ice meteorite began to change, expanding and contracting like a balloon.

If you have the ability to see, you will find that a miniature version of the hive is being nurtured inside.