According to the coordinates recorded on Noel's mastermind, the two ships jumped to orbit on Planet 9 one after the other. The nearby airspace is quiet, and the gaseous clouds hundreds of kilometers wide take on a mesmerizing lilac color, which has a bit of a psychedelic feeling.

Hong Tao was not interested in such a beautiful scenery, and immediately released four mining drones, which will collect gas samples together with the spacecraft's collector for analysis to determine the content and type of fullerene in the gas cloud, so as to determine the specific collection location.

Collecting fullerene molecules in gaseous clouds is a task that requires high technical capabilities and requires precise analysis equipment. Clouds do not have a very regular trajectory like asteroids and meteorites, and in addition to being affected by external gravity, there is also a strong convection flow inside due to temperature differences.

If you want to accurately collect fullerene molecules in a gaseous cloud, it is a bit like spearing a fish in flowing river water, you must first find out exactly where the fish are, and then follow the swimming trajectory of the fish, and finally shoot fast enough. After a long time, the concentration of fullerene molecules will change, and if the content is too low, there will be no collection value.

In addition, it is best to accurately distinguish the types of fullerene molecules, some of which are more valuable, such as C50 and C72, and the purchase price per cubic meter remains around 30,000 credits all year round. The others are less valuable, and although they are higher than ordinary minerals, they are not very cost-effective when you count the cost of gathering.

Therefore, it is not easy to collect fullerenes in gaseous clouds, otherwise such a high-value resource would have been covered with swarming mining ships, after all, most miners do not have this ability and equipment, so they can only watch and watch.

In fact, Hong Tao is also a miner who does not have this ability, he has never collected gaseous clouds at all, not once. Uncle Qin has this ability, but its main function is mining, and gas cloud collection is only possible, not professional.

But all this has changed qualitatively since she met Natalia, the mastermind of the hibernators. Although Hong Tao still can't understand many things, he always has an impression in his brain, which he can't understand or ignore.

Uncle Qin has become more thorough, as the master of a mining barge, any knowledge about mineral analysis, scanning, collection, and refining has been mastered to the level of close to the technology of hibernators. It also has a few more dog legs than Hong Tao, and the mining drones that have also been upgraded by Hibernator technology can often achieve the effect of 1+1 greater than 2 when combined.

"Nuel, have you been here before" So Hong Tao didn't bother about finding the collection point at all, and most of his attention was on Nuel's movements. Since absorbing the synergist, the beard has tended to be a normal person, and there is no problem in piloting the spaceship, but it is not completely reassuring in the end.

"I don't remember...... What model is your drone, and why can't I get specific data from my brain?"

Nuel shook his head, he didn't have much to do, he just had to operate the industrial ship to follow the mining barge closely, and then release the mining drone after arriving at the collection point, and the rest was left alone. Not to mention the idler's life, the bearded man actually pondered Hong Tao's mining drone.

"It's that the industrial ship is too old, and it hasn't been upgraded for more than ten years. When we have saved enough money, we will buy you the latest spaceship, how about this one like mine" Hong Tao is not afraid that Nuel will be suspicious, if he can be suspicious, it means that the brain damage can be saved.

"If only it could be coated with a film...... "Nuel was really not suspicious, but had an instinctive reaction to the data fed back by the main brain, but did not have active logical thinking.

"I agree with this, I don't want the dark yellow of the Emma Empire, it's too old-fashioned, I like shiny silver-like color!" As soon as he heard that someone agreed to coat the hull, the uncle immediately lived.

"No, I still think the dark yellow color is more restrained...... Li, your mastermind can also pick colors, but I will only keep telling me that there is a leak in the airtight door! Looks like I need to do some work to get a new ship sooner rather than later. By the way, does your mastermind have a name" Uncle Qin's interjection didn't make Nuel feel any discomfort, and he thought it was funny.

"The captain calls me Uncle, you can call me that, hello Nuel!" As soon as he heard that someone was asking about his name, the uncle was even happier and hurriedly reported his name.

"Hello, uncle...... Can you help me calculate how many credits are needed for a Hunter-class mining barge with a full set of collection equipment, my mastermind will only say that it can't connect to the trade space station data service, and can't be evaluated! ”

Nuel seems to prefer to chat with the master of the spaceship, Hong Tao has always taken the initiative to talk to him but rarely gets such a positive reply, always asking and answering, basically not taking the initiative to ask.

This is called what is explained in ancient civilizations, called things to gather people in groups, and people with poor IQ, experience, and interests like to get together. Obviously, Uncle Qin is a better match for Noel, who has suffered brain damage, in terms of artificial intelligence, so the two of them will resonate.

Hong Tao definitely couldn't take the initiative to lower his IQ to cater to the two children-like people and the mastermind, so he became a loner, and people didn't care about the mastermind and didn't care. More communication is good for Nuel to recover his memory, of course, there are side effects, and the uncle will be more and more broken by his habit.

Didn't the ancients say that the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils, and Nuel's recovery is obviously more important than the depravity of his uncle. Do more by yourself, who let us catch up with such an inferior mastermind.

In fact, there is no need for Hong Tao to do more, the mining drones that have been upgraded by the Hibernator software are more intelligent, and they will complete themselves as long as they explain the purpose clearly.

The ability to collect and analyze is also stronger, and it also has a certain degree of cluster intelligence, which can compare and communicate data with each other, and basically does not need too much intervention except for the right to finalize.

Noel must have been to the system, and he worked here as a miner for a while. At least three of those mines in his mind were very reliable, and if he hadn't done relevant work, who would have been fine with recording this kind of overly professional data.

I ran three planets in one go, and the results of the collection and analysis were all about the same, and I didn't find a large area of high concentration, and I didn't encounter a situation that was too barren. Hong Tao didn't want to try the rest of the mine, not for the sake of collection needs, but to confirm the source of the ore data.

Two days have passed, and the reason why clone pilots are more suitable for working on a spaceship than ordinary pilots is that physiological advantages are the most important factor. They can work on the spacecraft for ten days and half a month without eating, drinking, or sleeping, and persist at this pace for several months or even half a year without affecting their health.

It is difficult for ordinary pilots to work at such a high intensity, and the interior space of the ship does not support carrying too many supplies. In general, the cargo hold is not able to store daily necessities, the temperature there is too low, and it is in a vacuum.

With such a sleepless work, and the help of mining drones, the fullerene clouds suitable for collection are not very easy to capture. The main reason is that the area of the gaseous cloud is too large, and it surrounds the planet in a large circle, and it is still flowing, not to mention two spaceships, even if there are another hundred and ten ships, it will still be like looking for a needle in the sea.

Mining drones are an immediate demonstration of their high-tech side, with sensors that are exceptionally sensitive and can produce accurate results with only a small amount of gas.

The five UAVs took the industrial ship as the center, with a radius of 50 kilometers and a semicircle at intervals of 30 kilometers, and swept at a high speed of more than 2,000 meters per second.

After finding the area with high concentration, the gravitational force generated by itself is used to suck all the surrounding gaseous molecules into the collector, and the required fullerene molecules are left through magnetic screening, and the waste is compressed into a liquid state and thrown out. Every 100 kilometers is ejected, much like a few dogs drowning on their way.

Natalia's modified mining drones are not only fast in their collection, but also in their screening capabilities, and the purity of the finished products they collect. But this is not an advantage, the purchaser does not need this purity, so the price given is still the same.

As for how to make the drone reduce the purity of the collection and increase the speed, Hong Tao has not yet figured out the parameter setting, so he can only try it again and again with his uncle. Anyway, this speed is already very fast, so there is no hurry.