Shining Star Field, Twilight Star.

The white Gobi Desert is desolate and silent.

It's just that today, a group of uninvited guests suddenly visited, breaking the silence here for thousands of years!

The endless, rugged land is slowly fluctuating under the influence of some unknown force. It's as if the calm surface of the lake is blowing in the breeze, with slight ripples!

Zooming closer to the ground, you can see that the source of the ripples is a silver insect the size of a fingernail, and in the sunlight, the body of the insect shimmers with a dazzling metallic sheen, which is obviously a mechanical creation.

The temperature on the surface of this planet is extremely low, so the surface of the earth has long been harder than steel after countless years of freezing! Small-caliber beam guns may not be able to break!

But with the concerted efforts of these mechanical insect swarms, the ground has already become like a wooden board that has been hollowed out by termites!

From time to time, a mechanical insect with a dimly lit body would emerge from the ground, and then quickly crawl towards a metal sphere with a diameter of ten meters not far away.

The surface of the metal sphere shimmered with a beautiful silver halo, suspended ten centimeters above the ground, and several metal tracks extended from the belly of the ball and fell to the ground. The mechanical bugs crawled into the belly of the ball along the gently sloping tracks.

The space inside the belly of the ball is tightly arranged, with a shimmering silver area on the left and a recovery area on the right!

Once the mechanical bugs crawl in, they will first come to the right area, open their nearly transparent belly, and send out a small amount of glowing or dull metal inside, and then come to the left area. Stay there motionless for about ten minutes. Wait until the body becomes shiny again. After the last round, leave the belly of the ball and return to the ground, and continue to repeat the previous work!

Each silver sphere is responsible for an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters, and a kilometer away is a mining ship with a diameter of hundreds of meters, which is responsible for controlling hundreds of silver spheres!

This is one of the more classic exotic mining equipment in the Anthropocene: the metal hive.

During the work, thousands of metal mechanical worms were released, and then under the unified instructions of the central brain, all valuable mineral resources were screened and searched for in the demarcated target area. and their initial screening was collected. It is then sent back to the secondary split processing unit.

They leave the collected resources here to replenish their energy. Just stay in that silver area for ten minutes, and the energy gained will support them to continue working for twelve hours without stopping!

Once a mechanical worm is damaged and can no longer work, it will be dragged by its companions and sent to the belly of the silver ball for recovery!

The maximum working depth of the robot bugs can reach fifteen meters underground, and as long as there is a valuable resource, they will be carefully stripped out of the soil and rock layers and collected!

These silver orbs, the secondary split processing units, refine and purify the collected resources, store some of them, and use some of them to create new mechanical swarms.

Wait until the storage room is full. The orb will send commands to the mining ship, and some flying robots will come and bring the resources in the storage room back to the ship. Carry out a new round of refining and purification!

In the distance, a metal suspension platform with a diameter of several meters flew in.

"Surprised, isn't it?"

Xiao Junling looked at the handsome boy beside him and said gently:

"This is a decentralized resource gathering unit, which is suitable for the development of mineral resources in relatively poor areas, because the purity of the ore in these places is not high, and it is not cost-effective to mine with large machinery and equipment, so this will be used!"

"It's really amazing!" Alston leaned on the railing of the floating platform and admired it sincerely, his beautiful blue eyes couldn't stop looking at the busy mechanical life, but he didn't expect the metal railing to be held by him with several clear fingerprints.

Xiao Junling looked at the boy's cramped and uneasy expression, and said disapprovingly: "It's okay, at the beginning of the ability to activate, the brain's control of the body will indeed have a period of adjustment, and it is normal to be unable to control the strength, just get used to it slowly!" ”

Last time, because of an accident, he broke Victoron's good deeds, and he was seriously injured and near death, so Xiao Junling saw and rescued him. With the help of the medical equipment of the War Fortress, not only did he fully recover from his injuries, but he also activated his abilities.

"Lord, I've heard you say that this star field is very rich, and there are all kinds of high-quality ore veins, so there shouldn't be a need for this kind of ...... Decentralized resource collection units, right? Elston asked curiously.

Xiao Junling explained: "This is because after exploration, the shallow surface of the Gobi Desert below contains a special metal mineral 'molybdenum sand', which is an extremely versatile resource in our world!" And the reserves are scarce, so it's worth mining in this way! ”

Molybdenum quenching sand is mainly used as the core component of various high-precision radar detection equipment, and its value is still above the Posela crystal sand, but it is difficult for this thing to have a relatively concentrated vein, which is generally associated with other minerals. or scattered in some areas with harsh environments.

In fact, the efficiency of this collection method is not inferior to that of those large machinery, and the only disadvantage is that the energy consumption is large. However, the most important thing in the Biluo Galaxy is the energy crystal, so this is nothing at all!

Al Ston looked at him and said, "The world where the Lord Monarch came should be very beautiful and prosperous!" I wish I could go and see it one day! ”

"Of course, there will be a chance!" Xiao Junling patted him on the shoulder and encouraged:

"Your talent is good, as long as you are willing to work hard to cultivate, you will inevitably become a high-level ability in the future, so work hard!"

Little Artson nodded vigorously.

"My lord, this is a great place!" Hua Qingyang flew over from a distance with a team of supernatural people who were on a patrol mission, and Song Yuanping and Yang Hanjun were also among them.

Xiao Junling smiled: "I said, I won't let you regret it!" Let's work together, and one day this starry sky will belong to us! ”

When they were in the imperial capital, the three of them had successfully gone through the retirement procedures, and then followed him here as core followers!

Yang Hanjun smiled and said, "It's been a month now, it's time to continue using soldiers, right?" I can't wait to see how powerful those spar crabs are! ”

Xiao Junling nodded and said, "This has already been planned!" There are still a few days before the New Year of the Chinese Empire, and I plan to wait until after the New Year to send troops, what do you think? ”

"That's exactly how it should be!" Hua Qingyang agrees with the authenticity.

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Although the Nogas Blue Civilization has its own calendar year, as a Chinese person in a foreign land, it still retains the habit of celebrating Chinese festivals! This is also a common practice among the lords of the vast number of overseas Dominions in the interstellar era!

Considering that the run-in training of the new fleet would take time, Xiao Junling postponed the dispatch of troops until after the Lantern Festival, and only after the Lantern Festival did he gather all the core followers to discuss a new round of strategy and planning.

“…… After more than two months of hard work, the number of our warships has exceeded 30,000, and all kinds of new equipment have been debugged and assembled! With plenty of logistics, it's time to continue expanding! Li Yuankang said,

"I just don't know this specific goal, how does the lord plan to choose?"

Xiao Junling opened the star map and explained to everyone: "We don't need to start a war with those big lords around us for the time being, the main task this time is to defeat the fleets left by Bronnick and take down the richest star fields including its old nest Yuanxing Star Domain!" ”

"As long as we achieve this goal, our plan will be completed!"

Since the fall of the Great Lord of Bronnik, its territory and the remaining legions have been divided among three stronger clansmen! The strength of these three families is nothing to the current Xiao Junling.

The only thing to worry about is that they may collude with the surrounding big lords and use the strength of those guys to suppress him! Therefore, we must be cautious in this battle and keep a certain strategic reserve at all times to deal with unexpected variables.

Yu Xin'er asked, "Aren't you going to take over all of its more than ten star fields?" ”

Xiao Junling said: "Of course, we can't afford to eat such a big victory at the moment!" Therefore, I only plan to bring the well-developed star fields into my direct control first! Wait for a few months to digest it, and then try to plot the rest of the territory! ”

Hu Yuanming said with a smile: "I don't know how much strength those guys still have, if there is no discrepancy with our original information, it will be too easy to win this battle!" Maybe in two or three days, we will be able to hold a celebratory banquet on Cem, the capital of the Yuan Xing Star Domain! ”

Xiao Junling glanced at the star map and said, "There is nothing more to say in the Yuan Punishment Star Domain!" What I'm worried about now is the forces around me! For example, that Atagast, and Croystein next to it! It's not a good stubble! ”

"If they plan to come over and get a piece of the pie, with our current strength, it will be a little difficult to deal with!"

Zhou Yun said: "We now have a fleet of more than 30,000, and there will be 3,000 troops within a month, all of which are battleships that have been upgraded and transformed by technology, plus war fortresses, even if we fight, we may not be able to suffer much loss!" ”

Xiao Junling agrees with his opinion, at such a critical moment, you must not be too weak! If they really dare to do it, then no matter how much they pay, they will cut off the claws of these guys!

Anyway, if you still have hole cards, the opponent's loss will definitely only be greater than your own!

The Yuanxing Star Domain, as well as the surrounding three star fields such as Xifeng, Lennon, and Changwei, are the territory directly controlled by the Great Lord of Bronnik, and they are also the four most prosperous and highly developed star fields in its territory!

He was able to sit firmly in the position of the Great Lord, relying on the rich resources of these four star fields, so that he had enough capital to cultivate a powerful force, and use it to deter the other lords around him!

Xiao Junling's expedition this time is determined to win these star fields! And try not to cause too much damage! From this time on, he already saw it as his own territory! (To be continued......)