In a remote location on the outskirts of Cangzhou City, about 30 kilometers south, is a steel smelter that covers a large scale, named Mingde, and the owner of the smelter is named Chen Jun, a young man in his twenties, one meter eight tall, not fat or thin, but his appearance is somewhat ordinary, but at a glance at his pair of thief eyes, he knows that this guy is definitely a shrewd person.

At this moment, Chen Jun and some managers of the smelter stood in an extremely wide open space to the east of the smelter, and from time to time they would glance at the sky, as if waiting for something to come.

"Mr. Chen, it's eleven o'clock, why haven't you come yet."

A middle-aged man behind Chen Jun muttered in a low voice, but his voice was not too loud, as if he was afraid of something.

"Wait with peace of mind, don't talk nonsense."

Chen Jun let out a low sigh, looked up at the sky, and fell into silence again.

At this time, a small black dot suddenly appeared in the sky not far away, and then quickly became larger, a few seconds later, a huge black transport ship nearly 100 meters long slowly suspended in the open space not far from everyone, the hatch under the hull slowly opened, a large number of black ore continued to fall from the transport ship, and for a while, the rumbling sound continued to sound, splashing a large amount of dust, and it took more than ten seconds to work, thousands of tons of ore were scattered in the clearing, piled up as high as a mountain.

And Chen Jun and the others seemed to be accustomed to such a scene, when the dust rushed in front of them, they raised their sleeves to cover their mouths and noses, and when the dust cleared, three troll-like creatures appeared in front of them, with cyan skin, long fangs, and pointed ears, which looked a little scary.

"Lord Kuka, I've prepared food and drinks here, and I'm waiting for you to come."

Chen Jun's attitude is extremely enthusiastic, in fact, he is also very helpless, these Zalu people are all short-tempered and abnormal, and it is easy to anger them if they are not careful.

"We still have a task today, forget it, you have done well in the recent period, continue to work hard, and smelt this iron ore into steel in the shortest possible time."

After saying this, the three Zaru returned to the transport, sucked the finished steel ingots stored not far away into the transport, and sped away.

"Phew, what the hell?"

Chen Jun spat at the direction the transport ship left, he couldn't stand the way these Zaru people looked like they were slaves.

"Hey, when will it end?"

Chen Jun sighed slightly, constantly recalling the past history in his mind.

In 2035, aerospace science and technology has developed to a new height, and dozens of countries around the world have combined manpower and financial resources to successfully build the first real interstellar warship "Discovery" in several years, and the emergence of "Discovery" means that mankind will enter the era of real interstellar navigation.

In this way, the Discovery Spacecraft, full of human hopes, began its first interstellar exploration to find a planet and energy source suitable for human beings.

However, what everyone couldn't expect was that in the second year of the departure of the "Discovery", it encountered the fleet of the "Zaru" civilization.

The 'Zaru' civilization, a highly developed civilization that is countless times more powerful than human civilization, the fleet of the Zaru civilization captured the 'Exploration' and got the location of the earth, and under the attack of the powerful fleet, human beings could only bow their heads, so the earth became the colony star of the 'Zaru' civilization.

In view of the large number of people on the earth, the 'Zaru' civilization built the earth into a military industry and warship production base, they transported the resources plundered from various planets to the earth, and then processed and produced a variety of high-tech weapons and military products by the humans on the earth according to the process requirements, and they also established an interstellar warship production base in space outside the earth, and a large number of human beings were sent to the warship production base to participate in the construction of warships.

And because Chen Jun inherited a smelting factory from his father, he was given the task of transporting iron ore from the Zalu people to smelt into steel ingots.

Because of this, compared to those enslaved workers, Chen Jun is relatively free, as long as the ore is smelted into metal with quality and quantity, these Zalu people will not do anything to him.

"Uncle's!"

Chen Jun, who was depressed, walked to the edge of the ore and kicked it hard, refining ore for them every day like his grandson and not getting a good face, thinking about it makes me angry.

"Huh!"

At this time, Chen Jun suddenly found that a dark golden palm-sized piece of metal was exposed under the ore block that he kicked away, which was extremely conspicuous, Chen Jun bent down to pick up the metal block and blew the dust on it, wiped it with his hand, and mysterious patterns appeared on the bright metal block.

"What is this?"

Just when Chen Jun was curious about what the metal block in his hand was, the mysterious patterns on it lit up one by one, and the entire metal block suddenly became extremely hot.

"Ahh

Chen Jun screamed in surprise and was about to shake off the metal block in his right hand, but the metal block seemed to grow on the flesh, no matter how he shook it, he couldn't shake it off, what scared Chen Jun the most was that the metal block was constantly drilling into his palm, and the metal block was missing after just a few breaths.

"Mr. Chen, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Jun's sudden exclamation startled the people around him, and they all gathered around to inquire about the situation.

At this moment, the burning pain on Chen Jun's hand had disappeared, and he raised his right hand to take a look, and the metal block had disappeared.

He waved to the people next to him to signal that he was okay, and hurried back to his office, sitting down in his chair.

At this moment, a voice kept echoing in his head.

"Successfully fuse the [Metal Core], please close your eyes and view the [Metal Core] information in a spiritual state."

The abrupt words resounded in Chen Jun's mind more than ten times before stopping.

"[Metal core]? What the hell, that piece of metal that just disappeared from the palm of your hand? “

At this moment, Chen Jun forcibly calmed himself, he knew that it would not help to panic at the moment, the ores that had just been transported were all mined and transported to Earth by the Zalu civilization from other colonies, and the things on the alien planet were a little weird It seems understandable, but he doesn't know what this [metal core] is.

Thinking of this, Chen Jun slowly closed his eyes according to the prompt of the voice in his mind, and after closing his eyes at this moment, his eyes were no longer a dark world, but like a huge electronic screen, a few lines of content were revealed in green fluorescent font.

[Metal Core]: Level 1

[Metal value]: 0

Core Value: 0

[Metal Factory]: Level 1, Capacity: High-grade steel smelting, Quantity: 0/10

When Chen Jun focused his attention on the words [Metal Core], a row of small red fluorescent characters appeared on the side as an explanation.

[Metal Core]: The technology core of a high civilization, the higher the level, the more powerful technology and abilities can be unlocked.

Chen Jun was stunned for a moment when he saw the word 'advanced civilization', he couldn't guess whether this so-called advanced civilization was higher or lower than the 'Zaru' civilization of the colonial globe, but just looking at the text explanation, it seemed to be very powerful.

At this moment, Chen Jun looked down little by little, and each of the above articles gave him a more detailed explanation.

[Metal Value]: The metal core is based on the metal factory, and every 1 ton of ore smelted can get 1 metal value, and the metal value consumed can be used to summon metal life and produce weapons, mechas, and warships.

[Core Value]: Consume core value to unlock advanced technology.

After learning about the metal value and core value, Chen Jun turned his attention to the metal factory column.

[Metal Factory]: At the current level 1, it has been detected that the owner of the [Metal Core] has a metal smelting factory, which can be transformed into a [Metal Factory] and gain the ability 'Advanced Steel Smelting', the maximum number of Grade 1 Metal Factories is 10, should you start the transformation immediately?