The Lehman Galaxy, named after the Lehman family, one of the four major families of the Northern Wharton, is one of the galaxies to which the Northern Wharton Empire belongs.

The LM-193 asteroid belt is the destination of Li Yi's trip.

Like the other asteroid belts in the galaxy, there are countless asteroids that appear to be chaotic but are scattered in arc-shaped bands and drift slowly en masse in some sort of trajectory.

Asteroids are not spherical, but come in a variety of shapes, ranging in size from fist-sized to hundreds of thousands of cubic meters, and can be seen to be ordinary rocks without spectral analysis.

Such asteroid veins are the most common mineral resources in the universe, 90% of which are all kinds of silicates, that is, silicon and oxygen combined with other metal chemical elements such as aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, etc., in addition to a small amount of nickel, titanium, sodium, chlorine, vanadium, scandium and other mineral elements in the form of ions.

In fact, any planet or any matter in the universe, whether asteroids or large planets, stars, nebulae, dust or even rays, can be considered minerals, but humans generally only mine asteroid belts.

Mining the asteroid belt is technically difficult, simple and convenient, has a small threshold, and is rich in almost unlimited ores, and even if the mining is completed, it will not cause damage to the internal balance of the galaxy.

On the large planets that cannot be inhabited by humans, although land mining will also be carried out, only large institutions, companies or national power groups have the strength to develop them, and as for other planets or minerals with special properties, only cutting-edge top mining ships can be developed on a small scale at great risk, which is a legend for novice miners, not to mention.

That is, Wharton itself can also be seen as a huge "vein".

But Wharton is an extremely rare habitable planet, and it is very rare for humans to find such a foothold.

Unless the humans on Wharton are idiots, of course they will not dig up their hometowns, if anyone in the North and South Wharton Empires dares to do this, without the other party to fight over, they will have civil strife and be overthrown by all the people in the country.

Even the constitution of the North and South Wharton Empires has a special law of the most severe - no one is allowed to carry out any kind of mining activities on Wharton, even if only one cubic meter of soil is dug and its elements are decomposed, it is a crime against humanity and will be punished by death!

Obviously, the consciousness of human beings in this time and space is much higher than that of humans in the old time and space, if the humans on Wharton knew that the earthlings were still cutting and digging a priceless agricultural planet at the moment, I am afraid that the civil war would be stopped on the spot, and the global force would vow to slaughter the earthlings.

Fortunately, after all, the two sides are two time and space, and Li Yi will not have nothing to do to take out the situation of his hometown, and he is even more embarrassed to say it, not to mention that the earthlings also have hardships, and they have not been able to go to other places outside the earth for development for thousands of years, if they can evolve to the era of interstellar civilization, I believe that the earthlings will not continue to eat their old books like this.

What Li Yi needs to do now is very simple, dock the mining machine or mining ship within 10km of the target asteroid, and then let the laser collector on the mining machine lock the target, and after issuing the mining command, the laser collector will send a continuous cluster ray to the target ore body, and then it can be automatically mined in the air.

The reason why it can be mined in the air is because the internal measurement of the cluster ray is a crushing laser, which can knock the target ore body into fragments or even melt into a liquid state, and the outside of the cluster ray is a traction laser, which can form a strong gravitational magnetic field to wrap the fragmented or liquid minerals, and then slowly pull and transport them to the ore silo of the mining machine.

Once the mine is full, it can be returned to the space station or space city in the system to sell the minerals to private institutions or authorities.

After the relevant production departments get these ore raw materials, they use elemental decomposition technology to refine, decompose and classify, so as to process various pure elemental raw materials in the form of atoms or ions, which will be used in various constructions and even used to synthesize food.

There is no need to think about processing and manufacturing for the time being, Li Yi knows that these are not what he can access now.

In Li Yi's view, the whole mining process is very simple and convenient, and the operation is also very foolish, and ordinary people are completely competent.

But it's another matter to achieve efficient harvesting, which involves not only the relevant operational techniques and mining techniques, but also some human factors.

When Li Yi arrived here in his own aircraft, the asteroid belt was already "overcrowded".

As far as the eye can see, the entire asteroid belt looks like a huge and busy construction site, and countless miners of the Northern Wharton Empire are driving their various mining equipment to frantically mine the asteroid belt veins.

Countless azure beams criss-crossed each other, and the asteroid targets they had locked on were shrinking at a tiny rate.

Although the situation here has not yet reached the point where there are more people than mines, this scene still makes Li Yi's scalp tingle, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a long time.

"Based on the experience of playing online games in the old time and space, this is definitely not a suitable place to level up and make money......"

Li Yi shook his head secretly.

The threshold for being an interstellar miner is so low that it's no wonder that most of the civilian class are doing it, but in this way, miners are obviously not a very efficient profession.

But since you're here, let's try it first.

Glancing around, there are no other than mining ships or mining ships.

Asteroids are either none, or too small, generally the size of bricks, and most of them are particle dust, which has no mining value at all.

Looking into the distance, I could only see countless energy clusters of bowl thickness shooting at the end of the starry sky, zooming in on the viewing angle, and only then did I see that they were pointing to large meteorites several kilometers away.

Li Yiwei thought for a while, restored the viewing angle to the normal proportion, and then gave the asteroid scanning command to the active radar system through brain control, and also gave the filter condition to scan only the asteroids that were closest to him and larger than 1,000 cubic meters.

"Radar scanning system starts, scanning ......"

Three seconds later, 100 asteroid information entries were listed on the right panel of the system.

By default, these entries are arranged by distance, and the major mineral classes and size of each asteroid meteorite are also indicated.

"Sure enough, advanced ......"

Li Yi was no longer surprised by the advanced level of science and technology in this era, and after secretly praising it, he moved his "gaze" to the asteroid that ranked first.

Looking at the information, it shows that the asteroid is mainly containing common silicate minerals, with a volume of 2,361 cubic meters and a distance of 23 kilometers.

Looking up at the tactical perspective, if you don't zoom in, you can't see anything in the direction where the asteroid is located.

"Accelerate, close to within 10 kilometers of asteroid 1."

As soon as the mind moves, the memory processor receives the conscious instructions conveyed by the brain.

In the next second, the miner adjusted its direction slightly, and flew towards the designated asteroid with an ion tail flame.

At the same time, the distance between the two sides shown in the information entry on the right has also begun to decrease.

After more than 40 seconds, it shows that the distance has entered the lockable range of 10 kilometers.

"Decelerating to 100 m/s, the laser collector locks onto asteroid 1."

After giving a brain-controlled command, Li Yi observed it again from a tactical perspective, and at this time, the target asteroid was already faintly visible to the naked eye, but it was only a small dot.

"System Prompt: Target Locked."

"Activate the laser collector and mine the 1 asteroid."

After giving the mining order, Li Yi thought about it and gave another order.

"Tactical Perspective 2 opens, Tactical Perspective 2 switches to Target Observation Perspective......"

The next moment, the system displays a view of the camera that is split in two, the left side is still a normal first-person view, and the right side is instantly zoomed in, and the locked asteroid is already visible to the naked eye, occupying most of the center of the frame.

At this time, not only the asteroid was displayed in the No. 2 picture, but also a blue cluster ray acting on its surface, and the surface of the asteroid was constantly broken into small stones, and then it was continuously transported to the mining machine by the cluster rays.

"It turns out that mining is so simple, and it's still a fool's ......"

After understanding and practicing the entire mining process, Li Yi did not have so much novelty, and immediately shifted his attention to the performance data of the mining machine and the laser collector.

The basic miner has a small silo capacity of only 1,000 cubic meters, and its shape resembles a giant fire extinguisher.

By analogy, the mine silo is the cylindrical jar of the fire extinguisher, and the really important core parts, such as the engine room, energy core, thruster, etc., are only concentrated in the sprinkler part of the fire extinguisher, and its nozzle is the laser collector.

The most basic standard mining machine has only one "nozzle", the collector lasts 1 minute every time it runs, and the minerals collected each time are not calculated by weight, but by volume, the standard value is 40 cubic meters / minute, the actual value depends on what kind of minerals are collected, and the texture of some minerals is more "difficult to bite", and the efficiency will be reduced.

Theoretically, it would take 25 minutes for the miner to fill the mine, but in practice it takes even more.

In addition, the volume of the target asteroid minerals is limited, and it may be finished before the time is reached, so it has to be replaced and locked again.

The average market purchase price given by the Northern Wharton Empire for silicate ore is 16.25 stars per cubic meter, that is, excluding the round-trip time, the income earned by the mining machine in half an hour is 16,250 stars.

"This efficiency is too low......"

After a rough estimate, Li Yi was not very satisfied with this result.

It should be said that he was very dissatisfied.