Chapter Twenty-Four: Strange Ores

The Starty moved slowly, separating the debris along the way, forming a blank path behind it, and the constantly moving debris slowly filled in the gaps shortly after the Starti flew by.

It took about another day for the Star to approach one of the larger meteorites, nearly a thousand kilometers in diameter, which should be called a meteorite in terms of size, one of the three larger fragments.

The scans showed no debris of another large star, preliminarily confirming that the planet was not shattered by the collision of two planets.

According to the orbit of these three large meteorites, Xingti should be the core part of this protoplanet, and I don't know what powerful force it was shattered.

"Uncle, I scanned some minerals on this meteorite that can be used to make battleships, do you want to mine some here?"

"There are nearly thirty days left before the agreed delivery time of the battleship keel and hull, and if you count the production of the engine, etc., it is estimated that there will be more than ten days, which means that we still have more than a month to go."

Qin Feng was thinking in his heart, if this period of time was used to mine minerals, with the mining speed of the Xingti sub-ship, basically the internal construction needs of these two warships would be enough.

And this meteorite is obviously the core part of a large planet.

It is also very difficult to encounter in peacetime, unless a large asteroid is smashed with force, but that requires strong force, even if it is the current Star, it is very laborious to deal with such a large planet, unless it is a continuous bombardment, perhaps only the Protoss armed or heavy Star Destroyer can use a large positive particle cannon or directly use a heavy material cannon.

Except for the last time when Qin Feng obtained something suspected to be the core of a meteorite on the popular planet that broke and erupted on the edge of the river system, he never expected to be able to touch the core of such a large planet.

I remember when he was in school, he once said that the core of the earth is an iron-nickel core, surrounded by a molten mantle at high temperature and pressure, and has a strong magnetic field. But now the star is almost hovering above the core of the star, which is most likely part of the large planet, and no strong magnetic field has been detected.

"Uncle, I found that there is a strange substance underneath, not like a normal substance, with strange energy fluctuations, I want to release the detection robot to retrieve a piece of the test." Xingti said.

Qin Feng saw on the screen that Xingti launched a small spaceship at the exit of the wings, carrying ten detection robots, carrying various detection instruments and landing towards the meteorite.

There were no incidents to the small spacecraft, as if the planetary core had lost its gravity and magnetic field, and although the meteorite may have been part of the core of a large planet before, it is now like an ordinary asteroid or meteorite rock.

When the detection robot first came down from the small spaceship, it looked light due to the lack of gravity. Fortunately, these robots can work in harsh environments, according to the division of labor, some set up detection machinery, some are using the equipment they carry to drill and take samples, the meteorite looks very solid, and the sampling work does not seem to be smooth.

About an hour later, the robot that took the sample sent a small sample back to the small spacecraft, and the other robots also set up the detection equipment, and the small spacecraft flew directly back to Xingti.

The sample was immediately sent to an external function chamber for testing, which was the place where Xingti tinkered with what she thought was fun when she was fine, which she was afraid of studying in Xingti, and if there was an accident, it would affect Xingti and the personnel on board.

Qin Feng was also very interested in this sample that might be the core of the planet this time, so he also followed.

"It took a long time to get something like this back?" Xingti said as he looked at the sample box that was only the size of a broad bean.

She wanted to pick up the sample and take a closer look, but what seemed to be such a small matter star could not be picked up with the ability to project. Qin Feng stepped forward and reached out to pick it up, and felt extremely heavy in the palm of his hand, this is under the condition of the artificial gravity of the Xingti, if it is placed in the earth environment, it should be heavier.

Undoubtedly, this was an extremely dense substance, which made Qin Feng even more certain that this might be the star core material of a large planet.

Looking at this silver-white fragment, although the shape seems to be irregular, Qin Feng does not see this from his eyes, this sample should be similar to a metal crystal, it is very likely that the planetary core material is crystallized in an extreme environment, due to the change in the structure of the matter, so that it no longer has the strong gravity and strong magnetic field of the star core.

He shared this idea with Xingti, who also used various instruments to test it.

"Uncle, you're right, although the substance is still in a mixed state of iron and nickel, it has become a special crystal, and in the middle of the crystals formed by the mixture of iron and nickel is surrounded by a small blue island-like substance, which makes this crystal denser and stronger, but it should also be more difficult to process."

"We may not be able to use it now, we may not be able to process it. If this is used as a battleship shell, it can withstand ordinary naval artillery bombardment even if there is no protective force field. ”

"I don't know how this substance is formed? Such a strange crystal! ”

Qin Feng looked at the scanned structure diagram of this crystalline substance on the screen, and did not speak, he felt that this diagram had a sense of déjà vu, and he didn't know where he had seen it.

He took out a small piece of blue gold and handed it to Xingti, "This is blue gold, which is used as interstellar currency." ”

The blue gold that Xingti took was also scanned together, and it was found that the structure of the blue gold was the same as that of the blue material surrounded by an iron-nickel mixture in the crystals of the collected samples.

Although there is only a small part of the blue substance in this crystal, it is also blue gold, this is blue gold ore! This star core material is blue gold ore, and I don't know why this star core has become blue gold ore.

Does this mean that blue gold also has the ability to counteract gravity and magnetic fields?

If it is a gaseous asteroid, the explanation of planetary nuclear science is metallic hydrogen, because large gaseous planets have less metal content, in the extreme environment of high temperature and high pressure in the core, as well as a strong magnetic field, the electrons in the hydrogen atom overflow into public electrons, and the nucleus constitutes a crystalline structure similar to metal, which stores huge energy, 30-40 times larger than ordinary explosives.

Because of its small size and easy storage, it is extremely abundant in interstellar content, and is widely used as a fuel substance for ion engines.

Rocky planets, on the other hand, are generally dominated by iron-nickel cores, with increased metal content and abundant heavy metals. However, human beings have not yet discovered the substance of blue gold on the earth, so Qin Feng has no way of understanding its characteristics.

"Since this crystal contains a blue gold substance, it must be mined." Qin Feng was also fascinated by wealth once. However, he made a difficulty, if this meteorite with a diameter of thousands of kilometers was this kind of crystal, but it could not be completely taken away, it made Qin Feng feel a little distressed in his heart.

"Xingti, you calculate the amount of blue gold particles in this substance."

Xingti roughly measured it, and then said, "Uncle, the blue gold content is about a few parts per billion. Qin Feng calculated in his heart, this content is only a few thousandths of a gram per ton. The gold content of gold ore on the earth is about 0.3 or more to be mined, and the blue gold content is really low.

And it is not necessarily that these planetary cores are all such crystals, so it may not be as much as Qin Feng imagined.

"Xingti, can this hard ore be mined with a mining subship?"

"Uncle, do you want this crystal? Or do you want blue gold? ”

Qin Feng thought about it, what is the use of asking for so much blue gold, it is not so that I can obtain the urgently needed materials through trading in the future. This crystalline mineral in front of you may not be encountered in the future, and it is necessary to purify blue gold, and some of the gains outweigh the losses.

So he said, "I want this crystalline mineral to use as a material, prioritize it as a material for warships, and then look into other uses." ”

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"Uncle, I don't have a corresponding classification and name for this kind of crystal ore, according to the general naming rules, it is called star core crystal, do you think it's okay?"

"You can define it, you can define it." Qin Feng is not good at naming names, so he simply doesn't care.

"If you just want this kind of ore, you need to test it to see if it can be cut, and if you can cut it into large pieces, it will be good to transport it directly to the Xingti. Only small pieces of ore can be harvested with sub-ships, and further purified them. ”

"Then you try it, anyway, this meteorite is also very large, you can do it in two ways at the same time, while collecting materials, while purifying blue gold, what do you think?"

"Okay, uncle, but in that case, the Star will have to stay here and won't be able to explore anywhere else."

"It's okay, let's stay here for now, I'd like to look elsewhere and see if I can find the cause of this planet's shattering. It's off the beaten track anyway, so there's little danger to me. ”

"I'm not worried about you going by yourself, you better let the escort team go with you."

"It's okay, then I'll take a small warship, and you should be more careful here to ensure the safety of the people in the Xingti and not close the protective space."

After Qin Feng set off with the escort team, Xingti regretted that he didn't build more high-performance and high-protection small warships, and so did his uncle, so he got a small stealth battleship and gave it to Yan Shiyi's guy.

She thought so in her heart, didn't her uncle already get a battleship construction base, and if she had time to go back, she must make a few more small warships, anyway, the battleships of the Xingti have a lot of berthing space, and now the four corvettes only occupy a corner.

The small battleship that Qin Feng is riding on is not very strong in attack ability and protection ability, even detection ability, but it has an advantage, that is, it can share the data on the Xingti, which can be provided by the auxiliary brain Xingluo.

Looking at the planetary fragments that keep flashing on the screen, small warships have the advantage of small warships, that is, they are flexible, dodging these debris is not a problem at low speeds, and if there is something that cannot be avoided, use the battleship's plasma cannon to destroy or push it off.

Qin Feng used the probe on the battleship to continuously explore the few fragments with high-purity metal characteristics that he saw on the Xingti when he entered this meteorite belt. If you want to talk about "Rise of the Void" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~