After helping the Wang family successfully repel Zheng Hu's raiding fleet, Qi Yiming could be regarded as truly gaining a foothold in the Wang family.

Since he did not accept Wang Zhengfeng's generous gift, he still had to stay in Limestone Star for a while until he scraped together enough energy blocks to support his long journey before he could say goodbye to the Wang family.

Qi Yiming is not in a hurry, it is a long trip to the former Federation Capital Star, and he doesn't care how long it takes to leave early, according to Qi Yiming's meaning, as long as he arrives at the Capital Star before he dies of old age.

So the star thieves around the Wang family fell into bad luck again.

Qi Yiming went out early and returned late every day, and covered all the tasks on the Wang family's task list related to clearing the star thieves.

It stands to reason that Wang Zhengfeng should be happy that the security environment around the Xuannu Galaxy has improved, but he has not been happy at all these days.

For no other reason, the high-concentration energy blocks in the warehouse were almost replaced by Qi Yiming alone.

So much so that the number of energy blocks to be distributed to the retainers next month is not enough.

"Wang Sen, this Qi Yiming's combat power is high, and it is indeed of great benefit to our Wang family, but the problem is that the number of our energy blocks is a little unbearable." Wang Zhengfeng scratched his head in pain.

"Father, I will ask the people below to increase production capacity as soon as possible to fill the gap in the energy block in the warehouse."

"This is secondary, the main thing is that Qi Yiming can't be allowed to go on like this anymore. If you continue like this, what will you do with the other retainers? ”

Although he fled on the battlefield, Wang Zhengfeng expelled some of the retainers who had just joined the Wang family as punishment.

But Wang Zhengfeng, a retainer who can stay, doesn't want these people to just wait for death like this, to put it bluntly, the retainers can improve the combat power of their warships if they have extra money, and the improvement of the retainers' combat power is equivalent to the increase in the combat power of the Wang family.

But the problem is that Qi Yiming has cleared the task of clearing the star thieves, and the speed of his Wang Zhengfeng hanging the task can't catch up with Qi Yiming's speed of clearing the star thieves.

Wang Sen looked at his father, who was both painful and happy, and rolled his eyes: "Father, it's better to let Mr. Qi go with me to the strange galaxy to explore." ”

"Go on." Hearing that Wang Sen had an idea, Wang Zhengfeng suddenly became interested.

"You can appoint Mr. Qi to go with me on a pioneering mission, and give me a higher merit value. In this way, Qi appeared without spending time and effort to accumulate merit points, and also gave other retainers the opportunity to earn extra money. ”

"Well, that makes sense. But Elder Fang Minfang led the team out to explore and hasn't come back yet, isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to send out the development team again? It's not that you don't know that the operation cost of a pioneering fleet is very high, and no matter how rich our royal family is, we can't afford two pioneering fleets to work at the same time. Wang Zhengfeng said with a frown.

"Father, have you forgotten Mr. Qi's combat power? In the past, the high cost of the development fleet operation was because it was necessary to organize a full fleet led by a cruiser before he dared to set off, but Mr. Qi's combat strength only required him to equip him with a supply ship to complete the development task alone. ”

Wang Sen and his father muttered in the conference room for a long time, and finally decided to send Qi Yiming to the K-28 galaxy to carry out a pioneering mission.

Qi Yiming didn't react much when he listened to the briefing of the mission, but in the end, when he heard the merit value of up to five hundred, Qi Yiming didn't say a word and pulled Wang Sen towards the airport where the Xuefeng was moored.

Along the way, he kept complaining: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that there is such a high merit mission?" I go out early and return late every day......"

In fact, Qi Yiming has been quite painful in the past two days, after all, although it is a crushing game to go out every day to fight star thieves, it is very boring to crush no matter how much you do.

In addition, Wang Zhengfeng, the old fox, actually quietly increased the exchange price of the energy block.

Originally, it only required 50 merit points to exchange for an energy block, but now it has risen to 100 merit points for a block.

Qi Yiming said that it was nothing, it was just a matter of destroying a few more groups of star thieves.

The problem is that this can make the rest of the retainers miserable, and the retainers who were originally not easy to earn merit points by doing tasks have a more difficult life, but they dare not speak out because of Qi Yiming's strong combat power.

This time, it's okay, as soon as I heard that Qi Yiming was going to lead the team out to do a pioneering mission. The retainers all rushed to tell each other excitedly, and some even celebrated for this.

However, none of this is important to Qi Yiming, he only needs merit points. After learning that there were 500 meritorious points in this exploration mission, Qi Yiming happily drove the Xuefeng and set off.

He didn't even wait for the supply ships that were rationed to him.

Looking at the snowy peak, the captain of the supply ship scratched his head and asked Wang Sen: "Young Master, am I still chasing after me?" ”

"How to chase? Can the speed of the supply ship catch up with the Snow Peak? Forget it, Mr. Qi must have his own considerations. Wang Sen reluctantly let the supply ship return to his berth.

In fact, Qi Yiming didn't want to bring a supply ship at all, you must know that after bringing one more battleship back, one more captain will share the five hundred merits with himself, Qi Yiming doesn't want others to eat from his bowl.

Besides, he is alone on the Snow Peak, what kind of supply ship do you want? As long as there is enough energy, the food synthesizer on the ship can provide Qi Yiming with basic living support.

The K-28 galaxy is 27 light-years away from the Xuannu Galaxy, and it takes half a month to go back and forth at the speed of Snow Peak plus the time of exploration.

Wang Zhengfeng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Qi Yiming set off as soon as he received the task: "I can finally relax for half a month." ”

Two weeks later, Wang Zhengfeng held a grand welcome ceremony at the Limestone Star Harbor, don't get me wrong, it was not to welcome Qi Yiming, but to welcome another pioneering fleet of the Wang family brought out by Fang Min.

Strictly speaking, Qi Yiming's mission this time can only be regarded as a prelude to the pioneering task, just like when Wang Sen met Qi Yiming, Wang Sen was also doing the pioneering task at that time, but he was only responsible for the early investigation and screening.

Fang Min's exploration mission this time can be regarded as a real exploration mission, not only found a better habitable planet for the Wang family, but also brought back a lot of people for the Wang family.

Population is an indispensable resource for the Wang family, which is in the pioneering stage.

Only with a large population base can the Wang family screen out qualified battleship pilots from among them, so as to form more starfleets.

Battleships are not a problem, as long as you have money, you can buy anything, but it is embarrassing if there is no one.

Looking at the people who were driven off the ship by the people on the transport ship like cargo, Wang Zhengfeng couldn't help but feel a sigh.

Like these people, his ancestors were used to be plundered as a strategic resource.

It's just that Wang Zhengfeng's ancestors are lucky, and through their efforts, they have the strength of the Wang family today.

"Be nice to those people and let them adapt to the new environment as soon as possible." Wang Zhengfeng instructed the retainers in charge of resettling the plundered population.

In fact, signs of human activity can be seen on many naturally habitable planets in this star field, the difference is that some humans have stepped into the universe, while others still live a savage life.