Baiyan Ridge is named after the quartz stone and mica that is full of mountains.

These white ores make the whole mountain barren, and the afterglow of the huge red sun [Note 1] is golden and dazzling.

Quartz and mica are both high-value minerals, but they are not worth mentioning compared to the eridium ore in the pit at the foot of the mountain.

The Baiyanling vein is an excellent mine, and 1g of neodymium metal crystals can be extracted from every six tons of neodymium-rich ore on average, and the high mineral quality is rare in the world.

The reserves of eridium-rich ore are as high as a staggering 2.37 billion cubic meters, and the current mining progress is enough to mine for several lifetimes.

The ore body at the foot of the mountain is in the form of a network vein, which is mined by the well mining method, and is now jointly developed by the Ketecheng Mining Bureau, the Sanxiacheng Mining Bureau and the Dupengcheng Mining Bureau.

Of course, if such a huge mine is to be eaten by the Mining Bureau, many energy companies are afraid that they will go crazy.

So Rosstar's Hundred Cities Alliance introduced the Sanqi Resource Allocation Act.

That is, seven points of ore vein mining will be handed over to the Mining Bureau, and the remaining three points will be released in the form of bidding.

Hex, AC, Bolong Mining...

At the foot of Baiyan Ridge are dozens of energy companies.

There are hundreds of mines, large and small.

There are a few hundred miners in each mine, and even more with the addition of technicians, logisticians, and managers.

Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed into this area, and it is like a small town.

Most of the miners were not highly educated, and they were engaged in high-intensity manual labor, and when they had money, they squandered it on alcohol and women.

Drunk and troublesome, jealousy, fights and brawls.

The chaos of White Rock Ridge is comparable to that of the worst of the Bottom City slums.

As the sun sets, the mine is on holiday.

Miners gather in droves to solicit prostitutes and drink.

In the crowd, a tall man with dust goggles, a blood-soaked camel-colored coat almost rotten to strips of cloth, and an unlit cigarette in his mouth.

It was Chen Mo.

Stop-and-go, Chen Mo stopped at the door of a bar with a booming business.

The bar sign is a huge piece of quartz raw stone.

People come and go, but the stones are still white.

Four large characters are engraved on it.

'White Rock Tavern'.

Chen Mo took off the dust goggles, shook off the sand and dust into his pocket, and grabbed the dirty hand stretched out behind him and pulled the dislocated joint.

"If anyone stretches out his hand, I will chop off his paws."

Seeing that he was a difficult lord to mess with, the miners scattered in a hurry.

It's not cost-effective to steal bits and pieces and end up disabled.

Borrowing a fire from passers-by, Chen Mo lit a cigarette and pushed open the door of the tavern.

The tavern was overcrowded and noisy.

Drinking, punching, bragging...

Only one corner is relatively secluded.

In the corner sat a burly middle-aged man in a khaki polo shirt, with short gray hair messy and harmonious.

His left arm has been replaced with a mechanical prosthetic starting from his collarbone, and his right leg has an appended armored skeleton nailed below the knee.

Men don't care about exposing their disabilities.

He smokes a pipe in one hand and a classical cup in the other, and on the mechanical arm stands a macaw smuggled by the mother star.

Through the crowd, Chen Mo's gaze met with the man.

Chen Mo took two quick steps and stood opposite the man who got up.

The man was nearly two meters, much taller than Chen Mo, and he was as strong as a mountain.

Before he said hello, the iron fist gave Chen Mo a heartbeat.

"Do you still know to see Lao Tzu?"

The man asked viciously.

Chen Mo retched when he was beaten.

"Old man, are you dead!?"

The man pulled up Chen Mo, who was bent over, and hugged him fiercely.

"Stinky boy, welcome home."

"I haven't been back for two months, and you're talking as if you haven't seen each other for ten or eight years."

Chen Mo rubbed his chest that was hammered and painful, passed the whiskey from the man's table, and poured a few big sips.

Looking at Chen Mo's ragged clothes, the man raised his chin.

"What's the situation this time, making such a mess?"

Chen Mo groaned slightly, pulled a chair and sat down in the corner, and explained the cause and effect of this mission to the man in detail.

Chen Mo, as his name suggests, is taciturn, and only when he is with the person in front of him will he show his frank side.

Twenty-four years ago, Chen Mo's father died in battle as a captain of the Resistance Army on his home planet, leaving behind his posthumous son Chen Mo.

A few years after Chen's mother gave birth to Chen Mo, she also died of a serious illness.

Chen Mo was brought up by the man in front of him from a young age.

The man played the role of father, mother, and mentor in his life.

In order to take care of Chen Mo, the man has not married so far.

The father and son have a deeper bond than blood.

The man's ancestral home is the home planet Northland, the big name is White Stone, and the Chinese name is Baishi.

Above.

After listening to Chen Mo's story, Lao Bai pondered for a moment and nodded.

"The design of the Liebherr L is really fucked up, self-destructing and setting up double insurance... However, you have blown all the corpses in the head, so that Root has to use the mechanic's body to talk to you, this operation is indeed very eye-catching, otherwise, you will not have enough time to smash open the Eridium ore container, even if you detonate the suspension ship, without the Eridium ore to increase the explosion yield, it is unknown whether you can blow up the xenomorph Root. Overall, this mission can give you a score of 90. ”

"Where's the 10 points?" Chen Moqi said.

"Running too slowly, ruining a piece of clothing."

Chen Mo was angry.

Lao Bai laughed: "Why are you still so funny, drinking and drinking." ”

The father and son pushed the cup and changed the lamp.

A whole 3/4 liter bottle of whiskey was drunk by the father and wife in less than half a point.

Lao Bai didn't know where to turn out a jacket and threw it to Chen Mo.

"The previous four transports were all destroyed by the xenomorph Lut?"

"Eighty percent yes, after all, I didn't see the wreckage of the other four hoverships, and I can't tell if it was the four kills taken by this xenomorph based on the traces."

"It's only eighty percent likely, how do you submit a task?"

"Hand in the mission log and see what the law enforcement department does. Anyway, I'm a supernumerary, and it's a matter of money if the task is not completed. ”

Lao Bai pondered for a while, nodded, and took out another bottle of whiskey: "Tell me about that alien Lute." ”

"Hmm... I think the hull explosion is what it did. ”

"Tail?"

"Yes, Tail." Chen Mo affirmed: "Its tail gives me a very bad feeling, that purple shimmer, which is very close to the color of eridium metal." ”

Lao Bai chewed on the meaning of Chen Mo's words.

"You mean, it will use eridium energy?"

"Yes."

"And then throw the Eridium out with its tail like an energy bomb?"

"That's right."

"That's a terrible thing." Lao Bai put down his wine glass: "What about the xenomorph corpse?" ”

"Another explosion, another fire, four points less burned, what do you think is left?" Chen Mo was helpless: "I have to bring this news back to Cotter City and see how the Law Enforcement Department makes a price." ”

"Okay, let's go back early."

"I don't have a car."

"Go back."

"I'll probably be eaten by Rutter halfway through."

"So you're here to get carts and supplies!?"

"How can the matter of the two fathers be called false! Between father and son, there are blessings and hardships..."

"Shut up." Lao Bai threw the car key to Chen Mo and scolded angrily: "Don't scrap it for me again!" ”

"I'll fight for it."

Chen Mo smiled and got up.

……

Baiyanling is only 600 kilometers away from Kote City in a straight line, but because there is no road, it takes more than 1,000 kilometers to reach it.

Coupled with the rugged mountain road and the dangerous Ross protists on the way, if you want to drive back to Cotter City by land, you have to take turns driving two drivers for two days and one night without a moth.

Chen Moqiang was energetic, stepped on the accelerator full, and it only took thirty hours to rush back to the city.

Cotter City.

Lower Gori.

Zone C.

Nine Oak Lane bachelorette apartment.

As one of the top bounty hunters in Cotter City, Chen Mo lived in a humble place.

In order to avoid being tracked or monitored, Chen Mo has no AI housekeepers, no intelligent robots, and even few smart furniture.

The fifty-square-meter house maintains the war-damaged decoration style when it was started, and the furniture is made of the cheapest synthetic materials.

After a simple shower, Chen Mo took out a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, a personal handheld terminal, similar to a tablet, but more powerful and longer-lasting. He gave a briefing to the inspector of the Enforcement Agency, then kicked off his shoes and lay down on the bed.

Fall asleep in half a second.

He was in a state of high mental stress for forty-three hours, during which time he did not sleep.

Take advantage of the fact that there is no task in hand, hurry up and get a good night's sleep.

When you close your eyes, that's twelve hours.

Early the next morning, Chen Mo was woken up by the non-stop ringing of the PDA.

After opening the PDA and taking a brief look, the 200,000 tasks outsourced by the Law Enforcement Agency had been received, and the rest of the information was all sent by the inspector who contacted him on a single line.

In addition to the scene, the law enforcement agency is most concerned about the alien root.

Chen Mo thought for a while, sent all the information he knew, and then opened the headhunting APP.

Headhunters have a long history.

Headhunters have been in the rudiments since humans colonized Ross, and with the development of colonization, headhunters have been making great progress and becoming one of the largest and most widespread websites on the entire planet.

The website has been established for nearly 30 years and is the home of Ross Star bounty hunters, with its own special settlement system and contact details.

Chen Mo's headhunter ID is 'Night Stalker', and he is currently the No. 1 bounty hunter in the overall ranking of Kote City, maintaining a 100% mission completion rate, and is known as the Kot Duo with another bounty hunter with the ID of 'Fierce Man'.

After briefly browsing the bounty news of Kort City, and then looking at the recent commission, he found that there was no money and less work close to home, Chen Mo closed the website and continued to sleep.

This time, I slept directly into the afternoon.

When Chen Mo got up again, he only felt hungry.

After washing, he casually dealt with a high-energy compression block, Chen Mo carried an emergency bag, carried a bucket of water downstairs, prepared to wipe the car, and then took some cash to buy goods on the black market.

The car that Chen Mo drove back was changed by Lao Bai with a lot of thought, the suspension was set very high, which was convenient for walking on the bad roads of the wilderness, and the motor was also carefully tuned, so it was easy to go over the mountains and mountains.

Worried that the miners' hands and feet were not clean, Lao Bai also deliberately replaced the car shell with a seventeen-year-old Gao Kefu three generations.

The appearance of a classic car, the core of grumpy - just like Lao Bai himself.

Chen Mo, who had already damaged Lao Bai's three favorite cars, decided to take care of some new classic cars in order to prevent an old man's hair from going crazy.

Just as Chen Mozai was carefully wiping the car, through the rearview mirror, he noticed that two middle-aged men with new faces had been looking for something after entering the compound of Apartment No. 9.

These two people, one is a bald head equipped with an electronic eye, and the other has a right hand replaced with a prosthetic leg with a gun, and has a fierce temperament.

Most of them are not good.

After some observation, the two of them walked straight towards Chen Mo after determining the target.

Chen Mo's body tensed, ready to fight back at any time.

"Chen Mo, male, twenty-three years old, prosthetic implantation, was revoked in December 2288 for violent law enforcement, is currently unemployed, and makes a living by driving a black car."

Not an enemy.

Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

Maybe it's here to issue an illegal business ticket?

"Something to talk about." Chen Mo spit out the cigarette butt and didn't reply: "There is a bunch of my information on the headhunting network, and you can find it with your ass." ”

Hearing the affirmative answer, the visitor exchanged glances.

The gunslinger spoke: "I heard you can go out of the city and go to the wilderness. ”

Chen Mo's hand wiping the car paused, turned his head, and refused expressionlessly: "Don't go." ”

"The inspector introduced us." The bald head with an electronic eye explained.

Hearing the word supervision, Chen Mo groaned slightly.

"Within 300 kilometers, 20,000, plus 5,000 for every 100 kilometers more."

20,000 is enough to buy a brand new Gokov VI.

Even if you go overland to a city thousands of miles away, the price is outrageous.

The gunman was stunned: "Twenty thousand? Why don't you grab it? 20,000 is enough to buy you half a life..."

The bald head interrupted him: "Okay, 20,000 is 20,000." ”

A wad of purple banknotes was handed to Chen Mo.

"This is a deposit of 10,000 yuan, and I will give you the balance at the place."

Chen Mo weighed his weight and narrowed his eyes.

"Transporting goods, or giving them away?"

【Interpretation 1】The orbital period of Ross 128B is only 9.8 Earth days, and the radius of the star is about 1/20 of the radius of the Earth day, so in the eyes of Ross, the Sun will be very huge. In addition, Ross 128B is slightly larger than the Earth, with a rotation period of about 28 hours, and the average sunshine duration in Cotter City is around 9 hours and 37 minutes.