Barely stopped, he recalled the mining base he had seen when he first came to the asteroid belt, and this was not a mining base, and maybe he could try it too.

Flying out of the asteroid belt, he circled in the direction of his memory, and soon found the mining base.

In the same way, he moved outside the detection range of the opponent's radar and stole the three ore balls that were circling around the mining base.

This mining base is even larger than the previous one, and there are nearly thirty frigates in the escort team, but it is unfortunate that there are only three ore balls around the base.

But that's not a problem, what can the mine ask for?

After moving around the asteroid belt, a third mining site was discovered four hours later, and eight huge ore balls were found around the mining base.

But....

The scale of this mining base is larger than the previous two, and the most important thing is that his radar is even stronger than his, and it was discovered as soon as it was close to the maximum detection range of the radar, and then a destroyer and a dozen frigates rushed over.

There is no way, this can only run, and if you are slow to be caught up by a destroyer, you may not be able to run.

The base hour of the frigate is only 130,000 kilometers, and the base speed of the destroyer is 140,000 kilometers per hour.

With the combat effectiveness of a destroyer being far stronger than that of a frigate, once caught, he may not be able to escape.

However, although this mining base can't be built, the base can't run here, Li Qing plans to go around this galaxy first, and then go to the outer ring asteroid belt after the inner ring asteroid belt is completed.

When I was chatting with Yang Yunbo and others before, I heard them say that the outer ring asteroid has more than a dozen mining bases, all of which go to harvest a wave, and then you can go home and sell the mine, and it will not be a problem to sell hundreds of millions, and you can strengthen this frigate when the time comes.

For the next week, he wandered around the asteroid belt, looking for possible mining sites.

It did allow him to find two mining bases, and he couldn't find him.

But one of the mining bases is estimated to have just expanded once, and the ore has run out, accumulating only one ore ball, and the other has accumulated four, adding up to five.

Then, no other mining bases were found, and many pirate raiders and gunboats roamed the asteroid belt.

Seeing that they were left alone, they killed seven pirate gunboats, lost more than 200 electromagnetic cannon metal shells and thousands of machine gun shells, and the total income was dozens of wreckage, with a total value of several thousand yuan.

This left him speechless on the spot.

I went back to the base for a simple repair, and after gaining some maintenance experience, I set off again and flew to the outer ring of the galaxy.

"It's too hard."

On the way, Li Qing calculated the income and expenditure of these days, and in the past few months, he has paid tens of millions of dollars in wages alone, and there is no income.

If you remove the ore balls that were stolen by cheating this month, the income from mining by a single mining ship seems to be about 20 or 30 million, and after deducting the time cost, you will not make anything at all.

Like Yang Yunbo and others have been mixing here for so long, each has a mining fleet, and the largest number is Yang Yunbo, who has been mixing for the longest time, and has a fleet including one large, four medium, and thirty-eight small mining ships, one large, three medium, and three small transport ships.

In addition to this, he has also set up planetary material mining mines on several barren planets in the system.

With these incomes, he was able to afford one cruiser and one destroyer and five frigates.

Of course, this does not mean that Yang Yunbo can only afford to raise so much, the income of so many mining ships, and the income of so many mining ships can afford to raise so much, but he doesn't raise it.

He is just an individual player who only wants to make money, and his greatest willingness is to make a lot of money to become a local tyrant in a small place, and he is not interested in such a thing as conquest of the sea of stars at all.

Being able to keep a cruiser is mainly used to deal with the creeps that occasionally spawn near the base and mines, and the ship is too small for some mobs to handle.

The ideas of the other players are similar to Yang Yunbo, they are all individual players who are dedicated to making money, the mining fleet is slightly inferior to Yang Yunbo, and the warships they raise are also a little worse, but they can also make up forty or fifty ships together.

Six people raised a total of three cruisers, eight destroyers, and more than forty frigates, and a total of several hundred large, medium and small mining ships were needed.

Li Qing calculated carefully, not counting weapons and ammunition, just the crew's wages and basic maintenance fees cost tens of millions of dollars every month.

"Outrageous!"

"Those military lords have a divisional and regimental fleet, how much should they spend each month?"

Li Qing himself was born in the main gate of the army, of course, he knew the size and composition of the fleet, a divisional and regimental fleet, with at least 5 Titan super flagships, between 20-30 flagships, including dreadnoughts and big voyages.

There are about 2,500 or so battleships, generally Elite Template Crusader class, with the occasional Superior Template Lord class heavy battleship.

There are about 7,500 or so cruisers, most of which are also a mix of the Elite Template Ranger class and the Superior Template Night's Watch, and occasionally the Daredevil-class battlecruisers are not inferior in combat effectiveness to standard battleships.

There are about 25,000 or so destroyers. Elite Template Hurricane, Superior Template Storm.

There are about 100,000 or so frigates, the Elite Template Raptor class, the Excellence Template Black Hawk class.

It is worth mentioning that the specifications of the divisional and regimental fleet are only a standard module, and the main gate lords of different armies will be adjusted according to different situations, some may take a little more large and medium-sized ships such as cruiser expulsion, and some may mainly develop battleships.

With so many warships, frigates alone theoretically require a salary of 100 billion star dollars per month, plus the cost of other warships, the salary alone is more than 400 billion per month, which is simply .....

However, compared to the income of the gate lord, it is nothing.

After all, with a population of tens of billions and billions of players, they don't know how much to collect every month just by collecting taxes, plus other industries, it is still more than enough to raise a divisional fleet.

"There is still a long way to go!"

Li Qing smacked his tongue and sighed how difficult it would be to raise a huge fleet if he wanted to do it alone.

There must be a huge force to support, just like a team and a legion, which is to gather the strength of everyone to compete with those military lords.

Although the overall combat effectiveness varies greatly, any legion is already qualified to threaten the main gatekeeper.

After all, there are tens of thousands of warships on the whole, although they are just a rabble in the eyes of the main gate lords, but after a battle, even if they win, they will lose a lot, so the main lords of each army are mainly Huairou for the legions in their sphere of influence, and even directly invest in shares.

For example, the Qinghe Li family, in addition to the fleet within the family, each room has its own legion support, and it can be pulled out and put into the battlefield at a critical time, which is their potential strength.

Li Qing sent a message in the communication channel, to the effect that he wanted to go around the outer ring asteroid belt.

Several of the dozen or so monster mining bases in this asteroid belt are not far from their mining area, and they may be discovered, so as not to misunderstand and talk about it in advance.

This time he didn't run blindly, because he had coordinates, Yang Yunbo and others occasionally saw it before, recorded it casually, and passed it over when he gave him the coordinates of the nearby star map before, he didn't have to run around, he went straight to the coordinate destination.

Two hours later, the frigate appeared in a chaotic asteroid belt.

The fast-moving meteorite gave him the best cover, and he continued to steal the ore ball from a distance.

One, two, four, and on the fifth day, he stole all the ore balls from a total of 11 wild monster mining bases on the coordinates in one go.

There is no accident, most of the radar sensors of these wild monster mining bases are not as good as him, only two are similar to him, and they were detected early by the shipborne radars of the two destroyers, but he took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy destroyer patrolling to the other side, quickly stealed, and turned around and ran when the destroyer reacted.

After getting rid of the pursuers, he returned and continued.

It took a dozen times to steal it.

The two ore balls accumulated in these 11 monster mining bases are the fewest and the most are eight, for a total of 42, plus the 14 accumulated before, for a total of 56.

The price of a single piece is not very clear, after all, in addition to iron ore, there are a lot of gray crystal, silver crystal and limestone, there are also a small amount of slightly higher value copper-like ore, gneiss, crystalline quartz crystals, etc., the most valuable of which is that there is an ore ball that is all silver-like ore, which looks like a huge gray-silver ductile iron from a distance.

The price of silver-like ore is 78 star yuan, and the iron-like ore is 15 star yuan, which is five times the price, which is equivalent to five ordinary ore balls.

When he returned to the base, he was a few days away from agreeing with Xia Qi to go to the Burning Ghost Galaxy to sell mines, but at this time, there was a problem that stumped Li Qing.

How to transport 56 ore balls with a diameter of about five kilometers?

It is a good idea to transport it by towing, and industrial ships also have this equipment to tow, but small industrial ships do not have that capacity, and they can't pull at all, which is at least the capacity of large industrial ships.

Although there is no resistance in the starry sky, even a large planet can theoretically pull it.

But the theory is just a theory, in fact, even if the asteroid can be forcibly deorbited, within the scope of the stellar gravitational well, under the strong stellar gravitational constraints, it cannot be pulled at all.

It's not realistic to ask Xia Qi to borrow them, the transport ships they have on hand are all bought according to their own ability, and it may not be a problem to borrow such a small transport ship, but the 56 ore balls he has in hand are not something that a few small transport ships can pull away.

Crushing and refining is a good idea, but I only have one set of refining equipment, and the output is too small, and I don't have time.

"What a pain in the brain!"

Li Qing didn't expect that he would be stumped by this, he didn't expect to encounter this kind of problem when he came out of the Jinmen galaxy.

The original idea was that even if there was a large number of mines, they could be put into the universe in the palm of their hands first, and wait until they found an unmanned galaxy near the Jinmen galaxy to reload the ship, and sold them back and forth again and again, which would take a little more time.

But you can't do that here, there are only a few individual players in this star field, and it can be said that there are only a handful, and he keeps selling back and forth, which is easy to be noticed.

After being troubled by this question for two whole days, Li Qing finally .....

It was not a flash of inspiration, but after considering countless possibilities, I naturally thought of a way to cover up.

As we all know, there is a treasure called Relic in the sea of stars.

This kind of thing is also called an ancient relic, and the formation conditions are extremely harsh and very precious.

Because the conditions for the formation of ancient relics are extremely complex and unpredictable, so the categories of relics are also elusive, as long as the conditions allow, anything can form a treasure, and thus have magical effects.

So here's the point.

Li Qing was thinking about it carefully, considering that there would always be a time when this thing would be exposed in the future, rather than hiding it and letting others guess, it was better to take the initiative to show it himself.

It's better to control the features and effects of the display yourself than to guess at the outside.

At least others know that this is just a treasure with a huge space, maybe there are greedy, but definitely not a big one.

The big man holds his own identity and cherishes his reputation, at least until the benefits are not enough to give up the reputation he has maintained for a long time.

It is worth mentioning that some of the treasures cannot be snatched, and some can be snatched, but the conditions are very harsh.

Among them, you can't snatch them, no matter what you do, you can't grab them, even if you kill the Lord of the Relics completely.

First of all, you must find a very powerful psionic to suppress the relics, and then find a treasure called psionic crystals, which are the psionic energy and soul crystals left behind by the death of powerful psionics.

It is necessary to melt this spiritual energy to crystallize into a spiritual liquid to wrap the relic, cut off the connection between the relic, and then kill the owner of the relic.

This kill means to kill completely.

As we all know, players can be resurrected when they die, but they will lose a certain amount of life depending on the cause of their death, and they will only die completely if they have exhausted all their lives.

Deprivation of the three elements of the legacy:

Very powerful psyker.

The crystallization of the soul of a powerful psyker.

Kill the Lord of the Relic once and for all.

The combination of the three can forcibly seize a relic.

Of course, this refers to the relics that have already recognized the owner, and if it is a treasure that has not been recognized, the difficulty of capturing it will be greatly reduced, and if you kill the owner of the treasure for a period of time, it will fall directly.

In addition, some special relics themselves do not have the function of recognizing the owner, and anyone who holds them can use them and trade them, and this deprivation condition is as simple.

The vast majority of low-level relics do not have the function of recognizing the owner, and only a few special relics and high-level relics have the function of recognizing the owner.

Li Qing publicized to the outside world that he had recognized the owner of this relic, and that it had a single function, only a huge independent space, and no combat function, which could minimize the number of pretenders.

So....