A dreadnought flagship of great size, a flagship-class aircraft carrier that is even larger and slightly bloated than a dreadnought, with more than two thousand battleships and more than fifty thousand large and small warships.

The pitch-black hull, the rugged design style, and the LOG that comes with the fleets all prove that this huge fleet is not a monster, nor an anomaly, but .... Wandering forces in the wild.

And the main reason why Li Qing was lying down was that the mechanical ascension battle body didn't know what method was used to blend into this fleet.

"Damn!"

Rubbing his head, Li Qing felt a faint pain in his skull.

I can't beat that.

Two flagships, how to fight this?

The key is that this is not a wild monster but a wild wandering force, although it is not clear which level of technology it is, but according to the many wild wandering forces that humans have encountered in the past tens of thousands of years, the probability of level five is quite large.

Dare to wander in the dangerous starry sky, if your strength is not strong, you can't do it.

The fleet didn't dare to approach, only dared to observe from afar, and he didn't make any movement as he watched the fleet slowly glide through the starry sky in the distance.

After sitting quietly on the command chair and waiting for almost an hour, Li Qing suddenly sat up straight and ordered:

"Go back to the previous galaxy."

Li Yuan did not ask why, and immediately ordered the unmanned reconnaissance planes that had been withdrawn from the fleet to return and prepare to return home.

With the withdrawal of many unmanned reconnaissance planes, but several unmanned reconnaissance planes in one direction did not respond, and contact was also cut off; after waiting for a while, Li Qingzheng was about to ignore the original plan and return as planned, when suddenly an unmanned reconnaissance plane that had already cut off contact suddenly returned, and then an unfamiliar communication came.

Li Qing was stunned for a moment, carefully inspected the unmanned reconnaissance plane with a little vigilance, and made sure that it was not tampered with, and was silent for almost a minute before deciding to connect the communication, and then a tall alien figure sitting in a black hall appeared in front of him.

The xenomorph is extremely tall, about four meters long, with a somewhat humanoid shadow body, but it is not human legs underneath, but four-legged, and its whole body is covered with a thick black cuticle, with many incomprehensible lines on the surface, and there are two pairs of arms, one pair is as soft as an octopus tentacle, and the other pair of arms are thick and powerful, with a circle of barbs at the back of the head, and a monstrous and strange head in the middle of the body.

The head resembles a dragon's head covered in cuticles, but without horns and no hair on the head, just a layer of spikes.

A pair of vertical boys stared at Li Qing tightly, and the unmanned reconnaissance plane turned over the language that had been translated:

"It's a pleasure to meet the human pioneer here, I am the commander of the Fifth Vanguard Fleet of the Tass civilization, and I am on the orders of the Supreme King of Tass to reconnoiter in the southern sector of the Zutar Star Domain."

"King of Tars???"

Li Qing immediately remembered in his mind a famous wandering and plundering civilization that the teacher had talked about in the aristocratic classroom before, called the Tass Wanderer, also known as the Tass Raiding Civilization, was a neutral wandering force that wandered outside the human realm and was active in the southern part of the Immortal Spiral Arm.

It was a powerful alien civilization with a main body named Tars, and it was said that this civilization was plundered and destroyed by other civilizations when it first left its own galaxy, and the remnants of the Tass became a wandering civilization.

They formed a wandering fleet, and in the wandering, they continued to plunder and grow, and continued to absorb other alien lifeforms, and now they are a powerful wandering civilization that is not inferior to the Star Sea Lord.

This civilization has no fixed territory, wandering back and forth in the Immortal Spiral Arm, remaining neutral or friendly with powerful civilizations such as the United Empire of Humanity or the Bruwan Alliance, but specializing in plundering some weak civilizations, or accepting the employment of certain civilizations or forces, and becoming famous among human civilizations.

The main body of this civilization is the TASS people, but it does not exclude any alien species to join, and there are even quite a few human wanderers in it.

And the fleet in front of him, which has two flagships and a total size of up to 50,000, is only a vanguard reconnaissance fleet of the Tass Wanderers, and there are dozens of such fleets in the Tass civilization.

When you see the Tarth Rover's Scout Fleet, it means that its main fleet is not too far away.

Li Qing was immediately alert, but on the surface he still politely replied and said in a deep voice:

"It's an honor to meet the glorious Tars, as you said, I am a pioneer who was commissioned by the United Empire of Mankind Expeditionary Force to carry out reconnaissance missions in this star field."

"Expeditionary Force?"

Natas was slightly puzzled and asked:

"The United Empire of Humanity is already preparing to develop the Zutar Domain?"

"Yes."

The other side was silent for a while, and then spoke:

"The great King of Tars was hired by a nearby civilization to deal with an invader."

Li Qing was surprised, and an unpleasant thought appeared in his mind:

"Dear Tars, I don't know which civilization it is, who is the so-called aggressor?"

"We're sorry, but we can't give out the customer's name."

The Tass man was silent for a moment, and added:

"But judging from the customer's introduction to the intruder, it shouldn't be you."

Not us?

Li Qing's mind turned quickly, in addition to the Human Expeditionary Force, there were only three alien civilizations in this vicinity, namely the Shata Tribal Alliance, the Shar Civilization, and a civilization called the Council of Sives.

Now it has been determined that it is not aimed at humans, the Shar civilization is unlikely, this plant evolved from the species itself advocates peace, and its strength is at the bottom of the three major civilizations, whether it is the Shata Tribal Union or the Council of Shivis is stronger than the Shar civilization, it is impossible to hire marauders for this more than this.

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Then only the two civilizations of the Council of Hivis and the Shata clan could do so.

Analyzing them one by one, among the three major civilizations, the Shata tribe alliance is the most powerful, and at this stage they are not only at war with human civilization, but also at war with the Shar civilization and the Council of Shivis, and Li Qing has obtained information from the expeditionary force that they have the upper hand in two aspects of the three-sided battle.

Excluding the Shar civilization, the only possible mercenary is most likely the Council of Sivis.

Of course, this is the most likely possibility he guesses, and he is not sure yet, but it is indeed the most likely.

If so.....

Li Qing pinched his eyebrows and felt a little headache.

The strength of the Tass Marauder civilization is not something that this third-level civilization can compete with at all, and if they participate in the war, they can immediately break the regional balance, and I don't know if it will affect the strategic plan of the expeditionary force.

"I wonder when the esteemed Tass Rovers will attack the invaders? I wonder how big the employment is? ”

The TASS man on the opposite side pondered for a moment, looked up and said:

"According to the rules, I can't divulge the customer's secrets unless you can pay me 10 million cubic meters of minerals."

Li Qing immediately nodded:

"I can pay."

A convoy of convoys sailed towards the huge fleet in the distance, and after a moment the Staman in the communication said in a brisk tone:

"Very good, the mine you provided is very pure, I like it very much."

"We are going to the destination according to the coordinates provided by the employer, and according to the coordinate distance and our speed, we will reach the predetermined location in two to three years, and the five vanguard fleets will jointly attack the target."

"Two to three years!"

Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, it was now two to three years, and by that time, the expeditionary force had already launched a full-scale attack on the southern province of the Shata civilization, and if it moved quickly, it could take the reef lair before the arrival of the raiding fleet.

Moreover, at that time, the Tars raiding fleet arrived just in time, which was just enough to increase the pressure on the Shata tribal alliance, so that they had more scruples, so that the Garan Legion had more time and preparation.

After chatting for a while with the leader of the Taks raider fleet, he left a means of communication for Li Qing before leaving, and opened the prestige of the Tars raiders, initially neutral.

With this communication, he can use the high-purity metal he just used to find this called Tas. Annell's TASS increase their prestige, or buy messages, or hire them outright.

However, at this stage, the prestige of neutrality can only hire a small fleet, and if you want to hire this large fleet with two flagships, you must at least respect it.

There are only three ways to farm prestige, one is to help them in some ways, the other is to receive some tasks issued by them, and the third is to send money and resources, directly hard krypton.

There is a lot of uncertainty about how to gain reputation from the Tass raiding fleet, it is not reliable to simply farm reputation, and they wander around, and it is not convenient to farm reputation, so most of the ways to increase reputation are krypton.

Faction Fame Increase not only increases the mercenary fleet limit, but also guarantees that it will not be raided by the TAS, and the TASS Ranger Fleet will not accept raiding missions for high-reputation customers.

Li Qing considered that the TASS fleet would join the battlefield in three years, so as to avoid accidents, and decided to make a wave of krypton first.

In the name of the Garan Legion, he sent a full 100 million square meters of refined metal, worth 39 billion star dollars, which he had accumulated before, and changed his reputation from neutral krypton to friendliness, and everyone in the Garland Legion saw the Tas Wanderer in the future It was the initial friendly reputation.

This is just the beginning, there is not much metal in Tun now, and there will be a wave of krypton in two or three years, at least krypton will be respected and guaranteed not to be hired and attacked by other teams.

Even in the future, if it develops and the materials are sufficient, it can continue to be krypton.

After all, a powerful force with strength comparable to the Lord of the Star Sea, its prestige still has the value of Krypton, if it can reach the highest prestige, it is directly to hire a super fleet comparable to the Lord of the Star Sea to serve you.

Although the employment conditions and demand will certainly be ridiculously high, at that time, even the outrageous demand will not be a problem.

Li Qing didn't even ask about the mechanical ascension battle body, and left the galaxy directly, stopping in the galaxy next door.

No matter how the mechanical ascension body got into it, he couldn't go directly to Tass. Annell wants people, and the TASS themselves welcome any wandering civilized race to join, even the mechanical ascendants.

A frontal impact is even more impossible, and it can't be beaten.

Then there is only one other way, and that is...... Wait!

Unless the mechanical ascension battle body has been staying in the Tars Wandering Fleet, there will always be a time to leave, anyway, there is a token that can grasp his movements at any time, and he is not afraid of sudden escape.

The fleet came to the outer circle of the galaxy, where there was an asteroid belt, and while there was nothing to do now, he opened the universe in his palm, collected the meteorites from the asteroid belt into the universe in his palm, and directly put them into the furnace of light to refine.

Most meteorites have mines, but the problem of more ore and less ore, the problem of purity, the value of the ore contained, the value of many meteorites is too low, no one likes to dig.

For Li Qing, there is no question of value and content, anyway, there is no problem of refining cost in the casting furnace of light, and when you see a meteorite, you will stuff it into the lava, and the valuable one will be refined, and the worthless direct smelting will be converted into exchange raw materials for material conversion, which will be used to transform some high-value minerals.

As the fleet glides through the asteroid meteorite belt, behind it is a huge hollow passage, and all the large and small meteorites on the way are collected and refined.

It's that direct, it's so crude.

At the end of the day, the refining and conversion of all high-purity refined steel metals is about 13 million square meters, and sometimes the meteorite near is lucky, and it can convert more than 20 million square meters in one day, and the most one time converts 54 million square meters of high-purity steel.

The price of steel is 390 star yuan, and the average daily output of 18 million square meters is 7 billion + income a day, 30 days a month, and the combined income can be as high as 210 billion star yuan.

12 months a year, that's 2.5 trillion in revenue.

"It's really profitable!"

But in fact, the income should be far more than this, and if he really wants to make money from this, he can go to some meteorite belts with higher mineral content to collect, and it should not be a problem to add fifty percent of the income.

"Yes."

Anyway, it's okay, Li Qing squats in the asteroid belt every day, constantly opening the door of the cosmic black hole in his palm to collect meteorites.

Since the last time the universe in the palm of your hand has been repaired, the black hole gate has a certain gravitational pull, and it is not possible to forcibly catch the ship, but the unconscious meteorite can still be easily captured, and there is no need to send a large number of industrial ships to collect the meteorite with traction beams as before.

Time passed imperceptibly, and soon a month passed.

During this time, he spent most of his time outside, mining and checking tokens.

The guy hadn't moved, he had been moving with the Tars Ranger fleet, and he didn't have any intention of leaving, which made him wonder if this guy wanted to make a home in this raiding fleet.

He patiently continued to wait, anyway, there was nothing big at this stage, there was still a year and a half before the military operation of the expeditionary force, and Yu Yuefei and they were dealing with it at the corps headquarters, so he didn't need to worry about it, he had to mine the tun mine in his free time, and from time to time he would go into the palm of his hand to brush up on his shipbuilding experience, and communicate with many scientists.

Time unconsciously passed for more than half a month, and Li Qing, who was mining as usual on this day, suddenly received a message from Chu Hanqiu, the chief engineer in the universe in his palm-

"Fortunately, we have successfully redesigned the frigate mother chip."

Li Qing was stunned for a moment, and was immediately overjoyed, immediately put down the work in his hand, plunged into the universe in his palm, and appeared directly in the scientific research layer engineering area.

Several servants of light were waiting early, and Li Qing took the chip that exuded a surging golden light, patted them on the shoulder vigorously and praised:

"Thank you for your hard work, very well done."

"You can rest for a month and then start the next step of the design after a month."

Many servants of light had smiles on their faces, and Chu Hanqiu said:

"It's our honor to share your worries!"

He nodded, and said that for the Servants of Light, the recognition of the Children of the Stars was the best reward, and no other rewards were needed, and no other rewards were needed.