The Interstellar Insurance Group, a subsidiary of the Unification Bureau, will provide insurance services for players.

With a full premium payment, players will be able to get the insurance money after the ship is blown up.

The amount of the insurance money is equivalent to approximately one half of the total cost of the ship to be blown up.

In other words, for the same ship, players only need to drive it to earn half of the cost of the whole ship and the premium, then whether the ship will be destroyed, the players have already paid back.

This is a kind of care from the Unification Bureau, a real subsidy, so that every player can fight in deep space with confidence and boldness.

Small teams of 1 to 10 players take on C-level missions.

After inputting the spatial coordinates provided by the mission into the ship's navigation equipment, hundreds of small teams of players jumped to the vicinity of their destination and began to use the probe equipment to search for defense forces on the resource planet in all directions.

At a time when forces of all sides are generally able to roam in space, the mode of land-to-air combat has not changed much.

The missile bases, hidden silos, shield force field generators and other defense facilities arranged on the surface of the Angel Enterprise Consortium are basically exposed to the players' detection equipment due to the energy reaction of their own operation.

Only ships equipped with stealth modules can fly out of the atmosphere and into space, catching players off guard.

But as I said before, players are not afraid of death, sacrifice, or shipbuilding, and the Angel Enterprise Consortium is not an unlimited force.

After nearly a hundred frigates were blown up, the players finally exhausted the enemy's maneuvering power.

Until new enemy ships leap in, there are and only passive defenses on the resource planets.

Then it's time to fight.

Whoever penetrates the opponent's shield first will gain the advantage.

Don't underestimate the players' means, though.

Normally, it is true that the shield of the ground defense forces must be penetrated before the threat can be eliminated.

But for the active-minded player, defeating the enemy's ground defenses isn't the only option.

"Wait, wait, don't rush to launch the missile just yet."

Inside a missile cruiser, the captain of the player team and his companions who control the fire system say:

"Did we bring a rogue-type energy predator?"

Several companions stopped firing missiles at the ground.

One of them clicked a few times on the control interface, brought up the loading interface of the ship, nodded and said:

"That's right. In the medium slot of the ship, there are two rogue-type energy predators. ”

The squad leader smiled:

"Then we don't need to rush through the energy shield on the other side. I have an idea, you can hear me tell me in detail..."

The players muttered and discussed for several minutes, and finally showed their front teeth and laughed maliciously.

The missile cruiser lowered its flight altitude, entered the atmosphere and came to an altitude of about 10,000 meters from the ground-based missile base.

After the missile cruiser's flight altitude is reduced, the difficulty of locking it on to the ground missile base is undoubtedly reduced.

The threat of fire to the cruiser doubled at once, and every minute it was hit by at least five missiles.

But even the threat of increased fire did not prevent the cruiser from continuing to reduce altitude.

It wasn't until it was only five kilometers above the ground that the player leader gave the order to start flying around.

The cruiser flew at full speed around the missile base at a speed of 300 meters per second in the atmosphere.

It turned off all missile launchers, stopped using the fire control system, and instead activated two rogue-type energy predators.

The target aimed at the Marauder is precisely the shield of the ground-based missile base.

This energy predator is called a "rogue type", so can it be serious?

Of course it's not serious!

Compared to the regular type of predator, the range of the Rogue Energy Predator has been reduced by four-fifths, but the plunder efficiency has been increased by more than five times!

Five kilometers is its range.

As long as you keep this distance and fly around, 50 megajoules of energy will be sucked from the enemy shield by the Marauder every second and stored in the ship's energy device.

The two Marauders work together to draw 100 megajoules of energy per second.

The energy consumption of a car traveling 100 kilometers is almost 50 megajoules.

Simply inhale and wrap around, and there will be a steady stream of energy pouring into the spaceship.

When the ship's shield is against enemy missiles, the ship's energy will be depleted.

Now, this energy loss has been filled up by the Rogue Energy Predator.

Not only that, but after rough calculations, after deducting the necessary energy overhead, the spacecraft can still store energy at a rate of 30 megajoules per second.

"We look like we're going to get rich!" The player in charge of the team trembled slightly with excitement.

The rest of the players on the ship were also excited.

The player leader shouted:

"Quick, switch the operation mode of the spaceship computer to the computing power module production mode!"

A few quick clicks for a player.

The picture on the large screen in the control room has changed, from the original outboard battle screen to a grid map.

On the grid graph, the value representing the production speed of the computing power module has soared.

From now on, every bit of energy that the spaceship plunders from the outside world will be converted into a computing power module by the spacecraft's computer.

In the space age, energy is computing power, and computing power is money.

Each kilojoule of energy can be used by a computer to generate a computing power module.

Each computing power module can be used by the computer to perform a 1024-bit operation.

In the Computing Power and Energy Exchange under the Integrated Bureau, the selling price of every 1,000 computing power modules is 1 credit.

In order to encourage individuals with surplus computing power to sell computing power, the exchange exempts the transaction tax of computing power modules.

In other words, players will drive their ships around the air and earn a net income of 30 credits per second!

That's 108,000 credits in an hour!

With such a high hourly wage, it is definitely a well-deserved cash cow.

"Shhhh I have a feeling that as soon as this new version opens, the credits will be worthless! Hurry up and exchange all the credits in your hands into cash, so as not to depreciate the credits! ”

The player leader, while operating his e-wallet, said:

"This method of swiping money is expected to be discovered by other players soon. Why don't I just make it public on the game forum and make a paid theme post to make another profit? ”

"I have no opinion, hehehehe, we finally got the dividends of the new expansion!"

"I'm okay with that, but we have to set the price of the paid posts a little higher, so that everyone can get more profits."

"I think the price of the fee can be lower, after all, after the fee is high, it is likely that there will be second-tier dealers who take our information and sell it to others."

Players have a heated discussion about the benefits of sitting on the idle machine and swiping money.

This kind of life of money in the account as long as the ship's automatic cruise function is turned on, which is like a dream.

"It's so cool~"

"Yes~ It would be nice if I could make money lying down every day~"

"By the way, let's give this method of swiping money a name."

"Or is it called 'going around the pole'? Look at the launcher at the missile base, isn't it like a pole? ”

"Okay, good, that's it~~"

The atmosphere in the cockpit was a joyful one.

Soon, paid teaching posts appeared on the game forums for swiping money.

As soon as the post came out, more and more teams of small players gave up on storming resource planets.

They hurried back to the Unification Bureau's territory, equipped the ship with rogue energy looters, and hurried back to the battlefield to join the pole-circling army.

Players on Tier B and Tier A missions will have to deal with enemies not the planet's ground defenses, but enemy space stations.

This group of players also saw the content of the paid post.

After some trying, they found that their quest can also be used for money!

For a while, the players who performed the C-, B-, and A-level all left the main goal of the mission behind, and they were all obsessed with making money, making money, or fucking making money.

(Note: EVE does have this method of swiping money, but the principle is different from what is written in this book.) ）

Li Nuo hid behind the scenes, watched the actions of the little players, and called him a good guy!

He was still worried that the players' ships were too low-equipped to deal with the artificial angels.

Now he didn't have to worry about it.

It is estimated that it will not be long before players who are obsessed with winding the pole will save enough money to buy battleships, or even buy plunderships in full, and become human beings and fight artificial angels.

"Okay, good, worthy of being a player, this way of swiping money can be explored. Now the overall strength of the players will get a qualitative leap. ”

Li Nuo thought to himself:

"I'll have to take advantage of this surge in in-game currency production, sell high-end magic items in the academy, and scavenge players for credits, and then use those credits to buy supplies from the Unification Bureau in bulk."

At this stage, the magic items made by Li Nuo are basically for single use, and they seem to be a little incompatible with vehicles like starships.

It's not a big deal.

Based on his experience wandering in space, Li Nuo summed up some plans, just waiting to intercept the transport fleet and return to the magic academy for practice.

In other words, those big guilds shouldn't give up the task of intercepting the transport fleet and run around the pole to brush up the money, right?

Li Nuo was a little worried that the Grand Duke would not be able to resist the temptation to brush up on money, and canceled the task of intercepting the transport fleet.

He flicked the spell marker in his mind, searching for the Grand Guild's fleet.

Got it.

The five major guilds that took up this task each sent a fleet of 100 people to carry out the mission.

The so-called "100 people" refers to the size when they first took on the task.

After the advent of the Dafa of Brushing Money Around the Pole, the number of these five fleets was severely reduced, and on average, there were less than 50 people left in each team.

It seems that the Grand Guild can't resist the temptation to go around the pole.

Thankfully, the players who left the queue were all driving frigates and cruisers.

The ships piloted by the remaining players are all battleships, and their individual combat effectiveness is the benchmark among the current player base.

Overall, the overall strength of the players who came to help Li Nuo intercept the transport fleet did not decrease much.

Li Nuo pondered for a moment and decided to add a little bit of surprise to this group of determined players, so that they would know that it was far more profitable to do things for themselves than to go around the pole.

With this in mind, Li Nuo quickly wrote the mission information and sent it to the players who were about to approach the warning range of the transport fleet.

【Attention! 】

[The status of the mission objective has changed!] 】

[Due to the influence of unknown factors, the combat strength of the transport fleet has increased. 】

[The master of the Black Hole Magic Academy has sensed the change of the enemy and is now providing you with a temporary buff effect.] 】

[Please wear the Wizard Apprentice Badge immediately and accept the temporary buff from the Lord of the Academy!] 】

After leaving the Academy, players are not in the habit of wearing badges.

Now, as soon as they listen to the game's broadcast, they take out the apprentice badge from their pockets and wear it on their left chest.

After the players all wore badges, Li Nuo, who was on the heavy transport, rubbed his fingers and sketched out the spell blueprint in his mind.

Using the Apprentice Badge as a medium, he accurately unleashed a pre-designed spell combination on players.

The first spell set, "Spacewalk"!

This spell is a combination of "Space Magic Cloak", "Airflow" and "Hurricane Armor".

It allows the player to exit the capsule as an individual and enter the deep and dangerous depths of space.

The Space Cloak will provide them with oxygen and standard atmospheric pressure.

Airflow helps players move quickly in space at speeds of up to 2,000 meters per second.

The "Hurricane Armor" protects the player from the misalignment of internal organs when moving at high speeds, as well as the huge impact of the moment of onboarding.

As for the radiation and icy temperatures in the universe, there is no need for players to worry. The "Star Marine" class they work for is perfectly resistant to low temperatures and radiation.

In short, with this spell combination, everyone is a Space Ranger and everyone is a broadside battle maniac.

And that's not all.

The second spell combination, "Magic Jump"!

Li Nuo also called this spell combination the "Three-Ring Wizard Experience Card".

As the name suggests, with the blessing of this spell combination, players who are apprentices of wizards can temporarily use the spells of the three-ring wizard.

At the same time, their energy perception ability and the sharpness of their facial features will also be simultaneously improved to the level of the three rings.

Spells such as "Fireball", "Thunderspear", "Geotechnical Shield" and so on, players can use them at their fingertips.

There's even a chance to cast high-level spells for free.

The only thing the player has to do is to follow the game prompts, make the correct gestures, and shout the name of the spell that is full of the breath of the middle two...

As soon as the two spell combinations of "Space Walk" and "Magic Energy Jump" appeared, they immediately detonated the players' desire to fight!

After reading the game prompts, the frenzy and excitement of the players were overflowing.

"! I knew that magic could blend perfectly with the space genre! ”

"I'm going to go out of the cabin to pick up the shipside, who wants to go with me!"

"Mom~ I can spacewalk, who still drives a spaceship!"

"I'll just say, when the wizard's level is high enough, he can definitely blow up more than a dozen ships by himself!"

"Let's go, everybody's here! With the addition of the Master of the Academy, we can avoid damage to our ships! ”

The shouts for the broadside battle rose higher and higher.

The fleet commanders of the guilds were stubborn and could only change their battle plans on the fly.

They detached a small group of men to sail the ships and ordered the bombardment of enemy fleets with long-range weapons.

All the rest left the ship in the landing capsule, went into outer space, and rushed towards the enemy fleet.

I have to say that the players are so out of step with the trend of the times that the transport fleet is stunned.

Come on, it's the space age, and who will rely on broadside warfare to fight like they did in the days of sailing.

Several staff members of the Angel Enterprise Consortium who walked past Li Nuo all had expressions and tones of "I'm afraid that the other side is not a fool", as if they and others had already taken up the appearance of this group of attackers.

After all, the shields and external armor of the transport fleet are not decorations.

In order to start a broadside battle, you must first break these two things.

No matter how strong an individual is, it is almost impossible to penetrate the ship's shield and exterior armor in a short period of time and enter the ship smoothly.

Li Nuo watched the sneering staff walk away, and a hint of evil smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Yes, there's really no way anyone out there can break through the shields and armor plates.

But what if someone opened the door for them?

Li Nuo held back a smile and pressed his hand against the metal wall of the corridor, quietly opening the back door of the heavy transport ship for the players. (End of chapter)