Fang Chen's plan was to dig mines here for a period of time first, and then scrape together the money to buy a few sets of frigate blueprints and throw them into the universe in his palm, so that the super intelligence brain left over from the ancient super civilization could derive an advanced version.

For example, if there is enough time, the T4T5 frigate can be derived, and if there is enough time, the T6 and above frigates can be derived.

When you earn enough money to build two or three T5 or higher frigates, you can start doing other things, such as receiving bounties or digging graves, so you don't have to stay here every day to mine.

The fleet soon came to the second ring belt in the center of the galaxy, and saw the asteroids and meteorite belts in front of them in the distance, and countless meteorites of different sizes floated quietly in the void.

He found a random spot and sailed over, and the fleet traveled tens of thousands of kilometers along the edge of the ring to cut into it, through the floating meteorite, and came to a huge meteorite thousands of kilometers inside the asteroid belt.

This is an irregular meteorite with a maximum diameter of almost a hundred kilometers, with a large number of impact holes and a groove on the right, where the fleet stopped.

After scanning the surroundings with radar and making sure that there was no danger, Fang Chen ordered the two mining ships to start mining with this as the center through the command channel.

Two small mining ships are divided to the left and right sides of the meteorite, scanning the surroundings through the mining radar dedicated to the mining ship, and quickly determining the mineral composition of the surrounding meteorites.

The laser gun used by mining robots is not the same as the laser gun used for military weapons, which is better at cutting and can cut hard meteorites and minerals.

There are 12 unmanned mining robots in each of the two small mining vessels, plus the 20 units purchased, for a total of 44 mining robots centered on the two mining vessels to collect ore.

It didn't take long for the first batch of ore to be collected into the mining ship, and Fang Chen quickly got the data, mostly limestone and a small amount of gneiss.

Both of these are common minerals, from which various supermetals can be extracted, and are one of the main components of titanium steel alloys.

Limestone is 35 star yuan a ton, and gneiss is 70 star yuan a ton.

The various metametals refined are as high as 4,900 star yuan a ton.

The price of raw ore is nothing more than the difference in the content of supermetal.

Some veteran miners don't know how to dig limestone, they feel that the unit price is too low, and it takes up space, so they can't make a lot of money in one trip.

But Fang Chen was different, he had such a large cosmic space in his palm, which could hold a large amount of ore.

Moreover, there are two sets of ore refining equipment in the palm of the universe, which can be directly extracted while mining.

After looking at it for a while, he didn't see any wild monsters appearing nearby, Fang Chen opened the universe in his palm and drilled into it.

At this time, the universe in his palm is only 100 kilometers in diameter, and the universe in his palm is also a universe, and it is hollow inside, but as the master of the universe in his palm, he can ignore all the harsh environments inside.

At this time, there are two circles in the universe in the palm of the hand, and the inner circle is the center where the core of the universe in the palm is located, with a diameter of about one kilometer.

The outer circle, that is, the space with a radius of 49 kilometers outside the core, is isolated by an invisible force field in the middle.

The supplies and two sets of equipment purchased earlier are now floating in the outer void.

Fang Chen came to the tool floating in the air, pondered for a while, and with a movement of his mind, he made a gesture with the void with both hands, dividing layers of invisible barriers in the entire circular space, dividing the entire universe in his palm into N parts.

One hundred kilometers in diameter, divide half of it into quintiles for a total of fifty kilometers, each layer ten kilometers high.

Among them, there is one layer at the top and one layer at the bottom, and there are three layers of ten kilometers high in the middle.

Then there are 50 kilometers left, which are divided into 50 one-kilometer-high levels, with 25 layers above and below.

According to Fang Chen's plan, the top and bottom two floors will be used as warehouses, and the three adjacent layers in the center are planned to be used as shipyards in the future.

The other level is either an industrial area or a hydroponic farm, or an ore refining area, a weapons production area, and so on.

Of course, these are his current plans, and the size of the universe in his palm is not static, and if there is a chance to repair and expand it in the future, the plan may be changed again.

After the division was completed, Fang Chen moved the two sets of refining equipment to the first layer below the top layer.

The top floor was used as a warehouse, and he was going to throw all the ore on this level, and then refine it here, and the refined minerals would be piled up in the temporary warehouse on the next floor.

After the equipment was ready, Fang Chen immediately came out of the universe in his palm, and found that it was already two days later, at this time, two mining ships and 20 unmanned mining robots had collected nearly 4,000 tons of raw ore, 80% of which was limestone and 20% was gneiss.

The quantity was too small, Fang Chen hesitated for a moment and didn't put it away, ready to wait for a little more to say.

However, there was nothing to do now, he was idle and bored, and ordered Li Zhengjun to drive the frigate around the nearby meteorite belt to see if he could find some high-value mines.

The place he is looking for now is not a mining belt, most of which is common low-value limestone, which is not very efficient or valuable.

If you can find a high-value ore belt, or a meteorite with a high ore content, then it is developed.

The frigate nimbly passed through two meteorites, and then bypassed a fine belt of gravel formed by the fragmented remains of the meteorite, and saw a battleship with a pitch-black surface flying behind the two meteorites in front.

"Pirate gunboats!"

The battleship's radar immediately captured the information that glided over the figure, and a series of data immediately appeared in front of Fang Chen.

T1 Corsair Gunship: A common corvette for pirates.

Base hull: 1000

Base armor: 500

Base Shield: 500

Base speed: 120000 km / h

Default Tactic: Swarm Tactic.

Fleet slot size: 5.

Artillery Core (default)

Components: Energy Core, Tachyon Elements, Thrusters, Probes, Combat Computer.

Weapon slot: S16.

Universal slots: S5, A1.

After reading the data of the wild monsters, and then looking at the data of his frigate, Fang Chen was full of confidence and ordered to chase after him without hesitation.

The battleship quickly bypassed the meteorite, saw the pirate gunboat less than fifty kilometers ahead, and immediately ordered:

"The battleship is horizontal to the right, and the starboard side of the ship is ready with weapons!"

His orders are quickly transmitted to the entire ship through the ship's communications, especially the clone gunners who are in position in front of the ship's guns, and in addition to the ship's automatic aiming, they can also manually assist in aiming at the target, ensuring that the ship's intelligent system can quickly correct if it cannot understand the command.

At the same time, if the battleship takes great damage in battle, the automatic system is ineffective, they can manually control the ship's weapons to continue the battle.

The most important position of the ordinary crew of a battleship is the gunner.

Although it was also the first time to fight, Captain Li Zhengjun had countless combat simulations and several actual battles when he was in the academy, and quickly issued a series of orders to beat the battleship horizontally with the assistance of the crew, and then the battleship opened one side of the gun jacket, revealing the muzzles of 14 small laser cannons.