Star Lord: Rob the alien race and you will get a hundred times the reward

Chapter 7 Pirate First Experience

"Where are we going?" After leaving the space dock, Frog stared at the two with a pair of clear and stupid big eyes and asked.

"Um, let me take a look." Liu Wen and Fat Blue hurriedly got together to study the star map.

The star maps sold by the Interstellar Alliance are extremely detailed, with every meteorite belt within three thousand light years clearly shown. Since the star maps are dynamic, they are updated every once in a while.

"Let's go over here. This is an undeveloped star field that has just been integrated into the second world. It's filled with stardust, there are several more star systems, and asteroids have formed star belts." The fat blue man suggested, pointing at the star map.

"I think this side is better." Liu Wen said, pointing to the location of the 315-121 star field.

"This place was formed by the shattering of a large number of subspaces and star systems. It has a large amount of basic minerals and a small amount of psychic materials. There are many mining barges and alien races here. The value is low, so the danger is low. These alien races are just the right targets."

After thinking about it, the blue fat man agreed to Liu Wen's proposal. The three of them drove the battleship to start the jump and headed towards the target star field through the developed channel.

The Xinghai battleship can jump up to fifty light years in one jump, spanning a dozen star systems. The target star region is more than two thousand light years away, close to the outskirts of the Blue River Galaxy.

Passing by one jump point after another, there are several large space stations at each jump point, which have a complete set of capabilities to repair, maintain and modify spacecraft, and provide services to several surrounding star systems and passing spacecraft.

Liu Wen and his two companions were driving a warship, and had a smooth journey. No pirate was so idle as to rob a warship. Even if they won, they might not be able to capture prisoners, and if they lost, they would suffer a huge loss.

It took the Xinghai nearly a week to reach the outskirts of the 315-121 star field. Once here, it was impossible to jump. The terrain was complex and there were no clear coordinates to guide the jump. It was easy to dive into a planet or asteroid.

"There is no clear mark on the navigable route on the star map. How do we get there?" Fat Blue asked Liu Wen.

"Turn on the detection radar, launch a few optical detectors, and scan the environment within ten light days first." Liu Wen looked at the chaotic star field in the optical telescope. Countless interstellar dust reflected colorful light under the light of stars.

The nebula is dazzling, but extremely dangerous. Asteroids and even broken land are moving at a speed of several kilometers per second.

Due to the collisions between asteroids, meteorites, etc., their movement trajectories cannot be monitored at all. If a warship is not careful and goes deep into the dense asteroid belt, it may not be able to get out.

"Ten light hours away, a spaceship was spotted passing by. It's a medium-sized cargo ship that has activated optical stealth." The blue fat man was guarding the detection radar and soon discovered a spaceship that flew out of the asteroid belt.

Looking at the direction the other party was heading, it was known that it was a human spaceship, so the blue fat man didn't think of taking action. Instead, he decided to find a safe channel out from the direction the other party came from, which would be more likely.

The battleship started the thrusters and turned on optical stealth to fly towards the area where the cargo spacecraft came out. The distance was not far, so it was just the normal cruising speed. After crossing an arc, the battleship successfully slowed down and stopped in front of the asteroid belt.

"Launch the detector." Frog excitedly controlled the detector to fly into the asteroid belt.

According to the information sent back by the detector, asteroids and meteorite groups within tens of millions of kilometers nearby appeared one by one in the projection. After repeated comparisons and calculations, a channel leading directly to the interior appeared in front of the three people.

"Shall we go now?" Fat Blue Man thought that now that they had found the route, it should be time-limited depending on the situation, so it would be better to go in quickly.

Liu Wen shook his head: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if we wait a few more days. The main thing is that we are not familiar with it at all. We should send a few more detectors in first to find out the general environment."

"You're right." Fat Blue asked Frog to launch a few more detectors, and he also controlled the detectors to conduct separate investigations.

The four detectors were accelerated to 3% sub-light speed and then launched along the route straight into the asteroid belt. The detection data along the way made the dynamics around the route much clearer.

A few hours later, the detector successfully crossed the asteroid belt. After collecting and processing the optical images, the three people also had a preliminary understanding of the broken land of 315-121 star field.

A lot of signs of spacecraft activity were discovered just through optical images, and this is only within a few light years of the entrance. The diameter of the 315-121 star field is more than light years, and there is even more vast space inside.

After staying for a few more hours and collecting enough trajectories of planets and asteroids, Liu Wen drove the warship into the channel.

Although it maintained optical stealth all the way, it could be seen clearly under the detection radar scan.

Several small human teams received alerts from channel detectors at the same time.

"A strange warship is coming in. Should we contact them to inquire?" After receiving the alarm, Mr. Lin checked the situation immediately. After seeing that there was only one frigate-class warship, he hesitantly asked the captain.

Zhao Fei shook his head: "Don't contact them for now. Just monitor their movements and see if it's one of the other companies' warships. If not, we can talk later."

The other teams basically had the same attitude, observing the situation first, and then contacting each other after confirming that the warships were not from the surrounding teams. The second world was much more chaotic than the main universe, and no one knew whether it would be a potential enemy of their team.

Although Liu Wen didn't know that he had been targeted by the nearby human team, he was also clear that his optical stealth was of no use against radar detection.

The team or individual who knows the entrance and exit channel will definitely place detectors around the channel to avoid being ambushed when entering or exiting.

But his target is not the human team, so it doesn't matter to him whether the other party knows about it or not. Even the interstellar pirates will not blindly attack his warship. As long as he is not surrounded, can't he run away if he can't win?

This is also the reason why Liu Wen is quite cautious. At least he has to detect a certain safe range before entering, to avoid rushing into someone's encirclement when delivering the express.

As the warship moved deeper into the star field, it inevitably encountered the human team.

"Captain, the enemy is heading towards our No. 3 mining base." Master Lin has been guarding in front of the radar, and through the detectors arranged along the way, he has a clear view of the Xinghai.

Zhao Fei looked at the movement trajectory of the Xinghai. It was avoiding asteroids and broken land all the way, and it didn't look like it was heading specifically for Mining Base No. 3.

"This battleship should be a novice. It has just arrived in this star field. It is probably planning to explore the interior." Zhao Fei guessed that a certain team also wanted to develop in this star field, so they sent a reconnaissance ship.

"Contact the other party and ask about their purpose." Although he guessed that they were not targeting his team, he still had to be cautious: "Activate the defense system of Mining Base No. 3, notify Meteor One, and Meteor Two to prepare for attack."

"Boss, we received an open communication. The other party stated that this area is the mining area of ​​their Meteor Team and asked about our purpose." After receiving the communication, Wa Zai turned around and asked Liu Wen.

"Pick up the communication." Liu Wen sat in the command chair, waiting for the communication to be connected.

"Hello, I'm Zhao Fei, the leader of the Meteor Team." After Zhao Fei's projection appeared, he introduced himself immediately.

"Hello, Captain Zhao Fei. I am Captain Liu Wen of the Xinghai." Liu Wen continued, "I am sorry to bother you. We are just passing by and have no intention of interfering with you."

Zhao Fei smiled and said, "It's okay. Captain Liu's target should be inside the star field, right?"

"Yes, our target is the alien races in this star field. I wonder how much Captain Zhao knows about those alien races in the star field?" Liu Wen did not hide his goal, and he could not hide it for long.

As the local tyrants, they will be the first to receive the news once the Xinghai takes action, so it is better to be straightforward. He can also try to obtain some intelligence about the alien races from them. Even if the credibility is not high, it is much better than looking for a needle in a haystack by himself.

"Aliens?" Zhao Fei's eyes lit up, and he was immediately happy. In this star region, since the resources are not rich and the value is not high, the teams that come here are basically teams that can't make it in other places or are not strong enough.

The alien races are different. Although they can't survive in other places, they basically hide here because they were defeated in the war, so they still have some strength.

Because of their enmity with humans, they would basically take advantage of these small teams whenever possible and restrict them from continuing to develop deeper into the star field.

Zhao Fei was of course happy to hear that Liu Wen was here to cause trouble for the aliens. With one more force targeting those aliens, their safety would be much higher. If they were lucky enough to seize a star field, their development dilemma would also be improved.

"Yes, yes, of course. I'll send it to you right away." Zhao Fei happily sent over all the alien intelligence they had detected. There was no need to verify whether what Liu Wen said was true.

As long as they come in to develop, they will inevitably be targeted by foreign races. Once targeted, it means making enemies, and the possibility of a fight between the two sides will be higher.

The minerals in the entrance area are not of high value and have been collected for more than ten years. Even if some minerals will evolve over time, the big team will not look down on these small amounts.

Therefore, Liu Wen's advancement into the internal area will bring only benefits to their small teams. In this case, why not give him support?

Even after Liu Wen took action, the aliens retaliated against them, but they only withdrew for a while and the losses were very small. After all, the aliens did not dare to really kill them all, otherwise it would not be their small team that came, and by then the task of clearing the 315-121 star field in the Interstellar Alliance would soon be taken up.

This outcome is actually more beneficial to them.

In order to encourage Liu Wen to advance into the internal area and not be scared away by alien forces, Zhao Fei even contacted several other teams to integrate a mineral map of the internal area for Liu Wen.

Naturally, they reduced some of the intelligence about alien races, but it was not much. After all, it was not difficult to verify. In order to avoid retaliation later, they just made it a little vague. There was nothing anyone could do if they couldn't detect it properly, right?

After Liu Wen obtained the information, he felt a headache when he saw the distribution of alien races. In a star field of just a hundred light years, there were as many as twenty alien species. The strongest one even had a fleet consisting of three battleship-class warships.

Fortunately, the area occupied by the other party is also very large, and it seems that they are trying to rebuild civilization in this star field.

As for the mineral distribution map, Liu Wen just took a quick look at it and no longer paid attention to it. He was not here to mine, and mining was not as profitable as robbing alien races!
The three of them gathered together and looked at the star cluster to discuss the matter.

"Our warships should not go too deep. We should go here first and hide in the asteroid belt. Then we launch a probe to investigate these mining sites. We will rob the one with higher value." Liu Wen found the four weakest alien races from the star map and selected a few mining sites that were mediocre. Even if they could only rob a few thousand contribution points of resources, with the boost of the golden finger, it could reach hundreds of thousands. Getting rich overnight is not a dream!
By then, the Xinghai will be able to become the Xinghai Fleet, and the profits from robbing alien races will be able to increase exponentially. By the time the last little friend comes out of the infant incubator, Liu Wen may already be an imperial lord.

The three of them drove the warship in high spirits according to the star map provided by Zhao Fei and others, deep into the star field, found a relatively sparse asteroid group with large mass but small number, hid the warship, and launched more than a dozen detectors to fly towards the target area.

The three of them took turns guarding the detection radar to collect and organize the information sent back by the detector, and spent the rest of the time practicing spiritual energy in the living area.

It was not until more than a week later that the probe finally reached the two designated target areas. Instead of rashly using detection radar, it used an optical telescope to collect information to avoid being discovered by the target.

A multifunctional mining barge is mining minerals on an asteroid with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. Several robotic arms are deployed and penetrate deep into the meteorite, supporting the mining ship to fall.

Then the mining ship stretched out, and several multi-functional mining vehicles drove out of the spacecraft and headed towards other locations on the asteroid.

After the mining ship is extended, the mining robot arm cooperates with the traction beam to continuously send the excavated ore into the crusher at the rear. After crushing, it undergoes preliminary screening. Finally, the screened ore is sent to the compressor, compressed into regular cubes, and sent to the warehouse for storage.

Liu Wen estimated that at the collection speed of this mining barge, it could collect about 200 cubic meters per hour. Based on the discarded waste, the mineral content was only about 10% to 15%.

If it were on a planet, this amount of mineral would be considered a rich ore, but in space, it would only be considered a poor ore with some mining value.

Since he didn't know what minerals the other party was mining, Liu Wen didn't rush into action.

The mining ship is more than 200 meters long, 130 meters wide, and about 80 meters high. The cargo hold can hold about 10,000 cubic meters. Mining has just begun, so there is no profit from robbing, so let's wait and see.

The second place was in an asteroid belt, where several small spaceships gathered together to jointly pull an asteroid, take it away from the asteroid group, and then cooperate to dismantle it.

Not only the minerals were taken away, but these small spaceships also took away ordinary meteorites. This made Liu Wen and his companions feel a little strange. Star mining generally involves mining and screening, or perhaps additional preliminary purification. No one would waste the few cargo spaces available to load worthless meteorites.

"Let the probe follow them and see where they are going." Liu Wen had a guess, and now he needed to verify whether it was correct.

Half a day later, the third probe arrived at the designated location. Its target was a broken continental plate with a diameter of more than one thousand kilometers and a thickness of tens of kilometers.

A preliminary industrial system for gathering and smelting was built on it, and a defensive barrier was constructed, and an animal and plant breeding base was opened.

The information brought back by the optical telescope was not comprehensive. At least, it was unknown whether there were any hidden defense facilities. Based on what he saw, Liu Wen gave up on robbing this place. Hundreds of land-based turrets stood on the land, with long gun barrels pointing straight into the sky.

This kind of firepower, even without hidden defense facilities, is not something that a level 4 frigate can handle. At least a level 4 destroyer-class battleship and two frigate-class battleships would be enough.

He shook his head, crossed out this target, and checked the warship's reserve detectors. There were still about thirty of them. He kept ten for emergency use and released the rest.

After this accident, Liu Wen also knew that the intelligence information deviation of those small teams was probably much larger than expected, so he could only screen out a few more target areas by casting a wide net.

It was not until half a month later, after checking nearly thirty alien mining sites, that the three finally found a suitable target.

One is located on a land plate that was formed after the subspace merged into the universe. The land plate is not large, less than a hundred kilometers in size. Two mining ships are mining on it in an orderly manner. Liu Wen is also familiar with the collected minerals. It is the Lingtong Mine that he has handled before, but the quality is obviously much better.

Judging from the appearance of the minerals in the binding field, the spiritual energy content is estimated to be about three to four units per cubic meter. The total amount of minerals outside is about 20,000 cubic meters. There are still some in the cargo hold of the mining ship, and the total amount is estimated to be more than 30,000 cubic meters, which should be all the minerals mined in the past two days.

The most important thing is that there are only two mining ships within a few dozen light hours here. If they rob and leave, the aliens will definitely not be able to react.

"Check the force field device, the restraint device, and the traction device. Don't wait until the last minute to find out there is a problem with the equipment." Liu Wen arranged for Fat Blue to check it quickly. Now that the target has been determined, they have to act quickly. Don't delay too long or someone will send a spacecraft to take it away.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine with me here." The blue fat man held his belly and assured that there was no problem.

After an inspection, it was confirmed that all equipment on the warship was in good condition and could be put into use at any time.

Liu Wen started the Xinghai and gradually accelerated to 30 percent sub-light speed in the asteroid belt, heading straight for the target. The target was within three light days of the surrounding area, so it would only take one day to reach it.

The warship flew along the detected route. As usual, only one of the three people was left on duty, while the other two continued to practice spiritual power.

After more than half a month of practice, Liu Wen finally got the hang of the psychic practice method. He could now do the movements and visualize at the same time, and his efficiency increased significantly.

The seeds of psychic energy in his body have taken root and sprouted, transforming into pure psychic energy that penetrates into cells throughout his body along with his blood vessels, and begins to optimize his genes bit by bit.

(End of this chapter)