LRAB Chapter 7: A Brand New Miracle Mission
Chapter 7: A Brand New Miracle Mission
A single deployment to an alien planet can only last for 48 hours, and in such a short time, the resources he can take away will be limited.
Both the speed of mining and the space in the Sky-Covered Ship's cabin severely limited this aspect.
Unless you have a star field beacon-type component, you can leave a beacon here before returning, and use this beacon as a node during subsequent explorations to be deployed back to this star field.
Unfortunately, these parts are extremely rare. Over the past ten years, he had only heard that his father, Chen Tianhua, had one on his flagship, the "Dingyue".
With these thoughts racing through his mind, Chen Yao moved swiftly. The Sky Patrol's fission core engine roared, propelling the warship rapidly toward the interior of the asteroid belt ahead. At the same time, he commanded the ship's semi-intelligent system to record in detail all the types and coordinates of the various mineral resources initially detected.
Although what he was looking at was just a miniature asteroid belt, it was still relative to the entire cosmos. Since the Sky Patrol was destined to take away only a very small portion of the mineral resources, he naturally had to choose the most valuable ones.
"Let's speed up the recording first, then select the most valuable resources to mine in the second half. That's the only way..."
Having made his decision, Chen Yao naturally wouldn't delay any longer.
The Sky Surveyer quickly transformed into a nimble silver shuttle, gliding lightly among the debris in the asteroid belt, recording information on various mineral resources at top speed.
In the main control room of the warship, Chen Yao handed over some control authority to the shipboard semi-automatic system, while he opened the attribute panel of the [Miracle Card Mother Pool] component.
Miracle Card Pool Level 0
Quality: Silver
Feature: Miracle Taskbar
"First Trial of Starfield Exploration: Activate the interstellar field deployment function once. Reward: 300 Card Points upon completion (Completed)"
Feature 2: Random card draw slot (100 points)
Feature 3: Critical Hit Card Draw Slot (10000 points)
Feature 4: First deck slot
Cost: 50/s (Psionic Points)
Effect: This component will continuously absorb chaotic primordial energy from the outside world, condensing it into miracle cards with unique effects. The captain can designate and solidify a specific card, currently allowing a maximum of four cards to be solidified (4/4): {Health Card (Common), Healing Card (Premium), Refresh Card (Rare), Lucky Card (Legendary)}
Card Points: 40
No charging or buffering required
Upgrade Requirements: 1 Card Point, 1000 Psionic Energy, 7 Planetary Origin Crystals
With his gaze fixed on the [Miracle Quest Board], looking at the "Starfield Exploration Preliminary Trial" quest that had already been completed, Chen Yao quickly clicked on it once. The next second, the number in the [Card Points] column changed from 40 to 340.
Seeing this, he nodded in satisfaction.
This mission was the one that appeared after the completion of the "Power of the Rising Sun" mission, and it has now been officially completed with the deployment of the Sky Patrol into the alien star system.
Turning our attention back to the [Miracle Quest Log], sure enough, as it was submitted, a brand new quest was refreshed.
"First Battle Against Aliens: Control the Sky Patrol to kill 10 alien creatures. Reward for completing the mission is 200 card points."
Kill the alien race?
Chen Yao pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to the star map on one side.
On this star map, there are several special points of light that are clearly different from other celestial bodies. These are the life energy signals detected by the standard psionic radar.
This asteroid belt stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers, and naturally, a small number of extraterrestrial life forms inhabit it.
The life energy emitted by these light spots is not strong; almost all of them are at the zero level, with only two light spots at the first level.
After a moment's thought, Chen Yao no longer hesitated. The Sky Patrol turned and sped toward the area with the densest distribution of zero-order light points on the star map.
Anyway, the areas are not far apart, so we might as well go there in advance to record the mineral information.
Although the maximum detection range of the standard psionic radar reaches 100,000 kilometers, its detection accuracy is limited. If it is necessary to accurately distinguish the detailed types of various mineral resources, this range is directly reduced by a large margin, and the Sky Survey can only conduct nearby investigations.
As for why he wasn't afraid of those level zero creatures, Chen Yao relied on the [Chikan Copper Mothership Armor], which was enhanced to level 20.
Chikan Copper Mothership Hull Armor lv20
Quality: Purple
Characteristic: Chikan Copper Mother Guardian
Cost: 100 Psionic Points/second
Protection: 17000
No charging or buffering required
Upgrade Requirements: 10 Planetary Origin Crystals, 2000 Psionic Points
{Red Copper Mother Protection: Consumes 10000 points of Psionic Energy to instantly generate a substantial Red Copper Mother shield layer on the ship's surface, lasting for 1 minute, with a buffer time of 24 hours.}
This purple ship armor module, a gift from Chen Tianhua, already far surpassed standard armor in terms of attributes. Now, Chen Yao has directly upgraded it to level 20. Its exaggerated base protection value alone is enough to deter ordinary level 0 creatures, not to mention its active defense characteristic.
It is no exaggeration to say that once this active defense feature is activated, the Sky Patrol will be completely unaffected even when facing a direct attack from a Tier 1 creature during the duration of the effect.
This is Chen Yao's greatest source of confidence.
With the warship's engines roaring, his target appeared on the horizon in just over ten minutes.
It was a planktonic creature about the size of an adult's arm span. Its translucent, umbrella-shaped body glowed faintly in the dim starlight, and dozens of hair-thin tentacles hung down from below, drifting slowly as they moved in the vacuum.
[Starry Sky Jellyfish: A zero-level cosmic creature, gregarious, and docile. It typically feeds on mineral dust and free energy from the asteroid belt and has an extremely low danger rating.]
This is the relevant information retrieved from the warship's database by the shipborne semi-intelligent system in a very short time.
Chen Yao remained focused, controlling the Sky Patrol to get closer while one of the main cannons and two secondary cannons on the warship quietly glowed with a dark light.
The next second, multiple slender yet solid particle beams shot out silently, drawing a straight and dazzling line of light in the void, accurately hitting the starry jellyfish about thirty kilometers away directly in front.
Before the planktonic jellyfish could even react, its translucent body was pierced straight through by the particle beam, and its fluorescence suddenly went out.
The first one!
Chen Yao remained calm, silently calculating in his mind, while simultaneously controlling the Sky Patrol to quickly move towards the next target.
Forty minutes later, the "First Battle Against the Alien Race" mission was successfully completed as expected.
For a blue main cannon upgraded to level 10, the weakest celestial zero-tier life form, the Starry Sky Floating Jellyfish, is completely defenseless.
One shot, one kill; clean and efficient.
[Defeat 10 Tier 0 Starry Sky Floating Jellyfish to complete the "First Battle Against Aliens" mission.]
[Submit the "First Battle Against the Alien Race" mission?]
"no!"
Seeing the prompt that popped up on the [Miracle Card Mother Pool] attribute panel, Chen Yao didn't rush to submit the task and get the 200 card points. Instead, he turned his attention to the Sky Patrol and controlled it to fly rapidly toward an irregular asteroid not far to his left.