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Chapter 6 The General's "Hint"
In this situation, future humans should really thank God that it wasn't the Starship Troopers or Star Wars parallel universes that went out of control...
But the peace was broken five years ago.
A passing spaceship received a set of distress signals at the coordinates of the Alps 7 base. Following the signals, the spaceship found a dilapidated aircraft and a corpse. The corpse was identified as Riant, a senior prospector of the Galactic Mining Association. Then, among his belongings, they found a brief location map of the Upros planet and a piece of "Pi" ore with a purity of 8.164%.
Then humans developed a great interest and a mad exploration of this planet, but the protection facilities created by the Predators played a considerable role. The Predators are good at using those natural protective means to defend the planet, rather than orbital cannons, laser satellites, or cosmic turrets.
Needless to say, frequent cosmic storms and a ring of meteorites created by them directly made the area around Upros a dead zone - this is the root cause of why the Hummingbird dared not continue. Only the Hornet-type detector of this mini-size will not trigger the pre-set warning line design.
However, for the Hornet's tragic carrying capacity, transporting mecha is an impossible task, and the creatures on the planet Upros, needless to say, the chance of survival after ordinary future humans go there is very low.
So, Fang Senyan's real goal is:
Go to the planet Upros. Follow the route of the most likely ore veins planned by the geologists in advance. Of course, some technical work such as exploration and sampling can be completed by some pocket-sized semi-automatic robots or accompanying artificial humans, and finally return. That's it.
Finally, General Meng Ge suddenly gave two seemingly random pieces of data:
"The latest news just received, the official purchase price of Pi elements by Galaxy Mining is: thirty-seven planetary units/kg. A planetary unit is the latest common currency unit, representing the wealth that can legally buy a planet in general."
"Apart from the natural ore brought back by Riant, so far, the highest purity of Pi ore discovered is: 0.%."
As soon as General Meng Ge finished speaking, the surroundings were silent, and there seemed to be a sound of gasping. General Meng Ge seemed very satisfied with the effect of his speech. After giving the contractors ten seconds to digest it, he waved his hand and said:
"The military police will take you to choose the corresponding Hornet aircraft in a moment. In the next long period of time, it will be your closest comrade-in-arms, lover. Your life will depend on it! In order to avoid all kinds of scrambling for the aircraft, I have set the permissions. Once the key to the Hornet aircraft is in hand, whoever gets it directly binds the relevant permissions and cannot be changed!"
After saying this, General Meng Ge took a step back and turned around and left in large strides. General Fiji led the team in front, taking them to the hangar. On the way, Fang Senyan seemed to see a familiar figure among a group of people wearing clerical military uniforms, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.
General Fiji led them into the hangar, and suddenly a large black mass of Hornet aircraft appeared in front of them, all brand new, with an indescribable spectacle. Each Hornet aircraft had a number on its nose.
At the sight of this scene, Fang Senyan suddenly remembered who the familiar figure he had seen before was - it was the lieutenant who came to greet him on the spaceship.
He immediately thought of the guy's weak constitution, who almost choked to death from vomiting, and of course, the Arabic numeral 3 secretly written on the cabin wall. With this in mind, Fang Senyan immediately made up his mind to choose the number three Hornet aircraft.
General Fiji then stood in front and said:
"Next, go and choose your mounts, brave warriors! The first to choose: Hedy. Curry, step forward! Come and collect the permission card."
The black hulk took a step forward first and said loudly:
"Yes, sir!"
"I object!" A bold woman with striking red hair and wearing a camouflage vest raised her hand and said impatiently, "Why should that bastard choose first?"
This woman is another T, named Aziza. She has been gathering her contacts and trying to compete with Hedy Curry. General Fiji first pointed at Aziza coldly and said:
"Deduct five merit points because of disregard for military discipline and loud roaring - the order of selecting Hornet aircraft is not determined by us, but by the staff based on military rank and the time of reporting. Major Hedy Curry has an imperial title and was the second contractor to report, which is why he was the first to choose. Does anyone else have any objections?"
General Fiji's words blocked all the questions at once. Hedy Curry shrugged his shoulders, with a grin on his face, and then walked towards the aircraft group. He chose the Hornet with the largest number: No. 999.
The second to choose was another guy named Bocan. His position was the same as Fang Senyan's, auxiliary. He chose No. 618.
The third called directly
Fang Senyan's name, because of the previous foreshadowing, others had no interest in him being called.
Fang Senyan had already made up his mind to choose No. 3, but when he went to General Fiji to receive the permission card, as usual, he would say a few words of encouragement like good luck in a low voice, but General Fiji smiled and leaned over at this time and said in a low voice:
"Number fifty-five is a good choice."
Fang Senyan was stunned, but what kind of person is he? Even if thousands of thoughts flashed in his mind, he would not show it on his face, but immediately straightened his waist and shouted:
"Yes, sir! Thank you, sir!"
On the way to the hangar, Fang Senyan didn't spend much effort to make a decision, because this *is not a beauty contest/talent show/stock selection/mentor selection/If You Are the One, but to choose an aircraft that can protect you to fly to the target planet and fly back!!
Once this thing goes wrong, it's not as easy as a flat tire on a car, no matter what T's health value is four or five thousand, four or five million is useless!
Obviously, Fang Senyan still trusts the young lieutenant he saved more. First, he has received his favor, second, he should be very afraid of his revenge! Third, he must also be eager to get his friendship, to be exact, reward!
But Major General Fiji does not have any of these conditions, and more importantly, Fang Senyan also knows that his nickname is Black General - although Fang Senyan doesn't know the origin of this nickname because of the short time, he can see from the performance of that scum Lieutenant Rickley that this nickname is definitely not expressing meanings such as "old scalper" or "kind person".
Fang Senyan's perception is quite strong, so he can effortlessly monitor the various reactions of the people in the distance. He first walked to No. 55, picked it over, but still shook his head with a regretful expression, and walked directly to No. 3, then grabbed its key.
At this moment, Fang Senyan noticed that there were actually two people whose facial muscles twitched. Needless to say, Major General Fiji must be on the list. But the second person Fang Senyan did not expect, was actually... Ronnie, who belongs to the same space as Hedy Curry, this guy is Hedy Curry's right-hand man, and has been firmly supporting him.
Fang Senyan kept all this in his heart,
In fact, he was not a good man or a good woman in the first place, and of course Fang Senyan would not forget that the rewards for killing guys in other spaces are also quite generous.
Next, Fang Senyan's main things are only two: first, of course, is to familiarize himself with his new mount and conduct a run-in test flight. This time can be zero, or it can be four hours, and then wait for the ground crew to fill the narrow cockpit behind the Hornet aircraft.
The things that must be stuffed into this space of only 2.7 cubic meters include: high-energy proton absorption spectrometer, pocket-sized strong electronic transmission well logging instrument, X-ray strong diffraction instrument, etc. These things are mandatory for everyone to carry:
One is to compare the data, and the other, of course, is to allow them to conduct exploration even in a bad and scattered situation.
Each person also has about half a cubic meter of space left. If you are more greedy for merit points, then you can carry a crushing extraction device. The use of this thing is to immediately extract and process on the spot after encountering high-purity Pi ore. If you are lucky, that is a lot of money.
If you are pursuing safety and comfort, you can bring three modified humans.
The modified humans provided by the empire are actually not much different from humans, because they were also humans. As far as the current future human technology is concerned, unless the brain is dead, it is not too difficult to treat various diseases... The difficulty lies in the cost.
Once some poor people suffer from serious diseases, are unable to pay the costs, but still want to live, what should they do? Then they have to sign an agreement to become a modified person, transplant the brain into an artificial body. As a reward, they will serve the empire for the rest of their lives, or until they have accumulated enough money to redeem themselves.