The sooner the ore is found, the sooner the research on the advanced mimic mecha can start, and there is no delay in going to the resource star. The two asked for leave from their homeroom teachers, and boarded the spaceship to Resource Star early the next morning.
Three days later, the two arrived at Resource Star, and without taking a break to adjust, they rented a local off-road mining vehicle and set off.
"According to our speed, we will have to drive for two days to reach the place you mentioned." Yan Hao held a map in his hand. On the map, someone marked the names of many ores in black fonts, densely packed almost all over the place. I took out a small half of the map, which was the one that Sheng Heng hand-drawn after he used his mental power to detect it.
"Xiao Hao, go to the back and sleep for a while, I'll just drive alone." Just after getting off the spaceship, Yan Hao's physique was not as good as his, and Sheng Heng was afraid that he would be tired.
"I'm not sleepy yet." Yan Hao said.
"Then go back and rest when you're sleepy." Sheng Heng didn't force him either.
"Okay." Yan Hao nodded, lowered his head and continued to look at the map, his eyes swept over every letter written by Sheng Heng himself, and those letters seemed to glow, one by one lit up, lighting up his eyes. starry sky.
Yan Hao sneaked a glance at Sheng Heng, seeing that he was looking ahead intently, he carefully turned on the camera function of the optical brain, took a photo of the map in his hand, and sent it to He Shao.
After a while, He Shao's message came back, his words were full of excitement: [I'll go, I'll go, Hao, you are the best to me, with this map, I can relax when I go to the resource star A hundred times, did the resident officer of Resource Star give it to you? ]
Yan Hao: [No, it was given to me by my senior. ]
He Shao: [The guardian army of the resource star belongs to the God of War Legion? 】
Yan Hao: 【No, this map was marked out by the senior himself when he used his spiritual power to detect the earth's veins when he came last time. ]
He Shao: [...]
He Shao: [I thought you gave me the map to help your classmates, but it turned out that it was just to show your affection? 】
Yan Hao couldn't help but frown when he saw the words "Xiu Enai", and glanced at Sheng Heng quietly. Seeing that he wasn't looking this way, he continued typing: [He Shao, when the senior came to Resource Star last time, I I haven't confessed to him yet, but he drew this map for me. You said, did he like me at that time? ]
He Shao: [I'm in class. 】
He Shao can't continue talking. It's already miserable to be fed dog food. Do you need him to help collect dog food?
Yan Hao didn't bother He Shao any more. He looked up and looked out of the car, comparing it with the map in his hand from time to time. Every time he reached a place marked on the map, his eyes would lighten up, and then he took a picture with his optical brain. a photograph. At the beginning of the period, Sheng Heng didn't feel any abnormalities. It wasn't until he passed the marked places on the map three times in a row that Sheng Heng reacted abruptly. But he didn't point it out, but his mood suddenly soared, as if the yellow sand outside the car had turned into spring rain, lingering and intoxicating.
In the evening of the next day, the car approached the destination. The two got out of the car and stood on a hill overlooking the distance.
"That's where the Phantom Spirit Beast was discovered." Sheng Heng pointed to a forest not far away.
"Phantom spirit beasts like to devour spiritual power, and this kind of ore will also absorb spiritual power. The two cannot be accompanied." Yan Hao suddenly made a bold guess.
"It's possible." Sheng Heng nodded in agreement. "At that time, I just wanted to check if there were any rare ores nearby. When the mental power swept across that area, the spiritual power was absorbed. But the intensity is not strong. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and with the sudden appearance of the phantom spirit beast, I completely forgot about it. If it wasn't for the fact that the spiritual force was also absorbed in the laboratory that day, I really couldn't remember it." "We went to
dig Dig and see." Yan Hao said as he was about to run forward.
"Wait a minute, I'll probe first and find a place with a lot of ore to dig." After saying that, Sheng Heng released his mental power, like an invisible net that was cast towards the area.
Yan Hao could clearly perceive the movement state of Sheng Heng's mental power, and the more he perceived it, the more frightened he was. Because, with the same S-level mental strength, his mental strength is not a little bit worse than Sheng Heng's. Even the mental power control he is proud of, he thinks he can't do it as exquisitely as Sheng Heng. So when Sheng Heng finished exploring the surface and withdrew his mental power, he met Yan Hao's eyes of admiration and admiration.
"Senior, you are amazing." Yan Hao said sincerely, "It is also S-level mental power, I am far behind you." Is there
any man in the world who doesn't like being praised by the person he likes, the corner of Sheng Heng's mouth slightly raised , smiled and said: "Just practice more, I will teach you in the future."
"Yeah." Yan Hao really wants to learn, according to his design, the main part of the advanced mimic mecha will be this kind of armor that can absorb mental power. To make this kind of ore into mecha parts, you need very strong mental power and control power.
"I found a place with high ore content, and we went to dig."
The two came down from the hillside, and drove to the place Sheng Heng sensed just now. This off-road vehicle itself has a mining function. After confirming its position, Sheng Heng switched the vehicle to the mining mode, and a long mechanical arm with an excavating device stretched out from the bottom of the vehicle.
The ore was buried deep in the ground, and the two of them only had one mining truck. The car practiced and dug deep for eight hours before revealing a piece of dark ore.
Sheng Heng jumped down from the hole with Yan Hao in his arms. As soon as Yan Hao landed, he took out a test tool from his backpack, and continuously tested the black model to collect data. Then he imported the collected data into the optical brain, performed deduction and calculation, and obtained the final value after the ore was purified. Then, compare this set of values with the ore Pang Lao gave him to get the final matching degree.
Yan Hao calculated three times in a row before the matching degree of the values reached 90%.
"90%, it seems right, it is this kind of ore." Sheng Heng continued to be relieved, but fortunately his perception was correct.
"But the purification rate is too low." Yan Hao was a little disappointed.
"One-thousandth?" Sheng Heng also saw a value in the upper left corner of the screen at this time, a purification rate of one-thousandth, that is to say, it takes a thousand pieces of ore of the same size to purify a piece of Pang Lao and hand it to Yan. Hao's ore.
Sheng Heng made a rough estimate of all the ores he had sensed in this area just now. If calculated according to the purification rate of one-thousandth, the ores in this area may only be able to make one arm of the mecha.
"Let's look for it again. If there is this kind of ore here, there must be other planets." Sheng Heng said.
"Even if there is, how do we find it? And if there is, why hasn't anyone discovered it for so many years." Yan Hao is not as confident as Sheng Heng.
"I was able to find these ores by accident. If I hadn't used my spiritual power to explore the ore veins, I wouldn't have found it here. People didn't find it before because they used instruments to detect it. There are more than 100 resource stars in the Federation, and I have one by one. If you go to investigate, you will definitely find it." Sheng Heng said.
Only high-level mental power can detect ore veins from the ground, and this matter is still kept secret to the outside world, and no one can ask for help, so Sheng Heng can only go by himself.
"How long will it take?" Last time Sheng Heng only searched less than a quarter of the resource stars, it took a week, plus the time to go to and from the planet, the recovery time of mental power, a hundred planets, at least It will take ten years to complete.
"If you can make an advanced mimic mech, it's okay to waste some time." Sheng Heng didn't care much.
"But even if I find all the materials, I'm not sure I can make it." Yan Hao said.
"I believe you can." Sheng Heng has a kind of blind trust in Yan Hao, but he doesn't want to put too much pressure on Yan Hao, "It doesn't matter even if you can't, isn't scientific research the progress of generations? You modified the Black Soul because of the old inspiration, and every step of your current research on the mimicry mecha is an inspiration for the future. I believe that one day you will make a tenth-level mimicry mecha." "Yes." Yan
Hao Nodding heavily.
"Let's notify the base first to mine." Sheng Heng sent a message to the base, asking them to come and mine the ore.
After the excavation truck from the base came over, he asked Yan Hao to accompany the absentee to excavate here alone, and then drove the Black Soul around the resource star for another circle. It took half a month to carefully investigate the other parts of the resource star. location, but unfortunately no similar veins have been found.
The content of this special ore vein is not large. The large excavator at the base only took three days to dig it out. When Sheng Heng returned to the base after exploring, even a small part of the ore had been purified. The two did not wait until all the ores were purified before leaving on the resource star. Instead, they only took part of it and returned to the capital star.
Mr. Pang was a little disappointed when he knew that the ore’s purification rate was only one-thousandth, and that the ore of the entire resource star could only be used to make one mecha arm, but he quickly adjusted and tried to analyze the composition of the ore so that he could make a mecha arm. The instrument is specially used to detect this kind of ore, but it is a pity that he and Yan Hao have been researching it for a month, but they can't find the particularity of this kind of ore.
"Is it true that we can only find it with mental power?" They have tried various methods in the past month, and found that if this kind of ore is not perceived with mental power, no matter what instrument is used, it will be displayed as a waste ore. Moreover, even if you use mental power to perceive, you must have a mental power above A+ to perceive it.
"This ore is too picky, why does it look like a phantom beast." Pang Lao couldn't help complaining.
"This piece of ore is in the area where the phantom spirit beasts are active. At that time, my senior and I doubted whether these ores could be the accompanying stones of phantom spirit beasts." Yan Hao said.
"Wait." Elder Pang grasped the key words, "Did you just say companion stone?" "
This is just our conjecture, because the entire resource star happens to have this kind of ore in the area where phantom spirit beasts appear." Yan Hao said .
"Your conjecture is likely to be true." Pang Lao said, "After our testing during this period, the properties of these ores are very similar to those of phantom spirit beasts." "But wouldn't this mean there will be no more ores?" Yan Hao said
.
"Why?"
"Because the phantom beasts are almost extinct, and the rest are in the Federal National Park, and the national park has bred phantom beasts for less than two hundred years, so it is impossible to form ore." Yan Hao said.
"Phantom spirit beasts are almost extinct, but there are no places where phantom spirit beasts lived." Pang Lao said.
Yan Hao was taken aback, and then shouted: "Yes, as long as you find the place where phantom spirit beasts haunted hundreds of years ago, it is possible to find this kind of ore, if it is really a companion stone. The place where spirit beasts have been haunted before? The federation has erased all this information.”
Because phantom spirit beasts are nearly extinct, the federation has erased all information related to phantom spirit beasts, including the places where they once lived, in order to protect phantom spirit beasts , now more than two hundred years have passed, and there is no record of the places where phantom spirit beasts once lived.
"The Federation just kept this part of the secret, and didn't erase it." Pang Lao said, "You call old man Zhong and ask him to ask the Federation for it."
Compared with Pang Lao, Zhong Lao, as the head of the Federal Research Institute, has a closer relationship with the Federation.