This thing cannot respond. Before it is turned on, it can only receive messages and cannot respond. After sending this message to Li Qing, there was no response.

Li Qing wrote down the date of the official meeting and stopped studying it, focusing his attention on it again.

To be precise, there is an asteroid located more than 10,000 kilometers away from the wormhole. The sensor found that there is an open-air automatic collection device that is still operating on the asteroid.

An open-air automatic collection device was found in the void three to four thousand light-years away from Jialanling. It looks like it is used by humans and is still in operation. This is very interesting. It shows that there are human players active nearby for a long time.

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The frigate flew over the asteroid. You can see that the open-air automatic collection device is quite large. The nearby warehouse is also filled with collected asteroid materials. When the frigate approached, it suddenly received a warning message, which roughly means this.

It is privately owned, please do not damage it.

Li Qing did not touch the collected asteroid material, but used the battleship computer to connect to the mining base and search it, and found the coordinates of a nearby small-scale star field.

Including this small open-pit mining base, there are multiple automated mining base networks within a radius of approximately 70 to 80 light years.

Li Qing incorporated this star map into his own star map, carefully analyzed the locations of these automatic mining bases, and roughly locked in a star field.

Not surprisingly, the players who placed these automatic mining facilities may be in that star field, and they are definitely not from Sanhua Trading Company. There is no logo log of Sanhua Trading Company in the base.

The battleship continued to move forward, heading straight for a certain direction in the galaxy.

The star map also includes the location of hyperspace lanes in nearby galaxies, saving him the time of traveling around the galaxy to find hyperspace lanes.

After passing through four galaxies in a row, no players were seen except for various unmanned mining facilities placed in various places in the galaxies. However, there are more and more unmanned mining facilities. This shows that there are indeed players here, but there are not many players.

, so most of the things like mining use unmanned facilities to collect at regular intervals.

Finally, after passing through the fourth galaxy and entering the fifth galaxy, I saw a large transport fleet collecting supplies from an unmanned mining base on a frozen planet.

He did not conceal his whereabouts, and was discovered by the other party almost instantly, and then an unknown communication was picked up.

When the communication was connected, a figure that surprised Li Qing appeared in front of him.

"Eh? Why is it you?"

The person on the other side was also stunned, and then said with a look of surprise:

"What a coincidence. I didn't expect to meet Director Li Qing here."

The player opposite turned out to be a man named Ning Chao from the Leiyun team whom he had not seen for almost two years. He asked enthusiastically:

"Why did Commander Li Qing come here? This place is far away from the outpost!"

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Li Qing asked in surprise:

"How long have you not been back? Haven't you been back since the last time we were separated?"

Ning Chao nodded:

"Yeah, we haven't been back for two years."

"No wonder, do you know that the outpost has been moved and is no longer there?"

"Where did you move to?"

"The Reef Lair, the capital of the southern province of Shatta, is now the Galan Galaxy."

Ning Chao was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately and said with a surprised look on his face:

"Did your Jialan Army capture the reef lair and seize a life planet?"

Li Qing nodded with a smile.

"congratulations!"

"Thank you. By the way, why have you been squatting here for two years and not going back for so long?"

Ning Chao:......

After being silent for a while, he said:

"It's okay to tell you that we have discovered a living planet in this star field."

Li Qing:???

"You found a living planet here?"

He looked at Ning Chao in shock, feeling extremely speechless for a moment.

"you

Your luck is unusually good!"

Two years ago, we discovered the home planet of the Hel people and dug up a bunch of treasures. Now we have directly discovered a planet with life. This is such great luck.

"You shouldn't talk nonsense about things like this, aren't you afraid of what I might think?"

Li Qing was just talking and had no idea.

This place is too far away from Jialanling, three to four thousand light years away, and there is a large blank area in the middle. It would be inconvenient to manage both sides if this side is taken away.

Although there are star gates that can communicate with both sides, things like star gates are easily cut off. This is not another star field, but the Zutar star field. Nebula interference is everywhere, and the connection of the star gates is already unstable.

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Once it is cut off, both sides will become isolated islands, and the enemy can defeat them individually.

Although with his ability it is easy to cross the distance of thousands of light years to support him in a short period of time, this situation will become a weakness of his.

As long as he develops step by step, he can seize another planet within a few hundred light-years of the Jialan Galaxy in the future. Why bother to go so far away to grab one and find a weakness for himself?

Besides, this planet already has an owner, and he's an acquaintance, so it's even harder to take action.

Ning Chao laughed and said:

"This place is more than 3,000 light years away from the outpost. The waterway is inconvenient and there are no players. It will be useless if you rob it. If you want to go to our boss to buy it, we will give it to you cheaply."

Li Qing:......

"Don't be ridiculous!"

"I'm not kidding. I have to go to mine now and I don't have time to take you there. I'll give you the coordinates. Our boss is right there."

After saying that, Ning Chao sent him a detailed star map.

This operation made Li Qing stupid. When did the life planet that players dreamed of become so unpopular, and he wanted to sell it to people when he saw it.

The star map showed that the living planet was only two galaxies away from here. Li Qing thought that no matter how many questions he asked, he might as well go and see it himself to see what was so special about this living planet that they would rather sell it.

Saying goodbye to Ning Chao, he jumped directly according to the coordinates of the star map.

Half an hour later, the battleship appeared at the edge of the gravity well of a certain galaxy, and then opened a communication with a name that he had not contacted for a long time. Someone responded after a few seconds, and opened it to reveal the figure of Lei Gang, the leader of the Thunder Cloud Team, with a look of surprise on his face.

asked:

"Brother Li Qing, why are you here?"

He smiled and replied:

"I was wandering around for nothing, and happened to find brother Ning Chao in a nearby galaxy. He gave me the coordinates."

"That's such a coincidence. Where are you? I'll send you the coordinates. Let's meet and talk."

"Can."

After receiving the coordinates sent by Lei Gang and calibrating a little, the battleship directly used psychic transmission within the galaxy to cross a distance of more than 2 billion kilometers, appeared in a starry sky, and saw a star tens of thousands of kilometers away at the first glance.

The gray planet, as well as the two fleets parked in orbit on the left and right sides of the planet, he saw at a glance the Sanhua Trading Company logo on the fleet on the right.

The size of the two fleets is not much different, both only have about 200 ships. Judging from the docking positions, they seem to be in a stalemate with each other.

The frigate quickly sailed towards the left fleet, and several similar frigates came over. Lei Gang and several familiar members of the Leiyun team warmly welcomed him in the communication.

"Brother, you came just in time. We would like to find an opportunity to send someone back to the outpost to find you."

Li Qing touched his head and asked:

"You are not trying to sell me this living planet to me, are you?"

"Correct, that's what I thought."

Li Qing looked at the huge planet covered by a thick gray atmosphere below the orbit. It was completely invisible from the outside. The sensor initially detected that the radiation content in the atmosphere was ridiculously high.

He held his chin and pointed at the planet and asked:

"Could this be a wasteland planet that experienced a nuclear war?"

Lei Gang nodded and said:

"Yes, this is indeed a wasteland planet."

"Then what's the use of buying this thing? It's difficult to develop at a long distance and the investment is too high."

The wasteland planet is also called a dead planet. Generally, after the indigenous technology on the living planet has developed to the atomic age, the indigenous people with nuclear weapons can easily use nuclear weapons because some wars are out of control, causing the planet to enter nuclear winter and become a dead planet where normal organisms cannot survive.

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This type of planet is classified at the bottom of the third category, and is only slightly better than the fourth category of planets.

If placed within the United Empire of Mankind, this problem would not be a problem. Although nuclear radiation and dust are difficult to clean up, they are nothing compared to the value of a living planet. A large number of military leaders are willing to spend a lot of money to purchase and modify them.
To be continued...