Chapter 1 Aftermath

Afterward, Su Mo got up and looked back. He saw Qian Chengxue talking to a GT department female officer.

He walked over.

The officer saw Su Mo approaching and tactfully said,

"Officer Qian Chengxue, I'll go down and prepare."

"Go ahead."

Qian Chengxue nodded.

"Busy?"

Su Mo walked to Qian Chengxue's side and asked.

"No, is there something you need?"

Qian Chengxue asked with a smile.

"Ahem, it's like this, we're about to set off, how about exploring together?"

Su Mo didn't hide anything and invited her directly.

Qian Chengxue smiled and shook her head, replying, "I'm afraid I can't, I still have tasks assigned by the GT department, and I can't get away for the time being."

"You have a task?"

A hint of surprise flashed in Su Mo's eyes.

Qian Chengxue explained to Su Mo, "That's a special case for you. Otherwise, who would complete the GT department's tasks? As for Mo Bake and the others, it's because you brought them, so there are no assignments."

"Okay."

Although Su Mo was a little disappointed, he didn't say much.

"It's okay, I'll join you as soon as my task is completed."

"Okay, be careful then."

Su Mo responded caringly after hearing Qian Chengxue's words.

"Okay, I still have some things to arrange, I'll go and get busy."

"Okay."

....

Twelve hours later, the Black Tooth's exit hatches opened one by one, and mecha and space fighters flew out in an orderly manner.

Immediately afterward, the fleet escorting the Black Tooth began to detach from the main force in teams.

They greeted the different mecha and space fighters, and then sailed towards different stars.

At this time, Su Mo, piloting the Gluttony mecha, rushed out of the Black Tooth and approached Zhao Wushuang's fleet on the right.

Inside the Gluttony mecha's biological cabin.

Holographic images of Zhao Wushuang, Xiao Wen, Chen Shan, Mo Bake, Sun Duo Xiang, and others were all linked in.

For this exploration operation, the Lin family's exploration team and the Ye family's exploration team were free to move around, and the rest followed Su Mo.

Su Mo coughed slightly, feeling a little nervous. This was his first time officially commanding a large-scale group mission.

To be honest, Su Mo really felt a bit of pressure.

Then Su Mo officially said, "I'll briefly explain the operation matters, the exploration tasks, and the most important things to pay attention to. First of all, if you discover any abnormal situations or unearth special resources, you must report them unconditionally as soon as possible. This is an iron rule. Anyone who violates this rule will be sanctioned. Also, don't have any wishful thinking about hiding anything. The Black and White Organization has sent special inspectors to patrol all exploration teams."

"Understood!"

Everyone responded.

"Okay, enough said, everyone follow me!"

After explaining the matters, Su Mo controlled the Gluttony mecha to take the lead and fly towards the stars ahead.

"Oye! It's starting."

Sun Duo Xiang shouted excitedly.

"I said, is it necessary to be so excited? It's just the beginning, stay calm. As a follower, how can we lose Lord Su Mo's face?"

Mo Bake began to lick Su Mo in reverse again.

Sun Duo Xiang said with a contemptuous expression, "Of course I'm excited, the boss got the intelligence coordinates from Lord Spader, others are going to search for resources, we're going to dig for resources, we'll have something to eat right from the start, how can I not be excited?"

"Really?"

Chen Shan and the others also looked surprised.

"More or less, everyone, speed up."

Su Mo replied calmly.

Hearing Su Mo's words, Mo Bake said with incomparable excitement, "Lord Su Mo, you are indeed sent by God to save us, I love you to death."

"Get lost, hurry up and follow."

Su Mo was too lazy to complain.

"Okay!"

.....

Two days later, Su Mo, piloting the Gluttony mecha, followed the designated coordinates given by Spader and found a small brown asteroid. This asteroid was small in size, less than one-tenth of a standard planet.

However, its atmospheric climate was extremely bad, with rampant winds blowing from time to time.

Fortunately, there were no catastrophic weather events.

Moreover, after initial exploration by scanning devices, no life forms were found on this planet.

"Su Mo, is this the place?"

Xiao Wen asked.

"Yes, this is the place. I'll share the specific information with you. Everyone, move quickly and prepare to land."

Su Mo observed and said.

"Understood!"

Zhao Wushuang replied steadily.

Soon, transport ships and escort ships broke through the bad atmosphere, and then the brown earth came into everyone's eyes.

"So many pits."

Sun Duo Xiang said in surprise.

At a glance, the earth in their eyes was densely covered with at least a hundred or so deep pits. Obviously, this place had already been mined.

But even so, Sun Duo Xiang and the others were still very excited.

Although it had been mined, it at least proved that this point was real and effective, and the Yanass Kingdom people definitely hadn't finished mining it.

"Next, I'll leave it to you. Everyone, pay attention to safety."

Seeing these deep pits, Su Mo breathed a slight sigh of relief. It was good that he hadn't made a wasted trip. He knew that they had been heading straight for the coordinates point all the way, without stopping at all.

In addition, there was something called specialization in one's field. Su Mo was still very experienced in combat. But in terms of mining and exploring resources, he still had to let them play freely. After all, professional matters should be left to professionals.

"Understood!"

Zhao Wushuang and others responded.

Soon after, all the ships landed smoothly on the open ground, and then the rear cargo holds opened, and engineering vehicles were unloaded from them in an orderly manner.

At the same time, specially modified Iron Guards were also released.

These Iron Guards did not retain any weapons. Instead, they were equipped with many exploration devices and multifunctional work tools.

They transported professional mining equipment to the center of different deep pits for installation and debugging.

They tested the remaining resource reserves.

Some Iron Guard mecha carried work tool bags and spread out in different directions. They were going to conduct a second exploration of other areas of this planet to confirm whether there were any overlooked resources.

"Hurry up, move faster."

....

Zhao Wushuang, Xiao Wen, and others directed in an orderly manner.

Everyone moved, and everyone was full of energy.

On the other hand, Su Mo became idle. He leaned back in his driver's seat, crossed his legs forward, stretched, and prepared to rest for a while.

In the absence of GT department task scheduling, his responsibilities were still very simple, which was to ensure operational safety. As for other things, he shouldn't get involved.

Sometimes being a commander was indeed quite enjoyable.

Two days later, Su Mo was leisurely lying down and listening to music.

Suddenly, Zhao Wushuang's holographic image popped up in the center and enlarged.

"Officer Su Mo."

"General Zhao Wushuang, what's the matter?"

Su Mo asked with a slight frown, looking at Zhao Wushuang's serious expression.

"We conducted resource remaining reserve tests on those deep pits, and the results are not ideal. There are resource residues in each mine pit, but the content is a bit low, like sugar cane, the sweetest part has been gnawed off."

Zhao Wushuang explained.

"Is this the case for every mine pit?"

"Yes, and not only that, we found that the grade of mineral resources extracted here is also a bit low. Basically, they are mainly Grade 1 ore, a small part is Grade 2 ore, and only a very small part is Grade 3 ore."

Zhao Wushuang said with a frown.

Su Mo took a deep breath and asked, "What about the teams that went out to explore?"

"The information temporarily returned is that there are no gains, which means that apart from the coordinates you provided that clearly have resources, no resources have been found in other areas for the time being."

Zhao Wushuang explained to Su Mo.

After hearing this, Su Mo also felt a bit of a headache. His original good mood suddenly disappeared. He asked,

"According to what you said, is it not cost-effective to mine resources here?"

"Not really, although some resources are very poor, there is still some soup to drink. It is still possible to get a decent income if you mine well. It's just that there will be a big gap with the expected results. I personally feel that it is still necessary to mine, but you can't have too high expectations. In addition, during this period of mining, you can see how the income of other regional exploration teams is. If their income is high, we can just abandon this place."

Zhao Wushuang was actually giving Su Mo a heads up.

"Okay, I understand."

Su Mo nodded in response.

Zhao Wushuang saluted Su Mo and hung up the communication.

Su Mo touched his forehead, feeling a bit of a headache. He didn't expect that Spader's reward would turn out to be such an embarrassing thing.

He suddenly felt a little tangled.

Should he report the situation here to Spader?

But after thinking about it carefully, Su Mo thought it was better not to.

But if he didn't say anything, he felt like he was suffering in silence.

Suddenly, he remembered a sentence Spader said: "The Kativalo Starry Sky is extremely short of resources."

His expression suddenly became a little unnatural, so he asked the Artificial Creator Devourer in a low voice.

"Little Devourer, on the way to this coordinate, did you find any planets with slightly better resources?"

"Wasted stars!"

The Artificial Creator Devourer replied abruptly.

Su Mo stopped talking after hearing this.

At this time, Sun Duo Xiang's communication connected, and he started crying and said, "Boss, this point is not fertile, I searched for a long time and found nothing, it's not as good as when I was collecting garbage."

"If it's not fertile, you still have to dig."

Su Mo said with a headache.

"Okay."

Hearing Su Mo say this, Sun Duo Xiang could only shut his mouth and hang up the communication.

Su Mo stretched and yawned a few times.

He was going to find it himself later.

Just then, Su Mo's cell phone suddenly vibrated.

Su Mo was slightly stunned, what's going on? He wasn't on the ship right now, why would his cell phone vibrate?

Moreover, in the next second, a prompt popped up on the Gluttony mecha's operating interface.

"Prompt, a new signal source has been received."

Su Mo was slightly stunned, then he took out his cell phone, only to see that his cell phone had received a so-called official message.

He subconsciously clicked on the message.

"Dear Star Ring Summoner, we are honored to inform you that the signal source of the Star Ring City has been fully deployed, and will cover the following star fields in all directions without dead ends: the Goruk Star Field, the Cecilith Star Field, the Dunkye Starry Sky, the Tikavalo Starry Sky, the Gray Scorpion Star Field... a total of one hundred and seventy-two star fields, and a new forum, the Star Ring Official Forum, will be reopened at that time."

Seeing this prompt, Su Mo was dumbfounded, could this work?

At this time, Su Mo's communication channel exploded.

"Boss, boss, did you receive the message? The Star Ring Official Forum has been opened? The signal of the Star Ring City has covered here, it's just too awesome."

Sun Duo Xiang shouted excitedly.

"It's true, I just used the system on the mecha to do a search, and then I verified my identity, and I really logged into my old account."

Mo Bake said with great joy.

....

"Quiet, let me study it."

Su Mo's mind was also a little chaotic.

So Su Mo tried to operate on his cell phone, and as a result, he found that he really successfully logged into the Star Ring Forum.

The entire Star Ring Forum was super lively, and more than 10,000 posts had been刷屏 just after it was opened.

Among them, there was a very eye-catching one.

"The bastards of the Gomotos Empire are extremely shameless, they actually attacked our exploration ships and kidnapped our people. This matter is not over, don't let the Yamak Free State catch a chance, we will definitely peel your skin."

......

Su Mo clicked in to take a look, and there were a lot of replies below.

Most of them were unanimous support.

But occasionally a few replies with a lot of hostility would pop up.

"A bunch of trash, only worthy of being our slaves. If it wasn't for the rules of the Star Ring City, we would have taken your home planet long ago. We are waiting for you in the starry sky."

"The weak are prey to the strong, those who obey us live, those who oppose us die."

....

Su Mo flipped through the forum and found that at least one-third of the posts were complaining about those highly aggressive civilizations, and many people had been attacked.

Especially this Gomotos Empire was the most complained about.

Many posts also included evidence and photos.

You could see Gomotos soldiers fully armed, wearing heavy mechanical armor, and holding light beam guns, capturing a large number of people.

Su Mo carefully watched the soldiers of the Gomotos Empire. Just their physique alone made people feel intimidated, they were too strong.

You should know that these were just the most basic soldiers, not any particularly top-level combat power. The soldiers of this empire were really brave and good at fighting.

Su Mo closed the post and continued browsing. He also found a lot of interesting posts.

Someone was actually晒ing their selfie while mining a high-level mining area, with multifunctional mechanical machines working behind them.

High-level ores were being dug out.

Replies kept popping up.

"Brother, where are you making a fortune, take us with you."

"Yeah."

....

Su Mo shook his head, the person who posted this was either too arrogant or was fishing.

He continued browsing other posts, and then he found a complaining post.

"What the hell, you have to pay star coins to post, isn't this robbery?"

Su Mo was slightly stunned, so this forum wasn't completely free, he clicked in to take a look.

As a result, a bunch of people complained.

"Brother, it's not scary that it costs money to post, what's scary is that you can only reply to one sentence on the forum for free every day, and if you want to say more, you have to pay, and it's still a cumulative stacking mechanism. That is to say, the first sentence costs 1 star coin, the second sentence costs 10 star coins, and the third sentence costs 100 star coins. Whoever dares to stand on the forum and say 10 paid sentences in a row, I'll call him dad! Damn, this forum is just for sucking money."

"These days, even if you want to be someone's son, they won't accept it."

.....

More than an hour later, Su Mo had a rough understanding of the situation. This forum was not completely free.

The Star Ring City wasn't doing charity, it was going to charge money, but that was normal, after all, its coverage was so wide and the signal was so good!

If it didn't charge money, when everyone was exploring resources in this signal coverage area, they might use the forum as a communication tool, that wouldn't be薅 wool.

Appropriate charging would prevent this situation, after all, star coins were really hard to earn.

Another point was that the situation was really a bit chaotic now.

Judging from the complaints of many people, some civilizations were starting to become very restless just after they started developing.

They were robbing others everywhere.

Just as Su Mo was thinking, a command popped up on the virtual interface of the Gluttony mecha.

"Emergency notice, due to the sudden opening of the Star Ring Forum, which has caused uncontrollable risks, Lord Spader has officially issued an order to strictly prohibit anyone from posting sensitive posts and replies on the forum, in order to prevent the accidental leakage of their own information, so as not to be targeted. Those who violate this will be severely punished."

Su Mo felt that this information was a bit tricky, Spader's worries were not unreasonable.

If they were carrying out some secret mission, and then someone suddenly leaked the secret, then things would really be troublesome.

So Su Mo entered a command on the virtual operating interface, linking into the communication channels of all the workers.

He said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I'm Su Mo, I'm temporarily notifying you of something. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the exploration operation and avoid unnecessary troubles. It has now been temporarily decided that everyone is strictly prohibited from making any remarks and posts on the Star Ring Forum during the operation period, please supervise each other."

"Yes!"

Zhao Wushuang and others immediately responded. Everyone was not stupid, and naturally understood the key points.

Not to mention anything else, Su Mo and the others were able to run into the people of the Yanass Kingdom in the Kativalo Starry Sky, and there might be other civilizations' fleets nearby.

If other civilization fleets noticed that they were nearby, they would really be attacked.

After all, not everyone in this world is willing to mine resources honestly, some people just think that robbing directly is faster.

.....

Inside the command room of the Black Tooth, Spader looked at the Star Ring Forum with a gloomy expression.

At this time, Aubry reported to Spader: "The order has been issued to all the workers through various transit ships, and they should have basically received it."

"Okay, well done."

Spader replied in a deep voice.

"But Lord Spader, is this really effective? I feel that after the forum is opened, our situation will become more passive."

Aubry said hesitantly.

"Survival of the fittest, the forum is a double-edged sword, if you use it well, you can earn a lot of money, if you don't use it well, you will be slaughtered. Let's not talk about these, did the teams that went out to explore give the first round of information feedback?"

"The feedback has come back, it's ten thousand times worse than expected. The team that went out explored more than three hundred and twenty planets of different sizes, it would be fine if they didn't find good resources, but the problem is that most of them are wasted stars. There are also very few who found Level 1 resource stars, which is not a good sign."

Aubry said with some worry.

"Are there any special circumstances other than that?"

Spader asked calmly.

"No abnormalities have been found for the time being."

"Then continue to explore, the operation task has just begun, don't say anything discouraging."

Spader said calmly, he didn't care at all whether the people who went out to explore found resources or not, he knew how poor this side was. Now he just wanted to find the abnormal area and see if he could dig out the Titan ruins.

"Understood."

Aubry responded immediately.

.....

Half a month later, Su Mo, piloting the Gluttony mecha, quickly passed through the atmosphere and fell from the sky, landing gracefully on the ground.

Inside the cockpit, Su Mo twisted his head and moved his neck.

He breathed a sigh of relief, he had just explored the western area of this planet and still had no gains.

Su Mo took out a nutrient bar from the side, bit it open, lay down on the driver's seat, and then opened the Star Ring Forum.

Ever since this forum was opened, Su Mo would browse it whenever he was free to obtain first-hand information.

Although everyone on the forum was very restrained when speaking, there were still a lot of people posting.

From time to time, heavyweight posts would appear.

For example, a man with an ID called Mallock, from an unknown civilization, posted a trading post, openly selling weapons.

From first-generation mecha to third-generation mecha, they all had them.

In terms of ships, they also had levels 1 to 3.

The prices were not expensive, basically half the price of what the Star Ring City sold.

You could use resources and star coins to buy them.

And he claimed that these weapons were brand new, and the prices could be negotiated for large quantities.

Normally speaking, this was just a weapon dealer, nothing to care about. There were not a few thousand, but there were also hundreds of people on the Star Ring Forum who claimed to be advanced weapon dealers.

But those weapon dealers couldn't stand scrutiny. They were either scammers or二手贩子. They specialized in reselling the Star Ring City's weapons and scamming those suckers.

Or they were黑吃黑的.

But this man updated real-time transaction photos every day.

Every day, you could see people buying weapons in large quantities. Although the faces of the people who bought them were mosaicked, judging from their physiques and clothing, it could basically be confirmed that the people who bought them were from different civilizations.

This guy was very likely a real weapon dealer, and the kind that produced them himself.

There was another post that Su Mo was very concerned about.

This post was dedicated to selling information. It was written very clearly that as long as the price paid was high enough, any information could be provided.

A lot of people replied to buy, which looked very tempting.

But this wasn't the most important thing, the most important thing was that this post was also buying information at high prices.

This wasn't a good thing, if someone was short of money, and they sold their country's information in a moment of熱, it would be funny.

Su Mo narrowed his eyes, he felt that this world might really become lively. Although everyone was cannon fodder, maybe the cannon fodder would usher in spring.

At this time, Zhao Wushuang's communication image connected.

"Officer Su Mo."

"What's the matter?"

Su Mo asked.

"The remaining mineral veins here have been steadily mined, and the ore output is very stable at present. But the only pity is that other exploration teams have not found resources in other locations on this planet."

Zhao Wushuang reported routinely.

After hearing this, Su Mo stretched and replied: "I know, okay, General Zhao Wushuang, I will leave this place entirely to you. I am going to explore the farther areas to see if there are any better points."

He wasn't surprised by this result at all. He hadn't been idle in the past ten days. He had searched nearby in the Gluttony mecha, and there was no income, so it wasn't easy to find new mining points.

"Okay!"

Zhao Wushuang nodded in response.

After Su Mo cut off the communication, he smiled and said to the Artificial Creator Devourer: "Next, it's up to you, we have to take exploration seriously."

"I know what to do, you don't need to remind me."

The Artificial Creator Devourer replied in a deep voice. Of course, the reason why it was so easy to talk was because it had tasted sweetness with Mina.

"Okay, then let's go to the depths of this starry sky."

Su Mo's eyes became serious, and he still had full confidence in the ability of the Artificial Creator Devourer.