When the sticky spider web trapped the last enemy on the assault ship who was stubbornly resisting, and the "smart man" Sanggu lost all his strength after his useless rage, sat on the ground and doubted life blankly, when the Nightmare

It became the nightmare of its former owner, and the fierce battle came to an end... The white-haired captain of the Unicorn was still slowly "hunting for treasure" underground.

He did not know that Sanggu had issued an order to blow up the entire base, nor did he know that in the chaos, after the first two attacks were blocked by the extraordinarily strong shields that the pirates had set up in the ammunition depot,

, this order was never implemented again - the Nightmare had to make every effort to deal with the crisis it encountered.

The captain's calmness is due to his complete trust in himself and his companions who have made various preparations, in addition to the elusive "luck".

Even in the worst case scenario, they could still escape, and judging from the various messages coming from the sound transmission stone, they had quickly gained the upper hand.

"I told you." Bertram stroked his beard, feeling proud.

Yisi didn't even bother to look back at him.

The lights in the mine were not cut off, Yis only destroyed the machine that he suspected could transmit their images and sounds to Sanggu.

A very small gadget, now in Bertram's pocket. Is felt that this guy was just like a rag picker - wouldn't he be able to get this thing after the battle is over? He had to give it up now

He didn't know whether they could use heavy weapons, a bunch of weird beam guns, and various other things that Bertram thought "should be useful", as well as those stone men who rolled all over the ground with a kick.

Stuff it all into his "garden"?!

It made sense to use it to store books before. If Yanakga knew that the quiet and beautiful little world he created for his family of three to live in seclusion had turned into a garbage dump, he would probably be furious.

After reluctantly stuffing some things in, Is refused to take out his cane. Bertram had to find a bag to put it in himself, looking more and more like a scavenger wandering the streets.

What he installed was not only various machines, but also various stones brought to him by small stone people who enthusiastically drilled around after knowing that they wanted "rock samples".

Fortunately, it's not big - they can't lift anything too heavy.

The egg-sized stone man was now sitting on his shoulder, clicking and commanding the more than twenty tribesmen who had not entered the "garden". Dada, who was useless in the battle, finally played his role at this moment.

If he hadn't been able to communicate with the Stone-Hearted People, they would probably have received countless "Stone-Hearted People's Favorite" crunchy stones with no value at all except "delicious", and they wouldn't know how to reject them.

At this moment, the little robot was proudly introducing to Bertram: "This is the ore that the people above want most."

He looked so majestic, as if he had dug out the dark stone himself.

Bertram bent down and thanked the Stone-Hearted Man who was holding the stone high, and picked up the fist-sized piece of ore. He couldn't see anything special about it for the moment.

Yis tilted his head and took a second look, then raised his hand to block the light shining on the ore.

In the dim light, the black stone shone with silvery light like fish scales.

"...Shadow Silver Tin?" Yis said, rarely unsure, "Take it back and show it to the dwarves."

Bertram still remembered this strange name - Ed Zinger had mentioned it in the meeting at Collins Temple, and even burned a small piece on the spot, compared it with the fragments of stars that fell from the sky, and told everyone

, many of the stars they saw when they looked up were actually just such stones.

Those false stars were left by the gods, and the magic circle they formed was a barrier to protect them, but in a sense, it was also a constraint.

But at this moment, Bertram couldn't think of that much. He only remembered one thing - this thing was rarer than fine gold.

"So," his eyes sparkled, "is this valuable?!"

Yisi was speechless for a moment.

In the first twenty years of his life, Bertram Green never worried about money. In the following ten years, although he had no money and did not care about it, in the last ten years, he felt the charm of money more and more strongly.

After all, his Unicorn was a bottomless pit of money. And the money burned by today's victory was countless.

"You can occupy this mine." Is said.

Bertram was very moved, but in the end he sighed and shook his head.

"I'm afraid not," he said.

He wanted to show off the power of the Unicorn, but he didn't want to attract more enemies. Taking away other people's wealth on other people's territory would undoubtedly become the target of public criticism.

Of course, they are not without any ambitions and desires, but now... is not the time, and it cannot be done in this way.

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When they returned to the ground, the battle was completely over. The Unicorn was unscathed, and one of the boat's wings was broken. The most seriously injured crew member was hit by debris in the explosion on the ground, and one of his legs was almost completely severed.

, fortunately, the chaplain accompanying the team was nearby, and he was treated immediately, so there was no serious problem.

"Our armor's defense against normal attacks is still a bit poor." Terry told Bertram, "Also, the attack power of the boat is so poor that it can almost only serve as a lure for the enemy in such a battle.

We need more different types of boats; and..."

He quickly listed a bunch of their shortcomings - this victory did not make him show much joy and pride, but made him more anxious.

Bertram realized that something was wrong with him, but now he didn't have much time to find out.

He had a lot to deal with, and Terry left quickly.

They need to learn everything they can get as quickly as possible in a short period of time... and get as much Shadow Silver Tin as possible.

The little robot Dada gave them another surprise. It was indeed a maintenance robot that could not fight and could not even walk very fast, but it had an interface that could be connected to an information terminal and copy a large number of their data in a short period of time.

Required materials and information.

The people who restored it before actually didn't know much about many things, and they didn't know what many of the parts were for, but they very carefully connected all the broken wires, and actually restored many of its uses.

The model of the robot itself is already ancient, but although some technologies have improved over hundreds of years, their principles have not changed much.

Bertram felt a little strange. Robots should be the most suitable for "mining" work, but there were various machines in this mine, but no robots.

"Because it is said that an important reason for the split of the Brittan Empire decades ago was the robot uprising." Corso answered his question, "The three empires and two alliances that are now split are composed of robots.

Domination. Any type of robot will be easily controlled by them, so many people outside the influence of the 'Freedom' dare not use it anymore."

He even glanced at Dada secretly, trying to hint to Bertram with his eyes that it was untrustworthy, but Bertram just smiled cryptically.

Dada does have a robot body... but the soul that controls it is not the intelligence of a robot. A real body is larger than many smaller planets, a strange creature that can create an entire world of illusions, even with power

It has been weakened a lot and is not so easy to control.

What's more, Dada is completely devoted to Nana.

They took the time to be busy, and the person Bertram was looking forward to did not keep him waiting too long.

Within a few days, the base of another force closest to this base sent them a message.

"We don't mean any harm." On the light screen, a woman with green skin and hair that can snake like a snake is smiling. "We just want to visit our new neighbors."

"I'm afraid we are just temporary visitors," Bertram showed the same appropriate smile, "but we are also happy to entertain distinguished guests... In fact, we intend to hold a dinner party to inform everyone on this planet of the disturbances of the past few days.

I apologize and hope to explain clearly to everyone that this is really not a fight we intended to cause...but we are not familiar with this place, so I wonder if you can contact us on our behalf?"

Morana, the officer from the Manning Empire, looked at the white-haired man opposite with interest and nodded cheerfully.

"Of course," she replied, "it's my pleasure."

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There are more than a hundred mines, large and small, on Papori III, which belong to seven different forces. In fact, these seven major forces belong to the Manning Empire, the Gadelite Empire and the Star Circle Alliance.

Among the three empires and two alliances after the split of the Brittan Empire that once ruled this star field, the New Brittan, which inherited the name of the original empire, and the Free Alliance, ruled by robots, have their spheres of influence too far away from here.

It was far away and could not reach out its tentacles.

There are two more mines like "Smart Man" Sanggu's, which are nominally private investments but are actually supported by a certain force, the government or the chamber of commerce, and the remaining four, three of which belong to the government.

Add a mining research institute called "Non-Governmental Organization Union" with the purpose of "scientific research".

Perfect balance - a balance that Bertram had no intention of breaking.

Fishing in troubled waters seems easy but is actually dangerous. As an outsider, the Unicorn does not want to cause a star field that has temporarily maintained a rough balance in such a balance to fall into melee faster because of its appearance.

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Chapter completed!