The first thing Chen Ming does after waking up.

It is to empty the temporary storage space of the smelting furnace in the crowded working chamber so that it can continue to work.

Although the smelting furnace will automatically discharge the metal ingots inside when the space is full.

But it was obvious that the metal ingots piled on the floor at the storage space exit had blocked the opening for discharging the metal ingots.

After spending some time to sort out the pile of messy metal ingots, Chen Ming returned to the living cabin to wash up and regain his spirits.

I returned to the storage cabin and took stock of what I had gained during my rest time.

Overnight, the weight of iron ingots in the storage room reached 419.5 kg, followed by copper and tin, 51.4 kg and 43.3 kg, and then the aluminum that Chen Ming needed most, 11.5 kg.

In addition, there are some scattered metal ore products, the weight of which basically ranges from a few hundred grams to a few kilograms.

However, what caught Chen Ming's attention the most was actually the dozen grams of gold.

Such results made Chen Ming nod slightly.

It takes about an hour to collect an asteroid.

If you take into account the energy consumed during the flight after a night of rest, I was able to gain so much, which was beyond my expectation.

Although iron, the most collected substance, is not valuable, the quantity of other metal minerals is actually not too small.

At this efficiency, even if we only operate around the mining space station, we should be able to gather all the materials needed to repair the landing module in about ten days.

What's more, the spacecraft's computer will be able to obtain the planet's orbital data and the space station's revolution data around the planet this afternoon.

This means that Chen Ming no longer needs to have the spacecraft follow the space station to lock the location of the space station.

After that, we can go deeper into the asteroid ring to find the minerals that Chen Ming needs most.

In this way, the efficiency of obtaining minerals will inevitably be higher, and the time to start repairing the landing module will be advanced.

But Chen Ming also needs to be careful afterwards.

The probability of obtaining asteroids with high mineral content in the asteroid ring far away from the space station will increase, but correspondingly, the number of asteroids themselves will also increase.

This means that the spacecraft may collide with an asteroid after flying two steps, and the spacecraft's weapon guidance system needs to lock onto the asteroid and smash it in advance.

Some broken stones will only tickle the armor of the spacecraft as long as they are not moving too fast.

But to be honest, Chen Ming feels that this guidance system is a bit unreliable.

The spacecraft's operating manual states that the spacecraft's weapon guidance system uses a dynamic object scanning program to scan image signals to lock onto the asteroid.

This means that errors may occur during the image scanning process, and some asteroids may be missed.

This requires Chen Ming to pay more attention to it.

So Chen Ming chose to open the panel of the spacecraft armor and pressed the repair button.

After a moment of mental exhaustion, the metal ingot melted into a liquid with a metallic luster, seeping out of the hull. Just by flowing through it, the armor could be restored to its original state.

The large pieces of armor once again exuded a thick color, and even though Chen Ming had seen it twice, he still found it somewhat unbelievable.

Of course, Chen Ming did not repair all the damage to the spacecraft's armor at once, as that would have been too much for him mentally.

So he simply restored the durability of all the armor on the spacecraft to more than 70%, so that it could at least withstand a few asteroid impacts.

If the armor durability is reduced to a dangerous level, it is enough to have the ability to withdraw from the asteroid belt.

Chen Ming spent the rest of the morning flipping through the e-books in the two terminals.

I took a short break at noon to recharge my batteries.

Chen Ming, who was feeling a little sleepy due to his nap, suddenly became more energetic.

Sitting back in the captain's seat, the image of the camera connected to the two 22mm caliber machine guns appeared in the center of his sight.

The surrounding area is covered with everything that all the external cameras on the spacecraft see, and all directions outside the spacecraft can be seen without blind spots.

Chen Ming really couldn't think of any way to solve the guidance system error in the whole morning except repairing the armor so that the spacecraft could withstand more asteroid impacts.

So in the end, this is the only thing I can do, control the flight of the spacecraft by myself and assist in the control of the weapon guidance system.

You can make up for the asteroids that the computer missed, and the computer can make up for the ones it missed.

If neither you nor your computer sees it, there is nothing you can do.

The spacecraft can withstand a few hits.

Chen Ming moved around a bit in the chair and became familiar with the overall control of the spacecraft.

Even if he had to concentrate on operating the two turrets, he still had to control the movement of the spacecraft itself and pay attention to all the cameras on the outside of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming did not feel awkward or flustered at all.

It was as if he was the brain of the spacecraft and all the equipment on the spacecraft were his organs, and he could use them as easily as his own arms.

Dividing one's mind is nothing compared to what Chen Ming is doing now.

Chen Ming enjoyed the feeling of being in control of everything on the spacecraft, and then started the scanner.

At a certain distance from the space station, we found an area of ​​medium-density asteroid rings.

After all, it was the first time to actually control the spacecraft and weapons to enter a dangerous place, so Chen Ming felt it was better to be safe.

Once you have gained experience and become proficient in controlling the spacecraft, you can go to more dangerous places with more asteroids to collect minerals.

After a period of flying.

The spacecraft entered the area in front of the spacecraft from the side close to the space station, where the number of asteroids scanned in advance was moderate.

The minerals inside the asteroid are scanned through the asteroid scanning detector's fine scanning function.

Soon, the scanner found an asteroid that looked ordinary in appearance, but the scan results showed that it had a very high aluminum content inside.

Chen Ming immediately moved the spacecraft closer.

On the way closer, Chen Ming controlled the two machine guns to fire from time to time, smashing the asteroids that were about to hit the spacecraft.

With the help of the guidance system, this task was relatively easy for Chen Ming.

At the same time, the automated system of the working cabin was executing and soon captured the asteroid that had entered the traction range.

Although the working cabin can work under Chen Ming's conscious control, a working cabin will not bring any burden to Chen Ming in controlling the operation of the spacecraft.

However, Chen Ming still chose to let the computer control this part of the function, and he focused all his attention on the spacecraft driving and weapon system to prevent the spacecraft from being hit by the dense meteorites and asteroids here.

After all, if you do one thing for a long time, your concentration may be distracted, not to mention doing two things at the same time that require a long time to be done without any mistakes.

Chen Ming also chose the safest approach in this regard.

The purpose is to ensure that the previous plans can proceed smoothly and step by step.

(End of this chapter)