Chapter 114
Before the aircraft Qi Heng was riding in landed, he saw this scene through the long-range camera equipment carried by the aircraft.
Apart from the fact that only one of the people working was a human, the scene looked pretty good.
Well, it doesn’t matter whether he is a human being or not. What matters is whether he can do the job.
The sound of the aircraft descending from above startled Lei. He looked over and saw the "doctor" getting off the aircraft.
Many thoughts raced through Lei's mind at once, and finally all his thoughts coalesced into one sentence: "You finally showed up again. I was wondering when you would send me the equipment—"
A week had passed since the last meeting with the doctor, which also meant that he had been firing up the furnace for a week. Apart from producing some rough metal ingots, there had been no progress on the main project.
The Doctor had only brought him some elements needed for steelmaking the last time he came. After the improved and perfected steelmaking method, the purity of the metal produced had reached the maximum value that could be achieved today.
Lei, his face covered in dust from a week's work, rushed forward and looked around the 'doctor'. He looked left and right, but didn't see what he wanted to see. Suddenly, a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"No, where's the equipment you promised? Could it be that it hasn't been delivered yet?"
"Don't worry." Compared to his eagerness to get the equipment, Qi Heng seemed very calm. He patted Lei's shoulder in a comforting manner and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Lei's mouth twitched: "No, it's not hard." Even if it was hard, he couldn't admit it wasn't.
Lei had never suffered such hardship since he was a child, but what could he do? Facing the "doctor", he could only smile and suppress his sadness.
"Well done, keep up the good work." As Qi Heng spoke, he walked to the place where the cooled metal ingots were piled, raised his hand and waved it, and directly put all the metal ingots into the repaired folding space.
He didn't care whether Lei was telling the truth or not, he cared about the result.
To be honest, Qi Heng hadn't expected Lei to produce results so quickly. Even though the purity of the steel ingots forged in the furnace wasn't as high as repeatedly tempered steel, it was still sufficient to be used as a consumable material in [Item Crafting].
After collecting these steel ingots and getting some gold, silver, copper, tin and other metals, Lei would have the machine he wanted.
The power of the [Item Production] function is entirely based on sufficient energy points. Therefore, as long as he has enough energy points, he can directly go through the system for the ore purification step.
Traditional methods of refining and purifying metal minerals take a long time and the purity is not high enough, so they can only be used to make some low-end technological items. High-end ones not only require the purity of common metals, but also special alloys made by combining different metals in different proportions.
With Tianyun Star's current level, it is basically hopeless to be self-sufficient. In the early stage, it can only rely on the system to provide assistance and industrialize some technologies first.
[One thousand five hundred kilograms of steel ingots have been stored in the metal area of the folding space storage area.]
[When you use the workshop attached to [Item Manufacturing], resources in the storage area will be consumed first.]
Not far away, Lei, who saw the pile of steel ingots disappear with his own eyes, widened his eyes.
——Is this space equipment?!
It's no wonder Lei was so surprised that he was speechless. After all, the prerequisite for making space equipment is that the maker must have the ability to confine and tear space, and the technology that can cause damage to space can only be possessed by a level five civilization at least.
A level four civilization, even one at the peak of level four, cannot master the technology that can tear space apart.
In addition, although a level five civilization can produce it, the cost of production is very high.
Therefore, space equipment is extremely precious in the interstellar society. People who own space equipment are either very rich or very powerful, or both.
Qi Heng turned around and saw Lei looking dazed. His eyebrows raised slightly.
"I have a use for these steel ingots..."
Before he could finish his words, Lei came running up to him as if waking from a dream, swallowed his saliva, and said nervously, "Did you use the space equipment just now?"
As Lei spoke, he looked at him, trying to find anything on him that looked like space equipment.
“…”
So this is what you were curious about, but unfortunately I guessed wrong, what I was using was not space equipment.
Qi Heng thought about it, but he definitely couldn't say that.
"Why, interested?" he asked.
"Yeah, yeah." Lei couldn't help but nod repeatedly, saying with a look of longing, "That's space equipment. I've never seen the real thing in my life. It would be great if I could just take a look at it."
Qi Heng felt amused and noticed Lei's suggestive glances at him repeatedly. He casually stroked his little finger and turned the black ring that had appeared at the base of his finger.
"Work hard, and you can have it in the future too."
Lei stared at his hand without blinking, wondering, was there this ring just now?
That's not important. What's important is, is this space equipment?! It looks so cool.
"Really? Can I have one too?" Lei suppressed his excitement and wanted to jump up. If he could have a space equipment, maybe he could take a look at the structure inside. It was exciting just thinking about it.
——A small corner of a steel ingot in the folded space was cut off, and it was quickly shaped into a ring by the power of the system. After being painted black, it became the space equipment in Lei's eyes.
After fooling Lei Yi, Qi Heng put down his hand and said seriously, "Of course."
"The points and performance points earned from completing tasks assigned by the organization can be used to redeem items. High-level items include space equipment."
Lei, who had memorized the exchange chart early in the morning, thought for a moment and asked, "Why didn't I see it?"
"Your level is too low to see the full redemption list."
Qi Heng encouraged him, saying, "As long as you complete the tasks assigned to you well, contribute to the organization and strive to improve your rank, you will be able to see the redemption page sooner or later."
"So that's how it is."
"I understand. I will work hard for the space equipment. No, cough cough, I mainly want to contribute to the organization." The emergence of space equipment made Lei completely change sides.
...You can't blame him for betraying his own civilization. It's mainly because the space equipment is too good, and Gray Mist gave him too much.
It's the interstellar age now, so how can working for a boss from an alien civilization be considered betrayal? At most, it's just job hopping.
Yes, that’s right, job hopping.
Qi Heng looked at Lei, who looked like he had just been brainwashed and was full of energy, and felt that he really had to make big promises from time to time.
This is a good thing. It is better for employees to work enthusiastically and spontaneously than to be forced to do their job.
He thought to himself, then changed direction and went down from the underground entrance next to him into the mine cave under the ground.
After going down into the mine, Qi Heng saw that the mine was more than ten times wider than it was ten days ago, and there were mountains of various ores.
He walked over and collected everything into the folded space without leaving a single one.
[A0, can the current amount of ore and energy points be used to manufacture all the QW-1 modules?] Qi Heng did not leave immediately, but communicated with A0 in his mind.
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