Chapter 148 Companion Stone
The sooner the ore is found, the sooner the research on advanced mimicry mecha can begin. Going to the resource star is urgent. The two asked for leave from their respective class teachers and boarded the spaceship to the resource star early the next morning.
Three days later, the two arrived at the resource star. Without taking time to rest and adjust, they rented a local off-road mining vehicle and set off.
"At this speed, it will take two days to reach the place you mentioned." Yan Hao was holding a map in his hand. On the map, someone had marked the names of many minerals in black font, which were densely packed and almost covered half of the map. It was the map that Sheng Heng had hand-drawn after detecting with his mental power.
"Xiao Hao, go to the back and take a nap first. I'll drive by myself." Yan Hao had just got off the spaceship and his physical condition was not as good as his. Sheng Heng was afraid that he would be tired.
"I'm not sleepy yet." Yan Hao.
"Then go to the back and rest when you feel sleepy." Sheng Heng didn't force him.
"Okay." Yan Hao nodded, lowered his head and continued to look at the map, his eyes swept over every word written by Sheng Heng himself. Those words seemed to glow, lighting up one by one, lighting up his starry sky.
Yan Hao secretly glanced at Sheng Heng and saw that he was looking ahead intently. He carefully turned on the camera function of his computer, took a picture of the map in his hand, and sent it to He Shao.
A moment later, He Shao's message came back, his words full of excitement: [Oh my god, oh my god, Hao, you are the best to me. With this map, it will be a hundred times easier for me to go to Resource Star. Did the resident officer of Resource Star give it to you? ]
Yan Hao: [No, it was given to me by my senior.]
He Shao: [The guards of the Resource Star are from the God of War Legion? ]
Yan Hao: [No, this map was marked by the senior himself when he used his mental power to detect the earth veins when he came here last time.]
He Shao: [……]
He Shao: [I thought you gave me the map to help your classmates, but it turned out you were just showing off your affection? ]
Yan Hao couldn't help but bend his eyebrows when he saw the words "show affection", and glanced at Sheng Heng secretly. Seeing that he didn't look at this side, he continued typing: [He Shao, when senior came to Ziyuan Star last time, I hadn't confessed to him yet, but he helped me draw this map. Do you think he liked me at that time? ]
He Shao: [I’m in class.]
He Shao couldn't continue the conversation. Being fed dog food was already miserable enough, did he still need help collecting dog food?
Yan Hao did not bother He Shao any more. He looked out of the car, comparing it with the map in his hand from time to time. Every time he reached a place marked on the map, his eyes would light up and he would take a photo with his computer. At first, Sheng Heng did not feel anything unusual, until he passed the marked place on the map three times in a row, then Sheng Heng suddenly reacted. But he did not point it out, but his mood suddenly soared, as if the yellow sand outside the car had turned into spring rain, lingering and intoxicating.
In the evening of the next day, the car approached the destination. The two got out of the car and stood on a hill to look into the distance.
"That's where the phantom beast was first discovered." Sheng Heng pointed to a forest not far away.
"The phantom beast likes to devour spiritual power, and this kind of ore will also absorb spiritual power. These two can't be companions." Yan Hao suddenly came up with a bold guess.
"It's possible." Sheng Heng nodded in agreement. "At the time, I just wanted to explore whether there were any rare minerals nearby. When my mental power swept over that area, it was absorbed. But the intensity was not strong, so I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. In addition, the sudden appearance of the phantom beast made me completely forget about it. If my mental power had not been absorbed in the laboratory that day, I really wouldn't have remembered it."
"Let's go and dig it up." Yan Hao said and was about to run forward.
"Wait a moment, I'll explore first and find a place with lots of ore to dig." As he said that, Sheng Heng released his mental power, which was like an invisible net spreading towards that area.
Yan Hao could clearly sense the movement of Sheng Heng's mental power, and the more he sensed, the more frightened he became. Because, although they were both S-level mental powers, his mental power was not even a little bit weaker than Sheng Heng's. Even his mental power control, which he was proud of, he thought he could not be as exquisite as Sheng Heng. So when Sheng Heng finished exploring the surface and withdrew his mental power, he was met with Yan Hao's admiring and worshipful gaze.
"Senior, you are amazing." Yan Hao said sincerely, "We both have S-level mental power, but I am far inferior to you."
Which man in the world doesn't like to be praised by the person he likes? Sheng Heng raised his lips slightly and said with a smile: "Just practice more, I will teach you later."
"Yeah." Yan Hao really wanted to learn. According to his design, the main part of the advanced mimicry mecha would be made of this special ore that can absorb mental power. To make this ore into mecha parts, very strong mental power and control ability are required.
"I found a place with a high mineral content. Let's go dig."
The two came down the hillside and drove to the place where Sheng Heng had just sensed. This off-road vehicle itself has the function of mining. After determining the location, Sheng Heng switched the car to mining mode, and a long mechanical arm with an excavation device stretched out from under the car.
The ore was buried deep underground, and the two men had only one mining vehicle. They practiced digging deep for eight hours before revealing a patch of dark ore.
Sheng Heng jumped down from the cave holding Yan Hao. As soon as Yan Hao landed, he took out a test tool from his backpack and continuously tested the black model to collect data. Then he imported the collected data into the optical computer, performed deduction and calculation, and obtained the final value after the ore was purified. Then, he compared this set of values with the ore that Mr. Pang gave him to get the final matching degree.
Yan Hao calculated it three times in a row before the matching degree of the numbers reached 90%.
"90%, it seems that it is correct, it is this kind of ore." Sheng Heng was relieved, fortunately his perception was correct.
"But the purification rate is too low." Yan Hao was a little disappointed.
"One thousandth?" Sheng Heng also saw a number in the upper left corner of the screen at this time. A purification rate of one thousandth means that one thousand pieces of ore of the same size are needed to purify a piece of ore like the one that Mr. Pang gave to Yan Hao.
Sheng Heng roughly estimated all the ores he had just sensed in this area. If calculated based on a purification rate of one thousandth, this area of ore might only be able to make one arm of the mecha.
"Let's look for it again. If we can find this kind of mineral here, there must be some on other planets as well." Sheng Heng said.
"Even if it exists, how do we find it? And if it exists, why has no one discovered it in all these years?" Yan Hao was not as confident as Sheng Heng.
"It was actually accidental that I was able to find these minerals. If I hadn't used my mental power to explore the veins, I wouldn't have discovered this place. People didn't discover it before because they all used instruments to explore. There are more than a hundred resource stars in the Federation. I will explore them one by one, and I will definitely find them." Sheng Heng said.
Only high-level mental power can detect mineral veins from underground, and this matter is still kept secret from the outside world, and no one can be asked for help, so Sheng Heng has to go by himself.
"How long will it take?" Last time, Sheng Heng spent a week to explore less than a quarter of the resource planets. Adding the time for traveling back and forth between planets and the time for recovering mental strength, it would take at least ten years to complete the search for one hundred planets.
"If we can make an advanced mimicry mecha, it won't matter if we waste some time." Sheng Heng didn't care much.
"But even if I find all the materials, I'm not sure I can make it." Yan Hao said.
"I believe you can do it." Sheng Heng has a blind trust in Yan Hao, but he doesn't want to put too much pressure on Yan Hao. "It doesn't matter if you can't do it. Isn't scientific research the progress of generations? Just like you were inspired by Mr. Zhong to modify the Black Soul, your current research on the mimic mecha is an inspiration for the future. I believe that one day you will make a level 10 mimic mecha."
"Yeah." Yan Hao nodded heavily.
"Let's notify the base to come and mine first." Sheng Heng made a call to the base and asked them to come and mine the ore.
After the excavator from the base arrived, he let Yan Hao stay here alone to accompany the miners to dig, and he drove the Black Soul around the resource star again. It took him half a month to carefully explore other locations on the resource star, but unfortunately, no similar mineral veins were found.
The content of this special mineral vein is not large. The large excavator at the base only took three days to dig it out. When Sheng Heng returned to the base after the exploration, a small part of the ore had even been purified. The two did not wait until all the ore was purified on the resource planet before leaving. Instead, they only took a part of it back to the capital planet. The rest will be handed over to the federation after all the ore is purified, and then the federation will give it to Mr. Pang.
When Mr. Pang learned that the purification rate of the ore was only one thousandth and that the ore from the entire resource star could only make one mecha arm, he was a little disappointed. However, he quickly adjusted himself and tried to analyze the composition of the ore in order to make an instrument specifically for detecting this kind of ore. Unfortunately, after studying it with Yan Hao for a month, he could not find the special features of this ore.
"Is it really true that we can only use our mental power to find it?" They have tried various methods over the past month and found that if we don't use our mental power to sense this kind of ore, no matter what instrument we use, it will be displayed as waste ore. Moreover, even if we use our mental power to sense it, we must have a mental power of A+ or above to sense it.
"This ore is too picky. It's like a phantom beast." Old Pang couldn't help but complain.
"This piece of ore is in the activity area of the phantom beast. At that time, my senior and I even suspected that these ores might be the companion stones of the phantom beast." Yan Hao said.
"Wait." Pang Lao grasped the key words, "Did you just say companion stone?"
"This is just our guess, because this kind of ore happens to be found only in the area where the phantom beasts appear on the entire resource star." Yan Hao said.
"Your guess is very likely true." Pang Lao said, "After our testing over this period of time, we found that the characteristics of these ores are extremely similar to those of the phantom beasts."
"But wouldn't there be even less ore in this case?" Yan Hao said.
"Why?"
"Because the phantom beasts are almost extinct, the remaining ones are all in the Federal National Park. The national park has only been raising phantom beasts for less than two hundred years, so it is impossible for them to form minerals." Yan Hao said.
"The phantom beasts are almost extinct, but they are no longer found in the places where they once lived." said Mr. Pang.
Yan Hao was stunned for a moment, then shouted: "Yes, as long as we find the place where the phantom beast appeared hundreds of years ago, we may find this kind of ore, if it is really a companion stone. But how can we know the place where the phantom beast appeared before? The Federation has erased this part of information."
Because the Phantom Beasts are on the verge of extinction, the Federation has erased all information related to the Phantom Beasts in order to protect them, including the places where they once lived. Now, more than two hundred years have passed, and there are no records of the places where the Phantom Beasts once lived.
"The Federation has only kept this part of the secret and has not erased it." Pang Lao said, "You can call old man Zhong and ask him to ask the Federation for it."
Compared with Mr. Pang, Mr. Zhong, as the head of the Federal Research Institute, has a closer relationship with the Federation.
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