Cosmic Trading System

Three minutes later, Lin Yun and his party arrived at the destination.

"Is it really gold everywhere?"

Lin Yun looked at the yellow metal scattered all around and took a sharp breath.

"Start the exploration!"

The next moment, Lin Yun released the Little Lion Detector.

"Beep Beep——"

In a matter of seconds due to the small area, the results came out.

"Barely three to five parts in ten thousand of it is gold..."

However, looking at the results, Lin Yun remained speechless.

Considering the surface of this small celestial body was all gold, he had assumed at least over half of it would be gold. The density might be a bit less, that was all.

To his surprise, only three to five parts in ten thousand of the entire celestial body was gold.

That was a huge difference.

"Begin the collection."

However, given the circumstances, sulking wouldn't help. Lin Yun could only start collecting the resources with his equipment while carefully going over the other data.

Such a large chunk of a celestial body, with gold content as much as three to five in ten thousand, wasn't so scarce perhaps. There might be other associated resources too.

Gold was a rare resource. Any resources associated with it would not differ by much in value. Some might even be worth more than gold.

Tightly packed, there were hundreds of types of resources. Upon carefully inspecting everything, Lin Yun discovered a number of valuable associate resources.

"There are even resources like Qi in such quantities, excellent..."

Lin Yun exclaimed in surprise.

Qi, a rare metal in the universe, was a key material for developing high-end spacecraft and warships. Its value was higher than gold. The price on the Cosmic Trading System was approximately a hundred times that of gold. Based on the readings, the Qi within this celestial body would likely range between five hundred tons and one thousand tons.

The price of a ton of gold was about one hundred Spirit Crystals.

The price of a ton of Qi was around ten thousand Spirit Crystals.

This meant that these Qi resources had a value between five million and ten million Spirit Crystals.

This yield alone far surpassed the cost of Spirit Crystals expended in their operation.

However, the biggest reward was the gold.

Based on the data, the gold within this celestial body would be between one million tons and one and a half million tons.

This was a terrifying amount in its own right...

However, in comparison to the tens of millions of tons, or even potentially more than a billion tons that Lin Yun had initially expected, it fell short.

If the amount reached ten billion tons, that would equate to an astronomical sum of a trillion Spirit Crystals.

That would indeed be striking it rich.

What a pity that it was only a little over a million tons...

Converted into Spirit Crystals, it would amount to over a billion Spirit Crystals. A massive gain nonetheless.

One should not be too greedy.

Lin Yun comforted himself in this way.

The efficiency of the two powerful extraction tools was fast. In just a matter of minutes, they had gathered all the resources of this small celestial object.

"1.37 million tons of gold, 970 tons of Qi, 151.9 million tons in total... with a total value between 157 million and 181 million Spirit Crystals..."

Looking at the final figures, Lin Yun got quite excited.

His fortune had just hit a hundred million!

Ha-ha!

He would be considered well-off among countless Cosmic Trading System owners!

He had truly struck it wealthy all of a sudden!

He didn't even consider 181 million Spirit Crystals, but even if it was 157 million Spirit Crystals...

Lin Yun knew that making the highest price was a tough sell.

How should he spend so many Spirit Crystals?

Should he buy a robot with the power of a grade eight Cultivator?

Such an idea popped up in Lin Yun's mind.

He had already seen the power of Star One.

It was impressive...

If he purchased a robot with the power of a grade eight Cultivator, how strong would it be?

If the unidentified civilization was indeed just a stage four civilization, then having a robot with the power of a level eight Cultivator, he would not fear an invasion by them.

He had checked the introduction on the Cosmic Trading System.

A robot with the strength of a grade eight Cultivator far exceeded the power of a battleship from a typical stage four technological civilization. The two sides' exchange of fire, a robot with the strength of a level eight Cultivator, could easily knock down a battleship from a stage four technological civilization!

"That's the plan. I will sell part of these resources first, and when I have bought enough Spirit Crystals, I will buy a robot with the power of a grade eight Cultivator!"

Very quickly, Lin Yun made this decision.

Since the arrival of the unidentified civilization was unknown, it was better to strengthen his own power first.

"We have been out for three days. It's time to go back."

Lin Yun looked in the direction of Earth and chuckled.

With the sudden acquisition of resources worth over 100 million, he was no longer in the mood to gather resources here bit by bit.

This experience gave him an idea. He thought he would return to research and see if there were any similar resource planets around. If he found another one with even denser rare resources, he would have struck it rich.

However, he couldn't just leave like this.

He had noticed something.

The earlier incident offered him an insight.

He had put himself into a dead-end.

He had been thinking that only a robot with the power of the Dazzling Star Realm could collect resources in space.

He had forgotten that if he used the space car, he could use ordinary robots to collect resources too.

A robot of the Dazzling Star Realm with the power to teleport might indeed be fast, but was it really necessary to be that quick?

If he used ordinary extracting equipment to gather resources from a small celestial body, the fastest it would take was a few minutes, or at most a few dozen minutes, a couple of hours, or even several dozen hours. That was quite normal.

So, was there a difference in travel time of a few dozen seconds compared to a few dozen minutes or an hour or two?

What was most critical was that the space car consumed very little energy, far less than the teleportation energy used by Star One. This way, almost every resource collected was a net gain.

"Master, it's best to let a robot with the strength of the Domain Realm do this job. Otherwise, in case of an accident, an ordinary robot wouldn't be able to handle it, and the space car and equipment onboard will easily be damaged..."

Upon hearing Lin Yun's words, Star One shook its head.

"Uh...true. I had forgotten about that." Lin Yun paused for a moment, then quickly laughed bitterly.

The space car and the extraction equipment on board were not cheap. No matter how many celestial objects they collected, it was doubtful they could gather that many resources. If they were lost, it would be a terrible waste.

While they were talking, Lin Yun had already started looking up such things on the Cosmic Trading System. Turns out Star One was right. Some Cosmic Trading System owners indeed did that. Moreover, many Cosmic Trading System owners took this matter very seriously.

That was because the Star Domains where they gathered resources, for the most part, weren't as abundant in resources as Lin Yun's Star Domain. If they lost a space car and some collection equipment, the loss would seem even greater.

At the same time, Lin Yun was extensively checking other ways to collect resources and considering their feasibility...

Amazingly, he managed to find another method.

It involved dispatching many ordinary space cars and ordinary robots to places likely to contain large amounts of resources. Once these robots reached their destinations, they would report back on the resource information from each place.

Afterward, they would select and go to the locations with the best resources to collect.

Because ordinary space cars and ordinary robots were inexpensive, it wasn't heart-breaking if they were lost.

However, this approach would be effective only in resource-rich Star Domains. If it were implemented in resource-poor spaces, it might waste a lot of resources for insignificant returns.

This Star Domain belonged to the resource-rich category. If he wanted to swiftly acquire a large number of resources, he could consider this approach.