Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Brilliant finished speaking and sent a new batch of electronic books to the factory's control terminal, a few more compared to before.

Chen Ming glanced at the titles of these books, just as he had thought.

The vast majority were about weapons, and only a small part was about radiant energy systems.

Furthermore, Chen Ming casually flipped through them and found that the learning difficulty of all books had increased to a certain extent compared to the first batch.

It's clear that Dusk requires Chen Ming to specialize in the weaponry and radiant energy technologies of the Dusk Ship.

It's uncertain if Dusk would change plans upon realizing Chen Ming's learning efficiency.

After Brilliant granted Chen Ming permission to move around the planet and left.

Chen Ming finally had a chance to start preparing to do serious work.

However, before leaving, Brilliant also gave Chen Ming a map of the planet's mineral distribution.

This thing brought over has two meanings.

One is to follow Chen Ming's intent, allowing him to easily find mineral-dense areas on the planet for mining.

The other is to restrict Chen Ming's movement route on the planet indirectly.

Chen Ming claimed that mining was a way to relax, so if he wandered to areas unmarked on the map for no reason, it would definitely have ulterior motives.

If Chen Ming doesn't want Dusk to further restrict his freedom, then his spaceship must follow the mineral distribution route, with only minor deviations allowed.

That's a limitation he must endure.

After all, there will definitely be some Dusk entities on the planet.

The colony on the planet needs development and exploration, which requires units to go out for field investigations to determine the direction and possibilities for development.

Or like Gamma A once said, some Dusk entities have their own interests, such as exploring the planet among them.

So when Chen Ming flies his spacecraft out, he could potentially encounter them anywhere.

Even if Dusk gives orders to avoid Chen Ming, providing early warnings of his flight path, there will still be some Dusk entities that can't completely avoid his ship.

By limiting the direction of Chen Ming's spaceship navigation, the probability of him encountering Dusk entities will be greatly reduced.

However, Chen Ming must have considered these aspects before.

Although Dusk will certainly monitor him, no matter how closely monitored, if he can encounter Dusk, he'll definitely find opportunities.

Chen Ming opened the map aboard Iron Ore No.

The map given by Brilliant was a three-dimensional map.

A sphere emerged before Chen Ming through the spaceship equipment.

One can intuitively see the distribution of mineral veins across the planet.

Chen Ming's current location, where the colony is situated, is near a large titanium-iron mine vein.

This particular titanium-iron mine supports the development of the entire Dusk Industrial Colony.

In the continuous expansion of Dusk Colony, surrounding small veins, such as manganese, copper, and iron mines, have been fully covered and developed by the colony.

Yet in places outside the colony, there are still abundant mineral resources quietly sitting there.

Some of these veins are even pure open-pit veins.

The mineral resource reserve on the entire planet can be said to be quite astounding.

From normal logic, these open-pit veins stand as Chen Ming's next target.

But Chen Ming certainly doesn't want to follow Dusk's logic; his planned path must not adhere to the convenience of extracting valuable minerals.

His subsequent planned route must cover the widest area of the planet during daily operations when flying close to the ground.

That way, his exploration of the planet can be more accurate, and the probability of encountering Dusk might be higher.

Anyway, Dusk hasn't strictly limited Chen Ming's destination and route.

Wandering around different veins is fine, expanding a chance to find Dusk entities is a point.

Chen Ming needs more targets, more complex and changing environments.

Only under Dusk's surveillance can he achieve his final thought.

So, Chen Ming finally set the destination on the opposite side of the planet from his current colony, on an alumina mine.

Choosing such a destination, apart from fulfilling his final intention, was also considered feasibility.

According to Iron Ore No.'s navigation speed, it's sufficient to travel back and forth during daily operations on this planet, which is smaller than Rimu Star.

Moreover, Chen Ming actually has an idea, to see which minerals he particularly needs now.

Perhaps he can try to extract and smelt some to supplement raw materials for Iron Ore No.

Dusk is able to colonize the planet, there will always be some rare minerals.

While trying something Chen Ming hadn't attempted before, dismantling minerals.

He might even save on smelting fuel costs, or even eliminate smelting devices altogether.

And even if the minerals collected later don't meet Chen Ming's needs, he could choose to hand them over to Brilliant.

Like other Dusk entities responsible for heavy mining machinery control, obtaining normal work supplies.

Previously, Brilliant said Chen Ming also had material allocations, which could exchange for some materials.