Clone Octopus

Chapter 165 Red Spar
To be a bodyguard?
For Shen Rui, it might not be a choice. After all, I am alone in Andromeda, with no friends, power, or money. I need to find a way to settle down here before I can consider other things.

With a slight smile, Shen Rui nodded and said, "Okay, from now on, I will be responsible for your safety."

Old Bolton took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "That's good, that's good. We'll be leaving in a dozen hours. You take a rest first, and I'll have someone call you when the time comes."

Shen Rui took a nap in the guest room, and when the cargo ship was loaded, he boarded the ship with Old Bolton and prepared to leave. His grandson Bolton Jr. was left in the mining area. It is said that he was asked to learn the operation process of the mining area, but Shen Rui did not Find something weird in this farewell of the old and the young.

Little Bolton bid farewell to his grandfather with tears in his eyes, as if he was sad not to see each other, but to say goodbye to life and death. Shen Rui frowned slightly, without saying anything, and boarded the elevator inside the cargo ship together with old Bolton.

The large cargo ship is extremely huge, with a height of hundreds of floors. The command and logistics lounges are located at the top. In addition to taking the elevator, you can also walk along the spiral staircase, but that is too hard for an old man like Old Bolton.

The top of the cargo ship suddenly opened up. The command room was [-] square meters, equipped with various navigation and control machinery. There were transparent windows above and around the head, allowing one to see the vast sea of ​​stars.

The medical room, restaurant, and staff lounge are all under the command room, and the area is not small. However, in fact, the command and survival area only occupies a very small area of ​​the entire cargo ship. Most of the space is used to store cargo, nuclear reactors, and quantum computers. The jet engine and space jump engine are at the end of the cargo ship. There is also a lounge for mechanics. Two mechanics hired by Old Bolton are working at the end of the battleship.

The captain of this cargo ship is called Levi, a middle-aged man in his thirties, a top student who graduated from the Academy of Astronautics, with a goatee, he is calm and doesn't talk much.

The captain, first mate, navigator, two mechanics, cook and doctor are all served by the same person. Shen Rui was surprised to find that this huge cargo ship actually only has six employees, and most of the work is done by automation.

Cleaning is a group of round, flat, semi-intelligent robots that run around lively in the cabin. If there is dust anywhere, use the built-in vacuum cleaner to suck it up. In addition, they are also responsible for checking every corner of the cabin. The device is very interesting.

Xiao Ba lay on Shen Rui's shoulder incognito, tilting his head to watch, as if he really wanted to play with those little robots. After all, he was still a child at heart, and he was very interested when he found interesting things.

Old Bolton introduced Shen Rui to Captain Levi, and declared that Shen Rui was his hired bodyguard. Levi nodded and said: "Mr. Shen Rui, although you are a soldier, you are still the captain on this ship." Forget it, so please keep quiet unless necessary."

Shen Rui nodded, expressing that he would respect the captain's authority.

After meeting the members of the ship, the old Bolton took Shen Rui to the warehouse, and saw that huge metal cabinets were neatly arranged one after another, and different types of ores were placed in different areas, like mountains, spectacular Extremely.

Shen Rui curled his lips and said: "The mine can produce so much ore every month, your company is really big."

Old Bolton said with embarrassment, "Don't make fun of me. The scale of our company is simply not high enough. If it weren't for the production of some high-grade ore with good profits, I'm afraid it would not be able to sustain it long ago."

"Take the mainstream medium-sized Hercules-class cargo ship in Andromeda as an example. The Hercules-class cargo ship has a length of 1305000 meters and a width of 42 kilometers. The ore we produce in a month can't even make a medium-sized cargo ship. As for Larger cargo ships are more than [-] kilometers in length, and the raw materials consumed are even more astonishing."

"Don't look at the mining volume of the major mines is not small, and the consumption is even more alarming. Generally speaking, the mining industry in Andromeda is still in short supply. After all, in addition to civilian cargo ships and merchant ships, the major empires also need to build cities and warships. All need a large amount of mineral supply, as long as the population of Andromeda continues to increase, and there are still wars between the major empires, the demand for minerals will never end."

Speaking of his old business, Old Bolton is full of confidence. The mining industry has always relied on economic development. As long as the economy and population are booming, the demand for minerals will increase. Shen Rui also agrees with this.

Going all the way to the middle of the warehouse, the old Bolton pointed to a row of large containers and said, "Look, what's inside is not only ore, but also the hope of our family. After so many years of hard work, we finally found the red spar. A key catalytic ore in metal smelting."

"To manufacture the trititanium alloy with the strongest hardness and toughness, a certain amount of red spar must be added to the titanium ore. The demand for red spar is huge, but the output is very low. For any interstellar miner, The mines that can mine red spar are rare cash cows."

"These red crystal stones were mined in a secret small mine in our family. It took three years to accumulate twelve containers. During these three years, our Bolton family was very nervous, fearing that others would find out about the mine. The mining giants are here to snatch the secrets.”

"But it's a pity that it's still a secret. The mining giant Khalifa Group already knows that we have control of the red spar mine. They have said that they must hand over the mine or die."

"But we really can't hand over the rare mine. That is the hope of our family. If we can successfully sell the twelve containers of ore this time, we will have enough funds to fight against the Khalifa Group, so this trip The transaction is very important to our family, and it must be successful!"

Shen Rui nodded and said, "That's why you hired me to protect the safety of this transaction?"

Old Bolton said bluntly: "It's like this. We have saved red spar mines for three full years. One shot is enough for us to get a large sum of money to arm ourselves. Even if everyone knows that we have red spar mines in our hands, it will not be too late. We must weigh whether it is worth fighting with our armed fleet, in Andromeda, force is king."

Shen Rui didn't say much, it was his duty to take old Bolton's money and keep him safe all the way.

This road is calm and terrifying. Unlike ships in the sea, spaceships jump forward through wormholes. The jump distance depends on the model of the ship. The fastest spaceship can span a distance of one hundred light years, while the bulky cargo ship Each jump is only five light-years.

After sailing in space for a whole week, Shen Rui followed the old Bolton and finally arrived at the destination of the trip, the mineral free trading planet, RP117, the black market of minerals.

(End of this chapter)