Chapter 190: The Stranger that Showed Up on the Starship [Part 2] (1/2)

Chapter 190: The Stranger that Showed Up on the Starship [Part 2]

When the two types of precious minerals were extracted, Cillin scanned them using his own upgraded scanner. He was very happy to find the metals contained in these minerals were exactly what his robot urgently needed right now. They would be sufficient for his purpose.

According to the rules within the Hunter regiment, they could choose to sell or retain the minerals they had mined themselves. The choice was theirs to make. Cillin would split the minerals the team had mined with everyone and let them decide what to do with them on their own. Meanwhile, he would be using his own share to create a composite material.

While Cillin and the others were busy mining the minerals, the gray cat sent back news informing him that it had discovered a mineral resource that matched up with Cillin’s verification program. However, it wasn’t on the planet’s surface, but deeper in. In short, a deep well had to be drilled.

Cillin cast a glance at the data and the rock formation scan results the gray cat sent back to him. The mining machines they were using right now couldn’t perform mining at such a depth, but other deep mining machines couldn’t reach that depth while remaining intact either. This was because the machines would have to pass through a magnetite area, and judging from the data supplied by the gray cat, the magnetic field generated was strong enough to severely affect the machine’s operational capabilities. There were basically no chance the deep mining machines were making it to the mining spot. Most importantly, that type of mineral was present only in a small amount of area.

“In that case, there is a simpler way to do this.”

And so the gray cat transformed while the others weren’t looking. The transformation hadn’t taken place at the planet’s surface since anything that happened there would be captured and put on display by the observation satellites launched by the two starships orbiting the planet.

Cillin didn’t plan to reveal the gray cat’s full identity to the Third B Squadron just yet. Maybe Falvey knew some things about the gray cat, but some key info remained hidden from him.

The gray cat dug into the underground with its cat form first before it transformed into its machine form. The observation monitors’ scan system wouldn’t be able to catch any exact changes, and at best they would notice that there was now a life form moving beneath the planet’s surface. However, every operation personnel was busy with mining, and the technicians aboard the starships were busy analysing the minerals right now. As long as it wasn’t a foreign life form or another type of threat, the monitors and scanners wouldn’t sound the alarm.

The gray cat only found a few minerals. The amount was probably just enough to create one robot after they were put through the purification process. Whatever that remained wouldn’t be enough to create a second composite exterior for a second robot.

The gray cat noticed some crystals while it was mining the minerals. The gray cat was sure that it had never seen this type of crystal after scanning it; it hadn’t detected any kind of reactionary signal from it while it was scanning the area from above. At first, the gray cat thought that these crystals were just a bit unusual, and it was going to leave them behind after a curious look. Before it left, it scanned the crystals with Cillin’s verification program out of habit, and to its surprise, the line ‘compatibility: super grade’ jumped before its eyes.

The gray cat was stunned. The deep level metal mine it detected just now was one hundred percent ‘excellent grade’ at best, but these crystals were ‘super grade’!

It hastily told Cillin about the news.

When Cillin heard about this, he was in a bit of a daze himself. The concept of ‘super grade’ was just an upper limit Cillin had set up as insurance; something he calculated based on his theories. It was common sense that there was always a gap between theory and reality, but he never thought that a thing at its theoretical limit actually existed.

The gray cat discovered that the object wasn’t quite easy to mine as it was a sphere-shaped, one meter diameter object. Cillin had passed down his work to Dias immediately and arrived at the location where the gray cat was at for the crystal.

He used a machine to enlarge the hole the gray cat had dug into. The hole was narrow only at the surface since the gray cat had dug deeper into the ground using a different form, so he didn’t need to enlarge the hole beyond that point.

Cillin followed the tunnel and arrived at the place the gray cat spoke of.

He unlocked his close fitting protective cover, took off his protective suit and touched the spherical object with his hand.

The instant he touched it, a large number of data was sorted out in his mind.

It really was the theoretical value!!

The theoretical value he designed was at the far end of the spectrum to begin with. To some researchers, this value was practically impossible to attain. Cillin himself never expected to run into something that existed at the theoretical value.

This crystal was spherical in shape, but it was not entirely a round ball. It had a core at the center and countless branches that extended outwards from this core. Every branch was a strange and very complicated looking fine crystal column. These fine crystal columns looked like a layer of thick fur that wrapped itself around the core.

Cillin’s hand moved, and he withdrew this crystalline ball into his leaf-patterned ring. At the same time, the gray cat had also put away the dug minerals while grabbing the rest of it in its arms.

Most subspace containers couldn’t be used on a rank D planet. Therefore, no one would suspect that Cillin had hidden anything for himself even if he walked out with the gray cat openly.

Cillin returned to the surface and headed towards the team’s mining spot after he was done dealing with the minerals. Meanwhile, the gray cat continued on its underground journey of mineral exploration. It discovered that exploring for minerals underground was pretty interesting. At the very least, it was more interesting that doing tedious mining work like those people on the surface.

However, the gray cat was disappointed to find no other materials that reached the ‘super grade’ level other than that round-shaped crystal. In fact, there wasn’t even a second ‘excellent grade’ mineral resource. The rest were all at the same level as the minerals the crowd was busy mining right now. Still, this outcome was more than enough to make Shawton and Falvey happy.

Three types of precious minerals were enough for them to earn a sizable amount of profit. They would sell a portion and turn in another portion to the A Squads. This way, the two B Squadrons would be able to greatly increase their influence in Vanguard.

After all teams were done mining, they returned to their starships and began processing the minerals. Cillin had long since decided what he was going to do with the minerals, so after he took his share, he returned to the workshop once more and busied himself with work.

Everyone else chose to sell away their share. They chose to sell the minerals in one big bulk and split the money amongst themselves later.

Cillin was assembling inside the workshop.