Chapter 345: Coraplatinum (2/2)

His eyes swept through the floating rocks, when Ye Chong suddenly widened his eyes and gasped, ”Coraplatinum!” Given Ye Chong’s cool nature, not many things could surprise him like this!

”Coraplatinum? Where? Where?” The young boy rushed to the screen, his blue eyes lit up with curiosity. ”There is coraplatinum here?” He tiptoed and stretched his neck upwards, but he was too short and too far from the holographic screen. He tilted his head in thought. Then, he turned to one of his bodyguards, waved him over and said in his childish voice, ”Lift me up.”

The bodyguard quickly carried the boy up and placed him on his shoulder.

The young boy patted on the bodyguard’s head, urging him further, ”Move forward … Forward … Okay okay … Stop!”

The young boy looked up and muttered to himself, ”It’s really coraplatinum.” He looked very interested.

On the holographic screen was an irregular shaped grey-blue ore, covered with many tiny white crosses. The white crossed looked intricate, and they were all perfectly symmetric crosses. Seen from afar, coraplatinum looked like a grey-blue rock covered with many white spots, not standing out at all.

Ye Chong stared blankly at the coraplatinum, struggling inside.

Coraplatinum was something Ye Chong had been looking for all this while. It was instrumental in repairing Mu and Shang. With coraplatinum, the chances were higher for Mu and Shang to be repaired. However, not even Mu and Shang knew where coraplatinum could be found.

”So it’s actually from here!” Ye Chong stared at the holographic screen, muttering to himself.

He suddenly thought of a question, and turned to face the young boy. ”You know coraplatinum?” This was a rare ore, and not many would know about it. Just where did the young boy come to know about this ore?

The young boy replied dismissively, ”Of course I know it. Coraplatinum’s good stuff, a pity it’s so rare. This is the first time I’ve seen it for real.” To him, coraplatinum was only some kind of rare item.

Ye Chong turned to Old Jalopy and asked, ”Professor, is this nebula dangerous?”

”Probably not,” Old Jalopy answered, ”Last time, Xue Lai Clan had attacked us from in there.”

”Xue Lai Clan?” Ye Chong raised his brow and considered that fact.

The young boy was growing excited and jubilant. ”Wah ....”

After a long moment, Ye Chong lifted his head and said, ”Enter this nebula.”

The young boy looked at Ye Chong curiously. ”You want coraplatinum? But why? It’s melting point is very high, making it difficult to extract!”

Ye Chong ignored him and looked towards the bodyguards in charge of flying the ship.

The bodyguards hesitated for a moment, but quickly altered their course towards the nebula.

The starship’s entrance into the area immediately caused a disturbance. The silently floating rocks were dense, so when Cornerstone entered the nebula, a chain reaction was initiated. The rocks that were pushed off the starship collided into other rocks. Some of the motionless rocks began to move.

This was a big inconvenience for Ye Chong and the others. With the chaotic situation, it was difficult to find their target. Cornerstone flew at its minimum speed, but the chaos continued to spread out wide.

Ye Chong kept his eyes fixed on the coraplatinum, afraid to lose sight of it.

Fortunately, the coraplatinum was not hit by any of the other mineral rocks. It continued to float silently where it was.

Cornerstone was equipped with many mechanical arms, and this made it efficient for collecting materials outside. Ye Chong carefully maneuvered one of the mechanical arms himself. When the mechanical arm had the coraplatinum firmly in its grasp, Ye Chong finally heaved a sigh of relief.

The coraplatinum was larger than Ye Chong anticipated, weighing more than three tonnes.

”What a big coraplatinum!” The young boy circled around the coraplatinum, caressing its natural white crosses on the ore.

Ye Chong felt excited. With this coraplatinum, Mu and Shang would be repaired soon. Mu and Shang only needed the one arm and a small part of the pilot cabin repaired. This piece of coraplatinum would be more than enough for that, perhaps leaving some to spare.

Ye Chong looked at the chaotic situation around him regretfully. With the rocks flying all over, it was impossible to take more of them. It was simply a pity, missing out on those rare ores. Ye Chong saw a few rare ores already floating further and further away from him.

There was no helping it. Ye Chong ordered for Cornerstone to leave the nebula.

Cornerstone continued on its journey in the empty path.

The flight continued on for another 20 days along the empty path. Just when everyone, including Old Jalopy, believed that they had gone in the wrong direction, or in the wrong empty path altogether, the warp jump point that Old Jalopy that been telling them repeatedly about finally appeared before them.

The starship went from the empty path into a vast void region.

This was a region tens of thousands of kilometers across, without any nebula to be seen. If the empty path was a strange sight, then this vast empty region was even more curious.

Old Jalopy stood up abruptly and gasped in joy, ”Ah! It’s here, it’s here!” All of them could hear the excitement in his words.

The dispirited crowd was immediately encouraged. They stood up and asked, ”Where? Where is it?”

”Over there!” Old Jalopy pointed towards the center of the region.

At the dead center of the region was a flat, colourful disc. On the holographic screen, the disc was further enlarged for viewing. What they saw now was a disc about two kilometers across, made up of nebulae of all kinds of colors. There were the faint blue, green-brown and twinkling blue ones that Ye Chong and the rest had seen, and some dazzling colors such as deep red, bright yellow … It was like an exhibit of colors. The colorful nebulae were dispersed in the disc without any apparent order. The strangest part was that the colorful disc had a strange and slow ripple spreading across it.

The ripples started from the center of the disc, spreading outwards slowly.

The center of the disc was empty, but it was like a beating heart, bringing motion to the nebulae around it. It was a curious sight to behold.

”The warp jump point is at the center of the disc!” Old Jalopy’s voice sounded dreamy, like the interesting disc they were looking at.