From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 276 Mining efficiency +1000%
"Good stuff."

Amber looked at the regular hexadecahedron buried deep inside the asteroid in the picture and couldn't help but sigh.

"Master, I didn't expect you to know this thing whose origin I don't even know?"

Lilith asked curiously. Ever since she was unblocked and connected to the Internet, she has been in a state of continuous learning and collecting information.

After developing the 'Clone' and 'Quantum Entanglement Communication Technology', her learning efficiency has been greatly improved.

Except for some knowledge that is blocked by physical isolation and has not been exposed to the Internet, she knows more or less other knowledge. It is not an exaggeration to call it an encyclopedia that is constantly being updated.

So when Amber showed that he knew this regular hexadecahedron, the strong artificial intelligence still found it very novel.

"What's wrong, you're not convinced?"

"How dare I be dissatisfied with Master~" Lilith said in a sweet voice, which made Amber shiver.

"I just think that the Master has more and more secrets. He is indeed the man Lilith likes!"

For the first time in the game, players had a head-on confrontation with the unmanned legions of the Forerunner civilization, and then the major guilds were beaten to death during the battle.

However, except for the 'Relic No. 0' where the jump engine was unearthed on the human home planet, most of the other ruins are in dilapidated condition. Apart from letting humans know that such a powerful civilization once existed, they do not have much value.

For Amber, it is definitely a good thing to have such a powerful artificial intelligence assisting her and thinking about pulling herself into the virtual space to post posts all day long.

In the end, only a few specialized research institutes, foundations and other private institutions were left, and they continued to conduct research on the 'Forerunner' civilization.

"Yes, Master~ According to the information I have collected so far, whether it is the human Federation, the Star Dragon Empire, the Business Alliance, or the elves' Thousand Stars Empire, they don't know much about the 'Forerunners'. many.

Therefore, the efficiency of exploration and research output in this area is getting lower and lower.
By the time the trend of exploring the 'Forerunner Civilization' really started again, it was already after players had entered the game and played two expansion packs.

As it should be, the principality's strength rapidly expanded and suppressed other surrounding forces. What followed was the plot of the "Lord Killing Rebellion" of the unmanned army that can be called the "classic within the classic".
Then as expected, the entire principality became the first super large guild-level raid of this DLC.

"Ah~ I really like this feeling of having the Master's secret all to myself (^_-)~"

Although many ruins have been excavated over the past few decades or hundreds of years.

Looking at the pictures and research reports sent by Lilith, Amber nodded. At least the current human research on the 'Forerunner Civilization' was similar to the plot in his memory.

As a result, there was a large and complete unmanned army production line in the ruins, covering equipment such as small and medium-sized Forerunner warships in space, unmanned combat puppets and unmanned combat machinery on the ground.

The official story at that time was about leading to the "Forerunner Civilization". Amber probably remembers that a ruin was dug up by a certain principality in the "original Star Dragon Empire" that had been split into several principalities.

Due to the lack of 'value feedback' for a long time, there are fewer and fewer officially supported exploration and excavation actions by the Federation, Star Dragon Empire, and even the Business Alliance.

If we say that in the first DLC, facing the unmanned army brought back by Lilith, the reason why the players had a hard time is mainly because they had not played for long at that time, and their abilities were not too strong, and there were only a few If a leading guild can assemble a fleet.

So in this DLC, being beaten violently again by the Forerunners' unmanned army is simply being crushed by strength.

Everyone's understanding of this ancient civilization is still at the level of 'it was very strong, but disappeared overnight, leaving only some relics'. "

But sometimes, Lilith's sudden 'madness' still makes Amber a little bit too much.
"So Lilith, you should know about the Forerunners, right?"

On the holographic projection device in front of Amber, Lilith's virtual image suddenly poked her head out.

While Lilith was speaking, she opened some pictures she had stored on the holographic projection device, which were the relics of some forerunners discovered by humans.

Amber raised his hand and pinched his brow. He found that Lilith had become more and more clingy recently. No matter what she did, she always had 'Master Love' as her core motivation.

"Don't go crazy now. I'll take time to come to the virtual space to accompany you after I finish my business. Let's continue talking about business."

After the accumulation of two DLCs, the strength of each guild is no longer the same. Even back to the first expansion pack, it was no problem to defeat Lilith's unmanned army head-on.
But Lilith's unmanned army is still a product developed based on the human technology she stored. In essence, it controls a large number of unmanned vehicles through infinite clones. Technically, it does not surpass human technology by much.

The Forerunner's unmanned army is completely different, pure high-end Forerunner technology.

Not to mention the fully automated resource collection equipment, there are also weapons and equipment and combat machinery production lines, which bring a steady supply of troops.

From the lowest-end battle puppets to huge floating battle fortresses and battleships, they are all equipped with combat intelligence that matches their level, making these forerunners' unmanned legions far superior to ordinary human and elf armies in tactical execution.

In addition, there are black technologies such as anti-gravity technology, energy shield technology, real-time galaxy scanning technology, ancient stealth technology, and energy weapons down to the individual soldier level.

After a long period of preparation, the players' guild alliance, which confidently shouted "Meet at the top", was beaten to a pulp by this unmanned forerunner army on the first day of the battle.

And according to the setting, the unmanned army belongs to the "auxiliary army" level in the battle sequence of the Forerunner civilization.

After the battle ended that day, due to difficulty issues, players rushed to the official forum to start temporary maintenance and pretended to be dead by hanging the 'war-free card'. Because many guild fleets were created by rich brothers and sisters, but they were all wiped out in one battle.
After recalling some past events in the game, Amber couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.

And after Lilith noticed that Amber hadn't spoken for a long time, she also waved her hand in front of his eyes.

"Master? Why did you get distracted when you were talking to someone? Are you tired of looking at Lilith's avatar?"

"No" Amber shook his head. Of course he would not admit that he was indeed distracted just now. "I was just thinking about how I suddenly discovered the equipment left by the Forerunner civilization."

"So Master really knows this thing?" Lilith asked curiously.

"Yes, the full name of this thing should be 'adaptive, self-sensing, self-organizing, growable large-scale mining and refining core'.

In layman's terms, it is a resource mining + refining factory that can manage itself and continuously expand its scale.

Moreover, the resources here are not only traditional ores and metals, but also some resources that humans are temporarily unable to master. This thing can also be mined. "

"Isn't that the equivalent of 'resource mining golden fingers'?"

"Hmm, if this thing can be put to use, it will take less than twenty years to mine the entire asteroid belt to which 'A Bawa Ku' belongs, and Atlas Mining's production capacity will skyrocket."

Amber looked at this 'resource mining golden finger' buried in the asteroid and couldn't help but sigh that she had been playing the game for a lifetime, and finally became European after traveling through time.

In other words, his mining team workers are "big red hands" and can drive this thing in the asteroid belt.

At the same time, Amber discovered that her memory actually contained memories of this 'resource mining golden finger' hidden in the asteroid belt.

This large-scale mining and refining core was launched simultaneously in the expansion pack that released the plot related to the "Forerunner Civilization". There is indeed more than this in the game.

Due to its powerful resource extraction capabilities, all major guilds are purchasing this thing at a high price, which has directly fetched an incredible sky-high price in the player market.

If a small-scale player adventure group or exploration team can discover the coordinates of this thing, they can basically achieve 'freedom of wealth' in the game.

This also led to the discovery during the adventure that this large mining and refining core team basically ended up splitting up in infighting and backstabbing each other.

'Once this thing comes out, there will be no brothers. '

This sentence is the best description of this pioneer product.

Among the player guilds that were mining in this asteroid belt at that time, there was a guild whose mining area included the asteroid 'A. Bawa Ku'.

Originally just an ordinary small guild, their mining efficiency suddenly skyrocketed from one day to the next. In the following days, they used the profits from mining the asteroid belt to expand their fleet and annex surrounding player guilds, and finally grew into a A top-ranked super large guild.

At that time, many people thought that the key to the guild's success might be that they poached a player from elsewhere who had a high 'refining' skill level and a high mining team command bonus.

However, some players still think this reason is far-fetched and feel that there must be other reasons.

But now that Amber thinks about it, they probably dug this thing out of the asteroid.

Now that this thing has fallen into his pocket, he has to accept this incredible wealth no matter what.

"So Master knows how to use this thing?"

"I'm not sure if I know how to use it, but I can give it a try and I should be able to find a way."

Amber paused and continued:

"Reply to the mining team in my name and ask them to keep this thing until I go back to deal with it. At the same time, block the message and don't leak any relevant information.

It was indeed time to go back, just in time to send those little psykers back to the Tower of Babel. Ellenita said that she had helped find a master of elven psykers who could teach them. "

"Master Yoda?"

"what?"

"I watched an old movie some time ago. There was a similar plot in it, where an elf named 'Master Yoda' was training young Jedi with potential."

Lilith said with shining eyes. She was obsessed with watching human movies and TV series some time ago. She watched almost all human movies and TV series at a speed of three seconds.

"Well, when you say that, it seems a bit similar, but the elf master Elenita is looking for should be somewhat different from Master Yoda, right?"

(End of this chapter)