Technological supremacy starts with acquiring alien spaceships

Chen Yu saw several hatches opening on the side of Ship No. 1.

A line of small transport ships flew out, heading straight for that giant golden asteroid.

Sitting in the command room, Chen Yu watched the live mining broadcast in real-time through the video feed from the transport ships.

The mining robots looked somewhat different from what Chen Yu had imagined; at least, they didn't look like humans.

They were more like four-legged crawling robots with four or five mechanical arms on their backs and space for carrying cargo in their abdomens.

The transport ships looked small, but they were still over ten meters long, about the size of a slag truck on Earth; one overloaded trip could carry over a hundred tons.

After about a few hours of mining, all five transport ships were filled with gold ore and returned.

Chen Yu followed the AI robot to the giant cargo hold and saw the five massive transport ships.

Picking up a piece of gold ore from one of the robot's mechanical arms, Chen Yu felt it was very heavy; without a doubt, the gold content inside was terrifyingly high.

"AI, how are we going to refine these ores? If we transport them back to Earth, we don't have the equipment."

[Captain, you don't need to worry about that at all. Our spaceship has specialized equipment for refining various elements, several times stronger than your purification equipment on Earth.]

Chen Yu was overjoyed; if they even had this, then it was settled!

"Alright, arrange for all these ore trucks to be refined, and we'll sell them when we get back to Earth!"

[Okay, Captain!]

Chen Yu returned to the main control room to pass the time.

"Hey, AI, are we very close to Jupiter here?"

[According to orbital calculations, if we fly a little further out of the solar system, we'll be on Jupiter's orbit. Jupiter is currently about 130 million kilometers away from us; it would take about half a day to fly there.]

Chen Yu thought, since they had come all this way, they should at least take a look at Jupiter, the largest gas giant in the solar system.

Everyone said Jupiter was very scary, but Chen Yu was more curious about the patterns on Jupiter's surface.

"Okay, adjust the orbit; let's go take a look at Jupiter now."

[Okay, Captain, adjusting the flight orbit now, heading towards Jupiter.]

"By the way, to pass the time, hack into the Earth network and download some games for me to play."

[Captain, because we are currently more than 700 million kilometers away from Earth, it takes nearly an hour for Earth's electromagnetic waves to reach here, so the game download will be relatively slow.]

[However, you can establish quantum communication base stations on Earth in the future, so that no matter where you are in the universe, you can get rid of the speed of light limit and achieve real-time communication.]

"Oh! Not bad, not bad. Then, in the future, when we come to play in outer space, we can still contact Earth in real-time. Yes, when we get back and have money, we must build this kind of base station!"

After flying for another half day, Chen Yu was playing a game on the glass screen of the main control room when a huge bright light suddenly appeared behind the screen.

Chen Yu looked behind the game screen and saw a super giant planet slowly appearing in front of him.

Looking at such a behemoth up close, Chen Yu actually felt a little scared.

"AI, this thing looks quite scary, huh!"

[Captain, Jupiter is actually a planet that has not become a star. If its mass were just a little larger, it could become a star like the next sun.]

"How much bigger do you say it needs to be for Jupiter to become a star?"

[It would need to increase its mass by about 80 times to become a star.]

"I know, I've been to college, after all."

Chen Yu continued to take out his phone and took a full-body photo of Jupiter.

If Chen Yu were to take these close-up photos and sell them, it was estimated that he could pay off his debts.

Since they had already seen Jupiter, there was no reason not to go a little further out to see Saturn!

Chen Yu spent another day going to Saturn to see the beautiful rings of Saturn, and when he saw that dreamy scene, Chen Yu was mesmerized.

It was indeed the most beautiful planet in the solar system; the huge, boundless rings of Saturn made Chen Yu feel the wonder of the universe.

[Captain, do you want to continue forward and take a look at Uranus?]

Chen Yu knew that Uranus and Neptune were too far away; going there and back would take at least a few days, so he thought about it and decided to forget it.

He still had to rush back to Earth to sell the gold and embark on the peak of his life!

"No need, I'm already satisfied with seeing Jupiter and Saturn. I'll have a chance to check out the edge of the solar system in the future. Now, let's set off immediately and return to Earth!"

[Okay, Captain, adjusting the course now, destination Earth!]

On the return trip, Ship No. 1 moved forward at full speed, and it took about 4 days to return to Earth's orbit.

When Ship No. 1 approached the moon, Chen Yu suddenly issued an order.

"AI, let's land on the far side of the moon."

[Okay, Captain.]

Ship No. 1 landed in a huge crater on the far side of the moon.

[Captain, why do you want to land on the moon?]

"Our spaceship is too huge, and I haven't figured out where to fly back to Earth and park it. Once I sell this gold, I'll buy a piece of land or an island in the Pacific Ocean as our base."

[Captain, you've thought it through indeed.]

"How is the gold refining going now?"

[In the past few days, the element refining equipment has been operating at full speed, and half of the gold has been refined.]

Chen Yu's eyes lit up.

"How much gold has been refined?"

[According to Earth's weight units, we have refined 730 tons of high-purity gold.]

Chen Yu spat out!

"H... has 700 tons already been refined?"

[Yes, Captain.]

Chen Yu quickly calculated in his mind.

One ton of gold can sell for nearly 400 million, 730 tons, wouldn't that be almost 300 billion? And that's only half of it refined.

If the other half is refined and sold, wouldn't he become the richest man on Earth! Why the hell would he still run a company!

Just as Chen Yu was looking forward to the future, the AI opened its mouth to remind him.

[Captain, the current gold reserves of various countries on Earth are about 33,000 tons. If the gold in our hands flows into the market, it will inevitably cause a sharp devaluation of gold prices.]

Chen Yu frowned; he had just remembered this matter. A large number of commodities flowing into the market would definitely cause prices to depreciate.

Also, Chen Yu couldn't take it back and sell it openly; he was just a poor guy who owed the bank millions.

Suddenly having hundreds of tons of gold would probably only get him a banner of commendation.

So the hundreds of tons of gold on the spaceship seemed like a lot, but in reality, not much of it could be put to use.

"I see, prepare a small landing ship; let's take a dozen tons of gold back to Earth first. After I develop and make a lot of money, I'll bring the No. 1 mothership back."

[Okay, Captain, I'll go prepare the landing ship now.]