Cosmic Trading System

The asteroid Lin Yun chose was not far from the moon, with a distance of only several hundred thousand kilometers, close to the distance between the earth and the moon. In fact, there were many asteroids within this range, but this asteroid was the largest.

According to Lin Yun's rough calculation, the diameter of this small asteroid was about thirty to forty kilometers, which was quite large by asteroidal standards. The vast majority of noticeable asteroids had diameters of less than a kilometer, and many were only several tens of meters.

The volume of an asteroid with a diameter of one kilometer is tens of thousands of times smaller than that of an asteroid with a diameter of thirty to forty kilometers.

On the journey to that asteroid, Lin Yun let Star One stop at some smaller asteroids along the way.

Every time they would stop, Lin Yun would deploy a detector. In an instant, he could detect some of the resources within those asteroids.

As expected, most asteroids did not have many resources.

In an asteroid with a diameter of several hundred meters, for instance, all the resources summed up were only worth a few dozen Spirit Crystals.

This wasn't even enough to cover the Spirit Crystals consumed by Star One in teleporting him and Lin Yu.

However, at the beginning, Lin Yun adopted the mentality that a small haul was better than nothing, so he raised his collecting device to gather the resources unless they were too voluminous or time-consuming to collect.

After all, he had already traveled there, and the Spirit Crystals for Star One's teleportation had been spent. It would be a waste not to gather these additional resources.

Furthermore, the total resources found in many of the asteroids amounted to only a few Spirit Crystals.

This left Lin Yun in disbelief.

Facing asteroids of this kind, Lin Yun lost even the desire to collect. Did they think he had all the time in the world?

In retrospect, it made sense for asteroids to be like this.

These asteroids were too small, even smaller than some large ships on Earth. He once looted several ships' worth of ore from the Mie Family. These shipments, including some rare ores, were worth only several hundred Spirit Crystals.

After encountering over a dozen such asteroids, Lin Yun finally lost interest in lingering anymore.

He ordered Star One to head straight to the destination asteroid.

Now, he somewhat understood the mentality of Star Blue when traveling among the stars.

At first, he was interested in certain asteroids, but he soon lost the inclination to inspect each and every one of them.

It was still fine if Star One passed by these asteroids on the way to the destination.

If Lin Yun had asked Star One to teleport there on purpose, or commanded it to drive a spaceship or battleship, constantly moving and stopping, it would be too wasteful of energy.

Setting aside the earlier time, after about twenty seconds of continuous teleportation, Lin Yun and the others arrived at the destination.

"Scan …"

Lin Yun deployed the Little Lion Detector, he said.

"Beep Beep—"

Because the range wasn't large, there was no need for Little Lion to travel outside. It circled around Lin Yun, and the data was rapidly transmitted to the virtual video in front of them.

"So there are some rare resources, and the quantity is decent. Not bad…"

Lin Yun's eyes brightened.

At least they hadn't come in vain.

The next moment, Lin Yun waved his hand, sending out collecting equipment and starting the collection process.

"Boom—"

The collection device plunged into the ground, and at the same time, many tendrils emerged, quickly swallowing and refining chunks of resources.

Lin Yun looked at the data transmitted by the collection equipment, watching as it quickly increased.

Five minutes … ten minutes …

Half an hour … an hour …

Unlike the moon, where Lin Yun would only collect resources within a ten-thousand-meter range, on this asteroid, Lin Yun planned to extract all the available resources.

Considering the asteroid's small size and great distance from Earth, he didn't anticipate it causing any changes on Earth.

There were plenty of asteroids like this one in the solar system, with quite a few around Earth. Moreover, asteroids like this one near Earth could potentially threaten the planet—if one collided with Earth, it could lead to a major disaster.

Reportedly, an asteroid over ten kilometers in diameter colliding with Earth could cause catastrophic damage, let alone this asteroid with a diameter of thirty to forty kilometers.

If he managed to strip it of all its resources, it could actually be a boon for Earth's safety.

However, he had already set up defense equipment around Earth, so these kinds of asteroids could no longer threaten Earth's safety. He didn't need to worry about that.

Two hours later, Lin Yun had gathered all the resources from the asteroid, totaling resources worth six hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.

"This haul, it's not bad…"

Lin Yun said with a light smile.

Although it couldn't compare to his haul on the moon, one shouldn't be too greedy in life.

The moon had a diameter of several thousand kilometers. Even if he had only mined resources from ten thousand meters deep, the volume of his haul far exceeded that of this small asteroid. His harvest was quite good by any measure.

Consider Star Blue.

Over a long period, they encountered many large asteroids the same size as this one. But the most Spirit Crystals they ever found on a single asteroid was a few hundred thousand.

Many times, Asteroids this big gave them only a few thousand spirit crystals—not even enough to power a spaceship for a prolonged voyage.

His first target yielded him sixty thousand Spirit Crystals. That was a stroke of good luck.

However, unlike the moon where he could pick and choose the best resources, the process of extracting resources this time was somewhat slow.

On the moon, it took him about eight hours to collect seven hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.

On this asteroid, it took him two whole hours to collect just sixty thousand Spirit Crystals.

The hourly collection rate differed by more than threefold.

Actually, the latter was more of a normal speed.

But Lin Yun was very dissatisfied with this speed.

Consider the time he spent on the road. It took him less than thirty-one seconds to get from Earth to the moon!

Even if you disregarded the time wasted on the journey, it would have taken only around thirty seconds to reach this target from the moon!

Now, he spent two hours just to mine resources from one target!

Time equals money!

This much time... it's simply way too much!

"Perhaps, I can buy another mining device…"

Yun ponders.

If he bought another mining device, he might be able to use them separately.

Lin Yun already had an idea in his head.

No wonder the Cosmic Trading System stated that its owners generally experienced two periods of rapid development. It was during the early stage of possession, and when they left their own civilizations.

Now, he was also in the stage of leaving his civilization, right?

Now, he was obtaining Spirit Crystals at an incredibly fast rate. It was foreseeable that he would soon gather another ten million Spirit Crystals. Since he couldn't buy a level-four civilization battleship, he should think about purchasing a second Dazzling Star Realm robot.

After all, if a level-four civilization were to come after Earth, they would likely send more than one battleship.

If he was to resist, he couldn't rely solely on a single robot with Dazzling Star Realm Martial Artist powers.

Initially, he was not sure if the unknown civilization would come at all. If they did, he had some defensive equipment purchased that he could use while quickly mining Earth's resources to sell on the Cosmic Trading System.

Even if it disrupted Earth's ecological balance, it would be worth the risk. If Earth was going to be invaded and mankind enslaved, the planet's environment wouldn't matter anyway.

When he confirmed that the unknown civilization had received the message, he started to feel the urgency. After arranging things on Earth, he headed to the moon.

Now, he realized that the situation outside Earth was much better than he had imagined.

There was a lot of potential here.

However, he still needed to see what the next target held before deciding anything…

According to Star Blue, the rate of obtaining resources in outer space was fast, but not too fast. It was also too reliant on luck…

Star Blue spent months navigating the starry skies, only to obtain just over 200,000 Spirit Crystals.

Even though he had a more powerful Martial Arts robot and a better spaceship than Star Blue, he shouldn't expect his resource gathering speed to differ much from theirs.

If it weren't for the information from Star Blue, he would have come to space to gather resources a long time ago.

"Let's go, to the next target…"

Lin Yun put away his mining and detection devices, looked up at the next small asteroid, and said with a light smile.

The distance to the next asteroid wasn't short. It was about eight hundred thousand kilometers away, and not as large in size, with a diameter of only about twenty kilometers.