Ye Fei pursed his lips and said with a little disappointment: "Okay, let's go to the next target...... Yi Qi, you decide the course and make sure that not a star falls. ”

M67 is only more than 10 light-years in diameter, and nearly 600 stars are placed in such a small range, except for binary stars, the nearest star is about 0.3 light-years away, and the farthest lonely star will not be more than 1.5 light-years away from its companions.

Ye Fei felt that the Xinyuan was now like a rat that had entered a rice tank.

Such a close distance made the bridge officers who had just discussed the habitable planet of the white dwarf have a strange feeling in their hearts...... What is the chance that the supernova explosion here will be captured by a white dwarf if it blows the terrestrial planet away?

"Understood!" Yi Qi immediately made a simple sailing plan and used the plane as a benchmark for future voyages.

Just twenty-six minutes later, the new source flew to the second target.

The second target was a classic yellow dwarf, and the exploration work had only just begun, and two terrestrial planets and a giant star line were successfully discovered, and the later elemental measurements also proved that this galaxy has a large number of heavy elements, and its elemental composition is almost not much different from that of the solar system.

Later, the third terrestrial planet circled from behind the star, and three terrestrial planets were discovered in succession, and the cheers in the bridge of the Xinyuan resounded.

Ye Fei immediately made a decision and set this place as a new industrial base.

According to the normal procedure, he needs to contact the base star as much as possible, get the materials needed to build the stargate, and assemble the new stargate. But the yellow dwarf, which has just been numbered 001, is just an ordinary star on the edge of the M67 cluster. Continuing to sail deeper into the cluster, you might encounter a better target, and it would be a bit of a waste to leave the portal here.

So Ye Fei put away his excitement, and after informing the base star of the situation, he commanded the Xinyuan to continue to go deeper.

Ten people on the Xinyuan flew in two shifts, 24 hours a day, and in just one day, a total of nearly 30 stars were viewed.

More targets could have been viewed, but the density of stars in the cluster was too high, and many of the stars were extreme objects like white dwarfs. Although the distance between the stars is not small. But the interstellar space here is much more complicated than normal.

The gravitational anomaly caused by the overcrowding of celestial bodies is likely to lead to unpredictable accidents, so the Xinyuan sailed very cautiously and never approached areas that might be dangerous for safety reasons. This affects the efficiency of the detection.

However, Ye Fei thinks that it is already very good to look at more than 20 stars a day. What's more, half of the stars we've looked at have heavy element planets. Half of the total is qualified for mining!

This result was not only beyond the expectations of Ye Fei and the others, but also beyond the prediction of the base star, and the Xinyuan was overjoyed to make persistent efforts. The base star almost threw a drinking party to celebrate.

Ye Fei had already foreseen that M67 would become a huge industrial base in the near future, which would continue to provide astronomical mineral resources to mankind, and the day when the battleships on the production line would flow into the portal and arrive at the base star was not far off!

At the critical moment, the base star also issued a new order to Ye Fei, requiring Ye Fei not only to explore the star distribution of the star cluster, but also to find out the mineral distribution of the star cluster, so as to lay a good foundation for the next large-scale development!

To this end, the headquarters also seconded four warships from the Al-Qaida Star Group Army, and the teleportation ship of the Tongguò Xinyuan rushed to M67 to carry out follow-up exploration work under the command of Ye Fei.

With great enthusiasm, the fleet led by the Xinyuan was divided into five routes and continued to devote themselves to the mission.

However, the luck of the Xinyuan seemed to run out, and there were no new discoveries for several hours, and the discoveries of other warships were not very good, and it was not until about 16 o'clock in the afternoon that two terrestrial planets were found near a white dwarf.

At this time, everyone on the Xinyuan had been demoralized by the previous successive disappointments, except for Xia Zhuoyan, who was analyzing the elemental composition of the two planets, everyone else looked listless.

As soon as the analysis results were obtained, Xia Zhuoyan suddenly shouted: "Boss, it's rare earths, there are rare earths here!" ”

Everyone woke up as if they had been poured a basin of cold water, and Ye Fei asked in surprise, "How much is the reserve?" "Rare earths are known as industrial monosodium glutamate, although they are very important strategic resources, but the amount is not very large.

There are not many reserves of rare earth elements on the earth, but after hundreds of years of development, there are still not many of them that have mining value. And Yunzhou Star and Blue Light Star have not found large-scale reserves at all.

However, the proven reserves on Venus are not small, and although they cannot be developed at the moment due to the environment, they can fully meet the needs of the Republic for a long time in the future, and it seems that they are ...... There's no need to be so excited about the discovery of rare earths, right?

Xia Zhuoyan drew a considerable range on the two planets: "The reserves of this planet are 4.2 percent, and the reserves of the second planet are 8 percent!" ”

"How much?" Ye Fei almost thought that there was something wrong with his ears, "Isn't it wrong?" ”

"Unless it's the wrong detector." Xia Zhuoyan said, "These two planets have a higher proportion of heavy elements than any planet we know before, and rare earths are only a part of them. ”

If there are too many heavy elements on a planet, it is not suitable for the survival of living beings, but such a planet can become the most important mineral base of scientific and technological civilization!

"I see, I said, I thought these two planets had no other resources except rare earths." Ye Fei breathed a sigh of relief, and marked the two planets on the star map, dividing the two planets into the sequence of serving as the core of the industrial area and giving priority to the placement of portals.

At present, there are only these two planets in this list, but Ye Fei feels that it is difficult to find a target with better conditions than these two planets.

Both planets are bare stars with no water and no atmosphere, and their black-brown surfaces are directly exposed. It is estimated that these two planets were not originally like this, and it is likely that the supernova exploded and lifted off the surface of the planet, which exposed the appearance of the deep underground.

"Boss, why do I think something is wrong?" Yi Qi said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Ye Fei was stunned.

"Here!" Yi Qi pointed to a point on the screen.

"Zoom in!" Ye Fei said.

Xia Zhuoyan immediately enlarged the position pointed out by Yi Qi until the clear surface of the planet filled the screen.

"Look here!" Yi Qi pointed to the screen and said, "Where are there so many holes here, I think this place is like a high-altitude reconnaissance photo of a mine." (To be continued......)