Chapter 1087: Chapter 96: Obsession

Li Liang Chuangkou’s spaceship was of the smallest type. Apart from a particularly narrow hiding spot that could only accommodate a few people, it only had a fuel tank and an engine, making it the simplest means of transportation with essentially no extra space. Yet, the arrival of this spaceship attracted everyone’s attention.

After leaving the spaceship, Li Liang Chuangkou skillfully drew out a few specially made junk information. These storage devices were used in space, with a thick shell added outside to isolate the influence of the cosmic environment on the storage device. These junk pieces of information were freshly prepared, mainly including a collection of local expired news and martial arts competition highlights from Chaldea, covering the most recent events in detail. If read carefully, they could serve as a form of news experience. For these workers, it was considered quite a nice diversion.

The workers who were resting naturally handed Li Liang Chuangkou a few pieces of junk information they were tired of, as an exchange.

Workers work in the Asteroid Belt for long periods before returning to the city to rest. To save energy, they typically only turn on the spacecraft’s signal relay equipment at designated times. The signal transceiver system built into the Prosthetic Body is not enough to connect to the network on the side of Space City.

For them, this gift is extremely precious.

And this also seems to be a perfect way to break the ice. With the offensive of junk information, the atmosphere on the scene became harmonious at once.

Li Liang Chuangkou made a gesture, instructing Jeanne to start the investigation immediately. Jeanne seriously observed those workers. Soon, he confirmed that there were no individuals among these people who even remotely resembled the “Six Dragons Sect”, nor were there many people with “concealed identities enduring significant mental pressure”.

This is nothing more than an ordinary industrial extraction site.

The Heroes who built the base here are also very normal, just very ordinary Heroes.

Xiang Shan was more interested in what the Heroes built. He had circled the small celestial body twice just now to observe every worker, locking onto all workers long ago. He also saw what was being set up in the hollowed-out cave.

It was a launch pad with ten or more missiles and a laser cannon.

In the twenty-first century, if a missile had a range of eight thousand kilometers, it would be respectable. But in the space age, an eight-thousand-kilometer range is insufficient. Fortunately, in this place, missiles do not need to overcome planetary gravity, just need continuous acceleration.

Xiang Shan estimated that there should be a small civilian-grade reactor and a management computer here too.

Such a simplistic outpost could react to any battle within a hundred thousand kilometers. It should be seen as a transparent sphere with a radius of a hundred thousand kilometers floating in the Asteroid Belt.

Even if this fort point is firing blanks, it might not significantly damage a fleet. But if one isn’t enough, then ten, a hundred. During the battles between two fleets, these little helps could potentially affect the outcome.

Jeanne reported the results of her personality profile to Li Liang Chuangkou. Li Liang Chuangkou was not surprised. The current cooperation between the two sides is just basic. The chivalrous forces hidden in the dark have not established mutual trust with this Hunter. The test subjects this time were basically individuals with very low suspicion, and the Heroes could essentially determine that these people had nothing to do with the Six Dragons Sect.

Having called Jeanne over was partly to reassure themselves and partly to promote Jeanne and establish a deeper relationship.

Before leaving, Jeanne glanced at the small celestial body behind her and asked Li Liang Chuangkou a question: “Speaking of which, no matter how good your disguise is, this place will still be exposed, won’t it? I remember the Scientific Knight Order has assigned numbers to most small celestial bodies over two meters in diameter? Their orbit would definitely be affected after mining and reconstruction…”

Li Liang Chuangkou nodded: “That makes sense. But do you know how many of such mined asteroids there are?”

Jeanne shook her head: “Actually, I don’t know either. Some things exist in human databases, but few people would check them. The Scientific Knight Order doesn’t track every small celestial body in detail. They don’t have that many resources. Do you know what else is a key industry of the Neutral City-State?”

“What?”

“Smuggling numbered small celestial body mining samples to Mars,” Li Liang Chuangkou said, “The demand from Orders related to astrophysics in this area is quite large. Many Scientific Knight apprentices earn a living by writing papers on the Asteroid Belt with these mining samples, even having highly similar opening and conclusion, with the most valuable part being sample collection and data analysis.” Li Liang Chuangkou spread his hands, “As you can see, this can form an industry, supplying many Scientific Knight apprentices, indicating the volume of related data is quite large. Oh, this is also a fraud-prone area. Conquering Heaven King David’s academic style-building regiment occasionally comes here to collect evidence to check if apprentices have forged samples.”

“The Protectors know that in the vast Asteroid Belt, many celestial bodies have been mined. Mined celestial bodies can even have their orbits changed due to changes in shape, mass, and center of gravity, as well as disturbances caused by mining, being re-numbered differently. For Protectors, distinguishing which small celestial bodies have been modified is also a huge task. Moreover, fort is just apparent, and Trick Mines below one meter in diameter are also an important part of the defense plan.”

Besides the Deep Space Fleet with capabilities in fast movement, deployment, and powerful firepower, the factors that can influence the duel between two armies in space are only “top Martial Artist” and “pre-beat prepared positions”.

And these kinds of combined defense measures of turrets and mines are actually much cheaper than a fleet, only bothersome to deploy, taking a long time.

[I see, this protracted project may indeed rely on the Neutral City-State to carry out well. Every time the Protectors establish a permanent base in the Asteroid Belt, White Fleet Prosthetics Followers might need to use all their power to block it. Thus, only the Hero side unilaterally holds the home-field advantage in the Asteroid Belt.] Tumor Xiang Shan nodded.

However, though called a home-field advantage, the addition resulting from these long-term constructions is still insufficient.

If the continuously victorious sixth and seventh-generation Martial Gods, who ultimately collapsed due to attrition, had received such “negligible” help, the “final straw” could have been the “Camel” on the other side, unknown for sure.

Tumor Xiang Shan felt he could understand the obsession of the White Fleet Prosthetics Followers and Black Ship Righteous Followers about this matter.