Chapter Twenty-One: Titanium Crystals, Titanium Crystals!

The idea of dissuading the Silver Star Civilization from being so "naive"—

had never once crossed Wang Dong's mind.

Every civilization had to bear the consequences of its own choices.

He had no intention of playing nursemaid.

Even if they were both human civilizations.

Wang Dong had offered a helping hand

partly because it was simply what his values compelled him to do.

But he was also testing whether he could gain something extra by changing the Silver Star Civilization's fate.

As for the results—

he hadn't seen any obvious gains, such as Source Points or modules.

But there were some indirect gains...

After the Dark Peng had traveled some distance

and moved away from the Silver Star Civilization's home star system,

under Wang Dong's command,

the Dark Peng withdrew the tractor beam holding the asteroid in place.

Two purple-quality modules made their appearance!

That's right.

They were the Guanant Drill and the Wide Area Superwave Detector!

Earlier, after completely killing that Void Worm,

Wang Dong had suddenly received a vague flash of inspiration.

It came from his past career as an interstellar miner.

He realized

that one of the three asteroids Olivia controlled

had certain characteristics that were remarkably consistent with a titanium crystal vein!

So after returning to the Silver Star Civilization's home star system,

he had Liu Zhi ask for that asteroid!

Now,

away from the Silver Star Civilization,

he couldn't wait to use the "mining duo."

"Your Excellency, the Wide Area Superwave Detector's scan results show

that this asteroid contains a titanium crystal vein!"

Liu Zhi reported excitedly.

Wang Dong burst into laughter.

Although he'd expected it,

this was still wonderful news!

The complete star-sector map of mineral resources provided by the Ouhuang Civilization

was simply too vast.

Even with all the Black Stone Duchy's supercomputing