When Su Ye's vision cleared again, the Gale Ranger was parked amid a boundless expanse of rubble.
Huge meteor craters and strange ores glowing faintly dotted the ground, and a strong metallic smell filled the air.
[Welcome to the Tier Three instance: Star Shatter Mine.] [Players may locate ore veins and mine them freely, but be warned: powerful monsters patrol these veins. Excessive noise will inevitably attract them.] [Instance time limit: 5 days.]
"Oh? A resource instance."
Su Ye looked at the notifications on the system panel, mildly surprised.
On the Survival Road, most instances involved killing monsters, solving puzzles, or completing specific objectives, with a rating awarded upon completion.
But a tiny minority were known as resource instances.
These instances had no specific completion objectives and no ratings.
Their entire value lay in the resources they contained.
How much a player could take away depended entirely on their own abilities.
The Star Shatter Mine was clearly one of those instances.
As for the warning about powerful monsters, Su Ye merely glanced at it and thought nothing more of it.
This was only a Tier Three instance. At worst, it would spawn a Tier Four boss monster.
"Xing Meng, deploy the drones in the Beehive Hangar. Get them airborne immediately, patrol the surroundings, and establish a security perimeter."
"Send out all the mining machines, locate the ore veins, and prepare for large-scale mining. We only have five days. We can't waste a single minute."
"Yes, my lord."
As Xing Meng finished speaking, the armor on the Gale Ranger's roof slowly slid apart.
"Bzzzz..."
Amid the humming of numerous engines, dozens of small but well-equipped combat drones shot into the sky and swiftly dispersed.
Next, five mining machines fitted with enormous alloy drill heads and mechanical arms appeared on