Baihuang Star was an uninhabited planet, yet many mountain-sized beasts lived there. They fed on rock and soil, but could excrete-er, rather, precipitate-a highly dense black ore.
After simple processing, an alloy of this ore and certain other materials already met the standards for the hulls of Star-Sea Craft.
Its performance was also outstanding, earning it the favor of Star-Sea Craft manufacturers throughout the cosmos.
The first to discover this planet was the Xianzhou Alliance, which consisted of six planet-sized ecological megaships. Some had been destroyed in wars against the Denizens of Abundance.
Some had survived to this day.
This planet had been discovered over fifty years ago by the Xianzhou Yaoguang, one of those six ecological megaships.
These ores were also a fine resource for the Xianzhou Alliance, offering considerable value whether for their own use or for trade.
Thus, the Xianzhou Alliance's Yaoguang had built a base here and assigned personnel to collect and process the minerals.
However, a few days ago, the place had suddenly come under a fairly large-scale siege by the Denizens of Abundance. The garrison on Baihuang Star could only devote all its strength to defending the planet.
But the Xianzhou Alliance's Yaoguang was nowhere nearby, and even the nearest ship, the Xianzhou Luofu, was over two hundred light-years from Baihuang Star.
Even at its fastest, a planet-sized megaship would need a week to warp over, so the Xianzhou garrison on Baihuang Star had no choice but to appeal to outsiders for help first.
After getting a clear picture of the situation, Li Qiuzhi saw that many people had already accepted the commission and left comments beneath it:
"Netherworld Nine A": "Saw the news on the Galaxy Rangers' mutual aid forum. Don't worry, brothers on the Yaoguang. I happen to be on the nearby