Chapter 17: Mercury Mining

  After handing over everything to Wang Fang, Li Yang left the ward and slowly went downstairs.

  After learning about his father's and his own true condition, Li Yang, who had just become rich, had the joy in his heart completely crushed by this heavy blow.

  He got off the bus in a daze and arrived at his residential area, found his bicycle, rode to a secluded place, changed into a running suit, opened the door, sat down, and drove aimlessly on the road.

  Outside the window, in the night sky, it suddenly started raining, with a patter of raindrops, which made Li Yang's already sorrowful mood even more melancholic.

  He had never thought that one day he would be diagnosed with a terminal illness, and when it suddenly happened, he felt like the whole world had changed.

  At the thought of possibly being unable to dance in the streets and having to walk with a hunchback using crutches, tears blurred my eyes.

  "Lei Yang, during this time I have also learned a lot of things through your planet's computer network. According to the current technological level on your planet, it is impossible to cure you and your father's illness." Xing Nao noticed that Lei Yang was feeling extremely downhearted, and immediately poured another bucket of cold water over him.

  "Black Crow's Mouth, if you keep talking nonsense, I swear I'll never bother with you again!" Li Yang said angrily.

  "Hey Li Yang, don't be angry, I'm just telling the truth."

  "My father doesn't believe you, that the mining ship can be big or small, is more useful than Sun Wukong's Golden Hoop Rod, and can't even deal with this little illness!" Lei Yang said discontentedly.

  "The medical system on the planet of Gilisd is completely different from yours on Earth, the medicine they use to repair physical injuries may be poisonous to humans on Earth."

  "Is there no other way? Flying Saucer brother, think again. As long as there's a glimmer of hope for me to reconcile with my father, I absolutely won't let it go."

  "You and your father's illness, you can't cure it on Earth, nor can my hometown of Gilisd Town planet, but the distant Xiu Zhen star system may have a way."

  "What kind of place is the Xiu Zhen Star System? Alright, since that's the case, take me there and let me see."

  "Haha, you little scamp, it's easy for you to say that! The Xian Tian Star System is also known as the Qing Yun Star System, and it's tens of millions of light-years away from the Solar System!"

  "Aren't you capable of space-time jumping? A mere tens of millions of light-years should be no problem for a flying saucer big brother like you."

  "Nonsense! I've flown across tens of millions of light-years, at least twenty hours or more, and it takes fifty tons of stardust, which is equivalent to diamonds on Earth! Now, bring me fifty tons of diamonds, and I'll take you to the Qingyun star system. Let's get the ugly talk out of the way first - fifty tons of diamonds will only be enough for a one-way trip; if you want to come back, you'll need another fifty tons!"

  Li Yang's eyes rolled back, and he almost fainted!

  "You black-hearted stinker! Diamonds are carats, how did they become tons here?! If you want 50 carats, I'll buy them for you right now, but you always ask me to hand over 100 tons of diamonds! Good grief, I'd better wash up and go to bed."

  "Heh heh, I know that the annual diamond output on your Earth is only around 20 tons. Even if you were to gather all of these diamonds and hand them over to me, it would take five years. The question is, what makes you think that the people of Earth should give you all of their star crystals?"

  "Never mind, it's annoying, can't you see I'm sleeping?"

  "Alright, you can sleep soundly then. I was going to remind you that many planets in the solar system seem to have star crystals too, but if you're busy, never mind."

  Li Yang suddenly sat up from the Mercedes-Benz car seat and shouted: "Hun, why didn't you say that earlier? It seems to be, but it's not. Have you never surveyed this kind of mineral deposit?"

  "Unfortunately, Star Crystal is not any metal, this thing that is very important to me, even if it's scattered on the surface of a planet under a layer of soil one centimeter thick, I couldn't detect it. All I can rely on is you. To be honest, the Star Crystal content on your Earth is extremely low, there are many planets in the universe with more Star Crystal than Earth. If we're lucky and find a vein, getting this hundred tons of Star Crystal would just take a minute."

  "Alright, I'll go buy some food and we can set off tonight to find the diamond." Xing Nao's words reminded Li Yang that the star crystals inside the flying saucer were as big as a human head, which undoubtedly gave him great confidence.

  It was already 9 o'clock in the evening, and Li Yang came to a small food stall outside the hospital and casually bought ten baked buns, ten bottles of mineral water, two catties of cooked beef, and two catties of apples, before hastily returning to the Mercedes-Benz.

  He drove the Mercedes-Benz car to a secluded place at high speed and then flew directly into the sky.

  In the pitch-black night sky, Li Yang's childlike heart was bursting with excitement, and he made the Mercedes-Benz car transform into a spaceship-like appearance, slowing down its speed. He wanted to experience the feeling of a real spaceship leaving the atmosphere.

  Li Yang was thrilled to have experienced what it's like to be an astronaut, seeing the blue Earth slowly getting smaller and finally becoming like a blue glass marble, his heart couldn't help but feel extremely excited.

  Gazing at the distant, starry Milky Way, he felt a sense of awe at the vastness of the universe. He was also shocked by the incredible capabilities of the flying saucer. Before, it had flown too fast, and he hadn't felt much, but this time, as it slowly ascended from the ground, piercing through the clouds, it gave him another kind of eerie shock.

  "Hurry up, hurry up! With your slow speed, when can we ever mine diamonds?!" Guang Brain was getting impatient.

  "Hehe, what's the hurry, Flying Disc little brother? Which planet shall we start from?" asked Li Yang with his mind.

  "Let's start with Mercury, its structure is close to that of Earth, and it has a great potential for diamond deposits."

  "Alright, I'll listen to you, let's go to Mercury then."

  He had just ordered the mining ship to go to Mercury, and before Li Yang's eyes flashed, he saw a vast expanse of yellow. They had arrived, and it was a great relief for him. After all, the mining ship could fly at hundreds of times the speed of light, so this distance was nothing to it, and they could reach their destination in the blink of an eye.

  Outside, it's eerily quiet, with only a gentle breeze blowing. The ground is covered in a hard, yellowish-brown stone that stretches as far as the eye can see, with nothing but desolate piles of rocks and not a drop of water in sight. If Lei Yang hadn't known beforehand that he was on Mercury, he would have thought he had ended up on Mars by mistake.

  What's going on, Mercury has no water, it's all rocks. Li Yang shook his head in confusion, if the dashboard display hadn't shown an outside temperature of minus 386 degrees, he would have really wanted to go out and take a stroll.

  After appreciating the strange scenery outside for a while, Li Yang ordered the mining ship to drill into the rock. To sleep comfortably, Li Yang simply ordered it to transform into an RV shape. The huge RV's bottom appeared with a large number of purple pipes, and the body quickly sank down.

  As soon as he entered the rock, Li Yang saw that the light screen in front of him was flowing rapidly. It turned out that a large amount of metal iron had flowed into the storage box. It seemed that this water star had a rich deposit of iron.

  When the hull sank more than 200 meters, Li Yang suddenly found a large gold mine vein below. He knew he was close to the limit of contact with the flying saucer, so he gave it a shout and said that he had discovered good things below and wanted to go down alone to dig for minerals.

  The flying saucer was very satisfied with Li Yang's hard work, so it let him be more careful and told him not to approach the location of the magma, that place is dangerous for mining ships and there are absolutely no diamonds.

  Liyang also knew a thing or two about this, it seemed that diamonds were made up of carbon atoms, similar to coal, and could burn when exposed to high temperatures. Even if there were diamonds near the magma, they would have been burned away long ago.

  Before long, the mining ship arrived at a depth of 300 meters underground, and a golden ore vein as wide as a river appeared. This gold ore vein was much stronger than the one they encountered near Mount Everest yesterday. As soon as the mining ship approached, the gold poured down like flowing water on the light screen, almost driving Li Yang crazy with joy!

  He looked at the data on the dashboard, and gold was increasing at a speed of tens of kilograms per second, all of which were money!

  Suddenly a number jumped out, and an extra "1" appeared in front. In just one second, the account had increased by over 100 kilograms! One hundred kilograms is equivalent to three million!

  At this moment, Li Yang felt his blood was about to boil!

  If this speed can be maintained, I will be the person who makes money the fastest on earth! Bill Gates and others are no match for me!

  Leyang beckoned the mining ship to play Beethoven's Symphony of Fate, indulging in the magnificent music while admiring the flowing gold, feeling incredibly comfortable.

  Unfortunately, this situation of making a fortune in seconds only lasted for a few minutes, and the gold vein became very small afterwards. Li Yang commanded the mining ship to dig along the gold vein, and saw that there were already eight tons of gold in the account, and couldn't help but smile with joy. These gold would be worth 20 billion once they were sold!

  I've got money, I've got money! Li Yang is so beautiful that she almost starts dancing with joy.

  But he was a little disappointed to find that the long-awaited diamond was not even one, so he simply sat on the driver's seat and stared at the light screen, silently praying: God, please give me a diamond!

  However, the fruitless wait caused his heart to sink slowly, and he stared at the screen, operating the mining ship for two hours. By now, gold was gone, copper and iron were mined in large quantities, but diamonds still didn't appear.

  Lei Yang, who had been waiting in vain for a long time, felt sleepy and ordered the mining ship to maintain a depth of 500 meters above the surface of Venus, continuing to explore forward, then went back to sleep.

  Li Yang woke up to find that it was already the early morning of the second day. He went to the front cockpit to check the situation and found that the mining ship was still running quietly forward. When he subconsciously scanned the storage situation, he finally discovered that there were a few thumb-sized diamonds in the area where the diamonds were stored!

  He thought for a moment, and these diamonds enlarged before his eyes. Looking at these sparkling diamonds, he sighed in his heart, this damn diamond is too difficult to mine!

  Will there be a large number of diamond deposits in places where these diamonds appear?

  As he thought of this, the light screen in front of his eyes displayed the location of the rock formations where these diamonds were found.

  After determining the direction, Li Yang hastily ordered the mining ship to turn around and head towards that area at full speed. For a moment, the mining ship was like a car on a highway, rushing forward wildly among the rocks.