Chapter 356 Harvest and Expansion

A few hours later, eight warships of the Pisces Pirates dragged the space station into hyperspace.

As soon as the Pisces Pirates left, the reinforcement fleet of the Prade Empire arrived at this star system.

"Where is our space station?" The commander of the reinforcement fleet looked at the empty mining star orbit dumbfounded.

"Sir, has it been destroyed by pirates? Look, there are still wreckage there." A soldier pointed to a piece of metal debris floating in the distance.

"Impossible, how could such a large mineral transfer station explode with only such a small amount of debris." The commander shook his head.

"Sir, we received a distress signal from the ground of the mining star." The communicator in charge of warship communications reported loudly.

"Let's go." The commander nodded.

Five destroyers were separated from the support fleet and flew towards the surface of the mining star.

As a huge airflow blew away the slag on the ground, the five destroyers landed on the open space of the mining field.

"Sir! Sir! The pirates took everything! Even the entire space station was dragged away by them!" As soon as the deck of the spacecraft landed, the person in charge of the space station ran over crying and shouting.

"Oh? Tell me what happened." The commander of the support fleet pushed aside the guards blocking him and asked the person in charge of the space station.

"Two days ago, a fleet appeared near our space station." The person in charge of the space station told the story in detail, of course, without his artistic processing.

"This matter is not your fault. The other party is too powerful. A fleet of this scale is not something your space station can stop. I will ask my superiors to forgive you." The fleet commander nodded.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" The person in charge of the space station nodded and bowed hurriedly.

"Okay, go down and call the others." The commander waved his hand.

The person in charge of the space station turned and left. Where the fleet commander could not see, the person in charge of the space station touched the anonymous passbook in his pocket and smiled foolishly.

The space pirates came at the right time. He had just embezzled a batch of precious associated minerals and was thinking about how to destroy the evidence. The space pirates even towed away the entire space station, and all the evidence disappeared.

One day later, eight warships towed a "carriage" consisting of a space station and appeared near the asteroid sea where the Ark was hidden.

After Liu Rushun sent a security code to the Ark, dozens of construction drones flew out of the port of the Ark and came to the asteroid in front of the fleet.

Dozens of chains flew out, and the construction drones carefully towed the asteroid that blocked the Pisces pirates and the Ark to the side.

After the asteroids used to hide the Ark were towed away, the eight warships began to tow the space station into the asteroid sea.

"Okay, okay, let's put it here." Liu Rushun saw through the holographic screen that the space station had stopped next to a huge asteroid and clapped his hands hurriedly.

"Construction ships and drones will start to expand along the original space station, connect this space station to this metal asteroid, and then hollow out the minerals inside the asteroid."

"Also, report to me the materials we seized this time." Liu Rushun seemed to be deflated, and lazily lay on his command chair and commanded.

"Captain, we seized a medium-sized transit space station, three large transport ships, eight medium-sized transport ships, and five small transport ships this time."

"In addition, there are 12 million tons of various precious minerals, 12,000 tons of various foods, 10,000 tons of distilled water, and a large number of other items." An officer sent a list to Liu Rushun's terminal.

"Very good, three large transport ships are used to transform into drone motherships, and eight medium transport ships are transformed into combat ships (destroyers)"

"Then the five small transport ships will be transformed into frigates and stay here in the Ark for patrol." Liu Rushun thought about it and divided the captured transport ships into smaller groups.

Although he wanted to directly build the various new warships sent by the Empire Headquarters, they had no conditions to build warships now.

The manufacturing equipment on the Ark is now fully engaged in the production line and metal decomposition printing equipment, which will be the foundation for the future development of the pirate group.

The new warships can only be built when enough equipment is manufactured. Now they will temporarily transform the captured transport ships into combat ships.

As Liu Rushun's orders were issued to various departments in the Ark, the three transport ships were towed by tugboats into three simple shipyards that had just been built when the fleet went out hunting.

This simple shipyard can only be used for assembly work, not for building ships. It is just three empty shells with some mechanical arms.

The "Pisces Pirate Group Personnel Department" on the Ark began to select suitable members from the sleeping immigrants immersed in the virtual world.

A male and female crew member suddenly received a dialog box floating in front of them in their virtual world, which briefly introduced the current situation of the Ark.

They were given two choices. One was to choose to wake up, become a member of the pirate group, and fight with the leader Liu Rushun.

The other was to wait until the pirate group was strong enough to destroy the surrounding civilizations and then wake them up. At that time, they could start colonization work directly.

Because they were afraid that too many people would wake up at once, the personnel department of the pirate group chose to question 10,000 people at a time.

Beyond everyone's expectation, more than 70% of these sleeping colonists chose to wake up.

Soon the size of the pirate group began to expand rapidly, and a large number of awakened colonists became the fresh blood of the pirate group, and all the facilities on the Ark and the space station were activated.

The mining spacecraft carried in the Ark also began to mine minerals in the surrounding asteroid sea.

With the expansion of the pirate group and the surge in the number of people, people's hearts began to slowly become scattered. Obviously, Captain Liu Rushun could not completely convince the people.

Because his position has a certain term of office, it will be automatically lifted after a period of time, and then a new captain will be selected from the next batch of awakened people.

Now Liu Rushun's approach is undoubtedly to seize power for himself and concentrate power in his own hands.

Liu Rushun, who felt that the people's hearts around him began to change, was also helpless. He himself did not want to seize power, but a stable pirate group could not be democratic. It must be controlled by a dictator.

But it was too late to do anything. Liu Rushun accidentally heard someone discussing whether he was going to betray His Majesty and become independent from the empire, and take control of the Pisces Ark.

It was unfair! He didn't dare to have such an idea. If he really betrayed His Majesty, all the colonists would tear him to pieces!

(The author is going to start preparing a new book, which will be uploaded in November. The new book is slightly related to this book, and the details are kept confidential, haha. Of course, this book will not end badly~ Please subscribe~ Please vote~)