3: Chapter 3 Elemental Food

Currently, Chen Yu is extremely short on money. To escape his debts, he even dared to commit suicide, so there's nothing he wouldn't dare to do now.

Hearing the smart brain robot say there was a way to make him rich, Chen Yu immediately became excited.

"Based on my infiltration of your Earth's network, I have a comprehensive understanding of your social structure and national composition. Currently, the technology on Earth is very primitive."

"You can register a technology company and produce high-tech products for sale. Although your authority only allows access to the lowest level of the technology library, the products you manufacture will be enough to lead this era."

Chen Yu's eyes lit up; there was actually such a method.

Considering that registering a company wouldn't be difficult, manufacturing high-tech products would at least require a factory, right? Where would he get the startup capital?

"smart brain robot, what you're saying is simple, but starting a business on our Earth also requires startup capital, and manufacturing products needs a factory, right? I'm currently broke!"

"A production workshop is simple. The spaceship has five multi-functional production lines that can easily produce the high-tech products you need. Once you make money, you can establish factories on Earth and expand your production lines."

"However, the raw materials for production on the spaceship are almost exhausted. So, our current problem is to solve the funding issue. With money, you can buy these raw materials on Earth."

"Then how do I get the initial startup capital?"

"Uh, that's actually quite simple too."

"Oh~! Tell me your idea?"

"Captain, we can go to other planets in the Solar System to mine gold."

"Pfft!" Chen Yu nearly choked on his own saliva!

"smart brain robot, can't you just hack into the bank system and add a few zeros to my balance? Why go through so much trouble?"

"I can do that, but I cannot. That would be getting something for nothing, and my principles tell me not to cultivate that habit in you!"

"Alright, but mining gold in space is quite interesting and incredible!"

"On your Earth, gold is relatively valuable, and in the Asteroid Belt of the Solar System, there are many asteroids composed of gold. We can mine a few hundred tons and bring them back."

Chen Yu chuckled again; he was already utterly stunned.

Mining hundreds of tons of gold! This simple and unpretentious money-making method, damn it, completely overturned Chen Yu's worldview.

"smart brain robot, I haven't seen much of the world, don't lie to me!"

"Our spaceship has specialized robots and mining equipment. Mining some gold is easy."

"Okay, since you said so, then let's go mine gold in space!"

In fact, Chen Yu was so excited inside that he was about to jump up. If he really were to mine hundreds of tons of gold and bring it back...

According to Earth's gold price, one ton of gold is almost 400 million yuan. If he really brought back hundreds of tons, why would he even bother starting a company?!

Calming his excited mood, Chen Yu asked the smart brain robot:

"Does our spaceship have a majestic name?"

"Captain, you can rename it."

"Then let's call it the Super Invincible Universe Ship 1!"

"Captain, you are truly humorous to come up with such a name, but the smart brain robot finds this name incredibly majestic."

"Hahaha, of course! As expected of a robot from a higher civilization, you've even learned to flatter!"

"Hehehe, Captain, the smart brain robot never flatters. It's just that the Captain's imagination is like a flowing river, something we smart brain robots cannot match."

Chen Yu was speechless, wanting to tell the smart brain robot to stop scanning those TV drama plots online.

"Alright, the first thing we need to do is go to the sea for a bath and get our Ship 1 sparkling clean."

"Understood, Captain. The nearest sea area is China's Bohai Sea. We will proceed immediately. To avoid public panic, the spaceship will activate optical and radar stealth modes. Upon entering space, artificial gravity mode will automatically activate."

Chen Yu praised the smart brain robot's thoughtful idea. He didn't need to question whether Earth's radar could detect his spaceship.

If it really were detected, he would suspect that Earth's radar was also alien technology.

A circle of white light lit up around Ship 1, which must have been some incredible technology.

Then the spaceship became flickering, slowly blending into the sky.

If a massive spaceship flew at supersonic speeds within the atmosphere, it would create enormous sonic booms and noise.

Flying at full speed in the atmosphere, when such a large spaceship passed, cities on the ground would be blown away, causing disaster.

So Chen Yu had the spaceship fly out of the atmosphere first, then head towards China's Bohai Sea, and its flight speed in space would also be much faster.

After flying for only a moment, the spaceship had already stopped.

Below was the vast, boundless sea. Under the smart brain robot's control, the spaceship plunged headfirst into the sea.

Then it skimmed through the sea at an astonishing speed. The seawater was impacted and surged hundreds of meters high into the sky. Many fish and shrimp probably died; what a sin.

After Ship 1 was cleaned, it actually rose directly from the water, heading towards the Asteroid Belt, approximately 200 million kilometers from Earth.

In the vacuum of space, Ship 1's maximum speed could reach 3,000 kilometers per second.

To fly beyond the orbit of Mars to the Asteroid Belt would only take about 19 hours.

This speed is a realm unimaginable with Earth's technology.

Consider China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which took more than half a year to fly from Earth to Mars' orbit.

Now, Chen Yu, piloting an alien spaceship, would reach the Asteroid Belt, which is even further than Mars, in less than a day.

After flying for a few hours in space, Chen Yu's stomach rumbled.

Only then did he remember that so much time had passed since he jumped off the cliff, and he hadn't eaten anything. His eyes immediately lit up.

When he jumped off the cliff earlier, he seemed to have some unfinished biscuits in his backpack.

"By the way, when I jumped down, wasn't there a backpack with me?"

"Yes, I also collected your backpack into the spaceship for you. I'll get it out for you now."

Subsequently, a small hatch on the ceiling opened, and a mechanical arm slowly lowered the backpack in front of Chen Yu.

Chen Yu jumped off the command chair, picked up his backpack, opened it, and took out the biscuits that had been crushed into pieces.

Chen Yu was speechless, but flying from here to the Asteroid Belt, mining, and returning would probably take two days.

It seemed he would only be able to eat these crushed biscuits to fill his stomach. Chen Yu didn't care that the biscuits were like powder; he grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth.

The smart brain robot watched Chen Yu eat and immediately reminded him.

"Captain, after detection, the substance you are currently ingesting has extremely low nutritional content and is considered very unhealthy food."

Chen Yu said irritably:

"No matter how unhealthy it is, it can still fill my stomach, right? I haven't eaten for over ten hours, and we still have to fly for another ten-plus hours. I'm hungry."

"Captain, although your food is unhealthy, as your loyal servant, I must tell you that there is edible food on the spaceship."

Chen Yu's chewing mouth immediately stopped. He looked up at the smart brain robot hanging from the top and asked:

"What? There's food on the spaceship? Are you sure it's still edible after ten thousand years?"

"Of course. Our higher civilization's preservation technology is beyond what Earth can achieve."

Chen Yu's eyes sparkled. He had never eaten alien food before and wondered what it would taste like.

"Quick, take me there. I want to try it."

Chen Yu followed the smart brain robot to a relatively large cabin. It seemed this should be where the aliens ate.

Chen Yu stopped in front of a glass cabinet containing some mechanical arms, which were used like chefs serving dishes.

"Quick, give me a signature dish from your planet!"

"Understood, Captain. I have prepared a Captain's meal for you."

The mechanical arms in the glass cabinet began to busy themselves, and some mashed potato-like substance was squeezed out of metal cans.

In less than a minute, a so-called Captain's meal was placed in front of Chen Yu.

Chen Yu stared at the sticky yellow substance on the table, his eyes wide!