Galaxy of Giant Ships: Starting with Data-Driven Warships

Chapter 10 Portable Dimensional Secret Realm

After a moment of astonishment, Chen Yao sighed again.

The effects of the "Lucky Card" are self-evident, but its cooldown time is still a headache.

The ten-year cooling-off period was something he could barely accept before, but now that he has personally experienced its incredible luck boost, he finds it hard to remain calm.

Even if the "refresh card" could work on him later, Chen Yao would still be unable to satisfy him.

Putting aside the fact that the "refresh card" itself has a one-year cooldown, what if other top-tier cards with long cooldowns are drawn later?

Simply relying on "refresh cards" is clearly not enough; the problem must be solved at its root.

"We must get a time-related component as soon as possible, and it has to be a cooling reduction component, the higher the quality the better..."

Chen Yao made up his mind that he would find a way to obtain a high-quality cooling and shrinking component in the future.

What are time-related components?

As the name suggests, it is a general term for all shipborne artifact components that contain the attribute of time power, and cooldown reduction components are a type that can accelerate or reduce the cooldown time of other artifact components installed on the warship.

These kinds of parts are extremely rare. Although Chen Yao had this idea, he was not sure whether he could get them or when he could get them. He could only take it one step at a time.

Shaking his head, he pulled his increasingly wandering thoughts back and calmed himself down again.

Instead of activating the card randomly, he first turned it into the fifth solidified card in the [Miracle Card Mother Pool] and then ignored it. Instead, he focused on the newly refreshed Miracle Quest in the [Miracle Quest] section.

"Special Slots: The current warship's special slots are full. Please unlock more slots. 200 Card Points will be awarded upon completion of the mission."

Upon seeing this task, Chen Yao's eyes lit up; it was clearly another task that was practically given away for free.

Within the Firewood Warship system, a special slot is unlocked every 5 levels the Firewood hull is upgraded. This means that by upgrading the Sky Patrol's purple Firewood hull to level 5, 8 more special slots will be added to the warship, and this task will be completed.

As for the difficulty of upgrading the Fireship hull, as long as it doesn't involve crossing a major tier, it can be directly strengthened as long as there are enough planetary origin crystals, so Chen Yao has no worries at all.

However, none of the dozen or so low-grade planetary origin crystal mines marked at the moment have been mined yet. He doesn't have enough planetary origin crystals, and the Lucky Card's duration is about to end, so it's destined to be too late. Therefore, Chen Yao is not in a hurry to complete this task. Instead, he controls the Sky Patrol to continue to travel through the asteroid belt and record more mineral distribution information.

Activate the "Secret Realm Card"?

No, it's not the right time yet.

Its duration is only 24 hours. If he doesn't want the "Secret Realm Card" to expire before the Sky Patrol returns, he must time it perfectly. Right now, there is still more than a starry day before the 48-hour return point.

……

A few minutes later, the Sky Patrol, which was flying by, paused slightly.

In the main control room of the warship, Chen Yao, sitting in front of the main control console, gently shook his head, a hint of loss flashing deep in his eyes.

Just now, he felt a mysterious energy being drawn out of his body. Although it had no effect on his physical functions, the feeling was unmistakable.

"Has the effect of the Lucky Card worn off...?"

In a flash, his gaze shifted.

[Solidated Cards: {Health Card (Common), Spa Card (Premium), Refresh Card (Rare), Secret Realm Card (Rare), Lucky Card (Legendary) 5/8}]

"Want to give it a try?"

Staring at the "Refresh Card" among the five fixed cards, Chen Yao pondered for a moment.

After a while, he lightly tapped his finger, and the "refresh card" was activated. As for the refresh target, it was naturally the "lucky card" that had just entered a ten-year cooldown period.

A special radiance emerged from the "Refresh Card" and quickly merged into the "Lucky Card," which had already turned gray.

As he watched the two beams of light intertwine, Chen Yao clenched his fists, his heart far from calm.

"Refresh Card" is only a rare card, while Lucky Card is a legendary card of even higher quality. He wasn't really confident that the refresh effect would work on it.

Although it was only a few seconds, Chen Yao felt it was an exceptionally long time. Only when he caught the dazzling black and gold light reappearing on the "Lucky Card" did he clap his hands loudly.

In any case, a year of cooling is far better than ten years of cooling.

Turning to look at the now-gray "Refresh Card," Chen Yao's initial joy quickly dissipated, and he shook his head, abandoning his intention to activate the "Lucky Card" a second time.

After more than 20 hours of intensive exploration and recording, the shipborne semi-intelligent system has recorded a considerable amount of information on first-order and above mineral resources, which is of great value. The main task going forward is to find a way to pack up and take all of these resources with us.

Until he gets his hands on a high-quality cooling reduction component, this Lucky Card can only be used once a year. Rather than using it now as a nice bonus, he prefers to wait until he has accumulated enough card points to support multiple ten-card pulls before using this "Lucky Card," which would undoubtedly maximize its effect.

After calming down, Chen Yao controlled the Sky Patrol for about half an hour, during which he discovered another first-tier cold crystal vein, and then turned his attention back to the "Secret Realm Card".

"I hope it's as I think..."

Swish!

As the card was activated, a ray of light from the "Secret Realm Card" flowed into his body, eventually condensing into a special mark in his palm.

"This is... the mark that controls the portal to the secret realm?"

By carefully sensing this special mark with his mind, Chen Yao quickly understood all the information about it.

This is a mark that controls the opening and closing of the secret realm's gate. It can be controlled by his thoughts to open a spatial vortex passage into the secret realm.

According to the information, this spatial vortex channel has a certain spatial absorption capacity, but it is uncertain how large an object it can collect.

Chen Yao naturally hoped for the largest possible asteroid, so that he could directly collect those asteroids containing high-value resources, saving the most time-consuming process of excavation and mining. He could then mine and cut them up separately after they returned to Earth. If this were the case, his harvest would undoubtedly increase many times over.

However, everything will only be known after testing, and it's not something he can decide.

The Sky Patrol slowly navigated towards a small asteroid about 100 meters in diameter to the side. As the warship approached, the Sky Patrol's hatch opened rapidly.

Chen Yao stood at the hatch, his right palm slightly raised, pointing directly at the asteroid, which was neither too big nor too small.