Chapter 8

"Um, it seems that you Earthlings consider gold to be very important. I used to have eight hundred tons of it," the Star Brain said.

Ah! This guy actually has gold!

Li Yang made an emergency stop at the roadside, his body leaning to one side, almost falling flat on his face!

"Heaven! Hundreds of tons of gold! I don't need that much, just give me a few hundred pounds!" Li Yang was so excited that his heart was blooming, and his body was trembling as if he were about to fly!

"Don't be too happy too soon. I threw all that stuff away as garbage!" The Star Brain said something that almost drove Li Yang crazy.

"Hey, you wasteful brat! What a waste of resources! Hundreds of tons of gold, just thrown away! I'm not in physical pain now, but my heart is hurting badly!" Li Yang threw his bicycle to the ground and shouted, patting his chest.

His face turned purple, and he was almost about to lose control!

The Star Brain looked at the pitiful Li Yang and comforted him, "If you want it, you can go mining with my mining ship. It's very easy to get gold and silver. I can't help you with this; the people who used to do this work were from the Gilliston planet, and now they've all been thrown into the sea to feed the sharks. You'll have to do the mining yourself."

"You have a mining ship? Why didn't you say so earlier!" Li Yang saw hope again.

"You didn't ask, did you?"

"I'm dizzy! Alright, I admit it's my fault! Now, my dear UFO brother, take me to mine! I just want gold, lots of gold, quickly!" Li Yang's eyes sparkled with stars.

In the next moment, Li Yang, who was riding his bicycle, was suddenly taken into space by the UFO, leaving only his old bicycle on the ground.

An old man who collected scrap saw a young man riding a bicycle suddenly disappear in front of him and was startled.

The old man saw what looked like a bicycle left on the ground and thought, "Is that young man not going to use it anymore?"

He rubbed his already blurry eyes and pulled his simple cart over. Seeing no one around, he picked up the bicycle and threw it onto his cart, then ran away furtively, looking back every few steps.

Maybe I was seeing things just now. This bicycle must be a gift from heaven, the old man thought as he ran.

After entering the UFO, Li Yang followed the Star Brain's guidance to a cabin. Inside, a large truck-like machine was parked quietly, and he couldn't help but exclaim, "This is the mining ship? Why does it look so much like a truck?"

"I made it look like a truck based on your imagination. If you want it to look like a boat, it can become a boat. This is the latest technology from the Gilliston planet, a mining workship that can change shape and color within a certain range, just like the liquid robots in your Earth's sci-fi movies."

Li Yang's eyes bulged, and he shouted, "Wow, a liquid robot! UFO brother, I've discovered you're a hidden gem! What other amazing things do you have? Introduce them to me."

"Hehe, Li Yang, I only have this workship now, nothing else. Get in and start mining. This workship is synchronized with my Star Brain, but it needs your commands to work."

Li Yang approached the front of the cockpit and found that the door wouldn't budge, so he asked, puzzled, "Why can't I open it?"

"Hehe, I've made the mining ship obey your commands. Now, just think about getting in, and you'll be inside."

"Is it that simple!" Li Yang was amazed. As soon as he thought about getting in, his body was indeed sitting properly in the vehicle!

He tried getting out, and with a swoosh, he was out again!

Li Yang was so delighted that he was grinning from ear to ear. If he hadn't known this was alien technology, he would have thought he was seeing a ghost!

He thought about the Toyota car that was burned by the UFO and wished it could be like that. Indeed, the workship turned into a brand new Toyota!

Li Yang sat in the car, admiring it for a long time, his eyes gradually moistening. He shouted in his mind, "This isn't just a workship; it's an all-powerful Aladdin's lamp!"

"Li Yang, your bicycle was stolen by an old thief. Do you want me to make him disappear?" The Star Brain reminded him as Li Yang was wiping his tears in the Toyota-shaped workship.

"Bicycle stolen? Ignore him. I've got a big Toyota now, and I probably won't need a bicycle anymore!" Li Yang said arrogantly.

"Hehe, that's true. If you want to ride a bicycle, the mining ship can turn into a bicycle for you."

"Really? A bicycle too?"

Li Yang's vision flashed, and he found his Toyota gone, and he was riding a bicycle. It was a broken, old black Flying Pigeon bicycle!

He felt a deep sense of loss, thinking the Toyota was more comfortable. As soon as he thought this, he was back in the Toyota!

Next, Li Yang, in the cabin of the UFO outside the solar system, used his memory to make the workship transform into famous cars one by one, such as BMW, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, and even domestic models like QQ, Great Wall, Jetta, and BYD, experiencing each one.

Finally, he discovered that the workship could become as large as a Boeing 747 or as small as a fruit knife or a speck of dust. It could turn into an eagle flying in the sky or a person walking on the street. There was nothing in the world it couldn't transform into!

Surprisingly, the weight of the workship could be adjusted arbitrarily with its shape, and its storage capacity was almost infinite. The driving method was extremely simple; whatever Li Yang thought, the workship would do, obeying commands unconditionally.

This workship, except for the ability to jump through space-time and the powerful attack weapons of the UFO, had almost the same functions as the mother ship.

It had a tiny engine the size of a match head and used diamonds as fuel. Although it had no attack weapons, its body was extremely sturdy, and its top speed was about 100 times the speed of light. Even a high-speed collision was a formidable destructive force.

After playing enough, Li Yang drove the workship to transform into a cute green QQ, feeling that this image was more down-to-earth and suitable for his high school student identity.

The UFO was too large to stay near Earth for a long time, or there would be countless sightings reported in the media. It placed Li Yang and the workship on a desolate mountain in the northern hemisphere and then returned to space.

Li Yang was told that this desolate mountain was in the heart of the Himalayas in western China, a place rarely visited by people. The Star Brain had surveyed and said there were rich gold mines below.

Sitting in the QQ car transformed from the mining ship, he saw through the car window that the surroundings were covered in snow-capped mountains. In the distance, towering snow-capped peaks pierced the clouds, reflecting golden light under the strong sunlight, looking majestic and grand!

At that moment, a Sino-American joint mountaineering team was struggling to climb Mount Everest. The team consisted of eight men and two women, hanging on the towering snow-capped mountain like a group of ants. The cold wind howled, and every step they took was extremely difficult.

"Ow, my God! There seems to be a car on the top of the snow-capped mountain!" A blonde, blue-eyed female mountaineer put down her monocular and shouted in broken Chinese.

"Shirley, you're having a high-altitude reaction! Hurry up and breathe oxygen!" A muscular Chinese man shouted beside her.

"No, there really is a car. It looks like... like... a Chinese QQ car! My God, when did Chinese cars become so powerful that they can climb a 7,000-meter snow-capped mountain! Everyone, look!" The female mountaineer named Shirley raised her monocular again.

The Chinese man stopped and took out his binoculars from his neck to look down the mountain. He felt his heart sink when he saw a green QQ car quietly parked on the top of the snow-capped mountain!

At that moment, if there had been a UFO there, it would have been more believable, as the surrounding cliffs made it impossible for a car to climb up!

"Click! Click!"

Flashlights flashed, and several team members struggled to take out their cameras and take a few photos. Suddenly, they saw the small car move and disappear in a flash!

Due to the angle, they couldn't see that the car didn't disappear but had entered the mountain!

The team members were stunned. They generally thought they had seen things or that the car had been blown into the valley by the wind. After looking for a long time and not seeing the car again, they continued climbing.

"So powerful, the hard rock was vaporized in an instant!" Li Yang shouted from inside the workship.

"Of course, the smelting technology of the Gilliston planet is among the best in the universe," the Star Brain communicated with Li Yang.

When Li Yang thought about mining in the QQ car, a bright purple light appeared where the car touched the rock. The rock beneath the car dissolved and disappeared, and the entire car sank in.

On the screen in front of Li Yang, the gold veins appeared like tree roots. All he had to do was look at these veins and give the mining ship commands, and the ship would mine according to his thoughts.

The car was well-insulated, with no noise or vibration. Li Yang operated the mining ship to descend about 200 meters and finally reached the gold vein. The rock continued to vaporize, and the storage area on the screen began to show glittering gold!

At the same time, large amounts of silver, zinc, tin, iron, copper, platinum, lead, tungsten, and over a hundred other rare metals appeared in the corresponding storage areas, separated into different zones. Li Yang, who didn't know much about metals, couldn't bear to abandon anything. Since the mining ship's storage capacity was almost infinite, he didn't worry about overloading and instructed the ship to keep everything.

Seeing the adorable gold increasing, Li Yang couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking, "I'm going to be rich!"

Feeling Li Yang's joy, the Star Brain seemed to experience a strange sense of happiness.

Li Yang learned that while the mining ship vaporized the rock, it automatically separated the needed metals and discarded the rest. Since the vaporization lasted only a short time, the steam would soon condense back into a new type of rock, identical to the original but without the precious metals.

In other words, the mining ship moved through the mountain like a small worm, eating and excreting. If it lost power or malfunctioned, Li Yang would be trapped inside the mountain!

Fortunately, Li Yang learned that even if the workship malfunctioned, it would repair itself, and the diamonds inside were enough to power it for three years, so he felt relieved.