Chapter 27 A Death sentence.
Right after the modules arrived, Andrew used the construction drones to attach them to the station and sent the rest of the drones to continue the resource gathering.
While the scout drones continued their sweep of the area searching for anything interesting.
They were now at a distance of around 100,000 kilometers away from the station but still found nothing.
Andrew even thought about creating recharging stations for them comprised of a solar power module and a drone recharge module.
This would save them a lot of time, that was wasted by the drones going back and forth just to recharge.
This was something he was considering for now and still didn't commit to actually doing.
After he was done instructing the drones he decided to manufacture more of them since his storage capacity grew a few times and he had more resource processing modules, he needed more drones to use them, so he ordered another 200 drones to be constructed.
50 of these drones were mining drones and the rest were resource-gathering drones.
With that done, he got to storing the items he had bought and getting the new upgrade for the medical module installed.
This took him a few hours as the upgrade consisted of not only a database and new software but also some additional instruments that he had to install according to the manual for everything to work as it should.
With this upgrade, he needed to research just one more module, before he could get his hands on the level 1 regeneration tank.
But that was for later as researching the module would require him to have almost 20,000 tonnes of materials, which he didn't have for now.
After he finished the installation of the instruments, Andrew decided to get himself scanned as till now, he still had no idea about his body's condition and this was as good a moment to get it done as any other.
So he lay down in the scanner, which activated automatically.
The whole process took only a few minutes, after which time he got out and saw the results.
The moment he read through the results and their descriptions, he turned pale and a moment later he was purple with rage.
-These fucking bastards!
He hissed, trying to calm down.
The results showed that his so-called step-siblings didn't only make him fat, and bullied him, they were after his life.
The concentration of the cocktail of different drugs in his body was very high and according to the scanner's diagnosis, if he stayed in that place a month or two longer, he would most likely die from an internal organ failure.
Even now when he stopped taking the drugs, his body was a wreck and there was no way for him to return to full health, at least not by natural regeneration.
The drugs that were given to him accumulated in his body over time and now they were removed but the process was extremely slow.
The only way to get back to full health was the use the regeneration tank to flush the drugs out of his system and regenerate his body from the inside out.
The procedure that he read through was a long one and required multiple regeneration sessions unless he could procure a level 3 or higher regeneration tank, which could deal with the problem in one session.
To say that Andrew was furious reading about it and having the proof that they were poisoning him, would be an understatement of the decade.
If any of his three step-siblings were present right now, he would rip them apart or at the very least empty his gun into them.
However the revenge had to wait for now, and yes he wanted revenge and he would get it sooner or later.
The most important thing right now was to get the regeneration tank and start the healing process.
The report also stated that he had at most a year to live without treatment as his organs were too damaged already and no amount of training could fix that, on earth he would be a dead man, but here he still had a chance.
It took him 25 minutes to finally calm down.
His rage, could not change anything and right now he needed to get started on the research as soon as he could, to save his life.
Doing the math, he figured out that he could get the regeneration tank in ten days if he was lucky enough, or in fifteen days if he was not.
Either way, he would get it soon, and the moment it was installed he would use it.
This thought helped him to calm down and start thinking clearly again.
He also remembered that he came here with a few other things in mind as well.
The first one was to give his captor the Gravity compensator so that gravity would not affect them as much.
As soon as he put the bracelet on the alien's hand, and activated it, he saw that his prisoner started to breathe with much more ease.
The next thing he wanted to do was to get this alien scanned again with the use of the new upgrade.
The new scan revealed that the alien was already in the process of healing and the broken bones would only take around three more days to finish healing, but it also showed that the alien was malnourished right now and needed immediate assistance.
The treatment for the alien could be conducted immediately as all the necessary supplies were present.
So without wasting any time, Andrew moved the alien into the medical capsule and activated it.
The display showed that the treatment would take 48 hours, so he left the medical module and went straight into the command center.
He once again went through the necessary resources to conduct the research and the first thing he needed was the pharmacy module.
This module was responsible for the production of all the medicine that he would ever need, all it needed were the necessary materials and he would never run out of medicine.
This was the next research he would do either way but now it has become a top priority for him.
The next step would require him to get more storage modules as the level 1 regeneration tank required 30 000 tonnes of materials to be researched and he only had 25 000 tonnes capacity for now so he would need ten more modules at the very least.
That alone was not the problem as he could easily buy the modules from the merchant, the next time he came.
But getting the required amount of materials would be problematic at best.
Previously, he could fill up the storage modules in around 1 day, but now he had 12 times the capacity and it would grow to 15 times or even more when the merchant arrived next time.
Even with the drones he ordered just a few hours ago, it would take between 7 to 10 days to get the resources he needed.
That was only for the pharmacy module, and he would also need other materials for other research and even more for the merchant.
Thinking about it all, Andrew now regretted not buying more modules, but a few hours ago he had no idea that he had a death sentence over his head.
The only thing that he could do right now was to increase the number of drones as fast as he could, but for that, he had an idea.
He immediately ordered the component manufacturing module, to start producing parts for another one exactly like it.
This process would take two days to complete, but by then he would be able to produce parts twice as fast.
He also increased the order of drones from 200 to 2000, with a three-to-one ratio of gathering and mining drones.
That was all that he could do, for now, to speed things up.
With nothing more that he could do, for now, he got the seeds into the two new hydroponics modules and then got back to his studies.