Chapter 41 Rebuild the base
But after thinking carefully, Li Qing felt that the first possibility was more likely, while the second possibility was very unlikely and almost impossible.
The reason is very simple. There are wrecks of Dreadnought flagships on this ancient battlefield, and there are more than one. Even the T-slot main gun of the flagship of a lower civilization is earth-shattering. It is not a problem to destroy a conventional warship of an advanced civilization with one shot.
Now several flagships have been destroyed, but no wreckage of the second race has been seen, which can only mean that this is a civil war.
As for whether a super civilization beyond the normal level would take action, Li Qing had not considered it.
"Civilization died in civil war. What a sad story!"
The key was not destroyed by the nuclear war in the early days of the space age, but rather by the war after leaving the home planet.
Li Qing sighed, feeling complicated.
After sighing, the original question comes back, where is the mother planet of this civilization?
The civilization is destroyed, but the home star is definitely there. According to the technological level of this civilization, it is not much different from the Shata Tribe United Civilization, and its territory is definitely not much larger. In other words, the home star of this civilization is definitely here. It is within a thousand light-years range from the center, and it will definitely not be at the outpost.
If it was over there, it would have been found long ago.
The west side is unlikely. There is a non-isolated interference zone there and cannot stop players. If they are there, they will be found.
Then the only possibility is that the north and east, or southeast, are within the isolation interference zone.
Only inside, inaccessible to the fleet, would its position not be revealed.
It's embarrassing to know that there is a living planet in a certain area, but you can't even see it.
I can't even think about it, I can't get through it at all.
Li Qing shook his head, feeling nothing but pity.
This wave of digging revealed a very rare planetary environment modification technology, but this thing is not very valuable.
Because each planetary environment modification technology is specific to a certain planet, there is no planetary environment modification technology that is universal for all planets. In other words, unless you want to transform the current planet, this technology can be sold at a high price. Otherwise, this technology The technology is also sold to some scientific research institutions for reference, and the price is certainly not much higher.
Of course, the low price is just a relative term. It is not a problem to take it back to Jinmen and sell it for more than one billion stars.
However, Li Qing thought it was better to keep it. Maybe he could use it as a reference if he has needs in this area in the future.
Well, just for reference, he never thought about transforming this planet himself, unless he was crazy.
The revenue of more than one billion is already huge compared to a green-quality tomb.
It’s also that no one has explored this galaxy yet. He should be among the first batch. In game terms, it’s a pioneer plus first pass, and the rewards are definitely much higher than normal.
At any time, the person who gets the first bite of the bonus will definitely make a lot of money, and he is no exception.
After digging the grave, there was nothing left to explore on this planet. Li Qing ordered the landing modules to be recovered one by one, and the fleet prepared to leave.
But just as the fleet turned around, Li Qing suddenly stopped. Looking at the wreckage of the battleship floating in the starry sky, he suddenly thought:
"Can these ancient ruins be recovered?"
When encountering wild monsters and fighting, the destroyed pirate warship will not only explode into some worthless wreckage, but its broken hull will disappear after a period of time, as if melting into the void.
This kind of ship wreckage cannot be decomposed into anything if it is placed in the palm of your hand.
But the wreckage of the battleships in front of us has not disappeared for countless thousands of years. Will there be any difference?
Li Qing curiously opened the universe in his palm and put a piece of debris into it. The next second, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes:
"Is it really okay?"
Even though he was ecstatic, Li Qing was overjoyed when he looked at the countless battleship wreckage all around and in the distance. He immediately sent out all the industrial ships, used tractor beams to pull all the surrounding wreckage into one piece, and then put it into the palm of his hand. among.
Then, throw these wreckage directly into the furnace in the warehouse area of the high-dimensional fortress, and recycle and smelt them into new alloys.
Seeing the wreckage resmelted into alloy with his own eyes, Li Qing's joy was beyond words.
This means that all the debris in the sky is money.
But there is a problem. The technological level of this civilization is not as good as that of humans, and the strength of the alloys is not as good as the ones they use now. The hulls and armor of battleships made with this will be much weaker than normal battleships.
Therefore, these substandard alloys can only be sold as steel, not as alloys, and their value is greatly reduced.
It must be remelted and resmelted according to the current alloy formula to make its strength reach the level of human technology.
Fortunately, he has nothing else now, so he has enough time to slowly smelt.
He even simply started building a second medium-sized alloy furnace in the warehouse area of Gaowei Fortress to increase production.
Then he stopped leaving and stayed here, focusing on collecting the wreckage.
Alloy is the most important material for building warships, accounting for 70 to 80% of all materials. With so many wrecks, God knows how much alloy can be collected, and who knows how much money can be saved.
A month passed in the blink of an eye, and he had just collected part of the nearby area. It was estimated to be less than one percent of the debris scattered near the planet's orbit, but a total of more than 20 million square meters of debris had been collected. If all of it was recycled, at least Millions of square meters of alloy were smelted, worth billions of stars.
“It’s so cool to cheat!”
Without Palm Universe, if it were a normal player, God knows how long it would take and how much effort it would take to collect them all.
However, even if the collection is cheated, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of months to complete the collection, and it will take more than eight years to complete the collection, unless the scale is expanded.
But they have all come here. It is very troublesome to go back to the outpost. Many key equipment are in short supply at the outpost and may not be available. They may have to go to Jinmen. This trip may take half a year.
Rather than this, it is better
A week later, the fleet that circled the planet twice stopped over the largest plain on the planet. Then the main fleet parked in the orbit of the planet. Five frigates escorted several industrial ships and transport ships slowly into the planet.
Transport ships are different from industrial ships and battleships. Regardless of whether they are large or small, they have only one module, not a segmented module design, so they can enter the interior of the planet. However, the larger the transport ship, the slower it will enter the planet's atmosphere, and the transport ship will be affected more. The engine has certain requirements.
The fleet spent three hours entering the interior of the planet and arriving over the plains. They moved out the base modules one by one and placed them on the desolate land of the planet.
Yes, Li Qing decided to put his personal base on this planet.
Anyway, his original purpose of coming here this time was to find a suitable galaxy to establish a personal base. Although this galaxy does not have an asteroid belt, it does have this huge ancient battlefield all over the orbit of the planet, and the remains of warships in the sky are waiting for him to collect them. If he collects them all, he will be able to Decomposing and recasting alloy materials worth hundreds of billions is definitely enough for him to build a base here.
And although the galaxy does not have an asteroid belt, it does not mean that mining is impossible, it is just that it is not as easy to collect as the asteroid belt.
A complete set of large standard base modules, including a main core command module with a length, width and height of 1,000 meters, 9 large auxiliary module cabins with a length, width and height of 300 meters, and 36 medium-sized auxiliary modules with a length, width and height of 100 meters. The cabin, as well as 120 small auxiliary module cabins with a length, width and height of 30 meters, can be freely connected and separated.
Then, a series of supporting facilities for the large base were moved out.
1 large electromagnetic radar and 4 small electromagnetic radars.
120 fully automatic sentry cannons.
A set of medium-sized water extraction and purification equipment.
Two small intraplanetary craft.
A set of large fixed energy circle generators can establish an energy circle that protects the entire base. In addition to isolating the impact of small meteorites, its greatest role is to combine with the climate adjustment device to establish an ecology suitable for ordinary human survival within the energy circle. lock up.
To put it bluntly, it is to establish a small colony.
The premise of this thing is that on a planet with an atmosphere and a minimum standard of gravity and magnetic field, a planet with a too harsh environment cannot sustain this ecosystem.
This system is delivered by purchasing a complete set of large-scale base modules for free, but maintaining the ecosystem requires a lot of energy.
So Li Qing quickly moved out the energy-absorbing panels that were also provided and spread them on the wasteland near the base. Whenever a star looks directly at it, the energy-absorbing panels will absorb the star's energy, store it, and transport it to the base.
Even at night when stars are not shining, this thing can absorb various ray energy in space and store it.
With this set of energy-absorbing panels, there is enough energy to maintain the minimum standard operation of the base. As for the ecosystem, it is naturally powered by the base's own cold fusion reactor.
This kind of super reactor can provide a massive amount of energy, enough to support all the energy consumption of a large base.
The reason why it is also equipped with energy-absorbing panels is mainly for energy-absorbing backup.
After all, in the harsh environment of space, sometimes the reactor is affected by inexplicable magnetic fields or rays, or is damaged in battle. At this time, it is necessary to rely on stored energy for emergency response.
Then five large cold storages and some messy things were moved into the base. The robot engineer maintaining the reactor turned on the reactor. There was a slight vibration at first, but it soon became calm. An hour later, the base suddenly lit up, and countless The lights came on at the same time.
Li Qing stood in the command module of the main core module of the base. Through monitoring, he saw that a total of eight nodes around the base lit up at the same time, spraying out a dazzling light network that extended into the sky and soon merged at the top of the base's five-kilometer height to form a A huge net-shaped inverted light bowl with a diameter of twenty kilometers and a height of five kilometers.
As the climate control device is turned on, a wave of blue light visible to the naked eye emerges and sweeps across the base.
This is when the climate control system is scanning the atmospheric composition inside the base, and then changes the atmospheric structure in a targeted manner to an environment suitable for human life. When the complete adjustment is completed, no matter the atmospheric structure, temperature or even the interior of the 20-kilometer-diameter base, colonies will become suitable for human habitation.
Now that a base has been established here, Li Qing is not in a hurry.
All transport ships and industrial ships were transferred out of the palm universe, and the wreckage in the air was pulled together with the industrial ship's tractor beam to form huge wreckage balls parked in the orbit of the planet. Only when a certain amount was accumulated, the palm universe was used to collect them.
At the same time, he led the fleet to set off every few days to wipe out the small fleets wandering on the ancient battlefield.
The larger fleet was lured away, allowing its industrial fleet to collect all the wreckage in its patrol area.
At the same time, ten frigates were also sent out to explore around the base to see if there were any good things left by the ancient alien races on the planet. By the way, the marines were sent out to exercise.
A large amount of income was recorded every day, and the occasional battles increased his experience in various command skills. In just half a month, his basic naval command skills were upgraded by another level, from LV5 to LV6.
In the starry sky, the first two or three levels of any skill improve very quickly. After the third level, the speed of improvement drops sharply. After level 5, the speed of improvement becomes even slower.
Even if Li Qing had a tenfold experience bonus and his super innate attributes made him improve more than twenty times faster than other players, he would still have been promoted to level LV6 by now.
It is worth mentioning that generally speaking, basic naval command skills must reach LV10 to command cruisers, LV15 to command battleships, and flagships to at least LV20. In other words, the corresponding skill level is required for the skill bonus effect to take effect. for these advanced warships.
Nowadays, the command skills of most pioneers within ten years do not exceed LV10. In theory, it is difficult to command cruisers, let alone battleships.
This also means that top players like those in guilds who own battleships are either just commanding, but the skill effects do not take effect on these battleships.
Either he did not command by himself, but recruited a high-ranking commander to command on his behalf.
Recruiting high-ranking commanders is another matter. The main reason is that they are difficult to find. He has recruited captains at the Jinmen Naval Academy many times before. It is not that he has not visited the Commander Academy. Most of them are freshly graduated commanders. Officers, their skills are only at level one and level two. The only ones in the entire academy who can meet the requirements are those instructors, but instructors cannot be recruited at all.
To put it bluntly, rare and high-end talents are in short supply no matter where they are, and even if they don’t have connections, they don’t know where to recruit them.
Another morning, after checking the transformation of the ecosystem, Li Qing went out to collect minerals and spawn monsters as a routine.
However, as soon as the warship left the base and took off, an alarm sounded suddenly from the base, and the light curtain popped up. What was shown above was the middle of the transfer layer at the bottom of the main core command module. There was a sudden distortion, and a human figure slowly emerged, and soon a body was condensed. A young man wearing protective clothing with a shocked face under the glass of his hood.
"This is???"
Li Qing was also surprised and quickly controlled the battleship to return.
When he stepped into the transit floor under the escort of several robot soldiers, the young man who had regained his composure and was looking around the base looked up and saw Li Qing. He immediately stood up and said loudly:
"Brother, I am Thorn Bird, do you remember me?"
Li Qing nodded:
"Of course I remember, but why are you here?"
Thorn Bird took off his hood and said with a wry smile:
"Of course I came back from the dead. I'm finished this time."
Li Qing said in surprise:
"I remember you said you were going to dig a grave more than a month ago. What?"
"By the way, I remember you have two cruisers, eight destroyers, and more than forty frigates, now?"
He didn't ask if he was okay, but when he asked, Thornbird's face became even more bitter, with a look of heartache on his face:
"It's gone, it's all gone, my fleet is all gone." (End of Chapter)