It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

The holographic image interface on the console changed silently.

【The starship is entering orbit...】

A faint sense of deceleration followed.

Under the control of the onboard computer, the ten ray starships started the orbiting procedure in unison.

Bai Yixuan quietly stared at the slowly "flowing" color bands on the surface of Jupiter, which was a huge endless storm on Jupiter.

He closed his eyes and went through the steps of the entire collection project in his mind.

There was also silence in the team communication channel.

Every starship pilot is silently recalling the next steps in his own way.

Although Zero can remotely monitor and control all subsequent operations, every driver present does not want such a situation to happen.

The reason is also very simple, it is still a problem of computing power.

At present, Zero's computing power is sufficient, enough to control a large number of ray starships to carry out the helium-[-] collection project without a driver, but that is based on the premise that a large number of factories have shut down.

Once the helium-[-] acquisition project is successfully completed, while the helium-[-] is being exploited on a large scale, humans are bound to start manufacturing starships on a large scale again.

By that time, on the premise that there is no breakthrough in photonic computer technology, almost all computing power resources will be allocated to various factories.

At that time, any of their operations will be guaranteed without zero behind it!

Once a mistake is made, it will cause a little loss at the slightest, and the machine will be destroyed at the worst!

Therefore, they must cherish this only "SL" operation opportunity.

(SL, Save/Load, that is, saving and loading files.)

"Ding dong."

As a slight beep sounded in the cockpit, the holographic image interface on the console changed slightly again.

[The ray has entered orbit]

[Please ask the driver to start collecting Helium III]

The white highlight flashes in front of the eyes of all drivers.

Bai Yixuan reached out and turned on the ultra-distance communication device.

"Mars command center, the ray has successfully entered orbit."

"Mars received it, start collecting helium-[-] immediately, repeat, start collecting helium-[-] immediately."

The moment Lu Yongchang's voice came, the expressions of the pilots in the ten ray starships suddenly became serious.

Bai Yixuan adjusted his sitting posture, stretched out his hand to hold the joystick on the side, and prepared to release the collection tube inside the starship.

"Hong Fan, help me calibrate the angle."

He said in a low voice.

"Received!" Hong Fan responded meticulously, and reached out to input a few data into the onboard computer.

……

Shot pans to the outside.

Above the orbit of Jupiter, ten inconspicuous starships are quietly suspended.

From the bottom of the starship, a long and thin conduit slowly protruded.

The entire conduit is [-] kilometers long.

In the conduit, every [-] kilometers, there will be a partition.

There are special suction and filter devices at the partition.

In order to reduce weight and facilitate folding and carrying, the catheter is made of single-layer carbon nanotube material.

Although the wall of the conduit is extremely thin, according to simulation calculations, its toughness can completely withstand the devastation of Jupiter's upper atmosphere.

But even so, in order to accommodate this tube with a length of [-] kilometers and load enough helium III, the size of the ray starship has reached an astonishing [-]-meter level.

It is also the largest starship in human history.

Even the flagship of human civilization [Earth] is like a child in front of it.

Compared with a starship, it is more like a small base suspended in the orbit of Jupiter.

Under normal circumstances, it would stop moving and remain permanently above Jupiter's orbit.

Its task is very simple, to extract helium three from the interior of Jupiter, and then compress and store it in the cabin.

As for the transportation work, there are naturally special transport ships to transport these helium threes.

As for why...

These big guys are just too bulky.

Even if enough fusion reactors and Hall thrusters are installed, its acceleration ability is ridiculously weak.

It took a full three months just to travel from Mars to Jupiter!

For the latest Xuannv-20, it only takes 25-[-] days to complete this voyage in the forward four state.

This is also doomed that humans cannot take these starships to Proxima Centauri.

The ducts at the bottom of the starships slowly extended, and alarms sounded one after another from inside the cockpits of the ten starships.

"Drop! The operation is wrong. This operation will cause abnormal descending speed of the catheter. Please pay attention!"

"Drop! The operation is wrong. This operation will cause abnormal inclination angle of the catheter. Please pay attention!"

"..."

In the sound of zero alarms and reminders, the starship pilot in the cockpit was sweating profusely correcting his wrong operations.

And the duct at the bottom of the ray is also unswervingly extending towards Jupiter's atmosphere.

It was like a few small mosquitoes slowly extending their piercing and sucking mouthparts towards the target.

……

a few days later.

Mars Command Center.

An anxious atmosphere filled the hall.

Every researcher's face is full of exhaustion and anxiety.

Everyone stared at the holographic image in front of them.

The progress of "intubation" is updated in real time.

The numbers jump little by little.

Every beating involves the fragile nerves of all scientific researchers.

When the progress bar reached 100%, Lu Yongchang couldn't help holding his breath!

"Call Mars Command Center..."

Bai Yixuan's call came again from the ultra-distance communication equipment.

Lu Yongchang quickly reached out, grabbed the microphone on the table, and directly interrupted Bai Yixuan's voice.

"Mars received it, please tell me!"

"..." The sound of heavy and rapid breathing came from the speaker.

"Professor, we succeeded!"

"The ten ray starships have all been successfully intubated!" Bai Yixuan's voice was full of exhaustion and excitement.

Lu Yongchang let out a long sigh of relief.

Successful intubation means that 80% of the entire project has been completed.

"Congratulations." Lu Yongchang suppressed the excitement in his heart, and gave the order again, "Start extracting helium three."

……

Jupiter orbit.

Bai Yixuan stared at his bloodshot eyes, and pressed the extraction button with trembling hands.

……

"report!"

"All units are operating normally, and the extraction work is proceeding normally!"

"Successfully extracted Jupiter's atmosphere!"

"Successfully isolated helium three."

"..."

Reports sounded one after another in the command hall.

"Helium-[-] has been detected and is being stored!"

With the last report, cheers and applause instantly resounded throughout the command hall!

Lu Yongchang turned his head and looked at the chairman of the council, and both had long-lost smiles on their faces at the same time.

The energy crisis has been lifted, and the pace of human civilization is moving forward again!

Chapter 238 Nebula Class Starship

2040 years.

The sun has swelled to near the orbit of Venus.

Venus, which originally had a thick atmosphere, has completely become a bare planet under the sweeping of close-range solar storms.

Just like Mercury before.

"Zero, when did Venus fall into the sun?"

Lu Yongchang looked at the holographic image in front of the desk and asked softly.

"December 2042, 12, Professor." Zero responded to Lu Yongchang's inquiry concisely.

Lu Yongchang stared blankly at the expanding fireball.

On December 2042, 12, Venus fell to the sun.

This is the deadline for humans to leave Mars.

Unlike Mercury, the impact of Venus falling into the sun is extremely huge.

There are two reasons.

For one thing, Venus is much closer to Mars than Mercury.

On the other hand, as the smallest planet in the solar system, the average radius of Mercury is only 2440 kilometers, while the average radius of Venus reaches 6073 kilometers!

This means that when Venus falls into the sun, it will cause a solar storm that is multiplied in power!

If humans continue to stay on Mars, the ending can be imagined.

"Zero, where is the Heavenly Court plan?"

Lu Yongchang was silent for a moment, and asked again.

A year ago, after the energy crisis was resolved, Lu Yongchang immediately made a decision and directly launched the Heavenly Court Project.

After the launch of the Tianting Project, almost all of Zero's computing power was invested in various factories.

As Lu Yongchang's voice fell, the holographic image in front of him suddenly changed.

The original star map of the solar system disappeared, replaced by a picture outside the Martian spaceport.

I saw starships with a length of 1500 meters neatly arranged in the deep and dark space.

"Professor, 63.8% of the Tianting Project has been completed." Zero's voice sounded from the side.

"As of now, 500 [Homeland] Nebula-class starships have been manufactured."

"The production of 500 [Glutton] Nebula-class material storage ships is more than halfway through."