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

But the megastructure engineering project team...

He was bored!

At this juncture, what megastructure project can be more important than other projects? !

This, isn't this messing him up? !

Once the basic metal resources cannot make ends meet, he, the person in charge of the Planetary Resources Exploration and Mining Department, must be the first to be held accountable!

Thinking of this, he hurriedly gave an order to Zero.

"Zero, help me contact Academician Tang Hairong immediately!"

……

Kepler 452b outside geosynchronous orbit.

Academician Tang Hairong, after successfully completing the [Dyson Ball] project, became the special person in charge of the Renlian Megastructure Project.

He stood in the office, through the porthole, observing the trajectories of the engineering ships on the synchronous orbit from a distance.

"It's really like ants."

He sighed softly: "In front of real planets, our starship is still so insignificant."

"It's such a small starship, but it can play with a planet on top of applause." Behind him, the office door opened, and a familiar voice came from outside the door, "It's alright, Academician Tang, you don't want to stay here all the time." It hurts the spring and the autumn."

"Mingyuan, how can this hurt the spring and the autumn?" Tang Hairong turned around, and looked at the passer-by with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "I'm just sighing, when will our mega-structure project be as good as it is?" Just as big as the planet."

Wang Mingyuan pouted at the porthole on the other side: "Here, isn't there?"

"You forgot the Dyson sphere project?"

Tang Hairong shook his head with a wry smile: "Dyson sphere? It's still far away. We haven't even successfully launched the second phase of the Dyson ring, let alone the third phase of the Dyson sphere."

"You should know, what I'm talking about is..."

"That's enough, academician Tang, the business is important, let's talk about these gossips later." Wang Mingyuan interrupted Tang Hairong's words, "You should know the person in charge of the Planetary Resources Exploration and Mining Department, right?"

Tang Hairong froze for a moment, then nodded and admitted.

"You mean that old boy Wang Man? Yes, of course I do!"

Wang Mingyuan shrugged his shoulders: "That's good, people are now asking the teacher for the crime."

Tang Hairong was taken aback by his words.

"Ask the crime? What crime?" Tang Hairong asked curiously.

"I heard it's a problem with the scheduling and use of basic metal resources." Wang Mingyuan responded with some helplessness.

"Hey! Old boy Wang Man!" Tang Hairong raised his eyebrows instantly, "Is it getting in the way of his business by using some resources here?"

"Ahem, Academician Tang, are you sure..."

"Is it a little resource?" Wang Mingyuan glanced at the engineering blueprint in the holographic projection, and asked weakly.

Tang Hairong: "..."

"If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb."

"Go ahead, I'll take care of Wang Man."

"...Okay!" Wang Mingyuan shrugged, turned and left the office.

……

shuh...

As the doors closed again, the office once again regained its original tranquility.

Academician Tang Hairong raised his hand, gently rubbed his aching temple, and said, "Ling, help me get the communication in."

"Roger that!"

The electronically synthesized sound fell, and a holographic projection was automatically unfolded in front of him.

"I said, Old Tang, you are not kind in doing this!"

"What time is it now?"

"The fleet has just arrived in the new star system, and everything is in a state of ruin!"

"You're a gigantic project, what's the fuss about at this juncture?"

"I've already seen it!"

"In the entire fleet, except for the starship factory, you use the most basic metals!"

If you haven't seen him, hear his voice first.

The projection screen has not yet been fully unfolded, and Wang Man's strong complaints have already been heard from the speakers.

At first, Tang Hairong still had a smile on his face.

After all, the two were old friends, and they hadn't seen each other for a long time, and he was about to have a good chat with someone.

As a result, I heard this series of "cursing sounds" as soon as I came up.

Especially the sentence, 'You're a giant project...', directly ignited Tang Hairong's anger.

Chapter 672 Giant Space Ring Habitation Station

"Hey wait!"

"I said Wang Man, what do you mean by that?"

Tang Hairong's face was a little ugly, and there was a bit of gunpowder in his voice.

"What do I mean?" Wang Man snorted coldly, "You should know better than anyone else how much resources your megastructure project consumed."

"Let me tell you the truth."

"Currently, less than 10% of the basic metal resources in the fleet's inventory are left. If things go on like this, it won't be long before all construction projects have to be shut down!"

Wang Man's words surprised Tang Hairong!

"what?!"

Tang Hairong exclaimed in surprise.

"How can the consumption rate be so fast?!"

Seeing Tang Hairong's unfake expression, the anger on Wang Man's face gradually disappeared.

He sighed forcefully, shook his head and explained: "The starship factory consumes a huge amount of base metal every day, and you also know that all the starships in the fleet are waiting to be replaced, and the speed of this consumption can be imagined. "

After speaking, he raised his head, glanced at Tang Hairong's uncertain expression, and said again: "In addition, on your side, the consumption of basic metals is second only to the starship factory."

"If the starship factory is shut down because of the base metal inventory problem, I can't bear the responsibility!"

Tang Hairong frowned, and asked Wang Man in confusion, "What about your planetary resource exploration and mining project, something went wrong?"

Wang Man rolled his eyes angrily at Tang Hairong's question.

"I said Old Tang, are you pretending not to understand or do you really understand?"

"This ore mining, classification, and smelting, which one does not take time?"

"What's more, even some resource extraction and smelting equipment needs to be manufactured on site."

"The computing power assigned to us by Zero is only so small, how could it be possible to keep up with such a terrifying resource consumption rate!"

While talking, Wang Man changed the subject and pointed his finger at Tang Hairong again.

"Let me tell you, Lao Tang, what kind of giant project is it, is it important to replace the fleet?"

"or……"

Wang Man winked at Tang Hairong: "Consider that I owe you a favor, okay?"

"There is no way!" Tang Hairong's face changed drastically when he heard this, "Old Wang, don't talk about one favor, even ten favors, I can't stop this project."

"You, let's use this spare time to think about how to mine ore resources quickly!"

Seeing Wang Man's instantly collapsed face, Tang Hairong shook his head with a wry smile: "Old Wang, to tell you the truth, the project on my side was ordered by Professor Lu himself."

"The importance is probably not much different from the starship transformation."

"What?!" Wang Man couldn't help being taken aback, and asked in a low voice, "What are you building? Didn't the [Dyson Cloud] expansion project be completed a long time ago?"

"Is it the second phase of the project [Dyson Ring]?"

"Professor Lu's stride is so big?"

"What a mess..." Tang Hairong waved his hands angrily, correcting Wang Man's statement, "It's a giant space ring living station."

"Space...ring...habitation station?"

Wang Man's eyes were full of confusion, and he said word by word: "What the hell is this?"

"Isn't Kepler 452b designated as the residence of human civilization?"

"The surface gravity is 2.03g, what should newborns do?" Tang Hairong said bluntly, "The new generation who has not yet undergone the coming-of-age ceremony cannot withstand the 2g gravity environment!"

"Then... isn't there a space parenting center?" Wang Man's eyes became more suspicious.

"The scale is too small, and the small internal space will have a bad impact on the mental health of the new generation." Tang Hairong spread his hands, "This is the original words of Professor Lu. In order to once and for all, we were ordered to design a circular living station. "

As he spoke, he reached out and dragged the holographic projection beside him, and called up a copy of the model data.

"The entire circular habitation station is located in the synchronous orbit of Kepler 452b, with a width of more than 100 kilometers."

"It is equipped with artificial gravity devices and various latest technological products."

"The habitation station is connected to the ground by twelve giant space elevators."

"Old Wang, look at how big a project this is." Tang Hairong smiled wryly, "The amount of all base metals was calculated after rigorous calculations, without any waste."

"And...Professor Lu said that in order to ensure the future development of human civilization, the priority of the circular residence project is second only to the starship replacement project."

There was a sudden silence in the office.

It can be seen from Wang Man's constantly changing expression that his current mood may not be much better!

After a long time, a long sigh came from the loudspeaker.

"Hey……"

"Old Tang, what do you think should be done?"

Tang Hairong was silent for a moment, then tentatively said in a low voice, "Why don't you ask Professor Lu?"

……

【Earth number】.

A small manned shuttle that came from afar drew a beautiful arc and docked quietly next to the huge Earth.

[Authentication in progress...]

[Authentication successful, welcome back, Academician Wang Man. 】

As this line of bright white text appeared in front of Wang Man's body, a gap slowly opened in the tightly closed port gate.

The gap is small, but large enough to allow small shuttles to pass through.

Under the control of the onboard computer, the small shuttle passed the gate of the port smoothly.

Outside the window is a directional holographic projection with green fluorescent lights.

Following the holographic arrow, the shuttle slowly drove into a small tarmac.

Looking at the familiar scene outside the porthole, Wang Man took a deep breath to calm down his anxious heart.

"Academician Wang Man, Professor Lu is waiting for you in the office."

Zero's electronically synthesized voice sounded inside the shuttle.

"Okay, I'll go right now."

While speaking, the hatch on the side of the shuttle opened automatically.

With the help of the auxiliary device, he carefully got out of the hatch and stepped on the extremely solid deck of the 【Earth】.

"drop!"

"Electromagnetic adsorption has been successfully switched."