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

In the helmet, a slightly stiff electronic notification sounded.

Subconsciously, Wang Man turned his head and glanced at the slowly closing port gate, feeling even more anxious.

In fact, at the beginning, he refused Tang Hairong's suggestion.

After all, if there is a problem with the reserves of basic metal resources, he, the person in charge of exploring and mining planetary resources, needs to bear a lot of responsibility.

But seeing the gap getting bigger and bigger, Wang Man couldn't think of any solution, so he could only follow Tang Hairong's suggestion, and went back to the [Earth].

"hope……"

"Professor Lu, don't be too angry..."

Following the guidance of the holographic arrow, Wang Man walked on the hard and cold deck, thinking wildly in his mind.

Chapter 673 Sir, times have changed!

Swish.

The closed door of the office in front of him suddenly opened, revealing the bizarre world inside—azure blue holographic projections filled with various data filled the entire office.

In the center of the huge holographic projections, a small figure sat with his head buried in his chair.

From the movement of the figure, it can be seen that he seems to be doing some important calculation work.

"Academician Wang, sit down."

A familiar voice came from the front.

"Hey!" Wang Man hurriedly responded, and carefully squeezed into this world full of formulas and data.

Even though he was extremely careful, he still inevitably touched the light of the holographic projection, causing layers of rippling ripples to appear on its surface.

"Wait for me for a while, let me finish the work at hand." Lu Yongchang said softly.

Feeling the long-lost gravity, Wang Man nodded silently.

A mechanical arm robot took a cup of hot tea with ease, and gently placed it on the coffee table in front of him.

Looking at the mist rising above the tea, and then turning his head to look at the endless starry sky outside the porthole, Wang Man subconsciously sighed deeply.

"Why? Are you discouraged?"

Accompanied by the familiar ridicule sounded, a figure blocked the light of the holographic projection and stood in front of him.

"Lu, Professor Lu...I..."

Wang Man stood up awkwardly, rubbed his hands, and said in a low voice with embarrassment: "Professor, I have failed your expectations."

The corners of Lu Yongchang's mouth rose slightly, with a slight smile, he waved his hands nonchalantly.

"What do you say?"

"It's not your fault."

"The giant structure project and the starship replacement project are carried out at the same time, which really tests the fleet's material reserves."

Wang Man was slightly moved when he heard this: "Professor, what do you mean..."

"Stop one of the projects first?"

Lu Yongchang glanced at Wang Man with a half-smile: "Pause? Why do you want to pause?"

"Since mining technology can no longer keep up with the speed of resource consumption, let's develop new mining technology!"

While speaking, Lu Yongchang raised his hand and made a gesture.

The dense holographic projections in the office are like spring snow in the sun, instantly turning into light particles and melting into the air.

Only a blank holographic projection was left quietly floating beside the two of them.

"Professor?" Wang Man looked at Lu Yongchang in front of him with some doubts, "New mining technology?"

"The development of planetary exploration and mining can be said to have reached the extreme."

"Nano-robots paired with large-scale mining machinery, the efficiency of mineral mining is already very exaggerated."

"I really can't imagine any other way to greatly improve the efficiency of mining." While talking, Wang Man frowned and shook his head.

"Open up your mind." Lu Yongchang smiled and raised his hand to operate in the holographic projection.

A familiar image of a planet appeared in front of the two of them.

"This is...Kepler 452c?" Wang Man, who is engaged in planetary resource mining, recognized the planet immediately.

"Correct."

There was a faint light in Lu Yongchang's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "According to the survey, this is an iron planet."

"It contains a huge amount of base metals and rare metals inside."

"If it can be fully exploited in a short period of time, the fleet's resource shortage problem will be greatly alleviated."

"Professor, I understand what you said." Wang Man responded in a low voice, "Currently, the focus of mining work is on this planet, but..."

"Too slow!" Lu Yongchang directly interrupted Wang Man's words.

"Open up your mind!"

Lu Yongchang emphasized again.

Wang Man frowned, thinking carefully.

A few minutes later, he shook his head with a wry smile: "Professor, you should explain clearly."

"I... really don't understand what you mean."

Lu Yongchang glared at Wang Man bitterly: "You...be more flexible!"

"Mining, why do you need to dig a little bit on the planet?"

"Your next excavator, why is it an excavator?"

Wang Man: "???"

Is this... speaking human words?

"This... is not mined on the planet, where else can it be mined?"

"In space?" Wang Man asked half-jokingly.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yongchang nodded in agreement: "Academician Wang, you have figured it out!"

Wang Man:? ? ?

Who am I, where am I, what have I done?

At this time, Wang Man's main focus is to be ignorant.

"Think about it, how tiring it is to mine on the planet, digging, mining, transporting..."

Lu Yongchang's voice was like a devil whispering, slowly lingering in his ears.

"Even with nanobots and giant mining machines, these steps are time-consuming and labor-intensive."

"I thought of a simple and crude plan."

"Why don't we just blow up the planet and save the cumbersome steps of mining and transportation!"

Wang Man: "...???"

He couldn't believe his ears for a moment.

what is this?

If you can't solve the difficulties, just solve the source of the difficulties? !

"What do you think of my plan?" Lu Yongchang's demonic whisper continued, "Think about it, the whole iron planet will be broken into large or small pieces, and we can even directly use the ship's laser cannon to How efficient is the smelting step in space!"

Wang Man swallowed hard, feeling a little disconnected: "Teach, professor..."

"Huh?" Lu Yongchang glanced at Wang Man.

"I think... your plan is very feasible, and I think so too!" Wang Man said emotionally with a strong look in his eyes!

He briefly imagined the scene described by Lu Yongchang, and he was so excited that he wanted to raise his arms and shout on the spot!

Sir, times have changed!

Serious people who tm use mining equipment to mine?

……

Lu Yongchang was very satisfied with Wang Man's reply.

Therefore, he briefly introduced this extremely explosive mining plan to Wang Man.

First, use high-energy laser weapons and anti-matter bombs to completely detonate the iron planet.

Then, in order to prevent planetary debris from splashing around and disturbing the movement laws of other celestial bodies in the star system, a large number of gravitational shield generating devices are used to generate a reverse gravitational shield to "trash" these debris within a fixed range.

After simple sorting, the reverse gravitational shield and high-energy laser beams are directly used to put the melting and smelting work in space.

In this way, not only the mining efficiency has been greatly increased, but the smelting efficiency has also been greatly improved.

only……

The most difficult point at present is how to make a weapon powerful enough to detonate a not-so-small iron planet!

Chapter 674 Star Destroyer [Suzaku]

A month later.

Wang Man looked anxiously at the red warning sign in the holographic projection.

Although Zero has adjusted the allocation of computing power and invested as much computing power as possible in mining and smelting, it still cannot change the situation that the basic metal resources of the fleet cannot make ends meet.

With the starship factory and megastructure projects slowing down as much as possible, the reserves of the fleet's basic metal resources are still continuously falling towards the lowest warning line.

"drop!"

A crisp notification sound came from the speaker, breaking the silence in the office.

"Academician Wang Man, a message from Starship Factory."

"Special order manufacturing progress: Star Destroyer [Suzaku] has been assembled and is undergoing factory inspection."

"Okay!" Hearing this news, the depression on Wang Man's face instantly dissipated, replaced by a hopeful and relieved smile.

He unfastened the electromagnetic adsorption device, stood up and paced back and forth in the office a few times.

Then, he reached out and opened a file in the holographic projection, and checked it carefully again.

After confirming that there were no mistakes, he said in a deep voice:

"Zero, help me contact Professor Lu, [Suzaku] is about to be completed, and the fleet is ready to mine!"

"Roger that!"

After the electronic synthesizer sounded, Wang Man excitedly opened the information on the Star Destroyer [Suzaku].

Looking at the gorgeous fiery red lines, a bit of intoxication appeared in his eyes.

In the case of a serious shortage of basic metal resources, in order not to affect the progress of other projects, most of the raw materials for [Suzaku] come from the refurbishment of old starships.

But this did not affect the domineering and arrogant appearance of [Suzaku], nor did it affect the structural strength of [Suzaku].

Just like its name, the Star Destroyer [Suzaku] is like a big bird fluttering its wings, exuding a noble aura from top to bottom.

In the huge gun barrel that runs through more than half of the ship's hull, there is even a faint aura of destruction and violence.

Similar to [Battering Ram], Star Destroyer [Suzaku] also has one and only one main gun.

Moreover, this main gun also occupies most of the space in the hull.

Of course, there is still a big difference between the two - the instantaneous output power of the former is far inferior to that of the latter.

In the simplest terms, the Star Destroyer can be reused, while the [Battering Ram] is a one-time weapon.

In addition, the Star Destroyer [Suzaku] is equipped with a large number of defense modules and high-power curvature engines.

According to the design of the academicians of the Academy of Sciences, in peaceful times, the main function of [Suzaku] is mining, but in wartimes, especially for those civilizations that stick to the planet, [Suzaku] will be a very lethal weapon!

Of course, the fundamental means of both are the same, both are to detonate the planet.

"Ding!"

The crisp message notification sounded again, interrupting Wang Man's thoughts.