ps: Three updates today, and two updates a day starting tomorrow.

The clone crew members were bought out for 200,000 each in Tianjin and the local price at the outpost was 300,000, for a total of 5,100 stars of 1.53 billion stars.

Of course, the supporting senior crew members and captains were naturally recruited early.

Then I bought some scattered but not cheap things. The most expensive items were various food and consumables.

Li Qing had always thought that clones had no consumption before, but during this period of observation, he found that although these clones have genetic and soul defects, in theory they do not need various consumables like natural people, but in fact they do have this aspect.

It's a requirement, but it's not a mandatory requirement.

To put it bluntly, it’s okay if you don’t provide them with various consumables, but if there are additional consumables and a variety of food supplies, their enthusiasm and work efficiency will be greatly improved.

There was no preparation before. When he came back from this trip, he specially purchased a large batch of food and a large number of consumables, with a total value of more than 1.5 billion.

This is enough for 100,000 clones and natural humans to consume for fifteen years. It is mainly used to store them in case they are accidentally lost outside for too long. If there is not enough supplies, it will easily lead to chaos.

In addition, it also recruited 100 experts related to agricultural planting, with a monthly salary of 180,000, and bought out 2,000 clone farmers, each costing 100,000 star yuan.

As well as 100 animal husbandry-related experts with a monthly salary of 200,000, they bought out 2,000 clone herders, each costing 200 million star yuan for 100,000.

Then there are a number of agricultural production facilities, various fully automatic reclamation and seeding machines, and of course various plant seeds, including various cash crops, and the most common foods.

Of course, spending so much money to do this will not be for reclamation in the base ecosystem. Although the ecosystem is 20 kilometers long and wide, it is not small, but reclamation is definitely not reliable. His goal is the warehouse in the high-dimensional fortress in the palm of the universe.

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He plans to select two warehouse levels, one to be developed into an agricultural area and one to be developed into a livestock area.

Although there is no water or soil in the warehouse area, these are minor problems that can be solved slowly.

Find an asteroid belt in any galaxy, collect a large number of broken meteorites and throw them into the palm universe. First, the ignited star placed in the palm universe melts into lava to disinfect viruses and bacteria, and then the cooled lava is crushed to cover the entire warehouse layer. A thick layer forms the soil layer.

Normally, turning rock into soil requires a very complex process. It takes tens of millions of years for gravity, flowing water, wind erosion and other natural environments to turn rock into soil. However, soil can be artificially formed in a short time through high technology.

Directly use machinery to crush these lava fragments even more, and then use machinery to artificially simulate the conditions for soil formation, and what elements are needed to be artificially added, and finally form soil suitable for planting.

However, the soil cannot be planted at this time and needs to be cultivated.

This is actually not a big problem. You can directly use high-tech means to add attachment elements and integrate them into the soil. Generally, the soil standard for planting can be reached in one or two years.

Theoretically, it only takes three years to convert a large piece of wasteland into plantable soil, as long as you have enough investment.

In fact, this step of the project will also be carried out when transforming the planet, but it will require greater investment and take longer.

After all, transforming a desolate planet full of hard rocks into a habitable planet in a harsh environment requires the consumption of massive resources.

However, his soil modification covering two areas with a length and width of 1,000 kilometers is actually a huge project, and the total amount is no less than the modification of an asteroid.

The only advantage is that he does not need to consider modifying the atmosphere and environment, because the warehouse area already has the function of temperature adjustment. When the time comes, he will install climate adjustment facilities, weather control facilities, etc. to simulate extreme weather such as wind, rain, and even tornadoes and typhoons.

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After leaving the outpost, we went straight to Galan Star Castle. On this trip, there were a total of 2 cruisers, 8 destroyers, and 35 frigates. Among individual players, they were doing well.

The fleet jumped away from the outpost several times and stopped in a system with an asteroid belt.

The fleet plunged into the asteroid belt, easily destroyed the three wild monster mining ship convoys, and stopped in an open area inside the asteroid belt.

At this time, Li Qing's flagship is still the modified elite hurricane-class destroyer. Although the cruiser has thicker armor and stronger firepower, his command skills are not enough for him to command the cruiser at this time, and his skills cannot be added to the cruiser.

Cruisers are slower than destroyers and frigates in terms of normal sailing speed and flexibility, and cannot receive bonuses. If you use this as a command ship, once you encounter a powerful enemy, many flexible operations will not be used at all, and you will easily be forced to fight head-on with the enemy.

And the losses were huge.

The loss of a frigate is nearly 150 million, the loss of a destroyer is nearly 700 million, and the cruiser is even more exaggerated. The fifth-generation high-end configuration is about 3 billion. The modified top-end configuration can reach more than 5 billion depending on the type of accessories.

If the cruiser is converted into a small aircraft carrier module, the cost will be higher.

The two cruisers Li Qing had on hand were just ordinary high-end equipment. They had not been modified, nor were they top-end equipment, nor did they dare to change them into aircraft carrier modules. The ships were ready-made, and the weapons and accessories alone cost a total of 4 billion.

Including the six destroyers, a total of 2.8 billion was used.

A total of 26 frigates cost 3.1 billion.

In total, it cost him 9.9 billion star dollars, almost over 10 billion star dollars.

In the palm of the universe, all the collected meteorites are burned and melted into lava by the stars ignited in the palm of the universe. The bacteria and viruses contained in them are all purified, and then poured into the cold void to freeze quickly, and then distorted by high gravity and crushed into countless fine lava particles.

, mixed with the purchased soil elements and poured directly into the sixth and seventh floors of the warehouse.

The warehouse area is a thousand kilometers high, and he only divided it into ten large layers, each of which is a hundred kilometers high. He expected to pile up a layer of gravel a full ten kilometers thick.

This step took him almost a month, mainly because the demand was too much. Two soil layers were one thousand kilometers long, one thousand kilometers wide and ten kilometers thick. Even though the operation was simple, it could not handle the large volume.

By the time he was done, he had hollowed out a large circle of nearby meteorites.

After completing the first step, Li Qing directly ordered the fleet to start jumping back to Galan Star Castle. The next step was slow work. Two thousand farmers and two thousand herdsmen, under the command of one hundred agricultural experts, began to use machinery to level the ground and plan for reclamation.

area, and then start the next step of soil cultivation.

This step will take a year or two, and there is no need for him to take care of it. He will just wait and see it after two years.

Once these two large areas are cultivated, the production of both food and meat will definitely be able to provide self-sufficiency for more than a billion people.

Li Qing was also speechless when he saw that the universe in his palm was obviously a warehouse area, but gradually developed into a base.

A long time ago, when the warehouse area was first unlocked, he had thought about opening up the warehouse area, similar to a space residential station for large-scale immigration, but after thinking about it later, he rejected the idea and felt that the maintenance cost was too high.

At that time, his idea was outrageous. He planned to open up all ten floors into living areas, and all other supplies would be imported from the outside. The maintenance fee must be outrageous.

Now that a pastoral area and an agricultural area are being developed, it seems that the original idea can be readjusted.

Comprehensive renovation is still not easy, but if only a few areas are developed and developed in sections, it seems to be feasible.

For example, there are warehouse areas below the fifth floor, agricultural areas on the sixth floor, animal husbandry areas on the seventh floor, consumables and livelihood industrial production areas on the eighth floor, living areas on the ninth floor, and comprehensive areas on the tenth floor, including various laboratories.

, various vocational colleges, clone cultivation bases, military zones, etc.

Compared with the original idea, the scale has been reduced dozens of times, and agricultural areas and industrial areas have been opened up. All consumption can be self-sufficient, and basically no maintenance fees are needed.

Li Qing thought carefully and felt that this plan had room for operation, even if the funds he currently had were still far from being able to develop such a large area.

The area of ​​each floor in the warehouse area is as high as one million square kilometers, and the height of each floor of 100 kilometers can be divided into ten floors without any problem. Of course, this will be done slowly in the later stage. In the early stage, only one large floor can be developed.

The five levels down are five million square kilometers. To develop it from scratch, the funds required will be extremely exaggerated.

Think about it, the funds required to develop every inch of China's territory, which is more than half of the earth, would be outrageous.

If there is still a Palm Universe that can be cheated, the meteorite can be directly collected into the Palm Universe, melted and crushed, and then sent to the warehouse level in one dragon.

Without this, manpower and transport ships alone would take decades or hundreds of years to fill an area of ​​one million square kilometers and ten kilometers thick with five floors in the warehouse area, not to mention manpower and material resources.

For others to build and develop a giant space station from scratch, it would take a superpower to go all out, invest hundreds of billions of dollars, and take decades and nearly a hundred years to complete. He alone wanted to develop a space station with specifications exceeding

A giant space station project will definitely make people think it is crazy.

Four days later, Li Qing returned to the Jialan Galaxy and saw that the normally deserted galaxy base had become lively.

There is only less than half a month left for the annual large-scale team activity. The team members who were scattered outside have rushed back one after another, and a large number of battleships have gathered. Even if the large fleet is parked in other open spaces in the galaxy, two ships are also parked near the Star Castle.

Three thousand small and medium-sized warships.

Li Qing randomly found an open space to park the fleet, and a destroyer broke away from the fleet and sailed towards the Star Castle.

The team channel was bustling with activity, with many names that I had never seen before chatting in it.

"Beep!"

The communication lighted up, and when it was connected, Li Lie's projection appeared in the center of the bridge. He smiled and said:

"I knew you were back when I saw your profile picture light up. We are in the Star Castle. Come here quickly."

At the same time, he also received a shared location. Click to view it, which is located in the internal business district of Star Castle.

"Okay, I'll be there soon."

After mooring the battleship, a small aircraft dragged a long tail flame into the huge star fort.

The Star Fortress is actually a battle fortress that combines the functions of a space residential station and an interstellar fortress. In addition to having powerful combat capabilities, it also has a huge internal space.

In theory, star forts or star cities can also be used as colonies, but in fact very few forces do this.

Most of them are used as combat bases, and most of the space inside is transformed into warehouse areas, trading areas or shipyards, etc., which can store transit materials, or repair ships, etc.

Of course, considering that Star Castle has a large number of staff, it also has residential areas and entertainment and commercial areas, but the scale is generally small.

The commercial area of ​​Galan Star Castle is located on the edge of the trading area. It is a 'field'-shaped area. The surrounding area and the central 'cross' are commercial streets. There is a large commercial center in the center, and there are many small divided streets on the side of the commercial street.

, such as pedestrian streets, bar streets, etc. are all here.

As the only commercial area in the Star Fortress, it is not only a gathering place for team members, but many staff members of the Star Fortress also like to come here. Occasionally, some individual players come to replenish their supplies and have fun.

Follow the coordinates to Bar Street and find a large comprehensive bar called Starlight, which contains many entertainment facilities besides bars.

Li Lie, Li Qi and many other members are all here. At this time, they have booked a private room on the second floor. Outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows is a huge bar pool, with dazzling lights flashing and the DJ shouting at the top of his lungs,

Many men and women are dancing on the dance floor.

Li Qing pushed the door open and walked in. Everyone raised their heads and greeted him one after another.

Li Lie took a cup and put it in front of him, opened a new bottle of wine and poured it for him. Li Qing raised his eyebrows and showed a smile in his eyes.

I led them to make a few waves of money without losing any money, at least they had a good attitude.

After clinking glasses and taking a sip, Li Qing asked:

"Where have you been making a lot of money during this time?"

Li Lie waved his hand and said:

"To make a lot of money, apart from making some money from mining, there is no big money to be made."

Li Qi also shook his head and said:

"We don't have your treasures. Large caravans can't use them, and small-scale ones can't make money. The only thing left is mining."

At this time, one of the only two women in the team, a girl named Li Ya, raised her glass to him and asked with a smile:

"Brother Li Qing, where has he made a fortune recently? Please show us where he is when you have time!"

Looking at her tone, Li Qing's heart moved. It seemed that he had made quick money before, but now he couldn't make enough money. He took another sip of wine and said:

"Recently, I went to a galaxy more than 400 light years northeast of Jialan to establish a base. I brought a group of mining ships there and built a group of planetary mines to collect planetary materials."

Li Lie was surprised after hearing this:

"Why did you go so far to establish a base? It's so far away, not in the team's control area, and there are no patrols nearby. Security is a problem when you are away."

“Although it is safe near the team, there are too many people.”

Li Qing explained:

"Although it's a bit far there, it's close to the isolation and interference zone. Very few players go there. I'll leave a fleet to guard my home. I won't be afraid of a fleet that's not too big."

But what they said is indeed a problem. There are not many players, but there are not completely. The wild monsters are mostly small-scale, but it does not mean that there are no large-scale ones.

The most fearful thing is the occasional abnormality. It would be embarrassing if a large wild monster base was planted near the base.

But the problem is not too big. The biggest problem is to increase the size of the fleet when we return in a while.

They briefly talked about their respective development, and soon suggested not to talk about it, but to drink and have fun first, and talk about these things later.

Of course Li Qing had no objection, he just wanted to relax.

It has been almost two years since we started developing, and we have been in a state of running around, running here and there, and have never really enjoyed it.

It's a pity that there are two girls, and it's not easy for them to find a group of girls to play with, so they are a little unhappy.
Chapter completed!