The Age of Giant Ships and Cannons Chapter 44

  Chapter 44 The Ruins of the First Floor (seeking subscription for monthly pass)

  A typical large-scale underground base has a total thickness of up to 20 kilometers. Even a battleship's main gun salvo cannot penetrate this thickness.

  Although he didn't encounter any checkpoints along the way, Li Qing can guess that there must be countless layers of gates in the 20-kilometer passage to close the passage, but now the passage has been abandoned, and all the arrangements cannot be used.

  Li Qing was not in a hurry to send troops down, but sent more than 20 drones down for reconnaissance one after another, making a comprehensive reconnaissance of every room and space in the entire underground base.

   Anyway, don't worry, there are no outsiders here, and there is plenty of time to dig slowly.

  However, on the second day of his meticulous reconnaissance, when he reconnaissanced half of the underground base, the drone discovered that there was another layer below, and a huge metal portal stood deep in the base.

   This cheered up Li Qing. After thinking about it, he sent two frigates back to the base to bring a group of robot workers over.

  Robot workers bring a batch of equipment, take a small aircraft down to the entrance on the second floor of the base, and use a cutting machine to cut the gate.

   At the same time, the internal facilities on the first floor of the base and the things stored in the warehouse were roughly counted.

  A very standard refuge base, which contains a complete set of industrial systems and millions of robots.

  These robots are stored in several huge spaces, arranged neatly and densely. According to the appearance, they should be divided into production robots and combat robots. They have not been activated yet.

  Li Qing didn't dare to activate it now. This thing must have been programmed. As long as it is activated, it will work according to the predetermined program. If the robot's behavior logic program is not reset to distinguish between friend and foe, once activated, it will immediately attack them.

  One million robots, including at least two hundred thousand combat robots, this is really

   "Send charcoal in the snow!"

  Li Qing is currently short of manpower, and one million robots can definitely solve his urgent needs.

  Even if the robot is only a third-level civilization, its technological level is not as good as that of human beings, but if it is used as cannon fodder or a worker, what does the difference in technology matter?

  In addition to one million robots and dozens of industrial lines, the first floor base has the most refined metal ingots and alloy ingots.

  Although the hardness is not comparable to the alloy grade used by human civilization, the basic raw materials are here, and it only needs to be reprocessed.

   After a rough count, there are a total of 5 million square meters of alloys, all of which need to be reworked. After deducting labor costs and other precious metal materials to smelt standard alloys, it is estimated that they can earn about 5 billion yuan.

   From this point of view, Li Linyu sold this mission chain to himself as a blood loss. The rewards in the base of this mission chain alone can catch up with the 12 billion star dollars sold by tokens.

   But the account is not calculated in this way. At this time, Li Linyu has nothing, and it is impossible to continue digging by himself.

   Moreover, this base has more than one floor, and the danger that appeared on the surface layer wiped out Li Linyu's entire army. God knows what danger is on the next floor.

  If the token is not sold, the money on hand is simply not enough to continue to build a fleet with certain strength.

  Even if the team is reorganized, he will not be able to continue digging with his strength, so it is a very wise choice to sell to make a fortune.

  Everyone knows that the value of the epic quest chain is extremely high, but if you don't have the ability to dig it, it's waste.

In fact, when the second floor was half dug, Li Qing gave the order to stop, and decided to move the contents of the underground base first, so as not to wait until the second floor was opened, and if any war broke out, the materials inside would be destroyed. , or the foundation collapsed, wouldn't it be a loss.

   And this move took him several months.

  Even if he opened the Palm Universe directly in the underground base and didn't need to go through a 20-kilometer tunnel to move it to the ground, but there are too many things and he has too few hands, especially the sets of large-scale equipment, which require professional handling machines to move them up.

He can use powerful spiritual energy to forcibly absorb it, but at this time his spiritual energy has exceeded the strength of two thousand spiritual energy, but he has not yet ascended to the level of spiritual energy. Now he is very reluctant to restrain these boiling spiritual energy, and he has no ability at all. Using psionic energy to do some delicate work can only be carried slowly by robots.

   Speaking of which, Li Qing needs to do too many things now.

   It will take at least seven or eight years to complete the collection of battlefield wreckage at the base and the exploration of the planet's terrain.

  Although it does not take seven or eight years to move the materials in the base here, it will take more than half a year.

  In addition, he has to prepare for spiritual ascension, which must go to Jinmen, where he cannot ascend by himself.

   Well, it doesn't mean that it can't be done, but that if there is no shelter and no guidance, the success rate of ascension will be very low, so low that it is almost impossible.

Li Qing actually knows the general procedure of the so-called spiritual energy ascension, that is, when the accumulated spiritual energy reaches more than 1,000, he can try to communicate with the spiritual energy world, enter the spiritual energy world, and leave a mark in the spiritual energy world by himself. That is, the coordinates, so as to obtain feedback from the spiritual energy world, even if the ascension is successful.

   Doesn't it look very simple, but it is actually very difficult.

First of all, you need to find a spiritual power tower, and use the power of the spiritual power tower to amplify the spiritual energy and willpower of the ascendant, so that you can enter the subspace without being disturbed by various unknown abnormalities in the subspace, and you also need to use The original coordinates of the spiritual energy world in the spiritual energy tower directly find the spiritual energy world.

  If there is no Psionic Power Tower to enter the subspace by itself, just finding the Psychic World is a problem.

  Even if one finds the Psionic World and enters it, that doesn't mean that the Psychic Ascension is successful. You have to find something in the Psychic World and leave your mark on it as a coordinate to communicate with the Psychic World.

   This point is quite dangerous, because the imprint does not mean that you can just find an open space and leave it, but you must find a spiritual entity in the spiritual energy world to leave the imprint.

  The psychic world is a spiritual world, and there are very few psychic objects, most of which are various unknown spirits in the psychic world, or evil wills, evil things, or even evil gods, etc.

The spiritual will of a psychic ascendant cannot see things when entering the psychic world, and can only be perceived by will. The spiritual will of a psyker who has not yet ascended with psychic power is not much stronger even after being magnified by a psychic tower. Capacity is limited at this time.

  If there are evil existences in the psychic world disguised as psychic essence, and the psykers leave their spiritual imprints on it at this time, the result can be imagined.

  Those evil beings enter the minds of psykers in the material universe through this connection at any time, devour your soul on the spot, and take you away.

  Some clever evil existences will even control you to enter the bustling metropolis, some think of a long stream of water slowly devouring souls, and some harvest all the millions of souls around them in one wave, thus forming a terrible disaster.

   With this kind of direct devouring, the player cannot be resurrected, and once he dies, he will be gone immediately.

  Psyker is the strongest ascension, but also the most risky ascension

   Well, that was then, happy psykers are now.

  As long as you use the Psychic Tower, prepare well, and be careful, it is not difficult to complete psionic ascension.

Unlike humans who just entered the new universe, the predecessors of humans at that time did not have any spiritual power towers, and they all entered the subspace by themselves to explore. At that time, the success rate of spiritual ascension was pitifully low, not even one percent. .

  Li Qing remembered that there was a Psychic Tower in Jinmen, which was not unique to the Yu family. It was sponsored by the Psyker Association of the United Human Empire, and it was exclusively used by the Psykers here.

   It is said that this thing is very troublesome to build, and it needs to be guarded by several very powerful psykers all year round. The entire human empire seems to be less than ten.

  Li Qing is going to return to Tianjin after the base is settled, and it would be better to delay it.

The standard for psychic ascension is 1,000 units of psychic strength, but it does not mean that this standard is necessary for ascension. The stronger the power, the higher the success rate. It is just that it is not easy for most psychics to accumulate 1,000 units of psychic power. It is difficult to survive without ascension. Slowly accumulating a few thousand psionic strengths.

The cosmic channel in the palm of the hand for transporting materials must always be open. Li Qingde has been staying here and cannot leave. There is nothing to do. He simply sent his men back to the base to bring some maintenance materials, and then entered the dock in the high-dimensional fortress to try to repair it. The batch of dilapidated warships left by Li Linyu.

  Warship modification requires a very high repair skill level, just brush up the skill experience.

In the dock, in front of a frigate, Li Qing didn't need any tools, nor did he need to rely on the power of the universe in his palm. He just flew up out of thin air with only the power of psionic energy. A large number of mechanical arms around him stretched out and inserted into the frigate. Take out some of the components shattered by the psionic storm one by one.

   Most of the precision structures and parts in the accessories have been shattered and cannot be used. He needs to dismantle them one by one, repair or replace them, and then reinstall them.

   But as the parts were removed, he kept shaking his head after observing them one by one.

  Many accessories have been broken beyond repair. Even if some can be repaired, the durability and effect will be greatly reduced, and they are also prone to failure.

  If it was other players, they would definitely replace them all. Li Qing didn't expect these gadgets to be repaired and reused. He just wanted to repair them to accumulate skills and experience. When he returned to Jinmen, he would replace them all with new ones.

  With this kind of thinking, the operation is very casual. With a finger, the powerful spiritual energy binds a small fifth-generation laser cannon and flies over.

"boom!"

  The turret, which was already full of cracks and unstable, burst with the pressure generated by his spiritual instability.

   "Ooh!"

   It can't be repaired at all.

   A little speechless, he waved his hand, and a huge mechanical arm flew over, dismantling another turret.

  Psychic instability is not enough to do fine work.

  First, use the scanner that comes with the shipyard to scan all the inside and outside of the fort to find all the damage, and even the tiny cracks inside the alloy parts can be scanned, and then determine the repair method according to the damage and degree.

The shipyards in this high-dimensional fortress have very high-end configurations. If it is an outside shipyard, maintenance workers need to find the damaged location based on experience. Fine cracks are generally difficult to sweep.

  This maintenance method and shipbuilding method are actually not high-end. The best shipbuilding method is 3D printing, which directly prints out the ship as a whole.

  However, there are two problems with the 3D printing method. One is that the cost is too high. Whether it is printing materials or maintenance materials, they are all special materials, and the cost is quite high.

In addition, because the 3D printed battleship is formed in one piece, once a problem occurs, maintenance is very troublesome, even if it is only a seam, but because it is formed in one piece, it is not only the seam that needs to be repaired, and the corresponding shipyard must be repaired. Although the current construction method is relatively rough, as long as there are maintenance workers and materials, on-site repairs can be made immediately, and there is no need to go back to the shipyard for minor problems.

  In the age of development, the demand for the number of ships is too high. Naturally, the simpler and more direct the better for such a huge scale.

  Shipbuilding, maintenance, time passed without knowing it.

  Although maintenance and shipbuilding are dirty and fun, but when I see my skills and experience continue to improve, and a steady stream of knowledge fills my mind, the sense of satisfaction in my heart is beyond words.

  If you want to achieve something in any industry, you must be very passionate about this industry. To put it bluntly, you just don't reject it, and you won't feel bored even if you do this kind of repetitive work for a long time.

  Li Qing doesn't know whether he loves it or not. Anyway, he doesn't reject it, but he can't say how much he loves it.

He can bear his temper and stay in the high-dimensional fortress shipyard array of the palm universe for several months. Strictly speaking, he absolutely loves this industry very much, but he is not the kind of love that other people say, but he is not bored , can bear the temper and work all the time without rejection.

  I feel that whenever he enters the working state, he feels like entering a rational state. At this time, he has no emotions of love and boredom. He only has a predetermined goal in his heart. As long as the goal is not completed, he can continue to do it.

This situation is very strange. Li Qing hadn't noticed it before. He thought he really loved this profession. It wasn't until this time that he had nothing to do until the underground base was moved out, and he stayed in the dock for nearly half a year. Then he noticed. this point.

   In this situation, he can't say why, and he has never seen or heard of this state.

  The only thing that can be said to be similar is the absolute procedural ability of the Mechanical Ascendant.

I heard that all mechanical ascendants will have a general ability called the absolute program. All mechanical ascensionists can activate this ability to set an absolute goal for themselves, and then all their subsequent behaviors and thoughts will end with this absolute goal Forward.

   But the ability of Absolute Program cannot be interrupted, and its target can be interrupted at any time, which is

   "Amazing!"

This star field is very remote. Li Qing squatted here for almost five months, but he did not see the second player coming. Instead, he received a team message from the team channel. The delay should be twelve days ago It was sent to everyone in the team, but due to the distance from the team headquarters and the influence of Nebula, it was not received until twelve days later.

  The message is very simple, so that if the team members are free, they can rush back to the base three months after the date of sending the message to participate in the team's large-scale activities.

  (end of this chapter)

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