After flying out for a while, Li Xin felt refreshed.

The joint development is also on a smooth track. The main limitation now is that the speed of smelting and casting alloys cannot keep up with the increasing consumption.

For the Alliance, there is no shortage of other resources now, and the environment of this planet itself is much better than the previous Guansuo 4.

The country is rich in natural resources, and with the help of modern technology, the utilization and maintenance of land have reached a pinnacle.

Crops are grown on a large scale directly on the plains of the planet, so there is no shortage of food at all.

The energy is sufficient now. A lot of rare radiation sources have been sent down from the extraterrestrial asteroid Deneb. These radiation sources are used to make reactors. With a population of 100 to 200 million, there is no pressure.

In addition to the star base, there is also a star power station and the Dyson cloud that has yet to be successfully built.

However, if the population continues to grow at this rapid rate, energy will one day be insufficient, and we must find ways to plan ahead for this.

In comparison, the work of mineral mining, smelting and casting requires more manpower, and the current production capacity is insufficient.

Therefore, in the next development plan, one of the key points is to vigorously develop mining, and the second is to vigorously develop the metallurgical forging industry.

Li Xin wants to build a huge fleet and then use this fleet to conquer the surrounding star fields.

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While industry is progressing in an orderly manner, other work is also being carried out at the same time.

In space, Li Xin has a star map of the surrounding star field.

This is something that can save him a lot of effort. With the star map, it means that he can directly search for planets with life that can be colonized.

Regardless of whether there is life on this planet at this time, as long as the fleet arrives above this planet, they will belong to human beings.

Li Xin himself is not in a hurry to develop the planet for the time being, because his clones have not yet filled up the planet of the United Nations.

But the time now is very different from that of two hundred years later.

Two hundred years later, Blueprint was able to seize three planets in this star field for colonization. This does not mean that every planet is like the United Planet under our feet, with no intelligent life.

Perhaps there are still intelligent creatures on the planet that do not have space technology, or there may be some that have already developed space technology but were destroyed by the expansion fleet of the Yelong Empire.

Therefore, Li Xin built two high-speed reconnaissance ships, plus the one sent by the Seventh Wave at the beginning, and headed to the surrounding star fields to begin exploration.

Their mission this time mainly includes three points. The first one is to check the situation of the surrounding life planets.

The second point is to find asteroid belts rich in mineral resources and keep records for subsequent use.

The third point is to find suitable energy sources, including but not limited to stars, rare radioactive minerals, etc.

High-speed reconnaissance ships are very fast, not only in terms of the speed of their jumps in the subspace, but also in their sub-light speed navigation under normal conditions.

Generally speaking, it takes about thirty days to travel across a galaxy using sub-light speed travel.

If we add the exploration and reconnaissance of planets within the galaxy, this time may be extended to three months or even longer.

The time consumed mainly depends on the number of planets in the galaxy.

The more planets or asteroid belts there are, the more time it will take.

In the vast starry sky, a high-speed reconnaissance ship is exploring. They have just jumped out of the subspace.

Arrived at the second recorded star system available for colonization.

When this high-speed reconnaissance ship arrived inside the galaxy, the alarm that sounded instantly made everyone alert.

The shielding position of the high-speed reconnaissance ship was instantly opened, making the entire warship almost invisible. This invisibility is not the invisible state that can be seen by the naked eye.

Instead, it is in an invisible state that cannot be detected by various electromagnetic and light wave detection systems.

The captain gave the order: "Quickly check the source of the alarm!"

Soon, a scout gasped and said in panic, "Sir, an active unknown space ship has been discovered!"

"Throw it in front of me!"

The next moment, a spaceship appeared on the screen in front of the ship, as seen from the remote observation equipment.

The structure and shape of these ships are completely different from human technology, although both sides use metal to build their ships.

However, human warships and spaceships are generally spindle-shaped. A few factions have ships with completely different shapes.

However, the ships discovered this time are different. The ships they used are polygonal.

And judging from the current situation, these should be engineering ships and some spacecraft for mining minerals.

After observing for a while, the captain gave the order: "Approach carefully and see if there are any more behind!"

After receiving the action order, the high-speed reconnaissance ship began to bypass the working ships and continued to move towards the interior of the galaxy.

Sure enough, some moving and working spacecraft were soon discovered.

And judging from the current trend, these spacecraft have not yet discovered the high-speed reconnaissance ship.

As the ship continued to sail, the next moment a crew member exclaimed: "Oh no! We've been discovered!"

The captain hurried to check and saw that there were ships coming towards them in the distance.

Moreover, these ships are completely different from the ships observed before. The armed systems of these ships were discovered after just a simple observation.

Obviously, these are warships, or armed ships.

The atmosphere inside the high-speed reconnaissance ship instantly became tense. The captain stood up and shouted, "How far is the distance between the two sides!?"

The next moment, a staff officer replied: "The observation distance is still five astronomical units!"

The captain calmed down and said, "Look at this ship. It's even smaller than our frigate. Their range must not be very far!"

"We still have a chance. Continue reconnaissance and pay attention to the ships chasing us from behind. If they get close, we will flee!"

"Yes! Captain!!"

Everyone in the high-speed reconnaissance ship, from the captain to the basic crew members, is a brave person, otherwise they would not do this job.

Before the unknown warships arrived, they quickly approached the working spaceships and continuously recorded the specific information of these ships through the ships' reconnaissance equipment.

The more information they record now, the more helpful it will be for their subsequent work.