The time spent idling away was always short-lived. Ever since the construction unit was assigned to the Second Fleet to perform cyber labor, the development of the Baiyi Fortress System had fallen into a semi-stagnant state.

His daily routine these days is to get up in the morning and chat with a few sisters in the "Love and Devotion Border Guard" group. Then he lights a few sticks for himself, even using a special clay incense burner.

The incense being burned was naturally not some common stuff, but an imitation of the death ambergris that was scraped off from Tikaion last time.

Due to time constraints and Bai Yi's lack of technical experience, the imitation Death Ambergris was still far behind the original in terms of efficacy, but at least the scent was almost identical.

Every time he took a deep breath, the faint fragrance would flow through his cyber nostrils and along the nano-nerve bundles straight into his electronic brain. It felt like a hand reached into his skull through his ear holes and gently lifted his entire brain from below.

Today is also a refreshing day.

Bai Yi stretched lazily, his limbs hanging limply from the edge of the sofa. Seeing this, the maid who had been standing nearby immediately stepped forward and picked up his limbs one by one. Then, she picked up the tray on the table next to her, peeled the grapes in the glass container, and put them into Bai Yi's mouth one by one.

This maid was Bai Yi's recent creation, and her design came from another university student. However, this time, the communication process was much more convenient and efficient, as the other party was only a sophomore and hadn't yet started their internship, so even an internship certificate wasn't necessary. After revealing his identity as a border guard, Bai Yi easily obtained the maid's design at a price far below market value.

However, the value of this blueprint itself is not high, because the performance of the maid's body is designed completely according to an ordinary human being, and does not have all kinds of weird black technologies like Bai Yi's own body.

He was actually just enjoying the process of bargaining.

The sofa was placed in what was once the living room. The arched pavilion, with the exception of the entrance, had been covered with black, opaque material. Lighting and projection equipment were installed on the ceiling.

Since there were no guests coming to visit, he simply turned this place into his own private cinema. When he had nothing to do, he loved lying here, eating snacks, watching movies, drinking a little wine, and teasing his little maid.

But he didn't completely give up. In the past month or so, he still did some things.

The most important thing was that Bai Yi converted most of the production lines originally used to produce defense platforms into production lines for construction equipment. After working day and night, the number of local construction equipment online also saw a slight increase, and the construction of the Forgiveness Star Atmospheric Condenser finally made visible progress.

However, before the energy on the Forgiveness Star was drained, the planet harvester on the Luofan Star completed its work first.

The once vibrant planet of Lofan was ravaged by the planetary harvesters, leaving only a few fragments wandering through space. Most of its material was stored in the Planck warehouses on New Mars. These warehouses have a larger capacity than their volume, allowing them to store vast quantities of construction materials.

The construction workers who were originally responsible for maintaining the planet harvesters were also liberated. They were withdrawn from their current positions and put into the construction of the digital artillery positions in the original orbit of Luofan Star.

After a period of operation, the crystal minelayers in the outer asteroid belt have also completed their mission. All minelayers will self-destruct in an orderly manner, and the construction workers who originally maintained them will also return. After inspection and repair, these construction workers will be reassigned to other jobs to fill the vacancies.

The asteroid belt returned to its former silence. With the scattered celestial bodies cleared, the ice-towed ships that had been crisscrossing the asteroid belt had all returned. The empty asteroid belt was now densely packed with air mines of varying sizes. These mines, hidden within their curved space capsules, sensed external signals through tentacles extending from their envelopes.

These air mines are manually activated and will remain in a safe standby state until they receive the activation signal from Lai Baiyi.

Time flies by quickly, and in a blink of an eye, another month has passed.

The first phase of the star gate construction, the laying of the overall framework has been completed, and a huge ring-shaped structure is quietly floating in the dark universe.

The ring's diameter exceeded two hundred kilometers, large enough to accommodate even the largest flagships of the Galactic Alliance. The stargate's subspace generators were installed within the ring's inner walls. Once completed, these generators would shatter the reality barrier of the universe, creating a rift within it. This rift would form a penetrating passage through the subspace, connecting to the pre-existing network of subspace passages throughout the galaxy, forming a superhighway connecting all regions of the galaxy.

In order to stabilize the rift in the reality barrier and the subspace channel within it, the next step in the construction of the stargate was to install four high-powered zero-point energy reactors on the outer side of the ring. Although these reactors were not as large as the core of a planetary fortress, their output power was no less than that of a planetary fortress.

Normally, only two reactors are needed to maintain the normal operation of the stargate, and the remaining two are switched to the lowest power state in case of emergency.

The second phase of construction was the longest phase of the entire construction. When the reactor construction was completed and the project entered the third phase, it was already July 2000 in the Defense Era.

The construction content of the third phase mainly focuses on the information and control segments. The main control room responsible for operating the stargate and the fluid router responsible for compatibility with the stargate information network will be installed together.

The Fluid Router is responsible for bridging and relaying high-speed networks throughout the Milky Way, serving as the foundational server for the Galactic Alliance's Tachyon Network. The router consists of an array of wetware hosts, composed of simulated neuron clusters, wrapped in superconducting circuits and immersed in a superfluid coolant.

The superfluid in the cooling tower is kept at an ultra-low temperature of 7 Kelvin. As it approaches absolute zero, the thermal motion of the molecules becomes somewhat regularized. This can then be manipulated through weak observation, making large-scale quantum computing a reality.

Everything seems to be moving in the right direction.