In the blink of an eye.
Two years passed.
The time has come to May 2025.
Although for most people, two years is not a very long time, it will pass by in a blink of an eye, and they won’t be able to accomplish many great things, and their life may just be beginning.
But for Levi, for the entire Blue Mercury.
The tremendous changes that have taken place in the past two years may be greater than those in the past twenty years.
The global economy is booming, with the overall economic growth rate approaching 10%, and Xia Country has exceeded 15% for two consecutive years... The emergence of countless new trends has brought countless opportunities.
Even local wars and conflicts have decreased a lot...everyone is busy making money.
Of course, the one who gained the most from this was Levi, who invisibly dominated all of this.
After a huge amount of money and manpower was invested.
Several large-scale projects have been basically completed smoothly or have made significant progress.
First of all, the "Sky Orbit Project" under the "Space City" plan was completed in April last month. It is an electromagnetic acceleration track with a length of 30 kilometers and a height of nearly 10 kilometers, which can accelerate the terminal speed of the space shuttle to 1.2 kilometers per second. On April 28, it successfully assisted the launch of a "scimitar-shaped" space shuttle into space, delivering a batch of five tons of supplies to the space city that is still under intensive construction.
In the future, if we launch 100 "Scimitar" space shuttles every day, Dark Space Company will be able to send more than 500 tons of materials into space every day.
The construction efficiency of space cities will be greatly improved.
And it can be even faster in the future.
Secondly, in outer space, the "Vegetable Plant" and "Power Plant", which are a subset of the "Space City" plan, have completed the main construction work. Even with the busy scientific and technological workers, the "Vegetable Plant" has successfully grown the first batch of fruits and vegetables, enough to meet the food needs of thousands of people.
The "Power Plant" also achieved full power generation, with a power generation capacity of nearly 500,000 kilowatts, which was not only fully sufficient but even a bit excessive.
The basic completion of these two sub-projects also marks that the "Space City" plan can enter the second phase -
That is, the construction of the main ecosystem of the space city and the construction of the space factory... can all be started after the planning and design are completed.
Once the ecosystem is built and space factories can produce a large number of industrial products... the "Space City" plan can enter the third stage and immigration to outer space cities can begin.
Until then.
Levi will end his life on the ground and can stay in space for a long time, which means that he has truly entered a vast and free space and will no longer be subject to many restrictions and threats.
It is like a dragon returning to the sea or an eagle soaring into the sky. From now on, everything will be based on your own ideas, and you don’t have to look at the faces of any forces.
And that day is not too far away!
Because the transport ship "Dreadnought Bank" has mined tens of millions of tons of various mineral resources on the moon in the past two years, which can be said to be piled up like a mountain, basically meeting the needs of the second phase of construction of "Space City". Among them, the helium-3 element has been stockpiled to more than 3,000 tons.
By then, using nuclear fusion reactor technology, one F-class nuclear-powered interstellar battleship after another will be produced in large space docks... The power in Levi's hands will gradually begin to rebuild.
However, some people may wonder why Levi is so fond of the "Space City" plan. Why not directly build a colonial base on the moon or Mars? As long as abundant water resources are found, they can soon have alien colonial cities, which can greatly improve efficiency.
Having said that, there is some truth to it.
But if you calculate in detail, you will find that building a "space city" is more convenient, more efficient and less costly.
First, most of the various materials needed for "Space City" still come from Blue Mercury, which has a complete industrial system. If you go to the Moon to build a city, the transport boats that transport materials will have to travel 600,000 kilometers round trip, which is more than ten times the distance. If you go to Mars, it may take several months to transport materials.
Second, after the construction of the "Space City" is completed, it can leave the gravitational orbit of Blue Mercury and go to the orbits of other planets to mine the resources of other planets. It has great mobility and flexibility. Once the resources on the colonized planet are exhausted, such as insufficient water resources, the colonial city will immediately fall into trouble, but because it cannot be moved, it will eventually become a heavy burden.
Third, any planet with scarce water resources does not have the conditions or necessity to establish a large colonial city. It can only become a mining planet or a resource planet. The so-called "colonization of the Moon" and "immigration to Mars" is just a false proposition and does not have the feasibility of large-scale immigration. Therefore, instead of pinning hopes on the "Moon" and "Mars", it is better to increase environmental protection efforts on Blue Mercury... This is the lowest-cost option.
Of course, "Space City", which has a complete ecosystem system and recyclable internal resources, is also a very good choice.
This is also why from the very beginning, Levi formulated the "Space City" plan instead of going to those barren planets to establish colonial bases.
…
Let’s look back on the past two years.
Levi can be said to have spent his time in a variety of work arrangements.
Even though Levi moved into that gorgeous, magnificent, safe, and well-equipped fortress-style villa, he did not have the time to sit down and enjoy it. He worked an average of more than eight hours a day.
Moreover, the "First Land Corps" has been formed and has initially acquired combat effectiveness and deterrent power. Not many scoundrels dare to act recklessly. However, during the past two years, Levi has encountered as many as four attacks or assassinations.
Two of them were discovered in advance and the attackers were caught.
Another explosion resulted in two deaths and three injuries to bodyguards.
There was also a poisoning incident where a poisoned drink was almost served to Levi's table.
Although Levi sent people to retaliate afterwards and killed at least thousands of the masterminds behind the incident, hundreds of senior members of a mysterious club in the star country were beaten into sieves by the armored men... finally some of the restless voices were suppressed.
There were obviously fewer actions against Levi afterwards.
Despite this.
Levi's life was still very cautious and he rarely went out. Most of his inspection missions were left to his stand-ins.
Lin Guoming, who has served as the commander of the "First Land Corps" in the past two years, has done an outstanding job and has been diligent and conscientious. He has at least completely wiped out more than 20 terrorist gangs active in the Black Continent. His strikes were fierce and accurate... Therefore, Levi had already made him a regular employee.
Of course, there are many more stories of ordinary people, which I will not list in detail one by one.
In short, for Levi, he felt that the most difficult two years had been successfully passed.
The next period of time is when the curtain will truly open.
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