Swish.
The tightly closed office door suddenly swung open, revealing a bizarre world inside—a series of deep blue holographic projections filled with various data filled the entire office.
In the center of a series of giant holographic projections, a small figure sits with his head down in his chair.
Judging from the figure's movements, he seems to be performing some important calculations.
"Academician Wang, please have a seat."
A familiar voice came from ahead.
"Hey!" Wang Man quickly responded, cautiously squeezing into this world filled with formulas and data.
Despite his utmost caution, he inevitably touched the light of the holographic projection, causing ripples to appear on its surface.
"Wait a moment, let me finish what I'm doing," Lü Yongchang said softly.
Wang Man felt the long-lost gravity and nodded silently.
A robotic arm expertly fetched a cup of hot tea and gently placed it on the coffee table in front of him.
Watching the steam rising from the tea, and then turning to look at the endless starry sky outside the porthole, Wang Man subconsciously sighed deeply.
"What? Are you already discouraged?"
As the familiar teasing voice rang out, a figure blocked the light of the holographic projection and stood in front of him.
“Professor Lü…I…”
Wang Man stood up awkwardly, rubbed his hands together, and said in a low voice with an embarrassed expression, "Professor, I have let you down."
Lu Yongchang's lips curled up slightly, a faint smile on his face, and he waved his hand dismissively.
"What are you saying?"
"This is not your fault."
"The simultaneous implementation of mega-construction projects and starship replacement projects is indeed putting a huge strain on the fleet's material reserves."
Upon hearing this, Wang Man's expression shifted slightly: "Then, Professor, you mean..."
"Should we suspend one of the projects first?"
Lu Yongchang glanced at Wang Man with a half-smile: "Pause? Why pause?"
"Since mining technology can no longer keep up with the rate of resource consumption, then we will develop new mining technologies!"
As he spoke, Lü Yongchang raised his hand and made a gesture.
The dense holographic projections in the office, like spring snow under the sunlight, instantly turned into light particles and melted into the air.
Only a blank holographic projection remained, silently floating beside the two of them.
"Professor?" Wang Man looked at Lü Yongchang in front of him with some doubt. "New mining technology?"
"Planetary exploration and mining have now reached their peak."
"With nanorobots combined with large mining machinery, the efficiency of mineral extraction is already quite astonishing."
"I really can't imagine any other way to significantly improve mining efficiency." As he spoke, Wang Man frowned and shook his head.
"Open your mind a bit." Lü Yongchang smiled and raised his hand to manipulate the holographic projection.
An image of a familiar planet appeared before the two of them.
“This is… Kepler-452c?” Wang Man, who works in planetary resource mining, recognized the planet immediately.
"right."
A faint glint of light flashed in Lü Yongchang's eyes as he said in a deep voice, "According to the exploration, this is an iron planet."
"It contains a vast amount of basic and rare metals."
"If it can be fully exploited in a short period of time, the fleet's resource shortage problem will be greatly alleviated."
“Professor, I understand everything you’ve said,” Wang Man replied in a low voice. “Currently, the focus of the mining work is on this planet, but…”
"Too slow!" Lü Yongchang interrupted Wang Man directly.
"Open your mind!"
Lü Yongchang emphasized this again.
Wang Man frowned, deep in thought.
A few minutes later, he shook his head with a wry smile: "Professor, you should just be frank."
"I... I really don't understand what you mean."
Lu Yongchang glared at Wang Man with exasperation: "You...you need to use your brain a little more!"
"Why bother mining, digging and extracting bit by bit from the planet?"
"Why does your next excavator have to be an excavator?"
Wang Man: "???"
Is this... even human language?
"If not on this planet, where else could we mine it?"
"In space?" Wang Man asked half-jokingly.
To everyone's surprise, Lü Yongchang nodded in agreement: "Academician Wang, you've finally figured it out!"
Wang Man: ? ? ?
Who am I? Where am I? What have I done?
At this moment, Wang Man was completely bewildered.
"Just think about it, mining on a planet is so tiring, digging, extracting, transporting..."
Lu Yongchang's voice, like a devil's whisper, slowly lingered in his ears.
"Even with nanobots and giant mining machinery, these steps are very time-consuming and labor-intensive."
"I've come up with a simple and straightforward solution."
"Why don't we just blow up the planet? That would save us the trouble of mining, excavating, and transporting it!"
Wang Man: "...???"
He could hardly believe his ears for a moment.
What's this?
If you can't solve the problem, then solve the problem at its root!
"What do you think of my plan?" Lu Yongchang's devilish whisper continued, "Think about it, the entire iron planet is broken into fragments of varying sizes, and we can even use ship-borne laser cannons to carry out the smelting process in space. How efficient would that be!"
Wang Man swallowed hard, his words tumbling out incoherently: "Teach, professor..."
"Hmm?" Lü Yongchang glanced at Wang Man.
"I think... your plan is highly feasible, and that's what I think too!" Wang Man said excitedly, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
He briefly imagined the scene described by Lü Yongchang, and was so excited that he wanted to raise his arms and shout on the spot!
My lord, times have changed!
Who the hell uses mining equipment to mine cryptocurrency?
...
Lü Yongchang expressed great satisfaction with Wang Man's reply.
So he gave Wang Man a brief introduction to this incredibly innovative mining plan.
First, the iron planet will be completely detonated using high-energy laser weapons and antimatter bombs.
Then, in order to prevent planetary debris from flying everywhere and disrupting the orbits of other celestial bodies in the star system, a reverse gravitational shield is generated using a large number of gravitational shield generators to "trap" these fragments within a fixed area.
After simple sorting, the smelting and refining work is carried out in space using anti-gravity shields and high-energy laser beams.
In this way, not only has the mining efficiency increased significantly, but the smelting efficiency has also been greatly improved.
only……
The most difficult challenge right now is how to build a powerful enough weapon to detonate a sizable iron planet!
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