Chapter 373: Li's Treasure House and the First Alien Version of the Starry Sky Mothership
Zhao Xueqing previously planted a small plot of West Lake Longjing tea in the underground farm of Guanghan City. Due to food shortage in the past few years, she had been busy cultivating and promoting high-yield crop seeds. Now that the situation has eased a little, she remembered that Li Xiang loved drinking tea and the national style teahouse he opened in peacetime, so she started growing tea again.
Although Li Xiang has a lot of tea in stock in his warehouse, his warehouse has the property of "keeping fresh". Whatever you put in will remain the same as what you take out. But that is also a waste of time, and it always feels that the tea is not as delicious as the tea grown by yourself.
Now that Yutu City has begun construction, it is natural to build an underground farm. Lei Xiaohui thinks that she should have what Guanghan City has. Anyway, the tea field does not take up much area, so Zhao Xueqing also helped her plant a small piece, but this time it was not West Lake Longjing, but the famous Mengding Ganlu in Sichuan Province.
Lei Xiaohui looked very satisfied. When the tea trees grow up, they will also be a beautiful landscape.
The tea field is not a flat land, but an undulating underground hill. The climate, humidity, etc. are tried to simulate the conditions of the original place of origin. As for how the tea will grow, no one knows.
Anyway, it has not grown yet and is far from being suitable for picking. It is just a small experimental field.
Zhao Xueqing has a lot of ideas about agriculture. In addition to scientific farming (using various methods of modern agriculture, such as artificial light simulation, precise control of temperature and humidity, and even soilless cultivation and tissue culture), she also studies extraordinary planting.
The earth has a large population base, so even if you pick only one out of a hundred, there are still a lot of extraordinary people, and their supernatural powers are even more varied. She worked with Shen Wen Qian to screen out a large number of plant seedlings and sent out invitations to invite them to work in her agricultural research institute.
Many people flock to work under a Saint when they hear that they can.
Now that Li Xiang has reached the Divine King realm, the other Saint-level ones naturally don’t mind revealing their identities to show off their background.
Besides, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui are all very popular.
The Saint rank is currently equivalent to an academician on Earth. And Zhao Xueqing is a big shot who combines supernatural powers with agricultural science, and she is already quite famous in peacetime.
Although her status in the academic world is not as high as Jiang Caier's, her status is higher than that of ordinary academicians. Jiang Caier is the king of academicians, a great scientist who is well-known to everyone and whom everyone can't help but admire. The achievements of hundreds of academicians combined are not as good as hers.
Therefore, Zhao Xueqing also gathered a large number of scientific research talents. For example, there are those who are proficient in "spiritual plant synesthesia", who can communicate with plants, understand their specific needs, and promote their growth; there are water-related extraordinary people who are good at bringing rain to plants; there are insect-related extraordinary people who can control insects to pollinate plants and flowers.
For example, there is a girl named Lin Wanwan, known as the "Little Dragon Girl of Sichuan and Chongqing", who is also from Sichuan Province and is extremely good at beekeeping. The spiritual bees she raises include queen bees of level three or four, as well as ordinary bees of level one or two. They are excellent at collecting honey and pollinating. Not only can they pollinate, but the spiritual honey they produce is also hard to come by.
Of course, a large part of this spiritual honey is used as a special supply and directly offered to Li Xiang, and only a small part is sold. The girls will also keep some for themselves and share with family and friends.
Zhao Xueqing also has several special spiritual gardens, all planted with mutant plants. There is a large area in City 03. Now on the moon, she has also established a "spiritual garden". The spiritual seeds used are all seeds or branches brought from City 03. It is worth mentioning that many spiritual seeds will not grow well if propagated by seeds, but will flourish and produce fruits full of spiritual energy if propagated by cuttings or grafting.
It can also be considered a beautiful back garden. You can come here to play and pick spiritual fruits in your spare time.
The mutated plants that Li Xiang had discovered on Earth before, such as the golden nanmu in the primeval forests of Sichuan Province and the agate vine on the island of Kalimantan in Indonesia, have all been transplanted back and planted in the spiritual plant garden of City No. 03.
There are more than 600 kinds of mutant plants in the main garden of the City 03 Spiritual Plant Garden. The number in the Guanghan City and Yutu City branch gardens is slightly less, with about 200 kinds in each.
Among them, the peach trees and golden thunder bamboo are particularly worth mentioning. They have grown into peach forests and bamboo forests, and the spiritual fruits and bamboo shoots they produce are also unique.
In addition to being edible, some spiritual materials are also good for making weapons. For example, the rattan stick made of agate vines was very popular among some young people in Leijiagou in the peaceful times. Now it has truly mutated and has become a magic stick with extraordinary properties.
The same goes for the Golden Thunder Bamboo. The bamboo flutes made from it are worth thousands of gold coins to the extraordinary people in the music department.
The extraordinary bracelets made of golden nanmu are sold at sky-high prices.
These things are currently only circulated in domestic underground cities, but there are also news or short videos that have spread abroad. When foreign extraordinary people saw it, they couldn't help but sigh again, they are really not on the same level, and they once again have endless yearning and want to immigrate.
Residents of foreign underground cities now look at the underground cities of Country C, especially City 03, Guanghan City and Yutu City, and think everything they see is good, with a feeling that "the air is sweet".
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Li Xiang condensed star sand in space, and he also discovered a lot of high-quality "meteorite iron", so he activated the "crystal gold armament" and casually refined some extraordinary armor or spiritual weapons.
As his realm improves, the power of the "Crystal Gold Armor" becomes increasingly powerful. He can now easily refine extraordinary items of Saint level and below relying solely on his own strength.
It was just that the Divine Grade and Divine King Realm items were still quite difficult to obtain. Out of a thousand items, only five or six Divine Grade items would appear occasionally, and the Divine King Realm items had not yet been refined.
With his current strength, he would only feel comfortable with spiritual weapons of at least the God King Realm or above. Spirit weapons of the God Realm and below would be like Sun Wukong choosing weapons in the Crystal Palace, with a look of disgust on their faces. They are not as useful as ordinary star sands that weigh ten thousand tons per grain.
Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang weighs 13,500 kilograms, while each grain of Li Xiang's Star Sand weighs 10,000 tons, or 20 million kilograms per grain, which is much heavier than the Monkey King's Ruyi Jingu Bang.
After all these years of accumulation, Li Xiang has accumulated an unknown number of extraordinary armors and spiritual weapons. Some of them were obtained by killing space monsters, some were obtained by killing potential extraordinary beings on Earth due to a previous system bug, and some were refined using "Crystal Gold Armor".
On a whim, he infiltrated the warehouse of the other dimension with his spiritual sense and took an inventory. There were more than 60,000 extraordinary items of Saint level and above, a large part of which were refined by himself.
There are many items below the Saint level, a total of more than 8 million items, ranging from level one to level eighteen.
He actually no longer had any use for so many extraordinary items, so he thought about using them to build the "Li Family Treasure House" and rewarding his meritorious officials.
However, there are still too few extraordinary items compared to the human base, and he does not have so much time to kill low-level monsters or use the "Crystal Gold Armor" to refine them. That will delay his practice. Therefore, the reward policy is currently only being piloted in City 03, Los Santos, Guanghan City and Yutu City.
If the effect is good, it will be promoted to other underground cities in China. As for overseas, it depends on the situation.
Now, City 03 has a population of more than 26 million. Due to Jiang Caier's new talent policy, many high-level talents and their families have come to invest, and coupled with the encouragement of childbirth, the population has grown rapidly and has long exceeded the original population of 15 million.
Los Santos has a population of about 18 million, while Guanghan City and Yutu City both have a population of about 20 million.
If you add them all up, the total population of the several cities directly under Li Xiang's jurisdiction exceeds 80 million. If you add in Irene's side, the cities under the jurisdiction of Chiba Yukio and her daughter, and Yaki Toto's side, the direct population is about 130 million.
Of course, since the reward is to be given to meritorious officials, two conditions must be met. First, they must have made outstanding contributions, not limited to military exploits. Academic achievements, model workers in various industries, and some contributions can all be included in the assessment. The second condition is, of course, loyalty and a sense of belonging to the organization. Those who are rebellious will definitely not be accepted.
People who are rebellious by nature will basically not make any contribution.
Li Xiang also helped Irene collect many rare metals in space. These metals do not exist on Earth, or their reserves are very scarce, but they are extremely abundant in space. Irene's metal ability is also extremely rare. Taking into account both combat power and scientific research, with these precious materials, it is estimated that she can make further progress.
The magic cannon and alchemical furnace developed by Irene are also excellent magic weapons and engines, but they are two different systems from Jiang Caier's. First, the systems are very different, and second, Li Xiang doesn't dare to let them meet, so the two systems are independent and parallel. At present, Jiang Caier's side is better.
Apart from anything else, Jiang Caier's resources, both human and material, are incomparable to Irene's "small-scale operations".
Last time, Li Xiang contributed the corpse of a god-level space beast. Jiang Caier presided over the reconstruction of the beast aerospace mothership, which has made progress and completed the ground test run.
That is to drive the huge mothership out of the underground workshop, conduct a static ignition test on the surface of the earth, and verify the linkage of the engine array.
After many rounds of verification, optimization and continuous improvement, the first test flight has been completed: the maiden flight was completed at an altitude of one thousand meters above the earth's surface.
The next step is to conduct a suborbital test flight to test the ship's pressure resistance and maneuverability.
Since there are still a large number of space beasts lurking on Earth, and powerful beasts often appear in space, the suborbital test flight requires Li Xiang to come back for escort.
It seems like the time is about right, that is, in a week.
Once the suborbital test flight is successful, there will be a deep space voyage, carrying a group of immigrants to Yutu City to carry out interstellar colonization missions, collect data and optimize energy distribution logic.
At the same time, it is also necessary to test shipborne radars, missiles, directed energy weapons, laser weapons, high-energy particle cannons, as well as the catapult take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft and transport aircraft.
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Li Xiang collected enough rare metals from space and stayed with Irene for a few days, one to prepare for Irene's pregnancy and the other to spend time with the children.
Mixed-race babies are very cute, but Li Xiang does not favor one over another. He treats all children equally.
Time flies, and the day of the trial voyage of the alien version of the aerospace carrier has arrived. Li Xiang bids farewell to Irene and the children and comes to the Earth home port of the aerospace carrier, an underground port in western Sichuan.
When the behemoth, which was more than 300 kilometers long, more than 100 kilometers wide, and 70 to 80 kilometers high, like a continent, took off into the air, it was still shocking even though it had undergone a brief test run on the ground before.
Live broadcast worldwide.
This alien version of the aerospace mothership is named "Xuanming". Because it is rebuilt with the corpses of alien beasts, its appearance looks relatively "ferocious". It appears even more gloomy, hideous and terrifying in the black fog.
Even though a large number of searchlights were deployed, and even the first-generation experimental "artificial sun" was launched into the air, the live broadcast images were still not clear enough due to the thick black fog.
However, it was a blessing in disguise, as it produced the shooting effect of "AFP", which made it look more majestic, solemn and oppressive.
Li Xiang and Jiang Caier stood together in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the control tower, gazing at this huge "air fortress" which was rebuilt with divine beasts and integrated the essence of beast civilization and technological civilization. The three large gilded seal characters "Xuanming" on the bow of the ship were faintly visible in the darkness.
"All units have completed their final self-inspection!" A report with an electric sound came from the bridge.
Thirty thousand crew members in silver-gray anti-gravity suits shuttled through the honeycomb-shaped bridge, and holographic projections projected data streams of different colors on their retinas. Wang Lei, the engineer in charge of the engine array, repeatedly stroked the No. 03 city emblem on his chest - it was the relic his father held when he died in the third beast tide.
When the countdown reached zero, eight hundred sets of anti-gravity devices hummed simultaneously, and the rubble within a hundred miles was suspended in violation of the laws of physics. The live camera captured this historic moment from thirty-six angles: the hull covered with biological armor was iridescent like mother-of-pearl, and the plasma streams ejected from 120,000 vector nozzles tore the clouds into spiral bands of light.
"We are witnessing a leap in civilization!" The CCTV commentator's voice was hoarse with excitement. The scene cut to the ecological cabin, where 200,000 vines, the core of the oxygen cycle, suddenly bloomed collectively, and the light golden pollen formed a galaxy-like vortex in the artificial gravity field.
In a bar in a dungeon in North America, the drinkers wearing AR glasses suddenly became quiet. "This is not technology at all..." Mechanical engineer Tom smashed his beer glass to the ground. The trajectory of the mothership's tail flame in the stratosphere in the holographic image was clearly an energy matrix beyond human cognition.
When the Xuanming broke through the Karman Line, the dragon scale armor on the surface of the ship flipped over layer by layer, revealing the star sand coating underneath that was shining with a faint blue light.
At this moment in a refuge in Africa, children cheered as they pointed at the giant ship in the projection that looked like a mythical Titan. The old chief knelt on the ground and played the ancient melody of welcoming the gods with his ancestral bone flute. In the central square of City 03, 100,000 people spontaneously sang "Starry Sea", and the sound waves caused ripples on the protective shield.
"Suborbital cruise mode is stable!" When the main control screen lit up with emerald green runes, the command module erupted in prolonged applause.
The global live broadcast screen timely cuts into the observation window at the rear of the ship: against the dark background of space, the mothership draws a dark golden track in the slingshot effect of the moon's gravity...
When the Xuanming began its first orbital correction around the earth, the ship's onboard AI (Jiang Caier's digital life clone) suddenly recited a poem to all mankind in Li Xiang's voice - "Lang Tao Sha·Xuan Ming First Tour".
Black fog locks the sky, blue star sand, the dark sky splits and roars in the sky. Eight hundred engines shake the universe, the moon bow is amazing. Spiritual plants break through the moon dome, roots are calm, and the blood of civilizations for thousands of years is the same. Look at the starship breaking through the waves, and the human race is magnificent.
At this moment, whether it was the genetically modified people in the North American underground casino or the spiritual plant masters in the underground farm of Guanghan City, they all heard the wonderful resonance between their hearts and the starship engine.
(End of this chapter)
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