Chapter 180
Compared to the metal smelting area a few months ago, this place is now full of changes brought about by industrial technology.
First, its internal space has expanded more than ten times. Second, after the introduction of several industrial production lines, this place is more like a base than a dungeon that has only dug out space and laid the foundation.
The metal sheets produced were of amazing hardness and were joined together tightly, covering the ground and walls of nearly one-tenth of the underground area.
The empty space is filled with newly added automated production lines. As the number of production lines increases, the number of existing single-function industrial robots has also climbed from three digits to four digits.
Every day, a large amount of raw metal ore is smelted into rough metal ingots in the smelter, and then transported to the processing workshop to be processed into various finished products.
Finally, these items with different uses will be sent to the warehouse for storage.
Compared to the underground city where people are still active, the smelting area is much quieter and deserted. The robots coming and going are all the same type, and there are also primitive Zergs who are constantly constructing underground tunnels in the south.
When Qi Heng first asked the Nestworms to plan the underground city, he had already arranged the various areas. The current metal smelting area is actually part of the complete industrial production area, and its area will be further expanded as it becomes more and more perfect.
In addition to industrial areas, there are also residential areas, commercial areas, etc. These areas are all part of the underground city, and naturally they need to be connected by passages.
The tool worms responsible for excavation are currently opening up the underground road leading to the dungeon. After the road is completed, it will be used to transport various smelted items. The first items transported are the large metal plates that have been processed and are only needed to be spliced together to cast each floor of the dungeon.
In the warehouse area, Lei was counting the first batch of supplies that would be shipped out later.
"...All ready." After confirming that the quantity was the same as the doctor's request, he ticked the box on the tablet in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.
Since being assigned here, Lei's main job has been to expand production capacity so that the output of various items can keep up with consumption.
The most important of these are the various materials used to build the dungeon.
Metal plates are just one of them; there are also various cables, power generation equipment, various scattered parts used to assemble electronic products, and so on. The number of single items amounts to hundreds.
With the continuous increase and improvement of production lines, this number is still increasing rapidly and is currently approaching the four-digit mark rapidly.
The current lighting in the dungeon is the self-luminescence of the fungal mat and fireflies, but it is obvious that such weak light is not enough for a city, and energy is an urgent problem that needs to be solved.
Lei suspected that the doctor had looted some backward civilization, otherwise where did he find so many low-end production lines?
Not only that, in addition to these production lines, several energy technologies from lower-level civilizations have also been brought in, such as thermal power generation, diesel power generation, nuclear fusion... Wind power and solar power generation have also been put on the agenda.
Don't ask why Lei knows so much, it's all part of his job.
...Use relatively advanced technology to improve low-end production lines and energy technologies, solve the pollution and side effects that would originally be caused, and then operate them underground using methods that even Lei does not understand.
Lei was puzzled, yet he had a vague suspicion that the technologies that even he couldn't understand must have come from a more advanced civilization.
I won’t say more. After seeing this, he still has to go to another place to see the oil production and whether the various industrial raw materials refined are sufficient for future use.
As a chemical raw material that can be used and widely applied by primitive civilizations, petroleum can be said to be the most suitable for Qiheng's current development.
If it weren't for this thing, it would have no appeal to civilizations above level two, and they wouldn't be able to mine it so easily - the easy-to-mine portion is insignificant compared to the total amount of oil stored on the entire planet.
The oil extraction area is located more than 200 kilometers away from the smelting area. In order to transport the processed raw materials, a tunnel was dug between the two areas and simple railway tracks were laid on which wheeled cargo boxes could pass.
The transported items are mainly extracted plastic products.
Qi Heng, who has lived on Earth, knows clearly that plastic is highly polluting to the environment, but it is really useful to use.
After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to make plastic products.
——There are many well-developed related technologies in the database of Tianjia civilization. If we have the opportunity to use these technologies in the future, we can decompose plastics harmlessly without causing too much damage to the environment.
Lei left the warehouse and prepared to go back to his office first. As soon as he reached the door of the office, he saw someone sitting inside.
If not a doctor, then who is he?
I'm dying, why did the doctor come here suddenly? Could it be that my recent slacking off has been exposed?
Lei thought to himself, but still put on a smile as he walked in. "I didn't expect you to come. Do you have a mission? You could have just told me, why did you come in person?"
"There are some things I still need to come and take a look at." Qi Heng glanced at him indifferently.
It’s not that I’m afraid that Lei won’t do anything, but... I feel more at ease knowing that the development of the situation is in my hands.
"I received the list I sent you."
"Yes, I just came back from counting the inventory. Most of the items are sufficient, but a small part is missing. However, I will definitely have everything before the deadline you gave me."
"Um."
Qi Heng had just taken a look around and had a basic understanding of the situation here, so he didn't ask too many questions at this moment.
"The current scale is still too small. Winter will end in two months. In these two months, I need you to expand the current scale to more than fifty times..."
Lei's smile froze. "Fifty times? What the hell? How is that even possible?"
No wait, maybe it will be the same as before and he will just let himself do it according to the arranged plan, don't be afraid.
Although he thought so, Lei's ominous premonition became more and more serious.
If there really was a plan, would the doctor have to explain it to me specifically?
Qi Heng seemed oblivious to Lai Yi's increasingly ugly smile as he continued, "You've reviewed the previous plan to double production capacity. Write a plan based on that."
"After writing it, submit it to Ghost, and it will review whether the plan is approved."
"I want to see production capacity increase fifty-fold within two months. It has to be achieved."
Lei's first thought was to finish it. As he had been in charge of the smelting area, all kinds of relevant data and information immediately emerged in his mind.
He swallowed and said, "Fifty times in two months, isn't that too much?"
Qi Heng said calmly: "A lot? Not much."
The dungeon he wanted to build would require a large amount of building materials, not to mention that there was more than one dungeon that needed to be built... Fifty times was just the maximum number that could be achieved after calculations at this stage.
After that, the resource hive will spread across the entire planet, converting the mined ore into energy points to build more production lines and various equipment. That will be five hundred times, five thousand times! It won't stop until it covers the entire planet!
Lei, who knew nothing of his plan, continued to mutter, "...We'll need more robots for industrial operations. I'm currently maintaining the twenty-six production lines. If the number increases fiftyfold, I'm afraid we'll need specialized maintenance robots..."
How is it possible to produce so many? If nothing else, the production lines are not enough.
Lei calculated that there are currently twenty-six production lines, and if it is increased fifty times, that would mean... one thousand three hundred.
"One thousand three hundred production lines, are you ready?" Lei hissed in his heart and weakly put forward his idea.
"The number of production lines is the key to increasing production. Without enough production lines, we cannot meet your requirements..."
"Don't worry about that. Everything you need will be there within a month at the latest."
With his words, Lei felt a little relieved.
Although it was unknown how so many production lines were delivered under the Alliance's nose, since Gray Mist was determined to fight the Alliance and could travel to Tianyun Star so many times, he might know of other safe routes.
Qi Heng turned on his computer and projected a floor plan. He pointed to an area covered in light yellow and said, "This will be built as a dormitory area."
Dormitory area? Why build a dormitory area?
"After the harsh winter ends, I will arrange for the Tianjia people to come and study on the spot."
Lei, whose doubts were just being cleared, said: "...Wait, did I hear that correctly? Arranging for the Tianjia tribe to come and study?
[Your Excellency, I have just received a message from A0-03.]
[They have just completed their last space jump and are expected to arrive at the Lost Star Sector Trading West Zone - Ring Star Belt in an hour.]
It has been half a month since A0-03 left. It is indeed time to leave the Lost Sector.
What to do next is a very crucial step.
"That's all I have to say. If you have any questions, contact the ghost and it will tell you what to do."
After Qi Heng finished speaking, he left the underground and returned to the ground without caring whether Lei understood or not.
Inside the aircraft.
He browsed the latest news sent back by A0-03. They had not contacted each other many times in the past half month, and this time was only the eighth time.
The main reason was that A0-03 did better than he expected. Qi Heng was very confident in A0-03. In addition, there were no emergency situations that required him to ask him what to do, so the number of contacts naturally decreased.
Information transmission has always existed.
A0-03 will package all the data detected outside the galaxy after leaving Tianyun Star and send it back to A0, which will then be reviewed by A1 for comparison with the information from ten thousand years ago to see how much the Jia Star Domain has changed today.
In one hour, A0-03 will arrive at the trading area.
Qi Heng's eyes darkened when he thought of the information about this trading area.
The trading zone was established in a safe star field outside the Lost Star Sector. Calculated in light years, this trading zone covers an area of about sixty light years.
Because it is divided into four trading areas, east, west, south and north, with a white tower as the center, the area where the Ikar civilization is located is the western area - the circumstellar belt.
The circumstellar belt is the current name. Its previous full name was the "circumstellar habitable zone". A huge silver-white ring-shaped belt surrounds a star in the center. The circumstellar belt can be home to about 300 million to 600 million living beings.
It was built in the late period of the Tianjia Empire. Because they were not widely used, only three were built and no more were added. One of them is located in the eighth star district of the Tianjia star field.
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