Hundreds of years have passed since the introduction of technology. Although the Luofan people have made slow progress in basic science, especially materials science, due to limited geographical conditions, they have successfully entered the nuclear energy age with the scientific data provided by the Galactic Alliance as a guiding outline.
Currently, 30% of the Luofan civilization's electricity is provided by commercially operated nuclear fission power plants. Controlled fusion reactions capable of long-term operation have also been successfully replicated under experimental conditions.
If they were given another few fifty years, this civilization would have fully mastered nuclear energy and would be free to explore its own galaxy.
But time waits for no one now.
According to Bai Yi's speculation, with his current progress, it would take less than a few months for the first phase of infrastructure construction on this Mars-like third planet under his feet.
He would then use this planet as a springboard to spread the mechanical swarm to other planets and even stars in the galaxy.
Even if he bypassed Luo Fan and went to the first planet first, the time left for Luo Fan people would not exceed ten years.
Thinking of this, Bai Yi decided to talk to the local natives when he had time. Since the border guards hadn't deliberately concealed themselves when entering this system, he believed that the Luofan people must be aware of his arrival.
Even if Bai Yi didn't go looking for them, they would have come looking for him. After all, this concerned the fate of over three billion people in Luo Fan's entire civilization. Even if there were some indifferent people in the dozen or so countries who would just lie low, there would definitely be others who would take action.
At that time, although Bai Yi is not responsible for immigration, he can still convey the wishes of the local people to the higher authorities out of humanitarianism.
Of course, the biggest reason for doing this is that Bai Yi is too bored now.
But he finally found something to do.
The six swarms he had sent out from the new Martian central base had now merged. The six clusters had formed a single group in the western hemisphere of the planet, like a gray ocean that could be easily distinguished even from optical photographs taken from low-Earth orbit.
Bai Yi broke up the bee colony and distributed it to various construction sites according to pre-set numbers. With the addition of these hundreds of billions of worker bees, the progress of the first phase of infrastructure construction will be greatly accelerated.
Many conveyor belts have been built on the planet, some of which are connected to half-built mines, and some are connected to ore sorting machines. However, most of them eventually point to the smelting plant near the central base.
This was the large-scale facility Bai Yi prioritized after securing a supply of minerals. A massive plasma furnace spewed blue flames. Minerals from various sources were sorted and then poured into it. The furnace refined them into red steel billets, which were then sent to the processing workshops behind to be manufactured into various standard parts. These parts were ultimately sorted by robotic arms and sent to conveyor belts connecting to the required construction sites.
In addition to the initial construction of conveyor belts to transport parts back and forth through the swarm, all materials currently used in the construction site are transported via these conveyor belts.
At this moment, the entire planet seemed to have turned into a huge assembly line workshop that never stopped, with countless engineering machines formed by swarms of bees repeating mechanical labor.
Various high-tech buildings have sprung up like mushrooms from the rust-red earth of New Mars. They are rooted in this land, but they protect the starry sky beyond the earth.
The first non-industrial structure to be completed was the Galaxy Monitoring Station, essentially a massive array of antennas monitoring the galaxy, listening for and processing everything from tachyon beams to low-frequency radio signals.
With this gadget, Bai Yi could mobilize satellites on the other side of the galaxy in real time from the new Mars. At the same time, the radio communications of the entire Luofan civilization would also be under his monitoring.
Thanks to the geographical features of the Broken Islands, the people of Lofan have advanced in navigation and long-distance communications.
Within a few years of the invention of the first long-range radio, every major continent was dotted with radio stations.
They also attempted to build floating base stations in the ocean to serve as relay stations for long-distance transoceanic communications. However, the Luofan people soon realized the impracticality of this approach and switched to using cheaper and more stable submarine optical cables.
Bai Yi felt a rustling sound in his ears. It was a signal collected by the galaxy detection station, yet to be filtered. The electromagnetic signal from Luo Fan and the periodic fluctuations of pulsars tens of millions of light-years away blended together to form a gentle white noise, which was an excellent sleep aid.
With a "beep", a suddenly increasing signal caught Bai Yi's attention. It rose into a sharp peak under the never-ending background noise of the universe.
The peak lasted for 1.5 seconds, as if someone had pointed a massive transmitting antenna in this direction. The source of the signal was the second planet in this galaxy, Luo Fan.
However, Bai Yi sat there for a while, his voice quiet. It seemed the other party had no intention of contacting him at the moment; the signal was more like a test of some equipment before it went into full operation.
It doesn't matter. What he has the most right now is time.
Another week passed, and the planetary assembly line was nearing completion, with construction at various construction sites in full swing. Bai Yi slowed the mechanical bee colony's reproduction rate, no longer expanding the number of von Neumann machines. Instead, he simply replaced those lost during operation, keeping the total number of bee colonies fluctuating around 400 billion.
The current central base was no longer what it had been when we first arrived. A silver alloy floor had completely replaced the rusty red ground. Information streamed back and forth through the hundred-meter-tall communications tower. Several anti-aircraft batteries were deployed around the tower. Considering that the locals had already mastered nuclear energy and aerospace capabilities, some basic self-defense firepower was still necessary.
The wetware mainframe, where Bai Yi's soul resided, had long been moved to a rock formation hundreds of meters below the communications tower. A massive alloy explosion-proof dome enveloped the equipment room. A vertical shaft connected the dome to the surface, which was connected to an elevator. Normally, the elevator was closed, and the shaft was sealed off layer by layer by more than a dozen layers of riot armor.
All of this was done to protect the mainframe's security. After all, before the Second Base was established, the wetware mainframe was the Galactic Alliance's only means of controlling the galaxy, so these were all routine and necessary security measures.
Ten hours of darkness ended, and the dawn of a new Mars was about to arrive.
Because of the large amount of particles floating in the atmosphere, the red and yellow colors in the star spectrum are absorbed, so the sunrise on the new Mars is blue.
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