Half a day passed and the foundation of the drilling equipment had been completed at Construction Site No. 1, where the ore vein was located.
The robotic cloud dug a circle of deep pits around the drilling site and poured quick-drying concrete made from fresh Martian surface soil into the pits. This concrete, mixed with steel reinforcements, would serve as the foundation of the entire platform for the foreseeable future, supporting tens of thousands of tons of drilling equipment.
However, a foundation alone is not enough. Structural reinforcement bars and reinforcement bars need to be built on top of the foundation as a frame, and then force walls need to be trimmed to cope with the violent storms on the new Mars.
These storms, like those on Mars in our solar system, come and go without a trace. A planet's atmosphere is usually calm, but one day, a massive storm might suddenly develop, encompassing the entire planet.
"Oh, I never thought that the first thing I did after traveling to another world would be to fight."
Bai Yi muttered to himself, watching the mechanical cloud pouring streams of concrete into the pre-tied steel bars, and for no reason he remembered something a friend had said.
“Those who can endure hardship have made it, and only those young people who can’t are complaining.”
"Three totals and five events! Here I come!"
He said the above words right after graduation. Two years later, when Bai Yi saw him again at a class reunion, he was a completely different person. His skin was tanned, with only the white band around his head where he wore his helmet. He spoke with an unidentifiable accent, as if he hadn't mastered several dialects and had forcibly blended them together.
While there hasn't been much improvement in other areas, his alcohol tolerance has increased significantly. He used to be drowsy after two bottles of beer, but now he can still chat and laugh with the people around him after two ounces of white wine.
The day after the party, the man took Bai Yi to a remote alley to wash his feet. When Bai Yi asked him about his work experience over the past two years, the man sighed.
"That damn place, let alone the Lord, even if the general contractor came, he would have to unload two truckloads of concrete before leaving!"
When he said this, the resentment emanating from the old classmate seemed to make the foot washing water a little colder.
36 hours have passed since Bai Yi landed on the new Mars. Although he is already a human ghost stored in a wetware host, he still feels a little tired.
However, this tiredness wasn't sleepiness, but rather a mental numbness resulting from long hours of repetitive labor. After all, he was still half human, not a pure machine made of semiconductors.
There was still some time before the mechanical swarms would gather, and construction was already underway at various construction sites across the planet. For a while, Bai Yi had nothing to do. So, he dug up the relevant information about the galaxy he was currently in from the database and began to peruse it.
This information was stored in the Border Guard database, and Bai Yi should have been familiar with it by heart. However, this time he deliberately did not mobilize the part of his consciousness related to AI, but read the information in a way that was closer to human senses.
Nothing else, just killing time.
Most of this data came from 1 to 0.5 millennia ago, collected during the Galactic Alliance's site selection and subsequent exploration of the outer fortress system. The remainder came from unmanned probes released by the Border Guard after they entered this system.
Located at the edge of the Milky Way, this galaxy, designated J, is dominated by a red dwarf star, only half the mass of the Sun and only one-third its diameter. Because of its relatively small size, the red dwarf's internal nuclear reactions are quite slow, making its surface temperature much lower than that of the Sun. Therefore, it appears not orange, but a much cooler bright red.
There are four planets orbiting the star. The outermost one is the only gas giant among the four stars. Its mass is very large, even accounting for 2% of the total mass of the entire galaxy. However, the most special thing about it is its eye-catching color.
Perhaps due to the composition of its atmosphere, the planet appears lush green, a dazzling sight against the dark backdrop of the starry sky. Add to that the occasional flashes of lightning that streak across its surface, and it becomes even more striking.
Green, green glow.
It was like a green searchlight in the dark night. When facing it, Bai Yi felt that his expression began to change in this direction.
Forcing himself to look away, Bai Yi began to examine the galaxy from the inside out.
The first planet closest to the red dwarf is a tiny one. Because it is too close to the star, its surface is overflowing with magma, and it looks like a picture of purgatory.
The second planet after that is a little special, as it happens to be located in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star. The star's light has decayed to a certain extent by the time it reaches here, and the remaining heat is enough to melt the ice, but not too hot.
This planet is marked as "Luo Fan" in the star map. It is slightly larger than the Earth. 80% of its surface is covered by water, and large areas of green vegetation can be seen on the few exposed lands.
Yes, there is life on Luofan, and it is a highly intelligent life form.
When the Galactic Alliance expedition arrived in this system, the people of Lofan had already been mired in feudalism for quite some time. Because most of their planet's landmass consisted of islands or archipelagos, and stable, easily exploitable mineral resources were scarce, the growth of their nascent industry was exceptionally slow.
Even after thousands of years, steam power only appeared in laboratories in a few top countries.
However, the Galactic Alliance brought changes. They brought more advanced technology to Luo Fan and also exported their own ideology to them.
According to the original process, when the expedition team discovered the existence of a local civilization at the determined fortress galaxy site, they should report it and the relevant departments should organize the relocation and resettlement to other areas.
However, at that time, the construction of the defense project was in its early stages, and the huge amount of resources consumed by the fortress project caused the situation in the galaxy to be constantly turbulent, and the higher-ups no longer had the energy to take care of these low-level natives.
Therefore, the policy was changed to provide certain technologies to the indigenous people, in the hope that they would be able to migrate on their own or with the help of the Galactic Alliance in the future.
After all, a civilization with an industrial base is much easier to maintain than a purely feudal society. At least if you throw the former onto a strange new planet, it still has the basic ability to open up new land, while the latter might have to kneel down and kowtow to some unknown deity for three days after landing.
Throughout the history of relocation, it's not uncommon for civilizations to mistakenly believe in Galactic Alliance ships as miracles or demonic manifestations. These civilizations often miss the best time to reclaim land due to religious concerns, forcing resettlement offices to expend extra effort supporting them, or simply dumping their entire race into a protected interstellar wild civilization zone.
Regardless of which of these two methods is used, it is a pure money-losing business for the Galactic Alliance, and it is the kind that should be avoided if possible.
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