National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 239 Chaos Inside and Outside
In the vast and endless chaos, there is a boundless area covered by black fog.

The terrifying laws of the universe are wreaking havoc here, changing unpredictably.

Suddenly, a giant whale carrying the terrifying continent on its back raised huge waves in the chaotic sea and plunged into the black fog area.

As its body moved towards the black fog, countless laws of the universe were instantly activated.

It silently disappeared along with the world from beginning to end. The countless lives it carried on its back, no matter if they were mayflies or heavenly saints, lost their lives without any consciousness.

Three old men suddenly appeared at the place where the giant whale disappeared.

"Damn Ling Muzi, with just a wisp of residual soul, he was able to control this formation for forty-nine epochs."

"Fellow Daoist, the Dao Fruit is about to mature. If we don't act now, this Lingmuzi will be resurrected!"

Another old man said in a deep voice.

"Action? How to act? Do you dare to enter the formation alone? Or do you want to use a projection of power to descend? We have been guarding here for a long time, but we still cannot comprehend the method to break the formation."

"Alas, Ling Muzi's talent is far greater than ours. If the Seven Saints had not planned to launch a surprise attack, I'm afraid that by this time, he would have already broken through to the Primordial Golden Immortal and reached the Supreme Chaos Realm, becoming the truly immortal and eternal being of this endless chaos."

"In my opinion, since there is no one in the Seventh Chaos Domain who can do anything about this formation, we might as well seek external help. Although this will prevent us from getting the Dao Fruit, the question now is not whether we can get the Dao Fruit, but whether we can survive."

"Yes, I don't believe that among the countless Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian in this endless chaotic domain, there is no Taoist friend who can break this formation."

"Yes!"

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Within the black fog area, the turbulence in the vast and boundless void has calmed down at this time, and countless worlds and matter have gathered together to form 45 mythological worlds, 4 miracle worlds, 71 immortal worlds, and 1 eternal world.

At this time, these mythological worlds are undergoing drastic changes.

Myths are the spreaders of civilization.

The sixth star ring, the Tianniu star region.

Planet-D-2317
Li Ming walked out of the landing capsule and heard a sweet voice in his ears.

【Ding, your trust, my expectation, Shenzhou Network is at your service! 】

[Dear citizen Li Ming, you have arrived at Planet-Ding-2371. ]

[Should we install a signal tower immediately? ]

"Yes"

[Dear customer, if you place an order now, you can choose the 998 credit point supreme package and enjoy the distinguished service. Do you want to apply? ]

"No! Please get the lowest package of 30."

[Dear, are you really not going to consider it? Your planet, Ding-2371, is located in the sixth ring of stars. It is initially assessed to be a low-quality planet with a harsh climate and scarce resources.

In order to better exploit resources, the 998 credit point network supreme package provides 1 VIP privileges such as data query, military radar scanning, metallurgical database, etc. 】

"Miss, do you think I can afford the 998 meal? Stop wasting time and get me a 30-point meal. I'm waiting for the opening!"

Li Ming looked around the landing capsule, confirmed that there was no danger, and spoke impatiently to the voice in his ear.

Before traveling through time, what annoyed him most was a certain 86 sales advertisement.

【30 yuan package has been successfully processed】

Suddenly, a skylight appeared on the sophisticated mechanical gear transmission above the basketball-court-sized manned exploration ship behind Li Ming.

A metal tower slowly rose from the skylight, and then with a few clicks, the tower unfolded to form a pot-shaped object with several metal antennas extending from the center of the pot.

[Network debugging completed, trying to connect to the star network...]

[Starnet has been connected, I wish you a happy life! ]

Ignoring the voice beside him, Li Ming turned back to the cabin and, based on the knowledge in his mind, controlled the landing ship to "deploy" on the ground.

Soon, the landing ship was "dismantled" and "spread out", forming a Bagua "altar" style building on the ground.

The signal tower is right in the center of the altar.

"Communicate with the star network and upload the four-dimensional parameter coordinates!"

Li Ming stared at the altar. After some operations, he soon heard a response in his ear.

[Dear citizen Li Ming, you have successfully placed a star station on Planet-Ding-2371 and received a reward of 1 credit points, which have been deposited into your Star Mark Bank account.]

[It is detected that you are a "pioneer", please remember the following Star Alliance laws:
1. Life is the most important thing, please pay attention to your own safety.

2. You may attack any non-human, non-intelligent life form without restriction, including capturing, killing, looting, and destroying. However, for the sake of your physical and mental health, please do not use cruel, inhumane means such as torture and killing.

3. Please be alert to the invasion of Zerg, Omnics, Undead, and Demons. Anyone who kills any of the above races will be rewarded with contribution points. Anyone who reports the traces of any of the above races will be rewarded with Covenant credit points based on the value of the clues.

30. Within the Star Alliance, planet ownership is subject to a lifetime responsibility contract system. In theory, the planets you are assigned will always belong to you, but any gains you make will require you to pay % personal income tax. Tax evasion is shameful, but paying taxes is glorious!

5. For humanitarian reasons, the Star Alliance does not provide boyfriend/girlfriend matching. But you can discuss online, and after obtaining the marriage certificate, the Star Alliance will give you a star system outside the six rings.

6. You can download the general knowledge package from the StarNet database for free without any patent fees.

7. You can get free pioneering teaching videos.

8. You have the right to open the wormhole once a month.

100. As a one-star developer, you can receive a credit point subsidy every month. 】

"I understand. Open the gold panning app and buy me a D3 printer, 3 tons of D1 alloy printing materials, 3 tons of D100 composite fiber printing materials, and 10 tons of rare earth materials... Not shipping included? Well, then open the wormhole permission."

While Li Ming was talking, he bought a printer and dozens of raw materials, spending the only 2 credit points left in his account.

Of these 20,000 credit points, 10,000 came from Star Alliance rewards.

The landing ship he was on was a standard Star Alliance starship, which every adult citizen who was willing to become a pioneer could receive for free.

The pioneers drove landing ships to the outer territories of the Star Alliance. After successfully landing, the landing ships lost the ability to return, but they could be "reassembled" into "star platforms".

The star station is a device that locates coordinates through signal towers and opens space wormholes.

Through the Star Platform, the Star Alliance can establish complete star network coverage within its territory and quickly provide support by opening wormholes, which has extremely high strategic value.

However, the star stations require manual control to add "fuel", and to inspect and replace old parts at regular intervals. In addition, the territory of the Star Alliance is too large, with countless star stations, and people are the least valuable. Therefore, relying on individual pioneers to maintain the star stations is the most cost-effective method.

Therefore, Li Ming will receive a reward of 1 credit points for placing a star platform.

The remaining credit points were accumulated by the predecessor through frugality since childhood.

In the interstellar age, although people have no worries about food and clothing, the gap between the rich and the poor is still huge.

With the improvement of entertainment and the development of realistic dolls, fewer and fewer people are willing to get married, and most men living in the lower and middle classes of society cannot find a marriage partner. In order to reproduce humans, the Star Alliance adopts the method of artificially cultivating the next generation, and a large number of test-tube babies are born every year.

Li Ming's predecessor was one of them. He grew up in an orphanage and received subsidies from the Star Alliance.

People like him who are bred through test tubes have excellent genes, excellent physical qualities, and even geniuses, but they have no background or connections, and have a low social status. They are born to be pioneers.

……

[The D3 printer and supporting materials you purchased have been packed. The wormhole will open in 10 seconds. Please check the materials. ]

The voice interrupted Li Ming's thoughts. He quickly looked up at the altar, only to see eight robotic arms extending above the altar, releasing "lasers".

Then the empty air suddenly fluctuated, revealing a black vortex like a zipper, and a hazy light and shadow.

Soon, the strange vision disappeared, and two metal boxes appeared above the altar, held up by mechanical arms and slowly placed next to the star platform.

Li Ming walked forward and pressed a button on one of the metal boxes.

Suddenly, the metal box unfolded and spread on the ground. The contents inside quickly unfolded like Transformers, turning into a machine tool more than ten meters high and seven or eight meters wide.

Tens of thousands of "printing needles" of various sizes hang down from above the machine tool like willow branches.

The thickest of these printing needles is as thick as a water tank, while the thinnest is invisible to the naked eye.

"Everything is ready, we can start the reclamation!"

Li Ming smiled. With this D3 printer, as long as all the materials were complete, theoretically he was equivalent to a first-level technological civilization that had not yet set foot in the starry sky.

Opening the StarNet database, he searched for the general knowledge package while recalling the knowledge he had learned in class.

The first step for settlers after arriving on a planet is to build a base.

Only after building a base that can cope with unknown dangers can we explore planets and mine resources.

Three elements of base construction: defense system, ecological and production system, and energy system.

In the early stage of the base, the nuclear fusion furnace built into the landing ship is sufficient to supply daily production and living consumption, so there is no shortage of energy for the time being. The first step in construction is the defense system, ecology and production system.

Among these, the ecological and production systems are the "foundation of the foundation".

A three-dimensional base model was projected on the screen in front of Li Ming. It was a design drawing downloaded from a universal database.

He input the model data into the D3 printer, and soon the printer connected to the nuclear fusion furnace began to roar and work.

The huge robotic arm shovels the granular D3 alloy material into the funnel-shaped feed port. After internal heating, the alloy material melts into a liquid without a trace of impurities.

The metal liquid is "carved" on the bottom metal plate through tens of thousands of printing pins of different sizes.

Like piling sand into a tower, metal components were printed one by one.

Li Ming controlled the printer's robotic arm to assemble these metal components according to the design drawings. Like playing with building blocks, he quickly built large equipment and machine tools around the platform, and then assembled them into a production line.

These production lines are connected to the nuclear fusion furnace in the star station, so there is no need to worry about energy supply.

The first production line made by Li Ming was the “AR Honeycomb”.

AR Hive can produce mechanical bees with simple structures, which are often used in field geographical exploration, map drawing, and mineral vein detection.

When you arrive on this planet, the most important thing is to "run the map", explore the unknown, discover all unknown things, and avoid potential crises.

This is the curriculum of the Star Alliance's nine-year compulsory education.

In addition, the AR honeycomb production line includes nearly 100 front-end production lines, including metal ceramic calcination, alloy ceramic circuit board production, silicon crystal refining, handling robots, transport vehicles, mining engineering vehicles, stone processing machine tools, smelters, etc.

These nearly 100 pre-production facilities can also be used before other production processes, so it is cost-effective to set up.

In addition to the D3 alloy and composite fiber materials purchased online by Li Ming, the materials used to produce the mechanical bees also include silicon powder and clay that are locally available.

These materials are present all over this seemingly barren planet.

It can be obtained after only several processing and refining steps.

Of course, if there is petroleum, resin, etc., more materials can be made.

It took Li Ming more than ten days to complete the honeycomb and the hundreds of production lines it contained.

When the hive started producing mechanical bees, Li Ming stopped the production line.

It wasn't that he already had enough production lines, but that he had less than half the printing materials left.

Each ton of D3 metal printing materials is sold at 1 credit point, and tons are shipped free of charge. However, Li Ming has already used up all his savings. If he cannot develop under limited resource conditions and find a mineral vein, he will only be able to take out a mortgage loan or live a life of idleness and waiting for death.

So after he finished making the "honeycomb" production line, he stopped the operation.

Even though his subsequent plans include production lines for maglev transport vehicles, mining engineering vehicles, maglev tracks, mining robots, etc., he has to stop at this moment.

Because ten thousand tons of metal printing materials are just a drop in the bucket.

Li Ming had learned from online tutorials on land reclamation that for a planet to go from nothing to formal development, it would require tens of thousands of basic production lines alone.

This is the result of the Star Alliance unifying the specifications of various mechanical parts, electronic chips, etc.

Because of the unified parameter specifications, the parts needed by most creations can be used interchangeably. Otherwise, even millions of production lines would not be enough.

Li Ming started with only more than 10,000 tons of metal printing materials, and could only produce nearly 100 basic material processing production lines at most.

"First, focus on producing mechanical bees and explore the map. If there is no danger nearby, you can temporarily ignore the defense system."

Li Ming muttered to himself, sorting out the plan of the base in his mind.

In fact, there is no plan. It mainly depends on the follow-up feedback from the mechanical bee.

If there is danger on this planet, then a defense system must be created.

If we can find a suitable mineral vein nearby that can produce D3 alloy materials, we can expect rapid development.

D3 alloy has better performance than any alloy in the previous life. It is the essence of D-level technology and is known as the three major D-level materials together with D3 composite fiber material and D3 crystal material.

Its smelting formula is public and the materials are common, mainly aluminum, which accounts for 80%, followed by iron at 11%, silver at 4%, and lead at 3%.

But the most important is 2% of element 126, thulium.

"Terium", element No. 126 in the periodic table, is a groundbreaking element.

Before Li Ming traveled through time, a man named "Mayer" proposed the "island of stability" theory, speculating that element 126 could exist stably.

From the memories of his previous incarnation, Li Ming discovered that the Star Alliance had synthesized element 126 thousands of years ago, ushering in a technological explosion.

This element was named after Mayer, and its Chinese transliteration is "铘".

(End of this chapter)