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

Chapter 240 Suzaku
Thurium can react chemically with aluminum, iron, silver and lead at a high temperature of 3 million degrees to produce D metal.

D3 metal has excellent toughness, hardness, ductility, heat insulation, natural semiconductor material, will not rust, light weight, wide application, and is called universal metal.

It is the most common metal in the daily life of the Star Alliance. Because aluminum accounts for 80%, it is also called "earth aluminum".

Therefore, the so-called land reclamation is actually about finding mineral veins for producing D3 alloy materials.

As long as there are sufficient D3 alloy materials, all basic production lines can be built, and then secondary processing, tertiary processing, and n-th processing can be carried out to continuously climb the technology tree.

The thulium element can be synthesized in the factory's "element tower" by supplying energy from a nuclear fusion furnace, but the energy required is terrifying and not cost-effective.

Fortunately, according to experience, some thorium elements are retained in the core lava deep in some planets.

As for aluminum, it is almost everywhere on the earth and only needs to be refined.

Iron. Logically speaking, the final "nuclear waste" in a nuclear fusion furnace is iron.

However, the nuclear fusion furnace used by Li Ming is "civilian" and the nuclear fusion reaction only uses hydrogen as fuel, and the final product is nothing more than helium, lithium and the like.

The final "nuclear waste" is the carbon, oxygen, calcium and other nuclear fusion furnaces that are standard for the Covenant military.

As for the nuclear fusion furnace that can produce "nuclear waste iron", it is the top technology of the Star Alliance.

Therefore, what Li Ming needed most, but was least likely to obtain, were thallium, iron, silver and lead.

Although these four metal elements can be synthesized artificially, the energy consumption is not cost-effective and the production efficiency is low.

So the optimal solution is mining.

……

On the 2317th day after Li Ming arrived on Planet Ding-27, the first batch of tens of thousands of mechanical bees were processed and manufactured in the factory.

After charging, Li Ming activated the program chip carried by the mechanical bee.

All I saw was a metal beehive with densely packed metal bees as big as fists flapping their wings and flying out.

These metal bees have hundreds of thousands of tiny scales distributed on their bodies. These scales are miniature "spiral" blades, which together form the power system of the metal bees.

In addition, the Metal Bee is equipped with a StarNet chip, which can be positioned through the StarNet network and upload real-time coordinate data.

It is also equipped with a metal detector that can search for metal veins within several kilometers.

This is the cheapest but also very easy-to-use map-running tool for the Star Alliance.

About ten days later, Li Ming received a message from the metal bee.

Li Ming opened the projection panel in front of him with great anticipation to check the real-life data transmitted by the mechanical bee.

The picture unfolded, and I saw the scenery on both sides rushing backwards at a rapid speed, and several black dots gradually appeared on the gray horizon in front.

The picture was getting closer and closer, and the black dots were gradually getting bigger.

Soon, Li Ming saw their original appearance.

In the picture, several spider-like creatures as big as tanks were seen dragging wire nets filled with stones across the ground.

The spiders' bodies glowed gray-black in color, and when they moved, their eight limbs dragged across the ground, creating sparks as they rubbed against the rocky ground.

Metal Bee's vision followed the movements of these spiders. After about twenty minutes, he saw a trench appear on the horizon ahead.

The huge spiders did not dodge or evade, but leaped into the air and jumped off the cliff, dragging the stones behind them.

Metal Bee followed closely behind, bringing new images.

In the video, the metal bee overlooks the entire cliff from the air and sees a metal spider web that stretches as far as the eye can see covering the entire ditch.

On the metal web, black spiders crawl back and forth in an endless stream.

The nodes of the spider web are dotted with densely packed cocoons.

"What the hell is this?"

Li Ming uploaded the spider image to StarNet, opened the "Qiandu" search, and quickly found the relevant information.

"D-level life, mine spider?"

Li Ming muttered to himself. After reading the entire introduction, he felt heavy-hearted.

Judging from the search results on Baidu, these spiders are D-level life forms and come from the "Sower Civilization".

The Star Alliance divides life into six levels: S~E.

Human beings and all life on their home planet are classified as Class E.

Level D is the realm of extraordinary life.

New humans who take genetic drugs or are biologically modified belong to Class D.

The most important condition to become a D-level life form is to have element 126 in your body.

Theoretically, element 126 does not exist in nature, so theoretically there is no natural extraordinary life.

But there are exceptions to everything. For example, at the beginning of the Big Bang, the unimaginable energy explosion produced countless elements 126, which were enough to give birth to powerful "supernatural life."

It was an era full of crises but also full of great opportunities.

At the beginning of the universe, many powerful civilizations were born. According to the archaeological findings of the Star Alliance, there was a civilization called "The Sowers".

This civilization’s favorite thing is to spread the “seeds of life” throughout the universe and give birth to all kinds of life.

The amount of life sown by the Seeder civilization is as vast as the starry sky. There are more than one trillion species known to the Covenant alone.

These lives, some as weak as bacteria and viruses and some as strong as mythical creatures like "dragons" and "angels", were all fabricated at will by the Sower civilization.

Scientists' research shows that humans are also one of the creations of the Sower civilization.

Fortunately, various signs indicate that the Sower civilization seems to have disappeared in the long river of time.

……

In the next few days, Metal Bee discovered many more mine spider nests.

The planet seems to have been occupied by mine spiders, and spider nests are everywhere.

In addition, there is another disappointing news.

That is, metal spiders feed on metal ore, and all open-pit mines discovered these days are occupied by metal spiders.

The underground mines also have densely packed mine caves with metal spiders crawling out of them.

……

"I am so unlucky. Judging from the 3-degree observation, this spider feeds on metal ores and has a strong sense of metal. I'm afraid it will soon discover my base. Those equipment and machine tools are all made of D alloy..."

Li Ming felt unlucky. He knew from the experience and lessons of his predecessors that the last thing he wanted to see during the period of land reclamation was to encounter this kind of extraordinary life.

Although the D3 printer is capable of producing weapons capable of killing D-class life, it consumes too much energy and will occupy the power of the nuclear fusion furnace.

Although nuclear fusion fuels such as hydrogen are inexhaustible, nuclear fusion furnaces have a service life.

Once the nuclear fusion furnace is scrapped and there is no money to buy a new one, Li Ming will not only be trapped on the planet Ding 2317 forever, but will also be burdened with a huge debt.

After all, legally, the nuclear fusion furnace is an energy furnace belonging to the Star Observatory, not private property.

At that time, he would be like many ordinary people who did nothing, living a life of mediocrity on a desolate planet until he died of old age, unless he mortgaged the planet he contracted and became a "worker" for a Fortune 500 company in the Star Alliance.

The land reclamation failed, the nuclear fusion furnace was scrapped, bankruptcy, and becoming a worker...

Being a social animal without freedom is actually the fate of most Star Alliance pioneers.

"Produce engineering machines and suspend other unrelated production lines."

Li Ming made a decision quickly.

Various engineering construction machines were produced and then driven to the outskirts of the base.

Under Li Ming's plan, a ditch hundreds of meters wide and thousands of meters deep was dug outside the base. The surface of the ditch was covered with a layer of "laser carpet", which was divided into countless grids, and there was a sharp D3 alloy cone in the center of each grid.

Once a creature falls into the ditch, it will be pierced by the alloy cone, and then the laser carpet will release lasers to penetrate and melt it.

In order to create these things, Li Ming spent half of the remaining printing materials.

In addition, if this defense system is activated, it will occupy 50% of the power load of the nuclear fusion furnace.

But it was worth it. With this ditch as a barrier, he wouldn't have to worry about a spider tide flooding the entire base.

"The focus of future development needs to be changed, otherwise we will be trapped on this planet."

Li Ming muttered to himself and ordered the recovery of temporarily useless equipment and production lines such as engineering vehicles.

These things were recycled and smelted to obtain thousands of tons of printing materials.

Next, Li Ming browsed the Star Network, looking for a common fighter design model.

"Boeing 478? It seems to be one of the top 500 companies in the Star Alliance. This fighter should be good... Damn, so many negative reviews? I see. This company has often had plane crashes since before the interstellar era, and the performance of the fighters it produces is not strong..."

Li Ming shook his head and continued watching.

"Old Dongfang No. 13... designed by a school enterprise? Not bad, not bad, everyone says it's good... but why are there less than a thousand downloads?"

"Suzaku 07? Hiss... What a cool fighter, but the model is too antique, it's actually a design from 100 years ago."

Li Ming looked for the latest Suzaku model, and found that models after 07 were not free to download. The latest model "Suzaku 11" was currently serving in the Star Alliance Flame Legion and was a military secret.

"Although it's an antique, it was used by the army before, which shows its performance. Besides, the better ones are all charged, and the free ones are not as good as it."

After spending 10 minutes downloading the design model of Suzaku 07, Li Ming began to operate the D3 printer, turned on the customization mode, and started to create it.

Since mass production is not required, there is no need to first make a production line and then assemble it through the production line.

It took Li Ming more than two days to print out the first Suzaku 2.

At the newly built airport, a red fighter plane with a fluid dynamics aesthetic is parked like a giant sparrow spreading its wings and soaring.

The entire "Suzaku 07" has an extremely simple appearance, and the most eye-catching features are the two laser transmitters on both sides of its wings.

They are called "Nanming Lihuo"!
This is one of the Covenant's cutting-edge technologies. Through a special energy matrix, the energy generated by nuclear fusion can be converted into laser beams with a specific arrangement of energy particles and emitted.

Since this ray can melt any known substance below grade C, it is called "Nanming Lihuo". It is rumored that there are also "Suzaku Holy Flame", "Phoenix True Fire" and "Sun Golden Essence" above it.

However, Li Ming did not intend to use Nanming Lihuo to "fight monsters".

The reason is simple: “wastes electricity”.

In addition to the powerful weapon Nanming Lihuo, the Suzaku 07 also has a "gravity bow" installed on its back.

The gravity bow can launch the "Suzaku Feather" to attack targets on the ground.

The "Suzaku Feathers" are stored in the cabin. Each "Suzaku Feather" is made of D3 alloy, is about 10 meters long and weighs kilograms.

The Suzaku 10, with a load capacity of 07 tons, can carry Suzaku feathers.

Under Li Ming's command, the first Suzaku 07 took off and flew towards the nearest spider's nest.

At present, no base has been discovered in this spider's nest, but contact between the two is inevitable.

Li Ming decided to take the initiative.

With a speed of 3 kilometers per hour, Suzaku 07 took less than half an hour to reach the sky above the spider's nest.

Under fully automatic program control, it reduced its speed and circled around the nest.

Soon, the gravity bow was debugged and aimed at the nest below, accumulating energy to launch the Suzaku Feather.

One after another, fiery red crossbow arrows popped out from the hatch on top of the back of the aircraft. Under the action of the gravity bow, they stretched backwards and gathered enough strength to be fired downwards.

With the powerful initial speed, the crossbow arrow's surface turned red due to friction with the air and actually burned with flames.

boom!
A crossbow bolt pierced through the unsuspecting mine spider and pinned it directly to the metal spider web.

Then, crossbow arrows fell like a torrential rain, causing chaos among the spiders. Some mine spiders tried to spray spider webs to intercept them, but the crossbow arrows went straight through and melted the spider webs, rushing down with unstoppable force.

In just 5 minutes, all crossbow arrows were fired, killing dozens of mine spiders.

The spiders below were helpless against the Vermilion Bird in the sky.

A smile appeared on Li Ming's face.

The difference between humans and animals is that humans can use tools.

Facing this kind of non-intelligent crawling extraordinary life, air strikes are a crushing blow.

What a pity, it’s such a waste of resources!

The consumption of 200 crossbow arrows is 10 tons of D3 alloy. If you want to recycle it, you can only wait until the nest is destroyed.

Half an hour later, Suzaku returned, reloaded the Suzaku feathers, and set off again.

Li Ming, on the other hand, continued printing Suzaku 07.

Another five days passed, and a total of three Suzaku 5s were produced. After 07-hour continuous bombing, the spider's nest was finally cleared out.

Li Ming quickly sent the transport vehicles and handling robots that had been prepared long ago to the spider's nest.

Recovering crossbow arrows and spider corpses is of utmost importance.

Needless to say, the crossbow arrows can be recycled and remade with a loss of less than 2%.

Mine spiders feed on metal ores and their bodies are made of various metals, making them the best smelting materials.

While cleaning up the battlefield, Li Ming commanded Suzaku 07 to head to the spider's nest farther away.

After several days of hard work, Li Ming obtained nearly a thousand metal spider corpses.

After dissection, Li Ming obtained the spider's body composition data.

10%的D9合金外骨骼，52%的铝合金身躯，17%的D6液态合金丝囊，1%的126号元素晶核，20%的D0液态金属血液。

These ingredients are very pure and only need to be melted, separated and purified to make the required D3 alloy.

Especially the element crystal core No. 126. The element crystal core in the spider's body weighs several hundred kilograms at least.

According to the chemical equation, every 2 tons of element 126 can produce 100 tons of D3 alloy.

Li Ming did a simple calculation and found that for every 20 mine spiders he hunted, he could obtain approximately 2 tons of element 126 crystal cores.

(End of this chapter)