Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 369 Divine Remains Forging Ships and the Lord of Guanghan City (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)
The Narwal is already quite large. When the project was first initiated, some experts suggested taking it step by step, starting with a smaller one, and building a larger one only after the test was successful.

However, Jiang Cai'er felt that time was tight and she had a little confidence, so she went straight for the big one, which was more than 3,000 meters long. You should know that the Ford-class aircraft carrier in peacetime is only about 333 meters long and about 78 meters wide. The Narwal is more than ten times the length of the Ford-class aircraft carrier.

Under normal circumstances, it is equipped with a crew of around 60,000, but if it is only temporarily used as a transport ship, it can transport up to 300,000 people at a time.

It still seems too small now.

The migration of 20 million people involved nearly 70 round trips.

Although Li Xiang's interdimensional warehouse is large, it's a pity that it's not suitable for storing living people.

Furthermore, "Moon City" is still under construction and cannot accommodate 20 million people at once. Therefore, the migration to the moon will have to be done gradually, with a planned completion time of about one year. If the maintenance and upkeep of the Narwhale are included, it may take even longer.

Given that Jiang Cai'er disliked the small size of the first-generation space carrier, and since the second and third generations weren't particularly large either, Li Xiang contributed the remains of those several god-level alien beasts.

The bones and shells of these divine beasts are extremely sturdy. They can travel through interstellar space using only their physical bodies, making them excellent materials for modifying starships. Moreover, even the smallest one is over 300 kilometers long, making the Cloud Whale seem tiny in comparison.

Jiang Cai'er was very excited: "If the modification is successful, the space inside such a beast mothership is equivalent to several underground cities." It's only about 260 or 270 kilometers from Shanghai to Nanjing.

One of these alien motherships can carry tens of millions of people at once.

They then thought that if even divine-level beasts were so precious, what if they could subdue all the divine-king level beasts, or even those few inside the sun, and transform them into a space carrier? Perhaps the entire population of Earth could fit inside.

"Then we'll form a massive star fleet, embark on an expedition, and search for a new home!" Jiang Cai'er's eyes sparkled with boundless ambition.

Li Xiang was also quite excited, but then he smiled bitterly: "I am not yet a God King, and I don't know how long it will take to build such a huge fleet. Moreover, many people may be reluctant to leave their homeland, Earth."

Jiang Cai'er nodded. She had once thought about transforming the entire Earth into a warship, like in "The Wandering Earth," to see if they could sail out of the Black Mist Starfield and find a new home. But clearly, using a monster mothership would be simpler.

"Who do you plan to choose as the city lord of Guanghan City?" Jiang Cai'er suddenly asked, remembering something.

She has now acquired the remains of a divine-level alien beast and will need to spend a lot of effort modifying the space carrier. Moreover, Earth cannot do without her, since City 03 is now her main base. Her family, relatives, and friends all live in this city, and she has put a lot of effort into it. With Li Xiang away, she will definitely have to stay here to oversee things.

After a moment's thought, Li Xiang said, "How about we have Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui co-host?"

"Whatever you want." Jiang Cai'er pouted, too lazy to care about this matter, and went straight to designing the new type of alien beast space carrier. She couldn't wait to see the finished product.

The modification is a huge project. Even with robots working day and night, it would probably take one or two years, or even longer.

Li Xiang then went to Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui to tell them about this.

The two women were naturally extremely excited.

Li Xiang felt quite embarrassed because Yao Yao was governing the city alone, while the two of them were to serve as city lords together.

“Underground cities will be built on the moon in the future. For now, you can manage one city together and gain some experience. Later, each of you will be given a city,” Li Xiang comforted him.

Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui exchanged a glance and said in unison, "Brother, we don't mind."

"Brother, you're too considerate of us."

Seeing that the two women genuinely had no negative emotions, Li Xiang felt relieved: "During this time, you two arrange the handover work. Wait for the next batch, and head to Guanghan City with the Cloud Whale."

Although Guanghan City is not yet completed, as the city lord, I naturally need to participate from the construction period so that I can have a better understanding of the entire city.

As for City 03, with Jiang Cai'er in charge and so many Saint-level beasts on the surface, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui then went to get busy.

Zhao Xueqing's research team has cultivated hundreds of high-yield crop seeds, and the breeding work of underground farms on Earth has basically been put on the right track, so she no longer needs to stay in the laboratory all the time.

She divided her agricultural scientists into three groups. One group remained in City 03 as the national and even global agricultural technology and breeding center. Another group was sent to Los Santos to help Yao Yao build an underground farm, and at the same time, to establish a research branch center and breeding center in Los Santos. The third group, the most elite force, consisting of about a thousand people, would be taken to the moon to build an underground farm.

The environments of the moon and Earth are quite different.

However, the lunar soil is relatively barren and not very suitable for growing crops. Zhao Xueqing asked Li Xiang for help to see if he could transport enough black soil there. Li Xiang's extradimensional warehouse is vast and boundless. It would be easy for him to dig up black soil from places like Siberia and South America and bring it up.

As for subsequent fertilizer, fertilizer plants can be built on the moon, and human and alien excrement can be collected, fermented, and used as fertilizer.

Besides being used as research materials, the flesh and blood of the strange beasts can also be used as organic fertilizer for underground farms if some of the excess or useless parts are used.

"Leave this to me." For Li Xiang now, it was naturally a trivial matter.

In addition, he helped build larger space carrier research and production workshops on Earth, and also excavated a lot of soil, some of the better parts of which can be taken to the moon.

The smallest of the god-level alien beasts was over 300 kilometers long. As the overall framework of the space carrier, the required workshop was naturally enormous.

However, the surface is too cold and dangerous, so it is more convenient to build underground.

Propelling such a massive, alien-like hull into space presents a significant challenge, especially when it comes to the engine alone.

Li Xiang initially gave only the smallest one, storing the rest in the interdimensional warehouse. He and Jiang Cai'er privately discussed that once "Guanghan City" was completed and the first alien beast space mothership was technologically mature, the remaining motherships could be directly modified on the moon. Because the moon's gravity is weaker, takeoff on the moon would be easier.

Lei Xiaohui had been in charge of the city defense of City 03, and at this time, she had not found a suitable successor. However, Jiang Cai'er told her not to worry, because Jiang Cai'er would take over personally.

For Jiang Cai'er, who possesses a super brain and quantum computing abilities, this is not a difficult task. She can handle hundreds of millions of tasks simultaneously, and inspired by Yao Yao's clone technique, she has also created many digital life forms that exist as virtual images wearing different uniforms and attend various occasions.

Such a virtual image is even more awe-inspiring because she looks like a villainous big boss, and many of the military's superhumans are even more afraid of her.

Besides, Jiang Cai'er's prestige was already higher than Lei Xiaohui's. Regarding the black mist, Jiang Cai'er's research team had also taken many samples for research, but there had been no progress yet. However, Jiang Cai'er always felt that the black mist was a rather mysterious substance, and if it could be thoroughly studied, it might be of great help.

She suspects it is dark matter, but it is different from the previous concept of dark matter, and many experiments are needed to confirm it.

About three days later, Jiang Cai'er sent someone to invite Li Xiang to a conference room in the No. 03 City Research Center to meet with the core members of the research team to discuss the initial design draft of the alien beast space carrier.

Jiang Cai'er will take everyone's opinions into consideration, make selections, and continuously revise and improve the process to strive for perfection.

One person's plan is short-sighted, but three people's plans are long-sighted. Although Jiang Cai'er has a super brain and is a scientific genius, she still likes to brainstorm and can listen to everyone's opinions, which can sometimes give her a lot of inspiration.

This is a super-large conference room with more than 100 people in attendance. Most of them are graduates of Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the "Seven Sons of National Defense". Some of the senior experts have even worked in the military industry their whole lives. Now in their seventies, they still have not retired and are working on the front line, planning for the future of mankind.

When these veteran experts saw the plan presented by Jiang Cai'er, they were utterly stunned, their bodies trembling, because they saw the future of humanity. With such a super warship, the stars and the sea were not out of reach.

If the Cloud Whale is the first generation, and the second and third generations are under development, then if Jiang Cai'er's alien mothership is successful, it will directly jump to at least the tenth generation!
How could these veteran experts not be excited? In peacetime, these things only existed in science fiction movies. Now, they're about to become reality. If we think about it this way, the arrival of the apocalypse might not be the end of the world, but rather the beginning of a new era!
One can only say that danger is accompanied by opportunity.

Jiang Cai'er chaired the meeting, an assistant gave the main presentation, and Li Xiang listened attentively.

The general plan is as follows:
In terms of hull structure design, it is divided into two main parts: the utilization of biological materials and hull strengthening technology.

Biomaterial utilization: The body of a god-level alien beast is transformed into a space mothership. Naturally, its skeleton and shell are retained as the main framework. The natural hardness of this space beast's body can withstand space radiation and meteorite impacts, saving the huge project of building the ship.

The internal organs of the alien beast were hollowed out and transformed into energy chambers, ecological circulation areas, and storage spaces, while some bioactive tissues were preserved to enhance the structure's self-repair capabilities.

As for enhancements, they combine existing scientific and technological advancements with extraordinary research progress. For example, by covering the alien beast's shell with a nanoscale alloy coating, the pressure resistance and energy conduction efficiency can be improved. Bioengineered psionic matrices can be implanted in key parts (such as the engine array interface) to enhance compatibility with the helium-3 engine.

The most important part of a starship is arguably its engine.

For a space-based aircraft carrier that stretches for hundreds of kilometers, it is necessary to develop engines with greater thrust. This cannot be solved by a single engine, a double engine, or a triple engine. Jiang Cai'er's plan is to use six engine arrays, each driven by 30 helium-3 controlled nuclear fusion reactors in series, for a total of 180 engines.

In addition, there is a redundancy design: each array operates independently, and in the event of a single engine failure, the load can be distributed to other units in the same group through an intelligent control system to ensure thrust stability.

In terms of thrust optimization, the engine nozzle adopts a biomimetic design, mimicking the energy release path of the alien beast to reduce energy dissipation. It utilizes the natural energy pathways within the alien beast's remains to assist propulsion, reducing helium-3 fuel consumption.

The ship's belly is equipped with a helium-3 fuel storage tank, which can meet the needs of interstellar travel with a single fill.

Equipped with a "spiritual energy conversion module," it converts the divine-level spiritual energy remaining in the remains of alien beasts into backup energy.

In terms of intelligent control, Jiang Cai'er's digital avatar serves as the central AI, monitoring the engine array status in real time and dynamically adjusting the output power. A "Mindset Judgment Instrument" submodule is introduced to ensure operator loyalty and decision-making reliability.

The internal ecological zone utilizes the thoracic cavity space of alien beasts to construct modular living pods, equipped with the "Underground Farm 2.0" technology developed by Zhao Xueqing's team to achieve food self-sufficiency. It also integrates the "Psionic Matrix" technology from City 03, providing a cultivation environment for the ship's superhumans.

In terms of defense and weaponry systems, it will be equipped with plasma shields and high-energy ion cannons. The main gun will be more powerful, have a longer range, and be more powerful than that on the Narwal. It will also be supported by the Xuanniao-3 carrier-based aircraft and the superhuman squadron for coordinated operations.

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After finishing his business in City 03, Li Xiang took some time to visit Chiba Yukio and Irene. One was in Mount Fuji, and the other in France, a great distance apart, but at his current speed of 300 kilometers per second, he could arrive in less than half a minute. He was truly a master of time management.

Chiba Yukio and the Twin Magatama are now at the Saint Rank three in their lineage. Originally, they were just running a small base, but with the outbreak of the beast tide, they couldn't bear to see their fellow clansmen's dungeons fall one by one, so they went out to rescue them several times. Now they control three dungeons and have nearly forty million people under their command.

Li Xiang took out three divine-grade weapons and distributed them to them.

"Godfather, we can't bear to part with you, we also want to go to the moon." Chaolu and Xiwu hugged Li Xiang's arms on either side, acting coquettishly.

"Master, please don't hesitate to ask if you need anything from Yukio." Chiba Yukio was a little worried that as Li Xiang's strength increased and his influence expanded, she and her two daughters would be marginalized.

Originally, she had always wanted to have a child with Li Xiang, but Li Xiang had never agreed.

The reason she gathered several underground cities and built up her own power was so that she wouldn't be completely useless under Li Xiang's command in the future. Moreover, if she could have children with Li Xiang in the future, her children would also need a foundation to establish themselves.

During this time, Li Xiang also frequently spied on the battles between the God-King Realm beasts in the dark universe deep within Earth. He estimated that the outcome would not be decided so soon. Even if a winner was decided, it would probably take at least ten years for them to unite with the will of Earth. There was still enough time for Li Xiang.

About three weeks later, Li Xiang, along with Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, and others, arrived at the lunar south pole base aboard the Yun Whale, along with the third group of immigrants.

The base is under construction in full swing. As more and more people move in, the number of people participating in labor and construction is increasing. The entire Guanghan City is like a super-large construction site, full of vitality.

On the lunar surface, more than a thousand kilometers from the base, in a ring-shaped area, the 38th-tier Dark Abyss Star-Eating Dragon King is leading a million Moon-Eating Star Beasts to protect Guanghan City.

Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui also brought some trusted confidants with them. After entering Guanghan City, they quickly got into their roles and integrated themselves into the construction of this city that would one day belong to them.

It is believed that through the experience of being city lords, they will be able to achieve greater advancement.

Li Xiang, on the other hand, abandoned all responsibility and left everything to them. He then flashed into the dark universe near the lunar core, where the Moon Heart still floated quietly in the void, its divine light faintly visible.

Li Xiang reached out and grabbed the Heart of the Moon in his palm again. Then he sat down cross-legged and began to try to imprint his own spiritual will into it.

The five billion achievement points he had accumulated were quickly depleted. About three months later, Li Xiang resonated with the Heart of the Moon, but it would take several more months before they were completely united.

But the resonance alone gave rise to many strange changes. For example, even though he was in the dark universe, he didn't need to use any supernatural powers, such as the Nine Netherworld Eyes of Delusion or the ability to sense earth veins, to easily perceive everything that was happening on the moon.

The Heart of the Moon is a mysterious spiritual energy that may not have been born for a very long time. Li Xiang speculated that if given enough time, such as hundreds of billions of years, it might develop its own consciousness and become a unique spiritual life form.

In fact, such life forms do exist in the universe, but they are extremely rare. Most "planetary authority" is forcibly seized before it can develop its own consciousness.

(End of this chapter)