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Chapter 237 Flying Star!

The breakthrough in fundamental physics must be accomplished within the galaxy itself, as only there are sufficient supplies of materials. However, subsequent research in applied physics and the development of various facilities can be completed entirely in space.

Other civilizations couldn't do this, but Li Qingsong could. Furthermore, Li Qingsong had already proven this during his long voyage of over two thousand years.

Then, it is obvious what Li Qingsong will do next.

It wasn't about technological research and development, or fleet upgrades—at this stage, Li Qingsong hadn't mastered any advanced nuclear-level applied technology, and couldn't upgrade the fleet. Instead, it was...

Collect supplies on a large scale again, build empty shell camouflage fleets on a large scale again, and then escape into the starry sky!

Once you leave the star system and enter the starry sky, even the intelligent mechanical disaster fleet will not be able to track you in a short period of time.

In this way, he would have time to transform breakthroughs in basic physics into breakthroughs in industry and combat power.

Therefore, at this moment when large-scale scientific and technological research has come to an end, the huge number of factories have not stopped, but have entered into more efficient operation.

This time, the material storage work that Li Qingsong has to carry out far exceeds any previous time.

The reason is very simple. As technology improves, if we want to conduct scientific research and further improve technology, the amount of materials needed will naturally increase.

The last time it set sail, including the weight of the spacecraft, the total mass of Li Qingsong's fleet was about 10 trillion tons.

This time, not counting the weight of the spacecraft itself, Li Qingsong has planned a total amount of stored materials of about 200 trillion tons!
Even with such a huge amount of reserve materials, it was barely enough according to Li Qingsong's calculations.

If time wasn't so tight, Li Qingsong would even want to bring more supplies.

However, even the 200 trillion tons of materials at this moment brought an extremely huge challenge to Li Qingsong.

That is, how to carry so many supplies?
The maximum carrying capacity of a giant aerospace carrier is about hundreds of millions of tons.

Doesn’t 200 trillion tons of materials mean hundreds of thousands of aerospace carriers?

The aerospace carrier is not a Mercury-class battleship, and it is not easy to build hundreds of thousands of them.

Which aerospace carrier is not time-consuming and difficult to manufacture?
Even if Li Qingsong devoted all his remaining time to the construction of aerospace carriers, it would be impossible to build hundreds of thousands of them.

Even with Li Qingsong's industrial strength, he is still unable to cope with such a large-scale construction.

Even if Li Qingsong completes a breakthrough in the branch of biology based on the grand unified formula in the future and doubles the current 15 billion consciousness connections to 30 billion, he will not be able to complete such a huge construction task.

This is simply not something a strong nuclear civilization can do.

So……

Li Qingsong gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

Then I won't build an aerospace carrier! I'll build a flying star!
After this plan was finalized, the transport ships that were originally carrying a large amount of supplies to the fleet immediately changed their course and arrived at a void area far away from any large planet.

Here, about 10 million tons of steel were unloaded and thrown directly into space.

Depending on the type of use, these steels are in the form of ingots, plates, coils, bars, and other types.

They are packed in huge containers, each of which has a volume of about 300 cubic meters, totaling more than .

Using a mode of fixing with connectors, these containers are fixed into a huge non-standard sphere with a radius of about 100 meters, quietly suspended in space.

They are the "core" of the flying stars.

Outside this core, one heavy transport ship after another flew in from various planets, carrying various materials stored in various modes, such as protium, deuterium, and helium-3 gases in huge gas tanks, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and other chemicals in huge chemical tanks, various plastics, biological products, and machinery in containers, huge steel ingots, aluminum ingots, tin blocks, gold, silver, copper, iron, and so on, piled up bit by bit on the core of the flying star.

Like a snowball, under Li Qingsong's continuous "feeding", the core of Feixing gradually grew, developed, and became bigger and bigger.

As it continued to "develop", Li Qingsong also reserved various pipes and channels to ensure that even if the materials were pressed in the core, he could easily take them out.

Countless mines and factories on many planets roar day and night, and trains roar all day long on the heavy-loaded railway lines leading to the space elevator. Large amounts of materials are like water in a pump, being continuously "pumped" from the surface of the planet into space by the space elevator, and then into the heavy-loaded transport spacecraft.

One transport spaceship after another, like industrious bees, collected "nectar" from afar and gathered it at the construction site of Feixing.

With every heavy-loaded transport ship that arrives, the flying star grows a little bit bigger.

On average, more than 1500 heavy transport ships arrive every day, more than ships every hour, and almost one ship in less than a minute!
Each heavy-load transport ship carries tens of millions of tons of cargo, and its types are diverse and comprehensive.

From small items like spoons for clones to eat, to large items like spacecraft propulsion assemblies, the total number of categories is almost over tens of millions!

In short, Li Qingsong has stored large quantities of everything that might be used for the fleet's deep space voyage, and is piling them up on this "flying star" as if they were free of charge.

Li Qingsong was busy for thirty-two years, producing a heavy-loaded transport ship in less than a minute.

In the past thirty-two years, the total number of transport ship trips between industrial bases and flights has reached 1900 million!
The total mass of all materials transported reached an unprecedented and astonishing number.

A full 202 trillion tons!
Such a large amount of various materials piled up together could even create a planet out of thin air.

The average density of this planet is about 0.38 grams per cubic centimeter - the reason why the density is so low is because Li Qingsong has stored a large amount of lighter gases such as hydrogen and deuterium in it.

Its radius reaches 50 kilometers, but it maintains a spherical shape overall.

A near-spherical star with a radius of 50 kilometers, to be frank, exceeds most planets in this galaxy in terms of both volume and density.

Even if it is an asteroid with the longest point reaching more than 100 kilometers, because it is not a sphere, its total volume is far smaller than the planet created by Li Qingsong at this moment.

This is a real spaceship planet, which Li Qingsong simply calls Flying Star!
(End of this chapter)