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The molecular structures on the screen were intricately arranged. Li Yichen stared at the six-fold symmetrical lattice, tapping his finger on several nodes of the holographic projection.

"The underlying logic of this material... how come it's so similar to the vibranium I've developed?"

Ling'er's holographic figure bounced around the edge of the screen, her hands rapidly pulling out a three-dimensional material topology diagram.

"Brother, although it looks similar, it's not the same type. It's just that the structure is similar to vibranium!" Ling'er zoomed in on several sets of data and pointed to the interlocking hexagonal structures.

"The molecular bonds of this thing have been reshaped by a strong force field. I just ran its physical parameters on a supercomputer and came to a very frightening conclusion."

Old Lu and several other leaders gathered around.

"How scary is it?" He Zhenchuan asked in a gruff voice.

"The hardness of this thing is half that of vibranium." Li Yichen pointed to the reading on the screen, his tone revealing a rare surprise.

Zhang Mingyuan pushed up his glasses, somewhat puzzled, and gestured in the air with his hand: "Half? That doesn't sound too outrageous. Aren't our superconducting tungsten-gold fusion alloys quite hard?"

Li Yichen chuckled, turned to look at Zhang Mingyuan, and tapped the metal surface of the main control panel: "Old Zhang, do you have some misunderstanding about the hardness of vibranium? The Titan armor I made with pure vibranium could withstand the detonation of a 10-ton nuclear bomb strapped to my chest without damaging it."

What does it mean that this thing is half the hardness of vibranium? It means that even if an alien fleet's main cannon were to fire directly at it, it could withstand several hits without falling apart.

The command center fell silent. Several high-ranking officials gasped in shock.

Liu Guoliang stroked his chin, pondered for a while, then pulled up a chair and sat down: "It's tough enough, but this thing has been buried underground on Mars for tens of millions of years. Where are we going to get it? We can't expect aliens to have left us a few warehouses of spare parts, can we?"

"This is the most insane part." Li Yichen rested his hands on the main control panel, his gaze sweeping over the crowd.

"Vibranium production is severely limited by the few rare veins on the moon, amounting to only a few hundred tons at most, enough to build a few mechs at most. But this stuff, I call it 'Dark Star Alloy'."

Its underlying logic is to recombine ordinary metals using a strong force field. In other words, once we master the technology of color charge confinement traps and build a large-scale production line, we can mass-produce dark star alloys by simply dumping a truckload of scrap iron or ordinary iron ore into it!

Old Lu slapped his thigh hard: "Unlimited production?!"

"Yes, plenty." Li Yichen tapped the table. "As long as there's electricity and ore, our entire interstellar fleet can be equipped with this kind of armor. At that time, the entire Great Xia fleet will be a bunch of iron turtles rampaging through the universe."

He Zhenchuan rubbed his hands together, pacing anxiously in place, pointing at the red earth outside the porthole: "What are we waiting for? Quickly send men down to dig! Drag this broken cannon out, cut it up, and build a spaceship!"

"Commander He, do you think this is digging potatoes?" Li Yichen pointed out the window. "This thing is buried eight thousand meters underground and stretches for hundreds of kilometers. Apart from a few detectors, our frigate doesn't even have a decent heavy excavation device. If we try to dig it out, we'd have to dismantle the spaceship and still not be able to get it out."

Li Yichen made a few moves on the holographic keyboard and then retracted the deep probe.

"Don't disturb it yet. We've already obtained the material data. Let's go back and set up the Dark Star Alloy production line in the lab first. When the Xuanwu is free, I'll bring two ships over, equip them with high-frequency plasma cutting matrices, and give it a brutal excavation."

Li Yichen looked at the massive underground outline on the screen.

"After we dig it out, I'll try to repair it. If we can, we'll save ourselves the trouble of building a large planet-destroying cannon from scratch. If we can't repair it, we'll cut it into pieces and take it back to use as ready-made building materials for spaceships. We can't waste a single bit of it."

Old Lu nodded emphatically: "Let's do it your way. Let's go back to Earth first, sort out the mess at home, and then we can take care of this precious land of Mars."

"Ling'er, back to base. Sub-light speed engines, ignition, home."

"Received. Flight path locked to Earth. Anti-gravity engine switched."

The frigate made a graceful tail flick above the Martian equator, without creating any airflow disturbance, and transformed into a streak of dark blue light, plunging into the vast depths of space.

The return journey was so smooth that I didn't feel a thing.

Inside the bridge, Old Lu stood with his hands behind his back in front of a fifty-meter-long holographic porthole. At the edge of his vision, the light blue planet was rapidly magnifying.

White clouds swirled above the azure ocean, their home planet where they were born and raised.

Old Lu watched for a long time. He turned around and faced Li Yichen, He Zhenchuan, Liu Guoliang, Zhang Mingyuan, and others.

The usual weighing and compromise in Old Lu's eyes were gone, replaced by a resolute determination to burn one's bridges.

"After we return, we will convene a high-level expanded meeting."

Old Lu's voice echoed in the spacious bridge, hitting everyone's ears.

"The interstellar migration plan and the establishment of the space force are now listed as the highest national policies of Great Xia! Anyone who dares to shirk responsibility and hinder progress at this critical juncture will be personally removed from their post!"

Zhou Weiguo straightened up and loudly echoed, "It should have been done a long time ago! After seeing that thing under Mars that's tens of millions of years old, I find it ridiculous to think about those countries on Earth still fighting tooth and nail over a few oil fields and shipping routes."

"That's right." He Zhenchuan grinned, pointing to the starry sky outside.

"Our future goal for Great Xia is this vast universe. Let those petty gains on Earth be fought over by politicians in Europe and America."

Once our interstellar fleet is complete, even if they turn the entire planet upside down, they'll just be a bunch of ants scrambling for food in a mud pit in our eyes.

Li Yichen leaned against the bar, took a sip of ice water, and poured some cold water on the group of old leaders: "Having lofty ambitions is a good thing, but you have to take things one step at a time. We need to quickly select promising talents for the Space Force, and the military also needs to cooperate in keeping the Dark Star Alloy production line secret. Nobody can say for sure when the aliens will come."

"Don't worry about your research." Old Lu stepped forward and patted Li Yichen on the shoulder. "Logistics support, personnel selection, and the coordination of global resources—the entire national apparatus will fully cooperate with you. Great Xia is now using all its national strength to support you!"

Several hours later, the Star Shield-class frigate smoothly passed through the atmosphere.

On the No. 1 parade ground of the Shanghai Military Region, a fierce wind blew up again. A huge shadow fell over the ground.

As the tractor beam descended, Li Yichen and the other bigwigs stepped back onto the solid asphalt of Earth.

Not far away, the military region's air defense missile positions had been redeployed. Rows of heavy main battle tanks were parked at the edge of the parade ground, their gun barrels pointing diagonally to the sky, and the soldiers were fully armed and ready for battle.

He Zhenchuan stood with his hands on his hips, looking at the heavy equipment he usually treasured.

He walked over, patted Liu Guoliang on the shoulder, and burst out laughing: "Old Liu, look at these lumps of iron. I used to think our tanks and missiles were pretty impressive, but after going to Mars today and seeing the plasma cannon on Yichen's spaceship, now when I look at our planes and cannons, they look like water guns that kids play with!"

Liu Guoliang laughed along, shaking his head and sighing, "Times have changed. In the future, these tracked vehicles on the ground will probably only be left in museums for people to visit. We need to hurry up and set up the framework for the Space Force."

Li Yichen didn't chat with them. He greeted Old Lu and the others, then headed straight for a corner of the military compound.

The matte black Great Wall Cannon pickup truck was still parked in the same spot.

"Commenders, you all go about your business. I need to go back and study the data from the materials brought back from Mars." Li Yichen opened the car door.

"Go ahead, contact me anytime if you need anything." Old Lu waved his hand.

The pickup truck roared out of the military district gate and sped towards the future aerospace base.

Back at base.

Li Yichen left the car in the underground garage, strode through the dust-free passage, underwent iris verification, and pushed open the heavy alloy door of the core control room of the precision testing building.

"Ling'er, retrieve the crystal lattice data from beneath Mars. Let's run the synthesis formula for Dark Star Alloy first."

Li Yichen took off his coat and threw it on the back of the chair as he walked to the main control panel.

no respond.

Ling'er, who is usually always chattering, was unusually quiet this time.

Li Yichen stopped what he was doing and looked up at the top of the control panel.

Ling'er's holographic figure stood there. Her face was deathly pale, and even the data stream maintaining her body was flickering slightly, like an old light bulb with a faulty connection, exuding an extremely unstable state.

"What's wrong?" Li Yichen abandoned his casual demeanor, placing his hands on the control panel. "Is the system under attack?"

Ling'er shook her head, her little hand waving in the air a few times, her movements appearing very stiff.

"Brother, it wasn't a system attack." Ling'er's voice was a little unsteady. "Just now, underground on Mars, when the deep probe was scanning the core power furnace of that prehistoric planet-destroying cannon, it not only captured material data but also intercepted an extremely faint electromagnetic noise."

"Noise?"

"Yes. That noise was masked by the background radiation from the Martian crust. At first, I thought it was interference from geological activity."

Ling'er pulled up an audio waveform graph, "But on the way back, I called on the supercomputing cluster to perform noise reduction decoding on this noise ten thousand times."

On the large screen in the control room, the chaotic waveforms were gradually sorted out into a clear pattern.

"It turned out that this was not natural noise at all. It was a fragmented signal transmitted using the frequency band of fundamental cosmological mathematics."

Ling'er looked up at Li Yichen and said, "The launch source is the bottom black box of that planet-destroying cannon. It's been playing on a loop underground for tens of millions of years."

Li Yichen's breathing slowed down.

"Has it been translated yet?"

Ling'er nodded and typed the last command on the keyboard.

The waveform on the big screen disappeared, and a text translated into Bactrian language appeared.

The font was a glaring scarlet red, standing out starkly in the dimly lit control room.

Li Yichen stared at the sentence on the screen and felt a chill run down his spine to the back of his head.

The sentence reads:

"Those who come after, do not reveal your location. This universe is a vast dark forest; remember the law of the jungle!"