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Li Yichen picked up the ice water on the coffee table, took a sip, and looked out through the floor-to-ceiling window at the starry sky.

"I'll send the Xuanwu spaceship to the planet Gushen to collect ice. Then I'll create a freshwater lake for them right on the Martian equator."

The women exchanged bewildered glances, even forgetting to eat their snacks. Transforming Mars into a place with lakes was completely beyond their comprehension. Li Yichen didn't explain further, turning and heading towards his study on the second floor.

The scene then cuts to the Martian equator, 50 million kilometers away.

A hazy, yellowish wind whipped up crimson sand and gravel, swirling it across the sky. Eight thousand meters below the surface, tens of thousands of T-800 Terminators stood in neat matrix arrays. High-frequency plasma cutters extended from the tips of their robotic arms, their blue-white, high-temperature beams weaving into a massive cutting net that sliced ​​directly into the hard basalt layer.

The rocks melted into dark red magma under high temperatures, which flowed along the cut fissures.

Subsequent engineers, wielding heavy excavators, peeled away and removed the massive, squared rocks piece by piece. These tireless steelworkers were violently and physically destroying the prehistoric planet-destroying cannon buried for tens of millions of years. The dull thuds of fractured rock echoed underground; the Martian crust was being forcibly morphed by the Great Xia's engineering forces.

Meanwhile, on the surface, another massive project is also underway. Six large cold fusion reactors, each over sixty meters tall, rise from the ground like six giant pillars supporting the sky.

The outer shells of these reactors are made of superconducting tungsten-gold fusion alloy, gleaming with a cold, hard luster in the Martian sandstorms. They are spaced tens of kilometers apart, forming a huge circle with a diameter of over one hundred kilometers in the equatorial wasteland.

Thousands of Terminators moved between the reactors, laying thick superconducting cables, each over a meter in diameter, across the red soil. These cables intertwined into a network, tightly connecting the energy centers of the six reactors to form a vast energy matrix.

Blue Star, study in Tomson Riviera villa.

Li Yichen leaned back in his large leather swivel chair, watching the live footage of Mars projected back by the holographic projection. He picked up his hand-drip coffee, took a sip, and tapped the Enter key on the virtual keyboard.

"Ling'er, light the fire."

"Command confirmed. Mars Equatorial Forward Base, shield array activated." Ling'er's clear voice rang out in the study.

At the Martian equator, the superconducting coils inside six cold fusion reactors operate at full capacity, emitting blinding blue light. Vast amounts of electrical energy surge along underground cables, converging at the central launch tower.

A beam of dark blue energy shot straight into the sky, exploding outwards in mid-air. The light, like a giant overturned glass bowl, expanded outwards with overwhelming force, its edges slamming heavily onto the outer bases of the six reactors, creating a visible shockwave.

A raging Martian sandstorm crashed into the energy shield, instantly vaporizing from the intense heat with a hissing sound. Inside the shield, the gravity simulator and temperature regulation matrix were operating at full power.

The gravity, which was originally only one-third that of Earth, was forcibly increased to the standard value, and the extremely cold temperature of minus sixty degrees Celsius began to rise rapidly.

On this desolate planet, the Great Xia Dynasty carved out an absolutely safe living area.

At the same time, the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, USA.

Chief astronomer Smith is pressing his eye against the eyepiece of the optical telescope.

He originally just wanted to routinely observe the activities of the Great Xia on Mars, thinking that at most they would just build a few tin can-like research stations and send a few Mars rovers up to dig up some soil.

In the field of vision, a blue dot, visible to the naked eye, appeared on the Martian equator. That blue dot rapidly expanded, forming a perfect semi-circular dome that completely enveloped that area.

Smith rubbed his eyes, leaned back in front of the eyepiece, and carefully checked the coordinates and scale.

Charlie, the assistant beside him, came over with two cups of hot coffee: "Professor, has construction started on the Great Xia Mars base? How much corrugated steel sheeting did they bring? Is it enough to build two warehouses?"

"Corrugated steel roof my ass!" Smith slammed his hand on the observation platform, knocking Charlie's coffee to the floor, the brown liquid dripping down the surface.

He pointed to the display screen connected to the telescope, his voice twitching, "Have you ever seen corrugated iron sheets with a diameter of 100 kilometers?! They've built an energy city right on Mars! The energy reading of that shield is greater than the combined power generation of our entire nation!"

Charlie leaned closer to see what was on the screen, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground. He pointed at the screen and stammered.

"This...this defies common sense! How did they manage to transport so much energy equipment up there? The scale of this shield is something even Hollywood sci-fi movies wouldn't dare to depict!"

"Scientific common sense is a joke in the face of Great Xia." Smith slumped into his chair, holding his head in his hands.

"We're still raising funds to return to the moon, while they've already claimed land on Mars and built their main city. This gap is something we won't be able to close for hundreds of years."

Inside the study at Tomson Riviera.

Ling'er's holographic figure sat on Li Yichen's shoulder, swinging her two little feet, looking at the blank area on the screen with a diameter of 100 kilometers, her mouth pouting high.

"Brother, this is too extravagant." Ling'er pointed to several red dots on the holographic star map that were rapidly approaching from the direction of the God of Grains.

"The Xuanwu is, after all, a heavy-duty interstellar cargo ship capable of running at Mach 200, equipped with the most advanced cold fusion propulsion system, and its hull is made of top-grade alloy."

You actually made them work as water trucks? If those American engineers who can't build spaceships knew this, they'd probably line up to jump into the Huangpu River.

Li Yichen placed the coffee cup on the mahogany table, making a crisp sound.

"Do you understand, 'Power makes bricks fly'?" Li Yichen leaned back in his chair, crossed his hands behind his head, and looked at the data jumping on the screen.

"When our Great Xia builds infrastructure, we're all about being extravagant. This Mars base will house tens of thousands of people, so how can it function without water?"

"If we're going to create a lake, let's make a big one. Using interstellar freighters to transport water is the most efficient way. Besides, the Xuanwu was built for heavy lifting; transporting ore is one thing, transporting water is another."

"But we can't just waste high technology like that," Ling'er complained.

"Other countries calculate the weight of their probes in grams before launching them into space, but you're calculating it in millions of tons."

"This is called the unique infrastructure of the Great Xia Dynasty." Li Yichen tapped the table. "Stop talking nonsense, keep an eye on the Xuanwu's flight path, and prepare for the airdrop."

Above the Martian equator.

Four massive, sleek spaceships, devoid of any streamlined aesthetics, tore through Mars' thin atmosphere with deafening sonic booms. They hurtled back from Asteroid Osam at a staggering speed of Mach 200, their hulls still sloughed with ice fragments left from their journey through the asteroid belt.

The Xuanwu hovered above its dark blue energy shield, its massive hull casting a huge shadow on the Martian surface. At the top of the shield, a slit several kilometers in diameter silently slid open.

"Unload the cargo," Li Yichen ordered.

The massive hatches on the bellies of the four Xuanwu ships opened simultaneously. Millions of tons of pure ice-water mixture extracted from the depths of the planet Gushen poured down through the openings of the shields, like a dam bursting in the Milky Way.

Huge columns of water crashed onto the parched, reddish Martian landscape with a deafening roar, causing the entire planet to tremble. Soil was hurled and rocks were washed away.

The potential energy of millions of tons of water was transformed into enormous destructive and reshaping forces. In just ten minutes, an artificial freshwater lake with an area of ​​over one square kilometer and a depth of more than three meters took shape in the very center of the shield.

The immense force of the water flow generated a massive amount of water vapor, which rose and swirled inside the shield, creating a white mist.

As the Xuanwu ship continues to transport water, a huge artificial lake will eventually form here.

"Start the microenvironment meteorological circulation system." Li Yichen looked at the humidity reading on the screen.

The adjustment matrix on the inner wall of the shield began to operate. Rising water vapor condensed upon encountering cold air, turning into fine raindrops.

Mars, whose land had been parched for tens of millions of years, welcomed its first real spring rain.

Rainwater falls on the reddish soil, making a rustling sound, and gathers into small streams that flow into the freshwater lake in the center.

Ripples spread across the lake, reflecting the deep blue energy dome overhead.

Beyond the shield lies a dark, violent apocalyptic sandstorm, with flying sand and stones, creating a harsh environment.

Inside the shield, a light rain fell and the lake rippled, a scene teeming with life. The extreme visual contrast vividly showcased the brutal aesthetics of technological dominance.

Li Yichen smiled as he looked at the calm lake surface in the holographic projection and the foundation around the lake that was being rapidly leveled by the Terminator.

"With the infrastructure in place, all that's left is to build houses and set up production lines." Li Yichen picked up his coffee, which had cooled down a bit, and took a sip.

The completion of this Mars base completely solved the major rear area problem for the entire Great Xia nation's interstellar leap.

With this vast and safe site, the prehistoric planet-destroying cannon can be repaired and studied directly here after it is unearthed, providing ample space for the subsequent mass production of Dark Star Alloy.

"Three months later." Li Yichen put down his coffee cup, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, making a rhythmic tapping sound. "Let the whole world see what interstellar real estate in Great Xia looks like. As long as you're bold enough, even Mars can become a water town in Jiangnan."

He leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on the shimmering Martian lake projected on the hologram. Ripples spread across the surface of the water.