Epoch of Twilight

Chapter 575: The third energy crystal core

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The heavy rain lasted for more than two months before gradually subsided, and the weather cleared up in most areas of the northern hemisphere.

The ice melted, the floodwaters receded, and vegetation began to grow.

I have to mention the tenacious vitality of plants.

Even if they have been frozen for decades, their vitality has not been wiped out. Even if the branches have been completely necrotic, the root system still maintains vitality. As soon as the ice melts, countless plants and trees resurrect from the corpses and bathe in the sunshine. Below, they are competing to grow, exuding vitality.

The earth was quickly dyed green. It was hard to believe that two months ago, this place was still like a polar world of ice and snow.

As the floods on the ground recede, a planned grand city is about to rise from the ruins of Hope City. It is hundreds of times larger than the original Hope City, and has turned into a huge city within tens of thousands of square kilometers. construction site.

Countless huge cargo spaceships, like mountains, connect the micro-universe in space and the logistics channels of New Hope City. They transport materials collected from Barnard Galaxy to New Hope City and build them into buildings. Factory after factory.

Before the war with the Bosnians, mankind's predictions for the war were pessimistic. Of course, the word "pessimistic" may be somewhat inaccurate, but the uncertainty of the war situation was a common thought at the time.

The so-called defeat is inevitable before victory, let alone a life-and-death war between races.

It goes without saying that mankind wins and everyone is happy, but if it fails, there must be a way out, and retreating into the micro-universe is the last way out. Even if the Bosnians finally occupy Barnard's star system and blockade it with heavy troops, as long as they withdraw into the micro-universe, Humanity still has enough resources to develop.

According to this guideline, during wartime, humans destructively exploited Planet 4. Some of the resources were used to expand productivity and manufacture armaments, while more resources were reserved and transported to the micro-universe.

Before the expedition began, humanity's reserves of resources had already reached the consumption required to maintain current productivity for more than a hundred years. By the time the entire group migrated to Earth, humanity's reserves of materials could already sustain the development of current human productivity for a thousand years.

Of course, this is an ideal situation where productivity does not continue to explode. By then, if it lasts for fifty or sixty years, these reserve resources will probably be exhausted.

Even so, this is still a huge amount of wealth. The total mass of the reserve material exceeds the mass of the moon. The movement of each element is calculated in trillions of tons. Even precious heavy metals such as gold have dozens of Trillion tons, which is the total amount of gold mined since the beginning of human history, and hundreds of millions of times more.

The total mass of the solar system is dominated by gaseous planets, and there are not abundant rock resources that are easy to mine. The rocky planets are divided into Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury in order of size.

The largest among them is the Earth. However, the mass of the Earth is only one-third of Planet 4 in Barnard's Galaxy. Even all the rocky planets in the solar system combined are less than Planet 4.

As the home planet of mankind, it is impossible for mankind to engage in destructive mining like directly extracting materials from the ground like Planet 4. Mars, the twin brother of the Earth, has long been scheduled to be the second planet for habitation, even Venus and Mercury. A habitable planet for its backup transformation.

The human population has begun to explode. Not only are there two to three million clones produced in laboratories every year, but a new generation of humans are combining with each other, and the imminent baby boom is also beginning to take shape.

So far, the human population has reached close to 30 million. It is estimated negatively that in one hundred years, the number of humans will reach 500 million. In two hundred years, the earth may be overcrowded. Two hundred years is not enough for a civilization. Not long, even for new humans, it is only two-thirds of the lifespan.

It can be said that every rocky planet in the solar system is extremely valuable and is a resource for the development and expansion of human civilization.

Fortunately, humans have long since broken away and become an interstellar civilization that can transcend their home galaxy. Curvature technology has given humans sufficient capabilities to explore the surrounding star fields and seize resources to make up for the shortcomings of the home galaxy.

At this moment, in Jupiter, a battle is about to break out.

Luo Yuan stood in space, looking at Jupiter not far away. This is a giant planet that blows endless storms all year round. Its mass is close to the critical point of the star. There are several huge vortices in the entire atmosphere, violently colliding with each other and Friction breaks out a strong energy reaction.

Pulse radiation, lightning, strong electromagnetism, as well as storms and high temperatures that can tear it into powder, make this place like hell, and no life can survive here.

Of course, some incredible creatures must be eliminated.

For example, Luo Yuan, or the space beast.

At this time, Luo Yuan's whole body was exuding brilliance, and powerful perception enveloped the entire huge Jupiter.

In the liquid hydrogen layer tens of thousands of kilometers deep inside Jupiter, a giant beast is swimming deep into the ground in an extremely uneasy manner.

This is a huge mutant beast, its body is like a giant loach three kilometers long, with a smooth body and a blue glow, which looks quite eye-catching in the dark liquid hydrogen layer.

Perhaps due to living in the darkness for a long time, its eyes have degenerated, its head is pointed, and there are no teeth in its mouth.

The terrifying pressure in liquid hydrogen that is enough to flatten steel seems to not exist at all. Here it is completely like it is in water, constantly moving crazily towards the depths of Jupiter at an astonishing speed of hundreds of meters per second. Sneaking in, trying to find that glimmer of hope.

But this is doomed to be in vain.

The next moment, a terrifying will descended on it. Its body froze slightly, and then its whole body seemed to light up like a star. It struggled fiercely, and its huge body, several kilometers long, pushed this piece of high-pressure liquid hydrogen away. The ocean stirs into a cauldron of boiling water.

Its struggle seems to be quite effective. As a terrifying creature that can survive in the depths of Jupiter, its strength is extremely amazing. It seems that it feels that the restraints of its will are beginning to loosen. This space creature begins to struggle more crazily. It makes a silent roar. The whole body is covered with terrifying spikes, and the body that looked smooth before now looks extremely ferocious.

However, it didn't notice at all that the space of hundreds of kilometers around it had been quietly distorted. In just one second, a closed independent space had been completely formed and separated from the universe. The surrounding liquid hydrogen instantly gathered to fill the missing void in this space.

The next moment, this miniature universe wrapped around this space beast, quickly flew up, and soon left the liquid hydrogen layer and passed through the atmosphere of Jupiter. During the flight, it shrank smaller and smaller, and reached the palm of Luo Yuan's hand. By then, it had become only the size of a palm.

In this microcosm filled with light blue liquid hydrogen, a creature as big as the tip of a needle is happily shuttling through it.

Luo Yuan took a look, and his fingers blurred for a moment. His fingers passed through this micro-universe and through the body of this creature. When it solidified again, a radiant energy crystal core appeared in his hand.

At the same time, the space creature quickly collapsed into a ball of exhaustion, trembling all over, dying, and no longer as lively as before.

Luo Yuan examined it carefully and found that there was no sign of death. A smile suddenly appeared on his face. Then he used the surrounding matter to re-condensate a space ball, compressed the space inside, and quickly flew towards the earth.