Super Mothership

Chapter 217

Chapter 217 New Energy in the Interstellar Era

The subterranean world of the moon.

In the underground space of the main mining base, the deep mine in the center that directly leads to the moon surface suddenly “banged” like a waterfall, and silver liquid metal poured out!

These are exactly 500 tons of mechanical insects that Nie Yun separated. They were dredging and leveling along the mine. At this moment, they finally completed their tasks and arrived at this underground base.

This means…Nie Yun’s energy crystal in the underground space is about to enter the stage of large-scale mining!

A large amount of liquid metal immediately turned into nearly 10,000 small robots after landing, and they began to drill into every corner of the core area of ​​the base with their short legs, repairing equipment, replacing parts, and upgrading mining technology.

The original ant robot production workshop was replaced by Nie Yun’s small robot growth line, and the spherical mining vehicle manufacturing plant was restored and reopened…

After tens of thousands of years of silence, this base has regained its civilized atmosphere!

The huge base covers an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers. Even if such a large number of robots enter it, it will be like a mud cow entering the sea. It only occupies a few key functional buildings and core areas, and it is no longer able to expand, and it is far from completely digesting the resources in this base. I want to come for a while.

The restoration and reconstruction on the basis of the original base is much faster than Nie Yun re-establishing the mining capacity of the same scale. If the existing underground mining sub-bases are counted, the mining system left by the aliens will save Nie Cloud quite a lot of time.

The large amount of steel materials in the base also provide enough material for the mechanical insects to swallow. Although the aging is a bit serious, it is like instant noodles that have been soaked for a long time. Apart from the poor taste, Nie Yun said that the mechanical insects are not picky eaters.

However, the mechanical bug only eats steel. If you look at it from this perspective, it is too picky!

“In the future, I have to think of a way to change your stinking problem. It was your parents who were used to it when I was young!” Nie Yun expressed dissatisfaction with this characteristic of the mechanical bug.

Mechanical insect: “…”

Nie Yun still has no definite conclusion as to why mechanical insects only eat steel. At the current level of microscopic observation, even with the scanning tunneling microscope with the largest magnification, it can only observe a single one by non-visual means. atom.

However, nuclear-level mechanical insects only account for a few hundred billionths of the volume of an atom. Even at the speed of Nie Yun’s technological development, it is not possible to observe the nucleus in a short period of time.

If talking about how to shorten this time, Nie Yun said that he can only look forward to visitors from afar. After all, people are not rich without windfall…

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Soon, the first batch of soil containing micro-energy crystal particles was collected, and they were directly thrown into a mechanical insect liquid pool. After the mechanical insects were decomposed and swallowed, ten minutes later, a piece of soil slipped out of the lower discharge port. A cube energy crystal with a length of only 1 cm.

From the perspective of cutting, transportation and convenience, the shape of the cube is undoubtedly the most suitable. Nie Yun has planned to use this specification of energy crystal as the standard energy block for his machinery.

Although small in size, the energy contained in it is comparable to a small nuclear fusion power station. If installed on a small robot, it can run at full power for thousands of years.

However, Nie Yun will naturally not be so extravagant to use this precious energy crystal on this small machine. This high-density energy substance can only show its true value in high-power weapons and equipment!

For example, when the Gravityon technology was just obtained, the core component of that gravitation bomb is indeed this kind of energy crystal!

In terms of consumption, the graviton acquisition device is still normal, but the energy consumed by the position shield is simply an astronomical figure!

Even if Nie Yun possesses nuclear fusion miniaturization technology, if nuclear fusion is used instead of energy crystals to maintain the operation of this position shield for a long time, then the volume of fuel consumed alone will be enough to fill the entire bomb.

From the perspective of interstellar navigation, the quality of nuclear fuel that a space battleship can carry is limited. If you encounter a battle, even if you use a stand shield, you can get a huge Ascension, but after a battle, your fuel reserve You have to consume seven or eight.

Under this circumstance, the battleship’s endurance combat capability will be greatly restricted, and even a huge logistics fleet is required to follow in order to fight remotely.

Take a look at the history of human modern science and technology development, from coal for steam engines, to fuel for internal combustion engines, to electric power in the electrification era, and the era of nuclear energy that has not yet fully arrived.

The technological development stage of civilization has a close relationship with the energy materials currently used! Every industrial revolution can be said to be a large-scale popularization of new energy!

From the perspective of the structure of the gravitational bomb, this alien malicious civilization not only possesses the gravitonic technology, but also developed the technology for the use of energy crystals.

In addition, the Moon Ruins Civilization and the Ayres Civilization, the creator of the Mechanical Worm, both have mining and internal records of energy crystals.

This common point of the three shows that energy crystals are not uncommon in the universe! It is also used by advanced civilizations as an advanced energy source for nuclear energy.

In Nie Yun’s view, energy crystal… is the new energy necessary for the interstellar era!

This kind of material cannot even analyze the structure of mechanical insects, which means that it can hardly be manufactured by ordinary means. It is a non-renewable energy source. If you look at the oil war, you will know that if its quantity is scarce, it will inevitably become a kind of human. Treasure resources that people scramble for!

So to a certain extent, the reserve of energy crystals can greatly affect your interstellar war potential.

Nie Yun saw the amazing development potential of this kind of thing, so he stepped up the pace of mining, and even prepared to leave a nail here even if the war loses the solar system!

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Just as the development of multiple bases on the moon was gradually spreading out, the recycling mechanical bugs of the two alien probes finally approached their targets!

Near the two Lagrangian points, the two micro thrusters began to spray in opposite directions and slowly slowed down to approach the wreckage of the two probes.

As the two sides got closer and closer, the two propellers began to deform and expand, and they quickly turned into two film-like catching nets of about one kilometer.

20 kilometers…10 kilometers…5 kilometers…

The distance between the two parties was rapidly approaching. Eventually, the giant net contacted the wreckage. Under the action of inertia, the extremely tough catching net bounced back and wound up directly after being hindered by the wreckage, wrapping all the wreckage in layer by layer.

Soon, the mechanical bug penetrated into the wreckage of the detector, and visible to the naked eye, a silver spot began to expand on the wreckage…