Open the Copy panel.
Xu Mu looked at several important technologies that have enabled modern civilization to leap toward information civilization.
[Solar energy collection], [Basic chemicals], [Magnetic levitation technology], [Applied superconductors], and [Plasma extraction]
There are five major technologies in total.
Each technology has its own division of labor.
Although before these technologies were unlocked, the detailed descriptions were???
But based on the memory of the strategy from his previous life, Xu Mu was still able to clearly distinguish the details of these important technologies.
[Basic Chemical Industry] It can unlock chemical products such as plastics and sulfuric acid, and is an important part of the subsequent development of civilization.
The electromagnetic turbine (hereinafter referred to as the green motor) unlocked by [Magnetic Levitation Technology] acts as the core part of various large-scale equipment, and it runs through almost all subsequent civilization history! There is a high demand for it in all subsequent civilization stages.
【Applied Superconductors】Can unlock graphene, a nano-tech material with super toughness.
Compared with the well-known excellent toughness material - steel bar.
The toughness of graphene is more than 200 times that of steel bars!
It is almost difficult to be torn apart by external force.
Whether in the aerospace field or in the micro-technology field, graphene has important value.
It is also an important material for the subsequent aerospace technology and particle technology of "Dyson Sphere".
[Plasma Extraction] is the prerequisite technology for unlocking the heart of human industrial energy - crude oil.
It is also indispensable for mass production of brown sugar .
As for [Solar Energy Collection], it can unlock solar panels, which is a level 3 power generation energy source.
Once all these five important technologies are unlocked, the level of civilization can be raised to the third stage - information civilization!
However, these five technologies can no longer be unlocked directly using blue sugar.
A certain amount of brown sugar is also needed.
Fortunately, after achieving the first launch of civilization, 100 portions of brown sugar were rewarded as start-up capital.
These 100 portions of brown sugar may not seem like much, but once they are put into mass production, their value will be invaluable.
But in Xu Mu's eyes, if this thing is used properly, it can exert a leading advantage of nearly 3 hours!
In survival dungeons, the significance of three hours of lead development is self-evident.
As long as you don't do stupid things or slack off, a three-hour lead can almost ignore talent and allow any player to get into the top 20% of the dungeon record!
In Xu Mu's hands, its value multiplied!
"The materials used to make brown sugar are high-energy graphite and hydrogen, which are level 4 materials ." Xu Mu sorted out the order in his mind.
High-energy graphite is relatively easy to handle. Once you have your own intermediate production table, you can directly skip the intermediate materials and convert coal into high-energy graphite.
You just need to build a production line [coal mine → high-energy graphite].
But hydrogen is something special.
It must be obtained by refining crude oil.
Crude oil needs to be collected and processed through crude oil extraction stations.
"The first technology to be unlocked is plasma extraction." Xu Mu made a quick judgment in his mind.
Opening the technology tree panel, a thought flashed through my mind and relevant options popped up.
【Technology·Plasma Extraction】
【Function: The application of plasma technology has greatly improved the efficiency of crude oil refining and promoted the rapid development of modern industry】
[Unlock: Crude Oil Extraction Station, Crude Oil Refinery, Plasma Refining Formula]
[Required: Red Energy Matrix*100]
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Don't hesitate, unlock it directly!
[Congratulations on successfully unlocking the 'Plasma Extraction' technology! Since you are the first player in the eighth spiral arm of the Weiyang Galaxy to unlock the modern civilization - Plasma Extraction, you will receive rewards: Crude Oil Extraction Station*1! Crude Oil Refinery*1! ]
"Oh?" Xu Mu raised his eyebrows slightly.
After entering modern civilization, are there rewards for this kind of small progress ?
Although the reward was relatively small, only two devices were given.
Moreover, after unlocking [Plasma Extraction], Xu Mu could have manufactured these two devices.
However, being able to save a few minutes of manufacturing time is considered a slight improvement.
If converted into a combat copy of killing monsters and upgrading, the rewards of these two devices are no less than a high-quality transitional weapon.
Now the equipment is complete, and all we need is crude oil to start making brown sugar.
Neither of the two mining areas currently owned by Xu Mu contains crude oil deposits.
If normal players encounter this kind of mineral shortage, they will need to take the risk of searching around the world.
Not only is it time-consuming and laborious, but it is also easy to encounter other players, which increases the risk index sharply.
However, after completing the first launch of civilization just now, Xu Mu remembered that the copy system also gave him an extra reward - the ability to explore planets.
This ability requires Blue Sugar + Brown Sugar to unlock in Ikaros' [Operation] panel.
The effect is that it can explore the distribution of all minerals on the parent star.
It's like being able to see the girl next door taking a bath on the other side of the planet without leaving your home.
A very useful skill.
And at this stage only you can use it!
The benefits of being the first to launch a civilization are becoming increasingly apparent. One step faster, every step faster!
A thought came to my mind.
Soon, a thumbnail of the entire mother planet appeared on the light screen of Ikaros' main panel.
It can rotate as Xu Mu's eyes move.
Soon, densely packed mineral deposits appeared on the mother planet.
"At 35° north latitude and 104° east longitude, there is a coal mine with a reserve of 130,000 units."
"At 51° north latitude and 135° west longitude, there is a copper mine with a reserve of 170,000 units."
"Found it!" After taking a quick look at countless minerals, Xu Mu narrowed his eyes, stared at a certain spot on the light screen for a long time, and then zoomed in a little.
Finally, he found an icon prompt that looked like a spring.
Crude oil mines are extremely sparsely distributed on the mother planet, and the actual map is only the size of a spring, which may even be ignored by players if they are not careful.
【Crude Oil Spring】
【Type: Original Mineral】
【Coordinates: 1° South, 123° West】
【Output: 0.6974/s】
If it were other players, they would be ecstatic if they could find a crude oil mine!
Oil is an extremely precious thing in reality. In "Dyson Sphere", which focuses on the development of civilization, its value cannot be too low.
Even if you sell the coordinates to other players, you can make a lot of money.
But Xu Mu frowned.
"We can't even extract one piece of crude oil per second. This is too shabby..."
Unlike the efficiency of mining machines, as long as the mining area is large enough, the mining machines are placed in a circle and work hard to mine, the production capacity can be directly multiplied several times!
However, a crude oil mine can only accommodate one crude oil extraction station.
This means that the oil production rate here is what it is, and the upper limit cannot be increased by adding additional crude oil extraction stations.
The output of crude oil directly determines the upper limit of brown sugar production.
It takes two parts of crude oil to produce one part of hydrogen, and one piece of brown sugar requires two parts of hydrogen and two parts of high-energy graphite.
In other words, 4 portions of crude oil can only buy you one piece of brown sugar.
Based on the refining efficiency of less than 0.7 per second, it takes nearly six seconds to produce a piece of brown sugar.
Only 10 per minute?
Who are you humiliating?
We are producing over 200 blue sugars every minute!
Of course, if other players heard what Xu Mu said in his heart, they would probably be furious to death on the spot.
Look at where there are decent crude oil mines now? You think it's too little, and I think it's too little too!
If you don't like it, please send me the coordinates of the crude oil mine, thank you, God A!
Soon, Xu Mu marked this oil mine on the light screen as a backup option in case of emergency.
Then, he began to slowly move his gaze inch by inch with his naked eyes.
The benefits of unlocking planetary exploration are obvious. It is much faster than going out to search on foot in Ikaros.
One is fully automatic, the other moves by itself, how can they be the same?
After spending several minutes searching.
Suddenly, Xu Mu's eyes lit up!
He saw an oil mine with extremely rich output!
If I hadn't seen this thing in the game before, I wouldn't know the depth and shape of this hole.
It was actually fooled by the tree on the side that half blocked it.
【Crude Oil Spring】
【Type: Original Mineral】
【Coordinates: 56°N, 87°E】
【Output: 2.9620/s】
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Wow! A rich mine that produces nearly three million tons per second!
Output 180 servings per minute!
The US government trap belongs to it.
Similarly, the output of 180/min also means that the output of brown sugar can reach 45 per minute!
Good, good, good! A good hole that sprays three times per second, I want it!
Xu Mu sent a drone to the coordinates for preliminary reconnaissance.
At the same time, he took out more than 3,000 pieces of blue sugar from the blue sugar storage box and stuffed them into his backpack.
Even if you stack them in groups of 100, your backpack only has 40 slots and is almost full.
"After this dungeon is over, I will have to expand my backpack again." Xu Mu thought to himself.
Since I expanded the capacity of my backpack to 40 slots, it is basically enough for every copy, and sometimes there is even some left over.
Xu Mu did not spend any extra copy points on upgrading his backpack.
But in this kind of large-scale survival copy, the backpack capacity is somewhat stretched.
Driving Ikaros, he followed closely behind the drone.
At the same time, Xu Mu opened the panel of Ikaros.
Take advantage of this free time.
He immediately activated all the enhanced functions that he had put aside because he had no extra blue sugar.
【Mechanical Skeleton (Level I)】
[Effect: +1m/s walking speed]
[Consumption: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*200]
Light up!
[Cabin capacity (Level I)]
[Effect: Add an extra row of backpack expansion, and the maximum number of stacks of the player's backpack is increased to (100→150↑)]
[Consumption: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*200]
point!
【Communication Control (Level I)】
[Effect: Add a bird-type drone]
[Consumption: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*300]
Keep clicking!
[Mass Construction (Level I)]
[Effect: The maximum number of machines that can be copied from the blueprint increases by +1000! ]
[Consumption: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*200]
Wherever there is no light, there it is.
Soon, Xu Mu spent money like water and filled up all of Ikaros's basic abilities in one go.
In an instant, only less than a thousand of the 3,000 pieces of blue sugar were left, which served as energy supply for the unexpected encounter.
Xu Mu estimated that at this stage, he was probably the only one who dared to spend blue sugar like this.
However, unlocking these skills has benefits and is not a waste.
Moreover, he unlocked another ability that seemed pretty good.
[Energy Overclocking (Level I)]
[Effect: After entering combat mode, you can select energy overclocking mode. In overclocking mode, the total firepower increases by 10% for every 100 blue electromagnetic matrix consumed, with no upper limit.]
[Consumption: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*300]
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Wow, this thing is simply the grumpy old man’s all-in magic skill!
According to the nearly a thousand pieces of blue candy left in his pocket.
A single all-in can increase the power of the Gatling gun by 100%!
If you accumulate a little more, you can accumulate enough blue sugar for an hour.
Firepower can even be increased by more than 1000%!
At this point in time when everyone still treasures blue sugar, people are eager to take a piece of it to unlock technology, and are reluctant to even give Ikaros' weapons.
With 1000% firepower, I'm afraid it can blow the enemy's mecha into the sky, and then explode beautiful fireworks in the sky.
In short, you are so beautiful.
The rich mine is not far from Xu Mu's base area, especially after clicking on [Mechanical Skeleton], Ikaros' walking speed has doubled.
It arrived in less than five minutes.
Xu Mu, who had prepared for the battle, arrived at the scene and saw that there was no one there.
Very good, this mountain is mine!
Pull out the crude oil extraction station directly from the backpack.
The appearance of this thing is like a mobile phone with a five-meter-long antenna, and a gas gun is welded on it to form a strange "latch" shape.
It looks quite domineering.
Aim it at the hole in the oil mine and push it in hard.
“Puff~!”
The oil mine erupted.
Xu Mu felt extremely distressed.
This is all my own brown sugar...
A conveyor belt was quickly pulled up and an oil refinery was placed next to it.
One part of crude oil can be purified into one part of hydrogen and two parts of refined oil. (Materials in the game are automatically packaged into portions during transportation, so the unit of measure is one portion, even hydrogen is described as one portion.)
There are two storage tanks at the end, and a sorter is used to separate the refined hydrogen and refined oil.
Refined oil is not currently available, but as a lower-grade material for sulfuric acid, it will still be of great use in the medium term.
After all, sulfuric acid can react with high-energy graphite and be processed into graphene using chemical equipment.
It takes six parts of refined oil to purify one part of sulfuric acid. There is a huge gap in demand, so we can start stockpiling now.
After doing all this, Xu Mu looked at the output.
【Crude oil (original): 180/min】
【Hydrogen (Grade IV): 90min】
【Refined oil (Grade IV): 180/min】
"We have completed the production line for brown sugar. The next step is to solve the problem of high-energy graphite, and then we can start mass production of brown sugar." Xu Mu thought to himself.
A loud shout came from my ear.
"What are you doing, kid? Who told you to dig up the oil from our Doomsday Guild?"
Xu Mu glanced sideways and saw a shifty-looking player driving a mecha, standing a few meters away.
As a non-staff player of the Doomsday Train Guild, Huang Shulang has a sense of superiority that is inconsistent with his status.
Although, the [Perpetual Motion Train] guild he belongs to is a subordinate secondary guild under the Doomsday Train Guild.
But, just tell me whether you got on the Doomsday Train or not!
One of the three giants in the Northern Territory, a super guild! Only one step away from becoming a tier seven guild!
After the Red Moon dungeon is over, as long as the performance is not too bad, it can basically be considered a sure thing and successfully ranked among the seventh-tier guilds!
Huang Shulang usually feels superior to be able to work under such a huge guild. He often likes to use his power to scare players and get some benefits from it.
Today, the Red Moon dungeon had just been opened, and he had the good fortune to land on the same home planet as the president of his own Perpetual Motion Train Guild.
Relying on the reputation of Doomsday Train, the two of them quickly gathered a group of players, about a dozen people, occupied the resources of the northern hemisphere, and dispersed other players from the northern hemisphere.
First, they squeeze their survival resources, and after they develop themselves, they plunder and kill them!
Huang Shulang was sent out to explore the area in preparation for the subsequent cleansing.
Less than half an hour after walking, he saw a man in a white windbreaker, fiddling with something with his back to him.
Take a closer look.
Good job!
Although Huang Shulang has never seen a crude oil extraction station, everyone can read pictures and recognize words!
With the picture of the panel as a reference, he recognized the thing at a glance.
It's oil!
He's digging for oil!
Huang Shulang's eyes suddenly brightened like a U.S. politician.
A bit of greed also arose in my heart.
Kill this guy, and then take his skills for myself... develop secretly for a while... Can I eat the president?
However, although Huang Shulang was greedy, he also kept some thoughts in mind.
Since they have the technology to manufacture third-level or even fourth-level materials, their combat effectiveness is probably not weak.
Huang Shulang rolled his eyes, thought for a moment, and spoke.
"Boy, have you heard of the Doomsday Train Guild? I am a core member of the Doomsday Train Guild!"
"Behind me, walk in a straight line for half an hour, you know? Our president's base camp is right there!"
"If you surrender now and give up this oil mine, I can help you find someone."
While slowly driving the mecha closer to Xu Mu, he tried to talk to distract him.
Until he stood in front of Xu Mu, he didn't even see the other party take action.
Suddenly, Huang Shulang was happy.
Silly boy!
It was obvious that he was scared by me.
Just as he was laughing secretly, he suddenly saw Xu Mu controlling Ikaros and extending his left hand to him.
What does this mean?
Do you want to shake hands with yourself?
You know what, this guy is quite sensible. He has mastered etiquette to the letter.
Just as Huang Shulang was operating the mecha and extending a hand, he was about to kill Xu Mu by surprise when he was not paying attention.
Huang Shulang’s pupils widened instantly!
The mecha seemed to be extending a palm, but the moment it touched him.
But it switched to a pitch-black gun muzzle!
Huang Shulang then came to his senses.
I am a little bit shrewd, but not much...
Huang Shulang was almost killed by the immeasurable firepower before he could react! The seemingly heavy mecha was torn into pieces in an instant!
At the moment when he was about to be kicked out of the copy, Huang Shulang quickly sent a message to his president.
"Boss! I was ambushed and killed! The guy who killed me was wearing a white windbreaker! But don't worry! I've already told him the location of our base camp! I also used the name of Doomsday Train to scare him! He probably won't dare to take risks for a while! This guy is very fat, he's an oil man!"
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"If we walk half an hour ahead, we will reach the headquarters of the Doomsday Train Guild?" After Xu Mu killed the intruder with an expressionless face, he glanced in the direction of the northern hemisphere.
Before he entered the dungeon, he had heard Ma Gongping mention this guild.
I know that this guild is one of the three giants in the Northern Territory and is very powerful.
If we can kill the core strength of this guild in the early stage of civilization, there will be one less opponent next time.
However, Xu Mu was not sure whether the information given by the boy was correct, so he did not believe it completely.
Of course, it doesn’t matter whether it is true or not.
I will go back to the base and build a high-energy graphite production line. Once brown sugar is mass-produced, I will be absolutely invincible at this stage.
Think about it.
Xu Mu turned on the planet exploration light screen and estimated the distance to the north from the origin where he was standing. The half an hour that guy mentioned was actually a 15-minute walk for him.
According to Ikaros's movement speed, Xu Mu marked a red dot in an area nearly two kilometers away, muttering to himself.
"When we kill the ball later, let's start from here."