Xu Mu has always followed the principle of 'doing what's appropriate at what stage'.
Although he knew very well that he could have unlocked the information civilization long ago.
All the main progress of modern civilization can be completed by laying a few solar panels and putting them into operation.
However, information civilization has things it needs to do.
By that time, the mass production of modern civilization has not been sorted out, and we will soon be in the information civilization, which requires more materials and more complicated production lines. The demand for electricity will also increase significantly.
It will be even more chaotic.
In other words, it was like a villain in the fantasy system with an unstable foundation, who insisted on seeking a breakthrough, only to be pinned to the ground and beaten by Xiao Yan and others.
It took more than half an hour.
Finally, Xu Mu accumulated nearly three thousand solar panel equipment.
After turning on the planetary exploration light screen and locking onto the equator of the mother planet, Xu Mu began laying out the ground like planting rice seedlings.
Although there is a low-altitude flight mode, the speed is greatly increased.
But the whole process still took more than ten minutes.
Wait until the task is completed.
Xu Mu opened the data panel and looked at the current electricity data.
【Total number of machines working: 5477】
[Power consumption: 11.79MW/s]
【Total power generation: 298.6MW/s】
very good!
The power generation is more than 25 times the power consumption of the machines!
After this power grid is laid, even if a planetary logistics system is subsequently started on the mother planet, there will be no need to worry about power shortages and having to scramble to temporarily switch to manufacturing power equipment.
And what surprised Xu Mu the most was.
The 'solar belt' formed by nearly a thousand sets of solar panels surrounding the mother star is extremely full of energy when helping Ikaros charge!
Ikaros' current energy limit is 300MJ.
Joule (J) is a classic unit of thermodynamics, which means '1 joule (J) = the energy consumed by a machine with a power consumption of one watt in one second.'
Ikaros, who possesses 300 megajoules (MJ) of core energy, wants to replenish his energy quickly when it is exhausted.
At least 300 megawatts (MW)/s of power generation is needed to support Ikaros' consumption.
The current circle of solar energy has a power generation capacity of 298MW/s.
In other words, Ikaros, who has run out of energy, only needs to stay near the solar panel for a short second to quickly refill his energy!
If Ikaros stays near the sun for a few more seconds, his energy will become too abundant.
Crackling blue arcs of electricity will begin to flow all over the body.
Fortunately, the cabin is completely insulated, otherwise Xu Mu estimated that this immense amount of energy would directly burn him into charcoal.
However, Xu Mu also came up with a bold idea!
Before he could think deeply about whether this bold idea was reasonable or not, a prompt sound vibrated from mid-air!
[Congratulations to 'A' for becoming the first player in the 8th spiral arm of the Northern Weiyang System to enter the 'Information Civilization Era'! Receive additional rewards: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*20000, Red Energy Matrix*5000, Yellow Structural Matrix*100! Receive Ikaros' special ability upgrade: Mineral Utilization (unique)! ]
[It has been detected that some players have entered the information civilization era, and the Zerg Scourge has begun! ]
[Warning: The interstellar swarm continues to travel in space! And randomly selects planets to land! Please note that the swarm will devour minerals and equipment. The devouring order is: minerals> equipment> Ikaros. Please do everything you can to eliminate the swarm! ]
At the same time, the copy has built-in channels.
Compared to the previous shocks.
At this moment, many players are a little numb.
“…I don’t make any comment.”
"Did God A really download the same instance as us?"
"I'm numb, I'm really numb... When God A was rubbing out blue sugar, I was mining. When God A was making brown sugar, I was mining. When God A unified the mother planet, I was still mining. Now everyone else has information civilization, and I'm looking at the beginning of my industrial civilization, silently shedding tears..."
In addition to a group of indifferent players, there were also voices of admiration.
“He is about to reach the divine realm, how terrifying!”
"A-Bao! The God of the Southern Region!"
"A-Bao! The one who is better than me!"
"Big boss, so handsome! Please take me with you!"
But at the same time, some players in the Northern Territory also showed a slight change in their mentality and began to curse.
The Northern Territory God of War: "Fuck it! Why should all of us players take the blame for one player unlocking the information civilization? Now that the Zerg swarm is coming, how can we defeat them?"
"That's right! This isn't fair at all! My Ikaros's initial firepower can't even knock down a tree. How can I risk my life to fight a swarm of insects?"
"The people of the Southern Region are insidious and cunning, and they are calculating! Even if the Southern Region wins this time, I won't admit it!"
"We've been winning for five years, so what's the harm in letting them win once? This might be the only time they can win in their lifetime."
"Can you please take a look at the civilization index rankings? Just after Lord A unlocked the first civilization, Shura Ji, Wen Yue, and Qiu Dao from your Northern Territory all unlocked the information civilization one after another. Even without Lord A, they would still have launched the Zerg Scourge, okay?" There were also players from the Southern Territory who couldn't stand it anymore and jumped out to testify.
Upon hearing this, a group of Northern Territory players opened the leaderboard and took a look.
It’s true!
Suddenly, they started discussing again.
"Fuck! You are worthy of being one of the three giants of the Northern Territory ! So powerful!"
"That's right, after being left so far behind, they've finally caught up! It seems like your so-called A-God's lead has come to an end, hahahaha."
"Next up is our Northern Territory's home court!"
A player from the Southern Region was so angry that he argued.
"No, why aren't you guys shouting about unfairness now? Where's your theory of the Zerg threat?"
The Northern Territory God of War: "This is a survival dungeon where the strong prey on the weak. Whoever has the ability will be ahead. What's there to say?"
"That's right. It's good to have some pressure from the Zerg. Even if there is no Zerg, do you think the underdeveloped players can survive? Sooner or later, other players will snatch the ball and land on them."
Faced with the two shameless statements from the Northern Territory players, the Southern Territory players were speechless, and the verbal battle gradually subsided.
Xu Mu glanced at the channel messages.
He has never paid much attention to the verbal battles among players.
He just occasionally wanted to learn about the development progress of the current large group of players from the channel.
And if there is any stupid player who exposes the cosmic coordinates and is relatively close to you, you can consider visiting him.
Just now, he learned from the players that the three major guilds in the Northern Territory entered the information civilization era almost right after him.
Open the civilization index panel and take a look.
It’s true.
[1. A (Ready Player One): 0.67, the eighth spiral arm, the beginning of the information age]
[2. Seeking the Way (Death Tombstone): 0.61, the third spiral arm, the beginning of information]
[3. Shuraji (Doomsday Train): 0.609, the sixth spiral arm, the beginning of information]
[4. Asking the Moon (Shadow): 0.607, First Spiral Arm, Beginning of Information]
【5. ……】
[Current score of South Region: 18431.11]
[Current score of the North Territory: 34578.63]
…
"It seems that after laying out the solar panels for nearly an hour, the subsequent civilization has already caught up."
However, Xu Mu did not feel any urgency, but instead felt slightly relieved.
In fact, when he was tinkering with the solar panels just now, he was mentally prepared to make a civilization take the lead.
Anyway, the three giants of the Northern Territory are not in the eighth spiral arm.
The reward for being the first to launch the eighth spiral arm is still mine. Even if they are ahead of me, there is no direct conflict of interest between me and them.
It's nothing more than giving up this 3% of the mineral production rate.
But spending an hour on making solar panels is like sharpening a sword for ten years.
Once the sword is completed, you can kill everyone!
Now that the sword is finished, the first place is still mine.
It's quite annoying that I can't give it up even if I want to.
Their progress was slower than they expected.
I'm sorry.
From now on.
You'll never see my taillights again!
Click on Ikaros' ability panel.
I looked at several ability improvements.
What is most needed at the moment is the ability to unlock interstellar travel.
After this item is unlocked, Ikaros can overcome gravity and fly directly out of the home planet!
You know, it is impossible to directly collect silicon ore and titanium ore from the mother planet.
These two minerals are the materials for making brown sugar.
Want to get these two raw resources.
Silicon ore can be refined into one piece of silicon ore by using 10 pieces of stone.
But titanium ore is pure luck.
If you are unlucky, you may collect 100 pieces of stone ores without finding any titanium ore.
According to past life experience, native silicon and titanium ores can usually be found in the other two lava geological planets and Gobi geological planets in the same star system.
Therefore, interstellar travel is of vital importance!
Look at the unlocking conditions.
[Interstellar Travel (Level I) New! ]
[Function: Unlock the mecha's interstellar travel. After getting rid of gravity, it will travel in space at super high speed! ]
[Consumption: 1MJ per 100m acceleration]
[Unlock: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*10000 , Red Energy Matrix*3000, Yellow Structural Matrix*200]
…
The 100 brown sugars given as a first-launch reward for a civilization cannot unlock this ability.
Under normal circumstances, players must slowly accumulate a certain amount of brown sugar on their home planet. After unlocking the ability to navigate the stars, they can then travel to other planets in search of resources.
However, just now in the battle for the planet, Xu Mu also received an extra reward - mecha ability improvement points.
This thing can ignore materials and directly unlock Ikaros' abilities.
Although saving it for later to unlock more powerful abilities seems to be more profitable.
However, Xu Mu, who is well aware of the subsequent development direction, is very clear that the value of being the first to break out of the mother planet will increase exponentially!
Don't hesitate, unlock it directly!
The thrusters behind Ikaros were reorganized and modified, and replaced with larger rocket thrusters!
Xu Mu used the more than 20,000 portions of brown sugar that he had just mass-produced in an hour to upgrade all of Ikaros' level 2 abilities in one go.
The backpack capacity has been expanded to 65 slots, and the stacking limit of each slot has been increased to 225/group.
Now, I can bring more than 10,000 documents at a time!
The initial speed of the mecha has also been increased to 4m/s, which in turn increases the flight speed and the speed during interstellar travel.
In addition, another sparrow-type drone was added.
This is equivalent to doubling the efficiency of the manufacturing production line!
After thinking about it, Xu Mu clicked on the exploration ability with the 100 pieces of brown sugar that he had just received and it was not even warm yet.
【Space Exploration (Level I)】
[Function: Able to view the distribution/reserves of minerals in this star system]
[Unlock: Blue Electromagnetic Matrix*8000, Red Energy Matrix*2000, Yellow Structural Matrix*100]
…
Click on the universe exploration light screen.
Suddenly, the entire stellar system, including the mother star, appeared in front of Xu Mu.
A star named TZ8401 is situated in the center of the light screen, emitting a brilliant yellow glow.
Apart from this, there are a total of three planets orbiting the star.
The planet closest to the star with a dark red luster is a lava planet. If you magnify the light screen, you can vaguely see the undercurrent of magma in it.
This is a planet that is almost melted by the star and there are no elements of life on it.
But there is titanium ore that Xu Mu needs very much!
The other one, which is slightly farther away from the star, is the Gobi planet.
The atmosphere here is very thin, and can hardly retain any gaseous elements. It is made up of endless yellow sand and high mountains, and is extremely desolate.
Here, there are hundreds of thousands of raw silicon mines.
The third planet is a gas planet that revolves around the parent star. It is covered with a large amount of hydrogen and deuterium. After the planetary orbit collector is produced, hydrogen can be directly collected from here as a new energy source, thus saying goodbye to the cumbersome and heavy production line of "crude oil refining".
Xu Mu’s first destination was the lava planet closest to the star.
The material of brown sugar is diamond*1, titanium crystal*1
Diamond can be refined through high-energy graphite, while titanium crystal requires real titanium blocks.
As a lava planet rich in titanium ore, it is the best choice!
After gaining a preliminary understanding of the distribution of minerals, Xu Mu began to count the materials he would carry on this trip.
The journey is long and I won’t be able to return home for a while after I set out.
Once there is negligence, some important materials may be forgotten at home.
It is equivalent to going through the process all over again on other planets.
Not only will the progress be slowed down , the whole hand rubbing process will also be very painful.
Furnaces, crafting tables and mining machines are all essential, so bring a few sets of each.
The energy crystals are not needed for the time being, so just leave them at home.
In addition, all the fourth and fifth level core materials were brought along to facilitate production on the alien planet.
Materials below level 4 that are less complicated to make can be produced directly through the intermediate manufacturing table.
Next, it is the most important equipment for this interstellar journey - solar panels.
Without hesitation, two thousand sets were filled up immediately.
I looked at the remaining three thousand empty seats.
Xu Mu chose to fill it with the sand and soil that had just exploded from the bombing of the patrol ball, which would be of great use later.
Finally, Xu Mu stuffed another 500 portions of high-energy graphite as fuel for Ikaros.
After all, there are no charging stations in space to keep Ikaros fully charged at all times.
In case we encounter any trouble along the way, we will have to engage in space battle.
Without fuel, Ikaros would become space junk in a vacuum environment, and his copy journey would come to an end.
After cleaning up everything, Xu Mu controlled Ikaros and slowly took off.
The horizon on the mother planet quickly changed from straight to curved, and finally slowly formed an arc.
Then, it turned into a small planet that could be completely accommodated by the pupil.
This blue planet, where he had been stationed for half a day, provided him with the most basic needs for his development.
In the eyes of Xu Mu who was slowly rising into the air, it kept shrinking, and in the end it could even be covered by his palm.
The light from the corner of my eyes changed from the blue sky, white clouds, sandy beach and blue sea reflected in the past to the main theme of the background of the universe - darkness.
For some reason, Xu Mu felt a little sad.
This little broken ball is almost like a miniature version of the earth. I couldn’t fully experience it in the game in my previous life, but now that I have really entered the copy, everything around me seems so real.
This inevitably made Xu Muxin feel a bit lonely as if he had left his hometown.
Especially when the scale is magnified to the entire universe, the feeling of loneliness almost swallows up the mother planet.
The small broken ball with a bright blue light flickered as if it was seeing him off.
But, it seems that people always have to grow up.
The development of civilization cannot be confined to one place and stagnate.
"Don't worry, when you come back, everything will be very different."
"I will make the whole galaxy shine for you."
Xu Mu's eyes were filled with seriousness.
Immediately, he raised his hand and pressed the improved thruster hard to [Forward One]!
The rocket launcher behind the wing spewed out two streams of flames!
Breaking the speed of sound in a split second! Ikaros' tail vibrated and left a red trail! Sonic boom clouds exploded one after another in the vacuum, gradually moving away.
If you stand on the mother planet and look up into space.
It became the brightest star in the night sky.
I had originally planned to write a long chapter today to finish off the suspense left over from the previous chapter in one go.
But I went to see The Wandering Earth in the afternoon. After three hours of traveling there and back, it was already very late when I got back. The following plot is quite high-energy and needs to be polished carefully, so I can only write this much for now...
The preliminary preparations for this copy are almost completed, and the subsequent plot will be infinitely high-energy until the end of the copy!
I also strongly recommend The Wandering Earth!
It's really good, a definite milestone in science fiction movies! At around 40 or 50 yuan per ticket, it's definitely a great value.
The experience of watching a movie in a cinema is completely different from that of watching it on a mobile phone or computer.