Occupy a planet and be its master

As more and more gold-eating insects are produced, a larger gold-eating insect is taking shape.

In this way, at the end of the conveyor belt, in the warehouse area, a dark surging mass of metal is expanding rapidly.

On the other side, in the raw material area, the Iron Slave Guards are constantly carrying raw materials to the conveyor belt.

"The main and sub-programs are operating normally, the electromagnetic force link system is running stably, and it seems that the direction is right......"

The stable operation of the gold devouring worm gave Li Meng confidence.

When designing the Gold Eater Worm, Li Meng was a little worried that he would not be able to create the most perfect Gold Eater Worm in his mind with the current technology.

To increase the chances of success, he even developed a new technology.

The new technology is "runes".

In fact, it is not a new technology, because the principle is very simple.

It is to replace the circuit pipeline by using some superconducting materials to engrave runes on special metals.

Although the principle seems simple, it is very difficult to do.

In the past half month, almost two-thirds of the time has been spent researching rune technology.

Based on the nearly 100 existing materials, hundreds of millions of simulations were carried out to get close to the answer.

But it was only close to the answer, and it was still far from the rune technology that Li Meng imagined.

However, even imperfect rune technology allowed the Gold Eater to be born.

There was no rush to let the gold eater work, Li Meng waited patiently.

The current gold-eating insect is not big enough, and it has to wait for it to grow.

Only when it gets big enough will it be more productive.

In this way, in Li Meng's patient waiting, day after day passed.

Since he was freed from the shackles of the flesh, Li Meng had no concept of time.

He has no time to be idle.

Even with the focus on the STC Universal Factory, the terminal servers are also computing other things.

It's a new day.

Before you know it, more than a month has passed.

In the warehouse area of the TSC Universal Factory, the Gold Eater has changed dramatically.

The entire warehouse area is almost filled with gold-eating bugs.

In order to save electricity, the gold eaters shut down when they went offline.

They were stacked on top of each other, almost submerging most of the warehouse.

In just over a month, more than 12 million gold-eating insects were produced.

The colony ships are running out of raw materials.

In order to allow the gold eater to quickly take shape and participate in the next planned construction work.

The materials used are relatively cheap, and quantity is the priority in the selection of materials.

Therefore, the lifespan of the gold eater is not very high, and it will be scrapped after a year of operation at most.

"Almost, let's get started......"

In the sea of data, Li Meng used the monitoring system in the space where the STC Universal Factory was located to observe the gold eater insects.

And gave a new command to the gold eater.

As the command was issued, the gold devouring insects in standby started one after another.

The gold-devouring worm, which had been stationary, suddenly moved.

With this movement, blue arcs erupted from the stacked gold-devouring insects.

It's like a sea of metal is surging.

The gold-eaters began to break down, link, and combine into a larger individual.

The process was extremely short and swift.

All the gold-eating insects converged at one point, and a huge gold-eating insect with a cylindrical body slowly rose up.

All of the disintegrating Goldeater parts were pulled towards it by the arc.

In less than thirty seconds, a behemoth with a body diameter of ten meters and a length of more than fifty meters suddenly appeared.

It's like a worm with its mouth wide open.

Inside the big mouth are rows and rows of sharp serrations, like a grinder.

It moved, slamming headfirst into the wall on the left.

At the moment of collision, I saw a burst of sparks flying everywhere, and the thick metal wall was directly eaten by the gold devouring insects.

For a while, inside the ship, the gold devouring insect went on a rampage, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound.

Riding all the way, the Gold Eater rushed into Harbor Three.

It seemed to have found its target, and made a beeline for the two well-preserved transports.

The huge mouth engulfed the transporter in one gulp.

Two transport boats about fifty meters long were swallowed by the Gold Devouring Worm one after another.

In the process of devouring the transport, the gold eater erupted in a dazzling arc of electricity.

A large amount of metal debris compressed into iron balls rolled out of the tail and soon covered the ground.

The last to emerge from the tail are two fusion reactors.

After doing all this, the massive body of the Gold Eater turned around and rushed overboard.

In the burst of sparks, the cracked hull was directly squeezed open.

The gold-eating insects that rushed out of the harbor fell to the earth.

Unable to make a sound in the vacuum, the huge gold-eating insect fell heavily to the ground.

Just like an athlete diving, the ground looks like hard sand, and the rocky earth is like tofu, and the gold-eating insects burrow into the earth.

In less than three breaths, the whole body disappeared without a trace.

As the billowing sand cleared, a large hole in the ground with a diameter of ten meters appeared.

This is the Gold Eater, the perfect tool for mining.

It can dive into the earth and crush even the hardest rocks.

The scanning array on its body allows it to find, identify, and preliminarily refine and compress them into spheres.

In the same way, it is also a good player at opening up underground space.

"Sikkim? wait...... Eclipse Crystal?"

As soon as the Gold Devouring Worm descended underground, Li Meng received a large amount of information.

The planet is very rich in minerals, and common minerals can be found everywhere.

The gold-eating insects have only reached the ground less than 100 meters above the surface, and more than 30 kinds of minerals have been discovered.

The two minerals that surprised Lemon the most were Sikkim and eclipse crystals.

"No, how could the Eclipse Crystal appear in a shallow area no more than 100 meters above the surface?"

Li Meng was quite surprised by the discovery of the Eclipse Crystal.

According to the information recorded in the database, eclipse crystals are the core minerals of the earth.

It usually only occurs in the core area of the planet, and it is extremely difficult to mine.

Due to their rarity, not every planet has Eclipse Crystals in the heart of the earth.

Therefore, there is only one way to mine Eclipse Crystals, and that is to burst the star.

However, how to confirm the presence of Eclipse Crystals in the core of the earth is also a difficult problem.

Moreover, there is also a great danger of exploding stars.

Because the Eclipse Crystal has the ability to store and amplify energy, it is extremely unstable.

This makes Eclipse crystals very precious.

Even a solar eclipse crystal the size of a little fingertip is hard to find and valuable.

"And Sikkim, no wonder the planet's gravity is so strong...... "Sikkim

, the most heat-resistant and hardest superconducting metal known in the universe.

Its mass is so great that the weight of the same size of tin gold is more than 20 times that of ordinary metal.

It is also the perfect material for rune engraving.

The planet's reserves of Sikkim are simply staggering.

Other minerals are simply ancillary ores of Sikkim, and even the surface sand contains trace amounts of Sikkim minerals.

This is good news and bad news.

The good news is that the planet is valuable and can be used as a base camp.

The bad news is that because of the planet's high value, it can't be unowned.

The spacecraft that suddenly appeared in orbit more than a month ago is the best proof of this.