"The surface of the asteroid is 34 kilometers thick and it will be difficult to mine it?" After being happy, Zhou Chen frowned and asked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Please rest assured, the fleet's engineering robots are each equipped with an ultra-high-density laser beam device, which can easily penetrate all kinds of hard alloys, let alone rock layers! As long as the commander gives the order, the engineering robot detachments can immediately go over and cut the planet in half! ”

Cut the planet in half? Zhou Chen was slightly stunned after hearing this, and his heart was even more surprised, he hurriedly asked: "If all the metals on that asteroid are used, how much can the fleet's repair time be advanced?" ”

After a little calculation, Dandan replied: "It was originally estimated that the repair time would take 75 days, but if the resources on this asteroid are used, it is expected to be shortened by 22 Earth days." ”

"In other words, it only takes 53 days."

This was really a surprise for Zhou Chen, and he suddenly thought again: "If you pull the fleet near Jupiter's orbit, won't it be closer to the resource planet?" ”

"If you start transferring the fleet now, the transfer will cost 1 Earth Day, but at the same time, it will save the time for material transfer, and it is estimated that the maintenance time can be shortened by 8 Earth days, and a total of 7 Earth Days can be advanced." Dandan replied quickly.

"In that case, it only takes 46 days!"

Thinking that he would have an intact Earth Fleet in a month and a half, Zhou Chen's heart could not hide his excitement.

"Dandan, choose the right time to transfer the fleet!" Zhou Chen immediately gave the order to Dandan's transfer.

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Taking advantage of the confusion of the night, in the deep depths of the universe, a fleet is forming a long line, quietly marching into the distance.

Boarding the Earth Fleet's flagship "Blue Qiong" again, Zhou Chen thought that he would be as excited as last time, but in fact, he found that he had become very calm. This calm stems from the fact that he has recognized himself as the commander of the fleet.

The fleet first moved away in the direction of the extension of the line connecting the Earth to the Moon, and then turned and headed in the direction of Jupiter.

Because it flew in the direction of the outer circle of the solar system, and the whole process used the moon as a natural barrier, even if the fleet was relatively large and did not have perfect radar stealth characteristics in the case of injury, the entire evacuation process still did not attract the attention of any country on the earth.

At this time, the Earth fleet of 12 warships is passing through the asteroid belt and approaching the orbit of Jupiter.

The asteroid belt is a dense area of asteroids in the solar system located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

In this space area of about 2.17 to 3.64 astronomical units from the Sun, there are more than 500,000 asteroids, accounting for 98.5% of all celestial bodies in the entire solar system. They revolve around the sun in an elliptical orbit and are a beautiful sight in the solar system.

On the big screen in the central control room, countless planets turned into points of light the size of soybean grains converged on the big screen, and the scene was spectacular.

Zhou Chen looked at the dense planets on the screen, at first glance, the asteroid belt should be a densely populated area of planets, but in fact, the planets are not as close to each other as they imagined. On the contrary, the distance between the planets is very far, and the entire asteroid belt is unusually empty, and this emptiness is so empty that even after the entire Earth fleet is plugged, there is a very large surplus.

Therefore, in the actual crossing process, the fleet did not even need to reduce its speed, and still maintained a state of high-speed sailing.

So Zhou Chen saw the picture of countless asteroids passing around the fleet quickly on the big screen in the central control room, which felt like watching the long lens of the universe in the cinema, and the stars of the universe were pressing towards the field of vision together, which made people's blood boil.

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During the passage through the asteroid belt, the Earth fleet has actually been subjected to the gravitational pull from Jupiter.

This is because the planets in the asteroid belt are not only subject to the gravitational pull from the Sun, but also the gravitational pull of Jupiter.

Even for planets on the periphery of the asteroid belt, Jupiter's gravitational pull is greater.

As we get closer to Jupiter, the gravitational effect from Jupiter begins to gradually increase.

Finally, Zhou Chen's Earth fleet soon came to an important node of this trip, the Trojan Group asteroid region in Jupiter's orbit.

There are two groups of Trojan asteroids, one in front of one and one behind Jupiter, located 60 degrees in front of Jupiter's orbit (L4) and behind (L5). To date, scientists on Earth have confirmed more than 2,000 Trojan asteroids, 1,200 of which are located at L4 and 1,000 at L5.

The "metal planet" discovered by the Earth fleet this time is in the group of planets located at the L4 position.

When Zhou Chen came to the vicinity of the "Metal Planet", he couldn't help but be stunned by the busy scene in front of him.

At this time, the surrounding area of the "metal planet" has become a huge construction site, and the engineering robot detachment sent by the advance team has already set up various equipment, and countless giant laser equipment has formed a dense array to firmly surround the "metal planet".

I saw that under the command of the leader-level intelligent robot, the dense array emitted a strong dazzling light, and in just an instant, countless high-energy and dense laser beams poured into the rock layer of the "Metal Planet", and the "Metal Planet" was cut in half like a watermelon.

That's a planet 167 kilometers long and 116 kilometers wide!

Zhou Chen looked at the scene in front of him in shock, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart "Nature's Miracle".

After the "metal planet" was cut in half, he saw the dense array change its formation again, and soon made a second cut to half of it. Then three times, four times, until the whole "planet" turned into an infinite number of boxy blocks of metallic rock.

At this time, countless carrier aircraft swarmed out of the three giant ships "Lan Qiong", "Meteorite", and "Poseidon", and they were like industrious worker bees, quickly and accurately grasping the metal rock blocks, and then transporting them back to the three giant ships.

As for the uncut half of the "metal planet", it was not wasted, and several long chains stretched out from the rear end of the "Poseidon", anchored to the planet with the help of auxiliary robots, and then dragged it to fly towards the destination of the trip.

The whole process only lasted a fairly short time, and seeing this, Zhou Chen couldn't help but sigh at the power of technology again.

Of course, this attitude of making the best use of things and not wasting them at all, on the other hand, also reflects the importance of resources, which may be a normal thing in the universe.

With resources, civilization can be maintained for a long time, so the civilizations in the universe are like locusts, full of thirst for resources, and in order to compete for resources, civilizations do not hesitate to break out into various disputes.

After picking up the "metal planet" and flying for a while, the Earth fleet finally came to the end of this trip.

A huge planet has appeared in front of me - Jupiter!