Chapter 463: Nurturing Resources

Cao Chuan learned that Alice's doppelganger had completed the occupation of the planet, and hurriedly informed everyone on the planet.

"Mr. Counselor, do you mean that Miss Alice has succeeded?"

Cao Chuan didn't answer, telling Alice how to access the digital planet, and as people gathered around him one after another, a screen was projected in front of them.

"As you can see, this primordial planet is now ours... If you have permission, you will be able to see the complete information of the underworld..."Cao Chuan said, and for the sake of demonstration, he still showed the cross-section of the planet's interior.

"This information can also be collected through deep geological exploration equipment, but the efficiency is low, and if it is through planetary awareness, the efficiency will be much higher, and it can be done instantly."

"It can be seen that the geological structure of the unnamed planet formed less than 500 million years ago is extremely vague, and it is not as distinct as that of adult planets, and the main elements of the planet are still dominated by light elements, and they can continue to carry out various reactions, from low-intensity chemical reactions to medium-high intensity atomic-level reactions, continuously release energy, precipitate new elements, and gradually transform the elemental distribution of the planet to produce mineral deposits."

After Cao Chuan finished speaking briefly, the crew members who rushed over were still examining the material distribution structure of the underground world, and this thorough and detailed scene made them look at it for a long time and not get rid of it.

"First of all, what kind of mineral deposits should we create?" Cao Chuan interrupted everyone, "Prinsky, after these days of exploration, presumably the construction of the sub-base is nearing the end, have you found any common mineral deposits on the planet that are relatively scarce?" ”

Prinsky was suddenly exclaimed: "If there is any mineral deposit, it should be silicon ore, but the mineral deposits of various silicon compounds are too worthless, does Mr. Consultant really want to breed it?" ”

"Of course... Common mineral deposits although not much trade, industrial value. I think this is good enough for the fact that the quantity is large, the breeding conditions are simple, and in order to continue to plunder resources from the surface of the nameless planet in order to continuously plunder resources from the surface of the nameless planet, I think this is enough for good reasons. ”

Alice heard Cao Chuan's order. Needless to say, the clones underneath the ground twisted their own energy nets, slowly trying to breed silicon deposits.

The cultivation method of each mineral deposit is different, and it has to cooperate with various natural conditions, external conditions, and even artificial inducement, but despite this, the cost of mineral deposits cultivated through planetary consciousness is still dozens of times lower than that of other methods.

On the primordial planet, the distribution of silicon is less than 3% temporarily. Compared to the familiar Earth, it is indeed a very low number, so Alice has to create more silicon through violent atomic reactions to increase the abundance of silicon in the planet's interior.

Subsequently, it is difficult for elemental silicon to exist directly in nature, since it only needs raw materials for the construction of sub-bases, rather than chips, components of equipment. Choosing the form of silicate excretion will be relatively easy.

Alice didn't choose the more common silica, and there wasn't much oxygen on the planet for the time being. She picks the most abundant calcium around the densely distributed areas of silicon, and slowly drives them closer to each other.

It didn't take long for new compounds to be formed, many of them beautiful garnets, which were gradually discharged from the depths of the earth's crust to the surface through geological movements, so that they could be mined relatively easily.

The process lasted about three months, and in the past it was a cycle of ripening for one crop of rice. As a result, it is far beyond people's conventional understanding, and they see the world beneath their feet changing day and night, and the mass of mineral deposits expands and grows, gradually changing shapes.

If anything, it's magic.

An employee of the Frontier Corporation operates an unmanned mining vehicle. A bottomless mine was dug under their feet, and as the mining carts went out and returned, the hill of deposits dumped in front of them.

Several other employees walked up and touched it with their naked eyes and hands to personally confirm that there was really an extra mineral deposit under their feet, which was full of surprise.

"Alright. Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget what's the use of just one mineral deposit on such a large planet? Barely enough to solve the initial resource problem, we still think about what we really want. ”

Prinsky walked up and said, "Mr. Advisor, if you can, will you be able to breed a hafnium cloud?" It is a precious raw material for the manufacture of molecular-scale materials, and its distribution on all planets is relatively low. ”

In the manufacture of molecular-grade materials, aside from the problem of process, raw materials play the greatest role, and those materials with high quality, extremely high purity, and good target conversion rate are more likely to be manufactured as molecular-grade materials.

For example, the hafnium cloud mentioned by Prinssky is a material with an extremely strange structure and extremely fragile chemical bonds, which can be used to further process dark matter materials, resulting in a slag-like hafnium cloud that has no value at all, and as the East Galaxy Company researches new uses for this raw material, the price suddenly soars hundreds of times.

"Hafnium clouds?" Cao Chuan confirmed, and then checked its breeding method, because there are too many kinds of materials in the world, counting ordinary compounds, molecular materials, atomic materials, biological materials, and unconventional materials, there may be more than 1 million kinds of unconventional materials, so not every material can find an affordable natural breeding method.

A few minutes later, the quantum computer finished retrieving and really found a natural way to breed hafnium clouds... Luck or... Cao Chuan muttered in his heart, "Alice, you saw it..."

"Yes, Roger." Alice replied slowly, thinking about how to breed hafnium clouds, there are ways to put them in front of her, but the situation of each planet is different, maybe before breeding hafnium clouds, you have to breed several precursor minerals before it is possible to accomplish such a difficult purpose.

In short, after Alice's pondering, the gestation process of hafnium cloud began, but the speed was much slower, but fortunately, Lori did not put all her energy here, but also gave birth to a large number of ordinary, future mineral deposits in parallel.

The crew of the Nameless Planet can see the new minerals that are being generated every day, and as their sub-bases expand again, one ship after another runs out to mine, and these minerals are constantly transported in and out of the planet, leaving the planet and being sent to other places to be converted into industrial products.

The hafnium clouds they are most concerned about, according to the figures that Cao Chuan told them, they have to wait for 50 years to accumulate enough scale, no crew members are dissatisfied, anyway, the mineral deposits will not fly away, and they can also estimate the specific amount of planetary appreciation according to the scale of the mineral deposits under their feet.

It should be added that due to the continuous plundering of resources, the mass of the planets will continue to decrease, which depends on the flow of matter floating in the void.

The flow of material caused by the intense activity of the stars is the best nutrient for the development of the planet, which can compensate for the blood loss caused by human mining, which is why only the Ghost Star Cluster can carry out mineral deposit breeding and make it a pillar industry in the region. (To be continued.) )