Although it was a successful crossing as usual, Alice was still not in a good mood after returning, they just transformed Yan Zòng's crisis into a future crisis, and there is still a long way to go to change the fate of her world.

However, they don't have much time to remember the gains and losses of this mission now, Shen Chao has completed the development of the two safe worlds as planned, and also helped Custer and Alice realize the first stage of their respective wishes.

They have all the conditions in place for the next stage of development in the main plane, and they now need to focus on his plans.

Since the establishment of the expedition, Shen Chao has been accumulating more funds, better weapons and equipment, and more experience in traversing. He didn't do this because he had a collecting penchant. Rather, he has been preparing for his future plans.

Custer and Alice's wishes are big goals, but they don't pale in comparison to his many goals. His willingness to help Custer and Alice was nothing more than a matter of incidentality, even if it wasn't for their request, Shen Chao would have honed their combat power in other worlds before starting his own plan.

Now, Shen Chao believes that his expedition's ability to resist danger has met and exceeded his earlier expectations. As soon as one more teammate is recruited, they can begin the first phase of their plan.

In Shen Chao's opinion, the biggest advantage and the biggest disadvantage of his expedition team at the moment are the same thing: time! When they travel through time and space, time also passes with them.

This is a huge advantage. After a setback in one plane. They can go to other planes to rest and accumulate strength. And then come back to the field. Time is always on their side.

However, this is also a disadvantage. Because as they cross more times, their experience grows, and so does their age. Over time, they will inevitably age in their own plane for the foreseeable future.

Although the oldest of them is now only 31 years old, Alice is only 24 years old. Several of them were at the peak of their physical fitness. But after a few years on the heterotop, the timeline of the main plane has not changed, and if this continues for a long time, they will encounter problems.

Shen Chao has always had a detailed record of his travel records. So he knew that although he was still 27 years old in the main plane, he had been in various different planes for more than 2 years since he began to cross over. His chronological age is very close to 30 years old.

For those who had already used the reinforcing agent, the lifespan of the yamen was much longer than that of humans in the main plane. Their age is no different from that of ordinary people at 17 or 8 years old. They are all very young.

Starlink's enhancers are very effective in prolonging life, so they can maintain their current youthful appearance and physical condition for at least 5 to 60 years.

But in fact, their lives are still in the countdown, and after a long time, they will inevitably age. Shen Chao, on the other hand, hopes to solve this problem through several successful crossing operations.

He hopes to extend their lifespan to the point where he can not consider the effects of traveling back and forth, and eventually accumulate the technology of each plane through Guò to achieve their "immortality".

"Eternal life" is a dream that all human beings, and even all living beings, have shared since ancient times. It is a biological instinct, in order to avoid death, in order to perpetuate future generations......

The major religions on earth preach the immortality of the soul. It's just that the dù is different. This is a reflection of the desire of a living being, wanting more life.

Religious people often understand eternal life as a departure from the real world and into a paradise such as "heaven." And many philosophers have argued that eternal life means "eternal death." …,

Because people's state will be solidified, no new things will be produced, old things will not pass away, if such a state is social, then such a society is dead.

Shen Chao knew these theories, but he still hoped to be able to find the power that would make them immortal, and his ability would allow him to enter different worlds and experience too many wonderful things that the main plane could not enjoy.

There are so many new worlds waiting for him to discover. There are too many unknowns he wants to understand, and he doesn't want his future steps to be bound by time. Not only that, Shen Chao also hopes that Custer and Alice can also stay young forever and enjoy such a life with him.

After returning to the main plane, they only rested for one day. Then they immediately started moving. Shen Chao had already discovered the world that would allow him to gain the power of immortality, but wanted to realize his dream of immortality in the foreseeable future. They still have a lot of preparatory work to do.

First things first. They need a new base of operations. The existing No. 1 base was already difficult to meet their development needs, and they began the development plan of the new base as early as when they established a team of agents.

This time, the infrastructure was all done with the help of their agents and various brokers, as the location of their new base was not in the territory of the Celestial Empire.

In order to avoid interference from government agencies, and more importantly, to successfully build a lunar base in the future and establish an effective Earth-Moon connection, they built the second operational base on a small island far away from Australia.

Close is just a less accurate adjective, this small island has a straight line distance of more than 2,700 kilometers to the nearest Australian coastline, and is an ordinary island in the Pacific Ocean.

Although being far away from the mainland is not conducive to them obtaining all kinds of materials and establishing communications, but in this way, after they have the ability to bring back spacecraft in the future, they can launch shuttles from this small island very secretly, which can effectively avoid being detected by the military's radar.

This small island is 6.8 km long and 2.6 km wide, with the nearest island 200 km away and the nearest inhabited island nearly 400 km away.

From the sky, the island looks a bit like a rugby ball. The vegetation on the island is dense, but the terrain is not very undulating. The highest altitude is less than 200 meters.

As an isolated island, its terrain is quite flat. Because it is far from any continent and does not have the same strategic value as an island like Midway, this small island has a very low degree of development.

Although it is closer to the Australian coastline, it is a private island of the United States, but after World War II, U.S. Navy warships never visited this remote sea. There are no resources here, and there is no population here, which can be regarded as a typical "waste" island.

Due to these "unfavorable factors", the original owner has been hanging the island on the market for 4 years after going bankrupt, and has reduced the price many times, but no one cares.

It's so remote that even from the nearest Australian port, it takes 3 days for an ordinary yacht to cruise at maximum speed to make a round trip, and it takes a lot of money to transport materials and infrastructure.

The original owner went bankrupt after completing the construction of a house and the installation of a small power plant and a set of desalination equipment. He gave up on the plan to continue the development, which looks beautiful, but the communication and transportation are inconvenient, and the cost of living is too high.

Shen Chao bought the island when he built up his own team of agents, and for only $2.8 million, the island of nearly 20 square kilometers became his private domain.

Of course, technically, the island is currently Alice's property, and he bought the low-development island as Alice. So now the name of the owner still belongs to Alice. …,

Although the original owner did not invest much and did not develop it for a long time, he built a whole series of buildings in the center of the island, built a baroque manor house covering an area of 1,000 square meters, and it is said that he also thought about establishing a ranch on the island.

Of course, these ideas were dashed with the bankruptcy of the former owner. After Shen Chaotong's agent bought the place, he hired more than a dozen construction companies and soon began to develop the island.

He doesn't care how much it costs or what means he uses to get various permits quickly, he only cares about the speed and quality of construction. His first agent, Song Tianze, and several other new agents were sent by him to supervise the entire construction. And it's been busy for 2 months.

The development of the island included several major projects, including an airport with a small hard runway, an extension of the former small port, a ring road and infrastructure for more than a dozen buildings.

It's a sizable project, and with the efforts of more than a dozen infrastructure companies, dozens of engineers of all kinds, nearly 100 lawyers, and more than 600 workers-days, the construction work is going smoothly and swallowing up millions of dollars every day.

Of course, the effect of throwing money in this way is also very obvious. In just two months, it took almost $100 million to complete all the infrastructure work. And the legal documents are complete. The basic ribbon can be used.

At present, the infrastructure has only been completed, and there are still a lot of materials, equipment, furniture, etc., which are expected to be in place in two weeks.

As a focus of construction, the airport was built on the north side of the island, with a 3,000-meter runway large enough to take off and land medium-sized transport aircraft, a low control tower next to the runway, and a large hangar that is currently empty.

The hangar, which is large enough to accommodate three medium transport aircraft or dozens of tanks, was designed and built to the standards of a permanent military hangar and was one of the first projects to begin on the island.

The renovation of the port was one of the first projects to begin on the island, and a Dutch contractor took over the work and in just 15 days converted the small dilapidated port into the small 3,000-ton cargo ship and six medium-sized yachts they needed. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. ). RT