Although Wu Han took the lead in arranging everything, the plan did not change quickly, and things did not go as smoothly as planned in advance.

The structure of the new engine is simple, and there is no difficulty in manufacturing, but for the sake of secrecy, the engine structure is designed to be very complicated, but 90 percent of the structure is made to confuse the public, and it is completely useless, and less than 10 percent of the part that really works.

Because of the complex structure and the fact that the accuracy of the manufacturing process could not be reduced, the new engine, which could only be completed in a few minutes, was simply extended to a week to produce the finished product, and was installed for the Aquila and the warships stationed at the Saturn base as soon as possible, followed by the four warships stationed at the moon base.

In addition, all the engines that Ji Lu planned to install on the stargate garrison battleship were also sent to the Aquila.

In addition to the above warships, the military also has four warships stationed on the Giant Star and the Yin and Yang Star, adding up to exactly ten eagles and ten harriers and twenty new warships.

Twenty warships will form the backbone of the Chinese fleet, and the military will need at least three-digit warships to effectively form a sufficient strategic advantage, but there will be a qualitative change after all warships are equipped with new engines.

The fleet with rapid transfer capability will have a speed advantage unimaginable by any country, and within a few tens of light years that humans currently occupy, no matter where there is an abnormal situation, the Chinese fleet can arrive within a few days, and then form a real rapid response fleet.

In addition, the fleet of old ships is only four Yanjing-class capital ships on Proxima Centauri.

These four capital ships were originally planned to be sold to Russia, but because the human fleet completely defeated the fleet of the Outer Skeletons. Therefore, the need for warships in various countries is no longer urgent, Russia has suspended the plan to purchase ships, and the Chinese side has almost smashed the warships that have recovered their homeland, but fortunately, some countries want to organize fleets and are not short of money, and after arduous negotiations, the military finally sold all the remaining warships.

It's just that the asking price of the four capital ships is too high, so I haven't found a buyer, so in the past few days, I put it on Proxima Centauri to exert residual heat - the military plans to dismantle the weapons on the four warships and transform them into mobile mining bases!

There are many planets near the Centaur α Triad, and there are a lot of mineral resources worth mining. At present, the Chinese side has established a mining base in Proxima Centauri. It won't be long before the Centaur α will provide a vast amount of mineral resources for the depleted solar system.

Not only is China fighting the centaur α idea, but the United States, Russia and Europe also have their own plans, but neither side has the same ferocious courage as China. Directly rebuild old ships - after removing the weapons and most of the armor. Seventeen kilometers of space inside the battleship were able to free up fourteen to fifteen kilometers. However, because the power system and propulsion system must be preserved, the length of space that can be used is just over 10 kilometers.

A modified Yanjing-class capital ship is a mobile industrial base. It can provide a full set of industrial equipment from mining to smelting to processing, which is a necessary magic weapon for developing colony stars, going to deep space, and mining extrasolar resources!

At present, only one battleship has been transformed, and it was originally planned to deploy the second base ship in the Giant Star Man to contribute to the construction of the Giant Star, but after the discovery of the Neutron Star, Wu Han persuaded the high-level to transform the remaining three capital ships at the same time, and all three base ships were deployed in the Neutron Galaxy!

Although the status of the Giants is important, it is important that it has a good colonial environment, in contrast to the lack of large resources for industrial development.

After several years of development, Giant Star has built a supporting industrial system, which can provide a part of light industrial products for Giant Star immigrants.

If you pay a little attention to the development of Giant, you will find that there is no heavy industry there, and the only thing that can be related to heavy industry is the synchronous orbital base of the garrison fleet.

China's approach to doing this is to protect the natural environment, but the real reason is that it is based on the strategy of strengthening the strong and weak branches, and not building heavy industry on the Giant Star, so as to avoid the situation of strong and weak branches, which will eventually lead to the division of the country.

Fundamentally speaking, China is only one of the hundreds of countries in the world, and even if its military and national strength are the highest in the world, it cannot reproduce the glory of the ancient feudal dynasty in expanding its territory.

However, an exocave is a whole planet with good conditions, which is more suitable to be the center of the country than the mainland. Now the territory can still control the enclave with thousands of years of accumulation, but what about a few decades from now? How about hundreds of years from now?

If colonies are not restricted, I am afraid that there will be signs of division within a few decades.

And this is only one reason, and the other reason is the distance between the giant star and the solar system.

It is well known that the farther apart the road, the more difficult it is to communicate with each other, and the more likely it is to be separated.

At a distance of 29 light years, it would take more than four months to fly at 76 times the speed of light, and it would take more than half a year to travel back and forth, greatly reducing the local control over the giant star.

The mainland can still control the colony star by stuck, but what about the colony star after it develops? It would be nice if the colony star did not turn around and stuck the neck of the native.

Fortunately, the pink crystal brought back by Ye Fei solved this problem, and the transformed Aquila flew at the highest speed, and it only took thirty hours to fly to the Giant Star, even if the speed was limited according to Wu Han's intentions, it would only take a month, although it was still unsatisfactory, but it was already much better than before.

Therefore, the development of crystals is included in the national key strategy, which is also the main reason for Wu Han to persuade the high-level.

In addition to the new engine, the transformation of the new laser is also very simple, but there are thousands of lasers installed on a battleship, which cannot be changed in a while, and the number of crystals transported back by the Aquila is too small to be used for research, so the transformation plan of the laser cannon will be carried out after the battleship returns to the neutron galaxy.

Ye Fei originally wanted to take the opportunity of the battleship to be transformed to return to Earth for a period of vacation, but he failed to do so, he thought that this time he would not have the opportunity to go home to see, but he didn't expect that the Saturn base only completed the research of robots, but it was only used as a technical reserve, and did not carry out large-scale manufacturing, and wanted the Aquila to bring enough robots. It will have to wait for a while.

Ye Fei happily returned to Earth with all the officers and men of the ship, and reunited with his family for half a month.

In the past few years, there has been no threat from the outer bones, but Ye Fei always flies everywhere without touching the ground, and it is nonsense to say that there is no complaint at home, Gao Lan has wanted to apply for transfer to the Sky Eagle several times, and the application can be 100% passed, but the twelve-year-old Ye Qi has already started junior high school, and Gao Lan, as a mother, is reluctant to throw the child away.

Military warships can make room for the spouses of military personnel, but for a while the issue of children will not be considered.

In the past few days, Qian Liguo has not forgotten to send a few Harrier-class warships to send new engines to Giant Star and Proxima Centauri. But because the speed is depressed. Only four of Proxima Centauri's industrial base ships have received their engines, and three of them, after the refit, will depart for Stargate to move the modification that was originally done in the Centaur α to the neutron system.

Half a month later. The Saturn base has all the robots it needs. The officers and men of the ship regrouped. Coming back to the neutron galaxy.

Surprisingly, two of the soldiers who returned to Earth for vacation had a problem, and they did not return after the return time, and there was no way to contact the two of them!

This situation has aroused great attention from the military. Military intelligence immediately intervened in the investigation.

However, the Aquila did not stop longer because of this accident, and still left the solar system as planned.

In addition to the cargo carried on the ship, there were twelve more researchers, the youngest of whom was over sixty years old, and the oldest was over one hundred and ten years old.

In addition, in order to speed up the construction of the neutron star, the military also sent Ye Fei a transport ship that has been refitted, and the transport ship that runs through the new design concept can fly alone, or it can be joined with the Aquila to form an extended version of the warship with a transport module.

The Aquila quietly returned, quietly departed, without much fanfare or concealment, as if nothing out of the ordinary.

In fact, any warship of the military is the focus of attention of the intelligence services of various countries, and although the Aquila is low-key, it still inevitably attracts the attention of the intelligence services of various countries.

Because the Aquila has been anchored at the Saturn base, and the military has kept everything strictly secret, these powerful intelligence departments have not been able to get any information about the Aquila's return this time!

In the past, no matter how good the secrecy was, a little useful information could be obtained more or less, and no information could be found, which in itself represented an abnormal situation.

The intelligence department with a keen sense of smell invariably set their sights on the Aquila, although there are some intelligence personnel from other countries in the Saturn base, but very few have access to high-level secrets, and even if they do, they are not capable of sending information out of the air.

So these intelligence services hit the idea of the officers and soldiers of the Aquila who returned to Earth, and brazenly carried out a secret kidnapping.

However, China's National Security Bureau is not a vegetarian, and the intelligence services of various countries have always been cautious about holding their tails between their legs, and suddenly there are frequent activities, which naturally attracted the attention of the Security Bureau, and the two sides secretly engaged in a fierce secret battle back and forth, and without the knowledge of the officers and men of the Aquila, they cut off dozens of black hands that stretched out to the officers and soldiers.

It's a pity that they got their hands on it in the end.

If the enemy who obtained the treasure was found, the two fighters were immediately interrogated by surprise and injected directly with the elixir of truth.

But Ye Fei's secrecy work was done well, and there were only a few people on the entire Aquila who knew about it, except for himself, all of them stayed at the Saturn base, and in the end, only the news of China's discovery of the neutron star was leaked, and nothing else was obtained.

If they asked the time of departure and arrival of the Aquila, they would immediately find that the Chinese side had made a new breakthrough in aerospace technology, but unfortunately the interrogators did not expect this at all.

It wasn't until early one morning after the Aquila left that the two unconscious warriors were found by the residents who had risen early for morning exercises.

After the police arrived, they confirmed the identities of the two people, and sent the two to the hospital for treatment as quickly as possible, and found a large amount of truth vomiting residue in the blood of the two people, and after all-out rescue, the two woke up three days later, but neither of them remembered what happened in the past few days.

The truth agent is actually a special anesthetic, and the nervous system of two people is affected by the overdose of anesthetic, and it is no longer suitable for service on the battleship, so it can only be transferred out of the fleet.

But that's not the end of the story, and the military's intelligence department launched a series of retaliatory actions.

The secret war is not a battle against the Guansi, and there is no need for evidence. As long as it is known who did it, for a time there was a lot of rumors about the intelligence departments secretly stationed in China by various countries, and the total number of military attaches expelled from the country exceeded 20.

But none of this has anything to do with the Aquila, after leaving the solar system, the battleship lowered its speed and flew towards the stargate at a speed of one light year per day, the voyage that used to take two months has been shortened to twelve days, but Ye Fei still felt that the speed was too slow.

Leaving behind the new engines, the Aquila plunged headlong into the nebula and arrived here. Ye Fei no longer suppressed the speed of the battleship. It took a few hours for Aquila to reach Neutron Star.

The research team of twelve people immediately began research, and in order to carry the equipment needed for the research, the Aquila even had to give up some of the missiles. so that enough space is freed up.

Thousands of robots and some equipment carried on board the ship were sent to Akashi by the landing ship. The robot immediately began to work with the degree of work. Start looking for ore veins and build a Red Star Industrial Base at the most suitable location.

The efficiency of robots is far from being comparable to that of humans, and the industrial base of modular design is rising almost at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. Immediately after that, large-scale mining work began with unmanned mining equipment.

At the same time, another batch of robots and equipment was sent to the Silver Star, which will become a production base for robots in the near future, and after enough robots have been built, it will be expanded into a real heavy industry star.

Mineral mining on Akashi takes a certain amount of time to expand, while the resources contained in the water galaxy of Silver Star are relatively simple, and the development of the two planets at the same time can complement each other's advantages.

The transport, which broke away from the Aquila, remained above the orbit of Silver Star and was tasked with transporting robots to Red Star.

However, neither the Red Star nor the Silver Star is nothing, and the only thing that really attracts attention is the super-heavy elements in the asteroid belt!

The engineering ship, which has all been replaced, was stationed in the asteroid belt as soon as possible, and made every effort to mine green crystals to prepare for the replacement of the Aquila's laser cannon.

In just one day, all the work was put into orbit and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

Half a month later, three Yanjing-class battleships flew to the neutron galaxy, one of which has completed one-third of the transformation, and the other two have not yet begun to transform, Ye Fei sent all three battleships to the sky above the Silver Star, and will complete the equipment transformation with the help of the resources of the Silver Star.

As long as the robot construction of Silver Star enters orbit, the development of neutron galaxies will be faster and faster as the number of robots increases.

Just when everything seemed to be on the right track, Dr. Liang of the research group suddenly put down his research and came to Ye Fei in person.

Non-military personnel like Dr. Liang were absolutely not allowed to enter the bridge, so Ye Fei met with Dr. Liang in the captain's room and personally poured Dr. Liang a cup of Longjing tea that he had only drunk once.

This thing was given by Jiang Yufei when he went home a while ago, saying that it was some kind of authentic and good tea, but Ye Fei couldn't feel anything good when he drank it in his mouth.

Dr. Liang, whose hair had turned gray, put the teacup aside and said straight to the point: "Captain Ye, I came to you for a matter of life and death. ”

Ye Fei secretly wanted to laugh, it was only a few days since he moved out to talk about life and death? In his mouth, he hurriedly politely said: "Dr. Liang, you are too polite, just call me Xiaoye." "Whether in terms of age or knowledge, Ye Fei has enough reason to respect Dr. Liang.

Dr. Liang nodded unceremoniously: "Xiao Ye, my main research is the neutron star, I guess you also know the situation of this neutron star, according to my preliminary calculation, we only have five years at most." ”

"What?" Ye Fei didn't understand what Dr. Liang meant, "What five years?" ”

Dr. Liang patiently explained: "I mean the neutron star, the giant planet that orbits the neutron star, is approaching the neutron star like the nearby nebula, and in five years, the distance between the two stars will be close to a critical point." He stretched out his wide open palms, his fingers stretched straight.

"You're saying that the giant planet has the potential to crash into a neutron star?" Ye Fei immediately grasped the key.

"yes, that's what I meant." Dr. Leung said.

Dr. Liang got straight to the point, and Ye Fei also said bluntly: "Doctor, I am a soldier and don't understand complex astronomy, just tell me, what will happen after the impact, the neutron star will become a black hole?" ”

"Not really." Dr. Liang shook his head, "The mass of the giant planet is not enough, and the impact will not produce a black hole, but after all, it is the impact of the giant planet and the neutron star, and the impact will release a huge amount of energy in the form of strong light and strong rays. ”

Ye Fei immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: "That's all?" "It's just bright lights and rays, can't you just avoid them?

"That's it?" Dr. Liang's eyes widened suddenly, "Captain Ye, you don't take human life too seriously. ”

"Calm down! Calm down! Ye Fei hurriedly appeased the old man, "Isn't it just an impact, when the time comes, let's just withdraw from the city in advance?" ”

"You're right, but how can things be so simple?" Dr. Liang finally knew the astronomical level of Ye Fei, "Neutron star is an unprecedented research topic, we don't know the specific impact time of Lu Dao at all, we can only calculate the possibility of five years, after five years, whether it will impact immediately or ten years later, it is uncertain!" ”

"Oh, I see." Ye Fei nodded, "That's nothing, we can find a way to advance the impact, and come back after the collision, isn't it?" ”

He came up with the simplest and crudest solution as a matter of course, with the demeanor of a military man. (To be continued......)