Ten days later.

Canglan Star Orbit, the first airport.

Although Canglan is very busy during this time, a fleet arrives almost every day to bring a large number of humans rescued from other star systems.

When it is few, it is millions, and when it is more, it is even tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

It was a huge test for how to place it.

But today is something unusual.

Early in the morning, Su He, Ling Ruoxuan, Mu Zhengfeng, Lu Weiming, and other high-level executives from various departments had all come here, waiting...

With so many high-level officials dispatching together, it is certainly not easy to think of the people who need to be picked up.

But the problem is, even if you want to break your head, no one can figure out who is worth waiting for here one by one?

Half an hour later, a very tattered-looking fleet docked in the airport.

When you say it's tattered, it's really tattered.

Hardly a single battleship was intact, and all sorts of irregular repairs were everywhere.

The most important thing is that the shells of these warships are all engraved with skull marks, which are exclusive marks for interstellar pirates, right?

This group of bigwigs has been waiting here for a long time, just to meet the pirates?

What the heck?

As long as you don't know, you are all confused at the moment.

The next moment, something even more confusing happened to them.

A young man stepped down from the ship, and Mu Zhengfeng was the first to greet him, and shouted respectfully...

Liu Lao!

With white hair, he is like a junior in front of Liu Feng, who looks like a young man.

How can those who are not aware of such a scene not be surprised?

After Mu Zhengfeng, Su He, Lu Weiming and other bigwig-level figures all greeted him one after another, and they all put on a back-back posture.

Good guy, who the hell is this guy?

Although everyone was curious, it was clear that they would not be able to get an answer in a short time.

It's not that I'm afraid that they will leak secrets, but it's better not to make it public until there is no result in genetic enhancement.

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An hour later.

Research Institute, Energy Research Institute.

"This is the Zero Point Energy Module..."

Coming to the shuttle ship with a somewhat broken shell, Liu Feng looked at the crystal-like thing inserted in an unknown device and sighed.

For more than 400 years, he has not been able to study this thing, even if he has technical information.

It can even be said that he has not understood most of the things in that document so far.

And now, the real thing is in front of him.

"Have you tested the output power?"

"After testing, the maximum output power can reach 17.89 million standard units."

"Shhhh 17.89 million, Dean Chu, she is really..."

Hearing this, Liu Feng also took a hard breath.

You know, even the three super controllable nuclear fusion reactors on the Star Battlestar are tied together to have less than 1 million standard units of maximum output, and the result is not much bigger than your fist...

It can reach an output power of 17.89 million standard units.

It's outrageous.

"You're trying to put this on the Star so that it can travel long distances in hyperspace, right?"

"Yes, but because we don't know much about this thing, we don't dare to do it casually."

"Well, in fact, the zero-point energy module is a battery-like concept, just unplug it."

Although he didn't understand most of the technology of this thing, he still knew how to use the finished product.

In the surprised eyes of everyone, Liu Feng held the exposed half of the crystal, pressed it down a little, and then rotated it half a circle, and then pulled it out directly.

Good guys, we didn't dare to touch it after studying it for so long, and as a result, people were relaxed and happy, and they just unloaded this thing?

"Elder Liu, can this thing be directly applied to the Xingchen?"

"Yes, but it's not advisable to drastically modify the energy system of the Star, which will not be done in a few years, and this thing is a non-renewable energy source at all, because we don't have the technology to charge it through subspace."

"What does Liu Lao mean?"

"It can be used as an auxiliary energy source for the hyperspace engine, and only when the energy supply of the hyperspace engine is not available, the zero-point energy module is used to supplement the output, so that the consumption of zero-point energy can be minimized."

As Liu Feng said, this crystal-like zero-point energy module is actually a kind of battery, which does not produce energy itself, but exists as a device for storing energy.

As for the zero-point energy, it needs to be obtained from the subspace.

Therefore, for them who do not have the relevant technology today, zero-point energy is a kind of non-renewable energy, and if they use a little less, they will be gone.

This is also the reason why Liu Feng opposes the complete replacement of the energy system of the Xingchen.

After all, the energy system of the Star is very mature, as long as it does not carry out long-distance hyperspace voyages, it is definitely enough, and there are even many wealthy ones.

This point can be known by looking at the eighteen battle stars of the Star Sea Federation, and I have never heard of any battle stars that have a lack of energy supply.

Therefore, the best solution is to maintain the current energy system, and only let the zero-point energy module intervene in the output when the super-controllable fusion reactor is not available for long-distance hyperspace travel, which is also the most ideal and economical.

"Understood, then follow Liu Lao's plan!"

Ling Ruoxuan also nodded and agreed.

Seeing that the conversation between the two was over, Suhe walked over.

"Old Liu, can the hyperspace engine be mass-produced?"

"At present, it is impossible, this thing is like a laboratory product, if you are willing to pay a thousand times, or even tens of thousands of times the price, you can naturally create it, but if you want to mass production, there are still too many problems that cannot be solved."

Hearing this question, Liu Feng replied.

A lot of things, although the laboratory can make them, but the price is very high.

It's a bit disappointing, but that's the way it is.

On the side, Su He, who heard this, gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind.

"Elder Liu, no matter what the cost is, even if it drains all our resources, I still hope that you can help me build another hyperspace engine, because..."

"This is related to the lives of hundreds of billions of compatriots on the Orion arm!"

Now the situation of Orion's arm, Liu Feng has also heard Jiang Xingchen say it, so he knows very well why Su He wants one more hyperspace engine.

So, can a hyperspace engine be made?

The answer is naturally yes, just like Liu Feng himself said, as long as you can pay the price, you can make it.

For example, some special materials, maybe when you are mature, you only need to consume 10 units of a certain ore to make 1 unit of that material.

But if your technology is not mature, you can even consume millions of units and not be able to make a unit.

This is the price that Liu Feng said, and why some things can be laboratory products, but if they want to be mass-produced and applied on a large scale, they can't do it.

Let's just say that the one on the Star, the Scorpion Pirates have been robbing everywhere for hundreds of years before they can make such a one.

As you can imagine, the resources required are terrifying.

"I'll make a list for you later, as long as I can muster together enough resources, and then give me enough people..."

"Within a month, I can build you a hyperspace engine!"

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Blazing galaxies.

"Captain, everyone on Blazing VII has been evacuated and sent into the ship, a total of 5.87 million people."

"As always, let them go to the predetermined location and wait for the Canglan Star to pick them up."

"Understood!"

After all, the task of the Star is very heavy, and it is impossible to escort people all the way back after every rescue, otherwise, it will not be able to be thrown a few times in a month.

Fortunately, at present, except for a small number of garrisons left behind, most of the garrisons in each star system have been requisitioned to the side of the Death Nebula, and those who remain are no longer patrolling outside the star system due to a serious shortage of troops.

Therefore, I don't have to worry about those cargo ships and passenger ships running into any trouble on the way, as long as they arrive at the coordinates given to them, the Canglan Star will naturally send warships to take them all the way into the Death Nebula, and finally arrive at the Canglan system.

"Captain, receive the latest order from the fleet command!"

"Turn my side."

"Yes, Captain!"

The communications officer nodded, and proceeded.

The next moment, a virtual panel popped up in front of Jiang Xingchen and displayed the command file.

"This is..."

"What's wrong, Captain?"

"The above requires us to join the fleet in three days and take the floodlight galaxy in one fell swoop!"

"Floodlight galaxies? But isn't there a plan to start it in a month? ”

Hearing this, Fu Wanting was also taken aback.

You know, the order of the Star's actions is now deliberate, not randomly chosen.

A galaxy like the Flood Star System, which has four planets of natural life and has nearly 10 billion human beings, is impossible to pull all of them away at once with the transportation power currently controlled by Canglan Star.

This is also the reason why the Xingchen has not done anything since it was so close to the Canglan system.

You know, there are nearly 100,000 warships gathered on the Death Nebula.

If something goes wrong with the floodlight star system, even if they don't bring all the fleets back to defend, there is still no pressure to divide 20,000 or 30,000 warships.

Therefore, during this time, the Star has been picking on those star systems with many cargo ships and passenger ships to rescue their compatriots, and at the same time, they are also plundering more spaceships that can be used for transportation.

According to the original plan, it would be at least a little more than a month before it was possible to make a move on the floodlit star system.

Therefore, Fu Wanting wondered why the fleet command was going to do it now.

Obviously the conditions are not yet ripe...

"This time it's not about saving people, it's about grabbing things!"

"Grab something?"

"Yes, the document says that for the future plan, Canglan Star is ready to build a super giant immigrant ship with a hyperspace engine with the help of Uncle Liu, but if you want to build a hyperspace engine, Canglan Star still has a lot of resources."

"So, we're going to grab these resources this time?"

"Yes, in addition to being the largest slave trading market on the arm, the Floodlight Galaxy is also an important trading hub, and the reserves of various materials are also very amazing, for this operation, almost all of the nearly 3,000 cargo ships and other types of spaceships currently owned by the Canglan system will be used."

Hiss...

Is this preparing to empty the floodlight galaxy once?

However, for such a large-scale operation, it would take a day or two just to fill all these cargo ships.

In other words...

"Captain, then we're going to have a tough fight this time?"

"That's right, at least hold them off for a day to buy enough time for the cargo fleet."

One day...

In the face of twenty or thirty thousand warships, even if most of them are only second- and third-order civilization warships, but if you want to hold on for a day...

It's definitely going to be a tough battle.