PS: Three shifts today, two shifts a day starting tomorrow.

The clone crew was bought out at 200,000 in Jinmen, and the local price at the outpost was 300,000 for a total of 1.53 billion star dollars.

Of course, the supporting officers and captains were naturally recruited early.

Then I bought some loose but not cheap things, and the biggest cost in them was all kinds of food and consumables.

Li Qing had always thought that clones had no consumption, but during this period of time, he observed that although these clones were defective in their genes and souls, they theoretically did not need to need various consumables like natural people, but in fact they had this need, but it was not a mandatory demand.

To put it bluntly, it's okay if you don't provide them with all kinds of consumables, but if you have additional consumables and a variety of food supplies, their motivation and work efficiency will be greatly improved.

He hadn't prepared before, but when he came back this time, he deliberately bought a large batch of food and a large number of consumables, with a total value of more than 1.5 billion.

This is enough for 100,000 clones and natural humans to consume for fifteen years, mainly in the camp, in case they are lost for too long due to accidents, and it is easy to get into chaos if there is not enough supplies at that time.

In addition, 100 experts related to agricultural planting were recruited, with a monthly salary of 180,000 yuan, and 2,000 cloned farmers were bought out, and 100,000 yuan cost 200 million yuan each.

and 100 animal husbandry-related experts, with a monthly salary of 200,000 yuan, bought out 2,000 cloned herdsmen, and 100,000 spent 200 million star yuan.

Then there are agricultural production facilities, all kinds of fully automated cultivation and sowing machines, and of course all kinds of plant seeds, including all kinds of cash crops, and most commonly food.

Spending so much money to get these is certainly not to reclaim in the base ecosystem, although the ecosystem with a length and width of 20 kilometers is not small, but reclamation is definitely not reliable, and his goal is the warehouse in the high-dimensional fortress in the universe in his palm.

He was going to select two warehouse levels, one for agriculture and one for animal husbandry.

Although there is no water or soil in the warehouse area, these are small problems that can be solved slowly.

Find an asteroid belt of a galaxy at random, collect a large number of broken meteorites and throw them into the palm universe, first put the ignited star in the palm universe to melt into lava, sanitize viruses and bacteria, and then break the cooled lava to cover the entire warehouse layer thick layer to form a soil layer.

Normal rocks turn into soil requires a very complex process, gravity, flowing water, wind erosion and other natural environments take tens of millions of years to turn from rock to soil, but he can artificially form soil in a short time through high technology.

These lava fragments are directly broken up by machinery, and then the conditions for soil formation are simulated by machinery, and what elements are needed to be artificially added, and finally the soil suitable for planting is formed.

However, at this time, the soil is not yet able to be planted, and it needs to be cultivated.

This is actually not a big problem, and it can be directly integrated into the soil by adding adherent elements by high-tech means, and it can generally reach the standard of plantable soil in one or two years.

It is theorized that it will only take three years to convert a large area of wasteland into growable soil, as long as you have enough input.

In fact, there will also be this step when transforming the planet, but the investment is larger and takes longer.

After all, transforming a barren star full of hard rock into a habitable planet in a harsh environment requires massive resource consumption.

However, his soil transformation, which covers two kilometers long and wide, is actually a huge project, which is not inferior to the transformation of an asteroid.

The only advantage is that he does not need to think about transforming the atmosphere and environment, because the warehouse area has the function of temperature regulation, and when the time comes, he will install climate control facilities, weather control facilities, etc., to simulate extreme weather such as wind, rain and even tornadoes and typhoons.

Coming out of the outpost and heading straight for Gallant Star Castle, there are a total of 2 cruisers and 8 destroyers and 35 frigates on this trip, which is a good mix among individual players.

The fleet jumped several times in a row away from the outpost and stopped in a galaxy with an asteroid belt.

The fleet plunged headlong into the asteroid belt, easily destroying the three monster mining ship convoys, and came to a halt in an open area inside the asteroid belt.

At this time, Li Qing's flagship was still the modified elite Hurricane-class destroyer, although the cruiser had thicker armor and more firepower, but at this time his command skills were not enough for him to command the cruiser, and the skill could not be added to the cruiser.

Cruisers are slower than destroyers and frigates in terms of conventional sailing speed and flexibility, and they can't get bonuses, and with this as a command ship, once they encounter a powerful enemy, many flexible operations will not be used at all, and it is easy to be forced to fight the enemy head-to-head and suffer huge losses.

The loss of a frigate is nearly 150 million, the loss of a destroyer is nearly 700 million, and the cruiser is even more exaggerated, with a high configuration of about 3 billion for the fifth generation, and the top configuration after modification, depending on the type of accessories, can reach more than 5 billion at most.

If the cruiser is converted into a small aircraft carrier module, the cost will be higher.

The two cruisers in Li Qing's hand are just ordinary high-profile, that is, they have not been modified, nor are they top-of-the-line, and they dare not be changed to aircraft carrier modules, the ships are ready-made, and a total of 4 billion was spent on weapon accessories alone.

Plus six destroyers cost a total of 2.8 billion.

A total of 26 frigates were spent on 3.1 billion.

All of them cost him 9.9 billion star dollars, almost more than 10 billion star dollars.

In the palm universe, all the collected meteorites are burned and melted into lava by the ignited stars in the palm universe, and all the bacteria and viruses contained in them are purified, and then poured into the icy void and quickly frozen, and then twisted and crushed into countless fine lava particles through high gravity, mixed with the purchased soil elements, and poured directly into the sixth and seventh layers of the warehouse.

The warehouse area was a thousand kilometers high, and he divided it into ten large layers, each one hundred kilometers high, and he expected to accumulate a full ten kilometers thick layer of gravel.

This step took him almost a month, mainly because there was too much demand, two soil layers with a length and width of 1,000 kilometers and a thickness of 10 kilometers, even if the operation was simple but could not stand a large amount.

When he was done, he hollowed out a large circle of nearby meteorites.

After the first step was completed, Li Qing directly ordered the fleet to start jumping back to Jialanxing Fort, followed by slow work, 2,000 farmers and 2,000 herdsmen under the command of 100 agricultural experts, began to level the ground with machinery, plan the reclamation area, and then start the next step of soil cultivation.

This step will take a year or two, and he doesn't need to take care of it, just wait for two years to come and see.

Once such two large areas are reclaimed, the output of both food and meat will definitely provide self-sufficiency for more than a billion people.

Looking at the trend of the universe in the palm of his hand, which was obviously a warehouse area, and as a result, he developed into a base step by step, Li Qing was also a little speechless.

A long time ago, when the warehouse area was first unlocked, he thought about opening up the warehouse area to be a large-scale migration similar to a space habitation station, but after thinking about it, he felt that the maintenance cost was too high, so he rejected the idea.

At that time, his idea was outrageous, and he was going to open up all ten floors into living quarters, and all other materials would be imported from the outside world, so the maintenance fee would be outrageous.

Now that a pastoral area and an agricultural area have been reclaimed, it seems that the original idea can be readjusted.

It is not easy to fully renovate, but if only a few areas are developed, and the development is carried out in stages, it seems to be feasible.

For example, there is a warehouse area below the fifth floor, an agricultural area on the sixth floor, a livestock storage area on the seventh floor, a consumables and livelihood industrial production area on the eighth floor, a living area on the ninth floor, and a comprehensive area on the tenth floor, including various laboratories, various vocational colleges, clone cultivation bases, military areas, and so on.

Compared with the original idea, the scale has been reduced by dozens of times, and agricultural and industrial areas have been opened, and all consumption can be self-sufficient, and basically there is little maintenance cost.

Li Qing thought about it carefully and felt that there was room for operation in this plan, even if the funds he had now were still 108,000 miles away from developing such a large area.

The area of each floor in the warehouse area is as high as one million square kilometers, and the height of each layer of 100 kilometers can be divided into ten layers.

Five layers down is 5 million square kilometers, developed from scratch, and the funds required will be extremely exaggerated.

Think about how outrageous the amount of money would be needed to develop every inch of more than half of the Earth's land area.

This is still the case that the universe in the palm of the hand can be opened, and the meteorite can be directly included in the universe in the palm of the hand, and after being melted and crushed, a dragon will be sent to the warehouse layer.

Without this, it would take decades or hundreds of years to fill the warehouse area of 1 million square kilometers and 10 kilometers thick with five floors of manpower and transport ships.

It takes a super force to go all out, invest hundreds of billions of dollars, and spend decades and nearly a hundred years to complete, and he alone wants to develop a project with specifications that exceeds a giant space habitation station, which will definitely make people think crazy to say it.

Four days later, Li Qing returned to the Jialan Galaxy, and saw at a glance that the normally deserted galaxy base had become lively at this time.

The annual large-scale team activity is less than half a month away, and the team members scattered outside have rushed back one after another, and a large number of warships have gathered, even if the large fleet is parked in other open spaces in the galaxy, and there are two or three thousand small and medium-sized warships moored near the star fort.

Li Qing casually found an open space to moor the fleet, and a destroyer broke away from the fleet and sailed towards the Star Castle.

The team channel was bustling with people chatting with names they had never seen before.

"Drop!"

The communication lit up, and when he saw Li Lie's projection appear in the center of the bridge, he said with a smile:

"I saw your avatar light up and knew you were back, we were in the Star Castle, you come quickly."

He also received a shared location, click to view, located within the Starcastle business district.

"Yes, I'll be right there."

Anchoring the battleship, a small flying machine dragged a long tail flame into the huge star castle.

The Star Fortress is actually a battle fortress that combines the functions of a space dwelling station and an interstellar fortress, in addition to having powerful combat capabilities, it also has a huge space inside.

Theoretically, Star Castle or Star City could also be used as a colony, but in practice, very few forces do so.

Most of them are used as combat bases, and most of the space inside is converted into a warehouse area, a trading area, or a dock, etc., which can store transit materials, or repair ships, etc.

Of course, considering that Starcastle has a large number of staff, as well as residential areas and entertainment business areas, it is generally not large.

The business district of Jialan Star Fort is located at the edge of the trading area, is a 'Tian' shaped area, surrounded by the central 'ten' character is the commercial street, there is a large commercial center in the center, there are a lot of small streets on the side of the commercial street, such as what pedestrian street, bar street and so on are in it.

As the only commercial area in the Star Castle, it is not only a gathering place for team members, but also many staff members in the Star Castle like to come over, and occasionally some casual players will come over to replenish their supplies and have fun.

Follow the coordinates to the bar street and find a large comprehensive bar called Starlight, which contains many entertainment facilities in addition to the bar.

Li Lie, Li Qi and the other members are all here, at this time they are booking a private room on the second floor, outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows is a huge bar and bar pool, dazzling lights flickering, DJs shouting exhaustedly, and many men and women are dancing on the dance floor.

Li Qing pushed the door in, and everyone looked up and greeted him one after another.

Li Lie took a cup and put it in front of him, and personally opened a new bottle of wine to pour it for him, Li Qing raised his eyebrows, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

I took them to earn a few waves of money without white belt, at least the posture was correct.

After clinking glasses and taking a sip, Li Qing asked:

"Where have you been making a lot of money all this time?"

Li Lie waved his hand and said:

"Make a lot of money, except for mining, there is no big money to make."

Li Qi also shook his head and said:

"We don't have your legacy, the big caravans can't play, and the small ones don't make money, only mining."

At this time, one of the only two women in the team, a girl named Li Ya, raised a glass to him and asked with a smile:

"Where has Brother Li Qing made his fortune recently, you have time to take us!"

Looking at her tone, Li Qing's heart moved, it seemed that he had made quick money before, but now this kind of small money is not enjoyable, so he took another sip of wine and said:

"Recently, I went to a galaxy more than 400 light-years northeast of Jialan to find a galaxy and set up a base, got a group of mining ships to go over, and established a group of planetary mines to collect planetary materials."

Li Lie listened to the strange words:

"How do you run so far to set up a base, it's so far away, it's not in the team's control area, there's no patrol nearby, security is a problem when you're not there."

"It's safe near the team, but there are too many people."

Li Qing explained:

"Although it's a little far away over there, it's close to the isolation interference zone, and few players have passed, so I'll leave a fleet to guard the house, and I'm not afraid of a fleet that isn't too big."

However, what they said is indeed a problem, the lack of players is not completely none, and most of the monsters are small-scale but it does not mean that there is no large-scale.

The most feared thing is the anomaly that occasionally brushes out, and it would be embarrassing if you brush a large monster base near the base.

However, the problem is not too big, and it is a big deal to increase the size of the fleet when I go back after a while.

They briefly chatted about their respective developments, and soon proposed not to talk about these things, but to drink and have fun first, and talk about these things later.

Of course Li Qing has no opinion, it just so happens that he also wants to relax.

It has been nearly two years since the beginning of the development, and I have been in a state of running, either running here or there, and I have not enjoyed it in a tight way.

It's a pity that there are two girls, and they can't find a group of girls to play with, and they are a little unhappy.