An uninhabited island nearly 100 nautical miles south of the waters of North Australia.

It's far from the main trade routes and ports, so few ships come to visit the places where the birds don't.

There is a sunken area on the island, surrounded by cliffs on both sides, and as long as you don't deliberately approach the island's ships, you can't find that there is a hole here, and Ma Zhe and the New Return are hiding here at this time.

Ma Zhe stood on a coral reef on the shore and looked at the new return lying in front of him.

That's right, Ma Zhe's new luxury car, the Return, was less than 24 hours away from seeing the light of day, and before he had time to show his majestic body to the world, he ran aground with honor......

The mechs are clearing the reef that has been inserted into the belly of the Return, and re-patching the hole to drain the seawater.

"Alas, therefore, you can't be too wavey to be a boat! I want to do some kind of night march, you see, it really collapsed! Ma Zhe looked at the Return with a look of blame on his face.

Return: "......" (I want to go back and lie down for a few hundred years, I can be regarded as eight lifetimes of blood mold with a master like you...... ）

Boarding the New Return, the surface of the hull had been cleared of debris, most of the area was brand new, and the deck was light.

In one corner, there is also a pile of waste wood and various garbage collected by mechanical insects, which is their raw material warehouse.

Ma Zhe nodded with satisfaction, he planned to repair and strengthen the Return again, and then gradually replace it with mechanical insects to complete the transformation of mechanical insects.

After all, although there are a lot of mechanical insects at present, they are a little insignificant compared to the huge new return number, and I am afraid that even if all the mechanical insects are filled in, even the keel cannot be completely replaced.

At the same time, this will not take up too much of the mechanical worm to build the material, which can fully liberate the work efficiency of the mechanical worm.

Mechanical bug: "I cried ......" (Evil capitalist!) ）

In addition to the mechanical insects working non-stop on the ship, with the Return as the center, dense mechanical insect spiders are distributed around this reef, cleaning the reef at the bottom of the sea, and collecting all the materials available on the bottom of the sea.

Since the invention of the new exploration method of mechanical insect spiders, Ma Zhe has found that raw materials are no longer the main factor limiting the number of mechanical insects, and the resources of the seabed are far beyond everyone's imagination.

Countless years of human development and ocean trade have filled the entire ocean with man-made garbage and waste, but these things are cheap raw materials for mechanical insects.

Now restricting the development of mechanical insects is the problem of energy.

After all, the mechanical bug is not a professional energy collector, and even if it absorbs solar energy, it cannot guarantee 24-hour uninterrupted operation and self-proliferation, so now, the mechanical bugs can only stop from time to time to restore energy.

This made Ma Zhe a little depressed, like a factory owner, who was very distressed by the cruel reality that his factory could produce coveted profits at all times, but he could not let the workers work three shifts.

Robotic bugs: "......" (We want bug rights!) ）

And this is just one of Ma Zhe's worries, in addition to energy issues, the issue of confidentiality is also on the table.

In view of Ma Zhe's extremely firm belief in large sizes (Wuhu~), the Return is bound to get bigger and bigger, and there is naturally no need to worry about the state of a small fishing boat before, but if it is like the size of nearly 100 meters now, it is unlikely not to attract attention, and there are satellites everywhere in this world.

If it is not discovered, it will be forgotten, but if the current appearance of the new return is discovered, the headline on the front page of the news the next day must be "The ancient Spanish warship has reappeared in the world, suspected of being infested with pirates, and many countries have gone to exterminate it!" ”

After all, the secrets on the Return are too amazing, and Ma Zhe must strengthen the secrecy, and he doesn't want to be caught and sliced.

To solve this problem, it's actually quite simple - just have a base!

As long as there is a hidden base, then the mechanical insects have a fixed production place for their daily work, and the efficiency can be greatly improved from guerrilla warfare to positional warfare.

If you need to come forward, let some of the mechanical bugs assemble the old version of the Return fishing boat and travel, so that many things will not be daunted.

In a word, it is an unstoppable development trend to accumulate grain, slowly become king, establish a base area, and expand the mechanical insect population! It is an inevitable choice for the development of obscenity!

At this time, Ma Zhe ordered the mechanical bugs to clean up the surrounding reefs, in addition to wanting to clear the channel to facilitate the entry and exit of the Return, he also wanted to try to establish a secret base here.

"Secret base or something, it's very emotional to listen to!" Ma Zhe was a little excited.

Uh, having said all that, are you sure you're not doing it for fun?!

"Goo~" At this time, Ma Zhe's stomach rang "again".

"Here we go again...... Alas! You work hard, and it's not easy for Lao Tzu, this is the first time today......" Ma Zhe was a little helpless.

As the number of mechanical insects continues to rise, the physical strength he needs to control mechanical insects is also rising, and solar energy is already beyond his means.

Luckily, he had just discovered a magical way to recharge, otherwise the food crisis would have been the biggest problem for Ma Zhe!

He walked to a pile of burning fire, and there were constantly mechanical insects to collect dry firewood to add to it as fuel, and now this place has been surrounded by silver-white mechanical insects, which is one of the places for mechanical insects to replenish their energy, although the means are more primitive, but it is better than nothing.

Seeing the boss coming, the mechanical insects moved out of the way, and Ma Zhe did not hesitate to reach out and plunge directly into the burning flames.

A magical scene happened, the flames licked Nie Yun's palm, but Ma Zhe seemed to be unaware, and showed a satisfied and comfortable look, and the palm in the flame had silver light flowing from time to time, transforming all the heat energy and replenishing Ma Zhe's physical energy.

This is a new skill that Ma Zhe stumbled upon, as for why he can use heat energy as a human being, Ma Zhe, who has never even studied biology, said that the probability that this question can be answered by a person at the level of a primary school student is infinitely close to zero......

"Now it's really more and more like a mechanical worm, people are sons like Lao Tzu, but I'm Lao Tzu like a son, the other way around! I wonder if if I drink gasoline or not? Ma Zhe touched his chin and thought.

Eventually, though, he shook his head and quickly threw out the idea of completing the "standard act of self-immolation" out of his mind.

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