Chapter 520 New Mining Mode

If nothing is found, then resupply, and continue sailing after resupply. The human fleet is already very skilled in all the processes involved in interstellar navigation.

After Xiao Hui was created, the fleet's resupply speed was obviously much faster than before. Even if the fleet now has 50 million more Red Flame Civilization spaceships, the total resupply speed is still faster than before.

Just like in the resupply operation in this star system, after arriving and detecting the rocky planets in it, humans directly issued mining instructions to Xiao Hui.

One hundred and eighty million ships successfully parked in the planet's orbit. At the same time, Xiao Hui, who received the order, autonomously controlled hundreds of ships to slowly leave the fleet and lower the orbit.

Xiao Hui's body consciousness was on the initial group of nanorobots, carried by a ship, and the other ships were all extensions of Xiao Hui's body, also loaded on the ship.

The sea-class ship is large, but a planet is even larger. It is actually difficult to mine efficiently with only Xiao Hui's nanorobots. Therefore, humans have made an extension connection for her and created a large number of nanorobots for her to drive.

Due to the limitation of computing power, Xiao Hui cannot control an infinite number of nanorobots. However, with the nanorobots controlled by her current computing power, she can barely cover a planet the size of the Earth.

After hundreds of spaceships arrived at the planet's orbit, the hatch on the spaceship opened, and then countless gray nanorobots swarmed out like locusts, and then descended and rushed to the target planet.

Even if you look at this scene from the perspective of the fleet from space, there is a feeling of covering the sky and the sun. When Xiao Hui entered the interior of the planet, clouds seemed to appear on the planet that originally had no atmosphere, instantly covering the entire sky, making the side of the planet facing the sun dark.

The sky was dark in an instant.

A large number of nanorobots formed a sea of ​​clouds above the sky on the planet. Such global coverage instantly raised the brightness of the planet by several levels. It was the reflected light of distant stars shining on the nanorobots, which seemed to cover the planet with a bright gray coat.

Then the gray clouds surged and swept down like the ground, and countless nanorobots formed a series of gray tornadoes, one end in the sky and the other end connected to the ground.

Soon, all the cloud-like nanorobots arrived on the ground, coating the entire planet with a gray shell.

The detection of the distribution of mineral deposits on the planet had been completed before Xiao Hui went out to mine, so after arriving on the surface of the planet, Xiao Hui did not need to detect resource points again. She directly controlled groups of nanorobots, which continued to gather at the target point like a plague of locusts.

Xiao Hui's first real mining operation began.

The parts that made up her body began to dig mines on the surface of the planet under the control of her main consciousness, and then decomposed various metal materials on the surface or buried deep underground, and transported them to the designated location bit by bit.

Only a few days later, a touch of metallic luster appeared at the designated location. The engineers who observed the mining process throughout the process knew that the mine was out.

Just like the silver mist that humans encountered back then, Xiao Hui dug out all the mineral deposits on the planet that existed in the form of compounds, and classified and piled them on the surface of the planet. I believe that soon, people will be able to see mountains of gold, silver, copper, and iron.

"I didn't expect that this way of mining was really realized by us!"

Looking at the various metal mountains that gradually appeared, an engineer sighed. He was a beginner in engineering design back then, but now he is an important figure in engineering.

"Yes! At the beginning, we were thinking that when we had the ability, we would go back to Ross 154-4 to move the metals away!" An expert in mineral resources was also deeply touched, "The technology that we dared not think of back then was really realized by us. It seems like a dream to think about it."

"If we had this technology at the time, we would not be so embarrassed by the silver mist, and those soldiers and personnel would not have been sacrificed. After all, our human civilization was still too young at the time, and we thought too well of this universe."

Listening to the sighs of the experts in mineral resources, the others who watched Xiao Hui's mining operations were also silent in their hearts.

In fact, seeing the scene of Xiao Hui mining, most people who have experienced the Silver Mist incident have been reminded of that terrifying memory. The oppressive feeling that covered the sky and the feeling of helplessness are still fresh in their memory.

In the command center, seeing that everyone seemed to be immersed in the memory of Silver Mist, an engineer casually said: "I don't know what happened to Silver Mist now, whether it is still in that star field."

"Why, do you still want to seek revenge on it?" A new generation glanced at him.

"Of course, my best friend died there. Unfortunately, now that we have the ability to take revenge, we dare not return to that star field to look for it."

"There will be a chance."

"Yeah!"

While everyone was talking, Xiao Hui, who had already dug several small mountains of minerals, sent a message: "Hey! Family, the resources are piled up like a mountain, don't just look at them, come and get some transport ships to help transport them away."

Her voice rang out in each engineering ship, and her image also appeared in the form of a projection, looking like a two-dimensional girl, quite cute.

"It's moving, it's moving!" the engineering department staff replied.

As the words said, when Xiao Hui sent back the communication, the transport ship of the resource management department had already flown to the metal mountains. After they arrived near the metal mountains, engineering robots and various engineering equipment came out one after another, loaded the materials on board, transported them to the space elevator, and sent them into space.

These resources will be transported to various related production workshops of the fleet, processed into various products, and provide supplies to all aspects of the fleet.

The human fleet is not only human beings themselves, but also the largest number of people from the Red Flame Civilization. Moreover, since everyone's life span has been greatly improved, most people do not hibernate during interstellar navigation, so resource consumption is much greater than before.

Basically, when sailing from one star to the next, you have to replenish. If you want to stop and explore the star system while crossing two stars continuously, you have to start the great hibernation.

The fleet is very large. The total human population alone has exceeded the Earth era, not to mention the lives of several other races. Therefore, although the mining efficiency of humans has increased by dozens of times, it still took almost half a year to complete the replenishment.

After completing the replenishment, the human fleet set sail again, this time with the goal of a star system 21.7 light years away, a single star system. This was chosen as the navigation target because most scientists believed that the environment of a single star system was more likely to produce civilization.