As the Swan went away, Li Ruobai came to Chu Jungui and asked, "You... don't miss her at all?"
"Of course I do." Chu Jungui did not hesitate.
Li Ruobai never expected that Chu Jungui would be so straightforward. He looked at him doubtfully. If he hadn't been wearing a battle armor, he would have wanted to reach out and feel if Chu Jungui had a fever.
"What do you miss about her?" Li Ruobai asked enthusiastically.
Li Ruobai originally didn't expect Chu Jungui to answer, but he didn't expect Chu Jungui to answer seriously: "I will think a lot."
"For example?"
Li Xinyi next to her was originally busy, but then the movements of her hands suddenly slowed down.
Chu Jungui said: "I used to think that there are 61 damages on the outer wall of the starship that need to be repaired; the internal pipelines need to be strengthened; the missing secondary guns need to be installed; whether our homemade space torpedoes can match the standard launch boxes..."
Chu Jungui listed more than a dozen items at once, and Li Ruobai said helplessly: "Are you thinking about Sister Xi? I think you are thinking about the Swan!"
"Is there no difference?" Chu Jungui was confused.
Li Ruobai gave up completely and went to work on his own. Anyway, the list of tasks assigned to him by Chu Jungui would never be completed.
This time Lin Xi brought 70 empty energy capsules. While looting the beam cannon, she also moved some energy capsules back from the nearby warehouse.
In the eyes of the Ninth Fleet, neither the beam cannon nor the energy capsule had any value, so Lin Xi just took it.
It would take more than ten days for the 70 empty energy cabins to be filled with energy. Chu Jungui felt that this time was too long. Anyway, the materials and energy were enough now, so he waved his hand and added a full power furnace to the orbital station. In this way, 10 energy capsules can be filled in a single day, which is a satisfactory speed.
After arranging the follow-up work of the space station, Chu Jungui returned to Base 2 and continued to supervise the construction of two Type 2 Arks. Three days later, a new Type 2 Ark was added to the process of sorting out the mountainous terrain, and the efficiency immediately increased greatly. The abundant supply of raw materials and supplies made Chu Jungui become ambitious. Now he can add a new ark every three days, and with the increase of arks, the construction speed can be accelerated.
Chu Jungui built four Type 2 Arks in one go, and sent three of them in the direction of the mountainous area. Then he personally drove the last Type 2 Ark, preparing to open the passage to the Shadow of Doom.
The two bases are hundreds of kilometers apart, and the terrain is rugged and complex, with ups and downs of more than 400 meters.
Chu Jungui placed the girl and Li Ruobai at Base No. 2 to guard them, and he led an Ark and more than a hundred heavy-duty trucks out of the base. There were also 100 chariots accompanying them. They were not to protect the ark, but to protect the transport convoy.
The huge car body of New Ark slowly drove out of the base like a hill. Chu Jungui was sitting in the cockpit, his consciousness already connected with Ark's main brain.
At this moment, Ark seemed to have become a part of Chu Jungui's body. It was huge but light. Chu Jungui could feel its surging power. As long as needed, he could take off from the ground and fly short distances at any time.
Not long after driving out of the base, there was a forest ahead. This forest is about ten kilometers long. In the past, it was necessary to go around it, but this time Chu Jungui did not take a detour, but chose a straight line.
The huge harvesting machine in front of the Ark began to roar. The huge and sharp reamer cut off the double-leaf trees mercilessly, and then sent them along the pipe to the crushing chamber, where the large trunks and leaves were crushed and separated. , and then after a cleaning process, it is sent to the organic matter separator and turned into organic raw materials.
The Ark advanced slowly but continuously, and soon opened a channel dozens of meters wide in the forest. Behind the Ark were several large construction vehicles, which were responsible for digging out tree roots from the ground and then backfilling and compacting the ground.
Not long after driving into the forest, Chu Jungui felt that the ground had become soft, and the Ark would leave deep grooves when it pressed over. The construction vehicles at the rear needed to deal with these ditches, so the progress slowed down. However, the Ark's propulsion speed is still seven or eight kilometers, which is completely acceptable.
Two hours later, Chu Jungui's eyes suddenly lit up, and a stretch of gentle rolling hills appeared. The forest has been cleared.
The Ark slowly drove towards a low hill, and then the harvester lifted up, and four boring drill bits converged on the front of the vehicle. As the roar sounded, the excavation drill bit rushed into the ground, crushing everything and sucking it in. Then it was simply separated and cleaned in the body, and then sent to the refining furnace.
In the blink of an eye, all the refining furnaces were operating at full capacity, and the excavation speed of Ark far exceeded the refining speed of the self-contained refining furnace. The unused soil will be thrown under the car, and after being initially pressed by the huge tires, the subsequent engineering vehicles will perform the final smoothing operation.
A heavy-duty truck accelerated past the construction vehicle and drove under the ark. The hatch at the bottom of the ark opened, and several booms hung down, sucking the carrier into the vehicle and half-lifting it into the ark. Then the metal blocks were pressed into standard cubic meters one by one and dropped into the carriage, stacked neatly.
These metal blocks have just been refined and are still hot. In the blink of an eye the truck was loaded and lowered to the ground.
Another truck arrived, this time carrying chunks of inorganic material.
In this way, heavy-duty trucks lined up in a long line to receive raw materials from the Ark. When 50 trucks were filled, these transport trucks returned to the base first under the protection of chariots. In this way, the transport fleet is divided into two waves, and the efficiency is improved accordingly.
When the first batch of transport trucks left, Ark had already crossed the first hill, leaving a road more than ten meters deep behind them. Looking from a distance, the hill looks like it has been struck by a giant with an axe.
After crossing the hill, you officially enter the hilly area. Chu Jungui had already planned the route. He only needed to avoid the most difficult rock hills and then dig out a passage between the last two mountains, which would be the most difficult part of the first half of the journey.
Between two peaks more than 400 meters high, Chu Jungui had to dig three times and dig down 20 meters of the ground to create a road with a suitable slope. After all, the anti-gravity engines of the trucks will not be as abnormal as those of the Ark. They still need to keep the slope within a certain range in order to pass quickly.
Chu Jungui was very patient and drove the Ark to open up the road again and again. He had endless patience, and it was already dark until the passage between the two mountains was completely opened.
Chu Jungui checked the time and found that a whole day had passed before he knew it. We were now more than 80 kilometers away from Base No. 2, and there were still about 300 kilometers to go. However, there was no terrain that was too difficult to deal with. , the progress can be greatly accelerated.
Just like that, 30 hours later, the Ark appeared in front of the gate of the Shadow of Doom. Behind it, there is an extra wide avenue.
