Chu Jungui stood on the top of the mountain, watching a huge metal pillar slowly rise. This huge pillar, which is one thousand meters long and five meters in diameter, is erected on a small mountain peak one thousand meters above sea level. It is already close to the storm clouds. After it is fully erected, the top will be less than a hundred meters away from the storm clouds. Any Weather changes will cause it to insert directly into the storm clouds.
A small base has been built where the long metal poles are erected. Surrounding the base of the giant pillar are circles of energy storage cabinets, more than a thousand in number. Between the inner and outer circles of energy storage cabinets, several Thousands of double-leaf trees form a ring of woods from a distance.
The giant pillar finally stood up, and then the base was closed. After the last self-examination, Chu Jungui nodded, and a slight buzzer sounded from the base. The giant pillar slowly rose up, and then stood up for another ten meters before stopping.
Above the giant pillar, the storm clouds were uncharacteristically calm. After a long time, a thin bolt of lightning shot down and carefully struck the top of the giant pillar.
This thin lightning also caused the entire body of the giant pillar to be filled with electric fire. Then a large number of streamers of electric fire rushed into the base, dispersed along dozens of huge pipe cables with a thickness of half a meter, and poured into the surrounding energy storage cabinets. The energy storage cabinets in the first row were all bright in an instant, and then the double-leaf tree behind them suddenly stood tall, its leaves fully opened, and began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye. The energy storage cabinet in the rear row also started to light up, but the brightness was dimmer, only half of what it was when it was fully lit.
Chu Jungui raised his hand and pressed down, and the giant pillar dropped another 10 meters. A moment later, another thin bolt of lightning shot down, and all the energy storage cabinets were full.
After the energy storage cabinet was full, the giant pillar began to descend, and it continued to fall several hundred meters. There were no more thunder and lightning falling from the storm clouds. A large number of work beasts came forward at this time, dismantling the fully loaded energy storage cabinets one by one, and replacing them with new ones.
Now that the data has been summarized at Chu Jungui's place, just such an energy supply base is equivalent to 100 power furnaces running at full power. And this is just a test base. The number of energy storage cabinets is only one-tenth of the planned number. If it is operated at full power, just one energy supply base can support the energy needs of a city with a population of one million.
Taking energy directly from the storm clouds is indeed much more powerful than the indirect use of energy like a power furnace. But this is also because the giant thing that returned to the storm clouds is secretly taking care of it. Otherwise, if you directly penetrate the storm clouds, not to mention 5 meters, even metal pillars with a diameter of 50 meters can be instantly melted, and all man-made buildings on the ground can be restored. .
The giant column rose and fell. After going back and forth several times, the appropriate height was finally determined and fixed. Every 10 to 15 minutes, a bolt of lightning will shoot down from the storm clouds. The work beasts began to transplant more double-leaf trees outside the second circle of energy storage cabinets. These double-leaf trees absorb energy through energy cables, and their growth rate is dozens of times faster than normal. It usually takes more than ten days to harvest and refine Le Mans grains.
When the base is fully completed, there will be four circles of energy storage cabinets inside and outside, and more than one million double-leaf trees will be planted. And this is just a base.
Although energy has always been Chu Jungui's fundamental advantage, the sudden expansion made Chu Jungui a little uncomfortable. A base is nothing, but with the current production capacity of Light Years, an energy supply base can be built in a few days. If there are more such bases, there will be so much energy that even the soil refining can't be used up.
For a moment, even Chu Jungui didn't know how to squander this energy. There are only so many ways to consume energy for the time being, which is just like how a person wants to eat hundreds of millions, no matter how much he eats and drinks.
The new energy has not fundamentally changed the battle situation, because the enemies we face are too powerful. After these days of fighting, Chu Jungui discovered that there were several more Marine Corps numbers on the opposite side, and many equipment had been equipped with pendants that were more suitable for the environment of Planet 4.
Judging from the troop numbers alone, the number of marine troops deployed by the Federation to the planet has reached 300,000, and it is not ruled out that the number will continue to increase. As for the equipment modification, it is expected.
In the past, in the era of William's young generals, the main enemy they faced was the beast tide. At that time, the Federation did not have the motivation to develop equipment specifically for this planet, and it was not economically worthwhile. That's why the federal forces were defeated again and again in front of Chu Jungui, who had developed a series of localized equipment.
But now that the Federation has invested hundreds of thousands of ground troops, and has an entire fleet stationed in outer space, it will naturally develop special equipment for Planet 4. As batches of specialized equipment are developed and put into use, it is conceivable that Chu Jungui's equipment advantage will shrink rapidly and the battle will become increasingly difficult to fight.
Fortunately, Brother Dao is fat enough to grow fast as much as he eats, and he can still be cut for a long time.
Chu Jungui did not stay to see the finishing touches of the energy supply base and returned to the temporary base. More than a dozen Arks formed a circle, with the unfolded Federation landing ship in the center. This is now Lightyear's temporary base. Except for the three Arks used for fire support, the rest have been fully functional and turned into mobile factories. Fortunately, a large number of federal landing ships were captured, which gave Chu Jungui enough carrying capacity to transport most of the equipment and supplies from the front base.
Now it only takes half a day for this temporary base to re-enter mobile mode and then transfer in all-terrain mode at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
On one of the arks, there is also a complete set of war beast breeding equipment, which is the kind of equipment that Brother Dao used back then. This is another gift from the big guy in the storm clouds to Chu Jungui. But compared to drawing energy directly from the storm clouds, the significance of this gift is actually very limited.
Nowadays, human beings have actually developed to a very high level in life science and technology. For example, the training equipment used by Chu Jungui to make working beasts is not much less efficient than the war beast training equipment, and because he has completely mastered the principles, it can still be used Keep improving and feel free to scale. Therefore, the equipment that Brother Dao used at the beginning is actually of no use anymore, but it is another set of systems and principles, which has great reference significance. If you are in a dynasty or a federation, it will definitely be a treasure, because it is an important tool for studying the ideas of another civilization. But now Chu Jungui must first win this human civil war. Alien races and other things are too far away.
Chu Jungui's thoughts returned to the war itself, and began to spread. The war has been fought so far, and it can be said that it has achieved its original intention, which is equivalent to dragging two and a half front-line armies of the Federation on this small planet. Now that he has Xianli, Chu Jungui feels that he needs to think clearly about a problem, a problem that he has always been reluctant to think about.
Why is there a war and what does he want to gain from it.
