Chapter 188 The Water Surface Is Rippling
S-01888 star system,
Far Journey.
On the upper floor of the palace, in the hall outside the master bedroom.
After leaving the "Earth Home" space station, Li Meng did not return to the S-01888 star system with the fleet.
Instead, he directly shuttled through the subspace and returned to the S-01888 star system first.
It has been only half a day since he left the S-01909 star system.
Ralph's actions were not that fast, so Li Meng was not in a hurry to go back.
"King!"
The water surface was rippling, and the space above the water surface was twisting.
The strange purple-red energy suddenly emerged and formed a vortex.
From the crack in the subspace, Li Meng walked out in a golden robe.
As he left the subspace, the subspace crack behind him collapsed rapidly and disappeared.
Irene and Ellie were no longer surprised by this scene.
They were sitting by the pool in a daze, bored.
The sudden appearance of the strange phenomenon caught their attention.
When they turned their heads, they saw the "king" coming out of the subspace crack.
Ellie and Irene quickly stood up and greeted him.
When they came to Li Meng, the two women slightly turned sideways and lowered their heads and shouted in unison.
Looking into the hall, Li Meng asked, "Is Irina back again?"
Hearing this, Ellie and Irene looked at each other.
Ellie even pouted slightly and said, "Well, mother is back."
Looking at Ellie and then at Irene, Li Meng smiled.
Coming to the glass wall, Li Meng looked at Ark 1 and Temple in the starry sky outside.
"It seems that Madam Irina really likes her eldest daughter..."
Hearing the "king" say this, Ellie pouted slightly, and wanted to say something but was stopped by Irene.
Turning to look at Ellie and Irene who were pulling and making small movements, Li Meng said: "Let your mother come back, and call Odysseus as well."
Hearing this, Ellie and Irene quickly took a step back, then turned around and left in a hurry.
After taking a look at the backs of Ellie and Irene leaving, Li Meng looked at 001 by the pool again.
"001, contact Donald, the great sage of science and technology, and ask him to come to see me immediately..."
Turning around and looking at the starry sky outside the glass wall, Li Meng's face looked thoughtful.
There are too many things happening recently.
The Blue Demon Scourge mission, the alien civilization "Ghost Clan", and the star zone channel were also subtly opened at this time.
The events that happened one by one seemed to be connected by a certain thread, and one hair moved the whole body.
In order to protect the foundation of the new empire, he had to do some seemingly redundant things.
Mrs. Irina did not let Li Meng wait for long.
After a while, the three people summoned by Li Meng coincidentally entered the hall together.
The golden door slowly opened, and three people walked in one after another.
Odysseus and Donald stopped in front of the pool.
And Mrs. Irina walked around the side of the pool and came to Li Meng's side.
She didn't say much, lowered her head slightly, and stood sideways not far away.
Standing by the pool, Li Meng looked at the three people.
"A lot of things have happened recently. The S-01888 star system is no longer a safe place. There is no real shelter in the S star area. Odysseus, Ark No. 1 has to move to a new place. Drive it to the dark star field, the farther the better."
The so-called dark star field refers to the blank star field between star systems.
It is far away from the stars, dark and dead.
Hiding in the dark star field is not absolutely safe, but at least it is much safer than being in the star system.
Hearing this, Odysseus' eyes flashed with doubt.
Did something happen to make the "king" so cautious?
In Odyss's view, the new empire is like a speck of dust compared to the empire of the old era.
But it still has the ability to protect itself.
After all, the universe is huge, and many alien civilizations will choose to wander in the starry sky to avoid the enemy's pursuit when their race is in danger.
The old empire encountered many such civilizations on the road to ruling the Milky Way.
In order to completely eliminate those wandering civilizations that cruise the starry sky like pirates, the empire often needs hundreds or even thousands of years.
And the most representative wandering civilization is the "Eldar".
This race has a longer history than the empire, and they have a very tragic history.
The evil god Slaanesh in the subspace was really born because of this civilization.
As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the existence of the Eldar can be said to run through the entire history of the old empire.
In the end, they even changed from enemies to allies, although they were only a small branch of the Eldar.
Odyss lowered his head slightly and asked, "King, once you leave the star system, how to obtain resources will become a big problem."
In response to Odyss's question, Li Meng looked at Donald.
"Donald, how is the construction of the engineering ship, transport ship, and mining barge going?"
Li Meng is still looking forward to these three new ships designed by the Mechanicus.
Once these two new ships are launched, resources can be obtained from more distant star systems.
Expansionary engineering construction will also be much easier.
Donald lowered his head slightly, and a hoarse, mechanical voice sounded from his hood.
"The first batch of industrial ships totals 12 ships, which are being completed one after another and can be launched one after another within half a year."
Calculating the time, it has been nearly a year since he asked Donald for industrial ships.
From design to online manufacturing, and finally to the launch of new ships, it takes time.
This is a large ship of nearly two kilometers, and the materials required are countless.
With the time-space gate, one year can be used as ten years.
Building twelve large ships in ten years, fast, fast, but not fast.
If the industrial base in the time-space gate can reach saturation with slave labor population.
If there is an adequate supply of mineral resources, with the production scale of the industrial base, there is no problem with fifty ships a year.
But the more ships, the better.
It is not enough to have ships alone, but there must be people.
The Empire's ships require a lot of manpower to operate, and what the new Empire lacks most right now is population.
On a ship, there must be not only civilian crew members, but also a large number of slaves to do the hard labor at the grassroots level.
Take the "Cobra Destroyer" for example, at least 10,000 to 30,000 people are needed to operate it.
Only in this way can the combat capability of the "Cobra Destroyer" be fully utilized.
But does the Empire have so many people?
Of course not. At present, each ship on the Empire's warships has only about 3,000 crew members, including slaves.
This greatly reduces the combat capability of the Empire's warships.
Li Meng thought about increasing the automation of the Empire's warships, but was dissuaded by Donald.
Considering that those things in the subspace seem to still exist, Li Meng gave up.
Yes, the demons in the subspace still exist.
When he just became a living saint, the subspace gave Li Meng a feeling of calmness.