Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Showcasing Human Dignity!
“Are you considering the issue of Planet No.3?” Dong Gong, upon hearing this, immediately understood.
“Exactly,” Shen Hao did not deny, “Besides, we will inevitably come into contact with other civilizations sooner or later, and a space shuttle is indispensable. Even in this massive construction we are undertaking, there is a transportation requirement. Moreover, having such a shuttle could, when necessary, provide temporary refuge in space for some people who couldn’t reach the Underground City, which is somewhat safer than entering the Pocket World Blessed Land.”
The most important feature of the current spacecraft is not its weapon capability.
But precisely its transport ability.
The Global United Front had already conducted a general reconnaissance of Planet No.3’s situation and also performed some calculations and summaries of what they could achieve.
In essence, whether it is about absorbing this civilization or conquering it, the biggest issue lies in transportation.
Whatever you want to do to the civilization on Planet No.3, you always need to send people, even transport supplies.
There is plenty of food, but transportation is difficult, even attracting the stronger individuals and elites from within that civilization requires substantial space transportation capabilities.
And indeed, for this Trial, they themselves need extremely powerful transport capabilities, even to say unapologetically, transportation is the lifeline of the massive construction, a crucial logistic in this campaign.
In such a situation, rather than spending a large number of points buying a space shuttle, it’s better to buy more powerful planetary transport ships.
Materials, food, equipment, population—none can do without transportation.
Should an incident like Japan happen again, sufficient transport capability could also significantly reduce sacrifices.
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Therefore, the civilization on Planet No.3 has issued a call for help for five or six days, but there has still been no change.
Now, a new round of blizzards is setting in, and the civilization on this planet might just be wiped out.
However, the Level 18 Mall undoubtedly brings new possibilities!
Upon receiving Shen Hao’s directive, a group of mechanics and aerospace experts were quickly assembled.
These experts were also very excited.
They had found this alien spaceship three months ago and had been researching it ever since, becoming very familiar with it.
“President,” one of the experts, also a Chosen One like Shen Hao, named Dong Changgeng, who was in charge of this project, said excitedly to Shen Hao, “Based on our current research findings, this spaceship that appeared in the seabed, its original crash site was also supposed to be in the sea, and thanks to the special outer armor, the damage was actually minimal, only the engines seemed to have a malfunction before the crash.”
At this moment, this group was in a special transportation device headed to the deep sea.
“What is the extent of the malfunction?” Shen Hao asked.
“This spaceship has a total of twelve engines, four of which are anti-gravity engines, two of them are severely damaged, with damage ranging from twenty to seventy percent. The other jet engines have all dissolved to varying degrees, but their core structures are still intact. We have also been trying to repair them during this period…”
Shen Hao listened to the report while looking at the data.
Such a huge spaceship being immobile is indeed a great pity.
Especially since its other structures were basically well-preserved.
For instance, the ecological recycling system, planting system, production system, artificial gravity…
This is a spaceship that can accommodate over 2.8 million people for space migration!
The transport ship moved quickly, and it was only minutes later that they arrived at the location of the ship.
From a distance, it was indeed a massive object.
The entire body was ellipsoid, twelve kilometers long, two kilometers wide and high, divided into sixteen levels, each level several tens of meters tall.
In fact, if it were only for short-term transport, not considering long-term survival, it could accommodate more than twenty million people! Even higher!
It was just a matter of squeezing in.
The weight of life itself really isn’t much.
“We haven’t found many weapon systems; this seems to be a civilian immigration ship. The original users were humanoid creatures with an average height of about two meters and thirty centimeters,” Dong Changgeng reported up to this point, paused for a moment, then suddenly diverged, “Humanoid appears to be a shape that is easily evolved in the natural evolution of life, particularly for carbon-based life. The people on Planet No.3 are, so is this ship, and so are the other alien relics, Pocket World Blessed Lands we discovered before, with only a very few having significantly different body types.”
This is indeed the case; the so-called humanoid simply refers to having a head, torso, and limbs like humans.
In fact, even without considering aliens, by these standards, a considerable number of animals on their Mother Planet are the same.
“The worlds may differ, but life itself is highly similar,” Shen Hao remarked.
At this moment, they also entered the spaceship through an opening in the lower right corner.
The entire spaceship’s energy was nuclear fusion, already replenished, the energy was quite abundant, the lighting bright, and the air had been adjusted, suitable for human survival, and even very healthy and fresh.
However, Shen Hao did not delay to observe too much and went straight into the cockpit, then pulled out the automatic maintenance AI from the system mall.
“Connecting, detecting unknown civilization language and programs.”
“Access confirmed, decrypting,”
“Decryption successful, assessing damage.”
“Engine damaged, hull damaged, power cycle damaged, unable to retrieve star map.”
“Determining repair plan.”
“Repair plan determined, requires at least the following materials.”
“Basic Automatic Repair Machine 14,473 units, Anti-gravity Engine Automatic Maintenance Equipment 1,422 units, H-34 alloy 132 tons, Gravity Engine M-2 Replacement Parts WE-33…”
“…”
“Estimated fastest repair time: 125 hours 12 minutes.”
Shen Hao looked at the series of reports on the AI and couldn’t help but smile, and those behind him even began to cheer.
It can be fixed!
These raw materials could all be purchased from the system mall, or at least substitutes could be found.
After all, this spaceship was only Level 13, at most considered a Purple Quality Level 13 spaceship.
With Level 18 White technology, it was sufficient for the repairs.
“Five days isn’t very long.”
Shen Hao immediately began making purchases. Large quantities of automatic repair machinery, materials, and components were placed inside the spaceship, and then he handed over partial control of the AI to Dong Changgeng and the others.
“I’ll leave this to you. Contact me immediately if there are any problems.”
“Yes!” Dong Changgeng responded loudly, clearly very excited.
This was undoubtedly an important project, especially for an aviation expert like him. Being able to witness such a massive spacecraft being repaired, and even taking off, was something unimaginable in the past!
Without a doubt, they would voraciously absorb knowledge from a new domain during this process!
Meanwhile, Shen Hao, on his way back, also directly contacted a related meeting of the Global United Front.
“Confirmed, the spaceship can be repaired within five days,” Shen Hao said to those who had been waiting here, “Ships purchasable within Level 18 can arrive at Planet No.3 in about three days. Start pushing plans now.”
This meeting wasn’t as large as previous ones, but indeed it focused seriously on matters related to Planet No.3.
Some objectives were already decided.
That is, to absorb as much benefit from that civilization as possible, to increase their civilization’s strength as swiftly as could be managed.
Erin Ellie also attended this meeting. Compared to humans, they had experience in handling such contacts.
“In the Civilization Trial, relations between civilizations are cruel yet real; everything revolves around benefits, particularly as we will constantly face Civilization Trials in the future. Relationships must be stable and strong, binding both benefits and destinies tightly together,” Erin, an Angel majoring in the Path of Life, spoke in a harsh tone, “My advice is to use this trial to establish a master-servant relationship, sign stringent treaties, show them little kindness at the start, turn it into a cold transaction, even applying suppression—deeply bind the subsequent benefits and establish sufficient authority. Then, you may start to show favor, bridging emotions…”
Erin and her colleagues had also restored their strength to Level 16.
They were second only to Shen Hao in the entire Human Civilization.
After all, Legendary Contracted could increase their strength very quickly, without counting resource consumption.
Thus, they regained quite a few memories.
In the meeting, she described several past examples of their civilization.
Their civilization had similarly absorbed many species that had perished in the Civilization Trials, integrating them into their own civilization, some of which were extremely powerful. Yet, in the last Trial, when their entire civilization fell into crisis, there were still some integrated species that revolted.
Of course, some had stood with their civilization from the beginning to the end, perishing together.
Needless to say, these experiences were incredibly valuable for the present Human Civilization.
After all, in the complex environment of the Civilization Trials, facing civilizations from different universes, humans indeed lacked such experience.
During the meeting, a plan was quickly established.
They decided to send a new mission!
“Yang Jun, this mission is yours to command,” Shen Hao personally gave the order to Yang Jun, “You understand the core of the mission, right?”
“Yes!” Yang Jun responded loudly, “To raise our nation’s prestige!”
“Wrong,” Shen Hao said with a slight smile, “it is to demonstrate the majesty of Human Civilization, though, it’s pretty much the same, I will also leave a part of my consciousness and power with you.”