"Hey wait!"

"I said Wang Man, what do you mean?"

Tang Hairong's face looked a little ugly, and there was a bit of gunpowder in his voice.

"What do I mean?" Wang Man snorted coldly, "You should know more than anyone else how much resources your huge structure project consumes."

"Tell you the truth."

"At present, less than 10% of the basic metal resources in the fleet's inventory are left. If this continues, it won't take much time and all construction projects will have to be suspended!"

Wang Man's words surprised Tang Hairong!

"What?!"

Tang Hairong exclaimed in dismay.

"How can the consumption be so fast?!"

Seeing Tang Hairong's expression that was not fake, Wang Man's face gradually disappeared.

He sighed hard, shook his head and explained: "The Starship Factory consumes a huge amount of basic metal every day. You also know that all the starships in the fleet are waiting for renewal, and the speed of this consumption can be imagined."

As he said that, he raised his head, glanced at Tang Hairong's uncertain expression, and said again: "In addition, it's your side that the consumption of basic metal is second only to the Starship Factory."

"If the Starship Factory is really shut down due to the basic metal inventory problem, this responsibility is not something I can afford!"

Tang Hairong frowned and asked Wang Man with confusion: "What about the planetary resource exploration and mining project on your side? Is there something wrong with it?"

Wang Man rolled his eyes angrily at Tang Hairong's question.

"I said Lao Tang, are you pretending not to understand or really not to understand?"

"Which one does not need time for this ore mining, classification, and smelting?"

"What's more, even some resources for mining and smelting equipment need to be manufactured on-site."

"The computing power allocated to us is only a little bit, how can we keep up with such a terrifying resource consumption speed!"

As he spoke, Wang Man changed his mind and pointed his finger at Tang Hairong again.

"I said Lao Tang, is it important that your huge structure project can be updated with fleets?"

"or……"

Wang Manchao gave Tang Hairong a wink: "I owe you a favor, okay?"

"There is no one!" Tang Hairong's face changed suddenly when he heard this, "Old Wang, let alone one favor, even ten favors, I can't stop this project."

"You, it's better to take advantage of this time to think about how to quickly mine ore resources!"

Seeing Wang Man's face falling down in the instant, Tang Hairong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Old Wang, tell you the truth. The project on my side was ordered by Professor Lu himself."

"The importance is probably not much different from the Starship transformation."

"What?!" Wang Man couldn't help but be surprised and asked in a low voice, "What are you building? Didn't the expansion project of [Dyson Cloud] be completed long ago?"

"Is it the second phase project [Dyson Ring]?"

"Did Professor Lu take such a big step?"

"What a mess..." Tang Hairong waved his hand angrily, correcting Wang Man's statement, "It's a giant space ring residential station."

"Space...ring...residence station?"

Wang's eyes were full of confusion and said word by word: "What's this thing?"

"Isn't Kepler 452b designated as the residence of human civilization?"

"What should newborns do if the surface gravity is 2.03g?" Tang Hairong said bluntly, "The new generation who has not yet received an adult ceremony cannot withstand a 2g gravity environment!"

"Then... isn't there a space care center?" Wang Man's eyes were even more confused.

"The scale is too small, and the small internal space will have a bad impact on the mental health of the new generation." Tang Hairong spread his hands, "This is Professor Lu's original words. In order to make it happen once and for all, we were ordered to design a circular residential station."

As he said that, he reached out and dragged his hand over the holographic projection beside him and found a copy of model data.

"The entire ring residential station is located in the synchronous track of Kepler 452b, with a width of more than 100 kilometers."

“It is equipped with artificial gravity devices and various latest technological products.”

“The residence station is connected to the ground through twelve giant space elevators.”

"Lao Wang, look at how big the project is." Tang Hairong smiled bitterly, "The amount of basic metals is strictly calculated through zero, and there is no waste."

"And... Professor Lu said that in order to ensure the subsequent development of human civilization, the priority of the circular residential station project is second only to the starship replacement project."

The office suddenly fell into silence.

From Wang Man's changing face, you can see that his current mood is probably not much better!

After a long time, a long sigh came from the speaker.

"Why……"

"Old Tang, what should you do if you think this is done?"

Tang Hairong was silent for a moment and whispered tentatively: "Why... do you ask Professor Lu?"

...

【Earth】.

A small manned shuttle from afar drew a graceful arc and quietly docked next to the huge Earth.

【Authentication…】

[Identity verification is successful, welcome to come back, Academician Wang Man.]

As this line of bright white text appeared in front of Wang Man, the closed port gate slowly cracked a gap.

The gap is small, but enough to allow a small shuttle to pass.

Under the control of the on-board computer, the small shuttle smoothly passed through the port gate.

Outside the window, there is a directed holographic projection with green fluorescence.

The shuttle followed the holographic arrow and slowly drove into a small apron.

Looking at the familiar scene outside the porthole, Wang Man took a deep breath and calmed down his anxious mood.

"Academician Wang Man, Professor Lu is waiting for you in the office."

The electronic synthesizer of zero sounded inside the shuttle.

"Okay, I'll go now."

While speaking, the hatch door on the side of the shuttle is automatically opened.

With the help of the auxiliary device, he carefully got out of the hatch door and stepped on the extremely solid deck of the Earth.

"drop!"

“Electromagnetic adsorption has been switched successfully.”

A slightly stiff electronic prompt sound rang in the helmet.

Wang Man subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the port gate that was slowly closing, and his nervousness became even more intense.

In fact, at the beginning, he refused Tang Hairong's suggestion.

After all, there is a problem with the reserves of basic metal resources, and he, the person responsible for exploring and exploiting planetary resources, needs to bear great responsibility.

But seeing the gap getting bigger and bigger and unable to think of any solution, Wang Man could only follow Tang Hairong's advice and return to [Earth] with a tough bullet.

"hope……"

"Professor Lu, don't be too angry..."
Chapter completed!