Chapter 228: Slingshot! So Close yet so Far Away! Strategic-Level Megastructure!

‘I hope the template I get this time is a powerful production and construction megastructure, a powerful giant ship, or ‘Heavenly Flood’. ’

Leon thought to himself that the colonies and resource areas he got from the Reaper civilization still had a lot of barren star fields.

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If you can get “Heavenly Flood”, then using water to irrigate some planets, transform some planets to cultivate some genetic monsters, take them out for trading, or use them for power generation are all good choices.

After all, it is a giant enterprise in the universe. Fighting and killing are just means. Usually, you can barely make a living by buying and selling some giant beasts, high-tech weapons, and doing some cosmic triangular trade.

However, Leon is not picky. Even if he can’t unlock some construction megastructures, he can accept some weapon megastructures.

But no matter what kind of megastructure it is, it must be a good thing for Leon. It depends on how to use it.

[The fifth stage of the universe giant enterprise-quantity slingshot can be unlocked. The current enterprise currency value of the host is insufficient, and the template cannot be unlocked. 】

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As the template megastructure of the new stage was updated, Li Ang was stunned on the spot. The megastructure that was refreshed this time was indeed beyond his expectations!

‘Is this thing refreshed? ! ’

Li Ang was surprised and happy. This thing is more technical than the giant ship and the construction megastructure. It is a strategic-level megastructure equipment.

Unlike giant ships like [War Moon], the quantum slingshot cannot cause any damage to enemy units.

Also unlike the production megastructure like [Matter Decompressor], the quantum slingshot cannot produce any valuable minerals.

Its function is very simple, that is, to launch things.

Yes, it means literally!

The so-called quantum slingshot is actually a specific transmission device built on a neutron star or pulsar.

The megastructure can use the energy of neutron stars or pulsars to distort the spatial texture and throw a huge fleet array into the specified coordinate system space.

And the distance of the ejection is also quite far, basically in "light years"!

In the blink of an eye, they traveled thousands of light years to another galaxy, which was more amazing than any space jump technology.

For Leon's Infinity-class warship, a space jump can only reach a distance of a few light years at most, and it has to be recharged once the jump is completed.

But the quantum slingshot can reach an astonishing distance of thousands of light years, or even tens of thousands of light years!

Condensing the energy of the neutron star into "pulling force", the fleet's "stone" is thrown out.

Such a creative way of interstellar crossing is definitely not a "miracle" that a level 2 or 3 civilization can do!

The ultra-long distance that isolates countless civilizations is only within reach. Such a magical megastructure can already lead giant companies to the edge of the threshold of advanced civilization.

You know, even the pioneer civilization in "Pacific Rim" that has reached level 2.6 can only achieve long-distance crossing by "lottery" with the wormhole device.

And the units that can pass through at one time are extremely limited, and it is not enough to teleport a few more Kaiju beasts.

If you rely on the pioneer's wormhole to teleport the fleet and deploy military forces to the enemy area, you can teleport little by little.

Last time Morgan Blackhand led the fleet of the giant enterprise, he relied on entering only a few ships and fighters at a time to stabilize the surrounding situation first, and then waited for the troops behind to arrive in an orderly manner.

If you encounter an enemy force that takes precautions in advance, doing so will completely expose your weaknesses to the enemy.

It would be strange if you are not attacked halfway!

But with the slingshot, the situation is different.

"Leading a teleportation TP at the beginning, you can directly go around and steal the home in the interstellar war in the future!"

Thinking of this, Li Ang was immediately happy.

As a shrewd and excellent executive of the Universal Giant Enterprise, he is not only good at the operation and development of the giant enterprise.

He is also very proficient in the deployment of military operations. How can we end the state of war as soon as possible and win the war with a complete victory?

That is of course a decapitation operation!

Back then, Li Yunlong used three shells to wipe out the Sakata Brigade in one pot and led the troops to successfully break through the siege.

Today, Li Ang used the quantum slingshot to airdrop a hundred Infinity-class coalition ships, backstab and attack the heretic's home, and beheading was a success!

Obviously, the quantum slingshot can not only be used as a launcher for the giant enterprise troops, providing the fleet with an extremely broad strategic depth and a super-long-distance cosmic version of blitzkrieg.

It can also enhance the response capabilities of the Universal Giant Enterprise in various galaxy regions. Wherever there is a rebel rebellion, the news can be reported in the last second, and the army can be reorganized to arrive in the area to quell the rebellion in the next second!

With the quantum slingshot, you can behead the enemy forces, attack the enemy's weak areas, or key defense areas.

Retreat can maintain the sphere of influence of the giant enterprise to a great extent, so that the military threat of the Universal Giant Enterprise is evenly distributed in various galaxies!

"Comfortable...!"

Li Ang smiled contentedly.

However, such a powerful teleportation megastructure also has some minor flaws.

That is, when it ejects the transmission unit, it is not absolutely accurate, and it cannot reach the designated area 100% like a star gate or wormhole device.

Instead, there will be some unavoidable deviations.

This deviation value is probably within the range of several light years.

However, this error value is not a big problem for the giant enterprise fleet with space jump technology.

Now the fleets of the Universal Enterprise can basically be equipped with superluminal engines and gallop freely. The error of several light years does not delay their execution of decapitation operations.

Taking all factors into consideration, the functions and characteristics of the slingshot are quite obvious.

It can support large-scale fleet units, complete hyperspace jumps, and respond to commands quickly and have a large one-time throughput.

This thing is a big bug in the military field.

At this moment, Li Ang has already imagined such a scenario in his mind.

The Universal Enterprise went to war with an alien civilization, and Li Ang needed to take the initiative to march to the battlefield and fight a single battle with the opponent.

But the alien old cunning who did not talk about martial ethics arranged an antimatter cloud barrier halfway in advance, ready to use this "minefield" to destroy the fleet of the enterprise.

However, the more insidious enterprise fleet directly used the slingshot to press TP to teleport to the enemy's home, and won the battle by stealing the home.

Before the front troops started the battle, their own crystal base was flattened. Who can bear this? !

If it were Li Ang, he would have already voted 15, and this battle would be impossible to fight!

But now, the one who is about to take down this strategic-level megastructure is him, the Universal Corporation.

"It would be great if we could build a few more of these things. In the future, there will definitely be more and more of them incorporated into the galaxy map of the Corporation. I always feel uneasy without the quantum slingshot."

Li Ang said thoughtfully.

Once this quantum slingshot megastructure is exchanged, it will definitely be used in the 003 "Edge of Tomorrow" universe, or in the subsequent universe of the heavens.

In order to facilitate the stability of the territory, the territory of the Universal Corporation needs more quantum slingshots!

Immediately, Li Ang looked at the resources required to build the quantum slingshot. As expected, the construction materials and resources of this megastructure are also astronomical figures.

The resources required to build a quantum slingshot are almost comparable to the war moon and a scientific hub!

First of all, the first step in building a quantum slingshot megastructure is the most critical, that is, to choose a suitable neutron star or pulsar.

The selected neutron stars or pulsars are basically the debris produced when large material stars explode into supernovas after rapid collapse.

The properties of this material are quite magical. The diameter of a neutron star is only about ten kilometers, but its mass is larger than that of many stars.

It is the essence of concentration!

Therefore, the high-intensity energy released by neutron stars also brings the possibility of artificial fixed-point wormholes to human civilization.

For example, the pioneer civilization in "Pacific Rim", the galaxy where their parent star Anti is located, the stable natural wormhole may be transformed from a neutron star.

The extremely high density and extremely strong hardness of a neutron star come from its own gravitational field, which is its main source of power to resist gravitational collapse.

It is precisely because of this that the gravitational waves and extremely strong radiation emitted by neutron stars will distort the surrounding space structure.

This will cause the ship to sail at sub-light speed. When passing through this area, there will be a significant decrease in speed and various dangerous situations such as instrument failure!

The most terrible thing is that the outer shield of the fleet of the Universal Giant Enterprise is basically maintained by the interactive deflector device. Once the device fails, the ship without the shield is easily destroyed.

Therefore, the fleet responsible for building the slingshot needs a strong outer shell material as protection, otherwise it is easy to cause a big accident.

And the high-strength materials that can resist the interference of neutron stars and enable the construction ships of the giant enterprise to complete the construction of the project must be steel-resistant materials at the minimum requirement.

"I didn't expect that the engineering ship that built the slingshot megastructure alone would require such "expensive" forging materials!"

When Li Ang saw the minimum required materials for building the megastructure on the system interface, he couldn't help but sigh.

At present, the most commonly used construction material of the Universal Giant Enterprise is carbon nanomaterials that are a hundred times harder than ordinary steel.

But carbon nanomaterials are still too thin to be used on ships, and the strength is not enough to support ships in daily combat operations.

Therefore, the strong metal alloy that the giant enterprise can currently forge and use is resistant steel material, which is a high-strength alloy made of vanadium, lomite, carbon, milinium, neutronium and zirconium.

It can withstand extreme heat, severe cold and huge pressure.

For example, the construction material of the scientific hub can be built with this resistant steel.

Of course, the difficulty of forging this material and the amount of mining of various raw materials are also relatively rare.

It is more difficult for the current world giant enterprise to assemble on a large scale.

Because the consumption of building military ships and maintaining various megastructures alone accounts for more than 60% of resistant steel materials.

To build an engineering ship for building a mass slingshot by yourself, you can only deduct it from the warship!

If there is no construction material provided by the system, it depends on the mining team of the giant enterprise to collect minerals and let the factory forge resistant steel.

Finally, this batch of resistant steel materials will be made into an engineering ship for building a mass slingshot megastructure, which will take at least five or six years!

This is just the first step, not including the subsequent megastructure construction. If the entire construction period is calculated, it will take at least 20 years.

Li Ang doesn't have that much time to wait for 20 years for a megastructure to be completed!

'Even ordinary resistant steel materials are so difficult to make, let alone making neutron armor and dragon scale armor... I'm so angry! '

When he thought that giant companies were still unable to achieve material freedom and create harder materials, Li Ang suddenly felt that he had a heavy responsibility.

He has to continue to speed up the development pace of giant companies!

Immediately afterwards, Li Ang looked at the subsequent construction process of the [Quantum Slingshot] giant structure.

After getting the most basic engineering ship, all that's left to do is to build a very large lens array.

This is a cage-like torsion lens that condenses the energy surrounding a neutron star. The array can extract the energy of the neutron star by torsion.

Finally, this energy is used to form a stable parabola, throwing the teleportation unit away, and realizing the journey across the long and distant interstellar space!

This is another incredibly difficult engineering technology, and the subsequent construction is basically perfected around the "torsion lens".

The principle and construction of the [Quantum Slingshot] giant structure are basically these processes. To say how difficult it is to build, it is not that high.

After Li Ang unlocks the core technical points of this giant structure, it will not be difficult to build a second quantum slingshot.

The most important thing is the material, the shipbuilding, and the huge metal-resistant steel!

If you want to get more durable steel raw materials, you can either continue to expand your territory, mine more, and build more material decompressors to collect resources.

Either continue to expand the trading system of the world's giants, accommodate more members of alien civilizations, do business with each other, and obtain each other's metal resources.

Of course, the alien veterans who join the Huanyu system must be harvested by Li Ang. As for the means...

It must be a complete economic credit system, such as the former US dollar system!

It is precisely through this system that Li Ang has drawn numerous alien civilizations into the world's camp, consciously working for giant companies and burning blood and sweat.

"The only drawback of good things is that they are expensive...!"

After understanding the construction principles and basic construction materials of the [Quantum Slingshot] giant structure, Li Ang discovered that after unlocking the Quantum Slingshot this time, he would receive an additional Buff bonus——

【Infinite Beacon】!

This novel Buff can allow global giants to increase the construction speed by 50% when building more mega-structures in the future.

The improvement of construction speed here does not mean speeding up the project progress like in the game, but the system directly provides more than half of the construction materials.

This can significantly reduce the construction project time.

In this way, Li Ang can build more giant structures at less cost.

‘No wonder it’s the giant enterprise template in the fifth stage. I didn’t expect it to bring this kind of construction buff! ’

Li Ang felt very comfortable. When he looked at the value of the Qi coins required to unlock the [Quantum Sling Bow], which was almost the same as his existing Qi coins, Li Ang nodded thoughtfully.

This time he only needs to complete a level 1 heaven mission to unlock this giant structure immediately, but Li Ang feels that it is not necessary.

Anyway, we are all about conquering the world, so why not choose a more difficult task and get more gold coins from the alien veteran to get more rewards.

Maybe after completing the mission this time, Li Ang can even unlock the giant building behind him at once!

It would be great to win all the giant structures in the fifth and sixth stages.

‘That’s it, let’s draw a prize first! ’

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