The fat captain of the mercury tribe has been to Jingyuan City more than ten times.

Sometimes I am in a hurry for official business, sometimes it is just a leisurely vacation.

After enough times, even if he has not deliberately collected various information about Jingyuan City, with the fat captain's brain that surpasses the normal human beings on Blue Star, he can still know that city like a treasure.

Therefore, through his complicated and trivial memories, Mu Cang, standing in the huge warp bubble space, soon clearly 'saw' the humanistic features and urban construction landscape of Jingyuan City.

It was a large city... floating in the sky relying on multiple sets of giant anti-gravity engines.

The planet it is located on is called Drugana, a gas giant planet with a diameter of 120,000 kilometers.

Its surface is covered with large patches of pink and purple clouds for a long time.

The two-colored clouds stretched thousands of miles apart, rolling and colliding with each other like ocean waves at every moment, breaking and merging, and finally splitting again, forming hundreds of millions of pink and purple clouds.

That kind of thrilling and magnificent scenery, whether viewed from space or from the planet's atmosphere, is extremely magnificent and charming.

Like most gas giant planets in the Milky Way, Degaruna is composed of a stellar core and three concentric component layers.

Its geological core with a radius of 6,000 kilometers is composed of solid metal filled with ultra-high pressure and ultra-high temperature.

The second layer immediately adjacent to the core is the 24,000-kilometer-thick spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen 'mantle' layer.

In this layer, the hydrogen element that has been soaked in [high] active spiritual energy for countless years, and the natural spiritual energy crystallization phenomenon miraculously occurred, is so dense that its shape is like a real metal. Similarly, there

The temperature is also at an extremely high level.

The next level up is the liquid hydrogen ocean with a depth of 28,000 kilometers. Its internal pressure is strong enough to crush a large warship into the size of a matchbox.

Finally, we come to the top layer, which is the atmospheric cloud layer two thousand kilometers thick.

At the edge where the bottom of this thick cloud layer meets the ocean of liquid hydrogen, the temperature can reach thousands of degrees Celsius.

But in this hellish high-pressure and high-temperature environment, it is said that there is a group of intelligent creatures similar to nomads.

But what kind of life form does this ethnic group have? Has a specific written culture been born? That is unknown.

Therefore, Mu Cang, who was in the memory of the Fat Captain, did not pay too much attention to it.

He moved his 'eyes' upward and 'looked' through the heavy clouds towards the area where Jingyuan City existed - this planet was only 280 kilometers away from the universe.

There is the [residential layer] on the planet Drugana that is truly suitable for the survival of most life forms.

Jingyuan City was built on this level, which was originally a spiritual crystalline metal hydrogen collection settlement.

In a sense, Drugana is a rare breed in astrophysics.

Because among the endless thick clouds of this gas giant planet, there is actually a broad and thick atmosphere that can be comfortably inhabited by conventional life.

This layer is 175 kilometers thick and is very suitable for life regardless of temperature, magnetic field strength, air pressure, and even oxygen concentration.

Although oxygen is not necessary for life groups, at least in this galaxy, carbon-based groups that rely on breathing oxygen still account for the majority.

In this vast residential layer, apart from some rare gaseous wild animals, there were no intelligent groups that existed a long time ago.

Until 50,000 years ago, six thousand light-years away from this star field, deep in the symbolic field corresponding to an unknown star field in the spiral arm of the Orion Galaxy, there was an incomplete high-level corridor in the spiritual world that had been abandoned for countless thousands of years.

After a long period of time, it actually repaired itself due to unknown reasons.

And after its functions were restored, this section of road instantly extended explosively at tens of millions of times the speed of light, penetrating into the depths of the boundless sea of ​​stars.

The connected road is connected to a number of Ningbo Road sections that are in normal operation, forming an orderly traffic.

Not only that.

Along the way, it also activated and repaired a large number of abandoned corridors.

Therefore, due to their series connection, an interstellar transportation network covering an area of ​​6,000 light-years and containing a large number of unknown broken star fields was formed in a short period of time.

The star field where Drugana is located is the very end of this interstellar network.

It is the place where that strangely resurrected high-level corridor finally arrives.

This major event immediately caused a sensation among the civilizations in the 20,000-light-year-long Orion spiral arm.

All these indicate that a large number of opportunities, resources, and territories have emerged.

If you have a quick hand, you will have it; if you have a slow hand, you will not have it.

For a time, driven by profit, countless interstellar navigators, adventurers, merchants, and pirates swarmed into the unknown and embarked on a journey to explore the unknown.

This "feast" journey filled with exploration, plunder, occupation and colonization lasted for thousands of years.

During this period, countless adventurers and navigators died in the depths of the vast universe. At the same time, more backward Duan Dao civilizations were colonized, enslaved, sold, and even exterminated.

Just as the 'banquet' was about to end, a group of interstellar miners in an old spaceship arrived and landed on the planet Drugana.

After careful investigation, this group of early miners quickly discovered the [residential layer] and the layer of natural spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen on the planet that was more than 20,000 kilometers thick.

So they boldly built a simple and shabby floating multi-functional mining platform, specifically to mine this high-energy material from the depths of Degaruna - a spiritual crystal state that contains extremely high energy density and can be used as fuel for interstellar navigation.

Metallic hydrogen.

Although this kind of mineral resource is not particularly precious strictly speaking, it has a huge output, is easy to extract, and is relatively easy to transport and store, so it is generally very profitable.

So after many years, this small mining platform became larger and larger, and its functions became more and more complex.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the end, the earliest Jingyuan City was formed.

For tens of thousands of years, after countless generations of repairs and upgrades, Jingyuan City has become a giant floating city that is firmly fixed by multiple sets of giant anti-gravity devices and suspended high in the thick, pastel-colored clouds of the planet Drugana.

City.

This city is home to fifteen intelligent species from all over the stars, with dozens of common languages ​​and a total population of one billion.

They exchange technology and culture with each other, allowing technology to develop by leaps and bounds.

Viewed from a high place, Jingyuancheng appears in the shape of a clover.

Two small leaves and one large leaf.

This also represents three different large-scale residential areas in Jingyuan City.

Southwest, northwest regions, and the eastern region with the largest area.

In the liquid area of ​​the southwest, three aquatic species live.

Most of these slippery intelligent species use exposed nerve bundles to communicate.

They are good at using their unique fluid interference superpowers, combined with sophisticated and weird liquid technology, to 'plant' clusters of natural spiritual crystalline cobalt elements.

After quarterly collection, these aquatic species will cut and polish individual crystalline clusters through high-pressure water jets to make various types of jewelry, pendants, and ornaments, which can be sold for profit.

The native cobalt element in nature is highly radioactive and is harmful to normal life.

However, the radiation field of the clusters of spiritual crystalline cobalt element miraculously has the effect of strongly nourishing the bodies and souls of various intelligent creatures such as carbon-based, sulfur-based, amino-based, silicon-based, nitrogen-based, etc.

Especially when multiple groups of large cluster ornaments are placed indoors or in places, it can significantly affect the coherence of the surrounding spiritual energy, causing it to increase slightly, which is conducive to the absorption and tempering of the spiritual energy of intelligent species. (Aura coherence degree design

See Chapter 82 for details)

In the gaseous region of the northwest, there is a group of low-density and variable-temperature gaseous life forms. They are the descendants of the ancient interstellar miners who founded this Jingyuan City. They specialize in mining the natural spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen located inside the planet.

mineral.

Compared with their ancestors, the mining technology of these gaseous intelligent lifeforms is essentially the same, but it has been iteratively optimized a lot in terms of mining scale, efficiency, and tools.

It is very efficient and convenient no matter from the extraction, processing, selection and packaging of minerals, to the smelting, processing and deep processing of minerals, and most importantly, maintenance and storage.

Different from the industrial front located behind the northwest city, the mining area where the gaseous lifeforms actually extract the spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen minerals is located at the central connection of the three major urban areas.

There, at the bottom of the center of the Jingyuan city body, there is a huge building area that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, gradually transitioning into the shape of an upside-down white spire, with a volume comparable to the size of a mountain range.

One hundred and twenty-eight pairs of large tractor beam generators are installed in this huge building.

The giant tractor beams emitted by these huge devices have multiple functions: one is to fix the Jingyuan city-state within the 'thin' biological habitation area of ​​Degaruna's atmosphere; the other is to extract spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen from the deep strata

And guide it into the large-scale refining and storage equipment behind the northwest city; third, bring a large amount of external heat into the city's thermal energy converter array to provide additional energy use and power support for the entire city.

At the sharpest end of the inverted spire, there is connected a slender one-legged support. The total length of this white support reaches tens of thousands of kilometers, running through more than a thousand kilometers of thick atmosphere and 28,000 kilometers of liquid water.

The hydrogen ocean goes straight into the spiritual crystalline metallic hydrogen 'mantle' layer of the planet Drugana.

The tractor beam uses this one-legged support with a deep high-pressure thin tube to extract spiritual crystal minerals.

This series of work seems complicated, difficult and time-consuming, but compared with those early mining pioneers, today's gaseous lifeforms have saved a lot of time and effort. More of the work is fully automated and there is no need for it at all.

They worked so hard.

Compared with their ancestors, they are happy.

In fact, for the gaseous life forms and many intelligent groups living in Jingyuan City, mining is not difficult to deal with. What is really difficult to deal with is that the planet's majestic and thick atmosphere often forms and spreads around.

A powerful storm running rampant.

These huge storms roll violently and sweep thousands of miles away as soon as they are born, often attacking Jingyuan City.

So for a long time, in order to ensure that this huge city could remain motionless in storms, a giant wind tunnel was built in the center of the city connecting the three major leaf-shaped urban areas, and extended to the long and thin wind tunnel at the bottom of the city's belly.

The upper end of the single-leg bracket.

This huge chasm, like an abyss, with howling winds all the time, can continuously divert the dangerous winds passing through Jingyuan City, help Jingyuan City gain huge power and huge mechanical support, and can also serve as urban garbage.

Dumping system.
To be continued...