At this time, Luo Xiu has basically completed the infrastructure construction, and the provision of various underlying resources has been very complete.

Resources from various mines are being continuously fed into the smelting plant through conveyor belts. During the time when the Zhurong was out surveying, ten smelting plants have been built near the spacecraft base, capable of producing copper, iron, and gold at full capacity.

Wait for metal ingots.

There are already three smelting plants near the silicon mine, and they are supplying refined silicon to the nearby manufacturing plants around the clock.

Luo Xiu, who no longer has to worry about resource issues, no longer needs to be careful about budgeting when carrying out the equatorial project.

After the first batch of transport vehicles delivered 18 solar panels to the equator, Luo Xiu laid 13,000 solar panels near the equator in just three days.

Due to their huge size, the solar panels are spaced fifteen meters apart. There are one solar panel on the left and one on the right near the equator, and they are laid out on both sides along the equator.

After the construction of these 13,000 solar panels, a 135-kilometer long, dark and blue planetary belt was formed on the equator of Mars.

However, the current belt is still too short for Mars. After all, the equator is as long as 22,000 kilometers. It will still take some time to connect the two ends of the planetary belt.

The main reason why Luo Xiu devotes a large amount of resources to the production of solar panels is that a building that is larger than an energy transmission tower will be included in the production list.

That is the planetary shield developed by the starship humans when they broke away from the cruising fleet.

After the planetary shield is completed, its height will reach 5,600 meters, and it will also consume a lot of power when starting and operating.

Given the size of Mars, at least six planetary shields are needed to completely cover Mars and make it invisible in the detection wave of the Cygnus cruising fleet.

Of course, its function is not to completely make Mars disappear from the opponent's detection wave, but to transmit the information Luo Xiu wants the opponent to see back to the cruising fleet.

When the cruising fleet received the detection signal, Mars was still the same Mars, but Luo Xiu and the Mars base did not exist.

Starship humans develop this technology mainly so that they can find a place to settle down and develop in peace after leaving the cruising fleet, and it is best to return to the solar system.

But the last starship in the fleet, humans, did not find a new home and used planetary shields.

However, no one would have thought that on Mars more than a hundred years ago, the planetary shield that had never been implemented and existed only on drawings was already under construction.

Although all this was not discovered by the cruising fleet, it frightened the fellow humans on Blue Star.

'This construction speed is too terrifying...'

In the past three days, Blue Star humans have witnessed the construction of the first solar panel on the equatorial line of Mars, and also seen the construction of the equatorial project's "Planet Belt" from scratch, which is more than 100 kilometers long.

You know, the solar panels built by the civilization on Mars are still double-layered. If they are single-layered, the length is only 300 kilometers, which is more than one percent of the equatorial circumference of Mars.

And all this was completed in just three days.

'And have you seen that near the first solar panel near the equator of Mars, the aliens are building an even bigger base?'

'You see, this foundation is too big. It took two days to dig just the foundation. I don't know how many machines dug it.'

‘You used to say that the mining machine was a Star Destroyer Cannon, but I think it pales in comparison to this thing. Do you think this thing is a real Star Destroyer Cannon?’

For the planetary shield that is still under construction on its base, Blue Star people have no idea what it will look like after it is completed.

However, because its base is too large, thousands of general-purpose robots are surrounding the base under construction, constantly adding bricks and tiles to the base.

Judging from the current position of the Zhurong, the base of the planetary shield has been built to a height of more than thirty meters, but compared to the height after completion, this is not worth mentioning at all.

Of course, at this time, Blue Star humans still cannot guess its true height, nor do they know its true intentions.

Even Cao Guolin, Petrov and others in the space center were confused.

Before the huge base appeared, Luo Xiu's plan to lay a planetary belt had already shocked them. Cao Guolin was scared not because of how grand the plan was, but because the other party was developing so fast.

From the time when the Zhurong landed on Mars and photographed the alien civilization personally mining, to the current progress of laying the 'planetary belt'. In just over a month, the other party has made a qualitative leap.

This speed is simply more terrifying than the interstellar bugs in those novels.

"What on earth is that thing?" Petrov pointed at the computer screen on Cao Guolin's desk, frowning and thinking.

On the computer screen is the enlarged planetary shield base.

However, from the current picture, it can only be seen that the base is circular, but the information they have is limited to this.

Weapons? Spaceship construction base? Or something else?

These questions were already being discussed heatedly in the control center when Luo Xiu was excavating the ground for the planetary shielder foundation.

But after much discussion, no one could come up with an answer.

"Huh, I can't guess it at all." Cao Guolin, who had been staring at the screen for a long time, suddenly lay back and leaned on the back of his chair.

The commander of the space center rubbed his temples with his hands and said softly: "Now we don't have any information except the base. It's really difficult to guess."

"Well, if you can't guess it, then you can just forget it." Petrov shrugged and stopped worrying about the issue. "By the way, the window period is coming soon, but with the other party's development speed, I think no matter whether this building is...

Not those who produce spaceships, they will soon have aircraft capable of interstellar navigation."

"This is not good news for our astronauts."

Before Luo Xiu started large-scale construction, Blue Star humans still had the confidence that both sides could talk to each other on an equal footing.

After all, Blue Star has billions of humans, highly developed technology, and hundreds of years of industrial accumulation.

But judging from the current situation, Blue Star humans still think a little too simply.
Chapter completed!