Chapter 190 Gonggong

But no matter how great the pressure, Li Tianran had to create Gonggong, because only with it would Li Tianran truly have "sea, land, and air" three-dimensional firepower, and only then could he contend with the ancient civilization that was about to revive.

"Governor, the greatest difficulty in manufacturing the Gonggong warship is not the hull or the drainage circulator... but the power core!" At that moment, an old professor among the researchers walked over, holding a design drawing and standing in front of Li Tianran, and said with a solemn expression, "Take a look at this blueprint."

Li Tianran took the power core design outline from the other party's hand, which was densely marked with a large number of materials and design concepts. This was the power assembly of the Gonggong warship, also known as the engine.

A large submarine warship of the same level as the Kunlun Giant Ship, its size, weight, and the energy consumed by attacks are all extremely terrifying, and the engine that provides all this energy is naturally extraordinary.

The engine required by the Gonggong warship is the same [planetary-level] engine as the Miracle Buildings and the Kunlun Giant Ship, and belongs to the same level as the [Four Seas Dragon King] that provides energy to Kuangxi Island!

The energy required by this large warship can no longer be provided by ordinary internal combustion engines. Only a conversion engine that can capture planetary energy can meet its needs.

Currently, there are only seven planetary engines on the entire Blue Star, belonging to the five miracle buildings of ancient civilizations, as well as Li Tianran's Kuangxi Island and Kunlun Giant Ship.

The planetary engines in the miracle buildings of ancient civilizations were created by them after searching for massive amounts of materials from ancient times and spending a long time manufacturing them; while Li Tianran's two planetary engines were both from the upgrade rewards of the lv4 Shelter, which means that Li Tianran currently does not have the experience of manufacturing planetary engines.

"The manufacturing difficulty of the engine body... with a complete design drawing, it shouldn't be too outrageous!" As if seeing Li Tianran's worries, the old professor said, "What we lack is the material to convert core energy!"

"A planetary engine is a top-level product. It can capture and convert the energy generated by a planet, such as tsunamis, wind, and even rotation. However, capturing and converting these scattered energies is not a simple task. The planetary engine needs to release a "net" to capture energy, and then when the energy in the net is recovered, it also needs to create a stable container to hold the energy..."

"And to release this "net" and "container", a special radioactive material needs to be equipped in the engine. It must have a stable and strong energy source! But on today's Blue Star, there is no trace of this material at all!"

The old professor's face was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "If we can't find this material and can't manufacture a planetary engine, then we can only equip the warship with a nuclear power engine..."

Although the nuclear engine was a top product of human civilization in the past, it is very inadequate when used on the Gonggong warship. It is equivalent to equipping a lengthened Hummer SUV with a 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine, which may have problems even with normal driving, let alone meet the needs of war!

Li Tianran listened to the old professor's words. This was indeed a very serious problem. The engine was the heart of the Gonggong warship. If the heart problem could not be solved, even if the Gonggong warship's firepower was strong and its underwater speed was fast, it would only be an empty dream.

"In the mall..." Li Tianran opened the system mall, found the [Materials] column, and found the materials that could meet the needs of manufacturing a planetary engine in the bottom row.

[Krypton Particle Crystal Block]

[Category: Energy, Radioactive Material]

[Function: Can be used for energy capture devices, planetary engines, ...]

[Price...]

It was a product with a blue-yellow color and a multi-faceted crystal-like shape, only the size of a fist, and emitting a bright light.

Its price was not particularly expensive, only one billion.

But to successfully manufacture a planetary engine, the number of crystals required was not one, but hundreds or thousands!

Multiplying the price of one billion by this huge number base, the final points consumed were an unimaginable astronomical figure!

"One trillion points!" Li Tianran calculated silently. His current mall base was stable at 300 billion, and the daily recovered points could still have more than one billion left after satisfying the world's consumption, but to reach the number of one trillion... he would need at least two or three years to save enough.

Two or three years...

Not to mention two or three years, Li Tianran couldn't even wait for two or three months now!

"Send more people to search the sea area near Base 550..." After thinking for a moment, Li Tianran gave an order to Lu Chi via walkie-talkie: "Look for the Babel Tower core wreckage that was stolen by the Gale followers and later bombarded by the mecha warriors!"

At the beginning, the Gale Apostle led his followers to attack Base 550 and snatched the Babel Tower core wreckage from that freighter. Among them were materials with similar functions to krypton particle crystal blocks. Although most of those materials were looted and taken away by the Gale Apostle, the Kunlun Giant Ship still used laser cannons to eliminate some followers after arriving. The core materials in their hands were not destroyed by the laser cannon bombardment, but fell into that sea area.

Although Li Tianran sent people to salvage that sea area afterwards, the effect was minimal. After dozens of hours, only a few thumb-sized crystal fragments were salvaged.

"You guys manufacture the warship hull first, and I will do my best to meet all your needs," Li Tianran said.

The old professor hesitated, pondered for a long time, and finally chose to say: "Governor, this matter still needs to be carefully considered! If we consume a lot of financial resources, material resources, and manpower to manufacture the hull of the Gonggong warship, and the engine fails to be produced in the end, then the hull will be equivalent to a pile of useless scrap iron!"

"What we have paid will also be wasted!"

Listening to the old professor's words, Li Tianran still said very firmly: "I will solve the engine problem! Even if we can't collect enough manufacturing materials in the end, we might as well dismantle the Four Seas Dragon King on Kuangxi Island and install it on the Gonggong Giant Ship!"

This was the last resort!

Anyway, now the Triangle Tower was parked in the sky above Kuangxi Island, and the Earth Apostle was sitting in the core of the Kuangxi Island farm. Li Tianran was not afraid of other apostles launching an attack on his base camp. He even looked forward to this happening, because the more the apostles launched a war against Kuangxi Island, the more it would anger the Earth Apostle, the more it would cause her disgust, and eventually push her completely into his camp.

If the Triangle Tower really formed an alliance with him, then there would be no suspense in this war!