Chapter 575: The Third Energy Crystal Core (1/2)

Chapter 575: The Third Energy Crystal Core

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Before the rain gradually stopped, the rainstorm had been ongoing for over two months. After it passed, a significant area in the northern half of the globe began having sunnier weather.

The ice had melted, the floods had receded, and flora was beginning to flourish.

The plant's indomitable life force was definitely something to be reckoned with.

Even after remaining frozen for over a few decades, the ice did not eradicate their vitality. Even if the branches had long eroded, the deep roots of the plants would still be full of life. Once the ice melted, various flora began growing from carcasses as they bathed under the glorious sunlight and competed with each other for growth. The life force of the plants was visible at every corner.

Before long, the land was rapidly dyed with shades of green. Looking at it then, it was hard to believe that just only two months ago, the place was still a frozen wasteland.

Following the receding tides, a partially-planned magnificent city would officially be built atop of the ruins of Hope City, and it would be hundreds of times bigger than the original city. It would boast a radius up to tens of thousands of square kilometers. Before long, the place had already become a humongous construction area.

Countless enormous cargo airships that were each as wide as a mountain, connected the logistic channel of the new Hope City and the micro universe that was currently situated in space. All the harvested materials and resources from the Barnard Star System were shipped to the New Hope City as the humans erecting building and factory, one after the other.

Before waging war with the Glassians, the humans were pessimistic toward the war. Perhaps, pessimistic was not the right term to use. However, most people were uncertain about the outcome of the war at the time.

There was a saying — People tend to think about losses before they think about winning. To top it off, this was a war that whose outcome would determine the survival of an entire species.

Naturally, if the humans won, it would end well. However, if they were defeated, a backup plan had to be present. Their withdrawal to the micro universe was their final contingency. Even if the Glassians finally managed to retake the Barnard Star System, the humans would still have sufficient resources to continue expanding after they successfully withdrew into the micro-universe.

Based on these operating standards, mankind had already destructively mined their fourth planet with part of its resources allocated to produce and expand their inventory of military equipment. Anything left over from that would be stored and be shipped to the micro universe.

Before their expedition began, the humans already had a stockpile of resources that would be able to support their production capacity for over a hundred years. Up until the point where they migrated back to earth, the humans had already accumulated sufficient resources to last them over a thousand years.

Naturally, this estimate was made with the assumption that their production would not undergo an explosive amount of expansion. However, if that were really the case, their resource stockpile would probably dry up within an estimated fifty to sixty years.

Even so, this was s till a huge sum of wealth, and the total mass of their stockpile had now exceeded the moon's mass. Each and every element their had in store were calculated in the measure of trillions of tonnes. However, precious metals such as gold were available in amounts upward of tens of trillions of tonnes. That alone was more than several billion times the total gold mined throughout mankind's history.

The total mass of the solar system was made up of mainly gaseous planets and ones where mineral resources could be mined were scarce. Planets that fit this category based on their size were Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.

The largest of these planets was Earth. However, its total mass only made up a third of the fourth planet they were mining in the Barnard Star Systerm. Even when all the planets that fit the description in their solar system were totalled, it would still not hold a candle to a single planet in the Barnard Star System.

As humankind's home planet, humans were unable to extract material directly from the ground like they did on the fourth planet in the Barnard Star System. Similarly, Mars was like a twin brother to Earth and had long been recognized as a secondary habitable planet. Even Venus and Mercury were considered to be backup-planets that could be terraformed into habitable planets.

Soon, the human population began to explode. Not only was there an annual birth of two to three million lab-grown human clones, there was also the birth of the next generation of humans. Eventually, a baby boom would ensue

Up to this moment, humans only had a population that was close to thirty million. Conservatively, the population would only reach five hundred million one or two hundred years later. However, the fear that Earth would soon be overcrowded was not unfounded. Two hundred years was not that long a time for a civilization. Even for the new generation of humans, that was only two-thirds of their lifespan.

It could be said that every rocky planet in the solar system was extremely precious since they were resources that could be used to expand and develop human civilization.