Xiaolong Galaxy, Home Planet 01

The planet's air is still somewhat murky, and in some places you can still see desolate deserts and cracked surfaces, but in other areas you can already see some lush green grass and low shrubs.

It gives the impression of a natural environment that is developing and gradually improving.

"This planet was the first one to be modified by the T5 Creator starship, and nearly four months have passed since then."

The renovation is expected to take more than six months to complete.

But in another three months, this planet will basically meet the standards for habitability.

Inside the shuttle, Zhao Chen, who was surveying the planet, looked at the scenery outside the porthole and listened to Lilith's report.

"How many planets like this have been terraformed now?" Zhao Chen asked.

"To date, the T5 Creator starship has modified 172 planets."

Of these, 140 are located in the Xiaolong system, 30 are located in the Xiaolong 15 star sector, and two are located in the White Tiger star sector of Warhammer.

"We have already invested nearly 200 billion Star Coins in this endeavor," Lilith replied.

200 billion Star Coins is a considerable expense.

But looking at this vibrant planet, Zhao Chen didn't see anything wrong with the investment.

Once these planets are terraformed, various departments within the JF-17 regime will establish their own offices, cities, and so on on these planets.

By then, the Dragon Galaxy will be even more prosperous.

Within the Fifteenth Star Sector of the Dragon, this prosperity will be replicated.

"Are there any places with a good environment?" Zhao Chen asked.

“There’s an island with beautiful scenery,” Lilith replied.

"Then let's go there to rest for a bit and have a picnic." Zhao Chen stretched and looked at the big white cat that was still studying something: "It's not easy to get our great general out for a vacation."

We need to find a good place to rest.

Charlotte rolled her eyes at Zhao Chen without any politeness, but still didn't say anything, because the information in front of her was more important to her at the moment.

Before long, the shuttle found the island.

The island is not very big, like a pearl in the sea, with lush green forests, and we even saw some flocks of birds.

Below the surface, you can also see some fish.

Zhao Chen stepped off the shuttle, looked around, and pointed to the fish leaping out of the water: "Are these fish edible?"

The leopard woman who followed immediately took out an instrument to scan the area and confirmed that it was edible and harmless.

"Then let's fish and eat our own fish today," Zhao Chen said, rubbing his hands together eagerly.

The leopard woman, the bodyguard, immediately understood and began to make arrangements.

Fishing equipment, fish grill, and so on were all packed up in no time.

Zhao Chen looked at Charlotte, who was still working inside the shuttle, and called out, "Charlotte, come down and take a rest."

"No time," Charlotte replied bluntly.

"There will be grilled fish later," Zhao Chen called out again.

This time, Charlotte stepped out of the shuttle. She glanced at the boundless sea, found a chair that had been laid out earlier, sat down, and continued her work.

"We finally have a holiday, can't we just relax and have some rest?"

Elise the Spider Queen was the same; she was given a break so she could go back to the Spider Queen's tribe to visit.

As a result, he's now staying right in the lab and won't come out. Zhao Chen shrugged helplessly.

Lilith rolled her eyes at Zhao Chen: "Isn't the culprit behind all this because of the things you took out, Commander?"

Four T5 interstellar warship technologies.

This also includes a T5 interstellar industrial base!

Given Elise the Spider Queen's personality, how could she possibly be in the mood for a vacation?

Zhao Chen smiled without saying a word, pulled out his fishing rod, and then cast it out with a heavy thud.

He didn't force them to continue working; it was entirely voluntary on their part.

"It's not just Charlotte. Actually, because of your four interstellar warship technologies and the expansion plan for the Dragon Legion that you formulated for the next two phases a year, the staff in my secretariat who stayed on duty are working overtime to organize them."

Meanwhile, our Starship Industry immediately launched the construction project for the T5 Starship-class interstellar large-scale industrial base.

"The construction plan for such a large interstellar industrial base requires detailed planning and deployment, even just the initial layout and the allocation of raw materials," Lilith explained.

I know, but there's nothing I can do about it.

Faced with the threat of the Demon Race and the ticking time bomb that is the Zerg Race, we must accelerate our expansion.

"As for other difficulties, let's figure out a way to solve them," Zhao Chen said helplessly.

When Zhao Chen mentioned finding a solution, he was naturally referring to having Lilith and the others find a way to overcome these difficulties.

During a break from fishing, Lilith started talking about work again.

"Right now there is a major difficulty, the first of which is our largest engineering project."

That was the construction project of our first T5-level interstellar large-scale industrial base.

The location has been chosen; it will be within our Xiaolong Galaxy Industrial Park.

However, the cost of building a T5 star-river-class interstellar industrial base reaches five trillion star coins, which is a huge number for us at present!

It's important to understand that under our current system, the annual output value of our JF-17 is barely over one trillion Star Coins per month.

"There's a significant funding gap," Lilith said.

Five trillion star coins—Zhao Chen was naturally aware of this exorbitant price.

It even surpasses the terrifying cost of the T5 Hades-class interstellar dreadnought.

However, this is a much-needed boost for the JF-17 Thunder. As long as such a T5-class interstellar industrial base is built, the JF-17's shipbuilding capacity can be increased several times.

Especially in the T5 series starships!

"Funding... we can still find a way to address that."

The three great empires must still have some funds and raw material reserves. We can borrow them from them first.

We can agree on how many interstellar warships will be used in the exchange.

"Let's use the T4 starships they want," Zhao Chen suggested.

Zhao Chen added, "We can also establish an interstellar investment bank, which will be linked to our Beiyan Group."

The interstellar warships produced by Beiyan Group are currently in short supply.

Then we can set some additional terms: whoever is willing to invest in us, we will repay the corresponding starship after the investment contract expires. The term can be set to about six months to a year.

Alternatively, those who accumulate a certain amount of long-term savings in our interstellar investment bank account can become our VIP partners.

They can cooperate with us in various aspects of interstellar trade, and we can even give them a 5% discount!

If your savings amount is even larger, you can become our Diamond VIP!

If you don't have enough money in your own wallet, you can always use someone else's.