When Tony was building the Venus base, he had already done a thorough inspection of the surrounding area. Through various equipment, he conducted a detailed investigation of the area within a 50-kilometer radius. It was determined that the surrounding geology was suitable for building the base.
The person who helped him with this was Dr. Hank the Beast. After all, Tony had a lot of things to do on Earth. He couldn't hide on Venus every day. If he didn't show up often, Pei Bo would go crazy looking for him.
Therefore, other than Tony, Hank was the person who put in the most effort for the Venus base. It couldn't be helped. Because Professor Xavier's legs were inconvenient, and Li Jie and Rogers were almost illiterate in front of Tony and Hank's various scientific data.
Therefore, the professional work could only be done by the professionals.
There were a lot of mining areas within a 50-kilometer radius. This was the main reason why Tony and Hank chose to build the base here.
First, they couldn't always rely on Earth to transport raw materials. Not only would it cost a lot of money, but it would also attract attention.
Second, Li Jie's follow-up plan required a lot of various materials. If all of these materials were gathered on Earth, it would probably destroy the ecology of the entire Earth.
For Li Jie and Tony, Earth was an irreplaceable planet. It was not advisable to destroy the area. They could only transform Venus into a large mine and construction base.
As for building most of the buildings underground, it was because Venus would have acid rain from time to time, and this acid rain was very corrosive. If they built too many buildings on the surface, they would need to do all kinds of preparation procedures to prevent the acid rain from damaging the base.
This would be a huge expense. Before Dawn could make a huge profit, the current funds were all coming from Tony's personal pocket. She couldn't let Tony bear such a huge financial burden all the time.
The entire Venus base was designed by Tony and Hank. In fact, there weren't many buildings on the surface. There were only a few inconspicuous small houses.
After passing through these small houses, they would arrive at an open semi-underground activity floor. This was the preparation floor of the entire base. Currently, a large number of construction materials were piled up here. In the future, after the construction of the entire base was completed, this place would be used as an entrance and a parking apron.
The second floor was the most well-built place at the moment. It was mainly used as a meeting and leisure area for the Illuminati members. With Tony's personality, he was even planning to build a swimming pool and a garden that relied on artificial light to adjust the atmosphere. This was so that he would not feel that Venus was lifeless.
Starting from the third floor was the equipment floor, which provided the entire base's life support system and energy supply system. There was also a backup database of the intelligent AI, Jarvis.
This way, Jarvis would be able to help the members of the Illuminati deal with all kinds of complex calculations and data streams on Venus. Even Li Jie and Rogers, who were not very familiar with some complex science, could instantly grasp and learn the various facilities in this high-tech base through JARVIS.
The fourth floor was an intelligent manufacturing factory. There was a similar factory in Tony's house, which was used to manufacture steel armor.
He was able to create a huge steel army in a short period of time entirely by relying on this fully automatic factory manufacturing. He only needed to input the corresponding command parameters and some key data, and JARVIS would carry out fully automatic management of the entire factory.
Relying on mechanical arms and other intelligent robots to help Tony create all kinds of high-tech equipment in a short period of time.
The intelligent manufacturing factory in the Venus base was much larger than the manufacturing factory under Tony's villa in Los Angeles. This was because in the future, it would produce some incredible equipment. It was not as simple as a few steel armors.
The fourth floor was currently still in the construction stage. In addition to the basic facilities, the other parts were still being manufactured. Once this factory was completed, it would immediately help produce other steel engineering mecha.
However, considering that the rest of the mecha did not need to work on the surface of Venus, the design standards could be lowered a little. This would relieve the pressure on capital and raw materials.
In addition to the Venus base that was still under construction, another more important place on Venus was the mine on Venus.
It could be said that this was the most important reason why Tony and Li Jie chose to build a base on a planet other than Earth. They needed a huge amount of mineral resources!
In addition to some of the mineral resources within a radius of 50 kilometers that had already been explored and begun to be mined. Tony also created a large number of neutron detectors, letting these little things begin to scan the surface of Venus one by one.
If Tony did this on Earth, he would most likely be arrested by the governments of various countries. Because who knows what kind of shameful things the governments of the various countries have hidden in their underground.
But on Venus, there was no such concern. Tony could use the neutron detectors to scan the mining area of Venus. Mining on Venus was simpler and more crude because there was no need to consider ecological and environmental issues, and there was no need to pay taxes to the government.
As long as they were careful not to destroy the cracks in the crust and mantle of Venus, it would be fine.
Tony led Li Jie, Rogers, and Professor Charles as they walked, introducing the situation of the Venus base. As for Hank, there was no need for Tony to introduce the situation. After all, he was an important participant.
"It can be said that if there is a mutant invasion. The Venus base will be humanity's second line of insurance. We can even say that this will be humanity's most important strategic base in the face of an extraterrestrial crisis! "Tony led everyone into the conference room of the Venus base.
The furnishings of the conference room were similar to the common conference rooms on Earth. There was not much difference. It seemed that this was designed to meet everyone's usage habits.
Everyone took their seats at the round conference table. Tony continued to explain the Venus base. "We will set up the initial armed forces here. All kinds of weapons that may be installed. "
"Do we really not need to inform the government?" Captain Rogers crossed his arms in front of his chest, still a little hesitant. After all, what the Illuminati wanted to do now was to form their own armed forces outside of Earth.
"One person is very smart, but a group of people is very stupid." Li Jie spoke to Captain Rogers on behalf of Tony, "Captain, I believe you should not have forgotten the panic caused by the 1938 radio drama 'War of the Worlds' in the United States, right? (Note) "
"And isn't a big reason why we are gathered here because of our distrust of politicians? We are afraid that they will use all kinds of ways to turn what should be important into something for their own personal gain. Captain, you should have seen this kind of thing repeatedly. "
Rogers had indeed seen it many times, so he did not object in the end. When he mentioned the government just now, he just said one sentence out of habit.
The five-member team of the Illuminati roughly browsed through the construction progress of the Venus base and confirmed that the main goal of the Illuminati in the future was to lead humanity against various mutant invasions.
The Illuminati's short trip to Venus came to an end. When Tony sent everyone back one by one, Li Jie deliberately stayed behind. He had something to say to Tony.
And Tony also cooperated with Li Jie very tacitly until the last person was sent away. Only then did Tony turn his head to look at Li Jie. "What crazy plan do you want to talk about this time?"
Li Jie said with a smile, "This time it is not a crazy plan, but a small gift for you." Li Jie took out a large pile of portable hard drives from his space belt. They were all the kind with 2TB of memory space.
Tony looked at the large pile of hard drives that Li Jie took out and raised his eyebrows. "What are these? Are you trying to tell me that you know that I have been under Pei Bo's strict control recently, so you gave me more than 10 TB of seeds? "
"No! What are you thinking? I have no interest in your private life at all. " Li Jie waved his hand. "This is a real gift for you and all of us on Earth. This is a necessity for us to travel the sea of stars! "
Li Jie's expression was very serious. He said word by word, "Because this is the blueprint for the construction of an entire interstellar fleet!"
Note: In 1938, CBS broadcast the science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds". Due to a problem with the frequency band, it jumped to the news broadcast band of that time. Therefore, the listeners who were listening to the news broadcast in the United States heard the following news: Aliens had conquered Washington DC, and they were heading for the East Coast!
This was a news segment in the novel, but it was regarded as real news by the radio listeners in the United States. Therefore, countless Americans rushed out of their homes and took everything they could to the West Coast. They were fleeing the East Coast.
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