Holding her mother's hand, Yan Jinzhi and Li Yao came to the observation deck on the top of 'Yuanwang 24' through the lift.
In this place, Xu Yulan finally breathed the fresh air for the first time in a hundred years.
Although the air composition of Boneyard was different from the standard atmosphere, and it was more humid with a strong smell of blood, Xu Yulan still could not help but breathe hard until her lungs were aching and her eyes were filled with colorful colors.
Living on a starship for a long time, breathing the synthesized standard air, and being exposed to the fresh air that was full of all kinds of impurities, would lead to such a phenomenon. Many people called it 'oxygen intoxication'.
"Look, Mom!"
Pointing at the magnificent rivers and mountains, Yan Jinzhi exclaimed in joy.
Xu Yulan's visual nerves, which had been frozen for a hundred years, were not used to the intense natural light yet. Narrowing her eyes, she covered her eyebrows with her hands and looked into the distance, only to discover that most of the immigrant starships, from 'Yuanwang 7' to 'Yuanwang 33', were scattered in a hilly area not far away from the ocean.
The bright blue land was full of wrinkles, which were mountains tens of thousands of meters high one moment and valleys thousands of meters deep the next. Compared to them, the 'hilly area' that they were on could almost be called a flat land.
The surging tides raised by the crimson ocean far away were the most intense that she had ever seen in her life. The waves soared to hundreds of meters into the sky every now and then, as if countless dragons were dancing crazily. Even with the blockage of multiple breakwaters, the shoreline could still be seen clearly within dozens of kilometers. The hills that they were on were almost drowned by the waves.
However, even on such a magnificent and temperamental ocean, there were still countless bizarre-shaped man-made objects, which looked like weird ships made of countless piled sails. Riding the tides hundreds of meters high, they were galloping as fast as lightning, demonstrating the determination of human beings to defeat nature.
Xu Yulan's eyes continued moving forward until she saw the outline of an enormous planet in the gray sky above the horizon.
That silhouette was shining like a sparkling and translucent jade bracelet.
At first, Xu Yulan thought that it was an annular eclipse.
But if it was an annular eclipse, the light around was a bit too bright.
Not long after, the ring of light began to tremble slightly. Countless tiny strands of light began to split from it, and all of them began to turn in one direction.
The threads of light seemed to be affecting the marvelous power deep inside the ocean. As the threads of light changed, the frequency and intensity of the surging waves grew higher and higher.
Xu Yulan even saw an enormous wave that was at least thousands of meters high rising from the depths of the ocean, mixed with flames and smoke. It was almost breaking through the atmosphere and flying into space.
Such a magnificent spectacle made Xu Yulan dumbfounded and speechless for a long time.
"Mom, don't be scared. This is Boneyard that we are modifying!"
Just now, she had been holding her daughter's hand tightly, wanting to pull her daughter behind her to protect her. Now, her daughter was hugging her arm and using her warm palm to warm her cold fingers.
Her daughter smiled. "Boneyard is perfect in every way, except that one of the satellites is too close to it, and its orbit is very weird. The tidal force between the satellite and Boneyard not only makes the ocean here particularly violent, and the surging waves often invade hundreds of kilometers inland, but also causes the satellite to fall directly and hit the surface of Boneyard heavily a long time later.
"It is exactly because of the two factors that the Xing Yao Federation did not develop Boneyard on a large scale in the past hundred years.
"But now that this place has become our new home, of course, it needs to be modified on a large scale. First of all, we have to deal with the tidal force and the falling satellite. Then, we have to flatten the mountains and valleys. For that reason, the Federation has decided to adjust the orbit of the satellite slightly and push the 'moon' away."
Xu Yulan bulged her eyes and blurted out, "Push the 'moon' away?"
"Yes," Yan Jinzhi said. "The Xing Yao Federation has never attempted such a feat before. In the past, they did not have the technological reserves in that regard.
Yan Jinzhi said, "However, with the technology of the Black Wind Fleet, the technology of Kunlun, the technology of Firefly, and the technology of the federation itself, there is a chance that we can succeed!
"Of course, we are still in the phase of technological verification and data collection. We are far from being able to really push the moon away. Do you see the weird ships that are floating in the surging tides as if they were full of sails? They are the exploration warships that are collecting the tidal data and making preparations for the arrival of the next phase of the era of 'push'!
"Five years, ten years, twenty years … I think, by the time I grow up to your age, we will certainly push the moon away, tame the oceans, cut off the mountains to fill the valleys, and build Boneyard into Ultimacy, a real paradise, won't we?"
Her daughter's solemn face triggered the memories deep inside Xu Yulan's heart.
She seemed to recall the time when she had brought her family to the desolate Emerald Valley Castle. Her heart was filled with hope and pride.
That was the happiest, happiest, and most energetic golden age of her life.
Xu Yulan ignored the 'Firefly' that her daughter mentioned. She only felt that her daughter seemed to have truly grown up after such a long journey …
Under Yan Jinzhi's guidance, Xu Yulan looked at the mountains that rose into the clouds around. She saw countless high towers standing on the top of the mountains. Every tower was spurting out hazy mist incessantly, which vaguely constructed a misty barrier next to the landing point of their starship.
Her daughter told her that it was a great array that was used to modify the atmosphere and purge the air.
Boneyard was a nest of demons tens of thousands of years ago after all. There were too many impurities in the air that were not suitable for ordinary people to breathe for a long time, which would lead to all kinds of chronic diseases. In the old saying, the place was a 'land of smoke'.
Thankfully, the Federation had accumulated abundant experience in planet modification in the past hundred years of colonization. At the very least, establishing a protected area, purging the air in a small area, and even generating a 'microclimate' with favorable weather within a certain range were all mature technologies.
The colonization technology of the Imperium of True Human Beings was even more advanced than that of the Ling family's Federation. The 'Yuanwang' starship that Xu Yulan and her family were on was an all-inclusive, self-sufficient town and factory in itself. At the very least, in the first few years of construction, they did not need to establish vulnerable settlements in the outside world at all.
Right now, all the immigrant starships of the 'Yuanwang' series had extended hundreds of fixed limbs that looked like spiders and pierced into the ravines among the hills to stabilize themselves.
With that as the foundation, the solid shell of the migration ship was dismantled piece by piece, revealing the complicated and dazzling factories and facilities inside. Some of them were directly placed next to the migration ship, while others were dragged further away to be unfolded.
Defense rune arrays, air cleaning towers, water purification plants, metal collection and purification plants … Every immigrant starship was turning into a small but well-equipped town at a visible speed.
Although Xu Yulan thought that she had seen a lot of things, she had never seen so many starships turning into small towns at the same time. The ambition to change the world and reverse nature shocked her heart deeply, making her feel uncannily … touched!
Suddenly, Xu Yulan's eyes moved away from the dazzling scenes of construction and fell on an enormous fold that surrounded the hills like a dam far away.
The circular fold was like a city wall built by giants that blocked the hills inside and prevented them from expanding and developing further.
Therefore, it was necessary to destroy it!
On the steep slope that was almost ninety degrees from the circular folds, different areas were divided. Many eight-legged magical equipment that looked like giant spiders were moving quickly on them, digging deep holes on the slope with their tentacles that were equipped with drills now and then.
Xu Yulan knew that the eight-legged magical equipment was commonly known as' Mountain Crabs'. They were engineering magical equipment that was designed to blow up the forsaken buildings and the steep rocks. Their eight flexible limbs could fix them in all kinds of harsh environments and keep them moving at a high speed. The drills at the ends of the tentacles could also drill out blasting holes precisely and deliver the crystal bombs to the most vulnerable parts.
Xu Yulan was also an expert at piloting 'Mountain Crabs'. That was why she could tell how awesome the explorer who was piloting the red crabs was.
He was moving and digging blasting holes on the wall at more than five times the speed of other people. When other people had only finished digging a dozen blasting holes, he had already embedded almost a hundred crystal bombs into the front of the mountain. The crab that weighed more than seventy tons was like an extension of his limbs. His movements were smooth and pleasing to the eye.
The distance was too far away for Xu Yulan to see how the blasting holes were like exactly, but judging from his flawless movements, it could not have been wrong.
As she expected, after a deafening explosion, not much smoke was raised. A large area of rocks collapsed without a sound, but it did not affect the crab that was operating nearby.
"What an expert!"
Blasting was an art, too. How to blow up the target into pieces with the smallest number of crystals in the smallest range and the difficulty of subsequent cleaning was a very sophisticated study.
Xu Yulan vaguely saw that the red crabs crawled out of the smoke. The 'crab cover' on the back was opened, and a guy in a red vest crawled out and waved his hands, accepting the cheers and applause of the builders with a smile.
She secretly complimented him, but her hands were itching. There was no telling whether or not she was affected by the heated construction scene, but she suddenly had the urge to compete with the guy.
"My daughter."
Xu Yulan rubbed her fists. "The guy who is piloting the red crabs is so awesome. Do you know who he is?"
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