Chapter 742 Exploring the Starry Sky

In terms of the current average life expectancy in the Great Xia Empire, people are considered middle-aged after 100 years old, and old age after 160 years old.

Not everyone wants to live a long life. There are also many people in the Great Xia Empire who have not received the injection of [Gene Optimization Fluid], and they will grow old within twenty to thirty years.

It is worth mentioning that Luffy's [Devil Fruit] ability is indeed a life-burning skill. The effect of [Gene Optimization Fluid] is greatly reduced, and it is expected that he can only live to about a hundred years old.

In this way, Luffy is already very satisfied.

[The Straw Hat Adventure Group] has already traveled around the world in the past twenty years.

Since they had plenty of time, they stopped and walked, and occasionally went back to their hometown to stay for a while. In short, the trip was quite pleasant.

It was just comfortable, but lacked excitement, which made Luffy a little dissatisfied.

More than 20 years have passed, and the Straw Hat Adventure Group still has a very harmonious relationship among its members, holding several gatherings every year. Thanks to the convenient transportation network, they can travel to any place in the world in a day at most.

Xia Jieren took some time to observe and found that the Straw Hat Adventure Group really had become a group of bachelors. Each of them was in their forties or fifties and still alone.

[Sunny].

"Hey, Green Algae Head, you look a lot older."

"Humph! You're still the same. It's been half a year since we last met. I wonder if your cooking skills have deteriorated?"

"I'll let you try it later!"

"I'm looking forward to Sanji's cooking."

"Me too, me too!"

"Chopper, after so many years, why haven't you grown up yet?"

"Damn it, I want to ask why too."

"Brook, start the music! The party is about to begin!"

"With pleasure, Captain!"

“I’m super happy to see you all!”

“It’s great that everyone is so energetic.”

There was constant laughter and joy on the [Sunny].

After the banquet, everyone sat together.

Franky spoke first: "Luffy, the Great Xia Empire has begun to explore the starry sky. As long as we find a planet with life, I believe it won't be long before we can go on an adventure in the starry sky."

"Haha~, that's great! I can't wait." Luffy said with anticipation, "I really hope this day will come soon, my body is almost rusty."

"A new world? I'm really looking forward to it!"

Zoro, Sanji and others couldn't help but look forward to it.

In fact, large-scale exploration of space began more than ten years ago.

However, the scale of the universe is too large. The nearest star system to Daxia Star (formerly Pirate Star) is about 3.2 light-years away, and the fastest transportation vehicle in the Daxia Empire only travels at one thousandth of the speed of light. According to this calculation, it will take at least 3200 years to reach the adjacent star system.

This is really too long. By the time we reach the nearest star system, the opportunity will be gone.

Therefore, Xia Jieren does not expect to develop other star systems now. The resources of the star system where Daxia Star is located are sufficient to be mined for a long time, enough to support the Daxia Empire to continue climbing the technology tree.

Xia Jieren was very curious about how the space pirates in the original work arrived at the Great Xia Planet.

According to the investigation of [Heart Network], the solar system where Daxia is located has 7 planets including Daxia, nearly 300 satellites and at least 80 asteroids, as well as some dwarf planets and comets.

This is a huge amount of resources. Within a hundred years, the development of the Great Xia Empire will not have to worry about anything.

As of today, researchers engaged in space-related research account for 60% of the total number of researchers. New research breakthroughs are made and new topics are proposed every day.

The Great Xia Empire launched a vigorous space mining campaign, with endless resources being mined and piled up.

Hundreds of millions of energy points are earned every day, and Xia Jieren is eager to spend this energy.

As a result, the Great Xia Empire began a series of large-scale infrastructure projects. Building a Dyson sphere around the sun, verifying the technology of space stations and space cities, and transforming planets...

Year 28 of the Great Xia calendar.

Through in-depth research on space-type Devil Fruits such as the Door-Door Fruit, Leviathan has the ability to jump short distances through space.

Although this is only based on the application of the [Devil Fruit] and may not be usable in other universes, Xia Jieren is already very satisfied.

Therefore, Xia Jieren spent all the efforts of the whole country to hatch 200 [Leviathans] with a body length of hundreds of kilometers, and explored the surrounding areas with the solar system as the center. Along the way, [Leviathans] will continuously scatter [Heart Network] nodes for information communication.

Year 30 of the Great Xia calendar.

For the first time, the Daxia Empire discovered a planet with life, inhabited by an alien race called the Orcs, who had human bodies and animal heads, very similar to the Fur Tribe, and were still in the tribal era.

"I wonder if there are any races like elves and dwarves?" Xia Jieren's eyes flashed with strong curiosity.

"The universe is so vast that nothing is impossible!" Kerrigan smiled faintly and then asked, "How should we deal with the orc planet?"

"Needless to say, the life planet cannot be missed." Xia Jieren raised the corner of his mouth.

"I understand!"

a few days later.

The Zerg army arrived and occupied the entire planet in less than a day. They eliminated the resistance forces and incorporated those who surrendered.

At this time, Xia Jieren was embarrassed to find that the population of the Great Xia Empire was too small. 5.6 million people seemed a bit stretched at this time.

Then, the Great Xia Empire released various policies to encourage childbirth.

Giving birth is the most glorious thing.

You give birth, the country raises.

Various slogans emerged one after another.

Not only that, the Daxia Empire also introduced various punishment measures, such as: those who did not get married after reaching a certain age, or those who did not have children within a specified time after getting married, would have their taxes multiplied several times.

These measures will not solve the current predicament.

After much thought, Xia Jieren decided to hatch [Zergmen] to fill the population gap. "Kerrigan, expand the population to one billion!"

"Yes!"

Kerrigan had no objection.

According to her idea, ordinary people are not needed at all. It is not impossible to have all [Insect People] serve as the citizens of the empire. The only difference is that the speed of technological development will be slower.

Time is the least valuable thing in the universe.

Xia Jieren shook his head and denied Kerrigan's idea.

If possible, Xia Jieren still wants to focus on humans. Not to mention the fact that he himself is a human, although the Zerg are good, their creativity is really lacking.

In Xia Jieren's vision, human scientists eliminate research directions, while the Zerg continue to make mistakes in this direction. Scientific research is a process of continuous trial and error.

One billion people is still a little too few, but this kind of thing can't be rushed, Xia Jieren can only wait patiently. The development of the Great Xia Empire cannot be achieved overnight, and the people must be given a buffer period.

Taking this opportunity, Xia Jieren took the girls to travel around the explored starry sky area.

There are many dangers in the universe. At first, Xia Jieren was worried for a while, but then his mentality gradually calmed down.