Three days later, Annie came to Commander Zhao Chen to report on work matters, and Lilith also arrived with her.

Although Annie was responsible for setting up a series of construction plans, she still needed the cooperation of Lilith, the housekeeper, for raw material supply.

The moment Annie entered the conference room, she immediately sized up Commander Zhao Chen from head to toe.

"Commander, I feel that dissecting your brain is no longer enough. It's necessary to study your gene sequence to see what kind of being you are."

Half a minute later, Annie sat obediently in her chair, clutching her head.

"Based on the new Starship technical blueprints provided by the Commander in the past few days, and the Starships our Owl Dragon Fleet... Xiao Long Legion will need for future construction, I have drafted a construction plan outline."

"If there's anything that needs to be added, Commander and Sister Lilith, please feel free to bring it up."

Lilith looked up at the names of several brand-new Starship technical blueprint documents.

【T3 Judicator-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship Technical Blueprint】

【T3 Silver Mouse-class light interstellar stealth reconnaissance ship Technical Blueprint】

【T3 Emperor-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship】

Among them, the technical blueprint for the T3 Judicator-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship was undoubtedly the most valuable. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

After all, the Xiao Long Legion had experienced the terrifying combat power of the Interstellar Missile Ship, and this thing was addictive!

Of course, the other T3 Emperor-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship was by no means inferior!

And it was perfectly suited for the Xiao Long Legion's current small but elite positioning.

"Currently, we have ten T3 Furnaces and thirty T2 Iron Hammers."

"Five of the T3 Furnaces need to execute the original construction plan for the T4 Rebirth-class Clone Starship, which can be completed and enter service before the end of June," Annie first explained the Xiao Long Legion's current production capacity.

"According to your instructions, the first batch of T3 Punishers, at least five, will be built by three T3 Furnaces."

"After that, five T3 Silver Edens will be built by one T3 Furnace and multiple T2 Iron Hammers."

"One T3 Furnace will also construct one T3 Emperor-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship."

"Additionally, there is some surplus capacity for building five T3 Silver Mouse-class light interstellar stealth reconnaissance ships."

"Besides that, we still have some remaining capacity that will be responsible for building the Starships lost in this Zerg campaign, as well as the necessary Interstellar Missiles and energy blocks, which are strategic materials."

"If there are any temporary changes in construction demand, this portion of the capacity can also handle it."

As Annie spoke, her expression was very serious, like a little adult.

But she still couldn't change one habit: her dangling legs constantly swayed under the table.

"In short, this construction plan..."

"Will deliver one T4 Rebirth-class Clone Starship, one T3 Emperor-class Heavy Interstellar Battleship, five T3 Judicator-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ships, five T3 Silver Eden-class Starships, and five T3 Silver Mouse-class light interstellar stealth reconnaissance ships before the middle of this year."

"The entire construction plan will require an investment of 7 billion star coins worth of production resources and raw materials as construction costs."

"The largest portion of this is the T4 Rebirth-class Clone Starship currently under construction, costing 5 billion star coins over three months," Lilith provided the final summary.

Zhao Chen looked at Lilith beside him.

Lilith, understanding his unspoken request, brought up the Xiao Long Legion's current financial resources.

"At the beginning of the year, due to Governor Chu's 20 billion star coins in technology licensing fees, we had 23 billion star coins in financial and raw material reserves on our books."

"This quarter's production plan consumed nearly 10 billion star coins, then there was the construction of the Owl Dragon Star System, with an allocation of 1 billion star coins to Jiang Hong."

"Finally, there were the combat expenditures of this campaign."

"Have the combat expenditures for this Zerg campaign been tallied?" Zhao Chen interjected an unrelated question.

"Yes, I was going to report it to you later," Lilith pointed to another electronic document and opened it.

Zhao Chen glanced at it.

In this Zerg campaign, his Owl Dragon Fleet experienced its first instance of Starship losses.

This included five T2 Black Rhinos and one T3 Blizzard.

Some were destroyed by enemy ships, while others were too severely damaged to be worth repairing, so they were directly dismantled on-site, with their core technology modules destroyed, and sold as raw materials to local merchants.

There were also losses of a series of Starships and Interstellar Drones equipped on the T3 Phoenix: over 4,500 T3 Black Phoenix Drones, thirty-two T3 Phoenix-class Interstellar Fighters...

"Excluding the lost Starships, our total combat expenditure for this Zerg campaign was 100 million star coins," Lilith tallied a surprisingly high figure.

A combat expenditure of 100 million star coins might not seem like much compared to the North Wind Star Sector's total expenditure in this Zerg operation.

But what if that 100 million star coins in combat was generated by only a little over a hundred Interstellar Warship?

Many Fleet Commanders would likely be dumbfounded and find it hard to imagine.

At this ratio, wouldn't a legion-level fleet of three thousand ships incur a combat expenditure of 3 billion star coins?

The more one thought about it, the more terrifying it became!

"In short, calculating it this way, our Xiao Long Legion still has approximately 11 billion star coins in funds and raw materials on its books," Lilith said.

"11 billion star coins, and this construction plan is estimated to cost 7 billion star coins. That's manageable," Zhao Chen said, "Then let's proceed with this arrangement."

Originally, Zhao Chen had wanted to build another T4 Hui Guang-class Interstellar Jump Ship, but unfortunately, there was no spare capacity available at the moment as they needed to expand their combat-type Interstellar Warship.

He could only temporarily put this idea aside.

By the second half of the year, they would expand another batch of T3 Furnaces to further increase the Xiao Long Legion's production capacity, and these missing Starships could naturally be compensated for.

It takes at least nearly a century for others to build a powerful Starfleet.

For Zhao Chen, it had achieved scale in just a few months, but he was still somewhat dissatisfied with this efficiency.

If outsiders knew, they would probably only sigh about him not appreciating his good fortune.

"Regarding the T3 Silver Eden-class Starship, at least one must be completed and enter service before early April, is that correct?" Zhao Chen brought up an important point.

"No problem," Annie nodded.

"Then let's conclude this discussion meeting here," Zhao Chen declared the meeting over.

But Zhao Chen's gaze fell on Annie, somewhat unkindly.

Annie cleverly sensed that something was wrong, and she immediately said with a fawning smile, "I suddenly remembered that I seem to have some unfinished business. I'll take my leave first. Commander, bye-bye."

Saying that, Annie jumped off her chair, ready to make her escape.

But unfortunately, her head was held down by a large hand.

"Annie, I heard that someone is selling things related to me online. Things like bowls I've used, my photos, and even things I've used..."

A sinister voice came from behind Annie.

"Gulp." Annie swallowed, looking like a thief caught red-handed.