Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 205 - Develop Human
Chapter 205: Chapter 205: Develop, Human!
Chapter 205: Chapter 205: Develop, Human!
Day 12, large amounts of machinery were rapidly lowered from space via carbon nanowires.
The volume of the Earth Era vessel was too massive to land directly on the planet’s surface, as it would have turned itself into a pile of junk due to its own mass; thus, it could only float in space and lower materials in this manner.
The whole process looked very exaggerated; from a height of eight thousand kilometers, it was almost like free fall, then, via the hanging ropes, it began braking about a thousand kilometers from the ground, eventually slowing down to a stop.
In this way, dozens or even hundreds of tons of machinery could be smoothly placed on the ground.
The Earth Era had three small space shuttles, each about the size of a small plane. However, these shuttles had a carrying capacity of no more than one ton and using them consumed precious chemical fuel.
Thus, unless absolutely necessary, people would not utilize these flying machines.
“I’m heading off, don’t worry about me. Don’t think too much about bonuses, just find me a girlfriend when I get back…” Facing the crowd who came to see him off, Engineer Ye Kaifu joked, put on his helmet, and pressed a button, emitting a light “hiss” sound.
As a senior engineer in the Ministry of Industry, he had to be at the forefront.
“Haha, don’t worry, when you come back, a robot girlfriend should have been developed, the nation will assign you a wife.” Zhang Yuan gently patted his shoulder and held up three fingers, “Three months, can you produce ten million tons of steel?”
Ye Kaifu’s eyes widened, then he heard the number that followed, what… ten million tons?
He swallowed hard; even if he burnt to ashes, he couldn’t achieve that.
Of course, he knew Zhang Yuan was just joking.
But regardless, he still felt somewhat nervous. Landing on an unexplored alien planet was not only pressure but also an honor—it wouldn’t be impossible to be recorded in history!
“Nervous?”
“A little bit, yes. The first human to land on Mars, or on Jupiter’s moon, must have felt this way…”
Volcanic activity created many mineral resources in this area; a large number of excavators, trains, and robots had been lowered via space ropes in previous days, back and forth, several times, only human operators were missing now.
With current human technology, only semi-automation of mechanical production was possible. Although it could be remotely controlled from the spaceship’s control section, the efficiency still couldn’t match on-site control, and there could also be some delay, which easily led to industrial accidents.
When the time came, approximately two hundred workers entered a large carriage, tied with eight thin, long gray space ropes, each only as wide as a little finger and less than 1 millimeter thick, yet their tensile strength was above 80 GPa.
At a lowering speed of 600 kilometers per hour, it would take 10 hours to reach the destination.
“Let’s go!”
Thus, one by one, elevators from five lowering portals of the Earth Era dispatched five batches of workers, totaling over a thousand people. Actually, not all of them were technical workers; the group also included reporters, doctors, soldiers, and various other professions.
Once the entire ecological environment was successfully established, more people would be transferred to work on the surface.
Ye Kaifu took a deep breath; he had never enjoyed such high-level treatment. He was one of the three highest commanders of this batch of people, and the youngest one at that!
He was constantly planning in his mind how the engineering should be done, what the steps were, how to improve efficiency, and so on. Even though he had run through various ideas in his mind countless times, he couldn’t help but still feel nervous.
His task was to lead the team, to dig and build houses; the second step was to construct industrial factories. Building underground was specialized technical work. For Ye Kaifu, with a solid foundation,_WRONLY it wasn’t too difficult, but…
“Engineer Ye, please take extra care of us later! Our newspaper is quite concerned about the progress of your entire project. We are, after all, bearing the weight of an entire civilization…”
The female reporter sitting next to him was named Luo Na, and she wanted to use this time to get acquainted with Ye Kaifu.
It seemed a beautiful reporter had set her sights on him, and her sweet voice made the love-unexperienced Ye Kaifu feel a bit feverish. He had primarily been responsible for maintaining the spaceship during the entire hibernation period, dealing mostly with old men, and it felt as though… he hadn’t spoken to a girl in three thousand years…
Suddenly, he became so nervous that he couldn’t speak, and his hands didn’t know where to rest, “Certainly, certainly…”
Luo Na pursed her lips, immediately seeing through Ye Kaifu’s state of mind, she couldn’t help but find it a bit amusing.
Actually, she had another hidden identity, the best friend of Zhang Yuan’s wife Lin Xuanyuan… As a leftover woman of a certain age, she had secretly come here to blind date…
Back on Earth, Luo Na was a beauty with wealth, her standards for boyfriends exceedingly high—not only must they be romantic and handsome, they also had to be somewhat artsy, a perfectionist, otherwise she wouldn’t have ventured to the Earth Era to try and experience a new civilization. However, after a complete hibernation period, once-beautiful dreams were inevitably worn away by reality, making her more mature and gradually abandoning those impractical notions.
Especially Lin Xuanyuan, her good friend, who had actually become a minister’s wife—it was impossible not to feel envious…
So, taking advantage of still being fair and beautiful, seeking a potential good match didn’t seem like a bad idea.
Of course, Luo Na wasn’t too impressed with Ye Kaifu at first sight. She disliked this kind of straightforward man from the bottom of her heart who gets nervous upon seeing a beautiful woman, unable to even make a joke, carrying a baffling loser vibe…
In this boring wait, with a “boom” a group of people finally arrived safely on the ground.
The engineers quickly became busy, starting to build a small base, basically by digging a big pit, placing the buildings underground. Pretty much a two to three-meter thickness of Moon soil, plus a layer of radiation shielding, would block cosmic radiation, but achieving the critical air-tightness was still quite technically challenging.
“Engineer Ye, I wanted to ask, how should we construct space landmark buildings?” As a reporter, Luo Na, finding nobody else to talk to, could only wander around with Ye Kaifu.
“Little Wang, you go get the compressor first…” Ye Kaifu paused, he was actually extremely busy, directing something through his headset, but at this moment, he had to be patient.
Since it was his area of expertise, there was nothing to be embarrassed about, he explained, “This small base will utilize 3D printing building materials brought down from the mother ship, for rapid construction, expected to be completed within 2-3 days.”
“As for concrete… We currently use a dry mix autoclave curing method, producing a special silicate cement concrete mixed with volcanic ash, the specific steps are as follows…”
Luo Na widened her eyes, she finally understood the feeling Lin Xuanyuan had when she interviewed Zhang Yuan back then. A myriad of words could only be understood in part, and even though she had pre-studied some technical knowledge, it was still impossible to understand.
“So…”
She wanted to continue asking something, but noticed Ye Kaifu, embarrassed, smiled softly, “Reporter Luo, perhaps… we can continue the interview after work, is that okay? The engineering vehicle is over there; if you’re tired, you can go inside for some food and rest.”
“Okay then…”
Seeing nobody was willing to engage with her, Luo Na could only aimlessly wander around the construction site. The gravity of this planet was very low; walking was like hopping like a rabbit.
As it turned out, after more than ten hours, this group was still furiously at work.
With all kinds of engineering blasting and excavation, a pit over twenty meters deep had been dug, and various 3D printed building materials were being installed inside.
Of course, even with quick progress, the entire sealing test might still take a few days.
Exhausted and hungry, Luo Na finally went with a few other girls into the engineering vehicle to eat…
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