Volume 2 The Road to Salvation Chapter 108 Base Expansion
The Earth Fire also landed nearby after finding the Huaguo Mars base through a quantum beacon.
The buildings of the base are arranged in a (Japanese) shape, and the experimental cabin, planting cabin, living cabin and other functional cabins are enclosed in a rectangle, and there is a passage in the middle.
The components of these functional compartments were built in several batches.
The first components were modularly produced on Earth, then launched into outer space on high-powered rockets, and then released on Mars after several orbit changes, but due to the high cost, only two test modules were put into operation at that time.
Later, after the successful construction of the starship, the 3D printing equipment and printing materials were directly transported to Mars, and the parts of each functional module were printed on site and then assembled.
Some other experimental equipment and living facilities are also printed by 3D printers, which are molded at one time, which is quite sci-fi.
The staff and researchers stationed at the Mars base are genetically modified like Minsk, and after the landing of the Earthfire, three people are already waiting below.
Shi Hao led all the members of the Shenglong squad to salute them in the same line, and then shook hands. Ilev, Tian Sakura, and the rest of the personnel did not come down from the Earthfire, partly because the base space was too small, and on the other hand, some secrets could not be exposed to too many people's noses.
The Mars base in China is qualitatively different from the Mars base in Minsk, which aspires to establish a nation of Nikolai.
The Huaguo base represents the will of the country, and most of them are scientific researchers, conducting a number of experiments and research on Mars, with the ultimate goal of coming up with an optimal and long-term plan to build a Martian city with comprehensive functions, and find and improve the plan to transform Mars.
After the deterioration of the earth's environment, more attention has been paid to the construction and search for the second and third planets suitable for human habitation and life.
Shi Hao and the others were in a hurry to enter the base, but they walked around the base, and when they walked to the other side, they found that there were two experimental cabins and a planting cabin idle there, those two experimental cabins were one size smaller than the functional cabins they were using now, and the planting cabin was a little damaged and deformed.
Under the guidance of the base personnel, Shi Hao and the others entered through a door, and after dusting, they entered the base. A man who took off his helmet came to Shi Hao and saluted and reported loudly: "Comrade General, welcome to the Mars base to guide the work. I am Zuo Anlong, the person in charge of the base. ”
Shi Hao immediately returned the salute, Zuo Anlong is a colonel, in his 30s.
Everyone went to the conference room to sit down, and Zuo Anlong said apologetically: "Comrade General, the conditions of the base are not very good, there is no special reception room, so you can rest here for the time being." ”
Shi Hao smiled and said, "Everyone is their own people, you're welcome." But you've been here for a few years, and you've worked hard. I was instructed before I came that your rotation would be reduced to half a year because the new starship was built and would often transport people and cargo between Earth and Mars. ”
Zuo Anlong couldn't help wiping his moist eyes when he heard Shi Hao's news (forbidden), and then quickly smiled awkwardly, laughing at himself: "Alas, it's getting more and more boring, so I can make you laugh." "His Mandarin pronunciation is a bit non-standard.
Laura handed over a tissue and said, "Colonel Zuo, we have been on Mars for a month, and we know the difficult conditions here very well. ”
Shi Hao then talked about Huaguo's decision to expand the Mars base, and Zuo Anlong apologized when he heard this, asked Shi Hao and them to wait for a while, and then walked out.
A few minutes later, he returned, followed by three others.
He introduced them one by one: "This is Professor Si, this is Professor Li, and this is Professor Tang. ”
As soon as his words fell, the professor standing at the front said: "Xiao Zuo, it's history, not death, I will be angry with you sooner or later." After saying that, he shook his head with a wry smile.
Zuo Anlong scratched his head and said: "You are old and angry, and you don't know that my ordinary fa is not standard." ”
Everyone laughed at this authentic Southern Mandarin, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.
After everyone was seated, Professor Shi spoke, and it could be seen that he was faintly the leader.
"General Shi, I like to get straight to the point, in fact, I have already asked for our opinions on the expansion of the Mars base more than a month ago, and I replied at the time that there are still some problems that have not been solved, and we should slow down."
"In addition, we have tested the kind of special glass cover used on the moon, and found that this kind of glass is easy to corrode on Mars, and it will be scrapped after about ten years at most."
"If we forcibly expand, we will have to rebuild in a few years, and it will really be hard for people's livelihood and money, and the gains outweigh the losses. Back then, it cost a lot of money to transport a plate and a piece of glass to Mars, not to mention expanding a base. Professor Shi said sadly.
This is the respected old expert of Huaguo, who can give up his life to Mars, but he still thinks about saving money for the country everywhere.
After hearing Professor Shi's words, Shi Hao said: "Professor Shi, I understand your concerns very well, I will not answer your question for the time being, I would like to invite you to move to the Earthfire starship to be a guest now." What do you think? ”
Professor Shi was a little puzzled, but nodded in agreement. Zuo Anlong and two other staff members helped the three professors put on space suits and leave the base to board the Earthfire.
The three professors listened to the introduction of the staff of the Earthfire, stroked the console, chairs, tables and other items, and walked around the cabin area and said "Okay, good", when they came to the cargo hold, they saw the huge space, looked at the glass covers stacked together, and looked at the latest intelligent control construction robots, tears in their eyes.
After the visit, Shi Hao took them to the restaurant, where Tian Ying served authentic chicken soup and home-cooked side dishes, and the three of them ate, drank, and laughed. From that moment on, they felt that the hardships they had endured before were worth it.
Shi Hao said on the side: "Don't worry, even if the glass cover is changed once a year, I, Shi Hao, can pull it over for you, the cost is only a drop in the bucket compared to before, the garrison of the base has been dedicated to a few years, what I can do is to try to create a good environment for you and create a safe base." ”
Professor Shi saw such a powerful Earth Fire Signal, and his heart was also relieved, and he said: "General Shi, we fully cooperate with the expansion of the base, but there is one thing (Qingqing) that must be solved first, otherwise our hearts will always hang." ”
"What's the matter, please tell me."
At this time, Zuo Anlong answered: "Let me tell you." One night while we were sleeping, we heard an alarm go off. The monitoring shows that the cabin is leaking, and then automatically separates the cabin, cutting off the hidden danger. ”
"When I and a few security personnel put on space suits and rushed out, we vaguely saw a big bug gnawing at our planting module, fortunately there was no one in the planting module at night, otherwise there would have been casualties." Zuo Anlong still had palpitations when he recalled it.
"At that time, we only had the first laser gun in our hands, the power was very small, after hitting, the bug ran away, we didn't dare to chase it at night, and we didn't find it again the next day."
At this time, Shi Hao remembered the broken planting cabin placed on the edge of the base.
Shi Hao took Zuo Anlong to the cargo hold again, opened a box, and inside was the corpse of the Huangshan level, that is, the gray-black stone pattern insect, Zuo Anlong saw it and quickly nodded and said that it was such a bug.
Shi Hao thought to himself, it seems that the Stone Insect King has eyeliner arranged throughout Mars, I don't know how much is left on the entire Mars? Will it reproduce?
Returning to the restaurant, he said: "The base in Minsk was destroyed by these bugs, but the source of the bugs has been solved, and the rest is not to be feared, and the laser guns and laser cannons we brought can easily kill them." ”
"If there are any more insects, kill them directly, and they are most afraid of oxygen, so you can use oxygen to kill them."
Zuo Anlong also described the corpse of the insect he saw just now to the three professors, and Shi Hao talked about the characteristics of the insect (sex xing) and the method of getting rid of it, and they were a lot relieved after hearing it.
Next, they began to discuss the specific implementation plan of the base expansion, and when discussing the problem of Martian dust corrosion, Professor Tang said: "The most important thing on Mars is dry ice, and we can install a dry ice cleaning machine on the glass cover and clean the cover regularly." ”
Professor Li added: "There is no atmosphere on the moon, and there is no problem with a single-layer glass cover. Although the atmosphere on Mars is thin, there are still them, and their flow has the potential to cause a loss of the amount of heat inside the hood, and I think the glass cover at the Martian base should be made into two layers. ”
Shi Hao did not put forward the idea of extracting materials from Martian soil and mixing special glass here, after all, it has not been verified, and he is going to bring some Martian rocks back to verify it.
Soon, the base expansion plan was formulated, and all the staff and base personnel on the Earth Fire took action, and the construction robots re-leveled and excavated the land next to the base, fully carrying forward the fine tradition of "infrastructure madness".
Ten days later, all the glass covers were installed, the underground passages were excavated, and the new building modules brought from Earth were designed and manufactured according to the shape of the glass covers.
The only regret is that the diameter of the glass cover is too small, and it seems that the next step is to build a special glass manufacturing plant on Mars.
The water used for the Mars base is transported back from the ice at the poles of Mars, and the transport vehicles are two old-fashioned Mars transport vehicles that can fly two or three meters above the ground. This time he came to Mars, although he brought a lot of pure water, Shi Hao still arranged for the Earth Fire to go to the North Pole and brought a large amount of water ice and dry ice back.
After the construction of the base was completed, all the scientific researchers made a long list of materials for the test and asked the Earth Fire to bring it over next time.
The Mars base quantum satellite control center has been activated, and they can access the Internet and make phone calls at any time. The soft and hard power of the entire base has been replaced with shotguns.
There was not a single piece of food left on the Earthfire, all of it was left for the base personnel. Dozens of tons of Martian rocks were loaded into the cargo hold, and Katerina was picked up as agreed.
At this point, the Huaguo Mars base began to transform and gradually grew into a springboard for Huaguo to enter space.
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