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Valinor's Light Field, the Belegel Galaxy, Planet Yao-23
Planet Yao-23 is a planet with a harsh environment, 92% of its surface area is yellow sand and Gobi, and the barren land cannot grow any crops. The remaining 8% is ocean.
And the plants of this planet are extremely single, a kind of algae growing in the ocean accounts for 96% of the total number of plants, this algae provides the oxygen needed for the organisms on this planet, but this algae is inedible, because all water bodies contain a large number of toxic heavy metals, these heavy metals will be deposited in the algae, making it toxic, and even the few fish living in the water are toxic and inedible.
Crops don't grow, animals can't eat them, and the planet can't naturally produce anything to eat. If you want to artificially cultivate soilless, you generally use the nutrient solution membrane method, but the nutrient solution and other items required for this method are not available locally on the planet, and you need to buy them from other planets, which also leads to the high cost of soilless cultivation and cannot be promoted at all.
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Therefore, the food source of the residents on Yao-23 is mainly supplied by transport ships that come every three days, and the supply is mainly based on cheap canned synthetic meat, canned pickled vegetables and nutrient beads, and there is basically no fresh vegetables, fruits and milk, which also leads to widespread malnutrition among the inhabitants of the planet.
Moreover, these supplies need to be purchased by the residents themselves, so the pressure on their lives has always been high.
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The only thing that can be self-sufficient on the planet is water, although the water bodies on the planet contain excessive heavy metals, but distilled water can be distilled by blister distillation to obtain almost no toxins, because metal salts will not be distilled.
Although distilled water can be drunk, distilled water lacks minerals, and long-term drinking of distilled water is very harmful to the human body, such as acidifying the body, lowering blood pressure, and even causing blood loss.
Moreover, because the planet Yao-23 is close to the star, ultraviolet rays damage their bodies all the time, causing their skin cancer to develop several times higher than normal.
The land is barren, the water weight metal exceeds the standard, it is impossible to grow and breed edible animals and plants, and the ultraviolet rays are serious.
For all these reasons, Planet Yao-23 has received a rating of unfit for survival.
However, there are about 100,000 people living on the planet Yao-23, which has been rated as unlivable, and these 100,000 people are scattered around the planet in ten camps.
Since the environment of Yao 23 planet is harsh, why do people still live here?
This has to do with the empire that rules the Valinor Light field, which has strict migration rules that prohibit individuals from traveling between planets unless they have an interstellar passport.
The interstellar passport can only be applied for by citizens of the empire, and most of the people who live in Yao 237 are interstellar scavengers, and there are some interstellar fugitives and illegal traders.
They are all marginalized people, and they have no status as citizens of the Empire at all, so they simply cannot travel to live on the pleasant planet of Valinor's Light Field.
Therefore, the greatest wish of these interstellar scavengers is to one day save enough money to become citizens of the Empire, leave here, and live on that beautiful planet.
And to become a citizen of the Empire, in addition to being born, there is a certain standard to apply actively, and this standard is not met by many people in their lifetimes.
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In Camp 5, the interstellar scavengers who went out have returned one after another.
After everyone has sorted out their things, due to the limitations of the environment, the most common way to entertain is to get together and chat.
In a tent, more than a dozen people were exchanging the harvest of their trip, when an old man with gray hair walked in, and the others asked, "Lao Gu, I heard that you rescued a young man this time." ”
Lao Gu sat down and said, "Yes, the escape pod that the young man was riding in was broken, so I rescued him." ”
Lao Gu here does not tell the truth, because telling the truth will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble.
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When everyone was discussing Lao Gu's rescue, a guy hurriedly ran in, and after he drank a large sip of distilled water, he said, "There is a big matter." ”
Everyone was curious: "What's the big deal?" ”
"The Second Tiger's squad is dead. And it's not just one who died, all of them in the team except for the two tigers died. ”
"It's so serious, what's going on?"
"I heard from the two tigers who survived that they were infected by the virus inside when they opened a certain stone and died."
Someone immediately questioned: "Isn't the spacesuit isolated from the outside world?" How can you get infected by the virus? ”
Another person agreed: "Could it be that their team found some treasure, and the second tiger got up to speed and killed all his teammates." ”
"We were suspicious too, but Erhu brought back their corpses, which didn't have any injuries on them, and they didn't look like they had died of poisoning. Saying that the second tiger kills people, how did he do it? ”
Now everyone wondered, could it be that they were really infected by some virus and died.
"And how did you deal with this?"
"It's not decided yet, the camp committee is discussing how to deal with it."
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In a certain tent, Fang Zhou woke up from a coma, his vision was very blurred, his limbs were weak and weak like noodles, and his head was as chaotic as paste, and he couldn't figure out the current situation.
He calmed down, and finally slowly cleared his mind and figured out what was going on - he was attacked by Hotaru when he was passing through the wormhole, and as soon as he got out of the wormhole, the wormhole collapsed, and the energy shield that protected him disappeared, and then he lost consciousness in the universe, and when he woke up again, the person was gone.
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The Ark looked around and found himself in a brown tent with rough stone slabs on the floor, a bed on the left and a bed on the right, a metal table in the middle with some food, two blue plastic buckets next to the table, a set of oil-stained spacesuits in the corner, and some unknown miscellaneous items.
And he is not lying in bed, but in a plastic bucket, in which the warm water is warming his body.
It seems that he was saved.
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After a while, there was a sound of footsteps, and a thin little girl came in with a small bucket, and she came to the bucket of the ark, and tried to lift the water from the bucket and pour it into a bucket taller than herself.
"Wow"
After the water was poured in, the little girl lowered her head and panted, and she could see that the little girl was very hard.
The little girl rested for a while and then said to herself, "This big brother, why haven't you woken up yet, I'll pour in some hot water and try it." ”
The little girl was about to leave when she heard a voice: "No, I'm awake." ”
The little girl was startled at first, then stood on tiptoe to see Fang Zhou's open eyes, and said in surprise: "Big brother, you are awake." ”
"yes, thanks to you."
After saying that, Ark wanted to stand up, but he forgot that he was not wearing clothes at the moment.