Chapter 12 Earthlings on Ceres

In the 23rd century, it is very convenient for human beings to enter space, and on the contrary, their adaptability and patience to space are not so strong, after all, a large number of people who go into space are not carefully selected and long-term targeted astronauts.

In this era, astronauts are still astronauts, they are still at the forefront of exploring the starry sky, and people like Lu Ping can only be regarded as a harsh working environment.

Correspondingly, they are also more demanding.

You can't stay in a spaceship for a long time, especially in a small spaceship, if the space is too small, it is easy to get sick for a long time, mentally.

Therefore, the spaceship should prepare a relatively spacious place for them, relatively delicious food, entertainment facilities, and regular visits to a psychiatrist to keep them mentally healthy.

The most important thing is not to stay in the spaceship for a long time, and when you reach a certain time, you have to go to a bigger place to rest for two days, and it is best to land on a planet, if not, satellites, dwarf planets, and asteroids are also okay, anyway, you have to see green plants, blue sky, rocks, mud, etc.

Lu Ping and the others originally set off from the earth on February 10, first arrived at the space station, and then boarded Beicheng 15 from the space station, spent five days to come to the asteroid belt, and then began to work, and now on March 11, counting the time to rush, it is only more than 20 days.

After all, it is only an intern, and the time for "formal work" is not much more than the time for "study and work", but this time still has a great impact on these students.

At the very least, they all look a lot more mature.

You can get to Ceres today, and tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday, so employees can relax.

In order to let them relax, they were specially settled for one month's internship salary, which was calculated from the day they boarded the ship.

It's not much, but it makes sense, after all, it's the first month's salary on the job.

As the spaceship approached Ceres, looking at the bare scene in front of him, Lu Ping deeply felt that it was a blessing to be born on Earth.

Although every year there are some so-called "experts" who say that the earth is heating up again, storms, droughts, floods, earthquakes, etc., but as long as you go out of the earth and take a walk, you will find that the earth's environment is simply heaven.

The valley-1 space station is the earliest space station on Ceres, and it is also the largest space station in the orbit of Ceres, which has undergone many expansions and is now a behemoth, with a huge spindle that can dock hundreds of spacecraft at the same time, and six annular survival areas rotate non-stop, providing a maximum of 0.8G simulated gravity, ensuring the living needs of 200,000 people.

After the spacecraft docked, Lu Ping and the others did not stay here for a long time, but took their backpacks and took the public landing craft to Shuiqi City.

Beicheng 15 does not have the ability to land on the planet due to cost problems, so the wreckage trading is completed at the cargo ship dock in the main axis area of the space station, and the same is true for Beicheng 13, which will come later.

All the colonial cities on Ceres are remodeled on the basis of mines, which is not only safe, but also saves materials, so there are few buildings on the ground, and the water and gas city they are going to is the largest colonial city on Ceres, with a permanent population of 5 million, most of whom are native to the asteroid belt.

With the vain steps that the six relatives did not recognize, a group of short men stepped out of the landing craft, and it was Lu Ping and his group.

Ceres' own mass gravity is only a few percent of that of the Earth, and it only has a simulated gravity of 0.3G after acceleration by Felt Power, so after several generations of colonists, the average height of adults on Ceres is about two meters, and they are all tall and thin.

Lu Ping and the rest of the earthlings came here like ordinary people on the basketball team, and everyone had to look up to see them.

"Hey, old road, look at this, answer it when you have time, and get points."

Shen Youde, who was walking next to Lu Ping, touched his arm, and after seeing him turn his head, he made a void throwing motion, and an extra flashing message immediately appeared on his AR glasses.

Lu Ping clicked on it and saw that it was a topic invitation from the "Do You Know" platform, and asked him to answer a topic called "How do you think the current space wreckage collection industry does not assume social responsibility".

"Social responsibility for this?"

"Yes," Shen Youde replied while typing in the void: "The slut invited me, I invited you easily, I have nothing to answer, the points can be exchanged for the exchange coupon of the Sun Supermarket, there is also a Sun Supermarket here in Ceres, if you can exchange it for ten or eight yuan, just buy you a birthday gift." ”

“……”

Lu Ping didn't think that the gift money was too small, but he was thinking about whether he could fool Shen Youde into buying him energy.

It's not bad to answer the question, it just so happens that he is short of money, and he doesn't want to reach out to his family, it's useless to have less, and he can't open his mouth if he wants more, so he doesn't let go of any opportunity to get money now.

It's just that as a student and in space, there are not many opportunities to get money, and now it's not bad to get some exchange coupons, so I immediately started editing the answers.

He thought about it for a while and thought of the answer, he originally wanted to voice edit, but he was surrounded by people and was a little ashamed, so he switched to manual input.

[Thank you for the invitation, I am in Ceres, I just got off the spaceship, I studied in the interstellar archaeology major of Beicheng University in the Han and Tang Dynasties, although I have not yet graduated, but I have been interning in the space wreckage collection industry for a month, and I have a little idea......]

Qin Tianjing, who was walking next to them, sighed helplessly when he saw this posture, and began to take the initiative to look in a few more directions to prevent them from bumping into people while walking.

Jasper, who was walking behind them, was held by his girlfriend Xu Li, Xu Li looked like a bird, and whispered to Jasper about his arrangements for tomorrow, if not, she wanted to go to the jewelry store in the new city to see.

Jasper looked indifferent and nodded his head lightly in agreement.

Luo Yanzheng walked at the end, and saw Xu Li licking a dog and was very disdainful, rich people have a virtue, like her, it is estimated that Jasper will be thrown away after graduating and returning to China.

Immediately after that, he glanced at Lu Ping and them with sympathy, just now Jasper communicated with him privately, and vaguely mentioned that he wanted Lu Ping and his gang to make a fool of themselves here, and it was best to conflict with Ceres' people.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, he already understood that this was a test for him, so he had to plan well, as long as he performed well, he should be able to join the Forwarder Interstellar Exploration Company after graduation.

A group of people got on the light rail in the airport.

The North City Company has a branch on Ceres, which is in charge of the affairs of the asteroid belt, so there are many dormitories rented here, and accommodation can be arranged.

The dormitory is not big, the single room of less than five square meters has been streamlined to the extreme, one bed, one table and one bathroom, water and electricity are not fully included, there is a quota, basically enough, and you will pay the bill yourself.

The specific location is located in the "pigeon cage" apartment in Midtown, which has a dedicated light rail station, and when you arrive, you can see that the dense doors are very spectacular.

"Mom, in reality, it looks much more windy than in the picture, and you can't see the edge at a glance!" Shen Youde looked at the legendary apartment with his mouth wide open, looking back and forth.

Lu Ping nodded approvingly beside him, this apartment is not high, the highest is only six floors, after all, the height in the mine is limited, but the length of the two sides is beyond imagination.

Anyway, the first floor is a shop, and from the second floor there are dense green doors, which stretch to both sides until they disappear around the corner of the mine.

Midtown's ceilings are made up entirely of old-fashioned displays that simulate the Earth's skyscape, and while you'll find noticeable pixels above the fourth floor, these displays are cheap and durable, making them ideal for large installations.

Just like now, Lu Ping and the others stood on the ground and watched the familiar scene of the sunset at dusk, the thick clouds covered the sun that was about to set, and the afterglow of the sun dyed the edges of the clouds gold, but dyed the sky on one side red, which was particularly beautiful and refreshing.

Even the analog gravity of 0.3G feels less awkward.

"Let's go, our dormitory is next to each other, over there at 5-592," Qin Tianjing glanced at the prompt on the AR glasses, and then pointed to the left, "I have to go over there a little, it will be dark in a while, and I am hungry." ”

The two of them are very honest, what is Qin Tianjing's boss talking about, they almost bumped into a thin and tall Ceres when they were walking just now, fortunately Qin Tianjing reminded him in time, otherwise there might be trouble.

Before coming to Ceres, Master Zhang reminded them that the people in the asteroid belt are not very good at dealing with the people in the inner solar system, and it is best not to cause unnecessary trouble.

The three of them quickly found their place to live, went up to a small shop below, and had a meal and tasted Ceres' traditional delicacy "Asteroid Belt Stew".

In fact, it is a variety of canned meat, kelp, and vegetables stewed together, and it is said to commemorate the original pioneers.

At that time, it was difficult to replenish supplies, and it was happiness to be able to eat meat and vegetables, and if you eat them together, it is super enjoyable.

It is worth mentioning that the vegetables are all fresh vegetables, and the original version of the vegetables is also fresh vegetables, from the Ceres Scientific Research Station of the Han and Tang Dynasties...... The vegetation research center was later expanded into a vegetable greenhouse when the technology matured.