Volume 3 The Underworld Chapter 66 Project Cloning
The passage chosen by Luo Shen, combined with the comparison of terrain data, the overall winding direction is to the main peak of Qingshan, so she decisively chose this road.
The distance between the dormant volcano and the foot of the main peak of Aoyama is already tens of kilometers in a straight line, and Roselle's idea is to explore this passage completely, while calculating the straight-line distance to the main peak of Aoyama in real time according to its own trajectory.
With such a long distance and the limitations of the winding underground passage, the cables for the spidertron's function are definitely not enough, and you may need to disconnect the cables and explore independently many times.
If you can really find something, it is naturally the best, if you can't find the hidden base passage under the main peak of Qingshan this time, then you can only wait until the industrial strength comes up in the future, and then use a large number of robots to further explore in this underground world.
The entire underground environment here is very hard metallic mineral rock, which is why the underground magma tunnels have been able to survive for so long after they have been dormant.
Thankfully, at the depths of the earth explored by Roselle and Hela, there were more rocky passages that led straight deeper into the ground, at least during the exploration, Hela found several large magma passages, which in their eyes were a large black crater that could not be explored at all.
At the same time, due to the ultra-high altitude of the Qingshan Mountain Range, even the underground world is much higher than the sea level, so they are not threatened by underground water, and if there is an underground river environment below this passage, it will be more troublesome to explore. They need to do a lot of extra preparation.
Looking at Hela's side again, Little Hela kept moving forward in the relatively smooth rock passage, constantly collecting different rock samples through the mecha's own tools, and using a high-energy laser generator to bombard the sample rocks, uploading physical parameters such as the evaporation spectrum of the ore to the Sirius host for detailed sample analysis.
"Sister Roselle, this underground world is extremely rich in mineral deposits. It contains a large amount of rare metals, and is a high-quality underground mining area of the branch. Well, I'm going to build a long-term underground mine development plan, which is also rich in heavy metal minerals, which can make a large number of nuclear batteries for automation equipment, and these rare metals are basically enough to build fusion reactors for the base in the future. ”
The Sirius' Hella host was constantly analyzing the mineral reserves of the underworld, quickly conducting mining assessments, and beginning to establish a suitable mining plan.
It's just that this matter will have to wait until a long time later, and the outpost she presided over and built does have basic industrial capacity, but the scale and production are far from enough, mainly due to the small scale of the ore refining plant, resulting in the production of various metals is not enough to build a truly large mine.
On the one hand, it is subject to the lack of its own engineering equipment, and on the other hand, the loss of the existing refining equipment is close to the limit.
The focus of HELLA's engineering is now entirely on expanding production.
Most of the finished materials produced at this stage of the base are used in the construction of large-scale factory equipment.
For example, the alloy steel factory, the outpost now has a daily production capacity of only a few tons, which can play a limited role in the construction progress of the entire outpost, so the only output is used for the manufacture of standardized steel mills.
Conveying, crushing, blast furnace, processing and molding equipment all need a large number of industrial materials as support, any steel conveyor belt needs dozens of tons of finished steel to manufacture, and the construction of those blast furnaces used to refine ore consumes hundreds of tons of finished steel, and needs to be carefully reprocessed and assembled.
Hela's current productivity is far from enough, and the efforts of the past few months have only established a basic industrial base system, which means that it can be built, but how much it can be built depends entirely on the scale.
In order to take the next step of large-scale production, Hella has been continuously exploring the nearby surface mining areas every day, and all the surface resource data have been carefully calculated and planned to generate the corresponding mining schedule.
The emergence of this underground mine has undoubtedly significantly shortened the industrial process time of Hella.
In the future, as long as a complete industrial base is built here, powered by fusion reactors, and relying on the abundant mineral deposits of the entire area, Hella is sure to establish a standardized planetary landing base in about three standard years.
"Adjust the priority of the mining area and rename it...... GA01 COMPOSITE MINING AREA, AND THE OUTPOST GROUND ROUTE IS BEING PLANNED - THE 627.3KM ROAD CONSTRUCTION SCHEME IS BEING SIMULATED...... ...... in resource data integration"
Based on the exploration data transmitted by the underground spider armor, Hella has identified the importance of the GA01 mining area, which is the focus of future development, and has begun to plan the construction of the surface road between the mining area and the mining area.
In her future planning, the outpost where Sirius is located can directly replenish the starship resources because of its water advantage, so this outpost will serve as a special landing base for Sirius, and at the same time be responsible for the maintenance of the starship.
In the GA01 mining area, a large-scale comprehensive industrial base will be established, relying on the rich resources of the entire Qingshan Mountains to promote its own development, and finally with the capacity of the industrial base, a complete planetary artificial ecosystem will be built nearby.
After having a normal ecosystem, the controllable and sealed environment brought by it is conducive to the development of many subsequent science and technology industries, for example, some technologies in biochemistry-related fields can be turned from data to reality.
As for the purpose, this is the task that Roselle gave to little Hela, and that is......
Clone Su Zhao.
Luo Shen once told Little Hela that it was too boring to have only one human and two AIs on a planet, so please Hela develop cloning technology in the future and use Su Zhao's genes to copy a large number of clones.
The addition of these clones will make this straw star less boring, and more intelligent creatures are also quite good labor, which can reduce a lot of the operational burden of the surface base.
Secondly, this is also Luoshen's first-hand insurance measure, and Su Zhao's prosthetic system stores his complete original genetic data.
Using these data and related genetic equipment, in the future, the gene expression process in Su Zhao's own tissue cells can be induced by technical means to differentiate into corresponding germ cells.
This kind of cloning technology is very mature in the Human Federation, and one of the representative achievements is the clone corps of the federal military.
In the existing theory, the organism itself is an ultra-precision instrument created by nature, and it is only fitting that intelligent creatures such as humans can help the construction and development of the future straw star.
In the long-term development process in the future, if we only rely on these AI hosts for comprehensive control, the computing power is absolutely insufficient, and only relying on intelligent creatures can reasonably reduce the burden on the two of them.
"Hela, is the biolab renovation on the Sirius complete?"
Roselle thought of this and asked about the progress of Hela's biolab transformation on the Sirius.
"It's been done a long time ago! I have converted a cell culture room in the top warehouse, using some equipment from the medical system and some of the production equipment for high-energy nutrient solutions. ”
"Su Zhao's tissue cells have been back-up cultured there. His head, inside the mouth. I have also taken samples of some remaining bacteria in the ear canal and respiratory tract for culture. ”
During the period when Su Zhao was dormant and entered the virtual dream world, Luo Shen was not patronizing the mountains and rivers, but had already extracted a large number of biological samples about Su Zhao and began to prepare for the future cloning plan.
"Little Hela, you are awesome, in the future, after we clone him, if this treatment plan fails, it is not impossible for this human head to be disassembled by you for study."
Roselle compliments little Hela and makes a promise of a small reward for the future.
"Well, it doesn't matter, as long as I succeed in cloning in the future, I will be able to have a lot of human samples for study, his primitive brain has been opened with a hole, maybe it is not as good as the clone I will cultivate in the future."
Little Hela didn't care too much, as long as the construction plan went well, maybe she could start the cultivation of the first clones in five standard years, but as long as the corresponding growth hormone was produced, the clones would be able to initially develop and mature in about ten years.
In such a future, the biological organization of Su Zhao's body will not be so attractive to her, this is the only highly developed and mature human primitive sample, and it is best to be preserved.
Besides, now Sirius still needs the normal Su Zhao to verify the permissions, and everything will wait until the cloning plan is completed.
For Roselle, she is just a human, and when she was in the Federation, she didn't know how many applications for experiments with human clones had been permitted, and real-time monitoring was carried out.
There is also a corresponding complete human cloning technology in the database, and in the current situation where there is only one Su Zhao, the use of human cloning technology is undoubtedly the best solution.
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"Sister Roselle, your carrier is offline! It should be that the cable is exhausted and you start to explore for your own use. ”
In the underground passage, Roselle did not travel long in the zigzag passage, and the only remaining cable reached the limit length in the complex passage, so she fixed the cable in place, disconnected the link, and went into offline mode.
The high-energy battery of the spider mecha itself provides enough energy for Roselle to explore for about 8 hours, and if it is further energy saved, it should be able to support 10 hours.
Deeply underground, Roselle now navigates based on its own trajectory compared to the offline map and simulates its spatial position.
Guided by the direction of the main peak of Castle Mountain, she continued to move forward in this complex cave environment.
It's just that the deeper you go, the more intricate the ancient lava passages become, and the constant forks in the road make Roselle have no choice but to explore hard.
After repeatedly detecting the passage that was gagged by the solidified magma, or the unknown passage that exudes high temperature directly into the ground, the Spidertron's power reserve is gradually approaching the return to the calculated value.
Although he has not yet found a clue to the underground world of the main peak of Qingshan, at least Luo Shen has cleared a small part of the labyrinth of this underground passage.
So she chose to put it back in the last offline place at the right time to restore communication with the starship.
Magnet's carrier was launched and immediately uploaded its own detection data, at which time Hella Star was still in an offline state and was still in a state of offline exploration.
"Labyrinth? Recharge in place and keep exploring until you reach your limits. ”
Roselle issued an offline command to the carrier, and then issued a new mission to Hela.
"Hela, ready to deliver external energy modules to underground carriers, we need a longer endurance."
"Okay, I've got the plug-in energy ready on the surface, and I'll send a robot down according to the proven route now."
Using her usual patchwork technique, Hela waited for the moment by removing the high-energy batteries from some of the robots.