"You mean, Tissot is going to return to Earth and bring these 18,000 scientists to Mars for a science summit?" Chen Mengchuan looked at Zhao Wanyu with a little headache.

Zhao Wanyu smiled: "I don't think it's a big problem, the space crossing department has now completed 124 space folds with an absolute straight line distance of 80 kilometers, which is more than 1 times faster than before, so if you calculate it, it will only take about 7 days to go to Mars." ”

Chen Mengchuan rolled his eyes: "Wanyu, that's not the case, Mars is also far away from the earth, the closest is 55 million kilometers, but the farthest is more than 400 million kilometers?" ”

Seeing Chen Mengchuan rolling his eyes at himself, Zhao Wanyu smiled: "I asked Ah Chen to calculate, if you set off from the earth in half a month, the distance will be less than 80 million kilometers, which is closer than the last time you went to Mars." ”

"Ahem, is that so?"

Zhao Wanyu nodded with a smile.

"Okay, I know, I'll arrange it as soon as possible, and then I'll leave for home." Not long after finishing speaking, Chen Mengchuan hung up Zhao Wanyu's video call.

Glancing at Simba, who was sitting not far away with his head muffled and calculating, Chen Mengchuan opened his mouth and asked him: "When did the space crossing department complete the absolute straight-line distance of 80,000 meters and 124 folds?" ”

"Brother Chuan, it's been a few days, there are too many things these days, and there is nothing special to mention, so I haven't mentioned it. Soon we will complete 124 times in an absolute straight line of 120 kilometers, and won't it be easier to wait for that time? Simba replied to Chen Mengchuan.

Rubbing his forehead, Chen Mengchuan laughed: "You guys are getting more and more powerful now, which makes me worry a lot." ”

"When did we let you bother?" Toni asked, looking up from the side, pushing his glasses.

"Not really." Chen Mengchuan immediately answered, and then diverted the topic.

"Brother Xu, how is the overall work progress of L7332's exploratory polycymbal crab? It seems that the mine-prospecting multi-armed crabs have not yet set off, is it that the Martian ore layer area has not yet been completed? ”

Xu Shuwei looked at him and replied: "At present, our 128 L7332 exploratory multi-armed crabs have explored 72% of the surface of Mars, and it is expected that it will take some time to complete, and there are still many data in the dust storm area that are lost, and they need to be replenished after the first stage of exploration is completed, so there is no way to be so fast in terms of speed." ”

"The identification and planning of the mining area is very different from what we imagined, and the earth's geological vein exploration technology has no reference at all on Mars, and on the whole, the surface geological structure of Mars is much simpler than that of the earth, which makes the exploration of the mining area more ineffective." Xu Shuwei replied.

"So what's your solution now?" Chen Mengchuan's brows furrowed slightly, although he had fully considered this situation at the beginning, he didn't expect that the gap would be so big, so big that it couldn't be explored at all.

"What else can we do but release all 1,800 prospecting QS10086 multi-purpose multi-armed crabs and let them go to the areas that we are trying to select that may have ore layers to try to dig and analyze. It was a period of trial excavation that made us affirm that the earth's geological vein exploration technology could not be used on Mars. ”

"Now we can only try to find patterns in these data, although the current progress is not fast, but there has been some progress, and a lot of data on possible mining areas have been obtained, but these still need to be excavated and explored by polygobby crabs before we can draw conclusions." There was some helplessness in Xu Shuwei's words.

After Chen Mengchuan pondered for a while, he slowly spoke: "Contact the geological departments and ore research institutions of various countries on the earth, and see if there can be some gains from them." ”

"I have already discussed with Wanyu, one of Tianzhi's research departments on the earth has begun to communicate with geologists from various countries, and many people have accepted our request and will come to Mars in this Mars Science Summit." Xu Shuwei said.

Chen Mengchuan's heart sank faintly, the progress of Martian mineral exploration was much slower than he imagined, although he was a little anxious, but he didn't show too much, after all, Xu Shuwei also made his best efforts.

After the two chatted for a while on the topic of Martian geology and mineral exploration, he stopped the topic and looked at Mojilny and Suruifeng.

"Mojirny, how is your progress at the metal smelter now?" Chen Mengchuan asked.

The first sentence of Mojirni's mouth made Chen Mengchuan feel a little disappointed, he shook his head and said to Chen Mengchuan: "Don't expect too much from the entry of the metal smelter, the current progress is not ideal. ”

"How's the overall progress now?"

"The overall progress, based on the geological data of the Martian terrain supplied by the exploratory polybby crab, we have analyzed the suitable living places for us, some of which are far away from the foundation, and some of which are much closer to the base.

"However, in our later actual field detection results, more than half of these points do not meet the requirements of the metal smelter, these points do not meet, there are various problems, and we finally gave up, and now we have compared and confirmed the points, and finally selected only 7, at present, these 7 metal smelters have completed the construction of the foundation, began to build the metal smelter."

"The progress of these 7 metal smelters is the only one that is relatively good, and we have confirmed 4 new sites suitable for the establishment of metal smelters, although 4 more sites have been selected, and we are ready to leave for the destination for construction work, but new problems have arisen, we do not have enough super-large gravitational work platforms to support our construction work over multiple distances and in different directions. This is what I mentioned to you this morning, using the Tissot to complete the construction support of the facilities at these points. Mojirny said.

Chen Mengchuan sighed in his heart, but his face was smiling and said: "There are already 7 under construction, it's better than nothing, there are always so many difficulties, you can only meet one to solve one." I'm sure whoever does it will do it better than you. ”

"But we're still a little too slow, we know it. The entire metal smelter project, so far, has not even completed the first phase, and I hope that the next one will be smoother. ”