The signal from Mars was delayed for two and a half minutes to reach the security committee at the headquarters of the League of Nations in Geneva, but the signals that were relayed in the back did not affect the processing of these commissioners, and even Lomonov did not care about the occasional distorted signal due to the impact of solar storms, because the cache space in his brainwave exchange post had smoothed the processing of the signal from Mars enough that Lomonov did not feel anything abnormal, and of course the commissioners of digital and analog Homo sapiens did not care about the quality of the signal.

With the help of brainwave exchange posts, Lomonov looked down at the red earth below, Mariner Canyon is in summer, the wind blows dust in the canyon, although the visibility is a little low, but in the composite images of various bands, the original appearance of Mars is still truly restored, Mars may have had violent crustal movements, Mariner Canyon may have been hundreds of millions of years ago, and now after the crustal orogeny, perhaps the existing sea has long receded, and the enduring storm has been eroded on the uplifted wasteland for tens of millions of years, The surface is carved out like the earth's Yadan landform, and in this wind-eroded soil forest, the mound is like countless whales floating out of the sand sea.

The drone's field of view follows a dry riverbed, "Look, the white pipe below is the water intake pipe for the Martian base." Under his guidance, Lomonov and the others noticed that in the red soil on the ground, a white imprint flickered and meandered along the mound, and if it wasn't for someone to remind them, it was really difficult to connect with the civilization of the earth.

Deeper along the riverbed, large red valleys and cliffs spread out on both sides, and the magical shapes of red rocks that have never been seen before are scattered around, and the eyes are thrilling. "We know that the water on Mars is in the form of ice, and in order to transport this ice smoothly to the electrolysis plant, we have built a heating station every two kilometers to use solar energy to maintain the temperature of the water intake pipe." X Space wasted no time in inserting their bidding documents, these half-buried water intake pipes are all wrapped in thick insulation, and those white buildings are heating stations built by S1000 robots using local materials, through which the ice crystals mined underground melt into liquid water and enter the pipes.

"There's really water on Mars!" One of the committee members exclaimed unconsciously.

"Of course there is water!" The representative of X Space was proud, "We did not choose the polar crown region of Mars, but carried out underground drilling in the Mariner Canyon, and the first batch of launch bases were particularly lucky after landing, and in the place where everyone saw, we found underground liquid water just eight thousand meters away." It was originally intended to extract domestic water for astronauts, but now it is not needed. ”

"There's liquid water underground, so why do you need a heating station." Lomonov was embarrassed by one of the commissioners, and he had to quietly remind, "Take a closer look at their construction models, they all have the answers." ”

The representative of X Space was also unimpressed, patiently explaining, "The water is liquid eight thousand meters below the surface of Mars, but when it reaches the surface of the well, the average temperature is as low as minus 50 degrees, and the mined water has frozen into ice crystals before it reaches the surface." ”

The picture passed over several heating stations, and the terrain suddenly flattened, and the representatives of the safety committee immediately cheered, and it turned out that on the large plain at the bottom of the Mariner Canyon, surrounded by the surrounding red cliffs, there were oil extractors everywhere, and these pumping machines were lined up, roaring in the sandstorms, one after another, making people think that they had returned to the fossil fuel era of decades ago. The representative of X-Space seemed to see through the thoughts of these commissioners, "These machines look like oil extractors, but they are actually wells at the Mars base, from which the groundwater is extracted and sent to the electrolysis plant. ”

The drone stopped on the pump for a while, then turned to the right, crossed a mountain cliff, the wind was a little weaker, the air began to become clear and transparent, and from a distance it was seen that the ground became as smooth as a mirror, as far as the eye could see, and the committee members already knew in the inserted signal that this was an inorganic silicon photovoltaic power station made entirely by Mars, although the efficiency was lower than that of organic silicon photovoltaic on the earth, but the cost was far less than that made on the earth. In the center of the mirror, several white spheres are particularly conspicuous, according to the introduction of X Space, the electrolyzed hydrogen is stored here, and the next step will be to transport the ferrosilicon reduction plant to mine the abundant ferrosilicon elements on Mars.

"Are these photovoltaics really made on Mars?" Lomonov asked with some skepticism.

"If it was transported from Earth, I am afraid that our company would have closed down on the first day of its existence." The people from X-Space laughed. As the drone turned to the left and turned again, Lomonov immediately stopped doubting X Space, and saw that on the open ground on the left, an area of square kilometers in size, was full of artificial buildings, and the rover dragged the heavy tracks to press out ruts on the bumpy ground, and slowly carved out a trail in the middle of the artificial buildings.

In the air, conveyor belts are interspersed back and forth to connect the various buildings, and the rovers climb the towers along the ramps, and the truckloads of broken Martian rocks in the trailers are fed into the towers, and the chimneys of the mountains outline the celestial pole of the entire industrial area, which is completely the scene of a factory on Earth in the twentieth century.

"It provides the most basic industrial raw materials for the production lines at the Mars base, from iron and silicon to carbon, manganese, phosphorus, chromium, nickel and vanadium, and we have successfully replicated almost the usual industrial system on Earth." The people at X-Space are proud.

"You can't see a single worker in such a big place?" One of the commissioners wondered.

"At the beginning, in order to save costs, it was completely in accordance with the planning of the industrial zone, we never thought that artificial intelligence life still has life and entertainment needs, because this was the first to access Saturn Energy's wireless energy information network, where robot workers continue to evolve, more and more demanding, the laws formulated by the international alliance make new artificial intelligence life refuse to come to Mars to work, and the expanded production capacity is in urgent need of manpower, but we can only let the production capacity idle in vain."

The representative of X-Space explained as he manipulated the drone into a workshop, and the drone landed on the observation deck, giving an unobstructed view of the entire workshop. Dozens of white S1000 robots are busy on the assembly line, and in the center of the workshop is a model of a shrunken defense tower, which is equipped with a double-sided antenna, unlike an abandoned space power station in geosynchronous orbit.

"Look, that's our bidding model, and now everyone believes we're fully capable of doing the Kuiper Bubble Project on Mars." Those busy S1000 robots seemed to have received an order, and scattered one after another, and the antenna on the top of the defense tower slowly adjusted its direction and aimed at a suspended electromagnetic crane on the roof of the workshop, "Come, let's test the attack power of the defense tower with our own eyes." ”

I saw the blue charging sign on the defense tower flashing and flashing, "Fifty kilowatts, sixty kilowatts, ninety kilowatts, one hundred and fifty kilowatts...... The reading of the charging flywheel rose rapidly, and soon it reached two thousand kilowatts, "Launch!" I heard a buzzing sound in the workshop, the suction cup of the electromagnetic crane was instantly heated to blue and white, the drone narrowed the focus, and a fist-sized hole had melted under the suction cup.

"The power of the defense towers that we actually push to the Kuiper belt will be tens of thousands of times that of this model!" The tone of the bidding representative of X-Space sounded a little smug.