Chapter 24: A Chance Encounter
After guiding the spaceship manufacturing for half a day, Cao Chuan temporarily transferred the work handover to other things, and the remaining four employees had to continue to stay behind and work overtime to complete the creation of the spaceship, a collection of science and technology, to meet the needs of other departments.
Standing inside the base, looking into the distance, there was a little light flickering above the starry sky, and their moon-by-moon class ship was landing.
"It's the second group of guests coming over." Cao Chuan remembered today's day, after sending the first wave of guests away, the trade department did not impatiently start the second round of space tourism, but first maintained the spacecraft, so he waited a few more days.
His gaze fell to the bottom of the base, where a team from the Exploration Department was following the map to illustrate the general plan of the expedition.
Now there are many personnel in the exploration department, so the learning trade department has divided the personnel, such as the relatively safe task of exploring the surrounding area, and directly divided into two teams, with more than ten people in each team alternating to increase work efficiency; Further explorations of more than 100 kilometers are specially prepared and selected elite soldiers, each time often up to ten days and half a month, which is a formidable challenge for employees.
Today, he didn't see Joe Canal and Sophia, and he didn't remember Nana telling him that they were on an exploration mission right now.
He thought about it, and remembered that one thing Nana had reported to him was related to work leave.
The 481 pioneers he recruited from the earth were employees of the East Galaxy Company in terms of relationship, but in fact, as a normal company, there are usually quite perfect work rules and regulations to regulate the behavior of employees.
In view of the fact that Cao Chuan established the East Galaxy Company at the beginning, it was originally a product of boredom, to talk about the work rules and regulations, except for the most core ones, such as the must obey the command of the East Galaxy Company, the rest can be played freely; Keeping in mind the company's vision, conquering the stars and the sea is obviously not.
Fortunately, most of the employees he recruited were relatively self-disciplined, and since the company didn't have regulations, they could always make their own rules.
The three major departments have successively formulated their own internal regulations, telling employees when to go to work every day, when to go to the cafeteria to eat, what safety matters to pay attention to, and a little about vacation.
Most of the human beings on the earth follow the work system of doing five days off and two days off, so the leave regulations of the three major departments are also five days off and two days off, the only difference is that the moon has up to 14 days of daylight, and some work often lasts for many days, resulting in frequent days off.
Sophia, Qiao Canal and other bigwigs of several exploration departments are said to have accumulated more than 10 days of compensatory leave, and directly took their own merits in exchange for a lunar off-road vehicle, and went on vacation.
In fact, it is an expedition, because their goal is the Bailey crater at the south pole of the moon, the largest crater on the moon, with a diameter of more than 295 kilometers alone, and it takes at least 1,500 kilometers to get there, even if the off-road vehicle travels at high speed, it takes 20 hours.
In fact, the farther south they go, the closer they are to the far side of the moon, the far side of the moon is eternally facing away from the earth, no longer like the front of the moon, covered with a flat sea of moons, after billions of years of alien devastation, it has become a crater dotted with geographical environment, and it is much more difficult to rely on off-road vehicles to advance.
"However, that's normal, isn't it?" Cao Chuan felt that this group of pioneers was originally quite idle, not to mention the exploration department, which was the best among them, and now it was not a job, but a vacation outside of work, so he naturally would not restrain it.
"I guess it's too difficult to find it halfway through, so I'll set up a temporary camp in the Pullbach area closer to now, and then think about returning later."
While Cao Chuan was thinking, a person came over to him, Wang Xian.
Seeing himself overlooking the distance, Wang Xian stopped.
"It's been a long time, Cao Chuan. Since joining the East Galaxy Company, I haven't bothered to talk to you, and it's been almost four years since we graduated, so I thought you would continue to study unmanned aircraft, and I couldn't imagine that I would meet you on such an occasion. ”
"Curious, huh?"
"Of course, even if it is us, I feel that we still know too little about the company now, and you are the only bridge between us and the board of directors of the company, you have provided so much help, and many of them can be described as incredible, black technology, and miracles, it is definitely a lie to say that you are not curious."
"Our purpose is the same, isn't it?" Cao Chuan listened and did not answer, pointing to the brilliant galaxy in the distance, and on the moon without an atmosphere, the number of planets that could be seen was so large that it almost filled the field of vision, constituting a magnificent picture of the ocean of stars.
"It's so vast, there are more than 200 billion planets in the galaxy alone, enough for humans to share 30 of them, naturally, this little thing becomes meaningless."
"Indeed, conquering the stars and the sea, even if I am a relatively realistic person, when I see so many people pinning their hopes on us, I feel a kind of heartfelt satisfaction, this is pure money, power cannot give me."
After speaking, Wang Xian left.
"Sure enough, it's still the same." Cao Chuan muttered, of course he knew what kind of person Wang Xian was, he had talents and ideas, but relatively, in the eyes of outsiders, he had a feeling of relative indifference, and he was not so easy to contact.
"But this makes it feel like a mastermind, like me, more like an ordinary passerby?" Cao Chuan pondered, "What are you doing thinking so much, now, there are no new and interesting things to do for the time being, the development of the base is on the right track again, the trade department, the exploration department, and the research department are going hand in hand, plus the support of Du Ji, Renault and others, what should I do?" ”
He recalls all the things Nana has reported, and if there is any problem, there is only one problem left that has not yet become a big problem - energy.
"However, if there is enough energy, it will indeed make the development of the base smoother, so let me find a way to solve the energy problem."