Chapter Seventy-Three: Digging Holes and Accumulating Grain for Survival

"Luckily" time passes by an hour, a day, a month. The images of meteorite clusters are getting clearer and clearer, and the radar observations are becoming more and more accurate.

After summarizing this lot of data, they calculated that there is a 90% chance that the meteorite cluster will not meet "luckyly" head-on, but it will "luckyly" pass away from the inner side of the sun's orbit. This is a good thing, but it is not a complete good thing without a little bit of bad things. Because one is that the composition of this meteorite mass not only includes meteorites, but also accompanies a larger amount of cosmic dust and cosmic gas. When these meteorites, dust, and gases pass between the "lucky" and the sun in their orbits, they will block the two suns from spreading sunlight and warmth to the "lucky", which will cause the surface temperature of the "lucky" to drop, so that the surface temperature of the "lucky" may drop to between minus 40 and 50 degrees Celsius; If one of them is larger, it may land on the surface of the "lucky place" and cause a meteorite impact. It's a mixed message, telling the people of the base what to do, and what to do - humans are still to hide in their holes or "luckyly" to hide in a spaceship - and to leave by spaceship depends on the severity of the disaster.

In addition to the previous deep-processing machines for processing wheat, corn, and rice, many large glass pools with a height of more than one meter and a width of three or four meters were added to the glass house of the grain processing factory. Some of the pools contained fine wheat-colored straw - either wheat or rice, and it was impossible to distinguish them anyway; In some pools, there are corn stalks the size of the thumb of the crushed Chengren and yellowish with a blue-green skin section.

One after another, some people with large backpacks entered the processing plant. Some of them send the wheat in their backpacks to the wheat processing machines, and some of them send the wheat straw in their backpacks to the big glass pools. A man, with a metal fork in his hand, fed wheat straw into a row of glass pools at a distance. He washed the straw next to the three glass pools, put it into the fourth pool with clean water, sprinkled some liquid in it, and then stirred it with the wheat straw in it and left it alone. He went to a pool in the distance, fished out of the pool of plants that were rotten and could not be seen to be fibrous, and spread them on the ground not far away, and then he poured the little yellow liquid that was at the bottom of the pool into a large glass bottle through a funnel in a glass bowl. The light yellow liquid flows into the bottle like a small spring of water, and after only a few moments, the rest of the inflow becomes a drop into the glass bottle.

"Hey! Tired! Take a break here. Zhao Li put his backpack to his side and sat down on the ground not far from the glass pool. He said to someone who had been busy near the pool, "Dr. Dorkik, can you give us a sip of what you just poured into the glass bottle?" ”

"Want to drink that thing now? It's for us later. ”

"Just take a small sip to relieve fatigue. I'm so tired that I can't walk or carry my back now. I ran around early in the morning without stopping. ”

"Hmmm! Just give you a little drink! Dokik said, turning around and looking around, "I didn't have a vessel for you to drink!" Dokik pointed to the large glass pool and smiled. Hey! I see, you just have to lick the rest of the foundation you just poured clean. ”

Zhao Li tilted his eyes: "Wow! You're too picky, aren't you? Also, can you get a pool more than one meter deep? Even if I get enough, my image will be ruined by you. ”

Dorkik spread his hands and laughed: "If you want to take care of the image, then forget it." ”

"I'll do it myself." Zhao Li found his drinking cup and went to the glass pool. Which glass bowl he used, dug some of the liquid that remained at the bottom of the corner of the pool into the bowl, and poured it into his water glass, which was actually only half of his mouthful. He waited earnestly for a few more moments, almost accumulating a sip, and he smiled at Dokik and drank the liquid from his glass.

He smashed it and smashed his mouth: "Isn't it tasteless!" What's in there? ”

Dorjik kept looking at Zhaoli looking for food, opened his mouth slightly and laughed silently for a long time: "With a way of eating like yours, you can have a few more children." ”

Zhao Li ignored Dokik's ridicule, and he asked Dojik, "What is in this, did you talk about the extracted plant nutrients?" ”

"Hmmm! Yes! Dorkik nodded: "There's a lot of stuff in there." There are plant proteins, fiber, vitamins, etc., and some other carbohydrates. ”

"Are you really going to drain all the wheat, rice, and other plants here? That's amazing! ”

"Isn't there a limited amount of time, and the amount of food and vegetables that can be eaten directly is also limited! If we don't squeeze the straw dry, we won't be able to get more nutrients that the human body needs when we hide it in the hole. ”

Dokik continued: "There's still a lot of work to be done! ”

"Hmmm! What else is not being done? I thought, I see that after the harvest is finished, won't it be over after you have extracted the nutrients that should be extracted? ”

"It's not that simple! The leftover residue should be completely burned! All the useless plant roots and stems left in the greenhouse must also be burned. Dorkik came to Zhaoli, and he did it to rest.

"The roots in the soil have to be burned too? Shouldn't you have to separate it from the soil and get it again? It's too much trouble! ”

"Either separate the roots and burn them, hehe! Either by chemically treating all the soils and substrates in the incubator, or by irradiating them, their organic components will be completely absent, and finally, they will have to completely close off the materials they use, or the inorganic materials. ”

"What a hassle and a lot of work! Oh! I know you don't want our plants to pollute the ecosystem here. However, our human body has been living here for so long, and the tissue cells on our body, such as hair, will fall out anywhere at any time, and our skin will also have dandruff tissue from time to time, right? Won't they pollute the environment here? Isn't that different? Also, when we breathe air, don't the gases we expel from our lungs also contain our cells? Zhao Li suddenly laughed: "Let's just say that we went out to cut wood!" I've been spilling a lot of urine in the wild. in my body"

Dorkik raised his eyebrows: "Hehe! I've also supplied, we can't go far, and we have to go back to the base to solve the problem.

My protein and my amino acids are all wasted here, and what kind of flowers and plants on the earth can't be used hard to be finished? ”

Zhao Li grinned.

"Yes! What you're saying is true, but we, we still have to find ways to minimize the pollution here! Do you want to see this planet full of our plants? ”

Zhaoli didn't say anything.

"I can't even think of it anyway, if I really become such a situation, I will not be able to live for the rest of my life."

Zhao Li frowned: "As for it? ”

Dorkik smiled, "As for it?" He repeated the word "as for what", emphatically: "You think, in case our species really replaces the plants here completely."

"That's good! Our plants, you see, are all verdant and green, and they are blooming with all kinds of flowers and colors, how beautiful it is! The planet doesn't just stop."

Dorkik was anxious: "Is there any difference between artificially changing the species structure here like this and changing the climate on our earth?" Do you think that this will not happen again the situation we were in when we left the earth? ”

"Would, yes?" Zhao Li Zhiwu said.

"The plants are all replaced, and the animals still have food to eat"

Zhao Li hurriedly nodded: "Whew! Got it, got it! If the plants are changed, the animals will die, and then they will be the same as the earth, right? ”

Dorkik patted Zhaoli: "It's really not wrong to bring you all the way." ”

Zhao Li pouted: "I paid for it, and you want to dump me?" You have to ask me if I can agree to the money. Is it so hard that you can still give it back to me if you don't take me? We're getting the money to that place, hey! I'll have to follow somewhere. ”

"Is your money going to the underworld? Follow? Dorkik laughed.

Zhaoli said indifferently: "With money!" Eat it everywhere, do you believe it? ”

Dokik shook his head: "Serve!" I'm convinced. You are monsters who are engaged in the economy, and everyone regards money as more important than life. ”

After a murmur of buzzers in the factory, the voice became clear when the person spoke: "The spaceship engine test is about to be carried out, please don't go out again, please go into the room as soon as possible, so as not to be injured by the debris caused by the engine splash." Say it again."

"It's time for another test drive!" Zhaoli seemed to be talking to himself, and it was like reminding Dokik.

"My ears are going to be sick again." Dorkik said: "Every time I test the car, I am afraid that the glass here will be shattered, and the psychology is a pull every time." ”

"Then block it, and no one will laugh at you for being cowardly." Mega laughed at Dorkik.

Soon, "Boom Boom! A loud sound came from the direction of the parked spaceship. The glass of the processing plant is also excited, too, "poof! Snort! "Trembling. Looking at the spaceship, a circle of white smoke next to the body of the spaceship was not far from the sky, and below this circle of white smoke, followed by a very thick white smoke spread out in the direction farther away from the spaceship, rising into the air, spreading again, and then rising, a lot of smoke flowed rapidly, covering the thermostatic shed closest to the spaceship, and part of the metal comprehensive processing plant in the east. As the sound increased, the smoke diminished again, and the four tongues of fire sticking out of the ground at the bottom of the ship were visible. The tongue of fire changed from red to white and then to blue again. At this time, the spaceship seemed to be excited by the noise of it smashing to the ground, and slowly moved into the air, after moving more than ten meters high, it began to slowly descend to the ground, and finally it was quiet, even if a piece of metal fell to the concrete ground in front of Zhaoli and Duofan, the sound of it smashing would not make the two of them feel that there was a big deal.

The towering volcano to the west, the snow on it is even whiter against the blue sky. There is a large patch of snow on the large gap that extends to the fan-shaped slope, and where the surface of the snow is flat, it is close to the edge of the sparse bushes below, and is dotted or torn irregularly by the trees. There is also a place in the mountain that has a special color, just in the middle of the mountain, and then on the fan-shaped edge, the whole side from the bottom to the top, there is a part of the mountain that is not covered by snow because of the steepness of the mountain, and the color is gray. At the bottom of this gray place, there are two black holes there. Some people and equipment are still moving in front of these two black holes.

Twenty meters to the south-west of the aforementioned opening, a larger and higher opening appeared. In front of the two openings, a concrete platform was built artificially, but the first one was smaller than thirty or forty square meters, and the second one was larger, almost more than 100 square meters. In the first thirty or forty meters between these two holes, there is also a concrete platform more than one meter high and more than two meters long, and there is a gray round sphere on the platform, which should be about three meters in diameter! Between this concrete platform and the mountain, there is also a deep ditch with two vertical walls, and the vertical walls have been made of concrete into two walls. The ditch was close to the top of the mountain, and a cover four or five meters wide had been covered, and the cover was more than two meters thick with earth and gravel. As can be seen from the black hole space under the lid, the ground part of this deep ditch is a hole that will be completely sealed into a tunnel. Feel its height and width of space, just enough to walk through a person's body.

Looking at the first excavated cave, the walls of the cave were obviously smoother, because someone was installing thick wooden doors on the side, and on one of them, there was also a small door that allowed a single person to enter and exit. More than ten meters into the cave, there is a very thick wooden door between this door and the door at the entrance of the cave, separating a reading space, and there is also a small door on this open door. Entering this door, through the weak sunlight that came in through the open door, you can see a large door opened on the right side of the cave wall, and the two wooden doors are written from top to bottom, "Built-in generator, no one is allowed to enter". Directly opposite, there is a thick wooden door on the right side of the opposite stone wall, and the two doors from top to bottom are written "comprehensive room, residence". There is also a thick wooden door on the left side near the stone wall, and only two words "equipment" are written on the door.

When these three doors come down, not to mention that the temperature outside the cave will reach minus forty or fifty degrees, even if it is one or twenty degrees lower, the cold air will also be blocked.

After entering through the right door next to the stone wall, after walking through the stone cave five or six meters thick, a long space is clearly displayed in front of you under the light of the roof of the cave. It is about ten meters wide, four or five meters high, and thirty or forty meters long. However, there is a slight difference in the width of the door.

After entering through the door with "equipment" written on the left side of the stone wall, and walking through the stone cave five or six meters thick, a space of more than 30 meters long and wide, and about 10 meters high appeared. There are also several small doorways in the walls of this large space where people can enter and exit - it seems that there are also small rooms behind the holes. There is also a special place in this cave, that is, when you look to the left, there is a section that is almost one-third of the length of the entire wall, that is to say, it has a shape of more than ten meters, and there is a large sliding wooden door, and on this door, there is also a small door for people to enter and exit. Stepping through this super gate, another space for reading power appeared in front of me. The length and width of this space are about 20 meters, and the height is about 7 or 8 meters, and when you walk out of a wooden door in this space, you can see which one was dug in the back, and about 20 meters away from the first hole, which is the south-west hole.

In the northern sky, there was a large mass of heavy clouds, held upwards by the black cone-shaped clouds connected to the sea below it. The sea under the clouds was even darker, and the darkness made people feel that the water there was bottomless.

A forklift, with its bucket and platform-like body, loaded with all kinds of things, including computers, tables, chairs, instruments, and even well-packed clothes, drove along the snowy road that had already been rolled out from the construction area far down the slope.

The forklift stopped before it reached the small hole (the first one). A bunch of people came out of the cave, including Ivan and Wenhe. Ivan wrapped a computer from the bucket of the forklift, and Wen He copied a chair in his right hand and an instrument in his left hand. He was chatting as he delivered things into the cave.

Ivan said, "Are all the rooms arranged?" How did you arrange it? ”

"For the sake of convenience, the rooms where the personnel live are arranged near the entrance gate, and the rooms for office and experiments are arranged inside."

Ivan shook his head: "This can't be done, the residential area should be in the innermost, and the office, experiments, medical and other arrangements are almost the same at the entrance." Do you think that if these three gates go wrong, the people in the residential area will not be the first to suffer. Even if there is no such eventuality, if the three doors are opened and closed, there will be a lot of cold air seeping in. ”

Wen He nodded: "Whew! I know, I'll switch around. ”

"Is the electricity, lighting, and heating installed in every room?"

"Hmmm! It's over, and you can test the power generation equipment when it is installed and commissioned. ”

"What about the equipment for food out of the cabin, and the equipment for the canteen?"

"I'm waiting for a try."

Ivan nodded: "These gates are very important, so they must be installed well." Whether it is a manual switch or a remote-controlled or electric switch, you must try more, and you must also do a good job of keeping the electronic devices inside to avoid any mistakes when the temperature is extremely low outside. If that's the case, you're in trouble. ”

"Hmmm! Rest assured! We pay attention to these major facilities and equipment. ”

The two of them put their belongings in a room not far from the door when they had just entered the narrow hole. Ivan: "Let's put it here!" Wait for someone to come in and pick it yourself. ”

When they came to the forklift to get some more things, it was empty, and the cart returned to the hillside. The two of them stood on the concrete platform in front of the cave entrance and continued to talk.

Ivan added: "I think you still have to organize an emergency team." ”

"Emergency response team?"

"Hmmm! Just like the previous outbreak of the epidemic, organize one. You need those people to do those things, you have to come up with a plan. Whenever there is any major event or urgent matter in the future, we must organize an emergency response team. Because there is a big event, there is a high probability that there will be a big accident. We can't afford to have a big accident! ”

"That's right! Do it now"

"Also, what, the meteorite group is about to arrive, and our people from other places can also be withdrawn, right?"

"Now there are two people who are not in this base, one is Bai Min, who is still helping to clean up the crops in the Fire Tribe, and the other is Chade, his base on the mainland is also cleaning up the crops. I'll get in touch and try to get them back as soon as possible. However, I may not be willing to come over. ”

"Why?" Ivan stared at Wenhyuk with wide eyes.

"He said that Huomi was pregnant and had a child, and he was going to accompany her." Wen He's face was flushed, and he didn't dare or laugh out loud.

Ivan blinked his eyes: "Fire rice, fire rice is the aborigine, the fire tribe?" ”

"Hmmm! Scold! That's her. Dr. Hahahaha, I'm so sorry, I can't help it. Wen He explained with a smile.

"What are you ridiculous about! Is what Chad said true? ”

"I don't know if it's true or not. That's what I found anyway. And for a long time, we didn't make any observations of anyone from the Fire Tribe. We don't have manpower, we don't have time, do we? ”

Ivan thought for a moment: "You can draw people out now, just use one of me." ”

"Doctor, I, I think it's better not to get it checked."

"Why?"

"You think! How did Huomi know about the child's pregnancy, and it wasn't Huomi who told him. Huomi has given birth to a child, and she knows best. Also, if she really wants to have it, she still has to give birth if we stick a stick between us. If we check and say no, then what is the matter with us, and do we have to determine what is in people's own stomachs? ”

"Whew! I understand. ”

"Huh! That's what I was laughing about. But I really didn't expect that this Chad and Huomi could really conceive a child?! ”

"So where is he going if he doesn't come here?"

"He said he was going to the caves of the Fire Tribe."

"It's hard there. I doubt that a few of their natives will survive this catastrophe, let alone find out - this one of ours.

In this way, I think you will have to come up with a plan for the protection of the Fire Tribe and their caves. Not only do we have to protect them, but we also have to protect them. ”

"Didn't you have one for them, Doctor?"

"Gross! Really? I want to think about it, you can improve what I said again, and try to keep their tribesmen from freezing and starving. Also, it seems that you have to do a special job with what you find, and you should also pay attention to his food and warmth, okay? (To be continued.) )