Chapter 15 Collecting Nuclear Ore

Lucky Alice was rescued by Xia Long, but in another corner of the universe, Deman, who swore to be a demon, continued to drift, and because of the good configuration of the rescue pod, Deman could still maintain it for a long time, as long as he was not hit by a meteorite or something.

Alice has been on the Mothership Life Freedom for a few days, her body is gradually recovering, and her originally somewhat pale and shriveled skin has begun to improve, through a more detailed understanding of this spaceship in the past few days, Alice also has to sigh, it is too advanced, and the barrier effect alone is enough to attract many people.

And Xia Long looked at Alice, who had recovered, and couldn't help but be a little in a daze, after discovering the other party's thief-like gaze, Xia Long joked: "It seems that I rescued a big beauty and came back, and staged a good show of heroes saving beauty, are you used to staying in the spaceship?" ”

"It's very comfortable, if only I could be in this environment, I hate the feeling of gravity and air pressure being affected, does the subship of the Life Liberty have such an effect? If there were, I'm embarrassed I didn't do anything for a few days! Alice replied casually, "Do you need me to help you draft some paperwork to help you quell Cass's nonsense?" ”

Xia Long said: "Don't worry, we are still in a state of reconciliation with the major city-states of New Blue Star, we will initiate such a statement first, for fear that people will misunderstand, there is no meaning of three hundred taels of silver here!" In the past few days, you should continue to take care of your body and familiarize yourself with the operation of the Life Freedom, the sub-ship naturally has a barrier effect! ”

Perhaps it was really the settlement agreement with Cass that had an effect, and the computer did not find any hostile spaceships in the vicinity for more than ten days along the way. The activities of the major city-states in space are mainly near the C star, and the D star is farther away, although the resources are also relatively rich, but they are only active during the F2 event, and the distance is too far to affect the personnel and fuel consumption in the spacecraft.

Robots 3 and 4 suddenly found Xia Long and said: "Through the detection device in the spacecraft, we found that there will be some small meteorites about 1 day away from the current location, and the content of nuclear ore in the spectral analysis is relatively high, Xia Long, do you want to change the next route to collect it?" ”

"Of course, energy is a necessity at all times, especially now that we are building a base! Computer, with No. 3 and No. 4, adjust the route, let's salvage those nuclear ores, anyway, there are still 10 months before the meteorite rain arrives at New Blue Star! ”

In fact, along the way, there are a lot of resources found, several moons of the E satellite have a lot of methane fuel, and many meteorites have a high content of rare metals, but Xia Long has to give up and can't bring them back to the base, and even if they can bring back Life Freedom, it will take a lot of time and take a lot of risks, but now these meteorites have a good content of nuclear ore.

When Xia Long's spaceship arrived at the right location, these meteorites had not yet come, and the nearby environment was not very good, and there were many large meteorites, which brought a lot of trouble to the collection work. Xia Long naturally wanted to accept all the meteorites containing nuclear ores, but judging from the detection results, the speed of these meteorites was relatively fast, scattered, and the size varied, the large one was 1 kilometer, and the small one was only a dozen meters.

The Life Freedom didn't have enough collection ships right now, and even if it did, it wouldn't be able to bring back those larger meteorites, so Xia Long finally decided that he could only spend a little more time, and if necessary, he would personally drive the sub-ship to bring the meteorites back.

Computer: The target meteorite group will enter the current line of sight within 1 hour at the earliest, and the slowest will enter the current line of sight within 2 hours, please be prepared!

Xia Long immediately issued an order: "No. 3 and No. 4 closely monitor the situation; After 1 hour, the computer controls the distance, first approaches the target meteorite of the small point, and gives priority to collecting the ones that are in hand; Alice, inform me that the 50 robots of the same model as Keton are coming and get ready to enter the gathering spacecraft! ”

When the target meteorite and the Mothership Life Freedom approached a suitable distance, Xia Long issued another command: "Computer, continue to get closer, be careful of collisions, maintain a good relative speed with those smaller meteorites, collect the attention of the spacecraft, and dispatch in 5 minutes." ”

50 collection spacecraft leave the mothership, each select a target meteorite to land, the collection spacecraft starts to operate, large and small various functions of the robot arm stretch out, some tap, some cut, some drill, some will separate ore back to the collection spacecraft, once full, return to the mothership, store it and then dispatch again.

These spacecraft are very efficient, and the ore collected is about the same size, and after the ore arrives at the mothership, there are personnel wearing radiation protective suits, in cooperation with the equipment in the mothership, to carry out a rough screening, and store the ore containing nuclear material separately from the non-contained.

According to computer analysis, it will take at least a few weeks to collect all these meteorites, and it will have to maintain a good relative position and relative speed with them.

With the space inside the mothership Life Freedom, it is absolutely enough to store these ores, but it is not possible to collect them all, and there is no way to seal them if they are stored too much, and the radiation of nuclear ores will have an impact on the spacecraft itself and the people in the spaceship.

Watching the collection spaceship shuttling back and forth on the mothership, Alice was obviously a little frightened: "Xia Long, I can warn you, you have to stop in moderation, in case the mothership stores too much nuclear ore, so that the naturally beautiful sister loses her beautiful blonde hair, I won't let you go, if that is the case, I will secretly communicate with Cass and expose your crime of ignoring life and health, hehe!" ”

Xia Long was not threatened, when the pilot ship was pursued, led by Alice, I don't know how many times he threatened Lu Dao, and said with a smile: "My diplomatic spokesman, Miss Alice, I like your words, but I hope you choose a good target, Cass is a good candidate, I am your top boss now, you can eat papaya in the future, you can count on me!" ”

After teasing Alice for a few words, Xia Long felt that the current collection speed was not satisfactory enough, and said: "Replenish the energy and oxygen for the sub-ship, I want to set an example and get some larger target meteorites back, Alice, can you help me put on a protective suit?" ”

What Xia Long got was naturally ignored, and it could be said that he was not responsible for these things that served people! When everything was ready, after Xia Long left the mothership in the Life Freedom subship, he activated his transformation and turned into a giant humanoid robot.

Alice looked at the spaceship she had just admired, and said to herself with some jealousy: "Such a good spaceship, actually used as a porter, it is really overkill, the most unfortunate should be to participate in the F2 competition, the reward for winning the championship is not this is rich, poor sister used to be too many times, I was embarrassed to sign up for the competition, watching my own spaceship being surpassed by other spaceships one by one, it is really uncomfortable!" ”

At first, Xia Long was very careful, just carrying some small target meteorites back to the mothership, but as he became more and more proficient, he changed to carrying one in one hand, and then he carried it, and after reaching the most, he simply changed it to his back.

After carrying a large target meteorite back to the mothership, Xia Long said proudly: "This is the efficiency, Dr. Mel has a spirit in the sky, don't see me use the high-tech spaceship you designed to do such a thing, I promise to return to the earth to find your relatives, at least to find your descendants, and at the very least, to find the tulips!" ”

As time goes by, Charon becomes more and more worried about Tulip, a humanoid robot who takes care of the planting warehouse with him, Dr. Mel said before that she should be very similar to his daughter, and obviously has a unique design and arrangement for her, otherwise she would not be allowed to hide and take care of the planting warehouse by herself.

And from the point of view of her intelligence, she is very advanced, she can threaten herself at every turn, and the robot threatens humans, even if the relationship is good, this situation is extremely rare; Xia Long even used a dog's tail flower as a tulip flower to fool her, and her reaction was to give a life-threatening hug!

The performance of the Life Freedom subship is good, Xia Long has stayed in the mothership for a long time and has no life entertainment, although now you can tease Alice from time to time, but in the interstellar journey, it is still very boring. So Xia Long worked as a porter for more than 10 hours in a row before he took a proper break and let No. 3 take over the shift, which was a decision made after the computer was worried that he would be alerted by radiation.

Although the 50 collection spaceships and the sub-ships continue to collect nuclear ores, the nuclear material content of these target meteorites is very high, and a lot has been collected now, but after these ores are precisely refined, the real nuclear materials will not be very much, and they will shrink many times compared to the previous ores!

Seeing Xia Long again, Alice rarely took the initiative to come over and ask: "Xia Long, can't you build a sub-ship of the Life Freedom now?" If we can build it, our combat effectiveness will be improved a lot, is there any problem with this? ”

Xia Long was a little embarrassed and said: "I have a detailed process for building, but I can't do it myself, and I don't feel at ease when I hand it over to these newly recruited Cass's subordinates; In addition, at present, our equipment and technology cannot be built in many places, and we cannot manufacture many material requirements; Most crucially, my purpose in going to New Zealand was to find the other 2 builders of the subship, the Clones, 1 and 2. ”

Alice came to her senses: "In other words, only when the builders of the 4 sub-ships are gathered together, there is a theoretical possibility of building the sub-ships again?" If you tell me so much, aren't you afraid that I will rebel? ”

Xia Long shook his head and smiled: "You also know that I used to smuggle agricultural products, and I can see that you were in a similar situation to me before, and your life in the city-state was very difficult; Besides, I have a saying in my hometown on the earth, the grace of saving life should be promised by yourself, I have saved you twice, and I have already regarded you as an object of consideration, even if you betray, eat a trench and grow wise, I will be careful when I find a partner in the future! ”

Alice had already blushed a little as Xia Long said, remembering that when her spaceship was damaged, the other spaceships nearby did not save her, and Cass did not send a rescue, and in the end, Xia Long saved herself; remembered the ambiguity that the two had before, although they didn't reply, but they thought in their hearts: If you dare to find another one, I will definitely not let you go!

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