Episode 11 The Role of Gemstones
More than six months later, after more than half a year of hard work, the construction of the Blue Star Autonomous Group base has begun to take shape. In the center of the Valley www.biquge.info of the Giants, more than 20 civil and engineering houses of different styles have been built in the center of the Giant Valley, arranged together as a whole according to the layout of the field character, and a stone and wood fence more than three meters high has been erected around the wooden houses, forming a complete camp with the houses.
Not only did they build wooden houses to live in, but they also cultivated the land. Hundreds of acres of farmland are neatly scattered around the camp, planted with wheat and rice seeds stored on the Ark, as well as other edible crops on the island. In the island's tropical climate, these crops ripen at a rapid rate, with harvests occurring almost every three months and even a good harvest.
In addition to growing food, most of the group's meat comes from hunting wild animals in the forests, and a small part is fish caught in the coastal waters. However, they have found creatures similar to goats on the island, and have captured dozens of them in pens in the valley, hoping to domesticate them as an important source of meat.
The group built a water mill using a small river in the valley, set up windmills at the mouth of the valley, and built several warehouses and wooden houses for various purposes. The gaps around the valley are plugged in a variety of ways to create a safe enclosed space, with only one pass at the entrance and one at the outlet of the valley's river.
At the exit to the northeast, the Mission has built a road that leads to another small valley with coal mines a few kilometers away, and a road to the south-west exit to the south, where the vegetation and flora and fauna are most abundant on the island. In a small bay in the northwestern part of the valley, the Ark and Hope are quietly moored in them.
In the northeastern part of the valley is the production area, where several huge stone furnaces have been set up, which are distributed to make metal tools, as well as to fire stone bricks, pottery, etc. They brought all kinds of minerals found in the eastern and northern parts of the valley to the valley through the entrance waterway to the west, and soon built a small handmade base, and thanks to ingenuity, the valley was soon added with all kinds of furniture and tools made by people.
Not long ago, the Autonomous Corps used the iron ore mined in the eastern part of the island to refine a relatively satisfactory amount of steel, which was processed into various types of steel, and after some efforts, it was assembled into a batch of simple guns and bullets, plus the people's homemade gunpowder, and finally solved the problem of the Autonomous Regiment's weapons and elixir.
Thanks to the efforts of the Blue Star Autonomous Mission, the necessary living conditions such as housing, food, production, and weapons have been achieved self-sufficiently, so that everyone can finally live a stable life, and at the same time, people have another more important discovery.
On this day, more than a dozen members of the convention were gathered in a warehouse next to the base, surrounding a generator set, and they were very excited. The core components of this generator set surrounded by everyone include an electric motor and a generator, all of which are dismantled from the "Ark". As the newly built power core of the camp, it is connected to the power grid of the entire base and provides power support to the base.
What is amazing is that the energy source that drives this unit is neither by the nuclear power output of the "Ark", nor by wind, solar and thermal energy to generate electricity. The only thing that is special is that there is a special device set up at the top of the unit, which has a fixed bead inside, which emits a mysterious light while outputting a huge ionization to the unit.
"I didn't expect this thing to be so remarkable!" said Grant, staring at the bead.
"It can actually output a steady stream of energy! It's incredible!" Bizet couldn't believe his eyes.
Leo kept muttering, questioning: "This is not scientific! This is not scientific! How is this possible? Is this an ultra-small nuclear energy generator inside this bead? How can it output such infinite energy!"
The bead that people are talking about is the mysterious bead that Linda got when he just crossed into this world, and when he was exploring the island, it was the energy output of this bead that saved Linda's life, which made Linda puzzled. Soon after starting to build the base, Linda took out the bead and studied it with the others for a long time. After a lot of experiments, everyone found that this mysterious bead can really release a huge amount of energy as Linda said and guessed.
The discovery immediately stunned the crowd and led to a number of ways to exploit the mysterious orb. Tang Long and the other members of the alien energy group first filled this bead with their respective magic weapons. Arden and Connell thought a little deeper, and they immediately connected the beads to the generator set in the base and transformed it into a simple generator.
Just now, Arden and others finally completed the assembly of the generator set, and gathered the members of the convention to watch the first experiment, and sure enough, they saw that the generator set output a large amount of electricity, and the convention members were immediately amazed by the magical function of this bead.
Grant smiled excitedly, "Haha! Great! Now we finally have a steady stream of power supply! With electricity, we can not only live a modern life, but even our research laboratory can be restarted!
Captain Schroeder was thinking about his profession and said, "Well, it seems that we can use those stun guns more confidently, and we don't have to worry about running out of power at all! At least the stun guns are much better than the guns we can make our own at the moment, and they can also reduce the consumption of other ammunition." ”
Tang Long proposed: "I think we can arrange a power grid around the village and farmland, so that there is no need to worry about the invasion and destruction of wild beasts." By the way, it can also be used to set traps!"
Danny said excitedly, "Haha! I'm going to install the computer on the Ark here!
And Sonia was the most excited, she said happily: "Great! With electricity, it is more convenient to take a hot shower!" As soon as these words came out, everyone was speechless, and what women think about is really a little different from that of men.
Seeing that Linda didn't express an opinion, Grant asked, "Linda, what do you think, you are the first discoverer of this treasure, according to the laws of the earth, this thing should be your legal property in name!"
Hearing Grant say this, the others remembered that the treasure they had been discussing for a long time was actually Lynda's personal property, and they were a little embarrassed.
Linda hurriedly said, "Don't, don't do this! Although I discovered this amazing thing first, this thing is obviously very useful to everyone, so I decided to make this thing the collective property of the Blue Star Autonomous Group and let it serve all of us!"
Seeing Linda's serious expression, Grant nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, since you have decided to take this treasure as our collective property, and this thing is indeed very useful for our production and life, let's use it as collective property." However, we must give Lynda the credit for discovering this gem, and he is also the nominal owner of this treasure, shall we all agree?"
Naturally, there was no objection to this. Grantt nodded, and asked Linda again, "Linda, you haven't spoken just now, so let's talk about it, what are your suggestions for using this treasure?"
Linda thought for a moment and said modestly: "The opinions put forward by everyone just now are very good, and I agree with them very much. However, I also have a small proposal. Haven't we found a lot of metal minerals on the island? With a steady stream of electricity, we think we can produce aluminum, manganese and other metals that need to be refined by electrolysis, and then synthesize the metal materials we need, such as aluminum alloys, and so on, and with these alloys, we can make more things. ”
"What do we want this for?" Schroeder asked curiously.
Aluminum alloy is not only a light metal, but also a good insulating material, which can be used to make aircraft parts, engine parts and other things. At present, the autonomous group is developing quite well, but due to the limited conditions, many things on the earth that we use every day cannot be produced. We can use electrolysis to produce the alloys we need, so that we can make engines and even make industrial products such as airplanes and tractors. Think about it! If we had tractors now, farming wouldn't be so hard. Also, if we had a plane, we could expand our range of activities, and maybe even leave the island and explore other places!" Linda enthused.
Gran nodded and agreed with Lynda's words, nodded and said, "Well, Lynda is right, this treasure does have a lot of uses. We need to make good use of the energy generated by this treasure and use it more in the tools used to make tools. For example, various materials of metal, all kinds of processing machine tools, with these, we can combine into all kinds of modern machinery we need. Gentlemen, there are too many facts for us to do!"