Chapter 109 Alien Factory? No, it's tower defense! (4K)
"This is the footprint of a six-legged creature. According to data model calculations, it is about the same size as a tiger."
In the temporary living room, Johnny put the pictures he took on the projection panel.
Explain his analysis to Joan and Joseph.
The two frowned as they listened to Johnny's explanation. This news showed that there were other species on this planet, and they might be a threat to them.
"Speaking of which, the furthest we have explored is only 5 kilometers. It seems that the detection was not careful enough." Qiao An lowered his head and muttered.
The three of them were silent for a while. They had just solved the food problem recently, and they did not expect to have to consider personal safety.
"Joseph, how is the operation of the furnace? Can the minerals be smelted stably now?"
Qiao An asked Joseph who was standing aside. They had put a lot of effort into manufacturing the furnace. As long as the debugging was successful, there would be no need for people to carry heavy machines for manual metallurgy.
Joseph nodded, "No problem. Whether it's furnace minerals or metallurgy, mass production is basically no problem now."
"Very good. In that case, let's build a few walls near the living room to prevent any unexpected events."
The simulated map unfolded, and Qiao An drew a few lines near the living room.
"We will expand the living room into a camp according to this area and build the next production facility as soon as possible."
"Besides, the power supply is almost used up, so we should consider the power issue."
"Photovoltaic materials and semiconductor components are needed to make solar panels. Please be aware of these two minerals when you go out to explore for minerals."
Johnny and Joseph nodded in understanding.
Everyone set off quickly, put on their equipment and walked out of the living room. The sky was still gray.
The three of them were also very surprised. Logically speaking, the planet is tidally locked, and the surface of the planet should be hot and watery. However, this place is almost like an ordinary planet. There has not even been a storm. It is very peaceful.
Therefore, the wind power generation buildings that were originally envisioned to be relatively easy to construct are no longer used and can only be converted to photovoltaic power generation.
Photovoltaic power generation is only for emergency use and cannot replace the energy of the entire camp. However, if you want to build a better power generation building, you must first detect combustible minerals.
At that time, thermal power generation equipment can be built, which is very satisfactory in terms of energy supply and duration.
Six hours passed.
A two-meter-high wall was built with smelted bricks near the living room, enclosing an area of 400 square meters nearby, leaving only an opening as a gate.
After Johnny and Joseph checked the equipment, they set off into the distance with their weapons.
Today, they plan to explore an area of 10 kilometers outward.
Qiao An followed the manual and came to the planting area to see the condition of the crops.
In the grain shed, many high-yielding foods are grown. They can not only provide sufficient calories, but also provide vitamins needed by the human body. The disadvantage is that they need to be carefully cared for during the growth period, and no mistakes can be made.
"Farming... It seems that only my grandfather has done it. Starting a farming business on an alien planet is also novel."
If it were Qiao An half a year ago, she would never believe that food would be grown on an alien planet now, so she smiled and sighed.
After completing these tasks, Qiao An returned to the living room.
There are many ship parts stacked indoors, including a half-damaged database cabin. All Qiao An has to do is read out the information in the database.
It contains many research equipment construction blueprints and some infrastructure construction models.
As long as these data are available, the framework can be built directly through the printer, and then the circuit components can be installed and run smoothly.
Especially when it comes to the chip of the computing unit, this thing cannot be rubbed out by hand.
Although in a certain competition of the Academy of Sciences, someone tried to fly 200,000 CPU solder joints and completed the feat of rubbing the CPU by hand, the performance was only for playing 3D games at best.
Perhaps it was really a blessing that only one-fifth of the data in the ship's database was missing, and most of it could be constructed by directly transferring it to the printing device without the need for re-research.
If it involves important data, there should be no problem if the three of them spend some time calculating it.
After integrating the analyzed data, Qiao An listed a production line plan.
It is a waste of time for people to transport minerals between the mineral collection station and the furnace. It is time to automate it, so that manpower can be saved to do other things.
Qiao An established a [Conveyor Belt] project in the plan, and there is also an [Automatic Creation Facility], which can automatically produce circuit components and magnetic coils. These two materials are necessary conditions for the arrival of intelligence.
"However, the energy issue is still critical. Photovoltaic power generation alone cannot support the operation of large buildings."
"Well... By the way, geothermal power station should be a good choice, but you need to make prisms..."
When Qiao An was planning the construction of camps and communication stations.
Johnny and Joseph also encountered special circumstances.
They encountered mysterious creatures on this planet.
Near a bush nine kilometers outside the camp.
The two held up kinetic pistols and aimed at the strange creature with its fangs and claws. It looked a bit like a mantis, but it was larger and had a rounder body.
The two parties faced off, but the monster seemed to have no intention of taking action.
"Strange, why haven't I seen them before?"
"I guess it's because the sound of the spacecraft exploding scared them away..."
Joseph glanced around and found that there was no other movement. There was only this monster in front of him. He suggested: "How about we try to kill it?"
Johnny thought for a while and nodded, "The existence of unknown creatures is a threat to us, and they have been near our camp, so they are likely to make moves."
"ok!"
Joseph let out a hey, and before the six-legged monster could react, the gun in his hand burst out with a burst of power, directly piercing its body, and a pool of gray liquid flowed out and stopped moving.
"knock off."
Joseph blew the muzzle of the gun coolly and put the gun away in a cool trick.
"What are you showing off? There are no beauties here." Johnny snorted and walked to the monster's corpse to unfold the detection equipment.
Joseph rubbed his nose and shrugged, "I learned it in two hours when I was bored here. I'm preparing to go back to Daxia to pick up girls."
"..."
Johnny ignored Joseph's complaints and silently examined the monster's corpse and recorded the information.
"The monster's body is average in hardness, and its bones are not as strong as those of humans."
"The first two of its six legs are its attack weapons. They are not very sharp and are about the same as ordinary kitchen knives."
"There are no viruses on the body surface, and the liquid has no high radiation reaction."
"Hey, this gray blood is actually flammable, and it burns pretty well?"
Johnson was surprised and even touched the monster's blood with his hand and found that it was quite similar to oil.
"What, this thing can be burned to generate electricity?" Joseph turned his head and looked at the dead monster, feeling surprised in his heart.
"Let's drag it back first and study it in detail. I'm a little interested in the structure of this creature."
Johnny grinned slightly. If he could complete this biological study, a paper that would revolutionize biology would have to be published.
Even after thinking about the arguments, it’s called [Biopower Generation].
"Okay, anyway, we have almost completed our exploration today. We have also found a silicon mine with an atomic number similar to No. 14. Today's mission is completed."
Joseph and Johnny just dragged the alien creature towards the camp.
Not long after the two walked away, the ground suddenly arched, and a creature jumped out from inside. It looked exactly like the monster that had just been killed.
Then, one, five, or ten monsters jumped out of the ground.
They sniffed the lingering smell in the air, and looked with their black eyes in the direction the two left...
Inside the alien camp.
Joan was also shocked when she saw the creature being dragged by Johnny and Joseph.
The unknown creatures just arrived in the camp without fear of emergencies.
But after hearing Johnny say that the creature's blood was unusual, Joan also became interested.
"The burning efficiency of the body is comparable to that of oil. Such a strange structure?"
After a while, the monster's corpse was carried onto the research platform, and several scanning equipment dismantled from the scientific research ship were scanned at it, and the data was quickly analyzed.
It also made the three of them marvel for a moment.
"Incredible, this is simply living coal."
"The neuron system is so perfect that it belongs to the category of intelligent creatures."
"And the cell activity is very high, and the adaptability is very high."
"How did you kill this monster?"
After reading the data, Qiao An asked the two of them strangely, and they shook their heads, "It's not difficult to kill it, it's just a matter of one shot."
"It shouldn't be, it didn't attack you?"
"It did have an attack posture, but it didn't take action, so we just killed it."
"..."
Qiao An looked at the dead monsters and didn't understand how they survived. Maybe more samples would make it clearer.
"That's it for now, don't go far away in the next few days."
"Now that you have found the silicon ore, you must first get out the circuit components such as semiconductors."
"At that time, we can arrange some warning facilities to prevent the sudden appearance of these monsters."
Johnny and Joseph nodded, and then went to rest. After the long journey, they were both physically and mentally tired.
Qiao An stayed in the research room, silently analyzing the monster's data.
the next day.
They arrived at the site of the silicon deposit they discovered with printing equipment and materials.
Soon, the construction of three devices attached to the mineral belt was completed. Although this is not as good as the mineral mining capacity on the colonial planet, it is still enough to mine the minerals exposed here and repair the ship.
Another half hour later, several furnaces were set up next to the mineral collection station.
Several conveyor belts are connected to each other, and the mined minerals are transported directly to the furnace, and then directly refined into silica, and then transported to another conveyor belt from the other end.
Johnny placed seven photovoltaic panels here and barely managed to get everything running.
But this is just the beginning. Next, a two-kilometer-long conveyor belt needs to be built, and multiple photovoltaic power generation panels need to be installed at regular intervals.
The conveyor belt will go directly to the automatic manufacturing facility in the camp, where the refined ore will be forged into high-purity silicon blocks, which will then be combined with other components to form circuit components.
This is how the most basic intelligent process begins.
A few days later, a half-meter-large processor was successfully manufactured.
The three of them were extremely happy!
This means that their plan is feasible. Next, as long as it is optimized to a size of a few centimeters, a communication station can be established.
This processor is not useless. It will serve as a modulator to control the transportation process of the conveyor belt to prevent congestion and other situations.
Especially when there are many conveyor belts in the future, this issue is very critical.
In the following days, they continued to build mining equipment and manufacturing facilities, and there were conveyor belts in all directions to transport basic resources back to the camp.
Fully automatic production of stone ore, iron ore, and silicon ore is in progress smoothly.
The camp has also been expanded to three kilometers.
During an underground resource mining operation, groundwater was also dug up, which made the three people who were about to run out of water even more happy.
They all lamented His Majesty's blessing and there was nothing to do anyway, so they took out the incense that had not been destroyed and burned it, and even paid their respects.
But unfortunately, there is a proverb in mystical Orientalism, which is that good fortune and misfortune depend on each other.
The three of them were not happy for a long time when the herd of beasts attacked.
Although there was no attack on the camp, the conveyor belts and photovoltaic panels were damaged from time to time, which directly ruined their advanced production plan.
There were too many mineral points to collect, and the three of them couldn't defend them, which made them very depressed.
Gradually, the resource output of the entire camp stagnated.
Finally, after Joseph handed over the manufacturing blueprint with dark circles under his eyes, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
[Self-defense turret]
This turret can lock on intruders and fire basic kinetic energy ammunition, which can meet general security needs.
As a magnetic energy launcher, it does not require a high amount of energy and only requires iron pieces as ammunition, which is just right for defending against invading monsters.
Only Joseph, who specializes in physics, could design the blueprint of this weapon in a short time.
"Okay, it's time to give these damn beasts a good shot!"
Joseph carried a kinetic energy gun and walked out of the camp with the printer on his back.
Joan and Johnny followed closely and built more than twenty turrets next to the conveyor belt according to the defense range, enough to cover the area where the collection machinery was located.
The result was not what they expected. All monsters that came to attack the conveyor belt or collection device were directly bombarded by the turrets one by one.
They either fled or died under the turret, and their bodies were carried back to the camp.
Based on their characteristics, Johnny and Joan developed a power station that uses monster bodies as fuel.
The energy level of the camp skyrocketed.
The sun and the moon flew by, and it had been half a year since they fell to the alien planet.
Basic materials have been met and energy needs have reached basic levels.
The three began working on higher-precision materials and more efficient construction and energy production methods.
For example, the second generation of optimized automatic manufacturing facilities, faster and more energy-saving conveyor belts, advanced furnaces with 100% increased refining efficiency, etc...
They are confident that the communication station will be officially built in just six months.
