The Falcon 2 spacecraft landed slowly. Zhao Changxing, who was wearing a spacesuit, held a box in his hand, opened the hatch, and walked to the door of the soilless cultivation workshop.
During the period before the life support area was built, the Falcon 1 spacecraft stayed here to provide energy for it. At this moment, looking at the searchlight on the isolation door of the soilless cultivation workshop that illuminated the dark night, I looked in front of me
Zhao Changxing couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment in this big, square house.
After inputting the command skillfully, the outer hatch of the soilless cultivation workshop slowly opened. Zhao Changxing entered, pressed the button, and the outer hatch slowly closed. The pressurizing equipment began to operate, and a large amount of gas was released, all the way to the interior.
The air pressure is increased to one atmosphere.
After verification, Zhao Changxing took off his spacesuit and hung it on the wall hook. This made the small isolation room, which was only about one square meter, more and more crowded, but there was no way. Zhao Changxing still squeezed into such a small area.
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Pressing the button, the inner hatch opened, and a corridor only less than one meter wide appeared in front of him.
Because the air pressure inside and outside is the same at this moment, the air does not fluctuate at all after the hatch is opened. The temperature inside and outside is also the same, allowing Zhao Changxing to live here comfortably.
There are three relatively simple isolation doors on the east side of the corridor, each of which leads to a different planting area.
As for the isolation door in the spinach planting area, it is integrated with the isolation door connecting the inside and outside of the soilless cultivation workshop. The reason for this design is also to save area.
Opening the exit on the other side of the isolation door, a long and narrow spinach growing area also appeared in front of Zhao Changxing. Zhao Changxing opened the box and revealed some black and gray stuff that looked like sand in the box.
This thing was collected from the surface of Sedna, and its elemental composition is similar to some rocks on the earth. This thing has no nutrients at all and cannot support the growth of crops. The reason why Zhao Changxing made these things is just to fix the plant roots.
A large box of sand only covered half of the four-layer planting rack. As a last resort, Zhao Changxing had to put on his space suit and leave the soilless cultivation workshop, and collected some more outside - including some larger stones.
, he had to use the small grinding equipment in the Falcon 1 spacecraft to grind it into powder before it could be used.
It took more than six hours of work to cover all the four-layer planting racks in the spinach planting area.
The next step is to connect the water circulation equipment. Also because the life support area has not yet been built, the water circulation channel can still only be connected to the Falcon 1 spacecraft first, and the preparation of nutrient solution can only be done here temporarily.
This took more than two hours, and when everything was finally settled, more than eight hours had passed since the landing.
Carefully scatter the spinach seeds on the sand substrate, set the temperature, humidity, etc. of the spinach planting area. Today's work is finally done.
All that is needed next is to wait. If all goes well, in about a month, Zhao Changxing will be able to add delicious spinach to his monotonous recipes.
Although more than eight hours have passed since the landing, it is still not the end of today's work. The construction of the life-support area must be accelerated, because if the life-support area cannot be built in one day, the two Falcon spacecraft will
He wants to stay here. And he only has these two spaceships in total.
The risk was too great. If something happened to both spaceships, he would have no choice but to stay here and wait for death. To be on the safe side, it was better to have one spaceship stay with the Spark spacecraft as a backup.
So after eating some "starch bento", he devoted himself to the task of building a living area.
More than three hours have passed in a busy time, and the construction task of the survival area has come to an end for the time being. But he still can't go back at this moment, and he still has one thing to do.
In addition to the regular collection of water ice to bring back to the Spark spacecraft, he also has to collect some specific compounds in order to prepare the nutrient solution. You know, at the moment, only spinach is planted in the soilless cultivation workshop, and the rest
Rice, millet, and soybeans haven’t been planted yet.
Driving the "Red Flag" space vehicle - during this time he finally assembled the thing and brought it to the Sedna planet. Zhao Changxing followed the resource satellite's detection of a place that may be rich in solid nitrogen or nitrogen compounds.
Driving past.
Through spectral analysis, the previously launched resource detection satellites can roughly determine these things. The Hongqi space vehicle is equipped with higher-precision element analysis equipment for use at close range. This finally allows him to no longer have to use handheld devices like before.
The equipment was found with great pains.
The space car's wide tires rotated and jumped on the rugged dark red and black gray ground, and the huge searchlight in front illuminated the far distance. Zhao Changxing concentrated on driving the car according to the satellite images, only feeling
My heart is extremely peaceful.
He was lonely, but not at all confused about the future. He always knew clearly what he should do and what the consequences would be after doing it. So he followed the planned path step by step, day by day.
Do things and watch yourself progress further and further day by day.
After collecting some compounds and nearly two cubic meters of ice, Zhao Changxing drove the car back to Humanity Base No. 1.
Finally, after a day's work, he dragged his tired body and piloted the Falcon 2 spacecraft back to the Spark spacecraft. He checked the synthetic starch reactor and found nothing unexpected. He also checked the artificial uterus and found nothing unexpected inside.
The embryo developed smoothly, and my heart finally let go.
After humming a popular ditty on Earth in the past and drinking a large bowl of starch paste, it was finally time to take a rest.
This day, before going to bed, he chose to watch a movie.
Almost all literary and artistic works in the human world are stored in the database of the Spark spacecraft, whether they are movies, TV series, novels or comics. Today, he chose a comedy. Looking at the bustling city in the movie
, the people were laughing and making noise, and his heart was filled with emotion.
Unfortunately, before he finished watching this movie, he couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep without knowing it. When he woke up the next day, the screen had automatically turned off. I don't know if Xiao Xi noticed that he was asleep.
It is turned off only when the movie is finished, or it is turned off automatically after the movie is finished.
Get up, wash your face, brush your teeth, cook and eat, collect the starch and put in the raw materials, prepare the building materials to take with you today, and it’s time for another busy day of work. But this time, when he was about to set off, he seemed to remember
What.
"Xiao Xi, send me the status of the artificial uterus."
"Okay Captain."
Xiao Xi mobilized the nearby projection equipment and projected a picture directly in front of Zhao Changxing. The picture was divided into ten pieces, and each piece was covered with dense data.
He did not pay attention to the data, but looked directly at the small ball of flesh soaked in artificial amniotic fluid and connected to the outside world through a thin umbilical cord.
The lumps of flesh only have a little bit of it at the moment, without any human characteristics. They can't even be called alive at this moment, because the first neural groove has not yet developed in their bodies.
But Zhao Changxing knew that these little balls of meat contained infinite possibilities and infinite hopes.
Looking at these little meatballs, a soft smile appeared at the corner of Zhao Changxing's mouth unconsciously.
"Children, work hard to grow up, dad is waiting for your arrival..."
After saying hello to the children, Zhao Changxing once again drove the landing spacecraft to Human Base No. 1.
He first looked at the development of the spinach seeds and found that thin rhizomes had appeared in the seeds. He felt much happier and felt more powerful in his body.
The construction of the living area took about fifteen days to complete - of course, it was only partially completed, and it could only support the operation of the soilless cultivation workshop. But this was considered a considerable progress, and he hurriedly completed it.
The spare Falcon 2 spacecraft was brought back to the Spark spacecraft, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the living area and the soilless cultivation workshop are connected through a thick pipe wrapped in special materials and buried underground. The air, water, electricity, etc. needed in the workshop are all supplied by the living area.
For the second phase of construction in the future, that is, the permanent Humanity No. 1 Base, it will be an overall building. All cabins with different functions will be connected together, and the internal environment will be unified and suitable for human survival.
, there is no connection problem between different areas.
Now we are just building a temporary first-phase project, so we can make do with it and save trouble.
The power source of the life-support zone is a micro fusion reactor that has been built on the earth. It is said to be micro, but in fact it is more than two meters high and three meters wide, with a total mass of more than ten tons.
It took several trips for the Eagle spacecraft to transport all its components. Just assembling it took Zhao Changxing more than four days.
This thing is said to be high-tech, but it is actually used to heat hot water. After the fusion raw material constrained by the magnetic field reaches the center of the reaction chamber, it will be irradiated by high-energy lasers from all directions, causing fusion to occur. The heat of fusion is extracted and
The water is boiled and the steam drives the generator to generate electricity.
Of course, it also has some photoelectric converters inside, which can directly convert the light emitted by the fusion process into electrical energy, but compared to the electricity generated by boiling water, it only accounts for a small part.
Now it is in a low-level operation stage. After all, it is just a soilless cultivation workshop and it really does not consume much energy.
The life support area is also a large boxy house with a total area of more than 100 square meters. At the moment, the micro fusion reactor, generator, water circulation filtration, heating, air circulation filtration, heating and other equipment only occupy one part of this large house.
Small portion. The remaining space is reserved for the rest of the area.
After the work here was over, Zhao Changxing came to the soilless cultivation workshop with great expectations.
Although the spinach has not grown yet, he has decided to collect some baby spinach and eat it first.