The next day, Zhao Changxing still got up on time, ate yesterday's leftovers, and came to Sedna to start working.
The days to come were still busy and full of hope. During this period, he replanted rice, millet and beans, slaughtered and stored all the broilers for slaughter and fed new chicks, and completed the communication network and
A considerable part of the labor was handed over to Xiao Xi to control the installation and debugging of hardware equipment. He also completed the construction and debugging of the second soilless cultivation workshop.
Also, the piglets were finally born from the artificial womb and were raised in a specially opened pig pen in the livestock breeding workshop. The fish pond was also built and fish fry were put in.
The second soilless cultivation workshop still has an area of 100 square meters. Zhao Changxing plans to make some adjustments to the crops to be planted in this workshop.
The first is to increase the planting of corn. Not only can humans eat corn, but it is also a high-quality feed. Broilers, laying hens, pigs, rabbits, and fish can all eat it, which is very useful.
The corn planting area is still nine meters long and four meters wide, with two rows of 1.8-meter-wide shelves placed in it. Because the corn is too tall, this shelf has only one layer, so the total planting area is 32.4 square meters.
About 48 kilograms of corn can be harvested in one season.
However, this is only the yield of corn seeds. In addition to corn seeds, corn cobs, corn plants, etc. can also be ground and used as feed or added to nutrient solutions, and will not be wasted.
Secondly, the soybean planting area will also be expanded. Zhao Changxing also expanded it to a width of four meters and also placed two rows of 1.8-meter-wide shelves divided into two layers. The total planting area reached 64.8 square meters, which can be harvested every season.
About 55 kilograms, plus the beans in the No. 1 soilless cultivation workshop, a total of about 70 kilograms can be harvested each season.
The freedom of soybean oil is not far away.
Zhao Changxing originally planned to plant some wheat in the No. 2 soilless cultivation workshop with a total area of 18 square meters, but the area was too small to be worthwhile, so he simply adjusted it into a vegetable planting area and planted some peppers and radishes.
, cabbage, cucumbers, and I plan to grow some mushrooms.
Because each type of vegetable has different environmental needs, he had to leave a narrow passage of 0.4 meters in the remaining two meters, leaving an area of 1.6 meters wide and 9 meters long.
It is divided into five small grids with a width of 1.6 meters and a length of only 1.8 meters. A kind of vegetable is grown in each small grid.
The area is smaller, but there are more varieties, and the overall output is still not low.
At this moment, in the artificial womb, the children had been gestating for almost eight months and were about to be born. After calculating the time and finding that these vegetables could catch up with the birth of the children, Zhao Changxing felt even happier.
So far, the first phase of construction tasks has been completed. These five buildings in total can fully support myself and my children.
Looking back on the nine months since arriving on Sedna, Zhao Changxing felt a little emotional.
At first, I couldn't even afford starch porridge. Until now, I basically stopped eating the starch produced by the two reactors. Instead, I used it as feed, including oil, meat, and rice.
With vegetables, life feels like a world away.
"The days to come will get better and better."
He thought secretly in his heart.
After the first phase of temporary buildings is completely completed, the second phase of permanent buildings will begin.
In the planning, the second phase of the permanent building, also known as the official Humanity Base No. 1, is roughly 100 meters wide and 120 meters long, with six to ten separate buildings extending around it, with a total area of
It is as high as more than 13,000 square meters.
This is undoubtedly a very large building, and Zhao Changxing estimates that it will take several years to complete. This is assuming that all the required building materials have been modularly produced, and all he needs to do is assemble it.
There is no way, there is really a shortage of manpower, almost everything needs to be done by myself, Xiao Xi's role in this process is limited.
When this building is completed, the building materials brought from the earth will basically be used up. If you want to build in the future, you will have to promote the industrialization process and produce building materials yourself.
If nothing unexpected happens, as the first generation of humans, I will spend the rest of my time in this building. Of course, besides myself, there should be more than a thousand other humans in this base at that time.
Obviously, one human base cannot accommodate so many people. According to Zhao Changxing's plan, when the population reaches about 300, he should lead them and try to carry out small operations with the help of equipment brought from the earth.
Large-scale, customized industrial production to continue to expand the scale of the base.
To build a formal Humanity No. 1 base, the first thing to do is to level the site. So Zhao Changxing first drove the "Red Flag" space vehicle, installed electric heating equipment, and first cleared all the tolin and water in this area.
Ice, dry ice and other solids were brought down from the Spark spacecraft, and the steel shovel and bucket were brought down. The space vehicle was either transformed into a forklift or an excavator according to the needs. It took more than a month to finally complete the foundation.
aspects of work.
After that, he was not in a hurry to take the next step, but hurriedly harvested some crops - these crops, together with the previous reserves, were enough for him to eat for at least half a month, and immediately returned to the Spark spacecraft.
The children will be born soon, and he may not have time to land on the surface in the next period of time.
Depending on individual physiques, different babies will be born at different times, but they will probably all be born in the next ten days. If there are no accidents, the first baby will be born tonight. He will become the eldest brother among these ten people.
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Yes, he is a baby boy.
After a quick meal, Zhao Changxing took a shower, carefully disinfected, put on an isolation gown, and went to the delivery room to wait.
Xiao Xi projected the data of No. 1 Artificial Uterus on the screen in front of Zhao Changxing in real time, while he observed it carefully and cooperated with Xiao Xi's analysis to determine the best delivery time.
When a certain data grew to the expected range, he made up his mind.
"Xiao Xi, artificial uterus No. 1, has started giving birth."
"Okay Captain."
Artificial womb No. 1 was transported to Zhao Changxing. Observing the baby inside that was constantly stretching its body through the instrument, Zhao Changxing said to himself: "Little guy, welcome to this world."
Every astronaut has received relevant training on how to operate an artificial womb to deliver a baby, and naturally so has Zhao Changxing. And frankly speaking, this kind of thing is not difficult, especially with Xiaoxi's cooperation.
But Zhao Changxing was still a little nervous at the moment.
After all, it is a life. It is probably the second human being besides myself in the entire universe.
Those are my compatriots, the ones whose genes are the most similar to my own among all species. In the future, they will speak the same language, eat the same food, and breathe the same air as me... people.
Although he has no blood relationship with him, he is still his child.
Recalling the knowledge learned during the training, Zhao Changxing concentrated on operating until the little thing in his hand, which was only a little over three kilograms, with wrinkled and red skin, like a little old man and indescribably ugly, let out a loud cry.
until.
Beads of sweat already appeared on Zhao Changxing's forehead.
After wrapping it and placing it in an insulated box, Zhao Changxing had time to wipe away the sweat.
Looking at the ugly baby who cried for a while and fell asleep again, Zhao Changxing finally had a smile on his face.
"Hello, little guy. What should I name you? Hmm... King Zhao Qiansun, Li Zhou, Wu Zheng, you are the eldest brother, so just let your surname be Zhao. Let's call you Zhao... Zhao Ye. I hope our human civilization will have a better future.
It can also bloom and regain its former glory..."
He has decided that the surnames of the next nine babies to be born will be arranged according to the surnames of hundreds of families.
After delivering the baby, Zhao Changxing was finally willing to open the warehouse where the baby products were stored, took out the remaining precious milk powder, and boiled hot water to brew it.
There is not much milk powder left, so he has decided that only babies under one month old can eat milk powder. After confinement, they will eat other foods to grow up, leaving the milk powder for the next batch of babies born.
After recalling the five temporary buildings built in the first phase of the construction project, Zhao Changxing was still confident in feeding these children.
Newborn babies eat very little, need to eat small meals frequently, and need to be fed every once in a while. The artificial intelligence Xiaoxi can certainly complete this task - in fact, this is one of its main tasks, and its purpose is
In order to liberate human productivity as much as possible, so that they can devote their limited energy to other things.
Back on Earth, computer experts combined with maternal and infant experts to develop the most perfect program and execution hardware at the time. Xiaoxi could not only complete the task of feeding the baby, but also change the baby's diaper, wipe the baby's butt, and even
Playing with the baby. But even so, Zhao Changxing still couldn't let go. He couldn't help but come to check on the baby's condition and feed him himself.
In the incubator, a baby named Zhao Ye was crying. Zhao Changxing carefully put the bottle into his mouth, and then he stopped crying, sucked and drank. Zhao Changxing did not leave until he fell asleep again.
That night, Zhao Changxing woke up five times. In the past, he always slept until dawn. Every time he woke up, he couldn't help but go to the nursery cabin to take a look and confirm the baby.
Leave when nothing happens.
By the next day, the indicators of the second baby were also ready for birth. This was a baby girl. After delivering her, Zhao Changxing named her Qian Yue. Then that night, Zhao Changxing was called Qian Yue by Xiao Xi.
I woke up and delivered the third baby, then the fourth, then the fifth...
This continued until all ten babies were delivered safely.
At this moment, it was like a symphony was playing in the nursery cabin, with babies crying everywhere.