After the inspection of the entire spacecraft was completed, Chu Jungui looked at the huge metal barrel and asked: "What are we going to do with this big guy?"
Li Ruobai was also stunned. How could there be space to place this huge space jumping device on the current spaceship? How to deal with this huge barrel, which is nearly ten meters in diameter, is really troublesome.
After thinking for a long time, Li Ruobai couldn't think of a reason, so he said with a headache: "What do you think?"
"Just use it like this. It's just a jump anyway. All the permanent magnet materials are used on it, right? It's not cheap to recycle it." The test subject thought from his usual perspective.
"That's right." Li Ruobai also figured it out. However, he was still a little confused, not knowing where to put the big drum. The existing spaceship was not big enough at all. If he wanted to stuff the drum into it, the renovation project would be complicated.
Building a new one is not much different.
"This is simple, just weld it to our spacecraft."
"What did you say? Welded on it?"
"Yeah, like those rocket boosters."
A pattern immediately appeared in Li Ruobai's mind. A large barrel was attached to a spaceship that was originally a cylinder... This pattern immediately caused an episode of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but to achieve symmetry, it seemed that a circle of barrels had to be attached...
"If you think it's okay, then do it. However, the new spaceship needs to carry more people and prepare more supplies. The one we have now is not big enough."
The test subject established a task and then tried to solve it. The problem was unexpectedly easy, and the answer was available in a blink of an eye: "We can build an identical spacecraft cabin and put the two together."
"How to spell it?" Li Ruobai had an unknown premonition.
"You can put them together any way you want, side by side, front and back, criss-crossed if you want."
"I don't want to!" As soon as the words came out, Li Ruobai remembered that only the cross seemed to be more symmetrical, but it was not much better.
After calming down, Li Ruobai asked: "Why is it designed like this?"
“Easy and cheap.”
"We don't need to consider the cost."
"Time is cost."
Chu Jungui's words left Li Ruobai speechless, and the conversation ended here.
The two people got out of the spacecraft, contacted the team members outside, and began to design a disassembly plan. At this time, the drones that were released have returned one after another, bringing back a lot of useful data. The good news is that the required equipment is available in the surrounding area.
Most of the resources, even if they are not available, can be dismantled from the wreckage of the spacecraft.
The next step is to assign tasks. The four people need to refine enough fusion fuel, prepare a large amount of rocket fuel, and assemble multiple rocket engines in order to bring back the fuel tanks for space jumps.
The task seemed very arduous, so the four of them started working after a brief rest.
Chu Jungui left the camp in an off-road vehicle, this time equipped with a mining module. He drove towards the mining area detected by the drone, preparing to collect fusion fuel.
This is a wilderness with patches of reddish-brown soil. However, the composition of the soil here is completely different from that of the home planet.
Chu Jungui stopped the off-road vehicle and used a personal terminal remote-controlled exploration machine to dig into the ground and analyze the composition. He himself picked up a portable drill and began to drill everywhere on the ground to inspect and analyze the composition.
The content of helium-3 in the soil was quite high. Chu Jungui moved a refining furnace from the car, placed it on the ground, and connected the refining furnace to the off-road vehicle's energy source. He put the excavated soil into the refining furnace and placed it in the furnace.
Helium-3 can be separated by medium heating and a series of processes.
The content of helium-3 on this planet is extremely high. Chu Jungui processed dozens of furnaces continuously and got an entire cylinder of helium-3.
He installed the cylinder on a special condensation treatment machine, started the condensation machine, continued to dig soil, and sent it to the refining furnace.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye. Chu Jungui continued to make thirty furnaces at a rate of two minutes, and got another cylinder of helium-3. At this time, the first cylinder of helium-3 had been processed and was successfully pressed.
into a fuel box the size of a shoebox, and the box is only about a quarter full.
When this box is full, it will contain half a kilogram of helium-3. This is not a small number. In the era of the home star, it is said that the total energy demand in the world for a year cannot consume one thousand kilograms of helium-3.
Chu Jungui worked hard until the entire energy box was filled. Looking at the time, four hours had passed. Only test subjects can endure such a long period of repetitive work without feeling bored and boring.
In fact, Chu Jungui had a very fulfilling life in the past few hours. He allocated a processing unit to direct the body to work, and the rest of the computing power continued to optimize his combat components.
After the fuel cartridges were filled, Chu Jungui set out on his way back. This type of fuel cartridges was not something that could be made casually. It could only be produced at the No. 2 Planetary Experiment Base. They only brought four of them this time.
Unexpectedly, Chu Jungui got a box in one trip.
After a while, Chu Jungui packed up the equipment and returned with the truck, leaving behind a lot of potholes. Li Ruobai would probably have a headache when he saw them. Anyway, Chu Jungui took a lot of photos and planned to send them to Li Ruobai's personal terminal as soon as he returned.
superior.
Li Ruobai and the other three were not slow this time. After Chu Jungui's example, they also learned to skip all unnecessary steps and work straightforwardly. When Chu Jungui returned, there were already erected around the camp.
Four metal barrels, this is the new rocket engine casing, and all alloys are made from the wreckage of the 151 expedition spacecraft.
Li Ruobai refined the dismembered remains and turned them into raw materials for rocket engines. In order to take out the space jump device containing the e-matter, he also had to make a big hole in the wreckage of the spacecraft.
In this way, the four people worked busy day by day until all four fuel boxes were filled. After filling up the spacecraft's fusion ion engine with fuel, Chu Jungui joined the three people and began to assemble the rocket engine.
A few days later, four new rocket engines had been assembled, and the space jump device had been disassembled and welded to the spacecraft. The original spacecraft could only fit seven rocket boosters around it, so Chu Jungui sent two
The boosters were tied into one and inserted directly into the empty space. As for the protruding piece, there was no sense of violation in the eyes of the test subjects.
Then add a fairing to the space jump device, and everything is done.
The next day, a total of eight rocket boosters ejected flames at the same time, and the billowing smoke formed a rather large spectacle on the planet. In comparison, the faint blue light of the ion engine was completely obscured.
After staying on Planet No. 1 for eight days, the four of them embarked on their return journey.
This time Li Ruobai refused to enter the box bedroom no matter what, and stayed in the cab with Chu Jungui. But on the third day, he couldn't resist the boredom of the long journey, especially when Chu Jungui had no rides.
As long as he didn't take the initiative to speak, Chu Jungui could remain silent all day, staring out the window in a daze.
Li Ruobai didn't understand what was so good about these starry skies that he was used to seeing.
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