Ye Han jumped to the designated location, picked up a boulder with a diameter of no less than one meter at his feet, easily lifted it over his head and threw it out of the pit with force.
The boulder thrown out of the pit was like a slow-motion movie. After flying to the highest point, it slowly fell, hit the hillside, jumped twice, and slowly rolled along the slope of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. Everything was so slow.
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However, Ye Han's movements were not slow at all. Stones of large and small sizes were thrown out of the pit one after another. The ones with suitable shapes rolled down the mountain, and the ones with too many edges and corners were piled directly on the hillside. After a while, a three-story building appeared outside the pit.
A pile of rocks more than one meter high.
The low gravity of the moon combined with the strength bonus of the 2o version of the armor makes it easy to lift rocks with a mass of less than five tons. All the equipment on the two bases on the moon combined cannot find equipment more suitable for clearing pits.
Higher quality stones can also be lifted, but that may damage the armor due to overload, so Ye Han will not do such a wasteful thing.
There were too many rocks in the pit. There were three meters of rocks outside the pit, but only about one meter was excavated inside.
Ye Han couldn't help but ask: "Lao Gao, what is the designed altitude of the tunnel?"
"Fourteen meters!"
Ye Han sent a positioning request to the satellite, and the satellite determined that his altitude was 17 meters above sea level. In other words, if he dug down another three meters, he should find the tunnel boring machine.
This is really good news!
The sea on the moon is actually a plain, and there is no real altitude at all. In the past, a crater near the central bay on the far side of the moon was forced to have an altitude of 7,000 meters, which served as the moon's sea level benchmark.
It is simple and convenient to follow Western standards, but Beidou obviously does not intend to do so. After the Moon Palace Project began, the surface of the glacial lake in Crater No. 1 was directly set as the sea level benchmark. All Chinese height data follow this standard.
"Can you contact the tunnel boring machine?" Ye Han asked again.
"Okay, what?"
"Transfer the communication, I want to talk to him." Ye Han said.
"Okay." Gao Kai agreed, and the two people were quickly connected through satellite.
"Brother, how do you feel?" Ye Han greeted.
"It's okay." After a period of settling, the trapped driver had calmed down.
Ye Han stamped his foot twice: "Can you hear me?"
"What did you hear?"
"The sound of stomping feet." Ye Han said, "I'm above you, now I'm stomping my feet, tell me which direction the sound is!"
The endurance of the power armor is limited, and limited power cannot be wasted. Determining the accurate position of the tunnel boring vehicle can save energy to the maximum extent.
"Oh...okay!"
Ye Han continued to stamp his feet and heard the trapped driver's voice: "In front of me to the right."
Ye Han took two steps and continued to stamp his feet.
"Left!"
Ye Han moved back a little further.
"Onward!"
Finally finding the correct location, Ye Han immediately took action, moving what should be moved and what should be pushed, and digging with all his strength. After more than ten minutes, Ye Han pushed away a boulder that was as tall as a person, and finally found himself under the boulder.
The twisted steel frame, and the laser drill installed on the front end of the steel frame.
He immediately cleared away the rubble near the steel frame, revealing the mottled shell of the tunnel boring machine.
Ye Han knocked on the thick armor hard: "Can you hear it?"
"I heard it, very clearly!" the trapped driver said excitedly.
"Lao Gao, I found the tunnel boring machine."
The radio waves sent Ye Han's voice to Gao Kai's ears. Gao Kai suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Hurry up and save people."
"No problem." Ye Han said, "Which direction is the door?"
The purpose of adding armor to tunnel boring vehicles is to prevent landslides. Of course, they won't have a hole in the roof like ordinary tanks.
"Left!" Gao Kai said.
Ye Han looked to the left and couldn't help grinning. The outside of the dug car was crowded with large and small rocks, and it was not easy to dig out the car door.
"What else should I dig? Me!" Ye Han stood on the boring machine and sighed, "Just a few stones, the excavation team will transport them all in less than half an hour, is there any need to torment me?"
Gao Kai was stunned: "Are you sure?"
"There is a boring machine under my feet, what do you think?" Ye Han said.
The tunnel has been dug to the edge of the crater. It only needs to work harder to penetrate it completely. The top of the collapsed area is not countless basalts, but weathered rocks less than ten meters thick!
As long as the stones blocking the end of the tunnel are removed, the entire tunnel will be penetrated. Why should Ye Han be so tired that he can throw stones as hard as a dog?
Gao Kai forwarded the news to the excavation team. The team leader immediately slapped his thigh and immediately ordered the entire team to dig out earth and rocks.
A mechanical boring machine drove into the tunnel, and its wildly rotating drill bit smashed the rocks blocking the tunnel.
If you continue to use the laser boring machine at this time, you may injure the trapped personnel if you are not careful.
During the initial establishment of the base, the temporary base was short of people and equipment, but there was no shortage of electricity, so the equipment equipped at that time was mainly powered by electricity.
Electric drive equipment has outstanding advantages, but there are also many disadvantages. For example, laser excavation equipment cannot be controlled accurately. Often a high-energy laser can cut into the rock formation several meters or even ten meters deep. Therefore, the excess gaps must be sealed in the later stage of the project to avoid occurrences.
Loss of pressure accident.
Now that the smelting team is in place and the base has the basic conditions for using traditional equipment, the equipment that needs to be replaced must be replaced.
A large amount of gravel was sent out of the tunnel through the conveyor belt. After a while, a seven-eight-meter-long tunnel was cleared. When you look up, you can see the bright starry sky.
Ye Han outside first saw the rocks deep in the pit begin to vibrate, and then the rocks quickly sank. After a while, the huge alloy drill bit pierced the rock formation.
As the boring machine continued to advance, more and more gravel was transported away by the conveyor belt. Ye Han simply jumped out of the pit, avoiding the boring machine and jumped into the newly cleared tunnel.
Even if we are back at base, there is no need to fly back at all.
The excavation team was startled by Ye Han falling from the sky. Ye Han revealed his identity and told the situation outside again.
The excavation team leader was overjoyed after receiving the first-hand information and immediately informed Gao Kai: The entire tunnel will be completed soon!
Gao Kai had already learned about the situation outside from Ye Han, and had long realized that the tunnel was about to be connected. However, he did not report it rashly. Instead, he patiently waited for confirmation from the excavation team before reporting the news to the ground.
When the ground command center received the news, they were immediately elated.
The country is doing its best to support the construction of the lunar base. Resisting aliens is only one aspect. Another important reason is to be the first to control the lunar resources.
Although the crater provides a relatively stable environment for the Moon Palace Base, the towering peaks also limit the development of the base. The Shanbei Tunnel is like opening a door or a window, showing a broader world in front of everyone.
The Lunar Palace Base no longer has to be limited to Pit 1, creating conditions for further utilization of lunar resources.
This has extraordinary strategic significance for the Moon Palace Base and the entire country.
