The U.S. representatives simply tore off their disguises, led a showdown between the base group and Beidu, and held secret consultations on the ownership of the moon. They would rather abandon the Outer Space Treaty than use effective means to curb Beidu's expansion on the moon.
When things came to this point, the top management of Beidu sighed with regret. The delegation refused to give in any ground during the negotiations and tried its best to pursue the country's interests on the moon.
In this regard, Brother Yi issued the highest instructions. Comrades worked hard on the moon to achieve today's results. No one is qualified to squander the lives and blood of comrades at the negotiation table.
There was no compromise at the negotiating table, and the negotiations between China and the United States reached a deadlock. However, both sides were confident of getting the results they wanted, so the negotiations continued.
At the same time, the construction of the two lunar bases has never stopped. On the contrary, it has accelerated a bit because of the overt and covert fighting on the ground. The average working time of each person per day exceeds fourteen hours. If it were not mandatory for the base to leave enough rest time, the work would be
The time will be extended by several hours.
The industrial team is working overtime, and the construction team is also not idle. Although the space in the base is always not enough, the production projects of the industrial team do not always require pressure space. In many cases, low-pressure space and vacuum environment are more beneficial.
As a result, the construction team no longer has to focus entirely on base construction. Instead, they allocate manpower to make necessary adjustments to the internal structure of the base and select appropriate locations in each base to carve out functional spaces.
The dormitory issue that has been unresolved for a year has finally been included in the base's construction plan.
Building dormitories at this juncture may seem a bit unprofessional at first glance, but only those familiar with the situation know that the base has absolutely no choice but to do so.
A lot of supplies were sent to the moon from the ground. Although all the astronauts practiced economy, after more than a year of consumption, the reserve supplies had been depleted, and the raw materials obtained from refining lunar rock and separating lunar soil were simply not enough to consume.
We are currently in a critical period of base expansion. Every minute of delay will cause incalculable losses in the future.
To this end, the base has made a strategic plan to develop outward with all its strength, and all materials and equipment are unconditionally tilted towards the expansion strategy.
Think about it, even the shell of the spaceship has been taken away and used by the industrial team. How can there be any leftover materials in the base? But the industrial team just found a lot of them!
At this time, the base has more than 300 astronauts and nearly 30 living cabins. Each living cabin weighs twelve tons. If the living cabins are recast, more than 300 tons of metal can be recycled, all of which will be used to produce the lunar rover.
, hundreds of lunar rovers can be manufactured, increasing the base’s transportation capacity tenfold!
In addition to the living cabins, only a dozen spaceships standing on the launch site can recover a batch of raw materials.
Some of the spacecraft have been dismantled and used by industrial groups before. The remaining spacecraft are the last life support for all astronauts and cannot be moved lightly at any time.
In addition, several irreplaceable functional cabins such as military cabins are still retained. Apart from living cabins, what other options do the industrial group have?
The base immediately expressed its full support for the industrial group's idea, and just like that, the engineering group began to solve the dormitory problem.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and in early August, another spacecraft successfully landed in the airport area.
The airport at Beiyuezhou Base currently only exists in the plan. It is just a flat open space that has been planned for use. Except for a row of spaceships standing on the edge of the open space that can be launched at any time, it is no different from other areas.
After more than two months of hard work by the agricultural team, the supply crisis at the base has been resolved, the reserves of staple and non-staple food have been greatly improved, and more ground personnel have been sent to the base. This time, a total of 22 astronauts arrived by boat.
Bit.
More than 20 astronauts wearing spacesuits left the spacecraft one by one and gathered under the spacecraft to look around. Everything they saw felt fresh.
The information you see during training cannot be compared to being there.
Ye Han, who was responsible for "picking up", drove an open-top lunar rover to the spacecraft and deliberately lowered his voice while suppressing his excitement: "Everyone, please get in the car!"
The newly arrived astronauts jumped like a group of zombies and floated towards the lunar rover, floating seven or eight meters away with each jump - their spacesuits had no weights and could not walk like astronauts who had added weights.
Ye Han first sent fourteen people to the industrial group, and then drove the car into the airlock of Cave No. 1.
The outer gate fell, and air began to inflate between the two gates. The hissing sound started from scratch. The barometer reading on Ye Han's body quickly picked up. When the air pressure inside the gate reached the standard value, the red light above the inner gate instantly turned green, and the sound dinged to the ground.
With a soft sound, the inner gate slowly rose, and the passage behind the gate was revealed to everyone.
Behind the short passage is an intersection, with conspicuous signs on the walls in each direction.
The lunar rover drove into the passage, and the inner gate slowly dropped behind the rover.
Ye Han still lowered his voice: "Okay, you can take off your helmet." After saying that, he took off his helmet, turned around with a smile, glanced at his new companions in the car, and then fixed his eyes on a familiar and familiar face.
Some unfamiliar faces.
Bai Xiaoting lost weight, and her long hair was cut into a neat ear-length bob, making her look fresh and capable.
"Ye Han!" Bai Xiaoting screamed, and without hesitation she threw herself at her long-lost lover.
Ye Han was startled, and quickly stretched out his arms to hug his wife, held her in his arms, and said with a smile: "How come you are so thin? You are not as heavy as our janitor's rhubarb!" He said with a smile.
He put an arm around Bai Xiaoting and held her up to swing like a swing.
"Are you looking for a beating?" Bai Xiaoting glared angrily, holding Ye Han's arm with one hand and gesturing to hit her with the other hand.
"Stop -" Ye Han quickly stopped, "I am against domestic violence. Everyone is watching. Besides, my body is valuable and it is not my own. If it gets damaged, we will be fighting each other for the rest of our lives.
Ma pay for it."
Neither of them is meant to mourn the spring and autumn, let alone celebrate their reunion with tears.
There was a joking chuckle in the car, and a girl in her early twenties asked with a smile: "Xiaoting, is this your Ye Han? He is so funny."
Bai Xiaoting became wary: "What are you kidding me about? I'm poor and I'm bored to death."
"You are telling the truth!" the girl teased.
"That's not true!" Bai Xiaoting glared at Ye Han.
Ye Han quickly changed the subject: "Let's drive, let's drive, I'll send you to check in first!"
Several people in the car were from the agricultural group and were very familiar with each other on the ground. The person who was sitting behind Ye Han took the initiative to give up her seat to Bai Xiaoting. Bai Xiaoting sat behind Ye Han and couldn't hide the smile on her face.
This is the lover she thinks about day and night and never forgets!
