Chapter 12 This chapter on the tip of the tongue can be eaten
12. This chapter on the tip of the tongue can be eaten
After catching a group of smugglers in Dubrac-Quinto, what follows? In more than a week, everything returned to calm, and the colony was developing steadily.
The number of mining stations built around the gas giant planet has increased to four, providing the mothership with a large amount of helium-3 fuel used in the fusion reactor. However, there are only four modular mining stations in the mothership. If you want to build a new mining station, you need to build it yourself. Fortunately, there is no shortage of metal resources in the galaxy. Currently, some metal asteroids have been mined by the mothership. The ship captured it and decomposed it for refinement.
In addition, 3 of the 9 moons surrounding this gas giant planet also called Endor are rich in various metallic minerals. People in the Engineering Department are currently working overtime to build an interstellar mining farm on one of the asteroids to provide raw materials for construction work in space.
The same is true for the colonies on the ground. Currently, 1,000 modular 2-story residential buildings have been built in the colony on Dawn Star. The number of residents has increased to more than 1,700, and the entire colony can already accommodate 10,000 residents.
Daphne Clement of the Administration Department is constantly selecting suitable residents to wake up and send them to the Dawn Star to join the construction work. By the way, Goolaham is no longer the village chief. He was promoted to mayor just yesterday.
The biggest problem now is, first, the job pressure brought by rapid population growth, and second, there are not enough transport ships between the mothership and Dawn Star. There are only five small transport ships on the mothership. Each transport ship can only carry 100 passengers or 50 tons of cargo at a time, which is far from meeting demand.
Furthermore, this kind of transport is about 30 meters long, belongs to the level of light frigate, and cannot be built on the production line built into the mother ship. If you want to build more transport ships, you must build a small space dock. Although this has already begun, even if the mothership is equipped with modular materials, it will take another week to complete a building of this scale.
What’s even worse is that one of the transport ships probably had some malfunctions when the mother ship passed through before. Now it is used so intensively that it went on strike...
These things made Tang Xiao very anxious. When the colony first started to be built, there were not many problems. Now it is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more problems. In the past few days, he had no time to think about the plot of "Star Wars" and other issues. He was constantly traveling between the Dawn Star and the mothership, making various decisions.
However, the benefits of doing this are also obvious. He has been instilled with all kinds of knowledge in his mind. Now after this period of application, it has been developed a lot, and many tasks have become familiar. .
If it was more than a week ago, when he had not traveled through time and was just an ordinary college graduate, who would have told him that he could manage such a growing interstellar colony, Tang Xiao would have thought that person It’s talking about the plot of a science fiction novel.
But now that things have developed so far... Could it be that I have traveled through time into a science fiction novel? Tang Xiao looked up at the sky, wondering if he could see the author's extremely handsome face.
In short, under the leadership of Tang Xiao, the colony is still developing in an orderly manner. They set up a hunting team to allow the marines to gain practical experience and to supplement the colony with meat...
Search for mines on the Dawn Star and mine lime, coal and metal raw materials...
Open farms and fruit fields to plant native plants, and build closed hydroponic farms to grow rice and wheat brought from the mothership. , corn and other crops.
Construct steel plants, cement plants, sewage treatment plants, power stations, metal refining, parts processing and other factories.
There are also roads, spaceports on the ground, and pipelines and optical cables laid.
And the most difficult step - sewage discharge. Because on this pristine planet, how to discharge and plan the waste and wastewater generated by factories and domestic sewage are very difficult issues.
The biggest problem is that 95% of the Dawn Planet is on the ground, so most of the water bodies are underground, which also brings great difficulties to sewage discharge. The modular sewage treatment plant carried on the mother ship has limited processing capacity. The problem now is that more and larger sewage treatment plants need to be built...
And Tang Xiao is now beginning to have a better understanding of this planet. It's an inexplicable feeling. After all, when he awakened to the Force, he was breathing the air here and feeling his own nature. He didn't want to destroy the beautiful scenery here. In fact, it has become a bond.
So once when he went to inspect the colony and saw the residents building sewage pipes, Tang Xiao suddenly had an idea. After returning to the mothership, he began to discuss a very serious matter with Daphne Clement. Very serious question: He plans to build a giant excrement collector on the hill next to the colony to collect all the sewage and excrement, and then build a dam to use the excrement to generate electricity. There is actually no basis for him to think so, because he has done this in a certain game before. He thought that since even the spaceships in the game could be brought into reality, then the shit collector that could be implemented in the game should also be possible.
However, Clement was directly frightened. She desperately suppressed the urge to arrest Tang Xiao to check his brain, and told her manager seriously that in reality, this It's impossible, because the energy you spend to pump the dung water up the mountain is already much greater than the electricity used to generate it, and the pressure of the dung water is not enough to drive the turbine of the dam, and there are too many impurities in it that can easily block it.
After all, you don’t know if someone is constipated, right?
In addition, seasonal issues must be considered. What if the feces in the feces collector freezes in winter? So we still need a heating device, right? These are all costs!
In order to strengthen his persuasion, Clement also grabbed the energetics expert Guan Yan who was eating and explained that Guan Yan was innocent, although she immediately drank the food she just ate after hearing this topic. She vomited all her lunch, but she still worked hard to help Clement persuade Tang Xiao.
Seeing that this road was impassable, Tang Xiao, who had already entered a certain state of bewilderment, asked them how many water purification plants would be needed to filter fecal water into drinking water?
Clement and the others were stunned by Tang Xiao's imagination. They called in Qu Xuewen and Feng Yongwang, and combined with the earnest persuasion of several experts, Tang Xiao gave up the idea of excrement-water power generation and The idea of recycling finally kept me from being shot.
This flavorful topic still had to come to a conclusion, so they continued to discuss it for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that this thing is really possible to build a giant feces collector. In fact, it is a super dirty (feces) water collector. Although the cost of the treatment center is a bit high, it seems that it can really solve the problem of sewage discharge on a planet where most of the water is underground.
Of course, the excrement collector cannot be built on the mountain, otherwise it will be fun once the embankment breaks, and excrement will directly flood the city.
Tang Xiao immediately decided that from now on, every city must build a central excrement collector! These concentrated manure can not only be used for fertilization after treatment, but can also maintain law and order when necessary, right?
They finally decided to set up a Department of Public Health to handle this matter. When making this decision, Tang Xiao had no idea that he had single-handedly created the most terrifying department in the history of the galaxy.
However, Tang Xiao quickly broke away from this delicious topic. At this moment, he was happily stirring a bowl of mushy chocolate with a spoon, eating a spoonful from time to time, and talking to him just now. Wake up with an elite sociologist to discuss a very important topic.
There were no snacks on the mothership, so Tang Xiao could only satisfy his cravings with these semi-finished products.
“Manager, what we have to consider now is the cohesion of the colony. We are currently small and everyone is around you, which is good. But if we continue to develop, This is far from enough. Please take a look at my proposal..." The sociologist named Norris-Barry spoke to Tang Xiao with sincerity.
At this time, Guan Yan, who was carrying a lunch box, passed by and saw Tang Xiao there, so she said smoothly: "Ah, you are here, manager. By the way, there is something about the infrared laser weapon. The analysis went very smoothly and should be completed in advance. We will conduct the first weapons test in the afternoon. Do you want to go? "
"Ah, no problem, I will go in the afternoon," Tang Xiao replied. After completing the preliminary analysis of infrared laser weapons in more than a week, he felt that she should praise her a few words, but he suddenly got stuck and didn't know what to say, so he picked up the mushy chocolate in his hand and said to Guan Yan, "Would you like to eat it?" ?”
Seeing this bowl of sticky brown object that was stirred into a spiral shape by Tang Xiao, Guan Yan’s face darkened and she quickly refused, “Uh, no, I don’t have much appetite...”< br>
"Ah, what a pity, this is quite delicious." Tang Xiao shook his head regretfully, stirred the bowl again, then scooped out a large spoonful of sticky food and put it in his mouth and ate it.
Guan Yan's face turned from black to green, she didn't want the box lunch in her hand, she covered her mouth and turned around to run away.
[Pictures 1 and 2 attached to the Easter Egg Chapter: Various poop collectors. 】
Everyone can go and watch the video of Yuanmeng Qingyan, the leader of Station B UP...
(End of this chapter)