Not long after the Special Task Force left Hope City, Luo Yuan handled a few documents and left Hope City with his space-time bubble.
Currently, the environment on Earth was harsh and extremely cold. The time for humans to leave the underground and return to the surface was still far away. The underground material reserves and the remaining industrial system could not save Hope City and the surrounding five to six million people, let alone rebuild and develop the civilization!
It was even difficult to reunite the survivors of the three nearby cities and establish a unified and efficient administrative system.
Fortunately, although the arrival of the aliens had brought humans to the brink of extinction, they had left behind an intact spaceship.
Moreover, it was a huge spaceship. Due to the highly automated technology of the Glassian civilization, the internal space of the spaceship was pathetically small. It could be said to be extravagant, especially in the residential layer. Perhaps they had considered the psychological effects of living in a narrow space for a long time. The vertical height of the spaceship was more than 200 meters, almost two-seventh of the entire height of the spaceship, and its diameter was an astonishing 1.5 kilometers.
The ecological garden in the center occupied most of the space. With the Glassian's technology, such an ecological system was not essential to them. The air circulation system on the spaceship could automatically adjust the air so that the air would be fresh and comfortable from time to time.
The reason for its existence was to make the long journey in space less monotonous and at the same time, to prevent the occurrence of space syndrome.
However, for humans who had difficulty surviving, it was undoubtedly too extravagant to think about such things.
If the botanical garden and some of the useless cabins were removed, the usable area of the entire spaceship could reach more than 1.7 million square meters. Multiplied by the height of 200 meters, the usable space would reach 350 million cubic meters.
Based on the standard of two people living in every 3 * 3 * 3 space, the residential area alone could accommodate 26 million people.
Of course, this was only an ideal situation.
In reality, the utilization of the space would definitely not be so high. Even if it was a quarter of the space, it would still be close to 7 million people, enough to accommodate all the remaining people on Earth.
Compared to Hope City, Twilight City, United City and Victory City were just small cities. Before the disaster, each city basically had a population of more than a million people. Victory City had a population of more than 900,000 as it was close to the wilderness.
After the disaster, the total population was probably less than three million. Including the remaining population of Hope City, the total population was less than 5.4 million to 6 million.
However, before the humans migrated in, the living quarters of the spaceship had to undergo a large-scale transformation. A portion of the workers had to be moved in first to build a high-rise building with a high floor area ratio in the living quarters of the spaceship.
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Less than ten minutes later, his warp drive reached its maximum speed.
The previous battle with the Glassians had allowed him to have a small breakthrough in his Will. Although it did not immediately reach 20 points, it allowed his space-time bubble flight speed to increase by leaps and bounds, from the original 150 kilometers per second to 1,000 kilometers per second (revised above).
The spacecraft was 600,000 kilometers away from Earth, but at such a high speed, it only took 10 minutes to get there. Including the long startup time, it only took 17 minutes.
In his eyes, the spaceship grew larger and larger. After a minute, he began to slow down. Not long after, the space warp bubble brought his body directly into the spaceship.
"Welcome, Captain."
As soon as he entered the cabin of the spaceship and removed the bubble, the artificial intelligence system's gentle voice was heard.
Luo Yuan was not surprised. With the detection ability of the spaceship, it was completely impossible to enter the interior of the spaceship without being noticed. He walked quickly towards the control room and asked, "How are things recently?"
"Everything is fine, but we can't contact the production area, causing the production to be unable to proceed. Captain, please arrange for the engineers to repair it!" The artificial intelligence system said gently.
"Got it!" Luo Yuan did not deny it.
This was a contradiction. Once it was repaired, the core program of the artificial intelligence system would automatically contact the production area to produce the quantum communication device and then repair the communication device to maintain the connection with the Glassians. If it was not repaired, the production area would not be able to work and the automated factories on the spaceship would be idle.
However, this was only temporary. When the humans gradually migrated in and gradually familiarized themselves with the operation of these automated factories, even without the automatic control of the artificial intelligence system, they would still be able to carry out the production normally. The only difference was that the efficiency would be reduced.
The artificial intelligence system only reminded him once and then did not remind him again.
"Can this spaceship fly to Earth?" Luo Yuan asked.
"Unfortunately, it can't. The total mass of the spaceship is 1.57 billion tons and it can only withstand an acceleration of 5.3 meters per second. The gravity on Earth's surface is 9.8 meters per second. Therefore, flying to Earth will cause slight deformation of the spaceship and unpredictable consequences."
"It's that heavy?" The artificial intelligence system's answer made Luo Yuan frown. The mass was completely beyond his imagination. 1.57 billion tons was equivalent to 15,000 100,000-ton aircraft carriers before the apocalypse.
"The spaceship's weight comes from three parts. The spaceship's weight, the materials collected by the spaceship and the spare parts in the inventory.
The spaceship's weight is 110 million tons and the spare parts in the inventory are 400 million tons. Most of the remaining weight comes from the various materials collected. Among them, there are 530 million tons of pure water, 180 million tons of pure iron, 120 million tons of pure copper … "
The variety of materials collected by the spaceship was shocking. It covered almost all the elements that could be found in the elemental table. Among them, the most abundant was water, which took up one-third of the spaceship's total mass. In the eyes of humans, water was only the source of life. In the spaceship, apart from supplying the needs of life, it was also the fuel for nuclear fusion. It was also an important element for the synthesis of various organic and chemical materials. During the long interstellar flight, the consumption of water was quite shocking.
"What about the small spaceship on the top floor?" Luo Yuan continued to ask as he walked to the control room.
"If you're talking about the emergency spaceship, it can fly to Earth!" The artificial intelligence system replied.
Luo Yuan heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "How do I operate it?"
"Its control system is my subsystem. As long as you give me the permission, it can fly automatically."
"That's great. Oh right, can you give me some comparison materials between Glassian and Chinese?" Luo Yuan asked as he recalled something before he left.
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Not long after, Luo Yuan brought a thick stack of documents to the spaceship on the top floor. After verifying the permission, the spaceship's door opened automatically.
"Captain, welcome. I'm the emergency spaceship's control system 002. I'm at your service."
Luo Yuan walked into the control room. The layout of the control room was similar to the mothership. He glanced at it and said, "I want to go to Earth."
"Please input the coordinates."
On the three-dimensional screen, the image of the entire Earth and the densely packed coordinates were displayed.
After getting used to it, he had a certain understanding of the three-dimensional image. It could capture the movements of both hands in real time and perform a series of operations on the image. The specific operation was similar to the human touch screen technology, but undoubtedly, it was many times more advanced.
He gently pulled the image and the image of Earth was zoomed in. It was as if a huge solid ball had appeared in the control room. It looked so real and if one did not take a closer look, it would look like the real thing.
Moreover, the image was the real-time state of Earth. The periphery of the Earth was covered with a layer of white fog and one could not see the situation on the ground.
"Remove the polluted atmosphere!" Luo Yuan frowned.
As soon as he finished his sentence, the original appearance of Earth was revealed. Luo Yuan pointed at a spot and said, "Should we go there?"
"The coordinates have been input. Request to activate the dome …"
"Request approved …"
"Activating the anti-gravity engine …"
"Activating the virtual image of the exterior …"
"The spaceship is about to leave the mothership. Please be prepared."
As the dome above their heads opened up like flower petals, the small spaceship began to rise slowly and separated from the mothership. In just a minute, the main engine suddenly ejected a dazzling stream of light, and the entire spaceship immediately flew towards Earth.
Its speed was getting faster and faster. In the blink of an eye, the mothership was left behind and it was getting smaller and smaller.
Luo Yuan sat on the floating chair and looked at the virtual image on the three-dimensional screen curiously. However, he lost interest after a while. He picked up the comparison information of the Glassian language and Chinese characters and read it carefully.
The Glassian paper was harder and more durable than the paper on Earth. Due to the popularity of the personal biological terminal, the Glassians rarely used paper. They usually only used it for precious historical archives and backup information.
It could be stored for a long time and was waterproof, fireproof and anti-corrosive. Even if it was left in the wild, it would not rot for hundreds of years. Due to the fact that it could not rot naturally, the use of the paper was strictly limited. Each time it was obtained, the usage and destination of the paper had to be clearly recorded. Of course, such regulations did not affect Luo Yuan.
He sat on the captain's seat and watched for a few minutes before the small spaceship began to enter the Earth's atmosphere.
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