After a few days of fooling around in the villa at Junting Grand Court.
Chen Jin changed back to his ordinary attire and returned to his home in the Court of Happiness.
…
Haierfa.
Central area of the Base of Operations.
In the office building opposite the garden bungalow, Chen Jin appeared in the hall of the holographic sand table on the 15th floor.
A sand table bigger than a movie screen was presented in front of him. A holographic projection of a planet floated in the air. The blue, translucent planet was slowly rotating.
This planet was, of course, the planet Haierfa that Chen Jin was standing on.
The image of the artificial intelligence Nuwa was reporting the latest progress of the planet transformation.
"Master, the first place we will transform is the North Mi continent where the base is located. It covers an area of about 24.71 million square kilometers. About one-third of it is located in the frigid zone. The transformation is more difficult. The area that has the potential to transform is about 16.3 million square kilometers.
So, I need to dig about 1,630 artificial lakes. So far, 581 have been started, using 3.846 million robots and 112,000 large-scale construction machines. Because the terrain is low-lying, all of them can be used as excavation sites for artificial lakes. The actual workload is not big. A batch can be completed within a year. "
"In addition, using the transport fleet next to the Wenjing Aerospace Base, together with a batch of large cargo ships that I repaired and modified, there are a total of 127 ice transport ships and two nuclear-powered ice diggers. The empty tonnage of the fleet is 2.04 million tons, and the full tonnage is 6.26 million tons. Each trip can transport 4.22 million tons of fresh water … The current transport capacity is less than one ten-thousandth of the demand. Nuwa is taking measures to increase the fresh water supply capacity."
For example, implementing artificial rain.
Building iceberg tugboats to tow icebergs to the shore. When the ice melted into liquid water, high-pressure pipelines would be used to transport it to the artificial lakes.
In short, the complexity of this huge environmental transformation project was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Chen Jin felt like his head was about to explode. He waved his hand and said, "You don't need to explain the specific transformation process in detail. I only want a planet with verdant hills, clear waters, and a blue sky and white clouds."
"Please rest assured, Master. Nuwa will complete the task within the stipulated time. The current transformation efficiency is indeed not high, but after the initial stage, the transformation efficiency will increase exponentially. Nuwa also speculates that the environmental transformation task of planet Haierfa may be completed a few years ahead of schedule."
"Completed ahead of schedule?"
Chen Jin's eyes brightened. "Why can it be completed ahead of schedule?"
"Because the resources we can make use of are much more than we imagined!"
Nuwa explained to him that in the process of excavating the man-made lake, the nearby villages, towns, and factories would also be thoroughly searched, even if these facilities were buried under more than ten meters of yellow sand.
However, excavating a village meant that it was not a small "harvest".
Nuwa said, "Although the resources of this planet are almost exhausted, those resources have not disappeared. They still remain on this planet!"
"Take steel for example. After entering the industrial age, the total industrial output of steel exceeded 200 billion tons, which became countless building materials, countless steel products, and millions of commodities in daily life.
"Such a huge amount of steel is no longer stored underground in the form of raw ores but within reach in the form of countless products. There is no need for mining machines to excavate, purify, or refine them. They are within reach and can be seen everywhere.
"This is a huge reserve of resources, a total of 200 billion tons of finished products. Even if we recover 10% of it, we won't need to mine any iron ores."
"Aluminum, copper, gold, silver, tungsten, titanium, and other resources don't need to be mined. We only need to collect 20% of the existing reserves, and we don't need to mine related mineral resources."
"Master, in fact, all of us, including myself, have entered into a misunderstanding. We think that the resources of Haierfa have been exhausted and need to be re-mined. We only pay attention to the increment, but we ignore the incomparably huge reserves that enter human life and form the reserves of the entire civilization."
"For example, in a small town with less than 100 households, the robots collect thousands of tons of metal; in an abandoned petrochemical plant, the robots collect more than 20,000 tons of scrap steel … When a planet is so desolate that there is almost no one, we will suddenly discover that the resources are suddenly abundant to an unimaginable extent, and all of them are on the surface."
"So, master, we do not lack most of the resources. We only need to increase the robots' efforts in collecting resources, and the resources will not limit the pace of our development."
Chen Jin nodded repeatedly at Nuwa's words.
He concluded, "I understand what you mean, Nuwa. In fact, it's just one sentence: Trash is resources!"
"Yes, master."
Nuwa said and revealed her "Ultimate Plunder Plan."
That was to let hundreds of millions of robots and more than a million construction machines dig three feet into the ground while the environment was being transformed. They would dig up all the "trash" on the entire planet, collect it, classify it, refine it, or use it directly. They would make the most of it.
"Okay, Nuwa. Wasting some time has nothing to do with energy. Try to search thoroughly and thoroughly. Don't let go of any corner!"
In this ultimate plunder, Chen Jin did not want any of the treasures to be buried in the yellow sand forever.
"Yes, master!"
…
After chatting with Nuwa.
Chen Jin took the elevator down to the eighth floor.
In the middle of the hall on the eighth floor, there was also a special piece of equipment — a top-of-the-line version of the virtual game cabin.
The appearance of the game cabin was milky white, very smooth and round. Its capsule-shaped shape was like an enlarged pigeon's egg.
As for its size, it was just enough to accommodate an adult.
In addition, the base of this virtual game cabin was made up of a thick and sturdy mechanical arm that could move four degrees (up, down, left and right). After entering the virtual world, it could coordinate with the virtual scene. The mechanical arm could move, accelerate, decelerate, ascend, and descend. It was very flexible. Coupled with the virtual helmet, it was said that the degree of realism could be increased by one or two percent, closer to absolute reality.
It was a must-have for those rich geek players.
In addition, this virtual game cabin was built-in with a nutrient fluid life-support system and a urine collection device. It ensured that the user could continuously fight in the virtual world for three days without any problems.
Chen Jin lay down in the game cabin, put on the helmet, and silently said "Log in." Endless white light appeared before his eyes.
When he regained his senses.
He wore a white spacesuit and stood on the outer platform of a huge spaceport.
He looked up.
The transparent dome of the spaceport was a pitch-black background dotted with countless stars. It appeared incomparably quiet and profound.
Spaceport "Dawn", Novice Base 0001.
Chen Jin entered the semi-finished virtual online game, "Interstellar Homestead OL." He became the owner of this spaceport and the supreme commander of the novice base.
A colorful ray of light lit up beside him.
The artificial intelligence, Alice, appeared beside him.
"Master, I've completed the design of the interstellar warship that you asked me to research. Here, it's the warship below."
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