interstellar farmer

Chapter 372 Plant Mining Industry
After receiving the order, a total of 42 mining machine brigades entered Area 3000.After the emergence of the mining machine, a machine unique to China, it immediately formed a scale among the mining troops. One thousand units constitute a brigade. So far, 6000 million units have been manufactured. One hundred thousand units are used as one unit. The combination, together with more than [-] and less than [-] warships, formed a mining fleet.The entire ore-planting force has [-] fleets, and they are responsible for more than [-] ore-planting stars scattered throughout the territory of Taici.

The mining fleet does not just stay at one star and stay there. There are more than 6000 stars, and each fleet has to take care of about twenty. After a star has done what it needs to do, it will hand over the care work to it. The remaining personnel and the entire fleet went to other places to repeat the same work.

District 42 is very large, with an area of ​​no less than 300 million square kilometers. If a thousand mining machines are thrown in, it will immediately become insignificant. However, after each mining machine is responsible for an area, the workload is not too large.Luo Hu, Li Xiao and a group of colleagues started to bet again, but this time the workload was small, but it was much more time-consuming than sowing. The results could be seen in a day or two or even the same day after sowing, but not cleaning. , So a few people decided to see the results in seven days to determine the winners and losers, and they all put their heads down and stepped up their operations.

The flying speed of the mining machine is very fast, at least much faster than the civilian airship, and the operation is more convenient and flexible.Luo Hu first turned on the built-in miniature detector, carefully inspected the area of ​​about ten square kilometers in size, and classified and marked the remnants of the star tree that needed to be recycled on the ground and underground in this area; Flying at a slow speed, it first started to recover the materials on the ground.

The first star planting was in global mode, which covered the entire planet without missing a trace, and the thickest part of the star tree cover was hundreds of meters long!That kind of spectacular situation is completely conceivable.Fortunately, the star tree will shrink by half after it dies automatically, and it can also gather the materials that need to be recycled in a preset manner, so that the cleaning work is not so troublesome, mainly focusing on these large piles of residues. Work hard.

I only saw Luo Hu driving the mining machine slowly over these tens of meters high, dragging and stretching star tree remnants, and then extending the laser cutting exciter from the bottom, thousands of laser rays shot out, Accurately divide the stems with a size of 500 meters and a thickness of several meters back and forth until they are cut into cylinders with a length of two or three meters. The gripper stretches out, like picking up beans, grabbing one at a time, and quickly bringing it into the ore planter.The arm of the gripper is very long, and even after cutting the pillars hundreds of meters away, they are firmly grasped one by one and brought back.

After all, the mining machine is only 50 meters long and 1 meters wide. It can't fit many of these large cylinders. After one cutting, the mining machine needs to run back and forth several times. However, when the mining machine is stationed here, the supporting equipment The transport ship also came and docked next to it. There must be a transport ship next to the area responsible for three to five mining machines, and there must be a transport ship next to the ten mining machines. At this distance, the mining machine You can get there with just a quick speed.After the fully loaded ore planting machine directly entered the transport ship, it dumped the star tree remains directly into the large modified warehouse in the ship. In less than a minute, the emptied ore planting machine could return to work. On to the next collection.

The star tree remnants on the ground are relatively easy to clean up, but the ones below the ground in the form of thick rhizomes are more troublesome.When the global star tree was planted for the first time, more than 20 kinds of star trees were planted, and six of them were the types that collected materials underground after dying on their own. After all, there are too many and complicated minerals in a star. If everything is to be on the ground, China's current technology is not yet able to achieve it.Oh, by the way, at present, the Star Tree Research Institute has more star tree types to choose from, and has also begun to study whether all star trees can be evolved and optimized into plants on the ground. It has achieved some results, but It will take time to reach the level of mature application.

After spending a day, Luo Hu collected all the ground materials in the surrounding area, and then started the underground collection operation.This time, the cutter and the gripper were activated together. First, the gripper was inserted into the ground, and the remaining rhizome was lifted out abruptly. Holder and bring the broken one back into the ore planter.Another new machine is used here, the excavator, which was originally used for digging soil nests when sowing, but here, it can also loosen the ground along the extension direction of the rhizome, so that the gripper can catch the target and lift it Come out, it can be regarded as two things for one thing.

The material under the ground is much slower to collect, but after the ground is cleared and unobstructed, it dries fairly quickly.Not every inch of the more than 3000 square kilometers of area Luo Hu is responsible for has to be dug up. There are at most one or two material gathering points in one square kilometer, and it is enough to dig them out.After ten days, Luo Hu's work was finally completed, he was the fastest among all the bettors, and naturally won a bonus of free drinking.

Both Luo Hu and Li Xiao served in the 54th Battalion of the Third Fleet of the Second Fleet of Mining Plants. They were called Mining Planting Engineers, which belonged to the planetary ground force establishment.They are different from the space troops who are responsible for opening the transport ships and the thousands of warships outside the planet.In a mining fleet, there are not many ground troops on the planet. Except for the airship soldiers of more than a thousand people who drive armed airships for guarding, then there are engineers such as Luo Hu, and the number of battleships in the entire fleet The proportion will not exceed 1%.After all, the ore-planting troops are one of the most special and secret troops in China. Safety work is very important. A fleet will have more than a thousand level-30 warships, just to protect them when the ground troops are working. When the ground troops are transferred, they also serve as transportation tasks. Only with their protection can a mining fleet be able to quickly take care of more than [-] astral targets it is responsible for, and can guarantee the security of the troops while obtaining a large amount of resources. Safety.

A fleet of transport ships under the mining fleet is specifically responsible for transporting materials for the mining machines. They are only responsible for gathering materials into adjacent warehouses.As for how to transport these materials out of the star system and to a more centralized storage star, that is not something they need to worry about. This is the work of another transport fleet that appears regularly, some of which are equivalent to the navy in the river. The difference between a navy in the ocean.

In fact, no matter whether it is mining, agriculture, mining, or industry, as long as it is located in Taici, there is no need to worry about transportation.The transportation department is an independent department. Under Du Guosheng’s jurisdiction, more than half of the active-duty Class B troops are in charge of this matter. In peacetime, the economy is in command. It can also allow soldiers to sail more casually. It is also a familiar operation process. good way.

After Luo Hu's 54th Brigade completed the task of area 42 and guaranteed the maintenance of the ore planter, it took over the task of sowing seeds in this area.Because there are more types of star trees, the seeds and plants sown this time are very different from the last time, which leads to different sowing methods. However, with an operation manual sent from the research institute, the After each person has it in their hands, they only need to input it to their respective mining machines, and it can be operated properly immediately.

The growth of the star tree is very fast, which is completely different from the understanding of plants in the universe: if it is a seed, after sowing, it will take up to five days to see whether it survives or germinates; after it germinates, it can be seen with the naked eye The situation I saw was growing—the research institute has strongly optimized the growth speed of all seeds. Although it is not as good as that handled by Han Zhen himself, it is extremely shocking that the growth speed can reach a hundred times!In one month, it only takes one month for the star tree seeds to reach the juvenile stage and enter the growth stage.

Although the star where Luo Hu is located is a sub-star, there is no water source, which means that star trees can be planted on all surfaces for mining; although this star is more than ten times larger than the average administrative planet, this also leads to The task of farming was more than ten times greater; but with the almost non-stop work of more than [-] mining machines in the mining fleet, it only took a total of one and a half months to collect the remaining star trees from the first time. After everything was cleared, hundreds of star tree seeds and plants were planted in all locations on the star. Appropriate inspections were also conducted after planting to eliminate star tree types that did not survive or were rejected.

Half of the thousands of warships in the fleet landed on the surface of the planet. While the mine planters were still inspecting, they loaded and took away the transport ships. These transport ships will be sent to the next star by the warships in advance .These seventh-tier warships have been refitted, greatly enhancing the loading space of the warehouse. Even the big ones of the transport ships that are over a thousand meters can swallow several ships at a time.

More than 500 warships cannot load all the transport ships at once. This is easy to solve. Just make two more trips. Anyway, the seventh-level warships are very fast, so when the mining machine finishes the inspection work, All the transport ships have been transported away in batches by the warships.The next step is to take the same method to deal with the mining machines. More than [-] mining machines cannot be transported at one time. After all, the mining machines are also hundreds of meters in size. After half of the warships went back and forth several times, finally On the first trip, take all the remaining mining machines. Except for the more than [-] airship soldiers left behind to guard the star, the mining fleet will not return in three to four years.

(End of this chapter)