Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 360: Wonderland on Earth
The installation of the artificial gravity system is actually not complicated.

It is a control system plus Taiyi alloy 401 and power supply lines.

During the voyage, people from Lin Wei's team had already prepared the control system installed in a medium-sized Fuxi optical computer, the Taiyi alloy 401 plate and the control circuit on it.

The work to be done now is to install the Fuxi optical brain in the Gushen Building, arrange the power supply lines, and lay the Taiyi Alloy 401 plates under the floors of each floor in the building.

From the construction drawings of the building, Zhong Cheng and others discovered early on that space was reserved under the floors of the floors when the building was designed.

Although Zhong Cheng secretly scolded Wu Tie, the old fox, for his abacus, it did save them a lot of trouble for installing the artificial gravity system.

Otherwise, Lin Wei can't guarantee that the installation project will be completed within 7 days.

Because Taiyi alloy 401 plates produce gravity effects regardless of front and back, they are only installed under the floors of even-numbered floors in buildings.

This creates a spectacle, for example, the situation on the 2nd floor is normal, but the 1st floor is upside down relative to the ground of Ceres, the ceiling is regarded as the floor, and the two floors share a Taiyi alloy 401 plate.

Lin Wei said that it is actually possible to block the gravity effect on one side, but this is too wasteful.

Because of the zero-gravity on Ceres, even if people on the odd-numbered floor live and work upside down, if they don't compare it with the outside scenery, they can't feel it.

But in this way, they only need to install 78 floors for a 39-story building, and they can save half of the materials.

In the first three days, which is actually one day relative to the earth’s time, Zhong Cheng followed Lin Wei and Yang Xi to set up the computer room of the artificial gravity system, connected the Suihuang nuclear fusion engine unit at the Penglai Base, and installed 1, 2, 4 , 6 four floors.

Seeing that the project was progressing smoothly, Zhong Cheng took the time to visit the construction of the Penglai base and the situation of Ceres.

Xu Yongfu needs to organize manpower to cooperate with the installation, commissioning and learning of the artificial gravity system, and this task of taking Zhong Cheng on a tour is given to Meng Ye.

There is nothing to see in the base, just half of the Gushen Building, the Suihuang Nuclear Fusion Power Station built on the edge of the dome, and the Sky Ecological Control System Management Center.

Other city buildings have been planned, but no construction has started.

On the contrary, the artificial planting field and the breeding field to the north of the Gushen Building have been completed.

The soil of the plantation is artificially made from Ceres dust mixed with organic ingredients. The water source is abundant, and the grain and vegetables on the [-]-acre land are growing well.

Pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese are kept in the nearby farm to cooperate with the plantation, forming a perfect ecological agriculture.

According to Raymond, the current production on Ceres is completely sufficient for the life needs of the base personnel, but the taste of agricultural production here is quite different from that on Earth.

After Zhong Cheng ate the local food of Ceres these few days, he also felt an indescribable weirdness. He only hoped that they would bring back some local products when they returned to Earth this time, so that Ye Wenhao could arrange someone to study it.

Zhong Cheng looked around and found that the plantation and breeding grounds were all labored by humans, and there was not a single intelligent robot in the entire base.

Meng Ye is a soldier who can't tell the reason, thinking it is to save costs.

But Zhong Cheng knew that it wasn't because he couldn't afford it, it was because he couldn't use it.

There is only one reason, that is, it is too far away from the earth.

In order to achieve intelligence and low cost, Wukong series intelligent robots must rely on the data interaction of the super Fuxi optical brain array in the robot control center.

There is an information delay of up to half an hour here, and the data interaction with the robot control center loses its meaning.

Without the support of the machine control center, intelligent robots will lose the ability to automatically handle complex environments, and at most they will do simple and repetitive tasks.

But in a strange and complex environment like Ceres, intelligent robots are useless.

In order for intelligent robots to be used here, a Super Fuxi Optical Brain Center must first be established as a simple version of the robot control center.

Then, through multiple synchronous satellites above Ceres, relay communication will cover the entire planet.

Zhong Cheng estimated that this would be possible at least after the spaceship opened the route between Ceres and the Earth.

In the past few years, the construction of the Penglai Base had to rely entirely on these pioneers themselves.

Meng Ye took Zhong Cheng into a space suit and walked out of the dome to the federal military airport five kilometers away from the base.

Meng Ye introduced that the Federal Army's border guards stationed on Ceres had a total of 300 people, equipped with 8 new Suzaku space fighters and 81 White Tiger mechas, which already had the combat effectiveness of half a standard mecha division.

But to protect a territory as large as Ceres, and to be responsible for the defense of the entire asteroid belt in the future, the strength is too weak.

The new Suzaku space fighter is the space version of the Suzaku fighter, and its appearance still retains the powerful and fierce style of the Suzaku fighter.

Because of the space environment, the wings were greatly reduced, and it was changed to a weapon carrying platform. The overall fuselage was also reduced, and a small micronuclear fusion engine was installed.

However, the Ceres border defense force still uses the White Tiger Mecha as the main force, and the Suzaku fighter is mainly responsible for patrol and reconnaissance missions.

Zhong Cheng knew that before there were no effective weapons against mecha fighters, the Suzaku fighter could only be reduced to an auxiliary tool on the battlefield.

Lei Meng and Zhong Cheng boarded a Suzaku fighter plane, and the original three pilots have been replaced by two.

Same as intelligent robots, Jingwei unmanned fighter jets and Huwei mechanical fighters can no longer be used in this place far away from the earth, so the pilot who commanded the drones in the original Suzaku fighter jet was cancelled.

Raymond smiled: "Boss, I'm going to get rid of the door, let me drive!"

Zhong Cheng didn't object. He had no experience in flying a fighter plane in a vacuum environment, and in the strange environment of Ceres, he couldn't make fun of two people's lives.

While proficiently checking the parameters of the fighter, Lei Meng said, "Chief, I have watched the video of you flying the Suzaku fighter countless times when I was in the military academy."

Zhong Cheng asked strangely: "How old are you?"

Raymond replied sheepishly: "I look a bit old, but I will only turn 36 at the end of this year."

Zhong Cheng was taken aback. Raymond was indeed a bit old. He thought he was going to be fifty.

The rigors of life in outer space are indeed aging these people prematurely.

But looking at it this way, it is not surprising that Raymond said that he watched Zhong Cheng's video when he was studying in the military academy.

Lei Meng piloted the Suzaku Fighter into the air and flew towards the outside of the crater.

The Suzaku fighter plane flew over the icy salt lake in the middle of the crater.

Under the sunlight, the salty ice layer reflects colorful rays of light, and the water vapor evaporated over the salt lake is refracted by the sunlight, forming a rainbow, which makes people dazzled, like a fairyland on earth.

There is also a brine refining factory next to the ice salt lake, and the sky above the factory is also surrounded by rainbows.

The huge spherical container, dense pipes and silver-white luster on the surface add a sci-fi color to this wonderland.

Lei Meng asked Zhong Cheng if he wanted to go down and have a look, but Zhong Cheng thought about it.

He has already seen the design drawing of the salt water refining plant, which is the salt lake mining process widely used in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Qaidam Basin, and he is very familiar with it.

But just going down to simply enjoy the scenery, he didn't have the leisure time, he just had a look on the plane.

(End of this chapter)