Although the grade is not bad, but the actual output still makes Xia Lin far away, how much can be smelted with less than 30 kg of slag?Even if it is not enough for the electricity bill, the final product is a few metal ingots no bigger than a palm. On the contrary, the electricity consumed is an astronomical figure.
"So, we still have to find a way to install the vehicle as soon as possible. If it's really not possible, we can collect some materials and build an engine by ourselves, the kind that burns oil." By the way, he can also build a suggested site, and he also wants to assemble that one. When the nuclear-powered agricultural chassis comes out, the problems of tractors, trucks, and combine harvesters can be solved, but there is no solution without the relevant assembly equipment.
Let’s start with the entire oil-burning engine, and then the entire conventional site, even if it looks like a sledge, at least you can pull more goods, so that you don’t have to carry it on your shoulders like it is now, which is not only troublesome but also tiring, the key is the quantity. Not enough.
However, no matter what kind of car it is, before he can get enough raw materials, he still has to honestly get the metal materials of the engine out of the way, and he has to make relevant parts according to the information. It doesn't matter what durability or reliability it is, even if it can only run back and forth once.
One can pull at least several tons of ore back and forth, and then a second one that is more reliable can be made. After this cycle, the materials for making the necessary assembly table mechanical arms and cranes can be saved, and the vehicle can be used. Fusion reactors and high-power electric engines.
Then officially entered the era of large-scale mechanized agricultural and animal husbandry production, tearing down snow forests, shoveling frozen soil, digging mountains, and building a large-scale agricultural production base with the productivity of the interstellar era-well, the large scale is based on the local people From the perspective of Xia Lin's era and society... Maybe it is the level of family contracted farms, maybe not as good.
After all, the family contracted farms are all equipped with special pesticide aircraft. It takes a while to fly a plane to spread pesticides. Xia Lin, as an agricultural technician, has never been to that kind of farm. The ones who are more open are the professional planting drone CNC tower management on the Internet. Like him, there are not many who need to go to the field in person, even if they fly a plane to spread pesticides.
Then again, on some agricultural planets, the combined population of 3000 to [-] million square kilometers may not be able to reach [-], at most it is the size of three or five small towns—not planting drone CNC towers , that is really impossible to work.
【Planting UAV CNC Tower】
It is equipped with 2500 operating drones and 500 spare drones as standard. Fertilization, inspection, deworming, picking, pruning, and pollination can all be completed. The farmer only needs to manage the planting blocks and execution of the entire farm on the CNC tower or the central control room. Group Policy can handle most of the daily farm work.
Of course, the work of plowing and turning the soil cannot be done by drones, which are done by large-scale agricultural machinery. Therefore, Xia Lin's current scale is not as good as a farmer, even an agricultural employee. If he is exhausted, he is an ordinary poor farmer. Objects in need of fixed-point assistance.
Chapter 10 Prepare to eat chicken
Maybe it's the early summer that Yelena said, the temperature is rising these days. According to Xia Lin's observation, the temperature has risen above zero during the day, and the snow begins to melt, and then freezes again at night, on the trees and buildings. Form ice edges.
This made Xia Lin have to burn these ice edges with a blowtorch filled with alcohol to prevent them from growing further, sealing the entire door or crushing the greenhouse with only double-layer polymer insulation panels.
Moreover, after this kind of thing grows to a certain extent, the lethality of falling is quite large. As the temperature rises, there is also an increase in snowmelt water, and the water depth and flow rate of the stream below the workshop increase rapidly. It circled and reverberated between the metal brackets, making a crisp clattering sound.
The frozen land was thawing day by day, and the potatoes in the greenhouse were also growing day by day. After three weeks, the first round of harvest was finally ushered in. It took one and a half months to finally plant the first wave of crops. It is gratifying.
Xia Lin took Yelena, who had basically recovered but still looked thin, into the greenhouse to pick crops. The little girl changed into a standard agricultural overalls, long-sleeved trousers, and a sturdy synthetic fiber canvas apron. , still wearing long gloves, holding a small hoe and shovel, no different from any standard Ursus peasant woman.
Yelena carefully squatted on the edge of the planting trough, carefully dug out the potatoes with a small hoe, then cleaned off the dirt on them, and put them on the small cart on the side.
Although Xia Lin used the potato seeds improved by Star Alliance agricultural technology, the disadvantages of using seeds for potatoes still exist. The things planted range from the size of a small finger to the size of a fist, but the proportion of the latter is relatively higher. .
Compared with Yelena's carefulness, Xia Lin who harvested the cabbage didn't have so much emotion. She just roughly grabbed the rolled up cabbage and cut it off at the root with a knife. The vegetable leaves that are about to fall are thrown into the cart.
The greenhouse is filled with the fragrance of vegetable juice and the faint earthy smell from the soil. For any farmer, this is the breath of a good harvest. Even Yelena, who has never been a farmer, is attracted by this pure, undistracted, Infected by the joy derived from the most essential harvest of human beings.
How hard it is to cultivate, and how pure the joy is when harvesting, especially in her opinion, this is undoubtedly a harvest time - although in Xia Lin's eyes, half an acre of Star Alliance potatoes is very special. So I harvested about 300 catties, which is almost a state of no harvest—in my hometown, it was a harvest that was going to be published on Star District News and asked for government relief and subsidies.
Of course, if such a scene really happened, the Star District Government would probably have to make a fuss and rush to get the nearest agricultural storage and distribution point to deliver food, otherwise the cycle and distance of the interstellar transportation would be slow and they would have to start an emergency Warehousing.
In a sense, the total population of the Star Alliance is only over 400 billion, and the reason for the huge food gap is here. One is the industrial food demand, and the other is the uneven distribution of production areas and storage due to environmental problems, and the investment cycle is too huge. .
The most important thing is the industrial demand. It is used as a cheap and convenient biomass material, just like in reality, one of the main consumption destinations of corn includes pharmaceuticals and corn syrup, and the consumption is huge.
In addition, the intensity of human consumption in the interstellar era is as big as the gap between modern people and people in the feudal era. It undoubtedly needs to occupy a large amount of interstellar transportation power. It is expected that human beings will only retain the so-called human beings like hive minds or robots. "Necessary consumption" is impossible, don't even think about it.
"Send the potatoes to the seed processing table, and then put the cut potato pieces into the germination box. Don't put them in the wrong place. Look carefully at the mark of the feed port. One is for planting. For the next round, one is for eating." Yelena nodded and pushed a whole cart of potatoes out.
Having said that, this little girl's arm strength is too high, right?Xia Lin looked at her back and touched her chin. The reason why his strength and physique were stronger than hers was that as part of the pioneer's labor insurance, he had undergone implant surgery.
Implants that strengthen muscle fibers and enhance endurance are implanted, and there are also resident bonuses of symbiotes-but, this little girl did achieve this effect with pure physical body, because of the relationship between those disordered genetic modifications ?
It was not the first time for Yelena to see automated processing equipment, but it was still shocking and made her full of curiosity. She knew a little about the automatic equipment that controls water and fertilizer, mainly because Xia Lin took her to simulate the treatment. Several hardware failures, although I still don't understand the technical details of the inner layer, but the general working principle has been understood.
And these automated processing equipment is another type of incomprehension. Of course, she understands its working principle. After all, the processing process is not blocked for a long time, but she cannot understand how this machine works.
If it weren't for her being a little afraid and unfamiliar with this place, she would probably burst out her originally repressed nature like any ten-year-old child.
Potatoes are rolling happily in the cleaning tank, and the high-pressure water brush cleans them. A small sorting port automatically separates potatoes below a certain volume from the conveying tank, and enters the food processing process instead of the seed processing process.
After being processed by the "black box" for Yelena, a large number of diced potatoes are sent out from the discharge port, and those potatoes that are not worth saving as seeds are broken down into potato chips, potato sticks, potato shreds, and mashed potatoes according to their volume. The parts worth saving are carefully divided and cut according to the potato buds.
These parts need to be smoothed by Yelena, keeping the buds pointing up, placed on the trays piled aside, and then sent to the germination box next door to let them germinate at the right temperature and environment.Next to the germination cabin, thin green silk-like sprouts swayed slightly with the warm wind in the water tray. These are the seedlings raised by Xia Lin, and they are ready to be planted when the climate warms up.
The first batch did not choose those super rice seeds with a yield of about 2 tons per mu, but chose another form of super rice seeds with a yield of only 700-850 kg per mu.
It is artificially hybridized and genetically modified to cope with the harsh environment of alien planets. Although the yield is not high, it can minimize the difficulty of planting. It is said that as long as you are not stupid enough to pour pesticides into paddy fields as fertilizers, you It is to stand on the field ridge with handfuls of seedlings and lose them all to take root and not fall down.
Moreover, as long as the severe cold, extreme heat, and acid-base salt of the alien planet are not too harsh, they can grow. This is the crop that Xia Lin plans to plant in the wild outside the greenhouse, but the wheat seeds he brought are relatively The type that tends to sacrifice yield and patience for taste.
This super rice seed was originally used to deal with the metal enrichment phenomenon in the soil on the colony. The metal was enriched in the rice straw and then sent for disposal. After a few rounds of planting, the soil was improved enough to grow economic crops and high-quality wheat. Degree.
The commercial crops in the colony are mainly coffee, spices and fruits. The fruits are mainly melons, and the staple crops are wheat and industrial high-sugar corn. It is not acceptable to eat the important raw materials directly.
As for the other super rice species, it was bought because the local site successfully blasted the North and South Poles, creating a large area of tidal flats and muddy swamps, and was planning to develop them into large-scale paddy fields.
Rice is an extremely unfamiliar crop to Yelena. She is very curious about why these little green guys stay in the incubator, and what kind of fruit will such weak little guys grow up to bear in the end.
So, every now and then, she would come to have a look at the situation of this rice seedling, as if these swaying little green seedlings had some kind of mysterious magic power to attract people's eyes and mind.
While Yelena was curiously looking at the potatoes and seedlings in the incubator, Xia Lin also came over with a large basket of cabbage, and dumped them into the feeding port like garbage, and then cleaned and removed the roots automatically. , can also cut them into various shapes or process them into vegetable juice, vegetable puree and vegetable shreds, etc. like the preprocessing equipment of the cooking machine.
The cabbage was all cut into shredded vegetables by Xia Lin, and part of it was used to feed the fast-growing chickens that grew bigger and bigger. They will be able to eat them in a week, and part of the laying hens will be raised forever. The shredded vegetables are mixed with calcium tablets and feed The worms that come out are fed to the laying hens so they can lay high-quality organic eggs.
Amidst the rumble of the machine, the harvest of this month and a half was quickly chewed up and turned into a dazzling array of rough-processed products. Xia Lin and Yelena looked at each other, and they both smiled from the bottom of their hearts. Finally, I don't have to eat biscuits every day.
"Adapted well, keep up the good work, let's make French fries today!" "French fries?" Yelena tilted her head, her white rabbit ears shook slightly, "What are French fries?" Full of doubts.
"Ah, it's fried potato chips. This one is very simple."
It's really simple, even with Xia Lin's handicapped cooking level, you can make it. Throw the sliced potatoes into the air fryer and fry them until they are crispy, then sprinkle with salt and monosodium glutamate and eat them. There is no way, Xia Lin is currently Rin only has these two condiments.
Salt comes from the excretion cycle and soil extraction, and monosodium glutamate or glutamic acid comes from the decomposition and extraction of plant materials. They are two types with relatively abundant sources and basically unlimited sources.
Yelena stretched out her small hand to touch the golden-yellow potato sticks in front of her, picked one up and stuffed it into her mouth. The crispy outer shell broke apart with a little force, and the soft and waxy inner core was full of salty and umami taste. Yelena's heart was instantly conquered by the delicious taste that she had never tasted before.
"When the weather gets warmer and we plant the rice, let's start planting pepper and coffee beans"
"Pepper?" Yelena raised her head and looked at Xia Lin in confusion. She didn't know what pepper was, but she had heard about coffee from her grandmother.
"Ah, a kind of spice, besides pepper, there are also ginger, garlic, leek, star anise..." Xia Lin began to count the types of spices with her fingers, and finally found that although she had enough seeds, But there is not enough land.
Moreover, many of these things cannot be grown together in one greenhouse, so he had to build ten or twenty greenhouses, which looked similar to modern rural greenhouse vegetable bases.
Considering the arable land and field management needed for the staple food, he felt more and more that there was a shortage of manpower, and there was a strong demand for mechanized agriculture. Fortunately, he only needed to support two people, and he didn't need to pay taxes and rents for people, and the output was not bad. , otherwise it would be really miserable.
Xia Lin, who has not seen the scene of local Usas farmers carrying wooden farm tools to plow the frozen soil when the temperature is still very low, may not understand the real "miserable" and "poor peasant" life.
People use wooden farm tools to open up wasteland, but he uses steel farm tools to open up wasteland, and he still wears a powered exoskeleton to open up wasteland. The efficiency and labor intensity are not the same.
The next day, Xia Lin took Yelena to start processing the soil in the greenhouse. After sterilization, fertilization, and loosening, they planted the germinated potato pieces into the ground, keeping the bud points upward, and spacing each hole as much as possible. Not too far and not too close, it will be over after planting all one acre of land.
The next step is to start cutting down trees outside the fence and cleaning up shrubs. The logs in the woodworking shed are ready to use after being dried in the shade and dried. Not so much wood.
The original plan of the wood was to be processed into a wooden frame, what was it used for?It is used to make drying racks and livestock sheds. After all, compared with processing into carbon fiber or polymer materials, using wood directly is a bit extravagant, but it is much more convenient and quicker.
In addition to the livestock shed, Xia Lin is also planning to build a wooden warehouse on the side of the workshop to store more and more crop results in the future, as well as agricultural machinery that may need to be brought out after parking. The warehouse in the workshop is only placed Those perishable things are enough, after all, space is limited.
Not to mention the poor conditions now, even in the colonies, everyone is doing the same. The space of the low-temperature freezer is limited. For example, the dried wheat and rice are packed and piled in ordinary warehouses. The only difference is that their warehouses are Constructed of polymer panels.
In addition to these tasks, Xia Lin is also planning to harden the ground on the other side of the workshop to be used as a drying ground. Although there is a special dryer, the processing speed is still not enough.
In the colony, it is possible to use the natural conditions to dry it directly and try not to use a dryer as much as possible. Otherwise... if the amount of things depends on the dryer, the electricity bill and labor will be costly, not to mention There are still high-value cash crops waiting to be used. In the face of noble cash crops, ordinary food crops naturally need to give way.
The white-feathered chickens who are already quite large are walking proudly outside the newly built chicken coop. The alien environment seems to be completely unaffected by these guys with thick and warm feathers. They looked at Yelena who was carrying a basket of feed, and the latter also responded to their pride with extremely warm eyes.
"Eat more, get fatter." Yelena said while spreading the synthetic feed into the fence of the chicken coop, which attracted the competition of these white-feathered chickens. They can be slaughtered in a few days, and everyone can eat meat except for the laying hens who live in a single room over there.
Yelena, who has only heard of roast chicken in her grandmother's story, has been looking forward to it for a long time. Whenever her grandmother tells about the roast chicken in the midwinter festival, the golden crispy skin, white and tender chicken, served with dipping When the food is delicious and nostalgic, the miners who are as numb as walking dead will show yearning and memories in their eyes, and become more numb and dull afterwards.
Chapter 11 Origin Stone and Chicken
The construction of the farm has a long way to go. After nearly two months of work, only the establishment of water intake, water storage, irrigation and fence facilities has been completed. Xia Lin's farm is centered on the workshop and spans the stream. Rectangular extent.
The long side is north-south, about 300 meters long. The southern end extends to the stone steps where the stream rolls down into a small waterfall, and the northern part extends to the edge of the tidal flat wetland area downstream, just at the moderate flow rate of the stream. runoff section.
The short side is east-west, about 200 meters, extending to the edge of the first felled forest in the west, and extending to the slope on the other side of the stream in the east.On the north side of the workshop, that is, near the downstream, are two simple water towers and a greenhouse. There is a space reserved for further expansion of the greenhouse. It looks like an open space, which turns into a muddy muddy ground as the snow melts. .
Near the entrance and exit of the workshop and the fence are the carpentry sheds and the cattle and horse sheds, but because there are no large animals, the latter are temporarily only used to pile up a pile of ore samples and pebbles for deep digging and storage of the stream and river sand.
On the south side of the workshop, Xia Lin is planned as a breeding area. Currently there is only a solitary chicken coop and less than 200 white-feathered chickens in it. It looks a bit desolate, and the sheep pen and fish pond will be expanded in the future.
On the other side of the stream is the place where Xia Lin planned the barn and the hardened sun-drying land, and because the site is wide and lacks vegetation, it can also be used to lay solar panels in the future to deal with the inevitable problem of running out of fuel rods-although the fuel Under the current saving mode, the rod can be used for about 15 to 20 years, and the problem of electricity and fuel is basically not considered for a long time.
However, considering that the output power of the reactor is limited, and the fuel consumption rate will be accelerated under high load, the supply of photovoltaic, wind power and hydropower will inevitably be increased in the later stage, and thermal power and nuclear power will basically not be considered for the time being.
As for the directly below the workshop, it also needs to be used. The entire workshop is on a support about [-] meters high, and it goes up and down by a folding ramp. The support itself needs to be fenced behind for safety and to use the area below.
On a planet with wind and sand, since the building cannot be extended too high, it is necessary to dig deep. The workshop itself can also be expanded, but the time is arranged very late in Xia Lin's schedule.
And the place near the stream is not suitable for deep digging, but after being enclosed, it becomes a cylindrical indoor space, and after hardening the ground, there is a very open indoor field.
As for what to use it for, he hasn't figured it out yet. Maybe it can be used as a shooting range for testing weapons, or as some extra storage space, and at worst, it can be used as an indoor swimming pool and so on.
Yelena's pre-operative cleaning and shaved hair grew soft and soft white hair again, and a little stubble was mischievously exposed from under the turban, but it was not long enough. With a flat body, it looked like a It's like a boy.
The child's hair grows very fast, and it is estimated that in a while, she will be able to grow shoulder-length hair. However, her unique white hair color really surprised Xia Lin, light brown and slightly golden The eyes looked very beautiful, but, not sure if it was due to the aftereffects of the past, Xia Lin found that the color seemed to be getting lighter and began to turn to silver gray.
I once thought that she had iris or lens lesions. Under normal circumstances, a sudden change in a person's pupil color or eyes is more likely to be a serious eye defect than the so-called awakening of some handsome power. Lesions or infections, such as cataracts, etc.
After the vision test and scan of the simple medical terminal, it was found that there was only a slight symptom of iris pigment deficiency, which did not affect vision. brought about by an increase in the binding rate.
According to Xia Lin's tests and observations, this substance has very peculiar characteristics, that is, it will combine with body cells relatively quickly at low concentrations and participate in life activities and metabolic processes.
And because this particle will quickly combine with a certain protease in Yelena's body fluid to oxidize, releasing a large amount of ATP-like substances to be absorbed by the cells as energy, so they generally can obtain stronger physical and arm strength than normal people.
If this substance exists widely in the air, soil, and drinking water of this world as detected, then the abnormal arm strength of local people, such as Yelena, can be explained.
On the other hand, they will show the characteristics of low metabolic rate at high concentrations, as if they are supersaturated, and then they will produce a large number of origin stone particles in the blood. With the increase of origin stone particles , the binding rate of somatic cells will decrease, and the raw stone dust or soluble matter that enters the human body from breathing and diet will continue to accumulate in the blood, which will cause a further increase in particles.
And as the particles increase to a certain threshold, the somatic cell binding rate will increase to a very high value because the metabolic rate basically drops to 0. According to Xia Lin's experiment with Yelena's tissue slices, this binding rate Probably around 7% to 12%.
And because the binding rate increases, the metabolic rate decreases, and the blood content is supersaturated and precipitated, the final result is to form a large number of origin stone particles in the cells, and finally pierce the cell membrane like crystal growth. While further increasing the blood particle content, a large number of The star-shaped clusters of origin stone particles will link together little by little, and finally become crystals that can be seen with the naked eye growing on the body surface and organs.
As for patients with ore disease, according to Xia Lin's current medical analysis and a few blind experiments, this is a symptom that is similar in nature to heavy metal poisoning and causes the body to overreact to form an avalanche. It is not caused by bacteria, viruses or other reasons. Infectious disease caused by it.
The real cause of the disease is a large amount of Originium dust in the air and particles in drinking water. Normal people can metabolize these tiny amounts of ingestion, but patients with ore disease can neither stop breathing nor stop eating. Drinking, and they have gradually lost their ability to metabolize under the influence of ore disease, so they continue to accumulate - it becomes ore disease.
After confirming that the cause of the ore disease and Yelena's pupil lightening came from the change in the origin stone binding rate, all Xia Lin could do was tell her to remember to take blocking medicine and hemodialysis on time. Stone components are highly involved in life activities, and Xia Lin suspects that the reason for the genetic adjustment and modification on her body is to use this energy material for life activities in the environment of origin stones.
Strictly speaking, the so-called blocking medicine is not a drug, but a chemical substance copied and synthesized from the cell fluid extracted from Yelena's body. After eating, the source stone particles of food and drinking water will crystallize in the stomach, exceeding the digestion and absorption After the size, it will be discharged from the human body along with the waste.
In addition to the filtering of drinking water and air, Yelena's ore disease was basically "cured", or completely suppressed.
According to Xia Lin's current information, strictly speaking, almost everyone in the local population suffers from ore disease, but it just happened without exposure to the stimulus. Because it is a symptom based on the local people's physiological and chemical reactions and the environment, ore disease Strictly speaking, the disease is not a disease of exogenous infection.
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