Epoch of Twilight

The huge mothership of the Boxing people is quietly suspended in the dark space like a fortress, but now it is the only place of hope for mankind, the future Noah's Ark.

The originally empty living quarters are now full of people. After several migrations, more than 100,000 people now live in it.

In the alien botanical garden that previously occupied the center, except for biological samples for scientific research, all animals and plants were cleaned up and incinerated for disinfection, and replaced by tents one after another, almost occupying The entire living quarters.

These alien animals, plants, and various bacterial viruses may be harmless to Bossians, but it does not mean the same is true for humans. Staying here is a hidden danger after all.

But today, part of the tents here will be removed!

Because the interior building of the first human spaceship will begin formal trial production.

In the past three months, with the help of the information provided by Zhinao and the groping of countless engineers day and night, the modular factories of the Boxing people have been started one after another, and have produced various construction machinery, various infrastructure equipment, and a large number of Qualified steel prefabricated parts.

The conditions for humans to transform spaceships are fully ripe!

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Luo Yuan deliberately rushed back to the spaceship. After a brief groundbreaking ceremony, the project officially started!

Hundreds of various engineering vehicles began to enter the construction site one after another.

Even Luo Yuan's eyes brightened. These construction vehicles still had a familiar shape, but compared to the stupid, big, black and thick machines used in the reconstruction area before, these construction vehicles all looked taller. They were all silver and white, The surface is as smooth as a mirror, and it looks completely integrated. Even some essential parts of the joints are tightly connected and seamless. Ordinary people can't see it unless they look carefully.

Boxing people's precise processing machinery and advanced material technology make this kind of rough construction machinery full of a mechanical beauty.

But in fact, this is just the surface of the donkey dung. Putting aside everything that is glamorous, the level of human technology has not improved, but has greatly regressed. The great degradation of human technology after the disaster is vividly displayed on these vehicles.

For example, these engineering vehicles have no electronic equipment at all, and most of the technology is only at the level of the 1950s and 1960s (of course, there are also reasons for rushing work)

Another example is that there is a lack of fuel here, so electricity must be used to drive, but Hope City’s battery technology reserves are completely insufficient to drive these construction machines that require high horsepower, causing these construction vehicles to be pulled by a cable above their heads, which is really embarrassing and helpless. !

Luo Yuan nodded slightly while listening to the chief engineer's introduction.

In any case, at least humans can still use it.

On the other side, the construction has already started. A large number of workers drove the giant truck loaded with prefabricated metal parts into the construction site. Looking at this obviously over-spec vehicle, Luo Yuan suddenly felt that using cables is not without benefits, at least if it uses batteries, even if It was the highest level in the previous reconstruction area, and it couldn't drive such a vehicle.

At this time, Luo Yuan noticed that each piece of these metal prefabricated parts was 6m*6m in size, but the thickness was only 0.15m, and he suddenly wondered:

"Is it okay to be so thin?"

After all, the building inside the spacecraft is not a ground building. During the flight, it often accelerates or decelerates. For skyscrapers, its environment is even worse. With the strength of ordinary skyscrapers, it is obviously not suitable for spaceships. .

The chief engineer next to him quickly explained: "Mayor, this is a high-strength metal provided by Zhinao. , a million-ton-level forging, extrusion, atomic magnetic field sorting... and a series of processes. Make it ten times stronger than the deck of an ordinary aircraft carrier. After our simulation tests, a skyscraper with this thickness can completely withstand two Hundreds of G's."

Luo Yuan nodded slightly when he heard that, the acceleration of manned spacecraft is generally gradual, and there are very few sudden stops or rapid acceleration. Humans are already dead.

...

Since they are all made of metal prefabricated parts, the metal plates are completely locked by inset triangular grooves, which saves a lot of welding work and makes the construction of the project quite fast. Luo Yuan stayed at the construction site all morning, and waited until the By noon, the skyscraper had built three floors.

With this progress, the skyscraper will probably be completed in less than a month.

This will be a super building with a length of 400 meters, a width of 300 meters, and a height of 200 meters. Once completed, it will accommodate a population of 800,000 to 1 million. At the same time, its interior will have streets, shops, Agricultural areas, parks and a series of resident facilities.

It is completely possible to stay at home and be self-sufficient. It can be said that a building is a condensed city. In the planning, a total of twelve such buildings will be temporarily built in the entire residential area, except for most of them to accommodate survivors. The remaining five buildings prepare for future human population growth.

At that time, the current empty residential area will be replaced by a steel forest, and all the space will be occupied by these twelve super buildings, and the remaining space is estimated to be only the streets connecting the buildings up.

This will be a small city that can accommodate up to 12 million people. It is hard to imagine that such a spaceship can accommodate such a large population.

...

In the afternoon, Luo Yuan inspected various research institutes in the factory area, and especially stayed in the Genetic Research Institute for a long time, but unfortunately, it is still being explored here.

Laboratory instruments are more complex than factory machines, and many involve gene editing technology and more specialized knowledge. Many instruments cannot be operated even if the function is known.

The gene technology of the Boxing people has completely surpassed human beings by several blocks. According to the introduction of the brain, the Boxing people can already perform direct operations on the genetic level like him, adding and modifying DNA arbitrarily, and there are countless new genetic biology theories. .

Of course, compared with Luo Yuan's ability to carry out comprehensive genetic modification on himself, the Boxing people can only perform nano-level operations on fertilized eggs, but even so, it still seems like science fiction to humans.

The development of science and technology cannot be achieved overnight, but needs to be done step by step. Before fully absorbing the technology of the Boxing people, human beings still need to make up for a long time. This is also the normal state of these researchers today.

Luo Yuan was both disappointed and excited. The technology of artificially synthesizing organic molecules of the Boxing people has matured. During the journey of the Boxing people's voyage to the earth, all the food in the spaceship was synthesized with the ratio of elements.

And there are such miniaturized instruments and equipment in the spacecraft research institute. Once humans master this technology, not to mention that the food of humans in the future can completely get rid of the shackles of agricultural areas, even the heart of wisdom can be artificially synthesized.

(Nowadays, the intelligence brain of the spacecraft can also automatically synthesize food according to the process, but after all, it comes from an alien planet, and the biological evolution process is different. Many proteins contain heavy metals, which are poisonous to humans)

Before leaving, Luo Yuan left a sample of the Heart of Wisdom for research by the research institute here, and then returned to Hope City. When he comes back next time, it will be time for humans to migrate again.