The last human in the universe

Chapter 11 The New Workshop
In this remote and remote corner of the solar system, on this small and cold planet, Zhao Changxing's life seems to have been fixed in orbit, year after year, day after day.

The construction of Human Base No. [-] is advancing steadily, and the children are also growing up slowly.Zhao Changxing witnessed with his own eyes that the babies had the ability to turn over for the first time - this honor was won by Sun Caiyun, and also witnessed the babies had the ability to sit stably for the first time. Zhao Ye got it.

As for the first one who could crawl on the ground, it was their second sister, Qian Yue.At this time, the rest of the babies just lay there on their stomachs, kicking and clapping their hands and feet.

When Qian Yue hummed an unknown voice, crawled towards Zhao Changxing from a few meters away, and laughed after Zhao Changxing picked her up, Zhao Changxing was very relieved.

At this point, they can no longer stay in the nursery and are moved to another room.Babies who are just able to crawl are at the time when their curiosity is strongest. No matter what they want to hold in their hands, they want to explore it in their mouths. In addition, they do not have enough control over their bodies. Dangerous, so the hygienic standard in this room is extremely high, and there is no hard, angular thing.

Ten mobile robot aunts are here to watch them around the clock, whether they are hungry, peeing, or sleepy, they will go forward to deal with them at any time.Usually, they are allowed to play freely here, or play with each other, or play with toys.

They are growing up here slowly, accepting the preschool education courses formulated by the earth experts and realized through the robot aunt.Sometimes Zhao Changxing would come in to play with them after disinfection. This is the time when Zhao Changxing is the happiest and most relaxed.

Slowly, they learned to walk and learn to speak.When Qian Yue, representing all the children, called out "Dad" to Zhao Changxing for the first time, Zhao Changxing hugged her excitedly and kissed her more than a dozen times, making her giggle.

At this time, considerable progress has been made in the construction of Human Base One.The laying of the main frame has been completed a third of the way and is almost halfway there.And Zhao Changxing has decided that when half of the time is reached, new soilless cultivation workshops and animal husbandry workshops will be built here, and then the five rooms of the first phase of the building will be demolished, and all building materials will be integrated into the official Human One. Among the bases.

This will result in no food production for about three months, but Zhao Changxing is not worried.In the past two years or so, he has accumulated enough food, which is completely enough to eat.

After Feng Yu, who was the last to speak, was able to call his father, Zhao Changxing officially started the construction process of the new soilless cultivation workshop.

The soilless cultivation workshop is an important part of Human Base No. [-]. In the future, a large part of people's food will be obtained from here, so it cannot be overemphasized.

The new soilless cultivation workshop is located in the northeast corner of Human Base No. 2300, occupying nearly one-fifth of the total usable area inside the entire base, about 200 square meters.Compared with the two pitiful soilless cultivation workshops with a total area of ​​[-] square meters in the first phase of the project, this is undoubtedly a huge leap forward.

Even if it is converted into the commonly used unit of arable land area on the earth, mu, there are nearly four mu of land.

In the 2300 square meters, Zhao Changxing plans to divide it into ten areas, each area has an independent environment, and can grow ten types of crops with similar environmental requirements.

Among these areas, the rice planting area is as high as 300 square meters. After adopting the double-layer planting method, the area doubles to 600 square meters.They are ripe every three months, can be planted for four seasons a year, and can harvest almost three tons of rice in total.

The wheat planting area is 200 square meters, and the double-layer planting method is also adopted, which doubles the area to 400 square meters.The genetically modified wheat varieties have a growth cycle of about three months and four seasons a year. It is estimated that the total annual output can reach about 1.5 tons.

Of course, Zhao Changxing doesn't have 400 square meters of wheat seeds to plant yet, but it doesn't matter. He has already used those limited seeds to plant in the current soilless cultivation workshop. After the new workshop is built, The seeds are perfectly sufficient.

You know, in order to save enough seeds, he didn't even bother to cook a bowl of noodles or a steamed bun, and saved all the wheat he harvested before as seeds.

The remaining extremely important crop is soybean, and its planting area will also increase to 600 square meters. After doubling the double-layer planting method, it will be 1200 square meters, with an annual output of up to 2.5 tons.

Then there is corn.The status of corn is also very important, but its importance is not reflected as food, but as animal feed.With corn, the rearing of cattle and sheep can be put on the agenda.

Its planting area, Zhao Changxing also allocated 500 square meters.Of course, this thing is too tall to use the double-layer planting method, which is a real 500 square meters.The annual output is about 0.7 tons.However, including the weight of the corn cob and the plant, it should be enough.Besides, the animals don't just eat this, they also have other feeds as supplements.

This consumes a total area of ​​1600 square meters, and the division of the remaining 700 square meters is more complicated.All kinds of vegetables, such as eggplant, beans, cucumber, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, pepper, etc., as well as rape, sunflower, peanut, cotton, etc., and fruits, such as pineapple, strawberry, etc.

Zhao Changxing even planned to plant some more trees.Of course, these trees are dwarfed so that they don't grow so tall that they break the ceiling.

There are apple trees, pear trees, and most importantly, rubber trees.

Trees have a long growth cycle and must be planted in advance.

These trees cannot be planted by soilless cultivation. They have to use soil, and then water and fertilize regularly.Naturally, there is no soil on the Tinder spacecraft, but the so-called soil can be prepared with sand and various humus, organic matter, etc., and the sand can be collected directly from the Sedna star, which is not difficult.

Outside the soilless cultivation workshop is the animal husbandry and aquaculture area.Due to the limited area, Zhao Changxing can't adopt the method of free-range breeding, and can only raise them in captivity.

Raising chickens, ducks and geese is of course the kind of breeding method that spends their whole life in a cage without seeing the sun, which maximizes the area savings and improves the breeding efficiency.As for the taste - human beings have reached this point, are they qualified to pursue taste?

You need to raise more chickens. The feed-to-meat ratio of this thing is astonishing, the growth rate is also fast, and it can also lay eggs. It is really the only way to quickly improve the living standard.As for ducks and geese, they can be kept less, and occasionally used as a seasoning, just eat them rare.

Another important breed is the pig.Whether adults or children, always eat more meat to be healthy.Vegetarianism is absolutely out of the question here.

We also need to raise a batch of cattle.This thing can not only eat meat, but also produce milk.There are not many milk powder reserves in the Tinder spacecraft, and Zhao Changxing does not want the children born in the next generation to have to grow up on rice cereal.Even if you don't have the equipment at hand and can't make milk powder, drinking fresh milk after sterilization is still much better than rice cereal.

In addition to pigs and cattle, sheep should also be properly raised.As for the donkey, forget it, there is no such condition for the time being.

In addition to livestock, it is aquatic products.For fish, of course, the four major family fish are the first choice, with high yield and mature breeding technology.As for all kinds of fresh seafood, it can only be postponed temporarily.

By the way, we have to open up a place to grow some aquatic plants, such as kelp.

All in all, the animal husbandry and aquaculture area would occupy an area of ​​thousands of square meters.Including the soilless cultivation workshop, the total area is more than 3000 square meters.

With such a large area, even if it is only a modular installation, the workload is unimaginably huge.In particular, Zhao Changxing still needs to wear a spacesuit to perform these operations, which is really inconvenient.

But there is no way.He can only work and be busy day after day.

It took him more than half a year to build the framework of these two areas, and then it was time to install various internal equipment.But before that, he needs to get the life support area ready.

With the support of the life support area, at that time, the environment inside the soilless cultivation workshop and the animal husbandry and aquaculture workshop can directly support human survival. He will be able to take off his spacesuit and directly operate and install those components.

The life support area is also an extremely important part of Human Base One.In the future, all the energy of Human Base No. [-] will come from here, and all water sources will be purified and circulated here, as will all the air.This took him another few months.

In the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed, and the planned new soilless cultivation workshop and animal husbandry and aquaculture workshop have still not been put into operation. This situation makes him smile bitterly.

Now, the children are more than two years old, and they are full of energy. Even if there are ten robot aunts to take care of them, the children's room is always a mess.

On this day, after a day's work was over, Zhao Changxing dragged his tired body back to the Ignition spacecraft again.

As soon as the door of the children's room was pushed open, a chaotic atmosphere rushed over.I saw toys thrown everywhere on the ground, a few children were shouting and running, a few children were sitting on the ground crying, a few children were waving toys to play monsters and heroes, and ten robot aunts were busy running around. It's about time.

Seeing Zhao Changxing coming back, the children looked at him at the same time, and then ran over with cheers at the same time, surrounding Zhao Changxing.

Faced with "Dad" and seeing the mess in the children's room, Zhao Changxing secretly thought: "Perhaps... it's time for the children to go to school."

(End of this chapter)