History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 38 Flying close to the ground 2 Single and unmanned star

As the distance between the space elevator car and the ground got closer, every cell in Shu Yehua's body felt stronger and stronger the gravity, and the thighs sitting on the soft seat also felt the increased pressure.Normally, this instrument-focused flying driver would not take off her flight helmet in weightlessness, but today, with no one else around, she took off her helmet and coiled rope, letting her long black hair float freely in the air.

A few hours ago, under the attention of hundreds of millions of supporters in the entire galaxy cluster, Shu Yehua set a [-]-hour endurance record for flying close to the ground. At this moment, she was in the same mood as the descending elevator she was in, extremely lost.During this descent, although she unconsciously felt some unfathomable sense of steadfastness, the voice in her heart still told herself, "This is terrible."

The abandonment of Solpasia is not the kind of just knowing the traces of a large-scale interstellar pirate invasion a few days in advance, or the outbreak of some uncontrollable, fatal epidemic or serious epidemic on this planet. pests, or a rocky asteroid in this solar system will hit the ground in a few dozen days because of an accidental probability of one in a few trillions that has deviated from its orbit.Under those circumstances, disorderly, chaotic, and careless evacuations would generally result, and in order to save their lives, most people would only take away their most important belongings, gold, silver, and the like.

On the contrary, the orderly evacuation of Thorpasia began half a standard ago. This small world with a small population, coupled with the low-interest loans of the Galaxy Management Committee in terms of credits, made it possible for almost all merchants to Calmly move your own food, daily necessities, industrial products, etc. inventory to the heavy cargo spaceship and transport it to the destination planet you are going to.Shu Yehua thought, in this case, maybe on the entire Solpasia, except for the expired food that was basically worthless and some war preparations that I didn’t know where it was, it would be difficult for him to find the “post-catastrophe” items mentioned in the novel. For the rest of my life, there are abundant lost supplies in the city.

Out of the knowledge reserves of wild adventures, this female driver who has long pursued the limit will often read and watch those classic or unpopular "Jedi Survival" or "Extreme Survival" documentaries, various guides or related videos in the past 1000 years work.This knowledge includes but is not limited to deserts, forests, mountains, and polar regions on land, or deep seas, deep lakes, and large rivers and lakes in water, as well as those related to various types of oxygen-enriched, anoxic, anaerobic, high temperature, low temperature, and continuous wind. Even planets with deadly poisonous atmospheres.But thinking back, Shu Yehua felt that such knowledge seemed to be of little use to her in today's encounter.Of course, if she wants to inquire, the data network connected to the whole universe will help her quickly obtain relevant knowledge.But...how much use can it be?

Shu Yehua, who had gone through these situations in his head several times, when the space elevator car stopped at the Huangbao Pagoda City Space Elevator Terminal and made a "ding" sound, his restless heart became even more chaotic.

"Now you can't be irritated, you have already prepared!"

From the departure platform of the space elevator station standing in the center of the city, where you can have a panoramic view of the whole city, Shu Yehua, whose cheeks and long hair were blown by the midnight breeze, tears finally fell on his clothes as the gravity returned.She really wanted to shout loudly from this lonely commanding height, to vent out from her chest the excitement and ecstasy of completing a long-distance flight close to the ground and the anger of being abandoned on this uninhabited planet.But Shu Yehua didn't yell like that. Long-term dealing with unconscious cold machinery, coupled with the composure and composure necessary for high-speed driving, allowed her to digest these negative emotions in her brain.

From the time she went to the space station and found that the Benares had left, the communicator was full of accusations and abuse against the transportation company, and many enthusiastic riders gave her advice on how to live on this uninhabited planet. go down.However, during the few hours when the space elevator descended, Shu Yehua, who also wanted to find his own hope of survival, carefully read the information with more constructive opinions, but none of them seemed to have much real significance.

"I can only take one step at a time," she thought to herself.

Shu Yehua, who drove his own "Burning Blood Blade" around the center of Huangbao TC, stopped and stopped, not only like those young urban speeders who have nothing to do, but more like those wanderers who usually live far away from the city Bandits.After searching almost every bakery, coffee shop, tea house, restaurant, pharmacy, automatic food vending machine, and all supermarket shelves and warehouses in the city center, she found a few that were temporarily unable to pass through customs when entering other planets. Packaged food and medicine, health care products, and some half or one-third of the ingredients that have been opened and eaten.She calculated that according to her daily food intake, these things that filled the flying car, plus the ones that hadn't been moved, should be enough for her to eat for three to four months.If you consciously reduce the amount of exercise and food, then there should be no big problem for half a year.

What about three or four months, half a year later?Huangbao Pagoda City is the largest city on Solpasia, and there are about ten or twenty small places like Shu Yehua's Potato Town.Even if she can collect similar supplies like today in these large and medium-sized towns, it is estimated that she can support herself for a year at most.What about a year from now?farming?The Solpasia star is not a planet located in the habitable zone of the galaxy and cannot receive enough radiation. It relies more on the non-violent activities inside the planet to provide the surface with heat that is roughly suitable for human survival.However, such conditions cannot provide the photosynthesis needed for the growth of edible crops for human beings. Of course, there is no agricultural production sector here, and all food is transported from the outside by interstellar merchant ships.

Shu Yehua chose a newly built seventeenth-floor, gray-style luxury apartment as her temporary residence. She has always hoped to have such a living experience since she was a child.Unexpectedly, this wish was fulfilled today on the planet where he was abandoned on the birth planet.

The hostess of this luxury apartment is lying on a big soft bed, getting into the soft warm quilt, leaning on a half-height pillow, looking at the distant horizon through the French windows opposite the bed, imagining how she can survive such a predicament Going down, but the body that has worked hard for almost three days in a row still dragged her into sleep.In the vague dreamland, the experience of the previous dozens of hours kept flashing back in her mind...

Two hours ago, Shu Yehua, who had "returned with a full load", unloaded the food and supplies found in shops and restaurants from the Burning Blood Blade and moved them to the eleventh floor of the newly built apartment "Chelsea Building".After eating something hastily, and taking a quick look at the kitchen, gym, dining room, game room and a small gallery on the eleventh floor of the apartment, the new hostess of the apartment took the elevator to the bedroom on the seventeenth floor.After a comfortable hot shower, Shu Yehua lay down on the bed.

Three hours before, Shu Yehua, who stepped out of the space elevator and decided to survive on this uninhabited planet, drove his speeding car to search for all the shops and restaurants in the center of Huangbao TC.In the process of rummaging through boxes and boxes, the single racer is also calculating how long the supplies will last him.

Thirty hours before this, Shu Yehua, who was only well-known in the circle of riders in a few galaxies, used his courage, wisdom, superb skills, and physical fitness that everyone envied to become the "Virgo Super Galaxy Cluster" One of the top leaders in the "flying on the ground" movement.She traveled more than 6000 kilometers from her hometown of Tudou Town to Huangbao Pagoda City, the capital of Solpasia. She successfully completed it in less than 24 hours, and sent billions of people to the entire supergalactic cluster. Fans are broadcasting live simultaneously.

In the past three months, in order to challenge his limit to fly close to the ground, the later human record creator spent almost all of his part-time savings and competition bonuses, burning his competitive partner on the Blood Blade All key components, including engine, transmission, shock absorbers, brakes and other key system accessories, are completely new.These modifications and repairs were all done by Shu Yehua herself, and she is also the top expert in mechanical modification and repairs on Solpasia.The credits and sweat she has put in during these more than 100 days is a strong guarantee for her subsequent miracles.

More than ten years ago, when Shu Yehua was a minor student, children who were born in Sol Pasia and received basic education here had to have special courses to learn about the history, geography and various basic conditions of this planet.In the dream, Shu Yehua's subconscious continued to search for memories that might be helpful to him.At this time, a text mixed with the sound of a certain teacher reading and the sound of mechanical artificial voice reading appeared in this dream:

"More than 400 years ago, when the pioneers first came to the galaxy where Solpathia was located through the Star Tunnel, they wanted to record it briefly and then leave it behind. But when they stood on this planet, took off The helmet on the spacesuit, breathing the native oxygen here, began to think about how to develop this planet on the edge of the human civilization route.

More than 400 years have passed, and people still haven't solved the reason why the Solpasia star formed its own oxygen content of 20.00% at the same time, and at the same time possessed calcium zeolite and sodium zeolite, and the two accounted for more than 70.00% of the earth's crust.Thanks to zeolite containing chemical elements such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, and potassium, it has become an industrial planet for mining gems such as tourmaline.The most credible guess at present is that Solpasia stars should have formed in the galaxy material after the supernova explosion of the previous generation, when the crust of these silicate minerals had already formed.

It may be that in the molecular cloud that formed the second generation of stars later, due to the porous structure of zeolite, and the characteristics of "molecular sieve" and "adsorption" of gas, it may be in this process that tens of billions of oxygen molecules and other gas molecules was retained in the crust.After billions of years of evolution, it has continuously adsorbed various rocks on the orbit, increasing its self-generated mass to form a stable geological structure, and at the same time continuously releasing various gases including oxygen and hydrogen from the pores of the zeolite. This kind of gas eventually formed the Solpasia star that the developers landed on.

Unlike a large number of artificially mined silicate gemstones on the ancient earth, the developers have purchased a large number of durable and cheap robots from the Beso galaxy from the very beginning to be responsible for more than 50 robots on Solpathia. Mining of rich ore points.However, from the moment humans confidently walked out of the solar system through the star tunnel after Neptune's annihilation, the use of robots was quite "wasteful".Take the miner robots on Thorpasia as an example, they are all equipped with fission batteries that can operate at full capacity for no less than 200 years. overall cost.However, because mechanical wear is often much faster than the reaction speed of fissile materials, often when the mechanical structure of a robot is damaged by more than 70.00%, the robot will be forced to stop and be discarded.Of course, no one will bother to recycle those fusion batteries that don't cause much pollution..."

Robot Graveyard!Fission battery!oxygen!hydrogen!space station!

Shu Yehua, who kept flashing through her dreams about the history of the Solpacia star in school since she was a child, suddenly woke up. The mixed human pronunciation and machine pronunciation in those history texts made her suddenly full of thoughts.Now, all kinds of ideas are constantly emerging in her mind that can allow her to escape from this gem mining planet, and this racing driver who has been in love with machinery since childhood, it is still possible to complete it at his own expense. No one in this universe has ever done it of the self-help plan!
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