Interstellar arena

Food crisis!

In the second month and eight days after leaving Kodo Space City and building the new Kodo Space City, it was also when Liu Fei and SMS Simak were having a virtual fighting match, and the ever-worrying food crisis was on the table. .

In the old Kedo space city, the food reserves are very large. Even if there is no merchant ship to replenish food for the space city, the food of the space city can last at least two years.

Two years just refers to the consumption time of food reserves. In fact, there is a modern three-dimensional farm in Kodo Space City, which can convert human excrement into fertilizer, and then convert it into food needed by humans through the photosynthesis of green plants. Through this cycle it is transformed into food.

Because it is located in the vast space, Kodo Space City has a strong sense of urgency in the production and storage of food for hundreds of years. Although Kodo Space City is a space city, in fact, the agriculture of Kodo Space City It is quite developed. Space City has a complete scientific research team. This team not only involves agronomists, but also involves mechanics, materials scientists, optics and electronics. Among them, there are a large number of people with practical experience With the wisdom of these people, some farmers have transformed some scientific and technological achievements. The crop planting and production in Kodo Space City has been completely automated, and the food variety is very rich. Although it cannot be completely self-sufficient, the outside world wants to sanction Kodo Space City through food. But it's hard to do.

Some experts have said that with the science and technology and financial and material resources of Koduo Space City, if it encounters external blockade, it can completely establish a huge agricultural base in space in a short period of time. This is not an exaggeration, but has data as the basis , As early as more than 200 years ago, Koduo Space City began to export a small amount of high-end agricultural products. The agricultural products of Koduo Space City can be said to be a well-known luxury brand in several star fields. Although the price is expensive, it is very popular. For a steel city in space that relies on imported food, this is a miracle in itself.

When they left Kedo Space City, the migratory army mainly transported population equipment and food. Naturally, large-scale agricultural equipment like Kodo Space City could not be shipped. If you want to rebuild a modern space farm in a short time, then But it is a very huge project. Undoubtedly, the current New Curdo Space City cannot satisfy self-sufficiency, and the food consumed is mainly the food reserve.

In fact, the amount of food transported by the migratory army is already very large. However, the population of Kodo Space City is too large, as high as more than 50, and it is completely dependent on food reserves. This is a terrible figure. One person consumes it every day. If one catty of food is calculated, the total amount of food consumed in a day will reach 50 catties, and 500 million catties in ten days. This does not include the consumption of other daily necessities, such as paper towels, cooking oil, etc...

On the first day when the space voyage was stopped to prepare for the reconstruction of Kodo Space City, the migrating army sent outposts to deploy in this airspace, sending out various signals, hoping to be able to contact the passing spaceships, but unfortunately, only from After launching a war with the aliens, this airspace became dead quiet. In the past few months, no spaceship has passed by. The entire airspace seems to have turned into a desert of death. It has become increasingly difficult to get outside assistance. getting slimmer...

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The food crisis was proposed by a scientist who listed a series of data.

The data shows that if Kedo Space City rebuilds the space farm now, even if all the manpower and material resources are invested, it will take four to seven months, and it will take at least six months from input to production to obtain food. Moreover, There is no way to guarantee the rations of 50 people.

The current food reserves cannot last for six months. Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that even if the food can be maintained until the space farm produces enough crops for 50 people, this plan is just a fantasy , because the precondition is to invest all the manpower and material resources, which means that the reconstruction work of Kodo Space City will stagnate, and the construction of this farm will exhaust the resources brought out. Undoubtedly, this is not a good result, after all With a population of 50, there are still tens of thousands of people staying in the cockpits of simple mechas. If they are allowed to live in weightless space for a long time, it will be a disaster. Live in space.

In addition to the problem of living, there is also the problem of pirates worth thinking about. Now the migrating army has no warships. If space pirates appear, even if a space pirate warship appears, it will bring disaster to the migrating army.

Through repeated demonstrations, when the New Curdo Space City is being rebuilt, a large number of small space fortresses must be built to guard against the appearance of space pirate ships.

In fact, the construction of small space fortresses has been in full swing. There are already dozens of small space fortresses in service, and the first line of defense has been deployed in New Kodo Space City. Of course, this line of defense is far from enough, so, as The defensive small space fortress is still under construction non-stop.

The new Kedo space city is proceeding according to the "blueprint plan" of the small strong light brain, and the only flaw is that it needs food for the survival of 50 people!

The food problem is very serious. According to the optical brain calculation, the current food can last up to two months. That is to say, within two months, if there is not enough food, the migrating army will start to kill each other because of the competition for food hunting.

No one doubts this conjecture, and this is not a conjecture, but a real case. As early as hundreds of years ago in the early days of interstellar exploration, many spaceships lost their way in the vast universe because of lack of food. The tragedy of cannibalism, even now, spaceships traveling in space will still encounter those lost space ghost ships, and some human beings who survived by eating the corpses of their partners survived on those ghost ships. In fact, they can no longer be called Humans, they survived by killing their partners, and reproduced mutant humans, they relied on the only life cycle system on the spaceship to maintain their lives...

According to historical records, 300 years ago, human beings discovered a lost spaceship from the earth. According to the optical brain records of the spaceship, the spaceship carried 200 crew members and sailed there for hundreds of years. Among them, more than 700 crew members bred more than 150 humans. At this time, the food crisis gradually emerged. In order to compete for food and control the life cycle system, the spaceship became a hunting ground, and the law of the jungle was staged in the steel structure spaceship. Laws and morals lost their binding force. People started murdering, and later turned into blatantly killing each other. During the [-] years of chasing and killing, the surviving humans began to mutate, and they became a terrifying The monsters, they walk on the ground in the steel jungle, they are infinitely powerful, and their tolerance for hunger is unbelievable, they can go up to two months without eating any food, even, they It is also capable of briefly surviving in vacuum and weightlessness.

From the perspective of evolution, the physical evolution of mutated human beings has reached the level that human beings dream of. However, the evolved human beings have a fatal shortcoming.

They eat people!

The spaceship that discovered the lost spaceship was completely wiped out. If the captain hadn't sent a message when he was dying, it would have caused an even more terrifying disaster, because the lost spaceship was preparing to land on a planet inhabited by humans.

Before that spaceship landed, the human army was already in full battle, setting up a net, but even so, those mutated human beings who came and went like lightning and had amazing power still caused huge casualties to the army.

After that incident, the Human Alliance enacted a law. If an early stray spaceship is found, direct contact is strictly prohibited unless safety is confirmed. If contact cannot be avoided, the mecha must also be piloted.

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In order to prevent Kodo Space City from becoming a terrifying mutant human being, it is necessary to find enough food within a month to meet the urgent need.