Beneath Deep Space

The next day, a meeting of more than 300 people was held inside the base, including elites in the scientific community and representatives of technical workers.

Yu Yifeng sat at the front of the meeting and touched his hair on his temples. He stayed up all night last night. After dismissing the fanatical crowd, he spent almost the whole night understanding the operation of the entire base. There are good things and bad things. The situation is slightly better than expected, but not necessarily too good.

They had killed all the ruling teams in the base, and they could only rush the ducks to the shelves, and temporarily established a government organization.

First of all, Calvin and others unexpectedly expressed their willingness to obey him. They were imprisoned for rebellion, and there was no resistance in the process. Maybe he himself has been brainwashed by himself, but it's still a good thing.

The second good thing is that after Calvin made such a fuss, more than 20,000 people all believed that Yu Yifeng was the legendary savior who could save them...but 30,000 people were left, and more than 5,000 of them were killed by the mob. The attack happened to be saved by Yu Yifeng and his party, and these people became his loyal supporters.

Most of the others are hiding in underground facilities. Although they are not at the scene, they have watched some videos and listened to some rumors. They are currently in a state of doubt...

In short, the public sentiment is generally stable. Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng had a headache. In fact, he didn't have particularly big ambitions. Who wants to be the leader of the moon base? Isn't this forced...

As for the secrets of Perfect Su and the alien spacecraft, it seems that they have been completely exposed. But except for a small number of people who reacted, the rest seemed to be numb and didn't feel anything special. After all, at the moment when the entire race was about to live and die, who would think about things like lifespan.

If you are going to die tomorrow, what is the point of living a hundred million years?

The real trouble is...this is a real big problem!

Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng no longer hesitated and spoke in a deep voice, "Everyone! I called you here not for anything else, but for the issue of human life and death!"

"Currently, all positions in our lunar base are in a state of passive absenteeism. On the one hand, the reason is that the original high-level officials were attacked and the base was left unmanaged. On the other hand, it is also people's psychological factors."

"The earth is destroyed, and each of us is filled with sadness and despair. We need rest, comfort, and countless emotions that need to be vented..."

"I know that it is very contrary to human nature to ask everyone to work at this time. But everyone here is an elite, and you should know one thing, that is - we can no longer obtain supplies from the earth! And our moon base, It’s impossible to produce enough supplies for fifty thousand people!”

"We lack water, oxygen, food, almost everything!" Yu Yifeng's voice became louder and louder, "Time is running out. Those of us who survived will lose the chance of survival if we continue to sit back and wait for death..."

At this time, Dr. Roman, who was sitting directly opposite him, spoke. He is the chief biologist in the base and someone who is relatively familiar with Yu Yifeng. "Captain Yu Yifeng, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. Although we have lived here for a long time, we each have our own differences." "I don't know what's going on in the base."

After the words fell, some people around him nodded.

"Okay, then I'll get it straight." Yu Yifeng said, "First of all, it's a food issue!"

"Assuming that one person eats one kilogram of grain a day, and our base has a population of 50,000, the amount of grain consumed in a day is - 25 tons! However, what we currently eat are high-energy compressed foods rich in sugar and fat. This amount can be reduced Two-thirds, that is, about eight or nine tons of food are consumed a day.

Everyone around him nodded, this calculation was quite accurate.

"Before the destruction of the earth, our spaceship Victory transported 400 tons of food. Including the original food of the base, it was about a little more than 700 tons... In other words, it can only last for more than ninety days. Even if we save a little, One hundred days!”

"One hundred days, only one hundred days! In one hundred days, we will experience a food crisis! Without food, I don't need to explain the final outcome, right?"

One hundred days, which was a little more than three months, everyone fell silent. This time was really too short! An urgent feeling instantly appeared in my heart.

The people here are all elites, smart and knowledgeable. If this continues... they seem to see themselves starving to death. When people are hungry, they can do anything, such as cannibalizing the same kind, exchanging children for food, etc. Then it will really be a hell on earth.

"So, we must seize the time and do something!" Yu Yifeng punched the steel table, "If we still have time, we still have hope!"

Is there a food production base on the moon? have! But output is insignificant compared to demand.

The food base on the moon mainly produces agricultural products such as vegetables and fruits, because the taste of those high-energy foods is really not very good, and you may get sick if you eat too much, so people need vegetables and fruits to improve their taste and supplement some fiber necessary for the human body. .

But even so, the prices of these vegetables and fruits are astonishingly high, at least a hundred times more than on earth!

Of course, there is no large-scale production of other grains, not only because of technical reasons, but also because the production cost is too high, which is far less cheap than shipping it from the earth.

"Captain Yu Yifeng, maybe we can plant rice on a large scale!" The person who spoke was a middle-aged man in his thirties. He is the person in charge of the entire agricultural base and the one who knows the most about it.

"If the cost is not considered, we can cultivate rice on a large scale! The growth cycle of some rice is about three months. If cultivated properly, we can produce the first batch of food before the food crisis strikes!"

Everyone's spirits were lifted after hearing this. Soilless cultivation can be said to be a relatively mature technology on the moon. The yield of soilless rice per mu is more than one thousand kilograms. The most important thing is that it saves space very much. Petri dishes can Stack up layer by layer. If one acre of land can be cultivated ten times, it can be said to be a yield of 10,000 kilograms per acre!

Based on this calculation, only 500 acres of land, equivalent to 330,000 square meters, can support 50,000 people.

But before he finished speaking, a voice forcibly broke this illusion. It was the chief biologist Dr. Roman. He said unceremoniously, "Mr. Chelf, I have to remind you that your thinking is too simple! Our food base is not that big. Expanding the scale is certainly feasible, but we need a series of subsequent supplies to keep up with, including petri dishes, culture fluid, inorganic salts, floor lamps, air conditioners, etc. This all takes time. ah."

"More importantly - carbon dioxide! This is not the earth, we lack carbon dioxide! Have you ever thought about how plants can grow without carbon dioxide?"

"Everyone knows that most of the oxygen we breathe is produced industrially, and photosynthesis only accounts for a small part. As for the carbon dioxide produced by breathing over the years, because it is not taken seriously, most of it is lost due to air leakage... "

"The original plan to expand the grain base was shelved for this reason.\

,"The middle-aged man sat down with a pale face after hearing this. He also realized the importance of carbon dioxide.

"To solve this problem, we must build a new ecosystem, a biosphere! This is no longer a simple problem of growing food, but a comprehensive and systemic problem!" Dr. Roman said loudly.