Interstellar Farmer

After receiving the order, a brigade of thousands of mining machines entered Area 42. After the emergence of the mining machine, a machine unique to China, it immediately formed a scale among the mining troops. One thousand units constitute a brigade. So far, 30 million units have been manufactured. According to the calculation of 100,000 units, A combination, plus more than one thousand but less than two thousand battleships, forms a mining fleet. The entire ore planting force has three hundred fleets, and their area of ​​responsibility is the more than 6,000 ore planting stars scattered throughout the Taici Territory.

The mining fleet does not just stay at one star and stay still. There are more than 6,000 stars, and each fleet has to take care of about twenty. After a star has done what it should do, it will hand over the care work. For those who stayed behind, the entire fleet went to other places to repeat the same work.

Area 42 is very large, with an area of ​​no less than three million square kilometers. Thousands of mining machines are spread there and it immediately becomes extremely small. However, after each mining machine is responsible for an area, the workload is not too large. Luo Hu, Li Xiao and other colleagues started betting again. However, although the workload this time was small, it was much more time-consuming than sowing. The results can be seen in one or two days or even the same day, but cleaning cannot. , so a few people decided to look at the results in seven days to determine the winner, and then they all immersed themselves in the operation.

The flying speed of the mining machine is very fast, at least much faster than the civilian airship, and the operation is also simpler and more flexible. Luo Hu first turned on his own micro detector and carefully inspected an area of ​​about ten square kilometers, classifying and labeling the star tree remnants that needed to be recovered on the ground and underground in this area; after doing this, the ore planting machine posted Flying slowly over the ground, it first began to recover materials on the ground.

The first star planting was in global mode, which covered the entire planet without missing a trace, and the thickest part of the star tree cover was hundreds of meters long! That spectacular situation is completely imaginable. Fortunately, the star tree will shrink and shrink by half after it dies automatically, and it can also gather the materials that need to be recycled in a preset manner, so that the cleaning work is not so troublesome, mainly focusing on these large piles of residues. Work hard.

I only saw Luo Hu driving the mining machine slowly to the remains of these star trees that were tens of meters high, and after dragging them, a laser cutting excitation device stretched out from the bottom, and thousands of laser rays were emitted. Accurately divide the stems that are spread over a radius of 500 meters and are several meters thick, until they are cut into cylinders with a length of two or three meters. The exciter is retracted, followed by thousands of plier-like long arms. The gripper stretches out, like picking beans, grabbing them one at a time and quickly bringing them into the mining machine. The arms of the gripper are very long. Even if the cylinders are hundreds of meters away after cutting, they are still firmly grasped and brought back one by one.

After all, the mining machine is only 100 meters long and 50 meters wide. It can't fit many of these large cylinders. After one cutting, the mining machine needs to run back and forth several times. However, when the mining machine arrives here, The supporting transport ships also came and docked next to them. There must be a transport ship next to the area responsible for three to five mining machines, and there must be a transport ship next to the ten mining machines. At this distance, the mining machines You can reach it by accelerating the machine. After the fully loaded ore planting machine directly entered the transport ship, it dumped the star tree remnants directly into the large modified warehouse in the ship. In less than a minute, the emptied ore planting machine could return to work. On to the next collection.

The star tree remnants on the ground are relatively easy to clean, but those under the ground in the form of thick rhizomes are more troublesome. During the first global star tree planting, a total of more than 20 types of star trees were sown, six of which are types that collect matter under the ground after dying on their own. After all, there are too many mineral species in a star and they are too complicated. If we want everything to be on the ground, China's current technology cannot achieve it. Oh, by the way, the Star Tree Research Institute now has more star tree species to choose from, and has also begun to study whether all star trees can be evolved and optimized into plants on the ground. Some results have been achieved so far, but It will take time to reach the level of mature application.

It took Luo Hu a day to collect all the ground materials in the surrounding area, and then began the underground collection operation. This time, the cutter and the gripper are activated at the same time. First, the gripper is extended into the ground, and the remaining rhizome is lifted out. The laser cutter cooperates at the same time, cutting off the exposed part. The gripper then brings the broken piece back into the mining machine. Another new machine is used here, the excavator. It was originally used to dig out soil nests during sowing, but here, it can also loosen the ground along the extension direction of the rhizomes, making it easier for the gripper to catch the target and lift it. If you slip out, it can be regarded as a dual-use thing.

Materials under the ground are much slower to collect, but after the ground is clean and unobstructed, it dries fairly quickly. Not every inch of the more than 3,000 square kilometers of area that Luo Hu is responsible for has to be dug up. There are at most one or two material gathering points in one square kilometer, and it is enough to dig them out. After taking ten days, Luo Hu's work was finally completed. He was the fastest among the people who bet, and naturally won a free drink as a bonus.

Luo Hu and Li Xiao both serve in the 54th Brigade of the Third Fleet of the Second Fleet of the Plant Mine. They are called Plant Mine Soldiers and belong to the planetary ground force establishment. They are different from the space troops responsible for opening transport ships and the more than a thousand warships outside the planet. There are not many ground troops on the planet in a mining fleet. In addition to the airship soldiers of more than a thousand people, who drive armed airships for care, there are engineers like Luo Hu, and among the entire fleet, the number of warships The proportion will not exceed 1%. After all, the mining force is one of the most special and secretive forces in China. Security work is very important. A fleet will have more than a thousand seventh-level warships, just to protect the ground troops when they are working. When the ground troops are transferred, they also serve as transportation tasks. Only with their protection can a mining fleet be able to quickly move back and forth among the more than 30 planetary targets it is responsible for, so as to obtain a large amount of resources and protect the troops at the same time. safety.

A fleet of transport ships under the mining fleet is specifically responsible for transporting materials for the mining machines. They are only responsible for gathering materials into adjacent warehouses. As for how to transport these materials out of the star system and to a more centralized storage star, that is not something they need to worry about. This is the work of another transport fleet that appears regularly, some of which are equivalent to the navy in the river. The difference between a navy in the ocean.

In fact, whether it is farming, mining, agriculture, mining, or industry, as long as it is located in the Taici Territory, there is no need to worry about transportation. The transportation department is an independent department. Under the jurisdiction of Du Guosheng, most of the active Class B troops are responsible for this matter. In peacetime, the economy is in charge, which can casually allow soldiers to sail more. It is also a familiar operation process. A good way.

After Luo Hu's 54th Brigade completed the task of Area 42 and repaired the mining machine, they took over the task of planting seeds in this area. Because the types of star trees have increased, the seeds and plants sown this time are very different from the last time, which will lead to different sowing methods. However, with an operation manual sent from the research institute, After everyone has it in their hands, they only need to input it into their respective mining machines, and they can operate it properly immediately.

The growth of star trees is very fast, which is completely different from the understanding of plants in the universe: if it is a seed, after sowing it, you will see whether it is alive or sprouting at most five days; after germination, you can see it with the naked eye. They grew according to what they saw - the research institute has strongly optimized the growth speed of all seeds. Although it is not as good as Han Zhen's personal processing, it is extremely shocking to be able to achieve a growth speed of a hundred times! One month, only one month, the star tree seeds can reach the juvenile stage and enter the growth stage.

Although the star where Luo Hu is located is a sub-star, there is no water source, which means that star trees can be planted on all surfaces for mining; although this star is more than ten times larger than the average administrative planet, this also leads to The task of farming was more than ten times greater; but with the almost non-stop work of more than 100,000 mining machines in the mining fleet, it only took a total of one and a half months to collect the remaining star trees from the first time. After everything was cleared, hundreds of star tree seeds and plants were planted in all locations on the star. Appropriate inspections were also conducted after planting to eliminate star tree types that did not survive or were rejected.

Half of the thousand warships in the fleet landed on the surface of the planet. While the planters and miners were still inspecting it, they loaded up the transport ships and took them away. These transport ships will be sent to the next planet by the warships in advance. . These seventh-level battleships have been modified to greatly increase the loading space of the warehouse. Even the transport ship, which is thousands of meters tall, can swallow several ships at once.

With more than five hundred battleships, it is impossible to load all the transport ships at once. This is easy to solve. Just make two more trips. Anyway, the seventh-level battleship is very fast, so when the ore planter completes the inspection work , all the transport ships have been transported away in batches by the warships. The next step is to take the same approach to deal with the mining machines. More than 100,000 mining machines cannot be transported at one time. After all, the mining machines are hundreds of meters in size. After half of the warships went back and forth several times, finally During the trip, all the remaining mining machines were brought with them. Except for the more than a thousand airship soldiers left behind to guard them, the mining fleet will not return to this planet for three to four years.