Chapter 16: The Era of Great Construction

As more and more people ignited their fighting spirit, Oliver decisively announced the opening of the Food Transformation Program.

"I declare that the food transformation program is officially launched!"

The machines turned and the motors roared, a unique movement belonging to the era of great construction. Many people held their breath, gritted their teeth, held back the grief in their hearts, and rallied themselves into the work.

If you don't break out in silence, you will perish in silence!

A workforce of 50,000 people is, in general, equivalent to a medium-sized town. But 50,000 highly qualified people, coupled with all kinds of automated machinery, the productivity can completely compare to a small country!

Many scientific experiments were forcibly called off, freeing up not only manpower, but also electricity. For example, a large hadron collider, the power is almost 120,000 kilowatts, too big, cut! A supercomputer, power consumption of 20,000 degrees per hour, there are dozens of hundreds of units, too much, directly cut off half!

Similar miscellaneous experiments there are many, like what research missiles, research chemistry, research physics, as long as the relevance of agricultural development is not high, either cut, or shelved. Although the scientific experiments are also very important, but compared to the food crisis, but also can only take a back seat.

Here's another little tidbit, the first few base officials actually inadvertently did a good thing!

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and even the "noble" moon base is no exception. In fact, every five or six years, this place will usher in an era of major construction, the core reason is still the political needs of the top officials.

So many years down, the base paved more and more large, building more and more things, and every year there are so many tycoons to send trillions of dollars, spend it all, how to do?

Can not spend, is not enough capacity, is to deduct political points! Some of the original useless facilities will be built because of the "performance needs". These face-saving projects, image projects, the quality is still okay, now just in time for use!

The extra plants, the extra nuclear power plants, were almost useless in the past, but now they are different. Every extra one is an extra power, how can you say it's useless?

Everyone was divided into eighteen brigades, and each brigade was divided into several working groups. This time, the construction is not for political achievement, but for the survival of all mankind!

According to the plan formulated at the meeting, everyone had a suitable job for themselves, while the entire staff implemented a food rationing system, the food was not good, but full. Because food is too precious to allow a little waste!

Planned economy, equal distribution, everyone ate up the pot of rice, as for wages, not a single point ... original dollar system has long been abandoned, looks like a regression in the system, but from the current situation, it seems to be the best choice.

With the good and the bad, together with the suffering, 50,000 people is actually not much, can be completely planned to the point. As for the motivation to work, just by the threat of death this point can be held up, do not work, everyone is waiting to starve to death!

To be honest, Oliver has little experience in this area of management. This can be very busy for him, when he first started, running around to catch up, almost made a mistake in the middle. The good thing is that the super human body quality is high, long periods of time without rest can also be eaten. In addition, his learning ability is relatively strong, a small talent in this area, a few days down has gradually get the hang of it, the base also began to run in an orderly manner.

Now, he has to handle dozens of administrative instructions every day, held seven or eight meetings, large and small, but also to inspect around, to appease people, busy, working 18 hours a day, but see the base day by day, there is a sense of fulfillment.

At this moment, Oliver is taking a high-speed train to the Uranium Extraction Group.

"The Uranium Extraction Group is one of the most important production teams in the eighteen-team fleet, working mainly at a uranium mine less than a hundred kilometers from the base.

This uranium mine has a capacity of about 80,000 tons, which is one of the largest mines on earth. 70% of the base's electricity is supplied by the nuclear power plant. Therefore, this uranium mine, is the lifeblood of the entire base, can not be sloppy!

The environment on the moon is very harsh, gravity is only one-sixth of the Earth, at night it is often minus 180 degrees, but in the daytime reached a hundred and twenty degrees above zero. Scientists have designed a special mining technology over a period of thirty years.

The temperature difference here is too large, under the thermal expansion and contraction, some shallow surface deposits of rock is quite fragile, a move is easy to break, greatly simplifying the collection of minerals. Therefore, scientists have designed a highly automated mining car for mining.

This mining car is a bit like a drill and excavator collection, very huge, a full 20 meters high, equivalent to five or six stories high! When mining, first use the drill to crush the ore, and then use the mechanical shovel to shovel the car, a team of two people to operate, looks very complex.

These ores, not only uranium resources, but also accompanied by a large number of non-ferrous metals and other resources, anyway, the whole together back to the factory to deal with.

Of course, sometimes when we encounter rocks that are too hard, then we use the "artillery mining" method, directly using bombs to blow out the ore. The combination of the two methods greatly accelerates the efficiency of mining.

Do not think there is no air on the moon, you can not hear a little sound, sound does not necessarily spread by air, like the earth, machinery and so on can become a propagation medium. Through these media, the sound can still be transmitted into the ear.

Oliver old far feel the earth is vibrating, there is a "dong dong dong" drumming like a strange sound, sounding a little faint, but shocking.

When he arrived at the inspection point, a dozen people happened to come out of the mine and drill into the house to rest, they took off their spacesuits, breathing heavily. According to the rules, after working a full four hours, the absentees will get a one-hour break.

Although it is said that no manual mining, but the bulky spacesuits, complex operation also brings a lot of trouble to the operation. It can be said that mining is not only mental work, but also physical work.

One of the absentees saw Oliver, suddenly froze and rushed over, and he took off his helmet to reveal a young face.

This was probably a young black guy of twenty who looked at Oliver and said with some confusion, "Are you Captain Oliver?"

"Yes! You guys have worked hard." Oliver smiled and nodded irrefutably.

"Ah! Everyone, come on!" The black guy suddenly shouted out, "Captain Oliver is here!" He didn't know Chinese yet and spoke less than proficient English, shouting as he gestured.

There was something like this the other day, where people were curious about superhumans, perfect veggies, alien spaceships and the like. There were doubters, disbelievers, and people asking if his 1,000-year lifespan was real, and Oliver answered them all.

When they got a positive answer, a glow of hope erupted in their eyes. If the use of perfectin, all human life expectancy extended ten times, how good it would be ... although the current level of technology is not up to standard, but at least it gives everyone a hope ah!

But this time something is different, a large group of big old men heard, immediately surrounded, eyes also shining with reverence, he felt something wrong.

"Captain Oliver ... Amen ... Savior ... Son of God ... "

The crowd spoke up, some stammering, the language was not even proficient yet. But Oliver could see that it was not a short flattery, but a sincere compliment.

It took half a day to understand that these absentees were so happy because they had eaten vegetables.

Since they came to the moon, they have been eating high-energy compressed food, this kind of food like jelly, full of fat, sugar and protein, nutritionally actually not bad, but the taste is really not good ah, eat more tired very, but no way ah, can not die of hunger.

Just yesterday, because of the unified food supply, everyone got a cabbage, so I thanked Oliver for that.

Is eating a cabbage ... so happy ...