"Little Chef" jumped down and began to scan in detail.
The results were obtained half an hour later and sent to the small display screen of the two-person helmet.
Based on the scan data, the two people quickly deduced that this was a nearly 100-ton meteorite rich in graphite.
One day when the volcanic magma erupted, it suddenly came and crashed into the high-temperature magma.
The bottom area where the meteorite comes into contact with high-temperature magma is rich in graphite. Under the action of high temperature and high pressure, carbon atoms change. After years of comprehensive reactions, natural diamond is finally formed.
As we all know, inside the planet, diamond is a colorless octahedral crystal formed under high pressure and high temperature conditions.
An elemental crystal composed of carbon elements. Its composition is pure carbon and is linked by carbon atoms with four-valent bonds.
The cc bond in diamond is very strong, and all valence electrons participate in the formation of covalent bonds.
There are no free electrons, so it is very hard.
The melting point is 6900 degrees Fahrenheit, the ignition point is 720~800c in pure oxygen, and 850~1000c in air, and it is non-conductive.
Diamond refers to polished diamond.
Among the people of Earth and Star, there is a saying that "a diamond is forever, and one will be passed down forever".
Since the Hijin Empire took control of the solar system, it has brought subversive technological levels and material concepts to humans on earth and stars.
The so-called priceless natural diamond is not much more expensive than gold in the eyes of aliens.
Advanced technology has allowed advanced beings in the universe to break through the limitations of ultra-long distances and find unusually rich diamond deposits on special stars, thus greatly reducing their fame and noble status.
According to the current trading price, 1 carat diamond is only half of 1 gram of gold.
The value of a diamond of the same weight is only 2.5 times that of gold of the same weight, a full 40 times reduction.
Although the price of diamonds has dropped, it is still a symbol of nobility in the hearts of ordinary people.
On Earth, diamond industry has many uses.
As long as they are polished, diamonds over 50 carats are classified according to luster, refraction, color, purity and other grades.
The fineness has entered the new 4C grading threshold, and the price of the same weight will increase to 4 to 20 times that of gold. The potential value is pretty good.
But no matter what, this thing is still more expensive than gold in terms of weight. It would definitely be the best if you can gain something from it.
The excited Zishu Yinyue caught a glimpse of the last line, indicating that the diamond content exceeded 1 ton, and quickly ordered the "little cook" to take samples for analysis.
"Little Chef" jumped up and down, scanned it again, and finally found a rock gap and drilled in from the bottom of the meteorite.
After a while, several brick-sized diamonds were cut out, flying into the sky and landing next to the two of them.
According to its analysis results, the weight of the entire meteorite transformed into diamond is about 1.3 tons.
Only a little over 300 kilograms can meet the minimum threshold of the new 4c classification. The rest can only be used for industrial products, and the price will be greatly reduced.
"If we take them all away, will there be any integrity issues?"
Zishu Yinyue is not familiar with the world, but worries about this problem first.
Mu Liang gave an affirmative answer, "This has nothing to do with the mission. It is purely a mineral deposit we discovered by ourselves. There will be absolutely no problem in transferring it to the Mujia base."
He also didn't understand the unspoken rules of officialdom. From Zi Shu Yinyue's previous words, he could hear the management center's preference and connivance towards them. This was the privilege of the proud ones.
"Hey, so we can move all the diamonds away." Zishu Yinyue became interested again. She actually has no specific concept of money, and she purely carries out tasks with the mentality of playing games and picking up treasures.
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To put it bluntly, I just followed Mu Liang to make soy sauce and find some novel things.
As long as there is an unexpected discovery, it is very fun, regardless of the calculation of more money or less.
"No problem, just move them all out."
After she directed the "little cook" to execute the cutting instructions, Mu Liang added:
"However, the two of us took the 300 kilograms of handicrafts separately, which just met the maximum carrying standard of 200 kilograms."
"Why? It's much easier to move them together to your home base. Why bother?" Zishu Yinyue looked at the other party in confusion.
"Haha, we are on a mission, and we don't have to pay taxes on the things we get. You understand."
Mu Liang looked like he was obsessed with money:
"I heard from my mother that all minerals mined on Mars, including taxes, can only be sold to the Earth and Planet Administration at 70% of the interstellar transaction price. The most valuable 300 kilograms of handicrafts were lost by nearly 1/3. , it’s too uneconomical.”
"Damn it, you even thought of this, the little cook will be resigned to it."
Zishu Yinyue was so happy that she rolled on the ground.
The "Little Chef" who shared the call channel with the two people suddenly flew up, came closer and spoke in an electronic female voice: "Little Master, please give further program instructions."
"Continue to complete the cutting process."
Zishu Yinyue added, then laughed even more and danced, like a turtle being turned over.
"What's so funny about this? If you're not a householder, you don't know how expensive food, rice, oil and salt are."
Mu Liang muttered, catching the diamond blocks thrown up by the "little cook" from time to time, and neatly put them into a special canvas bag.
I continued to be busy until 2 p.m., and nearly 1.4 tons of King Kong treasures were all cut, and six large bags were not yet filled.
After tying the mouth of the bag, Zishu Yinyue ordered the "little cook" to carry two bags back to the space vehicle at a time, while he and Mu Liang ate Chinese energy pills.
The two of them discussed the problem of nearly a hundred tons of graphite while eating, and were amazed at the special minerals formed by flying rocks from the sky.
Since the price of graphite is relatively ordinary and is not worth the transportation cost, there is no need to consider transporting it away at all.
Before the two of them finished eating, they heard an alarm sound coming from the Mars Drilling Corps headquarters in their helmets.
All staff outside the base are reminded that the Martian storm will sweep from north to south in 2 hours, and the general direction is forecast.
After careful comparison, it happened to pass by the east side of the Olympus Mountains where they were located.
Fortunately, the intensity of this storm is low and has little impact on the space transport vehicle, so there is no need to worry about it being blown away.
The only disturbing thing was that the aircraft returned here six hours later and hit the center of the storm.
The loss of the aircraft and detection equipment means that the mission cannot be completed, so it is not a waste of work.
Thinking of this, the two of them did not dare to neglect, and quickly got up and ran back, leaving a few bags of things where they were, and a "little cook" would move them back.
The two of them had just returned to the car when the "little cook" had already moved all 6 bags of diamonds to the car at an astonishing speed.
Open the car, make some space, and put 6 bags of diamonds on it.
Mu Liang took off his spacesuit, rushed into the cab, took out his mobile phone, and connected to the local area network.
After a long time of effort, he finally directed the aircraft to land on a flat ground below.
On Mars, except for severe cold, storms, and falling objects, there are basically no external forces that can cause damage to instruments.
Next, Mu Liang drove the space vehicle back for about 2 hours and parked in a cliff with depressions on three sides, preparing to survive the storm here.
After doing this, 3 and a half hours have passed.
The "little cook" flew to a high place to monitor the arrival of the storm, and sent back the detected wind index from time to time, so that the two of them knew what was going on.
Time passed slowly, and soon the sun set and night fell.
The temperature dropped, and freezing cold enveloped the earth.
At 8:30 pm, the storm finally came as expected.
Surveillance footage showed an invisible gust of wind, carrying a large amount of sand and dust flying all over the sky, sweeping wildly over the cliff above the space vehicle.
Countless gravels hit the car body, making a crackling and impacting sound.
The two checked the wind index from "Little Chef", which was equivalent to a Category 10 typhoon on Earth and had certain destructive power.
On the surface of Mars, apart from rocks, sand, dust, dry ice, etc., there are no native biological populations. It has no unnecessary impact at all. It is just to create a little agility for this dead planet.
In 10 minutes, the storm carried away some of the sand and dust it had carried along, and continued to spread wildly away.
As if in an infinite loop, he insists on his mission of awakening Mars.
The storm left and everything returned to calm.
The two of them no longer worried about safety issues, Zi Shu Yinyue climbed into the tent and slept.
Mu Liang ordered the aircraft to take off on the spot and continue to fly the rest of the route. After finishing all this, he took a rest.
The storm drove or displaced a small amount of carbon dioxide flow, but it made little difference to the total amount of Mars.
Mars day 11, 8 a.m.
Mu Liang got up early in the morning, put on his spacesuit, and blew through the vehicle's air jet to simply blow away the dry dust from the entire vehicle.
On Mars, washing your car with water is a no-brainer.
It is estimated that no one would dare to do such an extremely luxurious thing, unless someone goes crazy.
After completing the preliminary work, Mu Liang reset the coordinates of the returning aircraft and asked it to perform the final scan and detection mission.
Once completed, you're basically done.
After finishing the Karzok impact crater, Muliang has completed the task assigned by his mother.
There were several other possible anomalies, and he lost interest in exploring them.
After discussing with Zishu Yinyue, the "little cook" drove the car all the way back to the starting base.
Regardless of whether this Mars mission can be successfully completed in the end, the diamonds harvested today alone greatly exceed the reward of the mission itself, and it is very worthwhile no matter how you calculate it.
Just as Muliang guessed, the entire process of their Mars mission was recorded by surveillance satellites.
At this moment, the Mars Drilling Captain, in his office and bedroom, was quickly reviewing the behavior of the two people in the past few days.
Mu Liang and Zishu Yinyue felt a little surprised that they did not dig at the Antarctic ice sheet where carbon and gold were discovered.
At the same time, he also expressed his appreciation and thought that these two elite students had good character.
However, when he saw the performance of the two in the Karzok impact crater in the Olympus Mountains, he immediately had a new perspective.
I even wondered how these two little guys could be so sophisticated mentally, like Youzi, a veteran official in the world.
The commander-in-chief only knew that they were a task team arranged by the secret department of the Earth and Star Administration, and he did not know their identities clearly.
I can only vaguely guess some clues, but I won't do any taboo research here.
Provide the necessary equipment and safety protection to complete the mission, record the entire process of the mission team's activities on Mars, and report it to the designated department of the Earth-Star Administration within the specified time. This is the order he received.
