Over the past few years, the human city has become a paradise-like place that everyone yearns for.
At this moment, the huge construction task at the Human City construction site has officially begun.
In the plan, the human city is also built underground, with a length of a little more than two kilometers and a width of one kilometer. In order to reach a sufficient height, the engineers originally had to dig a 40-meter-deep pit on the ground of Sedna.
Calculated in this way, there are 80 million cubic meters of earth and a total mass of more than 100 million tons. Assuming that a heavy-duty train can transport 8,000 tons of earthwork in one trip and can transport 20 times a day, it would take almost two years to transport such a large amount of earthwork alone.
Of course, actual operation does not require so much time. Because the location of the human city was chosen on the surface of Sedna, a place lower than the average height of the surrounding area, that is, inside a large pit. This greatly saves the amount of earthwork work. Specifically for the first phase of the project, the amount of earthwork is even less.
After construction officially started, people first started foundation work. After leveling the land and laying various underground pipes and cables, the first floor was laid, followed by the second floor, the third floor...
Building materials from the industrial area were continuously transported here by train. Under the hard work of hundreds of construction workers, they were combined into different shapes and integrated into the overall architecture of the human city. Tall and straight support columns that serve as lighting poles, monitor poles, line poles and other different purposes rise from the ground, directly connecting to the "sky" from the ground surface. Simulation screens that can be seamlessly connected are installed on the support columns. above.
They can simulate different sky scenes at different time periods according to people's instructions.
In September of the 117th year of the New Calendar, more than two years after the construction of the Human City began, the external frame of the first phase of the Human City project - a large box 1 kilometer long, more than 500 meters wide, and 35 meters clear in height - was announced to be completed.
Various basic life-support facilities have also been installed. After a series of procedures such as debugging and testing, the people working here can finally take off their space suits and go directly to the next step of work.
The next step is much more complicated. After all, it is a job similar to interior decoration, which is much more delicate and energy-consuming than the external frame. However, with the support of sufficient resources, these things are still proceeding in an orderly and steady manner.
Under the eager and expectant eyes of the outside world, in the Human City Project No. 1, houses are rising from the ground, spacious and straight streets are beginning to take shape, greening work is beginning to show results, street trees, lawns, flowers and plants It began to add some vitality to the city under construction, and the creek promised in the original promotional video also appeared - it flows in from one side, across the entire city, and merges into the forest promised in the plan. and green space, while adding to the urban landscape, it also takes on the task of irrigating the green space.
When the Human City Project No. 1 was announced to be completed, it was already March 120 of the New Calendar. The entire construction period lasted five years.
These five years have also been a comprehensive test of the industrial capabilities of the entire human civilization. In this process, I don’t know how many times people suddenly discovered that a certain engineering capability could not meet the requirements for building a city, so they could only urgently start research and development to make up for this shortcoming in the shortest possible time. Many omissions that were not discovered in the past due to insufficient demand have also been made up one by one during this process.
This single shortcoming or omission may be very small and completely inconspicuous. But when tens of thousands of them are brought together and solved, the industrial capabilities of human civilization are directly raised to a higher level. From this point of view, even if the human city does not stimulate people's enthusiasm for work, it is worthwhile to build it.
After the first phase of the Human City project passed the acceptance inspection, the handover ceremony personally hosted by Zhao Changxing was officially held.
When the people who finally obtained the qualifications to move in after passing through the layers of selection took the fully enclosed passenger train from the No. 3 Comprehensive Base to the Human City No. 1 Station, after walking out of the station, what appeared in front of them was a shocking scene. .
Spacious streets, tall houses, green vegetation everywhere, winding streams, especially the sky that is simulating the rising sun in the morning...
Everything is showing a completely different atmosphere from the cramped No. 3 Base. Although we have seen the appearance of cities where humans live in the earth era countless times in movies and TV dramas, when we are actually there at this moment, the sense of livability still shocks people's hearts.
This gave people for the first time the feeling of "not being inside the building, but outside the building". Moreover, there is no need to wear any life-support equipment or a space suit in the wild.
The hands of Sima Pingping and Xuanyuan Lizhen became tighter and tighter. Even, Sima Pingping could clearly feel that Xuanyuan Li's body was trembling slightly. He hugged his lover gently, and saw that his lover's eyes were red, and tears were flowing out uncontrollably.
He clearly knew that neither he nor Ah Zhen could ever go back. Even if they have not lived in the human city for a day at this moment, neither of them will be able to return to the No. 3 Comprehensive Base to live again.
"Afang, Afang, this is our home, this is our home..."
Xuanyuan Li really hugged Sima Pingping tightly and burst into tears.
Among the people around me, some were shouting obliviously, some were hugging tightly and crying, some were dumbfounded and looked shocked, some were running and jumping crazily, jumping several meters high... …
No more worrying about your head being hit by the ceiling when you jump up.
Facing the people who were almost going crazy, Zhao Changxing smiled slightly.
"This is nothing now, it's just the first phase of the project... Even if the entire human city is completed, it's actually nothing. Back on Earth..."
He smiled and shook his head, interrupting his recollection.
During this period, the delivery of the first phase of the Human City project has become a topic of conversation for everyone in the entire civilization. The first 300 families or individuals who moved in have all become celebrities, and they are surrounded by people wherever they go. Even the question that Zhao Changxing has been asked the most during this period has become when the construction of the second phase of the project will start and how long it will take to complete it.
Construction of the second phase will begin soon. This is just a step-by-step matter, and Zhao Changxing no longer needs to pay too much attention. At this moment, the thing that troubled Zhao Changxing and various government officials has turned into another one.
He had a premonition that this matter had become the biggest bottleneck hindering the development of human civilization at the current stage.
