After the inspection of the entire spacecraft was completed, Chu Jungui looked at the huge metal barrel and asked, "What are we going to do with this big guy?"
Li Ruobai was also stunned. How could there be space on the current spacecraft to place this huge space jumping device? How to deal with this huge barrel, which is nearly ten meters in diameter, is really troublesome.
After thinking for a long time, Li Ruobai couldn't think of a reason, so he said with a headache: "What do you think?"
"Just use it like this. It's just a jump anyway. All the permanent magnet materials are used on it, right? It's not cheap to recycle it." The test subject thought from his usual perspective.
"That's right." Li Ruobai also figured it out. However, he was still a little confused, not knowing where to place the big barrel. The existing spaceship is not big enough at all. If you want to stuff this barrel into it, the modification project will not be much different from building a new one.
"This is simple, just weld it to our spacecraft."
"What did you say? Welded on it?"
"Yeah, like those rocket boosters."
A pattern immediately appeared in Li Ruobai's mind. A large barrel was attached to a spaceship that was originally a cylinder... This pattern immediately caused an episode of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but to achieve symmetry, it seemed that a circle of barrels had to be attached...
"If you think it's okay, then do it. However, the new spaceship needs to carry more people and prepare more supplies. The one we have now is not big enough."
The subject then creates a task and then attempts to solve it. This question was unexpectedly easy, and the answer came in a blink of an eye: "We can build an identical spacecraft cabin and put the two together."
"How to spell it?" Li Ruobai had an ominous premonition.
"You can put them together any way you want, side by side, front to back, or criss-cross if you want."
"I don't want to!" As soon as the words came out, Li Ruobai remembered that only the cross seemed to be more symmetrical, but it was not much better.
After calming down, Li Ruobai asked: "Why is it designed like this?"
"Easy and cheap."
"We don't have to think about cost."
"Time is cost."
Chu Jungui's words left Li Ruobai speechless, and the conversation ended here.
The two got out of the spacecraft, contacted the team members outside, and began to design a disassembly plan. At this time, the drones released have returned one after another, bringing back a lot of useful data. The good news is that most of the resources needed are found in the surrounding area, and even if they are not available, they can be dismantled from the wreckage of the spacecraft.
The next step is to assign tasks. The four people need to refine enough fusion fuel, and at the same time prepare a large amount of rocket fuel and assemble multiple rocket engines in order to bring back the fuel tanks for space jumps.
The task seemed very arduous, so the four of them started working after a brief rest.
Chu Jungui left the camp in an off-road vehicle. This time the vehicle was equipped with an excavation module. He drove to the mining area detected by the drone, preparing to collect fusion fuel.
It's a wilderness, with patches of reddish-brown soil. However, the soil composition here is completely different from that of the home planet.
Chu Jungui stopped the off-road vehicle and used his personal terminal remote-controlled exploration machine to dig into the ground and analyze its composition. He himself picked up a portable drill and began to drill everywhere on the ground for inspection and composition analysis.
The content of helium-3 in the soil was quite high. Chu Jungui moved a refining furnace from the car, placed it on the ground, and then connected the refining furnace to the off-road vehicle's energy source. He put the excavated soil into a refining furnace, heated it in the furnace, and then through a series of processes, helium-3 could be separated.
The content of helium-3 on this planet is extremely high. Chu Jungui processed dozens of furnaces in a row and got an entire cylinder of helium-3.
He installed the cylinder on a special condensation treatment machine, started the condensation machine, and continued to dig the soil and send it to the refining furnace.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye. Chu Jungui continued to make thirty furnaces at a rate of two minutes, and got another cylinder of helium-3. At this time, the helium-3 in the first cylinder had been processed and successfully pressed into a fuel box the size of a shoe box, and the box was only about a quarter full.
When this box is full, it will contain a full half kilogram of helium-3. This is not a small number. In the home star era, it is said that the total energy demand in the world cannot consume one thousand kilograms of helium-3 in a year.
Chu Jungui worked hard until the entire energy box was filled. Looking at the time, four hours had passed. Only test subjects can endure such a long period of repetitive work without feeling bored and bored.
In fact, Chu Jungui had a very fulfilling life these few hours. He assigned a processing unit to direct the body to work, and the rest of the computing power continued to optimize his combat components.
After the fuel box was full, Chu Jungui set off on his return journey. This kind of fuel box is not something that can be made casually. It can only be made at the No. 2 Planet Experiment Base. They only brought four in total this time. Unexpectedly, Chu Jungui got a box in one trip.
After a while, Chu Jungui packed up the equipment and drove the truck back, leaving a lot of potholes on the ground. Li Ruobai would probably have a headache again after seeing it. Anyway, Chu Jungui took a lot of photos and planned to send them to Li Ruobai's personal terminal as soon as he returned.
Li Ruobai and the other two were not slow in their actions this time. After Chu Jungui's example, they also learned to skip all unnecessary steps and work straightforwardly. When Chu Jungui returned, four metal barrels had been erected around the camp. These were new rocket engine casings. All alloys were made from the wreckage of the No. 151 expedition spacecraft.
Li Ruobai refined the dismembered remains and turned them into raw materials for rocket engines. Anyway, we have to take out the space jump device containing the E substance, and we also have to make a big hole in the wreckage of the spacecraft.
In this way, the four people worked busy day by day until all four fuel boxes were filled. After filling up the spacecraft's fusion ion engine with fuel, Chu Jungui joined the three people and began to assemble the rocket engine.
A few days later, the four new rocket engines had been assembled, and the space jump device had been disassembled and welded to the spacecraft. The original spacecraft could only fit seven rocket boosters around it, so Chu Jungui tied the two boosters into one and stuffed them directly into the empty space. As for the protruding piece, there was no sense of violation in the eyes of the test subjects. .
Then add a fairing to the space jumping device, and everything is done.
The next day, a total of eight rocket boosters ejected flames at the same time, and the billowing smoke formed a rather large spectacle on the planet. In comparison, the faint blue light of the ion engine was completely obscured.
After staying on Planet 1 for eight days, the four of them embarked on their return journey.
This time Li Ruobai refused to enter the box bedroom no matter what, and stayed in the cab with Chu Jungui. But on the third day, he couldn't resist the boredom of the long journey, especially when Chu Jungui kept talking back. As long as he didn't take the initiative to speak, Chu Jungui could stay silent all day, staring out the window in a daze.
Li Ruobai didn't understand what was so good about these starry skies that he was used to seeing.
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