Chapter 11: Harvest Season

The surgery on the alien plant was very successful. As a precaution, the scientists did not let the alien plant swallow the energy crystals on their own. Instead, they surgically placed the energy crystals embedded with micro-robots into the

In the capsule of an alien plant.

After that, three consecutive experiments were carried out, including alien plants in normal state, alien plants after growth, and alien plants in the signal isolation room. All three experiments were successfully completed.

In front of him, he was really fragile.

Moreover, the scientists aboard the Hope also discovered that the withered remains of alien plants are actually rich in plant fibers. These are also very important materials, such as those needed by the papermaking industry, especially the recent emergence of the Hope News Agency.

These things are needed.

Until now, scientists can almost claim that this alien plant is full of treasures, and it is simply an indispensable treasure for human development of the universe!

In fact, even Yao Yuan began to pay attention to this alien plant. He even issued an order to seal up some of the young bodies of this alien plant and preserve them as seeds. They were not allowed to be used easily.

To facilitate future training, or transformation after human science and technology progresses further.

Let’s not mention these for now. On the other hand, with the completion of ground operations, the next step is to use alien plants. Before that, there is still a lot of work to be done, such as closely monitoring the devouring of alien plants.

Progress and growth progress, as many monitoring systems as possible will be installed in the excavated underground caves. Of course, these monitoring systems will definitely be swallowed up, but in this way, the progress of this alien plant can be monitored at any time.

, so this loss is still acceptable.

This kind of installation operation takes another whole day. After all, this operation is the first time since the birth of human civilization that alien technology and alien plant technology are used to dig fortifications and collect minerals. No matter how cautious you are, you can't be too cautious.

, In fact, until now, there are still a very small number of elderly scientists who strongly oppose the use of this alien plant. In fact, they persuaded Yao Yuan that they would rather spend a year or even several years slowly working on it.

, and we will definitely not take advantage of such a small amount of time and use things that humans cannot yet grasp and analyze.

Yao Yuan also knew that these elderly scientists were very cautious and old-fashioned, and there was indeed nothing wrong with what they said, but he still issued the order to use alien plants. In addition to convenient digging, he also had the opportunity to obtain conductor alloys.

The meaning is in it.

Of course, in addition to these two, Yao Yuan actually has some thoughts that he has not expressed. I don’t know why, but he has always felt depressed recently, and the depression is getting more and more serious. Not only him, but also secretly he asked

After Zhang Heng, in fact, Zhang Heng felt depressed earlier than him. However, this depression was not a sense of danger, but just an indescribable irritability, so he did not tell anyone.

It was this hidden repression that made Yao Yuan order the use of alien plants. No matter what the repression was, the most important thing at the moment was to quickly transform the Hope and store more supplies at the same time. Even if there was any dangerous situation at that time

, and also allows the Hope to use space jumps without any scruples.

That's it. After the excavation work was completed, the alien plants embedded with micro-robots were cultivated, soaked in strong acid solution, and placed in the deepest part of the underground fortification. Near it, there were at least four surveillance cameras.

The head is monitoring.

"The energy source bait buried deep underground has been activated."

"Everything in the monitoring system is normal."

"The heat source sensing system scan map is turned on."

"The radiation viewing system is on..."

Yao Yuan sat in the captain's room, listening to the information coming from all over the Hope. Basically, all the monitoring systems available on the Hope have been turned on to closely monitor the movements and growth of the alien plant. This is also the case for human beings.

At present, all the means of science and technology are available, and as a precaution, the Hope was launched again to a height of 500 meters from the asteroid. Then, all preparations were completed, and all that was left was for Yao Yuan to issue the final order.

"I order the micro-bomb on the outer shell of the strong acid container to be opened and explode the strong acid container."

"Captain ordered, the shell of the strong acid container is micro..."

Under all the surveillance cameras, the strong acid container containing the alien plant exploded with a loud bang, but the degree of explosion was very small. It only exploded the container, and there was not even an extra spark. Then,

A large group of alien plants fell from the strong acid solution. The large group condensed together but remained motionless.

On the Hope, many people's eyes were fixed on the screen, watching the changes in the group of alien plants. As time passed, the alien plants gradually spread out. Except for the large core group, the surrounding plants

The plant body turned into tentacles, and then it directly attached to the nearby rock and began to devour it. In an instant, a rock turned into a small amount of sand, and the alien plant body obviously recovered from the state of malaise, and its tentacles

Stretching more open, the originally condensed group also spread out and turned into a piece of about two or three meters in diameter. It was attached to the rocks in the ground. Bit by bit, the rocks were swallowed, transformed, and absorbed. This is the external

The star plant is heading towards the energy source buried underground.

This pile of alien plants is about thirty cubic centimeters in size. In the subsequent devouring behavior, especially after devouring the underground energy source, it grew to hundreds of cubic centimeters in size, and the devouring speed became faster and faster.

It is also getting faster and faster, especially when swallowing and digging horizontally, after swallowing a yellow-black palm-sized rock, it immediately grew crazily. In a moment, it had grown into a huge pile of plants with a volume of more than ten cubic meters.

This phenomenon was immediately recorded, especially the appearance color, size, and characteristics of the small yellow-black rock. This rock is likely to be a very special radioactive mineral, and a lot of research will definitely be needed in the future.

of.

In this way, under the devouring behavior of the alien plants in the next few hours, this small hastily dug hole has turned into a large underground hole hundreds of meters in diameter. And with the devouring behavior of the alien plants, this small hole has become

The hole continues to grow larger.

During the engulfing behavior of alien plants, a lot of gases are expelled. In fact, this behavior has been experimented by scientists for a long time. That is, after alien plants swallow asteroid minerals, the oxides and the like in them will

It is decomposed by it, and then oxygen and other gases are formed and discharged. This is probably the source of oxygen on the desert planet.

This operation lasted for about seven hours in total. The alien plant body has grown into a huge plant pile with a volume of more than 100 cubic meters, and the underground cavity has an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters. In fact, this devouring operation is still

They could continue, but the alien plants suddenly turned around and began to swallow up the ground. This was not allowed. A ten-meter-diameter cave entrance was enough. They didn't need the alien plants to open a large skylight for them.

Ah, so no, the plant erasure mode was activated. Immediately afterwards, the micro-robot received an external signal. While the alien plant attempted to devour it upwards, the plant virus was injected into its capsule. Then, a few seconds later, the alien plant

It begins to wither from the inside, and after a maximum of ten seconds, all alien plants are completely dead!

All the personnel on the Hope celebrated loudly. In just a few hours, a huge underground cavity was created. This would have taken several months of manpower to create. This was simply a miracle.

!

Next, the Hope landed again, and an expedition team composed of soldiers and researchers entered the underground cave. They closely inspected all conditions in the underground cave, especially regarding the survival of alien plants. Everything was clear.

As expected, the alien flora died completely, leaving behind a large amount of plant fibers, as well as a large amount of purified minerals and alloys in its bags. What surprised everyone was that in its bags, they found

I got an energy crystal about the size of a table tennis ball!

Yes, another energy crystal!

Don’t think it’s just the size of a ping pong ball, this is already equivalent to one-tenth of all the energy crystals stored on the Hope!

Then there are other large quantities of purified minerals, iron, copper, zinc, lead...

Then there are a large number of alloys. In addition to alloys whose uses are currently unknown, nearly tons of conductor alloys have been obtained!

The transportation alone lasted a day and a night, and the various metals, alloys, and alien plant fibers were no less than a great harvest!

Moreover, the underground cavity is not enough to accommodate more than 120,000 people, so this kind of digging behavior will continue, at least ten more times. In other words, this kind of harvest behavior can continue for more than ten times!

All metal storage, energy crystal storage, and plant fiber storage are no longer necessary to search everywhere. Just these ten excavations can meet the needs of the entire Hope, and there are even more.

As for other storage conditions, they are various compounds, such as fertilizers and various chemicals. These compounds are almost all over the earth, so there is basically no need to look for them in particular.

The only exception is radioactive minerals, which is the most important thing for the Hope space jump. However, relatively speaking, there are always much more radioactive minerals in a newly born galaxy, so there is nothing to worry about.

It only takes time. At present, the Hope only needs time. Transform the energy circuit of the Hope to be able to load more quality materials, and then dig out and store a large amount of radioactive materials for hundreds of future space jumps.

In this way, everyone who knows the details is full of longing and hope for the future of the Hope. Here... this galaxy is simply a big mine and a big supply point. This place is simply a paradise!

Just as the second alien plant excavation operation started, on the other side, several professionals were checking the data records of stars recorded in the computer in the recent period. One of the personnel suddenly said: "Hey, come and take a look.

, here is yesterday’s stellar radiation data table, which shows a huge jump change.”

Another staff member said without raising his head: "Did it suddenly change drastically, and then return to normal?"

The staff member was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes, that's true."

"That's no problem." Another person said: "This situation was discovered two months ago, but from our calculations and tests, the stellar radiation has been very stable, and there is no possibility of significant changes. In order to

We also reported this matter to the superiors. The scientists who received the report also conducted urgent research, but found nothing. The data of the stars were very stable, and this sudden and dramatic change, and then

It returned to normal again, which is not consistent with the change of a huge star, so we speculate that there was an error in the receiving system, or there was an error in the program, or there was an asteroid collision nearby, which triggered this instant change and then returned to normal.

Phenomenon."

"Anyway, I'll record it and report it to you again, but I guess I'll just reply without incident."

Several staff members didn't care, they were still immersed in the statistics and inspection of various data...
Chapter completed!