195: Chapter 195 The Moon Lights Up, It's Time for the Giant Phoenix to Emerge from Its Nest!
Alien civilization navigation time, day 130.
Pangu Laboratory, B2 Level.
Academician Sun Qiwen placed the purification efficiency report for the micro-cyclotron accelerator on Su Che's desk. It was two pages long.
"The deuterium-tritium purification speed has increased by another 11 percent. From ice block to standard fuel rod, it takes three hours and forty minutes."
Su Che flipped to the second page.
"Deuterium-tritium ratio of the output?"
"One to one, with a deviation of less than three ten-thousandths. The supply standard for high-order fusion reactors is five ten-thousandths, so the margin is sufficient."
Su Che closed the report.
"Finalized."
The rhythm of Zhao Mingyuan's keyboard changed; the scattered clatter turned into short, rapid bursts.
"Closed-loop rate." Zhao Mingyuan didn't turn around, his voice trailing off.
Su Che switched to the cycle regeneration system test panel.
98.1 percent.
Academician Chen Shian sat by the folding table, his white lab coat buttoned up to the very top, with microbial culture data spread out before him.
"The third-generation domesticated strain of anaerobic bacteria is quite fierce." He pressed his fingernail against a row on the data sheet. "The food waste decomposition cycle has been compressed to forty hours, and methane output is stable."
Zhao Mingyuan turned his chair.
"Grinding from 94 percent to 98.1 percent, it's all thanks to your bugs working their lives away."
Academician Chen Shian smoothed his hair.
"Bacteria."
"In my code, they're called parameters."
Academician Qian Zhenhua walked out from the cabinet area, holding a sensor chip in his hand.
"The final calibration is complete. The main god ai has performed a second round of global scanning on the asteroid belt. High-value water-ice targets have been updated from eleven to fifteen."
Su Che pulled up the star map.
Fifteen highlighted markers were scattered between Mars and Jupiter, plus the deep space lone mines marked previously, totaling sixteen coordinates.
Academician Zhang Weide passed by from the back row, his engineering calculator clinking slightly in his pocket.
"Enough for the luan bird to run three round trips without running out of food."
Su Che closed the star map.
Four lines: mining, surveying, synthesis, all finalized, circulation wrapped up. The final step: merging the four lines into one.
"main god ai, establish a four-module global linkage simulation."
A quarter of the computing power pool was drained.
The main screen rendered a full-scale model of the luan bird, with a virtual carbonaceous asteroid placed five kilometers in front of the model.
The entire supply process started automatically.
Radar locked on, Anti-gravity field suppressed rotation, robotic arm extended, drill head cut into the rock face, and rubble entered the cabin.
Microwave preheating, laser distillation, hydrogen isotope extraction, cyclotron accelerator purification, standard fuel rod forming, waste residue into the cycle regeneration line.
The assembly line ran the entire process.
Fusion reactor fuel storage module: full.
Weighted average of three waste recycling items: over 98 percent.
"One hundred random targets." Su Che added.
The main god ai generated one hundred virtual asteroids of varying sizes, compositions, and rotations, capturing them one by one, mining them one by one, and digesting them one by one.
All one hundred sets passed.
Wen Bo squatted by the console, watching the results, turning his enamel cup in his palm.
"If this setup were on Earth, a scrap yard could be turned into a gold mine."
Su Che didn't respond, sealing the joint debugging log into the encrypted vault.
The four lines were twisted into a single rope.
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Alien civilization navigation time, day 131.
2:00 PM.
Su Che was writing the final report on the full-system joint debugging.
His handheld device vibrated. It was General Shen Wangchuan's encrypted private line.
"Su Che." General Shen Wangchuan's voice was short, without any superfluous words.
"The finishing work on the lunar base is completely done. Life support pipelines, communication equipment, internal storage racks in resource warehouses, hardening of walking passages, and the robot cluster are all on standby and in position. All items have passed inspection."
Su Che switched to the screen in the bottom left corner of the monitoring wall.
The Moon, south side of the crater.
The fusion energy station and five main buildings were lined up in an arc under the oblique sunlight of the long day.
Resource storage warehouse, life support module, communication relay station, logistics center, backup maintenance workshop—the interior lighting of every building was fully on.
The radiation-proof coating shimmered with an even metallic luster under the sunlight.
Quantum Communication antenna array was fully deployed.
Fifty autonomous construction robots were parked neatly on the apron outside the maintenance workshop, tracks retracted, mechanical arms folded, standby lights flashing a low-frequency blue.
380,000 kilometers away, a small patch of artificial warm yellow light shone on the lunar soil.
"Received." Su Che hung up.
Liu Huaqiang sat at the workstation on the east side.
He reached out to pull open the drawer, took out the old notebook, and flipped to the page where he had previously written the two characters "Moon."
Half a checkmark had been hanging on the paper for several days.
He picked up the mechanical pencil on the table.
The tip of the pen touched the paper, slowly tracing that half-arc, completing it into a full checkmark.
He closed the notebook and stuffed it back into the drawer.
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Alien civilization navigation time, day 132.
9:00 AM.
Su Che sat in front of the main control console.
The full set of documents, code repositories, material formulas, hardware blueprints, and simulation verification reports for the Deep Space In-situ Resource Supply System were listed in a row on the screen.
"Full system version lock."
He typed the final archiving command.
In his mind, a mechanical voice slammed into his consciousness space.
"Ding! Main R&D task 'Build a gas station in the Solar System desert!' has been completed!"
"Deep Space In-situ Resource Supply System full system verification passed!"
"Asteroid in-situ mining is stable and reliable, hydrogen isotope dual-mode extraction accuracy for icy celestial bodies has met the standard, the full process of in-situ fusion fuel synthesis is closed, and the deep space material cycle regeneration closed-loop rate is over 98 percent!"
"The 100,000-ton class luan bird in-Solar System zero-return supply capability is officially ready!"
"Task reward: 900,000 skill points!"
900,000 points credited.
Su Che turned off the panel, stood up, and walked to the monitoring wall.
On the right screen, the Dry Dock manufacturing cabin.
The 100,000-ton class luan bird.
The silver-gray hull shell was completely closed, with ultra-stealth film covering every inch of the surface.
All 6,400 sectors of the quantum-state stealth shield were installed in place.
The high-order fusion reactor was embedded in the abdomen, with a constant power output.
Anti-gravity load control modules were distributed at key nodes.
The cursor of the Deep Space Main God AI was flashing synchronously on the three large screens of the command center.
The supply system's capture device and mining robotic arm were installed behind the dedicated cabin door in the ship's belly.
Brain, nerves, armor, heart, stomach—everything was ready.
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's private line connected.
"Su Che, the final item of the Dry Dock assembly inspection has been completed. The luan bird full system meets the standards."
The B2 level went quiet.
Su Che stood in front of the monitoring wall, his hands in his pockets.
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's voice continued.
"General Shen instructs that the entire R&D team will have a three-day holiday."
Zhao Mingyuan slumped into his swivel chair.
"Finally, I can get a good night's sleep."
Wen Bo put down his enamel cup and took out his phone from his pocket to check the date.
"When was the last time I slept for more than six hours?"
"You're asking me?" Academician Li Zhengyang finally unscrewed his thermos and took a gulp. "I forgot before you did."
Academician Sun Qiwen stood up, holding his mug.
"Is the report archived?"
"Archived." Su Che turned from the monitoring wall.
He walked back to the main console and sat down.
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's line was still connected.
"Su Che, General Shen has one more thing."
Su Che waited.
"The luan bird is about to conduct its first deep space operation verification. As the chief engineer, you must board the ship and command it personally."
Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's tone changed.
"But you have no specialized practical experience in deep space operations."
"Starting tomorrow, there will be three days of high-speed deep space combat special training. The training location is the Low Earth Orbit Space Base, and the instructor team will be led personally by the chief instructor of deep space technology at the Low Earth Orbit Space Base."
Zhao Mingyuan's swivel chair screeched to a halt.
"Wait, three days of holiday, three days of training—so what about his holiday?"
There was no answer to this question from Lieutenant General Peng Zhenbang's side.
Su Che hung up the communication.
He stared at the three-dimensional holographic model of the luan bird on the main screen.
The silver-gray steel beast hung quietly in the Dry Dock, having waited for too long.
The coordinates of that deep space lone mine 23 million kilometers away were still marked in the strategic resource database of the main god ai.
Lin Waner walked in from the side door, carrying a bag of tangerines she had gotten from somewhere.
She placed the tangerines on the folding table and glanced at Su Che.
"You're not going on holiday again?"
Su Che peeled one and stuffed it into his mouth.
Sweet and sour.
"Going up to the sky tomorrow."