The last human in the universe

Chapter 18 The road ahead
On the third day after Zhao Changxing returned to the Tinder spacecraft, baby No.1 was finally born under the watchful eyes of the children.

A new life came into the universe.The population of human civilization has once again reached a new high, increasing from 11 to 12.

"A new task for everyone." At this time, Zhao Changxing announced: "The names of the babies are up to you. This is the first newborn baby, Zhao Ye, you are the oldest, you come up."

Looking at Zhao Ye, the children's eyes were full of envy.

"Don't worry, there are 30 babies, everyone has a share."

Zhao Changxing had already decided to name the children according to the ranking of hundreds of surnames. Of course, this first-born baby should be ranked after Chen Feng's "Chen" surname.

After Chen came Chu, then Wei, then Jiang Shen Han Yang, Zhu Qin You Xu, He Lu Shi Zhang...

Accompanied by the baby's cries, Zhao Ye thought for a moment, and finally announced excitedly: "He, his name is Chu Porib!"

"It's so ugly!" Qian Yue screamed.

Zhao Ye excitedly retorted: "The ribs are the best, I like ribs the most!"

"Okay, okay, children." Zhao Changxing couldn't laugh or cry: "The name is the code name that accompanies a person's life. It must be beautiful and elegant, you know? Don't worry, start now, Zhao Ye, you can go back and think about it before you say it." .”

The birth of the first baby was ushered in, and the second followed.

Because they were fertilized together and then put into the artificial womb to conceive together, the time interval between their births is not too long.Within three days, all 30 babies had reached the birth target, and they were all delivered by Zhao Changxing and put into the incubator.

For this matter, the children's classes were suspended for a few days.

At this moment, the devilish scene of 30 babies crying together finally appeared in front of Zhao Changxing.Facing the nursery as if playing a symphony, Zhao Changxing was not only not impatient, but full of joy.

New life, new hope.

It wasn't until the babies were all temporarily settled that the kids resumed lessons.Zhao Changxing finally divided the ten children into five groups, including himself, making a total of six groups. One group is on duty for 24 hours out of 4 hours a day, so that the goal of being on duty at all times in the nursery can be achieved.

This has greatly encroached on the children's extracurricular play time, but fortunately, the children did not complain, but they were all in high spirits. Sometimes it was not their turn, and they clamored to come and play with the babies.

At some free time, Chen Feng found Zhao Changxing again.

"Father, I don't want to be with Qian Yue, I want to be with Zheng Yan."

Chen Feng's eyes were full of pleading, and he was pitiful.

Zhao Changxing thought for a while, and brought Zheng Yan over: "Would you like to be with Chen Feng?"

Zheng Yan shook her head like a rattle: "He drools when he sleeps, I don't like to be with him."

Zhao Changxing called Qian Yue again: "Chen Feng doesn't like to be in a group with you, do you want to be in a group with someone else?"

Qian Yue didn't answer Zhao Changxing, but turned to Chen Feng and said, "Your baby-raising class is so bad, no one likes to be with you! Don't you like reading books the most? In the future, I will help the robot aunt change the baby's diaper, give the baby Can I do the breastfeeding well?"

Chen Feng's eyes lit up immediately, he nodded vigorously immediately, and shouted: "Okay, okay!"

"Alas." Zhao Changxing sighed secretly, patted Chen Feng's head, and then Qian Yue's.

A turmoil disappears, and the baby-raising journey of an adult and 1 teenagers begins on the Tinder spacecraft.

For these 30 babies, Zhao Changxing still adopted the strategy of eating milk powder during confinement and other food after confinement.Although the No. [-] base has raised cows and produced some milk, but at this stage, it is at most enough to drink some fresh milk, and it cannot be made into milk powder.The milk powder stored in the spaceship still needs to be saved for the next batch of babies.

During this period of time, in order to prevent accidents—after all, babies who are not yet confinement are too fragile, Zhao Changxing has never been to the No. [-] base.

With the children's sharing, Zhao Changxing finally had time to calm down and think about the future development strategy.

In the original development route, after the astronauts completed the No. 3 base, they would immediately use the customized equipment in the industrial area, such as chemical and chemical laboratories, [-]D printers, etc., to start their own production and construction of soilless cultivation workshops. All kinds of building materials needed, and build them at the fastest speed, so that they can produce all kinds of food for the expansion of the population.

But now, facing the reality that there is only one adult left, this strategy obviously needs to be adjusted.

The first point is that the output of the No. 20 base at this stage is completely sufficient to support the food consumption for the past ten or even [-] years, or even longer, and there is still a surplus.In this way, the construction of a new soilless cultivation workshop is not so urgent.But this time should obviously not be wasted.

"Then... find a way to achieve some primary industrialization first? When the second generation of children grow up and consume more food, then large-scale production of building materials will be produced to build new planting bases."

The industrial zone of Base No. [-] can produce all kinds of building materials, but it cannot be scaled up, but customized.Just like a heat shield, its production mechanism is not mass-produced on an assembly line, because it is obviously impossible to directly transport a production line in the Pyro spacecraft.

Its production mechanism is like this, it requires Zhao Changxing or others to manually collect some ore, and use small multifunctional mining equipment to refine it bit by bit into steel that meets the needs, and the required rubber, pipes, insulation Materials and heat insulation materials need to be synthesized by manually performing various chemical reactions in chemical and chemical laboratories.All kinds of materials are available, and then they are manually assembled together to finally create a suitable heat insulation board.

But now, Zhao Changxing does not intend to use the existing machinery to produce various building materials required by the plantation base, but intends to use these machinery first to produce a series of machines such as pulverizers, grinders, blast furnaces, casting machines, etc. , and then use these machines to produce the building materials needed for the planting base on a large scale.

"Food is always the most important material. According to the current population growth rate, after about 20 years, the consumption rate of food will catch up with the output rate of Base No. 20. In other words, after [-] years at the latest, the new planting base It has to be built, or someone is going to starve."

"If I want to produce the building materials needed for the new planting base on a large scale, I need the following factories. Well, a multifunctional electric furnace must not only smelt iron and steel, but also smelt copper, gold, silver, zinc, and manganese Wait for all kinds of ores. We also need a foundry, a precision processing plant, and a chemical plant, which can artificially synthesize various chemical materials such as three acids and two alkalis, and can produce things like rubber..."

Modern industry has already completed a high degree of division of labor. For example, the factories for copper smelting and iron smelting can never be the same.But in Zhao Changxing's plan, he is merging these divisions of labor as much as possible to achieve the goal of producing as many things as possible with one factory.

This will obviously cause a great reduction in efficiency, making it not like industrialization, but like an initial upgrade of artificialization.But this is also impossible.

It is not easy to rebuild the entire industrial system, and at this stage, we can only advance slowly.Besides, no matter how low the efficiency of these preliminary "industrialization" is, it is still more efficient than the manual customization in the laboratory of the No. [-] base.

"When the children of the first generation and the children of the second generation grow up, I will have 30 adult workers who can use them. Add me, 31 people, as long as there are enough building materials, the new building can be built in four months at most. The planting base is built. Well, that is to say, from now on, in 4 and a half years, I have to prepare the building materials for the new planting base. Counting the production cycle, the factories needed, It must be built within 19 years. However, in a few years, the first generation of children will have grown up, and they can also be my help..."

After repeated calculations and thinking, Zhao Changxing finally decided on this plan.

In the process of making plans, Zhao Changxing would always subconsciously feel a sense of urgency, as if someone had been urging him behind his back.

He can't wait to expand the population as fast as possible and realize full industrialization as fast as possible.Because the power of human civilization can only be improved rapidly in this way.

During this period of time, although Xiaoxi never received that strange signal again, the sense of crisis deep in her heart never dissipated.

After the babies of the second generation were confinement, Zhao Changxing returned to Base No. [-] again and started his next work.

He has decided to build an electric furnace first, and first have the ability to produce various types of steel.After all, steel is the foundation of all subsequent construction.Not only is it necessary to build a new planting base, but also to produce other various equipment.

However, the production of electric furnace itself also requires steel.No matter what, Zhao Changxing can only find a way to get some iron ore first, and then use the existing small electric furnace to slowly smelt it by dozens of catties.

During this period of time, the resource exploration satellite has been detecting the planet, and Zhao Changxing already knows where there are any mineral veins.Not far from the No. 3000 base, there is a pyrite mine with a length of about 150 meters and a width of about 250 meters. The estimated reserves are about... [-] million tons.

For such a small iron ore, its entire reserves may not be enough to transport a few freighters in the Earth Age.But to Zhao Changxing, it was already considered a colossus.

In particular, it is an open pit iron mine.As long as you find a way to cut the ore away and get it to the industrial area of ​​the No. [-] base, you can smelt steel.

Zhao Changxing refitted the Hongqi space vehicle, turning it into a punching and breaking machine, and hung a bucket on the back, and set off in a high-spirited manner.

(End of this chapter)