Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 19 Breaking the Ground
The voices of the two gradually faded away, but Ma Dongzhen was stunned. He looked around blankly and found that no one coming and going was as confused as himself.

Didn't they all lose their loved ones?Didn't they all lose their loved ones?Have they not lost everything?
No, it's the same for everyone.

They can come out of the haze and work hard to live, can't I?

Moreover, if it is true, as the two people just said, that reforms will be carried out in the future and worthless people will not be tolerated, am I going to become that worthless person?

No, I don't want to.

Ma Dongzhen suddenly woke up. He raised the half bottle of wine in his hand and looked at it. Then he came to the trash can and stretched out the bottle. But in the end, he held on and unscrewed the cap of the bottle and poured it into his throat.

"Shame on the waste!"

Ma Dongzhen muttered, threw away the empty wine bottle, and then walked in the direction of the two people just now. He was going to apply for a job as a mechanic apprentice, so he needed to cheer up and find his own position.

There are many people like Ma Dongzhen, but in this context, they woke up one by one and joined the torrent of group will.

The time came two months later after a long wait.

Now that the aftermath of the solar explosion has completely passed, it's time for people to dig back to the ground and face a new future.

The heavy industrial equipment that had been prepared long ago rumbled across the floor of the base and headed towards the rock formations.

The construction plan and construction plan have been evaluated within these two months, and the supporting works have been completed before excavation.

All that needs to be done now is digging.

Humanity is now on the third floor underground of the original base, about ten meters away from the original ground. However, due to the magma, the previous data can no longer be used.

The base located in the canyon is likely to have been covered by magma. Based on previous canyon data, engineers calculated that the current location of humans is at least 70 meters from the ground.

It's only 70 meters, and it can't stop human footsteps at all.

Of course, the actual situation is much longer than 70 meters, because the hole cannot be dug vertically upward, but must be dug diagonally on a slope.

Engineers have already planned the excavation route.

Of course, the excavation route must be planned, not from the upper level of the original base, because two months may not allow all the original rock formation magma to cool down, and digging up from the top of the head is no different from courting death.

Engineers first used tomography technology to detect the rock formations.The so-called tomography is to determine the structure and properties of rock formations based on the different values ​​of resistivity, density, sound waves and other physical properties that react in different rocks.

It is divided into two types: seismic exploration and electrical exploration.

Due to the conditions, engineers chose to use electrical exploration, which uses the properties of electric current propagation in rock formations to detect the structure and properties of underground rock formations.

During the exploration process, engineers will use physical instruments to send currents of a certain frequency from within the base to the rock formations, and these currents will propagate in the underground rock formations.Because different rocks have different resistances and propagation speeds to electric current, engineers measure this data to determine which rock layers can be excavated and which are at risk of collapse.

This determines the excavation plan.

This is a passage related to the fate of mankind, so we must be cautious.The mechanical operator excavates strictly according to the excavation plan, how much slope to dig, where to turn, where to pile soil, where to pile the soil for secondary dumping, what kind of machinery to dump, how long to dig, how long to stop and install supports. , what materials to use for support, when to pour the tunnel surface, and how to deal with emergencies.
All of this has clear details.

Moreover, before excavation, all participating engineering team members undergo repeated training until everyone understands what they should do and what they should not do.

To prevent emergencies, one of each professional engineer must be on site when excavation begins.

As a result, such a scene appeared on the scene.

The engineers pointed at the deepening rock formations and occasionally shouted into the walkie-talkies in their hands, but they hardly saw a worker working.

In fact, it is not surprising to see such a scene, because workers remotely control various mechanical equipment in indoor cabs, including but not limited to excavators, forklifts, hammers, road rollers, tamping machinery trucks, concrete mixer trucks, etc. Concrete pump truck, crawler-type simulated double-arm mechanical vehicle, wheeled single-arm crane, wheeled small simulated double-arm truck.

Of course, there are also engineering equipment with cockpits, but because it is an outer space base, there are relatively few such equipment. They are basically only used in the base. Most of the equipment on Callisto is remote-controlled equipment.

So this phenomenon occurred.

Among the tall engineering equipment, the engineers wearing safety helmets looked very small and weak, but everyone knew that their figures were huge.

From a distance, they are almost invisible, just busy machines and a large hole that gradually widens and deepens.

At this moment, they seemed to reflect the entire human race, those little bodies armed with wisdom.

Day after day, a large circular hole with a diameter of nine meters gradually appeared in people's eyes. It sloped upward with measured curves, leading to the long-lost surface.

"We have arrived!"

A shout came from the top of the passage to the base, announcing to everyone in the base that human beings had returned to the surface from the underground. It was also like the vast starry sky announcing that human beings were back.

The tunnel was brightly lit, and engineering vehicles and vehicles carrying various equipment and building materials slowly came up.

These mechanical equipment and materials will establish an initial foothold on the ground for the survivors in the base.The ground will be leveled, power stations will be rebuilt, and everything that was previously destroyed on the surface will reappear.

Humanity seems to have returned to the early days of developing space bases.

It is foreseeable that the coming days will definitely be an era of great construction.

But the first thing to do when returning to the ground now is not construction, because the first technician to return to the ground discovered that the sky was actually dark.

It's impossible. The Callisto base is always facing Jupiter. How can the sky be dark?
Is it because the sun was destroyed and turned into a white dwarf or nebula, so that there is not enough light to reflect Jupiter to Callisto?
"It's possible, but it won't be so dark!" The technician thought to himself. With this thought in mind, he put on his space suit and got out of the car, then looked up at the sky.

Hey, where is Jupiter?
Where did it go!
Could it be that it's so dark that it can't even be seen with the naked eye?
The telescope was sent up, and astronomical experts who got the news also arrived on the ground.

Jupiter is very big, especially when viewed from Callisto, so the telescope basically does not need to adjust the viewing angle, just which one can be pointed at Jupiter.

But when the telescope was set up, he discovered that Jupiter was missing!
(End of this chapter)