Armor Frenzy

Ye Han let out a long breath: "Okay!"

Duan Xu and the two immediately got together with tools, and the three of them worked together to dig out this large ice block over one meter long from the ice surface and carefully place it on the lunar rover.

Such a large piece of ice would weigh 300 kilograms at least on Earth, but in this place it only looks like 50 to 60 kilograms, which is the weight of a soft girl. Not to mention three people working together, even if two people carry it. Not too hard. The reason for being so cautious is that the sharp edges of the ice cubes will cut the spacesuit.

Ice cubes with a hardness of 6, the sharp corners are no worse than the real knife edge. If the ice cube is really cut out of the knife edge, it is not a problem to use it as a knife.

The spacesuit is composed of multiple layers of materials. The outermost protective layer has a certain anti-scratch ability, but anti-scratch is not anti-puncture, so you must be careful when you should pay attention.

In order to protect the safety of astronauts, all equipment that arrives on the moon is very rounded and corners are processed to minimize the daily wear and tear of space suits.

With the successful experience, the following work became much easier. Ye Han quickly cut out more than a dozen ice mines, with a total volume of about one cube.

But this is only the volume of the ice ore. In addition to removing impurities, there are many cavities in the ice body. Ye Han believes that the cavities in the ice body are left when the ice lake condenses, and it may be the water vapor produced by the boiling of the ice lake. The condensed water propped up numerous air bubbles.

However, the gas in the bubbles cannot be preserved until now, because after the ice layer condenses, the temperature of the glacial lake drops lower and lower, and the water vapor in the bubbles will only re-solidify due to the severe cold, and it is impossible to keep the gas state all the time.

If all the impurities and voids in the ice ore are removed, about one-third of the total volume will be removed!

This is still mining rich ore. If it encounters poor ore, it is hard to say whether the water obtained will be enough for electricity bills after the ice ore that has been mined melts.

The space on the rover was limited, so Ye Han simply asked his two companions to send the first ice mine back first, and he stayed behind to continue mining.

However, at a distance of a few hundred meters, it is impossible for an accident to occur. Two people drove the lunar rover away, leaving only Ye Han on the ice lake.

Since arriving on the moon, Ye Han has been alone for the first time, and his side has become quiet all of a sudden. The loneliness on the moon's surface is hard to describe. It is the kind of dead silence without the slightest sound. Breathing is like thunder, heartbeat is like drumming, and even the sound of blood flowing is like rushing rivers.

Then he seemed to have auditory hallucinations. First, he heard the cracking sound of the ice layer, and then the sound of the breeze blowing. The most outrageous thing was that he actually heard Bai Xiaoting's vague whispers.

Hearing hallucinations is not a good experience, Ye Han decided to find something for himself to do, start the cutting machine and continue to mine the ice mine, only to hear the hissing sound of laser cutting ice cubes.

This time it wasn't hallucinations.

Although the moon has no atmosphere and lacks a medium for sound transmission, the sound can be transmitted to the spacesuit through the ice lake at the foot of Ye Han and the cutting machine in his hand, but the sound of cutting is too weak to be heard at ordinary times. In this extremely quiet situation, extremely sensitive ears can catch a little clue.

Humans are gregarious creatures. Even though Ye Han's nerves are much tougher than ordinary people, facing such an extreme environment alone, he can't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart. Even if he knows that there is no one around, he can't help but look around. After laughing at himself for being suspicious again, Ye Han activated the playback function and played some music for himself to break the silent atmosphere.

However, even though he had turned the volume down to the lowest level, the sound of music that penetrated into his eardrum was still like a constant muffled thunder, so shocking that he could not wait to cover his ears. After a few seconds, his eardrums re-adapted to the sound of normal intensity, the sound of breathing, heartbeat, etc. All the noise and so on left him.

Everything returned to normal. Ye Han continued his work. With his previous experience, he was now able to operate the cutting machine with ease, and the ice cubes cut out were no longer nondescript triangular pillars, but ice cubes that were close to cubes. Make two holes in the ice cube for grippers.

This kind of volume does not need three people to get started at the same time. It only needs one person to carry it easily. Every time a piece of ice ore is cut, Ye Han can throw the ice ore aside with one hand, and it has a suitable shape. Ice cubes stacked together.

As a soldier, the uniformity has been buried in Ye Han's bones, what's the matter with the triangular pillars without edges and corners?

Another piece of ice was cut out. Ye Hantuo carefully observed it in his hand and found that the upper layer of the ice cube had the most impurities, while the lower layer had relatively less impurities. This phenomenon immediately aroused his interest, and immediately threw the ice cube aside and continued to go to the ice cube. Cut down, take out the ice cubes from the position more than one foot below the ice surface and continue to observe.

The newly taken ice cubes are obviously more transparent than the surface ice layer. The light from the headlamp shines on the ice, and the impurities in the ice are like a fog. It is barely visible that there are two fist-sized holes in the ice cubes.

Throwing the ice cubes aside, Ye Han continued to cut down. When he cut to a depth of more than one meter, the transparency of the ice cubes was greatly improved, and the impurities in the ice were significantly reduced.

Ye Han couldn't help but get excited and continued to cut down.

The temporary base only needs water, and no impurities in the water. The ice ore must be processed after being sent back. The less impurities in the ice, the easier it is to deal with, and it can also reduce the wear and tear of water treatment equipment.

So Ye Han digged deeper and deeper, and after a while, he cut a three-meter square ice pit on the ice lake that was as deep as one person, and the ice cubes thrown out of the pit were everywhere.

When Duan Zhiyang and Xu Hua returned to the ice lake, they only saw the mess of ice outside the pit, but could not find where Ye Han's space was.

It happened that Ye Han threw an ice cube about a foot long on the side, and smashed it on the ice pile, startling the two people.

Duan Zhiyang shouted on the radio: "Ye Ye, what are you doing?"

Ye Han jumped out of the pit: "Don't need the ones on the left~www.readwn.com~All the ones on the right are loaded!"

"Yo, are the two sides different?"

"The quality of the bottom layer is better." Ye Han said, "I plan to continue digging down."

Duan Zhiyang joked: "Old Gao is digging a wall over there, you are digging a hole here. Are you planning to compare the speed with a group and dig an underground base first?"

"Do I still need to send ice cubes to the outside when digging the base? Wouldn't it be faster to melt it directly at the bottom? Stop talking nonsense and load the truck quickly. I still have two hours of air. Let's transport a few more trucks back and see if it works. A few days." Ye Han said.

The temporary base currently uses recycled water. Although the treated recycled water does not have any odor, each glass of water is a collection of urine from everyone. Whenever he thinks of this, Ye Han will feel tired from the heart.

Don't let me know who invented this thing!

Ye Han said in his heart.