I was exposed for mining on Mars

In the footage of the Zhurong on its way back, a towering building is standing in the direction of the Mars base.

This building is thick at the bottom and thin at the top, and seems to be like a tower. Judging from the shooting distance, the tower-like building should have exceeded 60 meters.

"What is it?" Petrov, who looked carefree just now, also moved his head forward after seeing the picture on the screen. "Signal transmitter? Weapon? Or something?"

What Petrov said was actually what Cao Guolin was thinking. This building had not appeared before the Zhurong left the base. It only took five days to build it, and it had already been built to more than 60 meters.

As the Zhurong got closer and closer, the general-purpose robots that were performing construction work outside the tower-like building also appeared on the screen one after another.

At the sixty-meter height of this tower-like building, its diameter is still more than eight meters. A dozen general-purpose robots clung to the wall of the tower, shuttled up and down like ants, building the unfinished building.

If only based on the appearance, Blue Star humans would certainly not be able to guess what this building is used for. Because the energy transmission device that blooms outward like a lotus flower at the top has not yet been installed, of course you can't tell the reason just by looking at the cylinder.

When this tower-like building is fully built, its height can reach more than one hundred meters.

Under the spire is a lotus-shaped energy transmission plate. After it is unfolded, equipment and robots within a two-kilometer radius will be able to charge wirelessly.

At that time, only a receiving device will be installed on each device and general-purpose robot. All devices covered by the wireless energy transmission range will not need to be wired for transmission or charging.

In addition to direct charging over a wide range, the energy transmission tower can even conduct point-to-point energy transmission with another energy transmission tower twenty kilometers away.

Of course, the power consumption required to use such charging equipment is also huge.

The main reason why Luo Xiu started building energy transmission towers was the Zhurong Hao.

During the five days it was out, the Zhurong swept all the land within a 100-kilometer radius of the Mars base. And just in the southern area of ​​the base, further south of the iron ore, the Zhurong Hao discovered a silicon mine with an astonishing amount of reserves.

With enough silicon ore, the output of Luo Xiu's solar panels will increase dramatically, and then the power problem of the energy transmission tower will not be a problem at all.

"Da da da"

When Luo Xiu stood under the unfinished energy transmission tower and looked at the tallest building near the base, the Zhurong also quickly tapped the iron plate on the ground and approached.

After seeing the hero Zhu Ronghao return, Luo Xiu smiled rarely. I saw him walking up in two steps before Zhu Rong was close, reaching out and putting his hand on Zhu Rong's mechanical foot, and patted it twice.

"Mastermind, let it recharge first."

"After charging, let Zhu Rong take twenty general-purpose robots to drag the newly built automatic mining machine to the silicon mine."

Not even two minutes after Zhu Ronghao became the hero, Luo Xiu arranged a new task for him.

"Okay, Commander, Zhu Rong is on his way to recharge, and the general-purpose robot is ready."

Just after Luo Xiu gave the order, a sufficient number of general-purpose robots were already waiting outside the manufacturing factory.

In less than two minutes, the Zhuronghao, who had just been instructed to recharge, quickly ran over from the charging point. Apparently, the Zhuronghao, who had been hanging around outside for five days, had already finished charging.

In fact, for Luo Xiu, this charging speed is already relatively slow. If the materials and equipment allow, the recharging time of the Zhurong should not exceed thirty seconds.

Of course, whether it's two minutes or thirty seconds, it doesn't matter to Zhurong, because it has just returned to the base and is going out again.

But this time it didn’t take five days, because Zhuronghao only needed to cooperate with the universal robot to drag the automatic mining machine to the predetermined location.

In fact, if Luo Xiu hadn't wanted to go to the silicon mine site, the Zhurong Hao, which was Luo Xiu's special 'mount', wouldn't have been so rushed.

"Let's go."

When Luo Xiu came to the back of the Zhuronghao again, the Zhuronghao and the universal robot exerted force at the same time, and the tall automatic mining machine slowly moved towards the predetermined location at a constant speed.

In fact, Luo Xiu's base now has the resources to manufacture transportation machinery. However, there are now very sufficient general-purpose robots, and there is an old employee in the transportation industry, Zhu Ronghao, so Luo Xiu has not put resources into transportation machinery for the time being.

When the second manufacturing plant is built, Luo Xiu will probably consider withdrawing Zhuronghao from the transportation industry.

"Mastermind, send universal robots to lay the lines simultaneously. After the mining machine is installed, it will be started directly. By the way, the second smelting plant will be installed directly near the silicon ore and will be used solely for the smelting of silicon ore."

Since Luo Xiu is currently building several major factories at the same time, and the energy transmission device is already halfway built, the manufacturing of solar panels cannot be left behind.

"Okay, Commander, the universal robot is ready."

Under the arrangement of the base control system, two general-purpose robots stored in the manufacturing factory chased Luo Xiu's direction, dragging stock cables in their hands.

Luo Xiu sat down on the Zhurong while pulling in front, while the general-purpose robot following the mining machine buried pipelines in the back. After traveling for more than twenty kilometers, twenty general-purpose robots and Zhurong suddenly stopped in unison.

"Okay, let's start work." Luo Xiu stood up from the back of the Zhurong after knowing that he had arrived at the predetermined location, and looked back at the mining machine behind him.

At the same time that Luo Xiu turned around, the base notification system more than 20 kilometers away had already directed the twenty general-purpose robots to start the installation operation.

Twenty general-purpose robots were installed at the same time, and in less than fifteen minutes, the huge automatic mining machine was firmly fixed in place.

At the same time, the robot that had been following behind and responsible for installing the conveyor belt also climbed up to the conveyor belt interface of the automatic mining machine and began to lay the conveyor belt line toward the preset location of the smelting plant.

After the Zhurong transmitted the rapid construction speed back to Blue Star, the Blue Star humans who watched the Zhurong return to the base and watched the live broadcast became active again.

‘My dear, isn’t this too fast? ’

‘I can’t even imagine what it will be like when our astronauts land on Mars’

‘Maybe we’ll meet each other halfway up the road. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to fly half as far away? ’