Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

After the communication was disconnected, Bai Yixuan reached out and pressed a few buttons on the console in front of him, and then leaned back in the chair again.

The holographic image interface on the console changed silently.

[Starship entering orbit...]

A slight deceleration came.

Under the control of the onboard computer, ten Manta starships started the orbit entry program in unison.

Bai Yixuan stared quietly at the slowly "flowing" color bands on the surface of Jupiter, which was a huge storm that lasted for a long time on Jupiter.

He closed his eyes and went through the steps of the entire collection project in his mind.

There was also silence in the team's communication channel.

Every starship driver was silently recalling the next steps in his own way.

Although Zero could remotely monitor and control all the next operations, every driver present did not want such a situation to happen.

The reason was also very simple, it was still a computing power problem.

At present, Zero's computing power is sufficient to control a large number of Manta starships to carry out the helium-3 collection project without a driver, but that is based on the premise that a large number of factories are shut down.

Once the helium-3 collection project is successfully completed, while mining helium-3 on a large scale, humans will inevitably start to manufacture starships on a large scale again.

By that time, under the premise that there is no breakthrough in photon computer technology, almost all computing power resources will be allocated to various factories.

By then, any of their operations will not be guaranteed by Zero behind the scenes!

Once a mistake is made, it will cause a small loss at the least, or even the destruction of the machine and the death of people!

Therefore, they must cherish this only opportunity to "SL".

(SL, Save/Load, that is, save and read the file.)

"Ding Dong."

As a slight prompt sounded in the cockpit, the holographic image interface on the console changed slightly again.

[Manta has entered orbit]

[Please ask the driver to start collecting helium-3]

The white highlighted font flashed in front of all the drivers.

Bai Yixuan reached out and turned on the long-distance communication device.

"Mars Command Center, the Manta has successfully entered orbit."

"Mars received, start collecting helium-3 immediately, repeat, start collecting helium-3 immediately."

The moment Lv Yongchang's voice came, the drivers in the ten Manta starships suddenly looked serious.

Bai Yixuan adjusted his sitting posture, stretched out his hand to hold the joystick beside him, and prepared to release the collection tube inside the starship.

"Hong Fan, help me calibrate the angle."

He said in a deep voice.

"Received!" Hong Fan responded meticulously, and stretched out his hand to input several data into the onboard computer.

...

The camera turned to the outside.

Ten inconspicuous starships were quietly suspended above Jupiter's orbit.

A slender catheter slowly stretched out from the bottom of the starship.

The entire catheter is 100,000 kilometers long.

In the catheter, a partition will appear every 10,000 kilometers.

At the partition, there is a special suction and filtration device.

In order to reduce weight and facilitate folding and carrying, the catheter is made of single-layer carbon nanotube material.

Although the wall of the tube is extremely thin, according to simulation calculations, its toughness can completely withstand the destruction of Jupiter's upper atmosphere.

But even so, in order to accommodate this tube with a length of 100,000 kilometers and load enough helium-3, the size of the Manta Starship has reached an astonishing 10,000-meter level.

This is also the largest starship in human history.

Even the flagship of human civilization, [Earth], is like a child in front of it.

Compared with a starship, it is more like a small base suspended in the orbit of Jupiter.

Under normal circumstances, it will no longer move and stay in the orbit of Jupiter forever.

Its mission is simple, to extract helium-3 from the interior of Jupiter and then compress it and store it in the cabin.

As for transportation, there are naturally special transport ships to transport these helium-3.

As for the reason...

These big guys are too bulky.

Even if enough fusion reactors and Hall thrusters are installed, its acceleration ability is ridiculously weak.

It took a full three months just to go from Mars to Jupiter!

If the latest Xuannv II is used, it only takes 20-25 days to complete this journey in the forward four state.

This also means that humans cannot take these starships to Proxima Centauri.

The duct at the bottom of the starship slowly extended, and alarms sounded one after another inside the cockpits of the ten starships.

"Beep! Operation error, this operation will cause the duct to descend abnormally, please pay attention!"

"Beep! Operation error, this operation will cause the duct to tilt abnormally, please pay attention!"

"..."

In the sound of zero's alarms and reminders, the starship driver in the cockpit was sweating and correcting his wrong operation.

The duct at the bottom of the manta also stretched out unswervingly towards the atmosphere of Jupiter.

It was like a few small mosquitoes slowly extending their piercing and sucking mouthparts towards the target.

...

A few days later.

Mars Command Center.

The hall was filled with a burning atmosphere.

Every researcher's face was full of fatigue and anxiety.

Everyone stared at the holographic image in front of them.

The progress of the "intubation" was updated in real time.

The numbers jumped little by little.

Every jump touched the fragile nerves of all scientific researchers.

When the progress bar reached 100%, Lv Yongchang couldn't help holding his breath!

"Calling the Mars Command Center..."

Bai Yixuan's call came again from the long-distance communication device.

Lv Yongchang quickly reached out, grabbed the microphone on the table, and interrupted Bai Yixuan's voice directly.

"Mars received, please speak!"

"..." Heavy and rapid breathing came from the speaker.

"Professor, we succeeded!"

"Ten Manta starships, all intubated successfully!" Bai Yixuan's voice was mixed with deep fatigue and excitement.

Lv Yongchang breathed a sigh of relief.

The successful intubation means that the entire project has been completed by 80%.

"Congratulations." Lv Yongchang suppressed his excitement and gave another order, "Start extracting helium three."

...

Jupiter orbit.

Bai Yixuan stared with bloodshot eyes, and his hands trembled slightly as he pressed the extraction button.

…

“Report!”

“All units are operating normally, and the extraction is proceeding normally!”

“Jupiter’s atmosphere has been extracted successfully!”

“Helium-3 has been separated successfully.”

“…”

Reports rang out in the command hall one after another.

“Helium-3 has been detected and is being stored!”

As the last report came, cheers and applause instantly resounded throughout the command hall!

Lv Yongchang turned his head and looked at the chairman of the council, and both of them showed a long-lost smile on their faces at the same time.

The energy crisis has been resolved, and the pace of human civilization has once again moved forward!