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Chapter 396 Growing Vegetables on Mars

"I just slept for a while, and the situation seems less desperate than yesterday."

Lei Jiayin rubbed his face, as if to stop himself from thinking about those desperate things.

"Today I went through all the supplies, and then went out to check the external equipment quickly." Lei Jiayin put his hands together on his forehead, trying to calm down: "The surface mission was originally planned to last 31 Earth days. Considering that

In the worst case scenario, the habitat module contains enough supplies for the entire crew to survive for 56 days.

On the sixth day, disaster struck, and the remaining supplies were enough to feed six people for 50 days.

I'm just one person, and that's enough to live for 300 days, not counting frugal expenses.

The conclusion is: I still have quite a long time.”

The scene changed from Lei Jiayin's video log recording to him inspecting supplies in the habitat module, wearing a spacesuit with his hands on his abdomen and enduring the pain of the wound, and slowly pacing on Mars to the landing gear left by the liftoff rocket.

Lei Jiayin's lines seemed to be voice-overs that provided footnotes for his actions and strength, allowing every audience member to deeply empathize with their own emotions.

“… there are sufficient space suits, and each crew member has two space suits, one for take-off and landing, and the other, which is heavier and more reliable, for surface operations.

There was a hole in my suit, and they wore five of them, but all the surface suits are still here and in perfect condition..."

"The solar TV version is all in the sand and is in a state of failure. However, as long as it is cleaned up, it can generate electricity at full efficiency. The two hundred square meters of panels and hydrogen fuel cells can store electricity, so there will be no problem with electricity..."

This can’t happen anymore!”

After Lei Jiayin woke up from a coma the next day, he also imagined how the male protagonist would survive on Mars alone and wait for rescue.

From the previous plot, he thought there would be rescue within a year. After all, there was only enough food for 400 days at most.

"Oxygenation machine..."

And it is precisely because of this that his humor, optimism and optimism of never giving up struggle are so infectious.

But no information was revealed at all about the four years between.

Then you can mix the Martian soil with the feces, and you can grow potatoes like the soil on Earth. However, human excrement contains pathogens and can infect other people, but it is not a problem for me, because, well, the feces in the soil

All pathogens have only one source, and that's me."

“I’m a botanist! Ha!

Why take a botanist to Mars?

Lei Jiayin opened his arms as if embracing the sun and the entire Mars: "Mars is about to be conquered by my profound knowledge!"

The trailer of "The Martian" is very simple. It shows that the male protagonist played by Lei Jiayin was dropped on Mars, and then the ground and spacecraft contacted the male protagonist and successfully rescued him.

"The landing vehicle is lying on the ground, a piece of the cabin is broken, and the parachute fairing is torn off. Maybe some parts are still valuable..."

There were also exclamations, laughter and voices in the cinema.

As the second part of the space trilogy, "The Martian" still uses the same routine, but moves the scene from space to Mars. Although it is still worth looking forward to, if it wants to be comparable to "The Center of the Earth", it is best to have some

Novelty.

I need to grow food for at least three years on Mars!"

Lei Jiayin turned around and looked at the sun hanging on the horizon, and laughed out loud with a trembling body. He gasped for air, but his eyes became brighter and brighter. He looked at the sun in the early morning of Mars, but it seemed as if he was looking through a lens.

Looking at the audience in front of the big screen.

I only have food for a year, how am I going to survive until four years from now?"

He found himself in a desperate situation, but after a brief period of decadence, the male protagonist became optimistic again. Later, he took inventory of supplies and made video logs. Even in this kind of loneliness where normal people would want to collapse if they put themselves in his shoes, he still kept talking in words.

There is dry humor and cleverness revealed.

This fear was played by Lei Jiayin in a restrained yet very real way.

"The total surface area of ​​the living cabin is 92 square meters. Assuming that I can use all of it, there are also three test benches, each about two meters square. I will keep one, and the other two can be covered with soil, so it will be 96 square meters...

It's not that Ding Wei didn't expect it, but he didn't expect it, or the audience in the theater didn't expect that the rescue would take four years.

As a result, there will definitely not be enough food. Even if a strict food rationing plan is implemented, it will be extended to 400 days at most, which is nearly 1,500 days in four years.

Growing vegetables on Mars has an unexpected surprise, and it perfectly blends with the temperament of the movie.

Although Wu Heng had already had a premonition when Lei Jiayin said that he was a botanist, he still felt a mixture of shock and absurdity at this moment.

There are also large bottles of vitamins in the medicine section. The multivitamins in them are enough to last for several years, so I should not have any nutritional problems before I starve to death..."

Lei Jiayin conducted an out-of-vehicle activity and picked up all the poop bags.

"Water cycle..."

"There is an emergency supply of morphine in the medical area. That's great. The total dose is enough to be fatal. This way I will definitely not starve to death..."

I can take care of each bean sprout and quickly transplant and bury it deeply after it breaks through the soil and sprouts...

Even when Lei Jiayin staggered back to the habitat cabin to perform surgery on himself and took out the slender antenna, which made the audience gasp, the hero's strong will and optimism were still very contagious.

"I have thought about how to survive, but it is not hopeless. In about four years, the crew of the Yinghuo IV project will arrive on Mars on the Zhurong spacecraft. I can only believe that they will not cancel the entire project because of my death.

"There are also landing gear and fuel devices in the landing base..."

"Both rovers are half buried in the sand, but there is no serious problem." Lei Jiayin stood on top of the huge Mars rover: "This makes sense, the pressure seal is intact, and the operating system will stop when a storm is sensed.

, it was designed to withstand such a blow, and it would take a day and a half to dig them out.”

Lei Jiayin stood on the red land of Mars, looking at the seemingly infinitely tall and infinitely long gables standing in the distance. The sun, which was smaller than the one on Earth, reflected the shadow of a person from behind. He looked at the audio record in the mask.

The instrument's voice spoke softly but firmly:

Ding Wei was able to sense Lei Jiayin's fear. At night, when the protagonist was wrapped in a blanket and thinking of ways to record the supply situation, the storm outside caused the habitat cabin to shake and sound an alarm.

The next thing to consider is: How efficiently can potatoes be grown?

And "Mars" did not disappoint him, and the idea of ​​farming on Mars is indeed quite novel.

Growing vegetables on Mars?

The two Mars rovers also have emergency triangular tents with autonomous airlock systems. When connected to the habitat cabin, there are still 20 square meters, so my cultivated land area reaches 116 square meters.

To be honest, in Ding Wei's opinion, "Gravity" has performed "Space Robinson" vividly.

"I lost contact with the climate station. They were installed one kilometer in each of the four directions of the habitat cabin. The situation should be fine, but the signal from the habitat cabin is too weak now and cannot even reach one kilometer..."

The audience watched the male protagonist open up farmland on Mars with novelty and excitement.

So now, my mission is very clear, find a way to restore communication with the earth, and... survive until four years later!

There is no poetic lens language like "The Center of the Earth", and there is no literary emphasis. From the beginning to the present, it exudes an extremely rational atmosphere.

"Interesting, really interesting." Ding Wei beside him was also shocked by the surprise.

"The rocket is gone, but its lower body is still here." Lei Jiayin bent over in pain and looked at the landing base left by the rocket.

"There is a complete toilet in the habitat cabin. After the stool is vacuum-dried and accumulated to a certain amount, it will be put into a sealed bag and discharged to the surface.

But before he could think about how 400 days of food could last him for four years, the actor's choice of farming on Mars was presented to the audience.

When facing the lifeless land of Mars and Mount Olympus alone.

Compared with the desperate, heavy and poetic background of the astronauts in a desperate situation in "Gravity", "Mars" has a strong geek temperament. Survival on Mars is a heavy proposition, but it also gives people

A strong will and hardcore ease.

Farming on Mars was obviously not part of his vision.

Now there’s no need to bring back soil…

"Food, water, and shelter are all available. Now I must start making a food ration plan immediately, so that the 300-day period can be extended to 400 days.

Look! I found a big container, added some water to it, poured the dry feces into it, and then... vomited, added my new feces into it. It was very smelly, but the smellier, the better. The smellier means it is active.

The stronger it is, it means that the bacteria are busy...

"... Due to sufficient air-drying... vomit... there are no bacteria in these stools, but there are still complex proteins in them, which can be used as fertilizer. As long as water and some active bacteria are added, the fertility will increase immediately...

So when Lei Jiayin said that he had been waiting for the spacecraft sent by the Yinghuo Four Fire Exploration Plan for four years to rescue him, Ding Wei was quite shocked.

Among the sighs of Wu Heng, Ding Wei and others, Lei Jiayin on the screen chose potatoes as the first crop grown by humans on Mars.

The purpose is to study the growth of plants under Martian gravity conditions, and to collect enough Martian soil and bring it back to the spacecraft to cultivate the plants.

Through these methods, the output can be increased by about 50%. I should be able to produce... 860 calories every day." Lei Jiayin walked back and forth in the cabin wearing a T-shirt and quickly calculated the formula on the tablet: "But based on my weight

Calculated based on your height, even if you are a little hungry, you will need at least 1,500 calories a day to survive..."

"Fuck, this is a Mars survival log, right? Does it need to be so hard-core?" Wu Heng knew that "The Martian" reportedly hired aerospace experts as consultants, but the level of hard-core was still beyond his imagination.

But strangely, the male protagonist's strong hands-on ability, rigorous scientific thinking and meticulous plot did not make the audience feel any impatient, but instead watched it with gusto.

Not only is there a strong sense of immersion, but every time the male protagonist reaches a conclusion or solves a problem through scientific thinking, the audience can feel a subtle sense of satisfaction.

(End of chapter)