While Blue Star was deciding whether to send a manned mission to the Mars, Luo Xiu on Mars had already moved the automatic mining machine to the location of the iron mine.

"call."

Luo Xiu breathed a sigh of relief after dragging the automatic mining machine to the reserved location.

Although most of the force for dragging the mining machine comes from Luo Xiuna's exoskeleton, he also knows that moving an automatic mining machine is not that simple.

The reason why Luo Xiu thinks this way is mainly because of the pits made by the robots among the huge traces made by the automatic mining machine.

Because these potholes are too small, they cannot be detected by the Chinese satellites operating overhead.

In addition to those automatic mining machines, the Zhuronghao with iron ropes tied to its body has even its body slightly dented. This is because Luo Xiu reinforced its shell. If it is imported from Blue Star,

fuselage, this Zhuronghao may have been directly scrapped.

"Start the installation."

Luo Xiu gave an order, and the twenty maintenance robots didn't care that they were still at full capacity just now. They threw the ropes in their hands and immediately walked to the side of the automatic mining machine to start the installation work.

In fact, it is said to be installation, but it is just to fix it. All the internal equipment has been installed when it leaves the manufacturing factory. It can be used directly after it is fixed and powered on.

Because it only had to be fixed, the installation progressed very quickly. After Luo Xiu inspected the damage to the Zhurong's fuselage, the mining machine had been installed.

As Luo Xiu walked towards the powered mining machine, the camera of the Zhurong also changed its direction following Luo Xiu's movement.

When Zhurong fixed the camera to the mining machine, the debate on Blue Star about the purpose of the mining machine stopped.

"I just said it couldn't be a weapon. How could it be possible with a Star Destroyer Cannon?"

'In hindsight upstairs, I read your reply. Although you didn't say it was a weapon just now, you did say it was a black hole generator! Together, you have a bigger brain than any of us.'

‘This location is where the Zhurong will land on Mars. It looks like mining equipment.’

'This alien can finally get rid of human excavation and enter modern society!'

The situation on Mars is mostly ridiculed on the Internet, but it is different in the space centers of various countries.

Countries are also worried about the rapid development of Mars bases.

When the Zhurong first discovered the existence of Luo Xiu, the alien was still digging manually in the mine.

Blue Star people are not too afraid of such a civilization. After all, although Blue Star cannot land on Mars on a large scale, it seems to be at an advantage technologically.

However, with the discovery of Mars bases, the emergence of wind turbines, maintenance robots, etc., the threat from Mars to Blue Star is also rising sharply.

"It seems that the Mars base has been industrially upgraded?"

In China's aerospace center, Cao Guolin looked at the mining machine that was already running on the screen and said.

"At this rate, they will be able to completely consolidate the industrial foundation in half a year at most."

Cao Guolin was obviously worried when he said this. No one knows whether the alien civilization on Mars is hostile to Blue Star.

If a complete industrial system is formed on Mars in half a year, no matter whether the other party is good or bad, it will definitely not be a good thing for Blue Star.

"Chief engineer, the mine has been mined, and the throughput looks very impressive. The aliens are really efficient." While Cao Guolin was thinking about the possible threats, the members of the information team in front of him pointed at the large machine.

The screen whispered to Cao Guolin.

Cao Guolin, whose thoughts were interrupted, looked up and saw that the newly installed mining machine had begun to operate, and the huge screw rod was slowly rotating downwards driven by electricity.

And with its official operation, a large amount of sand and gravel on the surface of Mars was dug out, and poured out from the position where the barrage just now thought was the muzzle of the Star Destroyer Cannon.

Since there is a large amount of sediment on the surface of Mars, basically what was excavated in the early stage cannot be used directly.

Fortunately, the automatic mining machine has a self-checking function. The excavated sand and gravel are thrown to one side, and the minerals are thrown to the other side.

The exit of the automatic mining machine can have up to 8 external conveyor belts, so as long as Luo Xiu can install the conveyor belts in place, the ore will be continuously delivered to the smelting plant of the sample base.

However, Luo Xiu does not yet have that much iron ore for making metal conveyor belts, so for the time being, it can only rely on the Zhurong and many maintenance robots to transport the ore back to the smelting plant.

But even so, the speed is much faster than that of digging completely by hand.

And more importantly, every iron ore now can be used to make conveyor belts. As long as there are no accidents in transportation, it only takes about two days to build a conveyor belt from the mining machine to the smelting plant.

can be manufactured.

"Your Excellency Commander, the associated ore vanadium has also been separated. Does it need to be transported to the smelting plant together?"

When Luo Xiu stood at the exit of the mining machine and watched the Zhurong and the maintenance robot dragging the flatbed truck filled with ore back to the base, the base's management system also reported the latest news to him.

"Vanadium was discovered so quickly?" Although Luo Xiu had long known that this iron mine was accompanied by vanadium ore, he did not pay attention to the distribution of vanadium ore.

But now that vanadium has been mined directly, Luo Xiu will certainly not waste it.

You must know that if some vanadium can be added to the metal smelted by Luo Xiu, the cold resistance of the metal will be greatly improved, and this improvement will also allow the machinery made by Luo Xiu to better withstand the extreme cold weather of Mars.

"Take half of it back and put the rest around the mining machine temporarily."

After Luo Xiu arranged the storage of the ore, he also dragged two flat plates of ore back to the base.

When Luo Xiu and many maintenance robots returned to the base with a large amount of ore, Luo Xiu walked directly into the smelting plant and said to the base's management system through the exoskeleton's communication equipment: "The smelting plant can be operated at full capacity."

All this time, the smelting plant has been in a semi-activated state due to insufficient ore supply.

But now that the mining machines have started operating, the smelting plant has no time to rest.

"The manufacturing platform of the manufacturing factory will also be fully activated. In addition to the next automatic mining machine, the first-level conveyor belt will also start production. By the way, we will also manufacture some power devices. It doesn't need to be too good, just usable."
Chapter completed!