Chapter 158: Splitting Bases
In a basin near the abandoned base, a large spar mine was discovered. Although a lot has been mined, the total reserves are more than ten times more than those in the saltwater lake. The initial estimate is at least 50,000 more than tons.
After seeing the spar mine, Li Yunfei immediately decided to build a sub-base here. Although the Zerg must know the location here, it doesn't matter even if they know.
Anyway, the base over the saltwater lake is also known by the Zerg, so what we have to do now is to use resources as much as possible to build more combat units, maybe it can block a block, or even reverse a wave or something, in this ruined base There are still many buildings and equipment that have not been damaged, and many places can still be used after repairing. The foundation is countless times thicker than the self that started from scratch.
Floating at a height of more than a thousand meters to observe the environment, the scale of this base can be said to be quite large, and there are buildings within a radius of tens of kilometers. Compared with this place, the base over the saltwater lake is like a child's play house.
This place is on the edge of the desert, and there are sparse grasslands more than ten kilometers away, and even saw some small animals moving, which can be regarded as seeing normal animals that do not belong to the Zerg in this world.
I walked around within tens of kilometers. Although there are ruins everywhere, I found many good things. Although some buildings were damaged, the damage was not serious. There are still many equipments to see. It seems that the damage is not very serious, and it can be repaired and reused. Of course, even if the thing cannot be repaired, it can also be used for resource recovery.
A few unfinished buildings that were more than half completed were found on the outskirts of the base. These buildings did not seem to have been attacked by the Zerg, and they probably had no interest in destroying these unfinished buildings.
Li Yunfei also floated over, and after careful observation, he discovered that there was a very special kind of equipment parked beside these buildings, which should be a kind of equipment similar to a construction printer.
It can move freely around the construction unit, and the direct printing range is huge. The length, width, and height are all open. In theory, there should be no restrictions, because it can move back and forth and stack heights.
Of course, it’s only theoretically not idle. In practice, of course, there are some restrictions. As long as there is enough time and materials, it is possible to print a skyscraper directly. In fact, the 3D printers that allow construction in the real world are just that the printing equipment in the real world is still very rudimentary, the materials used are single, and the dome cannot be formed at one time, etc. This equipment is nothing more than more efficient and can use multiple materials at the same time. It can also complete the printing of the entire building at the same time. It can be regarded as a highly integrated basic equipment for construction...
In principle, as long as you provide a design drawing and enough materials, the construction can be completed automatically, and the efficiency is much faster than using a general-purpose robot. This machine can be powered by natural gas, so Li Yunfei also tried to store gas for this equipment. Adding half a cubic meter of liquefied natural gas to the tank successfully activated the equipment that had been shut down for a long time and started its unfinished work.
This equipment uses two kinds of materials, one kind of synthetic material in powder state, and one kind of water, which are respectively stored in two storage tanks at a distance. They are extracted during work, and the powder will expand dozens of times rapidly when it meets water. It becomes a jelly-like substance, and then it is superimposed layer by layer to the construction battle, and it dries quickly to form. Li Yunfei also specially tested the quality of the material, and after some simple experiments, he got a very satisfactory performance index.
The hardness is almost the same as that of ordinary concrete, the toughness is several times that of concrete, and the tensile performance is good. No wonder this building does not need to add steel bars at all. It turns out that the tensile strength of this material itself is almost the same as that of ordinary steel.
It can withstand a high temperature of about 2,000 degrees, and the heat insulation effect is good. Therefore, this material is similar to a foamed porous material, so the material is very light, and its specific gravity is only one tenth of that of water. It has excellent waterproof performance, which can be called a phenomenon perfect building material.
Discovering this kind of material in the base is already a worthwhile trip. This powder can be called a black technology. It can't be used now, and this powder can definitely be converted into the strength of the base in minutes.
I don't know if it is possible to analyze the specific formula of this material from those powders, but Li Yunfei believes that it is still possible to analyze the ingredients with enough time as long as he has the same perception as a plug-in.
As long as you understand the formula of this material, all construction units in the future can be made of this standard material. I got a few kilograms of powder from the powder storage tank and prepared to analyze it. I hope that this thing can be figured out sooner. , This is definitely a good thing that can trigger a technological revolution. It can be applied to multiple Linyuzhong districts, and even the basic construction of aircraft vehicles and robots that are not key parts can be used on a large scale.
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"Xiaowei, how's the situation at the base?" After installing a simple communication tower, after a long time of debugging, they finally successfully contacted the saltwater lake base.
"It's great to be able to contact you again, everything in the base is normal now!" Xiaowei had been trying to contact Li Yunfei, but when he got the signal suddenly, he showed a hint of joy.
"Well, it's fine, what's our loss in this war?"
"In total we only lost 218 robots, 5,695 automatic machine gun towers, 130 ground guards on the front line were damaged, 2 communication stations were damaged, 6 radar stations were damaged, the camp gas station was damaged, and the white phosphorus processing plant was damaged. , consumption of ammunition... We wiped out the Zerg, 22,320 velociraptors, 1,150 cockroaches, it is a huge victory!" Xiao Wei reported the various battle loss ratios in great detail.
"Very well, now, bring those corpses back, and you should be able to extract a lot of useful materials!"
"Understood, the collection of Velociraptor corpses has already begun, 3,351 of them have been decomposed, the materials of bones, teeth and bone spurs have been sorted out, and 5 tons of high-quality lean meat have been stored!"
"Well, it's pretty good... But how come more than 3,000 velociraptors only have 5 tons of meat? How did you dig out the meat?" Actually, Li Yun couldn't eat much of the meat, but he was just very curious. How did the meat be cut? Thousands of swift and fierce beasts weighing hundreds of kilograms can only produce such a small amount of meat. It is really a terrible waste, and the habit of wasting is terrible.
"There is a lack of fuel in the base to generate electricity, and the gas production station has not been repaired, and the gas storage station has been destroyed, so most of the meat is put into the incinerator to generate electricity, but the best meat is left in the thigh of the velociraptor. A small piece of meat, do you need to modify the execution order?"
"Uh, no need to modify, you did a good job, send a few robots over right away...Forget it, I'll go back and pick up some robots!" Thinking that the moving speed of the robots is really too slow, Li Yunfei decided to fly by himself. Going back, it will be much faster to put the robot directly into the space and fly over. As for the transport plane, there is only one to collect the corpses of the Velociraptor, and it has to be transported by it. There is no air transport for the time being.