Chapter 12 Food Crisis

The next day, a meeting of more than 300 people was held inside the base, including scientific elites and technical workers.

Yu Yifeng sat at the front of the meeting and touched his hair. He had not slept all night last night. After disbanding the fanatical crowd, he spent almost the whole night to understand the operation of the entire base. There are joys and sorrows. The situation is slightly better than expected, but not necessarily too good.

The ruling team in the base was killed by them, and he could only force ducks to go up the shelf and temporarily set up a government organization.

First of all, Calvin and others unexpectedly expressed their willingness to obey him. They were imprisoned for rebellion and did not resist at all during the process. Maybe he himself has been brainwashed by himself, but it is finally a good thing.

The second good thing is that after Calvin's disturbance, more than 20,000 people all believed that Yu Yifeng was the legendary savior who could save them... and the remaining 30,000 people, more than 5,000 of whom were attacked by the mob, were saved by Yu Yifeng and his party, and these people also became his loyal supporters.

Most of the others hid in underground facilities. Although they were not at the scene, they also watched some videos and listened to some rumors. They are currently in a state of doubt...

In short, the public sentiment is generally stable. Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng had a headache again. In fact, he did not have a particularly big ambition. Who would want to be the leader of the lunar base? Isn't this forced...

As for the secrets of Perfection and alien spacecraft, it seems that they have been completely exposed. But except for a small number of people who reacted, the rest of them were numb and didn't feel anything. After all, at the last moment of life and death of the entire race, who would still consider things like life span.

If you are going to die tomorrow, what's the point of living for 100 million years.

The real trouble is... This is a real big problem!

Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng no longer hesitated and spoke in a low voice, "Everyone! I called you here not for anything else, but for the survival of mankind!"

"At present, all positions in our lunar base are in a state of passive absenteeism. On the one hand, the reason is that the original ruling high-level was attacked and the base was unmanaged, and on the other hand, it is people's psychological factors."

"The earth is destroyed, and each of us is full of sadness and despair. We need rest, comfort, and countless emotions to vent..."

"I know that it is very against human nature to ask everyone to work at this time. But everyone here is an elite, and you should know one thing, that is-we can no longer get supplies from the earth! And our lunar base cannot produce living materials to meet the needs of 50,000 people!"

"We lack water, oxygen, food, and almost everything!" Yu Yifeng's voice became louder and louder, "Time is running out. If we survivors sit and wait for death like this, we will lose the chance of survival..."

At this time, Dr. Roman, who was sitting opposite him, spoke. He is the chief biologist in the base and a person Yu Yifeng is familiar with. "Captain Yu Yifeng, just say whatever you want to say. Although we have lived here for a long time, we all have our own jobs and don't know the situation in the base." After the voice fell, some people around nodded. "Okay, then I'll say it directly." Yu Yifeng said, "First, it's the food problem!" "Assuming that one person eats one kilogram of food a day, our base has a population of 50,000, and the amount of food consumed a day is 25 tons! However, we are currently eating high-energy compressed foods rich in sugar and fat. This amount can be reduced by two-thirds, which means that we need to consume about eight or nine tons of food a day. Everyone around nodded, this calculation is quite accurate. "Before the destruction of the earth, our Victory spacecraft happened to transport 400 tons of food, plus the original base, it is about 700 tons... That is, it can only last for more than 90 days, even if it is a little bit economical, a hundred days!" "One hundred days, only a hundred days! After a hundred days, we will experience a food crisis! Without food, I don't need to explain the final outcome, right? "

One hundred days, which is a little more than three months, everyone fell silent. This time is too short! A feeling of urgency instantly appeared in their hearts.

The people present are all elites, smart and knowledgeable. If this continues... they seem to see themselves starving to death. When people are hungry, they can do anything, such as cannibalism and eating their own children. At that time, it will really be hell on earth.

"So, we must hurry up and do something!" Yu Yifeng punched the steel table, "We still have time, so there is still hope!"

Is there a food production base on the moon? Yes! But compared with the output and demand, it is really insignificant.

The food base on the moon mainly produces agricultural products such as vegetables, fruits and melons, because those high-energy foods are not very good to eat, and eating too much may make people sick, so people need vegetables, fruits and melons to improve the taste and supplement some essential fiber for the human body.

But even so, the price of these vegetables, fruits and melons is also amazingly high, at least more than a hundred times that on Earth!

Of course, other grains are not mass-produced, not only because of technical reasons, but also because the production cost is too high, which is far less cheap than transporting them from Earth.

"Captain Yu Yifeng, maybe we can grow rice on a large scale!" The speaker was a middle-aged man in his thirties, who was the person in charge of the entire agricultural base and the one who knew the most about it.

"If we don't care about the cost, we can grow rice on a large scale! Some rice has a growth cycle of about three months. If it is cultivated properly, we can produce the first batch of food before the food crisis comes!"

Everyone was inspired after hearing this. Soilless cultivation on the moon can be said to be a relatively mature technology. The yield of soilless rice per mu is more than 1,000 kilograms. The most important thing is that it saves a lot of space, and the culture dishes can be stacked up layer by layer. If one mu of land can be cultivated ten layers upwards, it can be said that the yield per mu is 10,000 kilograms!

According to this calculation, only 500 mu, which is equivalent to 330,000 square meters of land, can feed 50,000 people.

But before he finished speaking, a voice forcibly broke this fantasy. It was the chief biologist Dr. Roman. He said bluntly, "Mr. Cherf, I have to remind you that you think too simply! Our food base is not that large. It is feasible to expand the scale, but a series of subsequent supplies need to keep up. We need facilities, culture dishes, culture fluids, inorganic salts, floor lamps, air conditioners, etc. ... This takes time."

"More importantly - carbon dioxide! This is not the earth. We lack carbon dioxide! Have you ever thought about how plants grow without carbon dioxide?"

"Everyone knows that most of the oxygen we breathe is produced by industry, and photosynthesis accounts for only a small part. As for the carbon dioxide produced by breathing in recent years, because it is not taken seriously, most of it is lost due to air leakage!"

"I wanted to expand the food base at the beginning, but it was shelved for this reason.",

The middle-aged man sat down with a sullen face after hearing this. He also realized the importance of carbon dioxide.

"To solve this problem, we must build a new ecosystem, a biosphere! This is no longer a simple problem of growing food, but a comprehensive and systematic problem!" Dr. Roman said loudly.