Chapter 130: Target Mars
Outside the Guanghan Palace Base, Li Jian, wearing a heavy extravehicular spacesuit, looked at Fan Ren and another A’dai whom he didn’t recognize in front of him, nearly dropping his eyeballs onto the lunar soil.
However, at that moment, the clothes on Fan Ren’s body gradually began to distort, and then pieces started falling off him.
The A’dai nearby was the same.
Fan Ren instantly reacted; the temperature outside was now as high as 150 degrees Celsius, and the clothes he was wearing were made of fiber material, which had already reached the melting point under such temperature.
Because there was no oxygen here, the fibers wouldn’t burn, but that didn’t stop the clothes from starting to melt and fall off.
A’dai hadn’t anticipated this unexpected situation either, and hurriedly took out a tablet, quickly tapping on it with both hands.
A magical scene occurred.
At their lower bodies, the thing originally wrapped in gray was once again surrounded by an extra layer of nanorobots that enveloped their lower bodies.
Just like a short skirt, it covered up the ugliness for him and Fan Ren.
Feeling greatly embarrassed, Fan Ren mocked himself for a bit but didn’t mind. There were no women present anyway, just a bunch of guys, nothing serious.
Only now did he have the mood to observe his physical condition.
He walked to the side, picked up A’dai’s tablet, which displayed the current physical condition data of the two.
Body temperature 37 degrees, blood pressure, heart rate, and other vital signs all normal.
At this time, Li Jian also reacted.
“Second Brother, is this the nano-coat you mentioned to me before?”
Fan Ren nodded and smiled directly, saying, “Yeah, we just completed all the design functions. We could only do simple tests in the laboratory, so I thought of coming to the lunar base for field testing. So far, the effect is very good.”
As Fan Ren spoke, he clenched his fist and smashed it heavily onto a rock on the ground.
Everyone saw that when his fist contacted the rock, an extra layer of nanorobots instantly surged out to protect his fist.
A cloud of dust rose, and Fan Ren opened his fist with no pain at all.
“Very good, let’s go inside and chat, Boss.”
Hearing this, Li Jian, with a surprised expression, led everyone into the airlock outside the base.
After pressurizing here, they all took off their heavy spacesuits.
Only Fan Ren and A’dai stood lightly to the side waiting.
“Second Brother, to be honest, now that this thing is developed, our efficiency here can improve a lot. You don’t know, every day just the time spent putting on these clothes, without help, takes at least five minutes. Very troublesome.”
Fan Ren nodded; if not for this, he wouldn’t have spent a year putting all his energy into this.
Human bodies were simply too fragile, unable to move an inch without spacesuits.
Everyone then entered Li Jian’s office in the base and sat down.
“Boss, this nano-coat is currently only limited to our experiments, so we only brought ten sets today, and the purpose of these ten sets is mainly for testing and collecting data. After a period, if there’s nothing else that can be improved, it will enter mass production.”
At Fan Ren’s signal, Dan Wu behind him carried a box forward and placed it on his desk, opening it.
Inside the box lay ten palm-sized cube blocks quietly.
Li Jian curiously picked one up and examined it in his hand, pondering for a long time without figuring out how to use it, and asked puzzledly, “How do you use this?”
Hearing this, A’dai smiled and walked forward, tapped on the tablet a few times, and then the cube in Li Jian’s hand seemed to collapse, instantly scattering across his palm.
Immediately after, under his astonished gaze, they spread out toward his arm.
“Boss, just wait a moment.”
A’dai, like Fan Ren, also called him ‘Boss’, and stood to the side waiting.
About thirty seconds later, the nanorobots had covered Li Jian’s entire body.
Seeing this, A’dai operated the tablet again, and next, the nanorobots all ‘sank’ into Li Jian’s body.
“The nanorobots are about 100 nanometers in size, while the intermolecular spacing on the skin surface is 0.02-0.05 millimeters, enough to accommodate these nanorobots passing through.”
As Fan Ren spoke, he took the tablet and operated it a few times. Then he stretched out his palm.
His entire palm suddenly became covered in gray nanorobots again.
“We haven’t developed control over the brain nervous system yet, so to control these nanorobots, we still need to use this portable control terminal.”
At this point, he sighed.
The brain was simply too complex. He had teamed up with scientists from Great Xia in related fields to try controlling nanorobots with brainwaves, but after attempts, it was completely unfeasible.
External brainwaves were extremely sensitive to magnetic field environments; any slight disturbance made them ineffective.
In the end, they had no choice but to stick with traditional terminal control.
“It’s fine, this is already very good. A’dai did great.”
Under Fan Ren’s introduction, Li Jian knew A’dai had made a huge merit here, and immediately didn’t forget him, smiling in thanks.
Afterward, Fan Ren left A’dai to guide Li Jian on how to use and operate it, as well as some usage guidelines, then took Dan Wu to stroll around the base.
After the expansion, the base’s various facilities were fully equipped, no longer like when Fan Ren first came, with an entertainment room that had nothing and meals limited to instant food bags.
Now in the entertainment room, there were game and audio-visual equipment connected to Blue Star for real-time communication.
In the kitchen, though not as varied as Blue Star’s buffet restaurant, at least the variety of meal options could give the staff here a good mood after work each day.
Moreover, with tri-titanium alloy becoming more abundant, the base’s living dormitories had changed from former 5-person dorms to 2-person rooms.
This preserved the personal privacy of base personnel to a certain extent.
Even, due to the Giant Elephant Class’s huge carrying capacity, the current Guanghan Palace Base could now afford the luxury of everyone showering twice a week.
Quitting time soon arrived, and at this time, Li Jian started getting busy.
As the base commander, he had to sit in the command room at this time, handling any possible emergencies in real time.
Fan Ren didn’t disturb him and led everyone out of the base to board the shuttle.
The shuttle quickly lifted off, but the destination wasn’t the Blue Star Space Hub.
He set the destination to Mars, 200 million kilometers away.
Fan Ren originally didn’t care about Mark’s Mars Project, but now it was different.
At A’dai’s request, after careful consideration of the artificial intelligence experiment, and private discussions with various chiefs of Great Xia, there was now a preliminary implementation plan.
And this key point lay in the Mars Project.
