Chapter 141: All Set
Two days later, as the Peregrine Falcon passed through the Jupiter-Mars geostationary orbit, it dropped a quantum intermediate communication satellite and then accelerated again toward Deimos.
After docking on the massive rock of Deimos, at Li Jian’s strong insistence this time, he dragged the safety rope out of the cabin for work, finally completed the sampling of the rock, and returned to the spaceship.
After a total of 12 Blue Star days, the Peregrine Falcon reappeared at the Blue Star Space Hub docking port.
The round trip took more than 20 days, which was Fan Ren’s longest time away from home.
At this moment, in the cabin, except for Liu Jun from the military headquarters and Dan Wu, who still looked relatively calm, Fan Ren and Liu Jun both had faces full of fatigue.
This was not caused by exhaustion; it was mental fatigue caused by facing the unchanging dark cosmic background outside the window during dozens of navigation days.
As soon as the Peregrine Falcon finished docking, even before the cabin door was fully opened, Liu Jun’s figure squeezed through the door and rushed into the connecting passage.
Outside, dozens of scientists from Xinghai and the Ministry of Industry had been waiting for a long time.
Fan Ren stood up, stretched lazily, and turned back at the cabin door.
“Boss, welcome home!”
Li Jian nodded slightly, and at the end of the crowd outside, a familiar figure was waiting for him in the distance.
His aerospace guide, He Guozhang.
“Chief He is now serving in the Space Force, responsible for the overall security work of this hub.”
Fan Ren introduced softly beside him, and Li Jian immediately patted his shoulder, straightened up, and stepped out.
“Wu Ge, let’s go. I’ve already instructed people to detect these unknown minerals afterward, and the spaceship will also be inspected. By the way, you rest for a few days first. If I need to go out, I’ll notify you.”
Dan Wu followed him into the passage, glanced at him, and nodded slowly.
The Space Hub is under the jurisdiction of the Great Xia Military Headquarters, with an extremely high security level. Even when Mark visited previously, his accompanying security personnel were not allowed to enter, which shows it.
Fan Ren faces no danger at all here; whether he is by his side for protection or not doesn’t make much difference.
After bidding farewell to these two, Fan Ren also exchanged words and instructions with the impatient crowd of scientists before walking to Liu Jun at the end of the passage.
Looking at the other’s lifeless expression, he joked with a smile: “Can’t take it anymore? I was counting on you to watch over the Jupiter-Mars Hub for me.”
“This life is sold to you. No more talk, go find my Yu Rou, I need comfort.”
Hearing this, Liu Jun smiled and lightly punched Fan Ren in the chest.
Space Hub, Xinghai Laboratory.
These two days, dozens of scientists had faces full of uncontainable excitement.
Fan Ren was the same.
The detection results of various minerals he brought back had all come out.
Among them, that pitch-black, individually huge ore was indeed ordinary crystal stone, which was correct.
But it was different from the ordinary crystal stone collected from the Moon.
The tri-titanium alloy refined from the ordinary crystal stone collected from the Moon had a ratio of 5:1.
While the tri-titanium alloy refined from this ore actually had a ratio as high as 5:4.
Not exaggerating at all, this thing, apart from the layer of impurities wrapping the outside, was itself a huge tri-titanium alloy with only a small amount of impurities inside.
This news was very gratifying.
Additionally, the ice cube-like substance Fan Ren brought back had also been tested, and as he guessed, it was water of extremely high purity.
This way, the prerequisite conditions for establishing a hub in the Jupiter-Mars orbit were met.
Not only that, these scientists also discovered various rare earth ores of extremely high purity, which are extremely rare on Blue Star, in the ore Fan Ren brought back.
Although tri-titanium alloy is valued for its high strength and toughness.
Rare earth ores also play an important role in industrial development due to their various bizarre properties.
With these extremely precious rare earth ores, Great Xia’s rare earth mining will no longer need to be strictly restricted.
Many related industries that urgently need them can also be unleashed for full development.
Overall, the existence of the Jupiter Ring is a treasure trove of ore for Xinghai and Great Xia.
There are not only countless rich ordinary crystal stones here, but also indispensable water resources for humanity.
Similarly, Europa on that orbit, although not yet detected now, Fan Ren’s previous guess has been accepted by these scientists.
Once detection is completed in the future, not exaggerating at all, a large part of the industries currently at the Blue Star Space Hub will be transferred to the Space Hub in the Jupiter-Mars orbit 500 million kilometers away.
At the same time, the composition of the huge transparent stone he brought back had also been tested.
It was indeed a super-large diamond of 1.5 cubic meters in size.
This result stunned the scientists. This discovery can also confirm the scientists’ previous hypothesis that there exist diamond celestial bodies composed of huge carbon elements in outer space.
And this thing is very likely a product of the Jupiter satellite series after impact.
However, following that, this huge diamond was thrown to the back of the scientists’ minds.
Flashy things, how can they compare to various rare earth ores for fun.
However, this diamond didn’t stay in Fan Ren’s hands for long either.
Several days later, Spitz Company announced the discovery of a super-large diamond on Mars.
And with the public exhibition of this diamond, Spitz Company’s Mars Project became even more favored by people.
Right after the detection results of the ore Fan Ren brought back came out, Great Xia and Xinghai, these two huge industrial machines, began to slowly turn.
Space Dock Construction Plant, one after another massive Giant Elephant Class ships were successively sent to the space port.
Thousands of well-trained Space Force members and high-salary hired workers boarded the Gale together with the Giant Elephant Class loaded with various building materials and mechanical equipment, sailing into deep space.
Jupiter-Mars Space Hub project, officially launched.
Project plan: complete the construction of the space refinery and tri-titanium alloy processing plant within one year.
Then use another year to complete the construction of including the space dock construction plant and other functional areas of the space hub.
Expected to officially start the construction of Mars Utopia City at the beginning of the third Blue Star year.
Meanwhile, on the Blue Star side, the space dock construction plant, after initially building 50 Giant Elephant Class spaceships, will devote 90% of its production capacity to the construction of mining ships.
Expected to complete the construction task of 100 open-pit mining ships ‘Charger’ before the refinery at the Jupiter-Mars Space Hub is put into use.
In Fan Ren’s expectation, with massive resources invested, Mars Utopia City will be fully completed and put into use in the fifth year.
United States, Rocky City.
A disheveled man stood outside the wealthy villa district, peering eagerly inside past the tall security personnel.
Not long after, a fiery red sports car drove out.
The window rolled down, and a fashionably dressed, glamorous woman frowned as she looked toward him.
“Hiller, it’s me, Ma Wei. Don’t worry, I’m not here to make trouble.”
This outwardly destitute man, no longer the dashing figure from back then, was Ma Wei, the son of Ma Gaosheng who had fled with a huge sum of money that year.
A very clichéd story: under Hiller’s calculated schemes, someone like Ma Wei naturally couldn’t escape the gentle trap she meticulously built, fell headfirst into it, and now all his property is under her name.
And it was perfectly legitimate, with no legal loopholes at all.
“Get in the car!”
Hiller wasn’t afraid of him at all; she knew Ma Wei was cowardly at heart, and his threat to her was basically zero.
“Okay, okay.” Agitation flashed across Ma Wei’s face as he hurriedly opened the passenger door.
“Get in the back to sit!”
