Chapter 144: Vulcan Brigade
Mars, Utopia Planitia.
At this moment, the distant plain resembled a massive construction site, with dust flying everywhere and blotting out the sky.
At the request of Fan Ren and a group of designers, the city’s ground would be covered with a 2CM-thick layer of tri-titanium alloy sealed flooring.
Not only that, to build a fully enclosed city life support system, a 10-meter-high enclosed wall would later be constructed around the perimeter, followed by a super high-strength transparent glass roof.
To cope with Mars’ extreme climate conditions, all parts must be strictly welded and sealed.
This single basic construction project alone consumed a terrifying 50 million tons of tri-titanium alloy.
Thousands of workers trained and cultivated by Great Xia were busy here, and they had no complaints.
Xinghai offered extremely generous salaries in this regard.
After these external sealing construction projects were completed, the remaining internal buildings would be relatively simple and easy, to be handled by the first batch of immigrant workers at that time.
Mars’ own soil contained large amounts of basalt and fine-grained salt, along with abundant nanoscale iron oxide compounds.
These elements combined, requiring only strong compression, plus the presence of nanoscale iron oxide compounds, could provide strong adhesion between the soil particles themselves.
This building material could fully meet the normal needs for human habitation.
After meeting its external construction conditions, the tri-titanium alloy produced by the Jupiter-Mars Hub would be processed into track building materials needed to lay tracks from Utopia City to the Arctic Ice Sheet.
To provide sufficient water resources for this city of a million people, a transportation track needed to be laid from Utopia City straight to the Arctic Glacier area.
These were all projects in the plan that required large amounts of tri-titanium alloy.
After that, production capacity would shift to equipment and other needs for the city.
This was a massive project.
In the distance, rockets carrying tri-titanium alloy building panels were taking off from the ground nonstop like bamboo shoots after rain, soaring into the sky. They also descended here like meteorites from outer space.
Star-2 had already landed not far from the city, and the sleek hull of Peregrine Falcon was quietly parked nearby.
“Boss, in another half year, after completing the external sealing construction project and track electrical laying, immigration work will officially begin here.
At that time, Spitz Company will arrange for a large number of South Island and Little Japan construction workers to immigrate first, and upon arrival, they will participate in the later-stage construction projects of Utopia City.
At that time, preliminary artificial intelligence unified management will be implemented here to test data such as efficiency in various construction links and production under artificial intelligence control.
Similarly, by then, the entire Mars will be completely isolated from all external contact.
I will place a traditional radio wave communication satellite in Mars low Earth orbit, corresponding to which there will be two communication terminals. You need to report the situation here every three months.
Every three months, I will come personally to receive the information you leave here.”
Fan Ren and a few others stood not far away, his tone uncharacteristically relaxed.
Hesitation was not his character. When he saw Utopia City’s construction in full swing, he had no way out.
Moreover, no matter what, the artificial intelligence would be strictly confined to Utopia City, with no conditions for external contact.
Just as Fan Ren had just said, the only external contact was a single satellite telephone. For the AI to invade through this method, it would have to tamper with the telephone.
Fan Ren had already prepared large
He was confident that he had made foolproof preparations for this plan, and now no amount of worrying or cowardice would do any good.
The only thing to do is to fully trust the Boss, A’dai, Liu Jun, and the others.
Utopia City will not establish the position of mayor.
Or rather, artificial intelligence will be the mayor of this city in the future. The city’s development, everything will be under artificial intelligence’s self-awareness, allowing it to choose the direction forward.
Use this to determine the artificial intelligence’s attitude toward humanity in this process—whether it is absolutely pursuing humanity’s interests as the original underlying logic was set.
It would still undergo changes in the process of continuous self-upgrading.
“A’dai.”
“Boss?”
“I’ve told you what I instructed countless times already, and you’re tired of hearing it. Today I’ll say it differently: just stay alive, can you do that.”
A’dai glanced at Star-2 standing in the sandy ground not far away.
“Don’t worry, Boss. After all, it is electronic life and won’t pose any threat to us.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Fan Ren stared straight at him with an extremely serious look in his eyes.
“Alright, Boss, I agree.”
Hearing his guarantee, Fan Ren sighed and said no more to him. Saying more would just have the opposite effect.
His shoulder was patted twice, and Li Jian walked over to stand beside him.
Not far away, the belated Gale, dragging a long tail flame, began entering the landing process.
“Boss, I’ll have to trouble you next. Be sure to remember what I told you—if the situation gets so urgent that you can’t handle it, you must remember.”
Li Jian felt a slight warmth in his heart upon hearing this, and he tightened his arm around the shoulder of his brother Fan Ren, whom he had known for many years.
Looking up again, Li Jian, who had a solemn expression during his stay at Guanghan Palace, had returned.
The spaceship landed, and rows of Space Force soldiers wearing khaki-colored latest upgraded nano-coats marched out in perfect unison.
No, now they should be called Vulcan Brigade members.
Overall team size of 1000 in personnel configuration, with Captain Li Jian as the big captain, divided into 4 squads, each squad with a scale of 200 people. The remaining final 200 are the mobile troops, directly under Li Jian’s jurisdiction.
Soon the team assembled completely, these Vulcan Brigade team members stood with extremely standard posture, and Fan Ren felt upon seeing it that although the team in front of him was only 200 people, it brought him a huge sense of pressure.
When these team members first landed on Mars, not a single one in the team showed any curiosity by looking around.
Judging solely from this point, these personnel selected by the military headquarters must possess a firm will beyond that of ordinary people.
At this time, a leader whose stature was not particularly tall but whose physical body was exceptionally robust trotted over.
“Report to Captain, Vulcan mobile squad all arrived, should be 200 people, actually 200 people, none absent, awaiting orders.”
Under the influence of the other’s momentum, Fan Ren couldn’t help but stand even straighter.
Li Jian turned to look at him, his eyes fully conveying to him to relax, then turned his head and said loudly:
“Order: according to the original plan, manually transport the supplies on Star-2 to the designated base.”
He stretched out his finger and pointed to a large building already constructed beside the distant massive Utopia City.
That place was precisely the ‘residence’ prepared for this supercomputer.
This original Xinghai Supercomputer, now renamed Primal by A’dai, had at
They will be manually transported by hand to the residence prepared for them, and after that, a dedicated controlled nuclear fusion generator set will also be prepared for them, specifically to supply power for them.
Next, they would wait until the first batch of Mars immigrants officially settled in before carrying out the startup work under A’dai’s orders.
A’dai will be fully responsible for all operations of Primal as well as the work of recording data.
