Chapter 148: Heart Palpitations
Mars Geostationary Orbit, a silver-white spaceship with a small body and a huge circular radar ring in the mid-rear of the hull was undergoing inertial flight.
Xinghai Technology deep space exploration spaceship ‘Tianyan’.
This was a monitoring-type spaceship that gathered various top-tier detection radars from Great Xia, as well as a meter-level observation system.
The spaceship’s speed was not fast; ahead of it, an artificial satellite was maintaining the same speed in inertial flight.
Fan Ren sat in the cockpit, while the other seat beside him was occupied by Dan Wu, who had his eyes closed and was resting.
“Second Brother, Primal means that the current three nuclear fusion generator sets can no longer meet Utopia City’s development needs.
This month, under its command, another iron ore refinery was newly constructed outside Utopia City.
According to its current intention, the next step will be to construct a fully automated processing factory, with the first batch constructing machine workers that can work 24 hours a day and have efficiency several times higher than humans.”
Fan Ren held the communication content just obtained from the satellite in his hand, his brows furrowed into a river pattern.
This Tianyan had already stayed in Mars Geostationary Orbit for nearly a year.
Over this year, through radar detection and image information feedback from fixed-point photography, the construction work around Utopia City had truly changed every day.
The once 60 square kilometers area had long surpassed 100 square kilometers.
Primal’s planning was extremely orderly; at the beginning, it first sent out exploration teams to conduct large-scale geological exploration around Utopia City.
After completing this work, it began using the initially delivered materials to carry out small-scale ore collection and smelting processes.
After that, the development speed underwent a huge change.
With the completion of those two basic factories, Primal invested 30% of Utopia City’s population into this aspect.
In just 3 years, Utopia City now had the capability to manufacture various large mechanical equipment.
Of course, all this was inseparable from Xinghai’s regular deliveries, including rubber, battery raw materials, and other essentials needed for industry but unavailable on Mars.
There were also several nuclear fusion generator sets for power supply.
Now, under such huge changes, the Mars Project had long evolved from complete physical isolation to regular material delivery according to Primal’s needs.
But there was a very key agreement among them.
Under A’dai’s operation, there was a material supply agreement between Utopia City and Spitz Company.
The general content was that a certain amount of material delivery would be exchanged for Utopia City providing free labor to Spitz Company for a corresponding amount of time in the future.
However, even Primal did not know that this so-called ‘Spitz’ company was still an outsider to this day.
So far, except for personnel selection being led by Spitz Company, the entire Mars Project was jointly completed by Great Xia and Xinghai Company.
And the capabilities shown by Primal were equally astonishing.
It had only been two years.
Fan Ren’s gaze was solemn as he kept flipping through the report sent by Li Jian, occasionally pausing to ponder.
“Second Brother, in my current view, all of Primal’s purposes are as we initially set in its underlying logic; all goals are to enable Utopia to have self-sufficient operational capability as quickly as possible.
Moreover, in handling workers’ work, Primal has not shown any exploitation of labor force; instead, it still allows them to work only 5-6 hours a day and then go off work to rest, as before.
In my view, there are currently no unsettling factors.”
Fan Ren put away the information documents, sat on the chair, closed his eyes, and pondered.
In 3 years, in such a harsh environment, developing a city with a million-level population to now have preliminary self-production of industrial commodities and self-produced grain to meet 20% of the population’s demand.
If under human jurisdiction, it would be fundamentally impossible.
And under its jurisdiction, reasonable allocation of various technical workers, reasonable arrangement of working hours, and not hesitating to use the city’s future labor force as a selling point to frantically demand resources from ‘Spitz’ Company.
Very impressive.
This experiment, up to now, has demonstrated the artificial intelligence’s capabilities extremely perfectly.
As recorded by A’dai, Primal now has plenty of computing power to spare.
A small Utopia City with only a million population is completely unable to make it exert its full computing power.
However, what Fan Ren wanted to see was its harm.
He opened his eyes and took out the quantum communication device, dialing out.
“Third Brother, I’ll send you the list for the next batch of materials shortly; still transport it to Arctic Glacier, and then use orbital transportation to deliver it to Utopia City.”
On the other end of the phone, Liu Jun’s voice sounded somewhat fatigued.
“Okay, got it. Anything else?”
Hearing this, Fan Ren felt a twinge of reluctance in his heart and said, “If you’re tired, rest up; it’s fine. I’ll arrange for someone else to come help you.”
“Forget it. Hurry up and finish your plan. I can still persist. Alright, no more talk; I’m busy.”
After hanging up, Fan Ren no longer showed emotion and got up to walk toward the equipment compartment behind.
“General Manager Fan, come look quickly.”
A scientist with slightly graying hair pointed at the display screen with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
“This is?” Fan Ren looked over, puzzled.
“This is an all-terrain vehicle. According to our observation, it should have an unmanned driving system, probably using electromagnetic wave communication. Currently, this all-terrain vehicle has driven 500 kilometers out of Utopia City.”
“Where are they going? Can you observe any purpose?”
Fan Ren knew this was something Primal had made; he marveled at how fast it had researched long-distance communication.
500 kilometers, relying only on two electromagnetic wave transceivers to achieve precise control of two vehicles.
The scientist replied with some puzzlement, “Not sure yet, but they are currently heading straight south. My guess is they are testing communication distance.”
Just as the scientist finished speaking, the all-terrain vehicle slowly stopped.
“Probably not out of power; I estimate the connection was interrupted. 502 kilometers real-time wireless communication distance—very impressive.”
Fan Ren nodded as well; the all-terrain vehicle had completely stopped moving by now, probably as the scientist guessed.
Utopia City machine room.
A’dai climbed up from the ground mat; just moments ago, a inexplicable palpitation flashed in his heart.
No reason, completely baseless.
“Primal, how did your communication test go?”
“Test distance 503 kilometers; vehicle has lost connection. Test result exceeded expectations by 3 kilometers.”
A’dai scratched his head; he felt like he might have had a nightmare earlier. Primal was completely normal; nothing unexpected had happened.
