Chapter 12: Food Crisis

The next day, a meeting of more than three hundred people was held inside the base, with elites from the scientific community and representatives of technical workers.

Oliver sat at the front of the meeting and touched the hair on his temples, he stayed up all night last night, after dissolving the frenzied crowd, he spent almost the whole night to understand the operation of the whole base. There was good news and bad news, the situation was slightly better than expected, but not too good either.

The ruling team in the base was killed by them, they can only rush the ducks themselves, the temporary establishment of the government organization.

First of all, the first point, Calvin and others unexpectedly said to obey themselves, they were imprisoned for the crime of rebellion, the middle process without a little resistance. Perhaps he himself have been brainwashed by himself, but it is always a good thing.

The second good thing is that, by Calvin so much, more than 20,000 people are a brain to believe that Oliver is the legendary savior who can save them ... and the remaining 30,000 people, of which more than 5,000 were attacked by the mob and just saved by Oliver's line, these people also became his loyal supporters.

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

All in all, the public sentiment is still generally stable. Thinking about this, Oliver and some headache, in fact, he does not have particularly ambitious, who would like to be the leader of the moon base ah, this is not forced to ...

As for the secret of Perfectin as well as the alien spaceship, it looks like it has been completely exposed. But in addition to a small number of people have a reaction, the rest of the people are as numb to the general, nothing special feeling, after all, to the moment before the survival of the entire race, who also consider what life expectancy and other things.

If you are going to die tomorrow, what is the significance of life even if 100 million years.

The real trouble is ... this is a really big problem ah!

Thinking of this, Oliver no longer hesitated and spoke in a low voice, "Everyone! I called you all here, not for anything else, but for the survival of humanity's life and death issue!"

"At present, all positions in our moon base are in a state of negative absenteeism. The reason on the one hand is that the original ruling hierarchy was attacked and the base is unmanaged, on the other hand, it is still the psychological factor of people."

"The Earth is destroyed, each of us is filled with sadness and despair in our hearts, we need rest, comfort, and have countless emotions to vent ..."

"I know that it is very much against human nature to let everyone go to work at this time. But everyone here is an elite and should know one thing, and that is - we can no longer get supplies from the Earth side! And our lunar base can't produce enough supplies to meet the living needs of 50,000 people!"

"We lack water, we lack oxygen, we lack food, we lack almost everything!" Oliver's voice was getting higher and higher, "Time is running out, and those of us who survive, will lose our chance of survival if we sit around like this ..."

At this point, Dr. Roman, who was sitting directly across from him, spoke up. He is the chief biologist in the base and someone Oliver is more familiar with, "Captain Oliver, if there is anything you want to say you can just say it. Although we have been living here for a longer time, we each have our own jobs and don't really know what's going on in the base."

The words fell, and some of the people around nodded their heads.

"Okay, then I'll get right to the point." Oliver spoke up, "First of all, it's the food issue!"

"Assuming that one person eats one pound of food a day, the amount of food consumed by our base of 50,000 people in a day is - 25 tons! However, we are currently consuming high-energy compressed food 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.

People around us nodded, this calculation is quite accurate.

"Before the destruction of the Earth, our Atlantis ship happened to deliver 400 tons of food, plus the original base, probably a little more than 700 tons ... that is, can only last more than ninety days, even if you save a little, a hundred days!"

"A hundred days, only a hundred days ah! One hundred days later, we will have to experience a food crisis! Without food, I don't need to explain what will happen in the end, right?"

One hundred days, that is, a little more than three months, the crowd is silent, this time is too short! A feeling of fire and fury instantly appeared in the heart.

The people here are elite, brain smart, knowledgeable, if this continues ... they seem to see themselves starving to death. When people are hungry, anything can be done, what Hen eat the same kind, Yi Zi and so on, then it can really be hell on earth.

"So, we must hurry up and do something!" Oliver slammed his fist on the steel table, "We still have time, there is still hope!"

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

The moon's food base mainly produces vegetables and fruits and other agricultural products, because the taste of those high-powered food is really not very good, eat too much may get sick, so people need vegetables and fruits to improve the taste, by the way, to supplement some essential human fiber.

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

Other foods are certainly not produced on a large scale, not only because of technical reasons, but the cost of production is too high and far less expensive than shipping them over from Earth.

"Captain Oliver, perhaps we can grow rice on a large scale!" The one who opened his mouth was a middle-aged man in his thirties, the head of the entire agricultural base and the one who knew the most about it.

"We can cultivate rice on a large scale, if we don't count the cost! There are some rice that have a growth cycle of about three months, and if cultivated properly, we can completely produce the first batch of food before the food crisis comes!"

The crowd listened, their spirits were all lifted, soilless cultivation on the moon can be said to be a relatively mature technology, soilless rice yield in more than a thousand pounds per mu, the most critical thing is that it is very economical site, Petri dishes can be stacked upwards layer by layer. If an acre of land can be cultivated upward ten layers, it can be said that the mu yield of ten thousand pounds!

According to this calculation, as long as five hundred acres, which is equivalent to 330,000 square meters of land, it can feed 50,000 people.

But before the words left his mouth, a voice forced to shatter this illusion, it was the chief biologist Dr. Roman, who unceremoniously spoke, "Mr. Chelf, I have to warn you, you are thinking too simply! Our food base is not that large, and while expansion is certainly feasible, a series of subsequent supplies will need to keep up. We need facilities, we need petri dishes, culture fluid, inorganic salts, floor lamps, air conditioning, etc. ... It all takes time."

"More importantly - carbon dioxide! This is not Earth, we lack CO2! Have you ever thought about how plants grow without carbon dioxide?"

"As we all know, most of the oxygen we breathe is produced by industry, and photosynthesis only accounts for a small percentage. As for the carbon dioxide produced by breathing over the years, most of it is lost because of air leaks ... because it is not taken seriously!"

"When Ben wanted to expand the food base, it was shelved for this reason." ,.

The middle-aged man listened and sat down with a grimace, he also recognized the importance of carbon dioxide.

"To solve this problem, we have to create a new ecosystem, a biosphere! It's not as simple as growing food anymore, it's an all-encompassing, systemic problem!" Dr. Roman exclaimed.