Chapter 14: The Alien Ship

The meeting lasted for a total of 24 hours, and a total of hundreds of options, large and small, were agreed upon. The mad scientists, facing the survival crisis, came up with all their ingenuity, like what synthetic glucose, synthetic protein and so on, but all were shelved for various reasons.

The technology available to mankind in front of the life and death test, seems so weak. In fact, humans do not even have the means to synthesize glucose without the help of plants!

It was not until early the next morning that Oliver walked out of the meeting with a tired face, but the glow in his eyes could not be concealed, the plan had been made, and as long as it was carried out, there was hope for mankind!

Perfectin, the greatest hope is still perfectin!

In the meeting, some scientists proposed that a group of super plants could be cultivated using perfectin, and then use this group of super plants to produce food!

After all, three months is too short a time, just to set up the site, production of new equipment will take a lot of time, and ordinary plants are not strong in environmental adaptability, maybe an air leak, or culture machine failure, it will easily take their lives. And humans can not afford precisely this failure!

But super plants do not have this problem. For example, super rice, which was transformed by the perfect vegetation, from the original herbaceous plants into woody plants, taller, increased output, and greatly enhanced environmental adaptability.

This super rice is not only cold and heat resistant, and can even survive in the extreme cosmic environment for a short period of time, although only a short period of time, that is enough!

And the time required for super rice to mature from germination to maturity is only two months, which means that humans have at least one month of preparation time! That's a lot more than enough time.

"The old federal government had extremely tight control over perfectin, requiring written approval for any experiment, but not so much now." Oliver recalled, "The moon base keeps enough Perfectin for six million people, and today our population is only 50,000 ... so it's not a bad idea to use some on plants."

Dr. Roman nodded at that, but said without concern, "However, the control of perfectin must continue. We don't understand how it works, and if we use it indiscriminately and something like super insects or super bacteria appears, it will be a big problem."

At present, the human groping for perfectin still remains on the surface, only knowing that it has an evolutionary effect on life, but not knowing how it actually works. The direction of this evolution is uncontrollable, and there is no way to predict it. If there is really a biohazard or an alien or something like that, then all of humanity will have to be finished.

"Yes, technology has always been a double-edged sword, a certain amount of control is still necessary." Oliver nodded his head and said.

At this time, a group of people to go to the alien ship, is also the core of the entire base, it is buried deep in the ground in the Bailey crater. According to the plan, all humans will be gradually relocated to this ship, and the surface part will be empty to cultivate plants.

Although Oliver is not the first time to see this ship, but still deeply surprised by the scene in front of him. It was so big that it could not be seen at a glance, according to the measurement, it was 15 kilometers in diameter. Such a huge size alone is not something that human technology can produce.

It was not some streamlined shape, nor did it look like a flying saucer, but a square, round sphere, like a hollow lead ball. The surface of the hull is a silvery gray metal-like substance, hard and thick. In fact, people have studied this unknown material, but nay, the technical level is too different, 30 years have passed with little progress.

It is not the "neutron star material" in science fiction, unlike any known material, in the scanning tunneling microscope, can not see any atomic structure, no electrons, no atomic nuclei ... is still dense existence, which obviously exceeds the human perception.

It is completely smooth, even from the atomic scale is still smooth. The friction generated on the surface of the sphere is almost zero, so the surface of the spacecraft looks spotless and shiny.

Nowadays people are self-aware and few people study this unknown material anymore, knowing only that it is in the same technological class as Perfectin. It is hard enough and reliable enough, maybe someone will think about it again later when technology is a little more advanced.

Oliver walked around the ship and found a "mirror" like object on the surface of the hull, these mirrors are a bit like the surface of the water hanging on the wall, a little ripple from time to time, very magical. He touched his hand into this layer of "water", the whole palm of his hand went straight through, as if it had disappeared, and when he pulled his hand out, he found that his palm was still intact.

"Captain Oliver, these watery things are the entrance to the ship." Physicist Felix introduced, "There are more than 2,000 such large and small entrances in total, and since the surface of the ship is completely smooth, there is almost no way to lend a hand, we can only mount the facility outward through these entrances and exits. You see, this is also the entrance to our lunar laboratory, please enter."

This entrance is six or seven meters wide, Oliver did not hesitate to get up and enter this layer of "water", in this moment, he felt as if he had crossed a world in general, a moment of unstable weight, the body swayed.

Gravity! He actually felt the gravity as on Earth!

The acceleration of gravity on Earth is about 9.8 meters per quadratic second, which is the gravity that humans are more accustomed to. And the moon's gravity is only one-sixth of the earth, so walk lightly. But at this moment, Oliver bets that the gravity is now exactly the same as it is on Earth!

Felix walked in right behind him, and as one of the most distinguished physicists of our time, he had studied the ship for years and knew the basic information about it like the back of his hand.

"As you can see, this ship comes with its own gravity system." Felix lamented, "The alien civilization has created gravity in the ship with technology that we can hardly imagine."

"The intensity of gravity varies with altitude." He drew an image of a sphere and gestured with his hand to explain, "At the highest point of the ball, the gravity is almost zero, and the further down the ball, the greater the gravity, reaching even 20 times the gravity of Earth at the bottom of the ship! We can be on a spaceship and feel the different intensity of gravity, it's really great technology.

And where we are standing now, the gravity is just equivalent to what was once the Earth ... location is about the middle of the sphere."

"We chose the location of the laboratory here for this very reason! We humans are most adapted to, or such gravity ah."

Oliver paced back and forth for a while, such a feeling, can't be wrong ... and the same gravity environment as Earth, it's amazing!

"Mr. Felix, how big is this ship? How many people can live?" Oliver asked.

Felix gave a strange expression and said with a smile, "Captain Oliver, the space inside this ship is distorted and far larger than you can imagine! Measured from the outside, it is a sphere 15 kilometers in diameter, however, the inside is not."

"Measured from the inside, the diameter in the horizontal direction is around 200 km, which is 13 times larger than the outside, and the length in the vertical direction is 60 km, which is also 4 times larger. The outside looks like a round ball, the inside is actually an enlarged ellipsoid!"

"This is - space folding technology ah ..."

"Personally, I think there may be an object with a mass of billions and billions of tons underneath the ship, generating a strong gravitational force, which, combined with such distorted space, is what creates this unique gravity environment. If we had such technology ... alas ...," Felix suddenly sighed, feeling a little confused, perhaps the more he knew, the more he understood the ignorance and insignificance of mankind.

The vastness of the universe contains many truths. And mankind, as if a child playing on the seashore, from time to time rejoicing over picking up a smoother stone or a more beautiful shell than usual, and what is revealed to mankind is a completely unexplored sea of truth.

At this point, Dr. Roman, a biologist, also interjected, "The ship is big enough that if we do establish a complete ecosystem, a carbon, oxygen, and water cycle, humans are perfectly capable of surviving in it for a long time."

"However, we have to repair the ship first. Except for our lab, the other areas are almost in a vacuum, don't these damn aliens need air?" Roman said.

Oliver walked around casually and looked at the lab curiously, in fact, he was born from here and had some vague memories.

This was without a doubt the best laboratory in the entire scientific community. Electronics, chemistry, biology, physics and all kinds of cutting-edge experimental facilities can be found here.

High gravity, low gravity and even no gravity environment does not exist on Earth, but also let a large number of researchers tend to rush, 30 years down, here has become the most sophisticated technology base.

Oliver put on his spacesuit and walked out of the laboratory, outside is a vacuum environment, black and dense, no light, no atmosphere. If the interior of the laboratory is a finely decorated house, then the outside is a rough house, empty, the ground is with a hint of purple metal, cold and silent, there is a kind of rugged beauty.

This metal-like stuff is so strong that tens of millions of temperatures can't destroy it, but it's a little less technological than the spaceship shell, which is, after all, frictional and an atomic-level substance.

The interior of the ship is a bit like a beehive structure, with a hexagonal "room". This one "room" is terribly large, the length and width are more than a few kilometers, it can be said that a "room" can accommodate a mountain!

People once searched the entire ship, except in the middle of the room found the perfect element, nothing found ...

This ship has no pilot room, no power room, and even no engine! This then triggered many human reveries, how did the ship start? Why is there nothing inside? Did the aliens evacuate en masse? What did they look like?

Oliver even had some doubts that it was not a spaceship at all, but a container, a container to hold the perfect vegetation ... But why was it on the moon? Why is it so huge? Is there any unspeakable secrets?

These secrets, perhaps no one will ever know, perhaps the former United Government knew some, but with the explosion of the Earth, all the secrets are buried in history. All he knows is that this ship, which is about to become the home of humanity ...

A certain amount of planning is essential, residential areas, industrial areas, agricultural areas, recreational areas, laboratories, etc., all need to be planned in advance. As envisioned, the low-gravity area above and the medium-gravity area in the middle are places where humans can survive normally. The high gravity area at the bottom of the ship is of no great use, as the fragile human body is unable to withstand too much gravity.

In short, the specific design will have to be left to the engineers.

What one has to do today is to mobilize the work! Mobilize all the decadent people.