Chapter 33 - Sense of crisis

"The latest news, the first generation of nuclear-powered excavators have completed the design, by the Tesla Institute and the Superintelligence Laboratory strong team. At present, the first generation test machine is in the middle of debugging ...

According to experts, if the nuclear-powered excavator research is successful, its power system as well as excavation capacity will be more than ten times that of the old type excavator!"

"The latest news, the first batch of uranium resources from Mars has been processed, and its output can fully supply the current consumption of nuclear power plants ... New mineral centrifuges are being designed."

"According to the professionals, a large part of the first phase of the Genov industrial plant has been completed, which is located in the low and medium gravity area of the ship and will be fully automated in the sense ... then people will only be responsible for the final monitoring and maintenance."

"Since the establishment of the new human government, our first newborn child was finally born. His parents named him 'Wise', English name wise, hoping he would become a man of wisdom ..."

...

This is the first issue of "News Weekly" just published by the new human government, each copy is priced at 0.5 SGD, printed by the propaganda department, one issue a week, which will record the big events and news that happened this week.

This price is not particularly expensive, and the newspaper has 32 pages with sufficient volume. The monthly expenditure was only about two new dollars, so basically everyone could afford it and people were willing to buy a copy.

The new government came up with this kind of newspaper, on the one hand, to recover people's new money. On the other hand, it is still to improve the transparency of information and increase people's participation.

Now, everyone on the Noah has the feeling that the whole civilization is slowly progressing. As part of the new humanity, they naturally have a strong sense of accomplishment as well as a sense of belonging to the civilization. Because it was their hard work that slowly propelled the rollers of civilization.

This is also an atmosphere that the new government has purposely created.

There is still too little entertainment on the Noah, what with all the movies, TV shows, novels and the like. After a long day of work, everyone is tired and not in the mood to create content in this area, which leads to a paucity of entertainment on the entire Noah.

For a normal person, only let him work, but not let him not entertain, it is likely to produce a series of negative emotions such as tired of work, or emotional depression.

Although people are now with the chicken blood general, but Oliver still have to care about people's mental health ... this is also a rainy day.

So, this newspaper not only has the news aspect, it also carries a certain amount of entertainment function. In the back of the newspaper a few pages, you can see some science fiction stories, serial stories, love stories, or some jokes, and some scientific knowledge in the universe pu, etc..

These things ... of course copied down from the old database, anyway, the Earth is gone, and no one cares about copyright and so on.

Not only that, Oliver is also considering the trial implementation of the "do six off one" work system, every six days of work can be a day off, equivalent to a day off a week.

Such a rest system, although it seems that people's working hours become shorter, but the efficiency of work will increase, after all, people are not machines, or need to rest ... look at the scientists are red-eyed, a look of overwork, Oliver felt that it is necessary to rest more to do.

And then the next, but also one after another to develop Internet cafes, gymnasiums, parks and other entertainment venues, to provide people with recreational facilities ...

Oliver recorded all these problems that he thought of in his notebook, and prepared to find ways to improve them later ...

Suddenly, a report hit his mailbox.

"What, still not enough staff?" He looked at the report written up by several principals, which mentioned the manpower problem.

Scientists were working hard to develop new excavators, super trains, and so on, so that the human mining capacity was greatly improved.

However, the mining capacity has improved, but the ability to smelt metals has not kept up at all.

The current smelting machines, almost 24 hours a day, workers are also divided into three shifts, but still too busy.

They watched as more and more minerals piled up, what iron ore, aluminum ore, copper ore ... like a mountain piled up there, the anxiety in their hearts can be imagined. If the uninformed, they thought they smelting workers slack work it!

This is still the result of the old excavator is in full operation, and when the new excavator comes out, the output can be expanded ten times!

These smelting metal workers really want to cry, this damn, digging so much ore, simply can not be refined, impossible to complete ah.

Oliver saw, this is to him to complain about, want people or second, they are really trying their best, really can not finish refining all ...

But this aspect is not to worry, Oliver control the overall situation, the heart still has a number.

The mining can be simple and brutal, but smelting is a technical job, the production is not necessarily up. Even if you want to significantly increase production, there is not enough electricity.

However, the ore still has to be dug vigorously, with the huge size of the Noah, even more ore can be loaded, and the ship has a constant mass, which will not increase the difficulty of taking off.

"I have understood your problems, you do not have to worry about ..." Oliver wrote in an email: "As far as the current situation, the larger the reserve of minerals is bound to be, the better, and what is shipped to the Noah is what what we really have!"

Now on the Noah, not a free market economy, there is no need to worry about the balance of supply and demand.

If in the past on Earth, for example, Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries, suddenly increase oil production by ten times, then the price of oil instantly collapsed.

If Australia suddenly iron ore, copper production increased tenfold, then the price of these metals is bound to collapse. So many energy giants are perfectly capable of mining vigorously, but have to take their time because they have to consider supply and demand and want to make more money!

But now, the new human civilization is a planned economy, the resources dug out are all state-owned, do not need to consider so much, just keep on digging.

"... we can't draw more manpower for the time being, improving smelting capacity can be considered later. The ore dug out can just be piled up in the warehouse ... I am also very grateful for your efforts and labor ..."

After Oliver finished writing the email, he hastily sent it to appease those smelting metal staff. This kind of appeasement work must still be done.

He held his chin up in thought. Such crazy digging, of course, there is a reason, because in Oliver's heart, there is always a hairy feeling, a sense of danger if nothing else.

This feeling appears from time to time, sometimes it gives him the creeps, and sometimes it is so subtle that he can hardly feel it.

But he always felt that Mars is not a kind place, it is good to leave Mars early. He was a great believer in his sixth sense, and this feeling had saved him many times.

So, where does this sense of danger come from?Oliver searched for a long time, still really do not know, sent someone secretly asked Calvin in prison, he also do not know.

Calvin is always like this, when it comes to the moment of truth, no use!

Oliver feels that Mars may have something very dangerous, once it breaks out, the entire human race will have to play out ...

Perhaps, Mars will explode like Earth? Or some other danger?

I don't know! This kind of do not know, is the most troublesome for him.

In fact, many ordinary people have a sense of unease in their hearts, even including a large number of scientists. The sixth sense of this ability, not only Oliver the super human has, many other ordinary people also have, just not so strong.

They subconsciously thought that this sense of unease was caused by the Martian virus, and did not think much about it, deliberately ignoring it.

However, this sense of uneasiness still indirectly affects people's behavior. Otherwise, human beings could have developed peacefully on Mars for a period of time, instead of frantically digging through the mines and then preparing to run away like this now ...

Many people have this idea hidden in their hearts: Mars, can not stay long! So many of mankind's technological breakthroughs are tilted toward this aspect of mining.

"What exactly is this danger if any?" Oliver could not help but think, and shook his head, and he did not have precognition, really do not know ...

Calvin that Shaman really unreliable, also just know that there is danger.

But no matter what, the mine must still be dug, human development can not be separated from these things ah. Without mining, where do the resources come from, where does the energy come from? He also held a trace of luck, Mars has existed for so long, almost 4.6 billion years, right, digging a few years of mining should not be much of a problem ...

Even if the crisis breaks out, it should ... not break out in these one or two years.