Chapter 1241: Mine Machine No.1

With the start of operations of the Space Elevator, the passage between Lanxing and Yueqiu has been completely opened.

Star Dream Ship No. 3, the passenger version, has also been put on the schedule.

As soon as the spaceship dock construction is completed, they will start building.

And on Yueqiu, which lies across the sea, exciting things are also happening.

The Moon Base Vehicle has realized all its concepts; a fully equipped industrial base has been completed.

The solar power plant in Yueqiu orbit has been expanded countless times, continuously supplying energy to the industrial base.

At this moment, in the industrial base, they are manufacturing a huge piece of equipment.

Yang Nuomi is also here at this time.

What is before her now is a square sweeping robot with a side length over 30 meters.

The robot is seven meters thick, has wheels underneath, and on both sides of the square there is also a row of mechanical legs.

The materials for building this machine are almost the entire reserve accumulated by the base over these years.

Even the construction of the geosynchronous orbit spaceport and the Space Elevator, they did not spare expenses.

Everything is for the huge machine before them.

"Mine Machine No. 1 has been completed; start comprehensive testing."

Several dozen people, leading a bunch of robots, began the re‑inspection.

Yang Nuomi is responsible for tracking and filming; she intends to make a documentary.

It is a documentary of the Moon Base Vehicle's growth all the way.

This will be one of the most precious documentaries in human history.

It also fully verified the feasibility of the base vehicle.

This is crucial for the development of Mars.

No one knows how much time has passed.

"Inspection completed, no problems, everything qualified."

"Start system activation test."

"System activation test has already begun."

"Functions are normal."

"Start the self‑check mode of Mine Machine No. 1."

"Self‑check started."

"Test normal."

"Then let's begin."

"Begin."

【Ding, Mine Machine No. 1 startup complete, all parts operating well, please instruct.】

The Chief Engineer finally showed an excited smile at this moment.

The smile was mixed with tears.

It's been incredibly hard; they worked day and night for years, and finally they have results.

This is a super mining machine that integrates collection, sorting, and smelting into one.

It lets them avoid transporting raw materials back to the base; they only need to receive the output.

The space power plant can provide ample energy for this machine, allowing it to run continuously.

Humankind now has something like an automatic teller machine.

All they need to do is continually improve and maintain the machine's operation.

Let it keep running.

Helium-3 will be transported back to Lanxing for nuclear fusion power generation; various metals and materials will be used for lunar industrial development, and the remaining slag will serve as building material, using printers to construct a lunar city.

The significance of Mine Machine No. 1 is enormous.

Chief Engineer, too, could not hold back his emotions.

"Let's quickly leave this place, open the big door, and let Mine Machine No. 1 start its work."

Yang Nuomi followed the crowd out of the workshop and then entered the base isolation chamber.

After a cleanup, everyone arrived at the control center.

"Mine Machine No. 1, begin the mining experiment; please proceed to Mine Area No. 1."

【Ding, Mine Machine No. 1 is ready; start heading to Mine Area No. 1.】

A tremor came from the ground; in the holographic projection, Mine Machine No. 1 slowly moved out of the factory.

Then it slowly rushed toward Mine Area No. 1.

It looks slow, but for such a huge machine, it doesn't need to be very fast.

On Yueqiu, slowness means safety; speed would be unsafe.

The current industrial base is still rudimentary, but with the deployment of Mine Machine No. 1, it will soon become refined.

Taking advantage of this time, Yang Nuomi began to inquire about the next plans.

"Chief Engineer, what will we do next?"

Chief Engineer did not hide it from her.

"Build a spaceship dock."

"We will, based on the technology of the Star Dream Ship, build a Moon Dream Spaceship to fully connect Yueqiu and Lanxing."

"We need people and machines; only with sufficient transport capacity can we meet our needs."

"Moreover, we must now begin to achieve economic self‑sufficiency."

Because of the Big Building and the Yang Family, the attention going forward will shift to Mars.

Resources will also tilt toward Mars.

The Moon Dream will be one of our tools to achieve profitability.

Plus the refining of helium-3 and other minerals.

We already have profitability to drive the development of the whole Yueqiu.

Yueqiu can accommodate at least 200,000 immigrants.

We first set a small goal, raising Yueqiu's population to 10,000.

If Mining Machine One encounters no problems, we plan to increase the number of mining machines to 50 within five years.

To achieve this goal, our industrial scale here needs to be increased proportionally.

Therefore, the shipyard is very important, because expanding industrial scale requires Lanxing's support.

On Lanxing, there is a large amount of technology and products with enormous irreplaceability that must be imported from Lanxing.

Without transport capacity, everything is just empty talk.

Unless the Yang Family and the Big Building are willing to keep burning money for them.

That's impossible; both families are too shrewd.

So they must rely on themselves.

Yang Nuomi accurately pinpointed the problem, showing her high sensitivity.

We have already opened many technologies to the world; in this regard, will it affect us?

The Chief Engineer said confidently.

That won't happen; we have at least a ten-year lead over them.

Even just a nuclear thermal engine is not something they can solve in the short term.

As for industrial capability, needless to say, they still have to start from scratch to figure it out.

Even with Ma Yilong, this oddball, they cannot hope to catch up with us within five years.

And five years later, we will have at least 50 mining machines; given our enormous scale advantage, they can only pick up our leftovers.

And the number of our mining machines will begin to grow exponentially, increasing until reaching an economic limit.

By then, even if they have technology, we will already have monopolized the market.

Moreover, at that time, our robot scale and population scale will also be something they can never shake.

Yueqiu belongs to us, to the people of the Big Building, at least most of it belongs to us.

I don't ask for much, just 70%, we only need 70%.

70%, we want 70%.

The crowd was fired up by the Chief Engineer's words, as if they wanted to immediately set up the shipyard.

That fervent expression left Yang Nuomi astonished.

Even her own boyfriend was among them.

Huh…….

This guy is still a hot-blooded youth.

From this, she also saw that the lower-class one comes from, the more hot-blooded they are.

The higher-class one comes from, the more cold and numb they are.

At this point, she also understood her grandfather.

Entrusting humanity's future to those upper-class people is indeed a disaster for humanity.

Only those with a childlike heart can bring light to humanity's future.