Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 577: Chapter 576: Alien Exploration

Perhaps it won’t be long before Xiao Peng and those technicians from the space agency will completely belong to Jiang Cheng.

By then, even if the space agency wants these people back, it will depend on whether they are willing to return or not.

This is Jiang Cheng’s strategy for recruiting talent: initially deceive them to come over, and then slowly win them over.

Thus, Jiang Cheng and Xiao Peng stayed in the lab together, focusing on developing a new alien detector.

When people are focused, they tend to feel that time flies by.

More than a month passed like this, and the research on the alien detector was still ongoing.

Now the research progress of Jiang Cheng and his team is much slower than Jiang Cheng initially expected.

In Jiang Cheng’s original plan, a month should have been enough for them to complete the development.

However, the progress has reached only a bit more than halfway, still far from success.

The delay in this research is mainly because Jiang Cheng did not realize how challenging it would be.

Although this time Jiang Cheng had Xiao as an assistant, the research was still very difficult.

The main technical difficulty lies in the miniaturization of the detection instrument; other aspects are not very challenging.

Especially the power supply for the detector, which is simple—all energy issues were solved with a small fusion reactor.

A single fusion reactor is enough to power the detector for a long time, with even more energy left unused.

After Jiang Cheng utilized a small fusion reactor, it saved space originally intended for solar panels, freeing up some valuable space for other devices.

However, the space freed up is still insufficient to accommodate all detection instruments.

It’s mainly because Jiang Cheng demands perfection for this detector, which is why it has become a bottleneck for both of them.

”Should we just cancel this ore detection device? This device’s miniaturization is too difficult, and it takes up too much space,” Jiang Cheng pondered.

In the lab, Xiao Peng was discussing the detector with Jiang Cheng; it seems the ore detection device is currently their major difficulty.

This device was newly developed by Jiang Cheng, specifically to detect mineral distribution on Mars, which is why it was to be added to the detector.

The ore detection device can emit a special band of electromagnetic waves, scattering far around.

These electromagnetic waves can penetrate deep underground to detect any minerals there.

Based on the reflected electromagnetic waves, the ore detection device can record the entire underground mineral distribution.

This device is very advanced, not only detecting whether there are underground mineral veins but also their types and approximate yields.

But the big drawback of this device is that it is somewhat too large; when installed on the detector, there is no room for other equipment.

It seems now Xiao Peng is trying to persuade Jiang Cheng to abandon this device to save a lot of space.

No, this time the detector must be equipped with an ore detection device, otherwise we won’t be able to obtain Mars’ mineral distribution, and my future plans rely on this data; otherwise, all subsequent plans will be affected.

It seems Jiang Cheng does not agree with Xiao Peng’s suggestion and refuses to give up the ore detection device.

After Jiang Cheng completes the data detection on Mars, he will start the construction of a Mars base.

Some materials needed for construction cannot be entirely transported from Earth, so utilizing local materials is necessary.

Especially some minerals that are easy to process, Jiang Cheng plans to mine on Mars and then use in rocket base construction.

This will allow Jiang Cheng to save a lot of transportation space for items that must be transported over.

It is known that transporting materials from Earth to Mars is a very challenging task.

Transporting every gram of materials from Earth to Mars requires significant costs.

Even with the relatively affordable Kunpeng-type Rocket, Jiang Cheng cannot waste transportation resources recklessly.

If everything needed for the base construction is transported from Earth, Jiang Cheng estimates it would take decades to complete.

Therefore, Jiang Cheng intends to source materials on Mars, bringing some mining and refining equipment to Mars for simple mineral mining and processing.

Transporting mining and refining equipment is much more cost-effective than transporting materials, allowing the Mars base to be self-sufficient and eliminating the need to transport everything from Earth.

It is with this plan in mind that Jiang Cheng insists on installing the ore detection device, considering the subsequent construction of the Mars base.

Unfortunately, this device is extremely difficult to miniaturize, which is why they are currently in a predicament.

Although Jiang Cheng has his considerations, Xiao Peng still thinks they should abandon this equipment to accelerate the current research progress.

So Xiao Peng continued to persuade Jiang Cheng, ”But our current research progress is severely lagging, and if we keep getting stuck here, who knows how much time we’ll waste.”

”Perhaps we can conduct the detection work in two phases, first detecting other surface data of Mars, and then creating a dedicated detector for ore, solving the problem this way.”

Peng came up with a good solution, which is to temporarily abandon this device and put it on a second detector.

This perfectly solves the problem, eliminating the space constraint concern for the detector.

After listening to Peng’s suggestion, Jiang Cheng frowned and said, ”This won’t work either. Although our Peng-type Rocket is fast, it still takes nine months to reach Mars.”

Conducting detection in two phases would waste too much time; I don’t have that much time to wait, and I need to complete all detection activities at once to immediately begin Mars landing missions. In fact, Jiang Cheng had already considered Xiao Peng’s plan before.

But this method wastes too much time, and Jiang Cheng does not want to wait an additional nine months.

He wants to solve everything at once without spending more time on this matter.

Don’t be fooled by how smoothly Jiang Cheng’s space exploration plan is proceeding, with rockets already developed.

The entire plan’s progress is severely behind; afterward, Jiang Cheng will need to implement the Mars landing plan and then gradually establish a complete Mars base.

Once the Mars base construction is completed, Jiang Cheng also plans to implement a Mars colonization plan.

There are many plans waiting for Jiang Cheng to carry out; taking control of the entire solar system alone requires a lot of work.

All these plans require a significant amount of time, and if approached slowly, Jiang Cheng doesn’t know how long he will have to wait.