I handed over to another world

The success of the Mars base is like a clarion call, announcing that mankind's conquest of the solar system has officially entered a rapid era.

The Red Dragon Association's interstellar fleet dropped hundreds of silver spots of light into the orbit of Jupiter, which were quantum anchors carrying the technology of the Forerunner civilization.

Within a few seconds, these light spots expanded into hexagonal platforms with a diameter of one kilometer. The giant structure of the hexagonal platforms flashing blue light penetrated the atmosphere of Jupiter and began to weave the web of human civilization on the surface of this gas giant planet.

"The data from pressure chamber No. 37 is abnormal!"

In an exploration station five kilometers below the Europa ice layer, Engineer Wang Tong stared at the parameters jumping on the holographic screen for a long while before speaking into the communicator.

Through the observation window, one can see that the deep-sea operation mecha is being wrapped by the quantum corals brought back by the Blue Sea Star. These bioengineered creations are now madly absorbing the energy of the ocean under the ice of Europa. The composition under the ice surface of Europa is relatively complex, and if one wants to develop here, one must start from scratch.

The console was suddenly covered with light blue liquid metal, and a holographic image of Zhou Chenshen, the Red Dragon Association's chief engineer in charge of the Jupiter base, emerged from it: "Activate phase resonance. These corals are adapting to Jupiter's radiation environment."

He tapped his finger, and the screen in front of Wang Tong suddenly unfolded hundreds of layers of topological models. "Activate the atmosphere stabilization module of the Mars base and prepare to establish a permanent anchor point."

The Red Dragon Association had previously acquired living construction technology from the Blue Sea Star, an affiliated exoplanet of the Origin Star, so it was just right for Jupiter in the solar system where their home planet was located. At this moment, the nanomachine groups were turning into liquid metal flowing on the outer wall of the base. These nanomachine groups could autonomously repair cracks in the ice sea at minus 300 degrees Celsius, and showed amazing adaptability in Jupiter's magnetic field.

When the first wave of radiation storms hit, the liquid metal actually built a protective net similar to the Earth's aurora, converting high-energy particle flows into base energy. This operation, which is almost a scientific miracle, was only a scene that appeared in science fiction works decades ago, but now it is actually appearing in common scientific and technological construction.

The Red Dragon Association's technological progress was fully demonstrated at this moment.

Wang Tong immediately said that he would follow the order. The Red Dragon Association was going to build a permanent base on Jupiter. The overall specifications would undoubtedly be much larger than the base on Mars. After all, the size of the entire planet Jupiter was not as large as Mars. In addition, the composition of the planet itself was complex. If the base was not built larger, many problems could not be solved.

A few days ago, the twelve Dyson cloud collectors in Jupiter's orbit had formed a brilliant star ring. Each of these hexagonal platforms, with a diameter of 30 kilometers, madly siphons hydrogen and helium elements from Jupiter's atmosphere day and night.

These gases are compressed into a visible energy torrent through the "Gravity Rainbow Bridge" device, like twelve blue dragons hovering over the equator of Jupiter.

"Energy output reaches 80% of the design value!"

In the Mars Command Center, Zhou Chenshen looked at the surging energy data in the holographic projection. The dark blue light ball in the center of the Rainbow Bridge was converting Jupiter's violent energy into controllable energy, which was transmitted to the Mars base in the solar system and even the moon and the earth through the transmission network.

The Hongqiao surveillance screen suddenly flashed an abnormal fluctuation, and some black crystals precipitated from the energy flow. The Yanhuang artificial intelligence system immediately activated the emergency protocol: "High-pressure crystals detected, automatically activating the mining protocol."

Liquid metal was seen gushing out from the surface of the collector, instantly wrapping the dangerous substance into silver amber and throwing it into the molten core deep in Jupiter.

The situation that seemed like a crisis before was dealt with in an instant, and when the Dyson cloud ring was running stably, the Red Dragon Association showed its real trump card - the "Leviathan" skeleton salvaged from the deep sea of ​​the Blue Sea Star has now been transformed into a 50-kilometer-long mechanical giant whale. The skin of this steel giant is covered with a symbiosis of quantum corals and liquid metals, and twelve sets of plasma thrusters draw dazzling tracks in the atmosphere of Jupiter.

This thing is actually also a gas processing platform.

“This is the first gas planet industrial platform in human history.”

Zhou Chenshen stroked the liquid metal model swimming on the command platform. It turned out to be a small metal model of Leviathan.

Zhou Chenshen said to the photographer beside him, "It can refine 3 tons of liquid metallic hydrogen per hour and produce 100 tons of helium-3 fuel at the same time. You know, according to calculations ten years ago, tons of helium- was enough for humans to generate electricity for a year, and now we can extract tons per hour."

He smiled and said, "This means that we can extract materials every hour that are needed for humanity's electricity consumption for the past 30 years. Of course, most of these things are not used in power generation facilities as you think, but are mostly used as fuel for our development fleet."

The camera then captured the scene on the screen, where hundreds of hatches suddenly opened up in the belly of the gigantic mechanical whale, and tens of thousands of transparent detectors poured out like a school of fish.

These reconnaissance units, bred using Blue Star biotechnology, unfold into silver lotuses the moment they come into contact with Jupiter's atmosphere. Each petal is a sophisticated weather monitoring station and resource scanner.

"It's eating Jupiter!"

Anna Chen, chief reporter of Interstellar Frontiers, cried out.

Through the lens of the holographic camera, she saw the mechanical giant whale open its ring-shaped mouth with a diameter of three kilometers at the front, and Jupiter's iconic ammonia clouds were sucked in in a spiral shape, separating silver streams of liquid metallic hydrogen in the dark blue electromagnetic field.

Chief Engineer Zhou Chenshen lightly stroked the holographic console with his finger, and the liquid metal model immediately decomposed into hundreds of light-emitting modules: "Look here——"

He pointed to the crystal structure that bulged in the middle of the giant whale. "The quantum coral colony is isotopically screening the hydrogen and helium mixture. The helium-3 will go directly to the fuel tank through the transfer pipe on the back."

The model suddenly zoomed in, revealing twelve spherical chambers the size of football fields, each with a dangerous blue light pulsating on its surface.

Anna's smart glasses suddenly popped up a danger warning, and she subconsciously took a step back: "These radiation levels..."

"Don't worry, the superfluid helium-3 is confined in a vacuum magnetic bubble."

Zhou Chenshen smiled and snapped his fingers, and the model instantly switched to safe mode. "Do you know why I chose the whale form?"

He reached out and turned the holographic projection, and the whale's tail fin suddenly ejected a plasma flame spanning a thousand kilometers. "The wake produced by three thousand tons of fuel per hour is enough to push Pluto out of orbit - but Jupiter's mass is 318 times that of the Earth."

As he explained, a brilliant starry sky suddenly lit up on the surveillance screen, and the people at the scene noticed that tens of thousands of silver lotuses were blooming in the clouds of Jupiter. Each mechanical flower with a diameter of 100 meters was transmitting data streams to the giant whale.

"These probes also have the function of regulating the weather." Zhou Chenshen pulled up a real-time simulation chart, showing that the originally chaotic atmosphere of Jupiter actually showed a regular hexagonal grid. "We are putting the stamp of human civilization on the largest storm in the solar system."

Anna's recorder suddenly sounded an overload alarm - only then did she realize that she had been holding her breath for too long.

When the camera swept across the back of the giant whale, she finally found the most shocking metaphor: "This is not an industrial platform at all, it's clearly an entire chemical plant stuffed into an interstellar battleship!"

"To be precise, it is 100,000 times more efficient than a maximized factory on Earth." Zhou Chenshen marked a red dot on the holographic map. The outline of the Mars base was as small as a sesame seed next to the giant whale model. "Do you know why we chose Jupiter? Its hydrogen and helium reserves are enough for all mankind to use for 500 million years - but we plan to turn it into the largest gas station in the Milky Way within 50 years."

At this moment, a red alert suddenly popped up on the monitoring screen, and Anna saw the giant whale passing through a super storm that was three times the width of the earth.

Before she could exclaim, ripples suddenly appeared on the shell of the quantum coral, and the terrifying lightning in the storm was tamed into energy veins flowing on the whale's back.

Zhou Chenshen's voice was filled with the pride that only engineers have: "Look, even the thunder of Jupiter is charging us."

All the reporters at the scene were shocked at this moment. Everything they saw was enough to explain everything. The Red Dragon Association's feats were absolutely top-notch in human civilization in this century. No other association could catch up in this century.

The Red Dragon Association has completely become the absolute number one existence in human civilization.

While the EUA on Earth is still debating the "ethics of planetary development", a three-dimensional city covering an area of ​​200 square kilometers has been built under the ice of Europa.

The deep-sea ecological technology once used on blue sea stars has been fully utilized here - in the "Water Cube" ecological dome with a diameter of three kilometers, the circulation system constructed by quantum corals is converting Jupiter's radiation energy into a habitable environment.

What shocked earth scientists most was the resource conversion zone - silver vine-like structures were growing at a rate of three centimeters per minute, decomposing methane and water in the ice into oxygen and carbon nanotubes.

When the NTA delegation tried to collect samples, these bio-machines suddenly sprayed out light blue mist, coating the metal equipment they carried with a layer of radiation-proof crystals.

“This is an active protection mechanism.”

Engineer Wang Tong smiled and explained through the holographic image. The liquid metal terminal flowed on her wrist to form an operating interface. "Each transformed organism is connected to the security protocol of the Yanhuang system to ensure that the core technology cannot be reverse engineered."

"I'm sorry, everyone. This is one of the core procedures. Even I can't avoid it."

Wang Tong led everyone forward, and they soon saw an even more spectacular scene - in the center of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, twelve Dyson cloud collectors were constructing the ultimate spectacle.

The energy wells transformed through Blue Star's deep-sea pressure technology compress the energy of Jupiter's storm to an unprecedented density.

When the final agreement was initiated at the engineering center, the energy beam ejected from the Rainbow Bridge device directly penetrated Saturn's rings, providing inter-planetary energy transmission for the Jupiter Titan base under construction.

"The energy output per hour is equivalent to the amount of energy that the sun shines on the earth for ten years."

Wang Tong looked at the data refreshing like a waterfall on the holographic screen, turned his head and said to the group of new reporters around him, "These energies will support the interstellar fleet of the entire solar system, including the 100,000 mining ships being built in the asteroid belt."

"This is just the beginning."

……

When the quantum communication tower at the Jupiter base sent a signal of completion to deep space, the energy network of the entire solar system trembled.

This message, encoded in Jupiter's storm waves, carries humanity's wildest interstellar dreams, penetrates the icy dust clouds of the Kuiper Belt, and heads deep into the spiral arms of the Milky Way.

In the observation dome of Europa's Ice City, the newly cultivated quantum corals suddenly turned collectively to a certain direction.

Wang Tong recorded this abnormal phenomenon and discovered that the lens structure of the coral was being reorganized into a certain topological model - this may be a biological characteristic brought from the blue sea star, or it may be a cosmic law that humans have not yet understood.

"How many times has this happened?"

"It should be the 493rd time."

Wang Tong said to the suspension device at the side: "According to the rules we set before, five hundred times can be considered a normal phenomenon."

The person in the suspension device was Zhou Chenshen, the chief engineer in charge of the Jupiter base. After scanning the data, he spoke again: "Perhaps the current situation is not very suitable for the interstellar general rules we set before. The overall situation on Jupiter is still somewhat different in details. I will re-edit a new general rule in the near future, and different bases will implement different detailed rules at that time."

"Yes."

Wang Tong nodded. He described the scene in detail on the record sheet in front of him. The suspension device asked him, "You should be leaving the Titan base soon, right?"

"It's about time. I've been here for five and a half months."

Wang Tong put away the form in front of him and said to the suspension device: "There are only 24 people in such a large Titan base including me. If we don't replace them regularly, I'm afraid we will have mental problems."

"We can't help it. The Titan base on Jupiter is different from the base on Mars. On Mars, at least there is land soil that can be transformed. The environment here is much worse. If we want to transform it, we have to wait for the industrial platform outside to fill the ground."

Zhou Chenshen consoled Engineer Wang, "A six-month rotation is already a very good mechanism. Although I have more freedom than you in the fleet, I have to stay here for at least five years... Five years, what a concept. I'm afraid that by then, even the president of the association will have to be replaced."

When Wang Tong heard this, he immediately laughed and felt much better.

"The development of the association is changing with each passing day. If you don't go and see it for a few days, some new discoveries and scientific achievements will be enough to cleanse your worldview... After five years on the ship, I hope the chief engineer will not fall behind!"

"Of course not, hahaha..."

The exchange between the two sides ended in a pleasant atmosphere. Wang Tong quickly checked the operating status of the last device, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and prepared to return to his lounge. At this time, more than 20 people including him were in the exploration station five kilometers below the ice layer of Jupiter. The narrow space made it impossible to live in it for a long time, but the current situation forced them to do so.

Wang Tong at least still had a hope at this time - he heard that the top leaders of the association were planning to have all similar work done by intelligent mechanical equipment in the future. After all, it was a bit too cruel to let real people work in such a narrow space for six months or even longer. (End of this chapter)