Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

By creating a Higgs boson aggregation point inside an object, a gravitational effect is triggered, causing the matter to collapse inward and be shaped under uniform pressure.

The most typical example is machining a perfect sphere with ultra-high strength and density—a process that used to drive even the most experienced machinists crazy.

This process can be completed quickly using a ballast. Of course, it also requires very high skill, which involves wrapping the processing material with a low-density and low-strength material, and then using such a strong gravitational point source in a vacuum environment free from gravity interference to compress the outer material inward, eventually forming a completely dense spherical workpiece. Then, the low-density, easily nano-decomposed outer part is removed using a normal etching bed.

Of course, this is the simplest usage. This type of point source force field machining is a very important part of Star Alliance machining, and it can solve workpiece problems that normal machining and material handling methods cannot handle at all.

Besides these, there was a whole bunch of strange and unusual processing equipment. However, the three old-fashioned tools—turning machine, milling machine, and boring machine—were still in use. As a single guy who often did his hands-on work, Xia Lin still knew how to use these machines.

Moreover, with its high level of intelligence and the assistance of PNIS, it can basically reach the level of a professional technician.

Of course, this refers to the skill level of workers two centuries ago. Most of the current Covenant workers would be no match for them; at best, they could only serve as apprentices, and even then, no one would want them.

They're afraid that if you make a mistake in setting up a single point source, the entire workpiece will break—that's still considered good. If it's a dense machining process with super-strong gravity, the debris that bursts out could at least penetrate three layers of concrete walls and kill the unfortunate guy in another workshop on the spot.

Xia Lin looked at the lumbering axe in his hand with satisfaction. He weighed it in his hand a couple of times and felt that the center of gravity was quite good. The next step was to carve out a hammer. A hammer, axe, and knife were all necessary.

However, Xiao Dao already has high-density ceramic tool knives. These vibrating knives are very commonly used tools, and he keeps one in his toolbox.

In addition, there are drills, nail guns, and automatic screwdrivers with self-adapting blades. After all, it's a home toolbox, and the most valuable items inside are those Star Alliance standard fasteners.

For example, screws, nuts, washers, etc., are all made of standard spacecraft-grade materials. Simply put, if they were used to fix ordinary metal armor plates, you could break the armor plate and this thing wouldn't necessarily deform.

After attaching the handle, Xia Lin set off, carrying the newly made logging axe in one hand and the chainsaw in the other. Generally speaking, only laymen would ask why, if there's a chainsaw, one would need to make their own axe and handle.

"Buzz buzz buzz—" The synthetic diamond saw blade slowly bit into the coniferous wood, and fine wood chips were constantly thrown out. The dense wood of the high-altitude region could not stop this roaring industrial machine at all. After cutting through about 3/4 of the area, Xia Lin skillfully stepped back a little and kicked the trunk hard.

The tall coniferous tree crashed down, and Xia Lin put the chainsaw aside, picked up the logging axe, and chopped off the dense branches. Then, with the chainsaw and axe, he completely shaped the felled tree into a standard log before he was considered to have finished one.

Moreover, this log has not undergone a series of processes such as sun drying and air drying, so it is completely unqualified to be used as timber.

However, Xia Lin only planned to drag it back to use as decomposition material, so there was no need for that.

The cut branches and such are left where they are, and will be transported over later. They will then be put into the nano-honeycomb and decomposition tank to extract all the fats, amino acids, and cellulose from the needles and synthesize them into... a nutrient paste.

Compared to organic sauce, it can only be described as an emergency food that is edible, as it has been seasoned.

However, compared to organic sauces that can last for at least fifty years, their shelf life is much shorter.

In a sense, 90% of the reason why organic sauce tastes bad is because of this shelf-life requirement, and the remaining 10% is intentional.

If you put nutritional paste into an automatic cooking machine, you can make food that's somewhere between human food and pig feed.

However, Xia Lin obviously doesn't have an automatic cooking machine; if she cooks manually, she can only use it to bake nutritional cookies.

The prerequisite is that he has to figure out how to make an oven by hand in a while—or consider digging up the soil, using an electric furnace to make refractory bricks, and then building a medieval-style bread oven.

Fortunately, there are plenty of timber resources around, so we might be able to build a charcoal kiln and produce carbon fiber directly from charcoal, which would be more efficient.

As a trained and certified professional pioneer, Xia Lin has an implanted artificial muscle enhancement device, and with the added strength of the protective suit that provides some power, carrying the entire log back is no problem at all.

The only problem was how to fit it into the processing compartment, which forced him to cut the log into three pieces on the slope outside the garage and make three trips before finally getting it into the recycling equipment.

Judging from the progress screen, this thing will probably complete the decomposition process in about 2 hours and then be sent to the production line to become carbon fiber sheets.

Of course, this type of carbon material is classified as a non-engineering material. It can be used for decoration and furniture making, but it cannot be used for protective shells or the like.

Xia Lin created them to build the first greenhouse outside the workshop, so that she could at least plant fast-growing things like cabbage and mushrooms. Mushroom sauce with nutritious flatbread would at least be something that could be considered food for a person.

The outdoor temperature is -11 degrees Celsius, which isn't too bad. The highest daytime temperature is -2 degrees Celsius. For the insulation design of the interstellar farm, this low temperature is basically no different from spring all year round.

The three-layer graphene honeycomb insulation board is sufficient to insulate against low external temperatures. The double-layer bottom plus 30 cm thick synthetic soil will not freeze the plant roots. The irrigation water provided by the circulation system, which maintains a constant temperature of 17-23 degrees Celsius, also allows the plants to always be in a good growth temperature and environment.

Moreover, the crops Xia Lin brought were genetically modified crops grown on a cold, arid planet, so even if they were scattered on the wild, they wouldn't cause a complete crop failure.

Ah, if this planet didn't have four seasons and remained at this low temperature all the time, the crops would still fail—genetic modification isn't a panacea.

Gather these needle-leaf branches together, tie them into a bundle with synthetic fiber rope, and easily drag them back. I don't know if the agricultural product processing equipment used for threshing grains can handle this stuff. Separate the needle-leaf branches that can be recycled for nutrients from the branches that can only be discarded for recycling carbon fiber and organic matter. Otherwise, if I had to pick them by hand, Xia Lin felt like she wanted to die.

Chapter Three: To get rich, first...

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"Whoosh—" "Crash!" A coniferous tree crashed down, and a figure completely wrapped in a hard protective suit dragged the tree trunk, still with branches and leaves attached, out and threw the unprocessed trunk onto an open area enclosed by wooden sticks and synthetic ropes.

Wood was the first common tool material that humans came into contact with, and it was one of the materials that were used extensively until the interstellar era. In the lumber processing area, there were already several processed logs piled up and waiting to air dry.

Although it is more cost-effective to stuff these woods into processing equipment to make carbon fiber sheets.

However, the equipment he had was not a large-scale industrial processing plant, and its processing efficiency was far lower than that of Xia Lin's logging.

The latter, in particular, seems to have found enjoyment in logging despite the lack of any entertainment, resulting in a current stock of wood far exceeding the needs for decomposition and synthesis.

So, Xia Lin decided to pick up the simple woodworking skills she had learned at the Trail Blazers training camp whenever she had nothing else to do.

That said, making things by hand can be a very interesting thing to do when there is no work pressure.

From this perspective, humans are not completely averse to labor, but only to forced labor under pressure.

However, this will have to wait until the production line produces the necessary materials. First, a greenhouse needs to be built, then a carpentry shed, and then a fence will be constructed using processed wood and carbon fiber ropes to complete a small field outpost.

Of course, another important technical task is to remove the water purifier pump and install it on the side of the stream, hoping that the stream has a large enough water flow and that it does not dry up seasonally.

Use an axe to cut off the overgrown branches and stuff them into the feed hopper of the shredder next to it. This was originally a simple machine used to process feed for cattle and horses on the ranch. The electrically driven metal teeth spun rapidly, crushing all the tender branches and needles.

The trough made of carbon fiber plates next to it was already filled with dark green debris, which would later be sent into the fermentation tank of the agricultural production kit to be made into green manure. If Xia Lin could get his hands on minerals such as bird droppings, he could further process these fertilizers into professional liquid fertilizers that could be sprayed directly.

The processing equipment will automatically prepare liquid fertilizer according to the type of crop he selects, so that he does not have to slowly refer to the agricultural science data stored in PNIS to make the ratio, which is a meticulous and troublesome task.

However, this automatically configured fertilizer can only be used for uniform crops and normal applications. If topdressing, supplemental fertilization, or adjustments to the fertilizer ratio based on the growth status are needed, then manual intervention is still required.

Xia Lin placed the cleaned logs on the support, then turned around and went into the workshop, carrying out a large bundle of carbon fiber material threaded pipes and placing them next to the planned planting area. She made several trips back and forth to move all the materials out.

It mainly consists of composite insulation boards made of polymers and graphene carbon materials, insulated irrigation pipes for laying, synthetic soil covered with a membrane to protect it from alien environment pollution, and wide troughs of carbon materials for placing them, etc.

"Heave-ho!" Xia Lin picked up a shovel he had just made and began digging in the planting area. The grid projected onto his retina by PNIS allowed him to fully grasp the depth and regular shape of the foundation.

All you need to do is dig a rectangular pit about 60 centimeters deep, then put a support made of threaded pipes into it, followed by a wide trough for placing the planting soil, and then fix six curved threaded pipes to the bottom support with fasteners. A roughly semi-cylindrical greenhouse frame is then complete.

In alien agricultural production, such greenhouses must be built on a foundation. Greenhouse farms on Earth will not encounter ground-level gales of more than 70 kilometers, nor sandstorms carrying stones at least the size of pebbles, nor attacks from fat and strong wild animals weighing more than a ton.

However, the above situation is common in alien agricultural production, and the aftermath of the ongoing planetary terraforming industry can also cause devastating damage to ordinary greenhouses made of plastic and hoses.

In harsh environments, these large-scale planting bases are even equipped with shields and laser interception systems.

Otherwise, if a meteorite falls and there is no harvest, it would mean that tens of thousands of people would go hungry, which is terrifying.

Next, assembling the carbon fiber plates is much simpler. Just put them together like building blocks, and then use an automatic screwdriver to insert simple screws made of the same carbon material.

After all, the planet looks relatively mild, so there's no need to cover it with another thick layer of hard armor plating.

Digging irrigation and drainage ditches is a bit troublesome, especially when installing sterile pipes. If these pipes weren't all manufactured in-house, he would probably have already been summoned by the agricultural supervisor and given a severe dressing-down.

A standard sterile pipeline has a three-layer isolation structure, with an inner layer containing microbial monitoring sensors and a nano-sterilization membrane.

However, what Xia Lin made was, literally, a single-layer isolation and single-layer heat insulation pipe that had undergone sterilization treatment, with a low-strength carbon fiber outer shell and a polymer inner core.

Even so, great care must be taken during installation to avoid contamination of the sterile inner tube space by external soil particles and bacteria.

However, for Xia Lin, who was doing real agricultural work for the first time, it was quite normal to have more than a dozen pipes worn out.

After installing the irrigation and drainage pipes and disinfecting the planting chamber, you can pour the synthetic soil into the prefabricated trough and level it.

Next, we installed lighting, internal and external gas exchange pipes and filter pipes, as well as a simple airtight cabin structure for entry and exit.

Since he only planned to grow cabbage and potatoes, there was no need for more complex plant monitoring and auxiliary equipment, and he did not have the relevant materials or blueprints at hand.

"Phew—" Xia Lin wiped his sweat, looked at the farmland in front of him, which was about 20 meters long and 6 meters wide (excluding the passageway), and showed a satisfied expression. "Farming is really a difficult task."

I wonder if farmers in the past would spit on him if they heard this – you call this difficult? The soil is sterile soil with synthetic organic matter adjusted to a balanced state. The atmospheric environment, temperature, irrigation and drainage are automatically monitored. You don't even need to till the land. You just need to pour the soil from the bag into the planting trough and then loosen and level it.

This is such a simple task. If a professional farmer were to do it, he could easily manage dozens of acres of land in one go.

"Power load 33/200MW..."

"It seems the electricity supply is sufficient, but the water supply..."

The circulating water is enough for his drinking, but if he wants to farm, he should get the water purification station installed as soon as possible. This godforsaken place contains those unknown particles in the soil and water, and he doesn't have any experimental equipment, so it's hard to be sure they're harmless.

However, it doesn't matter, he brought enough animal embryo seeds, and he can use mice to test them later.

However, he still has the equipment for species identification. The Tree of Life Seed Synthesis Library has related DNA testing and small biological experimental chamber functions, but Xia Lin estimates that he will have to start learning from the instruction manual.

This equipment wasn't originally intended for his use; it was meant for experimental use by professional biologists in the colony.

So, you have to learn how to use it from scratch. Fortunately, technology is designed for laziness, so some of the default functions are still fine—but if you want to do embryonic gene modification, seed genetic engineering, or defect repair, you might as well forget about it.

When cabbage and potato seeds are taken out of the freezer, many people are curious about why potatoes, which reproduce asexually, have seeds. In fact, potatoes do have seeds.

However, potatoes have a unique characteristic: when grown from seeds, they cannot reliably inherit traits from the father and mother, resulting in potatoes of all shapes and sizes.

Therefore, in order to obtain a stable and large potato, human agriculture has chosen to use sprout propagation, which is simply to say, cloning potatoes. Every potato propagated by sprouting is exactly the same as the parent plant.

Of course, the consequence of such asexual cloning is that serious virus problems will appear after one or two generations, so potatoes need to be detoxified before they can be planted again.

To put it bluntly, humans have caused genetic diseases in potatoes, but growing them from seeds would not have these kinds of problems.

Although the results are likely to be similar, the potatoes grown will be of all shapes and sizes and will not produce a stable yield. The output will be similar to that of potatoes that have not been detoxified.

In a normal colony planting system, specialized agricultural drones are responsible for sowing. Xia Lin only needs to adjust the sowing spacing, the number of seeds per hole, etc. on the PNIS control interface, and then the drone will automatically complete the process. Even a complete novice who has never worked in the fields will not produce strange shapes when transplanting rice seedlings.

However, without agricultural drones, Xia Lin had to do it himself. After planting a whole bag of seeds, he felt like his back was about to give way.

And looking back, it's all crooked and messy; I was thinking of dense planting, but it turned out...

Well, I hope the claims made by the Star Alliance Agricultural Science Station are true, otherwise we'll really have to rely on nutrient paste for the next six months.

After planting potatoes and cabbages, the next step is to build a woodworking shed. This is quite simple, and it's not a real, complete woodworking shed. Just build an A-frame structure using boards and threaded pipes to avoid direct sunlight and rain and snow erosion. Then, the wood is placed on the shed to prevent moisture from rising from the ground, and then it can be used for the wood to dry in the shade.

However, this is not a complete and strict process; it can only be described as a makeshift one. In addition to the shed itself, a carpentry workbench and some auxiliary supports are also needed. These are very simple things, and it only took a few hours to make them using the materials at hand.

After all, processing equipment such as planers are integrated into machine tools. Therefore, if Xia Lin wants to process more delicate wooden parts, she doesn't need to do so in this woodworking shed.

However, if he wants to make a large, rough wooden piece, he can only solve the problem here with a handsaw, plane, and axe.

However, that can only be done after the wood has been dried. The constant cycle of light to heavy snow in this area is not a good place for wood processing. It would be best to have a professional drying room.

However, as mentioned before, he doesn't need such specialized wood materials; it's essentially a stopgap measure to save on the slower production speeds of carbon fiber and polymer materials. As for metal materials, forget about it until he finds metallic minerals.

The original plan to explore the distribution of resources, flora and fauna, and collect plant and animal samples has been delayed. I never imagined that it would be so troublesome to build a micro-farm from scratch without the support of a colony, even with relatively abundant tools and equipment.

However, before setting off, you still need to prepare some things, such as a large enough backpack and some necessary supplies for long-distance wilderness treks.

For medications, just prepare biomimetic medical gel and spray for external injuries, and water purification tablets. As for medical conditions, don't worry about those.

Microorganisms that even symbiotic organisms cannot kill are, given the current stock of medicines and medical equipment, essentially hopeless to treat in the wild.