Lin Jia complained that there was only one collector that looked like a giant ant with a big belly in such a large base, but there was nothing he could do about it. According to XP's explanation, the forward bases normally dispatched from the mothership would carry the basic information for building the base. Equipped to facilitate the advance construction of the forward base after landing on the original planet for exploration and mining.
However, the balance cabin that Lin Jia found was not used as a regular forward base. According to the core data of It is the biological cabin of the living organism, and it is the balance cabin No. 01 in the special core area on the mothership. The preserved original organism is numbered "bt-x-001".
Although detailed data was lost after the central database of XP was damaged, it can still be known that the original organisms that can be stored in the special core area of ??the mothership are extremely rare, otherwise they would not be equipped with such a high level of protection. As a protection, the balance capsule failed and was not destroyed when it fell from space. Instead, it benefited Lin Jia, a time traveler.
"Good guy!" Lin Jia secretly said. It seems that his anti-fusion original body is still a great guy. Not only is it equipped with a biological balance cabin with the highest protection level, but it also has a backup fire source. If it weren't for this By a series of coincidences, it was impossible for him to successfully fuse with the unknown original body. Instead, he obtained a new source of fire and retained his consciousness.
But this made Lin Jia very confused. Is my body still a normal human being? Although the original body produced by the silicon-based civilization is in a carbon-based form, it is still a silicon-based life in general. Maybe I will transform into a robot that day?
"Transformers?" Lin Jia guessed suspiciously.
It is a pity that the central system xp of the balance cabin has lost its original database, otherwise the so-called mothership would be found. Maybe we can still contact alien civilizations. If you rely on arcane civilization to return to Earth, you can always ask alien civilization to send you back to Earth, right? As for whether alien civilization will invade the earth, that is not a question that Lin Jia can consider. Maybe then the earth civilization will have to give itself the name of an "alien traitor" who is complicit in outsiders.
The biological balance cabin used to preserve the protozoa is only equipped with basic auxiliary facilities, so that any protozoa in the balance cabin can have self-sufficiency after leaving the mothership and landing on the original planet or some other place. Therefore, compared with the balance cabins equipped with professional colonial and pioneering forward base facilities, the functions are still a bit monotonous. There is nothing wrong with having only one collector.
??Walked around the collector a few times. Lin Jia patted the land-based collector, which was only 1.5 meters high and 3 meters long, dragging a huge "belly". He doubted whether its four slender mechanical legs could support the weight of its big butt filled with ore. .
Land-based collectors like this are assembled according to the environment after the balance cabin lands. With its collection ability, the energy materials and ores collected every day are enough to create a similar large "ant" at the base. In other words, he will be able to see two tomorrow, four the day after tomorrow, and eight the day after tomorrow
By analogy, it won't be long before he has a large army of mechanical ants for mining. Unfortunately, with the current manufacturing capacity of the first-level base and the energy materials collected by the ants, he can only produce a maximum of 5 mechanical ants per day. The energy material returned will be stored and used when enough is accumulated to upgrade the base.
And there are only 1,000 collector chips attached to the base. Although the shell of the mechanical ant can be made from local materials, the control chip is not currently manufactured. The base must be upgraded to at least level three or above to create chip-level items.
The so-called upgrade is nothing more than building supporting facilities for the base and replacing the substitutes used under the original manufacturing conditions and resource constraints to make the base more advanced and more productive. The 120 days calculated by XP are actually the number of mechanical ants. After reaching the upper limit, the collection ability and energy consumption are equal and there is extra time. The operation of the base and the movement of 1,000 giant ants require energy.
According to XP, after the base is upgraded to the highest mothership level, it is equivalent to developing a new mothership and becoming a new ** fleet!
This news once again gave Lin Jia a huge but unrealistic hope. He didn't even want to ask how long it would take to develop to the mothership level. He also knew that it wouldn't be short.
"What if the collector is ordered to collect energy materials with all its strength, and the rest is mined by the kobolds? Can the speed be accelerated?" Lin Jia asked about his idea, and XP broke Lin Jia's delusion without giving any face: "Already Taking into account the current available resources of the lava collar, since the energy substances contained in the mineral deposits are smaller than the molecular level, they can only be collected by collectors. The auxiliary role of the primitive biological labor force is only to dig out the mineral layers.??Concentrate the ore as much as possible, so you can't speed up the collection. "
"Okay" Lin Jia gave up wordlessly, which meant that although the base was now built, achieving his goal was still not a matter of a day or two.
"But if you want to put the base into use in advance, it is recommended to manufacture equipment that consumes low energy, which can meet your current needs when combined with the basic functions of the base."
Just when Lin Jia was about to wait with peace of mind, xp's sudden words made Lin Jia happy and asked quickly: "Inferior energy?"
"For example, electric energy, wind energy, thermal energy"
Lin Jia¡¯s eyes lit up, yes! Although the base cannot operate at full capacity, if it is controlled by
If you need electricity Lin Jia thought about it. Hydropower is not realistic. There is no river in the abyss forest that can provide enough water power. You can't use his "endless water source" bottle to generate electricity, right? Wind power generation is even more unrealistic. He has been in the Abyss Forest for so long and has never noticed a trace of wind here. Unless he goes to the death grassland outside the Abyss Forest to install a wind power station, which is far away. He now simply has no ability to protect those devices from being destroyed.
The only thing that works is thermal energy. There is nothing else in the Lava Territory. The magma in the Lava River has never dried up. However, the precision parts used in equipment that utilize thermal energy cannot be manufactured by the current base. Let¡¯s see if we can make them after upgrading to the second-level base. Produce precision parts with low technological content.
Lin Jia fell into hard thinking again, racking his brains to think about how to build usable low-level energy as quickly as possible. But he accidentally saw a group of myconids passing by the base with a group of small lizard-like animals.
The location of the base is right at the foot of Jiansun Mountain. Next to it is the cave that connects to the underground temple. The myconids made their home in a vein of caves in the cave, and now they have bred a large group of little myconids.
I was originally wondering why there were so many lizards in my territory, but then I saw two of the group of lizards running around with the myconids making a loud "snap" sound while they were playing. A strong blue-white electric light burst out from his body, ejecting his companion far away.
"Huh!?" Lin Jia, who was having a headache about energy issues, couldn't help but walked over curiously when he saw Dian Mang. However, the group of little lizards following the myconids all raised the two chopstick-like sharp horns on their heads vigilantly, and a ball of blue-white electric light erupted from their bodies, covering themselves, between the two sharp horns. It also makes a "cracking" sound like an electric stick.
"What is this?" Lin Jia asked in surprise when he saw the myconids hurriedly comforting the electric lizard around him and bowing to themselves. After a while of gesticulations by the myconids, they finally realized that this kind of electric lizard could discharge electricity. It is a companion species of the myconids. They live in the mushroom bushes created by the myconids, feed on the mushroom spores, and actively protect the myconids from other creatures.
Despite their small size, electric lizards can release strong electric currents all over their bodies to harm enemies, and a pair of sharp horns on their heads can also release fatal electric shocks, which is quite dangerous.
The myconids under Lin Jia were originally myconid slaves taken over from the kobolds. There were not so many in number. However, after such a long period of reproduction, the number of myconids that reproduced at an extremely fast rate was already quite astonishing. Although they have not grown up, The little mushrooms were unable to move and could only stay in the mushroom bush and pretend to be big mushrooms. However, after statistics, the number was far more than 1,000, so they slowly attracted this group of electricians who originally lived underground. Lizards colonize their mushroom bushes.
After discovering that the mushroom people could command electric lizards, Lin Jia was overjoyed and asked the largest mushroom man to follow him into the base with an electric lizard. He also asked XP to immediately create an accumulator that could absorb electric energy and connect the two The electric coil was given to the myconid and placed on the two one-foot-long slender horns of the electric lizard, and he ordered it to use all its strength to deliver electric shocks.
"How is it? Can it absorb electrical energy?" Lin Jia asked hopefully.
"Yes! But the power is too small to drive the machine."
Nonsense, of course the power of an electric lizard cannot be used to drive it, but Lin Jia saw that there were hundreds of them around the myconids. If they were used as electric generators, he didn't know if they could be used as an energy source.
After calculation, the group of hundreds of electric lizards around the fungi can accumulate enough power to run a small machine for one hour after using all the electricity in their bodies. If the number is large enough, it can be divided into several waves of continuous power supply. It is possible to use it as a bioenergy source.
Overjoyed, Lin Jia quickly asked where he could find itThis kind of electric lizard, the myconids that couldn't speak took a long time to express their meaning clearly. They said that there were only a large number of electric lizards in the underground caves where they originally lived. They had too few companions here, so Unable to produce a large number of mushroom bushes, it is impossible to attract more electric lizards to settle next to them. However, in the vast world, their myconid territory is very huge, and countless electric lizards can be found there.
The myconids are very docile and kind. As long as you don't hurt them, their happy-go-lucky personalities are willing to settle in Lin Jia's territory. After hearing the news, Lin Jia quickly sent the largest myconid back to their settlement. , to see if he could find more electric lizards. If his kind were willing to help, Lin Jia allowed them to leave the underground world and settle in the forest, and promised to provide them with shelter in his own territory.