Chapter 142 Crater Zone
Chapter 142 Crater Zone
Reduce the speed of the base vehicle to 10 kilometers per hour.
Su Wu slowly advanced on the saline-alkali land.
At the same time, the power of various reconnaissance equipment was turned to maximum.
Trying hard to explore any abnormal movements around.
At this time, he didn't dare to be stingy.
The reconnaissance drone was urgently upgraded for the second time.
Then, a new generation of reconnaissance drones will be developed with more powerful environmental adaptability and exploration equipment.
Get ahead of the base vehicle and conduct reconnaissance in this purgatory that seems to be ablaze with flames.
soon.
Su Wu saw that deep in the saline-alkali land, there were large depressions mainly in emerald green and light yellow colors.
From time to time, there is some gas smoke visible to the naked eye.
Rising from those depressions.
"It's a corrosive gas."
“And magma.”
Su Wu felt his scalp tingling.
I felt as if I had entered the crater of a volcano that was about to erupt.
Based on the data transmitted back by the reconnaissance drone.
In those depressions.
In some places, hot magma is rolling just half a meter underground.
Su Wu was suspicious.
Anyone can stand on it.
It may collapse directly and fall into the magma below.
This association also made him more cautious in his actions.
Not only does it make the base vehicle move forward more slowly, it is almost as fast as a person walking.
Many times, the direction of progress also becomes crooked.
Try to avoid areas with active magma or weak rock formations.
"The natural disaster coefficient has reached 0.7."
Carefully bypass a gully where lava can be vaguely seen.
Su Wu noticed that the icon on the system bar had changed again.
This item comes from the system and is used to display the characteristics of the additional survival point bonus coefficient.
Now he uses it as a tool to detect the degree of danger of the environment.
The higher the coefficient, the closer he must be to danger.
In this situation, let alone taking a rest, even a little bit of mental relaxation would be irresponsible for your own life.
More than an hour of high tension passed.
The base vehicle driven by Su Wu finally arrived at the area marked for the border exploration mission.
A meteorite crater with a diameter of about 1 kilometer appeared in Su Wu's field of vision.
At the very bottom of the pit.
At this time, a small magma lake has formed.
And at the edge of the lake, there was actually a vehicle covered in thick white armor.
"Someone has already arrived."
Su Wu was startled at first, then slowly calmed down.
He observed it for a while.
It was discovered that the other party seemed to be a scientific research vehicle, which was using the instruments inside the vehicle to observe the state of the magma in the pit.
"It should be the officials who discovered the movement of the meteorite and sent people over to investigate the situation."
This does not conflict with Su Wu's mission.
After observing silently for a while, Su Wu temporarily ignored it.
Through vehicle-mounted terrain radar and reconnaissance drones.
After confirming that the geology around the base vehicle is relatively stable.
Su Wu activated the base vehicle's station mode.
A metal structure base was formed near the crater.
at the same time.
Engineering robots and construction robots on standby in the second carriage.
Begin utilizing the equipment and materials stored in the carriage warehouse.
Assemble a large electronics laboratory.
The Frontier Exploration mission requires collecting data and debris at the site where the asteroid fell.
The so-called collection of data.
In fact, it is a more detailed reconnaissance scan.
This can only be achieved with a large electronic laboratory. This is why Su Wu needs to activate the resident mode first and temporarily build a base.
From setting up an electronic laboratory to collecting data.
It will take quite some time.
During this period, Su Wu was not idle either.
He commands another engineering robot.
Begin the transformation of the tracked vehicles of the Land Combat Cluster.
Convert them into robot dogs.
Due to limited conditions and relying only on an engineering robot, the modification speed is extremely slow.
When the electronics laboratory has been set up.
And started to be officially put into operation.
They were able to barely modify it into a usable robot dog.
"Let's make do with this for now."
"There's no need to rush."
I took a look at the progress of the electronics lab in collecting data.
Su Wu's mentality became calm again.
It will take 28 hours to scan the entire area marked in the mission.
Such a long time.
It was enough for Su Wu to slowly complete another requirement step by step.
This is different from collecting data which can be completed step by step just by staying on site.
Another task requirement is to collect fragments.
It’s real exploratory work.
It requires Su Wu to collect the fragments scattered in the area after the meteorite fell.
The mission has no requirements on the size and shape of the fragments.
There is only one criterion for completion, which is that the total mass of the collected debris must reach 10 kilograms.
This requires Su Wu to send robots out for activities.
In Su Wu's original plan, he intended to use the construction robot as a tool for collection.
Now, he has better tools.
That's a robot dog.
I paid a little survival points to strengthen the thermal insulation components for the first robot dog that was just born.
Allow it to gain the ability to move freely outside the base vehicle.
Su Wu immediately ordered him to go out and carry out the mission.
He himself sat in the cockpit of the base vehicle, remotely connected to the robot dog through an electronic eye.
Observe the external situation.
The process of finding the first meteorite fragment was quite difficult.
Because there is no reference.
If you can only find a piece of broken stone, try to collect it.
When the basket is full, they are sent back to the base vehicle for sorting.
As for Su Wu's method of distinguishing, it was also very simple.
Simply stand near the collected rubble and attempt to submit the quest.
The task will prompt him how much quality fragments are needed to meet the requirements.
Through this manual screening bit by bit.
At the tenth hour.
After that, the engineering robots created 5 more robot dogs.
Su Wu then found the first piece of meteorite fragment weighing only 0.02 grams.
And with this reference.
The subsequent collection process was accelerated countless times.
Su Wu first used the laboratory to conduct a simple test on the material composition of the meteorite fragments.
And then build on that.
Use the detection equipment on reconnaissance drones to conduct large-scale searches.
Look for other fragments of similar material composition.
Less than three hours later.
The six robot dogs that Su Wu released into the outside world collected nearly 6 kilograms of debris.
But, at this time.
As the nearby debris was picked up.
The difficulty of collecting has become a little bit greater.
The robot dog often needs to run a long distance before it can pick up a new piece of debris.
(End of this chapter)