Chapter 453: The Ship Landing On Earth (1/2)
Chapter 453: The Ship Landing On Earth
Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After the Special Operations Team had left Hope City, Luo Yuan handled several documents and activated his space-time bubble, adjourning after them.
Now, the outside the Earth was a harsh, freezing winter that blanketed the entire planet. The time for humans to leave their life underground to return to the surface seemed infinitely far. The underground storage and the remaining industrial system could not save five to six million people living around Hope City, let alone rebuilding an entire civilization and development!
Taking into account the surviving population in the three cities nearby, it was still very difficult to reorganize them with an efficient administrative system.
Although the arrival of aliens almost wiped out the entire human race, it had left a ship intact.
Moreover, it was a massive ship, due to the fact that the alien technology was highly automated, the use of its interior space was pitifully tiny, even luxurious, especially in the living quarters. It was designed in such way that prolonged periods of time being exposed to tight corners can result in adverse psychological side effects. The living quarter's height was two hundred meters or so, taking up 2/7 of the ship's height, and its diameter was a staggering 1.5 kilometers long.
The central ecological garden took up most of the space. With the alien's technology, such an ecological system was trivial, as the ventilation system in the ship can assist in subtle adjustments to the air, allowing it to remain fresh and crisp.
The existent of the garden was to quench one’s boredom on a long-haul flight and preventing space adaptation syndrome. For a human being facing survival crisis, such things were overly luxurious.
If the botanical gardens and some useless cabins were removed, the entire ship would have a living quarter of 1.7 million square meters, multiplied by the height of 200 meters, amounting in 350 million cubic meters of usable volume.
With the standard of having 2 people for every three by three by three volume, the living quarters could house 26 million people. Of course, that would be an ideal scenario.
The actual space usage would not be this high, but even with a quarter of its maximum capacity, it can still house almost 7 million people, which was equivalent to the remaining earth population.
As compared to Hope City, Twilight City, United City, and Victory City were just small cities. Before the disaster, every city had several million people. Since Victory City was a closer rural area, it had only 900 thousand people or so.
After the disaster, all the population could not even achieve three million. With the remaining population of Hope City, it now has only 5.4 to 6 million people. The workers had built a high-rise building that boasted a huge housing capability on the ship.
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Ten minutes ago, his space-time bubble was at its peak velocity.
After the last battle with the alien, he had a small breakthrough in his Will. Although it still could not reach 20 points in an instant, it was enough to make a monumental increase in his space-time bubble's velocity, from 150 kilometers per second to 1,000 kilometers per second in a single leap. The ship was 600 thousand kilometers away from Earth, but with such incredible speed, it only takes ten minutes to get there. Even with the long priming time, it would only take 17 minutes.
He saw the ship getting bigger every moment. After one minute, he slowly decelerates. Soon, the space-time bubble took him straight into the ship’s interior.
”Welcome aboard, Captain.”
Right after leaving his space-time bubble, the sound of the artificial intelligence lit up softly.
Luo Yuan was not surprised. With the ship’s surveillance ability, it was impossible to infiltrate the ship. He briskly walked into the control room, while asking: ”How is everything lately?”
”Everything is fine, except for the communication to the production area, which had been severed. Production has been put on a halt. Please assign an engineer to repair it.” The artificial intelligence said gently.
”Noted!” Luo Yuan responded monotonously.
It was a paradox if it was repaired. The artificial intelligence's core program would automatically connect to the production area's communication device, and restore it to maintain a connection to the alien planet. If it was not repaired, the production area could not activate it, and the automated factory in the ship would be idle.
This was just a temporary setback until all the humans had relocated here and learned the functioning modes of the automated factory. It would allow the disconnected artificial intelligence to regain automation and carry out production as normal, albeit with decreased efficiency.
The artificial intelligence made an announcement and remained silent after that.
”Can this ship travel to Earth?” Luo Yuan asked.
”Unfortunately, not. The total mass of this ship is 1.57 billion metric tons, and it can only withstand the acceleration of 5.3 meters per second squared, and Earth’s gravitational acceleration was 9.8 meters per second squared. Therefore, traveling to Earth can cause problems and unforeseen consequences.”
”Such an intense weight?” The artificial intelligence's answer caused Luo Yuan to furrow his eyebrows. Such mass had indeed exceeded his imaginations. 1.57 billion metric tons was equivalent to 15 thousand to 100 thousand metric tons of aircraft carrier before the apocalypse.