Chapter 1108 - The Second Group of Colonists (1/2)

Translator: _Min_  Editor: Caron_

Five kilometers underneath the Martian colony, they discovered the suspected remains of the Martian civilization.

It was an incredible piece of news.

After Jiang Chen read the report from the colonial captain, Hong Zewei, he immediately called Kevin and dispatched the second group of colonists in advance.

A new Seagull-class was responsible for this transport mission. The 500,000-ton ship was commissioned half a month ago. With the improved version of the Red River X1 engine, the ship could complete the acceleration and deceleration phase in a shorter time while achieving higher cruising speed within the solar system.

Based on the calculated data from quantum computers, the trip from Celestial City to the orbit of Mars would only take 21 days with the current relative position between Earth and Mars.

Because the colonization plan was pushed ahead by three months, the 100 colonists who were being trained had to end the training ahead of time. They boarded the ship inside the hibernation chambers with goods to be taken to the Martian colony. In addition to the colonists, there were ten orbital airborne soldiers equipped with the most advanced Gauss rifles and outer space kinetic skeletons.

Although Jiang Chen expressed doubts about the existence of Martians, after all, Mars was only habitable more than three billion years ago. Even if they dug their own tombs underground, they probably turned into sand by now, let alone any living creatures.

However, in order to reassure the colonists, Jiang Chen finally decided to send a force.

He was aware the extreme behaviors of people in an isolated state.

At the same time as the second group of colonists set off, the twenty members of the Earth Defense Alliance also returned to the surface, which ended Ghost Agent’s surveillance. After Jiang Chen left the office, he went to Future Heavy Industries’ shipyard.

The shipyard was located in the gravity-free section of the main axis of the space elevator, next to the port.

When Jiang Chen arrived at the shipyard, the hull of a 600-meter-long Seagull-class transport ship was fixed by more than a dozen mechanical arms and was suspended in space. It occupied almost ninety percent of the shipyard.

Numerous construction robots surrounded the outside of the transport ship and welded finished parts to the transport ship. At the rear of the ship, four mechanical cantilevers were connected to a wide variety of tools from screwdrivers to laser welding guns. These mechanical cantilevers were performing complex operations, which was connecting the Red River X1 engine to the slot at the rear of the ship.

The wisdom of working people was unlimited.

Although the design drawings and key technologies of the Seagull-class transport ship were provided by Jiang Chen, the entire production process was the crystallization of the hard work of 10,000 scientists, technicians, and senior engineers of Future Heavy Industries.

This production process wasn’t necessarily the most optimal, but it could be renowned as the best in the world

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Jiang Chen could proudly announce to the world that Future Heavy Industries was the only company that had mastered the manufacturing process of a 500,000-ton transport ship. Whether it was Russia’s Oleg-class, Hua’s Changchun-class, or UA’s Apollo X1, they were just small fishes in the water in front of his “big seagull”.

Of course, while he fantasized, he didn’t come here to look at the magnificent size of the Seagull-class transport ship; he had more important matters to attend to.

Not long afterward, a middle-aged man in a uniform flowed to him while kicking his legs back, then he skillfully grabbed the armrest and stood still by the window.

As the shipyard manager of Future Heavy Industries, he was in a meeting with senior engineers at the shipyard. When he heard reports of Jiang Chen’s visit, he quickly asked his right-hand man to take over the meeting while he rushed over.

Dai Zhengming anxiously looked at Jiang Chen while he explained, “Sorry, I was in a meeting with the technicians. I didn’t know the boss personally came to the shipyard to perform an inspection. If there are any places where you think can be improved, please let me know.”

“There’s no need to be so polite.” Jiang Chen let go of his hand on the railing and waved his hand to signal Dai Zhengming to not to take it to heart. He smiled,” I just came for a quick tour; I hope I didn’t bother your work.”