Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2498 A Day on the Moon

The statement that "this is a watershed moment in energy history, just like the first time mankind harnessed fire" is not wrong.

However, this time the one who has mastered the new flame is not an individual, nor a country, but a very special private enterprise.

Although it is a private enterprise, even within the Daxia government, Jiuzhou Technology is no longer regarded as a "private enterprise".

What kind of private enterprise employs millions of engineers? Does its company's residential complex include not only a kindergarten, primary school, and hospital, but also underground rail transit? Low-altitude flight equipment? Maglev transportation?
Even the world's top teaching quality and medical technology?
Furthermore, the military industrial strength demonstrated by Kyushu Technology is not something that can be shaken by ordinary countries.

As the party that possesses the most intelligence on the military and technological strength of Kyushu, the Great Xia government has conducted internal exercises more than once, listing Kyushu Technology as a separate force and then selecting forces from countries such as the United States and Russia to conduct offensive and defensive drills in a sand table simulation.

Without exception, the result was always "victory".

For those with a massive supply of mushrooms, it was a Pyrrhic victory for Kyushu Technology. For those without mushrooms, it was as simple as stepping on an ant.

Killing them by hand is not a vivid description, because many ants can cause skin infections, poisoning, swelling, and ulceration in humans.

All opponents who fight against Kyushu Technology will lose control of their communication and electronic equipment in the early stages of the confrontation, followed by the paralysis of a large number of intelligent electronic devices, leaving them only able to rely on a few weapons to carry out attacks.

However, to the overwhelming swarm of drones, these attacks were like an elderly person trying to wield a large sword...

Although there is a threat, it is not a threat if it is properly controlled.

As for changing the opposing side to Great Xia.

Although there have been more than one simulation, all the parameters and information from the simulation battles have been sealed in an archive room without any signal.

Now, the official understanding of Kyushu Technology by the Great Xia government is no longer so one-sided.

The official scientific team had long suspected that there must be strong artificial intelligence within Kyushu Technology, otherwise it would be impossible to explain Kyushu Technology's terrifying "dominance" in the field of software systems engineering.

When the first ray of sunlight, unobstructed by the atmosphere, pierced through the diamond-shaped skylight of the lava tube base, Yu Hongbin was awakened by the smart home system.

He lay in the magnetic sleep pod, and through the holographic projection, he saw the outside temperature of the base displayed as -120℃, while the indoor temperature remained constant at 26℃. He then stretched comfortably.

Thanks to the lunar soil concrete walls and double-layer aerogel insulation technology developed by Kyushu engineers, the interior temperature of the base is now very suitable for living.

While washing up, the water circulation system indicator light turned blue, meaning that the water recycling rate had reached 96% that day, which made Yu Hongbin's slight anxiety disappear.

This is also thanks to the lunar development project's optimization of the polar water ice extraction process, which has made water supply at the lunar base less "scarce".

After washing up and having breakfast in the cafeteria, Yu Hongbin was unable to return to his office to handle his work. According to the schedule, he still needed to discuss some of the laboratory's collaborative projects and the division of responsibilities with the official scientific team of Daxia today.

Although the moon is "ownerless," the lunar city does have an owner.

Kyushu Technology held the vast majority of the area and control, while the Great Xia government, which provided the money and resources, did not come away empty-handed. While traveling in his personal maglev pod to the central living area of ​​Moon City, Yu Hongbin habitually looked down at Moonlight City's multi-dimensional transportation system.

Through the latest SRY glasses, and with his access privileges, he can clearly see the logistics robots traversing the underground tunnel network; the middle layer is a transparent tube train connecting the domes, using magnetically adsorbed wheels and rails specially designed for weightless environments to ensure safety; while the top layer is the flight path for solar-powered aircraft. Although there is a design layout, no aircraft have appeared in the top layer area so far.

As Yu Hongbin focused his gaze, the SRY glasses immediately displayed a view of Central Park in the distance.

The birch trees, cultivated in space and genetically modified, grew to a height of 12 meters in a short period of time. Their leaves are peculiarly hexagonal with special patterns, and robots around them are collecting birch sap.

And then there's the lunar rice, which is thicker than ordinary saplings. It has already harvested a season's worth of rice, but now it's starting to head again.

These plants have undergone genetic modification and space breeding, resulting in varying degrees of improved photosynthetic efficiency. The growth of their fruits also differs from that on Earth.

Because he was personally involved in the space breeding project, Yu Hongbin knew that one-season rice, two-season rice, and even four-season rice had been successfully developed. In addition, two-year-old rice, which can only be harvested once every two years, and three-year-old rice, which can be harvested once every three years, have also been cultivated.

Rice varies in quality, taste, and nutrition depending on its growth stage.

Yu Hongbin also considered taking the high-yield rice to Blue Star for large-scale planting as soon as possible, but it was necessary to comply with official regulations, collect data year by year, and transplant the rice gradually.

The space breeding project base in the new science district is also getting bigger year by year.

It's even gotten to the point where Rongcheng City suspects that Jiuzhou Technology is trying to develop its "founding" location into an ecological farming center rather than a technology manufacturing center...

As Yu Hongbin headed towards the conference room, Tang Yi, a bioengineering expert from the official Daxia expert team, had already arrived.

He lightly touched the virtual function key in his glasses' field of vision and saw the information for that function key.

Oxygen self-sufficiency rate: 89%
Food production per unit area: Enough to meet the daily needs of 1200 people.

Water circulation: 95% closed-loop rate

Below this data is a scrolling list of all of Kyushu Technology's subsidiaries' collaborations with the Xiamen Academy of Sciences' lunar agriculture project.

The project we're discussing today is not simple, and he's not confident he can reach an agreement.

Even now, he and his colleagues have no time for casual conversation.

Because everyone knows that Kyushu Technology cannot be "unprepared" in these meeting rooms; every word they say will definitely be listened to and then reported back to the corresponding department or team.

Or rather, on the moon right now, only a few of the paying users would believe that Kyushu Technology would not install any listening devices if they said they wouldn't.

Perhaps due to the pressures of the environment, the members of the official scientific team of the Great Xia Dynasty, those who have spent a relatively long time on the moon, have already learned various methods of eye contact.