The Secret History of Mars.

Chapter 40 Xiangliu's Meat Sieve

After Ye Qinghe exited Yige Hut, he came in front of Bao Xi and Elder Yan who were waiting outside.The two saw Ye Qinghe's serious expression. Before she could speak, Elder Bao Xi said, "This is not a place to talk. Let's go to Elder Yan's nutrition cabin nearby." Ye Qinghe nodded and followed the two elders. When we arrived, there was a slightly smaller nutrition cabin behind the Yige Hut. There was a plaque in official script "Xinglinju" hanging on the cabin door.

As soon as he entered the door, a fresh scent of medicinal herbs rushed to his face, which made Ye Qinghe feel refreshed and tired, all of which were swept away in one go.

After Elder Yan asked them to sit down, Ye Qinghe asked, "Excuse me, elders, where can I find Xirang?"

"What do you want to do?" Bao Xi asked in surprise, why would Ye Qinghe be interested in Mars, the hottest nuclear material at the moment.

"Elder Cangxi entrusted me to go to Earth to complete the experiments she hadn't done back then, and she said that Xiyang can solve all the problems on Earth now." Ye Qinghe said frankly.

"Since the 2nd year of Shi Yi Ji, I brought Elder Cangxi back from the earth, and she handed over the prototype of Xiyang and the first-generation formula to the elders' house." Bao Xie recalled, "After that, a frenzy started There is an upsurge of research on soil refinement and formula improvement.”

"You mean the Olympus Mount landing station, and the experimental cabins on the opposite side are used for this?" Ye Qinghe now understands that the hopes on the faces of the Martians he met on the road are mixed with enthusiasm and madness.

"That's just the tip of the iceberg. The number of experimental cabins distributed all over the planet, official or non-governmental, has far exceeded the number you see." Bao Xie continued to explain.

"Then have they refined the Xiran?" Ye Qinghe asked.

"The raw materials of the soil are too precious. Some of the meteorites left over from the asteroid swarm hitting the earth were almost sifted by Xiangliu," Bao Xie said with a sigh.

"Who is Xiangliu? What does Rouchai mean?" Ye Qinghe asked puzzledly. He hadn't returned to his home planet for half a century, and felt that a lot of new words had been created here.

"Is that the snake-body nine-dragon-headed monster that you mentioned in the consciousness message, Elder Ban Quan?" Bao Xie was surprised by Ye Qinghe's question.

"Xiangliu is the name of that monster?! It's such a pity that such a beautiful name, I think Elder Ji Xuan named it, and a beast is more in line with its temperament." Ye Qinghe said regretfully, "What does the meat sieve mean? "

"In the gene pool of that monster, there is a skill, which is eating soil and sifting gold. That's why it is on the earth, devouring mountains, rivers and mounds, and then its excrement will filter out meteorites and be sent back to Mars. They were snapped up by these labs." Bao Xi said depressingly, "I was too careless back then, and I agreed with Elder Banquan to synthesize Xiangliu to collect meteorites, the raw material extracted from the soil, but I didn't expect that it would give other species on the earth, bring Here comes the catastrophe."

The meat screen actually made Xiangliu eat the Tula meteorite. Ye Qinghe already hated that monster, but now he hated it even more.

"Over the past few years, Elder Banquan has used this method to plunder all the metal resources on the earth that Xiangliu can sift out, and put them into the plan of the returnists to rebuild Mars." Elder Yan also said helplessly, "He He didn’t violate any regulations of the Elder’s House, and Elder Cangxi was still recovering, so the Elder’s House turned a blind eye to his behavior. Unexpectedly, he even got worse and wanted to cleanse the earth’s species. low-IQ species to replace them!"

"Then the meteorites they searched, are they enough to refine enough resting soil?" Ye Qinghe asked, not knowing that the root cause of the poor earth being ground into such a state by Xiang Liu was actually for the resting soil.

"Those meteorites, the extracted soil is only enough to drive a small particle engine," Bao Xi said, shaking his head, "but Elder Ban Quan is very good at motivating the public, and the information released to the public makes everyone feel that the full-sized particles The successful development of the engine is just around the corner. That's why all Martians are now joining in the frenzy of refining the soil."

"As everyone knows, without the earth's meteorites, unless we find alternative materials, I propose that the elders' house restart the plan to develop an interstellar light-speed vehicle. Energy for Earth, Operations to Rebuild Mars."

Hearing Elder Bao Xi's words, Ye Qinghe felt the horror of the various factions in the Elder's House, fighting openly and secretly. Wisdom like Bao Xi and Elder Yan, without Elder Cang Xi's staff, were struggling in the struggle in the Elder's House.

"Then is it possible for us to find alternative materials for meteorites?" Ye Qinghe asked with concern.

"Now there are several research groups working on this topic in parallel. The one most likely to make a breakthrough is the basalt research team at Mount Olympus," Bao Xie explained. "It's what you saw at the landing station. Those experiments cabin."

"The basalt from Olympus Mons from Mars? It is most likely to replace the meteorites left by the asteroids on Earth and become the raw material for refining the soil?" Ye Qinghe wanted to make sure his understanding was correct.

"Yes, according to the current analysis data, although the iron element content of basalt is not as high as that of iron meteorite, it is still possible to achieve it after further purification. The carbonaceous material, another raw material for soil synthesis, is still carbon in our world. When developing the organism, there are a lot of raw materials in the carrier library, and they have finally come in handy after so many years."

"That is to say, there is no ready-made soil for me to bring back to Earth, and I still have to wait for the results of the basalt refining experiment?" Ye Qinghe said a little disappointed. No wonder Elder Cang Xi said that he needed time to prepare for returning to Earth.

"That's right, and we don't have much time. If the results of the experiment don't make a breakthrough this year, I plan to launch an escape strategy in the Elder's House to suspend the research and development of the interstellar lightspeed vehicle, so as to check and balance Elder Banquan's wanton destruction of the earth." Bao Xi said In the long run, we have to make a choice.

"There is less than a month left in this year, which means we will have a result within a month?" Ye Qinghe thought of Ji Hebo who was still locked in the Miemeng Gallery, and thought in his heart that he should be able to hide it for a month. hold him.

Speaking of this, the three of them were relatively silent for a while, and Elder Yan suggested that Ye Qinghe go back to his nutrition cabin to rest early.After nearly a year of flying to the ground, she is indeed extremely exhausted. Before the new carrier is ready, she can't abuse the current one too much.So she bid farewell to the two elders, exited Xinglin Residence, and walked towards her nutrition cabin.

On the way, she planned in her mind that she would go to Mount Olympus tomorrow morning, not only to see the situation on Hebo, but also to visit the basalt research team in the experimental cabin.

What she didn't expect at all was that her calculation almost wiped out Shi Yiji's experimental results!

(End of this chapter)