It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

Then, a male voice sounded: "Accept."

The holographic projection unfolded, and the image of Lu Yongchang appeared in front of Li Yuntian.

"How about [Poseidon]?"

Without any nonsense, Lu Yongchang asked directly.

Li Yuntian, who was familiar with Lu Yongchang's style, was not surprised at all, and quickly reported the latest progress to Lu Yongchang.

He first reached out and adjusted the angle of the camera so that it could capture [Poseidon] on the other side, and then said.

"Professor, [Poseidon] has been completed and is currently undergoing performance testing."

Through a huge glass, Lu Yongchang can clearly see the true face of [Poseidon].

As a specially-made ice giant planet mineral exploration ship, [Poseidon] is extremely different from the normal mineral exploration ship.

In order to resist the huge pressure inside the ice giant planet and the harsh environment, [Poseidon] was designed as a standard sphere.

"Below" the sphere, there are several large or small nozzles, this is the tail of [Poseidon], where the Hall propulsion unit is placed.

"Above" the sphere, there are several pieces of glass made of transparent aluminum.

This is the porthole of [Poseidon].

In order to ensure the overall strength of [Poseidon], the porthole glass is greatly thickened and the area is reduced as much as possible.

Each porthole only allows one person to look out.

Behind the porthole is the cockpit of [Poseidon].

Compared with the entire starship, the cockpit is extremely miniature.

The area of ​​the entire cockpit is less than fifty square meters.

After installing various instruments and equipment, the space left for the driver is only a dozen square meters.

The conditions are very difficult, but compared with the entire mineral exploration ship, the safety level of the cockpit is undoubtedly the highest.

Even, in a sense, the cockpit is even equivalent to a miniature starship.

In the design, once the starship is irreversibly damaged, the cockpit will be ejected as a whole.

With the fuel in the cockpit and the small Hall propulsion unit, it can even rush into the low-Earth orbit of the ice giant planet!

Of course, that's not all.

It is unrealistic to take it away from the ice giant planet and return to Dawn Star.

As for the pilot, at the moment of danger, he will enter the deep-sea cabin in the cockpit.

When the cockpit enters the ice giant planet's near-earth orbit and sends out a distress signal, they will enter hibernation and wait for the rescue of the human fleet.

This is also the safest measure Lu Yongchang can think of.

In addition to the cockpit and the Hall thruster nozzles, there are two large, tightly closed hatches behind the Poseidon's side.

That's where the manipulator and warehouse are.

Once a possible useful mineral resource is found, under the control of the driver, the manipulator can perform sampling work and put the ore into the warehouse.

In addition, [Poseidon] also has a small laboratory inside.

It can conduct the most basic detection of the ore samples collected, which can greatly improve the work efficiency of the prospecting ship-two drivers will not make a trip in vain.

Although there are so many structures inside, [Poseidon] is still very "pocket" compared to other starships in the human fleet.

The entire starship is even less than 100 meters in diameter.

"How about the compressive strength?"

Lu Yongchang asked in a deep voice.

For [Poseidon], compressive strength is the most important data.

Just by reaching the liquid ammonia sea surface, the pressure around it reaches 60 standard atmospheres, and once it goes deep into the liquid ammonia seabed, the pressure will increase rapidly!

"The test results show that its maximum pressure-bearing strength has reached [-] standard atmospheres." Li Yuntian glanced at the holographic projection at the side and replied quickly.

Lu Yongchang didn't speak, his eyes flashed with contemplation.

One hundred thousand standard atmospheres.

It can be said that it is very high.

In the Earth era, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench had only a thousand standard atmospheres.

Even so, at that time, the Mariana Trench was still an abyss that was difficult for humans to conquer.

But for ice giant planets, this pressure-bearing capacity is still not enough.

According to the model, the pressure inside the ice giant can even reach millions or even tens of millions of standard atmospheres.

Carbon atoms will be compressed into small diamonds by this terrible pressure, and there will even be countless diamond rains floating in the "air"!

Of course, the [Poseidon] mineral exploration ship does not need to go to such a terrifying area.

Theoretically speaking, the bearing strength of [-] standard atmospheres is enough to support its journey to the depths of the liquid ammonia ocean.

Chapter 465 Potential Population Crisis

"Where's the probe?" Lu Yongchang pondered for a moment, then asked again, "Did the probe strength test result come out?"

Li Yuntian in the holographic projection nodded quickly: "As expected, the compressive strength of the probe has reached 100 million standard atmospheres."

"Although it cannot go deep into the deepest part of the ice giant planet, it can still bring us a lot of detection data."

Hearing this, Lu Yongchang nodded in satisfaction.

"Hope and Hansent have just started to undergo body enhancement transformation, and you still have about half a month."

"Continue to test [Poseidon], I don't want to make any mistakes then."

"Even if it's a mistake the size of a screw!"

Seeing Lu Yongchang's extremely serious expression, Li Yuntian quickly straightened his expression and nodded in response.

……

After the communication was cut off, Lu Yongchang turned his head to look at the faint red light emitted by the holographic projection, with a look of worry in his eyes.

Following the human civilization of Proxima Centauri, the human fleet still encountered the same problem.

The Space City Nurturing Center has greatly reduced people's willingness to have children.

This even affects the normal development of human civilization in the future.

According to the simulation calculation of zero, according to the current fertility rate, after 500 years, human civilization will usher in negative population growth for the first time.

This is undoubtedly a disaster for an interstellar civilization!

"Do you want to implement the public support system..."

Lu Yongchang muttered to himself worriedly.

As a pilot, the human civilization of Proxima Centauri has declared failure.

Are they guaranteed to be successful?

Lu Yongchang was full of anxiety.

Although there is no communication with Proxima b, the latest developments of the human civilization of Proxima b are actually submitted to him every day. Improve the restructuring model.

According to the latest report of the social academician of the Academy of Sciences, the current situation of Proxima Centauri b is not optimistic.

Even, it can be said to be a mess.

While the war destroyed several surface cities, it also destroyed several important urban supercomputing centers.

The huge gap between natural people and public supporters caused a major accident in the scientific and technological data of Proxima b - many data were scattered and stored in several urban supercomputing centers.

As several supercomputing centers were destroyed by the war, Proxima b lost a large amount of scientific and technological information.

Although the human fleet can help in this regard, but...

The current population of Proxima b is too small!

A total population of one million is really too small for an interstellar civilization!

There are so few that they can't inherit the original technology system normally!

Even with the help of academicians of the Academy of Social Sciences and Zero, Proxima b would have difficulty recovering from the last war.

No matter from which point of view, the human civilization of Proxima b at this time has already embarked on the road of slow death.

That's why Lu Yongchang was so entangled at this time.

The role of the social public support system in promoting interstellar civilization is beyond doubt.

However, the process of promoting its landing contains an extremely huge crisis!

……

a week later.

Dawn Star Biological Laboratory.

Mao Zhengzhi and Lu Yongchang stood in front of two cylindrical containers with a height of more than two meters, silently looking at the two people in the containers.

Lu Yongchang's eyes showed a bit of anticipation.

"Academician Mao, the enhancement should be complete, right?"

Hearing this, Mao Zhengzhi quickly glanced at the data presented in the holographic projection, and then nodded.

"good."

"The injections of the seven Magna booster hormones have been completed."

While talking, Mao Zhengzhi stretched out his hand and dragged the holographic projection to Lu Yongchang.

"Professor, look, this is the picture sent back by the nanorobot."

"A little visceral omentum has appeared on the surface of Hope and Hansen's internal organs."

"It is estimated that in another week, the visceral omentum will fully mature."

"This process does not consume a lot of energy, and does not require the help of enhanced cabins and nutrient solutions."

Lu Yongchang raised his eyebrows slightly: "You mean...they can come out already?"

Mao Zhengzhi nodded excitedly: "Yes!"

"The wake-up operation can be implemented at any time!"

Lu Yongchang heard the words and said without thinking: "In that case, wake them up."

"I think they should take some time to get used to this new body."

……

"Drip...drip...drip..."

The faint buzzer sound reached Hope's ears.

His closed eyelids moved slightly, and then he quickly opened them.

What came into view was a pure white room.

This... where is this?

A trace of doubt flashed in Hope's eyes.

Didn't he accept human enhancement experiments in the enhanced cabin of the biological laboratory?

The unfamiliar environment caused a little panic in his heart.

He subconsciously put his hands on both sides of his body, pushed hard, and tried to get up from the bed.

"Oh!"

A huge force came from behind.

After a whirl, Hope fell hard on the pure white floor.

"Fuck..." He squeezed two words out between his teeth, then put his hand in front of his eyes, and looked at it carefully.

He squeezed his fist suspiciously, and seemed to feel nothing strange.