Homo sapiens.

Weng Xuehai enlarged the simulated formation of Wilkes Land, which is an impact basin with a diameter of about 500 kilometers.

It's just that the Antarctic ice sheet conceals the existence of this huge impact crater, but the anomalies here can still be found through magnetic field radar and gravity satellites.

Many research groups are studying the Wilkes Basin and the Wilkes Massoma.

Although whether the Wilkes massoma was formed by the eruption of the mantle plume or the impact of the asteroid, the international academic community has not yet had a definite answer.

However, the Department of Homo sapiens geology has determined through magnetic field analysis that the Wilkes mass tumor was formed by the impact of an asteroid.

The evidence is that in the process of fixing the magnetic field, it is found that there are a large number of iridium element magnetic field signals in the center of the Wilkes Basin, and its abundance is very high.

The content of iridium element on the earth is very small, but on some asteroids, the content is abnormally high.

Therefore, researchers from the Ministry of Geology preliminarily determined that this is an impact crater, and the Wilkes mass tumor is the remains of the asteroid.

In addition, magnetic signatures of large amounts of gold and other heavy metals were found in the central area of ​​the Wilkes Basin.

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After flying for 10 minutes, the airship finally reached the sky above the target.

Kain immediately ordered: "Captain Muqing, please start releasing the container modules according to the plan."

"no problem."

The scientific research airship carried 1.3 tons of materials, and the core materials were modular containers. There were a total of 8 modular containers with a single weight of 20 to 634 tons.

The first module containers to be lowered are foundation modules, 100 in total.

After the foundation module is unfolded, a silver-gray metal foundation with an area of ​​3 square meters is formed. There is a latch device on the foundation module, which can fix other module containers.

The next module containers to be put down are dormitory modules, kitchen modules, shower modules, storage modules, heating modules, and water purification modules, a total of 136 module containers of living types.

These modules are like building blocks, stacked together to form several five-story buildings with a height of 15 meters.

Then there are nuclear power module, power distribution module, greenhouse module, scientific research module, equipment module and so on.

It was even equipped with four automatic cannon modules and turned into defensive towers, which were placed on the four corners of the base.

After two days of unloading, the airship finally put down all the module containers and some small vehicles.

The 153 members of the scientific expedition team, as well as the 6 members of Weng Xuehai who came to assist, got off the airship and lived in the dormitories of the base.

The Sperm Whale 003 quickly flew into the stratosphere by vacuuming, and returned to Madagascar at full speed, preparing to transport the next batch of supplies.

Weng Xuehai, Kain and others quickly deployed a magnetic field radar to further detect the asteroid wreckage underground.

Over time.

About a week or so has passed.

The base not only collected a large amount of magnetic field data through magnetic field radar, but also drilled a well with a depth of 2000 meters.

Core analysis room.

Weng Xuehai, who was wearing protective clothing, and several assistants skipped the core of the ice sheet, but focused on the rock core.

Following the mass spectrometry analysis of the cores at a depth of 500 meters to 2000 meters, they found that the heavy metal content in these cores was very high.

"As expected." Weng Xuehai's eyes were full of joy.

According to the data of the magnetic field detection, the diameter of the asteroid is about 55 kilometers.

Although it collided with the earth's crust once, because its core composition is iron-nickel, the asteroid did not fall apart, but remained relatively intact and embedded in the earth's crust.

That is to say, starting from 850 meters below the ice cap and extending downwards for 50-55 kilometers, they are all stars of this asteroid.

The volume of this asteroid is 100 trillion cubic meters, and the iron content is about 20-30%. The iron ore alone has 140-210 megatons, which is thousands of times the current shallow iron ore reserves on the earth's surface. .

Of course, Homo sapiens doesn't really care about things like iron ore and nickel ore.

But the gold and other heavy metals contained in this asteroid are something that Sapiens Corporation is determined to acquire.

According to the core samples collected so far, the average gold content per ton of ore has reached about 40-60 grams.

Although the gold content inside the entire asteroid cannot be so high, according to estimates, at least 0.8% of the ore can reach this level.

This means that the asteroid contains 2-3 million tons of gold.

With such a huge gold reserve, the lead-tungsten-gold electric heating material that I used to search for before can finally let go of my hands and feet.

This is the reason Homo sapiens hastily dispatched scientific research airships and quickly established an outpost.

As for the Antarctic Convention, Homo sapiens has no intention of complying with it at all.

You must know that this is 2 to 3 million tons of gold, even if it is an enemy of the whole world, Homo sapiens will not hesitate.

As long as you eat this super large mine, it will not only be enough for Homo sapiens to carry out industrial upgrading, but also greatly reduce production costs.

At present, electrothermal materials can only be used in the aerospace field because their production costs are too high. A 100-megawatt thermoelectric generator unit needs to use 250 kilograms of gold.

At the current price of gold, 250 kilograms of gold requires 1.5 million gold dollars, which is obviously too expensive.

And once the gold mines in the Wilkes Basin are won, the production cost of gold can be reduced to almost the same as that of copper, and the cost will drop by a thousand times, and anyone who changes it will go crazy.

After Li Qingye received the news in early November, he quickly took the time to hold a small management meeting and made various arrangements.

Sending scientific research airships to land on the beach is just one of the arrangements.

In order to ensure the safety of the entire mining area, Homo sapiens must completely take over the entire Wilkes Land, especially within 100 kilometers of the center, and even more so.

Therefore, Li Qingye ordered the Ministry of Defense to form an Antarctic escort fleet, and the Feathered Serpent Legion was also accelerating.

Although there is a high probability that other forces will not go to war with Homo sapiens, in the face of such huge interests, it is difficult to guarantee that some people will take risks.

Li Qingye ordered the Homo sapiens branches to strengthen their security forces, and at the same time increase the speed of developing outer space.

Strengthening security is to deter big powers, and strengthening the development of outer space is to provide another way out, so that Homo sapiens have the confidence to turn the table.

Of course, for the large gold mine in the Wilkes Basin, Homo sapiens must be strictly guarded against it to ensure that no secrets will be leaked in a short time.

In order to cover up the mining plan in the Wilkes Basin, Li Qingye has ordered the Ministry of Science to build 5 more Antarctic scientific research stations and 5 Arctic scientific research stations to cover people's eyes and ears.

Chapter 422 The Last Space Dance

Ceylon Branch.

In the Ceylon Ocean Shipyard in the Port of Colombo.

Wade, who had just finished his work, returned to his home.

He greeted his wife Helen: "Honey, I don't have work this afternoon, do you want to have a picnic?"

"Picnic?" Helen replied subconsciously, and then replied in a trance: "Do you like Angus veal steak, or Wagyu filet?"

Hearing this answer, Wade's eyes were also in a trance, and then he returned to normal. He said with a smile: "Angus veal steak!"

"OK, I'll go get ready now." Helen also returned to normal, turned around and went to the refrigerator in the kitchen to get things.

Wade was sitting on the sofa, his eyes filled with disbelief and horror.

[Severe brain wave fluctuations are detected, do you need mental counseling? ]

He was startled when a hint from the intelligent assistance system appeared on his retina, and then he forced himself to calm down and started self-hypnosis.

'I love the company so much...I'm loyal to the company...'

Through non-stop self-hypnosis, Wade calmed down a little bit, and then his mind seemed to become blank.

The intelligent assistance system secretly analyzed his brain waves, but only noticed the emotional fluctuations of worry, fear, and surprise.

more than an hour later.

Wade and Helen drove a shared car to Colombo North Hill Park.

This is the most suitable place for a picnic in his subconscious mind, because there is an open grassland here.

Seeing the more than 3000 square meters of grassland in front of him, Wade felt a sense of refreshment in his heart. He turned his head and looked at his wife: "Let's set up the stove here!"

"Do you have an umbrella?"

"Bring it!"

Umbrellas were inserted and secured in the grass, and one of the grills was set up, while Wade prepared the charcoal while Helen applied sunscreen.

After the charcoal was lit, Helen opened the fresh-keeping box, and sprinkled some marinated Angus veal steaks with black pepper and salt again.

The calf steak was put on the grill, and under the charcoal grill, it began to sizzling and oily.

Then Helen took out fresh mushrooms, green peppers, small tomatoes, and some sausages, inserted stainless steel skewers, and brushed some blended butter.

The bald-headed Wade, wearing a black and white plaid shirt that has never changed for thousands of years, picked up a bottle of cold beer and took a sip.

After more than 20 minutes.

"Honey, the meat is ready."

Wade sat up from the beach chair, then took the dinner plate, which contained the cut Angus veal steak, and he forked a piece into his mouth.

next second.

His eyes were in a trance again.

Then he smiled and said to his wife, "Helen, watch me perform a space dance for you."

After speaking, regardless of his wife's surprised expression, Wade stepped out of the parasol, came into the sun, and then lay directly on the lawn, posing in a large character.

Immediately afterwards, Wade began to perform "Space Dance".

0035...

2570...

8003...

7412...

quick!There is no time!The sense of crisis in Wade's heart became more and more intense.

And the biochip and intelligent assistant program in his brain have already detected Wade's intense brain wave fluctuations.

His intense space dancing movements concealed part of the abnormality, but Wade knew that there was not much time left for him.

0506...

8601...

He only danced for 5 minutes and 42 seconds before his body froze, and then mechanically stopped, with a trace of guilt on his face: "Helen... I'm sorry... I messed up..."

Helen, who didn't know why, thought he was talking about dancing, so she hurriedly comforted her: "Honey, you dance very well, you are the best."

'Helen!sorry!I'm really too confident, I've been exposed..." Wade could only grieve in his heart, at this moment, it was the intelligent assistance system that controlled his body.

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the other side.

Bai Yun, the person in charge of Colombo's internal affairs department, is sorting out the monitoring data of some outsiders in his office.

The office door was pushed open by a subordinate who broke in suddenly: "Director! Emergency situation!"

"What happened?" Bai Yun put down the tablet.

"About 10 minutes ago, a new human employee was confirmed to be a spy and sent some information to the outside world."

Bai Yun's face changed greatly: "What? How is it possible? How did he do it?"

"It's not clear yet, it's the information fed back by the intelligent assistance system in his body, and now this person has been forcibly taken over by intelligence."

Bai Yun took a deep breath: "Bring the person back secretly, and let me find out what's going on."

"clear."

Seeing his subordinate leave in a hurry, Bai Yun quickly opened the drawer, inserted his employee card into a black phone, and dialed a number.

About 3 minutes later, the call was connected.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"Minister! This is the Colombo port of the Ceylon branch. I am Bai Yun, the local manager. Just 15 minutes ago, a new human..."

Bagheera, who was on the other side of the phone, suddenly became serious: "Investigate this matter for me."

"I've ordered an investigation."

"Ok!"