Gathering Momentum

If the base had a transport ship, it could directly dismantle the transport ship's engine for power generation. Unfortunately, the transport ship was too large to fit into the base's lower levels, so it was destroyed in the disaster.

"In that case, the Engineering Department will draft a plan later, and we'll start on it immediately after demonstrating its feasibility. One thing to emphasize: we must ensure absolute safety," Yue Yuan said, seeing that everyone thought the plan was feasible and there was no better way. So, he decided on it.

There's no room for hesitation at a time like this.

The emphasis on safety is because nuclear stuff is really dangerous. If there's a slight problem, the entire base will be finished.

The group discussed one topic after another in the meeting, starting directly from 8:00 AM and continuing until 8:00 PM, before finally determining the current urgent matters.

This isn't a waste of time. As the saying goes, sharpening the knife doesn't delay the work. Rushing in without a plan or scheme is what wastes time.

Although the disaster came suddenly, Callisto Base wasn't a complete mess.

The original leadership team wasn't just holding their positions without doing anything, and with Yue Yuan's decisive actions during this extraordinary period, he firmly grasped the power in his own hands, so the entire base didn't experience any major turmoil.

Against this backdrop, the base introduced a temporary decree related to people's livelihood, and restrictions were placed on the purchase of food and various daily necessities.

Yes, it was restricted purchasing.

The relatively stable social structure of Callisto meant that the original currency system hadn't collapsed yet, and this mini-government naturally maintained its effectiveness.

The currency is electronic currency.

Callisto Base originally didn't have the right to issue currency, but it did have a banking system. People living in Callisto Base had data records in this branch.

So, although the mainframe is offline, this system can take on this temporary task.

Time slowly passed in the survivors' struggle for survival.

Various functional devices were restarted with the cooperation of various departments. Staple foods, fruits, vegetables, oil, salt, and other daily necessities resumed production, while other scientific research equipment temporarily entered hibernation.

The rapid recovery of production gave the survivors hope.

The surviving humans gradually recovered in the deep underground base. Under the guidance of the Propaganda Department, the sadness of the sun's destruction and the loss of compatriots was transformed into the obsession with revenge and the motivation to live.

Ten thousand people draw their bows, shooting at the same target, and every shot hits.

When humans unite and move towards a common goal, they can often unleash astonishing power, especially since most of these people grew up in a good historical and cultural environment.

In this situation, the people living underground like gophers were full of energy, just waiting for the base's higher-ups to announce the excavation upwards.

Yue Yuan was very satisfied with the people's mental state. With this energy pent up, even if it was difficult, they could get through it.

Day after day passed.

The machines in the underground base started up again, the motors roared again, and people threw themselves back into the production work.

The radiation generator was also steadily progressing from design to assembly, slowly moving from blueprints to reality, making sufficient preparations for the base's future energy transition.

Many scientific experiment projects were temporarily suspended, and scientific research equipment temporarily stopped operating. There were many types of these, such as various chemical experiments, materials research, space calcium loss-related drug research, biological space receptor experiments, various carrier enzyme research, and propulsion power engineering research, and so on.

The electricity freed up was used to ensure people's living needs.

Life underground was boring, but because of the boredom, everyone was holding their breath, waiting to vent it when they returned to the surface and do a great job.

However, among so many people, there were always some exceptions.

Ma Dongzhen was one of them. He was originally an ordinary rich second generation, living a wealthy life, basically getting whatever he wanted. After inheriting the family business, he was even surrounded by girls wherever he went, but he wasn't interested in these girls.

It's not that he liked men, but that he was more devoted to his feelings.

When he was still a junior in college, he fell in love with a girl named Xu Yanshi and was very obsessed with her. However, Xu Yanshi didn't pay much attention to him, even after he revealed the fact that he was very rich.

Ma Dongzhen felt that this kind of girl was very special and worth his true feelings. That year, he and Xu Yanshi both graduated. Xu Yanshi was admitted to graduate school, while he returned to the family business to help.

This kind of real-world separation was enough to make the love fade away, but Ma Dongzhen didn't give up. He continued to pursue her diligently. Finally, this persistent pursuit moved Xu Yanshi, who was about to graduate from graduate school.

In his excitement, Ma Dongzhen planned to give Xu Yanshi a surprise at her graduation ceremony—a Space Rose. He knew that Xu Yanshi liked all kinds of rare plants and animals and was determined to become a great biodiversity research scholar, so he planned to give her a special gift that could express his love and cater to her interests.

To this end, he didn't hesitate to use the power of money, finding someone to cultivate a rose that grew in a vacuum environment for him. However, the cultivation garden at the space base wasn't a place where anyone could plant whatever they wanted. But under the drive of money, Ma Dongzhen finally found a way. A researcher at the Callisto Orbital Laboratory agreed to help him.

However, because Callisto Base had very strict control over incoming and outgoing express goods, this kind of unauthorized change to experimental planting could result in dismissal if discovered. To reduce the risk, the researcher required him to pick it up himself. He only agreed to take it out of the laboratory for him, and everything else would be handled by him personally.

Being able to get it was good enough. The power of love made Ma Dongzhen naturally agree, and then he set foot on the road to Callisto under the guise of trade negotiations. He didn't expect that the disaster would come not long after arriving at Callisto Base.

Having suffered this change, Ma Dongzhen lost everything. Having graduated for many years, he had almost returned all his knowledge to his teachers. He didn't know what he could do here at all. Fortunately, Callisto still used the original financial system, so he wasn't penniless yet. But because he didn't plan to stay here for long, he didn't open an account here, so he would really be penniless after the cash on him ran out.

Having always lived a pampered life, he suddenly fell into confusion about his life.

He stared blankly at the people coming and going inside the base, his expression wooden. The watered-down Lao Cunzhang he held in his hand was his last spiritual sustenance.

He twisted open the bottle cap and took two more gulps, still reluctant to finish it.

"Did you hear? The Mechanical Company under the Engineering Department is recruiting, saying it's preparing to return to the ground." A somewhat dazed Ma Dongzhen heard this sentence.

Recruiting, what does that have to do with me?

Ma Dongzhen had no interest at all, but the conversation continued to drift into his ears.

"They're looking for senior technicians, remote mechanical drivers, senior repairmen, and the like. What does that have to do with a bum like you who only lives off his savings?"

"Look at what you're saying, am I a bum? I'm just biding my time, you know? Just in the biding stage!"

"Then what can you do? You can't operate engineering robots, you're even worse at mechanical maintenance. There's nowhere for you to even carry bricks if you wanted to sell your strength. Do you think this is the early 20th century? If you dare to run to Callisto without any skills, I'd say you're brave, and your luck is heaven-defying, to have a sucker brother like me."

"Who says there's no brick-carrying? Look at this..."

"Remote sensing equipment installation technician? Oh, this thing is for laying wired fiber optics. Returning to the ground does require laying all kinds of communication lines back, but it doesn't require much manpower..."

"I'm not talking about this, it's this one over here, mechanical repair apprentice. Apprentice, ah, no experience required. I'm thinking that the base will definitely be reformed in the future. Don't look at how it's still using the previous system now, it will definitely change in the future. Think about it, there are so few people at the base, do you think they will tolerate someone who is worthless?"

"So you want to make yourself more valuable before that happens?"

"Pao Ge knows me best! Where there are people, there is Jianghu. Rather than being passive in the future, it's better to work hard now."

"Ambitious, that's my good brother."