But this barrier could be considered the most advanced design proposal Dr. Jiang had put forward so far.
Therefore,
China's willingness to deploy it here was somewhat beyond Jiang Menghan's expectations.
But since they had already brought out the blueprints,
the iceberg-like girl did not bring up the matter again. She merely joined Su Wen and Phyllis at their table.
She silently gazed up at countless Chinese shuttles crossing the crystalline clouds of the Kuiper Belt before flying toward the platform still under reconstruction:
Countless newly installed solar panels floated across the ice plains like silver lotus leaves, while three hundred meters below them, the words "China," carved by the geological team with laser drills, were slowly being covered by interstellar dust.
Before long,
it was time to prepare dinner.
The two girls helped the logistics aunties prepare the ingredients, while Su Wen saw Old Zhang adjusting the newly delivered psionic heater.
Inside the lining of the old engineer's spacesuit were several yellowed family photographs.
The child in the photographs was happily hugging a Jade Rabbit plush toy, so during breaks, he would take out that yellowed photo and silently reminisce.
Perhaps because Su Wen had helped, the heating work was quickly completed. The old man and the young man sat beside the heat-emitting reactor, warming themselves by the fire.
Old Zhang could not help smiling as he unscrewed his thermos and took a sip of pu-erh tea.
"Once we melt all the ice in the Kuiper Belt into water,
we'll be able to grow rice here."
His words drew a round of good-natured laughter from the workers around them.
Su Wen also noticed that the Design Drawing for the "Tianhe"-class ecological dome in the distance had indeed reserved space for vertical farms.
Dr. Jiang truly was exceptional.
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