After hanging up the communication, Bai Yixuan reached out and pressed a few buttons on the console in front of him, then leaned back on the chair again.

The holographic image interface on the console changed quietly.

[The starship is entering orbit...]

A faint feeling of deceleration followed.

Under the control of the onboard computer, the ten ray starships started the orbit entry process in unison.

Bai Yixuan quietly stared at the slowly "flowing" color bands on the surface of Jupiter, which are the long-lasting huge storms on Jupiter.ъìqυgΕtv.℃ǒΜ

He closed his eyes and went through the steps of the entire collection project in his mind.

The team's communication channel was also quiet.

Every starship pilot is silently recalling the next steps in his own way.

Although Zero can remotely monitor and control all subsequent operations, every driver here does not want such a situation to happen.

The reason is also very simple, it is still a problem of computing power.

Currently, Zero's computing power is sufficient, enough to control a large number of ray starships for helium-3 collection projects without a driver, but that is based on the premise that a large number of factories are shut down.

Once the helium-3 collection project is a complete success, while mining helium-3 on a large scale, mankind will inevitably start manufacturing starships on a large scale again.

By that time, assuming there is no breakthrough in photonic computer technology, almost all computing resources will be allocated to various factories.

At that time, any of their operations are not guaranteed by Zero!

Once a mistake is made, it may cause a small loss at least, or destroy the machine and kill people!

Therefore, they must cherish this only opportunity to operate "SL".

(sl, save/load, that is, saving and reading files.)

"Ding dong."

As a slight beep sounded in the cockpit, the holographic image interface on the console changed slightly again.

[The ray has entered orbit]

[Please ask the driver to start collecting helium 3]

White highlighted fonts flash before the eyes of all drivers.

Bai Yixuan reached out and turned on the long-distance communication device.

"Mars Command Center, Ray has successfully entered orbit."

"Mars received it and immediately started collecting helium-3. Repeat it again and started collecting helium-3 immediately."

The moment Lu Yongchang's voice came, the expressions of the pilots in the ten ray starships suddenly became serious.

Bai Yixuan adjusted his sitting position, stretched out his hand to hold the joystick on the side, and prepared to release the collection tube inside the starship.

"Hong Fan, help me calibrate the angle."

He said in a deep voice.

"Copy that!" Hong Fan responded meticulously, reaching out and inputting several data into the onboard computer.

…

The camera pans to the outside.

Above the orbit of Jupiter, ten inconspicuous starships float quietly.

From the bottom of the starship, a slender conduit slowly stretched out.

The entire conduit is 100,000 kilometers long.

Within the duct, a partition will appear every 10,000 kilometers.

At the partition, there are special suction and filtering devices.

In order to reduce weight and facilitate folding and portability, the catheter is made of single-layer carbon nanotube material.

Although the tube wall is extremely thin, according to simulation calculations, its toughness can completely withstand the destruction of Jupiter's upper atmosphere.

But even so, in order to accommodate this conduit with a length of 100,000 kilometers and to carry enough helium-3, the size of the Ray Starship reached an astonishing 10,000 meters.

This is also the largest starship in human history.

Even the flagship of human civilization [Earth] is like a child in front of it.

Compared with a starship, it is more like a small base suspended in the orbit of Jupiter.

Under normal circumstances, it will no longer move and stay permanently in the orbit of Jupiter.

Its mission is simple: extract helium-3 from the interior of Jupiter, then compress it and store it in the cabin.

As for transportation work, there are naturally special transport ships to transport these helium 3.

As for the reason...

These big guys are just too bulky.

Even if enough fusion reactors and Hall thrusters are installed, its acceleration capability is ridiculously weak.

Just traveling from Mars to Jupiter took three months!

Switching to the latest model Xuannv 2, in the forward four state, it will only take 20-25 days to complete this voyage.

This also determines that humans cannot take these starships to Proxima Centauri.

The duct at the bottom of the starship slowly extended, and a series of alarm sounds came from inside the cockpits of the ten starships.

"Beep! Wrong operation, this operation will cause abnormal descending speed of the catheter, please pay attention!"

"Beep! Wrong operation, this operation will cause abnormal tilt angle of the catheter, please pay attention!"

"..."

Amid Zero's warnings and reminders, the starship pilot in the cockpit was sweating profusely as he corrected his erroneous operation.

The tube at the bottom of the ray also extends unswervingly toward Jupiter's atmosphere.

Just like a few small mosquitoes, they slowly extended their piercing and sucking mouthparts towards the target.

…

A few days later.

Mars command center.

The hall was filled with an anxious atmosphere.

Every researcher's face is full of exhaustion and anxiety.

Everyone stared intently at the holographic image in front of them.

The progress of "intubation" is updated in real time.

The numbers jump little by little.

Every beat affects the fragile nerves of all scientific researchers.

When the progress bar reached 100%, Lu Yongchang couldn't help but hold his breath!

"Call the Mars Command Center..."

Bai Yixuan's call came again from the long-distance communication equipment.

Lu Yongchang quickly reached out, grabbed the microphone on the table, and directly interrupted Bai Yixuan's voice.

"Mars received it, please speak!"

"..." The sound of heavy and rapid breathing came from the speaker.

"Professor, we succeeded!"

"Ten ray starships, all intubated successfully!" Bai Yixuan's voice was filled with a mixture of exhaustion and excitement.

Lu Yongchang breathed a long sigh of relief.

Successful intubation means that 80% of the entire project has been completed.

"Congratulations." Lu Yongchang suppressed the excitement in his heart and gave the order again, "Start extracting helium 3."

…

Jupiter's orbit.

Bai Yixuan stared with bloodshot eyes, and pressed the extraction button with slightly trembling hands.

…

"Report!"

"All units are operating normally and the extraction work is proceeding normally!"

"Successfully extracted Jupiter's atmosphere!"

"Successful separation of helium III."

"..."

A series of reports sounded in the command hall.

"Helium-3 has been detected and is being stored!"

As the last sentence of the report came, cheers and applause instantly resounded throughout the command hall!

Lu Yongchang turned his head and looked at each other with the chairman of the parliament, and both of them had long-lost smiles on their faces.
Chapter completed!