"Writer, you should be the first in the group to complete your shelter, but mine is also finished (image, image) and now I'm moving supplies."
"(image, image, image) I've already moved down and am now planting vegetables. I'll stay down here until I'm sure everything is fine. If the meteor really falls, these vegetables could save lives, just like the writer said! (image, image)"
The person speaking in the group is engaged in hydroponics. When everyone was discussing how to build shelters previously, this group member strongly suggested that a planting greenhouse be established within the shelter. This way, plants could provide oxygen through photosynthesis and also offer food by growing vegetables, upland rice, wheat, and other crops.
Chen Xin thought this idea was excellent, which is why his shelter has a separately developed 100 square meter greenhouse.
Though the area is very small, if it's just Chen Xin alone, this planting greenhouse can still meet his survival needs. Food production might be a little tight.
Of course, the prerequisite is that Chen Xin can afford the electricity and water resources needed to maintain the greenhouse's operation.
"I haven't moved into my shelter yet, come on guys, think about it. I can bring my sister and best friends over (image, image)"
Though he says he hasn't moved into his shelter, all the images posted are various photos of three lovely ladies inside the shelter.
"I suggest you conserve some resources. While everyone prepared early and stocked up a fair bit, fuel gets used up with each bit consumed and nobody wants to go looking outside in minus tens of degrees for it, right? Also, although there's water recycling equipment to reuse water resources as much as possible, try to save water wherever you can."
The speaker is another group member, who's truly a big shot in the group. He runs a technology company that manufactures a water recycling device, capable of recovering moisture from air, soil, and even human and animal waste, processing it into drinkable freshwater.
This technology was originally used in aeronautics and astronautics, with the initial device prototype being the water recycling apparatus used at space stations. This big shot's company utilized this technology to produce equipment adapted for RVs, specifically for recycling blackwater and graywater in RVs. It's a very environmentally friendly technology.
However, due to the high cost of the equipment, their company's products are currently only offered for high-end RVs, considered advanced technology products.
But this time, when everyone discussed building shelters, the company's equipment unexpectedly played an unimaginably significant role. Given the limited resources everyone hoarded, if they could recycle it, it naturally greatly boosts everyone's survival chances.
And this big shot has been very generous in providing their company's products to group members building shelters, also aiding everyone in constructing water recycling systems in their respective shelters with their products.
Chen Xin's shelter naturally also uses the equipment provided by the other party. Although the equipment offered is indeed effective, recovering water from waste and urine still makes Chen Xin feel a bit uneasy, even if it truly meets drinking water standards.
Therefore, when the group member engaged in hydroponics mentioned building a planting greenhouse earlier, Chen Xin thought of splitting the water recycling system into two parts, designing a graywater and blackwater division like an RV.
So-called graywater is wastewater generated from domestic use, while blackwater is wastewater from the bathroom.
The water recovered from graywater doesn't feel as off-putting, so Chen Xin considers it as supplementary drinking and domestic water. Meanwhile, he plans to use the water recovered from blackwater for irrigation.
In this way, it should ensure the use of water resources within the shelter before the environment stabilizes.
While the group was discussing their respective shelters, time was flying by swiftly.
Though for the 6 billion people worldwide, it was just a brief moment, maybe only an hour had passed, it was the most challenging hour in human history.
Just when everyone was about to give up, a violent bright light burst from the meteor's surface, and a space shuttle couldn't heed the debris flow around the meteor any longer, forcibly taking off from the meteor's surface.
Behind the space shuttle, the Tsar Bomb flashed once again in the cosmos, as the Federation team accomplished their mission.
Through the screen of the TV displaying the footage from Flame Country's spacecraft, Chen Xin widened his mouth in awe, watching the colossal meteor, like a majestic mountain, erupt in brilliant light in space and then split into two, his heart instantly overwhelmed with joy.
He couldn't help but shout, "Success!"
The meteor was blasted apart and split into two blocks as planned, a big one and a small one with different volumes.
The Federation team successfully completed their mission.
But why did only one space shuttle return, where is the other one? Could it be...
"Houston, this is Endeavour! We completed the mission, the nuclear bomb has detonated!" On the TV screen, NASA's command center hears Endeavour's voice loudly asking NASA, "Has the meteor been blasted apart? Was our mission successful?"
Since they were escaping the meteor to evade harm from the nuclear explosion, they didn't know at that moment that the meteor behind them had already split into two, completing their task.
But NASA witnessed it all through the camera on the Flame Country's spacecraft, thus the expert previously interviewed by journalists quickly informed them of the good news, "The meteor has been blasted apart! Endeavour! You have successfully completed your mission! Congratulations, you did a fantastic job!"
"Really? That's great!" Endeavour soon erupted with cheers, evidently the astronauts were cheering for accomplishing their task.
However, NASA's expert noticed that only one shuttle returned from the meteor and posed the question, "Endeavour, this is Houston. Where is Atlantis? Did they return?"
This question suddenly plunged Endeavour into silence, until about half a minute later, a response came, "We were affected by the meteor's gravity while landing, deviated from the planned position, and could only undergo a crash landing. Atlantis crashed during the emergency landing, survivors found us, and we completed the mission together."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xin felt a solemn respect, honoring the brave astronauts on Atlantis who sacrificed their lives to save Blue Planet.
"Return home, heroes." Endeavour finished telling Atlantis's story while NASA ordered them to return—at this moment they were the most spotlighted individuals on Blue Planet, with a grand celebration awaiting them.