It was morning shift time when the alarm sounded. Those who worked the night shift went back to sleep, and those who worked the morning shift were carrying steamed buns and soy milk in their hands. Cadres and workers from various positions were crowded in the main cave of 151, and a long queue was in the 104 temple. Diversion, Phytolacca was dozing off in the carriage of the cable car. He had been reviewing the general phase and Riemannian geometry the night before until midnight, and wanted to take a nap in the cable car. Suddenly, a low and whining wind conch siren roared from the end of the tunnel. Coming, the compressed sound echoed layer by layer in the long and narrow tunnel, as if a low roar came from the throat of a giant beast, and everyone was stunned.
A few seconds later, all kinds of mobile phone notification tones sounded throughout the tunnel. Everyone lowered their heads and took out their mobile phones from their pockets. There was only the same text message on the large and small square screens:
"Warning: Level 1 Contact."
Before everyone could recover, the second text message had already arrived:
"Warning: Level 2 Contact."
The information is refreshed again after half a second:
"Warning: Level 3 Contact."
Three text messages in two seconds. The entire 151 was stunned. Thousands of brains were briefly blank for three seconds. Most of the cadres and employees in non-combat positions spent a few more seconds wondering what the third level of contact meant. Temple 104 There was silence for about half a second, and then the crowd exploded. Everyone instantly switched from the lazy and dozing state of just waking up to athletes sprinting 100 meters, including those from the headquarters, the political department, the logistics department, and the equipment department. People from the factory, the workshop system, the direct team, those doing service work, and those responsible for fire protection all stumbled towards their fighting positions in the chaos.
"Holy shit! Don't fucking squeeze, don't squeeze!"
"Lao Zhang! Lao Zhang!"
"Confidentially, go this way! Confidentially, go this way—! Don't block the way!"
Phytolacca felt dizzy, and when he looked down, he saw safety helmets of various colors crowded together, and dark red warning lights spinning, making it noisy and chaotic. There was also a commotion in the cable car cabin. Cell phone ringtones were ringing one after another. Everyone was yelling at their mobile phones. However, the cable car had not yet arrived at the station. The people in the cable car were locked and suspended in mid-air and could not get off. A friend was anxious and said, He opened the window of the carriage and tried to jump from a height of four or five stories, but was dragged back by others.
Soon the first call came in. When Shanglu looked at the caller ID, it was the landline number of the operator's office.
The caller was his uncle. Wang Xiangbing’s voice was thick and anxious:
"Director! Director! Director, where are you?"
"I'm on the 104 cable car." Phytolacca held the microphone of his cell phone with his hand and spoke.
"Level 3 contact warning! Director, the entire labor office is evacuating. Go and take shelter! Go and take shelter!" Wang Xiangbing yelled, "Don't come to the workshop! Don't come to the workshop..."
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Shu snatched the microphone away.
"director?"
"It's me." Phytolacca said.
The little girl suppressed her voice and tried her best to stay calm. She spoke quickly and trembled slightly:
"Director, listen carefully. If there is a sudden level three contact, 151 will definitely be doomed. I don't know how many people will die. It is not safe to evacuate anywhere."
Phytolacca held the phone and remained silent.
"But there is a safest place, you know... Guren has just completed preparations for today's routine training. She is also here, go quickly."
After Bai Shu finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
The call at the labor office ended, and then a second call came in, and it was Chen Yu's number.
"I finally got through to you, little chief engineer, where the hell are you?" Chen Yu was out of breath, "Level 3 contact alert!"
"I know."
"You can be more fucking indifferent." Chen Yu sneered. It's true that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry. "The nuclear bomb is about to explode in front of you, so your death won't be painful, right? Evacuate! Evacuate! Evacuate! Leave the underground base! Otherwise, if the base collapses, everyone will be buried alive. Do you remember what it says in your manual?"
"Remember." Phytolacca said.
"Run away if you remember." Chen Yu said, "Don't worry about anything, turn off your phone, and don't do anything anyone asks you to do!"
Chen Yu hung up the phone. The cable car car arrived at the station at this time. As soon as the car door opened, the passengers rushed out, and Phytolactin lagged behind. He was worried, holding the phone and not knowing what he was thinking.
After getting off the platform, Phytolacca was staggered by the oncoming rushing crowd. The workers and cadres in Temple 104 were all running in one direction, which was the direction to escape from the tunnel. Most people were going there. Refuge. Sudden third-level contact is equivalent to an angel suddenly descending overhead without warning, countermeasures or plan. Faced with this situation, staying in the base is to die, except for a few warriors and giant machine pilots who are destined to live and die with the base. Members, other people’s work manuals say running.
Phytolacca went upstream, struggled to get into the stream of people taking refuge, and squeezed in the direction of Workshop 110.
Someone recognized Phytolacca and grabbed his sleeve:
"Businessmen! Businessmen! Level three contact alert!"
He was a young confidential officer who had met Shanglu on several occasions. He yelled at Shanglu in the midst of the noisy crowd and sirens.
"Level 3 contact alert! Evacuate! Evacuate! Don't go to the workshop!"
He thought that Phytolacca had lost his mind and went to work when a disaster was imminent, so he grabbed Phytolacca's arm and tried to pull him away.
Shang Lu shook his head at him, broke free of his arm, turned around and disappeared into the crowd.
"Hey - Shang Gong! Shang..."
The shrill siren quickly drowned out the other party's shouts.
The third call came in, and Phytolacca answered it while running towards the 110 workshop. The further he ran, the fewer people there were. Everyone in the workshop should have been evacuated.
The caller was Old Man Ji. Mr. Ji coughed and said:
"Baby, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, I'm evacuating." Shanglu crossed the long bridge over the artificial underground river, and the towering and solid steel gate of Cave 110 was right in front of him. Suddenly, there was a dull roar from nowhere, and the whole earth was shaken. , Phytolacca almost fell to the ground. The sound was like hundreds of tons of RDX explosives detonating inside the mountain. Fine gravel fell overhead. Phytolacca looked around nervously. He I don't know what happened, but I could hear someone screaming in the background of Old Man Ji on the phone.
"That's good."
Old Man Ji hung up the phone and coughed violently in the thick smoke.
He is currently at the other end of the main cave 104 of Base 151, just on opposite ends of Phytolacca. The 151 base is a huge H-shape when viewed from a high altitude. The vertical line on the left is the 104 main cave. The northernmost end of the 104 main cave is the 110 cave warehouse, which is the No. 1 giant equipment workshop. The southernmost end is the 101 reactor hall, which houses the nuclear reactor. containment - a minute and a half ago, Old Man Ji received a report of a nuclear reactor failure.
The core energy source of the 151 support base is a 500MW pressurized water reactor. The structure is very traditional, but fortunately the technology is mature. It is the core of the normal operation of the entire support base. There are a total of 480 fuel rods in the core, generating 10 million kWh a day. , cooled by water from the Jialing River. The main body of the reactor is placed in the 101 Reactor Hall. This is a huge cavity in the mountain. It is more than thirty meters long and wide. There are twelve floors from bottom to top. In fact, the core fuel rods at the core of the reactor are only one meter high. , but it is wrapped in layers of shielding layers and containment shells. The entire cement containment shell is finally a huge cylinder three or four stories high and surrounded by several adults.
The main working plane of Reactor Hall 101 is on the fourth floor. There is a pit more than ten meters deep in the center of the floor. The containment vessel of the reactor is placed in this pit.
Theoretically speaking, the 151 nuclear reactor is the safest reactor in the world. Not only does it have the shielding layer and containment that other reactors have, it also has an indestructible natural barrier. The dozens of meters thick rocky mountain in Nanshan is not even afraid of nuclear weapons. But it's a pity that what it faced was not an aerial bomb, but an angel.
Old Man Ji is currently one of the few people in the base who knows about the existence of the Sword Angel, but he doesn't know what form the Sword Angel is. Yesterday's meeting said that the existence of a new angel was confirmed, and today he said that a detection operation will be launched - —As a result, the detection results did not come out, and the level three contact alarm went off first.
At the same time as the level three alarm sounded, the nuclear leakage alarm also sounded.
"Mr. Ji! Mr. Ji! New report, there is a mountain collapse, the entire control system is destroyed..." The maintenance engineer in the 101 reactor hall jumped out wearing a gas mask, "The RCS is red, there are problems with the primary and secondary circuits, The reactor has shut down!"
"Are there any casualties?"
"Currently, seventeen people are dead."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another muffled sound from somewhere, and sand fell from the top of his head.
"A leak was found in the hot pipe section! A leak was found in the hot pipe section -!" someone shouted hysterically.
"The containment refueling water tank is damaged! Repeat that! The cmt is damaged!"
“Main pump shut down—!”
This throat is broken by roaring.
The nuclear engineers in Reactor Hall 101 are the ones who don't care about the level three contact alarm. In their eyes, the reactor is huge. If the nuclear reactor explodes before they can evacuate, they have to stay and fix the reactor first.
People wearing white three-proof suits were running in the tunnel. There were engineers, firefighters and health workers. They were carrying stretchers and carrying the wounded. Those people were unconscious with blood on their heads. They didn’t know the extent of their injuries. What’s even more terrifying was that they were unconscious. Black body bags were brought out one after another. It was said that the mountain collapsed and smashed through the four floors. The entire nuclear reactor control room was neatly flattened. It was impossible for the six people in the control room to find the complete body.
"RCS system failed! The cooling system is unresponsive!"
"PRHR system failed! The passive waste heat removal system is unresponsive! The computer is offline!"
"The psis system failed! The safety injection system is stuck! It's stuck!"
"Zirconium-water reaction detected! The hydrogen concentration in the containment vessel has increased! Damn it, it's going to explode!"
Old Man Ji stared and watched the temperature of the reactor core on the tablet rise sharply. Soon it would burn through the shielding layer and containment. Once the reactor melted down and the nuclear fuel was out of human control and exposed to the outside environment, the entire 151 base would be destroyed. ,
He coughed violently again, and the tunnel was filled with thin white smoke. The smell was obviously pungent, and he didn't know what was causing it.
"Containment pressure limit?"
"Two MPa and over."
Old Man Ji glanced at the pressure in the reactor containment vessel, which was close to 2 MPa, and stretched out his hand:
"Find me a loudspeaker."
With the trumpet in hand, Old Man Ji took a deep breath, climbed to a high place, faced the busy crowds in the tunnel, and shouted:
"Everyone has—!"
Whether it was the engineers and firefighters in the 101 reactor hall, or the health workers who were busy bandaging people for first aid, they all stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Old Man Ji.
"Comrades, the reactor is about to be finished. As I speak to you, radionuclides are migrating, and they will soon burn through the shielding layer and containment. Once the containment is burned through, the entire 151 will be finished. "Old man Ji said, "But we still have the last chance to save it and lower the temperature of the entire reactor core. Even if the control system is completely destroyed by the angels, we still have manpower!"
"I need a group of people to follow me to the bottom of the pot and manually open the pressure relief valve." Old Man Ji looked around and said, "Don't just look around, everyone has to get in!"
Everyone was surprised and uneasy.
"Everyone is here! Stand at attention——!" Old Man Ji shouted angrily, "Those under the age of 40 who are unmarried and have no children, come out!"
Young people came out.
"You take the wounded and evacuate quickly." Old Man Ji said, "The rest of you will follow me. No matter what you do, party members and cadres will be the first batch, and everyone else will be the second batch!"
The remaining people present put on three-proof clothing and took iodine tablets. Old Man Ji spoke in his strong Chongqing dialect and explained the mission objectives to them in as simple a language as possible:
"Listen up, go in through the little door at the bottom and come out through the little door on the opposite side. You must move quickly! Don't talk, don't look around, don't delay, line up and come one by one, half a minute for each person, and twist first when entering. That red pressure relief valve, no matter whether it can be turned or not, will stop for ten seconds at most. Remember, hold it by yourself and stop for ten seconds at most! It must be removed after ten seconds! Do you understand?"
Old Man Ji had already changed his clothes. He was wearing a bulky three-proof suit, carrying a gas mask in one hand and a loudspeaker in the other to shout to the crowd.
"The bottom of the pot is the area with the strongest radiation. It is very dangerous. The clothes you are wearing can only protect you for half a minute. Don't make fun of your own life!"
Old Man Ji lowered his tone and continued:
"Only when the pressure in the containment is removed, can the water injection tank inject boron water for cooling. Comrades, when the reactor is finished, 151 will also be finished. Once 151 is finished, all mankind will be finished. To tell you the truth. , now the containment vessel of the reactor is full of hydrogen, and it might explode when the seeds are released. If you happen to hit the explosion when you go in, your life will be bad, but you still have to go... Concentrate! Pay attention to the time! Get in line! Everyone All of them! Shout it to me again, ten seconds!"
The crowd chanted it sparsely for ten seconds.
"You haven't eaten yet? How can you save 151 like this? How can you save all mankind?" Old Man Ji shouted angrily, "Do it again! Ten seconds!"
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The sound in the tunnel was like thunder:
"Ten seconds!"
Old Man Ji nodded, threw away the horn, put on a gas mask, zipped up the three-proof suit, turned around and was the first to get under the pot in the reactor hall.
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Shanglu rushed to the workshop out of breath and took the elevator up to the working surface. At this time, almost everyone in the 110 workshop had evacuated, and he was the only one running wildly. Guren has indeed done all the preparation work. It has no combat mission today, just routine training, but it happened to catch up with the level three contact alert. This is what Baishu means - it is better to find Guren than to seek refuge anywhere. There is no place. Safer than Guren's cockpit.
Shen Jiang was fully armed and was standing on the corridor entering the cabin. He turned around and saw a young man wearing a white safety helmet appearing on the working surface. He was not surprised, as if he knew in advance that he was coming.
She threw the oxygen mask to Phytolacca, "In order to wait for you, a VIP, the flight has been delayed for three minutes."
Shanglu took off his coat, put on his mask, and followed Shen Jiang into the cockpit of the giant machine. This was his second time sitting in Honglian, and he was already familiar with the car.
"Is it the Sword Angel?" Shanglu asked.
"I can't say for sure." Shen Jiang nodded, "Neither the Joint Command Center nor the base headquarters had time to give me more information. We don't know the damage to the base at the moment. I have been staying in the workshop doing Honglian's routine this morning. Training preparations, I had just changed clothes when the level three contact alert went off.”
The spherical cockpit gradually sank into the giant machine, the surrounding area dimly lit up, and irgf was injected.
"Where are we going now?" Phytolacca asked.
"Run away." Shen Jiang said.
"Run away?" Phytolacca was a little surprised.
"What else do you want to do if you don't run away?" Shen Jiang glanced at him, "Are you going to deal with the angel with your bare hands? Honglian is not even armed now. Without instructions from his superiors, he encounters a sudden level three contact warning, a giant weapon The only thing I have to do is to protect myself and get out of the danger zone as quickly as possible. This is my plan."
Irgf gradually filled the cockpit, and the two people slowly levitated. The ethereal and powerful female voice echoed in the workshop, and the giant machine Red Lotus was breaking away from the umbilical cord system.
"According to regulations, we have to run as fast as possible. If 151 is really breached, then we Honglian are the last hope and have a chance to make a comeback. We can keep the green hills without fear of running out of firewood and losing people. , people and land will be lost, people will lose their land, people and land will be saved." Shen Jiang's reasons were consistent, "Save your strength and fight back!"
"If the human world is finished, leader, what's the point of fighting back?"
"Then you can at least avenge all mankind, right? You can get back your money by asking two angels to support you before you die." Shen Jiang looked forward, and Honglian moved to the cave door, "Of course, if the human world is really over , there’s no point in going to an angel for revenge, I won’t do such a stupid thing, it’s better to go to the Antarctic in a red lotus than go to an angel to die.”
"Can it drive to the South Pole?"
"How do you know if you don't try?" Shen Jiang said, "This place is 10,569.2 kilometers away from the Antarctic continent. Most of the distance in the middle is the ocean, which requires swimming. Assuming that Honglian has an average speed of fifty kilometers per hour and runs 600 kilometers a day, it only takes Eighteen days.”
Shanglu was stunned for a moment, this man actually calculated the numbers seriously.
She really thought about driving a giant machine to Antarctica.
"But who knows what is going on outside? Where is safe and where is dangerous? Which angel came? No one knows. Now the Joint Command Center cannot be contacted. The headquarters is confused. Everyone is trying to figure out what happened. ." Shen Jiang frowned, "If Angel No. 093 is true, as they said, moving at a speed exceeding Mach 23, then it should have passed through the Sichuan Basin at this moment."
"Then 151 is safe." Phytolacca said.
"not necessarily."
Shen Jiang shook his head.
Hong Lian left the cave. The cockpit of the giant weapon had an excellent view. Phytolacca turned his head and looked back. His expression suddenly changed. He saw thick smoke billowing from the other side of the mountain.
Something happened.
