After Luo Yaan left, the meeting was reconvened again.
Bi Jianping spread a circle of cigarettes, took out another one, and lit it for himself. Suddenly, the entire conference room was filled with smoke and the smell was intoxicating.
For a moment, no one spoke. The news they just received from Luo Yuan was like a bolt from the blue. Even now, everyone's minds are still in a daze, and they can't calm down.
When thinking that human beings are on the verge of extinction and the earth is being destroyed, everyone can't help but feel a sense of despair.
"The situation is far more severe than we previously suspected. We must be prepared for a long-term war of resistance. How much material reserves do we still have? I mean water and food." After a while, Bi Jianping broke the silence and said.
These two are the top priority of all supplies. As long as the problem of food and water is solved, it is hoped that no matter how chaotic the city is, it will not cause chaos.
"If the power cannot be restored for a long time, it can probably last for three months." A deputy mayor in charge of agriculture said: "Although the agricultural area can still produce normally, there has been no light, and even mutant plants cannot function normally. Growth, and the source of water resources in Hope City is pumping groundwater, which also requires electricity. It can be said that without electricity, the entire Hope City will be completely in dire straits. "
"It seems that the top priority is to restore power first!" Bi Jianping said with a serious expression.
"But all our power plants were thermal power plants built on the ground. Now they have been destroyed, and even the wreckage may not be found. There are several sets of steam turbines in the warehouse for power generation, but how to find the fuel for power generation? We are now They are all trapped underground, and there is no way out unless the houses in Hope City are demolished!" A mayor in charge of industry took a deep breath on his cigarette and said.
"This is a temporary measure!" Bi Jianping said: "But even if all the houses in Hope City are burned as fuel, how long we can hold on depends on when the storm subsides!"
At this time, the ground shook violently again, and then there was a muffled sound above the head. Everyone's expressions changed. It was obvious that something had collapsed. The earthquake lasted for dozens of seconds before it calmed down.
From yesterday to now, earthquakes have occurred more than a dozen times in a row, and the frequent earthquakes have made me a little numb. After a while, the meeting continued.
"I think we still have at least some reserves of food and water, so we can relax for the time being. However, the issue of keeping warm cannot be postponed for a day. Now the temperature has begun to drop rapidly, and it is estimated that the cold winter will usher in within a day or two. In the past, because of the year-round temperature "It's appropriate, everyone is generally short of warm clothing, and I'm afraid there will be widespread freezing to death." The Propaganda Minister pointed out the upcoming crisis.
Everyone looked haggard, but there was no solution at all. There was naturally a lot of clothing in stock, but most of them were combat uniforms made of fiber cloth. Even the quilts were light and thin. Such clothing could not be used at all. To withstand the coming winter.
"I would also like to mention that since last night, the number of people who have committed suicide has exceeded 20,000. Now the people are quite pessimistic. Coupled with the problem of freezing to death mentioned by Comrade Zhou Wenbo, I think we should be more vigilant." Politics and Law Party Secretary Li Feng rubbed his brows and said with some haggard energy: "Moreover, our number of police officers is already seriously insufficient, and we must urgently recruit another batch."
Everyone looked silent, and a feeling of powerlessness arose spontaneously.
Today's Hope City has completely become an island. The external environment is deteriorating, and people are panicking inside. The situation has become difficult, like a tight steel wire. It can still barely maintain order. This is the result of the inertia of order and the concealment of the truth. .
Once the power system is unable to be restored, darkness continues to envelope the underground city, and winter approaches, under the constant accumulation of depression and despair, the entire Hope City will collapse, and public security will deteriorate sharply. At that time, only the tens of thousands of people left in Hope City will An ordinary military policeman is a drop in the bucket and exhausted!
And this is just considering ordinary people...
Hope City has many evolvers and a sharp sword department. This department is completely independent of the city government. The two have no subordinate relationship. If the reconstruction area was still there before, they could still communicate and coordinate, but now no one knows , whether the other party will have other thoughts.
What's even more troublesome is that Hope City's sword department is still a direct descendant of that person. With the opponent's ability to kill aliens, the combined strength of Hope City is not enough.
Force is the basis of all power. Without force, existing rights will become castles in the air and teetering on the edge.
"I think we should bring in Minister Luo. We can't exclude him. With his presence, at least the Evolvers will be stable." At this time, Organization Minister Ye Yonglai finally broke the news that everyone had been vaguely avoiding but could not avoid. open topic.
"I think it's okay, but when the time comes, what position will be assigned? He has the rank of lieutenant general. In terms of rank, he is higher than all of us. And in terms of merits to mankind, no one can compare with Minister Luo. He saved He saved mankind, and in a sense, he also saved everyone here!" Bi Jianping said before he finished speaking.
Some people's expressions changed slightly after hearing this, and they vaguely felt that a storm was brewing. Today's decision is destined to go down in history.
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On the way back, Luo Yuan felt that the temperature was a bit cold. It was already April. At this time, the temperature in the morning was usually around thirty-five degrees, but at this time, it was not even ten degrees.
He quickened his pace and walked towards his home. The villa was also dark inside, with only a few simple oil lamps made by an unknown person, emitting a dim light in the living room.
But just these few dim oil lamps made Luo Yuan feel a trace of warmth again in his heart that had been cold and silent since last night.
When several women saw Luo Yuan, their eyes turned red. Since the drastic changes occurred in the reconstruction area last night and they discovered that Luo Yuan was missing, they began to worry. They were afraid that something bad had happened to Luo Yuan. Just as his woman, they would I have long been used to having to endure this constant fear.
"Okay, don't cry, everything is fine."
"You haven't eaten yet, I'll cook for you!" Huang Jiahui wiped away her tears and said.
Luo Yuan nodded: "I'm not very hungry, just cook something casually."
His body now has two energy systems, one is powered by mitochondrial cold fusion, and the other is powered by remaining food. The former has basically replaced the latter. For him, it doesn't matter whether he eats or not. But still can't do without water.
In the afternoon, officials came to visit one after another. The difference was that when they came before, these people would bring some gifts with them, but this time they came empty-handed. Everyone was respectful and cautious.
While this made Luo Yuan confused, he also vaguely caught something. The entire situation in Hope City seemed to be turbulent and treacherous.
In the evening, Master Wang, who was out watching the excitement, hurried in.
"Brother Luo, did you really destroy the aliens and save the reconstruction area?" Before she could even catch her breath, she blinked and asked with a look of surprise on her face, as if she was meeting Luo Yuan for the first time.
"How do you know?" Luo Yuan said with a surprised look. He didn't tell his family at all about aliens.
"The government officials outside are spreading propaganda. Are there really aliens, and you killed them?" Wang Shishi said in surprise.
His villa is located in a remote area, with few people living nearby. It is quiet and quiet, and there is no news. He listened attentively for a while, and suddenly various subtle sounds penetrated his ears. Sure enough, he heard someone a few kilometers away making propaganda. deeds.
Huang Jiahui and others nearby looked surprised when they heard Wang Shishi's words. As for the newcomer Ye Qiuyu, she covered her mouth in surprise.
Luo Yuan had no choice but to briefly tell the story about the aliens from beginning to end. Then he ignored the disbelief looks of several women and pondered secretly in his heart.
This time, the city government pushed him to the position of a hero and savior of mankind.
Now all the people in Hope City are panic-stricken and despair about the future. The government's propaganda against him has undoubtedly injected a boost into the people's already desperate hearts.
It's just that this kind of momentum, for the Hope City Government, is completely poisonous to quench thirst. While creating a god, it also means that power has been shaken. This is also when the reconstruction area is still there. No matter how great achievements Luo Yuan has made, in addition to the awards behind him, , there was never any explicit reason for publicity.
This also led to the fact that except for some upper-level officials who knew something about Luo Yuan, ordinary people knew nothing about him.
It was clear that the city government could no longer maintain the situation this time and was ready to cede power.
In fact, even if they cling to power, Luo Yuan will force them to hand it over.
He is not a person with a strong desire for power, and he has little interest in ruling the reconstruction area.
It’s just that the current situation of mankind seems to have passed through a disaster, but in fact the crisis has not really ended at all. Ignoring the long nuclear winter that will follow, the Bosnian spacecraft is likely to come again. This time he is lucky enough to have killed all the aliens. , but there is absolutely no guarantee that I will be so lucky next time.
What's more, once they come again, the power of this group of aliens will definitely be even more terrifying.
If he wanted to continue the human race, Luo Yuan had to think about it and had no choice but to escape to the universe on a Bosian spacecraft.
But he has the highest authority of the spaceship. Unless he dies, he cannot be transferred at all. At that time, any decision-making will be inseparable from him. Instead of being constrained and intrigued at every turn, it is better to do his job.
In fact, the city government is more urgent than imagined, which also shows that the situation in Hope City is more severe.
It wasn't even the next day, it was just six o'clock in the evening, and the senior officials of the municipal government came to his villa for a closed-door meeting.
No one except a few participants knew what was said at the meeting, but when they came out, everyone was wet with cold sweat and pale, with a suppressed excitement on their faces.
Luo Yuan originally thought that the situation could be delayed for at least ten days and a half, but he did not expect that the situation would be so urgent. It had almost reached the point where it could not be delayed for a moment.
At this time, the city government is completely like sitting on a powder keg, and it will completely explode at any time. No wonder, no one is trying to take over this hot potato.
That night, Luo Yuan entered the city hall and sat in the mayor's office.
Luo Yuan's first order was to summon all surviving power engineers, researchers from various laboratories, and a large number of workers in Hope City overnight, and then initiate warp flight directly in the office and leave Hope City.
An hour later, he returned from space with a five-meter-diameter metal ball in his hand.
This was a deep nuclear fusion furnace that was disassembled from the Boxing air-to-ground integrated aircraft that he first killed. It was packaged and shipped back by Luo Yuan along with its ancillary equipment, which could be regarded as waste.
This kind of Bo Xingren fusion furnace has extremely high technological content and is very safe. When the energy output stops, it will automatically jump to a dormant state.
As soon as it was placed on the ground of the city hall that had been urgently cleared out, a large number of researchers and engineers who had been summoned overnight gathered around it with strange expressions on their faces, with shock and excitement on their faces.
Every smooth and complex curved surface, every part made of special materials, and even every inscription on alien metal aroused everyone's amazement.
"Don't be surprised. I'll look at it later when I have time. Let's start testing one by one now, but pay attention to safety." Luo Yuan said.
The Boxing civilization and humans are two completely different civilizations, and no one here has ever been exposed to nuclear fusion, let alone the technological content of this direct thermoelectric conversion fusion furnace that far exceeds that of humans.
But this doesn’t need to be understood at all. As a kind of power output device, its basic principles are the same. They both output current through the positive and negative poles. What’s more, the more advanced the technology, the simpler the operation.
It has very few operation buttons, only three. After a little fumbling, I already understood the specific meaning of the words on several buttons.
Hibernate, shut down and start up.
When closed, the fusion furnace stops working completely and the fuel tank is unlocked, which can be easily pulled open by pulling on the surface.
After analysis by scientific researchers, the fuel inside is not other substances, nor is it ordinary hydrogen, nor is it the helium 3 used in human nuclear fusion, but a kind of ultrapure water. Of course, this is a deep fusion furnace, and even ordinary pure water does not matter.
Looking at the scene of these engineers carefully groping for the function of the button, the fusion furnace technology in the Boxing civilization has been quite mature and widely used. Even smart robots and smart bombs have their own miniature nuclear fusion furnaces. I wish I could stuff one into every item, so It is also very safe and comes with its own safety protection measures. There was no danger from the beginning to the end during the engineer's exploration, but Luo Yuan felt that it was necessary for him to go to the spacecraft and use his brain to print out the Bo Xing text and Chinese comparison materials into a book for organizational study.
It is conceivable that in the future, we will come into contact with more and more Bosian equipment. Not understanding the Bosing language will be a very troublesome and dangerous thing. At least until humans fully absorb Bosing technology, Bosing technology will Star language will be the most important foreign language.
By early morning, a large number of electrical engineers had begun small-scale experiments. When lights lit up in the hall, the hall that was originally dim under the oil lamp suddenly became brightly lit.
"Mayor, its maximum output power is amazing. The power is almost endless. Fortunately, it can automatically and intelligently adjust according to the usage. Otherwise, we would not be able to find a suitable transformer." A man who was lucky enough to escape the disaster said The chief engineer of the power station said excitedly to Luo Yuan.
"When can it be connected to the grid?" Luo Yuan asked. It is already early in the morning, and the temperature has become colder, reaching more than ten degrees below zero. If it continues, frostbite may soon occur.
"Wires throughout Hope City are still undergoing intensive maintenance. The electromagnetic pulse during the previous disaster caused most of the circuit light bulbs to burn out. We must first check and install it to make sure it is correct before we can connect it to the grid to generate electricity. It is estimated that it will not be until the afternoon of the third day. "Yes." The chief engineer couldn't help but feel nervous when facing Luo Yuan.
"It's been too long. The people can't wait so long." Luo Yuan shook his head and waved.
Deputy Mayor Bi Jianping, who was conducting the command nearby, trotted over quickly. Now he was in awe and fear of Luo Yuan. Hearing it was one thing, seeing it with his own eyes was another thing. In just one hour, a video camera The star's fusion furnace appeared here, which completely proved that what the other party said before was not false.
"It seems that we need to recruit more workers, do some simple training, and conduct circuit maintenance. During this period, we will start up part of the factory to fully produce heating equipment and warm clothes. I don't want to see people freezing to death. "
Outside, only the highly polluting metal smelting and chemical industries were destroyed, while more factories were preserved underground. There was no technical difficulty at all in producing heating equipment like this.
"I will take care of this matter immediately." Bi Jianping said quickly.
"Wait! There is one more thing." Luo Yuan stopped Bi Jianping again and said seriously: "Now is the time when people in Hope City are panicked. We can't let the people do nothing in the dark and think wildly. It's easy to get into trouble. We must let them move. Get up, go back and discuss the specific method with others, even if it causes some waste of materials, it doesn't matter. "