The Spring Festival of 2018 happened to be the day after Valentine's Day. Jiang Chen returned to the apocalypse on Valentine's Day, February 14th. After spending a wonderful Valentine's Day with Sun Jiao, he then met with the girls and the subordinates of the Fish Bone Base. We spent the Spring Festival and New Year's Eve together.
On the 17th, the second day of the Lunar New Year, the time agreed with the Beluga Undersea Research Station came. Jiang Chen arrived at Yizhou Island on an airship transporting supplies. This time, Lin Ling went with him. I heard that there is a deuterium refinery in Taipei, Yizhou Island, and a small nuclear fusion power station with a high degree of survival.
Because of long-distance power transmission and the lunar helium 3 mining base, the nuclear fusion power stations on the earth in front of the station have basically been moved to the moon. Some of the remaining larger nuclear power stations were also baptized by nuclear strikes during the war. If you want to use this Finding a complete nuclear fusion power station in the wasteland is almost impossible.
Therefore, when Jiang Chen heard that there was such a nuclear power plant on Yizhou Island, he immediately became interested in it. Especially the supporting deuterium refinery. Although using deuterium as nuclear fuel is not as environmentally friendly as helium 3, now is not the time to be picky.
For the Sixth District, which has Yajing as its energy source, nuclear power plants do not seem particularly attractive, but for today's world, especially for new countries that rely entirely on imported energy, nuclear fusion power plants will have extraordinary value. .
Especially Penglai City, which is about to be opened.
If cold fusion technology can be used, among other things, the 100,000 acres of seaweed power generation project originally planned to be added to the nearby sea area will be directly cancelled, as will the 12 large ocean current generator units and 150 wind turbines. Not only that, but it can also drive down electricity costs to a terrifying level.
Of course, this technology can be used secretly. It would be better to wait until the space elevator is developed before making it public.
There were only a few nuclear experts in Wanghai City, and the only one who knew Jiang Chen's secret was Lin Ling, so he took her with him. It just so happens that the work on the Eden Garden is coming to an end. When the last project is completed after the spring, the Eden Garden, which took more than a year, will be declared completed.
The purpose of Jiang Chen's trip was to transport the base of the space elevator, recover nuclear technology, and solve the minor troubles encountered by the expeditionary force.
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It has been a month since the expeditionary force landed.
When Jiang Chen arrived at Yizhou Island, Captain Li Wang immediately arranged a clean and comfortable room for him, summarized the intelligence and mission logs collected over the past month and presented them to him, and handed over the temporary command right.
Immediately after landing, Li Wang sent expedition soldiers to explore Taipei and its suburbs, and built a simple cement fortress and lighthouse on the sea cliff at the northern end of Yizhou Island, as well as an elevator for airships to dock.
Compared to the war-torn inland, although Yizhou Island also had traces of war, it was not as tragic as Wanghai City. It was not directly hit by a nuclear attack. Most of the high-rise buildings in the city are intact. Most of the radiation that permeates the island comes from radioactive fallout blown from Southeast Asia.
However, one thing here is almost the same as on land, and that is the abnormally growing plants, as well as the hideous-looking alien species and zombies.
Vines and dry branches cover the high-rise buildings, and the cracked road is full of craters. Hidden in the shadows is a wolf-shaped creature with sharp beaks and claws. The soldiers of the expeditionary force called it a "ghoul." The creatures it attacks often don't even leave much of their bones.
But this is not the scariest thing.
Although these ghouls are scary, two bullets are enough to kill them. However, facing a mire crab whose carapace is as thick as steel and whose moving speed is unambiguous, a rifle is not that instilling a sense of security.
Especially these mire crabs move in groups, which is a nightmare.
And the trouble these expeditionary forces encountered was precisely related to these mire crabs...
The next day, the patrol exploring the island was on duty as usual and returned to the camp before dark.
Unlike usual, this time they also brought back a local.
The guards searched behind him, displayed the weapons and crossbow arrows on him for safekeeping, and then brought him to Jiang Chen.
It was still snowing in the wasteland in February, and even on Yizhou Island further south, traces of falling snow could be seen. I saw this man wearing an old gray jacket with some sloppy mud on his body. With tanned skin and a shaved head, he looked like an honest farmer, but those little eyes that glanced around revealed his shrewdness.
"What's your name?" Jiang Chen looked at her
"I, Chen Guangning, do business in Taipei and the southern Fujian area along the mainland's coast. If you need a guide, I will definitely be the most suitable person." Chen Guangning smiled honestly and said respectfully.
Other locals may not have heard of the name NAC, but as a businessman who often travels to southern Fujian, he has heard about this name that emerged in Wanghai City. In two years, he wiped out all the major forces in Wanghai City with thunderous force, and brought the entire Wanghai City and even the survivor settlements in Suzhou and Hangzhou Province under his rule.
The man in front of him is the leader of NAC.
If he could get in touch with people from NAC, it would definitely be of great benefit to his business. So when the NAC expeditionary force came to the survivor settlement in Taipei to look for people, and the other survivors looked at each other and expressed distrust, he volunteered to go there without saying a word and came to the expeditionary force's fortress.
Jiang Chen smiled and asked directly.
"I will consider your suggestion. Before that, I have a question to ask you."
"Excuse me, sir." Chen Guangning said respectfully.
"Tell me the details of the Calamity Moon." Jiang Chen asked the question he was most concerned about.
The so-called Disaster Moon is what the locals call the mire crab landing. However, the NAC expeditionary force knew very little about this disaster that lasted for several months. The locals were very repelled by this outsider who suddenly broke into their homeland. Although the two sides got along well and there were occasional material transactions, the dialogue was still kept to a limited extent.
After hearing Jiang Chen's question, Chen Guangning immediately answered.
"Every March, mud crabs lurking in shallow waters will come ashore from the northeastern shore of Yizhou Island to lay eggs. Usually at this time, survivors in Taipei will hide in the air-raid shelter in the center of Taipei City, waiting until the mud crabs leave before coming out. Yizhou Island The practices in other regions cannot help but be the same. The number of mire crabs is really beyond human power, so it is called the Moon of Disaster."
As strong scavengers, these mire crabs particularly like places where survivors have lived. Whenever they come, they are like locusts passing through, destroying the survivors' settlements and leaving behind a lot of sticky follicles.
Cleaning these follicles is very dangerous. If you are not careful, small mud crabs may have successfully hatched inside. Destroying the follicles will also release the small mud crabs. Although not as scary as mature mire crabs, small mire crabs can still cause considerable casualties to survivors.
"How many months will it take for this calamity month to end?" Jiang Chen pondered.
"Generally speaking, it's the summer solstice." Chen Guangning replied.
Summer solstice
That would be more than three months later. The first batch of materials for the space elevator base was about to be delivered, and Jiang Chen was not willing to wait that long. On the other hand, due to the influence of the Calamity Moon, the exploration of nuclear power plants will also have to be postponed.
He wanted to get these two things sorted out as quickly as possible if possible.
Frowning slightly, Jiang Chen asked again.
"For these mire crabs... do you have any solutions?"
Chen Guangning smiled helplessly.
"If I could think of a solution, I would have become the leader of these survivors." (.)