Soon, the car drove into the construction site of Life Sciences City.
The scene of hundreds of buildings being built at the same time is spectacular. Africa has never seen such a battle before. This spectacle has even given birth to a number of new professions there.
These new professionals are composed of idle local residents. Their task is to kill time every day by watching the floor rise. They are jokingly called "observers" by Chen Chen.
At first, Qian Wenhuan tried to drive away this group of people, but after several attempts to drive them away had no effect, he just let it go.
The only troublesome thing is that because of this group of people, various tools are often lost on the construction site. Although the loss is not big, it is disgusting if it happens more often.
As the car drove to the top of the hill, Chen Chen suddenly saw huge trucks coming and going at the foot of the hill. These trucks were loaded with sand, gravel and building materials. From a distance, they looked like a colony of industrious ants. And these roads are caves for ants to enter and exit...
This is an unprecedented event in Namibia.
At the feet, I saw several large drilling machines working continuously, and violent vibrations were heard. Although the seaside is mostly salt water, there are also a lot of fresh water resources as long as the aquiclude layer is penetrated.
In order to facilitate water collection, these construction teams directly drilled a well. Although Africa is arid, there is no shortage of underground water resources as long as the accurate location can be found.
It’s just that in Africa, local residents are more willing to run 10 kilometers a day to transport water from other places instead of digging wells in front of their homes.
This is a difference created by habits and environment.
When people from the outside world wonder why they would rather run ten kilometers a day to fetch water than dig a well, they are actually even more curious: "Why dig underground water? Isn't there enough water in the river to drink?"
Soon, along a repaired road, the vehicle drove to a huge wall.
This is a towering wall about ten meters high. There are barbed wire and monitors on the top of the wall. Chen Chen has only seen this kind of wall in prison.
At the gate of Chen Chen's community, there is an electronic fence gate. All trucks transporting goods need to be registered before they can enter or exit. Inside the gate, there is a huge storage area, where all goods are unloaded.
Only after the goods are unloaded and the trucks leave are workers on the construction site allowed to move forward to carry construction materials, directly eliminating contact between all workers in the community and the outside world.
At this time, seven or eight buildings in the community have been built. They have the same style as Zhongzhou District. They also have underground garages that connect the entire community. Following Qian Wenhuan's guidance, Cheng Chao drove directly into the underground garage. Entrance.
There are also many small transport vehicles in the underground garage. These transport vehicles come in and out, constantly transporting various materials into the underground garage door, like an abyss that can never be filled.
Obviously, the entrance to the underground base is here.
Inside the entrance of the underground garage was the last level. After passing the last level, Chen Chen finally saw a huge cave in the center of the underground garage.
Because it was still under construction, this bottomless hole was exposed in the middle of the underground garage without any cover. As Chen Chen got out of the car, he could immediately feel a bit of cold wind blowing up.
A large number of steel frames were erected messily on the four edges of the cave. These steel frames extended along the entrance of the cave to fix the outer walls of the cave to prevent collapse.
There is also a huge elevator fixed at the top of the cave, powered by dozens of diesel generators. These generators are placed messily nearby, constantly making deafening sounds.
"Hey, who is that!"
Qian Wenhuan was originally leading the way, but when he saw a man dressed as a foreman in front of the cave scolding other workers, he immediately shouted, "Come here."
"Mr. Qian, what's the matter?"
The man dressed as a foreman nodded and ran over, "Hey, who are these two beside you?"
"This is Mr. Chen, the boss of our company. Now we need to visit the construction site. If you are familiar with this place, find us a guide." Qian Wenhuan was too lazy to be polite and ordered directly.
"It turns out to be Boss Chen!" The man dressed as a foreman's eyes lit up. He didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he stepped forward and stretched out his hands, "Nice to meet you!"
Chen Chen did not hesitate and shook hands with the other party with a natural expression.
Now that others have shown their attitude, no matter whether they are asking for help or not, there is no need for Chen Chen to act arrogant. Anyway, no one owes anyone.
This scene made Qian Wenhuan smile awkwardly, and quickly corrected his attitude that had been a bit erratic recently.
Seeing that Chen Chen did not look down on him, the man smiled even more happily, "Don't look for a guide. If you don't mind, I will just be a guide for you." He looked at Chen Chen expectantly.
"Of course I can't ask for it." Chen Chen nodded, "I wonder what your surname is?"
"My name is Hai Sanchuan, the sea of Hai Dafu, the three of one, two, three, the river of mountains and rivers..."
The man took out a cigarette and handed it to the three of them. Chen Chen took it naturally, but when the other party wanted to light a cigarette for him, he waved his hand to indicate that he was not smoking now.
"Hai Sanchuan, it's all three..." Qian Wenhuan joked subconsciously, but Chen Chen looked at him and shut up immediately.
"Hey, I don't know why my dad gave me this name."
Hai Sanchuan smiled nonchalantly and led the three people to the big cave. He pointed at the huge cave and said, "The big hole dug here is about five meters long. It was dug directly with a large drilling platform for a month. , this is a big project.”
"It's ugly now, but when it's completed, the outer wall of the big hole will be fixed with steel plates, and it will be beautiful by then."
As Hai Sanchuan explained, the elevator in the center of the cave suddenly began to whine and rotate, and several arm-thick steel cables began to shrink rapidly, as if trying to pull something out of the ground.
"It takes about five minutes to rise from the ground to here."
As if he was afraid that Chen Chen wouldn't be able to wait, Hai Sanchuan added, "It may seem very slow, but it is already very fast in a freight elevator. According to the average speed, it rises and falls by more than two meters per second."
Following Hai Sanchuan's explanation, a freight elevator platform was raised. Several workers were stunned when they saw Chen Chen and others, but they didn't say anything and began to move the mountains of materials on the side without saying a word.
"You guys can stop here and rest for ten minutes."
Handing three helmets with headlights to Chen Chen and the others, Hai Sanchuan gave orders to the workers and walked up with Chen Chen and the others.
To put it simply, this lifting platform is like a simple elevator, but the length, width and height are a bit exaggerated. For example, the length and width of this lifting platform are both four meters, and the height is more than five meters. It is surrounded by rollers, while guide rails are fixed on the outer wall of the cave outside.
Hai Sanchuan walked to the console on the side and pressed the button. Immediately, the lifting platform closed the door and began to slowly descend.
As the transport platform began to descend, Chen Chen looked to the outside world through the grid fence. Under the light of the miner's lamp, there was still red soil there at first. As it continued to descend, the soil outside turned into gray-brown rocks. This is where the entrance Rock layers.
The freight elevator platform was very stable without any bumps. It finally landed at the bottom five minutes later. Suddenly, a huge cave came into view.
The countless stalactite pillars that once were there were completely knocked down and replaced by hundreds of square cement pillars. These cement pillars replaced the former stalactite pillars and supported the cave more effectively.
The entire cave was brightly lit, and Chen Chen could see the end hundreds of meters away at a glance. This space was indeed a perfect hemispherical space as originally described.
In the center of the cave is a pyramid-shaped building, but unlike the Egyptian pyramids, this building is closer to the shape of the Mayan pyramids.
What's even more amazing is that the entire building is made of steel, like a pyramid made of steel, standing in the center of the cave, and even directly touching the top of the cave.
Here is the top-level laboratory that Chen Chen has dreamed of. Unlike the biosafety laboratory on the surface, which only has the highest level 4, here Chen Chen will build a biosafety laboratory capable of confining aliens and studying tyrannosaurs, with the highest level reaching the world's unprecedented level 5 biosafety. Protection laboratory.