The engineering team adopted a batch system of round-the-clock construction. After three days of mining, two-thirds of the trees and plants on the entire island were leveled, and countless pieces of wood were thrown into garbage ships as waste. In the center of the island A large clearing appeared.
During these three days, the freighter was not idle. More materials were transported to the island. A simple dock was built. Large cranes were lifted back and forth. Boxes of stamped steel plates were transported to the beach through the Caribbean Sea.
The construction efficiency of the clone engineering team was extremely fast. On the tenth day after the construction of Stellar Island began, the foundation of the cryogenic chamber was dug out.
The foundation is forty meters deep and still circular, with a base area of fifty thousand square meters. The deeper the structure, the more resistant it is to natural disasters such as tsunamis and hurricanes.
In Zhang Heng's plan, the entire structure of the cryonics center is made of special steel, even the underground structure. Just like building blocks, it only requires building and welding. With five cranes working at the same time, it only took two days to lay a thick layer of steel plates on the 40-meter-deep foundation layer. , but in the center of the foundation, there is a circular void with a diameter of thirty meters.
This circular blank space is naturally not used to place moonlight. After the foundation was laid, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the engineering team suddenly suspended the construction of the foundation and covered the foundation with a huge curtain to cover up the huge pit.
At this moment, in the deep pit of the foundation, Zhang Heng nodded with the leader of the cloning engineering team, and then suddenly disappeared and went to the radiation plane again. When he came back twenty-four hours later, there was more in front of him. A huge columnar machine with a diameter of ten meters and a length of five meters!
If there are people who have been dealing with tunnel engineering all year round, when they see this piece of machinery, they will probably be able to recognize it at a glance - it is a full-section tunnel boring machine!
The full-section tunnel boring machine is a special excavation equipment that combines a rotating cutterhead and a hob to excavate a tunnel in the mountain rock by rotating, squeezing and shearing soil and rocks. It is generally abbreviated as 'TBM' in foreign countries. Because the drill bit of this machine is like a round shield, China calls it a 'shield boring machine'.
Obviously, Zhang Heng planned to use this tunnel boring machine to dig a secret base underground.
Compared with drilling and other methods, the tunnel boring machine’s excavation speed is several times that of conventional drilling, and the maximum daily drilling depth can reach 500 meters. It has the advantages of being fast, safe, economical, and causing little interference to the rock formation, and this machine The tunnel boring machine is an advanced machine taken from the radiation plane, with faster efficiency and speed, and higher safety.
The huge volume of ten meters in diameter means that the diameter of the tunnel it excavates is more than ten meters in diameter. Moreover, this boring machine adopts squeeze excavation, so there will be no excavated soil, and the machine will directly open up underground tunnels. When a passage comes, all the soil will be squeezed around and become extremely dense.
With the working efficiency of a tunnel boring machine like the Radiation Plane, which is about a hundred years more advanced than reality, it can take at most half a month to drill a passage thousands of meters deep into the ground on the stellar island.
Yes, this is the third secret base that Zhang Heng is planning to build in addition to the clone production center and hive. This base will be countless times more secretive than the hive!
Because in the design, the base will be located inside the submarine rock formations of the Caribbean Sea, at a depth of minus two thousand meters above sea level. Under this situation, even if a huge and irreversible disaster occurs around the world, such as sunspot outbreaks, nuclear war, etc., it will not affect this submarine base thousands of meters deep unless the earth is destroyed.
As for the so-called submarine base structure, Zhang Heng designed it into a spherical shape, which is also the shape that can best resist the extrusion of the earth's crust. Zhang Heng wanted the base to ensure that even if it encounters crustal movement, it will not damage the submarine base.
As for the soil excavated from the ground, Zhang Heng also had a way to solve it. He directly transported the last molecular teleporter in the radiation plane here, and then connected the hive and the star island to directly transport the excavated soil there. It was a perfect solution. Efficiency issues and the danger of being discovered.
While the full-section tunnel boring machine was drilling underground, the cryonics center on the surface continued to be constructed. The surface construction obscured the huge movements underground. Even if some curious travelers sailed to the edge of the island to observe secretly, It is impossible to realize that there is a secret hidden under the construction site of this island that can shock the world!
Time passes slowly, the old year passes, Zhang Heng's plane has entered the new year, and the development and transformation of Star Island has also entered a stable period. It will be completed in three or four months on the surface, but it may also need to be completed underground. longer.
However, these are not big problems. With the clone army guarding him, Zhang Heng no longer needs to stay here. At the beginning of January of the new year, he received another call from Yue Hua.
"Your Excellency, Commander, there is good news. The US FDA has officially announced that the 'anti-freezing nano-agent' has passed clinical trials and new drug applications, and has met certification standards. You can now manufacture anti-freezing agents."
"Very good, those consortiums are really quick to contribute. If it were normal, it would take at least two to three years to apply for antifreeze, right?" Zhang Heng said with a sigh of relief.
"Yes, if it were not for Williams and other American consortiums to put pressure on the authorities, antifreeze is expected to take about five years to pass the application. Unlike now, it only takes half a year to pass the certification, which is ten times faster." Yuehua said excitedly.
"It seems that the cryonics center in India is ready to open. Yuehua, please select a public relations team from the company. I need to spread advertising on a large scale around the world, especially online. You can buy Google and Baidu and other hot search terms, inform them of the existence of the Indian Cryonics Center and the Virgin Islands Cryonics Center!" Zhang Heng ordered.
"clear."
"Also, the company's pharmaceutical factory has been built, right? Can we start manufacturing antifreeze?"
"Your Excellency, Commander, I'm afraid it's not possible for the time being." Yuehua suddenly muttered, "We have obtained the international GMP certification and passed the certification of the provincial Food and Drug Administration, but because ours is an injection, it must also pass National certification is required to be qualified, but the country has been slow to let us pass the certification. The reason is that our factory has quality problems and refuses to issue us a 'drug production enterprise license.'
Zhang Heng's expression suddenly turned cold when he heard this, "In this case, we don't force it and directly acquire a pharmaceutical factory in India. We want to start the production of antifreeze before the end of the month!"
"But what about China?" Yuehua felt pity, "Wouldn't it be a pity if a large pharmaceutical factory with an investment of 300 million US dollars could not start operations?"
"This matter will have to be resolved sooner or later, but not now. What we have to do now is to open the cryonics center as quickly as possible." Zhang Heng said, "The sooner it is opened, the better it is for us."
"clear."
After telling Yuehua, Zhang Heng silently hung up the phone, suddenly frowned, and murmured in a low voice, "Sure enough, because antifreeze has not been reviewed domestically, is the country dissatisfied with me?"