The Boy with The Dragon Tattoo

Chapter 52: The abyss at the bottom of the lake

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This Jin Guoqiang seems to be a serious soldier who is unsmiling. In fact, he is essentially a young man who likes to chat, drink, and spank. I didn't touch it a few times, but it hit it off with Lao Wang.

Everyone in this world has weaknesses. A person who seems to be strong, if you touch the softest part of his heart, he will also show his "warmth" side.

The way Lao Wang communicated with Jin Guoqiang was to drink.

After drinking a few times, the two rivals, who had disliked each other and whose status and status were vastly different, began to call themselves brothers and sisters.

This is obviously only over 30, but it seems that young people who are at least forty years old are not so difficult to socialize. They were instilled by the old Wang and moved their true temperament several times.

Of course, Lao Wang was not much better, and Jin Guoqiang was back to the dormitory several times.

Lao Wang is such a sincere person. When others talked to him, he told them all about stealing the old hen from the neighbor's neighbor when he was a child.

Zi Yang couldn't drink enough, so every time the two of them started toasting, he would stay away from him. Even if he occasionally sat with him, he would just eat vegetables next to him.

Lao Wang gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "Awesome, my brother, he has achieved the rank of major at such a young age, and he has a bright future."

Jin Guoqiang shook his head and smiled bitterly. Although life in the military was his dream when he was young, it was boring and single after a long time. After experiencing the experience of blood and fire, it is difficult to face life like a normal person.

He was recruited into the army since his twenties. Because of his high education level and his martial arts skills since he was a child, he entered the special forces by mistake. The total vacation time for the next ten years is only a dozen days. In addition to extremely confidential work, the ten years are like one. Sun and earth training, exercises, and missions, except for work, rarely communicate with the outside world, so I am more than 30 years old and still single (virgin?).

Zi Yang understands why Lao Wang can catch up with Director Jin. This guy's three-legged cat kung fu can't compete with this hidden Snow Leopard commando elite. It's not the same level. I must have been bragging about the colorful world in college and my glorious experience of hooking girls all day in front of Director Jin, and adding fuel and jealousy to these experiences ten times more than shakes the foundation of this man with a stone-like heart.

After half a month, I watched the old Wang next door spitting and bragging in front of Jin Guoqiang. Jin Guoqiang was an excellent listener. No matter how the old Wang played, he didn’t change his face and showed neither impatience nor impatientness. Show that you like it very much.

After half a month of training, Lao Wang's martial arts has not improved much, but his drinking skills have skyrocketed. He used to go back to the dormitory sideways every time, but now he can barely come back by himself while holding on to the wall.

Seeing that the school day was getting closer, when Zi Yang was worried, the guards came to inform the two of them to attend the meeting.

The War Situation Room was remodeled from the former director’s meeting room. As soon as I walked in and saw the crowds of people inside, there were already a dozen people gathered. In the middle was a long and narrow wooden table with a dozen chairs on both sides, which was already full of people. , Professor Zhang on one end of the table is playing with slides.

There are two rows of laptops in front of him. Jin Guoqiang is sitting in front of a laptop and is fiddling with something. The other computer screens are facing Professor Zhang and the screen behind him.

Jin Guoqiang watched the two come in, gestured slightly, and found a corner to stand.

Zi Yang and Lao Wang looked at these people in the conference room. In addition to the generals and professors, and a few experts they met in Qinhan Village, there were many people they didn’t know, but they were all very stylish, and they didn’t seem to be of any level. low. The two young people in the idle society on my own side are invited to participate in this kind of meeting. It is the welfare of Tianda. It is probably because of the relationship between the professor and Jin Guoqiang. Having a place to stand is already a special treatment.

Jin Guoqiang adjusted the computer and nodded to Professor Zhang. The professor gently touched the thinning hair. The ten days and nights of work did not make him look tired. He was still a clean, decent and energetic. The appearance of this is different from several other experts with unshaven beards and apathetic expressions.

The professor gave a light cough, "It's started. Everyone here should have read the previous war briefing. Now we go directly to the topic. The most suspicious issue in the Qin and Han case is the cause of death. There have been many speculations, biochemical attacks, radiation, Terrorist attacks and so on are not consistent, and the inspection results these days also show that the judgment is correct."

"The real cause of death of the corpse is carbon dioxide poisoning!"

At this time, a person on the laptop screen said softly, "Carbon dioxide poisoning?" It turns out that this laptop is connected to the remote video. There must be big people on the opposite side.

Professor Zhang nodded, "It's really unbelievable. Carbon dioxide is one of the main components in our air. There have been few cases of carbon dioxide deaths in the world before, and such large-scale collective poisoning deaths are unique."

A humane with the appearance of a leader at the scene said, "If we want to cause death on this scale, the carbon dioxide should be more than 100 tons equivalent."

The professor nodded, "This tragedy in Qinhan Village was not just as simple as hundreds of tons, but at the level of one million tons, and it was a short-term, high-density impact."

People who did not participate in the later data research exclaimed. Participants on the scene began to whisper.

Professor Zhang continued, "This term may not be appropriate-Qinhan Village ** is an extremely accidental natural phenomenon with favorable time and place."

At this time, the professor turned on the remote control slide show, and Professor Zhang said to a bird's-eye view of the mountain top lake, "When I first saw this mountain top lake, I judged it to be a volcanic lake. Later, my colleagues in the Department of Geology tested it and proved mine. The judgment is correct."

"This volcanic lake has a history of hundreds of thousands of years. According to sonar detection, the deepest part of the lake bottom reaches hundreds of meters, and the average water depth is more than 50 meters." The professor demonstrated several pictures taken in deep water, even with powerful lighting assistance. , The bottom of the lake still looks muddy and gloomy.

"According to the sampling and detection of the comrades in front, although this is an extinct volcano, there is still strong ground vein activity at a depth of more than ten kilometers underground, and there are many cracks in the bottom of the lake that penetrate downwards-this kind of lava and groundwater are strong The reaction produces a large amount of carbon dioxide, which is emitted into the water at the bottom of the lake through crevices in the bottom of the lake."

There is another person on the screen, "Even if there is a large amount of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake, the carbon dioxide is soluble in water and extremely volatile. Under what conditions can cause such a concentrated and violent eruption?"

Professor Zhang nodded, took a can of Coke from the table, shook it violently, then opened the pull ring against the empty wall, and a strong force sprayed out.

Putting the Coke back on the table, the professor took a towel and wiped his hands and continued: "Under normal circumstances, carbon dioxide is soluble in water and will continue to evaporate. It rarely produces a dose that is fatal to living things. We often drink it. A lot of carbon dioxide is dissolved in the Coke and Champagne."

"But if the water depth reaches 50 meters or more, huge pressure will be generated at the bottom of the lake. According to our detection, the place where the pressure on the bottom of the lake is the highest is 20 to 30 times that of the water surface. This pressure gradually creates a balance. Once something happens This kind of external force, just like opening a coke can, the pressure will burst instantly."

"We often see that when some champagne bottles are opened, external force is used to gently push on the cork, the gas generated by the internal pressure is enough to eject the cork by more than ten meters. If the pressure equivalent is expanded by tens of thousands of times, dozens of Ten thousand times..."

The professor paused for a while, and the people in the conference room looked at each other, surprised by the theory.

"We estimate that the carbon dioxide equivalent contained in the depths of the Tianding Lake in Qinhan Village is millions or even ten million tons."

After the professor introduced here, there was another moment of violence on the scene, and someone on the screen said: "Professor Zhang’s explanation is eye-opening, but it’s a bit too far-fetched. High concentrations of carbon dioxide can indeed produce huge tension, but that’s In a closed state, and the entire mountain top lake is open, coupled with the characteristics of the lake’s hot and cold cycles, after alternating day and night cycles, the cold water at the bottom of the lake can easily bring up carbon dioxide and volatilize—as for the bottom of the lake, there are millions, Ten million tons of carbon dioxide is too exaggerated."

Professor Zhang nodded slightly and said, "Theoretically, this is the case. We thought this way at the beginning, but we did not consider the special climate of Qinhan Village."

"Instructor Jin called up the climate records around Qinhan Village for more than ten years. After comparing the data, I found a peculiar phenomenon—the special geological structure of this place kept the surrounding temperature at a constant level for more than ten years. More than 20 degrees Celsius, and the temperature difference between day and night is very small, which makes the lake water's cold and hot cycle out of conditions."

"If you make bold assumptions, since this mountaintop lake was formed, for thousands of years, even tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, high-density carbon dioxide has been stored under the lake, and a special layer structure has been formed over the years, just like a rock. There is a clear distinction."

Professor Zhang took out a funnel-shaped measuring cup and poured into it several kinds of ** with different densities and colors. You can see that it is divided into several obvious levels from top to bottom. Obviously, the bottom layer has the highest density. Everyone understands what the professor means without having to explain.

"And Chen Ruixi" mentioned this name and decided, "The bundle of explosives dropped by several young people was the fuse that triggered the collapse of this layered structure."

"Explosives exploded at a suitable depth and with a suitable equivalent, causing the first gushing, causing a chain reaction of the lake water. The quantitative change caused the qualitative change, just like tearing a hole in the bottom of the lake, and more and more dense carbon dioxide overflowed. In the end, a geological wonder formed over thousands of years was completely changed. They heard the muffled thunder at the bottom of the lake in the middle of the night, which should be caused by the collapse of the structure."

"Another phenomenon that cannot be ignored is that a few days before and after the accident, there was a rare abnormal temperature difference between day and night in Qinhan Village. According to the villagers, this has not happened in decades. This has also aggravated the phenomenon of the lake's hot and cold circulation. "

"So the superposition of this series of accidental coincidences finally led to a large eruption of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake. And Chen Ruixi and others just witnessed this wonder that no one has discovered for thousands of years. The air becomes a tangible mist. Because carbon dioxide is heavier than air, it accumulates on the ground, just like the effect of a carbon dioxide dry ice machine on a stage."

"It's just that the equivalent and density are millions of tons and ten million tons. With the collapse of the layer structure, a peculiar torrent of carbon dioxide finally formed. The creatures at the foot of the mountain were instantly submerged by the torrent, and the oxygen content was reduced to the lowest value. They all died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen-the process leading to their death may only take more than ten seconds."

"The yellowing of vegetation and trees from valleys to mountain peaks is also caused by the super-high density of carbon dioxide accumulated in a short period of time."

Professor Zhang used a slide show to demonstrate the vegetation and trees in the valley. In the high-definition pixel and wide-angle lens, the withered yellow symbolizing death is even more shocking.

"The cause of death of the two corpses we found on the hillside was due to suffocation caused by carbon dioxide poisoning. The female corpse showed symptoms of cerebral hypoxia. The cause of death was sudden death due to reflex respiratory arrest caused by sudden entry into a high-concentration carbon dioxide environment. Male. The corpse should have been panicked after seeing the abnormality of the female partner during his lifetime, stumbled and fell and caused a fracture of the neck bone-but the direct cause of death was carbon dioxide asphyxiation.

Zi Yang and Lao Wang looked at each other. In this way, the mass destruction at the foot of the mountain and the two corpses on the mountainside have a scientific and reasonable explanation.

"The next day the sun rose, carbon dioxide quickly volatilized, coupled with the action of the mountain breeze, the air density and composition gradually returned to normal."

There was silence in the conference room. Apparently everyone recalled the dead silence in Qinhan Village in their minds.

Professor Zhang also played an overall picture of the mountain top lake: "An outbreak of this scale will still leave obvious traces. The turbid orange lake water we see on the top of the mountain is caused by violent bottom activities, and the shore A large amount of dead wood is also caused by a large amount of high-density carbon dioxide in a short period of time."

After the professor said this, he sat aside, picked up the tea cup on the table and sipped it gently. No one in the meeting room was talking, only the clicking sound of the exhaust fan and the electric current from the computer host and the slide were in the air. flow.

After a while, there was a strong voice on the screen saying, "Well, thanks to Professor Zhang and the staff for their hard work, it seems that this unsettled case can be concluded. The detailed data will be sorted and reported after the meeting."

"Next, irrelevant people leave, XXX, XXX, XXX stay, we will discuss the next work." The voice on the screen clicked on several names, and those who were not named left one after another.

Lao Wang and Zi Yang walked out of the meeting room, sighing for a long time, there are thousands of words in their chests, but they don't know where to start.

For them, things have come to an end, but for those who stayed in the conference room, the problem has just begun.

Zi Yang still has a question in his mind. Why did the professor of Qinhan Village’s unique gossip formation not mention it