This strong man named Tie Dong is right. Under the current circumstances, the only way out for the "condenser" town is to go to the nearest big town for help, otherwise the town will be in an extremely dangerous situation.
The fusion reactor had blown up. This shocking fact made many townspeople feel at a loss at first. They didn't even feel fear. It was because such a thing was so unimaginable that when it happened , The first reaction of ordinary people is not panic, but confusion.
But by now, someone has realized how dangerous things are happening, and Tek is one of the first to realize the situation.
Evenly distributed, the fusion reactor matrix suspended at an altitude of 3,000 kilometers above the ground of the ruined planet is the only source of light and heat energy for this world's ecosystem, because no one can master the technology of using psionic reactors to provide stable heat radiation, Therefore, these ancient fusion reactors have been operating continuously for hundreds of thousands of years, and they cannot be replaced so far. When the fusion reactor is extinguished and there is no possibility of repair, the whole northern hemisphere can expect to usher in continuous darkness and cold, which can be fatal.
The artificial atmosphere of these ruined planets is not thick enough, and its heat preservation efficiency is lower than that of the normal atmosphere. After losing the continuous heating of the fusion reactor, they will soon lose their thermal balance. In order to ensure a uniform supply of light and heat to the entire planet, there are actually hundreds of fusion reactors distributed over a planet, and each fusion reactor is only responsible for providing "sunlight" to a small area below it. In the event that a part of the reactor goes out, the area it is responsible for will hardly receive any "sunshine" supplement from nearby reactors.
Immediately afterwards, the northern hemisphere of this ruined planet will be frozen by the cold wind in a very short period of time.
Of course, the big man named Tie Ke may not have thought of such a detailed thing. What he is worried about is only the things that can be deduced by the simplest logic: if it continues to get dark, the weather will become colder, there will be insufficient food and energy for Zhenmu, and there will be no traffic in and out. I was also blocked. If I didn't rush to ask for help in the best condition while I still had the food that I could carry with me, it would be too late for anything if the time was delayed.
The "Condenser" town is just a small settlement with less than 200 residents. When the iron houses were first built, it didn't even have a name. It is impossible for such a remote place to have enough supplies to fight the ice. Reserved, it does not have an energy shield that can resist the cold wind, nor does it have a lighting energy that can always be bright under the continuous night. There is no reliable administrative mechanism in this world. Only a few people know about the existence of the condenser town, and those people are unlikely to come to the rescue under such circumstances. In fact, to put it bluntly, even if the town is wiped out today , After two years, no one may know what happened here.
We need materials, energy, and food reserves to withstand the long winter nights. Of course, if possible, we even need to relocate the entire town to a sunny place, but none of these things just fell out of thin air, Tek can think of The only way is to go to the nearest big town for help. Even if you can't get supplies, let them know the existence of this town, so that if the big city starts to organize rescue for the winter night area, it won't be missed. .
As for waiting for Dacheng to re-install a fusion reactor here, everyone knows that this is just a good wish.
Of course, Mr. Barnard also knew this truth. He agreed with Tie Ke's idea, but he raised a very sharp question: how do you get there
Climbing seventeen kilometers in the dark on a cliff full of steel wreckage? Are you Superman's second cousin
Tek and Barnard confronted each other, insisting on their own ideas. Since what they said was correct, no one could convince the other at this time, but just when I was already thinking about whether to help myself, suddenly A burst of white light came from near the horizon, interrupting everyone's attention.
Near the distant horizon, the sky is suddenly illuminated by a bright white light, as if the dark curtain there was suddenly torn a big hole from directly above, because the distance is too far, here we can only see the horizon being plated There is a layer of bright edges, but I am not sure where the specific light source is.
But by speculation, this is probably the light of the fusion furnace.
The white light outside the horizon was just the beginning. Soon, the same light lit up from the horizon on the other side. In all directions, the distant sky as far as the eye could see began to be illuminated by the white light. The townspeople were stunned. Yes, Barnard suddenly realized, and said with great joy: "Fusion reactor! The fusion reactors in other places have been repaired!"
"But our fusion reactor is gone."
Tek poured cold water on the spot.
The white light beyond the horizon formed a circle, indicating that the fusion furnaces in those places had resumed operation. After a few minutes, there were no flashes of explosions in those places, indicating that no other fusion furnaces had the same experience as the one above our heads. of doom.
When the sky far away all around was shrouded in white light, the land under everyone's feet seemed to be an abandoned island, like a round black spot on a white paper. Insufficient, the surrounding sunlight can't take care of the place where the naked eye can see at all, everyone can only see the horizon in all directions, as if it is plated with a layer of silver, as if the light of dawn is gathering from every direction, At sunrise... But, the sunrise never comes.
In this situation, I don't know whether to cry or laugh. The townspeople at the scene raised their heads and looked at the sky speechlessly. There was still only darkness above, and cold air came from all directions. At this time, the darkness and coldness became more obvious. .
"Tong Jun Ah Jun, it seems like the wind is blowing!"
Qianqian suddenly tugged at my arm and yelled strangely.
Sure enough, it was only after Qianqian reminded me that there was only a gentle breeze blowing around me at some point. I got some saliva on my fingers, held it up in the air and felt it for a while, and told us very seriously: the wind is blowing from north to south and from east to west.
"The wind is not good, I even forgot that this human being can't stand this situation!" Sandora's hair was blown up by the wind that was gradually increasing. She suddenly said with a serious face, "Everyone leave the town immediately! Move to those flying cliffs next to the metal station! Barnard, what big residents are there in the area originally illuminated by the blasted fusion reactor in the sky?" Is there any point?"
"There is a "Chongnao" town more than ten kilometers away, which is a mining station, and then there are no other settlements. This area of thousands of kilometers is a metal stack area with almost no residents. "
Barnard was puzzled by Sandora's sudden question, but he quickly answered her question. As for asking the townspeople to evacuate the town, he couldn't figure out what was going on. "Why did you leave the town?" "The hurricane .”
Sandora looked at the sky. In the deep darkness, it seemed that a certain behemoth was gradually gathering its strength. That behemoth might not be worth mentioning to Sandora, but to ordinary people here In other words, I'm afraid it will be a catastrophe like the end of the world.
"In the beginning, all the fusion reactors in the northern hemisphere were shut down, causing the heat balance on both sides of the planet to fail. Although it sounds serious, it is actually safe. On a large scale, the atmosphere has sufficient buffer room to cope with this imbalance. But now, the heat balance is in a collapsing on a very small scale... the uneven heating of the atmosphere will result in a hurricane sweeping through the thermal imbalance. You've all seen campfires where the airflow accelerates as the flames heat the surrounding air, And now those fusion reactors around this area are countless huge campfires, and above us is the largest cold air mass on the planet."
Sandora explained what was about to happen in an easy-to-understand way and finally concluded: "With all the surrounding fusion reactors continuing to heat the atmosphere, the cold air zone we are in has formed a huge wind tunnel. The planet The atmosphere is so poorly balanced that this thermal imbalance would almost trigger a meteorological catastrophe on the spot. The hurricane is likely to strike in less than forty minutes—by now you should be able to feel that the air movement is increasing, which is the local The inert cold air mass is gradually becoming active."
Sandora's explanation is clear enough, but the townspeople here are all miners, and their scientific knowledge may be very limited, so many people are still confused, but as more and more townspeople gather together, Sandora The warning has been conveyed throughout the town, regardless of whether they can understand the reasoning or not, people's uneasiness has been well aroused.
And at this moment, the wind direction in the air changed again, and the wind force instantly increased by an order of magnitude. A large number of shredded paper and fabric fragments were blown into the sky by the suddenly strengthened wind. Someone subconsciously looked up at the fragments Flying higher and higher, after flying to a height of tens of meters, it suddenly accelerated, whistling and being swept to an unknown place.
"Go and inform everyone! Leave Zhenping!"
Mr. Barnard seemed to have just straightened out the principle that Sandora told. At this time, seeing the obviously stronger wind at high altitude, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately ordered loudly.
"Is this really possible? There's such a strong wind?" A thin dark-skinned middle-aged woman tightened her coarse work clothes, obviously she didn't want to accept this somewhat abrupt order.
"It's not an ordinary wind." I muttered, while Barnard frowned and looked at the already cloudy sky. "What if it's real? At least go hide for a while, and come back later."
"Someone needs to notify another town," Tie Ke said in a rough voice, ... heavy trouble, only seventeen kilometers away from here, if there is a hurricane, it can't escape it! "
The situation has changed dramatically compared to just now. The first help-seekers now have to assume the responsibility of rescue. The "heavy" town never thought that the hurricane was about to hit their homes, and the only one who knew the news was in a dozen or so years. This settlement with less than 200 people is only a few kilometers away.
"I wanted to ask before, don't you guys have a more convenient way of communication?" Bingtis glanced at Mr. Barnard, "There are even spaceships in this world, but you don't know how to make calls?" "Telephone? Then What is it?" Mr. Barnard was taken aback by this term from Earth, and then shook his head in embarrassment, "If we talk about communicators, there used to be ones in the town, but they were broken a few days ago. We just It’s just a metal sorting station, no one wants to bother to build an information node here.”
"Well, it's just this weird world that can drive interstellar spaceships but has not popularized wireless networks." No intention of helping.
"If Dan only has ten minutes, it's too late to notify them anyway. It's a cliff area of more than ten kilometers." Mr. Barnard's face was deeply worried. "Could it be left alone?"
"How can that be done!" Tie Ke immediately yelled loudly, but after he finished his yelling, he didn't have any more to say A message: "The concubine is suddenly very curious about what kind of decision they will make in this situation, which will directly affect the rating of their entire race, so until the last minute, you and Sandora should not personally shot."
"Score? I frowned, as if I understood why Bingtis didn't want to help at all. This is not a bad taste of gods playing with mortals, but there seems to be a legitimate reason. "What are you doing? "
"Hasn't this race been removed from the Temple of Life?" Bingtis smiled, "But now it seems that you will definitely not leave this world alone, so I have to re-register for them. But the procedure is easy. , I still have to go through some formal things, so let's use this test as an assessment of the grassroots members of this race."
I am speechless.
The old man Barnard and Tieke are still worried about how to notify the town of "reunification, the time is passing by every minute and every second, although the surrounding wind is still so strong and sometimes weak to frighten people, it may be a psychological effect , Many people felt that the air around them gradually stagnated.
The townspeople have already gone home, calling the old people and children at home to take refuge under the cliff near the metal station. They only brought a little food and water, and most of them didn't even bring an extra piece of clothing. Obviously, these people Thinking that the worst thing that will happen in the future is just a gust of wind, they still plan to wait for the wind to stop and go home to continue their lives. This can be judged from the fact that they carefully locked the door before going out.
It seems that no one believes that the strong wind will destroy their iron houses. If the venerable mayor did not issue a death order, perhaps most people would choose to hide at home to avoid the strong wind. Now the only good news is that they are still quite obedient to the command of.
Seeing such a scene, Sandora frowned but didn't say much, just occasionally looked at the sky to estimate the time for the hurricane to pass from the upper atmosphere to the lower atmosphere.
"It would be great if there was a means of transportation." Tek's loud voice was particularly prominent at this time, "but we only have a suspension vehicle that pulls metal scraps, and it can't bring down "Big Town" with that thing, and there are no lights on the road. "
"Wait! As for the means of transportation, I have them at home!" Just when the two adults were at a loss for what to do, an immature child's voice suddenly came in, it was Glick.
"I have one at home, a high-speed flying machine!" Glick straightened his body, and now his face is full of pride, as if he is about to become a hero. "Really, it's just outside my house... ah, yes These guests gave it to me!" Seeing that none of the surrounding adults noticed his words, Glick pointed his finger in our direction in desperation.
The aircraft he was talking about was an individual combat aircraft assembled by "Doo". Under Glick's strong request, Lou and Sandora did not take back the obviously non-civilian thing for the time being, but now, it seems to be taking a lot of money. Mission gone.
When the silver-white streamlined prismatic aircraft hovered over the [Square] field, the people who were skeptical at first suddenly let out a continuous exclamation: especially when that thing fell down with a bang.
Apparently Gehrig's skills at piloting this thing aren't up to par, and I should suggest he use autopilot in the future.
That's right, Gehrig can already drive this thing. Despite the bumps and bumps, he can still make it perform basic flight controls. Don't be surprised. A fourteen-year-old child learns how to make Xiling equipment work. It's not surprising at all. This is the trend of technological development. The more advanced something is, the simpler and faster it is to simply use it. All equipment will tend to be simplified as technology matures. It may take years to draw a bow and arrow. Only by training can you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but it is much easier to learn how to shoot. Humans except Hawking can basically do it.
As the most widely used grass-roots weapon, the individual fighter is extremely simple to use. Its intelligent system can even complete flight control with only vague phrases. Yes, Hawking can drive it, let alone Glick, who is so clever. child.
Of course, knowing how to drive is one thing, and proficiency is another. There may be billions of people in the world who can pull the trigger, but more than half of them may hit their feet... It takes more than a billion, so high-tech things are always divided into two levels, one is for users, which becomes easier with the development of technology, and the other is its real technological content, which is for experts , getting deeper and deeper. Xiling Apostle’s things go further in this trend, and the polarization is unbelievable: a fourteen-year-old child can control the take-off and landing of fighter jets with brain waves, but if you tie up scientists all over the world, they may not necessarily I can figure out how the beeping sound in Pandora's stomach comes out...
Barnard glanced back and forth between us and the single-soldier fighter plane several times with incredible eyes, looking extremely confused, but no one explained to him, Gehrig was familiarizing himself with the actual take-off and landing process of the fighter plane I only did a virtual scene in the cockpit), this thing doesn’t have a crew cabin, so Glick wants to complete this task by himself: to warn people more than ten kilometers away.
"Let a child do this? Why don't I do it!" Tie Ke said loudly.
I smiled and glanced at him: "Can you drive?"
"You will! Why don't you go by yourself?"
Tek is obviously a straightforward person, and after he said this in a rough voice, he aroused Barnard's dissatisfaction: "Tek, they are guests."
"I believe that kid can do it," the elder sister said suddenly, "He might be a hero. In addition, that thing is also very safe. It has automatic driving and danger avoidance systems. Even if Gehrig doesn't do anything, he will will reach its destination safely."
"Okay, let's not talk about this now." Barnard watched Gehrig drive the fighter out of sight, and then glanced at us indifferently, "There is not much time, let's go!"