District 9

In the main control room of the No. 1 transportation channel, more than a dozen engineers took lighting equipment and maintenance equipment and began to conduct inspections along the rail track that transports aircraft, missiles and other items from underneath the mountain.

At first, everyone thought it was a simple circuit failure, but after looking around for a while, no results were found. The headquarters requested that orbital operations must be restored quickly and all subsequent armaments must be transported up on time.

This mountain project is already very large. There are four large project areas on this side of the mountain alone, and there are also several large tunnels that are several kilometers or even ten kilometers long, specially used to transport goods from the bottom of the mountain. As a result, there are not enough professional engineers and technical workers, and it is necessary to find some skilled workers among the workers.

No fault was found during the first inspection, so the main control room started the circuit equipment again. But just after running for less than a minute, the circuit tripped again and automatically entered the safety protection mode.

The main control room was so anxious that they immediately informed the management unit and asked them to find a few workers who knew about electrical circuits to help. Because there was a rush from above to deliver this batch of armaments to major platforms on time, the tracks had to be restored to operation. Otherwise, they would only rely on manpower to transport them. First, the time would be too slow, and second, there would be too much movement.

…

It's about two o'clock in the morning.

Just after eating the dumplings, Meng Xi, Jiang Xue and others, who were sitting in the small engineering room chatting in low voices, were called out by the officer and rushed to Tunnel No. 1.

This is the first time that workers in the No. 1 and No. 2 Work Areas have entered the No. 1 Tunnel for transporting armaments. Because this place was the first to be completed, the people who originally worked here have been transferred, and later access was restricted to internal personnel only.

Since the matter was urgent and the upper management kept urging them, after everyone came in, they were immediately separated by engineers to perform maintenance on each circuit according to the road section.

This tunnel is not parallel, but a large slope, from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside, with a total length of about twelve kilometers.

At this moment, the circuit board in the main engineering room showed that there was a fault on Section 6, but this section alone was two kilometers long, so everyone was scattered sparsely.

After more than 40 minutes of inspection, an engineer and a worker finally discovered a problem in an electrical distribution box.

There was some water damage in the distribution box, which soaked the converter, causing a short circuit and tripping.

After the director of the central control room heard the news, he angrily scolded the managers in charge of this area, saying that they didn't even have basic common sense. There is cold air in the mountain body, and the distribution box will generate heat when working, which may melt some ice and frost, resulting in some water stains and water vapor, so moisture-proof and waterproof treatment should be the top priority, but they have neglected it.

The manager was scolded very aggrieved because he remembered that the moisture-proof and waterproofing projects here were done very carefully, and this kind of short-circuit problem would not normally occur. Moreover, the water stains in the distribution box are a bit large and concentrated, and it doesn’t look like the frost has melted...

However, the higher-ups were pressing to restore the power supply as soon as possible, so everyone did not argue on this matter for the time being. They only quickly handled the fault and planned to discuss it again when they were free.

But what the central control room did not expect was that after the fault of the distribution box was resolved, the power supply system still did not recover, and when it was started, there was no reaction like when it tripped.

For example, lights flicker, sparks emit from the main electrical box, etc. However, after the main switch is turned on, the power supply system has no response.

At this time, the director of the main control room couldn't sit still, and immediately rushed to the scene by car to inspect it personally. But after running around, I came to the conclusion that the power supply system may have been started several times before, which caused the security system to be overloaded and forcibly cut off the power several times, so that some lines were burned.

If it's just a tripping or malfunction, then it's fine to check and repair the main control box and distribution box. But if the circuit is burned, then you don't know where the problem is.

This tunnel is crucial and has a backup circuit, but its battery life is not long and it cannot bear such a heavy workload alone. In addition, the top unit issued a death order, and the work must be completed before a certain time tomorrow, so the officer in charge of Area 1 had no choice but to call Li Zhixun.

"Hey, Chief Li, there's something wrong here in Tunnel No. 1," the officer said in a weak voice: "It may require extensive maintenance and digging out part of the line. We don't have enough manpower right now, so we have to transfer workers."

Li Zhixun frowned and asked, "What did you do?!"

"...Mountain engineering, anything can happen." The officer replied softly: "I also criticized the people in the main control room, but they have a lot of reasons. These people are very arrogant and will not be happy if they don't work anymore. , that’s more troublesome.”

"Okay, go ahead and mobilize the workers to make repairs quickly. The work must be completed before the specified time tomorrow."

"good!"

After the two communicated, they ended the call.

In the tunnel, Meng Xi looked at Jiang Xue, gestured to the melting gun in his hand, and nodded lightly.

…

Half an hour later, the workers in charge of Areas 1 and 2 were pulled out, including Lao Qiao, He Dachuan, He Qiang and others. Because they may have to inspect the entire 12-kilometer road section, as many as 150 workers were pulled out.

Inside Transport Tunnel No. 1.

Old Qiao rubbed his face, yawned and said, "What's going on? Why did you build this tunnel for us?"

Jiang Xue glanced around, stood next to Lao Qiao and said in a low voice: "We have to do it in advance."

"Why do we have to do it in advance?" Lao Qiao was not very familiar with him because Jiang Xue was not in his dormitory. The two parties had previously relied on other workers to communicate.

"That agreed thing must be done in advance." Jiang Xue repeated.

Lao Qiao frowned and turned to look at Meng Xi.

"We really need to do it in advance." Meng Xi also came over and said, "There are planes on many large platforms, and the other side may want to make some moves."

Lao Qiao looked at them and said calmly: "What does bringing a plane have to do with us? The agreement I made with the others is on the seventh day of the lunar month and cannot be changed."

"It must be done in advance." Jiang Xue repeated.

Lao Qiao looked at the two of them: "What do you mean?"

"Don't gather in groups, work quickly!" The person in charge of the main control room waved his hand and shouted: "Plan out the lines and inspect them according to the road sections and drawings, hurry up!"

The workers slowly dispersed. Old Qiao glanced at Jiang Xue and whispered: "Don't fucking mess around. This matter involves many brothers... Don't cheat people."

Jiang Xue turned around and looked around: "If you don't want to do it, we will do it alone."

"How dare you!" Lao Qiao replied with his eyes wide open.