Wandering planet that will travel

Surrounding these factories emitting huge energy, there is a circle of dense living quarters outside, forming an industrial city.

Starting from the innermost ring, it is distributed layer by layer, and all kinds of facilities are available. There are even ring lines connecting various places at high speed. Goods move through the city.

"That's the outer building of the Antarctic Garden Project." The tour guide of Snowpiercer introduced, "Some raw materials can be mined directly in Antarctica, such as the stones used in heavy nuclear fusion technology, so there is no need to transport them over thousands of miles, so it is necessary to build a large Factories to process these raw materials.”

"When the heavy nuclear fusion power station is working, the cooling tower will emit a huge amount of heat, which can provide a temperature comfort zone in the extremely cold place of Antarctica. So the workers built living quarters around these cooling towers, plus The heat preservation function of the house itself can make you sweat profusely in the Antarctic heat of minus 150 degrees, and there is no air conditioner."

In the vicinity of these huge cooling towers, the ice and snow have indeed melted, and they can move freely even without protective clothing. Of course, because the oxygen is relatively thin, they still need to use respirators to relieve it regularly.

Such cities are stretched across the Antarctic, and they are continuously running to process materials and provide housing for the Antarctic Garden Project, just like the underground city supporting the planetary engine.

All these facilities make life in Antarctica less difficult. As long as you don’t have to work in the piercing cold wind and carry heavy protective clothing for a whole day, it is a kind of physical and mental torture.

The Snowpiercer shuttles through these polar cities, stops at each city, unloads and reloads cargo continuously, and transports it to the core area of ​​the Antarctic Garden Project.

"It's incredible."

Looking at the towering industrial buildings, neat rows of houses, and a large number of heavy-duty truck convoys, Qiao Lv couldn't imagine that this place is actually an extremely cold place in Antarctica, which has been below minus 90 degrees for a long time.

The tour guide smiled and said, "We have survived the harsher environment, so what is there to be afraid of here?"

Indeed, for a period of time on the wandering earth, the whole world was at a low temperature of tens of degrees below zero. In that case, it was able to maintain the operation of [-] planetary engines. The experience in dealing with extremely cold weather is too rich.

Today, large-scale projects are being carried out in Antarctica. Compared with the escape era of the wandering earth, it is a child's play. The industrial cities that have sprung up one after another, and the Snowpiercer train that spans the entire southern hemisphere have all proved the coalition government's determination to build an Antarctic garden.

As the Snowpiercer continued to advance, the main body of the Antarctic Garden Project finally appeared in front of Qiao Lv.

It was a giant building that was even more magnificent than a planetary engine. It was in the shape of a perfect cylinder, tens of thousands of meters high, with a smooth surface, like a metal mountain.

Two huge mechanical arms are carrying parts on the top, each of which is hundreds of meters high and thicker than the waist of a mecha hunter. It seems that it can easily lift a [-]-ton giant ship.

"This is the main body of the Antarctic Garden project?" Qiao Lu couldn't help asking.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg of the Antarctic Garden Project." The tour guide of the Snowpiercer corrected, "Don't forget, there are still 12756 kilometers of earth tunnels below."

Just the part exposed to the ground is so beyond imagination, Qiao Lv can no longer predict what kind of spectacle the earth tunnel will be.

Qiao Lu got off the Snowpiercer, and 2B followed behind without saying a word, her face was still flushed, as if she hadn't recovered from what happened just now.

The person in charge of the Antarctic Garden Project, Shen Huabei, had been waiting at the entrance for a long time, and beside him was Ding Yi, a physicist whom Qiao Lu knew, who was also helping with the work here.

Seeing Qiao Lu getting off the car, Shen Huabei immediately went up to him and said:

"Director Qiao Lv, welcome to Antarctica!"

He is a bold middle-aged man, not as restrained and introverted as other scientists, except for the white coat he is wearing, he is no different from the middle-aged uncle Qiao Li often meets on the street.

Shen Huabei is also a famous figure in the world of wandering earth sciences, but Qiao Lv has never had the chance to meet him.

Because ever since the Antarctic Garden project started, Shen Huabei has stayed here without leaving, dedicating all his life's learning to this magnificent project.

"I have admired your name for a long time, Dr. Shen." Qiao Lu shook his hand with admiration.

These are not polite words. Shen Huabei is known as the "Father of the New Solid State" on Wandering Earth, and almost everyone knows it.

The new solid state he invented not only provided the technical basis for the Antarctic garden project, but also was an indispensable material for building planetary engines.

This is an ultra-high-density substance. First, it needs to use a nano-material called "sugar coating" to wrap a piece of extremely high-strength alloy, and then create a million-ton nuclear explosion around it. After " The stress balance distribution of "sugar coating" allows the entire alloy to be accurately compressed centripetally.

Just like soft graphite can turn into hard diamond under high temperature and pressure, after being "sugar-coated" wrapped and compressed by the stress of a million-ton nuclear explosion, the final substance born is a new solid state.

Compared with the density of formation rocks, the density of the new solid produced in this way is almost the same as the specific gravity of stone and water.

Therefore, once the new solid state is placed on the ground, it will continue to sink like sinking into the sea, and it will not stop no matter how many tens of thousands of meters it reaches.

It is precisely by using this feature of the new solid state that it is possible for human beings to dig a tunnel that can penetrate the entire earth. Otherwise, using things like drilling shield machines, it is enough to dig through the earth's crust.

New solid matter, on the other hand, is produced by a succession of small nuclear explosions, so multiple density levels can also be created.

The lower-density material will not sink into the ground, and it can be used to create a foundation with a larger area, and the high-density material is placed on it, and its pressure is dispersed by the foundation, so it can float on the ground.

Using this principle, the base and pillars of the planetary engine are actually made of new solid materials, otherwise there is no material structural strength at all, and it can withstand the 150 billion tons of thrust of the planetary engine.

In a sense, Shen Huabei's invention also saved all mankind, and Qiao Lv must of course express his sincere respect to him.

Today's 12756-kilometer-long earth tunnel also needs to be built with new solid materials from Shen Huabei. It is even more expected that he will be the main person in charge of the Antarctic Garden Project.

Chapter 5 Thirty The Earth Cannon

Shen Huabei led Qiao Lv into the main body of the Antarctic Garden Project. Such a huge building was built around a deep pit with a diameter of hundreds of meters. It was covered with an iron gate like a nuclear bomb silo. After the evacuation of personnel, Just now, it slowly slid to the sides.

Qiao Lv stood on a small bridge with tight security measures and slowly lowered it to the bottom of the deep well. The bridge deck was made of high-strength glass, so he could clearly see the scene under his feet.

"Welcome to the entrance of the Earth Tunnel." Shen Huabei introduced to him, "Be careful not to see your feet go soft."

The scene in front of me can indeed make people with fear of heights die on the spot. The huge pit with a diameter of more than [-] meters is bottomless, and there is a ring of light at intervals on the wall of the pit, which marks the existence of the deep pit in the darkness where you can't see your fingers. .

Looking down from the bridge, the countless circles of light on the wall of the pit gradually shrink until they shrink into a single spot of light, just like staring at a large target with blue light. It is completely impossible to imagine how far the bottom of the pit will extend. .

It looks like the gate of hell here, and it is also a literal bottomless pit, because this is a tunnel that runs through the earth. If you jump from the South Pole, you can come out from the North Pole on the other side. What you need to worry about falling into it is not to fall to your death, but A drastic temperature change midway,

At the same time, we must also pay attention to nutritional supplements. If you accidentally fall back and forth in the earth tunnel, it is not a joke to be starved to death on the way to jump off the building.

"Is there a 12756-kilometer earth tunnel underneath?" Qiao Lv asked in amazement.

"It's also an earth cannon." Ding Yi added, "This is where the shells are loaded."

Faced with this bottomless pit, it will really make people instinctively fear.As Nietzsche said, when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.

Just looking at this abyss, one will feel as if the whole person is going to be swallowed. This is a kind of fear from the heart. Faced with something that cannot be observed in its entirety, human survival instincts will be awakened.

Qiao Lv also took a deep breath before recovering, and asked Shen Huabei: "Such a large-scale project must be very difficult."

"It's more than tricky." Shen Huabei said with a wry smile, unbearable to look back: "At the beginning, the whole project was dancing on the tip of a knife, and a screw that fell from here could cause a big explosion at the other end. Later we gave the whole project The magnetic levitation force field was added to the tunnels, and this disaster was finally avoided. However, other problems still emerged one after another, so I won’t talk too much here.”

"It's really hard for you."

Among other things, just daring to enter this abyss to build an earth tunnel is already an act of courage, and it is even more difficult to be careful in this situation to avoid making small mistakes.

"Fortunately, most of the project is nearing completion, so I can finally feel a little relieved." Shen Huabei said with a sigh of relief.

Qiao Lv stared at the earth cannon that was nearly completed, and always felt that something was missing. Suddenly he realized, turned his head and asked:

"Since it's an earth cannon, what about its shells? It's impossible to use screws as weapons, right?"

Of course, this so-called screw, as part of the earth tunnel, is also a new solid material with extremely high structural strength and can withstand the high temperature of the earth's core.

It's just that since even a screw in the earth tunnel must be made of new solid materials, the shells fired as earth cannons of course need something more exaggerated.