Noire Mountain is a towering peak, and through the scattered clouds in the sky, you can see that the Black Cape Mountain Range is covered with a layer of snow.

Montenegro with white snow, the scenery is not ordinarily beautiful.

A few kilometers away from Pointe-Noire, a massive construction team is expanding the area of open space beneath its feet.

Guarded by the Boundary Army, their engineering vehicles expanded their "territory" in droves.

As large trees and human-tall plants were pushed by large machinery, the construction team began to set up tents and equipment on the cleared vacant lots.

The construction team, to say the least, numbered thousands, and they did not have fixed work clothes or fixed helmets.

There are also those who wear casual clothes, and there are also those who wear the work clothes of other factories, but in their opinion, no matter what kind of clothes they are, they are the same as the nature of work clothes.

In the middle of the clearing, tents had been set up and "occupied" by engineers in new work clothes.

It can be seen that the uniforms of these engineers look the same color and material, but on the back of them are printed "Cloud City", "Wood City", and "Star City", the names of the three cities.

Beneath the central marquee, dozens of engineers stood here to deliberate.

The chief engineer stood on a low platform, pointed to the map beside him with a small stick, and began to explain today's engineering tasks.

"Everyone, the most urgent task now is to determine the location!" said the chief engineer, "In the past few years, we have explored dozens of available points! We did not have long-range high-precision instruments at that time, so we can only go to the target location to conduct field surveys." ”

The chief engineer continued: "As you have just seen, the location under our feet can be determined to have underground lava, and after you have determined the location, we will discuss the next step together." ”

The engineers nodded to each other, which was an affirmation of the chief engineer's words and a sign of encouragement to each other.

"Before I leave, I'll give you another reminder. The chief engineer said with a heavy face, "The farther away from the city is in the jungle, the more unimaginable the danger is, because this mission is a confidential mission, so we are not equipped with a hero escort, but this does not mean that the jungle is not dangerous, remember ......"

"Bang ......"

Before he could finish speaking, a fierce gunfire suddenly came from outside the tent.

Everyone ran out of the tent and saw a group of Boundary Army soldiers attacking a black bear three or four meters tall.

The black bear doesn't look so weird, but he has four eyes on his head, two in front and two in the back, and his limbs are not only thick but also very flexible.

No matter how many bullets hit its body, the black bear still didn't stop its sturdy limbs, and it didn't take long for it to slash from the edge of the clearing to the front of the Boundary Army.

A soldier panicked and withdrew the magazine to reload, and the black bear was in front of him in a blink of an eye, raising his hand and moving his head with a palm.

"Encounter an unknown creature!!Request an explosive grenade!!"

"Permission to use!"

A soldier lowered his rifle, pointed the grenade gun he was carrying behind his back, aimed it at the black bear, and pulled the trigger.

A grenade shot out of the chamber, and the black bear stretched out his huge palm and swung at the grenade that was about to hit him!

"Boom!"

The grenade exploded the moment it touched its palm, turning its entire palm into a bloody blur, but even so, its arm was not blown off, which showed that his defense was still very strong.

A second grenade ejected into the chamber, this time directly into its stomach.

In an instant, flesh flew everywhere along with black plasma.

The black bear fell, but no soldier dared to step forward to look at it.

The power of the black bear's palm just now, they had seen it, and they would admit it if they said that they would be injured a little, but his head was clearly directly slapped off, such a terrifying power was simply suffocating and unforgettable.

"I ...... I want to go back! I want to go back!" a worker who had just been pushed down in the chaos tried to escape, but before he could take a few steps, he tripped over a stone and fell again.

This one person wanted to run, and it instantly touched the hearts of the other timid workers around him.

But none of them dared to act rashly, because before they came here, they all signed a contract like a deed of sale, and as long as the project was not completed, they would not be able to return home.

Their names and home addresses were recorded and verified by the Boundary Army, and once they did, their families suffered.

Even if they are bachelors, there will be no city to ask for them in the future, no one wants to stay with those stinky homeless, and they will face death threats in various ways every day.

"Don't panic, everyone!" shouted the Chief Engineer, "our Boundary Army's army will protect everyone's safety. ”

But the workers did not make any response, and silently returned to their original positions and began to work.

The chief engineer knew very well that the workers would not take their word for it, and that they knew how bad the situation they were in was now.

The jungle is the home of those mutant animals, and when their home is destroyed, how can they keep their senses.

It's a bear today, it's a pack of bears tomorrow, and no matter how many guns the Boundary Army has, it's impossible to take care of each of them.

They are here for the coveted reward.

The chief engineer turned to the leading engineers and said, "Let's go and get ready to go!

"Understood!"

The engineers divided into dozens of squads, leading some workers and some Boundary Army soldiers to set off.

A few hours later, the various teams had successfully arrived at the target location, and although some of the teams encountered some wild beasts on the way, they did not cause much hindrance, and as for the displaced people and the walled city, they did not dare to touch them in the slightest.

As the saying goes, if you want to provoke trouble, you will pick a big one, and there is no reason to provoke the army of the association to kill it for this little profit, which is not a wise choice.

The chief engineer ran to the map with a walkie-talkie, took out a pen, and prepared to make a mark according to the report.

"A team of researchers found that the underground thermal energy met the predicted numerical standards and determined that there was a lava tunnel. ”

"After the second team has completed the inspection, the underground thermal energy meets the predicted value standard, and it is determined that there is a lava tunnel. ”

"The three teams have been tested, and the underground ......"

Dozens of squads reported their tests on the walkie-talkie in turn, and without exception, all of them were correct.

However, this did not make the chief engineer smile, but looked at the map with a frown.

"Chief Engineer, if I'm not mistaken, the situation we reported is all in line with the forecast, then ......" One engineer stopped talking, as if he had found the same problem as the chief engineer.

The Chief Engineer did not reply to him immediately, but picked up a pen and drew on the map.

A few minutes later, the red dots on the map were connected by more than a dozen red lines.

If you look closely, almost all of those lines are parallel to each other, and then look in the direction of the two sides of the extension, one side is rushing to Black Horn Mountain, and the other side is pointing to Cloud City.

The chief engineer's hand holding the pen trembled violently.

The red pen landed on the ground, and then his ass fell to the ground.

"Oh no! I guessed it!"

Their engineering team was tasked with building several geothermal power stations between Pointe-Noire and three nearby cities.

That is, it relies on the evaporation of water from lava at a depth of several thousand meters underground to generate electricity, so as to increase the power supply capacity of the city.

The beginning of the plan began with the expeditions scattered across the city a few years ago.

Some of these expeditions brought back information on precious flora and fauna, some brought back information on nuclear lithium, and some brought back information about Black Horn Mountain.

No one thought that the Black Point Mountain, sandwiched between their three cities, would be a real volcano, but according to experts, it will not erupt in recent years, and it can also use geothermal energy to build a geothermal power station across the ages.

Experts deduce that there are several lava tunnels under the Black Horn Mountain, and it is entirely possible to make a vertical downward opening above these lava tunnels, and then use the high heat energy of the lava to evaporate the water to propel mechanical power generation.

This will not only reduce the pressure on the city's power grid, but also cast some pressure on the lava reservoir in Pointe-Noire, effectively preventing the eruption of the volcano.

But all conjectures are just conjectures.

To this end, the leaders of the three cities secretly sent numerous expeditions to detect the exact location of the lava tunnel between Blackhorn Mountain and the city.

However, they don't have high-precision equipment at all, so almost every time they go out, they bring back some information to be confirmed.

And this problem has not been solved until today.

For several years, the three cities have been working frantically on tunnel boring machines, and only a few decent TBMs were built a few days ago.

As for the workers, they were recruited by the managers of the three cities at great expense.

It can be said that for these geothermal power stations, they have spent a lot of financial, material and energy resources, and this is about to succeed, but they did not expect to encounter such a thing.

As early as the time when the expedition brought back the information, some people believed that the dozens of sites to be verified were all correct, and that these sites were all exposed high points in the lava tunnel.

Once the volcano erupts in full force, they will not only accept the wrath of the flying magma and earthquakes brought by the Black Horn Mountain, but also face the bursting of the lava tunnel caused by the earthquake.

When the time comes, the three cities will be engulfed in flames, and even by conservative estimates, no more than ten percent of them will survive.

However, these conjectures were suppressed by the managers.

As I said before, conjecture is conjecture after all, and it is impossible for people to understand it until it is proven.

If the news spreads, it will cause an uproar, and that's not what those managers want to see.