Volume 1, First Pot of Gold, Chapter 740, The Moon of Calamity

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The Spring Festival of 18 years happened to be one day after Valentine's Day, Jiang Chen returned to the end of the world on Valentine's Day on February 14, accompanied Sun Jiao for a wonderful Valentine's Day, and then spent the Spring Festival and Chinese New Year's Eve with the daughters and the subordinates of the fish bone base. ●⌒，.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year on the 17th, the time agreed with the Beluga Submarine Research Station arrived, and Jiang Chen came to Yizhou Island on an airship transporting supplies, and Lin Ling went with him this time. I heard that there is a deuterium refinery in Taipei, Yizhou Island, and a small nuclear fusion power station with a high degree of survival.

Because of the long-distance power transmission and the lunar helium-3 mining base, the nuclear fusion power station on the earth in front of the station has basically been transferred to the moon, and some of the remaining large nuclear power plants have also been baptized by nuclear strikes during the war, and it is even more difficult to find a complete nuclear fusion power station in this wasteland than to climb to the sky.

Therefore, when Jiang Chen heard that there was such a nuclear power plant on Yizhou Island, he immediately became interested in it. In particular, the supporting deuterium refinery, although the use of deuterium as nuclear fuel is not as environmentally friendly as helium-3, but now is not the time for picky eaters.

Nuclear power plants may not seem particularly attractive to the sixth district, which has subcrystalline as an energy source, but for the modern world, especially for the new country, which is all dependent on imports for energy, nuclear fusion power plants will be of extraordinary value.

Especially the city of Penglai, which is about to open.

If cold fusion technology can be used, the 100,000 acres of seaweed power generation project originally planned to be added to the nearby sea area will be cancelled directly, as will the 12 large ocean current generator units and 150 wind turbines. Not only that, but it can also drive down the cost of electricity to a terrible level.

Of course, it's good to use this technology secretly, and it would be better to make it public when the space elevator comes out.

There were only a few nuclear experts in the entire Wanghai City, and only Lin Ling knew Jiang Chen's secrets, so he took her with him. It just so happened that the work of the Garden of Eden was nearing completion, and when the final project was completed after the beginning of spring, the Garden of Eden, which had taken more than a year, could be declared complete.

Carrying the base of the space elevator, recovering nuclear technology, and solving the small troubles encountered by the expeditionary force by the way, this is the purpose of Jiang Chen's trip.

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It has been a month since the landing of the expeditionary force.

When Jiang Chen arrived on Yizhou Island, Li Wang, the captain of the boat, immediately arranged a clean and comfortable room for him, presented him with a summary of the intelligence and mission logs collected in the past month, and handed over the temporary command.

Immediately after the landing, Li Wang sent expeditionary soldiers to explore Taipei and its suburbs, and built a simple cement fortress and lighthouse on the sea cliff at the northern end of Yizhou Island, as well as elevators for airships to dock.

Compared with the war-torn inland, although Yizhou Island also has traces of war, it is not as tragic as Wanghai City. There was no direct nuclear attack, most of the high-rise buildings in the city were intact, and most of the radiation on the island came from radioactive fallout blowing from Southeast Asia.

However, there is one thing here that is not much different from that on land, and that is the deformed growth of plants, and the abominable xenomorphs and zombies.

Vines and withered branches cover tall buildings, cracked pavements are littered with craters, and in the shadows lurks a wolf-like creature with a sharp beak and claws, known to the soldiers of the expeditionary force as "ghouls", and those who attack it often leave few bones behind.

But that's not the most terrifying.

These ghouls are terrifying, but two bullets are also a death. However, in the face of a mirelurk with a carapace as thick as steel and an unambiguous speed of movement, the rifle is not so secure.

In particular, these mirelurks are still moving in groups, which is a nightmare.

And the trouble that these expeditionary forces ran into was related to these mirelurks......

The next day, the patrol that explored the island went on duty as usual and returned to camp before dark.

Unlike usual, this time they also brought back a local.

The guards searched behind him, displayed the ******** and crossbow arrows on his body for safekeeping, and then brought him to Jiang Chen.

It is still snowing in the wasteland in February, and even on Yizhou Island in the south, traces of snow can be seen. I saw that the man was wearing an old gray jacket with some sloppy mud on his body. With tanned skin and a shaved head, he looked like an honest peasant, but his little eyes were a blow to his shrewdness.

"What's your name?" Jiang Chen looked at

"The contemptible Chen Guangning is doing business in Taipei and the coastal areas of southern Fujian on the mainland. If you need a guide, I'll be the perfect fit. Chen Guangning smiled honestly and said respectfully.

Other locals may not have heard of the name NAC, but as a businessman who often travels to southern Fujian, he still has a little knowledge of the name that rose in Wanghai City. In two years, he swept away the major forces in Wanghai City with a thunderous force, and brought the survivor settlements of the entire Wanghai City and even Suzhou and Hangzhou Province under his rule.

And the man in front of him is the leader of the NAC.

If he can connect with the people of NAC, it will definitely be of great benefit to his business. So when the NAC's expeditionary force came to the Taipei survivors' settlement to find someone, and the other survivors looked at each other and expressed their distrust, he took the initiative to ask Ying to go without saying a word and came to the fortress of the expeditionary force.

Jiang Chen smiled and asked directly.

"I'll consider your Jianyì. Before I do that, I have a question for you. ”

"My lord, excuse me. Chen Guangning said respectfully.

"Tell me the details of the month of calamity. Jiang Chen asked the question he was most concerned about.

The so-called Calamity Moon is the name given to the mirelurk crab landing by the locals. However, the NAC Expeditionary Force knew very little about the disaster, which lasted for several months. The locals were very repulsive to the outsiders who suddenly intruded into their homes, and although there was peace and occasional material deals, the dialogue remained limited.

Hearing Jiang Chen's question, Chen Guangning immediately replied.

"Every March, mirelurks lurking in shallow waters come ashore from the northeast coast of Yizhou Island to lay their eggs. Normally, at this time, Taipei survivors would take refuge in a bomb shelter in the center of Taipei City and wait until the mireurk crabs left before coming out. The practice of other areas of Yizhou Island is also the same, and the number of those mirelurks is really not something that human beings can fight, so it is called the month of calamity. ”

As the strongest of the scavengers, these mirelurks are particularly fond of the places where the survivors lived. Whenever they came, they crossed like locusts, scattering the survivors' settlements and leaving behind a mass of slimy follicles.

It is very dangerous to clean up these follicles, and if you are not careful, you may have successfully hatched small mirelurks inside, destroying the follicles and releasing those small mirelurks. Although not as terrifying as mature mirelurks, small mirelurks can still cause a lot of casualties to survivors.

"How many months will this Calamity Month end?" Jiang Chen muttered.

"It's the summer solstice in general. Chen Guangning replied.

Summer solstice?

It would be more than three months later, and the materials for the first batch of space elevator bases were already about to be delivered, and Jiang Chen didn't want to wait that long. On the other hand, due to the impact of the Calamity Month, the exploration of nuclear power plants will also have to be delayed.

If possible, he tried his best to solve these two things.

Frowning slightly, Jiang Chen asked again.

"For these mirelurks...... Do you have any solutions?"

Chen Guangning smiled helplessly.

"If I could think of a solution, I would have been the head of these survivors. (To be continued.) )