Volume 1, Pot of Gold, Chapter 721, Recovering the Space Elevator

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Returning home in despair, Aoi Uetsuki didn't know how she left the Yoshiwara Club, and she didn't know what kind of expression she walked into the fifty-square-meter bachelor apartment.

After taking a shower, she fell asleep on the bed, and woke up at noon the next day to find that the pillow towel next to her cheek had been soaked.

Thinking of what happened yesterday, her body trembled involuntarily.

The phone was flipped out on the bedside table, the fingers holding the phone were unconsciously rubbing against the screen, and she didn't know who to call. The ding-dong sound of receiving the email suddenly startled her, and she was relieved when she saw the sender, it was a work email.

As expected, yesterday's search permit she applied for was rejected without any suspense. The plan couldn't catch up with the changes, she originally planned to investigate Jiang Chen first, find evidence of his relationship with the virus incident in the suburbs of Tokyo, and then get the permission of her superiors to search, becoming a myth in the Tokyo police community......

Now it seems that her plan was just a joke.

Tears involuntarily slipped down her self-esteem.

She wanted to call the police, but suddenly she felt ridiculous. She herself is from the Tokyo Police Department, so who should she report to when she calls the police? She suddenly regretted that if she hadn't acted on her own yesterday, she wouldn't have ......

She wanted to call her boyfriend, but she didn't know how to ask him for comfort, and she couldn't talk about what happened last night.

However, the most ridiculous thing was that the figure that terrified her lingered in her mind like a demon.

……

"Space elevator? You're the right question, we know that thing all too well. Wu Yue suddenly laughed, "In front of the station, one of the tasks of our Beluga Submarine Investigation Station is to investigate the geological environment of the sea area near the base of the No. 03 space elevator, detect geological disasters, and assist in maintenance. ”

"What's the situation there?" Jiang Chen immediately asked.

"It was completely bombed. Wu Yue stretched out his hands helplessly, "I still remember that day, at the beginning of the war, the orbit that went straight into the clouds was hit by several missiles, the 30,000-kilometer-long graphene guide rail was split into the sea, and an entire island was directly cut in two by graphene cables...... So, I advise you not to count on that. ”

Don't expect it, just kidding, Jiang Chen has been playing the idea of a space elevator. It's just that NAC has never been able to go to the far sea, or he would have sent someone to explore the whereabouts of the pre-war space elevator. For the last days when the population and resources are scarce, and there is no technology and no production capacity, it is almost impossible to rebuild the space elevator, but it is possible in this world!

"I think I can still count on it...... Do you have a way to drag the wreckage of the space elevator to the sea?" Jiang Chen asked.

Wu Yue looked at Jiang Chen with an expression like a madman, and said in a sweat.

"Do you know how heavy the base of a space elevator is?"

"How?"

"With a displacement of 10 million tons, there is no power system, and after anchoring, it can only be redeployed by special transport equipment, not to mention that now it is sinking to the bottom of the sea. Not to mention transporting it to the shallow sea, it is not an easy task to get it to the surface. ”

"That's ......," Jiang Chen frowned faintly.

"What's the use of you asking for a space elevator, that thing can only be deployed at the equator. Wu Yue asked.

There is another sentence that Wu Yue didn't say, that is, the outer space of the earth is now covered with space junk, and it looks like an asteroid belt from a distance. In such an environment, there is simply no way to develop outer space,

"You don't have to care about what use of me," Jiang Chen waved his hand, and after a moment of silence, he continued, "In this way, you provide escort for our engineering ship, and our side is responsible for the consignment." The price, let's discuss it again?"

"I will convey your mention to my superiors, and I will give you an answer tomorrow at the latest. Wu Yue nodded.

"Then let's go. Jiang Chen said.

It is not impossible to build a space elevator from beginning to end, the current graphene research institute has developed a graphene cable that is enough to act as a space elevator material, although it cannot build the level of the 22nd century, but the space elevator in the initial stage can still be built.

However, unlike Penglai, even if the entire capacity of the new Malaysia district is invested in the space elevator project, it will take at least five years to complete the entire project.

In other words, when the space elevator is completed, it will have to wait for 20 years.

But if you can get the wreckage of the space elevator here in the end of the world to the present world, it will be much easier.

It is not impossible to complete a project that can be completed in five years.

Wu Yue lived up to Jiang Chen's expectations, and the Beluga Whale Expedition Station quickly agreed to Jiang Chen's proposal. After some haggling, the two sides finally reached a preliminary cooperation agreement.

The NAC set up a port on Hengsha Island, north of Wanghai City, for merchants in the sixth block to trade essential goods with the Beluga Observatory. The items traded included foodstuffs, raw materials, some household goods and manufactured goods, as well as limited arms.

The settlement currency is limited to the credits common to NAC, and the tariff is tentatively set at 10%.

The transportation agreement for the space elevator is written in a separate agreement.

The Moby Dick Observatory dismantled and repaired the space elevator base for the NAC, and recovered the wreckage of the space elevator falling from outer space to provide escort for the NAC. The NAC, on the other hand, is responsible for dispatching the transport ship and the transport ship responsible for the consignment.

Because the sinking place of the space elevator is far away from Wanghai City, and the depth of the sea near Wanghai City is relatively shallow, it is inconvenient to place the space elevator base. After discussing with the Beluga Expedition Station, Jiang Chen decided to use Yizhou Taipei as a transit station.

Anyway, for Jiang Chen, it was the same wherever these parts were transported to the present world. If it weren't for the fact that he wasn't familiar with the beluga whale research station, it would have been easier for him to go directly to the target sea area for transshipment.

After the signing of the agreement with the Moby Dick Expedition, the NAC's expeditionary force also completed the mobilization.

The "Order" steel airship will take off and set off along the coastline in the direction of Yizhou Island, and is expected to reach Taipei in eight hours. They were accompanied by a caravan of the Zhao Group in a supply airship, whose main mission was to act as guides and communicate with the survivors on Yizhou Island.

For the situation in Taipei, the people of the Zhao Group are still very familiar with it. The rocket engines and aviation equipment acquired by NAC were all obtained from the rocket launch site in Taipei.

Jiang Chen gave Captain Li Wang a simple task, with 200 marines to establish an outpost in Taipei, as well as a radar station and lighthouse. Settle relationships with local survivor groups as circumstances permit, and integrate those survivors under the NAC banner if possible.

For this NAC's second expedition, Jiang Chen gave Li Wang a high degree of freedom of action. During the expedition to Hongcheng, the former captain of the pro-guard team has proven his abilities.

And Jiang Chen also believes that this captain, who was personally promoted by him, will definitely not live up to his expectations. (To be continued.) )