Chapter 109: Saber Rattling (I)
The convoy did not go to the General Staff, nor to the Military Intelligence Directorate, but to a field airfield.
"What is this for?" Luo Jinyong was a little surprised, is he going to take a plane again?
"The earthquake has caused serious damage to road traffic facilities, and the evacuation operation has already begun, and the army is organizing the people of the coastal areas to retreat inland, so we are flying by helicopter."
"Why didn't you start by helicopter?"
Wei Longzheng pushed the car door, got out of the car first, and waited for Luo Jinyong to get out of the car before saying: "Director Yuan specially advised, now you are the number one national treasure, and you can't make any mistakes." ”
"What do you mean?"
"Military Intelligence has long been informed that at least three U.S. intelligence agencies have orchestrated assassinations against you, and that all of them were carried out after Judgment Day."
"This ......"
"In addition, the Japanese intelligence agencies have also made deployments."
"Now that the world is in turmoil, will the Yankees assassinate me? Besides, Japan has been completely destroyed, and the Japanese intelligence agencies will still deal with me? ”
"The agents who assassinated you have long since entered our country, and some of them have been controlled by the Military Intelligence Bureau, but a few are still at large."
Luo Jinyong sighed secretly, he really didn't expect that he would become the target of public criticism.
"To be on the safe side, I arranged for five convoys and the other four went somewhere else. This is a field airfield that our army has just built, and it is very well camouflaged, and the reconnaissance satellites of various countries have been transferred to other orbits, focusing on monitoring the situation in the impact area. ”
"Where are we going?"
"'Xuanwu' Strategic Command Center."
"What?" Luo Jinyong didn't understand.
Walking to the helicopter, Wei Longzheng stopped, first let Luo Jinyong get on the helicopter, then boarded the helicopter, and then let the captain take off.
"Old Wei, what strategic command center did you start talking about?"
"Xuanwu Strategic Command Center."
"This ......"
"Haven't heard of it?" Wei Longzheng smiled and said, "This is normal, I also just learned about it." In addition to the officers and soldiers of the troops who participated in the construction, only Mr. Yang and Director Yuan knew about it. This strategic center, which was built under the direct responsibility of Director Yuan, is one of the five strategic centers built in China in two years, and it is also the closest and strongest one to Beijing. In a little over an hour, we will arrive. ”
"Where?"
"Taihang Mountain."
"It was built to deal with similar situations?"
Wei Longzheng nodded and said, "I don't know much about it, but it must be one of the secret projects that my country has been engaged in in the past two years." ”
Since it was a secret project, Luo Jinyong didn't ask any more.
After the discovery of the 2014X1 asteroid, countries are engaged in secret projects. Although the Planetary Defense Council has clarified the basic principles of jointly resisting the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations after its establishment, it has not had an impact on the secret projects carried out by various countries.
China has engaged in no fewer clandestine projects than other countries, at least no less than a few other member states other than the United States.
As far as Luo Jinyong knows, the Houyi project is one of the secret projects. It's just that I am afraid that only Yang Fanglie and Yuan Dezhi know all the secret projects of Lu Dao.
Luo Jinyong has enough reason to believe that even Zhang Xiaogang does not know all the secret projects of Lu Dao.
The helicopter flew for an hour, entered the Taihang Mountains, and lowered the flight altitude. Luo Jinyong fastened his seat belt, although he did not have a fear of heights, he had a slight vertigo and was more sensitive to violent bumps. Affected by this, he never went to the playground.
"Professor, are you uncomfortable?"
"No, I'm probably hungry, and my stomach is a little uncomfortable."
"It's okay, it's almost there."
There was a large mountain ahead, and the helicopter did not slow down, did not turn, and did not climb, but flew straight halfway up the mountain.
"Climb quickly......" Luo Jinyong panicked. It's hard to get back to China alive, and he doesn't want to die here.
"Professor, don't panic!" Wei Longzheng grabbed Luo Jinyong's arm.
Luo Jin was startled, and a strange thought occurred in the blink of an eye. Could it be that it wasn't Wei Longzheng who was sitting next to him, or was Wei Longzheng the enemy spy who assassinated him?
The helicopter crashed into the mountainside, but nothing happened.
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling light shone in, making Luo Jinyong unable to open his eyes.
After a roar, the helicopter landed on the ground.
"Professor, we're here!"
Luo Jinyong opened his eyes and found that in a huge cave, the helicopter was parked on the take-off and landing platform in the center of the cave.
"Professor......
Wei Longzheng had already gotten off the helicopter, and Luo Jinyong could only follow. Stepping on the ground, Luo Jinyong breathed a sigh of relief. The feeling of being down to earth is indeed a little more secure.
"Let's go!"
"Where are we?"
"The entrance to the Xuanwu Strategic Command Center."
"This ...... What's going on? ”
Wei Longzheng smiled, pointed at the black wall behind the helicopter, and said, "That's a three-dimensional projection screen, that is, an air curtain. What we see from the outside is just a virtual image produced by projection. It looks realistic from a distance, and you can only see the flaws when you get closer. ”
"So it's halfway up the mountain, so that no one can see through it?"
Wei Longzheng nodded, indicating that this was what he meant. "Let's go, the elevator has come, and Mr. Yang is still waiting for you."
The elevator is next to the helicopter's lifting platform, and on the left side is a post also covered by virtual images, with several heavily armed guards inside. The elevator kept going down, very fast, and it stopped after about two minutes. Luo Jinyong felt that he had reached hundreds of meters below the ground.
When you step out of the elevator, you will find a spherical room with a diameter of about ten meters, a station to be exact. Two circular tunnels with a diameter of about three meters are connected at each end of the room, with tracks laid inside, an electric rail car parked at the mouth of the tunnel on the right, and a closed mouth at the mouth on the left.
Seeing Luo Jinyong and Wei Longzheng arrive, a major officer standing next to the rail car immediately walked over.
After the three of them got on the train, the rail car drove into the tunnel.
It didn't take long for Luo Jinyong to discover that the tunnel was welded by a 10-meter-long steel pipe, and there were stiffeners at the welds, which was much stronger than the reinforced concrete tunnel.
"How big is it?"
"The design standard is to accommodate 10,000 people, but at most it can accommodate 40,000 people, but you have to let four people live in one room."
"This ...... Is this the command center? ”
"It's both a command center and a refuge." It was the major who answered the question.
"Shelter?"
"This is Major Hu Shuo of the Second Artillery Corps Engineer Corps, he is the chief designer of the Xuanwu Strategic Command Center, and he is also the person in charge of the project." Wei Longzheng made an introduction.
"Professor Luo Jinyong, you are a big celebrity, it is my honor to meet you."
Luo Jinyong smiled and shook hands with Hu Shuo. "You started saying that this is a shelter?"
"In the beginning, the five strategic command centers were designed according to the standards of the Vault, and later they were changed to strategic command centers, and they are related to you."
"Me!?" Luo Jinyong was even more puzzled.
"After the discovery of the 2014X1 asteroid, everyone thought that it would hit the Earth directly, so our first projects were all aimed at preserving the fire of human civilization. Under normal operation, each shelter can accommodate 10,000 people, and five shelters can accommodate 50,000 people, and the personnel in any shelter have the ability to reproduce independently, that is, without contact with other groups of people, there will be no inbreeding problems. To this end, we are preparing to select 10,000 evacuees to survive the catastrophe after the impact. The basic system of the Vault, capable of operating for five hundred years. The structural strength of the shelter is able to withstand a fifteen-magnitude earthquake from a thousand kilometers away. The five Vaults are spaced more than a thousand kilometers apart, so at least one of them will not be destroyed, regardless of the point of impact. As long as 10,000 people survive, human civilization will not be extinct. ”
"Civilization is more than just people living." Luo Jinyong was shocked.
"You're right, so we did more. In each sanctuary, there is a library that houses the most important technical, cultural and sociological books in human history. There is also a crop gene storehouse, which preserves the seeds of thousands of crops and plants. Because space is limited, only genetic samples of wild animals are retained. In addition, there is a museum that preserves our collection of art and artifacts. ”
"This ......"
"Now this is the strategic command center." Hu Shuo smiled and said, "After you became the chief scientific advisor, you put forward a very famous hypothesis, that is, the 2014X1 asteroid will not directly impact the earth, but will make a soft landing on the earth, and this hypothesis has been gradually verified, so we transformed the shelter into a strategic command center. Of course, it can still be used as a shelter if needed. ”
"So, I'm causing you trouble?"
"Quite the opposite. At the beginning of the renovation, there were still many projects that were not completed and did not need to be completed, so it saved us a lot of work. ”
At this time, a platform appeared in front of the tunnel, and the rail car began to slow down.
"We're here."
"Professor, I'll take you to eat something first, take a shower and change your clothes."
"Okay, I'm hungry and haven't showered in days."
Wei Longzheng got out of the car first, and Luo Jinyong followed him. However, before the two of them left the platform, a soldier wearing an unranked military uniform stopped them.
"Old Wei, Mr. Yang asked Professor Luo to go over immediately?"
"Now?" Wei Longzheng looked a little surprised.
"Yes, now."
"Okay, I'll take the professor there." Wei Longzheng sighed, and said to Luo Jinyong again, "Professor, wait a minute, I'll bring the fast food over, and the rest will be left to you." ”
Luo Jinyong was originally a person who didn't pay much attention to it, so he didn't care too much.
Five minutes later, Wei Longzheng sent Luo Jinyong to Yang Fanglie's office, and then went to help Luo Jinyong prepare fast food.