Chapter 1: Pale Life
"Tired because you stopped growing" – Nietzsche
July 11, 2016, 7:55 p.m., Xinhuan Jiayuan
Jiang Huanshui got off the subway from Beiluogong Station and walked for about fifteen minutes into the community.
The weather in July is already a little hot, but the indoor is an embarrassing situation where it is a little cold to turn on the air conditioner and a little hot to turn on the air conditioner.
He returned home, cleaned up briefly, changed into his home clothes, and sat quietly on the sofa in a shape that was by no means decently elegant.
This is a typical one-bedroom apartment, directly opposite the door is a Haier double-door refrigerator, the overall gray-white style, standing silently, like a door god.
On the left side of the refrigerator is the kitchen, with an L-shaped structure, on which a few kinds of kitchen utensils are simply placed, and the hooks on the wall, such as frying spoons and vegetable shovels, are neatly hung according to the width and length, similar to the arrangement of mobile phone signals.
The kitchen and fridge are separated by a sliding glass door that is spotless inside and out.
On the right side of the refrigerator is a small door leading to the bathroom, a drum Haier washing machine is placed behind the door, and the floor is smooth as a mirror without dust.
On the right is the sofa in the living room, on which several sofa towels are neatly laid out, and the only discord is that the paralyzed person on it spoils the overall beauty.
In front of the sofa is a folding dining table with pale yellow patchwork glulam panels forming a complete structure, which can be used as a coffee table for meals, showing the aesthetic of industrial design.
In front of the dining table is a long table, in front of which is a Dirix gaming chair, the all-black style does not fit in with the atmosphere of the whole room, because apart from this chair, there is nothing dark in the room.
There are two screens on the pale yellow glulam table, a 40-inch AOK TV hung on the wall, and a 27-inch AOK gaming monitor was placed on the table, and several white data cables and power cables were neatly tied behind the monitors by cable ties.
The white power strip is filled with power adapters of different sizes and shapes.
Further inside over a floor-to-ceiling sliding partition glass wall is the bedroom, at this moment the thick blackout curtain on the partition glass door is tightly drawn, and the afterglow of the dusk and setting sun is only quiet and diffuse in the bedroom, without leaking to the living room.
The light source for the living room is a variable color temperature UHF flash controllable light diode ceiling lamp with a power of up to 77W on the ceiling.
At the moment, it is running in the mid-range brightness, and the pale yellow light is gentle and decadent, and it seems to have a bit of a lazy taste of sunshine.
After lying down for nearly ten minutes, Jiang Huanshui finally got up, walked to the one-person-high floor-to-ceiling mirror behind the door, and looked at himself in the mirror wearing a set of flannel dark blue pajamas.
Staring blankly at the slightly disheveled hairstyle due to sitting, the red bloodshot eyes, and the pale face after spending a long time in the room, an indescribable emotion crept into my heart.
My life is pale.
Time passed day by day, and I couldn't do anything.
People who are alone are prone to loneliness, lonely loneliness, lonely gloom, gloomy chaos, chaotic depression, and low discouragement.
After watching for more than a minute, Jiang Huanshui finally couldn't resist the protest of his stomach, took out two vegetables and half a piece of pork from the refrigerator, opened the glass door and got busy.
And he will never know how much he misses everything ordinary and even ordinary in the countless days to come, how much he hates his hypocrisy and pretentiousness at the moment, how he crushes his steel teeth in countless sleepless nights, and how he clenches his front front incisors to express his indignation at the moment of pretending~
After all, hypocrisy is a disease that must be treated, and pretending to be forced is a serious illness that must be cured.
At 8:15 p.m. on July 11, 2016, the sensing and monitoring room of the pipeline network of the third gas supply station
Lao Li is one of the few old employees of the gas supply station, who joined the work in 03 years and has been working for 13 years now.
At the beginning, there was no third gas supply station, and at that time, every household still used honeycomb coal and bulk coal for heating, cooking, and boiling water.
In 08 years, for the major event of the city, in 06-07 years, the six districts of the city and the surrounding districts fully implemented the transformation of the coal to gas project, and the third gas supply station was established at the same time.
As a veteran technician of the Municipal Natural Gas Group, Lao Li was honorably dispatched to the third gas supply station as the chief engineer, responsible for solving technical problems, and has been working for 8 years since then.
Today's Lao Li is no longer young, and he rarely goes to the next line to repair problems.
The progress of technology and the application of new equipment have greatly reduced the hardship and danger of being on the front line.
"Xiao Xue, the 347th sensor of the Baizhuang KL-34 pipeline is abnormal, and I will let the substation send someone to take a look at it to see if the power supply line has been bitten off by rats."
"Okay, master, I'll call."
"Da Liu, the HZ-799 sensor in charge of the secondary turbulence shows that the flow rate is too slow, and the HZ-78 shunt is disconnected, hurry up and find someone to take a look."
"Okay, Master Li, I'll bring someone over now"
The large screen in the monitoring room is full of 3,329 pipelines in the entire Canadian Economic Development Zone.
More than a dozen parameters such as natural gas pressure, flow rate, and flow direction of each pipeline are monitored by a total of 28,444 sensors 24 hours a day.
The whole system is efficient, tight and secure.
Many people will misunderstand this system, thinking that it is just a natural gas delivery company, which can afford to spend so much money, spend hundreds of millions of yuan in taxes, raise a team of eight or nine people, and occupy tens of thousands of square meters of land.
Efficient means:
Any pipe node or pathway, within 125 milliseconds of an anomaly, will be detected by up to eight or nine different sensors of various types every ten meters.
Through their own high-precision haptic, vibration perception, flow velocity perception, pressure perception, and flow direction perception, these sensors convert all kinds of physical measurements that ordinary people cannot touch in a lifetime into neat and beautiful electrical signals in just 0.2 seconds.
These electrical signals are received by microchip processors set up at different relay nodes, decoded, sorted and recoded for about 1.2~2.8 seconds, and then sent to a data processing center buried 35 meters underground.
A powerful computer immersed in liquid nitrogen distributes disparate information to one or more of the 879 screens at all 430 gas supply stations in less than 5 seconds.
The whole process, no more than 15 seconds, small problems on the thousands of meters of pipeline, are instantly detected, captured and presented.
Strict means:
Within three minutes of discovering the problem, the problem will be classified depending on the size, severity and availability of the problem.
Under different levels of problems, the corresponding processing team will generally be dispatched within three to ten minutes, carrying different types of equipment, and there is still a need to deal with the danger of explosion or deflagration at any time.
If it's a particularly serious problem, congratulations, you've probably been lucky enough to see Yuri's ability to mobilize like a recruit, move like a wolf, and act like a professional doctor.
But ordinary people will not see it, because when dealing with particularly serious problems at this time, most people will be outside the strict exclusion circle of security forces, community inspections, property security, neighborhood committee aunts and others.
Make sure that there will be no anti-social anti-human maniac and fools who make a fire to see where the gas leaks in the house, rush into the leak circle and burn everyone's lives.
The meaning of safety is very simple: after the operation of this system, there have been no accidents above level 3 for three years, six months and eight days, and the accidents below level 3 are only less than 5% of the previous ones, because the casualties caused by various accidents are zero.
Of course, many people don't care about this, they still care about a part of the personal income tax deducted from their monthly salary, envy the gas station staff who sit in the office drinking tea and reading the newspaper, and continue to complain about this "fucked" system.
Soon, though, they couldn't complain anymore.