134 - Visit the cave
Soon, the car drove into the construction site of Life Science City.
The sight of hundreds of buildings being built at the same time is spectacular, and when has Africa ever seen such a battle, this spectacle has even given birth to a number of new occupations in the region.
These new professionals are all local idle residents, and their task is to kill time by watching the floors increase every day, and they are nicknamed "observers" by Chen Chen's side.
At first, Qian Wenhuan drove this group of people away, but after driving them away a few times to no effect, he let them go.
The only trouble is that because of this group of people, there will often be a loss of various tools on the construction site, although the loss is not large, but it is also disgusting to have more times.
As the car drove into the top of the hill, Chen Chen suddenly saw huge trucks coming and going at the foot of the mountain, these trucks loaded with sand and gravel and building materials, looking from afar, like industrious ant colonies, and these roads were caves for ants to enter and exit......
This is a pomp and circumstance that Namibia has never seen before.
And at the foot, I saw several large drilling rigs are constantly working, bursts of violent vibrations came, although most of the seaside is salt water, but as long as the aquifer is penetrated, there are a lot of fresh water resources.
In order to facilitate access to water, these construction teams directly drilled a well, although Africa is dry, but as long as the accurate location can be found, there is no shortage of groundwater resources.
It's just that in Africa, local residents prefer to travel 10 kilometers a day to carry water to other places than to dig water from wells in front of their homes.
It's a difference made by habit and environment.
While people from the outside world wonder why they would rather run 10 kilometers a day to fetch water than dig wells, they actually wonder why they want to dig groundwater. Isn't there enough water in the river to drink? ”
Soon, following a repaired road, the vehicle drove up to a huge fence.
It was a ten-meter-high wall, towering, with barbed wire and monitors at the top of the wall, a kind of wall that Chen Chen had only seen in prison.
At the gate of the community where Chen Chen is located, there is an electronic fence gate, and all trucks transporting goods need to be registered before they can enter and exit, and inside the gate, there is a huge stacking area, in which all goods will be unloaded.
Only after the goods are unloaded and the trucks have left, the workers on the construction site are allowed to move the construction materials, directly eliminating all the contact between the workers in the community and the outside world.
At this time, seven or eight buildings in the community have been built, which is the same as the style of Zhongzhou District, and there is also an underground garage that connects the entire community.
There are also many small transporters in the underground garage, which come in and out, constantly transporting various materials into the door of the underground garage, like a giant mouth of the abyss that can never be filled.
Obviously, the entrance to the underground base is here.
Inside the entrance of the underground garage, there was the last level, and after passing through the last level, Chen Chen finally saw that in the center of the underground garage, there was a huge cave.
Because it was still under construction, this bottomless hole was exposed in the middle of the underground garage without cover, and as Chen Chen got out of the car, he could immediately feel a trace of cold wind pouring up.
On the four sides of the cave, a large number of steel frames are erected messily, and these steel frames extend along the opening of the cave to fix the outer wall of the cave and prevent it from collapsing.
There is also a huge lift fixed to the top of the cavern, powered by dozens of diesel generators, which are messily placed nearby, constantly emitting deafening noises.
"Hey, who's that!"
Qian Wenhuan was originally leading the way in front, but when he saw a man dressed as a foreman in front of the cave reprimanding other workers, he immediately shouted loudly, "Come here." ”
"Mr. Qian, what's the matter?"
The man dressed as a foreman nodded and ran over, "Yo, who are these two beside you?" ”
"This is Mr. Chen, the owner of our company, now we are going to visit the construction site, you are familiar with this place, find us a guide." Qian Wenhuan was too lazy to be polite with the other party, and ordered directly.
"It turned out to be Boss Chen!" The foreman's eyes lit up, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all, but took the initiative to step forward and stretch out his hands, "Fortunately, I will be lucky!" ”
Chen Chen did not hesitate, and shook hands with the other party with a natural expression.
Now that others have taken out an attitude, whether they are asking for help or not, there is no need for Chen Chen to put on a high-spirited demeanor, no one owes anyone anyway.
This scene made Qian Wenhuan smile awkwardly, and hurriedly corrected his attitude that had been a little erratic recently.
Seeing that Chen Chen didn't look down on himself, the man smiled even more happily, "Don't look for a guide, if you don't dislike it, I'll just be a guide for a few people." He looked at Chen Chen expectantly.
"Of course you can't ask for that." Chen Chen nodded, "I don't know your surname?" ”
"My name is Haisanchuan, the sea of great wealth, the three of one, two, three, and the ...... of mountains and rivers."
The man took out a cigarette and handed it to the three of them, Chen Chen naturally took it, but when the other party wanted to light a cigarette for himself, he waved his hand, indicating that he would not smoke now.
"Hai Sanchuan, these horizontal and vertical are all three......" Qian Wenhuan subconsciously teased on the side, but Chen Chen glanced at him and immediately shut up.
"Hey, I don't know how my dad gave me that name."
Hai Sanchuan smiled indifferently, and led the three of them to the big cave, pointing to the huge cave and said, "The big hole dug out is about five meters, and it was dug directly with a large drilling platform for a month, which is a big project." ”
"Don't look ugly now, when it's finished, the outer wall of the big hole will be fixed with steel plates, and it will be beautiful then."
As Hai Sanchuan explained, the elevator in the center of the big cave suddenly whimpered, and several arm-thick steel cables began to shrink rapidly, as if they wanted to pull something out of the ground.
"It takes about five minutes to get up from the ground here."
As if he was afraid that Chen Chen couldn't wait, Hai Sanchuan added, "Don't look at it, it seems to be slow, but it's already fast in the freight elevator, and according to the average speed, the rise and fall per second is more than two meters." ”
With Hai Sanchuan's explanation, a freight elevator platform was raised, and several workers were stunned when they saw Chen Chen and the others, but they didn't say anything, and began to carry the mountains of materials on the side without saying a word.
"You guys can stop for a while and rest for ten minutes."
Handing three helmets with headlamps to Chen Chen and the others, Hai Sanchuan gave orders to the workers and walked up with Chen Chen and the others.
To put it simply, the platform is like a simple elevator, but the length, width and height are exaggerated, for example, this platform is four meters long and wide, and more than five meters high, surrounded by rollers, and the outer wall of the cave is fixed with rails.
Hai Sanchuan walked to the console on the side and pressed the button, and suddenly the lifting platform closed the door and began to descend slowly.
As the transport platform began to descend, Chen Chen looked outside through the grid fence, under the reflection of the miner's lamp, it was still red soil at first, and as it continued to fall, the soil from the outside world turned into gray-brown rock, which was entering the rock layer.
The platform of the freight elevator was very smooth without the slightest bump, and finally landed at the bottom five minutes later, and suddenly a huge cavern came into view.
Countless stalactite pillars have been completely knocked out and replaced by hundreds of square cement pillars, which have replaced the stalactite pillars and supported the cave more effectively.
The entire cave was brightly lit, and Chen Chen could see the end hundreds of meters away at a glance, this space was indeed a perfect hemispherical space as originally described.
In the center of the cave is a pyramid-shaped building, though it is closer to the shape of the Mayan pyramids than the Egyptian pyramids.
What's even more amazing is that the entire building is made of steel, like a pyramid made of steel, standing in the center of the cave, even directly fitting the top of the cave.
This is the top laboratory that Chen Chen dreams of, different from the biosafety laboratory on the surface that is only level 4 at the highest, here, Chen Chen will create a biosafety protection laboratory that is enough to imprison aliens and study tyrannosaurs, and the highest level has reached the level 5 biosafety protection that has never been seen in the world.