June 2nd.

In the South China Sea, an engineering fleet is riding the wind and waves, cutting white trails in the endless blue sky.

The surging gas turbine drives the propeller and makes the giant ship split the waves.

Countless seagulls, puffins, albatrosses, and frigate birds followed the fleet, and from time to time they stopped on the decks of ships or on the islands of ships, or skimmed across the sea, catching fish with their claws.

And the seabirds are targeting the fish that have been hit by the propellers in the white trail behind the propellers.

The flagship of the engineering fleet is a 100,000-ton sandblasting ship, and Li Nuozhen, the captain in charge of leading the team, is in the wheelhouse.

Captain Zhang Dahai was in command of the fleet.

Li Nuozhen, who was reading the documents, raised his head and asked, "The sea, where have we been?"

"We are now past the 10th parallel, about 47 nautical miles from the Yin Khanh Islands." Zhang Dahai replied.

"When you get to your destination, call me."

"Okay."

The destination of the engineering fleet is Nan'an Reef, which is about 420 kilometers away.

As for the task, of course, it is to blow sand and land on Nan'an Reef and build and expand the land scope on Nan'an Reef.

In fact, at this time, there were already two sandblasting boats working on Nan'an Reef, pumping sand and gravel from the bottom of the sea to the reef in order to expand the area of the reef.

And in Li Nuozhen's engineering fleet, one of the inconspicuous supply ships is transporting something special.

Passing by Huayang Reef in the Yinqing Islands, the supplies and some personnel were unloaded on Huayang Reef, and the supply ship did not follow Li Nuozhen's fleet to continue south.

This 50,000-ton supply ship looks ordinary, but in fact, the things transported inside are very special.

Captain Zhang Chenggong and team leader Gao Yuan were discussing some things, and Zhang Wei, the reef captain stationed at Huayang Reef, also got on the supply ship.

At this time, the area of Huayang Reef is 0.32 square kilometers, which is about 32 hectares, equivalent to 320,000 square meters.

This area is the result of 13~14 years of sand blowing and land reclamation, and the previous area was only about 0.14 square kilometers, but now it has more than doubled.

"Captain Gao, I'm Zhang Wei, the reef leader of the Huayang Reef garrison team." A middle-aged non-commissioned officer saluted the plateau.

Blown by the sea breeze all year round, Zhang Wei's skin looks bronzed and slightly rough.

"Zhang Jiaochang, it's a great honor to meet you."

After some exchanges, everyone finally entered the main task of coming to Huayang Reef this time.

"Chief Zhang Jiao, you are familiar with the hydrological situation of Huayang Reef, please show us the way."

"No problem."

The supply ship Xinzhou soon entered the sea area on the east side of Huayang Reef under the guidance of Zhang Wei, where there was a reef about 8 kilometers away from Huayang Reef.

A reef is an island that is below sea level at high tide and exposed at low tide.

Through the active sonar system on the Xinzhou and the hydrographic data provided by Zhang Wei, Zhang Chenggong quickly docked the ship between Huayang Reef and the reef.

Zhang Chenggong turned his head and said, "It's okay." ”

"Okay, everyone's in place." Takahara picked up the walkie-talkie and commanded.

"Roger."

The Xinzhou unloading boom throws a 5-metre-long black cigar-shaped object into the sea, which enters the sea and then starts the miniature engine to propel the "cigar" towards its intended target.

Several staff members on the Xinzhou were holding remote controls to correct the direction of the "cigar".

After a while, the "cigar" reached the designated position, and the staff entered the password and pressed the red button.

The "cigar" then bursts, and countless powders are emitted into the seawater, and as soon as these powders meet the seawater, a violent chemical reaction ensues.

A rock-like substance "grew" wildly from the sea, and in less than ten minutes, a piece of land with an area of more than ten square meters appeared on the side of the reef.

Meanwhile.

The New Island is constantly dropping "cigars" into the sea, and as the powder is released, rocks are protruding on the surface of the sea.

On the morning of June 3.

As the sun rises in the east, Huayang Reef is connected to a reef eight kilometers away, forming an island with an area of up to 1.6 square kilometers.

The artificially created land is about 3 meters above sea level at high tide, and the whole is grayish-white.

Today, the land reclamation work is still ongoing.

And Zhang Wei, the reef commander, led a group of soldiers stationed there, installing some equipment, which were the materials unloaded by Li Nuozhen's fleet before.

Stepping on these lands, which were only created yesterday, the soldiers were very curious.

"Reef chief, is this place reliable? How does it feel a little unsteady. ”

Others also stepped on it, feeling that this kind of land is not very safe, after all, 1.2 square kilometers of land were built in one day, and you must know that the average water depth near Huayang Reef is about 50~100 meters, which is not a shoal.

Zhang Wei scolded with a smile: "It's not safe, will you use it here?" Hands and feet are numb. ”

"Okay!"

Due to the lack of formwork frames, these artificial rocks appear to be in a somewhat wild state, with uneven surfaces.

Several people were wearing protective suits and carrying a pesticide spraying box-like box, while others carried a water pipe.

When you see an obvious ravine, you spray rocking agent and seawater, and in this way you quickly create rocks.

Thanks to their efforts, a large area of land was soon leveled.

The Xinzhou, which is rock-forming in the sea, is rock-forming on the south side of the previous reef, forming an L-shaped arrangement.

The part of the land that has been renovated today is a 3-kilometer airstrip and a reserved space for airport towers, radar stations, supply warehouses, etc.

Two days later, two 50,000-ton supply ships docked at the simple wharf of Xinhuayang Reef, which at this time had become a "soil" type distribution map, and the area had expanded to 3.6 square kilometers.

The strength of a regiment was reinforced by a supply ship to Huayang Reef.

On a reef near Nan'an Reef, Li Nuozhen's fleet also used rock forming agents to quickly create land around the reef, and the scale was even larger than Huayang Reef.

In less than a day, an artificial island in the shape of a "ten" was built, with an area of up to 2.4 square kilometers, on which the strength of a regiment was also deployed.

In addition to Li Nuozhen's fleet, there are four other fleets that are doing the same thing, quickly building artificial islands through reefs or uninhabited reefs.

This rock-forming agent is a special catalyst developed by the Institute of Materials of Thinking Society, which can make the sodium chloride in seawater, calcium ions, and water molecules have a chemical reaction to form a solid rocky substance.

As for whether it will have an impact on the environment, the only effect may be that the seawater will be desalinated, that is, the concentration of sodium chloride will decrease.

However, this sodium chloride concentration decline is only around the islands, and will soon be balanced by sodium chloride in other seas, which is equivalent to a medium freshwater river flowing into the ocean, and will not affect the ocean.

Unless there is a super-large-scale land reclamation, such as tens of thousands of square kilometers of land at a time, this can cause terrible ecological problems.

For possible ecological problems, the Academy of Sciences has carried out component simulation calculations to ensure that the ecological problems are minimized.

However, in the eyes of Huaguo, the small-scale land creation is simply super-large-scale in the eyes of others.

In the face of this step-by-step approach, those countries concerned can only protest but protest.

Anyway, everyone goes their own way, you resist your proposal, I build my island, I just don't bird you, the big hooligan plays the hooligan, who can help me.