Chapter 274: Salvage out of the sea

Xinghuo Technology's strategy of striking east and west is a perfect cover for salvaging degenerate substances.

The other seven floating cities were followed by well-known media outlets, filming the deep-sea mining of the Spark Mining Company.

The only special floating city also has well-known media following, but it is Xinghuo Technology's own media.

He also sends out the mining information of this floating city every day, but the content is completely quantum computer synthesis, synthesized according to real sea state information, and it can be completely fake and true.

Feng Yunde himself is in charge of the super lifting water city, he leads a scientific research team of 500 people, and a logistics team of 2,000 people, and the water city is also equipped with large-scale equipment to deal with various accidents.

It has a maximum draft of 50 meters, a total area of 3,500 square kilometers, and a total ultimate carrying mass of 175 million tons.

Remove the mass of the city itself and the mass it already carries, and then keep it in a more stable position, leaving room that can be adjusted.

With a standard carrying mass of 60 million tons, it can easily salvage degenerate materials even if it is affected by 14,000 kilometers of deep seawater.

This is the limit of what Xinghuo Technology's existing technology can do, if he can't salvage the degenerate substance, then Xinghuo Technology won't be able to salvage him for a long time.

Huang Ke saw that Feng Yunde had already rushed to the Mariana Trench.

He boarded the super crane water city and said excitedly: "You guys are here, I'm very worried now, afraid of long nights and dreams."

American ships coming from the direction of Guam often monitor our movements. ”

Feng Yunde shook hands with Huang Ke and said easily: "What do you have to worry about, even if the United States discovers a degenerate substance, they don't have the ability to salvage this degenerate substance."

Besides, I don't have much confidence in keeping it secret for a long time, but it is still no problem to keep it secret for a month or two.

Except for the company's top management and the scientists in the water research city, no one else knew about degenerate matter.

All the signals and expert behaviors of your water research ship have been monitored by Xianghua, and even if they have the heart to transmit the news to the outside world, they will not be able to pass on the news. ”

"When we go back to the company in the future, we will catch up with the old days, or we will salvage the degenerate material from the bottom of the sea first." Huang Ke urged.

Feng Yunde also knew the importance of business, and he immediately began to start the salvage operation procedures.

A giant crane is erected in the heart of the floating city.

It is different from conventional cranes, which have an inverted semicircle of girders.

The crane has a staggering diameter of 500 meters, and the crane is driven by multiple electric motors and can start objects weighing up to 20 million tons.

The gear set can adjust the direction of operation, even if a motor is damaged, it will not affect the salvage operation.

In the very center of the floating city there is a large hole with a diameter of 5 meters that penetrates the entire city, which is used to allow the starter rope to pass through.

Only vertical salvage is the most labor-saving salvage scheme, the rope is slightly tilted, and the force acting on the object will be decomposed, affecting the salvage effect.

The crane's gear set did not engage with the crane's hub, which began to slowly lower a one-meter-diameter rope consisting of hundreds of millions of filaments.

Feng Yunde watched the rope be lowered at the same time, he introduced: "This is a newly synthesized organic material from our Materials Research Institute, a hair-thick fiber filament, it can lift a ton of objects.

A rope composed of 100 million filaments, its pulling force is enough to salvage the degenerate substance. ”

The bathyscaphe holds the rope underneath and heads straight in the direction of the degenerate matter.

After more than 30 hours of trekking, the deep-sea submarine has reached the outside of the hydrogel.

It digs directly through the hydrogel and comes to the metal channel.

More than 500 meters of rope enters the channel, and the metal channel immediately drains outward, reducing the pressure of the seawater inside.

The bathyscaphe extends a special robotic arm that breaks up the filaments at the very end of the rope and weaves them into a large net.

Laying this net on one end of the degenerate material, the bathyscaphe simultaneously begins to dig diagonally downward under the net.

It had not been excavated for a long time, and the rock layer beneath was no longer able to support the weight of the degenerate material.

The degenerate substance rolls down directly and rolls into this net, and the web composed of filaments is pressed by the object and immediately begins to retract, directly covering the degenerate substance tightly in the net.

The deep-sea submarine robotic arm once again covered this netizen with a net composed of multiple layers of fiber filaments outside the existing network, perfectly wrapping the degenerate substance.

Feng Yunde received the signal from the deep-sea submarine, and he said happily: "The rope has netted the degenerate substance, and now we will start salvaging the degenerate substance."

The deep-sea submarine immediately exited the seabed, and all the gates of the metal pipeline were opened, and a huge amount of seawater poured into the pipe.

Feng Yunde pressed the button of the crane, and several large motors began to rotate.

They output a huge amount of torque and start to drive the crane's gear set to rotate.

As the gear set slowly turns, the rope made of filaments begins to straighten.

The gear set continued to turn, and the water city shook twice, and began to sink slowly.

According to the sinking state of the water city, Feng Yunde gradually transferred the counterweight of the water city to the transport ship next to him.

The gear set rotated slowly, and the counterweight of the water city was constantly adjusted, and after more than 5 hours of adjustment, the water city began to no longer rise and fall.

Real-time detection of the pulling force of the crane has been as high as 10.7 million tons. This value becomes the highest point of the tensile force, and this value gradually decreases over time.

When Feng Yunde saw the data, he said happily: "The degenerate material has begun to float, and the seabed at a depth of more than 10,000 meters will still put pressure on the degenerate material and the rope.

Fortunately, the rope can withstand the degenerate matter and the weight of the rope, and there is no problem with the pressure of seawater. ”

The crane's gear set rotates at a constant speed, slowly pulling the degenerate material out of the sea.

"Jam the hub and replace the gear set for the crane." Feng Yunde commanded at the engineer.

The crane's gear set will be pulling up more than 10 million tons of objects, and it will need to withstand extreme pressure, which can cause some gears to deform.

Once the gears are deformed, the gear set can't bite tightly, pulling the object up, the hub must be stuck to let the degenerate material suspended in the sea, and the engineer quickly replaces the damaged gear.

Each gear has a different degree of wear, and every 500 meters or so the object rises, a gear must be replaced.

"It's here, it's about to reach the bottom of the water city." Feng Yunde said in surprise.

Under the drag of the crane, the degenerate material has entered the water city, and the gears of the crane are still turning, dragging the degenerate matter directly from the passage in the middle of the water city to the position above the ground of the water city.

After this channel comes up in the degenerate state, it is directly blocked by the high-hardness alloy, and the high-hardness alloy and the water city are bonded into a whole with molecular-level permeable glue.

When the glue is completely secured, the crane replaces the gears, which can be adjusted by hand, taking a small step back each time.

By gradually turning the lever, the engineer carefully places the degenerate material on the super-hard alloy under the crane, and uses the super-hard alloy to withstand part of the pressure of the degenerate material.

This is done primarily for safety. On the way back to the water city, the wind and waves will swing, and the force generated by the swing of nearly 10 million tons of objects will directly pull off the crane.

Feng Yunde said excitedly: "Finally salvaged the degenerate materials, and we will return to the ship immediately."