Hitomi Shimazu is trying her best to climb Mount Kilimanjaro's Uhuru when her painstaking investigative documentary about the robot Liu Weiping is released, and the Asahi Shimbun's Tokyo colleagues ridicule her again. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hitomi Shimazu resigned in a fit of rage, she bought a ticket and went straight to Kilimanjaro International Airport in ********, she was a good mountaineer in college, and now she wants to conquer the 5,895-meter-high Uhuru Peak, trampling the whole of Africa under her feet, as a way to prove that Shimazu's descendants will never disgrace Satsuma's predecessors.

Mount Kilimanjaro is located at 3 degrees south latitude of the equator, and its main peak is only 300 kilometers away from the equator. But under the influence of uncontrolled greenhouse emissions, the earth is getting hotter and hotter, and Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain is not immune, before the climb, the local guide told Shimazu Hitomi that the snow mountain had melted two years ago, Shimazu Hitomi didn't care about the beauty of the snowy mountains, she didn't come to enjoy any scenery, she wanted to prove herself.

Hitomi Shimazu's luck is good, from the Malan Valley Gate all the way up, it took most of the day to reach the Mandara camp, the weather is fine all the way, so that she has time to take a look at the scenery of the rainforest, countless colobus monkeys haunt the tall eucalyptus, see the tourists are not afraid, even come up to beg for food, Shimazu Hitomi's mood began to improve.

For two days in a row, she made her way from Camp Horumbo to Camp Kibo, the final stop on her way to the main peak, where mountaineers from all over the world camped to recuperate and change their equipment to adapt to the sudden climatic changes above 4,700 meters above sea level.

At night, the sound outside gradually became louder, and Hitomi Shimazu walked out of the cabin wrapped in a blanket, "What's the matter, didn't you say okay, how do you say it's closed?" "A mountaineering tour group was negotiating with the tour guide, and Hitomi Shimazu went up to inquire, and it turned out that some of the tour group was pulled at the Holunbo camp below, and they would not arrive here until noon tomorrow. For some reason, Uhuru Peak will be open for the last day, and it will be closed to visitors the day after tomorrow.

I don't know if the news is true or not, Hitomi Shimazu was lucky that she didn't delay and arrived at the Kibo camp in time, but there was a lot of noise outside all night, which made Hitomi Shimazu not sleep well all night, and the next morning she went on the road with two dark circles under her eyes, and the mood that had just gotten better became worse again.

The road from Kibo camp to Uhuru Peak is about six kilometers, and the road is not the glacial permafrost described before, and the roadside is full of fallen rocks and bare rocks, and in many places there are plum trees.

"It seems that the snow mountain can't be seen, it's a pity!" The people who traveled with me talked as they walked forward, "It's not bad to see the second largest volcano in the world, but fortunately, the route is relatively gentle and people are not tired." ”

It was supposed to take only five hours to reach the seven-hour journey, when a rumbling sound came from afar, "Why is the wind on the top of the mountain like this?" Someone asked.

"It's not the wind, the wind is whirring, I'm afraid the volcano is about to erupt!" Someone made a joke.

"What are you kidding, the volcano of Uhuru Peak is an extinct volcano, the last eruption was 200,000 years ago, if you can see a volcanic eruption today, you are really lucky! It's worth it even if you're dead! ”

As everyone spoke, a billboard appeared in front of them, "5895 meters, congratulations!" ”

Hitomi Shimazu forgot about last night's unhappiness and released a drone from his backpack, the small drone rose to a high place along the air flow at the top of the mountain, and the camera transmitted Hitomi Shimazu in front of the billboard to social media in real time, Hitomi Shimazu held his phone and looked at the comments from his friends.

"Miss Shimazu, look what's behind you!" A friend made a strange face at her.

"Don't scare me, the midnight bell is a story from the last century." Hitomi Shimazu has long been immune to pranks in the social circle.

"I don't lie to you! Look! As soon as my friend's words fell, there was an explosion behind him, "The volcano really erupted!" The climber who was taking pictures on the side threw away his backpack and lay on the ground.

Hitomi Shimazu switched the screen of his phone to the drone lens, and sure enough, behind the billboard was a different scene.

The glacier on the west side of the summit of Uhuru has long since melted, and a newly built winding road winds its way up the glacier into the huge construction site at the summit, where the two-kilometre-diameter crater has been closed by a wall more than two meters high and covered with large Chinese architectural characters. Along the road is a rudimentary ditch, and Vano Corporation's huge pump pumps are pumping ice water out of the crater.

"No wonder last night I said that I couldn't see Uhulu Peak, what the hell are the Chinese, let's go and see." After the winding road reaches the summit, there is a walled gate, and the tourists who come with them carry oxygen cylinders towards the gate.

Hitomi Shimazu didn't have to work so hard, she raised the drone slightly, and she could see clearly inside the wall.

At the crater of the volcanic cone stands a huge machine painted with the Caterpillar logo, three steel pedestals sticking out of the wall, and in the center is a drill pipe rumbling down the crater.

"What do they want to do? Is it going to detonate the volcano? Hitomi Shimazu couldn't understand what this was for.

The frozen hard rock is difficult to drill through, and the drill pipe has shrunk back. A group of robots from the Bavarian ironworks are drilling holes in the rocks to plant explosives, and the blasting sound heard earlier is coming from the top of the rock holes. There was another explosion, the rocks in the crater of the volcanic cone were shattered, and the Caterpillar rig continued to drill towards the center of the earth.

The tourists who ran to the gate of the fence retreated, and they cursed that the gate was guarded and did not allow them to go in to spy on the crater.

There were few people in sight on the construction site, all of them were machines working, and the few people who were wearing thick down jackets and windproof hats were sitting in folding canvas chairs and chatting in the sun like Shimazu Hitomi.

Hitomi Shimazu propelled the drone over, and the picture was zoomed in, and several people of different skin colors were wearing Samsung glasses, they spoke different languages, and the Samsung glasses were translated into English to facilitate communication between several people.

"We've come to Bavaria to give an order, and if the advance payment for the contract doesn't come this week, we'll have to stop the robots for the time being," said the man in the ironworks' uniforms. ”

"We can't help it, the contract between the headquarters of the League of Nations and us is still being negotiated, and we have not yet calculated the total investment of the Wuhulu Peak project, and the Guangpanshan Highway has doubled the estimate." The sound came from the glasses of a man in overalls emblazoned with Chinese architecture.

"We have to get through this together, who else in the world today is investing in such a huge project? We were financed with a rig mortgage. It is estimated that the League of Nations does not have such a budget, and I heard from our friends in the League of Nations Parliament that they are planning to issue a coalition currency to stimulate the global economy on a large scale, and it is estimated that they will soon survive the winter. "The people at Caterpillar are much more optimistic than the other two companies.

"When will the League of Nations announce the official start of the project, our company's stock is rushing." It was the people of Tata Steel who spoke.

"What I know is that we have to wait for the completion of the silo project, and the people on the African continent don't know much, the Mwanza nuclear power plant near Lake Victoria has just started, and the pressure on the nuclear project is even greater than ours, if the people know about the construction of the nuclear power plant in Lake Victoria, they don't know what kind of turmoil will happen."

As soon as China Construction finished speaking, Tata Steel said, "When will this be, I think it will take at least a year to drill to 3,000 meters." ”

"So now the League of Nations can't announce it to the outside world, let people all over the world care about the experimental project of the Wenchang Launch Center in Hainan, we have to hurry up, we can only make the League of Nations increase the budget with one shot." The mountain wind blew, and Hitomi Shimazu couldn't hear the words clearly, so she clicked on her phone to get the drone closer.

The demolitionist detonated the rocks on the crater again, and a rapid updraft pushed the drone to the back of the hill.

Shimazu Hitomi has understood the outline of the project, this is probably the equatorial elevator project announced by Prime Minister Karl, many people speculate that it is built in Wenchang, Hainan, but in fact, Wenchang is located at 19 degrees north latitude, 2,000 kilometers away from the equator.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the best geographical location, not to mention that it is so close to the equator, the natural crater of Uhuru Peak can easily launch the materials for the construction of an orbital solar power station into low earth orbit, and the thin air on the summit of Uhuru is the key to telling the railgun.

This must be the headline of the Asahi Shimbun! Hitomi Shimazu has learned the lesson of last time, no matter how good the content is, it needs the support of the platform, she decided to edit the material in her mobile phone and send it to the Asahi Shimbun, however, Hitomi Shimazu also wants to get something more eye-catching.

It took less than an hour to land in Mwanza by regional airliner from Kilimanjaro Airport, and 80 kilometres west is the Geita Gold Mine, the largest gold mine in East Africa, which has been invested by mining companies around the world since the discovery of World War II, and has brought huge amounts of foreign exchange to ********.

Today, the gold mine has long been mined, leaving countless pits on the ground, and the excavator is covered in a thick layer of dust, which seems to tell the prosperity of the past.

From the road to the north, there is Lake Victoria, the contrast between the pits on the lake and the lifeless in the south, along the way the flag of the nuclear project is waving in the wind, and the rows of makeshift workshops on the side of the road are impossible to drive, and a policeman with a police dog comes up and stops Hitomi Shimazu.

Hitomi Shimazu pulled out his Asahi Shimbun press card, "I'm sorry, we don't accept interviews here, and we don't open it to the public." The police politely rebuffed her.

Hitomi Shimazu didn't give up, she drove up a small hill in the distance, she got out of the car, and looked at the seven small islands along the lake, there were eight huge foundation pits working, hundreds of concrete mixer trucks came and went, in order to supply cement, there was a small cement factory on the construction site, sparks flew in the hands of the robot that had never been seen before, and the concrete was poured layer by layer on the steel structure that the robot had just welded.

Hitomi Shimazu was filming the construction site in the distance with her mobile phone, when a dog barked and two police officers pinned her against the rubble, "Who are you?" Photography is not allowed here! ”

"I'm a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, and I want to protest against you, it's my freedom!" As Hitomi Shimazu yelled, a policeman snatched her phone, threw it on the ground, stretched out her foot and stepped on it, tearing the thin phone apart.

"And her glasses!" Another policeman forcibly took off her glasses and cut them in two with a single stroke. Two policemen put Hitomi Shimazu left and right into the police car and took them into the makeshift board room outside the construction site.

As soon as Chancellor Karl sat in the office, Jerry came in to give him a briefing, "Mr. Prime Minister, I got the news from Liu Weiping that some bitcoins have recovered their value. ”

"What? There really is him! Carl put down the coffee cup in his hand, "The preparation for the establishment of the international bank is going to be accelerated, I will personally call them to put pressure!" ”

"How's the investigation of Liu Weiping going?" Carl asked.

"It's still a work in progress, and it's a lot of work. There is a new situation, the female reporter who did Liu Weiping's investigation in Japan last time ran to Mwanza! However, according to the preliminary interrogation, it was a complete coincidence, and she was on vacation to Kilimanjaro. With a wave of Jerry's hand, Hitomi Shimazu appeared on the wall, locked in the interrogation room, staring angrily at the camera on the wall.

"Oh, that's funny, it looks like she knows everything, let me talk to her directly." Carlton came interested.

Two policemen entered the interrogation room, and they turned on the wall TV, "You are in great trouble, Chancellor Karl of the League of Nations is going to question you personally!" “

Karl's face appeared on the wall, "Miss Shimazu, you are too anxious, the Equator elevator project is definitely going to be announced to the world, and at that time, I will definitely invite you to the press conference." But if you poke it out now, it will cause trouble for the project, and not all African countries are in favor of the project falling in Africa. ”

"So what are you going to do? Do you want to deceive those African countries? Hitomi Shimazu asked.

"Pay attention to the address Mr. Prime Minister!" A policeman shouted.

"Please stay out of the way." Hearing Carl say this, the two policemen exited the door in a sullen manner.

Seeing the police retreat, Carl continued, "Miss Shimazu, I admire your professionalism very much, I have also watched your investigative documentary about Liu Weiping, and I have been thinking about a question, why among all the Boston mechanical dogs, only Liu Weiping has evolved to such an advanced level?" And the other robot dogs are just ordinary intelligent machines? ”

"You're saying he's not an ordinary robot?" Karl said that he had seen his investigative documentary, and Hitomi Shimazu was no longer defensive.

"I've visited the Boston Robot Dog Project, and they can't tell my hairstyle, but Liu Weiping has the ability. I think Liu Weiping's robot is the real news bonanza, and you should focus more on him. Carl looked at Hitomi Shimazu's approving eyes and turned his head to Jerry and said, "You go and issue Miss Shimazu a press card from the League of Nations." ”