Chapter 51: The Abyss at the Bottom of the Lake

This Jin Guoqiang seems to be a serious soldier who does not smile, but in fact, he is essentially a young man who likes to chat, drink and fart. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info didn't contact a few times, and I hit it off with Lao Wang.

Everyone in this world has weaknesses, and a seemingly strong person, if you touch the softest part of his heart, he will also show a "warm" side.

The way Lao Wang and Jin Guoqiang communicate is to drink.

After drinking a few times, these two opponents, who originally didn't like each other and had very different identities and statuses, began to call each other brothers.

This young man who is obviously only in his thirties, but it seems that he is at least forty years old, is actually not so difficult to socialize, and he was poured by Lao Wang, and he has moved his true temperament several times.

Of course, Lao Wang was not much better, and was carried back to the dormitory by Jin Guoqiang several times.

Lao Wang is such a sincere person, when others tell him something from their hearts, he tells them about stealing the old hen of the neighbor next door when he was a child.

Ziyang didn't drink much, so every time the two of them started to toast, he stayed away, and even if he occasionally sat with him, he just ate food next to him.

Lao Wang gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "It's amazing my brother, he has a bright future to achieve the rank of major at such a young age." ā€

Jin Guoqiang shook his head and smiled bitterly, although military life was his dream when he was young, it was boring and single after a long time. After experiencing the experience of blood and fire, it is difficult to face life like a normal person.

He was recruited into the army from college in his twenties, because of his high level of education, coupled with his martial arts skills since he was a child, he entered the special forces by mistake, and his ten years of leave added up to only a dozen days, plus extremely confidential work, ten years of training, exercises, and missions, in addition to work, he rarely communicates with the outside world, so he is in his thirties, and he is still single (virgin?). a.

Zi Yang understood why Lao Wang was able to catch fire with Coach Jin, this guy's three-legged cat kung fu was not at the same level as this hidden elite of the Snow Leopard Commando. must have bragged in front of Director Jin all day long about the flowery world in the university and his brilliant experience of seducing girls, and added more than ten times to these experiences, which shook the foundation of this person whose heart was like a stone Buddha.

After half a month like this, I watched Lao Wang next door spitting and bragging in front of Jin Guoqiang all day long, and Jin Guoqiang was an excellent listener, no matter how Lao Wang bragged, his face did not change, neither showed impatience nor showed that he liked it very much.

After half a month of fighting, Lao Wang's martial arts have not improved, but his drinking skills have increased by leaps and bounds.

Seeing that the day of school was getting closer and closer, when Zi Yang was worried, the guards came to inform the two of them to attend the meeting.

The war room is the former factory director's conference room remodeled, as soon as you enter the door, you can see that there are crowds of people inside, more than a dozen people have gathered, in the middle is a long and narrow wooden table, more than a dozen chairs are placed on both sides, it is already full of people, and Professor Zhang is fiddling with slides at one end of the table.

There were two rows of laptops in front of him, Jin Guoqiang was sitting in front of one and fiddling with something, and the other computer screens were facing Professor Zhang and the screen behind him.

Jin Guoqiang saw the two of them come in, signaled slightly, and found a corner to stand.

Zi Yang and Lao Wang looked at these people in the conference room, in addition to the generals and professors, as well as a few experts they had seen in Qinhan Village, there were many people they didn't know, but all of them were very powerful, and they didn't seem to be of low rank. It is already a great benefit for two idle young people from my side to be invited to participate in this kind of meeting, and it is estimated that it is also because of the relationship between the professor and Jin Guoqiang. Having a place to stand is already a special treat.

Jin Guoqiang adjusted the computer and nodded to Professor Zhang, who gently touched his thinning hair - the hard work of the past ten days and nights did not make him look a little tired, and he still looked clean and decent, which was different from several other experts with unkempt beards and unkempt expressions.

The professor coughed lightly, "It's started, everyone here should have read the previous war briefing, now let's go straight to the point, the biggest suspicion in the Qin Han case is the cause of death, there have been many speculations before, biochemical attacks, radiation, terrorist attacks, etc., which do not match, and the test results of these days also show that the judgment is correct." ā€

"The real cause of death of the corpse is carbon dioxide poisoning!"

At this time, a person on the laptop screen asked softly, "Carbon dioxide poisoning?" "It turns out that all these laptops are connected to remote video. Presumably, the people on the other side are all big shots.

Professor Zhang nodded, "It is indeed a bit incredible, carbon dioxide is one of the main components of our air, and there have been few cases of carbon dioxide deaths in the world before, and such a large-scale collective poisoning death phenomenon is unique." ā€

A leader at the scene looked like a humanitarian, "If you want to cause a death phenomenon of this scale, then carbon dioxide should be more than 100 tons equivalent." ā€

The professor nodded, "This tragedy in Qinhan Village is not just as simple as hundreds of tons, but millions of tons, and it is a short-time, high-density impact. ā€œ

The crowd who did not participate in the later data research exclaimed. The participants at the scene began to exchange heads.

Professor Zhang continued, "This may not be the right word - the Qinhan Village incident is an extremely accidental natural phenomenon with the right time and place. ā€

At this time, the professor turned on the remote control slide screen, and Professor Zhang said to a bird's-eye view of the mountaintop lake, "As soon as I saw this mountaintop lake, I judged that it was a volcanic lake, and later after the inspection of my colleagues in the geology department, it was proved that my judgment was correct." ā€

"This crater lake is hundreds of thousands of years old, and according to sonar sounds, the bottom of the lake reaches a maximum depth of 100 meters, and the average water depth is more than 50 meters." The professor demonstrated a few pictures taken in deep water, and even with the help of strong lighting, the bottom of the lake still looks muddy and gray.

"According to the sampling and detection of comrades in front, although this is an extinct volcano, there is still strong vein activity at a depth of more than 10 kilometers underground, and there are many cracks at the bottom of the lake that penetrate downward -- this kind of molten slurry reacts strongly with groundwater to produce a large amount of carbon dioxide, which radiates through the cracks at the bottom of the lake to the water at the bottom of the lake."

Another person on the screen said, "Even if there is a large amount of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake, but carbon dioxide is soluble in water and highly volatile, under what conditions can it cause such a concentrated and violent eruption?" ā€

Professor Zhang nodded, took a Coke from the table, shook it violently a few times, and then opened the pull ring against the uninhabited wall, and a strong liquid sprayed out.

Putting the cola back on the table, the professor took a towel and wiped his hands and continued: "Under normal circumstances, carbon dioxide is soluble in water, and it will continue to volatilize, and it will rarely produce a dose that is fatally dangerous to living things. The Coke and Champagne we drink regularly dissolve a lot of carbon dioxide. ā€

"But if the water is 50 meters or more, it creates a huge pressure at the bottom of the lake, and according to our detection, the maximum pressure at the bottom of the lake is 20 to 30 times the surface of the water, and this pressure gradually creates an equilibrium. As soon as some kind of external force is generated, as if the Coke can was opened just now, the pressure will explode instantly. ā€

"We often see that when some champagne is opened, a gentle push on the cork with external force is used, and the gas explosion generated by the internal pressure is enough to pop the cork for more than ten meters. If you expand this pressure equivalent by tens of thousands of times, hundreds of thousands of times......"

The professor paused at this point, and the people in the room looked at each other, surprised by the theory.

"We estimate that the depth of Tianzeng Lake in Qinhan Village contains millions or even tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent."

The professor introduced this, and there was a commotion at the scene, and someone on the screen said: "Professor Zhang's explanation is eye-opening, but it is a little too far-fetched, high concentration of carbon dioxide can indeed produce huge tension, but that is in a closed state, and the entire mountaintop lake is open, coupled with the characteristics of the lake's hot and cold cycle, after alternating day and night cycles, the cold water at the bottom of the lake is easy to bring up carbon dioxide and volatilize it - as for what you said about the storage of millions or tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake, it is too exaggerated." ā€

Professor Zhang nodded slightly, "Theoretically, we thought so at the beginning, but we didn't take into account the special climate of Qinhan Village. ā€

"After comparing the data, I found a peculiar phenomenon - the special geological structure of this place makes the surrounding temperature remain above 20 degrees for more than ten years, and the temperature difference between day and night is very small, which makes the cold and hot cycle of the lake unconditional."

"If we make a bold assumption, since the formation of this mountaintop lake, thousands or even tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, the bottom of the lake has been sequestered with a high density of carbon dioxide, over the years to form a special layer structure, as clear as a rock."

Professor Zhang took out a funnel-shaped measuring cup and poured several liquids of different densities and colors into it, and it could be seen that it was divided into several obvious layers from top to bottom, and obviously, the lowest layer was the densest. You don't need to explain it to everyone to understand what the professor meant.

"And Chen Ruixi", the name is set again, "the bundle of explosives thrown down by several young people is the fuse that triggered the collapse of this layer." ā€

"The explosives exploded at a suitable depth and at the right amount, causing the first gushing, causing a chain reaction of the lake, and the quantitative change caused the qualitative change, like tearing a hole in the bottom of the lake, and more dense carbon dioxide spilled out, and finally led to a geological wonder that had been formed for thousands of years to completely change, and they heard muffled thunder at the bottom of the lake in the middle of the night, which should be the sound caused by the collapse of the structure."

"Another phenomenon that cannot be ignored is that in the days before and after the accident, there was a rare difference in temperature between day and night in Qinhan Village, which according to the villagers has not happened in decades. This also exacerbates the phenomenon of hot and cold circulation in the lake. ā€

"So this series of fortuitous coincidences finally led to a large eruption of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake. In the middle of the night, Chen Ruixi and others happened to witness this strange scene that no one has discovered for thousands of years, a large amount of carbon dioxide encounters the wet and cold air, turning into a tangible and qualitative fog, because carbon dioxide is heavier than air, so it accumulates on the ground, just like the effect of carbon dioxide ice dryer on the stage. ā€

"It's just that the equivalent and density are millions of tons and tens of millions of tons, and with the collapse of the layer structure, a strange flood of carbon dioxide is finally formed, and the creatures at the foot of the mountain are instantly submerged by the torrent, the oxygen content is reduced to the lowest value, and the organisms are suffocated due to lack of oxygen - the process that leads to their death may only be a dozen seconds."

"The yellowing of vegetation and trees from valleys to peaks that we see is also caused by the super-dense carbon dioxide that has accumulated in a short period of time."

Professor Zhang used slides to show the vegetation and trees in the valley, and in the high-definition pixel and wide-angle shots, the withered yellow that symbolizes death is even more shocking.

"The two bodies we found on the hillside died of suffocation due to carbon dioxide poisoning. The female corpse showed symptoms of cerebral hypoxia, and the cause of death was reflex respiratory arrest caused by sudden entry into a high-concentration carbon dioxide environment. The male corpse is supposed to be panicked after seeing the abnormality of the female companion before death, and the neck bone was fractured due to a fall - but the direct cause of death was also carbon dioxide asphyxiation. ā€

Ziyang and Lao Wang looked at each other, so that the extinction of a large number of creatures at the foot of the mountain and the two corpses on the mountainside had a scientific and reasonable explanation.

"The next day, when the sun rose, the carbon dioxide evaporated rapidly, and the mountain wind gradually returned to the density and composition of the air."

There was silence in the conference room, obviously everyone was recalling the dead silence in Qinhan Village in their minds.

Professor Zhang showed a picture of the lake as a whole: "An eruption of this magnitude still leaves obvious traces, and the turbid orange water we see at the top of the mountain is caused by intense activity on the bottom of the lake, and the large amount of dead wood on the shore is also caused by the death of a large amount of high-density carbon dioxide in a short period of time." ā€

The professor sat down and sipped the teacup on the table, and no one in the room spoke, except for the clatter of the exhaust fan and the sound of electricity from the computer console and slide lamp.

After a while, a deep voice on the screen said, "Okay, thanks to Professor Zhang and the staff for their hard work, it seems that this unsolved case can be closed." Detailed data will be sorted out and reported after the meeting. ā€

"Next, unrelated personnel leave the table, XXX, XXX, XXX stay, and we will discuss the work behind." The voices on the screen called several people's names, and those who were not called left their seats.

Lao Wang and Ziyang walked out of the conference room, took a long breath, and there were thousands of words in their chests, but they didn't know where to start.

For them, things have come to an end, but for those left in the room, the puzzle has just begun.

Zi Yang still had a question in his heart, why didn't the professor of Qinhan Village's unique gossip formation mention it?