Chapter Eighty-Three: Komsomolsk
Lin Shuangmian also saw the news, "Wei Ping, Siquan always looks like she is mentally incomplete, that is, she is better than a vegetative person, do you have any way?" ā
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Liu Weiping thought about it and said. "Shuangmian, do you remember Siquan's fetal hair?"
"Remember, I cut it out by myself, but after so many years, I don't know where to put it for a long time, why are you asking this?"
"Didn't it say it on the news? The ban on human cloning technology is about to be lifted, maybe we can clone Siquan. ā
"That's their beautiful fantasy of human beings, clones don't live long, I think you don't think about it, Siquan will let her go, I just want to talk to you."
The two of them chatted for a night, first on a holographic call, and then it was too slow, and it was replaced by a host data exchange, and they felt bored, and then they carried out a hologram, and turned over the information in their respective memories, and it seemed that there were endless words.
When it was dawn in Bangalore, Liu Weiping said goodbye to Lin Shuangmian, he was going to find Stepan, he had a new idea that he didn't tell Lin Shuangmian, so he could only turn to Stepan for help.
Entering Stepan's office, he was changing and disinfecting the wound on his thigh, "David, I really envy you Homo sapiens, if you are injured, you can repair it immediately, it's a big deal to replace parts, but I can't, at least I have to raise it for a week to recover!" ā
"When you can control somatic cell division, I can only envy you." Liu Weiping sat down, "The brainwave incident you said yesterday sounds very interesting, can you tell me more about it?" ā
Stepan's eyes flashed behind the lenses, "David, you're so interested, why don't we go to Komsomolsk for a field trip?" ā
"Is this appropriate?" Liu Weiping asked suspiciously.
"Let's take a vacation, the San Francisco headquarters is too far away, where is the air traffic control for us?" Stepan strongly encouraged Liu Weiping, "Maybe we can open up new ideas in a different environment, and maybe we can find a way to control the speed of somatic cell classification." ā
"But how can I get to Komsomolsk?" Liu Weiping asked.
"yes, I forgot, you can't pass the security check, but the solar-powered airliner is too slow, I'll take you to a jet private jet!" In this way, Stepan and Liu Weiping agreed to visit the Gongqingcheng EEG Laboratory.
Liu Weiping didn't go anywhere with Zhao Yonggang and Lin Shuangmian until he boarded the plane, and his companions in San Francisco thought he was locked up in the R&D center for scientific and technological research.
The international alliance is becoming more and more strict on carbon emissions, and after the flight restriction of jetliners, the price of Gulfstream's business jets has risen instead of falling, as long as they can afford to pay high emission taxes, rich people can cruise at supersonic speed in the sky, and business jets have gone up a notch in the luxury category.
Stepan also didn't know where to get the Gulfstream business jet, anyway, he and Liu Weiping flew out of Bangalore smoothly, when Shanghai landed and refueled, Liu Weiping got off the plane and saw enough of Pudong International Airport, he smiled and said to Stepan, "The world is impermanent, the year I died, Shanghai desperately wanted to get on the jet airliner, who would have thought that now is the world of solar airliners?" ā
"But you have to do it to have a chance to change!" Just like your experience, how could you be where you are today without coming to Shanghai Jiaotong University? ā
Liu Weiping sighed lightly, "Maybe today's situation is a mistake." ā
"Don't think too much, it's useless. Let's go, board the plane! The Gulfstream business jet was filled up with fuel and whizzed off the jet-only runway, prompting another round of curses from passengers in the waiting building.
Two hours later, the cabin announcement began to indicate that it was ready to land at the Khabarovsk airport, Stepan covered his ears, and Liu Weiping knew that the plane was descending too quickly and the change in air pressure made him unbearable.
Liu Weiping looked at the flight information, and the plane had already descended below the stratosphere, but the air outside was still more than minus 40 degrees, and it didn't seem to have risen much.
When the plane landed on the runway, the temperature outside was still minus 25 degrees. Stepan took out two sets of white clothes, one and threw one to Liu Weiping, who was light and thin to the touch.
"Put on a space winter suit, everyone in Eastern Russia will wear this." Stepan put on a space winter suit three times and two times, and he took out two more pairs of boots and changed into one on his own.
Stepan saw that Liu Weiping did not move, and then remembered that the other party was a homo sapiens, "I forgot that the artificial skin of Pino creatures can withstand the cold." ā
The hatch opened, Stepan walked out in front, Liu Weiping just followed, the carbon tube nerve under the skin felt a contraction, Liu Weiping stepped out cautiously, as if everything was normal.
He followed Stepan down the gangway with confidence, "Director Stepan! I need to go back and get dressed! ā
"What's wrong?" Stepan asked, his face hidden in his winter hat barely visible.
Liu Weiping hurriedly climbed the gangway, "Battery, my battery can't stand the cold here!" Before he finished speaking, Liu Weiping had already climbed into the cabin and honestly put on a space cold suit.
The buildings in the distance are covered with snow, it is late spring in Khabarovsk, and the tall birch trees, which are supposed to be the season for budding, are now covered with ice edges on their branches.
There was not a single snowflake in sight on the airport, and the concrete pavement was very dry. Why is there no snow? Liu Weiping asked curiously as he walked out.
"This is geothermal, and if there were no geothermal projects in Khabarovsk, the residents would have run out long ago." Stepan explained to Liu Weiping, who noticed that there were not many passengers in the airport.
Out of the airport, a car wrapped in snow chains was already waiting for them, white smoke suddenly rose from the exhaust pipe, it was powered by an internal combustion engine at a glance, and the road was covered with snow and frozen ice, Stepan jumped into the car, he beckoned to Liu Weiping, "Come on, welcome to the outer world!" ā
Liu Weiping had no choice but to climb into the car, which was the same as a driverless car, and Stepan shouted, "Drive, Amur port." ā
The car started with a shake, the windows were full of Soviet-style buildings, the residential area was full of matchbox square houses, and the occasional car on the street was a diesel locomotive with snow chains wrapped around them.
Stepan saw Liu Weiping looking around and introduced him, "When the wireless energy information network began to rise, electric vehicles were popular here for a while, and then the snow line moved south, and the low-power electric vehicles were gradually eliminated, and fossil fuel diesel locomotives became popular again, and more and more refugees went south, and the League of Nations also turned a blind eye." ā
When passing through the square of the parliament building in East Russia, Liu Weiping found that the square was different from the road, and the square of the parliament building could not see the ice, and Stepan saw him staring at the square of the parliament building, so he said, "I forgot to tell you just now, the geothermal project in Khabarovsk has just started, and they use natural gas extracted from Siberia to heat the heavy oil, and the heated heavy oil is circulated to the main place through the underground pipeline, and the investment is too large, and now it covers the key places such as the government and the airport." ā
"Burning natural gas? Doesn't the League of Nations impose sanctions on East Russia? Liu Weiping asked.
"Hahaha, if Khabarovsk doesn't do this, there is not even a buffer zone for refugees from the Arctic Circle countries going south, and the League of Nations is not the original spokesperson of the G20, do you really think that there can be a harmonious world? Otherwise, why not directly relocate the inhabitants of our alpine countries? ā
Liu Weiping could not take Stepan's words, and when he was in Geneva, he had learned more or less about the ugliness of the political circle of the League of Nations, and he could not find any arguments to refute Stepan's views.
While the two men were talking, the car took them to the port of Amur, where the ship ran aground on the shore, frozen to the point that its shell was covered with a thin layer of ice. The surface of the Amur River is covered with a thick layer of ice, and white marks come and go.
There are rows of ice skids parked above the port, Stepan went to rent one, Liu Weiping looked at it was also a gasoline engine, with this huge fan in the back, and when Liu Weiping got into the engine room, Stepan had already started the ice sled, the fan whirred up, and Stepan pulled the accelerator and drove the ice sled all the way down the Amur River.
Liu Weiping saw through the window pane that there were such ice sleds on the ice along the river, and there was a yellow pole at intervals in the middle of the Amur River, just like the ski slopes in Geneva.
Stepan kept increasing the throttle, Liu Weiping's built-in displacement sensor read more than 140 km/h, the low mountains were covered with snow, and the clouds in the sky were connected, slowly moving towards the back, the network signal in Liu Weiping's body was intermittent, in order to save power, he simply hibernate regularly.
When Liu Weiping woke up again, the ice sled was passing under a bridge, the sound of the fan at the tail had become softer, and a snow-covered onion head church was seen in the distance on the right, "David, we are coming, that is the Komsomolsk River Port." Stepan pointed to the onion and said to Liu Weiping.
Liu Weiping couldn't understand what he was saying, and when he saw that the Samsung glasses had no signal, it was no wonder that he couldn't translate Stepan's Russian. Stepan probably saw the signal disappear as well, and repeated it again in English. Liu Weiping looked at the time, it had been three hours since he set off from Khabarovsk, and when he entered the river port, Stepan did not stop sledding, but climbed the river bank with increased horsepower. Liu Weiping looked at the temperature sensor, and the Komsomolsk was several degrees lower than Khabarovsk, and the temperature was close to minus 30 degrees.
On the banks of the river, along the Amur River is a plain, sparsely scattered with Soviet-style buildings in the snow, and further down the foot of the mountain is a tall tower, the snow on the top of which has been blown away by the cold wind, revealing a steel structure that looks like a chemical rocket launcher.
Liu Weiping scanned the signal again, and the signal of the wireless energy information network was completely cut off. Stepan continued to drive along the frozen pavement towards the city on an ice sled, and the buildings on both sides of the road had many open windows and looked lifeless. Stepan pulled the joystick, sled to the left, and soon arrived at the door of a factory.
The words on the gate were covered by ice and snow and couldn't be read clearly, only a camera showed the lens to stare at them coldly, Stepan stopped, "This used to be the Gagarin Aircraft Plant, and in 2015 it also received orders for civilian aircraft, but unfortunately now it can only be closed." ā
Stepan pushed the throttle into the open gate, and there was a plane more than 100 meters long parked in the open factory area, the engines under the wings were all removed, and the fuselage was covered with thick snow, and Liu Weiping could only identify it as a civil airliner from the outline of the fuselage.
"This is the Sukhoi Super 100 airliner, which was originally the hope of Komsomolsk's industrial transformation, who would have expected such an end." Stepan got off the ice skid and stood in front of the Type 100 airliner for a long time, while Liu Weiping had already found that it was a completely dead city after going around Komsomolsk, and he was no longer interested in Stepan's past history, "Director Stepan, what about the laboratory where you studied Khrushchev's brain waves?" ā
Stepan smiled, "Don't worry, you are a Homo sapiens and don't need to rest, I can't compare with you, such a long journey is really unbearable, let's find a place to rest for the night." Hearing him say this, Liu Weiping also felt embarrassed, he was too anxious.
Stepan was also very cheerful, he immediately got on the ice sled, and drove Liu Weiping north. Looking at the empty road, Liu Weiping panicked, "Director Stepan, it's not like there is a commercial popularity here, what should I do if I want to add battery replenishment liquid later?" ā
"Your battery is a product of our Pino Bio, how could I not know, don't worry, follow me." Stepan took a few turns to a six-story tower, "This is the guest house of the Amur Diesel Plant, the conditions are much better than our dormitories at that time, and we will live here tonight." ā
Liu Weiping got off the ice sled with Stepan, and the door of the guest house opened as soon as he pushed it, there was no one inside, and the temperature rose a little. Stepan turned on the switch familiarly, "There's electricity!" Liu Weiping exclaimed, Stepan didn't answer, and took Liu Weiping to the back restaurant, where there was no heating, and the bread in the cabinet was frozen.
Stepan ran to the wine cabinet and opened the door, there were bottles of vodka in stock, although it had not yet reached the freezing point, but it was frozen and turbid, Stepan picked up a bottle and threw it to Liu Weiping, Liu Weiping then settled down.
Stepan searched around and it was getting late outside, and the indoor temperature was starting to drop, so Stepan took great pains to smash out a few pieces of bread and cottage cheese, turned on the electric oven and began to bake bread. Liu Weiping also drank all the vodka, and Stepan ran out of the door with a plate to pick up the snow and came in, "It has been getting colder and colder in recent years, and the thickness of the permafrost has exceeded the depth of the water pipes, and the water has long been gone." ā
Liu Weiping looked at Stepan guiltily, "I'm really sorry, I didn't expect you to suffer so much." ā
Stepan began to gobble down the baked bread in the snow, "It's okay, I just want to come back and have a look, I'll find a room to rest later, the temperature is too low at night, you better stay in the room, otherwise your skin will freeze." ā
Stepan swallowed the bread in a few clicks, he wiped his mouth, and took Liu Weiping to the second floor, where he found two rooms with unlocked doors, and the two of them walked in separately.