Chapter 68: Heavy Water Reactors
Tianxuan led the reconnaissance team to follow Hercules up the waterway, and after walking for a long time, a huge factory suddenly appeared in front of him.
"What is this?" Tianxuan stopped, looked at the factory and muttered to himself suspiciously.
"Leave it alone, we don't need to waste time here." Hercules said.
"That's right!" Tianxuan nodded, glanced at the factory slightly, and continued to walk forward.
However, at this moment, there was a strange noise in the waterway. So, Tianxuan ordered the team to stop and crawl on the ground immediately. Then he and Hercules climbed very close to the waterway and followed the prestige. It's okay not to look at it, but I was really startled when I saw that the water surface of the middle channel was constantly rolling and blistering, as if something was about to come out of the water.
"What's in the water?" Hercules asked in a low voice as he put his mouth close to Tianxuan.
"It must be some kind of creature! Could it be a shark? Alligator? Tianxuan lay on the ground and said with his hands covering his mouth.
"Probably not! Look at the shallow waterway and the movement doesn't look like it. Hercules continued to blow in Tianxuan's ear.
"So be it! Let's just lie still and observe for a while. Then, Tianxuan pressed Hercules's face with the palm of his hand and flicked it to the side and said, "Stay away from me, blow and blow to make me itch!" ”
In this way, they lay on their stomachs for about two minutes, and several ball-like objects emerged from the rolling waves, and they kept approaching the shore of the waterway. When they approached the shore, a straight pole suddenly appeared under the spherical thing, and if you looked closely, it turned out to be a trench ronin.
"Trench Ronin? As it turned out, they were originally living in the trenches of the sea. Tianxuan muttered in his heart.
The five trench ronins walked out of the waterway without finding any trace of Tianxuan, and walked straight into the huge factory nearby......
When the Trench Ronin left their sight, Hercules sat up and said, "Now the situation is clear, this waterway is specially designed for the Trench Ronin's operations. ”
"Look, that's exactly what happened." Tianxuan agrees with this view.
Hercules sat cross-legged for a few minutes, then looked at Tianxuan calmly and said, "What do you think you should do next?" ”
Tianxuan glanced at Hercules, first stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Of course I followed them to see what was going on, don't you think so too?" ”
"How do you know I think so?"
Tianxuan smiled and told him, "If you don't want to pay attention to them, you will just stand up and walk forward like just now, am I right!"
Hercules also smiled and said, "It's really boring to be seen by you again, okay, let's go!" Keep up and check it out! ”
After saying that, Tianxuan led the reconnaissance team to quietly follow behind those trench ronins and sneaked into the factory.
After entering the factory, Tianxuan and the others lost the trench ronin because the factory was too big.
"Oh no, we're lost!" Tianxuan patted his head and said.
"It's no wonder that this factory is too big and the environment is complicated, so it's normal to lose it!" Hercules said.
"We're not going to be exposed!" Tianxuan is still not at ease.
So Hercules comforted: "Don't worry too much, if you want to find out, there is no way to do it, take it one step at a time." Let's send someone around to look for it! ”
"Hmmm! You're right! Then, Tianxuan ordered the reconnaissance team to divide into several groups to carefully search for the traces of the wanderers inside the factory, and at the same time reminded them not to expose themselves, let alone take the initiative to fight the enemy, and report to him in time if there is a clue.
When the troops dispersed, Tianxuan noticed something important and said in surprise: "Hercules, have you noticed it, this factory is very bright. ”
Hercules glanced around and nodded, "Yes! The light here contrasts sharply with the darkness outside. ”
"What the hell is this for?" Tianxuan searched in the factory with doubts in his heart.
After walking through the two corners, Tianxuan suddenly noticed a huge cylinder in front of him, and there was a horizontally placed cylinder container under the front of the cylinder, and a huge rectangular production room on the side.
"Wait!" Tianxuan stopped, he looked at the equipment in front of him, and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.
"What's wrong with you?" Hercules asked.
"Oh! I remember! Tianxuan slapped his head, turned to Hercules and said, "This set of equipment has been seen in Power City, it is a reactor for making heavy water. ”
"Now I know why the trench ronin's crazy snatching power has become heavy water." Hercules said.
"That's because they need a lot of heavy water for this reactor system." Tianxuan pointed to the reactor and said.
Hercules scratched the back of his head, frowned, and said, "But what are they trying to make by snatching the heavy water?" ”
"Let's go, let's go and have a look!" Tianxuan proposed.
"Hmm." Hercules answered, and then visited the reactor with Tianxuan.
It is seen that the horizontal cylindrical container contains a low-temperature and low-pressure heavy water moderator, and there are many horizontal pipes running through the container, which are filled with fuel rod bundles and high-temperature and high-pressure heavy water as a coolant. The coolant is pumped through the fuel pipeline by the main circuit water pump.
Tianxuan looked at the fuel pipeline connecting to the production room next to it, and said to Hercules, "Let's go to that production room and see what they want to produce!" ”
"Let's go!"
Then, the two walked into the production room, only to see that the pipeline carried the heat from the fuel out of the center of the pile, and then passed through the steam generator, heated the light water on the secondary side to produce steam, which was supplied to the steam turbine-generator set, so that the thermal energy was converted into mechanical energy, and the mechanical energy was converted into electrical energy......
Finally, at the exit of the production line, they saw yellow-green objects that resembled capsules.
"What are these capsules for?" Tianxuan asked.
"I don't know about this, could it be a pill?" Hercules also looked puzzled. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Why don't we take a few back and study them?" ”
"No!" Tianxuan hurriedly stopped Hercules, who was about to stretch out his hand, and then said, "Don't touch these things, maybe there will be nuclear radiation!" ”
After Hercules withdrew his hand, he continued to frown and said, "What then?" We can't go home empty-handed! ”
"Let's see what the ingredients are for making pills first?" Tianxuan said.
"Okay!" After speaking, he and Tianxuan took a few team members to search for raw materials. A moment later, someone came to Tianxuan's side and reported the discovery of a substance that appeared to be a raw material. So, Tianxuan and Hercules hurriedly rushed over to check.
After rushing to the target location, Tianxuan saw a mountain of ore composed of plate-shaped, short-columnar irregular crystals appear in front of him. If you look closely, the ore is very beautiful: bright color, emerald green. The streaks are lighter and pale greenish. Transparent. Vitreous luster, cleavage surface pearl luster.
As they were engrossed in admiring the crystals, a green glow radiated from the mountain of ore, which spread out like mist and fell into the air, changing in color from green to yellow, flying around like fireflies.
Seeing this radiating light, he was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly shouted to everyone: "Run, this thing is radioactive, if gamma rays are released, we will all be finished." ”
Hearing Tianxuan's shout, Hercules and several other team members quickly followed him out of the mine area, turning several intersections before stopping.
At this time, Tianxuan gasped and said, "It's so dangerous! This radiation is no joke! ”
"You're right, the weird light I saw just now also scared me, and we all have to check whether we are affected by nuclear radiation in time when we go back." Hercules gasped as well.
After escaping, the men sat down and rested.
In this way, after Tianxuanpan sat for a while, some team members came with the information that they had found the 5 trench ronins.
So, he quickly gathered all 100 members of the team to closely monitor the movements of the trench ronin.
After a while, the 5 trench ronins appeared at the end of the production line in the production room. I saw these 5 blue trench ronins, reaching out and grabbing those capsules and sending them to their mouths.
"Are they going to eat?" Tianxuan was very puzzled in his heart.
Sure enough, the 5 trench ronins actually swallowed the capsule. Just when they were surprised, they noticed something even more surprising - the five blue trench ronins howled, and then began to go crazy, and after a while, their blue skin gradually turned blue-black.
After seeing this scene, Tianxuan and the others were completely stunned.
Tianxuan pushed Hercules next to him and whispered, "It turns out that those blue-black trench ronins we met were made like this. ”
"That's true, these trench ronins actually knock radiopharmaceuticals. Can we eat that thing? Hercules muttered to herself.
"You can't eat it!" Tianxuan glared at Hercules and said, "Didn't you see that their whole bodies were mutated?" Those pills definitely have nuclear radiation. Otherwise, how could they become so perverted in such a short period of time. ”
Hercules bit his lip and said with emotion, "It's crazy to exchange your life for this power. I don't have the courage they have in that! ”
"Not necessarily!" As he spoke, Tianxuan closed his eyes, recalled and connected everything that had happened before with the situation here, and made several assumptions. In the end, he opened his eyes sharply and came to a conclusion: "I understand, this group of trench ronins has undergone serious mutations in their bodies because of this drug with radiation, and they will not live long according to common sense, but heavy water is a slowing agent that suppresses nuclear radiation, presumably this is the real purpose of their crazy snatching of heavy water." ”
After listening to Tianxuan's analysis, Hercules suddenly realized, opened his mouth wide and said, "I see, now I also understand!" I was shocked that the trench ronin was able to master such techniques! ”
"In your opinion, shouldn't the Trench Ronin have this kind of technology?" Tianxuan asked.
Hercules nodded and replied, "That's true, the trench ronins fell from the buffer zone at the trench, they are very primitive and barbaric, and there is no civilization at all. ”
After listening to Hercules's narration, Tianxuan held his chin with his fingers in eight characters and thought for a moment, and then said, "I probably have a clue!" ”
"What's the matter?"
"Judging from the way the city is built today, it basically imitates the Brentre model. I think these techniques of the trench ronin must have been taught by the Mayans. ”
"You mean to say that there are traitors besides Gusas?" Hercules' eyes widened at this.
Tianxuan shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this, but the only thing I can be sure of is that this place must be investigated. ”
This book is derived from reading the rim