Chapter XXVII

Leaving Chen Zaihai and Talia alone, I climbed out of this power distribution station with the engineers once. Every time I come out of this, I have a feeling of coming out of a coffin, and it is very uncomfortable.

Chen Zaihai's unexpected survival makes us forget the impact of the disappearance of the shelter for a while. Now, once I calm down, the problem comes up again. What's going on with that hollow, what's going on with the creaking sound? There are still a lot of problems, we have seen more than one power distribution station along the way, is it possible to say that there is a similar hole in each power distribution station? Did the Japanese dig it themselves, or was it just as natural as the whole tunnel?

The situation is not only puzzling, it seems to me that it is almost unclear. When I was still working in the national government, I remember that a senior in the unit always said to me that there is no need to rush when encountering problems, first of all, to explain to them, the more the better, and then eliminate them one by one. When you have ruled out all the results that do not conform to the status quo according to the situation, what remains in the end is the truth, no matter how far-fetched and absurd it is, it is the final result.

People who don't even believe in the conclusions they have reached will not believe anything. Such a person cannot be a materialist, not even an idealist. Such a person is but a lonely boat drifting with the current, and will never and cannot be understood.

My university teacher said something similar. Ignorance is not an excuse for incompetence, you can learn if you don't have enough knowledge, but self-confidence is not something I can teach you.

Working in the field for a long time, the pace of modernization at that time was far from being as fast as modern times, China still has this large area of unexplored areas, whether it is us, the geological team, or the engineering army, it is inevitable to encounter some strange things in the work, some difficult to explain problems. We'll all end up with some very far-fetched reasons. But as I said earlier, many of these far-fetched explanations were correct until the end. Of course, I don't know how much of this is real and how much is made up.

I've struggled in this industry all my life, and although I haven't achieved nothing, I haven't gotten into any too high position. There are a lot of things I want to investigate, and I can say that there are too many. This mission back then, Ivan's real purpose, and the series of events that followed, but I didn't find anything in the end.

It was as if they had been erased by history, without a trace. I searched through all the files in the bureau that I could see, but I couldn't find a single message about it.

The only consolation to me is that none of us panicked. Although we felt visibly hungry, we were not very anxious, because we had caught a lot of blind fish in that underground lake, and we could live on them for a short time. Compressing dry food and water can still save money.

Chen Zaihai and Talia also climbed out of the power distribution station, and their expressions seemed to be the same as before. But I felt that something was quietly changing, for the better. Again, although I don't know the past of the two of them, it doesn't affect my concern for them. It would be better not to interfere and let them solve it on their own, after all, they are already comrades-in-arms who have been born and died together many times.

"How's it going? It's been in there for so long, and you haven't done anything else since? I quipped to the two of them.

Talia immediately understood what I meant, and her cheeks were dyed crimson, and she smashed her bag directly into my face.

Unprepared, I was smashed directly to the ground, facing the sky on my back, why is this bag so heavy!

"Lao Su, what do you say you are doing and dare to talk to Talia about pornography, I don't dare to try it all these years." Chen Zaihai squatted beside me and said with a smile as he helped me remove the backpack that was pressed against my face.

After the bag was taken away, I felt my nose light, it couldn't be broken, right? I quickly checked it, but fortunately there was no problem.

"That's why I say that things gather like and people gather in groups. Su Zhenpeng, you are no better, after all, you are the friend of this idiot. Talia gave us a blank look from afar.

"You boy also said, 'Didn't I create an opportunity for you?' I'm an elm head in this kind of thing, even I can see it. Can't you two be frank, obviously you both rub each other's sore noses, and feel like everything you say is nasal.

But Chen Zaihai sighed lightly and said, "Things are not what you think, and the relationship between us is not so simple." I don't have time to dwell on it with you right now, all I can say is that I did something that she would never forgive me. ”

I was surprised to hear that. Chen Zaihai has done this, right? The first feeling is confusion, followed by intense curiosity. Secretly thinking to myself, I finally came to the conclusion that this kid wouldn't have been very likely to be this for a long time, and judging from the last time he tempted me to peek at Talia at the hot springs, this conclusion is not far from ten. This kid is doing such a beastly thing!

Do you want to ask Chen Zaihai? I hesitated for only a second

"Old Su, where do you bastard, where do you go? How could that be that kind of thing! "Chen Zaihai's reaction was very fierce, and it seems that he was obviously surprised by such a conclusion." Sometimes I feel like you're less reliable than me. ”

I was actually said by a landmine thief, only one thing I can guarantee, there is absolutely no second person in this world who is more unreliable than you Chen Zaihai!

"So that's really not the reason?" I continued to ask without giving up.

Chen Zaihai said categorically: "No! Although I didn't do it myself, I definitely can't escape it."

I suddenly found that Chen Zaihai, who was so flustered, was really funny, and I was always confused by him. Now that feng shui is in turn, you also have a day to be played by me, Chen Zaihai. As soon as I think of this, I don't want to stop, and I have to settle the old and new accounts as soon as possible.

"What are you two doing there all the time?"

Ah Talia is here, the battle failed, Chen Zaihai counted you as good luck.

Actually, I didn't know at the time, but if I continued to ask, the outcome might change a lot, and I still regret it.

Of course, we didn't have this awareness at the time, and I couldn't just go back in time and change history like the protagonist of the online novel I wanted to be.

At that time, Chen Zaihai and I just giggled together and fooled Talia over.

Talia herself didn't particularly care about it, and immediately forgot about the little episode. Then we began to analyze the current situation, especially the vanished Vault. The disappearance of the shelter was definitely something we didn't expect, and the thought of that hole in the power distribution station made me shudder.

"I think the vault we've been staying in is a big lift." Talia made an explosive conclusion without changing her face.

Lift? In retrospect, the main material of the entire power plant is reinforced concrete, and only this shelter is made of iron three-proof structure, and in general, the shelter is an iron cabin. It is almost completely independent of the cement structure of the entire power plant. I always thought it was just designed for thermal insulation, but now that I think about it, the reason is far-fetched. It's just that if you insulate it, it's good to thicken the thickness of the cement wall, there is no need to set up this iron cabin structure, the cost is too high, and the return may not be better than the cement wall.

And the cavity we see is a boxy vertical passage made of concrete, isn't this the hoistway for the elevator to move?

It's not very accurate to say it's a lift, and this shelter is structurally closer to the elevators that we are used to than lifts. The lift was just a huge iron slab, and we had a whole room here.

However, due to the low height of buildings in China at that time, there was no such thing as elevators, except for some buildings with special use. Our understanding of this stuff is also very limited, and if it weren't for Talia we probably wouldn't have been aware of it for a long time.

Whether it's a lift or an elevator, the basic principle is the same. This solves the problem that the scene outside the front and rear evacuation shelters is different. Because we're simply moving vertically with the shelter itself.

In the same way, its sudden disappearance is explained, and it must have returned to the original power plant.

Interestingly, this idea, which at first glance seems very fanciful, is very plausible after careful consideration. That iron cabin is a shelter, yes, sturdy, heat-resistant, well-ventilated. It's a perfect place for us, but obviously not for the Japanese.

For the Japanese, who had been exploring the area for a long time, it was impossible for them not to be unaware of the intermittent large-scale water vapor eruptions.

Since the little devils insist on building a power plant here, they can't only have a passive means of shelter. They're going to do everything they can to keep that vapor out, rather than letting them in and eating away at the generator set. This shelter may be just a last resort for them, a last resort when all protection fails.

Since it is a last resort, it means that the situation has become so bad that the Japanese want to completely abandon the power plant. Then their requirements for this shelter could never have been just sturdy and insulated. Rather, it was to escape, and the escape of all the staff from the power plant occupied by the high hot water vapor was their goal.

Then the general structure of this elevator becomes very reasonable, and there is no more perfect way to escape.

The strange tremor I felt in the shelter before was also plausible. It was simply the sound of the evacuation shelter grinding as it moved through the shaft.

The only thing I couldn't figure out was why we were all unconscious at the same time.

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