Chapter 18 First-level hot spots
Mountains soar into the sky. In the middle of the mountains, a river flows. The sound of the rolling river surging down is like a galloping horse, which makes people unconsciously feel their own insignificance and natural greatness.
On average, about two thousand cubic meters of water flow through here every second. On average, 170 million cubic metres of water flows through the area every day.
170 million cubic meters is a mass of up to 170 million tons.
And this great river has been flowing like this day and night for an unknown number of years.
It was still a sunny day. The weather was cold, but the sun was nice. Blue sky and white clouds, under the reflection of the sun, the river rushes, and the mountains rise and fall. Even a novice can easily take photos that are comparable to landscape paintings.
Originally, the day would still have passed as peacefully as it had been for countless years. But at noon, as the sun was at its highest, a dull thunderous sound broke the peace.
But at this moment, the sun is high, there are only a few white clouds, and there is no sign of the weather getting worse.
A small pebble suddenly fell off the cliff and landed in the raging river, making a small splash and disappearing in a blink of an eye.
As if signaling, after this small pebble, more stones fell, and it was like rain.
A large stone that was more than one person tall and had a mass of at least several tons also fell off the cliff and smashed heavily into the water, causing a splash of water as high as more than ten meters.
Because it was so heavy, even if the river was turbulent, it could not be washed away. It sank to the bottom of the river.
The dull thunderous voice continued, making people feel their hearts beating unconsciously. Suddenly, the mountain seemed to be collapsing, and the earth seemed to be shaking. The high mountain peaks suddenly descended, and countless rocks scrambled to smash into the river like a race.
The sky collapsed, the sky cracked, and the earth shook.
Although the human world has paid attention to the risk and possibility of a large-scale landslide in Qinan Mountain, people still did not expect this to happen so soon.
Accurately predicting the occurrence time of landslides is still a temporary impossible task for the human world.
There are so many factors involved.
It is remarkable enough to be able to do the early warning of the lake.
Millions of rocks and rocks poured into the river and blocked it completely. The raging river was still rushing, carrying with it the power of thousands of horses. But this force, in front of the defense line composed of countless rocks, stopped in an instant.
In front of the river, there was no follow-up water support, and the water level was rapidly lowered, and finally the riverbed was exposed. Only a few hollows still have some water, but they are not connected, like small lakes.
Behind the river, the raging water is constantly coming, and it cannot break through the barrier, so it can only raise the water level. The raised water level has inundated many previously inaccessible places, and many disconnected places have also been connected by the raised water surface. As a result, the water surface has expanded more and more, at least ten times larger than the previous river, and it is still expanding rapidly.
At the moment it no longer looks like a river, but like a lake.
This is the dammed lake.
On average, 170 million cubic metres of water has been added to the dammed lake every day. This continued to accumulate until the water was strong enough to break away the rocks that had blocked the river in front of it.
Once the mountain rock collapses, the flood water in units of 100 million cubic meters will roll down, washing away all the existence that dares to block the way forward.
Lu Ming once saw a research report on ancient geology.
In this report, geologists explain why a mountain peak has an eerie shape. Their study concluded that tens of millions of years ago, there was a lake surrounded by high mountains. The amount of water in this lake is about one cubic kilometer, or about one billion cubic meters.
But one day, the mountain that acts as the shore of the lake collapsed for some reason. As a result, more than a billion cubic meters of water rushed down, directly washing away several peaks, leaving only the wreckage, so that it presented a rather strange appearance for geology.
Even mountain peaks can be washed away, let alone cities built by humans.
The volume of that mountain lake is only on the order of more than a billion cubic meters. However, the dammed lake formed at this moment will increase the water volume by an average of 170 million cubic meters per day, and it will only take six days to exceed one billion water.
The destructive power it foreshadowed weighed on everyone's hearts.
Even before this happened, seismic wave detectors deployed around the world were already detecting the shaking from here. The geological exploration satellite in space also clearly filmed this scene.
Less than ten minutes after the incident, the relevant departments received the news, and Lu Ming also received the news.
At this moment, the matter has not even reached the Internet.
But Lu Ming knew in his heart that once this matter spread to the Internet, then this news would detonate public opinion in an instant, and I am afraid that it would break through the standard line of third-level hot spots set by him in a very short time.
It's almost a given.
It is even possible to become a second-level, or even a first-class, super hot spot!
So......
The large-scale landslide in Qinan Mountain, blocking the Qinan River and forming a dammed lake, has made up for the last shortcoming of becoming a qualified "prophecy".
There is no room for human intervention in this prophecy. It is completely under the premise of a high degree of randomness, natural evolution, natural occurrence. There is no way for human beings to intervene, and there is no way to predict in advance.
Only such a thing can prove the validity of prophecy.
If the secret organization had really made a prediction about this matter in advance, and had told the prophecy to those experts in the field of hydraulics and geology, then, at this moment, for those experts, the prophecy had been fulfilled.
Lu Ming reported this matter to Zhang Dingshan and a few people with a little heaviness.
In the face of such a natural disaster, Lu Ming did not have the ability to participate in it. Only a world government can organize enough power. However, it is still impossible to completely eliminate disasters, and all that can be done is to fight and reduce disasters.
This is not within the scope of Lu Ming's work, and it is not something that the second action team should focus on. At this moment, Lu Ming only paid attention to one point.
Now that the prophecy has finally come true, what will the experts in the field of geology and water conservancy who are included in the list and have high suspicion do?
At this moment, He Wei was still in the command hall, paying close attention to the every move of the total number of 159 people.
The psychological model that belongs to each person, supported by a steady stream of information sent back from the front, continues to operate, analyzing every behavior of each person.
Because absolute precision is not possible, behavioural changes with low confidence are dismissed. Only behavior that is obvious enough and has a high enough confidence level to violate previous behavior patterns will be alerted.
Of these 159 people, on average, each person will have about one or two warnings a day.
This frequency is completely normal and completely belongs to the category of normal people.
But......
Now the prophecy has been fulfilled.
If there is really someone who receives the prophecy in advance, then, at the moment when the prophecy is fulfilled, after suffering such a huge psychological impact, no matter how resolute and resolute and strong the psychological quality is, it is impossible for a person not to show it at all.
Once manifested, the behavior pattern changes. Correspondingly, the number of warnings will increase.
Under He Wei's gaze, in the histogram, a total of seven senior intellectuals in different parts of the world, belonging to various subdivisions, or flood control, or hydropower, or dams, etc., represented the number of times they triggered the warning slowly increased at a rate that exceeded the rest of the people.
The most one, triggering warnings up to six times in a day!
That's a little unusual.
He Wei glanced at it and saw that the expert's name was Wen Yuhe.
She kept the name in her heart.
At this moment, He Wei and the special intelligence team are still standing still, still only observing silently under the premise of concealing themselves, and do not make any actions that may interfere with and interfere with the target.
As a result, He Wei saw that among the 159 people on the list, more than a dozen people were transferred to the flood relief headquarters. Among them, the Wenyu River, which is the most suspicious at the current stage, is also impressively listed.
The investigation team's eyes were always on them. Of course, the rest of the people did not let their guard down.
Time is still ticking. As time passed, the results presented in the histogram became more and more apparent.
In the past three days, the number of alerts triggered by most people is still within the normal range. Only the seven experts led by Wen Yuhe have triggered more than 12 warnings.
This is higher than the number of trigger warnings to Dacheng, who made trouble at the beginning.
That's pretty telling. Even if it isn't, at least it proves some kind of inclination.
Frankly speaking, at this moment, He Wei already has enough motivation to arrest. In fact, during the regular meeting of the second team, the four of them had a discussion on this issue for a while.
But the result of the discussion was that the troops continued to stand still.
Because in general, such covert organizations are usually very careful. These people are usually not allowed to know too many secrets until they are actually brought into the organization. That is to say, once the other side is arrested at this moment, then except for the limited knowledge, some information that is only about the contact between the two sides and the transmission of prophecies, etc., there may be no information about the secret organization.
And, with this lesson, even if that secret organization continues to absorb high-level intellectuals from the human world in the future, its methods will definitely be more hidden. If you want to catch them, it will be even more difficult.
This time is the best, if not the only, chance to capture the members of that secret organization.
It's better to use these seven people as bait to lure the people of the secret organization out.
In this process, the only thing to consider is whether the chicken will fly and the egg will be beaten. The fish eats the bait, and then the fish runs away, and nothing can be left of it.
For this, He Wei expressed enough confidence.
So, keep waiting.
In the process, the incident about the blockage of the Qinan River and the formation of a dammed lake detonated Internet public opinion as expected. Its level, even to the level of a first-class hot spot, can barely be called the attention of the whole people, and its popularity is only a little lower than the derailment of a star who is known for his affectionate personality.
At the same time, the progress of the flood relief effort has also been reported.
Because the geology of the landslide site is still not stable enough, personnel cannot reach the scene, so they can only send drones to detect. The conclusion of the expert judgment is that the conditions for detonating the dam body are not yet met at this time.
Obviously, the best way to deal with the dam is to detonate and remove it before there is enough water in the dammed lake, so that the river can continue to drain down the river.
But now, because of the haste of the incident, the organization of manpower and material resources, and the preliminary investigation and other things took too much time, the amount of water in the dammed lake has been too much.
Detonating the dam at this moment will still cause a powerful flood.
The best way is to wait. After the dam body and the site geology are completely stabilized, a part of the dam body is reinforced manually, and then under the premise of control, a flood discharge opening is deliberately opened, and the water volume of the dammed lake is slowly reduced, and when it is low enough, the dam body is removed in one fell swoop, so that the loss can be minimized.
Of course, in order to prevent accidents, the city of Qinan in the lower reaches of the Qinan River still has to make all preparations. Those who should be evacuated should be evacuated, and those who should be raised and strengthened should be raised and reinforced.
At least tens of thousands of people have been involved in the flood relief effort, and at least millions of people's lives have been affected by the incident.
At this moment, with the progress of the incident, most of the 156-person list in the hands of the second team has been released from monitoring. Only these seven people, who are clearly different from ordinary people, are still under close surveillance.
Recently, the number of trigger warnings for these seven people has gradually decreased to the level of normal people, and they seem to be no different from normal people. But He Wei understands that this is just that these seven people have digested the impact of the fulfillment of the prophecy and completed their own psychological construction.
Since you have accepted this matter, you will naturally act like an ordinary person.
Flood relief projects are still ongoing. Nine days after the incident, the embankment was strengthened and the flood outlet was opened.
The boiling river is surging down, discharging flood downstream at a faster rate than the water source is replenished. As a result, the water level of the dammed lake has entered a downward process. The most dangerous moment of this event has passed.
Wen Yuhe finished his work and left the command. The remaining six people, in these few days, should also have decided their future path.
If you really want to break away from the human world, then ......
It's time to execute.