Chen Zongqing, a reservoir manager in Chen Village, is in his 50s and is about to retire.

Fortunately, the management of dry reservoirs is not a difficult job, and on weekdays, I take the time to go to the reservoir to inspect to see if the water level exceeds the standard, or to observe whether the water body is polluted.

When the flood season comes, the gate of the reservoir station is activated, the drainage outlet is opened, the discharge volume is increased, and the water level is stabilized under the warning range.

Such an easy job, in the early years, no one did it because the pay was very low.

It was not until the economy developed in recent years, subsidies and benefits continued to rise, and Anxian County began to pay attention to the protection of water resources, and the job of the reservoir manager climbed all the way to about 3,000 yuan.

You don't have to go to work every day, you have time to go a few times a month, which is equivalent to earning living expenses while lying down, and some old men and women in the village are very envious.

But don't look at this easy job, as soon as it is windy, rainy or typhoon, Chen Zongqing becomes very busy.

Due to the fact that there had just been a rainstorm and the flood season in summer was relatively long, Chen Zongqing specially approved a raincoat to go up to the reservoir overnight despite the heavy rain.

Seeing that none of the instruments in the reservoir's management room were alarmed, Chen Zongqing breathed a sigh of relief, he felt that he was a little too careful.

After all, the Chencun Reservoir has been built for more than half a century, and there have been no major problems.

Only when the sluice gate is opened once every few years to release water and clean up the garbage and silt at the bottom of the reservoir will villagers from ten miles and eight towns be attracted to go down to the reservoir to fish.

"It's a bit rainy, so stay a little longer." Chen Zongqing thought so, stayed in the management room and swiped his mobile phone to pass the time.

With the popularity of smartphones, middle-aged rural people like him are also obsessed with watching small videos.

When the rain gradually stopped, Chen Zongqing cut off the electric switch in the management room, folded the raincoat, and planned to go down the mountain.

Before going out, he also paid special attention to the water level, after all, it was his duty.

However, when Chen Zongqing took a few minutes to walk slowly to the temple at the exit of the reservoir, an extremely loud "poof" came from the reservoir area behind.

"What's the sound?"

"Are the fish jumping?" Chen Zongqing muttered in his heart, it had just rained and the ground was muddy, and the air was wet and cold, so he didn't pay attention to the movement just now and went down to the reservoir early.

But when Chen Zongqing came back for an examination the next morning, he was dumbfounded!

The water in the huge reservoir was completely dried up overnight!

Dead fish were turning their bellies in the mud heaps everywhere, and the cracked marks on the bottom of the reservoir were like a drought not seen in decades, and even the silt in the reservoir had turned into sand on the dry ground.

There is only a stream, which pours water little by little upstream into the reservoir.

But in the face of such a large reservoir area, that little stream of water is not enough to store in it!

Even if it can be full, it will take ten days and half a month to do it, unless there are a few more rains like last night's.

"What's the situation?"

"How did the water drain?"

"I sealed the gates last night!" Chen Zongqing's eyes widened, and his mouth was wide open.

He was afraid that some blind village child was messing around, so he sneaked into the management room and drained the water from the reservoir overnight, if this was the case, then the crops in the villages below the reservoir would have to be completely flooded.

As soon as he thought of this, Chen Zongqing hurriedly ran to the management room to take a look.

The lock on the door didn't move, and the door was closed well.

The turnstile inside was also closed, but the monitoring of the reservoir area seemed to have been subjected to some kind of electromagnetic interference last night, and it had completely failed at this time and turned into a snowflake screen.

Looking at the dry scene in the reservoir, Chen Zongqing knew that he would never be able to hide it.

Besides, such a big thing happened and it was not something that he could hold as a 3,000-paid administrator, and many villagers who got up early in the morning were already watching the excitement on the dam.

So, without saying a word, Chen Zongqing hurriedly dialed the phone number of the county's water affairs bureau, and asked the bureau to send someone down to see what was happening in the Chencun reservoir.

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Although the Chencun Reservoir does not directly supply drinking water to the waterworks, crops in several nearby townships are watered, and some factories are diverted from this water source.

If the reservoir area dries up, it will not only cause damage to the environment, but also affect the economic benefits of the villagers, which is a top priority for the staff of the water authority.

Coupled with the repair of the rural roads and the urgent report of the reservoir administrator, an office director of the Water Affairs Bureau soon drove from the county seat in a hurry.

"Lao Chen, you said that the reservoir was fine last night, and it dried up overnight?"

"Yes, Director Zhou! I came to inspect at 8 o'clock last night, and I was fine before I left. It's strange that the reservoir has become like this when we came together this morning. ”

Director Zhou, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, immediately inspected the edge of the reservoir after getting out of the car, and called Chen Zongqing to ask a few questions.

Seeing that he was at a loss, Director Zhou asked a few technicians who came with him to check all the machines in the management room.

"Xiao Liu, is the turnstile data normal? Is there a record of opening the gate by short circuit? Director Zhou asked with a frown.

"Nope! Director, the turnstiles in this reservoir area are old-fashioned mechanical switches, and the motors will not start on their own if they are not started. ”

"And you look at this peak displacement, even if the turnstile is fully opened, it won't dry up like this overnight." A technician touched the machine, shook his head, and said.

At this time, several staff members who went down to the bottom of the reservoir to check the situation had already climbed up with the freshly collected water samples and biological samples.

One of them, who wore glasses, wiped his sweat and gasped for breath and reported: "Director! There's a deep crater in the library, like a meteorite! ”

"And we found a lot of signs of boiling water on the shore, you see these dead fish, and the aquatic plants, they look like they have been steamed and boiled."

"Meteorite?!"

"Did you mean that a meteorite fell into the reservoir last night?" Director Zhou's glasses glared, and he hurriedly followed a few staff members to the bottom of the reservoir again.

After walking through a large area of dry mud, the people saw a scene that they would never forget!

I saw that in the center of the bottom of the reservoir, there was a huge depression with a diameter of more than 100 meters wide.

Along the edge of the crater, you can see the traces of layers of waves stacked on top of each other, as if there is a large heat source released by some hot object in the center.

Even though the heat source had disappeared, Director Zhou and the others standing on the edge of the pit could still feel a little hot.

"It's like a meteorite!"

"Because of the meteorite falling, all the water in the reservoir area has been evaporated?"

"It shouldn't be! If there really was such a powerful meteorite, this reservoir would have been blown up a long time ago. Director Zhou pursed his dry lips and glanced at the intact embankment, he felt that he had really encountered a problem in this trip to the countryside.

So, after a moment of investigation at the scene, Director Zhou dialed the phone number of the county leader.

After the news was reported layer by layer, the county also sent experts from the cultural relics and geology and mining departments to inspect it.

After turning the whole reservoir area around, those experts were depressed, because they didn't find half a meteorite fragment at all!

On the contrary, in the dry reservoir, the corpses of dozens of scavengers and bearded catfish of invasive species were found, and it is estimated that the pilgrims of the temple who offered incense deliberately released them into the reservoir.

After several days of tossing and turning, the mystery of the reservoir's drying up is still unsolved. Instead, the staff of the water bureau who came to investigate gave the monks of the small temple that the village had spent millions of dollars to build sternly and verbally to prevent them from encouraging the believers to throw strange things into the reservoir.

When the reservoir was full of water and returned to its previous appearance, the matter finally came to an end, and it became a joke in the mouths of villagers in several nearby villages after tea and dinner.

How many issues will this be filmed in close to science?

The second more ~

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