Chapter 40: Digging a Hole

Kerry woke up and yelled "help me", only to find himself soaking wet and lying on his bed.

He recalled the bits and pieces of his dreams, Zheng Riqiang, Confucius, Mars, Martians......

Everything is vivid. Mars was so terrifying that he couldn't help but fight a cold war.

It seems that Mars is still really dangerous. It was only three o'clock in the morning, and he couldn't sleep anymore, tossing and turning, and lying with his eyes open until dawn.

Early in the morning, he asked his secretary to drive a helicopter to the construction site where the hole was being excavated.

It was a ready-made, half-finished cave more than 180 kilometers from their company headquarters, and they called Sanssouci Castle, that's the name Kerry had taken.

Speaking of caves, it is necessary to talk about the largest cave in the world, Han Song Cave in Vietnam.

How big is it? Said to hold more than 8 billion people (i.e. the world's people), this cave is located in Vietnam and is 3 million years old.

How big is this cave? It is 8,800 meters long and 70 floors high.

There are also all kinds of bizarre stalactites, tall ancient trees, streams and underground rivers, and in addition to these, there is a lot of wildlife inside the cave.

There are also large caves in China, in Lichuan City, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, there is such a huge cave, with a total length of 59.8 kilometers, a cave area of 2 million square meters, and a volume of nearly 40 million cubic meters.

The entrance of the cave is 74 meters high, 64 meters wide, and the highest point in the cave is 235 meters; There are 5 peaks, 10 halls, and more than 10 underground waterfalls in the cave.

The largest cave that has been discovered in China ranks seventh among the longest caves in the world, but its entrance is the third largest in the world, and it is rumored that a helicopter can fly around it.

Kerry saw at the hot construction site that the cave has taken shape, and the person in charge of the construction introduced that the entire cave group has five floors, and there are more than 300 large and small branch caves, which are completely isolated from the outside world.

The entrance of the cave is completely isolated from the outside world, and there are three layers of iron doors, which are impermeable; Huge vents filter the outside air, underground rivers gurgle and the caverns have a special lighting system, dozens of portable generators provide a constant source of power to the caves.

There are hospitals, theaters, streets, and storerooms, and only Kerry knows the purpose of the storerooms. The person in charge of the construction patted his heart and said, don't worry, this storage room has a constant temperature and pressure, and if you store food, it can last for more than a year.

Kerry gave a subtle smile that he couldn't articulate. But he is also worried that if Zheng Riqiang and they can't get the Martian technology, even if they are in the cave, they won't be able to last long.

People not only have to eat and drink, they need a lot of food. And the disease that comes out of eating can kill a person at any time.

I don't know what Zheng Riqiang's situation is now. They and Zheng Riqiang have cut off contact with Zheng Riqiang again, and he thinks about them every day, so much so that he "thinks about them every day and dreams at night".

The plan to immigrate to Mars has been dashed, and the tickets sold have been exchanged for cave tickets by the BIPU Group. During this time, Kerry was anxious and dealt with doubts from all sides.

Interestingly, with the advent of the end of the world, people are becoming more and more casual and feel that there is no such thing as the end of the world. Perhaps, with more than 8 billion people around the world buried together, people don't think it's anything anymore.

Back at the company, his butt was not yet hot, and a secretary came running with a newspaper and panting and said: Oh no, someone is talking nonsense again.

Kerry picked up the newspaper and saw that the headline read:

Hiding in a cave, the most painful way to die

The article says that it is a bit of a fool's dream to think that people who hide in caves can avoid this catastrophe.

Scientists generally believe that the impact of an asteroid impact on the Earth will last for at least 50 years, and that the ice and snow at the North and South Poles will melt and tsunamis, and even in the future, the Earth's surface will rise by 66 meters.

At that time, the catastrophic consequences of all the ice melting on Earth and flowing into the oceans will engulf cities and even countries, change the appearance of continents and coastlines, and perhaps, caves will also be underwater.

There is a kind of upper method, and it is also the practice of many people, hoarding materials, you can avoid this disaster, and that is just a late death.

Who can keep food for 50 years? And even if you have this ability, there is not so much space, not to mention, most of the food cannot be kept for that long.

Some people even say that beans, dried mushrooms, rice flour, tangerine peel, dark chocolate, vanilla extract, and honey can be stored for a long time.

Of course, there are, "zombie meat" is said to have been preserved for 50 years, but I wonder how it tastes?

However, the vast majority of foods have a shelf life of less than one year. Generally speaking, the higher the storage temperature, the shorter the same food can be stored for a short time. For example, it can be stored at -18°C for 12 months.

After the food is eaten, it is cannibalism. I'm sure you've seen the famous air crash movie "The Aftermath", in which a South American rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains.

Only 33 of the original 45 passengers remained, and in order to survive, the surviving passengers had to eat their dead companions for a living, and they held out for 72 days!

They're only 72 days old! Those who hide in caves don't know how many 72 days they will have to face! This way of dying is terrifying!

Die bravely! The article calls for fighting fakes and hitting the road together, we don't want this kind of nest death!

As soon as the newspaper went public, Bipu's cave tickets plummeted. 50,000 tickets have been booked for a long time, and now they are a bit unsellable.

The ripple effect is the bipu stock, which rose 112 percent when the cave tickets were on sale, but now it's down 231 percent — even though everyone knows that after a few months, those stocks, those fortunes, are all empty.

However, they want to see that effect, and for the vast majority of people, BIPU is the object of their envy and hatred.

I didn't see the opponent angry and more exciting.

Kerry had no choice but to ask the space base to keep calling Zheng Riqiang and them, although there was no response.

Then, they publish a statement on the company's website:

Recently, some media questioned the food supply problem in the cave, and now the company solemnly states that we have obtained the high-end technology of the Martians, and only rely on injections to allow humans to solve the diet, and there is no food shortage.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the media had no scruples and went toe-to-toe with them, writing an article on the front page:

Anecdote, Bipu wants to give people nutritional injections to continue their lives

The article said that I didn't expect BIPU to come up with such an excuse: "nutrition injection".

As we all know, nutrition injections include proteins, vitamins, fats, minerals and electrolytes, etc., and are aimed at patients who cannot eat in the hospital, and he actually deals with a normal person......

Kerry was very angry, but helpless, because, he didn't know much about this injection, how to explain it clearly?

However, when he turned to the second page of the newspaper, the text on it was so angry that he scolded:

He**! They are complete nonsense!