Chapter 179 Spaceflight
Hongsavadi.
Chin State in the west.
Due to the limitations of the mountainous terrain, the development here was previously very poor.
It was not until the mutation of Hongsavadi that another alias of the Homo Sapiens Company, the Hongsavadi Development Group, invested some of its funds and energy here.
However, unlike the development strategies of other places, the Sapiens Company has never used force in this terrain surrounded by mountains. Instead, it chooses to forcibly relocate the local mountain people from the deep mountains and forests to the plains.
Unless there are very important strategic resources, there is no plan to build a city in such mountainous areas.
Most of Chin State's terrain is mountainous plateaus, the main part of which is Mount Rongklang. This mountain range separates the core areas of Chin State, Rakhine State and Hongsawaddy.
In order to solve this problem, the Sapiens Company planned a railway and road across the central part of the Rongerlang Mountains, and the railway is now almost completed.
However, this kind of mountainous area is not without its advantages.
Many secret bases of the Hongsawadi branch are built in this kind of mountains.
For example, on the south side of the Longgelang Mountain Railway, about 7.2 kilometers away from the railway, on a small mountain plateau, there is a mining town called "Longgelang Gold Mining Town".
There is indeed a small gold mine here with reserves of about 21 tons, but the reserves disclosed by the Development Group are 288 tons.
Obviously, this is a deliberate smokescreen to find an excuse for the increase in Hongsavadi gold reserves and to cover up the biological mining technology.
Most of the more than 2,500 employees and their relatives in the gold mining town are new humans. In addition, the mine is strictly managed and it is difficult for outsiders to enter. Naturally, they don’t know the true gold reserves.
But this town has another purpose.
That is to build a space launch site. The launch site is built on a terrace on the east side of the town. It is a terrace about 820 meters high and covers an area of 4.7 square kilometers.
At this time, a large part of the trees on the terrace have been covered by the green umbrella system.
The residential area of the town is about 3.5 kilometers away from the launch site. There is a repaired mountain road that can accommodate large trucks.
However, ordinary residents did not know the situation over there and thought it was a big gold mine. In addition, with the existence of barrier zones and patrol teams, the family members had no intention of finding out what was going on.
Chief Engineer Wang Dayou, who came here as a "miner", is one of the few new immigrants who have obtained the identity of a new human being. He did not come from China, but is a Chinese Australian.
It is very rare for people to immigrate to Hongsavadi from Australia.
In fact, he had no choice. Wang Dayou is a second-generation immigrant to Australia. He immigrated to Australia with his parents when he was a teenager, and his life has been smooth sailing since then.
After his father died in a car accident, he had just graduated from college and successfully found a job as an engineer in a construction company. The income barely made up for the loss of his father.
Five or six years passed like this, and he got married and had children.
Until one day, an act of bravery got him into huge trouble. Not only did he not receive praise, but he lost his job and was thrown into jail.
He was imprisoned for three years, during which time his elderly mother and wife continued to appeal and spent almost all of their family property, but he was still not released.
After he was released from prison, he saw his wife who had to do odd jobs to support the family, and his old mother with white hair. He cried at that moment.
The fantasies I once held were completely shattered at that moment.
Putting down the cigarette in his hand, he looked at the mountains in front of him and said: "Creating a new world with one's own hands is also a romantic thing."
As for the young man from Australia who left him with nothing and was accused of a crime.
Wang Dayou had already forgotten about the other person.
After all, he was the one who tied the other person up with iron chains and lead balls with his own hands, and then kicked him to the bottom of the sea in the other person's terrified and pleading eyes.
"Engineer Wang, we'll be going to Area 7 this afternoon. That's the fuel reserve area, and you need to check the construction requirements." Base director Wu Gang said as he put plates and glass bottles in the recycling bin.
"District 7? Sure."
The layout of this space launch base is built around the central platform.
Its layout is like a giant spider. The platform is the launch site, while the external channels and other parts are like six legs.
Area 7 is located in one of the valleys and is the farthest from the launch site, 4.1 kilometers away. This is mainly for safety reasons, after all, the fuel of the carrier rocket is flammable and explosive.
2:30 in the afternoon.
Wu Gang drove an off-road vehicle, carrying Wang Dayou and several other engineers to the construction site in District 7.
The highway is built halfway up a mountain and is covered with a green umbrella system, so the lights must be on even on a sunny afternoon.
To build this kind of highway, the Homo sapiens company now uses bio-erosion technology and stratum fluid boiling technology to artificially create mudslides and directly flatten the mountain.
For areas with risks of landslides and mud-rock flows, we use preemptive measures to destroy the risk areas in advance.
Although it will damage the ecology of the local area, this once-and-for-all transformation does reduce subsequent maintenance costs.
Vehicles driving on this type of mountain road do not have the twists and turns and frequent ups and downs of traditional mountain roads.
The distance was 4.1 kilometers, and the road conditions were relatively good, so the group arrived at their destination quickly.
It is also a small valley.
Dozens of employees are already doing preliminary exploration and deploying the green umbrella system.
Wang Dayou took the topographic map and looked at the area.
This place is sandwiched between three large mountains, with a lowland of 0.3 square kilometers in the middle. This lowland has no development value in the mountainous area with a tropical rainforest climate, mainly because it is easily flooded.
Therefore, when they plan construction areas, they usually choose a relatively flat hillside.
Wang Dayou pointed to the mountain on his left and said, "The Cishu Mountain is better. It can be transformed into a flat land of about 0.6 kilometers."
"Huh? Engineer Wang, there's something wrong with the magnetic field here!" said another engineer holding a compass.
Everyone also discovered that there was indeed something unusual about the compass.
Wu Gang called the technician in charge of the exploration work.
“Are there any metallic minerals found in the core of the drill hole?”
The technician shook his head and said, "No, our underground pillars are usually 200 meters deep. The magnetic field anomaly may be due to the high iron content in the surrounding rocks!"
Unsatisfied with the technician's words, Wu Gang directly reprimanded him: "Pay attention next time. If you find a problem with the magnetic field, you must report it in time."
"Sorry! I'll be more careful next time." The technician was startled.
Wu Gang ordered: "Reorganize the exploration, drill a 500-meter well, and open a few more points around it."
When encountering this kind of thing, Wang Dayou and others looked at each other in bewilderment. This kind of abnormal magnetic field area is usually a characteristic of metal veins, but they don't know what kind of metal mine it is.
If it is precious metals, rare metals, or rich minerals, then the planning and construction plan of District 7 will definitely be affected.
Therefore, they had to finish this inspection in a hurry.
The exploration team increased the drilling depth and conducted a more thorough exploration of the surrounding mountains and strata.
Hongsavadi's previous exploration of these mountainous areas and non-actually controlled areas was not comprehensive, and some were even blank.
Therefore, the Sapiens Company has made two preparations for the exploration here.
On the one hand, we are setting up a regular exploration team, and on the other hand, we are making use of various engineering projects in the mountainous areas to conduct rough exploration in the surrounding areas.
