Chapter 257: Converts (I)
With India and Assam both agreeing to cease fire.
The construction of various infrastructure is also being accelerated in the areas controlled by the Assam division.
The Yunshan base at the border between Darjeeling area and Zhemung State .
As the engineer pressed the detonation button.
In an instant, dense, muffled explosions sounded from the interior of the mountain not far away, and then most of the mountain flowed towards the canyon like a flood.
About half an hour later, the valley bottom was filled with landslides, forming a mud and rock dam with a width of 200 to 400 meters and a height of 80 to 120 meters.
The river that previously flowed through the valley bottom was now cut off by a mud-stone dam. The water level upstream was slowly rising, forming a barrier lake here.
If there is no human intervention, the river here will probably surge due to rainfall and glacier meltwater this summer, and eventually break the mud and rock dam.
The Yunshan Base is naturally prepared for possible dam breaches in the future.
Wu Fang, a biological modification engineer, input an activation command at the console operator, and a large number of genetically modified termites appeared in the large number of hollow pipes that had been buried in the valley in advance.
This genetically modified termite has genes from coral polyps and lichens, and is very good at building underground facilities.
Wu Fang can use biological computers and pheromone equipment to control these engineered termites to build the required underground buildings in a targeted manner.
“Xintu, you try it.”
The young man on one side hurried forward and controlled the engineering termites to build underground structures.
As a trainee engineer, Xintu is still a rookie. Although he has studied civil engineering in a university in Delhi, he is still an absolute rookie in the new human system.
As for why he "joined" the new humans, Xintu was also desperate.
He once naively thought that he could change his fate by studying hard.
Born in Darjeeling, he was neither a Black Indian nor a White Indian, but a Yellow Indian. This identity caused him a lot of trouble.
Even after graduating from college and finding a job that could barely make a living, it still didn't help his family much. After all, they had owed a lot of loans to support his studies.
When he thought about his classmates who were of Brahmin and Kshatriya origin and could easily win at the starting line, Xintu admitted that he was envious and jealous .
By coincidence, Xintu happened to be back to Darjeeling to visit his parents, and the whole family was taken to the Yunshan Base.
At first he was in a state of panic, until a few days ago when he saw the news of the Indian army's defeat in the internal news. Combined with what he had seen and heard at the base these days, Xintu made a decision.
He took the initiative to tell the block manager of Yunshan Base about his identity and his major in civil engineering, hoping to be able to join Assam.
The base did not reject this person who took the initiative to surrender and had relatives in the controlled area, but instead gave him a job as an intern construction engineer.
After joining the construction company, Xintu underwent a few days of rapid training and is now participating in the construction of the underground hydropower station at the Yunshan base as Wu Fang's assistant and apprentice.
He controlled the interface of the biological computer to build a real dam. If the engineering termites and the biological computer were allowed to perform the construction task rigidly, not only would the speed be much slower, but there would also be some structural defects.
Therefore, during this process, construction engineers are needed to monitor and adjust, and this is Xintu's job at this time.
Wu Fang was the designer of the Yunshan Dam and was currently overseeing the construction of the stepped culverts of the underground hydropower station.
The Yunshan Dam is basically hidden under the mud-rock embankment, and engineering termites are now building a microstructure from the bottom up little by little.
This type of building constructed using engineered termites has no steel bars, but only a special structural layer similar to a coral reef. It has sufficient rigidity but lacks toughness, and the structural layer can easily be broken during an earthquake.
Therefore, sufficient micro-pipes must be left inside the dam to accommodate repair bacteria or allow engineering termites to enter for secondary repairs.
Xintu examined the already built area very carefully.
He was busy for two hours when a prompt popped up on the computer page.
[The engineering termites have been working for 2 hours, and now they are going to rest and eat.]
Xintu entered the instructions, agreeing to give the engineering termites rest and replenish food, and he also made himself a cup of Darjeeling black tea.
Darjeeling's tea industry is one of the few remaining surface agricultures, and all tea leaves are collected and supplied to the Assam division for internal use.
Considering that the engineering termites needed to rest for an hour, he walked out of the underground bunker. The engineering control room was set up inside the mountain on the other side of the dam where there was no landslide.
He reached the ground via an elevator.
At this time, Xintu was in the forest halfway up the mountain. When he came out of the elevator, there was a disguised cave. He walked out of the cave.
Walking out of the cave, there is an alpine evergreen broad-leaved forest outside.
He stood on a large rock and could see the valley in the distance and the mud and stone dam nearby.
In the forest surrounded by mountains, it was the first time that Xintu appreciated the natural scenery so quietly, and his heart was extremely peaceful.
That kind of tranquility is not because of the tranquility of the mountains, nor because of the cleansing of the chirping of insects and birds, but a kind of tranquility that comes from the depths of the heart.
No need to face the pressure of loans, no need to worry about the birth, aging, illness and death of parents, no need to worry about not having a job, no need to worry about starving to death on the streets one day.
As long as he is willing to work for the company, the company will arrange everything for him.
At this moment, he understood.
What is the purpose of life?
Is it to be treated like a slave?
Yes! People like him can only be treated like a slave.
In that case, why didn't he choose a good boss? He had no choice before, but now the opportunity is right in front of him.
Xintu would rather wash dishes at Zhiren Company than go back to India to be a civil engineer. During his time at Zhiren Company, he felt happy, peaceful and fulfilled.
As long as the company can maintain its current benefits, he is willing to work for the company for life, and he doesn't care about the requirement to implant a biochip.
After all, implanting a biochip means entering the new human class of the Sapiens company, which also means that he can easily find many companions whom he can trust unconditionally.
People always like to huddle together for warmth.
But people like to be suspicious.
This contradictory behavior is the root cause of internal conflicts that easily break out in human groups.
At the moment he became a new human, Xintu gave up a large part of his privacy, but this also meant that he could form an almost mutually transparent social world with other new humans.
Feeling the unity and friendship among the new humans, his soul also gradually underwent a transformation in the process.
This is why Xintu’s heart is so peaceful at this moment.
Having companions who can be trusted unconditionally will inevitably give them unprecedented courage and strength, because they have no worries, so they are fearless.
In Xintu's peaceful heart, a fire is burning.
"If this is the future of mankind, then there is nothing to be afraid of in death."
"Are you reflecting on life again?" Wu Fang leaned against a pine or cypress tree not far away, smoking a cigar he brought from Hongsawadi.
Xintu looked out at the misty mountains in the distance and said: "Only when people understand each other can the world be saved."
