Chapter 467: Huge Hole
Northwest of Meroe.
The northern part of the Darfur Plateau is part of the Sahara Desert and has a typical Gobi desert landscape.
The area of this region is about 300,000 square kilometers.
It is in this uninhabited plateau desert.
A construction team of 500 people is secretly digging a huge tunnel deep into the plateau in the oasis on the edge of the plateau on the east side.
Construction team leader Shabuin was looking at the tablet computer in his hand, which showed an excavation plan. The tunnel was about 200 kilometers long.
They have been digging for more than half a year, and now only the last few dozen kilometers are left.
Don’t think that a construction team of 500 people is small. In fact, due to the application of a large number of automated engineering equipment, new technologies, and engineering-assisted biology, their construction scale is comparable to that of an engineering team of more than 10,000 people, and their efficiency is very high and the construction speed is also very fast.
Behind their construction team, there is another construction team, which is responsible for building node underground cities. A node underground city needs to be built every 50 kilometers along the tunnel.
Just as Shabbin and his construction team were busy digging a tunnel, a train arrived at their temporary camp along the tunnel track.
To be precise, the construction team's temporary camp is actually a train.
The width of this super tunnel is very large, with a diameter usually around 30 meters, which is the same specification as the vacuum ring pipe of Motor Island Aerospace City.
And for the sake of safety, double lines are usually built simultaneously. The two tunnels are parallel to each other, usually about 500 to 600 meters apart. A side-connected auxiliary tunnel (about 10 meters in diameter) is built every 10 kilometers or so.
Once the construction team enters the tunnel, they basically have to live in the tunnel for a long time.
Therefore, Coral Construction Group specially customized a train-type "motorhome". Since this type of train uses extra-wide gauges, the carriages are relatively large and are usually composed of 50 to 150 carriages.
For example, the Shabin construction team in front of us has a camp train consisting of 86 carriages, which can accommodate 500 employees to live here for a long time.
Of course, the company will also consider the physical and mental health of the construction workers. Usually this kind of work is to work for one month and rest for one month, and the couple works together on the construction site.
The train that just arrived is the supply train, and it is also the shift change train.
Shabuin quickly drove his electric car to the camp.
In this type of tunnel, all engineering equipment uses electric power, which is mainly to reduce oxygen consumption inside the tunnel.
Although the gas balance cabin of the camp train will always monitor the composition of gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide in the tunnel, and release oxygen by absorbing carbon dioxide, thereby stabilizing the gas composition.
But if internal combustion engines are used in large quantities, it will still cause unnecessary trouble.
Even if the construction team members are equipped with bio-armor and do not need to obtain oxygen from the air, the oxygen concentration inside the pipeline still needs to be maintained within a reasonable range.
When Shabbin came to the camp train.
Automatic loaders are already resupplying the camp trains, and the 100 employees who came in for their shift this week are already donning bio-armor and exoskeletons.
A brown-skinned middle-aged man walked over and said, "Lao Sha, please don't violate company regulations. Take a break when you need to. I don't want to see you die from overwork."
Shabuin's mouth twitched slightly. "I just came back from a vacation at the Red Sea last week. I feel very healthy. Manager, you worry too much."
The manager of Meroe Construction, a subsidiary of Coral Construction Group, is the man in front of him, Sucheshi. He patted Shabuin on the shoulder and said, "Why are you still so thin? Have you been to the hospital?"
"Haha, I'm not sick. The doctor said that there are several intestinal-related genes in my genes that inhibit the absorption rate of nutrients, so I am thin." Shabuin explained helplessly.
The two chatted for a few minutes, and Suchisi got to the point: "In about half a month, the chairman will come to the Darfur Plateau for an inspection. You have to hurry up for the remaining 27 kilometers."
"The chairman is coming over?" Shabuin's eyes widened .
"Well, after all, this project was formulated by the chairman himself."
Shabuin was a little curious: "Manager, by the way, what exactly is this project for? Is it necessary to do it on such a large scale?"
"Don't ask, this is a confidential project." Suchi did not answer.
"Okay!" Shabuin immediately put away his curiosity: "The last 27 kilometers will probably take about 11 days. I will speed up as soon as possible."
Su Qiexi nodded slightly: "Thank you for your hard work. If you need anything, you can always ask, and the company will consider it as appropriate."
"Don't worry! I won't be polite to the company."
The two chatted for a while.
Seeing that the supplies were completed and the shift changers had handed over their work, Suchisi took the train back to Atlon Oasis City.
The train was very fast, covering a distance of more than 170 kilometers in less than 40 minutes.
Back in Atlon Oasis City, he asked his assistant to arrange for the employees who were to take over the shift, while he went to the design and planning center of the office building .
Inside the design and planning center, dozens of architects, urban planners, and underground construction engineers are busy with a major project.
Suchesi asked with great concern: "Engineer Anthony, how is the simulation test of the dome design going?"
The middle-aged man with messy stubble spread his hands with bloodshot eyes and said, "We simulated many situations, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, and nuclear bomb explosions. We have conducted tests on all of them. The situation can only be described as neither good nor bad."
Sucesi also felt helpless about this.
Human beings are still too small in the face of the mighty power of nature.
Even the technologically powerful Homo sapiens companies are helpless in the face of many natural disasters.
He turned to another designer and asked, "Dr. Luo Xi, is there any problem with the design of the monitoring system?"
Luo Qian shook her head: "No, I have completed the first draft and am now doing a mock test. I don't think there will be any problems."
"That's good."
Sucesi looked at the design model on the holographic projection.
The entire design model is very grand.
In the middle is a flat pancake-shaped hollow structure with a diameter of 100 kilometers and an internal height of 500 meters.
It is surrounded by 6 small bases with a diameter of 5 kilometers. Their main function is to arrange ancillary facilities and security facilities to ensure that no situation gets out of control.
"Kraft, how's your security system doing?"
Kraft, looking calm, replied confidently: "I have added a nuclear bomb to the self-destruct system, as well as a gamma ray cannon. I will never let anything about this project leak out."
After some understanding, Suchesi updated the design model. He himself is also a doctor of architectural engineering, and his level of knowledge on various design schemes and new technology applications is almost the same as that of everyone present.
He also asked about the part that others were responsible for. The only problem now was how to deal with the excavated soil and stones.
After all, this requires hollowing out a huge underground space with a diameter of 100 kilometers and a height of 500 meters.
So he had to find a way to make use of these rocks and soil.
This is to reduce the input of external materials and to avoid attracting attention.
