Volume 3: Dance of the Aurora Chapter 34: The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves
Ai Bishui stared at the nuclear fuel grains that filled the cooling pool below. She couldn't directly imagine that these small, harmless balls that looked like lead balls contained enough power to destroy the world.
The fundamental principle of human power generation technology has remained unchanged since the day it was born, which is to boil water.
Although the fuel used has evolved step by step from wood to coal, then to oil, and finally to fissionable materials, and the structure used to drive the motor has evolved from steam engine to steam turbine, the essence of this technology has not made any progress.
Electricity is still too "fake" for humans. Unlike light and heat, which can directly transmit information to nerves, we cannot confirm its existence and flow through our five senses, nor can we directly regulate it through the nervous system. As a result, even the existence of electricity has been debated for hundreds of years.
To this day we are still not sure what the nature of electromagnetic interaction is. It is everywhere yet elusive, like a firefly in the dark night.
It is different for protozoa. Electromagnetic interactions are extremely familiar to them. The unique body structure allows metal life forms to feel voltage and current as well as cold and heat. This is why they were able to lock onto the nuclear power plant in one go through their tentacles resting on the high-voltage transmission network.
After arriving here, it effortlessly lifted the thick concrete isolation layer on the outside of the reactor. Below was a funnel-shaped reaction ball bed, which contained densely packed nuclear fuel balls that had not yet been transported away.
Uranium is "sweet" to metallic life. Just as humans assign the most pleasant sense of sweetness to the highest energy carbohydrates, they also assign the pleasant taste experience to uranium, which has the cheapest energy. This metal has the heaviest atoms that can exist stably on most solid planets.
At this moment, the protozoan was concentrating on enjoying the candy bean feast in front of him and didn't notice the human girl not far below.
She was concentrating on the ball bed submerged in sea water at her feet, hesitating whether to jump in.
During normal operation, the core of the fourth- generation reactor should use helium as a coolant, which is why it is called a high-temperature "gas-cooled" reactor, but in an emergency, seawater will still be forced in for cooling.
What to do now, jump or not? It is obvious that there is no other way to remove the fuel ball except jumping into the water.
At this time, the shaking of the entire core became more and more violent, and the noise from the shelf where she was standing became louder and louder. She didn't know when the entire core structure would collapse completely, and it would be too late to do anything at that time.
Now that we have come this far, what’s the point in hesitating any longer?
She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and jumped into the pool. About a second later, a tingling and cold feeling swept through her body.
Phew, irradiated water doesn't taste any different from regular water.
She remembered that when she went out to eat dumplings with Fang Cheng last winter, she said that she had always wanted to try diving.I didn’t expect it to be realized in this way. It seems that the God of Destiny has a sense of humor.
But Spanish mackerel dumplings are really delicious. I don’t know if I will ever be able to eat them again in my lifetime. Time flies so fast. What happened half a year ago seems like it happened just yesterday.
Ai Bishui slowly opened her eyes after the pain disappeared. After adapting to the light and temperature in the water, she immediately began to dive, bypassing the tentacles that were entangled and groping in the water, and swam towards the pile of balls closest to her.
After she reached the top of the pile of balls, she steadied herself, stretched out a hand and grabbed a handful of fuel balls. When she was considering whether to put them in her pocket, the balls suddenly disappeared on their own, as if they were absorbed by her clothes.
Try grabbing it again.
This time she only held a small ball, which was about six or seven centimeters in diameter. It was dark gray in color and had a very obvious frosted texture. It was slightly heavy when she weighed it. If it had no buoyancy, she even doubted whether she had the strength to grab a handful with one hand.
This happened twice, and when she was about to grab the third handful, a voice sounded in her ears.
"The slot is full."
It seemed that she could go out now. Just as she was about to open her mouth to say take off, she realized that she was in the water and floated to the surface as quickly as possible.
After her eyes emerged from the water, she felt a pain in her head, which was the result of keeping her eyes open for too long in the water. She placed her hands flat on the water surface, making the liquid interface flush with her chest, which was the most labor-saving posture when floating in the water.
At this moment, above her head was the twisted body of the protozoa, which was glowing with light. Its several tentacles were slowly flipping in the pool, as if it was unaware of the existence of Ai Bishui until now.
“Take off.”
As soon as she finished speaking, just like the previous times, a silvery-white surface grew out from the void, completely wrapped her body and then turned translucent, leaving only a striking red dot in the center of her vision.
"Welcome aboard, captain."
I seem to have never heard any automatic voice when entering the aircraft before. This sentence should be set to be said only when entering the surface ring from the liquid. I don’t know if it can be regarded as a little humor of T-800.
An even force held Ai Bishui up slowly. She saw the liquid surface quickly moving away from under her feet, while the body of the monster was approaching rapidly from the air not far above her head.
In the moment before colliding with the proto-body, she subconsciously closed her eyes and curled up into a ball.
But the expected impact did not happen . She and the spacecraft naturally passed through the mountain-like body, just like neutrinos passing through the human body.
She took advantage of the precious moment when she was passing through the protozoan to observe its body structure. Although she couldn't see it clearly, she could still vaguely make out countless fine and dense lines with light spots flowing.
Just as she had figured out, those lines all seemed to be fractal patterns.
In the few seconds when she was distracted, the surface ring had completely flown out of the monster's body and began to rush towards the clouds.
Soon the full picture of the shrinking nuclear power plant will be visible. Not far from the plant is the steep rocky coast common in the peninsula area. The huge waves blown by the wind collide violently with the rocks, blooming with warm white flowers.
Further away in the field of vision are the stone hills that surround the entire factory area. The pine forests on them are lush and green, and rolling like waves of wheat in the sea breeze.
You can't ask for a coast without scenery. That's not the sea, it's a mud puddle.
The sea in front of us has participated in the birth and destruction of countless lives over billions of years. Humans are just insignificant passers-by. Even if humans become extinct from the earth, the sea will always rise and fall there.
She is just like this, powerful, gorgeous, brutal, eternal, everything belongs to her, and the tail is drained.
