A Will Eternal Chapter 288
Kane's brain puppet, Stephen Hawking, is in charge of Merrick City on the tenth day.
In Kane's grand plan, the first phase marks the end of the external collection, and the focus of work returns to the internal construction.
This means that the primary needs of hoarding food and feeding the stomach have been basically met, and it is no longer like before he came, precarious, and he was about to run out of food.
The second stage is to use the existing resources and labor force to strengthen the viability and cope with the severe climate disaster period when the curtain of the sky is pushed over.
So there are two major projects on the tenth day, completing the maintenance of the robot and putting it into production, and building the ice wall of the hoistway of the elevator.
The ice canyon spanned by the steel bridge is 37 meters wide. The depth is 122 meters on the side of the pit and 104 meters on the other side.
122×37=4514, which means that even if the thickness of the ice wall on the side of the deep pit is 1 meter, or more figuratively speaking, more than 4,500 pieces of ice are needed to build the wall with 1 meter cubic ice stand up.
The reason why 1 cubic meter is used is for the convenience of estimating the weight. Let’s just calculate that 1 cubic meter of water freezes 1 cubic meter of ice, and 1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 ton (actually, it’s almost), which means that a wall needs at least 5,000 tons of water. Because the bottom layer needs to be thickened, and the upper and lower sides are thicker. From an architectural point of view, it is not strong.
Therefore, according to the design, slope-type auxiliary walls will be built on both sides of the exit of the elevator shaft. It's like using two triangular plates to compare the two lines at 90-degree angles between the wall and the ground.
At the same time, on both sides of the wall, the occlusal relationship with the glacier is also very important. It is necessary to make grooves, like a brick wall, half of which is in the grooves. Usually, they are stacked with other bricks to form a wall, and then use hot water to freeze and pour the gaps. freeze.
The main reason for doing such a serious thing is that the ultra-low temperature will lead to the effect of cold shrinkage, forming frost cracks, which will affect the sturdiness.
The amount of work is so large, manpower is not enough to see, and the robot is in place, it will be much better.
These robots stand up on their legs and can be more than 20 meters tall, and they can really climb and work on the side walls like spiders. It can be said that the mimicry is very good, powerful rather than tasteless.
Another advantage of the robot is that it can work day and night, but it requires a working group to follow.
They are not smart enough to execute simple commands, and need to be constantly ordered by someone according to the actual situation.
In addition, in the operation, it is inevitable that there will be minor situations,
It needs to be dealt with in time to avoid major accidents.
Raising a robot is not easy, so Kane dismantled two of them for spare parts. One of the steam cores was used for the construction of the sledge for the exploration team, and the other was prepared for the upcoming steelmaking plant.
There was originally a steelmaking plant in New Cambridge, which was more than half built, but was stopped due to resource allocation, and it was never built again.
Fortunately, the refractory materials were not transported away. Under the command of Kane, the three days of 10, 11, and 12 were spent in building the ice wall and preparing materials for the steelmaking plant.
The No. 11 sled car was built, and the expedition team headed by Tom set off.
Seeing Tom and the others leave in such a hurry, Kane knew that this time they must gain something.
To put it bluntly, this is not an expedition, but to find scattered people, and even their locations are likely to be approximate.
He didn't say much. On the contrary, he also hoped that Tom would know how to measure and not bring back those people who robbed him before. That was slapping him in the face.
Someone said, face is really that important? More important than human life?
Kane feels that sometimes, indeed, face is more important.
Without authority, the team will not be easy to lead. When a precedent is set, bad things follow.
Some crimes cannot be forgiven. Some levels must be divided, which is at least fair. Kane feels that if a ruler cannot even be fair, then there is no need to play.
As for the dead or something, sorry, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed.
Even survival is a problem, so he is not qualified to play forgiveness.
Instead of dying with the brilliance of humanity, he chose to make some sacrifices to survive. Always let others sacrifice, so don’t say sour words like typical utilitarianism. The theme this time is catastrophe and survival, not suffering and fraternity. Besides, when he does things that really require him to die, he never escapes .
The weather in the past three days has been relatively bad, with heavy wind and snow, and visibility less than 15 meters.
The minimum temperature is close to minus 50 degrees, and the average temperature is also below minus 35 degrees. With or without sunlight, the temperature difference is huge.
Kane sent the hunting team to drive the large transport vehicle that brought back the robot out. He told the hunting team to look for live animals as much as possible. This is probably the last chance to collect live animals.
On the thirteenth day of Kane's arrival, on May 22, 1888 in this world's calendar, the elevator shaft and the ice castle were completed.
The original equipment is completely invisible, and a narrow ice dam is added. The ice castle is built on the dam, tall and strong, and the days of wind and snow quickly erased its greenness, and it looks as if it is standing It has been a long time.
The howl of the level 8 gale is extremely terrifying. You need to get close and increase your voice to hear it clearly.
Kane stood on the upper floor of the castle, looking at the earth. The earth has been engulfed in a mist of ice and snow. The snow is like wind and sand, sweeping across the earth like smoke and mist. If it lasts a little longer, it will create the illusion that the whole earth is rippling and fluctuating.
This is the day of killing. If you get lost in this kind of wind and snow, your survival rate will be very low.
The scope of this blizzard was extremely wide. Kane estimated that after this blizzard, except for the musk ox, other animals might only survive sporadically.
What made Kane interesting was that the two arctic foxes came to the door on their own initiative, guarding the gate of the castle and refusing to leave.
He knew that this was not actually a miracle, but that the two arctic foxes had probably been favored by humans, or they had escaped from someone's house.
The door opened, and Kane accepted the two foxes. The two foxes were quite human, and they followed Kane like pet dogs ever since.
This is actually quite ironic. Kane wears a scarf made of arctic fox fur around his neck.
These two foxes are not beautiful at this time. Foxes moult in winter, and arctic foxes molt a dozen days later than most of their kin, around mid-December.
Now it is May 22, and July is Sharkey in Greenland. Physiological laws have caused these two foxes to change their summer fur. The velvet clothes were blown around and scattered around, and the fur looked rotten.
Summer is colder than winter, so I can only wear half sleeves. This is the helplessness of these animals, how can they not die? She can only seek shelter from humans and survive by acting cute.
Kane gave the hungry two foxes some heavenly soup. He estimated that the female fox was pregnant. The mating season was over and the fox parents would raise their offspring together. Although their love lacks interest, their marriage is stronger, and of course it is simple. Compared with human marriage, it's hard to say which one is better.
In addition to welcoming the two foxes to join, Kane also welcomed 23 humans brought back by the three of Tom that day.
They call themselves lost expeditions.
Does the expedition team also bring minors under the age of 14? It really doesn't matter if you panic.
Just outside the gate of the castle, Kane stood on a one-meter-square ice brick that was leftover and discarded there, looking down at the twenty people, silent.
This group of people spoke in a low voice at the beginning, and then completely quieted down. They looked at Kane, their hearts slowly lifted, and they waited for the judgment of fate.
It took five full minutes for Kane to speak: "Everyone, remember this moment. Remember the state in which you came here. Remember the difficulty of surviving, and remember the price you paid for survival."
"Remember all of this, not to ask you to thank me, but to allow you to be more patient and humble and less arrogant and arrogant at certain times."
"There has never been fairness in this world. I am not saying this to treat you as slaves, but to tell you not to care about comparing yourself with others and forget what you have gained."
"You can't compare. When we worked day and night with hunger to build this town, we didn't have you. When we gathered, gathered, and made, we didn't have you. Now you're here to share the fruits of our labor , there must be an explanation.”
"Although there has never been fairness in the world, I want to give at least fairness to the hardworking people who went ahead. In the future, when refugees come, I will give you an explanation, provided that you have your own place in this city, played their own value."
"I am the administrator of this city, and I am also the one who leads people to survive the catastrophe. My name is Stephen Hawking. Welcome to Merrick City."
Kane was already prepared to accept more people, both psychologically and in reality.
The first thing these new arrivals need is a bowl of heavenly soup. Then it is to live overnight in a large tent specially used for reception.
Many people in this group suffered from mild or severe frostbite or disease. Of course, there was only one child who was particularly serious, and it deteriorated on the road. As for why not, you understand.
There is a game in Japan called "Shenyin". Generally, they are old people who have no ability to support themselves. In order not to drag their family members to starve to death, they go into the mountains by themselves, or find a way to die. His family is out of sight and out of mind, and even the funeral expenses are saved. He is good at self-comfort, so he is regarded as an old man who has become a god. Anyway, there are so many cow-haired gods in Japan, maybe he can protect future generations when he turns back.
The Inuit also have a similar gameplay, but they are more straightforward and leave no room for imagination. They just go to a certain mountain to freeze to death when they are old enough.
There is no shortage of cruelty in this world, and from a certain point of view, human beings are indeed no nobler than other creatures.
Kane is not interested in talking about this kind of truth, he just expressed an attitude to these newcomers: there will be no shortage of what should be given to you, but I and the people here will not spoil you.
Meticulous care or something, no, I think too much.
Promising only the possibility of survival, without comfort and satisfaction.
But in fact, people had a good night. The thick soup brought positive benefits, the tent was still warm, and more importantly, the soul was comforted, safe and stable, and they hadn't felt this feeling for a while.
Like other refuges, the buildings and facilities of Merrick City are also in a circular layout.
This is conducive to enjoying the thermal radiation of the energy tower with maximum efficiency.
Kane's house is not within the radiation circle. He lives in a snow house. Not far from the house is the statue of the former leader who was killed by the two heavens of ice and fire. If it was moved here on purpose, the side of the energy tower would melt and it would no longer be suitable for placement.
People gradually discovered that Kane was not an amiable leader, but a majestic one. He seemed withdrawn and mysterious, and always kept a distance from people.
But on the other hand, he is very powerful, as if he is omniscient and omniscient, so that people can't even feel the heart of comparison, only worship.
The worship of technology does not add much emotional favor. Kane's character is not likable, but still won people's respect.
As Kane himself said at the beginning, he is a noble, but he is different from other nobles. The biggest difference is that he is noble because of his ability far beyond the ordinary, noble noble, not rich noble.