Chapter 88 Busy May

A few days later.

Western Xinjiang Province, the middle of Kunlong Mountain.

It is close to the desert and sparsely populated.

There is a huge nuclear waste landfill here that has been in use for more than 30 years.

Originally, the planned service life of this nuclear waste landfill was about 50 years. One million cement barrels could be placed in the granite mountain to bury millions of tons of nuclear waste.

But after entering the 21st century, in order to protect the environment, reduce the use of coal resources, and ensure sufficient power supply, China built a large number of nuclear power plants in a short period of time, from a few to nearly 100.

The amount of nuclear waste naturally increased exponentially.

However, in just a few years, this landfill planned to be used for 50 years has reached the edge of being full.

If there is no other way, then it is necessary to find a new granite mountain somewhere else and dig a new and larger nuclear waste landfill, and there must not be a large population gathering within a hundred kilometers nearby.

Although China is large, there are very few places suitable for nuclear waste landfills.

Of course, the plan of dumping nuclear waste on the seabed has also been considered, but there will be many difficulties in actual operation. First of all, the territorial waters of our own country are so small that we certainly cannot dump nuclear waste. It is also not allowed in other people's waters. If we go to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it will attract international criticism and the image of a responsible major country may be tarnished.

The problem can only be solved within our own country.

If nothing unexpected happens, at the latest next year, China's second nuclear waste landfill will start construction and be put into use at the fastest speed.

However, that night.

Several men wearing thick radiation protection suits, carrying a box, entered the interior of the nuclear waste landfill.

Although cement barrels can block more than 99% of nuclear radiation.

But the intensity of nuclear radiation here is off the charts, which is hundreds of times higher than the background radiation of the natural environment.

Staying here for a long time will definitely cause various radiation diseases.

And this group of people entered the interior of the mountain not long ago.

A group of experts dressed in military uniforms who were using instruments to observe outside soon exclaimed.

"It's reduced, the radiation intensity is starting to decrease!"

"The rate of decrease is obviously accelerating!"

"What's going on? The radar wave shows that a large area of ​​the mountain has suddenly been emptied."

"Impossible! The radiation intensity has dropped by 90%."

"It's empty. The entire granite mountain has been hollowed out!"

"The radiation intensity is only 1%, and it can't stay still anymore. All the cement barrels have been cleared."

Three hours later.

The few people who entered the mountain came out with boxes.

A group of experts immediately rushed into the mountain to see the results of the "cleaning".

They were all dumbfounded and stood there, as if they were under a spell.

Gone.

Nearly a million cement barrels disappeared.

The original granite mountain has been greatly expanded, with a volume at least ten times that of the original, which can hold tens of millions of cement barrels.

"Fifty years, this landfill pit will be enough for our country to use for at least fifty years."

"It's worth it, the 2 billion is worth it!"

"I'll find that young comrade to cooperate with me in the future."

"Is it at the atomic structure level, turning it into basic particles? Or using dark energy to directly turn matter into nothingness? It's amazing, is the alien technology so advanced? If it is used as a weapon, it will turn the target into nothingness without any surrounding damage. According to this principle, perhaps Thanos's "snap" may really exist."

...

Another day later.

At the west end of Kunlong Mountain, there is a tunnel project under construction that passes through Kunlong Mountain.

This tunnel, with a total investment of about 3 billion, is expected to be dug through in about five years.

However, due to the fact that the actual structure inside the mountain is much more complicated than originally estimated, this tunnel has not been completed after a full ten years of digging, and the cost has exceeded 5 billion. There are still dozens of meters of landslide-prone areas that have not been dug through, and only a few meters can be dug every year.

By the time it is finally completed, it will probably cost another 2 billion and take more than five years.

Faced with such a difficult project, the chief engineer even suggested to his superiors that he should use a nuclear bomb to blow up the entire mountain! The cost of this operation is much lower than continuing to dig like this.

But that night.

A group of people carried a box into the tunnel.

Five hours later.

The group of people came out again and told the chief engineer that the tunnel was open and they could go in for inspection.

"How is this possible?"

The chief engineer shook his head in disbelief. It would take at least five years to drill through the tunnel, but they did it in five hours?

With serious doubts, he immediately took people into the tunnel to check, and soon his jaw dropped.

"It's open, the tunnel is really open!"

"The railway passing through this tunnel will be completed and open to traffic next year!"

"Finally someone has solved this obstacle. It was too difficult. I have spent ten years with this mountain. Today I am finally free." The engineer burst into tears.

"Chief Engineer, according to the pressure sensor, the mass of this mountain has been reduced by more than 50 million tons."

The chief engineer's eyes twitched.

He looked up at the cavity with a diameter of more than 30 meters above his head, and muttered to himself: It's incredible, it's better than a nuclear bomb.

...

Handong Province, Zhaojin City.

A place with a large number of gold mines.

Some of these gold mines are shallowly buried and have high mining value, attracting countless gold diggers until the gold resources are exhausted.

The remaining gold mines today are all buried more than a kilometer deep, with extremely high mining costs. Only large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises can afford them. Unless the price of gold raw materials rises to more than 500 yuan/gram, there will be a small profit. Otherwise, these enterprises must rely on state subsidies to survive.

And it is somewhere in Zhaojin City.

A few years ago, a gold exploration team discovered that there was a gold mine with a reserve of about 50 tons at a depth of 3,000 meters underground. The enrichment level was very high, with an average gold content of more than 100 grams per ton of rock, which was absolutely a super-rich mine.

However, due to the burial depth, the cost of digging out the gold would be far greater than the value of the gold itself, which was not worth the loss.

But it seemed to be overnight.

Someone discovered that there was suddenly a passage above the underground gold mine.

And several people in protective clothing walked out of the passage. Except for the one carrying a box in the front, the people behind were holding large and small gold nuggets in their hands, which might add up to hundreds of kilograms.

The young man in the lead took off his mask and said to the person in charge waiting at the entrance: "There is indeed a lot of gold underground, and the reserves may be more than 50 tons. We have only slightly entered the periphery of the mining area, and we have harvested so many gold nuggets. There are more inside."

"By the way,"

The young man asked again: "The rest of the gold is all yours. It's not too much for us to take so little, right?"

"Not too much, not too much."

The person in charge looked at the gold nuggets and shook his head repeatedly.

...

A few days later.

Many strange things happened in China.

For example, a landfill covering more than 500 acres in the western suburbs of Zhengzhong City, tens of millions of tons of garbage disappeared overnight. Many people saw a blue light column over 100 meters high, and even took a video, which was quickly restricted and deleted after being posted on the Internet.

Another example is Qionghai Province in the south, which is the base camp of China's submarines. There are multiple submarine bases, and foreign military satellites keep a close eye on it 24 hours a day.

Recently, foreign military satellites suddenly discovered that several nuclear blackfish had lost their traces and could not be found. For a time, foreign military intelligence agencies were very nervous and discussed various countermeasures, but they had no clue. After all, those nuclear blackfish seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, which was very difficult and a headache.

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All of the above.

This is what happened in the busy May.