Chapter 740 Calamity Moon

The Spring Festival in 2018 was just one day after Valentine's Day. Jiang Chen returned to the end of the world on February 14th, Valentine's Day. Spent the Spring Festival and New Year's Eve together.し

On the second day of the Lunar New Year on the 17th, the time agreed with the Beluga Seabed Research Station arrived. Jiang Chen took a supply airship to Yizhou Island. Lin Ling was also traveling with him this time. I heard that there is a deuterium refinery in Taipei on Yizhou Island, as well as a small nuclear fusion power plant with a high retention rate.

Because of the long-distance power transmission and the lunar helium 3 mining base, the nuclear fusion power plants on the earth in front of the station have basically been transferred to the moon. Finding a complete nuclear fusion power plant in the wasteland is almost impossible.

Therefore, when Jiang Chen heard that there was such a nuclear power plant on Yizhou Island, he immediately became interested in it. Especially the supporting deuterium refinery, although using deuterium as nuclear fuel is not as environmentally friendly as helium 3, but now is not the time to be picky.

For the Sixth Street District, which has sub-crystal as energy, the nuclear power plant does not seem to be particularly attractive, but for the present world, especially for the new country that relies entirely on imported energy, the nuclear fusion power plant will have extraordinary value .

Especially Penglai City, which is about to open.

If cold fusion technology can be used, among other things, the 100,000 mu of seaweed power generation project originally planned to be added in the nearby sea area can be directly cancelled, as can 12 large ocean current generator units and 150 wind turbines. Not only that, but it drives down the cost of electricity to a horrible level.

Of course, it's better to use this technology secretly, and it's better to make it public after the space elevator is made.

There are only a few nuclear experts in Wanghai City, and Lin Ling is the only one who knows the secrets about Jiang Chen, so he took her with him. It just so happens that the work of the Garden of Eden is coming to an end, and when the last project is completed after the beginning of spring, the Garden of Eden, which took more than a year, can be declared complete.

Moving the base of the space elevator, recovering nuclear technology, and incidentally solving the minor troubles encountered by the expeditionary force were the purpose of Jiang Chen's trip.

...

It has been a month since the expeditionary force landed.

When Jiang Chen arrived at Yizhou Island, Li Wang, the captain, immediately arranged a clean and comfortable room for him, and presented him with a summary of the intelligence and mission logs collected in the past month, and handed it over to the temporary commander. right.

Immediately after landing, Li Wang dispatched expeditionary soldiers to explore Taipei and its suburbs, and built a simple cement fortress and lighthouse on the sea cliff at the northern end of Yizhou Island.

and lifts for docking of airships.

Compared with the war-torn inland, although Yizhou Island also has traces of war, it is not as tragic as Wanghai City. It was not directly hit by a nuclear attack, and most of the high-rise buildings in the urban area were intact. Most of the radiation pervading the island came from the fallout blown from Southeast Asia.

However, there is one thing here that is almost the same as on land, and that is the plants that grow abnormally, as well as the hideous aliens and zombies.

Vines and dry branches covered high-rise buildings, and the cracked road was covered with bomb craters. In the shadows, there was a wolf-like creature with sharp mouth and sharp claws. The soldiers of the expeditionary army called it "ghoul". The creatures attacked by it often don't even leave much bones.

But that's not the scariest thing yet.

Although these ghouls are terrifying, two bullets are still dead. However, in the face of a mud crab whose carapace is not inferior to steel and whose movement speed is unambiguous, the rifle does not give people a sense of security.

Especially these mud crabs are still moving in groups, it is a nightmare.

And the trouble that these expeditionary forces encountered was related to these mud crabs...

The next day, the patrol team on the exploration island was on duty as usual and returned to the camp before dark.

Unlike usual, this time they also brought back a local.

The personal guards searched behind him, kept the guns and crossbow bolts on his body, and brought him to Jiang Chen.

It was still snowing in the wasteland in February, and even on Yizhou Island to the south, traces of falling snow could be seen. I saw this man wearing an old gray jacket with some dirty mud on his body. His skin was tanned and his head was shaved. He looked like an honest farmer, but his small eyes darting around revealed his shrewdness.

"What's your name?" Jiang Chen sized up

"My lord, Chen Guangning, is doing business in Taipei and the coastal areas of southern Fujian. If your lord needs a guide, I will definitely be the most suitable person." Chen Guangning smiled honestly and said respectfully.

Other locals may not have heard of the name nac, but as a businessman who often travels to southern Fujian, he has heard a little about this name that rose in Wanghai City. In two years, he wiped out all the major forces in Wanghai City with a thunderbolt, and took the entire Wanghai City and even the survivor settlements in Suzhou and Hangzhou Province under his rule.

And the man in front of him is the leader of NAC.

It would definitely be of great benefit to his business if he could get on-line with people from NAC. So when NAC's expeditionary force came to find someone at the survivor's colony in Taipei, and the other survivors looked at each other and expressed distrust, he volunteered to go without saying a word, and came to the fortress of the expeditionary force.

Jiang Chen smiled and asked directly.

"I will consider your suggestion. Before that, I have a question for you."

"Excuse me, my lord." Chen Guangning said respectfully.

"Tell me about the details of Calamity Moon." Jiang Chen asked the question he was most concerned about.

The so-called Calamity Moon is what the locals call the landing of mud crabs. However, the NAC expeditionary force knew very little about the disaster that lasted for several months. The locals resented this outsider who suddenly broke into their homes. Although the two sides lived in peace and there were occasional material transactions, the dialogue was still kept at a limited level.

Hearing Jiang Chen's question, Chen Guangning immediately answered.

"Every March, the mud crabs lurking in the shallow waters come ashore from the northeast coast of Yizhou Island to lay eggs. Usually at this time, Taipei survivors will hide in the air-raid shelter in the center of Taipei City and wait until the mud crabs leave before coming out. Yizhou Island The practices of other regions can't help but be the same, the number of those mud crabs is really beyond the reach of manpower, so it is called the month of disaster."

Strong among scavengers, these mudcrabs are especially fond of places where survivors have lived. Whenever they came, it was like locusts crossing the border, tearing apart the survivors' settlements and leaving behind a large pile of slimy follicles.

Cleaning up these follicles is very dangerous. If one doesn't pay attention, small mud crabs may have successfully hatched inside. When the follicles are destroyed, those small mud crabs will also be released. Although not as terrifying as mature mud crabs, small mud crabs can still cause a lot of casualties to survivors.

"How many months will it take for this calamity month to end?" Jiang Chen pondered.

"Generally speaking, it's the summer solstice." Chen Guangning replied.

Is it summer solstice?

It will be more than three months later, and the first batch of materials for the base of the space elevator is about to be delivered, and Jiang Chen does not want to wait that long. On the other hand, due to the influence of the Calamity Moon, the exploration of nuclear power plants will also have to be postponed.

He wanted to get those two things out of the way as soon as possible, if possible.

Frowning slightly, Jiang Chen asked again.

"For these mudcrabs...do you have any solution?"

Chen Guangning smiled helplessly.

"If I could have thought of a solution, I would have been the leader of these survivors." (To be continued.)