Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

Things were indeed as Chen Xin expected. They marched all the way to the three towns, and both inspections and defenses became tighter.

The first checkpoint was set up at the toll station of the road in the past. Although the Yan Kingdom has already cancelled the toll collection of ordinary national and provincial roads, these toll stations built in those years have not been completely demolished, and now they just come in handy.

Compared with the checkpoint in Xianning, the inspection here is obviously much more rigorous. It is not the ordinary inspectors who come up to check, but the police. Even Chen Xin accidentally saw a dog wrapped in a thick padded jacket for dogs. police dog.

This is the only living animal that Chen Xin has seen in the past six months, apart from mealworms, fish and mice.

Although I don't usually like pets like cats and dogs, but seeing this police dog, Chen Xin suddenly had the urge to play a dog.

However, police dogs are police dogs in the end, and they did not act coquettishly and cutely. As soon as they got into Chen Xin's car, they began to sniff everywhere, searching for any suspicious dangerous objects or contraband.

However, Chen Xin's car was very clean, and the only problem might be the pistol on Zhang Chengguang's body.

But the space agency brand is really easy to use. Although the police who got into the car to check are very strict, but after knowing that they are from the space agency, they still behave very politely, and even take the initiative to ask them if they need help.

Chen Xin and Zhang Chengguang had already discussed it before, so naturally they declined the help of the police.

After they checked the vehicle, Chen Xin drove the car to the three towns.

In fact, in terms of administrative divisions, they have already entered the scope of the three towns, but they are still in the outer suburbs of the three towns, and have not entered the urban area.

As the only super-large city in the central part of the Yan Kingdom, Sanzhen is also the central city in the central part of the Yan Kingdom, and the area under its jurisdiction is naturally very vast.

In fact, even the name Three Towns comes from the combination of three important towns in the central urban area of ​​the city.

These three important towns themselves are geographical divisions formed by the division of the Yangtze River and the Han River. In the past, they were always three cities. It was not until the establishment of the Yan Kingdom that the administrative divisions of the three cities were aggregated together with the development of the times. It became the three towns it is today.

Because of the developed water and land transportation, the city has been known as the "Nine Provinces Link" since ancient times.

At the same time, the three towns are also the headquarters of the joint logistics support force of the Yan Kingdom, the core city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the strategic fulcrum of the rise of the central region, and the comprehensive innovation and reform pilot area.

It can be said that it is precisely because there is a city like three towns in the central region that the Yan Kingdom can still maintain the state's ability to control the central region after the doomsday disaster, and ensure the material supply and logistical support of the central provinces and cities.

And all of this has undoubtedly made the three towns different from other regional cities.

Compared with the city where Chen Xin is located, the roads in the three towns are obviously much busier. Vehicles can be seen flashing on the streets from time to time. The snow on the roads has also been cleaned to a certain extent. The checkpoint, if it weren't for the dark sky, the ruined city on the ground, and the occasional crater, Chen Xin really thought that this was just three towns in winter.

But obviously, whether it is a stricter inspection or a dark city, it all proves that this is after the end.

However, the atmosphere here in the three towns is obviously different, or the city is more dynamic and alive.

Although the city where Chen Xin is located is also trying to recover from the disaster, the atmosphere in the city is closer to a feeling of struggling to survive in the apocalypse.

But the three towns are different. Although what you see in front of you when approaching the city from the suburbs is still ruins and snow, the closer you get to the city, the more you can feel the vitality emanating from the city.

Some buildings that are obviously under construction, vehicles coming and going on the road, and even the scattered lights on the roadside, all no longer indicate that the city is reborn from the ashes.

Perhaps this is the difference between a big city and a small city. After all, this is the most important city in the central part of the Yan Kingdom, and it is not uncommon for it to start rebuilding here.

Just looking at the buildings under construction by the roadside, Chen Xin's expression was a little weird.

Zhang Yao noticed his change and asked curiously, "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"No, I just think it's too early to start rebuilding the city now?" Chen Xin raised his finger and pointed to the ruins of a building that was obviously smashed by a meteorite outside the car window, and said to Zhang Yao, "You guys came down from the sky. Yes, it should be very clear that there are still a lot of meteorite debris in the sky, and now we start to rebuild the city, what if there are still stones falling?"

Hearing Chen Xin say this, Zhang Yao remembered the collisions he suffered when he got down from space in the return capsule, and couldn't help but nodded slightly in agreement.

However, although he agrees with Chen Xin's opinion, on the other hand, it is not impossible for him to understand why the three towns are now starting post-disaster reconstruction: "But it is not difficult to understand that the post-disaster reconstruction is started now, after all, meteorites fall. It's a matter of probability, and it's impossible to suspend post-disaster reconstruction work because of a certain degree of danger, right?

It may take a little risk to start post-disaster reconstruction now, but compared to the overall delay in progress and the delay in the production of various materials, this risk is still bearable. After all, most of the meteorites that can fall now are small pieces of meteorite fragments. Scrap, a lot of it burns out before it hits the ground, and the volume that can fall down is not too big, just smash a hole and fill it up. "

Zhang Yao's remarks made Chen Xin speechless, but he had to admit that Zhang Yao was right.

People have a chance of choking to death when they eat and drink water, but I have never seen anyone who does not eat or drink water because of this. In this apocalyptic environment, it is possible to resume production earlier, whether it is for the country or for ordinary people, it is a matter of good thing.

After all, the disaster caused by the meteorite impact caused serious damage to the original industrial system. The chemical factories around the city where Chen Xin lived were basically destroyed, and the entire city only had a little industry preserved in the underground factory area. production capacity.

This is true for a city, and even more so for a country. Although the country will retain some industrial production capacity and restore some production underground, it is obviously unable to meet the needs of the whole country.

This is just like what happened to the oxygen generator in the official shelter before. If it was placed before the disaster, how could there be such a thing as insufficient equipment?

With the industrial production capacity before the Yan Kingdom disaster, under the circumstance of intervention at the national level, let alone meeting domestic use needs, there is even room for export to foreign countries to receive foreign trade orders.

Therefore, resuming production should also be the first thing that the top executives of the Yan Kingdom need to consider.

As for the possible losses, it is obvious that a trade-off must be made at such a time.

When Chen Xin was thinking about this problem, they had gradually entered the urban area of ​​Sanzhen, and there were fewer cars on the road. It seemed that it was still the same as before the disaster, and large trucks were not allowed to enter the city.

And relatively, although the city is also carrying out the work of cleaning up debris, there are not as many construction sites outside the urban area.

It seems that the three towns have cleaned up the outskirts of the city first, restored industrial production first, and then considered the reconstruction work inside the city.

Entering the city from the suburbs, Chen Xin and the others encountered a new checkpoint. This time the inspection was more detailed, and even the entire car needed a scanner to scan the body of the car.

And under this meticulous scan, Chen Xin's car was inevitably stopped.

"Hello comrade, we need to check your car. There is a place on your car that cannot be scanned. Can you open it for us to take a look?" The person at the checkpoint asked Chen Xin directly after getting into the car.

Chen Xin understood what the other party was talking about as soon as he heard it, but he was a little hesitant to open it for the other party to see, because the other party was talking about the power source of this car, which is where the three isotope thermoelectric batteries were installed.

Because the isotope thermoelectric battery generates heat energy through the radiation released by the decay of isotopes, for safety reasons, both the three batteries themselves and the installation slots in which the batteries are installed are made of metallic lead.

This not only blocks the radiation, but also blocks the scanner from working.

However, seeing Chen Xin hesitate, the people at the checkpoint were obviously nervous, thinking that there was something shameful on Chen Xin's new car.

Not only the inspectors who got on the bus, but even the staff at the checkpoint on the side came out with guns, and dropped the roadblocks at the checkpoint, obviously to prevent possible emergencies.

This made Zhang Chengguang and the others on the side nervous, and quickly looked at Chen Xin and asked him if he needed their help. After all, if they showed their identities, they could help Chen Xin cover up in the name of the space agency.

Chen Xin signaled the three of them to be calm and at the same time said to the inspectors: "Comrade, we belong to the space agency, and some things on this car are secrets of the space agency. It's not impossible for you to see it, but it must be kept secret, and You can check with two people at most, do you think it's okay?"

Hearing what Chen Xin said, and the clothes of the three astronauts next to him were indeed printed with the words of Yan Guo Aerospace, the inspectors agreed to Chen Xin's request after discussing it.

When Chen Xin saw this, he brought two inspectors to the cab and opened a cover of the connecting part between the cab and the living cabin, exposing the three batteries installed inside.

"It should be this part that you can't scan out. This part of the structure is made of lead. The three above are isotope thermoelectric batteries, which are used for power generation. Because there is a certain amount of radiation, they are sealed with lead." Chen After Xin signaled that the two inspectors had seen it, the cover was closed again.

After the inspectors read it, they didn't find any problems, so they didn't say anything more. Under Chen Xin's instructions, they agreed to keep it secret, and then got out of the car.

It was just that when the inspectors got off the car, the three astronauts looked at Chen Xin with a strange look.

Zhang Chengguang couldn't help but ask Chen Xin, "Chen Xin, who are you? Isotope thermoelectric batteries are not something ordinary people can get!"

I was hesitant to write about exposing the battery. The appearance of astronauts is to allow Chen Xin to connect with higher levels, and to make higher levels pay attention to the protagonist, there must be something at hand, isotope temperature difference. There are also batteries in reality, but the technology is obviously not as good as the protagonist's, and there is also research on the technology of small nuclear reactors, so this will not attract too much scrutiny, and it is just available. If everyone thinks there is something wrong, Suggestions are welcome, but if you feel that everything should be hidden and tucked away, the country does not want to be the protagonist.