Chapter 152 Earthquake
"Director Li agreed to our plan. However, he requested that during the implementation process, a blockade must be implemented to prevent any risks, especially the risk of bacterial leakage."
At this moment, with the support of numerous data, the possibility of the leakage of fungi has been extremely low. But even so, people must be 100% cautious.
For this reason, the people of Operation Team Two had to add a lot of content to the follow-up plan, making it much more complicated and bloated.
These include but are not limited to relevant personnel performing tasks must wear protective clothing throughout the process, and the passage between the underground cave and the ground must be conducted inside the isolation room, etc.
A group of geological experts and blasting experts were transferred. After that, geological experts first determined the detailed structural map of this underground cave through various means, such as vibration detection, internal detection by robot dogs, etc., and collected geological structure data.
Afterwards, the engineering team entered the site. They directly aimed at some larger underground cavities, drilled holes directly from the ground into the underground caves, and constructed a passage. After that, a large amount of mixed garbage was transported directly from various garbage transfer stations and then dumped directly.
How much domestic waste does a city produce in a day?
In the past, Lu Ming had no idea about this. But now, he knows.
Yangyuan City is not that big, with a population of just over one million. It is considered a small to medium-sized city. But even in such a city, not counting industrial waste, but domestic waste alone, the average daily output is as high as 1,500 tons.
Assuming that one garbage truck transports ten tons, an average of 150 trucks are needed to transport this garbage every day.
The final destination of this waste is landfill. People will compress and simply process the garbage there and then bury it deeply.
This is a common method of garbage disposal around the world. Compared with waste incineration for power generation, waste recycling, etc., this method is the mainstream. But this method will obviously also bring about some environmental problems, such as contaminating soil, contaminating water sources, etc. What's more, landfills have limited capacity. When it is filled up, it has to find another place to occupy a large surface space again.
The landfill in Yangyuan City is almost full. Now, the demand for garbage from Binhai Building has objectively slowed down the landfill pressure in Yangyuan City.
As a result, all kinds of garbage that have accumulated in the garbage transfer center and have not been taken away for landfill now have a new destination. Garbage trucks lined up in a long line and went straight to the Binhai Building, then drove into the heavily guarded isolation workshop and dumped all kinds of garbage directly into the designated places. They were transported away and poured directly into the underground cave through the previously constructed pipes.
Tons of dirty garbage that makes people want to hold their noses involuntarily and don't even want to take a look, just want to leave quickly, are rolling down.
Lu Ming knew that among these dirty garbage, there were at least hundreds of thousands of microorganisms invisible to the naked eye, and their number was as high as hundreds of millions.
They regard this disgusting environment for humans as a paradise, and they live well in this garbage rich in nutrients. They can live a carefree life here and reproduce their offspring without any worries.
The struggle for survival is the instinct of every life. Microorganisms are no exception. But now, the second team of Operations has sealed the underground cave that has formed its own unique ecological environment for an unknown amount of time, and introduced brand-new survival competitors from the outside world.
At the moment when the garbage was rolling down, whether it was an illusion or something else, Lu Ming seemed to vaguely feel a little anger mixed with fear.
This was not his own emotion. He could vaguely feel the existence of another consciousness, which was extremely angry at this moment, and felt fear.
It's afraid.
Lu Ming shook his head and ignored this feeling.
A lot of garbage rolled down the Binhai Building for more than a day. A rough calculation shows that a total of more than 10,000 tons of domestic waste and more than 30,000 tons of construction waste were dumped in.
But this is not enough, far from it.
One ton of household waste, even before being compressed, occupies a space of at most three or four cubic meters, which is as large as the sky. Construction waste is relatively heavy. One ton usually occupies a space between 0.5 and 0.8 cubic meters.
This total of almost 50,000 tons of garbage only occupies about 50,000 cubic meters of space, which is equivalent to a room with a length of 100 meters, a width of 100 meters, and a height of only 5 meters.
The space inside that underground cave is far more than that. Although its cross-sectional area is not large, it is very deep and has a lot of space inside.
"Increase transportation capacity and continue to transport garbage."
In response, Zhang Dingshan immediately issued an order. But the person in charge of this task was troubled.
"Chief Zhang, Chief Lu, that... all the garbage in stock at the garbage transfer center has been transported. New garbage will only produce more than a thousand tons every day. There is really no garbage now. If we continue to do it, we will just It can recycle the landfilled garbage from the landfill.”
I am afraid that the residents of Yangyuan City will never imagine that the city will be short of garbage.
Before Zhang Dingshan could speak, Lu Ming said: "Then come out."
Landfilled garbage contains not only microorganisms from the human biosphere, but also a large number of microorganisms from nature. Logically speaking, this garbage should be more powerful.
Then a strange scene happened in Yangyuan City.
In the past, the garbage transport trucks going to the landfill were full, while the trucks leaving the landfill were empty. Now it's just the opposite, leaving drivers driving garbage trucks full of doubts.
But no matter what they do. Just drive a car and get the money for the trip. Even if people in the city eat the garbage, it's none of your business.
The arrival of many old garbage has once again ensured the garbage supply here.
Amid the constant landfilling, blasting experts are not idle either.
Based on the data previously detected by geological experts, blasting experts formulated a blasting plan specifically for this underground cave, and strived to achieve the greatest damage with the smallest amount of explosives.
This is a very difficult thing. Because there are too many things to consider when detonating something underground. The most obvious and direct point is that blasting experts must destroy the internal structure of the cave as much as possible without causing too much impact on the outside world.
There are several buildings around Binhai Building. If the bomb detonates and turns the surrounding buildings into dangerous buildings, it will be great fun.
In the end, several blasting experts argued over the geological structure map for more than two hours before deciding on the detonation plan.
According to experts, if detonated according to this plan, except for the nearest building complex, that is, the Marina Building and its ancillary buildings, the impact on the other buildings will be minimal.
It doesn't matter anymore. Anyway, after such a long period of hard work, the Binhai Building has long since become a veritable dangerous building. Even if it is not affected, it will eventually be demolished.
Explosives loading adopts two methods: external drilling and mechanical installation of robot dogs.
In the square in front of the Binhai Building, people drilled holes directly into the underground caves in the isolation houses, and directly installed explosives and detonators at predetermined locations. For places that cannot be reached by drilling, the robot dog is used to directly transport the explosives in, and then use a robotic arm to fix them in the corresponding position.
The large holes are filled with garbage, and the small holes are filled with bombs. The two are carried out simultaneously without delaying each other.
This took about five days in total, and more than 300,000 tons of various types of garbage were dumped into the underground cave.
Of course, compared to the overall volume of the underground cave, 300,000 tons of various types of garbage occupy only a small part of the space. But what Operation Team Two wants is not to fill it directly with garbage, but to let the garbage occupy as much surface space as possible.
By this standard, more than 300,000 tons of garbage is enough.
Then, now is the time to detonate the bomb and destroy the overall structure of the cave.
Zhang Dingshan set the final blasting time at noon.
Because at this time, personnel activities are the most complicated, and various noises and vibrations can cover up the noise caused by the explosion in the underground cave to the greatest extent, and avoid causing commotion as much as possible.
When the morning rush hour arrived and the warning area was filled with the sound of countless car horns, following Zhang Dingshan's order, the blasting expert pressed the detonation button hard.
There was a low, thunderous sound, accompanied by the slight shaking of the ground, and it disappeared in an instant. Afterwards, the flat and spacious square in front of the Marina Building suddenly deformed and then collapsed, as if in slow motion.
Previously, the cave structure that stably supported the existence of the earth's surface had been completely destroyed by bombs. Without support, the ground will naturally collapse.
Before the dust in the sky could rise, the sprayer sprayed water droplets all over the collapse area. After combining with the dust, their weight became heavier, and they had no choice but to fall down before they could float very high.
Outside the security zone, it's business as usual. Car horns are still honking and people are still walking in a hurry. Only a few people raised their heads and looked around in confusion, muttering in their hearts, "There was an earthquake?" After looking around, there was no reaction from others, and then they turned their attention away.
Shortly after, a piece of news was released quietly.
"The Earth Seismic Network determined that an earthquake with a magnitude of 1.6 occurred in Yangyuan City five minutes ago, with the epicenter located at XXX east longitude and XXX north latitude..."
The only people who were slightly confused about the shock just now, after seeing this news, they completely dispelled their doubts.
It's not just the surface that's collapsing. Underground where people cannot see, more collapses and topplings also occurred in that short moment.
What people want to destroy is not just the upper level of the underground cave. What is to be destroyed is its entirety.
A drone was controlled to take off and fly above the depression. When the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, Lu Ming saw in the aerial footage that the area that was originally the Binhai Building Plaza had now collapsed four to five meters deep, covering an area of thousands of square meters, and had turned into a big pit. .
The overall structure of this cave has been destroyed.
Of course, there are still many spaces and gaps inside this underground cave at this moment. At this time, it’s time to take the next step, and it’s time to take action on domestic sewage.
Based on the population of Yangyuan City, the average amount of domestic sewage produced every day is about 300,000 to 400,000 tons. The municipal pipe network extending in all directions collects sewage from various buildings and uniformly aggregates it to the sewage treatment plant for treatment.
Now, based on demand here at Marina Tower, the model is changing again.
The municipal staff directly broke a certain sewage pipe near Binhai Building. So, under the huge pressure, a lot of black and gray sewage with a strong smell flowed out continuously and flowed into the pre-packed sewage pipe. "Seepage well" and began to seep underground.
Perhaps there are many kinds of microorganisms that like this kind of sewage very much and can live very well in this kind of sewage. But Lu Ming knew that fungi were not included.
At this moment, in the underground cave, the sewage is flowing freely, and under the influence of gravity, it gathers towards the lowest point of the terrain. Moreover, in this process, they will not miss any place that the water flow can reach.
However, the places where the sewage flows through can be described as ghosts and gods making changes to the fungi.
This comes from the natural environment and has been refined through thousands of generations of evolution. It is the species with the strongest vitality and the best ability to adapt to this environment. In this environment, there is no existence that can compete with them for survival.
These days are the happiest days for workers at major sewage treatment plants in Yangyuan City. During this period of time, they were finally free from being bothered by the increasing amount of sewage. They did not have to race against time to repair equipment, and they did not have to be careful with their budgets. They could arrange work plans accurately to the minute for each step.
They were finally free to conduct a comprehensive overhaul of the equipment that had been delayed for a long time.
By the tenth day, a total of millions of tons of sewage had been poured into the underground cave. At this moment, the environment here is probably to the point where people will be poisoned to death as soon as they enter.
But it doesn't matter, no one cares. The only thing people care about is whether the fungus is dead or not.
After the three processes of explosive blasting, landfilling and sewage filling, it was finally time to accept the results.
The engineering team responsible for drilling arrived again. They wore full-body protective suits to protect against possible phobias and to prevent themselves from being infected by countless microorganisms. In order not to be fainted, they drove a long and thin pipe into the ground and took it out directly from the ground. specimen.