Chapter 172 Level 1 Hotspot

Continuous mountains, towering into the clouds. Between the mountains, a river flows. The rolling river water surges down, making a sound like thousands of horses galloping, making people unconsciously feel their own insignificance and the greatness of nature.

On average, about two thousand cubic meters of water flows through here every second. On an average day, up to 170 million cubic meters of water flow through here.

170 million cubic meters is a mass of 170 million tons.

And this big river has been flowing like this day and night for who knows how many years.

It was still a sunny day. Although the weather is cold, the sunshine is very nice. Under the blue sky and white clouds, under the sunshine, the river is rushing and the mountains are undulating. Even a novice can easily take pictures here that are comparable to landscape paintings.

Originally, this day would have been as ordinary as the countless years that had passed. But at noon, when the sun rose to its highest point, a dull thunderous sound broke the peace here.

But at this moment, the sun was high in the sky, there were only a few white clouds, and there was no sign of the weather getting worse.

A small stone suddenly fell off the cliff and fell into the raging river, causing a small splash and disappearing in the blink of an eye.

As if sending some signal, after this small stone, more stones fell down, crashing like rain.

A large stone, which was as tall as a person and weighed at least several tons, also fell off the cliff and hit the water heavily, causing a splash of more than ten meters.

Because it is too heavy, even if the river is strong, it cannot be washed away. It just sank to the bottom of the river.

The dull thunder-like sound continued, making people feel terrified unconsciously. In a daze, the mountains seemed to be collapsing and the earth seemed to be shaking. The tall mountain peaks suddenly became shorter, and countless rocks rushed to be the first, like a race, and crashed into the river.

The sky collapsed, the earth collapsed, the earth shook, and the earth shook.

Although the human world has paid attention to the risk and possibility of large-scale landslides in Qinan Mountain, people still did not expect that this thing would happen so quickly.

Accurately predicting the occurrence time of landslides is still something that is temporarily impossible for the human world.

There are so many factors involved.

Being able to provide early warning of ambiguity is already remarkable enough.

Millions and tens of millions of rocks and stones poured into the river, completely blocking it. The raging river is still rushing, carrying with it the power of a thousand troops charging. But this force stopped instantly in front of the defense line composed of countless rocks.

In front of the river, without subsequent water support, the water level dropped rapidly, and in the end the river bed was even exposed. There is only some water in some depressions, but they are not connected, like small lakes.

Behind the river, the raging river water kept coming, unable to break through the obstruction, so it could only raise the water surface. The rising water level has flooded many places that were previously inaccessible, and many disconnected places are also connected by the rising water level. As a result, the water surface expanded more and more. Compared with the previous river channel, its area expanded at least ten times, and it was still expanding rapidly.

At this moment it no longer looks like a river, but like a lake.

This is a barrier lake.

On average, every day that passes, the water in this barrier lake will increase by 170 million cubic meters. This accumulation continues until the water is strong enough to push away the rocks blocking the river in front.

Once the rock collapses, floods measuring hundreds of millions of cubic meters will roll down, destroying everything that dares to stand in the way.

Lu Ming once saw a research report on ancient geology.

In this report, geological experts explain why a mountain peak takes on a strange shape. Their research concluded that tens of millions of years ago, there once existed a lake surrounded by mountains and formed here. The amount of water in this lake is about one cubic kilometer, or about one billion cubic meters.

But one day, the mountain that served as the shore of the lake collapsed for unknown reasons. As a result, more than one billion cubic meters of water surged down, directly washing away several mountain peaks, leaving only their remains. This gave a very strange appearance to geology.

Even the mountains can be washed away, let alone the cities built by humans.

The water volume of that mountain lake is only on the order of a billion cubic meters. However, the barrier lake formed at this moment has an average water volume of 170 million cubic meters per day, and it will only take six days for the water volume to exceed one billion.

The huge destructive power it portends makes everyone feel heavy.

When all this happened, seismic wave detectors deployed around the world had already detected the vibrations coming from here. The geological exploration satellite in space also clearly captured this scene.

Less than ten minutes after the incident, the relevant departments received the news, and Lu Ming also received the news.

At this moment, this matter has not even reached the Internet.

But Lu Ming knew in his heart that once this matter spreads to the Internet, the news would instantly ignite public opinion, and I am afraid that it would break through the standard line of three-level hotspots he had set before in a very short time.

This is almost inevitable.

It is even possible to become a second-level, or even first-level, special hotspot!

So……

The large-scale landslide in Qinan Mountain blocked the Qinan River and formed a barrier lake, which made up for the last shortcoming in becoming a qualified "prophecy".

There is no room for human intervention in this prophecy. It completely evolves and occurs naturally under the premise of high degree of randomness. Human power has no way to intervene, nor can it predict in advance.

Only such things can prove the validity of prophecy.

If the secret organization really predicted this matter in advance and told the experts in the fields of water conservancy and geology, then at this moment, for those experts, the prophecy has come true.

Lu Ming slightly informed Zhang Dingshan and others about this matter.

Facing such a natural disaster, Lu Ming was unable to participate. Only a world government can organize enough power. However, it is still impossible to completely eliminate disasters. All that can be done is to resist and reduce disasters.

This is not within the scope of Lu Ming's work, nor is it something that Operations Team 2 should pay attention to. At this moment, Lu Ming only focused on one thing.

Now that the prophecy has finally come true, what will those experts in the fields of geology and water conservancy who are included in the list and highly suspect do?

At this moment, He Wei was still in the command hall, paying close attention to every move of a total of 159 people.

The psychological model unique to each person, supported by the constant stream of information sent back from the front line, continues to operate, analyzing every behavior of each person.

Because it is impossible to be absolutely precise, behavioral changes with lower confidence are ignored. Only behaviors that are obvious enough and have a high enough confidence level that violate past behavior patterns will be given an early warning.

Among these 159 people, on average, each person will receive about one or two early warnings a day.

This frequency is completely normal and belongs to normal people.

but……

At this moment the prophecy has been fulfilled.

If someone among them really received the prophecy in advance, then at the moment when the prophecy comes true, after suffering such a huge psychological impact, no matter how determined and decisive the person is, no matter how strong their psychological quality is, they will not be able to show any signs of failure. come out.

Once manifested, behavioral patterns change. Correspondingly, the number of warnings will increase.

Under He Wei's gaze, in the histogram, a total of seven senior intellectuals located in different places around the world, belonging to various subdivisions, such as flood control, hydropower, or dams, represented them. The histogram of the number of warnings triggered slowly rises faster than others.

The one with the most triggered warnings up to six times in one day!

This is somewhat unusual.

He Wei took a look and saw that the expert's name was Wen Yuhe.

She kept the name in mind.

At this moment, He Wei and the special team were still standing still. They were still observing silently under the premise of hiding themselves, and not taking any actions that might disturb or interfere with the target.

So, He Wei saw that among the 159 people on the list, more than a dozen people were transferred to the flood relief headquarters. Among them, Wen Yuhe, who is the most suspected at this stage, is also on the list.

The investigation team's eyes are always following them. Of course, we have not relaxed our vigilance towards the rest of the people.

Time is still passing quietly. As time goes by, the results presented in the histogram become more and more obvious.

In the past three days, the number of times most people have triggered warnings is still within the normal range. Only seven experts, headed by Wen Yuhe, triggered warnings more than 12 times.

This is higher than the number of warnings triggered by Xiang Dacheng, who made the mistake in the first place.

This is already very telling. Even if not, it can at least prove some tendency.

Frankly speaking, He Wei already had enough motivation to arrest him at this moment. In fact, during the regular meeting of Action Team 2, the four people had discussed this issue for a period of time.

However, the result of the discussion was to continue to remain on hold.

Because generally speaking, such secretive organizations usually act very carefully. Often these people are not given too many secrets before they are actually brought into the organization. That is to say, once our side captures it at this moment, except for the limited information about the contact between the two parties and the transmission of prophecies, there may be no information about the secret organization.

However, after learning this lesson, even if that secret organization continues to absorb high-level intellectuals from the human world in the future, its methods will definitely become more covert. It will be even more difficult for our side to catch them.

This time is the best chance, or even the only chance, to capture members from that secret organization.

It's better to use these seven people as bait to lure the people from the secret organization out.

In this process, the only thing that needs to be considered is whether it will make a difference. The fish ate the bait, and then the fish ran away, leaving nothing behind.

Regarding this, He Wei expressed sufficient confidence.

So, keep waiting.

During this process, the issue of the blocking of the Qinan River to form a barrier lake aroused public opinion on the Internet as expected. Its level has even reached the level of a first-level hot spot, which can barely be called the attention of the whole people. Its popularity is only slightly lower than that of a celebrity who is known for his affectionate character and actually cheated on his wife.

At the same time, reports continued to circulate about the progress of the flood relief efforts.

Because the geology of the landslide site is still not stable enough, personnel cannot arrive at the site and can only send drones to detect it. Experts concluded that the conditions for detonating the dam are not met at this moment.

Obviously, before the amount of river water in this barrier lake is enough, the best solution is to directly detonate the dam body and clear it, allowing the river water to continue to drain along the river channel.

But now, due to the haste of the incident, too much time spent on organizing manpower and material resources, and preliminary surveys, the amount of water in the barrier lake is already too much.

Detonating the dam at this moment will still trigger a powerful flood.

The best way is to wait a little longer. After the dam body and the on-site geology are completely stabilized, artificial methods will be used to reinforce part of the dam body. Then, under controlled conditions, a hole for flood discharge will be deliberately opened to slowly reduce the water volume of the barrier lake. When it is low enough, it will be cleared in one fell swoop. Dam body, in this way, losses can be minimized.

Of course, in order to prevent accidents, the Qinan City on the lower reaches of the Qinan River still needs to make complete preparations. Those who should be evacuated should be evacuated, and those who should raise and strengthen the dikes should be raised and strengthened.

At least tens of thousands of people participated in this flood relief operation, and at least millions of people's lives were affected by this incident.

At this moment, with the progress of the incident, most of the 156 people in the list of people in the hands of the second operation team have been released from surveillance. Only these seven people who are obviously different from ordinary people are still under strict surveillance.

Recently, the number of warnings triggered by these seven people has gradually decreased to the level of normal people, and they seem to be no different from normal people. But He Wei understood that this was just because these seven people had digested the impact of the fulfillment of the prophecy and completed their own psychological construction.

Now that you have accepted this matter, you will naturally behave like ordinary people.

Flood relief projects are still ongoing. On the ninth day after the incident, the embankment reinforcement was completed and the spillway was successfully opened.

The rolling river surges downwards, releasing water downstream faster than the water source can replenish it. As a result, the water level of the barrier lake has entered a downward process. The most dangerous moment of this incident has passed.

Wen Yuhe ended his work and left the headquarters. The other six people should have decided their future paths in the past few days.

If we really want to break away from the human world, then...

It’s time to execute.

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