bookrebus Chapter 782
Chapter 782
Including the children on the mother ship, there were probably more than 500 people.
Captain Chen actually wanted to distribute these children to various places on the mothership and the island to learn skills.
However, considering the suddenness and rapidity of natural disasters at sea, he gave up the idea.
But I was thinking in my heart that I could wait for a suitable opportunity and arrange a few teachers on the mothership to gather these children together for teaching. After all, when they grow up, they will be new forces!
But, his mind was not here right now, so he could only put it aside for the time being.
After finishing these trivial matters, Captain Chen immediately summoned the senior officers of the warship and held a secret meeting to discuss the upcoming "sea boiling" incident.
The atmosphere in the conference room was solemn. All the technicians and maintenance personnel on the warship were present, and everyone's face was filled with anxiety and worry.
Although the residents of the island did not know what exactly happened, they could feel the oppressive atmosphere and the air was filled with a tense feeling that a storm was about to come.
Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu had previously participated in handling the Xue Wuwen incident, so after several meetings, they had some understanding of the military's thinking.
The military plans to use this small island as a base to build an indestructible sea fortress and elevate people's living space.
However, how to implement it specifically is still unclear.
The sea temperature is rising, and if magma continues to erupt from time to time, it would be very unsafe for them to live on the mothership or the island.
Therefore, the military's plan is correct.
Elevate the living environment and use various infrastructure technologies to build an aerial fortress on the island that is more than ten or twenty meters high.
Keep all survivors away from dangerous sea levels.
However, the difficulty of implementing this idea can be imagined!
Zhou Shuwan frowned slightly. The giant machine in her space might come in handy, but how to take it out safely and how to use it effectively were huge challenges.
In the mothership's secret meeting room, Captain Chen said in a deep voice, "This 'Sea Boil' will be different from previous ones. According to intelligence, when the submarine volcano erupts, the temperature of the magma will soar to over 1,000 degrees Celsius, causing all the seawater to boil. No ship can withstand such scorching temperatures. Therefore, we must prepare for the future and build facilities that can withstand extreme heat. Lao Shang, how is your research going?"
In the past few days, Deputy Captain Shang and the technicians have been studying the high-temperature resistant metal extracted from under the oil field.
Deputy Captain Shang shook his head, his expression solemn. "We extracted enough high-temperature-resistant metal from beneath the oil fields, and it was high-temperature-resistant enough, but its strength was limited. It wasn't enough to handle the extreme situation you described."
To build an aerial fortress, the building materials required must be extremely hard, and ordinary metals cannot withstand such strength.
Captain Chen looked around at everyone: "So, what else do you have in mind?"
A team leader, a technician specializing in materials research, slowly spoke up, "Actually, we're currently trying to fuse the minerals we brought back from the hydrothermal vents with the metal beneath the oil fields to see if we can create a new alloy! We've researched those minerals, and they're both hard enough and heat-resistant!"
Captain Chen's eyes lit up: "If we can melt it into a new alloy, then we can start construction!"
"Yes!"
"it is good."
After many intensive tests, the new alloy was finally produced!
This alloy is called "boiling point alloy". It can not only withstand high temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius, but also withstand extreme cold of hundreds of degrees below zero. Its strength is ten times that of titanium alloy, but its weight is only 70% of that of titanium alloy. After high-temperature calcination, the damaged parts also have the ability to self-repair.
After listening to the technicians' introduction, Captain Chen showed a satisfied look on his face and said firmly, "Okay, we will immediately start mass production of 'Boiling Point Alloy' regardless of the cost."
At the same time, he also arranged for people to explore the geological structure of the island.
Not to mention that the military is preparing for the boiling sea disaster that will come later.
The Zhou family has been busy these days making cooked fish from fresh catches. If they are caught off guard at sea like before, they can use them directly as dry food.
In the days before, when there were outsiders around, they could only eat smoked fish chunks.
Smoked fish chunks are made by air-drying and are essentially still raw. Besides being eaten raw, they also taste salty and bitter.
But at that time it was a situation of escape, so I had no choice but to adapt.
So this time, with some free time, besides Mu Mu and Zhong Tiyun still going to work on the mothership as usual and taking care of Zhi Peng and the others, Zhou Shuwan, Zhou Jianghai, and Qi Mingyu cooked food at home.
Zhou Jianghai used the taro he harvested this year to exchange for a barrel of cooking oil on the warship.
Supplies are too scarce now, and people have very low requirements for food. As long as they don’t die from eating it, it doesn’t matter whether it goes bad or not.
This cooking oil is extracted from peanuts, rapeseed and other crops harvested in the warship's planting area and has no shelf life.
Moreover, this is also a light luxury product. Most survivors are reluctant to use such expensive cooking oil to cook food.
What's more, food cooked with oil, stir-fried or fried is delicious.
If the food tastes good, people will naturally eat more, which would be a waste of food.
Who has enough food to waste like this now?
So nowadays people don’t care much about cooking. They just cook the fish with plain water. If they smoke the fish, they don’t even need to sprinkle salt on it. It can be eaten directly out of the pot.
If you are not particular about it, you don’t even need to turn on the fire. You can just thaw the frozen fresh fish, cut a few slices, and eat it as sashimi.
It was dealt with in one meal.
The Zhou family was so extravagant as to use a whole barrel of oil to fry the fish. The aroma could be said to have spread for miles, causing countless survivors to secretly drool.
Even Captain Chen on the mother ship could smell the faint aroma of fish. He couldn't help but put down the documents in his hand and looked out the window: "Who is cooking? It smells so good!"
When I touched my stomach, I found it was growling with hunger.
The adjutant who had been accompanying him all the time smiled broadly and said, "Captain, you didn't have time to eat lunch, so you must be hungry. Why don't you take this opportunity to stop working and eat first?"
Captain Chen is a workaholic. Once he starts working, he devotes himself to it and often even forgets to eat.
He smiled and said, "Okay, let's see if the cafeteria has fried fish today. I'll have some too. It smells delicious!"
The adjutant had already eaten lunch, but the aroma of fried fish made him drool. He immediately saluted and smiled, "Yes! I'll go to the cafeteria right away."
In fact, although Captain Chen is the captain of an entire fleet, he has already issued orders since he arrived at sea:
From then on, there were no more privileges and no special meals. High-ranking officers on the warships ate from the same big pot as ordinary soldiers!