Chapter 64: The Arrival After 30 Years
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The plane gradually took off, climbed to the navigation altitude and headed northwest from the capital, crossed the majestic Taihang, and looked down from the porthole, and could still clearly see the spectacular scenery passing under the wings from a height of 30,000 feet.
This time I went to the northwest, Su Yichen felt the feeling of revisiting the old place. Back then, they also took this route, but the difference from now is that one is on the ground, but now it is in the sky.
More than 30 years ago, it took Su Yichen and Professor Wan Changchun to arrive at Yingtai for more than ten days, and now these journeys only take a few hours. The development of technology has brought great convenience to people. Sitting on the plane, Su Yichen can't help but think of those past events.
More than an hour later, someone told Su Yichen that they had arrived over the northwest region. The Yingtai that he had asked before was below. Su Yichen looked out the porthole again, trying to find out the specific location of the Yingtai. Unfortunately, the small Yingtai was just a small point on the ground at this time. He searched down from the high altitude with his naked eyes, but there was no possibility of discovering it.
Although Su Yichen withdrew his gaze from looking out, he quickly threw this matter away because the captain's notice sounded in the cabin that the plane was about to land at the airport. Please fasten your seat belt.
Su Yichen and his party were not on ordinary civil aviation aircraft, but on special planes specially arranged for them by the leader. However, compared with military aircraft, their special planes were configured with civil aviation aircraft, and this line was relatively comfortable. After the plane landed at the Northwest Airport, Su Yichen and his team had just got off the ladder, several officers who had been waiting at the airport came up.
"Who is Deputy Director Su?" A lieutenant colonel officer who led the lead quickly came to everyone and asked, his eyes swept to the older scientific researchers in the crowd at the same time.
"This is our Deputy Director Su." Gao Jian took the lead and reached out to point his hand at Su Yichen.
Perhaps Su Yichen's excessive youth surprised him, but his good psychological quality quickly made the officer come back to his senses and strode to Su Yichen.
After experiencing the first meeting with Hu Zhijun that year, Su Yichen handed the ID card that had been prepared long ago to the other party. The other party took it with both hands, turned around and handed the ID card to a captain behind him. The captain took the ID card into a portable special card reader and inserted it. As the machine lighted up, it indicated that the ID was valid.
"Hello, Deputy Director Su! Hu Gang, the commander of the first battalion of the Guard Regiment of the 863 Base, reported to you! On behalf of the 863 Base, I welcome the arrival of the expert group!"
After confirming Su Yichen's identity, Hu Gang handed over the ID card, and then raised his hand to salute. Seeing this scene, Su Yichen seemed to have returned to that moment in an instant. In the northwest, on the platform of Yingtai, Hu Zhijun, wearing PLA uniform, saluted and expressed his welcome to Professor Wan Changchun and himself.
Although the young officer in front of him was not the old Hu of the past, at this moment, Su Yichen trance overlapped their figures, almost exactly the same as the scene back then. Hu Zhijun seemed to still stand in front of him, and not far behind him was a young, handsome, shy, loyal, and loyal minority warrior Gudamai...
"Amir, come on!"
In memory, Lao Hu would turn around and wave to Gudamai with a smile and shout this sentence. However, memory is just memory after all. Su Yichen witnessed Gudamai's sacrifice with his own eyes. This shy and blushing minority warrior is no longer in this world.
"Deputy Director Su..."
He raised his hand to salute, and according to normal etiquette, Su Yichen should say hello to him or say something. But strangely, the young Deputy Director Su stared at him blankly, as if he had become dazed for a moment. He didn't know what the other party was thinking, but Hu Gang was a little confused for a moment, guessing whether Su Yichen was a little stunned, and couldn't help asking with concern.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Su Yichen, who came back to his senses, quickly reached out to Hu Gang and shook him hard: "I just thought of some past events. Thank you Comrade Hu Gang, thank you very much for picking us up on behalf of the base leader."
"This is what I should do." Hu Gang replied with a smile. As for the past mentioned in Su Yichen's words, Hu Gang did not ask, because as an officer in the guard force, he knew his responsibilities and boundaries very well.
During the brief conversation between Su Yichen and Hu Gang, everyone's ID cards were verified one by one, and there were a lot of people. The captain who completed the work nodded to Hu Gang and said that there was no problem with everything.
In order to ensure the confidentiality and security of the 863 plan, the entire base was not built in a convenient area, but in a valley more than 200 kilometers away from the airport. There was no direct access to the plane there, and there was only one road to the base. Su Yichen and his party got on the vehicle sent by Hu Gang to greet him and soon drove out of the airport. After more than an hour, the road ahead became more and more remote, and then they entered the mountain and passed through several checkpoints and tunnels guarded by troops. After about three hours of itinerary, they finally arrived at the 863 base.
Since receiving the news that Hu Gang came back from the airport in advance, the main person in charge of the 863 Base was already waiting. Su Yichen and his vehicles drove into the base gate and slowly stopped. Chen Yuan, the chief engineer of the 863 Plan, Dong Minghao, the base director, and Zhang Liming, the base guard regiment commander, came up.
Hu Gang was the first to get off the car, then Gao Jian got off, and then Su Yichen got off.
"Deputy Director Su, welcome you, but I'm looking forward to you."
The three main leaders of the base should have seen Su Yichen's photos in advance, so when Su Yichen's figure appeared in front of them, the three of them went over directly. Dong Minghao, as the base director, welcomed Su Yichen and his party to the arrival of everyone.
He shook hands with the three. Among the three, Dong Minghao, 56, was the oldest, followed by Chen Yuan, 51, and Zhang Liming, the commander of the guard regiment, was the youngest, but he was already in his early 40s. Due to the particularity and importance of the 863 plan, Zhang Liming was the commander of the guard regiment with the rank of colonel, which was enough to show the commander's extreme importance to the 863 plan.
After a few simple words, Su Yichen was not polite and asked them directly about the 863 plan and the current situation of the entire base. For these, the chief engineer Chen Yuan answered mainly, and the base director Dong Minghao and Zhang Liming supplemented them. The four of them walked and talked, while Hu Gang, Gao Jian and others followed.
From the gate to the base center building, Su Yichen roughly understood the current situation, and at the same time refused the entertainment arrangements they wanted to welcome him. Su Yichen said that he was here to work, not to be a guest. He wanted to see the experimental center that had been initially prepared for controllable thermonuclear fusion. Of course, Chen Yuan would not object to this point. Dong Minghao hesitated for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Controllable thermonuclear fusion reaction is very dangerous, and once a problem occurs, it may lead to unpredictable serious consequences. Therefore, this is also the reason why 863 plans to set up the base in this remote place. There are not many ground buildings on the base. Apart from the central building and annexes, the core part is all built deep underground or in the nearby mountain belly. Its most important controllable thermonuclear fusion laboratory is 500 meters underground. If you want to enter, you must pass more than a dozen guard measures in the central building to arrive smoothly.
"The construction progress of the entire base is really fast, the laboratories below are still perfect, right?" Under the leadership of the base leader, Su Yichen stepped into the central building and said with emotion.
Dong Minghao replied with a smile: "Actually, this is nothing. There are some reasons for choosing this place when 863 plans to choose a base. Deputy Director Su, maybe you don't know yet. It turns out that this place was an old national defense base, but it was abandoned for nearly 20 years for some reasons. However, the sealing situation was not bad at that time, so I used it after the on-site inspection. By the way, when it comes to this, we have some fate with your 781 Center, because the abandoned base was called 781 Base. Did you think this happened? "
Dong Minghao's words made Su Yichen stunned. He simply didn't believe his ears.
"This place used to be called Base 781?"
"That's right, why don't we say we are destined to do it?" Dong Minghao laughed.
Su Yichen looked back at the door with a complicated expression. At this moment, he felt mixed emotions.
Chapter completed!