Chapter 51: The Abyss at the Bottom of the Lake
Jin Guoqiang looks like a serious and serious soldier who is serious and honest. In fact, he is essentially a young man who likes to chat, drink, and spank. After a few contacts, he hit it off with Lao Wang.
Everyone in this world has weaknesses. If a person who seems strong, he will also show his "warm" side if you touch the softest part of his heart.
The way Lao Wang and Jin Guoqiang communicated was to drink.
After drinking a few times, these two opponents who were originally disliked each other and had a very different status began to call each other brothers.
This young man who is obviously only in his thirties, but looks at least forty years old is not that difficult to date. He was influenced by Lao Wang and has changed his true nature several times.
Of course, Lao Wang is not much better, and he was carried back to the dormitory several times by Jin Guoqiang.
Lao Wang is such a honest person. When others say something to him, he told others about stealing the old hen in the neighbor's next door when he was a child.
Zi Yang had a poor alcohol content, so every time the two of them started to toast, he would avoid it from afar, even if he occasionally sat with him, he would just eat food next to him.
Lao Wang gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "My brother is amazing. He has achieved the rank of major at such a young age, and his future is promising."
Jin Guoqiang shook his head and smiled bitterly. Although military life was his dream when he was young, it was boring and single over time. After experiencing the experience of blood and fire, it was difficult to face life like a normal person.
He was recruited from college in his twenties. Because of his high level of education and his martial arts skills since childhood, he entered the special forces by mistake. He had a mistake in his vacation for more than ten years. In addition to his extremely confidential work, he trained, exercised, and had tasks all day long. In addition to work, he rarely communicated with the outside world. So he was in his thirties and was still single (virgin?).
Zi Yang understood why Lao Wang was so popular with Director Jin. This guy’s three-legged cat skills were not at the same level as the hidden elite of the Snow Leopard Commando. He must have boasted about the colorful world in college and his glorious experience of hooking up girls in front of Director Jin all day long, and he added more than ten times more to the fire, which made this person with a heart like a stone Buddha shake the foundation.
After half a month, I watched Lao Wang next door brag in front of Jin Guoqiang all day long. Jin Guoqiang was an excellent listener. No matter how Lao Wang brags, he will never change his face. He neither showed impatient nor liked it very much.
After half a month of training, Lao Wang has not made much progress in martial arts, but his drinking skills have increased rapidly. He used to go back to the dormitory every time, but now he can barely come back by himself by holding the wall.
Seeing that the school day was getting closer and Zi Yang was worried, the guards came to inform the two of them to attend the meeting.
The battle situation room was renovated from the previous factory director's conference room. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that there were more than a dozen people inside. There was a long and narrow wooden table in the middle, with more than a dozen chairs on both sides, and there were already people sitting. Professor Zhang was fiddling with the slides on one end of the table.
There were two rows of laptops in front of him. Jin Guoqiang was sitting in front of one laptop and fiddling with something. The other computer screens were facing Professor Zhang and the screen behind him.
Seeing the two of them coming in, Jin Guoqiang signaled slightly, and found a corner to stand.
Zi Yang and Lao Wang looked at the people in the conference room, in addition to the general and professors, as well as several experts they had met in Qinhan Village, there were many people who didn’t know, but they were all very stylish and looked not low-level. It was a huge benefit for two idle young people from society to be invited to attend such a meeting, probably because of the relationship between the professor and Jin Guoqiang. It was already a special treatment to have a place to stand.
Jin Guoqiang adjusted the computer and nodded to Professor Zhang. The professor gently touched his thin hair. The hard work of the past ten days and nights did not make him look tired, but he still looked clean, decent and energetic. This is different from the other experts with unshaven beards and undressed expressions.
The professor coughed lightly, "It's beginning. Everyone here should have read the previous war situation report. Now we are directly on the topic. The biggest suspicious point in the Qin and Han cases is the cause of death. I have done many speculations before, including biochemical attacks, radiation, terrorist attacks, etc., and the inspection results these days also show that the judgment is correct."
"The real cause of death of the corpse is carbon dioxide poisoning!"
At this time, a person on the laptop screen whispered, "Carbon dioxide poisoning?" It turned out that these laptops were connected remotely. I guess there were big people on the other side.
Professor Zhang nodded, "It's indeed incredible. Carbon dioxide is one of the main components in our air. There have been few cases of carbon dioxide deaths in the world before. Such large-scale collective poisoning deaths are unique."
A leader at the scene said, "If you want to cause death of this scale, then carbon dioxide should be more than 100 tons."
The professor nodded, "This tragedy in Qinhan Village is not just as simple as hundreds of tons, but a million tons, and it is a short time and high density impact."
Everyone who did not participate in the post-data research exclaimed. The participants on the scene began to whisper.
Professor Zhang continued, "It may not be appropriate to use the wording in this way - the Qinhan Village incident is an extremely accidental natural phenomenon with the right time, place, and people."
At this time, the professor turned on the remote control slide screen, and Professor Zhang said to a bird's-eye view of the mountaintop lake, "When I saw this mountaintop lake, I judged that it was a crater lake. Later, after being tested by colleagues from the Ministry of Geology, my judgment was proved to be correct."
"This crater lake has a history of hundreds of thousands of years. According to sonar detection, the deepest part of the lake bottom reaches hundreds of meters, with an average water depth of more than 50 meters." The professor demonstrated several pictures taken by deep water. Even with the assistance of strong light, the bottom of the lake still looks turbid and gray.
"According to the sampling and detection of the comrades ahead, although this is an extinct volcano, there are still strong veins in the depths of more than ten kilometers underground, and there are many cracks at the bottom of the lake that penetrate downwards - the strong reaction between this slurry and groundwater produces a large amount of carbon dioxide, which spreads through the gaps at the bottom of the lake to the water at the bottom of the lake."
Another person on the screen said, "Even if there is a large amount of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake, carbon dioxide is soluble in water and is extremely volatile. Under what conditions can it cause such concentrated and violent eruptions?"
Professor Zhang nodded, took a Coke from the table, shook it violently for a few times, and then opened the pull-up ring towards the uninhabited wall, and a strong stream of liquid ejected out.
Putting the cola back on the table, the professor took a towel and wiped his hands and continued, saying: "Under normal circumstances, carbon dioxide is soluble in water and will continue to evaporate, and rarely produces doses that are fatal to biological diseases. The cola and champagne we often drink dissolve a lot of carbon dioxide."
"But if the water depth reaches 50 meters or more, huge pressure will be generated at the bottom of the lake. According to our detection, the maximum pressure at the bottom of the lake is 20 to 30 times that of the water surface. This pressure gradually produces a balance. Once a certain external force is generated, just like opening a coke can just now, the pressure will explode instantly."
"We often see that when some champagne is opened, they use external force to gently push the bottle plug. The gas generated by internal pressure explodes enough to eject the cork from more than ten meters. If the pressure equivalent is expanded by tens of thousands of times, hundreds of thousands of times..."
The professor paused when he said this, and the people in the conference room looked at each other and were surprised by the theory.
"We estimate that the carbon dioxide equivalent contained in the depths of the Zeding Lake in Qinhan Village is millions or even tens of millions of tons."
As the professor introduced this, there was another commotion at the scene. Someone on the screen said: "Professor Zhang's explanation is eye-opening, but it is a bit too far-fetched. High concentrations of carbon dioxide can indeed produce huge tension, but it is in a closed state, and the entire mountain top lake is open. With the characteristics of the hot and cold cycle of the lake water, after the alternating cycle of day and night, the cold water at the bottom of the lake can easily bring the carbon dioxide up and evaporate - as for the storage of millions and tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake, it is too exaggerated."
Professor Zhang nodded slightly and said, "Theory is this, we thought so at the beginning, but we did not consider the special climate of Qinhan Village."
"Guide Jin retrieves the climate records recorded in the vicinity of Qinhan Village for more than ten years. After comparing the data, I found a strange phenomenon - the special geological structure of this place has kept the surrounding temperature above twenty degrees for more than ten years, and the temperature difference between day and night is extremely small, which makes the hot and cold cycles of the lake lose the conditions."
"If you boldly assume that since the formation of this mountaintop lake, for thousands or even tens of thousands or tens of thousands of years, high-density carbon dioxide has been stored under the lake, and over the years, a special layer structure has been formed, as clearly divided as rocks."
Professor Zhang took out a measuring cup in the shape of a funnel and poured several liquids of different densities and colors into it. You can see that they are divided into several obvious levels from top to bottom. Obviously, the bottom layer has the highest density. Everyone understands the professor's meaning without explanation.
"And Chen Ruixi, he decided to mention this name," the bundle of explosives thrown by several young people was the fuse that triggered the collapse of this layer structure."
"The explosives exploded at a suitable depth and at the right amount, causing the first gush, causing a chain reaction of the lake water, and quantitative change caused a qualitative change, just like tearing a hole at the bottom of the lake, and more dense carbon dioxide overflowed, which eventually led to a complete change of a geological wonder formed over thousands of years. They heard the muffled thunder at the bottom of the lake in the middle of the night, which should be the sound caused by structural collapse."
"There is another phenomenon that cannot be ignored. A few days before and after the accident, there was a rare daily and night temperature difference in Qinhan Village. According to the villagers, this is a situation that has not happened in decades. This also aggravates the cold and hot cycle of lake water."
"So this series of accidental coincidences superimposed together finally led to a large eruption of carbon dioxide at the bottom of the lake. Chen Ruixi and others witnessed this wonder that no one has discovered for thousands of years in the middle of the night. A large amount of carbon dioxide encountered wet and cold air and turned into tangible and quartz. Since carbon dioxide is heavier than air, it accumulates on the ground, just like the effect of a carbon dioxide dry ice machine on the stage."
"But the equivalent and density are in the order of millions of tons and tens of millions of tons. As the layer structure collapsed, a strange carbon dioxide torrent was eventually formed. The organisms at the foot of the mountain were instantly submerged by the torrent, and the oxygen content was reduced to the minimum. The organisms all died of suffocation due to hypoxia - the process that caused them to die might only be more than ten seconds."
"The vegetation from valley to peaks we see and the withering of trees is also caused by the super-density of carbon dioxide accumulated in a short period of time."
Professor Zhang used slides to demonstrate the vegetation and trees in the valley. In the high-definition pixels and wide-angle lenses, the withered yellow symbolizing death is even more shocking.
"The two bodies we found on the hillside were asphyxiation and death caused by carbon dioxide poisoning. The female body showed symptoms of cerebral hypoxia, and the cause of death was sudden death by sudden entry into a high-concentration carbon dioxide environment, causing a sudden death of reflex respiratory arrest. The male body should have paniced after seeing the female partner abnormally before his death, and fell down, causing a cervical fracture - but the direct cause of death was also carbon dioxide asphyxiation."
Zi Yang and Lao Wang looked at each other, and in this way, the demise of a large number of creatures at the foot of the mountain and the two corpses on the mountainside had a scientific and reasonable explanation.
"The next day, the sunlight rose, and the carbon dioxide evaporated rapidly. With the effect of mountain wind, the air density and composition gradually returned to normal."
There was silence in the conference room, and it was obvious that everyone was recalling the dead silence in Qinhan Village in their minds.
Professor Zhang played another photo of the mountain top lake: "The explosion of this scale will still leave obvious traces. The turbid orange lake water we see on the top of the mountain is caused by violent activity at the bottom of the lake, and the large amount of dead trees on the shore are also caused by the death of a large amount of high-density carbon dioxide in a short period of time."
After saying this, the professor sat aside, picked up the teacup on the table and sucked it gently. No one in the conference room spoke, only the clattering sound from the air pumping fan, and the electric current sound from the computer host and the slides flowed in the air.
After a while, a thick voice on the screen said, "Okay, thank you Professor Zhang and the staff for their hard work. It seems that this unsolved case can be concluded. The detailed data will be sorted out and reported after the meeting."
"There will be no one to leave the seat next. xxx, xxx, xxx, and xxx stay. Let's discuss the work later." The voice on the screen pointed a few names, and those who were not clicked left the seat one after another.
Lao Wang and Zi Yang walked out of the conference room and let out a long sigh, with thousands of words in their hearts, but they didn't know where to start.
For them, things have come to an end, but for those who stayed in the conference room, the problem has just begun.
Zi Yang also had a question in his mind, why did the professor of Qinhan Village’s unique gossip formation not mention it?
Chapter completed!