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Chapter 473: Groundwater

"Little...girl, then how did you come out?" Wu Qianru continued to tentatively ask.

"Ah, I don't know. I slept for a while and was already in the dark after waking up. I kept digging, digging, and digging holes for a long time before I reached the ground." The little girl turned her head and thought for a while and said.

The two were secretly shocked when they heard it. Although the little girl expressed some of the words that were not expressive, it was still not difficult to see what she had experienced when the disaster occurred.

After a sleep, she was probably seriously injured by the aftermath of the antimatter bomb and fell into a coma. When she woke up, she was underground. There was no doubt that her body was buried when the magma was cooled down.

If everything is true, then her seemingly delicate body obviously has incredible power. However, whether it is the other party’s innocent expression or the scene buried in the ice before, it clearly shows that the other party is not lying.

But no matter what, I can't bear to let such a little girl be in the snow and ice.

Although there may be hidden dangers to bring her to Hope City, the other party's strength is still within their understanding, but it is still more than that of Luo Yuan, who eliminated all the aliens in the publicity.

The two looked at each other, as if they understood it. It would be better to leave such a small monster to a big monster like Luo Yuan for a headache.

...

Soon, the little girl decided to follow them back to Hope City without any warning.

The three of them chatted while walking, and gradually more and more information was revealed from the little girl.

She has no name or parents, and there is no identity information except a number that cannot be seen. Similarly, the brothers and sisters she mentioned are the same as hers. They are a group of superpowered children who live in the laboratory every day and carry out unified education and training.

After a little thought, Lin Feiyan already had some definite guess in her mind, and the other party should be a clone.

She was not surprised. The end of the world was undoubtedly a crazy era. When the standard of good and evil for ordinary people rose to the height of racial survival, it was not so much about good and evil. She had also vaguely heard about experiments that were crazier and more evil than clones. She even vaguely heard about some laboratories that studied the human body, which had a death index every month.

But she was too far away from all this, and this was the first time she had seen a real clone.

From the little girl, she didn't hear any darkness. She didn't have the expected medicine, no injections, and no slices. She just had stricter military management.

"By the way, how old are you?" Lin Feiyan asked curiously at this time.

The little girl turned her head and thought for a while: "Auntie, it may be nine months and twenty days! I slept too long during that period underground, maybe I would have to add a few more days."

"Are you less than one year old?" Lin Feiyan couldn't help but pause when she heard it, and almost forgot to walk. She looked at the other person's body, which was obviously five or six years old. It was hard to imagine that the other person was less than one year old. Moreover, in the conversation with the two before, the little girl was eloquent and clear in logic. Even a five or six-year-old child could be called a little adult.

A normal human child just learned to speak when he was one year old!

Is this still a human?

Wu Qianru was also a little startled and looked disbelief.

"I'm a fast-growing group, and most of my younger brothers and sisters grow slowly." As if I noticed the surprised expressions of the two, the little girl lowered her head and said with a hint.

"Are other people as smart as you?" Lin Feiyan asked.

"No, some people are very stupid, such as the younger brother with the number A51621, who only knows how to play every day and does not do the homework assigned by the teacher. As a result, I haven't even finished elementary school. I've already finished junior high school and started to learn high school courses." The girl raised her chin slightly and said proudly.

"Then... you are so awesome!" Lin Feiyan, a poor student, was speechless and didn't know what to say. Then, she turned around and asked, "By the way, what do you eat every day after you stayed outside for so long?"

"I haven't eaten for several months. Sometimes I feel thirsty and want to eat ice cubes. The ice cubes are too dirty, but I can't help but feel thirsty, and finally I bite them and swallow them. I'm so pitiful!" The little girl said, as if she thought of the wronged, and her mouth sags and tears fell down.

The two women felt pity and quickly comforted her. Seeing that she had not eaten for several months, she was shocked and simply left without rushing to leave, put down her backpack and prepared to start a meal.

...

Mayor, this is the result of a geological survey underground in Hope City. "An engineer handed Luo Yuan a stack of documents tremblingly.

Luo Yuan had no expression on his face, took the drawings, quickly turned over a few pages, suppressed his efforts, and said in a deep voice: "This is your report, how could it be so serious!"

The officials behind him and the leaders of the tap water factory were so scared that their faces turned pale, their hearts were pounding, and they didn't dare to breathe.

It’s not his fault this time:

"It was not until something went wrong that started geological research. What's the use of raising you people?" Luo Yuan walked back and forth, his face gloomy.

Hope City relies on groundwater for both drinking water and domestic water. However, the geological structure diagram shows that from two perspectives, this underground river located more than 300 meters deep underground is already on the verge of exhaustion, and the original location of the underground river has formed a huge hole.

According to estimates, the city will be cut off in a maximum of five days.

But this was not what made him most angry. What was angering was that before that, everyone did not conduct research and detection of the groundwater at all. Until today, a collapse suddenly occurred in the bottom floor of the dungeon, and the problem was finally exposed.

If there is no collapse, I may not be able to do so, and I hope there will be a major riot in the city.

Looking at the relevant person in charge whose face turned pale by his breath, Luo Yuan took a deep breath and his heart gradually calmed down. If he really said that, he couldn't blame all these people. At that time, he had transferred all the scientific researchers and most of the technicians of human beings to the spacecraft, resulting in a serious lack of talent for tap water beds. In addition, his subjective attention to Hope City has laid hidden dangers for everything today.

"Tell me the reason?" Luo Yuan walked to the collapsed place and said lightly.

"We ignored the impact of ice on groundwater. The existence of ground ice hinders the water circulation, causing precipitation to fail to penetrate deep into the ground to replenish the amount of groundwater." The factory head explained with sweating.

Luo Yuan had no expression on his face and could not see any emotion at all, which made the factory manager even more frightened.

In fact, the problem of water is second. The biggest problem now is how to solve the impact of underground voids on the entire dungeon.

This floor was originally idle, but after the disaster, it was transformed into an agricultural area. As the bottom floor of the underground building, the reliability of the foundation determines the stability of the entire dungeon. Once it is unstable here, the entire dungeon may collapse.

Although the landslide area is not large, only a few hundred square meters, which has not had much impact on the stability of the overall structure of the dungeon, its appearance is already a sign that the void has been formed and the structure has been destroyed. Even if water is not continued to be pumped, it cannot be guaranteed that it will not continue to collapse.

Perhaps a small earthquake can crush the last straw of the camel and trigger a chain reaction.

"How much water is stored in the factory?" Luo Yuan asked.

"It is available for three days normally." The factory manager quickly replied.

After hearing this, Luo Yuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Stop pumping from now on!"

"Yes!" Hearing the mayor's meaning, he was still responsible for this matter, and the factory manager immediately said as if he was amnesty.

"Also I want to ask, how do you plan to solve this underground hole?" Luo Yuan asked.

"Infused mixed soil, or drilled into a large amount of pile foundation!" a civil engineer suggested.

Secretary Cheng Guanghui reminded next to him: "Mayor, the cement inventory is not much, it is estimated that it is less than a hundred tons!"

Luo Yuan also knew about this. In order to cope with the frequent earthquakes after the disaster and strengthen the dungeon, I hope the city has built a lot of load-bearing columns. The inventory of cement is consumed like a flood discharge, and there is almost no more left.

In fact, it is not just cement, but other types of reserve resources have been almost consumed. If Luo Yuan had already found a way out, human civilization would probably have to stay in the city of hope, and then slowly wither under internal and external difficulties.

"If there is no cement, water can be done, and the existence of water can greatly support the geological structure."

Luo Yuan nodded. The reason why the collapse is now is the reason for the depletion of the underground river. Replenishing it with water is also a way, but this matter cannot be solved in a short time. He looked at his watch and said to Cheng Guanghui: "Notify the leaders of all cities to have a meeting at 4 pm!"

"Okay, mayor, I'll leave first!" Cheng Guanghui said respectfully. It's already past three o'clock now, and time is already in a hurry. He wants to return to the office as soon as possible and call the city leaders one by one. The strong electromagnetic pulse caused by the anti-matter bomb explosion caused most of the communication equipment to be damaged. What can still be used now are some old and easy-to-repair landline phones.

Luo Yuan nodded and continued to inspect the water plant. Seeing the huge water storage pools in the factory area, his face improved slightly.

Although after the nuclear winter, water resources become extremely abundant, the thickness of the ice layer above the surface has reached dozens of meters. If it is fully transformed into water, it will be enough to form a vast ocean.

However, it is quite difficult to mine these ice cubes. First of all, it is extremely hard. Under this extreme cold, steel will become extremely brittle. Ordinary metal tools are useless and time-consuming. Secondly, even if the ice is mined, it cannot be directly drunk. One-third of the mass of the ice cubes is solid impurities, and there are also a large amount of electrolytes dissolved in water. They must undergo a series of complex physical and chemical treatments.

And these undoubtedly take time.
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