Chapter 277 Degeneration
"Dr. Yi, Vice President Tan Xin wants you to go there."
The sudden voice suddenly brought Dr. Yi back to his senses.
In front of the glass observation room on the third floor, Dr. Yi had been sitting on the ground for an unknown length of time. He moved his eyes away from the empty dormant chamber, slowly raised his head, and replied hoarsely:
"……I see."
"He asked you to hurry up...it's an emergency."
He stumbled up from the ground, managed to steady himself with the help of everyone, and walked out of the base.
At this moment, the Aurora Base has returned to its original order, except that the laboratory on the third floor has been completely scrapped. Dr. Yi returned to the surface, and a black vehicle had been waiting at the door for a long time.
At the same time, Dr. Yi couldn't help but shudder.
"It's so cold...has the surface temperature reached this point?"
The biting cold wind made Dr. Yi's brain clear for a moment. He realized that the temperature seemed to be unusually low. Then he seemed to realize something, frowned and looked in the direction outside the city wall.
Facts have proved that Tan Xin was indeed in a hurry this time. The speed of the vehicle had increased to the limit and it drove straight towards the headquarters.
In just ten minutes, Dr. Yi arrived at the door of Tan Xin's office and pushed in.
"You finally came."
Tan Xin's voice sounded. At this moment, he was standing by the window of the office, pouring a pot of boiling hot water over the frost-sealed glass. The white mist evaporated in just a few seconds before completely dissipating.
Taking advantage of this brief rise in temperature, Tan Xin used all his strength to close the window completely. Looking at the window that was sealed again the next moment, he let out a long sigh.
"...Hmm." Dr. Yi lowered his head and let out a dull sigh.
"I heard about the Aurora Base." Tan Xin turned around and said, "In your opinion, how much time is left in Aurora City?"
Dr. Yi was silent for a moment and then spoke slowly, "If Mr. Aurora is still sleeping, it will probably last less than forty days... But now that he is awake, various organs will age at an alarming rate. Specifically, there are How fast, I can’t predict...but it will definitely not be more than three days.”
"If we find him, is it possible to put him back to sleep?"
"No." Dr. Yi vetoed decisively, "Now we don't have the technology that existed more than three hundred years ago, and even if we did, with the speed of his body's function deterioration, it wouldn't be able to last more than a few days."
A hint of complexity flashed in Tan Xin's eyes. He tapped his knuckles on the table. After an unknown amount of time, he nodded.
"That's right. Even if he doesn't wake up today, Aurora City is just lingering on. Now that he wakes up early, it is a good thing. It will save him a lot of sleep at night."
"So, you agree to the leader's 'reappearance' plan?"
When Tan Xin heard this, she paused slightly. Instead of answering directly, she calmly asked:
"How many years has it been since you returned to the surface?"
"About fourteen or fifteen years."
"When you come up this time, do you feel anything is wrong?"
"Yes." Dr. Yi glanced at the window blocked by frost, "The temperature on the surface is too low... In my memory, Aurora City has never had such a temperature. It should be the weakening of the Aurora that caused the Forbidden Sea. Is it caused by the low temperature entering the city?”
"That's right."
Tan Xin pointed to the thermometer on the table, "The current outdoor temperature is close to minus 40 degrees, and it is still dropping at a rate of 1.5 degrees per hour..."
"Forty degrees below zero? This is enough to freeze someone to death." Dr. Yi frowned, "You must not walk around outdoors at this temperature. Otherwise, over time, people will die from hypothermia... Stay in a heated place The house should be fine."
"That's the problem. Aurora City's central heating system...has completely failed."
"What??" Dr. Yi's face was full of astonishment, "How could this happen?"
Tan Xin took a deep breath and slowly spit out four words:
“Science goes backwards.”
"Something failed again? What failed this time??"
Tan Xin opened the drawer and placed an item on the table. The moment he saw the thing, Dr. Yi was stunned.
"……Pump?"
"To be precise, it's a pump driven by electricity." Tan Xin pointed to the water pump on the table, her voice solemn, "Countless such things constitute our central heating system, responsible for the output of the boiler plants in each district. The hot water is pressurized to ensure that the hot water can reach every building in the district through the pipe network... But now, they have all failed.
Although the boiler plant can produce hot water normally, it does not have pressure as a driving force, and the range it can cover is extremely limited. About 70% of the entire Aurora City cannot be heated... In other words, their homes are connected to the outside world. The temperature is exactly the same..."
Dr. Yi swallowed and muttered to himself: "Pump...damn it...how could this happen..."
"Dr. Yi, you are the top scientific research talent in Aurora City. Do you have a way to repair it, or find another way to replace it?"
"Let me think about it... don't worry! Let me think about it!!"
Dr. Yi started scratching his head desperately with both hands, and started walking back and forth in the room, his eyes bloodshot with anxiety, "The working principle of the pump is quite simple, it just pressurizes the liquid through the screw or impeller... What's the problem? Where...yeah, what the hell is the problem?
Is it a problem with the electric drive? But obviously the elevator can be used, why can't it be used when it is moved to the pump? ? This is not scientific at all!
It's like this again... it's like this again! ! There is no fucking science in this shitty world! ! ! "
"Dr. Yi! Calm down!"
"Calm down... I can calm down... Let me think about it again... The main problem now is to pressurize the water flow. Even if there is no electric drive, it can be replaced by something else... For example, changing the pressure to gravity circulation, using high and low pressure The location is poor, allowing water to be transported by gravity... But Aurora City is basically a plain, and it is too late to temporarily raise it for construction... Then change the driving method? To human power? No... No, not at all. With so many people, it can produce enough pressure to cover Aurora City... The steam engine can still be used! We can replace all the pumps with steam!"
Dr. Yi slapped his hands heavily on the table, with a glimmer of light in his eyes.
"Give me an hour... No! Half an hour... Fifteen minutes!!" Dr. Yi said excitedly, "Give me fifteen minutes! I will draw the modified drawings of the water pumps right away! As long as their drivers are changed Way, it can be fixed!”
Tan Xin lowered her head and looked at the time, opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she couldn't say anything.
Dr. Yi had no time to wait for his reply, turned around and ran away. This was the first time he had run so fast in so many years...
Watching his leaving figure, Tan Xin sighed helplessly.