Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 1626: Can anti-aircraft guns create artificial rainfall?
When Li Yu was discussing with his second uncle and third uncle whether to continue to increase the population limit entering the trading market, the food issue was mentioned.

At this time in the northern border, Lao Xie, Xie Weishan and others were also worried about the bumper grain harvest.

The night is dark.

Because the accumulated clouds in the sky were too thick, they blocked the moonlight.

Above the earth, it was dark, without a trace of moonlight.

I can't see my fingers.

north.

Inner city underground warehouse.

Xie Weishan looked at the mountains of food and felt a little anxious.

The main crops grown in the north are potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and wheat. Half of them have been harvested in the past few days, and nearly 10,000 tons of grain are stored here.

The warehouse is already half full.

"Thank you, Captain. When will the transport team come to the North? It's not a good idea to keep the food here. We still have half of the crops to harvest!"

"It's not easy to preserve so much food. If we can't eat it for the time being, we should quickly process it."

Old Xie rubbed his brows and said:
"I've already urged them. The transport team is on their way from the headquarters base to Oil City. They will probably arrive in Oil City tomorrow."

"After Xiao Hu and his men have rested, they will bring the oil to our side. It will probably take two or three days."

"Four days, maybe. They will be able to reach us in four days."

"Four days?"

Xie Weishan nodded, "How much can they transport?"

Old Xie thought for a moment and replied, "At least a few thousand tons should be no problem. We should be able to transport half of the grain in this warehouse."

Xie Weishan curled his lips and said, "It's only a few thousand tons. In a few days, there will be a few thousand tons of grain harvested from the greenhouse."

"Relying solely on vehicle transportation is too inefficient. It would be great if train traffic could be restored."

"train?"

Old Xie raised his eyebrows, feeling that Xie Weishan’s suggestion was interesting.

Although many railway tracks have been damaged by natural disasters, they should still be usable after being repaired.

If the train can be restored, its transport capacity will definitely be huge.

but
He also thought that on the way from the North Border to the trading market and the large camphor tree base, there must be some tunnels. Such places often have many zombies gathering, which is not very safe.

After thinking for a while, he couldn't come up with a solution to facing the horde of zombies through the tunnel.

"That's a good suggestion you made. I'll mention it to headquarters when the time comes."

"it is good."

"Let's go. I never thought that in this year of drought at the end of the world, we would be troubled by too much food."

Xie Weishan was amused. "There's a saying, 'If there's drought, there's drought, and if there's flood, there's flood, and ...

"Come on, let's go get some of that old man Yuan Zhi's collection of wine. I haven't been sleeping well lately. Drinking something will help me fall asleep more easily." Old Xie patted Xie Weishan on the shoulder.

The two men put their arms around each other's shoulders and walked towards the bar on the eighth floor of the City Lord's Building.

The city lord is not in the North, and the bar is open.

They don't have that much pressure.

Old Xie is in charge of the military forces in the north, and Xie Weishan is in charge of grain planting.

Old Xie’s real name is Xie Shangzhou. He joined the Dazhangshu base later than Xie Weishan.

Before the end of the world, Xie Weishan was an out-and-out farmer. Later, in order to make a living, he went to work on a construction site and worked in the construction team contracted by Ding Jiu.

After the apocalypse broke out, he followed Ding Jiu to the big camphor tree base and specialized in construction work.

After working for three or four years, due to a shortage of manpower in greenhouse cultivation, he was transferred to work in the greenhouse.

He is a compound talent.

It can be used to build greenhouses and grow crops.

In the north, he had several agricultural students helping to manage the crops. Even during the months of thunderstorms, there were no problems building greenhouses and planting crops at the same time.

Wu City Military Base.

Ah cut!

Xiao Hu rubbed his nose, raised his head and cursed suspiciously:
"Who is this idiot scolding me again?"

He sat down on the bed, ticked his toes, then ticked his nostrils, and finally ticked his anus, and put it to his nose and sniffed.

Only after he smelled the strong stench did he lie down contentedly.

The whole series of moves made the teammates sleeping on the opposite side feel a little sick.

"Captain, do we have a holiday this month?" asked Chang Ze, who was sleeping diagonally opposite.

"Vacation? What, you want a vacation?" Xiao Hu asked while lying down.

Chang Ze said a little embarrassedly: "I think my wife will give birth at the end of this month."

"Oh? You're going to have a baby? Of course, congratulations, Old Chang is going to be a father!" Xiao Hu sat up and looked at Chang Ze in surprise.

Wang Chunqi, who slept in the same row as Chang Ze, also said with a smile:

"Sure, Lao Chang, you be the father, and I will be your son's godfather!"

"Is it possible?"

Chang Ze smiled and nodded and said, "Okay, but I don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet."

Xiao Hu asked: "The medical conditions at the headquarters base are very good, why don't they test the gender of the baby?"

Chang Ze shook his head and said, "Although the base has the conditions to test, there are regulations that prohibit testing."

"Oh." Xiao Hu thought about it and realized that the headquarters might be worried that everyone wanted a boy instead of a girl, so they didn't allow testing.

"You can take a vacation, and I will help you adjust your shifts when the time comes." Xiao Hu said to Chang Ze.

"Thank you, Captain." Chang Ze thanked excitedly.

asked again.

"Captain, are we going to do the same thing this time as before? We'll go to Oil City first, then to the North, then back to Oil City, and then to the headquarters base."

"yes."

Xiao Hu said helplessly: "Captain Xie from the northern border has urged me many times. They have a bumper grain harvest, and we have to transport the grain to Oil City. I heard that many survivors have come to Oil City recently."

As he was talking, Xiao Hu yawned and felt sleepy.

"Go to bed early, we have to travel early tomorrow morning!"

Wang Chunze turned off the lights, and the whole dormitory became dark in an instant.

A basement dormitory opposite.

In the girls' dormitory.

Zuo Ruxue, Concubine Guifei, Li Qi and Bugu lived in one room.

"Aqi, this time I brought you 2 tons of food from the headquarters base, which should be enough for you to eat for half a year. Is there a shortage of water resources here?" Zuo Ruxue asked Li Qi while sitting cross-legged on the bed.

Li Qi shook her head. "Water resources are no problem. There is abundant groundwater here. We only have a few dozen people, so it is more than enough."

She looked at the Imperial Concubine and Zuo Ruxue, and said with emotion:

"Sometimes I envy you guys for being able to travel around. You can see the North Territory, the Camphor Tree Base, and the Oil City Trading Market. I heard that the commercial area of ​​the trading market is very lively."

“It’s a pity I didn’t have a chance to watch it”

"It's so boring to be stationed in this dark military base every day."

Zuo Ruxue smiled and shook her head and said:

"You're still saying that. Xiao Hu and I were all here during those months of the thunderstorm!"

"It's been half a year, but you've only been here for four months. What's more, you've set up patrol posts outside and can go out more often. You're much luckier than we were back then."

"During the previous thunderstorm, we didn't even dare to open the door. The water was rising everywhere outside, and the walls of the underground base were also leaking. We were terrified when we saw this."

"Besides, you have so many books and entertainment facilities here now. It's much more comfortable than we were back then."

After hearing this, Li Qi didn't know what to say for a moment.

Before she and Song Qi came to Wu City Military Base, Xiao Hu and Zuo Ruxue were stationed here.

Li Qi estimated that in two months, a new group of people would be stationed here. The imperial concubine lay on the bed, listening to the two people talking without saying a word, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Bugu looked at the beautiful face of the imperial concubine and said suddenly, "Sister Imperial Concubine, you are so beautiful."

The imperial concubine woke up from her daze and said a little embarrassedly: "Well, I also envy your broad mind."

"It's a burden, and my center of gravity is unstable when I'm shooting."

"Sister Concubine, what were you thinking about just now?"

The imperial concubine hesitated and said:

"I was thinking, there is such a thick layer of accumulated clouds in the sky, but it just doesn't rain. This is too unscientific. What happened to cause this situation?"

Cuckoo scratched his head and said in confusion:

"I don't know either. Anyway, I'll listen to Sister Li. Why should I think so much? If there is any situation, the headquarters base will definitely notify us."

The imperial concubine looked at Cuckoo's breasts and then at her head.

He smiled and said, "Very good."

The lights were turned off and people went to sleep.

While they were sleeping, Song Qi was still leading the team on night shift.

Although the Wu City Military Base is relatively hidden, it is far away from the headquarters base and the Oil City, so the necessary duty work still needs to be done.

The next day.

It was slightly dawning, and although there was light, the sky was gloomy.

Slightly cloudy.

The sunlight was blocked by thick clouds.

Big camphor tree base.

Song Zhihong, who was in charge of the natural disaster department, found his second uncle excitedly.

"President, regarding the artificial rainfall I mentioned to you earlier, the person in charge of the arsenal has produced the rain-inducing bombs!"

"We can now test the use of rain-inducing bombs to solve the current cloud compression problem."

"Oh? So fast?" Uncle Er was a little surprised.

Song Zhihong explained:

"The production of rain-inducing bombs is not that complicated. They are just filled with silver iodide powder."

"The whole principle is: use anti-aircraft guns to fire shells filled with silver iodide powder into the sky and explode. The silver iodide powder becomes ice nuclei, absorbs water vapor in the clouds, and after a series of reactions, forms raindrops and falls."

"Of course, if the rain bombs don't work, we can also use another method, which is to spray dry ice."

"By spraying dry ice from helicopters, the temperature of clouds can be lowered, causing water vapor to condense into water droplets or ice crystals, thus achieving the purpose of artificial rainfall."

"Yeah." In response to his long speech, my second uncle only replied with a "hmm".

Then he said, "Okay, tell Zhou Ran, I'll have someone prepare the anti-aircraft guns."

"okay."

Second Uncle contacted Dongtai, the captain on duty who was in charge of the wall protection at the time, and asked him to prepare the anti-aircraft gun.

At the same time, Li Yu, uncle and others were contacted to come and observe this rain-inducing experiment.

After half an hour.

Li Haoran's voice came from the loudspeaker at the Camphor Tree Base.

"An announcement: In ten minutes, we will be testing artificial rainfall with rain-inducing bombs over the headquarters base. Please remember to take shelter from the rain and be prepared."

On the outer city wall, there stood a row of people.

Li Yu, Song Min, He Chao, second uncle, eldest uncle, second uncle, Xiao Jun, Lao Bi, Yang Zhongshi, Bai Jie, Ma Di, Song Zhihong, Zong Jing, Lao Dong and hundreds of others were present.

Song Zhihong from the Natural Disaster Research Institute sent people to place some instruments with scales and testing equipment on the wall.

Specifically check the effect of this artificial rainfall.

Experimental rain-inducing bomb can drop how many milliliters of precipitation per unit area.

Song Zhihong trotted over to Li Yu and reported:

"City Lord, this rain-inducing bomb has four steps to produce rainfall."

“The first step is to fire artillery shells: we use anti-aircraft guns to fire special rain-inducing bombs into the sky.

In the second step, the explosion releases the silver iodide.

The third step is that water vapor condenses into raindrops: water vapor condenses around the ice nucleus, forming raindrops that are heavy enough to drop.

The fourth step is the raindrops falling: eventually forming rainfall.”

Li Yu was a little speechless. Every time he was going to do something, he had to explain it in such detail. He only looked at the results, and everything was result-oriented.

"Let's start quickly."

As the commander of this artificial rain-making operation, it was the first time for Song Zhihong to do such a large-scale work.

His face looked a little excited.

He picked up the intercom and contacted the East Station, "The anti-aircraft guns are ready to fire rain-inducing bombs."

These rain-inducing bombs are all made in the arsenal at the Dazhangshu base.

Today, the arsenal at the Dazhangshu base has four bullet production lines and one small-caliber artillery production line.

The production line for making guns is still under preparation, but gun repair is possible.

After Dongtai received the message from Song Zhihong, he immediately issued an order.

"Refill the rain bomb."

"Five-round salvo!"

"emission!"

dong dong dong dong!
40 anti-aircraft guns fired rain-inducing bombs into the sky.

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo——

The anti-aircraft guns can fire at a height of several thousand meters. The rain-inducing bombs started from the wall of the large camphor tree base, breaking through the layers of clouds, and exploded after reaching a certain height.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The specially made rain-inducing bomb exploded, releasing silver iodide powder at the moment of explosion.

Silver iodide powder becomes an ice nucleus in the cloud layer, absorbing water vapor in the cloud layer. Water vapor condenses around the ice nucleus, and the raindrops gradually become larger and heavier.

After the rain-inducing bomb is launched, it takes time for it to take effect.

After watching the anti-aircraft guns fire rain-inducing bombs, Li Yu on the ground asked, "How long will it take for it to rain?"

Song Zhihong answered: "Generally speaking, one hour."

"One hour?"

"Damn it, you should have said it earlier."

After hearing this number, Li Yu took a stool out of the duty room and sat down to wait for the rain to stop.

The people working on the construction sites in the outer city stopped their work.

I ran under the eaves to shelter from the rain, but since the loud noise I heard when the anti-aircraft guns were fired, the clouds in the sky have been silent.

"What's going on? It's been ten minutes, why hasn't it rained yet?"

"Yeah, it won't be useless."

"I think so too. If artificial rainfall was so easy, would we still need to build a water plant?"

Sergeant Luo looked at the sky and said:

"Stop whining. It will take at least an hour for the anti-aircraft guns to fire rain-inducing bombs. Why are you in such a hurry? Besides, artificial rainfall also has its disadvantages. If it rains, zombies will appear."

"I don't believe it. It won't rain when the clouds are so thick. We can't judge it by common sense." Le Ziqing said with a sneer.

"Just wait and see. What will happen if you lose?" Sergeant Luo looked at Le Ziqing.

"Ten push-ups?" Le Ziqing replied.

Sergeant Luo said with some disdain: "If it rains, you can massage my shoulders and feet for me."

"Forget it, I won't bet anymore. Your feet are too sore and smelly, and I don't want to die." When Le Ziqing heard the bet, he refused with disgust on his face.

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