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Chapter 2042 Protective Clothing

After successfully acquiring this magical creature and deducing the technology from it, humans now have a protective film made of water. In this world, as long as the human body is immersed in water, it will Can survive in various harsh environments.

In this way, people wrapped in this thin film of water can go deep into the deep sea or into magma. The thin film made of water has the ability to withstand pressure to a certain extent. It can be used as a diving suit. After entering the water, it can allow people to endure water hundreds of meters deeper than normal. His bonuses alone have exceeded the physical limits of most people. It is conceivable that after wearing this layer of things, the range of human activities in the water has expanded countless times.

This also gives those factories that could originally only be built on the surface of water bodies the opportunity to continue to expand downwards.

With the development of industrialization, the types of human work in this era have also begun to be subdivided into each factory, and even the workers working in different workshops are carefully divided.

For example, all factories are layered, with levels close to the water surface and lower levels further down.

The lower the workers work at the lower levels, the higher their wages will be, because their working environment is worse. Humans are animals that live in the atmospheric environment, and if they live in water, every ten meters of water is equivalent to Withstand one more atmosphere of pressure. Before this layer of protection was developed, the government stipulated that the maximum depth of underwater buildings should not exceed thirty meters. For ordinary people, four atmospheres of pressure is already quite fatal. In such an environment, it is only possible to work for a short period of time and to survive in such an environment for a long time is to suffer from serious diseases.

Just like those workers who work in dusty factories all year round, or those who work in factories filled with heavy metals.

These occupational diseases are often fatal, and this era is not completely free of oppression. Many poor people choose to take risks and come to this kind of job for the sake of a high enough salary.

The danger of working in deep water is not only the harm caused by water pressure to the human body, but also other dangers. Not all factories are absolutely safe. Accidents underwater are common.

Especially when dealing with some liquid chemicals, these chemicals can easily spread throughout the factory once leaked in the water, which is more troublesome than a fire for workers in the factory.

When these toxic substances are underwater, they tend to spread out. Some of them are sticky and can even contaminate people. After they spread out, they will form a wall-like existence, blocking people's escape. The more such walls you pass through, the more chemicals you will be contaminated with, and the more difficult subsequent treatment will be. Sometimes it is possible to not escape at all and have been buried under the influence of chemical substances.

There are also leaks of some highly corrosive substances that may damage the supply pipelines inside the factory.

Workers have to work underwater, so they naturally have to breathe. But it would be too troublesome if each person carried an oxygen bottle, and the bubbles produced by exhaling from the oxygen bottle would also have a considerable impact on the work in the factory.

On the one hand, it blocks the line of sight. On the other hand, exhaling these bubbles from the mouth will cause the flow of water and interfere with the precise operations in the factory.

This is like the impact of airflow on machinery on the ground, and the impact of water flow underwater is even more serious.

For this reason, the method chosen in the factory to provide oxygen to workers is to transport it to the outside world through pipes. Allow workers to breathe through pipes to obtain air.

In order to ensure that the gas in the entire system is flowing, too much carbon dioxide will not accumulate due to long-term deposition, causing workers to suffocate. The air chamber is equipped with something similar to a range hood to ensure that the air inside is flowing with fresh air.

From this aspect, even for workers working at the lowest level, there is no big problem with respiratory air.

The real problem is that when they want to return to the ground, they don't pull a long tube, swim all the way to the surface of the water, and then take off the breathing machine. Instead, they take off the breathing machine first and then don't do it again. In the case of breathing equipment, swim to the water, and there are emergency breathing masks in the firefighting facilities on the way, but these will increase the additional cost of the factory, and not every factory owner has enough conscience to turn on these things.

Most of the time they have to hold their breath and swim from the deepest level all the way to the top. This is not difficult unless there is any danger.

Even for ordinary people, it is very easy to hold their breath for one minute. If you do not consider ordinary people, these people often perform such exercises underwater, and the time they hold their breath will be longer. These are enough in daily life. .

Even if the terrain of the factory is slightly more complicated, it is still enough to successfully return to the surface before the oxygen is used up.

The real problem is that once various disasters occur in the factory, people cannot stay calm. In this situation where they cannot stay calm, the time they can use in one breath is greatly reduced. , and they also have to consider bypassing hazardous chemicals or other dangers. On the way to the surface, if the breathing apparatus in the firefighting facilities is not activated, they will almost certainly die underwater. It is difficult to ensure that you can be calm enough to escape from a dangerous environment.

It's not that the factory isn't above using a long piece of tubing to allow workers to attach their respirators just enough to get into the ground. Even if these tubes are in the factory, it may be troublesome to untie them. The cost of the tube itself is actually limited. The real trouble is the breathing tube. If it is too long, exhaust gas will accumulate inside. This In itself, it will cause workers to have difficulty breathing. In that kind of hypoxic environment, the harm caused by work is much greater than the harm caused by holding a breath and floating up after the work is over.

Therefore, there is no such additional design in some state-owned factories or enterprises with strict requirements. There is a special escape respirator, which is connected to the main valve of the respirator. The difference is that it has an extremely long pipe through which you can breathe and move over a longer distance.

However, only regular factories can have such a configuration. Moreover, such a configuration is not 100% useful. When encountering some special circumstances, such as leaked chemicals that are highly corrosive, these pipelines will inevitably be contaminated with these chemicals, and in the process it is very likely that It will be corroded and damaged during the shuttle process. Therefore, even if you use these things to escape, you must be careful. Once you feel that the pressure during breathing is wrong, you must immediately throw away the breathing mask. This often means that the pipe is leaking. If you do not throw away the breathing mask If so, it is possible to inhale the toxic chemical liquid directly into the body in one sip.

This is the most dangerous situation when the body surface is contaminated with some of these dangerous chemicals. At most, the skin will be burned, and the goggles may leak, and the eyes may be blinded, but that’s it. But if you drink water into your body, If so, many substances that are not lethal outside the body will be fatal inside the body.

But now these troubles are gradually solved by new inventions. The newly born protective film is still relatively expensive for everyone, but this thing has quickly achieved industrial mass production. After wearing this layer of water film, the physical comfort is greatly enhanced, and at the same time, the water pressure of working underwater for a long time gradually makes people adapt.

In addition, the most important point is that after wearing this membrane, you can finally open your eyes directly in the water instead of wearing goggles.

In fact, most people can open their eyes in the water after training. However, because the refractive index in the water is different from that on the ground, most people will become severely myopic in the water.

A major function of goggles is also similar to glasses. When people are in the water, they can see things in the distance clearly.

Without goggles, although you can open your eyes in the water, it is extremely dangerous to keep your eyes in contact with the water for a long time. Originally, the water quality in this ocean was relatively clean. After all, there were not many microorganisms. , there is only a small amount of salt in the water, but with the construction of a large number of underwater factories and various projects used in water quality, this water area began to dissolve a large amount of metal ions. It itself is starting to become poisonous, which means the water here is not drinkable at all.

As for water pollution, people here are not too worried because they drink water from the ice, and the water obtained after melting the ice is guaranteed to be clean. As for worrying about using up the ice above their heads, this is even more unfounded. It is impossible for them to drink up all the ice so thick above their heads, not to mention that there is still a lot of ice under their feet.

As for how those polluted seawater should evolve? How can we regain clean water in a world where there are no ecosystems such as wetlands that can purify water? In fact, it is not difficult.

Factories will be allowed to discharge sewage directly. A major reason is that they discovered that after water freezes, a large number of impurities contained inside will gradually precipitate in the ice, and then melt and solidify repeatedly in the process. It will gradually exist in the water as some crystal cores.

According to their observations, there are actually densely packed crystals like this in the ice cap above their heads. Those crystals vary in size. The colors are colorful.

After extracting those crystals, you can find that they are various substances dissolved in water. During the freezing process, these substances have a sharp drop in solubility, so that they are absorbed from the water. The longer the ice surface is frozen, the The fewer magazines it contains. The greater the number of these crystals, the more pure water can be obtained by directly smashing the ice and picking out the crystals one by one.

As for this kind of purification, it does take a long time, but the most indispensable thing in the world is ice, and there is no shortage of ice that has existed for a long time. The efficiency of purifying water by a single ice cube may be very low, but if it is calculated If soldiers all over the world are engaged in this purification process, they will find that even if the hot spots of human pollution are magnified a hundred times, they will not have enough impact on the entire natural world to make any waves.

Therefore, the sewage from the factory is discharged directly, although the discharge will be considered to be farther away from the living point. But it has had a certain impact on the environment in the factory for a long time. Opening your eyes directly here will cause irreversible damage over a long period of time. Many early workers were unwilling to wear goggles in pursuit of accuracy, which eventually led to complete blindness.

But now, with this layer of water film, we can finally throw away the goggles completely. The water in this layer of water film can prevent convection with the outside world. And the concentration can be adjusted to the concentration that is just right for your eyes. You won't feel any discomfort after opening your eyes. During this process, it feels like the eyes are wrapped in eyelids and immersed in liquid. Even if you maintain this state for a long time, you don't need to blink.

The environment of living underwater and living on land are getting closer and closer. This is the sigh that all human beings in this civilization can't help but sigh.

After this layer of water film covers their eyes, it not only protects their eyes, but also relies on the difference in concentration and refractive index between itself and the outside liquid. To build it into a mirror-like appearance.

It can replace the previous goggles to adjust the refractive index of light underwater, so that all humans who are originally short-sighted underwater can use it. You can see clearly in this underwater environment, and objects in the distance can also see parts close at hand.

This is perhaps the biggest change this equipment has made to the current human industrial system.

It is originally difficult to see clearly underwater, and even if you rely on goggles, water mist may appear if you wear them for a long time. This had a considerable impact on industrial production. At that time, if you wanted to manufacture parts of sufficient standard underwater, a large part of it had to rely on the master's touch and craftsmanship. This is especially true for the most cutting-edge products.

But now his vision can be restored in the water and he becomes extremely agile. This dependence on hand feel has also been greatly reduced. When making some top-notch precision machinery, the yield rate of a piece that was originally a pitfall will inevitably increase rapidly under the stimulation of new things.

But the things that really changed the world, humans are still behind. After symbiotically with humans, this set of underwear made of water gradually became a part of human life, and also became an important organ for humans in this world to carry extraordinary power. .

[To be continued]

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