The Spring Festival of 2018 happened to be one day after Valentine's Day. Jiang Chen returned to the apocalypse on Valentine's Day on February 14th. After spending a wonderful Valentine's Day with Sun Jiao, he spent the Spring Festival and Lunar New Year's Eve with the girls and the subordinates of the Fishbone base.
On the 17th, the second day of the Lunar New Year, the agreed time with the Beluga Station arrived. Jiang Chen took the airship carrying supplies to Yizhou Island. This time, Lin Lin also went with him. He heard that there was a deuterium refinery in Taipei and a small nuclear fusion power station with a high degree of preservation.
Because of the long-distance power transmission and the helium-3 mining base on the Moon, the nuclear fusion power stations on Earth were basically transferred to the Moon before the war. Some of the larger nuclear power plants were also baptized by nuclear strikes during the war. It was almost impossible to find an intact nuclear fusion power station on this wasteland.
Therefore, when Jiang Chen heard that there was such a nuclear power plant on Yizhou Island, he immediately became interested. In particular, the supporting deuterium refinery. Although using deuterium as nuclear fuel was not as environmentally friendly as helium-3, now was not the time to be picky.
For the Sixth Street, which had crystals as an energy source, nuclear power plants did not seem to be particularly attractive. However, for the modern world, especially Xin, which relied on imports for energy, nuclear fusion power stations would have extraordinary value.
Especially Penglai City, which was about to open.
If cold fusion technology could be used, the 100,000 acres of power generation seaweed project that was originally scheduled to be added in the nearby waters could be directly canceled. The 12 large ocean current generators and 150 wind turbines could also be canceled. Not only that, but it could also reduce the cost of electricity to a terrifying level.
Of course, this technology could be used secretly. It would be better to wait until the space elevator was built before making it public.
There were only a few nuclear experts in Wanghai. Only Lin Lin knew Jiang Chen's secret, so he took her with him. The work in the Garden of Eden was also nearing its end. After the last project was completed in the spring, the Garden of Eden, which took more than a year, could be declared complete.
The purpose of Jiang Chen's trip was to transport the base of the space elevator, recover nuclear technology, and solve the small problems encountered by the expeditionary force.
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It had been a month since the expeditionary force landed.
When Jiang Chen arrived at Yizhou Island, Captain Li Wang immediately arranged a clean and comfortable room for him. He presented the intelligence and mission logs collected over the past month to him and handed over temporary command.
Immediately after landing, Li Wang sent expeditionary soldiers to explore Taipei and its suburbs. He built a simple cement fortress and lighthouse on the sea cliff at the northern end of Yizhou Island, as well as an elevator for airships to dock.
Compared to the war-torn inland, although Yizhou Island also suffered traces of war, it was not as tragic as Wanghai. Most of the high-rise buildings in the city were still intact, and the radiation that permeated the island was mostly from the radiation dust that blew over from Southeast Asia.
However, there was one thing about this place that was not much different from the land, and that was the deformed plants, as well as the disgusting mutants and zombies.
Vines and withered branches covered the skyscrapers, and the cracked roads were riddled with craters. A wolf-like creature with a sharp mouth and sharp claws hid in the shadows. The expeditionary army soldiers called them "ghouls". Any creature that was attacked by it would not even leave a skeleton behind.
However, this was not the most terrifying thing.
Although these ghouls were terrifying, two bullets were enough to kill them. However, in the face of the Mud Crabs, whose carapace was as thick as steel, and whose speed was unstoppable, rifles did not give people a sense of security.
In particular, these Mud Crabs moved in groups, which was a nightmare.
And the trouble that these expeditionary forces encountered was related to these Mud Crabs …
The next day, the patrol team on the island went out as usual and returned to the camp before dark.
Unlike usual, this time they also brought back a local.
The guards searched his back, took his homemade pistol and crossbow for safekeeping, and then brought him to Jiang Chen.
It was still snowing on the wasteland in February. Even on Yizhou Island, which was further south, traces of snow could be seen. The man was wearing an old grey jacket, and his body was stained with mud. His skin was tanned, and his head was shaved. He looked like an honest farmer, but the pair of small eyes that looked around exposed his shrewdness.
"What is your name?" Jiang Chen looked at the man.
"My name is Chen Guangning. I do business in Taipei and the coastal area of Minnan. If you need a guide, I will definitely be the most suitable person. "Chen Guangning smiled and said respectfully.
Other locals may not have heard of the name NAC, but as a businessman who often traveled to Minnan, he had heard of the name that rose in Wanghai. In two years, they swept through the major forces in Wanghai with thunderous force and took over the entire Wanghai and even the survivor settlements in Suhang Province under their own rule.
And the man in front of him was the leader of NAC.
If he could establish a connection with NAC, it would definitely be of great benefit to his business. So when the NAC expeditionary force came to the Taipei survivor settlement to look for people, and the other survivors expressed their distrust, he volunteered to go to the expeditionary force's fortress without hesitation.
Jiang Chen smiled and asked directly.
"I will consider your proposal. Before that, I have a question to ask you. "
"Please ask," Chen Guangning said respectfully.
"Tell me the details of the Month of Disaster." Jiang Chen asked the question he was most concerned about.
The so-called Month of Disaster was the local name for the Mud Crabs. However, the NAC expeditionary force knew very little about this disaster that lasted for several months. The locals rejected this outsider who suddenly broke into their homeland. Although the two sides lived in harmony and occasionally traded supplies, the dialogue remained limited.
Chen Guangning immediately replied when he heard Jiang Chen's question.
"Every March, the Mud Crabs lurking in the shallow water will come ashore from the northeast coast of Yizhou Island to lay eggs. Usually, at this time, Taipei survivors will hide in the bomb shelter in the center of Taipei and wait until the Mud Crabs leave. The practice in other areas of Yizhou Island is the same. The number of Mud Crabs is really not something that can be fought by humans, so it is called the Month of Disaster. "
As the strongest scavengers, these Mud Crabs especially liked places where survivors had lived. Every time they came, it was like locusts passing through, leaving behind a large pile of sticky follicles in the survivor's settlement area.
It was very dangerous to clean up these follicles. If one was not careful, small Mud Crabs might have successfully hatched inside. Destroying the follicles would also release the small Mud Crabs. Although not as terrifying as mature Mud Crabs, the small Mud Crabs could still cause considerable casualties to survivors.
"How many months does the Month of Disaster take to end?" Jiang Chen pondered.
"Generally speaking, it's Summer Solstice," Chen Guangning replied.
Summer Solstice?
That would be more than three months later. The first batch of materials for the space elevator base was about to be delivered, and Jiang Chen did not want to wait that long. On the other hand, due to the impact of the Month of Disaster, the exploration of the nuclear power plant would have to be delayed.
If possible, he wanted to solve these two problems as soon as possible.
With a slight frown, Jiang Chen asked again.
"For these Mud Crabs … do you have any solutions?"
Chen Guangning smiled helplessly.
"If I could think of a solution, I would have been the leader of these survivors."
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