However, after thinking about it for a long time, Jiang Chen didn't understand what "just in case" meant.
Was it to leave a spark for the Third Reich, or for something else?
And this fortress was only a blueprint. Whether the Fuehrer sent people to Antarctica and built the Doomsday Fortress according to the instructions of the Remnants of the Void was still unknown. And from the location of this map, the fortress seemed to be buried in the snowstorm all year round. Whether people could survive in such a place was also an unsolved mystery.
Should I go to Antarctica?
The idea suddenly popped into Jiang Chen's mind and expanded uncontrollably.
The fallout shelter couldn't control the direction of the war. At most, it provided a grave for the losers. No matter how he thought about it, it didn't make sense to do so. However, the Remnants of the Void would not insert a piece of useless information into this piece of information for no reason. They must have their reasons for doing so …
But what could it be?
…
The next day, Jiang Chen, who had enjoyed his time in Penglai, returned to Coro Island with Ayesha and Xia Shiyu.
Because of work, Natasha flew back to Moscow the day before the charity gala. So on the return flight, only the three of them were on it.
When Xia Shiyu returned to the island, the first thing she did was to go home to put down her luggage, and the second thing she did was to go to Future Building. After a week without entering the office door, the work accumulated must be as high as a hill. Although her assistant could help her deal with some of the documents, many issues involving the direction of the group's operations must be decided by her as the backbone.
Jiang Chen returned to the mansion with Ayesha. After a short rest, he also began to get busy.
On the one hand, he was preparing for the trip to Antarctica. On the other hand, he was also planning to build an undersea tunnel to connect the nine islands of Pannu into a whole. In this way, people didn't need to travel by car or boat at the same time. They could directly drive to any corner of Xin.
If you want to be rich, you must first build a road. This was an unchanging truth. If there was such an undersea tunnel that could connect the nine islands of Pannu Islands into a whole, it would have a huge impact on the economy of the entire country.
Disregarding everything else, once the tunnel was completed, the demand for vehicles in Xin would definitely increase to another level.
That being said, building this tunnel was not an easy task.
There are many ways to build undersea tunnels. There are mainly four representative methods, such as the drilling and blasting method in Qingdao, Xiamen and other places, the immersion pipe method in Hong Kong, the tunneling machine method in the English Channel, and the shield method in Ri Nation.
However, all four methods had one thing in common.
It was expensive! It was extraordinarily expensive!
Taking China as an example, the Dalian to Yantai high-speed rail tunnel under construction was 123 kilometers long. The construction cost was as high as 260 billion yuan, and the average cost per kilometer was more than 2 billion yuan! Even after deducting the 129 million yuan per kilometer cost of high-speed rail, just building such a pipeline was still a terrifying figure!
And this was only a conservative estimate!
If he wanted to connect all nine islands, it wouldn't be as simple as 123 kilometers. The distance between the southernmost Ange Island and Coro Island was more than 150 kilometers, equivalent to the distance between Wanghai and Hang City.
Conservatively speaking, if the undersea tunnel that could connect all nine islands of Pannu was built, the underwater portion of the highway would need to be at least 300 kilometers. If this project was contracted to a Han construction company, the entire project would cost at least 60 billion USD.
Sixty billion US dollars, good lord, this money is enough to build two more Penglai cities! Even if Future Group had the money, it obviously couldn't be spent this way.
Fortunately, Future Heavy Industries had made breakthroughs in graphene technology. In the fields of semiconductor-type graphene and high-strength nanomaterials, no scientific research institution in the world could compete with Future Group's materials science laboratory.
Among them, the graphene board used on Future Building was the breakthrough to reduce the cost of the undersea tunnel construction. If a material tougher than steel could be used as the outer wall of the undersea tunnel, the entire project would undoubtedly progress much more easily.
In early April, Future Heavy Industries selected a partner from hundreds of construction companies around the world through public bidding – Victoria Construction Company registered in Xiangjiang. This construction company had designed and constructed two undersea highways for Xiangjiang and had a deep understanding of the immersion pipe construction technology.
Considering that the immersion pipe method was more suitable for maximizing the performance of graphene materials, Jiang Chen finally chose this company as a partner.
After the successful bidding, Victoria Construction Company immediately sent Wu Weiyu, the engineer of the undersea tunnel, to Xin to contact Future Heavy Industries to discuss the construction plan of the undersea tunnel using graphene materials.
When they got off the plane on Coro Island, Jiang Chen immediately invited him to the high-tech industrial park on Ange Island.
In the center of the spacious factory, there was a semi-cylindrical arch about twelve meters wide and five meters high. The walls of the arch were transparent, but the surface didn't have the luster of glass.
Jiang Chen took Wu Weiyu to the side of the transparent archway, took the hammer from the staff, and smashed it down.
Boom —
There was a muffled sound that echoed in the closed arch. Wu Weiyu looked in the direction of Jiang Chen's hammer, and his eyes widened in shock.
"This is our sample." Jiang Chen smiled and threw the hammer in the hands of the staff, clapped his hands, and looked at Wu Weiyu. "The outer wall of the tunnel made of graphene material is ten times stronger than molybdenum nickel steel, and its longitudinal ductility is stronger than all metal materials, except for the problem of high temperature resistance that hasn't been solved … Of course, there shouldn't be so many opportunities for fire in the sea."
"A car accident may happen in the tunnel, and a car accident may cause a fire, even at the bottom of the sea." While stroking the outer wall of the graphene arch, Wu Weiyu muttered to himself, "But we can apply flame retardants on the inner wall, and this is easy to solve …"
After a pause, Wu Weiyu retracted his hand, looked back at Jiang Chen, and asked seriously.
"What is the cost of this graphene material?"
"Just this arch, about 700 US Dollar per meter."
One meter costs seven hundred USD, and one kilometer costs seven hundred thousand USD. This cost was so much cheaper than steel! If such a large amount of money could be saved on materials, the construction cost of the entire project would undoubtedly be reduced by several times!
When Wu Weiyu thought of this, he looked at Jiang Chen with passionate eyes.
Victoria Construction Company must find a way to obtain this graphene pipe! If they could obtain this high-strength, low-cost building material, Victoria would undoubtedly gain a strong market competitiveness in the global undersea tunnel construction market.
Not to mention the quality of the project, the cost alone would be enough to defeat countless competitors.
Victoria Construction Company must establish a long-term strategic partnership with Future Heavy Industries!
Wu Weiyu had secretly made up his mind. After today's trip was over and he returned to the hotel, he would call the boss and explain the pros and cons clearly. If this business was successful, it would be a great achievement. Promotion and wealth would no longer be a dream!
The passionate eyes made Jiang Chen shudder, and he involuntarily distanced himself from this guy.
[Fu * k, is this guy into that …]
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