Chapter 296 Global Energy Fields Affected, Frequent Accidents

This was a Level 1 alarm; the flashing red light and the rhythmic alarm indicated a problem with the energy station deep within the island base.

The base's security department responded immediately. In addition to the security personnel stationed at the energy station checking the situation at the first opportunity, hundreds of security experts also immediately took the elevator to the scene.

Ninghai learned of the situation in less than two minutes.

The reason is that a rupture occurred on the outside of the nuclear reactor, posing a risk of nuclear material leakage.

Security personnel have begun emergency repairs.

"Mr. Ning!" The safety supervisor came to the door and said sternly, "You assured us that all the materials used to build the energy station were the safest and most reliable, and that there would be absolutely no damage. Why is there a problem now?"

Ning Hai's eyes flickered with uncertainty.

He wasn't lying. The energy station was built with top-notch materials and employed the most advanced security technologies. The combination of these two features was unmatched by any other country in the world, except perhaps China.

Moreover, the location of this island base was chosen through a joint investigation by several meteorologists, oceanographers, and geologists from Country M, and it is located in one of the most stable areas in the central Pacific Ocean.

However, the problem lies with the nuclear materials.

Previously used and technologically mature nuclear energy materials could no longer meet the energy needs of the island base. However, due to the urgent demands from the top leadership of the United States, Ninghai had no choice but to take the risk of using new nuclear energy materials with nearly a thousand times the energy of the previous materials.

In addition, large-scale energy supply technology, which is still in the experimental stage, was also used.

According to Ninghai's calculations, the current energy station's strength can exceed 200% of its design load, and theoretically, there is a greater than 90% chance that it can support a new nuclear reactor.

"Mr. Ning!" The safety supervisor shouted again when he didn't answer.

Ning Hai said coldly, "Calm down, don't yell at me. Show me the damage inspection data."

The security supervisor handed a tablet computer to Ninghai.

The tablet computer displays relevant data entered by security technicians in real time, and also allows users to see live video feeds.

“It’s not a big problem,” Ning Hai said calmly. “Based on the environment of this island, I designed a unique water-cooling system using ocean currents. Even if the damage is larger, the nuclear reactor will not melt down. Don’t worry, just have your people repair it in the usual way.”

As he spoke, Ning Hai silently prayed that a fourth spacetime rift would not appear around the island today.

That thing works on a similar principle to opening a portal to another dimension, but one is controllable while the other is completely accidental, appearing out of nowhere and extremely unstable. Sometimes it devours all the energy and matter around it, and sometimes it releases energy inexplicably. It is definitely a highly dangerous and uncertain factor.

He suspected that the damage to the energy station might have occurred at that moment when a tiny spacetime rift appeared inside the station.

But this is just a suspicion; there's no way to verify it.

At this point, the alarms inside the base stopped, and the area outside the island gradually returned to calm.

Ning Hai breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the security supervisor who was clearly relaxed, and said with a smile, "You see, everything is under my control. Don't forget, not only am I here, but my good brother Lu Xingfeng and my precious daughter also need this base to get back here. I don't do things I'm not sure I can do."

The security chief said, "Mr. Ning, it's not that I don't trust you. But my duty is to oversee security. Everyone in this base is a top scientific expert from Country M, and the hundreds of thousands of people deployed to the other side of the time portal are also important elites from Country M. There can be no mistakes, otherwise..."

"Alright, alright, I know," Ning Hai said with a smile, putting his arm around his shoulder and pushing him toward the door. "Go ahead and do your thing, you've worked hard."

The security supervisor didn't say anything more.

After he left, Ning Hai came to the door, slumped into a chair, and it took him a while to recover.

Half an hour later, the base gradually returned to normal operation.

Overall, this incident did not have a significant impact on the island base, especially the crucial spacetime portal, which remains stable.

But Ning Hai knew very well that he was actually leading everyone in the island base on a knife's edge.

He had conducted simulations and concluded that if the island were to experience the most severe accident, the energy it would release could bring apocalyptic destruction to the world.

He also shared the simulation results with the highest governing body in the United States, but they said that the United States had already built multiple doomsday fortresses sufficient to cope with this level of disaster, ensuring the safety of the ruling class and the top wealthy class in the United States.

Even if an accident does occur and causes a disaster, it will not shake the foundation of the United States. At that time, countless people in other countries and regions around the world will die or be injured. Even if the world's population drops from billions to tens of millions or even millions, the United States can still become the leading country in rebuilding the world and can still stand as the world's number one country.

Ning Hai's family naturally has a place in the Doomsday Fortress, and once the project succeeds, he will become the number one contributor to helping the United States completely dominate the world, receiving the highest level of preferential treatment and status, and will be forever recorded in history and remembered for eternity.

Conversely, if Ning Hai were to affect the project's progress by worrying about an accident that could kill billions of ordinary people worldwide, the leaders of Country M would make him suffer worse than death.

Ninghai, of course, chose the former without hesitation.

At that moment, a video call notification appeared on his computer screen.

He quickly sat up straight, tidied his appearance, and turned on the phone.

Several men with silver-white hair and blue-green eyes appeared on the screen. Due to the dim lighting, their appearances were not clearly visible, but the oppressive aura of their superiors could be felt even through the screen.

"Gentlemen, is there anything I can help you with?" Ning Hai asked politely.

The man sitting in the middle said in fluent Mandarin, "Did something unusual happen on your end just now?"

Ning Hai immediately replied, "Sir, yes, I was just about to summarize the situation as I have done before and then report back to you."

The people on the screen whispered to each other for a few moments, and then the man in the middle told Ning Hai that every time a similar situation occurred at the island base, it would have a global impact.

This had happened many times before, but they weren't sure, so they didn't notify Ning Hai to avoid disturbing his work.

"It's affecting the whole world?" Ning Hai asked in surprise. "Is the situation serious?"

The man said, "According to our consultants' analysis, since the whole world belongs to the same large energy field, under certain specific circumstances, the energy generated by the island base exceeds the critical value, which will produce special abilities to interfere with the Earth's energy field, causing energy materials to resonate and release further unknown energy. Many abnormal phenomena have already occurred in various scientific and technological laboratories in dozens of countries, and even satellites in the sky above the Earth have been affected to some extent."

Ning Hai frowned and fell into deep thought.

“Mr. Ning,” the man leaned closer to the camera and tapped the table with his finger, “many countries are suspecting that we are conducting secret experiments, because some of them have detected abnormal energy sources, and China has begun to put pressure on us, demanding an explanation. We can disregard other countries, but attracting the attention of China is not a good thing. We will do everything we can to hinder China’s targeted investigation. I ask Mr. Ning to expedite the process as much as possible.”

Ning Hai frowned even more deeply.

Speed ​​up the progress, it's always about speeding up the progress.

The base is now a super powder keg, hastily cobbled together through countless attempts to accelerate the process.

If we speed it up any further, we'll probably have to rely on God's blessing.

"Yes, I will." Ning Hai was reluctant, but he still agreed.

After a moment's thought, the man asked, "The energy generated by our island base is so great that it can influence the global energy field. So, Mr. Ning, do you have a way to make use of this phenomenon?"

Ning Hai said, "You mean, to use it to interfere with other countries?"

The man nodded.

Ning Hai said helplessly, "Sir, we are far from having that level of technology. We don't even know what type of energy the island base released that interfered with the global energy field is. We can only call it unknown or abnormal energy. To control it and use it at will is pure fantasy."

“Okay, I was just asking,” the man said. “We won’t bother you any longer. May God be with you.”

The video call then ended.

Ninghai casually searched for recent international news events on his computer.

It's okay if you don't search.

A quick search revealed a plethora of reports of unusual incidents occurring in laboratories around the world.

At best, it could cause instrument malfunction; at worst, it could lead to the spontaneous explosion of energy materials.

This kind of problem has happened before, but it's become particularly frequent in the last month or two, which is very abnormal.

Meanwhile, the widespread failure of electronic devices and satellite communications worldwide is escalating.

This has led to a significant increase in accident rates in many countries, with car accidents, plane crashes, and transoceanic cargo ship disappearances all occurring three times higher than normal.

All indications suggest that the island base's energy station triggered a massive shift in the global energy field when it powered the portal.

In related news reports, a small number of media outlets targeted the United States.

However, the United States currently holds the dominant narrative, while the vast majority of media outlets defend the United States or fabricate all sorts of reasons to pin the blame on China.

This is an old trick used by the US; Ninghai is used to it.

"Who cares how noisy it is outside, I'll just do my own thing." Ning Hai said smugly, then slammed his laptop shut.

He then glanced at the real-time monitoring data of the base displayed on the screen on the studio wall.

All data are within the normal range.

So he left the studio and went to the private lounge next door, where he opened a cabinet door.

Inside the cabinet was a communicator he had secretly made using materials from the base.

Don't let its microwave-sized size fool you; the top-quality materials used in this device are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition, the energy it requires is extremely high; it must be connected to an energy station located beneath the island by cable in order to start.

Ning Hai made this special communicator simply so he could call his daughter, who spends most of her time on the other side of the time portal.

After all, ordinary communication devices do not have such strong wireless signal transmission capabilities.

He could only make one himself so that he could easily contact Ning Yao.

With a click.

Ninghai pressed the start switch.

The moment the machine was turned on, the detection data on the wall screen in the adjacent studio fluctuated wildly. One inconspicuous data point exceeded the critical value within half a second, and then instantly returned to normal.

Ninghai was completely unaware of this.

He took off the earpiece from the communicator, put it on his head, and then sat in a chair to wait patiently.

Ten minutes later, Ning Yao's voice came through the earpiece, "Dad, did you need something?"

Ning Hai said softly, "It's nothing, it's nothing. I just wanted to chat with you and see how you're doing over there. You haven't been back for a while."

"Oh, Dad!" Ning Yao said impatiently. "I was just about to go out and play. The research institute has been working on some really interesting genetically modified animals lately, and I've been involved in the research. I'm so busy! You know this time-space communicator you got me requires a nuclear power plant here to power it, so I can't carry it with me. Every time you call, I have to run over here to answer it!"

Ning Hai smiled and said, "That's great! As expected of my daughter, you've already started participating in gene modification research. Don't you want to tell your dad about your research results?"

After being praised by Ning Hai, Ning Yao felt very happy and her attitude improved a lot. She then enthusiastically told Ning Hai about it in detail.

Gene fusion to create new species, which can then be used to clear out the local indigenous population.

While some of these substances cannot be directly used to eliminate natives, their serum can be extracted to enhance soldiers' combat capabilities and promote limb regeneration.

In any case, there have been groundbreaking advancements in many areas.

When Ning Yao mentioned those crazy medical experts who would stop at nothing to achieve genetic modification, her tone was full of admiration, and once she started talking, she couldn't stop.

The father and daughter continued their phone call.

Among the large amount of test data on the screen of the Ninghai studio, several data points kept fluctuating around the critical value.

Near the energy station beneath the island, under the deep-sea searchlights, several inconspicuous, electric-like black cracks flickered in and out of sight, unnoticed even by the staff constantly monitoring the screens…

...

The other side of the world.

The land of Huaxia, in the heart of the northwestern desert.

Due to the sandstorm, the rescue convoy arrived more than ten hours later than expected.

It was already dark when we arrived at our destination.

The night sky was filled with twinkling stars, and a crescent moon hung high, echoing the brilliant Milky Way, casting a hazy, silvery veil over the entire desert.

Ning Jinli and the rescue team members all got out of the car.

In front of them, the outline of a small town could be vaguely seen.

The buildings are not tall, but they appear to be of a large scale in the flat desert.

That is China's most important comprehensive experimental base, which has never been made public. Hundreds of researchers from various cutting-edge scientific research industries conduct cutting-edge experimental research here, most of whom have not been home for more than ten years.

In addition to researchers, there are more than a thousand logistics workers and a special forces regiment of about three thousand people.

The rescue team leader tried to contact the base using specialized communication equipment, but received no response. Other electronic devices carried in the vehicle were also malfunctioning.

Moreover, looking around, the entire base was completely dark, resembling a dead city...