Chapter 209: Opening the River

Immediately afterwards, Yun Shuhuai used a fireball to melt the second and third ice caves. The rushing water rushed into the tunnel. After a while, the noisy sound of water flow came from the downstream side of the dam.

Qin Ye and his two followers stood on the upper platform of the downstream tunnel. Gu Zhucheng said that in case the water flowed to the downstream and froze again, they needed fire-type psychics to melt the ice on the downstream river surface and around the tunnel.

So Qin Ye volunteered to go, because since he received the mission, he had basically contributed the least. Although his purpose of coming here was not pure, he had to do something practical. At least he could make up for his desertion in the middle of the journey, so that his master could scold him less after returning.

The rest of the people stood on the top of the dam and were on standby at any time.

Yun Shuhuai walked from north to south on the dam, opening up all the entrances to the water diversion tunnels one by one. During this time, he naturally encountered zombies that were sprayed out with the water flow, but was eliminated by the people on the side.

In the factory on the right, except for the generator that had been completely destroyed by the zombies, there were six of the remaining nine generators that could be used, and the other three had some problems to a certain extent and needed professional maintenance, so Xi Ling alone was not enough.

Fortunately, most of them were usable, and these six high-power generators alone were completely sufficient for the base to use electricity normally.

In fact, not all the generators in the hydropower station were working before the end of the world. They needed to be divided into different units and used in turns. Now it is the end of the world again, and the hydropower station only supplies electricity to the base, so there are even fewer generators that need to be operated. This rotation can also extend the service life of the hydropower station and allow the base to last longer .

And their current work is also to check for faults so that they can be eliminated in time.

The inspection of the right plant was almost done, Yun Shuhuai added an ice cover above the water flow, and everyone went to the left.

Here too, Yun Shuhuai spent an hour to open up all the water flows. After all the equipment inside the plant was checked by Gu Zhucheng, he informed them through the intercom that two generators in the plant had failed, but overall it was already very good.

Fourteen generators are enough for the base to use for a long time.

These works took a total of three hours and were completed very smoothly.

At the same time, before starting these works, Xi Ling also sealed the big pit inside and outside the factory on the right with metal to prevent zombies from coming in through here again.

After that, the river can be opened on a large scale.

But everyone did not proceed immediately, but all returned to the dam to meet, eat and rest for a while, and then go again.

Because the water level in the reservoir is very high now, the water inside needs to be released for a period of time to lower the water level, otherwise opening the river will melt the ice, which will make the water level higher and increase the risk.

In addition to the flood discharge gate, the outlet of the hydropower station, and the overflow port are connected to the upstream and

downstream of the dam. However, the overflow port has been blocked for a long time and needs to be blasted open later to reduce the pressure on the upstream dam.

Gu Zhucheng also said that in theory, new river channels can be dug on both sides of the dam to divert the water in the reservoir directly to the downstream, so that the water from the upstream can flow to the downstream without only passing through the dam.

It is also to prevent such a situation from happening again in the future, causing the water level to be too high and there is a risk of destroying the dam, and at the same time prevent all the zombies from the upstream from crowding around the dam.

Of course, this proposal needs to be discussed with the military after returning, and then they will make a decision to implement it.

There is a reservoir upstream of the dam, and the water surface is very wide, so the main force for opening the river is naturally Yun Shuhuai, Xi Qing and Xi Ling, three fifth-level espers.

Opening the river requires the use of fire-based esper abilities, but if the firepower is not strong enough, it is easy to break the ice blocks, and then the ice blocks drifting on the river will crash into the dam along the water flow, causing damage to the dam body.

Therefore, these powerful esper abilities are needed to exert their greatest power to melt all the ice near the dam, and too much broken ice is absolutely not allowed.

They are divided into two groups, with Yun Shuhuai and Xi Qing on the left and Xi Ling on the right, and the rest of the people are divided into two sides to provide assistance or kill zombies that may run out of the water.

After they were divided into groups, they began to act.

Gu Zhucheng gave an order, and Yun Shuhuai, Xi Qing and Xi Ling attacked at the same time.

They all used wind and fire abilities.

The wind system helped to burn the fire system to evenly melt the ice on the water surface.

Because they had explained to each other in advance, both sides used hot air at the beginning to gradually reduce the thickness of the ice.

The temperature in this step will not be too high, and it is important to proceed in a gradual manner. The ice close to the dam melts faster, and the farther the distance, the smaller the effect of the hot air.

Until the ice close to the dam is reduced to a certain thickness, both sides increase the output at the same time, the temperature of the hot air becomes higher and higher, and all the ice close to the dam turns into water, and then begins to spread far away.

The hot air evenly heated the ice without breaking any of it, so even if the ice in the distance melted, it would always remain connected. The boundary between ice and water was clear, so it was impossible for all of it to float over and hit the dam.

However, this required a very high degree of coordination to achieve this. Gu Zhucheng was stunned. He thought there would be a constant stream of ice blocks floating over, and he would need to keep solving those ice blocks, which would take a long time. But now no ice blocks were broken. As long as they kept this momentum, the task of opening the river would be solved quickly.

Everyone was amazed at their tacit cooperation. In fact, it was because Yun Shuhuai was here. She could see and sense the energy, so she kept staring at Xi Ling on the other side, through the energy flowing in his body, and felt the power of Xi Ling's superpowers, and then told Xi Qing. The two of them manually adjusted the output power and kept the same pace as Xi Ling, so that everyone could feel that their cooperation was so tacit.

Xi Ling was also very surprised on the other side, because he knew that Yun Shuhuai was a sixth-level superpower user, so Xi Qing who was with her was probably also a sixth-level superpower user, so in order not to hold back, he used all his strength without reservation.

But he didn't expect that the other side could keep up with his rhythm, so it must be Yun Shuhuai and the others who were deliberately cooperating with him.

How should I put it? This was the first time that Xi Ling felt that his strength was not strong enough. Although he used his strongest strength, the opponent could easily achieve the same power.

He laughed at himself. It seemed that he had to hurry up to upgrade and become stronger.

Starting from the upstream along the dam, the ice there gradually turned into water and spread far away until it reached the middle of the reservoir. After Gu Zhucheng called for a stop, they stopped at the same time.

"Wow...you guys are exaggerating."

Gu Zhucheng stood in the middle of the dam and exclaimed at the upstream reservoir, which was half water and half ice.

Since the water surface near the upstream dam has completely melted, the water flows unimpeded through the dam to the downstream. The torrent gushing out of the flood discharge gate falls on the ice surface downstream, and then flows away.

"How are we doing?" Yun Shuhuai said, turning on the intercom.

Gu Zhucheng praised sincerely: "Of course it's very good. It saves a lot of time than I expected. I think we will be able to go back soon."

When they heard that they could go back, everyone cheered.

Although they only came here yesterday morning, so many things happened in the meantime, which always made them have the illusion that they have been here for a long time.