Chapter 330: One Year Before the Flood, the Nation Prepares for War
It is the end of another year, and Lijia Village is still bustling with new year goods being distributed, various celebrations, and a full sense of ritual.
The company made a lot of money. Li Xiang took out two million yuan of the profit, used part of it to purchase various supplies and distributed it to villagers and employees, and gave part of it directly as cash red envelopes.
The core members of the team also receive precious seafood, gold and silver jewelry, magical medicines, magical weapons and other items.
It is worth mentioning that Li Xiang’s cousins, Yao Yao and Zhao Xueqing’s younger brother, and Zhao Xueqing’s cousin Han Qifeng have also entered the first level of transcendence.
Thanks to Li Xiang's hard work, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui have each been promoted to the next level and are now seventh-level transcendents.
Jiang Caier is at the tenth level.
This year's third Lijiacun Village Gala was a little special. It was not held a few days in advance, but started on time at 8 o'clock on the evening of New Year's Eve.
Because this year's village gala became one of the Sichuan branch venues of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, and it was the largest branch venue, with higher treatment than other branches. Several well-known hosts came to host the show together with Jiang Caier, Li Xiang, Yao Yao, Zhao Xueqing, Lei Xiaohui, etc. The layout of the scene was also paid for by the state.
Oh my god, the folks from all over the town and netizens were all shocked.
How come a small mountain village suddenly became so awesome?
Only those who know Li Xiang’s true identity, such as those involved in the Yellow River dredging project, know why the country attaches so much importance to Lijia Village and gives it such high-level treatment.
Some people say that there may be hope for the future of mankind.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Xiang went out again to continue his unfinished task of dredging thousands of water systems across the country.
This is just the Yellow River that has been completed. There are also the Yangtze River, Qiantang River, Gan River, Huangpu River, Heilongjiang River, Pearl River... and many other water systems.
We are still collaborating with the National Major Water Conservancy Project Command, and the original team is working hard to create this project.
As for Jiang Caier, she has already returned to Tsinghua University to continue her studies and research projects.
During the New Year period, they were not idle. They did not spend the whole day in love with each other. Instead, every night, Li Xiang took Jiang Caier to travel around the motherland and conduct on-site inspections of various water systems. In addition, there was geological and hydrological data provided early by the special group of the national command for reference.
Combining these materials, Jiang Caier helped Li Xiang draw up a detailed plan. However, the specific operation process did not require Jiang Caier's help, so she returned to school.
As for Luo Feifei, as one of the top domestic actresses, she was very busy during the Spring Festival and participated in Spring Festival Galas and variety shows at all levels. On New Year's Eve, she still performed at the Imperial Capital Radio Station and still missed the Lijia Village Gala.
However, she also secretly opened her phone during breaks and gave Li Xiang a lot of gifts. In addition, the identity of the No. 1 aunt also went online and also gave a lot of gifts.
When Li Xiang was about to start dredging the Yangtze River system, Luo Feifei finally made time and came to Li Xiang, wanting to fight alongside him!
"Hmph, you secretly dredged the Yellow River last year without even asking me to come." When the two met in private, Luo Feifei was angry and pouted, looking very cute.
Li Xiang felt ashamed: "How could it be sneaky? It made such a big noise, but you were too busy, so I didn't bother you."
Thinking that her spiritual medicine was probably running out, he replenished a large amount of spiritual medicine into her space ring.
Luo Feifei now has the cultivation base of the tenth rank. In this life, her cultivation is a little slower than in her previous life. First, she listened to Li Xiang and tried her best to consolidate her foundation before making a breakthrough. Second, in addition to the "Ice Crystal Peach Blossom Sutra", she also practiced seven or eight kinds of breathing techniques to try to complete her spiritual body. Third, she practiced in this life in a peaceful era with a more relaxed environment, without the oppressive feeling of uncertainty in the end times. Fourth, she put most of her energy into her acting career.
There's nothing I can do about it, her mother is a money-grubber.
In her previous life, Luo Feifei's mother was killed not long after the apocalypse. In this life, Luo Feifei cherishes her mother especially and hopes that her mother will be happier. Since her mother expects her to become a star and make more money, she will fulfill her mother's little wish.
But in terms of strength, Luo Feifei in this life is far superior to herself in the same level in her previous life.
Li Xiang had practiced dual cultivation with other women, but he had not yet made a move on Luo Feifei, mainly because she was still young and underage. Luo Feifei was two years younger than Jiang Caier (actually about one and a half years), and she had just turned 17.
The 17-year-old Luo Feifei naturally has a divine appearance, and is like a ceiling.
Li Xiang wore the Giant Whale Holy Armor, while Luo Feifei wore the Electric Phantom Armor. They worked together to reshape the golden waterway for the mother river Yangtze.
Luo Feifei can sense the hydrological changes at any point within the Baili River Basin and can also manipulate large bodies of water, which is of great help to Li Xiang.
The difficulty in dredging the Yangtze River lies in the development of river meanders in the middle and lower reaches, the "nine-twist" river channel in the Jingjiang section leads to low shipping efficiency, and the seasonal shrinkage of Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake exacerbates the ecological crisis.
Li Xiang used the earth-related supernatural powers to straighten the 180-kilometer winding river channel of the Jingjiang River, while preserving the old course as an ecological wetland and reshaping the slope protection on both sides of the river with the earth-related supernatural powers.
The plan also includes a "lake-reservoir linkage" design, called the "intelligent water distribution matrix". An induction gate will be concealed at the mouth of Poyang Lake to automatically intercept water during the dry season to ensure the water level in the lake. Zhao Xueqing will also implant an "algae symbiotic network" to purify the water quality.
Dredging is now Li Xiang's strong point. His extra-dimensional warehouse has expanded to 35 trillion cubic meters, and he can transport 2 trillion cubic meters of silt at one time and dump it into the deep Pacific Ocean.
With Luo Feifei's help and Li Xiang's greatly improved strength compared to last year, the Yangtze River dredging project was completed in 28 days.
It is the speed achieved through continuous improvement, rather than rough work.
When the mission was accomplished, 10,000-ton cargo ships sailed directly from Shanghai to Chongqing, the wetland area of the two lakes recovered by 40%, and the population of finless porpoises also increased significantly.
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The Huai River, like the Yellow River, also has the dilemma of being a "hanging river on the ground". The riverbed in the lower reaches of Bengbu is 4-8 meters higher than the coastal cities, and the dense tributaries make it easy for floods to overflow the dikes. However, compared with the Yellow River, it is nothing.
Li Xiang and Luo Feifei joined forces. Li Xiang urged the "Meteoric Sand" to compress the riverbed, while Luo Feifei manipulated the water to press down at the same time. This little man had greater magical powers in the water than Li Xiang. With the two fighting side by side, the riverbed of the Xuan River sank 6.4 meters in a single day, which was a miracle.
In addition, 12 underground flood diversion tunnels with a diameter of 50 meters and reinforced with basalt were excavated along the Fuyang-Xuyi section.
Zhao Xueqing planted gene-edited red willows that are resistant to flooding in the flood diversion area, and the roots formed a natural flood retention zone.
According to the evaluation of the National Major Water Conservancy Project Command, after dredging, the flood control standard of the Huaihe River has been raised from once in 50 years to once in 500 years, 1.2 million mu of arable land has been added along the coast, and the annual flood storage capacity of the flood diversion area has reached 12 billion cubic meters.
For such a major project, a report naturally needs to be written. Li Xiang naturally asked the National Major Water Conservancy Project Command to do this. The headquarters are full of highly educated professionals who are best at writing such reports and are the most authoritative.
Li Xiang and Luo Feifei worked together to dredge the site at an incredible speed. The National Major Water Conservancy Project Command arranged several report writing teams, but they were simply unable to keep up with the pace, so they had to rush behind and stay up until two or three in the morning every day.
There was no other way. It was impossible that Li Xiang and his team had finished their work and moved on to other water systems, while they were still here writing reports? The higher-ups had a requirement that they should not be three days behind the project schedule.
The key is that the report cannot be written randomly, but actual measurements must be made. Some data cannot be obtained immediately and can only be completed later.
Considering the hard work of these cooperating personnel, Li Xiang and Luo Feifei slowed down again. Sometimes they would take a break for a day or two and go to the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean to catch seafood and relax.
With Luo Feifei around, catching seafood is faster than dredging the river, and tens of millions of tons of seafood can be caught easily in a day. This is just for fun, and it's done at will.
During this period, she also hunted many potential extraordinary sea beasts and obtained countless elixirs. Li Xiang selected high-level ones that were suitable for her water ice physique and filled her space gem ring.
As for extraordinary items, Luo Feifei didn't have much demand for them because Li Xiang had given her too much.
"Hey, there is a bigger space gem." After hunting a tiger shark, Li Xiang suddenly discovered that the system rewarded him with a water-blue space gem with a contained capacity of one hundred cubic meters.
"Fei Fei, I'll give this gem to you." Li Xiang took out the gem, thought about it, and used the "Crystal Gold Armor" to casually refine a beautiful gold necklace, and inlaid the teardrop-shaped space gem on it as a pendant.
Li Xiang thought about it and decided that he couldn't just give an empty necklace, so he picked out a batch of precious seafood and stored them in the box, taking up about half of the space.
The remaining half of the space was filled with spiritual medicines, a total of fifty cubic meters of spiritual medicines, which was enough for her to reach the eighteenth level without any problem, and perhaps even have some left over.
Then, he handed it to Luo Feifei.
"Help me put it on." Luo Feifei didn't take it, but just looked at Li Xiang with a smile.
Li Xiang had no choice but to put his arms around her neck and help her put it on.
Luo Feifei's neck was white with a rosy glow, as delicate and crystal as jade, and as flawless as her face. Her flowing hair was blown by the sea breeze and swept across Li Xiang's face, and bursts of refreshing fragrance penetrated Li Xiang's nostrils.
"Your heart is beating so fast, Chief Engineer Li, what bad things are you thinking about?" Luo Feifei whispered with a chuckle.
Li Xiang quickly put it on her and took two steps back: "..."
"Have you noticed that I have grown up a little recently?" Luo Feifei curled her lips and said softly.
Li Xiang subconsciously looked at her breasts. Well, they were indeed a lot bigger.
"I'm talking about my height!" Luo Feifei rolled her eyes at him, but then, shyly, she couldn't help but hug Li Xiang and buried her head in his chest.
After a long while, Li Xiang patted her on the back and said, "Let's go back early. We still have a lot of things to do. We don't want those people to wait anxiously."
If he continued to hug her, he would not be able to bear it, but Luo Feifei was too young after all, not yet an adult. Moreover, Luo Feifei was different from Yao Yao and the others, she was very proud and might not be willing to be his little lover.
The news of his engagement to Jiang Caier was kept secret from Luo Feifei.
Li Xiang secretly sighed that it is not easy to be a scumbag.
The two quickly returned to the construction site. Little did they know that the staff expected them to come back a day or two later, and the speed of writing the report could not keep up with the progress of Li Xiang and his team's construction.
Li Xiang didn't care about many things. After all, the construction period was tight. There would be a big flood next summer. There were so many water systems in the country, big and small, and the sooner it could be completed, the better.
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At the same time, in order to cope with the super flood next year, the country is also making emergency preparations, which are not limited to river dredging and embankment reinforcement, but also include work in all aspects.
Li Xiang was in charge of river dredging and embankment reinforcement, while Zhao Xueqing was the main force in ecological barrier construction (wetland restoration projects, mountain ecological regulation, etc.).
But in other areas, a nationwide mobilization is needed.
For example, the Sponge City 3.0 plan.
"Honeycomb water storage corridors" have been built underground in 30 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The water storage capacity of a single city is expected to reach 50 million cubic meters. The sidewalks have been fully replaced with permeable ceramic tiles (water absorption rate reaches 200 liters/㎡·hour).
A 3-meter-high titanium alloy flood-proof door (compressive strength 30 tons/㎡) was installed at the entrance of the subway station, and a "suspended flood-proof wall" was put into use in the core business district.
The emergency support system has been further strengthened on the original basis, and is divided into two major parts: "strategic material reserves" and "personnel evacuation network."
For example, 200 "flood prevention shelters" are built along the flood risk zones, each stocked with: foldable speedboats (automatically inflated in 30 seconds), high-energy compressed biscuits (1 piece = full day's nutrition), and water purification tablets (1 tablet purifies 5 liters of sewage).
Draw a national "3D flood escape corridor", integrate three-dimensional paths such as viaducts and mountain tunnels, train 500,000 "flood prevention guides", and equip them with AR glasses to mark safe routes in real time.
The scientific and technological prevention and control system has also made major breakthroughs: the air-space-ground monitoring network has been further improved, and it is expected that by this summer, 128 "Guanlan series" hydrological satellites will be deployed to penetrate the clouds and monitor millimeter-level water level changes. "Fiber optic hydrophones" are implanted every kilometer in the Yangtze River Basin to accurately capture abnormal sounds of pipe bursts.
At the same time, relevant departments have designed a special artificial intelligence early warning system, which is from the same school as the "War Skull". The only difference is that the "War Skull" is dedicated to military use, while the "Hongmeng Flood Control Brain" is dedicated to major floods. It has been connected to 260 million IoT terminals across the country, and the early warning response time has been shortened to 8 minutes. The drone swarm system can achieve 72 hours of uninterrupted embankment patrol, and the crack recognition accuracy is 0.2 mm.
In addition, a vigorous military-civilian integration exercise was carried out, and the "Shield Flood-2027" theater exercise was organized to test the 72-hour full-population transfer of a city with a population of one million.
The Type 056 frigate was modified for inland river rescue and equipped with high-pressure water cannon and medical cabins.
Economic risk hedging: Launch of "Flood Catastrophe Insurance", with the government subsidizing 80% of the premium, covering 600 million urban and rural residents.
Establish a 3 trillion yuan "special flood prevention national debt", with priority given to investing in AI early warning systems and ecological projects.
The "Extreme Weather Suspension Plan" was issued: When a red alert is issued, companies must evacuate personnel within 2 hours and compulsorily install "flood survival cabins" in buildings (oxygen supply must be guaranteed for 72 hours).
Not only is the country preparing for war, almost all countries in the world are making emergency preparations for war. After all, this was a warning personally issued by the most powerful mysterious armored man on earth. The mysterious armored man has such great powers that no one can help but believe him.
Therefore, China also cooperates closely with other countries. For example, it shares the flood prediction data of Tianhe-2 with the Mekong River Basin countries; purchases the "Delta Smart Gate" technology from the Netherlands, and transforms it for application at the mouth of Poyang Lake and the mouth of the Pearl River.
It is estimated that the total investment in flood control projects across the country will reach 4.8 trillion yuan, and the emergency material reserves can meet the survival needs of 120 million people for 30 days.
(End of this chapter)
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