Chapter 135 Safe House
Early in the morning, Bai Yang was woken up by his mother and went out with Lian Qiao to run five kilometers. After practicing for so long, Bai Yang has developed a unique skill of running and sleeping at the same time. Humans cannot work with the left brain and rest with the right brain like dolphins, but Bai Yang can empty his brain while running. In this state, he cannot recognize his relatives.
He changed his shoes and opened the door sleepily. Before he stepped out of the threshold, a group of big men in blue clothes rushed in.
"Good morning." The leading man greeted in a gruff voice.
"Hey hey hey you guys... who are you?"
Bai Yang was so shocked that half of his sleepiness disappeared.
The group of big men ignored him and poured into the living room in groups, carrying tool boxes, bundles of silver metal wires, putty powder, paint buckets, and the most exaggerated one was carrying a huge stack of tiles... Their heavy high-top boots stepped on the floor that my mother had just mopped, leaving a black footprint with each step.
Bai Yang immediately understood what kind of people these were and thought to himself, why didn’t you change your shoes when you changed into casual clothes?
How can there be a group of people with shaved heads and wearing 07-style combat boots?
"Are you here? You're here really early. Hello, Captain Huang." Dad poked his head out of the room. He was still in his pajamas and ran over in his slippers to shake hands with him. "Have you brought all the materials?"
"I have it with me, Team Leader Bai." Team Leader Huang patted the red toolbox in his hand and pointed at the materials that his teammates were carrying on their shoulders and hands. "Is Director Zhao back?"
"No, I went to a meeting at the Provincial Party Committee last night and I haven't come back yet. I think I'm sleeping on the floor there." Bai Zhen replied, "Let's get started without delay."
Bai Yang stood by, confused.
The construction team rushed straight to Bai Yang's bedroom. Four burly men squeezed into the small bedroom. They moved out chairs, bedding, school bags, books on the bookshelf, and all the movable things and piled them in the corner of the living room. For the objects that could not be moved, they spread out transparent plastic sheets and wrapped them tightly.
"What...what is this doing?"
"Construction." Bai Zhen said, "Why don't you go down for a run? Lian Qiao is waiting for you downstairs. Aren't you going to the Zitai Office Building and Mochou Lake Subway Station this morning?"
"Oh oh oh." Bai Yang looked back every few steps and went out and downstairs.
The construction team laid plastic sheets on the floor, desks, and bookshelves, and then began to scrape off the wall plaster. After scraping off the wall plaster, they removed a layer of bricks, drew squares on the bricks with an oil-based pen, and drove expansion screws into the grids. They closed the door and banged on it without mercy.
Every minute, strong men carrying hammers and chisels came out and carried the materials piled in the corridor into the hallway.
What is this doing?
This is building a safe house.
The construction team brought silver-plated thick copper wires, 4 mm thick lead plates (Bai Yang thought they were tiles), and even light yellow leaded radiation-proof glass. They laid the lead plates tightly inside the north and west walls, fitting together without leaving any gaps. They then laid the silver-plated copper wires in the brick interlayers of the room, laying them in circles to form a grid - it was obvious that the lead plates were radiation shielding walls, and the copper wires could form a Faraday cage.
Although the working group of China National Nuclear Corporation stated that this nuclear bomb was specially designed and optimized for radiation and radioactive contamination, the radiation dose would drop to 0.01Sv three kilometers away from the explosion center, and within 24 hours after the nuclear explosion, the radiation dose in the air in the nuclear radiation contaminated area would naturally drop to 1% of the initial dose. In other words, one day and one night after the nuclear explosion, the radiation dose in the air at Meihua Villa was only 0.1mSv, not even as good as a CT scan in the hospital.
The experts of the working group said don't worry, our Miss Qiu is very clean. When the Soviet Union used a nuclear bomb to blow up the reservoir, the Minister of Atomic Energy was the first to jump in to swim.
Despite this, the command center was still worried. Lao Wang said that looking at the data alone could not catch up with doing a CT scan, but can you do a CT scan in the hospital every day?
Continuous exposure to a radiation dose of 0.1mSv is equivalent to standing in front of an X-ray machine for a chest X-ray every day. It is not fatal in the short term, but definitely not in the long term.
The young people in the nuclear working group secretly said, "How can this last long?"
Wang Ning jumped up and wanted to hit someone on the spot.
With his weight, Lao Bai couldn't stop him alone, and it took Lao Zhao and others to help stop him.
Therefore, the command center planned to transform Bai Yang's bedroom into a safe room that could protect against radiation and electromagnetic pulses to prevent a nuclear bomb explosion from destroying the Icom725 radio station. Guai Erwu's old body could not withstand the torment of nuclear weapons. Once an electromagnetic pulse came, the internal circuits would be burned to a mess.
So they ran silver-coated copper wire along the walls to create a Faraday cage to protect the station from a nuclear blast.
After laying the radiation shielding wall and the Faraday cage, the construction team laid the bricks back, applied cement and putty to the wall. The masons' technique was very skilled and impressive. Bai Zhen commented that this application was the result of 20 years of hard work. Both the cement and putty were specially made and mixed with barium sulfate. Finally, the construction team removed the window glass and replaced it with lead glass.
After doing all this, roll up the plastic sheet on the floor and all the garbage will be rolled away.
Clean and neat.
"Oh...Team Huang, you guys did a great job. Very efficient."
Zhao Bowen poked his head in to take a look. The interior of Bai Yang's bedroom was still the same as before, except that the walls and ceiling were brand new, as if it had been renovated.
"Director Zhao, you're back."
"I just came back from the provincial party committee. I was in a meeting all night and all morning." Zhao Bowen yawned, "I've been so busy lately..."
“Do the living room and other areas need to be modified?”
Old Zhao turned his head and looked at the messy living room filled with documents and computers, and shook his head:
"Forget it. This place is not suitable for large-scale construction. It will take until tomorrow to finish remodeling the living room. Just remodel the bedroom to keep the radio station safe. Your mission is accomplished."
"Then we will go back and report."
The yellow team stood at attention and saluted.
The construction team filed out one after another, and the last person to leave mopped the floor as well.
Near noon, Bai Yang came back and found that his room seemed to have changed - in fact, nothing had been moved, except that the walls had become cleaner.
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"Tomorrow?"
"Yes, Miss, the spacecraft will be launched tomorrow and will return tomorrow, and will land near your house... uh, my house. OVER."
"Will it land?"
The girl was a little surprised.
"Of course it will land. How can the nuclear bomb be delivered to you if it doesn't land?" Bai Yang explained, "There will be a large return capsule landing. When it lands, the reverse thrust rocket will ignite. It will be quite spectacular. Miss Qiu is sitting in it. You just need to take it out. OVER."
"BG...it...it won't hit me, will it?"
The girl was a little worried again.
Bai Yang was stunned. He had never thought about this, but after thinking about it carefully, it was really possible. In the past, the return capsules of manned spacecrafts would land at the landing site in Siziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia. That place was vast and sparsely populated, but no spacecraft had ever landed in the center of Nanjing. So he took off his headphones and turned around and shouted, "Dad! She asked if the spacecraft would hit her. Is this possible?"
"Yes——!" Dad replied.
"What?" Bai Yang was surprised. "Then what should we do?"
"What else can we do? Be smart and hide away when you see it falling. The rest depends on the blessings of Buddha and Bodhisattva. Your uncle Wang has already gone to Qixia Temple to burn incense."
(End of this chapter)
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