Chapter 21: Takeover
Zhou Yu only felt her whole body go numb.
Jiang Yang seemed not to notice her change: “Have you eaten? If not, let’s eat together. We still need to go to the command room in a bit.”
“Oh, oh, okay.”
Zhou Yu sat numbly beside the dining table. Those foods were clearly very exquisite and delicious, but they tasted like nothing in her mouth.
After a long while, she braced herself and said, “In the previous cycle, we were colleagues, right? Then we should, uh, be very familiar with each other, right?”
“Of course very familiar.”
“Then… if I may be bold to ask, in the previous cycle, what, what did I do?”
Jiang Yang looked at Zhou Yu with some amusement, until her whole heart was in her throat, then he said leisurely, “You guess?”
Am I a fucking kid who needs to guess!
She wanted to press for answers, but saw Jiang Yang had already turned back and started talking with Gu Changshan, so she could only suppress the anxiety in her heart.
What the hell did I do in the last cycle! It couldn’t be that I even did that kind of thing, right? He said I did very well in the previous cycle, and for a man like him who happens to like my type, what does “doing very well” mean? Fuck, it couldn’t be that I really did it, right? I haven’t even been in a relationship!
Gu Changshan turned his head, his cold gaze looking toward Zhou Yu: “Secretary Zhou, please pay attention to your working state.”
Zhou Yu’s heart jolted, and she instantly calmed down: “Yes.”
Jiang Yang wiped his hands and stood up: “Let’s go.”
The three of them arrived at another hall.
The hall covered over a thousand square meters, filled with densely packed computers and seats, with a staff member in military uniform busy at each computer.
They wore earphones on their heads, occasionally speaking seriously, while their hands never stopped operating the computers.
Four large screens hung on the front wall of the hall, with words like seizure group, logistics group, design group, production group written on them respectively.
“This is the Doomsday Plan Command Center. At this stage, the core tasks of our command department focus on nationwide particle accelerators’ inventory survey, conscription, design, and modification.”
Jiang Yang nodded lightly, staring slightly absentmindedly at the constantly updating data and images on the large screens corresponding to each of the four groups.
He knew that every change in the data here corresponded to the mobilization of countless manpower and resources in reality.
With the command center as the brain, thousands of “nerve lines” had extended to every aspect of this vast nation. Instructions from the command center would be executed by the “nerve endings,” and similarly, information feedback from the nerve endings would gather here in real time, allowing commanders to know the real-time mission execution status.
Looking at those large screens, Jiang Yang’s gaze seemed to pass through these electronic equipment and truly reach the front lines of the battlefield.
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Boom—
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, instantly brightening the world that had returned to darkness.
Under the pouring rain, the red large characters “Landong First Hospital” standing on top of the building shone brightly.
It was late now, and with the heavy rain, there was not a single pedestrian in the courtyard. But a group of people led by the dean was still waiting anxiously at the entrance, occasionally gazing into the darkness.
The roar of vehicles broke the silence, splashing through the accumulated water on the ground and finally stopping at the building entrance.
More than a dozen men in police uniforms and military uniforms got out of the vehicles.
“Comrade, hello. Following superior orders, our hospital’s deployed radiotherapy electron accelerator has been sealed. Please receive it.”
Without time for pleasantries, the group hurriedly walked toward another building. Opening the equipment room door, a massive device about 5 meters in diameter and over ten meters long appeared before them.
It was covered with dense cables and pipes, yet it didn’t look messy at all, perfectly combining the seemingly contradictory features of “huge” and “precise.”
Its interior was a vacuum, equipped with an electron emitter at one end. When electrons were excited, they were accelerated by devices like magnetic control tubes, increasing their energy, then guided and launched out precisely to hit tumors inside the human body and release energy, achieving the purpose of killing tumor cells.
In this process, the device used to accelerate electrons was the core of the entire equipment.
Both electrons and ions are charged; with some not-too-complex modifications, it could shift from accelerating electrons to accelerating ions—namely protons, helium nuclei, carbon nuclei, iron nuclei, and other heavy nuclear particles, thereby forming radiation.
At this moment, the hospital’s team for daily maintenance of the electron accelerator was in place. With their cooperation, the Doomsday Plan’s nerve endings—these security guards and guards—quickly inspected the entire equipment’s maintenance and working state, and collected relevant information.
“What model are the hospital’s power lines?”
The hospital logistics personnel waiting nearby quickly answered. But clearly, this answer did not satisfy the guard in front of them.
“Not enough. Immediately contact the power supply institution to upgrade the lines; it must be completed within five hours.”
Listening to the series of modification and upgrade data given by this guard, the hospital logistics personnel were shocked and opened their mouths wide.
With this level of upgrade and renovation, doesn’t it mean that this electron accelerator in front of them is going to enter 24-hour full-power operation mode?
In that case, on average, this big guy would consume about 200 kilowatt-hours per hour, nearly 5000 kilowatt-hours a day; probably the entire hospital’s power supply system would need comprehensive upgrade and renovation!
What a massive project!
But from this guard’s mouth, it sounded like a trivial little matter, and only five hours to do it.
“From this moment on, the building housing the electron accelerator is taken over by our department and enters full alert status.”
The leading guard waved his hand, and numerous armed security guards and guards respectively occupied the various passages of the building, strictly sealing the building entrance.
“Yes, yes.”
The dean looked at those firearms, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and hurriedly agreed: “Our hospital will fully cooperate.”
Just over ten minutes later, several power modification vehicles drove into the hospital, and dozens of electricity staff immediately threw themselves into upgrading and renovating the entire hospital’s lines.
Under the night, it wasn’t just this one hospital where such things were happening.
One military vehicle and police car after another drove into hospitals in various cities, and after initial inspection and takeover, more logistics support vehicles followed, with one project after another unfolding methodically under the night.
Yidong City underground base, Doomsday Plan Command Center; as one hospital electron accelerator after another was taken over, the number on the seizure group large screen kept jumping and increasing.
“Estimated two more hours, and all hospital particle accelerators can be fully taken over. About 7 hours later, all power upgrades and renovations completed.”
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