Chapter 38: Tianji
A helicopter with a massive fuselage roared down from the sky and landed in front of the factory building amid the somewhat shocked gazes of the people.
Those 30 large boxes were loaded into the fuselage and transported away in just a few minutes.
“Everyone has worked hard! Don’t drive your own cars; the company has prepared buses. Now everyone hurry home and get some good rest!”
The workers surged toward the factory area entrance in a bustling crowd.
General Manager Zhao retracted his gaze from the helicopter in the sky and muttered, “Damn, they’re even using helicopters to transport it. It really is urgent.
Old Zhu! Whatever it is, we’ll talk later. I’m going to sleep first!”
The only response was Manager Zhu’s snoring.
The bus had just started up when snoring filled the interior.
……
Apocalypse Base No. 7. Jiang Yang and Zhou Yu arrived together at the command room.
Gu Changshan was operating something on the computer, looking very busy, so Jiang Yang didn’t disturb him. Instead, he quietly stood behind the railing on the second floor of the hall, looking toward the large screen ahead.
He saw densely packed, intricately intersecting lines, constantly changing data beside the lines, and one warning signal after another popping up, only to be instantly handled by the more than one hundred on-site commanders in front of the large screen.
He knew that every piece of data on that large screen represented a “unit” in the Doomsday Plan at this moment.
This unit could be the installation progress of a piece of equipment at the Qinghu Lake laser interferometry gravitational wave observatory, or the leveling work at a site, or an excavator operating around the base, or a civilian factory temporarily conscripted.
It could also be a truck running on the road, or a helicopter transporting parts to a factory, and so on.
With the gravitational wave observatory and neutrino telescope as the two cores, every unit involved in this plan was processed by the supercomputer, displayed on this large screen, and organically integrated by the supercomputer, uniformly arranging production progress, installation progress, transport capacity allocation, and so on.
Under the command of this system, parts produced by secondary suppliers would be orderly delivered to primary suppliers, and integrated components produced by primary suppliers would be orderly delivered to the two bases.
In the telescope base, as soon as the previous module was installed, parts for the next module would arrive just in time.
At a primary supplier, as soon as the previous batch of equipment was produced, the truck delivering the next batch of parts would arrive at the factory within a five-minute error margin.
After unloading the cargo, the supplies prepared for this truck’s return trip would also arrive just in time at the loading platform, ready to be loaded and depart immediately.
This project, involving a total of tens of thousands of factories, millions of workers, tens of thousands of vehicles, and hundreds of thousands of subdivided tasks, was thus organized in an orderly manner, with no chaos no matter how massive the scale.
Feeling its vastness and complexity, Jiang Yang was slightly lost in thought.
Gu Changshan had finished his work at some point and came to Jiang Yang’s side.
“This ‘Tianji’ system was originally prepared for large-scale war. I didn’t expect it to be used here.
But this time can also be seen as a war, so it’s not unworthy of it.”
Jiang Yang looked at Gu Changshan in some surprise: “War?”
“Yes.
Once a large-scale war breaks out, every tank, armored vehicle, transport vehicle, rocket vehicle, individual soldier system, missile, artillery, drone, robot dog, bomber, etc., on the battlefield—every combat unit’s every camera, infrared detector, radar, etc.—all data will be connected to the Tianji System and accept its allocation.
The Tianji System can know every detail of the battlefield and make the most reasonable and precise commands based on battlefield data.”
He looked toward the large screen: “Just like now.”
Jiang Yang felt a shock from the depths of his soul.
He had originally thought that the events he experienced in his previous lives were fully sufficient to show the nation’s power.
He hadn’t expected his previous vision to be too narrow.
Before, he had still been worried about whether the Sen Mountain neutrino telescope and Qinghu Lake laser interferometry gravitational wave observatory could be completed on schedule.
After all, some things couldn’t be solved simply by piling on manpower and resources.
The more people, the greater the organizational difficulty, which could instead lead to more chaos and project delays.
But with this system, if every unit could be orderly organized, then it could truly achieve “more people, greater power,” without any internal chaos.
“Something this good—why didn’t you bring it out in the previous cycles?”
“Oh? It wasn’t brought out in the previous cycles?”
Gu Changshan paused, then said calmly: “That can only mean the mission difficulty wasn’t high enough, and the scale wasn’t big enough.”
“Alright then.”
Jiang Yang asked: “Has the ultrapure water problem been solved?”
At this moment, regarding issues related to project progress, Jiang Yang, having witnessed the power of the “Tianji” system, was no longer worried at all.
But the ultrapure water problem was a technical issue that couldn’t be solved by piling on manpower.
No matter how powerful the Tianji System was, it couldn’t build a large-scale water purification factory out of thin air within ten days. Even if it could build it, it couldn’t produce a full 50,000 tons of ultrapure water in a short time.
Relying on existing ultrapure water factories for production, then transporting it to the neutrino telescope base, was the only solution.
But the transportation process would inevitably contaminate the ultrapure water, which made it tricky.
“We already have a plan. It should be soon.”
“That’s good.”
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Dongshan Material Laboratory.
Under the night sky, it was brightly lit. Fully dozens of researchers were busy in the hall filled with precision equipment.
“Materials numbered 11526-11889 have been verified and do not meet the demand. Eliminate them.
Materials numbered 11890-12270 have arrived. Please complete detection within five hours.”
Hundreds of material samples were sent into the laboratory.
These materials were some metals, each with different luster, others seemed to be plastic, also possessing their own different properties.
The experimenters took these materials and placed them into detection equipment, one by one starting to test key performance indicators such as their stability and ion mobility.
Only materials stable enough could minimize pollution to the ultrapure water during the process of containing it.
Previously, there had been no demand for transporting ultrapure water, so suitable materials had to be found from existing ones.
First, a rough range was defined based on theoretical guidance. Then, over a hundred material laboratories scattered across dozens of cities began searching for materials meeting the standards.
After testing who knows how many kinds of materials, in a laboratory at a certain city, an operator suddenly raised his head.
“Material numbered 66548 meets the demand!”
