Doomsday rat

As of the end of January, Hong Tao's diary has recorded more than 20 domestic survivor groups and more than 50 foreign survivor groups. The largest number is hundreds, and the smallest is just a couple.

Even though they are thousands of miles away, have never met each other, and are in the precarious end of the world, everyone cherishes the same kind more than before. No matter what happens or not, they have to come up to report every day to prove that they are still alive.

If someone suddenly fails to turn on the report one day, all radio stations will try their best to call continuously, and everyone congratulates each other if they get a reply, and mourns together if they don’t get a reply, as if losing a family member.

The League of Survivors, the proposal was first put forward by a French survivor.His team is a little bit awesome, and chose the base on the Eiffel Tower, yes, it is.

Some people may ask, how can people live in that broken iron tower with air leakage everywhere?Hong Tao's answer is that not only can people live in the iron tower, but it is also a very good refuge!

There are two restaurants on the second and third floors, one is tens of meters above the ground, and the other is more than 100 meters away. If you live on it, you will not be exposed to wind or rain. At least spring, summer and autumn will be very comfortable.

And the iron tower base is really easy to defend and difficult to attack. Unless you use cannons, no matter how many people come, you have to line up and climb up the stairs more than one meter wide, with a total of more than 1600 levels.

The leader of this French group of survivors is Pascal Flor, who is two years older than Hong Tao. He is the chef of the three-story Michelin restaurant and a disciple of the famous French three-star chef Alain Ducasse.

The catastrophe happened on a Parisian evening when there was still a table in the restaurant.Two of them mutated, chasing and biting the other two companions.After a short period of panic, Pascal immediately rushed out holding the ax for chopping ribs, and one of them got down on the ground to save the two ladies. He is really old and strong!

Afterwards, he took two ladies and went down to the second floor with the weapons he could find. He rescued an apprentice chef from the back kitchen of the restaurant. He wanted to go to the square while the iron was hot.

But standing on the iron tower and looking far away, the surrounding scene can't help but make people feel cold all over.Zombies are chasing and biting humans everywhere, all network communication is interrupted, electricity is completely paralyzed, drinking water and gas are also stopped, and the entire urban area of ​​Paris is plunged into darkness... except for the sporadic fires.

Old Pascal did not despair, and led his apprentices to explore around the iron tower, and rescued seven people within two weeks.But farther away, there was nothing they could do, so they had to use the restaurant on the iron tower as a base first, and quickly set up a radio station. Taking advantage of the height of the iron tower, they were the second batch of groups to get in touch with the outside world.

When mentioning the French, the first thing many people think of may be romance. In fact, the French have another label, Ge Ming!Especially in modern history, the French are almost addicted to doing Geming, which has also affected many countries, including Russia and old China.

Even though this guy is a cook, Ge Ming's gene also flows in his blood, and he is thinking about how to establish a new order as soon as he is full.While other survivor groups are exchanging their survival experiences with each other, he proposed the idea of ​​establishing a survivor alliance.

He spared no effort in lobbying, and it finally came to fruition. After voting with an absolute advantage, he was elected as the first chairman of the Survivor Alliance. Hong Tao voted for it on behalf of the rescue team.

This vote was not in vain. Although the Pingnan Army and the Flying Tigers were also equipped with radio stations at the time, they were newcomers and had little say.Hong Tao was the first group of members to communicate with each other by radio, and he also contributed a lot of experience in fighting zombies. It was logical that he was elected as the chairman of the Asian region of the Survivor Alliance.

Rights... Except for contacting survivor groups in Asia, developing as many new groups as possible to join the alliance, and organizing votes on proposals initiated by the alliance, there is no right, and even if there is, it cannot be implemented.

In fact, Hong Tao didn't take this title seriously. If there is one thing, he will contact with survivor groups in various places. Everyone can exchange experience and complement each other, which is beneficial and harmless.

But things in the world are so weird, it was originally an illusory position, but having it is better than not having it.Brother Mascar's ability to combine horizontally and vertically is super strong, and he has organized the alliance more and more closely. Various rules have been continuously proposed and passed, and he has really created a little bit of power from scratch.

What right? The right to know!Only groups that have joined the Survivor Alliance are eligible to receive the alliance's guidance materials.And these materials were originally submitted by various survivor groups, but after being aggregated, they turned into secrets that are not to be disclosed casually, and can only be obtained through authorization.

So who will authorize it? Muska is very smart. He didn't hold on to this right, but delegated it to the chairman of the alliance of each state.In other words, anyone in the Asian region who wants to obtain these materials must have Hong Tao's consent.

Chapter 251 Another Threat

How did Hong Tao deal with it?He didn't advocate this kind of practice on purpose, but reason told him that it's normal to do so.Members in a group are divided into different ranks, let alone the world.

So he also asked how the chairmen of other continental alliances used their rights, and then revised and changed the rules and framework of the Asian region.Depending on the level of contribution, different levels of material are provided to Asian survivor groups.

What is contribution? Of course, it is the experience of turning in survival.For example, if you find a way to grow a certain vegetable, well, tell me, and I will submit it to the alliance headquarters. After the approval of the chairman of each continent, you can count the contribution and get the corresponding points.

The higher the points, the more survival data summed up by the alliance.The more each continent contributes, the more information the president of the continent gets from the alliance.

The more information the survivor group gets, the more beneficial it will be for its own development.This thing seems to be an exchange network. What is exchanged is not material, but knowledge and experience.

Is there any benefit? There must be.After it is in operation, it can further stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, give full play to the spirit of three cobblers being the best of Zhuge Liang, and use teamwork to replace the disadvantages of each family's self-sweeping, so that the development speed is more even and faster.

This time Hong Tao received a notice from the alliance headquarters, and then he remembered to issue a warning to the whole Asia, especially the domestic survivor groups, so as to prevent them from repeating the same mistakes.

The content of the announcement is very simple and very poignant. A group of survivors in California, USA sent a final telegram three days ago to bid farewell to all survivors.They had to evacuate their base in downtown Los Angeles, find a way to fight a bloody path in the streets where zombies roamed, and move north or east.

They don't know whether the transfer will be successful, but they have to act, because the Devil's Valley Nuclear Power Plant, tens of kilometers away from downtown Los Angeles, exploded, and a huge white steam column shot straight into the sky.

This message was sent by the alliance headquarters free of charge, and the presidents of the continental alliances are required to unconditionally forward as many as possible.There is only one purpose, to remind and call on all survivors to stay away from the nuclear power plant and various nuclear facility areas as soon as possible, the farther the better.Because at present, no one can determine how far this pollution will spread and to what extent.

Of course, Hong Tao forwarded the announcement immediately, and checked the list one by one to confirm that all the registered survivor groups in Asia had responded, and then began to think about how to make reasonable suggestions to the domestic survivor groups.

However, before making a suggestion, you have to search for relevant information. Such a serious matter must not be just spoken, and it must be supported by some data.

Without the Internet, it is not so convenient to find information.Hong Tao ran to three bookstores to gather some evidence, a few maps of the distribution of nuclear power plants across the country in the past two years.

I don’t know if I don’t look at it, but I’m startled when I look at it!As of the year before last, excluding those under construction, a total of 16 nuclear power plants have been built and put into operation in China, covering all coastal provinces except Hebei.

Hongyan River in Liaoning, Haiyang and Shidaowan in Shandong, Tianwan in Jiangsu, Qinshan, Fangjiashan and Sanmen in Zhejiang, Ningde and Fuqing in Fujian, Daya Bay, Lingao, Taishan and Yangjiang in Guangdong, Fangchenggang in Guangxi , Changjiang on Hainan Island.

So will a nuclear power plant leak?According to the analysis of two people who have worked in related industries in the Russian and Brazilian survivor groups, it is 100% inevitable.

Nuclear reactors are generally divided into pool type and shell type. The former is mainly used for experiments, while the latter is a nuclear power plant.This kind of reactor needs to pump light water (purified water) continuously into the pressure vessel to cool the reactor core, and at the same time use the generated steam to drive a steam turbine to generate electricity.

Finally, it returns to the condenser to be cooled by ordinary water or sea water, waiting to be pumped into the pressure shell again.This cycle is a closed circuit, light water will not come into contact with cooling water, and there will be no leakage.

Once the external power goes out, the electric pump stops working, and the light water cannot be recirculated, the temperature of the reactor will increase sharply, which will eventually cause the core to melt, burn through the pressure vessel, and then explode in various chemical reactions, including steam.

In order to prevent this phenomenon, designers have thought of many ways.For example, once the external power supply stops, the backup power supply will be started immediately to continue to supply power to the water pump, and then the diesel generator set will be started to keep the light water cycle to cool down.

At the same time, the control rods in the reactor will automatically fall, preventing the fuel rods and neutron rods from continuing to react.This set of combined punches is successfully completed, and the reactor can basically be shut down in a cold reactor.

However, the energy reserves of diesel generators and backup power sources are limited. If the power supply cannot be restored for a long time, and no one is going to add fuel to the generator, or due to a mechanical failure due to long-term operation, the waste heat of the fuel rods cannot be dissipated. Accumulated in the pressure shell, and finally lost cooling melt pile.

In fact, this problem was also taken into consideration when designing the third-generation reactors. The designer adopted the principle of gravity to keep the cooling water circulating, or simply submerged the pressure shell directly. As long as the evaporation capacity can be guaranteed to replenish water, the core will not melt.But there will definitely be a nuclear leak, which can be regarded as a strategy of losing the army and keeping the handsome.

As for whether the second-generation reactors have added more safety facilities to ensure that the reactors can be shut down by cold reactors, the situation in different countries is different.However, in the case of long-term unattended operation, no reactor can say that it can successfully shut down 100% of the cold reactor.Sometimes theoretically feasible does not mean practically feasible, and many unexpected factors may affect the results.

The steam explosion of the nuclear power plant in Devil's Valley, California is an example. A large amount of hydrogen gas was produced in its pressure shell due to chemical reactions. In the end, instead of igniting and exploding, it burst the pressure shell like continuously inflating a balloon.

So how much human life will be affected by a leak or explosion in a nuclear power plant?There are different opinions on this, and the two survivors in the industry can't give an accurate answer.

They just cited a more famous example, Chernobyl.The isolation range at that time was 30 kilometers, and no one could live in this area.The scope of pollution after the incident was 100 kilometers. People can live within this range, but many agricultural products cannot be exported.

However, the vicinity of the nuclear power plant can already be visited. The plants are growing well, and there are animals living. The radiation value in most places tends to be normal.Of course, the core is still buried deep, and if the cover is opened, the amount of radiation will still be large.

Although the concentration of nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants is dozens of times lower than that of nuclear weapons, it cannot hold up to a large amount. If hundreds of tons of fuel rods really melt, the instantaneous radiation dose may not be very high, and the sustainable time will definitely be longer than a nuclear explosion.

Anyway, the closer you get to these facilities, the more dangerous they are, and the devil knows if they are really cold reactors shutting down.In fact, even if the cold reactor is shut down, there is no guarantee that it will never leak. How many years?Over ten years?decades?It's always going to leak anyway...

In this case, Hong Tao certainly didn't want the few remaining survivors to suffer another radiation test. It was for this purpose that he suggested evacuating the coastal cities as soon as possible, and he also explained it to them.

As for why the new base should be chosen in a big city in the mainland, and even encourage people to come to the capital.It's really not that I want to take advantage of the fire to strengthen my strength, but I thought of another problem.Since nuclear power plants are not safe, is there a possibility of nuclear bombs leaking?

I also consulted those two industry insiders on this issue, but they are second-hand and have only been in contact with commercial nuclear facilities, and they don't know much about military ones.The general statement is that both atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs have a shelf life, usually around 20 years.

After the shelf life has passed, it must be destroyed or extended, but no matter which way it needs to be operated by people.If no one handles it in time, the leak is certain, but it is not known how long it will happen.

No matter how long, no one would want to live with a decommissioned nuclear bomb that could leak at any time.So the question is, who knows where the nuclear bomb is kept?

Chapter 252 Another Threat 2

Obviously, this question is not clear to ordinary people, and it is also unclear to middle-level cadres and even military personnel.

So what to do?Hong Tao came up with a way to gather in the capital.He can guarantee that there must be no nuclear bombs placed or stored here, including a large area around it.

The reason, just look at the layout of nuclear power plants, all coastal provinces have them, but Hebei doesn't!If you have the right to decide where there is a nuclear facility, and you will not be close to your home, this is also a personal issue, not a technical issue.

If you don't want to or don't have the conditions to come to the capital, it doesn't matter, try to go near a big city, that kind of place should not be too close to the nuclear bomb.In other places, it is possible, or the probability is relatively high.

Is there anyone willing to come? Indeed, the first one to express their opinion was a group of survivors near Dongying. They felt that it was not safe to be too close to the peninsula, and they planned to move north.

The reason why he can't come is the same as Hong Tao can't go out to search and rescue, heavy snow!Covering almost the entire area, traffic was completely paralyzed.

This is an objective situation, and it is useless to worry.The good news is that several survivor groups in the south intend to listen to the alliance's advice and slowly approach the big cities in the interior to find suitable bases.

There is another thing that no one thought of. Several survivor groups located on the coast must also want to move out, but they are blind to the big cities in the inland, so they don't know how to choose.

We chatted and chatted, and actually discussed the merger issue with several survivor groups located in big cities in the mainland. It is not clear whether it will succeed or not, but the trend is good.

Inspired by these groups, Hong Tao felt that this model should be promoted all over the world, calling on everyone to find the most ideal living base, and then merge those that can be merged, and don’t force those that cannot be merged, and can reasonably allocate development space Not bad.

This proposal was also responded to by most members of the alliance, and the bold shouted out the size and coordinates of the base on the spot, and provided them to the survivor groups who needed to relocate, allowing them to choose freely.

By the way, regarding the nuclear bomb, there is another question that needs to be clarified.Some people say that both the United States and Russia have something called the doomsday system. If it loses human control, it will automatically launch a nuclear bomb according to the predetermined blacklist, and carry out a final counterattack, pulling all human beings to the back together.

Is there such a system?The answer is that there may be, but the way it works is not the same as the legend.

This system should not be turned on at ordinary times, and the basis for judging after it is turned on is not whether there is a power outage or whether there is a human response, but by measuring the radiation value in the atmosphere. Only when it is determined that a large-scale nuclear war has occurred will the counterattack mechanism be triggered. .

If you think about it carefully, it should be like this. Human beings have never fully believed in automatic systems, let alone hand over their lives to a so-called automatic system.Because once it fails, it will be the end of the day, and you will not be able to sleep. This is still human nature.

In addition, the nuclear counterattack force includes not only road-based missiles, but also ballistic missile nuclear submarines. Each submarine is a nuclear arsenal, enough to destroy a country.

It is impossible to have no reaction time when suffering a nuclear attack. There is no need to drive such a system that no one knows when it will blow itself up all day, and let myself and everyone sit on the crater and suffer.

In addition to the suggestion of radiation protection, Hong Tao also raised a more realistic question, how to prevent natural disasters, the most urgent one at present is floods.

He suggested that survivor groups with conditions should not only focus on immediate convenience, but try to find higher-lying buildings as backup bases, and relocate as soon as there is a large-scale rainfall.

But you can't go to too remote places, and you have to be as close to the city as possible to find living supplies.Hong Tao doesn't care about what is suitable and what is not. He is not an expert in geology, and he doesn't have the ability to control it.

The rescue team started a large-scale base renovation, and the Pingnan Army and the Flying Tigers were not idle.The Flying Tigers were the first to make achievements. They listened to Hong Tao's suggestion and assembled the radio relay equipment in less than two months. They also repaired a generator with the assistance of Li Xiang. The start-up was successful at the end of January of the new year.

This is a set of Kenwood repeater equipment with a power of 45 watts. Both the receiving and transmitting antennas are installed on the roof of the third phase of China World Trade Center, with an altitude of more than 330 meters.The coverage area... Theoretically, it should be able to reach about 150 kilometers, but the actual measured value is none, and no one can run that far now.

The Flying Tigers did a few simple tests. They asked people to bring several walkie-talkies of different brands and models, drove a motorcycle on the Jingha Expressway, and ran all the way to the Xianghe Tollgate.The straight-line distance is about [-] kilometers, and the uplink and downlink signals are quite good.

With this set of equipment, no matter the rescue team or the members of the rescue team, they can contact each other within a radius of [-] kilometers, and there is no problem that the hand-held walkie-talkie has a low transmission power and cannot receive each other.

Of course, if the walkie-talkie is in a basement or in a building, the signal will definitely be attenuated to varying degrees, but as long as it comes to the ground and there are no high shelters around, at least within [-] kilometers, it will be fine.

This is not only because the equipment the Flying Tigers found has relatively high power, but the biggest advantage is the building. 330 meters high, even if you stand on it with a handheld walkie-talkie with a few watts of power, the communication distance will double.This is the case with radio communication, power is secondary, and height is the key parameter that determines distance!

However, the repeater also has a disadvantage, that is, it cannot be kept secret.Its uplink frequency and downlink frequency are fixed to facilitate the transmission and reception of the walkie-talkie.But in this way, everything you say is tantamount to a public broadcast, as long as other people's walkie-talkies are also set to receive this frequency, they can hear it.

Therefore, the relay station can only be used as a public contact method for the rescue team, the disaster relief army, and the Flying Tigers. If each family wants to make long-distance confidential calls, they must set up a repeater station and change the call frequency every day. The greatest possible prevention of eavesdropping.

This job is relatively easy for the rescue team. Hong Tao has a reserve of knowledge in this area and the equipment is easy to find.There is no 330-meter antenna available, so we can make do with a [-]-meter-high roof. The big deal is that the communication distance is not that far, and it is enough to cover tens of kilometers.

As for Hong Tao on the side of the Pingnan Army, he didn't have to worry about it, he could help with the installation and commissioning, and exchange things!An old lady asked for more than 100 rounds of ammunition. It's your turn to beg me, so why work for nothing!

The Pingnan Army didn't make any big moves during this time, but Hong Tao knew what they were doing, and they were busy building a new base!The source of this news is relatively reliable, and it was disclosed by Zhou Yuan unintentionally.

Hong Tao didn't know if she hadn't intended it, anyway, since she took away the planting manual, she came here every now and then, sometimes with a dark-skinned man, taking pictures and measuring around the greenhouse in the park, Study very seriously.

"He didn't know about this until after you publicly issued a warning. At that time, he yelled and dropped things. He seldom asked about the radio station before, but now he has to watch the records every day, and asked me to train two as soon as possible. Telegraph operator. It won’t be long before I have to be laid off!”

Zhou Yuan came here by herself today, just in time for Hong Tao to communicate with the Survivor Alliance on the radio in the office area, so she simply sat down beside her and refused to leave.

"Isn't it? I have to serve everyone if I don't have bullshit rights. What's the point of getting angry?" Hong Tao really didn't expect Zhou Yuan to take the initiative to expose Gao Tianyi's background, and he didn't realize that the regional title of the Survivor League would have such a big effect .

Yan Qiang also knew about this, and he didn't express anything other than ridiculing his idleness. He even refused to be the secretary-general, saying that he didn't have the leisure to play nonsense with a group of foreigners.

"You may think it's not important, but in some people's eyes, it is a great advantage." Seeing that Hong Tao was interested in this topic, Zhou Yuan changed to a more comfortable sitting position, and it seemed that she wanted to continue the chat.

"All ears..." Hong Tao himself was willing to explain others' doubts. Seeing Zhou Yuan's posture, he simply took off his earphones, raised his legs and lit a cigarette, pretending to be listening carefully.

Chapter 253 Cracks

"Sometimes I'm very curious about you... It is reasonable to say that you can make the rescue team look good, you should be a person with a lot of means, vision, and ability, but sometimes I feel that you are a little naive What? At first I thought you were pretending, and some people like to play the game of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. But after a long time of contact, I don’t think it looks like it. Can you tell the truth, are you pretending?” Zhou Yuan Instead of answering the question right away, he asked an unrelated question first.

"This question is too embarrassing, I can't answer it!" It's a big taboo for someone to figure out his own thinking mode, and Hong Tao will definitely not tell the whole story.Even if I want to say it, I can't start it, I can't tell others, I have lived for several lifetimes, who will believe it!

"...Well, let's take the chairman of the alliance as an example. Don't you see huge benefits from it?" Although Zhou Yuan was very dissatisfied with this answer, she also took it seriously.In fact, if someone asked her this question, she would also be unable to answer it.It's not often seen even between husband and wife.

"Benefits... use this name to fool people and take the opportunity to expand your power?" Not to mention, if Zhou Yuan didn't remind, Hong Tao really didn't think about it. This is a sentence that wakes up the dreamer.

"Shouldn't it?" Zhou Yuan was even more confused, why did she have to remind her of such a simple idea?Isn't this the basic quality of a superior!Unless it is deliberately pretending to be a grandson.

"So even if I don't do anything, Commander Gao won't sleep peacefully on the couch!" Hong Tao understood and understood it completely.

Zhou Yuan was questioning why she didn't use the name of the chairman of the Asian League to lure other survivor groups to join her, instead of publicly sounding the alarm.

Even if you want to be reminded, you should talk alone. If one fails or two fail, there will always be someone who will be persuaded.As long as you get here, you can't survive independently from any point of view, and you have to join the rescue team 100%.

After joining, it can also prove the benefits of doing so to more survivor groups, thereby attracting more defectors.Even if there are those who can't come, the name of the rescue team can be advertised, so that the concept of the chairman of the regional alliance can be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After that, as long as there is a team that needs to change places or wants to keep warm, the rescue team must still be the first choice.The fact that a waste of talk can make the group gain both fame and fortune, there is nothing wrong with it!

Gao Tianyi should have thought of this level too, that's why he got angry.He has worked so hard to manage the disaster relief army, and he definitely doesn't plan to be swallowed up by the rescue team in the future.Don't look at him as narrow-minded, but he has great ambitions, and he is not a character who is willing to be inferior to others.

The rescue team and the peace army are inherently unable to integrate, and they are even opposite no matter how you look at it.If you want to ask the management of the Pingnan Army to give up the rights you have already acquired with a few words of righteousness, that is a dream.

But if the rescue team becomes bigger and stronger and has an absolute right to speak, it means that their future living space will be fundamentally compressed, and it may even affect the entry and exit of the bottom-level personnel of the Palestine Army.

Who would like to be treated like a half-slave? If you can't resist, you can't run away.There is a ready-made rescue team that you can go to. Where to go to live is not a job, and if you get mixed up again, it will be the same as in the Peaceful Army.

At that time, if there is no rescue team to attack the Pingnan Army, it will fall apart by itself.So Gao Tianyi must hate himself, not because of personal grievances, but because he blocked his way.

"Look, you suddenly became smart again, as if you knew I was going to ask these questions!" Hong Tao answered correctly, but Zhou Yuan didn't praise her, but was very dissatisfied, feeling like she was being played by someone.

"Hehehe, talent and intelligence are not enough! Don't think about me, let's talk about the Ping Nanjun. If this problem is not solved, all the previous efforts will be in vain. You and I definitely don't want to fight each other. To be honest, it's normal. How many people are willing to fight!"

As in previous lives, the unexplainable problems are all due to the goodness of the brain.There is no way to prove this stuff, believe it or not.But hiding his secret is not something to be happy about. There is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, how to make Gao Tianyi stop being suspicious, even temporarily.

"If you and I change places, or at this moment, do you think I will ask this stupid question?" But Zhou Yuan was obviously not convinced, and her mood was still not very friendly, and she spoke sideways.

"...Why did you help me?" When Hong Tao saw those clear eyes, his back suddenly felt chills, and at the same time, a figure of a woman appeared in his mind, Jiang Zhuyi!