Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Time soon reached noon, and Chen Yan's scientific research and investigation convoy had arrived at the outskirts of the archipelago where the controllable nuclear fusion reactor was located.

"According to the markings on the drawing, the entrance to the controllable nuclear fusion reactor is on a hill in the center of the island in front of us... probably less than 300 meters away from us."

Chen Yan listened to Lindsay Robert Darwin say these words, and the telescope in his hand was already pointed at the location he said.

All he could see was a gloomy vastness in his field of vision, and the blizzard that came out almost completely blocked his field of vision. Even though he was only 300 meters away, and even using a telescope with the function of intelligently completing the picture using big data, he could only see a streak of light. Just a frozen arc.

"The hills are frozen."

Chen Yan said in a deep voice:
"We can break through the ice entrance, but what next?"

Another engineer standing behind him said:

“After we found the entrance we needed to do further damage because we didn’t have access to the reactor.

It was also because when the reactor started operating, the operation of the reactor had been completely handed over to the Turings. "

Chen Yan looked at Lindsay standing aside in astonishment.

The latter said sheepishly:

"Yes, it is a business undertaken by our company."

Chen Yan wiped his face and asked the engineer:
"But haven't the Turings left before? Are the Turings in this reactor an exception?"

The engineer said:
"It's hard to say... In order to consider production safety, Turing in the reactor's internal operation system used another network system, and the server was also independent of the Empire Internet. Therefore, if there were no accidents, Turing here would not It’s time to leave with those outside.”

After the engineer finished speaking, he added:
"I think the most important thing is whether the lighthouse here is intact. As long as the lighthouse no longer transmits network signals, the Turings inside the reactor will not be able to connect to the outside."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Yan had already figured out the second half of the sentence: Then, the Turings would not defect.

This engineer is Zhang Huan, who is in his 50s. He is not a staff member of the original logistics center, but a doctor of nuclear dynamics from Imperial National University who passed through the island chain and was originally going to Starlink.

Although he is a professional in nuclear dynamics, his professional research direction is controllable self-sustaining chain nuclear fission reaction, not controllable nuclear fusion.

He went to Starlink to learn the new technology of controllable nuclear fusion. Before he came, he never expected that the tsunami would come while he was waiting for the transfer for half an hour.

At the age when he knew his destiny, Zhang Heng had already downplayed the gains and losses. Since he was left on the island chain due to force majeure, he should do something on the island chain.

When Chen Yan found him out of the crowd, he attributed the fact that Chen Yan was able to find him to the backup of his information in the logistics center server - he had no idea that Chen Yan was an extraordinary person.

The gap between different subdivisions is like a natural chasm. Researching some subjects will inevitably come into contact with the extraordinary society, while some subjects will not have any intersection with the extraordinary society at all.

"Although I have not specifically come into contact with a controllable nuclear fusion reactor, I am very familiar with the theory of a controllable nuclear fusion reaction. As long as I see the working process of this reactor, I can understand that the scientific community has never cracked it before. Those aspects - the control of complex physical phenomena such as high temperature and high density, the stability of plasma, the thermal radiation loss of materials and the control of reaction products - after understanding these points, nothing else is actually too difficult. ."

Chen Yan couldn't understand it at all and could only judge from his emotions that the master was still very confident.

Zhang Huan said again:
"And this reactor is completely automated and digitally operated, and does not require human intervention. As long as we go in and see it, we will definitely know it."

Zhang Huan said, raising the radiation alarm monitoring device in his hand and taking a look at the radiation value.

"At 0.2 microsieverts per hour, there is indeed no radiation leakage. We are safe."

Chen Yan said:

"What about the hollowed-out interior of this hill...where are the external engineering facilities of the reactor?"

Zhang Huan glanced at him and replied:

"It's hard to say. It depends on how well their project is done."

Chen Yan understood what he meant from his eyes: there is danger, but not necessarily. It all depends on luck.

Sure enough, we still got to this point.

Chen Yan was mentally prepared to turn into a monster after being irradiated. He had been thinking on the way here that he had the Spring God strain in his body, and he might be exposed to radiation. When the radiation comes, the body will continue to distort, and the strain I don’t want to let myself die, because I don’t know what kind of monster I will become by then.

Chen Yan took a gentle breath, letting the cold air calm his heart, and then said in a deep voice:

"Then, I'll take the lead."

Zhang Huan did not look at him this time. Chen Yan felt a little embarrassed from him:
"Don't... we need to break the ice first, and then use telemetry devices to detect radiation levels."

When describing some of the more serious consequences, he used a joking tone to make the atmosphere in the car less tense and everyone less panicked:

"Detection is inevitable. If something goes wrong inside, even the mechanical hive won't be able to escape, let alone us who are so close."

Chen Yan cooperated with him and said in a complaining tone:
“Either there’s no electricity and you freeze to death, or you get exposed to radiation and die in pain from various diseases…fuck, you have to choose one.”

Due to his current status, everyone smiled, but this smile did not have any effect on everyone's mood, but it made the atmosphere more embarrassing and eliminated some of their fears.

Led by Chen Yan, the team members wearing protective clothing quickly entered the wind and snow and set up a radiation telemetry device on the ice.They used a drone to blast the ice at the entrance to the reactor. The heavy snow caused the drone that had undergone simple supercooling protection modifications to quickly lose power and fall near the blasting point. Fortunately, the wireless signal to control the bomb was still there. So as the explosion sounded, the ice outside the reactor entrance was finally lifted.

"Snow that is too cold will quickly freeze the entrance again, we need to be faster..."

After the ice was lifted, Lindsay opened the radiation isolation door at the entrance through a control signal. In the next minute, the radiation telemetry device detected the average radiation inside the door——

"0.31 microsieverts per hour, the reactor control facility is safe inside!"

On the way here, Zhang Huan told everyone that in theory, as long as the radiation value does not exceed 0.5 microsieverts per hour, it is safe. But what exactly is this theory and where does the standard come from? Zhang Huan did not explain. No one wants to hear it, because no matter what the radiation concentration is, everyone has to go through this.

After a while, the vehicle arrived at the foot of the hill. Led by Chen Yan and Zhang Huan, the team members wearing protective clothing began to climb the mountain. Lindsay stayed in the vehicle, monitoring the radiation status at any time and being ready to provide rescue at any time.

Ten minutes later, they braved the wind and snow to enter the gate of the controllable fusion reactor control facility, and began to move along the wide passage toward the location of the reactor control equipment.

After entering, Chen Yan saw that the entire hill was almost hollowed out. Steel frames were erected on the rock walls inside, and under the steel frames was a wide ring-shaped test site, which can be called a "huge" ring. There is a glowing "dome" placed in the center of the test site, which must be the body of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor.

When they came to the "dome", they saw that the metal parts surrounding the dome were densely packed computer systems and a large number of monitors connected to the system. These monitors were still constantly dancing with various symbols that Chen Yan could not understand. .

"It looks like it's operating normally."

Zhang Huan came to a certain screen, took out a USB flash drive, connected the USB flash drive to the computer system, and then typed a few times on the embedded keyboard - nothing changed on the screen.

"Huh? The key backed up in the logistics center server is not valid."

Zhang Huan's tone was very bad.

He pulled a chair from the side and began to input commands into the computer. Chen Yan could only understand that he was inputting commands, but could not understand what he was doing. He could only feel Zhang Huan's already restrained emotions. Become more impatient.

It doesn't look like the process is going smoothly.

After a while, Zhang Huan leaned back on his chair and said in a very serious voice:
"The administrator key has expired. It may have been deleted, or it may have been tampered with by something... In short, it has expired. We cannot obtain administrator rights for the external control facilities of the reactor for the time being."

Chen Yan pulled up another chair, sat next to Zhang Huan, and said:
"I'll find a way."

Zhang Huan looked at Chen Yan in surprise:

"What? Don't mess around! Our current situation is very dangerous, not only because we do not have administrator rights, but also because the tampering of the key starts from within the computer system."

He tried to make Chen Yan understand the danger of the crisis at this moment:
"From the entrance of the archipelago to the outer sea surface - that is, the large area of ​​ice outside the current round island, and then to the sky around the archipelago, according to the documents you gave me, these are all the capabilities of this reactor system The area directly affected means that once the reactor leaks, the chain reaction will rapidly worsen the situation on the first island chain, and the mechanical hive will definitely be affected.

It is also possible to detonate the power equipment of the second island chain through underwater cables... or even the reactor of the second island chain! "

Chen Yan subconsciously retracted his hand from the keyboard, frowned and asked:

"Why is it related to the second island chain? Aren't the submarine cables here only supply power to the mechanical hive?"

Zhang Huan denied:
"No, the five island chains are a complete system. Each island chain is not completely independent. Taking the nuclear reaction system as an example, the connection established between the five reactors uses a method called [Transmission Energy Optimization] New technology, this technology allows the controllable nuclear fusion reactors of the five island chains to be connected to achieve the effect of five 1’s adding up to greater than 5.”

Zhang Huan paused here:
"Actually, I don't understand it. It stands to reason that although the distance between the five island chains is very far, it is completely possible to build a [central reactor] and spread underwater cables, so that a single reactor can pass through the underwater cables. Supplying power to five island chains at the same time - the electricity is enough. Even if five more island chains are added, the power generation efficiency of a controllable nuclear fusion reactor is enough to support all power-consuming activities.

But the island chain didn't do this. Instead, each island chain built a reactor!The danger has suddenly increased many times, I can't understand..."

Zhang Huan didn't understand, but Chen Yan, who had access to the confidential documents of the logistics center, probably knew something about the situation at that time:

The big figures who make up the logistics centers of each island chain are complex and have many factions. Each of them shoulders the mission of the interest group behind them. One of the main reasons why there is no "big governor" in the five island chains is because No one except the grand leader can suppress these guys. Maybe someone has this qualification, but no one has such means for the time being.

From Chen Yan's current perspective, if the five island chains could have a "grand governor", the benefits would be considerable, and they might even be able to resist the apocalypse to a certain extent.

It's too late to think about this now.

Chen Yan asked:

"If we can regain administrator rights, what should we do next?"

Zhang Huan said in a deep voice:
"After obtaining administrator rights, we must first check the operating status of the reactor to see whether the electric energy accumulated these days is stored or where it has gone... It stands to reason that this thing can adjust the output power, but now We don't know anything about its operation.

After that, we need to detect and check the integrity of the submarine cable. We must ensure that the cable is intact before power can be supplied.

I guess there is nothing wrong with the cable itself... Judging from the documents, for safety reasons, that thing was built to very high specifications. It is not just the cable itself that is under the sea, but also the ones built under the seabed. The tunnel project, as well as the maintenance facilities and convenience maintenance equipment supporting the entire tunnel project, as well as other small infrastructure built to strengthen the tunnel project.

The key lies in the cable interface on the mechanical honeycomb side... We conducted an inspection before coming here. Part of the cable interface there was severely damaged, which will definitely affect the power transmission. However, considering that the power supply itself is unlimited, so We can accept the loss of power transmission...I mean, as long as the undamaged cable interface on the mechanical hive side can still operate normally, this is the last step of the matter! "

After Zhang Heng finished speaking, he pointed at the complex computer system in front of him:

"It stands to reason that all system operation problems will be fed back to the system through the network. Therefore, if we can obtain administrator rights, we can troubleshoot all problematic parts through the operation information fed back to the system... Of course, no It’s best if something goes wrong.”

Chen Yan looked into his eyes:

"I'm going to figure this out."