Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 158 Going underground!
As people busied themselves, the once somewhat spacious interior of the ion drilling equipment gradually became crowded.

The interior space, which was a full 50 square meters, was gradually filled with refrigeration equipment, superconducting cables, gas channels, and so on.

In this process, every step is meticulously executed, and every step undergoes repeated inspection and verification by experts.

Every tiny scratch will be exposed under rigorous inspection, and no mistake, no matter how minor, will be tolerated.

Because everyone knew that this was their only chance to directly operate this giant piece of equipment.

After that, sections of drill rod will be connected, and the drill bit will penetrate deeper and deeper into the ground, eventually reaching a depth of over 2 meters.

It's simply impossible for us to pull it out and repair the damage to the top.

Under such a rigorous attitude, even though everyone was working through the night and there was immense pressure from the impending doom, the installation of the internal equipment still took a full day.

Next, the second drill rod, also 70 meters long, was hoisted by a giant crane and connected to the first drill rod through physical fixing and welding.

The second section of the drill pipe requires fewer pieces of equipment than the first section, but it is still quite a lot.

The installation was finally completed. The special rope of the drilling equipment, which was directly suspended from the top of the drill rod by the stress relief of the cable-stayed bridge, was extended downward a little, allowing the drill bit to penetrate to a depth of 140 meters.

This special rope was originally developed for building a space elevator, but it was ultimately proven to be far too weak to undertake the construction task of a space elevator.

However, at this moment, it is more than enough to support the weight of the ion drilling equipment.

It is the world's most advanced special material, boasting the strongest toughness, greatest resistance to corrosion and wear, and tensile strength more than 100 times that of steel cables of the same volume.

A single, extremely thin rope is enough to suspend an adult. The combined force of these dozens of special ropes can easily hold the drilling equipment, even when it is finally assembled and weighs hundreds of thousands of tons.

As the drill bit goes deeper and the special ropes extend inward, the numerous complex superconducting cables and high-pressure pipelines inside the drilling equipment also extend inward a little at the same time.

Then came the third drill pipe, the fourth drill pipe...

The 500 assembly plants around the world did not stop after producing the drill bits, but continued to operate at full speed to produce the subsequent drill pipes.

The factory's production, the transportation by giant special trucks, the installation of drill pipes in the earth's crust base, and the continuous deepening of the drill pipes—this is a complete system that is subject to overall control.

Under precise control, drill pipes are produced in the factory and transported to each crustal base by giant trucks, just as the previous drill pipe has reached its depth and the next drill pipe is needed to continue.

The time error in this case will not exceed one hour.

At this moment, more than 6000 giant special trucks are speeding along highways around the world. And if you include the logistics support teams and route-finding teams for these vehicles, the number of people just responsible for transportation is close to 100,000.

In the logistics support command center of the Doomsday Project, Gu Changshan, who serves as the chief advisor for military support, sat quietly watching the red dots on the large screen in front of him, some fixed and some moving.

Countless complex lines connect the different red dots. The data flowing beside them is like a torrential downpour, so fast that it's impossible to see clearly.

In front of hundreds of computers, hundreds of staff members were on high alert, fully focused, and dared not slack off in the slightest.

Gu Changshan, on the other hand, remained completely calm. He had experienced this kind of situation before.

He knew what to pay attention to in such a large-scale scheduling, how to adjust it, and how to deal with each special situation.

Although the level of technology has changed and the manifestations of large-scale scheduling have also differed, some underlying and fundamental logics remain unchanged.

Under the unified command of the central command, section after section of drill pipe was transported, and the drill bit section continued to extend to deeper places.

At this moment, from Earth's crust No. 1 to Earth's crust No. 500 base, the seventh drill rod of the five hundred ion drilling equipment has uniformly penetrated to a depth almost level with the Earth's surface.

At this moment, the tip of the drill bit is only 10 meters away from the bottom of the cave.

Drilling is about to officially begin.

This massive piece of equipment, which brings together the wisdom of all relevant experts in human civilization and mobilizes resources from almost the entire world, has finally come to its final test.

Thousands of line workers climbed up and down various locations, meticulously inspecting the entire power supply system with the help of advanced equipment. Workers at each module remained at their posts, ready to handle any potential faults, even though these devices had already been inspected countless times.

The first facility to be activated was the Earth's Crust No. 1 Base.

"Crust One...Activate!"

The large, red button was pressed down hard. At that moment, a dull, low-frequency, and extremely faint buzzing sound filled the entire base.

People know that it is the sound of a super-strong current flowing, and the transformer, voltage regulator and other circuit equipment starting to operate at full power at the same time.

At this moment, the surging electricity from windmills, photovoltaic panels, dams, and nuclear power plants all over the world surged into the Earth's crust No. 1 base through superconducting lines.

It's like a breach suddenly appearing in a dam.

At that moment, the global power grid experienced clearly visible voltage and frequency fluctuations due to this sudden shock.

At this moment, the equipment has not yet entered full-power operation.

At the same time, in thermal power plants scattered around the world, under the orders of elderly experts with gray or completely white hair, the heavy ultra-supercritical turbines began to slowly turn.

If we compare the global power grid to a lake, and the Earth's crust No. 1 base to a dam that suddenly appears and allows water to flow wildly, then these thermal power plants are like rivers that were originally dry but now have water flowing back into the lake.

With each inflow and outflow, the downward trend in the lake's water level was quickly brought under control, and a new balance was achieved, maintaining the stability of the lake's water level.

This surging energy was then guided into the drill bit via the superconducting circuit.

The pre-injected high-pressure argon gas was directly ionized and heated, and then, under the control of a precise magnetic field, it suddenly rushed towards the hard rock in front of it.

The next moment, due to uneven heating, countless micro-explosions erupted on the rock surface. The next moment after that, the rock material was directly vaporized into gas.

(End of this chapter)