Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 35 Pure Water
Upon uttering the word "equipment," You Zhicheng's expression became much more serious: "This is the most important thing."

Equipment production has a cycle. The equipment required by our laboratory has extremely high performance and processing precision requirements, and it is simply impossible to mass-produce it in a short period of time.

Even if we temporarily abandon those auxiliary facilities, such as dormitory areas and canteen areas, and focus only on the equipment itself, the number of equipment required is still extremely large.

Photomultiplier tubes, pure water purification and circulation systems, circuitry, piping, temperature control, supercomputing—even the steel plates of the telescope's main water tank require custom-made components—they must possess extremely high stability; otherwise, the particles constituting them would diffuse into the ultrapure water, significantly impacting detection accuracy and efficiency.

How many suppliers do you have? What are their lead times?

There are a total of 376 core component suppliers.

But let's not forget that they are Tier 1 suppliers. To produce the equipment we need, they also need to source parts, raw materials, and so on from Tier 2 suppliers.

The total number of suppliers involved in the entire chain is probably in the thousands.

The original supply cycle was to complete the delivery of a total of 256 batches of equipment within 12 months, followed by gradual installation to build the telescope.

As he stated these figures, a hint of despair crept across You Zhicheng's face: "It's impossible for thousands of factories to complete equipment production within ten days."

Gu Changshan remained silent for a moment, but still wrote the numbers down in his notebook, and then said, "Next item."

"The next one is even more difficult: ultrapure water."

Ultrapure water is a core component of the neutrino telescope, and it must be maintained in an extremely pure state.

Well, to put it simply, the design specifications for our Moriyama base require that there be only one impurity ion per 300 million water molecules, and that it must not be radioactive.

In contrast, even the purest purified water sold on the market contains impurities, with about one impurity ion per 3 million water molecules, and there are no requirements regarding its radioactivity.

This is roughly equivalent to adding a pinch of salt to a swimming pool. Our telescope, on the other hand, is like having only a pinch of salt in a lake.

Normally, for this level of pure water, we would need to build a dedicated factory here at the base to produce it. But…

The factory hasn't even started construction yet. The original plan was to begin civil engineering in three months.

Gu Changshan asked, "Can you find a way to transport it from other places?"

You Zhicheng shook his head: "Pure water must be prepared on-site. The reason is simple: the transportation process itself can cause the pure water to be contaminated."

Gu Changshan didn't ask any more questions, but instead made another note in his notebook.

"We'll figure something out."

He closed his notebook and stood up: "From now on, the Moriyama Neutrino Telescope base will be temporarily under our control."

"Yes, we promise to cooperate fully."

……

Standing in the Senshan base, looking at the endless mountains under the setting sun in the distance, Lu Zhaoming's face showed a touch of emotion.

"It's difficult."

He shook his head and sighed.

Of course, difficulty is not a reason not to do it. It's just that he knew in his heart that even if they actually completed this seemingly impossible task, it would have no meaning for this life.

"I only hope that the information we've gathered through our struggles in this life can truly help us in the next, and not be wasted..."

The two turned around, boarded the helicopter next to them, and roared away.

The group arrived and left quickly, but the atmosphere at the Moriyama base became heavy due to the unexpected arrival of these visitors.

"What do we do next? They haven't given us any orders." You Zhicheng was silent for a moment, then sighed, "Just do what needs to be done. Issue a notice: all leave is canceled, and everyone must return to base as quickly as possible."

Working overtime tonight!

The entire base was bustling with activity.

Less than an hour later, You Zhicheng, who was checking the blueprints, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

"Manager You, please go and check! It's outside, outside..."

You Zhicheng took a high-speed elevator and hurriedly came down from more than 2000 meters underground to the ground, where he saw a scene that shocked him.

Dozens of heavy helicopters hovered in the sky, each carrying something that looked extremely heavy.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that those appear to be parts of some large machinery, such as heavy excavator buckets, bulldozer shovels, and tracks.

Several helicopters have already landed in the plaza in front of the base's surface building, and some guards in camouflage uniforms are busy assembling them.

A huge, assembled excavator was already parked nearby.

If it were just a few dozen helicopters in the sky, that wouldn't be a big deal.

What truly amazed him was the sky further away.

He saw countless helicopters carrying all sorts of parts, equipment, and large boxes, almost lined up in a row, flying towards his base.

Hundreds and thousands of helicopters converged, forming a bridge suspended in the sky.

The helicopter will drop off the hoisted items, or land and unload the supplies from its belly before flying away, at which point another helicopter will immediately land.

In just over ten minutes, the supplies on the base square were piled up into a small mountain.

He saw hundreds of guards in camouflage assemble the machinery and then immediately drive it out of the base with a roar.

The base is located in a canyon, but it occupies only a very small area of ​​land, surrounded by vast expanses of weeds, forests, and rocks.

Amidst the roar of machinery, large trees were pushed down and dragged away, rocks were blasted to pieces, bridges were erected over the river, and weeds were swept away.

Uneven land is being replaced by leveled ground at a visible rate.

One after another, dark green military tents were erected on these cleared spaces, arranged in neat rows and columns, just like a military camp.

The medical vehicle painted with a red cross, along with refrigerated trucks, field catering trucks, and so on, were parked in their designated locations as if planned in advance.

"Manager, look over there..."

My colleague pointed in a more distant direction, somewhat alarmed.

Following the direction he pointed, You Zhicheng saw hundreds of points in a line stretching to the city of Sencheng, dozens of kilometers away, in the distance, at an even lower elevation.

At each point, there were large crowds of people busy with something.

Picking up his binoculars, he saw countless steel beams already delivered to the site, and workers who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere were rapidly assembling them. The tallest steel beam tower had already risen more than ten meters high.

You Zhicheng broke out in a cold sweat.

"Damn it, war...is this what war is?"

(End of this chapter)