Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 36 Sea of ​​Light

Yu Zhicheng, trembling, turned the binoculars in another direction.

That is the only road connecting the Moriyama base to the outside world.

He saw what looked like a "long snake" appearing on the road, which made him pause in surprise.

Upon closer inspection, he realized that what he saw was not a long snake at all, but a large truck painted in the same dark green color!

One after another, heavy trucks, covered with tarpaulins but clearly extremely heavy, stretched for thousands of meters, slowly making their way towards their base along the winding mountain road like a long snake.

"Comrade."

A voice suddenly appeared.

You Zhicheng put down his binoculars and saw a person wearing the same dark green uniform who had appeared beside him at some point.

"Hello, I am the leader of the Moriyama Base construction team. This is your letter of appointment."

The stranger handed a document to You Zhicheng. Upon opening it, he saw that it clearly stated that he had been appointed as the deputy leader of the Senshan Base construction team.

"Supervisor You has worked at the Moriyama base for several years and is very familiar with everything here. I hope that in the coming days, we can work together to complete this mission within the stipulated time."

"Oh, okay, okay, definitely, definitely."

The scheduling and organizing meetings were then convened, and the various related tasks were quickly broken down and then assigned one by one.

Three hours later, You Zhicheng looked up wearily from the pile of documents.

According to the new schedule, it is now his designated rest time.

The sudden increase in work intensity also put a strain on his brain.

But he still decided to go back to the surface to check on the current progress of the mission before taking a break.

“It’s already dark. Even if the mission is urgent, it can’t be done without light in the wild.”

He felt a little worried: "If we can't work at night, the progress will be slowed down."

As he stepped out of the main building on the ground floor of the base, the abundant sunlight immediately entered his eyes, causing him to feel momentarily disoriented.

"What time is it? It's still not dark?"

The next moment, his eyes adjusted to the outside light. Looking again, he realized that it wasn't dark at all; it was clearly artificial light!
Endless and continuous, it almost converged into an ocean of light, illuminating the base and the surrounding area for several kilometers as bright as day!

But the Moriyama base clearly didn't have that many lights installed! Not to mention outside the base area, even within the original area, there were only a dozen or so, barely enough to handle the task of nighttime lighting.

In just a few hours, lighting fixtures were installed throughout the base and the surrounding area, which spans a total of square kilometers.

This is impossible!

Upon closer inspection, he realized that what he saw were not lights at all, but rather rows of drones.

A thick cable extends directly from the ground, its length likely spanning several kilometers.

Every few tens of meters along this cable, there is an opening, from which a thinner cable extends directly to the drone located tens of meters above the ground.

With the direct power supplied by these cables, the drones can hover in the sky for extended periods, while also illuminating the high-brightness lights mounted on them.

A single cable connects at least 50 drones, which equates to 50 high-intensity lighting fixtures. And right now, within a radius of several square kilometers centered on the Senyama base, there are far more than a hundred such cables extending outwards!
These crisscrossing structures form a vast network that almost completely covers the canyon, powering at least tens of thousands of helicopters and lighting equipment in the sky. As a result, the entire canyon is illuminated, truly becoming a sea of ​​light.

But that's not all there is to lighting engineering.

You Zhicheng could clearly see that beside this sea of ​​light, there was an unknown river of light stretching out, with no end in sight.

It's the road that connects the Moriyama base and Moriyama City.

Through those lights, he could vaguely see that the road was still occupied by a continuous stream of large vehicles.

The endless stream of vehicles resembled a surging river, flowing ceaselessly along this river of light into the ocean of light in which they were situated.

Just looking at it sent a chill down You Zhicheng’s spine.

In addition to the large trucks that were already there during the day, several large buses also gathered at the base.

One of the cars was parked not far from You Zhicheng.

Dozens of people came down from there and, under the command of the guards, disappeared into the nearby forest of tents. The bus immediately drove away, making way for the parking space.

The next bus then arrived.

This time, the passengers who got off did not go to the tent, but instead walked towards him.

After looking around, he was surprised to find that he recognized most of these people. Even those he didn't recognize looked familiar; they were clearly from the same industry.

"Old Zhang? Old Li? Dacheng? What brings you here?"

These people are all experimental physicists who are very skilled at handling large scientific research equipment.

Some of them are both experimental physicists and engineers, and each of them is a leading figure in the country.

"Old You, we've all come to your aid. Enough said, just take us to see the current progress."

"Only ten days? That's really... really..."

The group hurriedly entered the underground base. Outside the surface building, a continuous stream of buses and trucks continued to arrive.

Engineers, scientists, skilled workers, logistics personnel, and supplies were brought here like a flood, seemingly without end.

"Perhaps we really can get the telescope operational within ten days."

One thought suddenly came to You Zhicheng's mind, but it was quickly replaced by another.

"Power supply, manpower, and logistics can all be solved by this human wave tactic, but what about equipment and purified water?"

……

More than a thousand kilometers away, in the vast wilderness, lies the Qinghu Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Supervisor Cheng Dong stared at the interferometer arm, which stretched out at a right angle from the base, reaching a length of ten kilometers and a diameter of about two meters. He looked at the more than 100,000 drones with lights hanging above the entire observatory, and at least 100,000 workers working through the night under the lights. He remained silent for a long time.

"Ten days! Can we really get it up and running?"

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(End of this chapter)