Millions of Earth's doomsday scenario? It doesn't matter if the government intervenes.

The wind was pounding against the steel walls of the prefabricated building at Black Wind Ridge at a speed of 28 meters per second.

The creaking of the steel plates mixed with the howling wind sounded like a giant beast gnawing at the sheet metal. The house shook as if it would be uprooted and swept into a blizzard at any moment.

Hu Dahai glanced at the thermometer that detects the outside temperature: minus fifty-two degrees Celsius.

Of course, it could be even lower, because the silver column in the glass tube has been frozen.

"Damn it! The icebreaker team was just selected, and before we even set off, we've run into this awful weather!"

He gritted his teeth and cursed, his voice muffled by his thick scarf, "A bad start indeed! God is truly blind!"

A fellow worker, wrapped up like a rice dumpling, leaned closer, his voice tinged with laughter:

"Boss, it might be a good thing."

These blizzards, which rage fiercely for a while, usually subside for two or three hours. Once the wind stops, that's the golden window for our icebreaking team to get to work.

"Besides, it's better for it to make a fuss before the brothers set off than to pounce on them halfway through the journey, right?"

The brothers survived the worst, which I think... is a good omen.

Hu Dahai was taken aback for a moment, then smiled helplessly:

"You certainly know how to say auspicious things!"

Half an hour later, as if his words had come true, the howling outside gradually subsided and calmed down, even less than the strong winds before the blizzard.

Hu Dahai immediately rushed out of the prefab house.

Even though the air outside was so cold it chilled his throat, he took a deep breath and whistled.

A sharp whistle pierced the silence, and workers quickly stirred up in the tents throughout the camp.

Finally, about seven hundred pioneers of the icebreaking team lined up in the snow.

Hu Dahai scanned the young faces, their eyes shining behind their windproof and snowproof goggles, flickering with eager excitement.

However, Hu Dahai did not immediately announce the departure.

Instead, following orders from superiors, the ice-breaking team was divided into three groups: assault, recovery, and preparation.

Finally, Hu Dahai solemnly said:

"No one can act recklessly! Only by protecting ourselves can we protect the railway! Only by preserving our lives can we do more for our country's future!"

After making his solemn announcement, Hu Dahai watched as everyone embarked on the snow-covered road ahead.

Seven hundred icebreaker soldiers emerged from a temporary camp equipped with wind and snow barriers and covered with insulating material.

The deep snow outside instantly reached above their knees.

Although everyone was wearing professional cold-weather protective gear, the extreme low temperature that hit them as soon as they stepped out of the camp still made them feel a bone-chilling cold instantly.

However, this level of cold was not enough to shake the enthusiasm in everyone's hearts.

The first wave of assault teams quickly boarded heavy rotary snowplows and snowplows.

The rotary snowplow roared to life, its high-speed impellers like the fangs of a giant beast, slicing deep into the snow wall several meters thick.

The snow was cut and crushed, scattering into violent white fountains that were thrown dozens of meters away, piling up into continuous snow mounds.

Heavy snowplows followed closely behind, their steel pushers roaring as they pushed aside the compacted snow.

The steel torrent advanced rapidly across the vast snowfield, leaving black tracks in its wake.

Relying on railway signs that were not yet completely submerged and the precise guidance of the BeiDou positioning system, the team arrived at the buried railway track area.

Because the railway tracks in front of them had been completely buried by snow-covered hills, many veteran railway workers did not recognize that this was the railway track of the Black Wind Ridge section.

"The locomotive crew will go first!"

As soon as the captain gave the order, several snowplows roared their engines and immediately pushed up.

Snow and mist billowed into the sky, gradually revealing the blurry outline of the railway tracks below.

It was a hard outer shell made of mud and sand mixed with frozen snow water.

At this moment, a rail-mounted engineering vehicle equipped with a hot air spray gun and a controllable flame de-icing device immediately stepped up.

The high-temperature heat flow and directional flame precisely tore through the ice shell, exposing the steel rail under the action of heat, and a white mist rose from the surface.

"Logistics team, follow up!"

Following the team leader's command, a group of workers immediately rushed into the white mist formed by the lingering heat and the chill.

They unfurled composite insulation rolls pre-impregnated with low-temperature de-icing agent and quickly laid them on the tracks that had just been cleared of snow and ice.

Then he took out a special heating agent and sprinkled it evenly.

When the material comes into contact with the remaining low-temperature ice and snow, a controlled exothermic reaction occurs, releasing continuous and gentle heat.

This will form a temporary physical insulation layer on the surface of the rail, combined with a chemical antifreeze composite layer.

This barrier can effectively slow down the rate at which the rails re-ice under extreme low temperatures, buying valuable time for subsequent repair teams to arrive and carry out the next stage of maintenance.

Meanwhile, another team of construction workers was rapidly setting up a temporary camp and deploying fuel generators to maintain the temperature in each tent.

If any member of the icebreaking team feels unwell while working in the extremely cold environment, they can quickly retreat to these tents.

They will rest in the tents and replenish their bodies with high-calorie food and hot water to restore their body temperature and strength.

Once they have recovered, they will be able to return to the front lines, allowing their fellow workers to return and rest.

Through repeated efforts, including the efforts of seven hundred brave and fearless pioneers and many more logistics teams, the ice-breaking team continued to work.

Three hours later, a hoarse but excited report came through Hu Dahai's walkie-talkie:

"Foreman, the track ahead, about one kilometer long, has been cleared! The ice and snow have all been removed!"

Hu Dahai clenched his fist and slammed it into his palm, then walked out of the camp and summoned all the workers:

"Repair team, logistical reinforcements, follow up immediately! Maintain contact, don't fall behind, and don't hold back the icebreaking vanguard!"

"You all have two arms and two legs, don't let the brothers in the Icebreaker team look down on you!"

"Don't worry, foreman, we definitely won't let the icebreaking team down!"

In an instant, a large force of several thousand workers arrived at the railway track site along the road previously cleared by the pioneering military snowplows of the icebreaking team.

Upon seeing the exhausted icebreaker team members, they immediately smiled and invited them back to their tents to rest.

"Brothers, leave the rest to us!"

"You all need to rest and recover!"

After the team leader finished speaking, he picked up the walkie-talkie and reported to Hu Dahai:

"Maintenance team number one is in position. The insulation layer here is intact. We are removing some material in preparation for turnout maintenance and flaw detection..."

"The logistics team's hot food and hot water supply point has been established, and the warming tents are ready!"

"Assault Team Two has reached its safe operating time limit and requests rotation! The recovery team has taken over..."

"The road inspection team reports that there are currently no signs of severe icing recurrence on the cleared sections of the road..."

At this moment, it's not just Heifengling, but also other railway lines in Northeast China and North China.

On the land that was once covered by a white wasteland, a dark track is being stubbornly carved out inch by inch by tiny workers, stretching into the distance.