Great Power Technology

According to the contact information provided by Chen Hao, Ye Zhou got in touch with the nuclear physicist recommended by him, but the information obtained from the other party could be said to be lackluster.

There is no common solution that can be used to stop the chain reaction, which means that Ye Zhou is likely to have no way to deal with the reactor that is about to explode.

He can organize the evacuation of personnel, but it is impossible to move the nuclear reactor from the base within 45 minutes.

There are indeed a large number of heavy machinery in the base, but these heavy machinery are not fast. Even if they can load the reactor in the shortest time, there is no way to take the reactor out of the safe range before it explodes.

For confidentiality reasons, there is no airport near this base, and it is unrealistic to rely on large transport planes to quickly take off and take away the reactor.

It would be nice to have a Batmobile, just hoist the reactor up and fly all the way to the sea.

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etc.

Ye Zhou suddenly had an idea. There seemed to be a ready-made large aircraft in this base.

Golden Crow No.1.

This strategic bomber uses the same twin-engine design as the Tu-95LAL. It uses conventional engines during takeoff and only uses nuclear-powered engines after entering high-altitude cruise.

Now, Jinwu has completed all assembly work except the engine, including the conventional power engine!

This means that it can take the reactor away from the base.

There is no need to complete the assembly, but simply and roughly insert the reactor into the nuclear power engine compartment of Jinwu-1!

According to design standards, the range of Jinwu-1 can reach 1,200 kilometers under conventional power. If it accelerates at any cost, it only takes 5 minutes and can fly at least 40 kilometers including take-off and taxiing.

This is enough to allow a nuclear explosion to occur outside the safe confines of the base.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou's spirit was revived.

He finished his breakfast in three mouthfuls, drank a few sips of strong tea as usual, and then entered the simulator again. This time he did not perform mental programming because he was not sure what accidents would happen during the reactor loading process, so he had to do more Give it a few tries.

After entering the plot simulation, Ye Zhou turned around and ran to the base as planned. At the same time, he activated his first-level authority and ordered the base disaster control office to load the reactor immediately.

The Disaster Control Office executed his order with the highest efficiency. When he arrived at the apron in the shuttle bus, he happened to see the engine compartment of the Golden Crow-1 belly being opened.

In the huge underground apron, Golden Crow No. 1 is bathed in strong lights from all directions like an ancient divine bird. It casts a ferocious shadow under its body, while a giant lift truck on the side is sending the reactor into its engine. cabin.

"Gong Ye, according to your request, the temporary ground site has been cleared, but judging from the current situation, it is not ready for take-off. If we want to force take-off, an accident is likely to occur."

Ye Zhou nodded and answered:

"Immediately send out all the vehicles to roll over all the ground at the temporary site to eliminate any hidden dangers on the road!"

With 28 minutes left on the clock, Ye Zhou looked at his watch nervously, watching every assembly process, looking for possible optimization points.

For him, it didn't matter whether the takeoff was successful this time, because under such urgent orders, all movements had the risk of deformation and accidents, and every accident would delay a lot of time.

What he has to do is to record the entire assembly process, and then use his own command to avoid all accidents in subsequent simulations, completing the assembly and takeoff with the highest efficiency!

Countdown to 18 minutes, the reactor is fixed.

With a 12-minute countdown, the engine compartment is closed, fuel filling is completed, and the driver is in place.

With a 10-minute countdown, the apron began to rise, and the Jinwu-1 conventional engine started to start and enter the take-off warm-up preparation.

With a 3-minute countdown, Jinwu-1 rose to the ground and began to slide towards the take-off site.

too slow.

Ye Zhou looked at his watch. He knew that this takeoff attempt had failed.

Three minutes was not enough for the plane to fly out of the danger zone.

The last ten seconds of the countdown ended. The engine room of the Jinwu-1 exploded while it was still in the take-off and taxiing stage. Hot air waves swept across the Gobi Desert. Ye Zhou witnessed the collapse of the base during the explosion.

[The three-stage simulation of Dragon Heart ends]

[50% completion]

[This simulation score: C]

Ye Zhou entered the plot replay and began to gradually sort out all the operations that resulted in a waste of time during the assembly process.

Half an hour later, he reentered the simulation.

"Pay attention to aligning the engine compartment with the lift truck! The platform is retracted by 30 centimeters to leave room for the operator to operate!"

"Operators, please don't worry about stability, just stick the reactor in!"

"Quick! Quick! Operators withdraw! Lift trucks withdraw!"

"Fill up the fuel! No need to fill it up! Just add one-fifth of the fuel!"

"Okay, okay! The tarmac begins to rise! Golden Crow 1, start the engine immediately! Go directly to take-off speed!"

"The ground personnel evacuate immediately, leaving room for Jinwu to glide!"

Ye Zhou had followed the tarmac to the ground. He looked at the majestic smoke and dust rising in the distance, which was caused by the vehicles in the base rolling over the ground.

The purpose of heavy vehicle rolling is not to flatten the uneven ground, but to remove and clean up the huge gravel in the temporary site that will seriously affect the take-off.

Now, after more than 20 minutes of emergency operations, although the ground is not flat, it is basically ready for take-off.

Such pavement has a great impact on the life of the aircraft's landing gear, but this is completely out of Ye Zhou's consideration.

Because this plane is destined to never come back.

With a countdown of 12 minutes, Jinwu-1 began to taxi.

30 seconds later, under the huge thrust of 120 tons of a single engine, Jinwu-1 rose from the ground.

The elevation angle even reaches an astonishing 45 degrees.

Obviously, the pilots on the plane already knew the urgency of the situation. They had completely given up on following the conventional flight manual. Instead, they relied on their rich experience to crazily squeeze the performance of this aircraft that had not flown a few times. .

The flight altitude continued to rise, and the originally huge fuselage gradually turned into a small black spot in the clear sky. Ye Zhou watched the plane gradually shrink, and a feeling of sadness slowly rose in his heart.

This simulation is probably complete, but similarly, the two best pilots on the plane are destined to never come back.

The engine compartment is not a weapons bay. There is no way for the Golden Crow flying in the air to abandon the reactor inside.

Did they know the outcome at the moment of takeoff?

Maybe, I know.

The moment Ye Zhou activated the emergency state, they should have guessed the key point of the problem.

One is about to be sent out of the nuclear reactor outside the base, and the other is flying towards the golden crow of death.

However, they still had no hesitation.

After ten seconds of countdown, the figure of Jinwu No. 1 has completely disappeared in the distant sky.

After a few breaths, hot light suddenly burst into the air.

Without any luck, the reactor exploded at the end of the countdown.

Tens of seconds later, a huge explosion like thunder came. Everyone else had followed Ye Zhou's request to hide and face the impact. Only he stood motionless, commenting on the small mushroom cloud above the skyline.

[The three-stage simulation of Dragon Heart ends]

[Completeness 60%]

[Achieve the ending: bathing in fire]

[This simulation score: A]

[Reward: 60 energy points]

[Reward: A-level ending technology-fluid-free plasma engine design drawing]

[Reward (male engineering talent): Nuclear bomb miniaturization plan based on thorium-based molten salt technology]

Ye Zhou scanned and read the reward details carefully and found that these two technologies were still near-future technologies and had not changed across the ages as he thought. He also let go of his previous worries.

I am afraid that once the technology is obtained, it will not be realized in the short term, which is really a bit outrageous.

After calming down the violent fluctuations in emotions during the simulation, Ye Zhou looked at the ending summary interface, and then clicked on the ending replay.

[The ending of the third phase of Dragon Heart: Bathing in Fire]