Chapter 1 The Real Trump Card

Hearing Mr. G's words, Fang Senyan's heart tightened. He knew that Mr. G was starting to confide in him, even revealing some secrets. He immediately straightened his expression and said:

"What's the situation?"

Mr. G breathed a sigh of relief. If Fang Senyan refused to accept the challenge, he would have no choice. However, Mr. G had obviously worried too much. When he mentioned the "Qinghai-Tibet Railway," a series of words suddenly popped up in front of everyone's retinas:

"You have triggered a hidden, time-limited quest: The Real Trump Card."

"This quest requires obtaining the friendship of the Chinese government and can only be triggered by those of East Asian descent, but acceptance is not limited."

"The rewards for this quest are high, but the penalties for failure are also severe. Please accept with caution."

The four of them looked at each other. Compared to their nervousness when entering this world, the four of them were now more resilient and tenacious. The death of Hei Ge was like a raging fire, refining away all the impurities between them! To think that they could turn the tables in such a difficult situation meant that it had a very significant impact on the mentality of those who remained.

Therefore, although because of time constraints, Wu Ge had already returned to her original plane, the four of them were still full of determination. It is worth mentioning that Wu Ge told Fang Senyan that the connecting teleportation array had entered the final stage and could be connected at any time. At that time, she could also fight alongside Fang Senyan through space.

After Fang Senyan and the others silently nodded and chose to accept the quest, Mr. G asked that Xiao Kang to close the curtains, then took out a small projector, immediately listing the detailed situation of the entire Qinghai-Tibet Railway.

On the projector, it could be clearly seen that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was divided into two distinct sections: Among them, the 814 kilometers from Xining to Golmud had been laid in 1979 and put into operation in 1984. This section of the railway was nothing special. The section from Golmud to Lhasa, however, started construction at the end of 2001 and was completed in 2006.

Xiao Kang explained:

"Actually, from a technical point of view, China already had the ability to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the 1980s. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, which has a more difficult terrain than the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, was opened to traffic as early as 1950. So, as long as it is something we are willing to do, we can definitely do it."

"However, at that time, comprehensive factors were considered, such as economic, technological, and transportation conditions, but more importantly, the high altitude of Qinghai and Tibet would seriously affect the health of non-locals. Even the Tibetan people who have lived there for a long time have a congenital heart disease incidence rate of 14% to 18%! And the probability of infants born in Tibet with congenital heart disease after the intermarriage of Han and Tibetan people is 37%! Therefore, the country has been shelving the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway."

Mr. G continued:

"But after 2000, we received news that there would be an astonishing flood in 2012. Therefore, in order to cope with this disaster, we began to gradually transfer the economic and technological advantages of the coastal areas to higher-altitude areas. During this process, we lost many opportunities, but we resolutely implemented it. This is also the real reason for proposing the Western Development strategy at that time."

"But as our research topics further deepened, we found that the 2012 flood was likely to exceed our imagination. Some areas above 500 meters above sea level, which were previously imagined to be safe zones, have become high-risk areas. Only areas with an average altitude of more than 2,000 meters were considered safe at that time. Therefore, the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway became a matter of urgency. The only purpose was to evacuate the people of the whole country to a safe place at the fastest speed when the government issued an order."

Fang Senyan and the others listened patiently to these secrets, while Xiao Kang continued:

"In fact, judging from the government's attention to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, it is somewhat long for a 1,000-kilometer railway to have a construction time span of up to five years. The reason for this is also because as scientists' calculations of the 2012 doomsday become more accurate, the government's emergency plan must also be changed accordingly!"

"When it was finally determined that the intensity of the great flood reached the most dangerous S level, and the global area, including the Himalayas, was also within the submerged range, the government finally made three major decisions. The open plan is naturally the Noah's Ark, the covert plan on the surface is to secretly build the Long March special ship, but the real trump card is the large-scale action taken during the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway!"

"That is, with the help of the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, exploring the most stable areas of the earth's crust that are least prone to earthquakes and collapses, and finally setting it in the Tanggula Mountains, where seventeen ultra-giant nuclear explosion shelters were built. Each ultra-giant nuclear explosion shelter can accommodate 100,000 people! Moreover, these seventeen ultra-giant nuclear explosion shelters are connected to each other by passages, and have undergone the most stringent waterproof treatment, even underwater they can maintain more than ten years of food self-sufficiency."

"If this plan succeeds, then our country, our nation, will be the first to have a city with a population of one million after 2012! And it has a complete urban industrial system and a series of chain production lines! At least it can win valuable five years or even more time to rise again after the disaster!"

Hearing this, Fang Senyan couldn't help but say:

"So, what role can we play in this matter?"

Mr. G said carefully:

"According to our experts' research, although the great flood will spread over the Himalayas, this is only a violent flood caused by crustal movement, which does not mean that the water on the earth has really increased to the point where it can flood here."

As he spoke, Mr. G picked up half a glass of water next to him and began to rotate it clockwise. Immediately, he could see the shape of the water outside the glass forming a vortex, almost level with the mouth of the glass. But when Mr. G stopped shaking, the water in the glass returned to half a glass again.

"When the earth's crust stabilizes again, the flood will lose its fundamental power. Our scientists believe that the activity of the main crust will not be more than 4 hours, that is to say, at most one month, the flood will recede. Especially since the altitude here is more than 5,000 meters, the time for the flood to recede can only be earlier, not later. But even so, to make inferences from the most severe situation, the entire underground city must guarantee two months of oxygen self-sufficiency."

Xiao Kang interjected:

"The key to the matter lies in this! So far, although human preparation of oxygen is already very mature, it is based on a relatively small range. But this time, what needs to be comprehensively considered is the oxygen supply for as many as two million people for several months. And this link must also avoid the ubiquitous supervision of other countries."

"Finally, a scientist in our country proposed a brand-new plan, and it has been proved feasible through practical demonstration, that is, to put additives into the water and separate the water to obtain oxygen. The additives he is currently researching have reached the final stage. Once successful, it can solve the final problem."

"What we need you to do now is to protect the safety of the doctor! The attacks of those ability users are like mercury pouring on the ground, and within twenty-four hours, there will be a powerful existence to hunt down the doctor. In the face of those endless abilities, our protection seems full of loopholes. We are really powerless about this, so we can only ask you to take action!"

Hidden Time-Limited Quest: The Real Trump Card

Quest Objective: Protect the doctor within 24 hours and ensure that he survives successfully.

Quest Description: This is by no means an ordinary protection activity. Please be sure to pay attention. Your enemies will be unprecedentedly powerful.

Quest Supplement: Only by letting the doctor live and succeed in the experiment can you get the highest evaluation.

Quest Penalty: After the quest fails, all attributes will be deducted by ten points, and the government's trust will be lost, and you will be forced to return to the Nightmare Space.

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Fang Senyan and the others focused on studying the penalty for failing the quest. Deducting ten points from all attributes was already a very severe penalty. Losing the government's trust meant that they could forget about getting their hands on several of the Asian cultural relics.

Being forced to return to the Nightmare Space seemed like the lightest punishment, but thinking carefully, it could be said that all of Fang Senyan's painstaking arrangements were completely in vain. After these foreshadowings lost their effect, he himself had already returned, which was equivalent to cutting off his merits halfway!

However, even though the punishment was very severe, the group still accepted the quest. Soon, with the help of the government, they quickly flew to the plateau. After meeting with the doctor, Fang Senyan also learned in detail about the current situation.

The doctor was a man with thick black eyebrows who liked to use infectious gestures when speaking. However, the distance between his eyebrows was very close. From a physiognomy perspective, this was a typical knife-shaped eyebrow, but the distance being too narrow meant that this person was not gregarious and had a dictatorial personality.

However, at this time, the doctor still seemed quite easy to talk to, but his assistant somewhat disdainfully felt that Fang Senyan and the others were superfluous. With the powerful "Harvester" defense system, it seemed that there could be no mistakes. Then the assistant played a video for Fang Senyan with some disdain:

In a tunnel-like enclosed space, small missiles with propellers on their rears were launched directly from the combined missile launcher.

The flying speed of these small missiles was not fast. The trajectory of the flight in the air left a trail of black smoke. The launch holes of the combined missile launcher flashed red lights continuously, and these slow-moving bombs filled the tunnel space tightly in an instant.

These missiles, about the size of a winter melon, were equipped with an infrared guidance system that could firmly bite onto the human body temperature and persistently pursue the invading enemy!