741 The Month of Disaster (1/2)

Lunar New Year in 2018 happened to be on the day after Valentine's Day. Jiang Chen returned to the apocalypse on Valentine's Day and enjoyed a wonderful Valentine's Day with Sun Jiao. Then they spent Lunar New Year and Lunar New Year's Eve together with the girls and the others at Fishbone base.

On the 17th, the second day of Lunar New Year, Jiang Chen took the airship to transport supplies to Yizhou Island at the agreed-upon time with White Beluga Station. Lin Lin also went with him. There were rumors about a helium refining plant in Taipei and a small nuclear fusion power station with a high degree of retention.

Because of long-distance power transmission and the Helium-3 mining base on the moon, the nuclear fusion power plants from before the war had basically all been moved to the moon, and the only remaining large nuclear power plants were battered by the nuclear attack. Finding an intact nuclear fusion power station in the wasteland was harder than climbing the sky.

When Jiang Chen heard about a nuclear power plant in Yizhou, he immediately became interested in it. In particular, this wasn't the time to be a picky eater, although the use of plutonium as nuclear fuel wasn't as environmentally friendly as Helium-3.

The nuclear power plant didn't seem particularly attractive to the Sixth Street with crystal energy as its source of energy, but nuclear power stations would have extraordinary value for Xin and especially for new countries, whose energy sources depend on imports.

Especially for Penglai, which was about to open.

If cold fusion technology could be used, everything else could be discarded. The 100,000-acre power generation seaweed project that was originally scheduled to be added in the nearby sea could be canceled. The twelve large tidal power generator sets and 150 wind turbine generators could also be eliminated. Not to mention that the cost of electricity could be reduced tremendously.

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Of course, this technology would be kept secret and revealed only when the space elevator was available.

There were only a few nuclear experts in Wanghai, and only Lin Lin knew Jiang Chen's secret, so he took her with him. The Project Garden of Eden was almost finished, and after the last stage to be completed in the spring, the Garden of Eden, which had taken more than a year, could be declared complete.

The purpose of Jiang Chen's visit was to transport the space elevator base, reclaim nuclear technology, and, incidentally, to solve the minor roadblocks encountered by the expeditionary force.

It had been a month since the expeditionary force landed.

When Jiang Chen arrived in Yizhou, Li Wang, the captain of the airship, immediately arranged a clean and comfortable room for him. He presented the intelligence and mission logs collected that month and handed over temporary command rights.

Immediately after landing, Li Wang dispatched expeditionary soldiers to explore Taipei and its suburbs and build simple cement fortresses and lighthouses on the sea cliffs at the northern tip of the island of Yizhou, as well as lifts that could be used by airships.

Compared to the mainland plagued by war, while Yizhou Island also had signs of war, it didn't look as tragic. Due to a lack of direct nuclear strikes, most of the high-rise buildings in the urban area were intact. The radiation from the island was mostly due to radiation dust blown from Southeast Asia.

However, there were a couple of things that were almost the same as on the mainland, which were plants that grew abnormally, as well as despicable mutants and zombies.

Vines and dry branches covered the high-rise buildings. On the ragged roads, there were rows of craters. In the shadows, there were wolf-like creatures with sharp claws; expeditionary soldiers called them ”ghouls.” Not even your bones would remain once attacked by these creatures.

However, this wasn't the most terrible thing.

Although these ghouls were terrible, two rounds of bullets could kill them. However, for Mud Crabs which were agile and had thick shells not inferior to steel, even rifles couldn't make people feel any safer.

In particular, these Mud Crabs always moved in groups; it was simply a nightmare.

And the problem facing the expeditionary forces was related to these Mud Crabs...

The next day, the patrols on the exploration islands were present as usual and returned to camp before dark.

Unlike usual, they brought back a native back this time.

The private forces searched him and placed his bow and arrows under possession before taking him to Jiang Chen.