768 Undersea Tunnel (1/2)

However, after some contemplation, Jiang Chen also didn't understand what this ”just in case” actually referred to.

Was it meant to leave a seed for the Third Reich or for something else?

And this fortress was just a blueprint. Did the Fuhrer really send people to Antarctica and constructed the doomsday fortress following the instructions from the Remnants of the Void? And as far as the location on this map was concerned, the fortress seemed to be buried in the permafrost. It remained an unsolved mystery whether it was possible to survive in such a place.

[Should I go to Antarctica?]

This idea suddenly appeared in Jiang Chen's mind and exploded uncontrollably.

Fallout shelters couldn't determine the outcome of the war, and at most, they provided the losers with a dying grave. No matter how he thought about it, it was meaningless to do so. However, the Remnants of the Void wouldn't insert a piece of useless information in the characters for no reason. They did and they certainly must had their reasons...

What could the reasons be?

...

The next morning, Jiang Chen returned to Coro Island with Ayesha and Xia Shiyu after spending a wonderful time in Penglai.

For work reasons, Natasha boarded a plane the day before the charity ball and returned to Moscow. It was only the three of them on the return flight.

Back on the island, Xia Shiyu's first task was to go home and drop off her luggage, and the second task was to go to Future Building. A week without stepping into the office - the accumulated workload must be as high as a mountain. Although her assistant could help her take care of some documents, many of them concerned the direction of the group's business and must be handled by her.

Jiang Chen returned to the mansion with Ayesha. After a short break, he also started to busy himself.

On the one hand, he was preparing for his Antarctica trip. On the other hand, he recently planned to build a undersea tunnel to connect the nine Pannu islands together. As a result, people wouldn't need to travel by ship, and they could drive directly to any corner of Xin in just a vehicle.

If a country wished to be prosper, they must first build roads. It was the unchanging principle throughout history. If there was an undersea tunnel that could unite the nine islands of the Pannu archipelago, it would provide a huge boost to the economy of the entire country.

Apart from that, once this tunnel was completed, the demand for cars in Xin would surely explode.

However, despite this, building a tunnel wasn't an easy task.

There were many ways to build an undersea tunnel. There were four representative types such as the drilling and blasting method used in tunnels in Xiamen and Qingdao, the immersed pipe method used in Xiangjiang, the drilling machine method used in the English Channel, and the shield method used in Japan.

However, these four methods all shared one characteristic in common.

Expensive! Very expensive!

Take Hua as an example - 123 kilometers of the Dalian-Yantai High-Speed Rail Undersea Tunnel under construction had a bill as high as 260 billion RMB, and the average cost per kilometer exceeded two billion! Even if the 129 million cost of the high-speed rail per kilometer was taken out, just the cost of building a pipeline was an astronomical figure!

And this budget was only a conservative estimate!

If all nine Pannu islands were connected, it wouldn't be as short as 123 kilometers. The distance directly between the southernmost island Ange and Coro Island exceeded 150 kilometers, which was equivalent to the distance from Wanghai to Hangzhou.

A conservative estimate was that the undersea section of the tunnel must be at least 300 kilometers long to connect all Pannu nine islands. If the project was contracted to a builder in Hua, the entire project would cost at least 60 billion US Dollar.