Chapter 57 Life is like a journey against the odds
If time is a river, then life can never be a smooth and calm stream. The so-called life is like traveling against nature, living against the river or even against time - it is by no means an easy thing. Living is originally something that requires every effort to persevere.
For people who have been shrouded in the shadow of the Great Collapse for forty years, trying their best to live and then being suddenly killed by the Great Collapse... this is also part of life.
But in the past few days, in the town of Roseville, about 12 kilometers southeast of the Institute of North American Studies, this part of life seems to have occurred too frequently.
Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran made four phone calls in total, and then heard the news of three major collapse attacks. According to the residents of the town on the other end of the phone, the incidence of major collapse has been surprisingly high in recent days - the town of Rothsville
There is no permanent holding facility. The coalition government has only set up a temporary holding center here.
The temporary shelter can accommodate four patients at the same time and provide them with basic fixed and anti-suicide care facilities. However, there is only one nurse permanently stationed at the station.
Now, at least a dozen people in the town are confirmed to have suffered a major collapse, and the four-bed reception facility is completely full. The state committee is working hard to transfer the sick residents of the town to Lucerne, but the sudden increase in patients is not every
Everyone has the opportunity to receive treatment.
The coalition government has received the corresponding report and dispatched an emergency response team to Rothsville. Director Li Xiaohui was originally supposed to appear in the town to organize and direct treatment. However, due to Watanabe's request, she can only stay here now.
Waiting in the research center.
In fact, the work of the entire research team is basically at a standstill. In order to ensure the safety of several people, Watanabe specially asked them to "take a rest" in the central laboratory. A large number of security guards were also arranged around the laboratory
Robot to ensure the safety of several people.
Watanabe himself is also stationed near the central laboratory - it is more important to ensure the safety of the research team than to dig out the cultists who may be hiding in the research center. Under the premise of being unable to determine whether the people around him are friends or foes,
Watanabe is more willing to believe in the loyalty of AI robots.
And AI robots are not omnipotent - the lines on Estella's face can make modern security facilities, including AI robots, treat him as a ball of air. Watanabe naturally wants to take this threat into consideration for security.
Within the range.
Although AI cannot recognize that kind of line, human eyes can always see it. If you don’t know whether other people are reliable, then add your own eyes to the protective circle.
Everyone else is killing time in boredom, only Giuseppe and Mu Zhiran are busy - the magnetic accelerator in the central laboratory has the ability to construct a super magnetic field with strong enough magnetic flux and high enough change accuracy. But they want to complete it.
Mu Zhiran's idea is to change the rotation direction of the external electrons of lithium in the human body through precise magnetic field control, which requires more precise and efficient calculations.
How much magnetic flux should the magnetic field exert on the human body, and what angle should the magnetic field be set to? How many correction variables should be added to accurately control the direction of electron rotation?
"This is an engineering method for the external electrons of lithium atoms, so we must make good use of the basic properties of lithium atoms." Tang Qinglong gave advice to his students nearby, "Lithium is an atomic nucleus with a magnetic moment. It will move in the magnetic field with
Precession occurs at a specific frequency. We use radio frequency pulses to magnetize lithium atoms in the human body at the precession frequency of lithium, and we can obtain a large number of antiparallel high-energy particles and a very small number of low-energy atoms parallel to the net magnetization vector." "By changing the rotation direction of the radio frequency pulse, the direction of the magnetic moment of the atoms can be changed." Giuseppe slapped his thigh, "It is controlled by nuclear magnetic resonance!"
"It's just that the imaging source generally used in nuclear magnetic resonance is hydrogen or carbon. There should be no precedent for using lithium atoms alone." Yang Weimin interjected, "Although there is no problem in theory, it should not be easy to transform this theory into actual engineering products.
Right?"
"It's hard to say, but it's easy to say." Giuseppe quickly found a suitable calculation formula and said while adjusting the formula, "Under 1T magnetic flux, the electromagnetic wave frequency is 18.19 MHz, which is enough to cause the magnetization of lithium-7
, just give lithium-6 to 21.18 MHz. The key point is how to change the direction of the radio frequency pulse of the electromagnetic wave."
The "rest" that was originally meant to kill time with nothing to do turned into specific topics and research projects in a few words from a few people.
Lu Chen was dumbfounded as he watched, "What kind of devils are you people? You have to take a roll during the rest time you use to take refuge?
What is this, old America is going to die?
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"Schulz Concentric has entered the North American Institute and dropped our leaflets on the flanks." On a cliff 2.5 kilometers south of the North American Institute, a group of people wearing camouflage uniforms were praying for the last time before the operation.
They are a group of strong southerners who used to make a living from animal husbandry, fishing, hunting or forestry.
The life goals of these people used to be "marry a wife (cousin is not a bad idea), have children, become a Marine, and die fighting to defend their hometown." This is their tradition and cultural influence.
But after experiencing major collapse attacks again and again, these people's life goals completely collapsed. Their relatives committed suicide one by one, and the belief in traditional culture that "you cannot go to heaven if you commit suicide" also made them suffer.
Eventually, they chose to join the Lord's Revealed Sect. The priests promised them that after they died, after all mankind died in the Great Collapse due to the Lord's call... they would circle around God's knees and then
Those family members who were called to heaven in advance are reunited.
And now, they will move more than 2,400 kilometers north to the vicinity of the North American Research Institute precisely because of this ultimate goal.
The bishop conveyed God's will to them. The North American Research Institute has a number of extremely powerful machines. These machines cannot perform as well as they should in the hands of ordinary mortals, but as long as some small changes are made in accordance with God's will
...It can greatly speed up the arrival of the ultimate goal.
"As the bishop expected, the mortals entrenched in the research institute have discovered the flyers and responded." The leading priest smiled and said to the thirty or so big men beside him, "Now,
The mortal who cannot trust others has dismissed everyone, and there are only him and those soulless robots in the institute - our actions will not be hindered too much."
The officiant wearing a combat vest presided over this kind of "prayer" similar to the pre-war briefing in the middle, while the other big men put gray plastic masks on their faces.
There are some strange dark stripes painted on those gray masks, which look slightly similar to those on Estela's face, but the details are different.
"In order to prevent possible self-destruct commands from being triggered, try not to shoot in the base. You can focus on control first - if the situation does not allow control, you should also avoid killing people within the monitoring range of the robot." The officiant said, "Ours
The first target is the magnetic accelerator in the central laboratory. The second target is the power distribution facility. These two targets must be taken down - and they must be controlled at any cost!"