The iron railings outside Central University look like gummy candies that have been crushed and crushed by naughty boys.
When passing by this iron railing, Lu Chen recognized its origin at first glance - it was the iron railing outside the Institute of Physics. It is at least eight or nine hundred meters from the Institute of Physics to here, and this is about seven or eight meters long.
The iron railings and the concrete foundation half a man high were thrown directly near the main entrance of Central University.
Lu Chen walked to the railing and took a deep look at the twisted wreckage.
He couldn't contact Mu Zhiran in the hospital. Although Baozi checked through the Internet and confirmed that Mu Zhiran's scientific research assistant AI was still working, this still did not prove that Mu Zhiran was safe.
The mobile phone couldn't get through at all, and the landline couldn't even get through. Lu Chen had no idea of working in the hospital. Fortunately, there was no shortage of rheumatology and immunologists like him in the hospital who had no intention of working. He rushed from home urgently.
Yang Weimin, who returned to the hospital, quickly made a decision and asked Lu Chen to go to the school to confirm Mu Zhiran's safety before rushing back to the hospital to help.
However, Lu Chen couldn't even "confirm safety".
The area around Central University has been surrounded by rapid response departments. No unrelated personnel are allowed to approach the school, even if Lu Chen takes out his work certificate and student ID card.
Dozens of soldiers equipped with urban tactical equipment, under the cover of robots holding shields high, quickly passed through the relatively intact wall outside the school, and walked towards the school quietly but quickly.
Lu Chen waved the certificate in his hand in front of the blockade. He tried to persuade the soldiers and officers in front of him to let him in by saying, "I am a doctor and can provide emergency assistance." But the other party remained unmoved, no matter what Lu Chen said
No matter what, the answer is just "No one is allowed to enter the blocked area without permission from the superior."
Lu Chen took a few deep breaths, then turned around and prepared to leave. Since it didn't make sense, there was no need to waste time here. The perimeter wall of Central University's campus is at least ten kilometers long, and they couldn't hang every nook and cranny.
Blockade.
Fortunately, God finally opened his eyes. As soon as Lu Chen took two steps out, an officer stopped him back.
"Are you a student at Central University?" the other party asked directly, even rudely, "Are you familiar with the Institute of Physics? Have you been there before?"
After learning about the relationship between Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran, the officer nodded, "I can let you in, but you have to do a favor for my people - they are not familiar with the environment inside. You take them there
The collider's control room, after they arrive at the control room successfully, you can go see your girlfriend."
The other party's request was not unacceptable, and Lu Chen decisively agreed. The young officer also happily called a team of eight people.
"Your task is to quickly enter the collider's control room and assess the damage to the collider." The young officer said to the eight team members, "This doctor Lu will take you to the collider monitoring room. After arriving at the mission
After the location, Doctor Lu can leave on his own." He paused and emphasized, "The rules of engagement refer to fire reconnaissance in hostile areas, and any target that shows an obvious threat can be shot."
When Lu Chen was sandwiched between eight soldiers and rushed towards the school, he realized a question belatedly.
Why are there so many heavily armed soldiers... why are there rules of engagement?
Has the school become a war zone?
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Central University is a "park-like university town" with beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. The Zhihe River flows from northwest to southeast, running through most of the campus, and finally slowly flows into Dongyang Lake at the foot of Lushan Mountain.
The east side of Dongyang Lake is the main entrance of Central University. Walk along the main entrance for about ten minutes, and you can see the lake on the left - and you can also see Lushan Mountain.
Lushan is a mountain with a very peculiar structure. It is not too high, with a relative altitude of only about 300 meters. However, Lushan stretches out inside the Central University, almost becoming a mountain range. Hezhi River also extends from northwest to southeast.
, the remaining area of Lushan Mountain encompassed by the Central University campus is seven to eight kilometers long.
It is obviously a university, but there is almost an entire mountain range inside the school. Teachers and students of Central University have always had some objections to this - even though the school has opened six tunnels under the mountain range and has also connected trams. In the end, in the face of "turbulent" dissatisfaction and complaints, Central University chose to compromise. Anyway, the campus area is large enough, and the Student Affairs Office and the Academic Affairs Office basically placed all undergraduate dormitories and classrooms in the southwest of Dongyang Lake.
Corner place.
Those who travel through Lushan every day are basically the only ones left who want to do experiments.
The accelerator of the Institute of Physics is the most expensive and most "dangerous" of all experimental facilities. Generations of academicians from Central University and the Institute of Physics have been arguing back and forth for more than ten years. Finally, both parties agreed to hollow out the southeast corner of Lushan Mountain.
, and then stuffed in a more than ten kilometers long circular vacuum track and high magnetic flux magnet.
The control room of the collider is located under the fourth peak of Lushan Mountain. Although the road leading to the control room is not deliberately concealed, it is indeed difficult to find. Under the guidance of Lu Chen, eight men held long guns and occasionally raised their guns to warn the surrounding soldiers.
Stopped.
"Are you sure this is where it is?" The leader of this team was a lieutenant. He put down the assault rifle in his hand, looked at the mountain road in front of him, then turned around and asked, "Doctor Lu, this really doesn't look like control.
The entrance to the room."
Lu Chen didn't speak for a long time. He had only walked this road this afternoon. Moreover, there was only one way from the bottom of the mountain to the control room, so even with his eyes closed, he would not go wrong.
But now, Lu Chen didn't know where he was. He disappeared halfway along the road, and what appeared in front of him looked like a downhill slope.
This mountain trail runs through both sides of Lushan Mountain. Unless you have reached the top of the mountain, there will be no downhill slope.
Moreover, there was a lot of smoke and dust in this area, and the visibility was only about ten meters. Lu Chen really couldn't see the scene in front clearly, but he was still ready to take two more steps forward to take a look.
This attempt quickly failed - at first he didn't feel anything special on the mountain trail, but after walking a few steps toward the sudden downhill slope, Lu Chen felt an overwhelming heat wave hitting his face. It was as if there were more than a dozen high-power hair dryers blowing on his face, or as if he put his face directly close to the oven... In short, Lu Chen was knocked backwards by the heat wave and it took him a while to recover.
Take a breath.
"Fly the drone and see what's going on ahead." After seeing Lu Chen's series of actions from a distance, "getting closer to the edge, falling backwards, and scraping his way back to the mountain road", the lieutenant quickly issued the order, while he himself
Run quickly towards Lu Shen.
"Doctor Lu, are you okay?" The lieutenant first pulled Lu Shen and ran back a little, and then asked, "What's going on ahead?"
Lu Chen was speechless for a moment and didn't know how he should describe it. Fortunately, the drone that had been released explained the problem on his behalf.
In front of the mountain road, a huge deep pit suddenly appeared where the mountain should have been. The thick iron gate and the mountain dozens of meters high completely disappeared, leaving only a hole about 20 meters deep and 40 to 50 meters deep.
A wide deep pit. The walls of the deep pit radiate an astonishing amount of heat outwards, and the heated and tumbling air even makes it difficult for military four-axis drones to hover stably in the sky.
The pit walls themselves are not clods of earth or stones. They look like some kind of low-quality black crystals, pieced together one by one.
"It is not a conventional weapon." A soldier in the team said to the lieutenant. "If we only calculate based on the size of the crater, the explosion yield is about 150 to 200 tons. However, there is no radiation residue at the scene and there is no abnormality in the background radiation.
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Lu Chen didn't understand these contents, and he didn't care much. After squinting and searching on the monitor screen for a long time, Lu Chen stretched out his hand and said, "Here, this should be the passage leading to the control room." p>
On the black wall of the pit, there was a vaguely gray horseshoe-shaped "wreck". Lu Chen stared at this location for a long time, and compared it with his memory before confirming that this was the place he walked through in the morning.
"My mission is completed." Lu Chen said as he turned and walked down the mountain, "I won't ask more about your mission - I wish you good luck."
As an adult male, Lu Chen would of course be interested in the crater after the explosion. But being interested is one thing. Before he confirms the safety of his girlfriend, all interests are not as important as a fart.
As for whether these team members could complete their mission... this was not a question that he, a doctor, needed to worry about. He gradually accelerated his pace, and after his feet completely left the range of Lushan, Lu Chen simply started running.
After the encounter just now, Lu Chen himself had actually relaxed a little. From the moment he entered the school from the main entrance, he found that basically all the buildings in the school were intact. Occasionally, one or two windows were broken, but the building itself was not.
What serious damage occurred?
There are also injured students, but none of them look serious - at least they can still move, shout in pain, and curse.
Panting, Lu Chen ran downstairs to the Institute of Physics and immediately saw Mu Zhiran, who was bandaging someone in the open space.
His heart that had been hanging in the air finally dropped. Lu Chen ran all the way to Mu Zhiran, and then began to check on the spot whether his female doctor was okay - it was not until he was kicked on the calf that he realized what he was doing.
The action may seem a bit unsightly.
Dr. Mu Zhiran still doesn't know what happened. She was "kidnapped" from the laboratory by her junior brother.
When the explosion occurred, Mu Zhiran was debugging equipment in the anechoic chamber of the Institute of Physics. In order to obtain experimental data under the most ideal conditions, the anechoic chamber of the Institute of Physics is a professional equipment that can achieve full electromagnetic shielding.
The absorbing material on the outside of the full radio chamber itself is also an excellent sound-insulating and shock-absorbing material. Wrapped in several meters of conical carbon-containing sponge material, Mu Zhiran had no idea what was going on outside.
The Institute of Physics is at the foot of Lushan Mountain, about a ten-minute walk from the control room. The explosion did not cause serious damage to the Institute of Physics. This miracle must be at least 80% attributed to Lushan Mountain.
The fourth peak of Lushan is more southeast than the other peaks, and the hard foundation under the peak and the thousands of tons of C60 concrete poured on the foundation have become a powerful shield to resolve the explosion shock wave.
The explosion was unfortunate, but fortunately it occurred near the collider's control room.
The control room survived the explosion. Although all the instruments inside were basically scrapped, at least the control room is still there. The local monitoring system stored in the control room was declared scrapped due to high temperature and severe vibration, but there is no problem with the off-site storage system.
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Academician Tang Qinglong breathed a sigh of relief at the survival of the monitored off-site storage system. According to the data in the monitoring system, this explosion does not seem to be an attack by some extremist organization.
Although the losses were heavy, and although the entire collider was completely scrapped, it was always a good thing that it was not taken into consideration by those crooked guys.
Academician Tang Qinglong originally thought so.
"Who? Thomas?" Academician Tang looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who claimed to be an insurance investigator with some suspicion. After a moment of hesitation, he answered the other person's question, "I don't know where he is now. I finally
The first time I met him was probably in the control room. At that time, Dr. Lu and I went to the control room together, opened the door and sent Thomas to the hospital."
The insurance investigator standing opposite Academician Tang is short, wearing a black suit, and holding a brown cowhide briefcase that looks full of signs of use.
The investigator nodded and then asked, "How does Thomas behave in the Institute of Physics? Does he have a good relationship with other researchers?"
"He is relatively introverted and is a very good theoretical researcher." Academician Tang carefully considered his words, "Are you here to investigate equipment damage? If you need to see the equipment damage list and go to the site, I can ask my assistant to
Take you to the warehouse."
"This is also part of the investigation." The investigator reassured Academician Tang and continued to ask, "You just mentioned a 'Doctor Lu'. Who is he? I did not find any information about him in the subsequent report." "He is the target of my student." Academician Tang leaned back a little and said, "If you need the clinical medical school to cooperate with the investigation, you must first send a letter to our school's Academic Affairs Office and Academic Affairs Office." After sending the investigator away, Tang Qinglong quickly closed the door, and then picked up the phone with a gloomy expression. However, the phone was picked up and put down several times, but in the end he still did not make any calls.
This person is obviously not an investigator from an insurance company. The insurance company’s investigation only cares about whether there are reasons for denying compensation. But the other party is so interested in Thomas and Lu Chen but barely mentions a word about the accident itself. This is not quite right. p>