Two Thousand & Thirteen

Chapter 31 High Seas

    The Sixth Command Station on the High Seas.

    This is an island that is not marked on the world map. It is located on the side of the Pacific Ocean near the outer sea. Since April 1986, after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, the former Soviet Union exploded, International Joint Organizations began to prepare for human shelters in nuclear winter.

    Assuming that one day, nuclear energy equivalent to 5 billion tons of TNT explodes on the earth, the entire atmospheric circulation and oceans will be polluted, the world will enter a long winter, and the end of mankind will come. These unmarked islands will become temporary refuge.

    In May 2011, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan was completely destroyed by the tsunami, which made countries nervous and issued blue papers to start renovations. Once the particles produced by the nuclear explosion are born in the stratosphere, it will be an extremely terrible thing. The stratosphere will not rain, and these particles will cover it and block the sun. The temperature of the earth will drop sharply, ten years, twenty years, never ending.

    Facts have proved that human beings have not been destroyed by nuclear energy, but have waited for another doomsday.

    The Varyag aircraft carrier and the other six ships occupy an island each, protecting the giant refuge base. The No. 6 command post is located in the center of the atoll islands, echoing the other five evacuation centers. Each evacuation center is large enough to accommodate 50 million people, but most of the space is unoccupied—there are only a few people who survived, and most of them are concentrated in No. 1 and No. 2 centers.

    Oceanographic survey ships are drilling oil fields and extracting oil in the middle of the ocean three hundred nautical miles away.

    The atolls are dotted with wind turbines and solar panels, while nuclear submarines patrol the seabed. All of China's technology and vitality have been transferred here, and an endless platform has been built on the sea, on which crops are planted in layers, and there is also a temporary small nuclear power plant that is supplying electricity.

    This is the place with the richest fish resources in the ocean currents. There is a vast space under the sea surface. Humans have built underwater shelters and new fan-shaped industrial centers—like a natural built-in huge aquarium.

    The sea can provide almost all resources, and it can also accommodate the domestic and industrial waste discharge of 90 million people.

    The area is very wide, the rescue team arrived at the outer edge of the atoll, fifteen helicopters turned around and flew towards the aircraft carrier, and the No. 16 helicopter flew alone close to the sea.

    The sky is clear, the sun is shining brightly, and the sea is like endless dark blue silk.

    "Very beautiful." Wu Shuangshuang took the initiative to introduce to them: "The living environment is really good, and you can eat a lot of seafood."

    Everyone laughed, but Liu Yan thought about another thing.

    If the virus breaks out here... He didn't dare to think about it.

    Wu Shuangshuang seemed to have glimpsed into Liu Yan's heart, and said with a smile: "It's absolutely safe too. The vaccine they injected when boarding the plane is a kind of serum, which can effectively prevent the spread of infection. After entering, they have to go through a strict physical examination, and then every day check it on time."

    Liu Yan nodded, and asked: "What is that?"

    A fishy sea breeze blew outside the rear cabin, and Liu Yan motioned them to look at a tall tower in the center of the atoll islands.