At night, the basement was still very cold, Liu Zhaoqing skillfully took out a chainsaw, cut down half of Lin Manluo’s tree to use it as wood. Xin Yan used a spirit lamp to light wood for everyone to warm up.
Although it was dark, time was still ticking away. If they all fell asleep, 8 hours, which was equivalent to 8 days, no one could say what would change outside, so Yue Xingwen decided to keep vigil in groups.
He glanced at his teammates and quickly arranged, “I, Pingce, Ke Shaobin, Xin Yan, Qin Lu, Qin Miao, start sleeping at 10 pm, sleep for 5 hours, and get up at 3 am to take over. The remaining 6 people kept vigil in the first half of the night and slept from 3-8 am the next morning. People who don’t sleep enough can make up for a nap at noon. What do you think?”
Everyone had no opinion.
Jiang Pingce said, “The first group of people sleep first, hard work for the second group, we change shifts at 3 o’clock.”
It was already 9 pm, and after everyone had washed, they went back to their room to sleep.
The six people in the second group were nominally ‘vigil’, but there was no need for everyone to be out in the cold. Every once in a while, two people were sent to take a look, to ensure that their first phase of the project was not damaged.
Time passed slowly.
The night was quiet, and the students of the first group had fallen asleep. Lin Manluo, Zhuo Feng, Liu Zhaoqing, Xu Yishen, Lan Yarong and Zhang Xiaonian sat by the fire and warmed up, worried about waking up other students, and the six simply typed on the chat channel when chatting.
Zhuo Feng asked, “Manluo, are you confident for this three stage project? Think carefully again, are there any omissions?”
Lin Manluo typed: “I also have no practical experience, and they are designed based on theoretical knowledge. I can only take one step at a time. Fortunately, we still have time, even if the first experiment fails, there is a chance to save it.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “Zhuo Feng, what’s wrong with you? Don’t crow mouth, I think Manluo’s plan is very reliable.”
Xu Yishen put one hand near the fire to warm up, and the other hand quickly typed: “3 credits of the course, logically speaking, it will not be difficult. The Faculty of Biological Science’s embryonic development and baby birth had 4 credits. I think this course is also an experience course. As long as we don’t mess around, it won’t be a problem to pass the exam.”
Liu Zhaoqing looked back at him: “What do you mean don’t mess around?”
Xu Yishen said with a deep smile: “For example, plant a peach blossom forest in the desert.”
Everyone: “……”
At this moment, Zhang Xiaonian and Lan Yarong, who were in charge of the inspection, returned. Lan Yarong said, “I didn’t find a problem, the wind outside is a little strong, the asphalt has solidified, the quicksand is fixed. The sand and dust are much smaller than during the day.”
Lin Manluo put down her heart and asked, “What about the hole that Xiao Nian dug?”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “It’s no problem, we can make a windproof wall after dawn tomorrow.”
Everyone patrolled in small groups, and lasted until 3 o’clock in the morning, when Xiao Tu’s loud alarm clock sounded at the base: “It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, master, it’s time to get up!” It stepped on the roller skates to call from room to room, and the six people who were asleep were woken up collectively and came to the living room to take over the shift.
The night passed peacefully, and nothing major happened.
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After a long day, the fence wall was finally finished.
This fence net and barbed wire were woven by the students themselves. Everyone was not professional, the crooked twist was not very good, but overall, the one-kilometer-long protective wall was quite presentable.
Lin Manluo looked at the second stage of the project and said with a satisfied smile, “Sand fixation and sand blocking have been completed. The next step is to level the sand dunes and prepare for the third stage of reforestation!”
Everyone was tired all day, taking turns to catch up on sleep and rest.
That night, 12 people divided into two groups of vigil again. Because last night was calm, everyone was more relaxed tonight. After all, it was a 3-credit course, and the library would not deliberately make things difficult for them.
At 2 am, Yue Xingwen’s upper and lower eyelids were fighting. The muscles all over his body were sore, and he felt that he could fall asleep casually lying on the ground. Jiang Pingce glanced at him and said in a low voice, “Why don’t you go to sleep, I’ll keep an eye on it.”
Yue Xingwen forced himself to hold back his sleepiness and shook his head. “It’s okay, hold on for another hour.”
He took a deep breath and said, “It’s too stuffy to stay in the basement, it’s better to go out and take a look.”
Jiang Pingce got up and followed him.
The two came outside the base, and when they were blown by the night breeze, Yue Xingwen sneezed reflexively. Jiang Pingce turned to look at him, stretched out his slender fingers, and gently helped him zip up the jacket and said, “It’s windy at night, don’t catch a cold.”
Yue Xingwen smiled, wrapped his jacket, looked at the sky and said, “It’s rare to see the moon. The sky for the course before is always yellow sand, just like the end of the world.”
The moon in the desert was large and round, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the sand. The fence wall they built cast a large mottled black shadow in the moonlight, and at this time, the black shadow was shaking on the ground.
Jiang Pingce looked at it for a moment, and suddenly said, “Is the wind too strong? The fence wall kept shaking.”
Yue Xingwen also found the problem and said, “We have reinforced it with very thick wooden stakes today, and it’s reasonable to say that it won’t shake so much.” He looked at the sky and his face changed slightly, “The moon is also covered, isn’t it dark clouds?”
Jiang Pingce said, “It’s a sandstorm!”
The night breeze blowing on their faces like a knife, the smell of dust in the air, and the feeling of rubbing the gravel on their faces were all clear reminders that sudden sandstorms at night and their projects were likely to be destroyed!
Yue Xingwen quickly ran back to the base and said, “Wake up everyone, prepare for protection!”
Ke Shaobin asked Xiao Tu to call people, and the 6 people who were already in charge of the vigil immediately came to the ground. In just a few minutes, the ground they had previously laid with asphalt was buried by a layer of sand!
Those sand rushed over like a flood, piled up nearly a meter high on the other side of the fence wall. The fence wall was crumbling, almost the moment Lin Manluo and the other 5 five were woken up and ran up quickly, there was a loud ‘boom’, the fence wall should be broken, and a large amount of sand and dust rushed directly towards them like a beast out of a cage!
Zhuo Feng shouted, “Fuck, run quickly!”
If they did not run, they would be buried in the sand.
Zhang Xiaonian hurriedly covered the entrance to the underground base with a wooden plank, and Qin Lu directly teleported them into the distance with her Plate Movement. Everyone looked back and saw that the rolling sand and dust had completely buried their protective project, and it was equivalent to working for nothing in their first two days!
Lin Manluo’s face turned pale and she didn’t know what to say.
Others were also very angry, and Liu ZHaoqing cursed in a low voice, “The library has never talked about martial virtue. We have been busy with the project for two days, and it only takes 2 minutes to destroy! Fuck.”
Ke Shaobin said dejectedly, “What should we do now ah? Do these quicksand have to be cleaned up again?” That day, he accompanied Zhang Xiaonian to clean up the quicksand, and he was covered in dust, and now they needed to do it again, Ke Shaobin wanted to vomit blood.
Xu Yishen rubbed his temples and said, “Not only the quicksand must be cleaned again, but also the asphalt we paved also has to be redone?”
Jiang Pingce calmly said, “This plan is not right.”
Everyone turned their heads to look at him, and Jiang Pingce said, “Our project was destroyed in an instant, which means that if we continue to follow the original method and have another sandstorm in a few days, it will still have the same result.”
Yue Xingwen agreed and said, “Pingce is right, the protection project was destroyed so quickly because our project had loopholes and was not perfect. Rather than the library deliberately destroying it to make things difficult for us.”
Everyone thought about it carefully and immediately felt that Pingce and Xingwen were very reasonable.
If their project was very perfect, it was equivalent to the successful implementation of the wind prevention and sand fixation project, and no matter how large the sandstorm, it would not be easily destroyed. Since it was so easy to be destroyed, it was necessary to find the problem themselves.
Yue Xingwen looked at Lin Manluo and said seriously, “Senior sister, we don’t blame you. Everyone has no experience in this area, you have done a good job, and it’s normal for the first experiment to fail. Fortunately, this sandstorm came in time, allowing us to discover the problem in advance, and if it happened later, there will be no time to remedy it.”
Zhuo Feng nodded and said, “Yes, early discovery and early solution. It’s better than the exam coming to an end and our project is destroyed. Only 48 hours have passed now, and we have more than 300 hours to start over.”
Lin Manluo gritted her teeth and said, “It’s my fault, I thought things too simply.”
Lan Yarong patted her shoulder lightly and said with a smile, “No one blames you. You have been under a lot of pressure in the past two days, we all know that. Do you remember that when I was in the Faculty of Law, my pressure was also great? My first official appearance in the court as a defense lawyer, and if I made a mistake, our client would be sentenced to death. But in the end, didn’t everyone also grit our teeth and come through?”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “Yeah. You still have us as helpers. Don’t worry, think carefully about where there are omissions.”
Yue Xingwen frowned and looked at the sand in the distance, and said, “It seems that the sandstorm will last all night tonight. We can’t work, so it’s better for everyone to go back to the base to sleep well and nourish our spirits. We will start from scratch again tomorrow. In the first two days, everyone worked very hard, so it should be the tuition fee paid for this course.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Don’t think too much, go back to rest.”
Yue Xingwen looked at Lin Manluo and said warmly, “Senior sister, there are still more than 300 hours, as long as the plan is right, the time will definitely be enough. Don’t overthink it, failing once or twice is no big deal.”
Lin Manluo nodded and said, “En. I have a little idea, go back and organize it. Let’s talk about it tomorrow.”
Qin Lu asked, “Our base was buried by the sandstorm, can we still stay tonight?”
Zhang Xiaonian immediately raised his hand. “I covered the entrance of the base with a wooden board before I escaped, there should not be much sand in the base. If everyone uses the plate movement down, we can still stay there, right?”
Lin Manluo said, “I turn on the air purification, and sleeping in the base should not be a big problem.”
Jiang Pingce said, “Qin Lu, the front inclined down 45 degrees, 533 meters.”
Qin Lu changed positions according to Jiang Pingce’s data, and everyone really appeared in the underground base.
In addition to some sand seeping in from the stairs covered by wooden boards, the interior of the base was really clean, and Zhang Xiaonian’s operation of covering the entrance when escaping was too timely. Obviously, the little junior brother did not want to dig the base again, so he subconsciously protected his architectural achievements.
Everyone went back to their rooms and slept.
The next morning, everyone woke up refreshed and gathered in the living room for a meeting.
Lin Manluo had already regained her confidence, and she said dryly, “I have an idea that we should do a small sand fixation project for a preview before the official construction.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up. “It makes sense! Before large-scale construction, make a small sand table engineering model, artificially create sandstorms to see if it can be prevented! Only when the model is successful, the success rate be higher in the actual situation.”
Yue Xingwen asked, “What is senior sister’s new idea?”
Lin Manluo said, “A protective wall is obviously not enough. I want to gradually and multi-layer protection, and build several sand barriers in a row, leaving gaps between the sand barriers to channel the accumulated quicksand. Have you heard of the Feather Row project?”
Everyone shook their heads in unison.
Lin Manluo took a few leaves as a model and explained to everyone, “If there is a gap like a feather in the wall that blocks the quicksand, some of the sand will flow away from the gap and change the direction of flow.” She casually grabbed some of the sand cleared from the base and said, “Assuming that the total amount of quicksand is so much, I only use a row of walls to block it, the quicksand piles up so badly that it may crush the wall. After the wall has a gap, the quicksand will not accumulate at the first wall, and the sand coming out through the gap will meet the second wall, continuing to encounter the third layer of interception, until finally all the quicksand is intercepted by the layer.”
Zhuo Feng immediately understood. “Is it equivalent to turning the whole into pieces, creating gaps in the wall, reducing pressure, and spreading out the diversion?”
Ke Shaobin said excitedly, “Just like there are many waiting halls in the train station? Spread out the passengers and don’t overcrowd the station! This method is good, I think it’s reliable.”
Lin Manluo looked at Xingwen and Pingce. “What do you think?”
Jiang Pingce said, “I think it’s reasonable. Let’s do a model deduction, use Ke Shaobin’s laptop, calculate the total amount of quicksand and the load-bearing capacity of the wall, and see how many layers of walls will be appropriate to build.”
Yue Xingwen looked at the serious appearance of a group of people, and couldn’t help but sigh. “Our Research Group 183 is serious, and it’s quite like a professional scientific research team!”
Although everyone’s painting style was usually a bit devilish, once they encountered professional problems, everyone could immediately use the knowledge they had learned to seriously discuss and brainstorm. Lin Manluo’s design combined knowledge of environmental engineering, mathematical modeling, physical pressure calculations, computer model deduction, and more.
Yue Xingwen believed that with so many top students in the team, nothing could be difficult for them.
I really love their teamwork <3
Thanks for the chapter! <3
Educational chapter!
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Love the arcs
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