Chapter 932 “Express Train”
And in this last hundred meters distance, even the mastermind failed to obtain detailed information.
In other words, this mere 100 meters has become the most uncontrollable thing in the entire rescue operation.
This is also the reason why the mastermind only wants to explain half of the plan to everyone. In the final analysis, whether this operation can be successful or not depends on the on-the-spot response ability of the rescue team.
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The combat meeting ended and time was almost up. Harveys led everyone through secret passages one after another, heading deep into the underground of the stronghold.
The so-called "express train" is not the abandoned subway tunnel and rail car that Qi Lin imagined, but a large natural gas transmission pipeline left over from the old era. The pipeline is buried fifteen meters underground, with a diameter of 4.26 meters, and the pipe wall is made of It is made of poured concrete and contains four cast iron pipes inside. The entire pipeline is more than 4,000 kilometers long. It starts from Chaandashinskoye, Russia, passes through the China-Russia border, and extends to China.
This natural gas transmission pipeline was built at the beginning of the 21st century and will be put into use in 2020. Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation conducted several years of negotiations just for this pipeline, and finally signed it in 2014. A framework agreement worth US$400 billion was signed. The agreement is valid for thirty years. During the period of validity of the agreement, Russia will transport nearly 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China every year. It was also from this time that Russia surpassed Central Asia in one fell swoop and became China's largest natural gas supplier.
However, this agreement did not successfully maintain until 2044. Needless to say, the reason is the damn war...
This natural gas pipeline was out of service three years before humans entered the shelter era, and the cast iron pipes inside were also dismantled and recycled. However, due to cost reasons, this channel was not completely blocked and has remained in the underground.
Following this natural gas pipeline, team members can quickly reach Eastern Siberia, and then all the way east through the Chukotka Peninsula to the Bering Strait.
As for the retreat route, it is not to return along the original route, but to use an inflatable kayak to cross the Bering Strait, which is dozens of kilometers wide, and land in the Alaska region of the United States, where the team will receive support from "BOSS".
"This is our transportation."
Harveys pointed to a ten-meter-long shuttle-shaped metal cabin adsorbed on the wall of a natural gas pipeline and said that this kind of vehicle can use gas pressure to move close to the pipe wall at high speed, and only requires four In an hour, they can reach the end of the pipeline - Chaandashinskoye.
The space inside the shuttle-shaped metal cabin is very small, and everyone can only lie in hanging bags made of rubber that are similar to sleeping bags. These hanging bags are full of elasticity and can wrap the human body tightly, minimizing the impact of the human body. The impact in the metal cabin at high speed.
I don't know why, although the mastermind told Qi Lin that "Cheng Yanqiu" would also participate in this operation, Qi Lin did not see the space prepared for Cheng Yanqiu inside the shuttle-shaped metal cabin. Moreover, after talking with other people, , Qi Lin also discovered that they had no idea about the existence of Cheng Yanqiu...or "F0905".
Could it be that the mastermind has other plans? The mastermind didn't tell Qi Lin, and Qi Lin didn't ask. In his opinion, although Cheng Yanqiu's combat power was indeed very strong, in his current form, he was very difficult to control and was not suitable for such a stealth mission. , but may become a burden to the team.
The team members got into the independent hanging bags one by one, and Qi Lin followed closely behind. However, after he got into a hanging bag, Lingkui also got in and stuck closely to Qi Lin. Slender arms were wrapped around Qi Lin's waist.
"Why did you come to me, Lingkui?" Qi Lin looked at the girl lying on his chest in surprise and asked in a low voice, but there was no expression on the girl's face.
The material of these hanging bags is very elastic, and even a big guy like 0592 can be easily wrapped in it, and Ling Kui's body is very thin, so Qi Lin doesn't feel crowded... It's just that this girl's body Being so close to him made Qi Lin feel strange.
Fortunately... Ling Kui's body hasn't developed much yet. If it were Persephone or Song Xiaodie, Qi Lin might have been unable to control his physiological reactions...
"Don't you want to feel more comfortable?" The little girl lying on Qi Lin's chest raised her head and stared at Qi Lin with a pair of dead eyes that had no emotion at all. However, the words she said made Qi Lin completely stunned. Already...
Comfortable...comfortable...? !
"Don't think wrong, idiot." As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Lin felt a powerful force of thought spread out from Ling Kui's body, wrapping the bag where the two of them were, and then gently dragged it It rose up and floated in the shuttle-shaped metal cabin.
"..." Only then did Qi Lin understand what Lingkui meant by "be more comfortable". Although this kind of hanging bag can reduce the impact force suffered by people a lot, the hanging bag still needs to be connected to the metal cabin with laces, and the impact force It was impossible to reduce it to zero, and the bag they were in now, after being lifted up by Ayakui with her mind, was completely in a suspended state, even if the metal cabin outside was hit hard. In the event of a collision, as long as the hanging bag does not come into contact with the inner wall of the metal cabin, they will naturally not be affected in any way.
The mastermind has designed the hanging bag to be as comfortable as possible, but traveling at high speed for four hours in this state is not a small burden for the evolver, but for Qi Lin and Ling Kui, it is just I just spent the four hours lying in a stable sleeping bag.
"To be honest... I'm really jealous of your abilities... I also have mental abilities, but why am I so limited that I can't use them at will like you?" Feeling Ayakui's materialized thoughts through the bag. Power, Qi Lin said enviously.
"..." Lingkui did not answer Qi Lin's words. Instead, she closed her eyes and pressed her cheek against Qi Lin's chest.
The time came quickly. All the hatches of the shuttle-shaped metal cabin were closed, and the thruster jets at the tail spurted out blue-purple flames. This strange-shaped vehicle was so close to the pipe of the natural gas pipeline. The wall jumped out quickly——
In just one point six seconds, the shuttle-shaped metal cabin has accelerated to its peak, and at the same time, waves of muffled sounds can be faintly heard from several other hanging bags - the shuttle-shaped metal cabin will also release a powerful force when accelerating. The force of gravity is exerted on the passengers. This gravitational acceleration is very close to the limit that astronauts have to withstand during training. Among these people, except Harveys who has a pilot qualification certificate, no one else has ever received such training. Training was naturally extremely uncomfortable for a while.
Fortunately, there were few weak among the team members. It didn't take long for the speed of the shuttle-shaped metal cabin to stabilize, and everyone gradually got used to this feeling.
Four hours is neither short nor long. Taking advantage of this last bit of time, Qi Lin closed his eyes and planned to recharge his batteries...
However, things were not as smooth as expected. Just halfway through the journey, the shuttle-shaped metal cabin suddenly came to a sudden stop. The hanging bags in the cabin collided with each other one after another, and screams of pain also came one after another. It rang——