A crackling cold wind carried a large amount of dust and sand, hitting everyone's faces heavily.
"Cough cough cough..."
"Well!"
"Bah, bah, bah!"
Without warning, many people also inhaled sand and gravel into their noses, and a coughing sound suddenly sounded in the cabin.
Xu Yun was also among the "victims" attacked by the wind and sand, but he just wiped his cheek casually and turned his attention to the ground outside the cabin.
To be precise, it should be...
The plane just arrived at Urumqi Airport.
Compared with the original Lejiawan Airport, the specifications of Urumqi Airport are obviously much higher, and the painting style is closer to Xu Yun's understanding of the airport.
Not only does this airport cover a much larger area than Lejiawan Airport, the ground runways are also neater, and there are even several aprons for helicopters to dock.
Although the overall look is still a bit simple, the style of one of the two major national gateway hub airports in later generations can still be vaguely seen.
But this is normal.
After all, although the current Urumqi Airport has not yet been included in the plan of the eight regional hub airports, it can be seen from its name that it is somewhat extraordinary:
Sino-Soviet Civil Aviation Airport.
That's right.
This is one of the main airports that handles bear experts and supplies coming to China. Although it is listed as a civilian airport, it is actually almost the same as a military airport.
However, after the bear expert left, the traffic at the airport dropped a lot, so the Urumqi Airport looks a little empty now.
At this moment.
There were a bunch of military vehicles neatly lined up next to the IL-14 passenger plane that Xu Yun and the others were riding on, and a square formation of forty or fifty people stood outside the military vehicles.
The number of people is obviously more than an ordinary platoon, and less than two platoons or a company. It is mostly an enhanced platoon.
Do not know why.
The moment he saw these soldiers, another thought suddenly appeared in Xu Yun's mind:
They must also be veterans who participated in the Peninsular War, and... their combat effectiveness is probably stronger than Lin Feng's team!
Even in that war, this was definitely a core force!
And just when Xu Yun was in a trance.
Lu Guangda walked down the ramp with Wang Jicheng, who was in charge of liaison between Base 221 and Malan.
After they stepped onto the ground and stood still, an officer with a Chinese-character face walked up quickly and saluted with a serious expression:
"Hello, chief! I am Shen Yuanfu, leader of the security reinforcement platoon of the XX Group Army! I have been ordered to welcome the chief to Lop Nur Malan Base!"
Lu Guangda turned his head slightly and looked at Wang Jicheng.
Although it is theoretically impossible for disguised enemy agents to appear at Urumqi Airport, the expert team is of great importance and some procedures still need to be followed.
Wang Jicheng nodded gently towards him:
"Director Lu, this is a comrade from Malan Base. Platoon Leader Shen and I have known each other for several years."
Lu Guangda then reached out his hand to the other party with relief, with a trace of apology on his face:
"Platoon Commander Shen, I'm sorry to keep comrades waiting for so long."
Shen Yuanfu smiled freely:
"The commander's words are serious. As long as you can reach the base safely, it doesn't matter how long we wait."
He knew very well that Lu Guangda's apology meant not only making them wait for so long, but also referring to confirming his identity to Wang Jicheng in person - this approach actually seemed a bit distrustful and impolite.
However, Shen Yuanfu also knew that this was a necessary move, so he did not have any grudge in his heart.
After saying hello.
The expert team walked/carried out of the cabin one after another.
Shen Yuanfu glanced at everyone calmly, secretly counting the number of people in the group.
In addition to escorting experts, his tasks also include the most basic personnel counting.
"13...14...15..."
After confirming that the number of people was consistent with the number he had obtained, the straight lines on Shen Yuanfu's face softened a bit, and he pointed at the car behind him and said:
"Chief, time is limited, I will briefly introduce to you the situation of our fleet."
"In terms of personnel, this time we have a reinforced platoon of soldiers, plus four medics and a communications officer, and the vehicles are eight trucks and a jeep."
"Four of the trucks are used for guarding along the road, one carries radios and other high-lethal spare supplies, and the other three are used to store the luggage and passengers of the expert team."
"As for the jeep, it was modified in advance at the request of the capital. The co-pilot's position was transformed into an open space integrated with the rear row to accommodate the special expert."
When saying this.
Shen Yuanfu also lightly glanced at Xu Yun, who was not far away, with a slightly subtle expression.
Among the fifteen expert team members, only Xu Yun has the strangest style of painting. Anyone who is not a StarCraft player can basically tell at a glance who the jeep was modified for.
As for Shen Yuanfu's subtle expression...it's because there was an episode in the middle.
Anyone who has seen the map of China knows this.
Xihai Province, where Base 221 is located, is already considered the border of China, while the Malan Base in Lop Nur is even more remote.
Therefore, the material transportation of the Malan base has always been a big problem. The base also saves all kinds of resources as much as possible, and every penny can be broken in half to spend.
Therefore, after learning that the jeep needed to be modified to pick up a paralyzed expert, a well-known bad-tempered boss at the Malan base became a little worried about the loss of supplies.
To this end, he also proposed an idea to replace the transformation of the Jeep:
Wouldn't it be enough to just take a coffin, let the wounded man lie in it, and then transport it to the base?
We are all materialists. We are not afraid of the metaphysics of ghosts and gods. What does it mean to lie in a coffin?
Moreover, the coffin is sheltered from the wind and sun, and can save a lot of materials for rebuilding the jeep. Why not?
It is said that if the capital had not called, the big boss would have really prepared to do this...
Of course.
Xu Yun didn't know that he almost became a zombie. After the experts were all in place, the motorcade slowly drove out of Urumqi Airport.
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As the motorcade went further and further away, the scene in Xu Yun's field of vision became increasingly deserted.
The sky and the earth are vast, surrounded by golden sand dunes and flying dust.
A few grass bushes lay thinly on the yellow sand, making a hoarse call as the wind blew.
Although Xu Yun traveled a lot on business in his previous life, he mainly traveled around coastal cities. He mostly traveled inland to Sichuan and Huizhou provinces, and basically never visited Urumqi.
The background of this era, coupled with the desolate wilderness surrounding the airport, is inexplicably emotional.
I don't know how long it took.
After turning a dirt road, several camels appeared in front of Xu Yun and others.
With heavy luggage tied to both sides of the camel's hump, the camel moved forward slowly and with difficulty, regularly spitting out its long tongue to dissipate as much heat as possible in the scorching air.
At the front of the camel team were two middle-aged men with obvious Zhuzhou appearance. They flashed past the window under Xu Yun's gaze.
Lu Guangda, who was sitting next to Xu Yun, also noticed the camel convoy that they easily surpassed, and asked Shen Yuanfu, who was the driver himself:
"Platoon Commander Shen? What do these people we passed just now do?"
"Oh, you mean them."
Shen Yuanfu glanced at the rearview mirror, the expression on his face did not fluctuate much, and he explained calmly:
"These are local residents of Zhuzhou. There is an official market in another direction where we came, and they will collect all kinds of fruits at a higher price than the market price."
"So some Zhuzhou residents will come all the way to sell their specialty products in order to make a few extra cents. It's actually quite hard work."
Lu Guangda nodded thoughtfully.
Although Zhuzhou is remote and many places are extremely desolate, it is a well-known fruit-producing area.
Grapes, cantaloupe, pears...these are all well-known products.
In this era, many Zhuzhou fruits are even sold abroad to exchange for precious foreign exchange for the country.
For example, Korla fragrant pear.
This fruit is currently regarded as one of the hard currencies and is very famous internationally. Even many Western countries are importing it with rabbits.
Therefore, the state has set up some markets in Zhuzhou for a long time to purchase fruits from local residents at relatively high prices.
On the one hand, this premium is a subsidy to benefit the people, and on the other hand, the rabbits can make a lot of money in exchange for foreign exchange. Over time, a relatively mature trading system has been formed.
Then Lu Guangda looked at the wind and sand outside the window, frowned slightly, and said worriedly:
"But Platoon Commander Shen, Zhuzhou is so desolate... Aren't they afraid of getting lost?"
Shen Yuanfu shrugged:
"Afraid, of course I am. To tell you the truth, many people disappear in Zhuzhou every year because of this matter."
"But everyone has to consider their livelihood. This kind of risk can naturally be overcome in the face of life pressure."
"After all, as long as we don't encounter too bad weather, the possibility of losing contact around Urumqi is not high, but if we have no income, we will really starve to death."
Say it.
Shen Yuanfu thought of something again, and the speed of the car gradually slowed down a bit:
"Actually, the locals are pretty good and have some survival experience. Many times they can guess whether it will be windy or rainy just by looking at the sky."
"But our teams who come to build the base are different. We lack this kind of experience accumulation, so we have many comrades in these years... ugh!"
I don't know if some memories were stirred up, but Shen Yuanfu shook his head and sighed without even finishing his words.
However, although he did not finish the second half of his words, both Xu Yun and Lu Guangda understood what he meant.
The atmosphere in the car suddenly became a little heavy.
Mentioned earlier.
There are three main centers for the research and development of atomic bombs, namely Base 221, Factory 504 and Lop Nur Malan Base.
The location selection of these three major centers is not as simple as just drawing a circle on the map. These three locations have extremely strict location requirements.
For example, the nuclear explosion base serves as the final nuclear explosion point.
Its requirements are a high degree of confidentiality, stable geological structure, and a large amount of free uninhabited land around it to avoid the subsequent effects of a nuclear explosion.
At the beginning, the address determined by the bear experts was near Dunhuang, and the nuclear explosion center was only 130 kilometers away from Dunhuang.
But later, considering the protection of cultural relics in the Mogao Grottoes, the superiors decided to change the test base to Lop Nur.
The Lop Nur base is adjacent to Bosten Lake and was named the Malan base because the nuclear test living area is covered with beautiful Malan flowers.
The entire Malan base covers an area of up to 100,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the total area of Zhejiang Province - a nuclear explosion has a destructive radius, and this area can bear the impact of a nuclear explosion with an equivalent of 3 million tons.
But that's why.
The geographical location of Lop Nur can be described as isolated from the world.
In this era without satellite navigation and positioning, it is easy to get lost whether entering or leaving the base.
Sometimes even a convoy of dozens of people may run for several hours before realizing that they are going the wrong way.
The rabbits even paid a lot of money for this.
The Malan base was officially established on June 13 of the year before last. The person in charge of the base is the famous nuclear commander General Zhang.
His son Zhang Lutian once summarized his father's life in one paragraph:
The eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the fierce fighting at Huaihai, the crossing of the Yangtze River, and the climb to the Gansu Mountains frightened the American emperor;
Military exercises in Liaodong, exploration in the western frontier, Malan in the Gobi Desert, mushroom clouds rising up to the backbone of China!
At that time, General Zhang led a group of veterans who had just finished fighting the Peninsular War to Lop Nur, and personally led the team to prepare for the establishment of the Malan base.
Needless to say, the whole process was difficult. The most regrettable thing is...
During the establishment of the Lop Nur base, a total of 124 comrades disappeared during various missions. Among them, 43 people were missing while searching for water sources before the base was established.
In this environment.
The four words missing are basically the same as death.
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Due to certain problems, even the halo cannot allow Xu Yun to travel to before this year.
Therefore, Xu Yun could only express condolences and respect to these martyrs emotionally.
...........
Maybe it's because of the heavy topic.
In the following time, the three people in the car hardly talked loudly.
At most, Shen Yuanfu mentioned it when the car was crossing the Tianshan Mountains, and Xu Yun and Lu Guangda responded politely.
Eight hours later.
In front of the jeep Xu Yun was riding, the outline of a large base slowly appeared.
It is clear.
The Malan base has arrived - in fact, the Malan base is only about 350 kilometers away from Urumqi Airport, and the normal travel of the fleet only takes six or even a little over five hours.
However, considering Xu Yun's physical condition and the fatigue of some experts, Shen Yuanfu deliberately lowered his speed.
Fortunately, Zhuzhou is different from the inland area. It may not get dark even at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, so the team did not encounter too many problems after slowing down.
Then as the distance increased, the appearance of the base became clearer and clearer.
It is different from the industrial style of Base 221.
Malan Base gave Xu Yun the feeling in just one word:
big.
There are almost no buildings above three floors in the base, there are only a few clusters of buildings, and the rest of the buildings are far apart.
At the same time, there are a large number of soldiers in the base using shovels, hammers and other tools to level the base, presumably to reinforce the terrain.
There are also some soldiers who are carrying out daily training, and some gunshots can even be heard from a little further away.
Shen Yuanfu drove the car forward for nearly half an hour before stopping outside a small building.
The small building is only two stories high, but its horizontal area is not small. There are some slogans written on the surrounding walls, and it looks like it should be an office location.
At this moment.
There were more than a dozen men and women of different ages standing outside the small building, the leader of whom was a middle-aged man wearing a military coat and with a wide nose.
Stab——
After the car stops.
Lu Guangda opened the car door and walked out, while Xu Yun's assistant Mou Fangdong led three capital special guards to carry Xu Yun's wheelchair out.
at the same time.
The man in a military coat also led everyone to the vicinity of the jeep and took the initiative to extend his hand to Lu Guangda:
"Comrade Guangda, welcome to Malan Base. We haven't seen each other for some years, right?"
Lu Guangda also extended his hand to him politely:
"Comrade Zhang, we haven't seen each other for almost two years."
The man in the military coat patted the back of Lu Guangda's hand hard with his left hand, and then said:
"Come on, Guangda, you guys have been busy traveling. Let me introduce these comrades to you first. After you get to know each other, you can go and rest first. We will talk about the specific matters tomorrow."
Lu Guangda had no objection.
It has been 14 hours since they set off from Base 221, most of which was bumpy on the road, and many comrades have already followed them as if they were sage time.
In this case, you can actually insist on working hard, but the efficiency will inevitably be very low, and mistakes are likely to occur during the work process.
Any slight mistake may cause the experiment to fail.
Therefore, instead of having to bite the bullet and insist on forcefully at this time, it is better to rest first and then fight tomorrow, sharpening the sword and chopping wood.
Seeing that Lu Guangda had no objection, the man in military coat pointed to a man with a slightly higher hairline next to him and said:
"Guangda, let me introduce this comrade to you first. This is a geologist from Shanghai. His name is..."
