Chapter 23 Outpost It was not until evening that all the personnel at the base entered the portal, and Chen Lin also took advantage of the last batch of construction personnel to enter the portal.
The green portal at the research base slowly dissipated. It was the first time for many researchers to see such a situation, and those who shouted thought that something unexpected had happened.
It was only after Professor Yu stood up and explained the situation that everyone finally calmed down.
There are not many people at Hongshan Research Base who know that they can open the portal, which is exactly in line with what Professor Yu said at the beginning that Chen Lin's identity was protected.
On the other side, as soon as Chen Lin walked out of the portal, someone immediately came up to him to confirm each other's identities.
"Please give me the things, Mr. Chen."
That man was obviously Professor Yu's assistant. Chen Lin recognized him. His name was Qi Ming.
Chen Lin didn't say much, and just threw the black hard drive that Professor Yu gave him to him.
Qi Ming got the hard drive and turned to leave, but was stopped by Chen Lin.
"Which step have you reached now?"
Chen Lin raised his eyes and saw that there was a large construction site in the distance. Various mechanical equipment was in operation, and the roar of machinery continued.
The trees in front of the portal have long been cleared away, and the nearby areas have been crushed to flat ground. In the field of vision, there is an engineering team hardening the ground.
"The outer area of the outpost is about to be completed. I don't know exactly what the buildings inside are going to be. It looks like they are assembling prefabricated houses. It is estimated that our group of people will only be able to squeeze in the prefabricated houses tonight. Sleep in the room."
Qi Ming pushed up his glasses and shook the black hard drive in his hand: "I still have a task to do. It is estimated that the data transmission will take more than an hour. You can take advantage of this time to wander around. I will contact you then. .”
Chen Lin nodded and said hello, watching Qi Ming hurriedly turn around and disappear from sight, he then walked straight down from the portal.
All the trees in the horizontal area of at least a hundred meters in front of the portal have been cut down. The huge tree trunks are now stacked together, and transport vehicles come every few minutes to tow some away.
What is used to harden the ground is not the cement asphalt that is common on the earth, but some kind of black congealed substance. After it is laid directly on it, it is rolled over with a road roller, and dozens of layers are completed in a few minutes. meters of road hardening.
This black gel substance does not even need to be cooled naturally. Special personnel carry a mechanical device like a flamethrower and spray it all over, and the ground is considered to be hardened.
There was no pungent smell in the air, which really made Chen Lin feel magical.
"You are not a member of the construction team, are you? Can't find where to go? You can find it by walking a few hundred meters along this road..."
Chen Lin stood there and watched the construction machinery lay the hardened road, so that he was quickly regarded by these construction engineers as scattered researchers who could not find the large army.
Chen Lin smiled and nodded towards the speaker, and he followed the newly laid road towards the core of the permanent camp in the alien world.
After walking a few hundred meters, Chen Lin noticed that there were more security personnel on both sides, and he soon met an acquaintance at the sentry position.
That person was a member of the team that entered the other world with Chen Lin before. He seemed very enthusiastic after meeting Chen Lin.
"Why did you come here? Captain Yang has been talking about you for a while."
"...Captain, Mr. Chen is already here! Okay...I understand!"
The soldier spoke aloud to the intercom on his shoulder. In just a few seconds, he received a reply from Yang Li. Then he smiled and said to Chen Lin: "Let our captain take you to see it." Look what projects our people have done!"
Yang Li quickly drove over in his off-road vehicle, and stopped the off-road vehicle directly in front of Chen Lin with a beautiful grace.
"You should have a somewhat mature and steady personality. You should be the same as when I first met you." Chen Lin looked a little helpless. When he first met Captain Yang, he thought he was a very steady middle-aged man. , I didn’t expect that after only knowing each other for a few days, Captain Yang would already reveal his true nature.
Who would have thought that Captain Yang would have such an out-of-the-box personality! "Haha, I am an old man with an eternal heart!"
Yang Li laughed and directly motioned for Chen Lin to get in the car.
"What's wrong with my personality? I'm considered good, much better than those rigid and serious people!"
Captain Yang sat in the main driver's seat and said with a smile: "If I weren't of this character, how could I have believed in the strange thing you said about opening the portal? You have to thank me after talking about it."
Chen Lin also shook his head helplessly at his words and looked out the window, just in time to see large construction machinery lifting up the chopped trees.
"All the trees in the area are not wasted at all. Some were processed on site and used as flooring and building materials, and some were simply processed and directly wedged by pile drivers to the periphery of the divided area to serve as protective walls."
Yang Li recovered a little at this time and explained to Chen Lin seriously: "This is the most important task. Although the time here is similar to that on the earth, it gets dark much earlier. We speculate that the time here is The sun will probably set around 05:30 in the afternoon... After all, I haven’t spent the night here, so I don’t know what monsters I will encounter.”
"Almost done?"
"The outermost area has been completed in the morning, and now we have a second layer of internal defense, which contains employee dormitories and the like."
Chen Lin nodded and noticed that there were prefabricated houses inside.
"Although it is a prefabricated house, it has water and electricity, which is much better than those of us who need to be on guard duty all night."
Yang Li smiled bitterly at Chen Lin and said: "Because we need to rotate, we directly implement a temporary policy, resulting in not even a few prefabricated houses allocated."
"Can't we just ask the base to send it to us tomorrow if it's missing?"
"Then it will probably take a few days to arrive!"
The vehicle travels very fast, and the paved roads are almost the same as those on the earth. There is almost no bumpiness when driving on them.
Chen Lin quickly saw the highlight of the first day.
He actually saw a tall building! The gray building in the distance was obviously not fake. As the vehicle quickly approached, Chen Lin could see the entire building clearly. It actually had ten floors!
It seems that the entire building has been capped. Although the overall building is a bit weird, it is a real house building.
This thing stands alone in the dense forest. It can be seen at a glance that it is not from this world at all.
"What is that?"
Chen Lin looked at Yang Li in the driver's seat in disbelief, frowned and asked, "I built a tall building in less than a day, are you kidding me?"
"Nothing is impossible,"
Yang Li smiled and stepped on the accelerator to drive to the bottom of the building. He pulled the handbrake in one go and said, "This is a building that was prepared to be used as a comprehensive laboratory building. It was built in a modular manner."
"It's basically full of laboratories and the like, and we're going to move a batch of researchers from the Hongshan Base here when the time comes!"
(End of this chapter)