Tang Yuan and Yamashita took the police car of the Tsuruga Police Station to Xinyang, and learned of the government's decision in the car.Although they knew beforehand that the gangsters had reconnected and agreed to rescue the children on the helicopter, Yuhara couldn't predict whether the government would accept the unreasonable demand to shut down nuclear power plants across the country.In order to avoid unnecessary expectations from Yamashita, he didn't say anything in particular to Yamashita, so the awkward silence lasted for dozens of minutes.
Tang Yuan finally opened his mouth and said to Yamashita beside him, "It's really great."
Yamashita leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded slowly.His pale face finally gradually turned bloody.
"Because of Huitai's relationship, it caused so much trouble to the whole country."
"It's not you, nor Huitai, that's causing trouble, but the gangsters."
"That's right," the police officer sitting in the passenger seat also turned to him and said, "Mr. Yamashita, you don't have to mind at all."
"Hearing what you said, I feel a little more relaxed. I didn't expect the government to really make such a decision."
"Because saving people comes first," Tang Yuan said, "As for the power problem, there is always a solution."
According to a government announcement, companies that consume a lot of electricity have negotiated to move their daytime work to night today.The Chief Cabinet Secretary finally appealed to the people of the whole country to reduce the use of electricity as much as possible, especially to avoid the use of air conditioners.On the other hand, shutting down all the nuclear power plants is not impossible, given the willingness to put in the effort and patience.
Tang Yuan felt that the gangster's purpose might be to let the citizens understand this.If this is the case, although Tang Yuan objected to this approach, he could agree with the gangster's proposition.The country forecasts electricity demand and believes that nuclear power plants are needed to provide sufficient electricity, but it must also promote energy-saving policies.
Thinking of this, Tang Yuan noticed a contradiction in himself.Because even if the whole society develops in this direction, the relevant manufacturers I work for will run in the opposite direction and persist until the last moment.
"Car No. 3, please answer Car No. 3." A call mixed with noise came from under the co-pilot's seat, and the police officer sitting in the co-pilot's seat picked up the digital wireless receiver under the screen of the command system.
"This is car No. 3, please tell me."
"Please tell the two gentlemen from Jin Heavy Industry that they have just received contact from the Self-Defense Forces and have successfully communicated with the child on the helicopter by radio communication. The child is now safe and sound."
Tang Yuan turned his head to look at Yamashita, who leaned out while grabbing the back of the driver's seat.
"Car No. 3 understands." The police officer turned off the microphone and asked, "Did you hear that?"
"Understood." Yamashita nodded.
"Great, when you get there, you can ask the Self-Defense Forces to let your son hear your voice."
"Okay." Yamashita's voice recovered slightly.
"Great, I didn't expect Huitai to be able to find the switch of the wireless communicator. Did you let him play with the radio?"
"No, not at all, but his classmates are playing, he may know which one is the wireless communicator."
"In any case, I am very lucky. Whether I can talk to Huitai will have a great impact on the rescue work."
"Yes, but Mr. Yuhara..." Yamashita showed a sad face again, "Is there a way to save Huita? I have been thinking about this question just now. If the helicopter doesn't land, is there any way to save him?"
"Hmm..." Tang Yuan remained silent.
Tang Yuan has been thinking about this issue since he heard the gangster's request when he agreed to rescue Hui Tai, but like Yamashita, he couldn't think of any sure-fire rescue method.
While agreeing to rescue the children, the criminals put forward the following five requirements: Announce the rescue method on TV, the rescuer must not enter the helicopter, must not ask to change the height and position of the helicopter, must not force the helicopter to move by traction, and must not let the children Take out the contents of the aircraft.The most stringent condition is that the height and position of the helicopter must not be changed. In other words, no matter which method is used for rescue, it must be carried out at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters.
Tang Yuan believed that the rescue could only be done by helicopter.Since the helicopter is in the air, the rescuers can only fly into the air, but the question is how to get closer?Helicopters have huge propellers, and if you touch the propeller of one of the helicopters, both planes will fall at the same time.
"In short, this matter should be discussed with the Self-Defense Forces. They may have some good ideas."
"...Yes." Yamashita didn't refute, obviously knowing that Tang Yuan's words were just to comfort him.
"Ah, I see, that's right there." The police officer who was driving the police car called out.
Yuhara opened the left window and looked forward with his head.There was a hill protruding towards the sea ahead, the foot of the hill was flattened, and a gray building that looked like a bunker appeared.The dome-roofed buildings and the tall steel towers soaring into the sky are impressive.
He looked over the building. Two or three hours ago, Big B, the research result he was proud of, was hanging in the air. Yan felt very scary.
The police car drove along a straight road, and a tunnel leading to the entrance of Xinyang appeared ahead.Several vans were parked by the side of the road. Judging from the people gathered around the vans, they should be people related to the media.
"Reporters are also very hard," said the police officer sitting in the passenger seat. "No matter how dangerous the place is, you have to go."
"It's their sense of justice." The driving police officer replied.
The police car stopped in front of the guardhouse, and a thin middle-aged guard walked over with a bow.The reporters from the TV station were photographing the police car from a distance. Yu Yuan guessed that they didn't know that the father of the child on the helicopter was sitting in the car. If they knew, they would swarm up like entertainment reporters interviewing a female star who had an affair.
"Let's bring the helicopter technician from Jin Heavy Industry over here." The police officer sitting in the co-pilot's seat opened the window and said to the guard.
"I heard, please go to the second management building."
"The second management building is...?"
"Turn right immediately after passing the tunnel—"
When the guard explained to the officer how to get there, Tang Yuan casually looked at the guard room and found two young women sitting behind the window, and there were other guards behind.Five men in short-sleeved shirts were standing at the window, hunched over filling out some form, probably applying for a permit.
The man took something like an identification card from the young woman, saluted and turned around.When Tang Yuan saw him, he couldn't help being surprised.Because it was someone he knew.
"Okay, thank you." The police officer sitting in front thanked the guard and was closing the window.The officer in the driver's seat shifted to a lower gear and started driving.
"I'm sorry, please wait a moment." Tang Yuan said to the police officer.
"What's wrong?" the police officer in the passenger seat asked.
"That person belongs to our company." When Tang Yuan spoke, he had already opened the car door, stepped out with one foot, and stopped the man. "Mishima."
The other party stopped immediately, but seemed unable to discern which direction the sound was coming from.After looking left and right, he finally found Tang Yuan sticking out from the back seat of the police car.
"So it's Yuyuan..." The man slowly walked over, "So you're in charge of that helicopter."
"It's not just me, but I'm here on behalf of the team."
"Really? Thank you for your hard work."
"And you?"
"I received a call from the section chief, saying that it seemed inappropriate for no one from our business department to come to Xinyang, so he asked me to take a look. I just came here for the steam generator exchange project of the Meihua Nuclear Power Plant."
"It seems that we are all working hard."
"is not it."
"Then meet Luo inside."
"it is good."
Tang Yuan sat back in the car, closed the door, and apologized to the police officer: "I'm sorry."
"Are you familiar?" the police officer in the passenger seat asked.
"The people in our company's atomic energy department, we joined the company at the same time, and we were in the same group during our advanced studies."
"I heard that Jinzhong Industry is also related to Xinyang."
"Yes, it seems to be responsible for the manufacture of reactor pressure tanks and heat exchangers. Because the departments are different, I don't know very well."
"To put it to the extreme, the gangsters intend to use the helicopter made by Jinzhong Industry to destroy the reactor made by Jinzhong Industry this time." The police officer in the driver's seat said when changing gears.
The police car entered the Xinyang Tunnel.The orange lights arranged at equal intervals are constantly moving backwards.
"Because there are not many manufacturers of heavy machinery, aircraft and nuclear power-related products may be produced by the same manufacturer." Tang Yuan expressed his thoughts, "Moreover, our aviation business headquarters and their heavy machinery business headquarters are almost equal to two Different companies usually have almost no intersection.”
"So that's the case." The police officer seemed uninterested in the question.
Tang Yuan turned his head and looked at the rear window.The Mitsubishi off-road vehicle followed behind, maintaining a 20-meter inter-vehicle distance.It seemed to be Mishima's car.
Tang Yuan first met Mishima when he first joined the company, so they have known each other for more than ten years.They were in the same class during the training period for new employees, and they met every day for almost a month.Although there is no particularly deep friendship, but because the names are arranged according to the fifty syllables, they sit together every day and often talk about the past when they were students.
Mishima graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Keiyo Institute of Technology, a university that Yuhara couldn't even get into. Although it was not because of this reason that he was prejudiced, Mishima's words and deeds often made him suffer a lot. stimulation.Unlike other new employees, Mishima has sharp ideas, which surprised Yuhara several times.
Please list the social responsibilities of the company──I entered the company for about a week, and the people in the education department raised this topic.New employees discuss this topic in groups, write the results of the discussion on a poster paper, and publish it in front of everyone.Yuhara and Mishima are in the same group.
Except for Mishima, the opinions of others are roughly as follows:
"To produce and supply goods useful to human life."
"Give back benefits to the local area and contribute to regional development."
"Through management of factory waste liquid and industrial waste, we will strive to be environmentally friendly."
The new employees are all just graduated from university, and they still have a lot of student spirit, so they can only think of these things.Unexpectedly, the opinion of Mishima, who spoke at the end, was completely beyond the expectations of Yuyuan and other members.
He said: "Isn't the social responsibility of a company just to make money?"
The others fell silent for a moment, looking at each other.Then, one of them spoke:
"It's not good to make money first."
Mishima looked at the other's face in surprise.
"What we are discussing now is not doctrine, but responsibility. We must first make money before we are qualified to talk about other things."
Yuhara and others initially objected to the idea, at a time when there was an aversion to the idea that "money is everything" and with complete ignorance of the company.
However, Mishima refuted those colleagues who excitedly expressed naive opinions one by one.
"If our company's revenue plummets, what will be the consequences?" He said: "Who will pay the salaries of tens of thousands of employees? Who will support the employees' wives and children? What about downstream contractors? Because of the reduced revenue, the county government's Of course, the tax revenue is also reduced, so there is no money to repair the damaged roads. The social responsibility of a company must first protect the lives of people related to the company. To give back to the local area, you must first make money before you can pay taxes. As for environmental protection, it must be regarded as the rules of the game in business.”
If you use the standard words to describe it, it is that his remarks have broken the glasses of everyone.Tang Yuan felt that this was the first time he came into contact with the way of thinking of enterprises, and other people were also shocked by the same, and everyone soon stopped expressing objections.
The time to publish has finally arrived.The content advocated by the other groups was similar to what Tang Yuan and the others originally thought. There were a total of more than a dozen groups, and none of them asserted that "the social function of enterprises is to pursue profits."Therefore, when Yuhara and the others finally expressed such claims, they were fiercely attacked by other groups against the cannon fire, but these opinions were exactly what Yuhara and the others were debating not long ago, so it is easy to refute such opinions.After the presentation, the instructors of the education department praised Tang Yuan and his group, saying that they were "the only opinions that grasped the essence."Yuhara looked at Mishima, Mishima closed one eye and smiled, unexpectedly his smile was very kind.
After that, Tang Yuan also saw Mishima many times on different occasions, and each time he felt a unique light in him, which deeply stimulated Tang Yuan every time.
but-
Tang Yuan looked ahead and tilted his head slightly in the police car.I just met Mishima who I haven't seen for a long time, and I can't feel the light of the past in him.This matter made him a little concerned.
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Passing through the Xinyang Tunnel, a huge dome building appeared in front of the right. In front was the comprehensive management building and the parking lot. There was a whole row of fire trucks and self-defense force trucks parked there, but the police car did not drive into the parking lot. After turning right, drive Go up the slope on the south side.There is a two-story rectangular building in the middle of the slope. The police car is parked in front of that house, and the second management building is written in front of it.
At the same time that Tang Yuan and the others got out of the car, two uniformed police officers came out of the car, said a few words to the police officer driving the police car, and said to Tang Yuan and the others, "This way, please."
The countermeasure headquarters is set up in the meeting room on the second floor. The power plant staff, firefighting personnel and police officers are divided into several groups and are discussing enthusiastically around the table.There were also self-defense officers among them, and when Tang Yuan and the others walked in, almost no one looked up at them.
The police officer who led the way went to the fat elderly man who was talking by the window, and told him that Yu Yuan and the others had arrived.He seemed to be the person in charge of the power plant. When he saw Yuyuan and the others, he immediately took off his hat and walked over.
"I'm Nakazuka, the director of the factory. Thank you for your hard work." He took out his business card from under his white uniform.
Tang Yuan and the others also handed over their business cards to introduce themselves, apologizing for such a major incident caused by poor management, and Yamashita also apologized for his son's trouble.
"No one will think it's your fault. If the gangsters didn't steal the helicopter, they would definitely think of other ways." Nakazuka comforted.
"Thank you for your comfort." Tang Yuan bowed and thanked.
"Now just focus on how to rescue the child smoothly. Maybe you have already heard that it seems that you can use the wireless communicator to talk to the child on the helicopter."
After finishing speaking, Nakazuka called out to the window: "Mr. Yagami." Several self-defense members gathered by the window, and all of them turned their heads. Among them, Yagami was the tallest and oldest person.
Nakazuka introduced Yuhara and the others to Yagami, and Yagami looked at them with sharp eyes.
"I am Air Self-Defense Force Komatsu Base Air Rescue Captain Yagami, great, we still don't understand the structure of that helicopter."
"yes."
Yuhara couldn't help guessing whether what he said just now was ironic that the system equipped on Big B was "truck lighting", but judging from Yagami's expression, it didn't seem to mean that.
"Just now I heard that wireless calls are available..." Yamashita asked worriedly.
"It's ready to talk, please follow me."
Yagami led Shan down to the table by the window. Communication devices were set up on the table, one for each, and the young team members were sitting on the table and monitoring with headphones.Yagami picked up the UHF microphone.
"Huita, can you hear me? Huitai."
After the young team members switched the switch, the loudspeaker sounded like a booming sound, mixed with the young boy's weak voice.
"Hey, I can hear you, I can hear you."
"Huita." Yamashita's body trembled like a convulsion.
"Hui Tai, your father is here, let me ask your father to talk to you and let him hear your voice."
Iori handed the microphone to Yamashita, and Yamashita approached the microphone with his slightly opened mouth.Tang Yuan could also notice that he was swallowing his saliva before speaking.
"Hui Tai...it's Dad, can you hear me?" His voice trembled.
"Dad." Amidst the noise and intense vibration, Huita's voice could be heard clearly. "I can hear you, Dad, Dad." Maybe it was because she heard her father's voice, Hui Tai's voice was full of tears.
"Hui Tai, you have to cheer up, we will definitely save you, don't be discouraged."
"Dad, come and save me, I'm so scared, I'm so scared."
"Be patient a little longer, everyone is working hard to rescue you, just be patient a little longer, you must not admit defeat, you understand?"
"……Ok."
"Okay, come on." After Yamashita finished speaking, he handed the microphone back to Yagami.Yagami looked at him, as if asking: "Is it okay?" Yamashita nodded slightly.
Yagami instructed the young team members to continue monitoring, and the team members immediately switched the sound to the earphones.
"I didn't expect your son to be very energetic. We are also relieved. He is really a strong boy." Yagami said to Yamashita.Yuhara didn't think it sounded like flattery or comfort.
"I hope so." Yamashita took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat dripping from his temples.
"According to Hui Tai, the shaking and vibration are not too serious, but he feels nauseous."
"He gets carsick easily..."
"It seems so."
"Excuse me," Tang Yuan interjected and asked, "Did you ask about the internal situation of Huitai Helicopter?"
"I haven't asked for details, but I heard that there is a large wooden box in the cargo compartment."
"Wooden box?"
"Do you know what it is?"
"No, I don't know. It stands to reason that the cargo compartment should be empty."
Yagami nodded, as if saying, "I knew it."
"We think that wooden box is the explosive mentioned by the criminals. Hui Tai said that it is about the size of a washing machine at home."
"He didn't open it to see it?"
"Yes, we have already told Huitai, don't get close, it will be a disaster if you accidentally touch the detonating device."
Tang Yuan couldn't help thinking about how the gangsters carried the wooden box onto the helicopter.Just the remote control helicopter takes up a lot of space, and I didn't expect there to be a wooden box the size of a washing machine──
"Then hurry up and discuss the rescue method."
Hearing what Iori said, Yuhara and Yamashita nodded.
There is a whiteboard in the corner of the conference room, and seven men are sitting in front of the whiteboard.Yagami briefly introduced that in addition to the self-defense team, there are also fire-related personnel.
There was a jumble of lines and diagrams on the whiteboard, and they seemed to have discussed several rescue methods.Although the drawing was very sloppy, Tang Yuan immediately understood what methods they were discussing.Because those were exactly the methods he had thought of on the way here.
"You should be able to understand this picture," Yagami said, pointing his thumb at the whiteboard. "Unfortunately, there is no absolutely sure method at present, because there is not enough time to make special rescue equipment. Overcoming it with what you have is the hardest thing."
"yes."
"However," Iori said with a glance at Yamashita, "the contact I received just now, since I have already contacted Keita, this method may be feasible."
"What method?" Yuhara asked, but he had already guessed what Yagami wanted to say.
"Is there a suspension cable on Big B?"
"Yes." Tang Yuan thought to himself, as expected.
The suspension cable is a device for hanging people up, and is mainly used in rescue and rescue.Big B’s suspension cable is installed above the starboard flight attendant’s exit door. The motor can be used to extend or shorten the cable with a diameter of about 5 mm and a length of about 80 meters. The cable can bear a weight of 300 kilograms.
There is a hook at the front end of the wire rope, and a thick sling called a life-saving sling can be hung on it to hoist people up.
Yagami nodded and said, "We're going to use that."
"Use the suspension wire to put Huita down?" Yamashita asked with wide eyes, his face couldn't help but twitched.
"No, this should not be possible, because the gangsters demand that the altitude cannot be lowered. At a height of 1,000 meters, there is no way to receive Keita suspended in mid-air. Even if there is a way, it is impossible for a child to Use the lifeline."
"...Yes." Yamashita lowered his head.
"But," Yagami said again, "I think Keita should be able to operate the suspension cable and lower the life-saving sling. He should be able to lower the sling and pull it up again."
"So, when Huitai put down the life-saving sling, did someone grab it from below and then pull it up?" Tang Yuan asked.
"Yes." Yagami replied.
"The difficulty level is high."
"I know, but there is no other way." Iori's tone was calm, but his expression was serious.
"How do I get close to the life-saving sling?" Tang Yuan asked.
"Only by helicopter."
"I know, but if you get too close, the propeller will hit the wire."
"Yes, I'm afraid there is a distance of thirty to forty meters."
"But there may still be dangers."
"right."
Although Big B is hovering in the air, he is not standing still.The steel cable hanging from Big B will also shake violently.
"Even if we can get close, what should we do next?"
"I can only think of the only way at the moment." After Yagami finished speaking, he explained the method.
Yuhara looked at the captain's face while listening to make sure he wasn't joking.
"This is simply a magical skill." Tang Yuan expressed his thoughts.
"But it's the only way that works right now."
"Even if this method is feasible, will the gangsters agree?" Yamashita asked. "In this case, the rescuers will enter the helicopter. Isn't the gangster forbidden this?"
"It may be necessary to explain to the gangsters again and again that the rescuers will never enter the interior of Big B. After grabbing the life-saving sling, they will only go to the entrance of the helicopter. I believe the gangsters should be able to accept it."
"If only the entrance is reached, the gangster should have nothing to say, but there is no way to save the child in this way."
"So," Iori looked at Yamashita again, "Keita has to get out of the helicopter by himself, this is the only way."
"This..." Yamashita looked at Iori with bloodshot eyes.
At this time, a voice came from another corner of the room. "The nuclear power plant is shutting down."
Yuhara looked in the direction of the voice.There was a 14-inch TV, and many people gathered in front of the TV.Someone turned up the volume, and the anchor's voice could be heard clearly.
"Next is the picture of the shutdown of Unit 1 of the Kita Nippon Electric Power Kashiwagi Nuclear Power Plant, which was rebroadcast at the request of the gangsters in the Shinyang Intimidation Incident. Repeat again, and the next will be a live broadcast of Unit 1 from the control room of the Kita Nippon Electric Power Kashiwagi Nuclear Power Plant In the case of the downtime, this is a rebroadcast at the request of the gangsters in the Xinyang coercion incident."
After the male anchor finished speaking, he disappeared from the screen, and a room with a whole row of instruments appeared.A female reporter in a dark blue suit appeared on the screen.
"This is the central control room of the Kashiwagi Nuclear Power Plant," the female reporter said nervously. "Here are the control devices of the No. 1 and No. 2 units. There are 11 operators including the supervisor on duty to manage the operation. The No. 1 reactor will be shut down later, and the No. 1 reactor will be observed for a while after the No. 1 reactor is shut down, and the No. 2 reactor will also be shut down."
After the female reporter finished speaking, the screen immediately switched to the instrument.The camera shoots the control panel at close range, and you can see the switches, display lights and CRT screens behind the operator.
At this time, Tang Yuan suddenly felt a strange air flow around him.It wasn't that anyone made a sound, but the expressions on the faces of several people in the crowd in front of the TV changed after seeing the picture.He watched everyone's faces, everyone was tense, and he didn't know why he felt weird.
"Emergency stop of machine No. 1." The voice from the TV was muffled, and it seemed to be the voice of the operator standing in front of the control panel.
The operator's hand is stretched out to the front right. There is a red switch on the front panel, and a transparent plastic cover covers the switch, which should be set to avoid accidentally touching the switch.
The operator took off the plastic cover, then grabbed the red switch, and while announcing "emergency stop", turned the switch to the right.
At this moment, the siren blared harshly.Tang Yuan couldn't help leaning his body out, thinking that some accident had happened.
The female reporter just now seemed to have guessed the reaction of the audience, and her voice came from the TV.
"The siren is sounding now. It is said that the siren will sound during an emergency stop. Don't worry."
The sound of the siren quickly died down, confirming what she had said.On the screen, the back view of the operator busy operating various switches on the control panel, sometimes turning his head to say something to other operators, and then continuing to operate.
"What are they doing?" Tang Yuan muttered to himself.
"It's cooling down." Someone beside him replied.
Yuyuan turned his head and saw that Mishima was standing beside him.
"cool down?"
"Under normal circumstances, the power generation will gradually decrease when the machine is shut down. This time, because the control rods are inserted rapidly, it is easy to cause a burden on various machines, so the method of controlling the water flow is used to effectively cool down."
"So that's how it is."
"I didn't expect," Mishima continued, "that the high-level government made such a big determination."
"In order to rescue the children, this is a last resort."
Mishima looked at Yuhara with a faint smile on his lips.His smile meant a lot.
"What's wrong?" Tang Yuan asked.
"No, nothing." Mishima shifted his gaze to the TV.
A CRT screen appears on the screen, as well as graphs.Tang Yuan didn't know what it was, and the female reporter began to explain again.
"This screen monitors the power generation. The vertical axis represents the power generation, and the horizontal axis is the time after shutdown. You can see on the screen that within one second, the power generation drops sharply, and after two seconds it is almost close to zero. This means that Generator No. 1 has completely stopped generating power. If it is restarted, it will take more than eight hours to restore normal power generation.”
The TV picture returned to the studio, and the anchor appeared in front of the camera.
"Just now I broadcast the outage of Unit 1 of the Kashiwagi Power Plant of Kita Nippon Electric Power, and will broadcast it to you one after another when the other power plants are ready. I would like to reiterate the government's statement on the Xinyang incident. The government decided to follow the new The gangsters in the Yangyang incident requested that the reactors of all nuclear power plants in the country be temporarily stopped before 11:30 a.m., which will reduce the total power generation by 60 to 70 percent. In addition to all enterprises, I hope that the people of the whole country will also work hard Save power."
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