Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 381 City of Miracles
On the "Climbing to the Sky" channel, Zhong Cheng gave a sensational speech to the crowd and media reporters who saw him off.

He introduced the general situation of the ignition plan and the large-scale development of Mars that will start next year. On behalf of the Asian Federation and Red Star Company, he welcomed everyone to come to Mars for sightseeing or even to settle.

Red Star Company will prepare a livable city with a population of more than 30 billion on Mars, and human society will no longer worry about the population problem within 50 years!

Zhong Cheng drew a very sweet pie for everyone, but he is very clear that this is only a vision ten or twenty years later.

However, this does not hinder the excitement of the media reporters, and this time there is another major hype theme.

After bidding farewell to the crowd who came to see him off, Zhong Cheng took the lead on the conveyor belt of the transmission channel.

Because the distance from Kunlun City to the ground transfer center of the Tianti Ladder in the belly of Yuxu Peak is only about 3 kilometers, both goods and personnel are sent to Yuxu Peak through automatic conveyor belts.

Ten minutes later, Zhong Cheng and more than 10 people were sent to the platform dedicated to Red Star Company on the highest floor of the elevator cabin transfer center.

The elevator cabin transfer center in Yuxu Peak is a complex three-dimensional structure, divided into 360 floors, with a total of [-] platforms, which is vividly called "honeycomb" by the staff.

The dense cobweb-like conveyor belt will send personnel and materials directly to the corresponding platform.

At present, there are 81 platforms in use, and only 36 are open to the outside world, and the others are still only used for engineering construction.

The platform is divided into passenger and freight platforms. The passenger platform is different from the subway stations in the city, it is a vertical platform.

Because a passenger elevator cabin is divided into ten floors, and 60 people on one floor have to enter in layers, it can be imagined as a vertical subway train.

Zhong Cheng led Zhao Wei, Ye Wenhao, and Hu Bo into the top floor of the elevator cabin, which seemed to have entered the Grand View Garden. This floor has the best view.

Because Zhao Wei and others were not in the project team of the second phase of Nantianmen, they had no chance to take the ladder, and seeing everything was so novel, Zhong Cheng had to act as a tour guide.

After everyone sat down in the window seats, the door of the elevator cabin was closed after a while.

The elevator cabin drives to the elevator running channel in the center on the magnetic levitation track.

Looking at everyone's puzzled expressions, Zhong Cheng explained that taking the elevator cabin running in the sky ladder is no different from taking a bus, and it is also unmanned.

On the platform, every 5 minutes, it will open when the time comes, and there will be no waiting for people. If you miss it, you can take the next elevator cabin.

Everyone is amazed that it is so convenient to go to space now!

Zhong Cheng shook his head. They are so convenient because of their own people. It is still very troublesome for ordinary people to go to space now.

Because the current passenger fare from Kunlun City to Tiangong City is 888 yuan, although it is a price acceptable to ordinary people, but the transportation capacity is still very limited.

So foreign passenger tickets have been pre-sold until the second half of next year, and you can't buy tickets even if you have money.

Moreover, the current ticket price cannot be raised anymore, because it is already four times the cost price, and further price increases will cause public criticism.

While talking, the elevator cabin they were riding in was already in front of the ladder, but they were queuing up to enter the vacuum operation channel.

After waiting for 2 minutes, the elevator cabin drove into the vacuum replacement room, and then was sent into an outer running channel.

Zhao Wei said in surprise, isn't this the same as the Gatling machine gun?

The elevator cabin is the bullet, and the running channel is the barrel, but the barrel does not rotate, and the magazine rotates.

Zhong Cheng said with a smile, you can think so, but in fact this is much more complicated than the composition of the Gatling machine gun. It is dispatched and commanded by a super optical brain, and it cannot be completed by manpower, no matter how many people.

After the elevator cabin enters the running channel, it starts to run upwards slowly, and the speed increases slowly.

Seeing everyone's nervous expressions, Zhong Cheng comforted him, "The acceleration of the elevator cabin is less than 1G, which is far lower than the 2-3G acceleration that normal people can bear. As long as you sit in your seat and don't move around, it won't affect anything." !"

Ye Wenhao asked: "With such a slow speed, how long will it take to reach Tiangong City, which is 2 kilometers away!"

Zhong Chengdao: "There are hundreds of kilometers of acceleration or deceleration coils at both ends of the running channel, and it only takes about 10 minutes to accelerate the elevator cabin to a speed of about 7 kilometers per second."

"Run at this speed for about 40 minutes, maintain the speed through the coil in the middle, and then slow down for about 10 minutes. It takes a total of 60 minutes to reach the transit center of Moon Palace City."

Hu Bo exclaimed, "Isn't this faster than an aerospace plane?"

Zhong Cheng nodded, "Well, the speed is not the key point, the key is to use electromagnetic force to drive, and the transportation cost is only [-]% to [-]/[-] of the previous spacecraft."

Everyone is full of praise, the space ladder is really a shortcut to the sky!
At this time, the elevator cabin rushed straight out from the top of Yuxu Peak.

The majestic Kunlun Mountains can be seen at a glance, and the Kunlun City surrounded by the mountains is shining brightly. The beautiful scenery outside the cabin has attracted everyone's attention.

The elevator cabin accelerated upward, leaving the mountains behind.

In everyone's eyes, the ground began to appear curved, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Lake, and even the Loess Plateau and the Tarim Basin could all be clearly seen.

The elevator cabin quickly drilled in and out of the clouds, and when it got above the clouds, the whole of Asia and the Western Pacific were under its feet.

The wind and clouds are surging and unpredictable over land and sea.

The speed of the elevator cabin had already reached 7.5 kilometers per second, and it stopped accelerating.

The ground is receding rapidly, the spherical outline of the earth has appeared, and the aurora in the direction of the North Pole is looming.

They are on their way to heaven...

Before Zhao Wei and the others woke up from the shock, the elevator cabin was already approaching Tiangong City and started to slow down.

Everyone turned their eyes back from the earth that had turned into a big blue ball, and then focused on the Tiangong City building above their heads that looked like a bunch of candied haws.

It's just that these buildings are not spherical, but discus-shaped, and they are of different sizes.

The large ones have a diameter of about eight kilometers, and the small ones have a diameter of more than three kilometers, with an average thickness of about one kilometer.

The upper and lower distances between them are even, about 300 meters, and there are still some passages connecting them.

Through the transparent cover, you can clearly see some of the built urban buildings, streets, and even lush green belts.

This is a city built in the sky!
According to Zhong Cheng, according to the design plan, Tiangong City will build twelve urban areas and five functional areas, and each urban area is a "discus".

Eventually, there will be more than 500 million resident population or staff, and it will be able to accommodate more than 1000 million passengers and transfer personnel.

It is estimated that it will take more than five years of construction time to build such a miracle city!
(End of this chapter)