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Chapter 342 Chapter 341 The Unsolved Mystery of Chencun Reservoir
Chen Zongqing is a reservoir manager in Chencun. He is in his 50s this year and is about to retire.

Fortunately, the management of dry reservoirs is not a difficult job. On weekdays, I just take time to go to the reservoir for inspection to see if the water level exceeds the standard, or to observe whether the water body is polluted.

When it comes to the flood season, just activate the gates of the reservoir station, open the drain, increase the drainage, and stabilize the water level under the warning range.

Such an easy job was not done in the early years because the wages were very low.

Until the economy has developed in recent years, subsidies and benefits have continued to come up, and An County has begun to pay attention to water resource protection, the work of the reservoir administrator has climbed all the way to about [-] yuan.

There is no need to go to work every day, and you can go there several times a month, which is equivalent to earning living expenses while lying down. Some old men and women in the village expressed their envy.

But despite the ease of this job, Chen Zongqing becomes very busy when it is windy, rainy or typhoon.

Due to the heavy rain just now and the relatively long flood season in summer, Chen Zongqing specially approved a raincoat and went to the reservoir overnight under the heavy rain.

Seeing that none of the instruments in the management room of the reservoir sounded an alarm, Chen Zongqing heaved a sigh of relief. He felt that he was a little too careful.

After all, the Chencun Reservoir has been built for more than half a century without any major problems.

Only when the gates are opened every few years to clear the garbage and silt at the bottom of the reservoir will villagers from all over the world be attracted to fish in the reservoir.

"It's raining a little bit, so I'd better stay a little longer." Thinking this way, Chen Zongqing stayed in the management room and swiped his phone to pass the time.

With the popularity of smartphones, rural middle-aged people like him are also obsessed with watching short videos.

When the rain gradually stopped, Chen Zongqing cut off the switch in the management room, folded his raincoat and planned to go down the mountain.

Before going out, he also paid special attention to the water level, after all, it was his duty.

But when Chen Zongqing walked slowly to the temple at the exit of the reservoir for a few minutes, a very loud "plop" came from the reservoir area behind.

"What's the sound?"

"Are the fish jumping?" Chen Zongqing murmured in his heart, just after it rained and the ground was muddy, coupled with the damp and cold air, he didn't take what happened just now to his mind and went down to the reservoir early.

But when Chen Zongqing came to check again the next morning, he was dumbfounded!
The water in such a huge reservoir completely dried up overnight!

There are dead fish turning their bellies in the mud pile everywhere, and the chapped marks on the bottom of the reservoir are like encountering a severe drought that has been encountered for decades. The dry land and even the silt in the reservoir have turned into sand.

There is only a beautiful stream, which pours water down a little bit upstream of the reservoir.

But in the face of such a large reservoir area, there is simply not enough water from the mountain stream to store it!

Even if it can be fully stored, it will take ten days and half a month, unless there are several more rains as heavy as last night.

"what's the situation?"

"How did the water dry up?"

"The gates were clearly sealed last night!" Chen Zongqing stared, his mouth opened wide.

He was afraid that some unsightly village child would be messing around and sneaked into the management room to drain the water in the reservoir overnight. If that was the case, the crops in the villages below the reservoir would be completely flooded.

Thinking of this, Chen Zongqing hurried to the management room to take a look.

The lock on the door didn't move, and the door was closed securely.

The gates inside were also closed, except that the monitoring of the reservoir area seemed to have received some kind of electromagnetic interference last night, and now it has completely failed and turned into a snowflake screen.

Looking at the dry scene in the reservoir, Chen Zongqing knew that this matter must not be hidden.

Besides, it's not something he, a manager with a salary of 3000, can hold on to such a big incident. Many villagers who got up early in the morning are already watching the excitement on the dam.

So, without saying a word, Chen Zongqing hurriedly dialed the number of the county's water affairs bureau, and asked the bureau to send someone down to see what happened to the Chencun reservoir.

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Although the Chencun Reservoir does not directly supply drinking water to the waterworks, the crops in several nearby townships and some factories are drawn from this water source.

Once the reservoir area dries up, it will not only cause damage to the environment, but also affect the economic benefits of the villagers, which is a top priority for the staff of the Water Affairs Bureau.

Coupled with the well-repaired country roads and the urgent report from the reservoir administrator, soon an office director of the Water Affairs Bureau led people to drive over from the county in a hurry.

"Old Chen, you said that the reservoir was fine last night, and it dried up overnight?"

"That's right, Director Zhou! I made an inspection at around 8 o'clock last night, and I was fine before I left. When we came together this morning, the reservoir has changed like this. It's really strange."

Director Zhou, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, immediately went around the reservoir after getting out of the car, and then called Chen Zongqing to ask some questions.

Seeing that he couldn't figure it out, Director Zhou asked several technicians to check all the machines in the management room.

"Xiao Liu, is the gate data normal? Is there any record of short circuit opening?" Director Zhou frowned and asked.

"No! Director, the turnstiles in this warehouse area are all old-fashioned mechanical switches, and they won't turn on at all unless the motor is turned on."

"Also, look at the peak displacement. Even if the gate is fully opened, it won't dry out like this after being turned on overnight." A technician touched the machine and shook his head.

At this time, several staff members who went down to the bottom of the reservoir to check the situation had already climbed up with freshly collected water samples and biological samples.

One of them, wearing glasses, wiped his sweat and reported out of breath, "Director! There is a deep pit in Curry, like it was hit by a meteorite!"

"Also, we found a lot of signs of boiling water on the shore. Look at these dead fish and aquatic plants. It can be seen that they have been steamed."

"Meteorite?!"

"You mean a meteorite fell into the reservoir last night?" Director Zhou stared at his glasses, and hurriedly followed several staff members down to the bottom of the reservoir again.

After walking through a large piece of dry mud, everyone saw a scene that they will never forget!
In the central area of ​​the bottom of the reservoir, there is a huge sunken pit with a diameter of more than [-] meters.

Along the edge of the giant crater, one can see layers of traces that look like waves, as if a high-temperature object in the center released a large amount of heat to the outside.

Even though the heat source had disappeared, Director Zhou and the others standing by the pit could still feel a bit hot.

"It really looks like it was hit by a meteorite!"

"Because the meteorite fell, all the water in the reservoir area was evaporated?"

"It shouldn't be! If there were such a powerful meteorite, the reservoir would have been blown up long ago." Director Zhou pursed his dry lips and glanced at the intact dam. Really ran into a problem.

So, after investigating the scene for a while, the Director Zhou called the county leader.

After the news was reported layer by layer, the county also specially sent experts from the cultural relics, geological and mining departments to inspect it.

After turning the entire reservoir area around, those experts were depressed, because they didn't find half of the meteorite fragment at all!
On the contrary, in the dry reservoir, dozens of invasive species of scavenger and bearded catfish were found. It is estimated that pilgrims from some temple deliberately released them into the reservoir.

After several days of tossing like this, the mystery of the drying up of the reservoir is still not solved.On the contrary, the staff of the Water Affairs Bureau who came to investigate gave a stern verbal warning to the monks in the small temple in the nearby village, which cost several million to build, to prevent them from encouraging believers to throw strange things into the reservoir.

When the reservoir was full of water and restored to its previous appearance, this matter finally came to an end, and it became a joke among villagers in several nearby villages.

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