I’ll add some practice in the real world

Chen Zongqing is the reservoir manager of Chencun. He is in his fifties and about to retire.

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

When the flood season comes, just activate the gate of the reservoir station, open the drainage outlet, increase the drainage volume, and stabilize the water level within the warning range.

No one could do such an easy job in the early years because the wages were very low.

Until the economy developed in recent years, subsidies and benefits continued to increase, and An County began to pay attention to water resource protection, the job of a reservoir manager has risen to about 3,000 yuan.

There is no need to go to work every day, but only a few times a month. It is equivalent to earning living expenses while lying down. Some old men and women in the village express their envy.

But don't think this job is easy. When it's windy, rainy or typhoon day, Chen Zongqing becomes very busy.

Since there had just been a heavy rain and the summer flood season was relatively long, Chen Zongqing specially obtained a raincoat and went up to the reservoir overnight despite the heavy rain.

Chen Zongqing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that none of the instruments in the reservoir management room sounded an alarm. 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 sluice is opened and the water is released every few years to clean up the garbage and silt at the bottom of the reservoir, villagers from all over the country are attracted to go fishing in the reservoir.

It's raining a lot. It's better to stay a little longer. Chen Zongqing thought, staying in the management room and scrolling through his mobile phone to pass the time.

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

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

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

But when Chen Zongqing spent a few minutes walking slowly to the temple at the exit of the reservoir, an extremely loud plop came from the reservoir area behind.

What's the sound?

Are the fish jumping? Chen Zongqing murmured in his heart. It had just rained, the ground was muddy, and the air was damp and cold, so he didn't take the news to heart 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 large reservoir dried up completely overnight!

Dead fish were everywhere, turning their bellies in the mud. The bottom of the reservoir was cracked, as if it had suffered a severe drought that had not been seen in decades. The dry land and even the silt in the reservoir had turned into sand.

There is only a graceful stream, filling water little by little upstream of the reservoir.

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

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

what's the situation?

Why did the water drain out?

The gates were clearly sealed last night! Chen Zongqing's eyes widened and his mouth opened.

He was afraid that some blind village kid was causing mischief and sneaked into the management room to drain the water in the reservoir overnight. If this was true, all the crops in the villages below the reservoir would be flooded.

When he thought of this, Chen Zongqing hurriedly ran to the management room to take a look.

The lock on the door was not moved and the door was closed properly.

The gates inside were also closed, but the monitoring system facing the reservoir area seemed to have been affected by some kind of electromagnetic interference last night. Now it has completely failed and turned into a screen of snowflakes.

Looking at the dry scene in the reservoir, Chen Zongqing knew that this matter could never be hidden.

Besides, after such a big thing happened, he, an administrator with a salary of 3,000 yuan, could not hold on. Many villagers who got up early in the morning were already watching the excitement at the dam.

So, without saying a word, Chen Zongqing hurriedly called the county's water bureau and asked the bureau to send someone down to see what was happening at the Chencun Reservoir.

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Although the Chencun Reservoir does not directly supply drinking water to the water plant, it is used for crop irrigation in several nearby villages and some factories use 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 Supply Bureau.

Coupled with the good repair of rural roads and the urgent report from the reservoir manager, an office director from the Water Bureau quickly drove over from the county town with his people.

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

Yes, Director Zhou! I came here for inspection at around 8 o'clock last night, and everything 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 walked around the reservoir after getting off the car, and called Chen Zongqing to ask a few questions.

Seeing that he was confused, Director Zhou asked several technicians who followed him 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 asked with a frown.

No! Director, the gates in this reservoir area are all old-fashioned mechanical switches. If the motor doesn't start, it won't start at all.

And if you look at this peak displacement, even if the gate is fully opened, it won't be drained like this overnight. A technician touched the machine and shook his head.

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

One of the men wearing glasses wiped his sweat and panted to report: Director! There is a deep pit in the library, as if it was struck by a meteorite!

We also found a lot of signs of boiling water on the shore. Look at these dead fish and aquatic plants. It looks like they have been boiled.

Meteorite?!

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

After walking through a large area of ​​dry mud, everyone saw a sight they would never forget!

I saw a huge sunken pit in the center of the bottom of the reservoir, with a diameter of more than a hundred meters wide.

Along the edge of the giant crater, you can see traces of layers stacked up like waves, as if there is a high-temperature object in the center that releases a large amount of heat source to the outside.

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

It really looks like it was struck by a meteorite!

Because the meteorite fell and evaporated all the water in the reservoir area?

It shouldn't be! If there really was such a powerful meteorite, this reservoir would have been blown away long ago. Director Zhou pursed his dry lips and took a look at the intact dam. He felt that he had returned from his trip to the countryside. What a problem.

So, after surveying the site for a while, Director Zhou dialed the number of the county leader.

After the news was reported to the public, the county even sent experts from the cultural relics and geology and mineral departments to inspect it.

After searching the entire reservoir area, the experts were depressed because they couldn't find even half of the meteorite fragments!

Instead, dozens of carcasses of scavengers and bearded catfish, considered invasive species, were found in the dried-up reservoir. They were probably released into the reservoir intentionally by pilgrims offering incense at some temple.

After struggling like this for several days, the mystery of the drying up of the reservoir has still not been solved. On the contrary, the staff of the Water Bureau who came to investigate gave a stern verbal warning to the monks of the small temple next door that the village had spent millions building to prevent them from inciting believers to throw weird things into the reservoir.

When the reservoir was filled with water and restored to its previous appearance, the incident finally came to an end and became a joke among villagers in several nearby villages after dinner.

How many issues should I take to get closer to science?

Second update~