Chapter 190

Chapter 190: Maglev Train in Operation! (1)

Chapter 190 – Maglev Train in Operation! (1)

Vroom! Vroom, vroom!

The threaded drill rotated exceptionally quickly, and it generated an ear-piercing screech as it cut through the air . Despite having retreated several hundred meters, the police offers were still pushed back by the generated wind .

Vroom, vroom!

Vroom, vroom, vroom…

At this time, one of the police officers squatting behind a police car held down his fluttering coat . He then looked toward his colleague beside him, “Brother Zhang, this guy’s been spinning for over five minutes now . Why hasn’t it started digging?”

“It’s advanced technology . You wouldn’t understand . ” the police officer referred to as Brother Zhang said . Squinting his eyes, he confidently declared, “It’s obviously warming up . ”

“It’s already plenty hot . Even the surrounding snow has melted . ”

“That means it isn’t hot enough . ”

“…”

Vroom, vroom…

After another two minutes had gone by, the drill bit’s rotation actually started slowing to a halt .

All of a sudden, an uncomfortable silence enveloped the construction site .

“What happened?”

“It stopped spinning?”

“Is it out of fuel?”

Amidst the police officers’ discussion, Chen Yu’s voice suddenly came from the maglev train . “Hello? Friends outside, can you find me a few excavators? This broken thing’s drill can’t reach the ground . ”

Everyone: “…”

Seven minutes later, the person in charge of the scene secured five excavators from a nearby road maintenance site . They then began creating an elevated mound before the train .

Inside the train, Chen Yu awkwardly faced the camera and said, “What a waste of time . Even after raising the first carriage’s tracks to their maximum height, the drill bit at the front still can’t penetrate into the ground . However, this isn’t my fault . There’s nothing wrong with the machine’s operation either . It’s this vehicle’s design flaw . ”

In response to Chen Yu’s words, the train AI said, “Chief Conductor, while in smart mode, the carriages’ angle adjustment is limited . You can perform a manual operation to further raise the angle . ”

“Stop spouting nonsense . ” Waving his hand, Chen Yu said, “Whether I operate the train in smart or manual mode isn’t the problem . The problem lies in your design . ”

“While in smart mode, to ensure safety, the carriages’ angle adjustment is limited . Please perform a manual operation,” the AI repeated .

“King . ” Raising her hand, Little Peach suggested, “Why don’t you just do it manually?”

“No!” Chen Yu sternly refused . “We are a review agency . We are obliged to point out any problems we find . If we rely on manual operation every time we come across a problem, for what reason would we need this smart mode for?”

“Oh!” Little Peach nodded in realization . “So, that’s the reason . ”

“Chief Conductor, while in smart mode, to ensure-”

“You keep quiet!”

“Yes, Chief Conductor . ”

Under the gaze of over four million viewers, Chen Yu thoroughly demonstrated a professional reviewer’s standards and persistence .

Bang! Bang!

Roughly a dozen minutes later, an excavator “knocked” twice on the train’s windshield with its claw, indicating that the elevation work had been completed .

Chen Yu then opened the communication system and shouted, “Thank you very much . Now, please retreat as far away as possible . ”

After waiting for the five excavators to move to a suitable distance, Chen Yu swiped his finger across his watch while saying, “During the construction process, it’ll be more interesting to watch the train’s outside than inside . So, to let everyone have an intuitive and shocking experience, I’ll have the camera remain outside . That way, you’ll get to witness the whole construction process . ”

After saying so, Chen Yu flew the camera out of the train . He then instructed the train’s AI to move the train up the newly-formed dirt mound and point the drill bit downward . Immediately afterward, Chen Yu resumed the excavation operation .

Whoosh— Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

As the carbon alloy drill started spinning again, sweltering heat waves and strong winds began assaulting the surrounding area once more .

“Set off!”

Vroom…

The elevation of the first carriage’s tracks increased, which further increased the cab’s vertical angle . And as the whole vehicle slowly moved forward, the sharp threaded drill finally touched the ground .

Boom!!!

In the next moment, the drill bit easily cracked and tore through the ground .

[Oh~ Crap!]

[Sparks are flying . ]

[Even my phone is vibrating . ]

[Amazing!]

[I’m just outside the construction site . My feet have gone numb from all the vibrations . ]

[Mechanical Engineering is a true man’s romance!]

[Wrong! It’s the happiness of rich women!]

[Rich women’s happiness+1!]

[Rich women’s happiness+2!]

[I don’t want to watch the construction! I want to look at the female assistant!]

[The female assistant dressed as a eunuch today…]

Accompanied by the echoing roars of the drill, ton after ton of soil and gravel were drawn into the receiving port found at the train’s front . When subjected to the high-temperature and high-pressure environment inside the receiving port, the collected soil and gravel turned into a soft, semi-solid substance .

Meanwhile, at the same time as the threaded drill bit penetrated the ground, the dragging force the drill generated with the surrounding soil also significantly accelerated the engineering vehicle’s penetration speed .

Combined with the driving force generated by the caterpillar tracks, the 300-meter train quickly disappeared into the ground, leaving behind a hole with an 18-meter radius .

As for the camera floating outside, after remaining suspended in the air for a few seconds, it also swiftly entered the tunnel .

The inside of the tunnel wasn’t completely dark .

The reason for this was because of the processed soil the train had smeared on the tunnel walls . As the processed earth had yet to cool down, it looked very much like magma and radiated a reddish glow .

Boom… Boom… Boom…

By the time the camera entered the tunnel, the train was nowhere to be found already . However, the intense vibrations and roaring sound it generated still echoed in the livestream rooms .

Under Chen Yu’s manipulation, the camera slowly advanced through the tunnel, letting the livestream’s viewers get a detailed view of the pseudo-vacuum pipeline’s structure .

For every 300 meters it traveled, the train would also erect a cylindrical pillar in the middle of the pipeline . These pillars served as a support to counteract the pressure the pipeline walls were subjected to .

Whoosh—

After showcasing the pipeline’s internal structure for several minutes, the camera shot forth with frightening speed as it tried to catch up with the train . The camera moved so quickly that the scene displayed in the livestream rooms was tainted in a red glow…

This was a result of the lens heating up due to its friction with the air .

[So fast! So hot! Ah!]

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[The camera’s moving so fast that I can’t see anything clearly . ]

[I already said the cameraman is the best . ]

[I’ve seen the host in person before . I think it’s some kind of invisible camera . ]

[The camera can become invisible?!]

[What? It can turn invisible?]

[I suddenly have a bold idea…]

After another 10 seconds passed by, the camera finally caught up with the engineering vehicle . At the same time, everyone was finally able to see the vacuum pipeline’s entire construction process .

Simply put, there were only three steps .

Step one: Digging through the earth . The drill bit would dig through the ground and collect the loosened soil and gravel into a circular container found in the middle of the cab .

Step two: Making the pipeline . Once the soil and gravel entered the container, they would be quickly melted into a semi-solid state under high temperature and pressure . The molten substance semi-solid substance would then be squeezed out like toothpaste through the thousands of diffusion holes at the container’s back .

Step three: Expanding the pipeline . Once the extruded semi-solid substance stuck to the tunnel walls, the expanded bezels at the train’s rear would then further compress the semi-solid substance . In doing so, the semi-solid substance would be transformed into a tubular structure that was perfectly integrated with the tunnel walls .

Once the engineering vehicle completed these three processes, it would leave a fairly stable pipeline behind it .

Meanwhile, inside the train cab…

Chen Yu carefully observed the virtual road map displayed before him . He then said to his watch, “We’re currently 1,000 meters below sea level, and our travel speed is 520 kilometers per hour . We’re moving much faster than even a high-speed train . With this digging efficiency, if nothing unexpected occurs…

“We should arrive in Shanghai in two hours maximum .

“The first ‘teleportation’ channel in human history is about to be born . ”