Chapter 365 - 263 Switch
Chen Xin’s plan wasn’t fully developed before he arrived in Lin City.
His ideas and plans gradually took shape and outlined after arriving in Lin City, and then slowly matured into a coherent concept.
In Chen Xin’s plan, clearing the train station is the first step, the second part is to build the heating hub and Energy Tower, which is what Chen Xin is currently working on.
Among them, Chen Xin will also construct a loading and unloading station at the train station to improve freight handling efficiency, and use the heating hub to build a greenhouse to attempt crop cultivation.
Among these, the loading and unloading station at the train station is crucial for Lin City. After all, it’s not feasible to always mobilize the city’s labor force to unload trains, not only delaying other tasks but working together in large numbers isn’t efficient and doesn’t maximize individual strengths.
Therefore, a station that can effectively improve material handling efficiency is very necessary for Lin City.
It’s like in construction games where without building resource buildings, it’s impossible to obtain enough resources to construct other buildings and maintain city operations.
But these are just the beginning for Chen Xin.
According to his plans conceived during this period, what he truly wants to achieve is to build a heating network in Lin City, composed of Energy Towers and heating hubs.
Initially, Chen Xin only envisioned upgrading the heating hub to an Energy Tower and increasing regional temperature to cover the greenhouse. However, after discussions with researchers, Chen Xin found his ideas weren’t complete. Thus, after continuously improving his concepts, the idea of the heating network emerged.
If the heating network can be successfully established, humans can break free from the constraints of shelters and return to living on the surface, which holds tremendous significance for all humanity.
Not to mention, once the dust in the sky settles and sunlight gradually returns, using sunlight to illuminate crops can save a lot of energy.
In Chen Xin’s plan, Lin City, as a pilot city for the heating network, will establish a large Energy Tower at the city center to spread heating, paired with several heating hubs to provide heating and power for buildings, allowing most citizens to return to surface living and resume production.
Meanwhile, numerous greenhouses will be established around the city outskirts, relying on heating hubs, for agricultural production.
Thus, Lin City’s overall living standard can be restored as much as possible to pre-disaster levels while also trying to bring the city’s productivity and food output back to its pre-disaster state.
It’s essential to know that the production capacity of Flame Country now is significantly different compared to the pre-disaster times. The remaining industrial production ability doesn’t even reach one-tenth of what it was.
Though the country is now striving to restore production, and after a year’s construction efforts, a considerable amount of production capacity has been recovered, the overall gap still exists.
Take Chen Xin’s district as a simple example. Previously, yearly production of chemical products from several large chemical and refining plants around the district was calculated in tens of thousands of tons. Now, all that production capacity is gone, leaving only a small portion in underground factories within the district, with overall recovery still far from realization.
Although some industrial production has been placed in shelters, various problems inherent in industrial production make placing it underground possible but problematic.
In addition, the previously raging blizzard lasting over half a month has slowed the overall recovery progress of the industrial system, making it understandable.
If Chen Xin’s concept of Energy Towers and heating hubs is successful and the heating network can be smoothly built, the country can utilize this to resume industrial production on the surface, bringing national post-disaster reconstruction into a new phase.
Of course, impacting the whole nation is Chen Xin’s ultimate goal for the plan. His current objective is to construct the heating network in Lin City, using Lin City as a pilot city to evaluate the impact of the "Energy Tower + heating hub" heating network on city production and living recovery.
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This plan has been reported to the special group by researchers and has gained attention and support from the top levels of Flame Country.
The needed geologists and associated materials for Chen Xin have been prepared, along with a batch of engineering equipment and newly produced Exoskeleton Protective Suits, ready to be transported to Chen Xin.
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Meanwhile, after discussing his aspirations with Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan, Chen Xin engaged in some other conversations with the two ladies, noticing they were beginning to doze off. Chen Xin reached out to turn off the tent lamp hanging from the tent top and told them, "Sleep well, we have to get up early tomorrow!"
Seeing this, Qin Lan and Mo Qingyan said goodnight to Chen Xin, then tucked into their sleeping bags and closed their eyes.
Soon, only the sound of gentle breathing remained in the tent.
However, after a while, Qin Lan quietly opened her eyes and sneaked a glance at Chen Xin, seeing him with earplugs on and already asleep, she cautiously turned her gaze to the side towards Mo Qingyan.
As expected, Mo Qingyan hadn’t slept either, she also opened her eyes upon hearing the movement.
"What do we do now?" Mo Qingyan silently mouthed to Qin Lan, her eyes carrying a hint of grievance.
Qin Lan looked at Mo Qingyan, then turned back to glance at Chen Xin, and after thinking for a moment, she mouthed back to Mo Qingyan, "Later, I’ll sneak into Chen’s sleeping bag, when he lets his guard down, I’ll pretend to go to the bathroom, and then we switch."
"Will this work?" Although she was the one who insisted on staying overnight, Mo Qingyan still felt flustered and shy about this situation.
"It’ll work, just follow my lead." Qin Lan said confidently to Mo Qingyan, showing no signs of pushing her boyfriend away.
In fact, it’s nothing major, just two people squeezing into one sleeping bag for the night, Qin Lan didn’t think anything significant would happen.
Seeing Qin Lan’s confident demeanor, Mo Qingyan realized there’s no turning back now; missing this opportunity might mean waiting a long time for a second chance. So she bit her lip, overcoming her tension and embarrassment, and nodded firmly at Qin Lan.
Seeing Mo Qingyan’s agreement, Qin Lan’s face immediately showed a mischievous smile, as she crawled out of her sleeping bag, ready to sneak into Chen Xin’s sleeping bag. Meanwhile, she imagined the amusing scene when they exchange places, and how Chen Xin would react upon waking up to find someone different.