With the rhythm of the previous one, the group of members of the mission finally became honest and now sat in their seats, listening to the guide talk about some of the things to see along the way in Vostochny Port.

"This is the entrance to the trade area of the Port of the East, which requires a special passage permit to enter," the guide said, gesturing to a building not far away, "The port area is a separate area, which is surrounded by a tall fence to ensure the safety and isolation of the city. ”

"What is Secure Isolation?" Miro asked with some curiosity, and the tour guide nodded and said, "The main meaning of safe isolation is to protect the safety of everyone, such as crime, disease, etc., in order to ensure that infectious diseases do not spread in the port of Orient, all those who need to enter the port of Orient must live in a quarantine camp in the port area for seven days before applying to enter the main city." ”

"Why didn't I come here before?" Miro was sweating on his forehead at the moment, it was not once or twice that he had been to Dongfang Port, this was the first time he had heard that he needed to stay in a quarantine camp for seven days before he could enter, "I've been here several times!" ”

"This," the tour guide couldn't help but be stunned, but he didn't know what to say, when the voice next to him rang out, "That's because you can enter after a blood test to make sure there is no infectious disease." ”

Miro was stunned for a moment, looked over, and it turned out to be an elder, although these elders said that their appearance was not much different from the Wuguo or Annan people, but the temperament of the patriarchs could not be imitated by the naturalized people, especially the Wuguo people, who seemed to be full of cringe in their bones, and they were as nervous as a mouse when they saw a cat.

"You're a friend of the Senate, and some of us vouch for you, so you can go straight to the city after taking blood tests to make sure there are no infectious diseases, and others can do the same if they want, but many of you are very resistant to having blood drawn." The elder who spoke leaned back in his chair, shrugged his shoulders towards Miro, and said, "If you don't want to have blood drawn for testing, you can only choose to wait seven days." ”

"Blood? Contagious disease? What does it matter? A Medno man asked, with a little curiosity, "Isn't the contagion a means used by Satan the Devil to bring calamity to the world and disturb God?" ”

"God?" The patriarch sighed helplessly, "I don't object to your beliefs, but infectious diseases really have nothing to do with God, infectious diseases are germs, it is small, ...... than your hair" As he spoke, he also glanced at the Medeno man, "Yes, it's your hair, which is at least six to ten times smaller than your hair." ”

"Fallacy!" A man in black robes stood up, clutching a crusader in his hand and shouting, "How can you blaspheme God? To be sick is to doubt God, otherwise how could God's mercy allow his people to be harmed or die? ”

"You're a priest, aren't you?" The patriarch laughed, "Let me tell you this, I don't know if God or Satan is there, but if an infectious disease occurs in the Oriental Harbor, then we have the ability and confidence to be able to control it in a short period of time, because we know the causes and pathologies of infectious diseases and diseases, and can control their development trend in a relatively short time." ”

The people of Meideno present couldn't help but gasp at the same time, what does this sentence mean? It's no less than "your God, we already know everything", in other words, my fate is up to me. If this kind of blasphemous remarks had happened in their country, I am afraid that they would have been tied to the cross and burned to maturity.

"Nonsense!" The priest shouted with some anger, "How can you, a mere mortal, casually discuss God here?" God has given us the world to live in, the food to eat, the clothes to wear, and without God, human beings would not even have a place to live! ”

"Huh, tell me this?" The patriarch sat up straight and said loudly, "You keep saying that God created all things in the world, or is it a human being molded with the most perfect appearance, so how do you explain that cockroaches are the creatures that are most adapted to this world?" ”

"Cockroaches?" "What is a cockroach?" Suddenly doubts arose, and the members of the mission looked at each other one by one, who hasn't seen a cockroach? That kind of small insect, as long as you lift your foot, you can directly step on it, it's just a little scary to see when there are a lot of them, what can be the big deal?

"You mortals who don't know anything!" The patriarch's words immediately stunned the people present again, mortals? Don't understand anything? Isn't he mortal? Does he know everything? However, he ignored the doubts of these members of the mission, and just said to himself, "Cockroaches are insects that can eat anything, food scraps, garbage, feces, animal carcasses, clothes, books, hair, and even the excrement of their own kind and ourselves. Its running speed can reach a distance of one meter and two or three in a second, it can do anything by climbing walls and drilling holes, and even has wings to fly, and its sense of smell and touch is very sensitive, which is extremely difficult to grasp; They are small enough to hide in the cracks of walls and planks, surviving when you don't even notice them; Their fecundity is also beyond your imagination, a pair of cockroaches can reproduce about 20,000 in a year, and female cockroaches only need to mate once in their life to reproduce for life, or even asexual reproduction; The most irritating thing is that their eggs are kept in egg sheaths, which are so thick that it is difficult for pesticides to penetrate deep and can only be killed after hatching. If there really is a God, and God imitates Himself to create a creature, it must be cockroaches. As he spoke, he pointed at himself with self-deprecation, "Not us, anyway." ”

He didn't speak quickly, but it was full of all kinds of technical words, even in Medenor, but the members of the mission felt as if they were listening to a book from heaven, and even the indignant priest before was stunned on the spot, still digesting the patriarch's speech in amazement.

"This honorable sir, since you said that you know what causes infectious diseases, can you show us the culprit who causes the disease?" A young male stood up and asked cautiously, "It's the kind of germ you said was six times thinner than a hair." ”

"Huh?" The patriarch was obviously interested, he had been working in the medical department since he crossed over, so he had come into contact with the natives who didn't know much, and tried to tell the natives about their opinions, but the natives always treated him with a taboo expression and attitude. Although the natives are very respectful of him, but that is only for his identity, not the theory he adheres to, he has been a little dead for a while, and he doesn't want to communicate with the natives very much, but now someone actually asks about this, of course he is interested

"Do you want to see germs or normal cells?" As he spoke, the patriarch stood up and walked over to the young man, and as he spoke, he walked over and stretched out his hand, "My name is Zhan Jie, a doctor from the Ministry of Health. ”

Zhan Jie's arrival today was not his intention, although these members of the Maidno mission said that there may be some infectious insects on their bodies, but it has been almost a month in the guest house in the port area, and the possibility of infectious diseases is already very low, if you wait a few more days, you will not have to worry about infectious diseases at all. However, today, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade arranged a tour plan into the Oriental Port Business Zone, and in order to ensure safety, Zhan Jie was specially arranged to be in the same car with them, so as to ensure that any signs of infectious diseases would be discovered immediately.

"You are?" Zhan Jie's hand hung in the air, the other side obviously did not know the etiquette of shaking hands, looked at Zhan Jie's right hand with doubts, looked up at Zhan Jie's face again, and was stunned for a moment before tentatively stretching out his right hand and replied, "My name is Ande, I am a ship doctor, are all the things you said before true?" ”

"Of course it's true, if you're really interested," Zhan Jie said, pointing to a big white house in the distance outside the window, "that's where our hospital is located, if you're interested, I can show it to you, and be able to analyze your physical condition based on your blood or saliva." ”

Ander's face turned pale, he had heard of many legends of wizards and witches before, who spent their days hiding in dark huts, mixing potions in front of the terrifying-looking test bed, and occasionally throwing all sorts of disgusting ingredients into cauldrons filled with cloudy, viscous liquids, and stirring them in the company of these stinking things. The handsome-looking young patriarch with short hair in front of him didn't look like those wizards and witches, but the words he said sounded like his hair stood on end. But in the end, the thirst for new knowledge finally interrupted his fear of legends, and he said to Zhan Jie with a slight hesitation, "You said that if you want my blood, you need to cut off your hands or ears to collect it?" ”

"What?" Zhan Jie almost laughed out loud, "No," he said as he waved his hand lightly, "Blood collection only needs to be lightly pricked with a needle on the finger and squeezed out two drops of blood, why do you have to cut off your hands and ears?" If so, what are you going to do? Wouldn't it be just dragged out and hacked to death? ”

Some people understood, some didn't, and the sparse laughter rang out. The tour guide looked around and saw that the patriarch did not mean to forbid her to speak, so he hurriedly said, "We have now entered the business area, please take a look to the left." ”

The members of the mission who heard it hurriedly looked at the left side of the vehicle, on the left side was a steel structure, this steel structure was quite peculiar, it was a field grid composed of steel, about the size of one meter square, and the four sides were triangular, extending upwards and sloping inward, converging at the top. Workers hold strange things in their hands on the top and keep touching the steel, and some are touching it for a long time. Each of their contact produces an intense blue-purple flash. The eyes of the members of the mission were dazzled by such flashes, and they looked closely at the workers holding a large mask in the other hand to cover their faces, and after each flash of light, they would take the mask off and check the place where it had just flashed.

"What is this doing?" A red-haired man asked curiously, and Zhan Jie glanced at it nonchalantly, "This is electric welding, welding the steel together through electric welding so that it won't loosen." ”

That's right, this is welding, which has been an important skill in the construction of Port Vostochny since the technicians of the Industrial Committee experimented with several electrode formulations for different purposes. And the welding machine is relatively simple compared to other scientific and technological equipment, the only thing that needs to consume more copper is just that, at this moment the Oriental Port has obtained a large amount of copper through the recovery of copper money and a large number of copper ore, so it has opened the door to a new technology, with the increase in the output of the Oriental Iron and Steel Plant, the Industrial Council has more steel can be used to build new production equipment, added a new blast furnace and supporting facilities, and directly doubled the output. Now that the war between China and Medeno is in tension, the maritime trade has been terminated, and the trade capacity on the road has been greatly limited due to the poor road conditions, and the steel has been piled up in the warehouses of the steel mill after leaving the factory, so that the veterans of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade are about to lose their heads.

The accumulation of steel was a headache for the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, so one report after another was submitted to the Executive Committee, which held discussions with several departments, and the Navy was particularly interested, and they wanted to use the steel to build a new mobile gunboat, but they did not have enough funds to procure it, the shipyard did not find suitable drawings, and the two dry docks were now full, so the Navy's plan was quickly rejected. Although other departments and arms need steel, they don't need such a large amount, and they can't find a suitable solution for a while. Du Yande smiled at the time and said that if he built an Eiffel Tower, he should be able to use it up, of course, there was not so much inventory just now, and there was not much point in building this kind of giant tower for the time being, but this proposal, which was just a joke at the time, opened the minds of the participants, and for a while, miracle construction plans such as Stonehenge popped up.

After careful selection, the URA finally selected a plan that seemed relatively easy to build and approved the start of construction, which is the huge framework that the members of the Medno Mission are now looking for. The frame is square at the bottom, with four corners thirty-four or five meters wide, and the four are slanted towards the center of the square, slowly combining at the top to form a spire. Since it is still under construction, there are only four steel beams at the top of the building at the moment, but the shape has basically shown its prototype.

Ander stared at the building blankly, and said with some blankness, "Isn't this a pyramid?" ”