Chapter 312: Mobile base·Under planning

The Snow Country Train is both a train and a science fiction work. The train

itself is the most important stage in this science fiction work.

In the original work of "Snow Country Train", Blue Star turned into a cold

** for some unknown reason. In the end, the surviving humans squeezed on a

non-stop train driven by a perpetual motion machine, and the train just

stopped. Humans will freeze to death, so the train has been moving forward,

endlessly.

On the train, the rich live a life indistinguishable from before the disaster.

Coffee, tobacco, botanical gardens, aquariums, libraries...everything in the

past is enjoyed by the rich as they should, while the poor at the bottom

Living in the last-class carriage, relying on protein blocks made of

cockroaches to survive, must endure the torture of crowding, filth and hunger,

and live a life without dignity.

This is a rather dystopian science fiction work, which depicts the huge

difference in life between the rich and the poor and the polarization of

social class in an extremely ironic way. It is a fairly classic work.

Of course, for Chen Xinhe and the staff on the train, it is of little

practical significance. Although the current environment of Blue Star is also

an extremely cold hell, it is even worse than described in the original "Snow

Country Train", but Blue Star The surviving humans in Shanghai have not yet

reached the point where they need to squeeze on a train to survive, especially

a train driven by an impossible thing like a perpetual motion machine.

However, the concept of Snow Country Train is desirable. In today's harsh

environment, humans need rail transportation. Trains that can operate normally

in this environment are very important, and Snow Country Train is a good

reference object.

"The design tasks required by the state include the planning of mobile

shelters, which is to develop permanent or long-term residential trains based

on railways and move along the railway to transport survivors from the north

to the south with a better environment. Or simply drive along the railway

line.” The staff did not hide this matter, and this is not something that

needs to be kept secret.

Regarding this topic, Chen Xin thought for a while and shook his head and

said, “It’s too expensive to travel along the railway. Without mentioning how

you provide enough food for the survivors on the train, the number of people

that a train can carry is no more than one to two thousand. People only.

Taking into account the need to carry supplies to ensure survival, a train can

guarantee the survival of hundreds of people is already very impressive, and

the cost of keeping the train running is enough to build a shelter that can

accommodate more people. "

"That's right, but it can be considered as a backup plan. After all, in case

something really needs to happen, it is always good to be prepared." The staff

naturally understands that the construction of a column can accommodate

several hundred. How much resources are needed to survive the train, but as he

said, it is better to be prepared instead of used, not available and not

prepared.

Chen Xin agrees with this. Science and technology will never be too small but

not too much. If someone thinks that technology has reached its peak and

humans will no longer have new inventions, it will only be that some people's

brains are not so good.

So for the Snow Country Train, Chen Xin also gave some suggestions of his own.

After all, he is a fiction writer. Chen Xin may not have as much knowledge as

scientists in certain aspects, but he does not lose to those scientists in

creativity, and even because of his profession, he has more inspiration.

The staff were also very interested in Chen Xin’s suggestions. After recording

some of the feasible ideas, the staff was very interested in inviting Chen Xin

to go to Jianning’s train factory when he had time. Participate in the

development and design of Snow Country Train.

Chen Xin was very interested in this, but he did not agree directly, only that

he would consider the past when he had time. After all, he still has a lot of

things here.

As for the reason for accepting the invitation, it is because Chen Xin thought

of a more feasible but also more difficult setting from the Snow Country

Train's vision, that is, a mobile base.

This is a setting that is more common than the Snow Country Train in various

science fiction or fantasy works, and it appears in many games, novels,

comics, and film and television works.

The small one might be a car, similar to Chen Xin's own RV, but the larger one

might be the super-large units like Rhode Island, the mobile city-state, and

the floating city.

A small mobile base is easy to realize, and with modern technology, it is not

too much trouble to create.

As for the larger mobile base, it is not that there is no such thing. For

example, an aircraft carrier can be regarded as a mobile base swimming in the

water.

But in addition to these, it is somewhat difficult to build a land mobile base

similar to Rhode Island.

It's not that it can't be made, but that there is no suitable road for such a

big thing. Not to mention the structure, materials, shock absorption, energy,

life support...A series of problems are restricting the mobile base on the

landing ground.

However, these problems may be constraints and troubles for others, but for

Chen Xin, they are not a problem at all. The big deal is system upgrades,

which can be created anyway.

It's just that Chen Xin turned his head and thought about it. It seemed that

he didn't need to build such a thing, or that he didn't need to build such a

big one.

The mobile base is not a necessity for him, it is just to take his family to

avoid the disaster when there may be an irreversible

disaster~www.mtlnovel.com~, so there is no need to accommodate too many

people. At the same time, there is no need to build too much.

So he doesn't necessarily really want to build Rhode Island, just a mobile

base vehicle.

After turning a few thoughts in his mind, Chen Xin did not intend to put this

idea into practice immediately. After all, mobile bases are different from

fixed refuges. There are so many things involved, even if Chen Xin can now

obtain them from the country. Help and resource support, it is impossible to

easily create a mobile base for use.

However, he feels that when upgrading his refuge in the future, he can

appropriately add some functions, integrate the structure of the existing

refuge, and slowly adjust it in the direction of the mobile base. Maybe after

several upgrades, it It can become a mobile base and go everywhere.

When Chen Xin was thinking about where he would go when he had a mobile base

in the future, he and his staff finally walked to the front of the train and

saw the nuclear reactor in operation.

"This is the nuclear reactor of this car. It can currently provide up to 35MW

of output power. We are only running it at 70% power." The staff is obviously

very concerned about this nuclear reactor, which is less than a six-seat

minivan. Satisfaction and pride.