Chapter 372

Chapter 372

Chapter 372

The airport in Magic City.

A Boeing passenger plane slowly landed on the runway.

At this time, the Magic City is shrouded in the scorching summer heat.

Near the airport exit.

Alvin and his five men appeared in the waiting area at the exit, pulling suitcases, and then glanced at the crowd holding signs in the waiting area.

After a while, he finally saw the person he had an appointment with.

Just walk over.

"Mr. Clark?"

"Are you Mr. Irwin?" The young white man with gray hair and a Mohawk picked up his phone and looked at the photo on the chat app. He confirmed that the person coming was Irwin, the client this time. He then smiled and nodded: "Hello, I'm Clark Spencer."

Erwin nodded slightly, then got straight to the point: "I'm Erwin. I'm in a hurry. I don't know if the medical treatment you arranged can be admitted directly to the hospital now?"

Clark didn't say anything nonsense. After all, a guest who came to Seris for medical treatment would definitely want to be admitted to the hospital as soon as possible, so he smiled and replied:

"No problem. I'll arrange for you to go to the Hailufeng Hospital, which has the most advanced technology. If it's convenient for you now, you can come with me at any time to complete the admission procedures."

"Let's go then!"

After hailing two taxis, the group headed to the Chongming Branch of Hailufeng Hospital located on Chongming Island in Shanghai.

Looking at the endless stream of vehicles outside the car window.

There are also various facilities that look like a future city.

Alvin and his personal assistant Clay in the car did not utter any exclamations, but silently observed this world which was completely different from Europe and the United States.

Even though he had seen the prosperous and modern metropolises in the West, Alvin had to admit that the Magic City now looked more futuristic.

The elevated highway under construction also has a large roof garden in between. If you look down at the Magic City from a high altitude, you can only see some prominent high-rise buildings and part of the roof of old buildings.

Residential buildings built in recent decades are being replaced by new ones at an alarming rate.

New residential buildings have a distinctive feature.

That is, the roofs are generally green spaces, including sky gardens, rooftop lawns, rooftop forests, and even lakes in the city.

The newly renovated new-style residential buildings are generally 28-story buildings, and a comprehensive emergency center will be built in the middle of every seven to eight residential communities.

The area of ​​an emergency center generally ranges from 25 square meters to 40 square meters.

For example, on the way from the airport to Chongming Island, Alvin saw several huge buildings with conspicuous Chinese signs painted on their exterior walls. Through translation software, he knew that these huge buildings were emergency centers for city residents.

Through search software, he learned about some of the situations of this urban residents' emergency center.

Looking down from the air, it is actually very easy to spot this kind of urban residents' emergency center, because about half of the area of ​​this emergency center is an extra-large water tower with a building height of 100 meters and a depth of 100 meters.

In the emergency center in Shanghai, the standard dimensions of the water tower are generally 200 meters deep, 200 meters wide, and 500 meters long, with an internal volume of approximately 1860 million cubic meters.

Its structural material is made of multi-layer integrated materials, and the interior of the water tower can usually be divided into 10 independent single water tanks.

In addition, there are dome devices on top of these water towers that can be opened and closed.

The dome device of the single water tank will be opened regularly, especially in the summer. By opening the dome device, sunlight can be directly irradiated on the water surface of the water tower, thereby regulating the surrounding ambient temperature by increasing evaporation and heat storage of the water body.

In addition, the roofs of new residential buildings are all green spaces, which can greatly alleviate the urban heat island effect.

...

The taxi went onto the bridge.

Outside the car window is a tall seawall.

The endless high dams are simply man-made cliffs.

The tops of these dams are also shaded by green trees, and there are even man-made waterfalls cascading down.

The height of the dam is almost level with the bridge deck and is about 90 meters from sea level.

The sea-control dam in Shanghai is exceptionally high because of the troublesome land acquisition in the initial stage of construction. However, as a series of new residential areas are renovated, the sea-control dam in Shanghai will certainly continue to be thickened to increase the overall wave resistance limit.

The other side of the bridge.

Chongming Island is also surrounded by high dams.

"Human technology is sometimes really scary." Erwin muttered to himself.

Assistant Clay and medical guide Clark did not speak.

Soon the taxi crossed the bridge and entered the Chongming Island side.

The situation on the island is completely different from what it was a few years ago.

The original farmlands, farms, fish ponds and low residential buildings here have all been occupied by buildings about 100 meters high.

Among these new buildings, there are new residential buildings, and more are agricultural buildings. In addition, there are factories of various enterprises, or industries of service-oriented enterprises like Hailufeng Hospital.

The roof is also shaded by green trees.

However, due to the emergence of dense new buildings, the average altitude of Chongming Island has become about 70 meters.

There is also a nuclear fusion power station on Chongming Island disguised as a thorium nuclear fission power station.

In fact, now in Seris, building controlled nuclear fusion power stations inside cities is a standard feature.

This is mainly to increase the city's self-sustaining capacity.

Including those urban residents' emergency centers, which are also intended to increase the city's self-sustaining capabilities.

After all, with the advancement of comprehensive urbanization, there will no longer be a township system within the Asian Union, so the self-sustaining ability of the city must be considered.

In addition, the city’s ability to survive crises is also an issue that must be given priority consideration in the process of promoting comprehensive urbanization.

After all, all the population is concentrated in cities, which makes it easier for the enemy to target them. If this aspect is not taken into consideration, it is easy to be wiped out by the enemy.

Although the number of nuclear bombs in the Asian Union’s stockpile has now reached an astonishing 3200, this is still not absolutely safe and can only serve as a certain deterrent to hostile forces.

The Asian Union does not want to gamble on whether the North Atlantic Union has the courage to perish together.

Therefore, the safety of the city must be considered.

In fact, the underground space of today's new residential buildings is often very deep, generally 30 to 50 meters deep, and there are special integrated underground structures that can not only withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake without disintegration, but even a magnitude 10 super earthquake can maintain the integrity of the overall structure.

Such a strong structure, coupled with the thickness of the ground building, would make it difficult to kill people inside the building unless they were hit head-on by a nuclear bomb.

It is very necessary to mention the comprehensive air defense system that the Asian Union is building.

This comprehensive air defense system not only has advanced radars and satellites, but also a three-dimensional protection network.

The so-called three-dimensional protective net is built using high-strength and lightweight materials to construct some pillars with a height of about 3000 meters.

Then, a layer of protective net woven from high-strength silicon carbide nanotubes is placed on these pillars to cover the entire city.

In the test city in the Tengger Desert, this three-dimensional protective net can not only block the invasion and attack of drones, but even high-speed missiles and rockets will be instantly cut into pieces by the silicon carbide nanotube net.

If more than three layers of silicon carbide nanotube mesh are used, it will be difficult to make a missile fly directly into the ground of a city unless an air-burst nuclear bomb is used.

As for the air-burst nuclear bomb, the Asian Federation has naturally conducted relevant tests, and the results show that it can indeed destroy the silicon carbide nanotube network, but the damage is limited to within a few hundred meters of the explosion center.

This is also the desired effect of the Firewall.

As long as the nuclear explosion does not explode directly inside the city, its direct destructive power will be greatly weakened by the high-strength high-rise buildings.

In particular, the ground parts of many new-style houses now often have nuclear explosion-resistant designs.

This greatly increases the city's resistance to nuclear explosions.

Plus various active air defense systems, space low-Earth orbit interception systems, etc.

In fact, it is difficult for current aircraft and missiles to pass through layers of defense systems and enter the core cities of the Asian Federation.

In wartime, these cities will also quickly launch evacuation plans and activate underground bases built in hidden areas around them to quickly relocate a portion of the population.

Therefore, the urban areas of the Asian Commonwealth will only become safer and more solid in the future.

Erwin only marveled at the magnificent buildings of Seris, not knowing that there were other uses behind these buildings.

Soon the group arrived at Hailufeng Hospital on Chongming Island.

The tourist mobile phone that Irwin received at the immigration office helped him to complete the admission procedures smoothly.

In the ward, Clark said to Irving, "Mr. Irving, you have saved my mobile phone number and social account. During your treatment, if you have any questions, you can contact me at any time and I will try my best to help you solve them."

"OK."

Perhaps seeing that Erwin had something to say to his "relatives", Clark was very tactful: "Well, I'll take my leave first. If you have anything, just contact me directly. Bye!"

"Goodbye! Clark." Erwin nodded slightly.

Watching Clark leave the ward.

Erwin looked at his five subordinates and ordered, "We have already talked about this before coming here. I won't waste any more time talking. Just follow the previous division of labor!"

"Ok."

Three of the subordinates went to various cities in Seres where artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and brain-computer technologies are relatively developed to conduct business surveys.

Although we don't expect them to obtain any confidential information, they should at least come up with something that can fool Neil.

Assistant Clay and another subordinate stayed on Chongming Island to serve as Alvin's exclusive caregivers during his hospitalization.

Even though the medical tour guide Clark talked a lot and guaranteed that the services at Hailufeng Hospital were absolutely in place, the family members did not need to worry about anything.

But as a very suspicious person, Alvin did not believe Clark. He felt that it would make him feel more at ease if he left two subordinates as caregivers.

Just after the three subordinates left.

The attending physician in charge of treating Alvin also came into the ward with several interns.

The two sides conducted preliminary communication on the patient's condition through translation software.

Since Alvin paid for the treatment in full out of pocket this time and chose the best package, the attending physician at Hailufeng Hospital, as a private hospital, was naturally very enthusiastic.

He asked about Erwin's physical condition in almost every detail.

After writing the medical record, the attending physician raised his head and smiled and said, "Mr. Erwin, we have made a preliminary diagnosis of your condition. Although your glioma is already quite serious, and you have undergone heavy proton radiotherapy before, you can no longer undergo radiotherapy."

Erwin frowned and said, "Doctor Huang, I have only one request. It should not affect my future work ability. Can you do that?"

"I can't guarantee that it will not affect your normal work and life, but the targeted drugs cultivated by gene orientation can completely kill the glioma cells in your brain. Combined with nanotube drainage technology, the dead cancer cell waste in your brain can be quickly discharged to avoid accumulation in the brain."

The attending physician continued, "In addition, we also have special drugs for brain neuron repair, which can greatly maintain the brain's nervous system. So far, our hospital has treated 5479 brain tumors, with a treatment success rate of over 96%, a five-year survival rate of around 83%, and a ten-year survival rate of around 55%. "

"Huh..." Erwin took a deep breath, then forced a smile and said, "I trust you. I'll leave it to you. I can't lose my ability to work."

The attending physician nodded slightly. He had seen too many patients with brain tumors who hoped to maintain their normal life and work ability.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Erwin. Our hospital will do its best to treat you and restore you to a healthy and normal body. You should rest first. I will prescribe a checkup list and medication for you later."

"Okay, thank you for your help then." Erwin signaled his assistant to escort the doctor out of the ward.

Soon the ward became quiet again.

Alvin leaned against the pillow, quietly looking at the lush greenery outside the window, but he couldn't help thinking about something in his heart.

Suddenly his phone rang.

beep...

He looked at the number and then pressed the answer button: "Hello, Mr. Chairman, I have arrived in Seris..."

"Are you there yet? Then I wish you all the best."

"I've already made arrangements. I'm investigating some new technologies right now. If there's any progress, I'll send it back to the company via email. I won't talk about work on the phone." Alvin reminded meaningfully.

Neil on the other end of the phone also reacted and replied with a low laugh, "I know. By the way, I have already negotiated with a company regarding investment. I think the negotiation will be completed in the next month or so."

"That's good."

"One more thing. Please help me check out Seris's medical care this time..."

Erwin suddenly tensed up: "Mr. Chairman, are you sick?"

"No, it's my father's health that's a little bit wrong..."

"I see, leave it to me then!"

"Then please."

After hanging up the phone, Erwin's back was soaked.

(End of this chapter)