191: Chapter 190 (Part 2) Natural Disasters and Man-Made Calamities: Why Did Natural Disasters Come First?

After finishing the call with Director Guo Fan, after a while, Xu Hao's consciousness sank into the system.

Inside his backpack, the exchange points had risen from the original 300,000 to 1,000,000.

Xu Hao thought that this must be the credit of the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier.

During this period, the progress of the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier had been getting faster and faster, and he believed that it would be completed before long.

Subsequently, he arrived at the main interface of the MOSS Technology System.

On the main interface, the light-colored progress bar was particularly eye-catching, and the progress on it had indeed risen a little, reaching 15.6785%.

However, there was still a long way to go to reach 100%.

"What exactly can be done to make the progress bar rise faster?" Xu Hao frowned and muttered to himself.

At the same time, he had always had a doubt in his heart: why did the system suddenly need to upgrade when it was working perfectly fine?

It made no sense...

Moreover, there had been a series of strange events recently.

Setting aside the erratic and unpredictable weather.

Professor Zhou Xuemin and the others were also very abnormal.

Xu Hao could clearly feel that Professor Zhou Xuemin seemed to be handling something very important.

So much so that he seemed somewhat unconcerned about the construction progress of the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier.

Could there be anything more important than the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier?

One had to know that when he had brought out the design plan for the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier previously, the happiest people were Elder Long, Professor Zhou Xuemin, and Naval Commander Ding Lei.

Now, they didn't seem to pay much attention to it anymore.

This left Xu Hao full of question marks, wondering what on earth had happened in Longdu.

The several Old Professors, Professor Shen Hongcai, Professor He Jianhua, and Professor Cao Gang, were the same.

They would run to Longdu every few days, and when asked what was going on, they would hem and haw, brushing it off with the excuse that they were attending routine meetings in Longdu.

"There must be something they are hiding from me!" Xu Hao thought to himself.

Perhaps the country wasn't telling him because they didn't want him to worry!

They wanted him to go all out and lead the researchers to build the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier well.

Xu Hao shook his head, casting away the thoughts in his mind.

Since the country hadn't told him yet, perhaps they really had encountered something quite tricky.

Once the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier was built, he would definitely ask Professor Zhou Xuemin and Elder Long about it properly.

Anyway, the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier was almost finished now, and there were no issues with the reactor tests at the Nuclear Technology Research Institute.

Once the subsequent assembly and debugging were completed, it could be tested.

After figuring this out, Xu Hao felt much more relieved.

He stood up and walked towards the door.

"Let's go see what that deep-sea fish Engineer Fang Yuan mentioned actually looks like."

Last night, another major typhoon hit Changxing Island, howling and blowing as if it wanted to blow the whole island away.

Unexpectedly, the next morning, a deep-sea fish was blown into a puddle at the shipyard.

This greatly surprised the people in the factory.

After all, deep-sea fish were creatures that lived hundreds or thousands of meters below the seabed, and were usually very rarely seen.

Who would have thought that a typhoon could actually blow such a deep-sea creature up here.

Anyway, there was nothing to do today, so Xu Hao planned to go and broaden his horizons to see what this deep-sea fish looked like.

On the other side, Professor Zhou Xuemin walked out of the national conference room with a heavy expression.

Just a moment ago, led by the State Council, a top-secret meeting was held by many important national scientific research institutions and major departments, including the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Resources, the Meteorological Bureau, and the Observatory.

And meetings like this had been held no less than a dozen times this month.

The issues discussed were all about the various extreme weather and abnormal climates encountered recently.

Professor Zhou Xuemin sighed. Thinking about the content discussed at the meeting just now, he shook his head and walked towards Elder Long's The Compound.

"Elder Long!" Professor Zhou Xuemin reached the inner courtyard of Elder Long's The Compound, familiar with the route.

Elder Long was drinking tea under the shade of the trees as usual.

Hearing Professor Zhou Xuemin's voice, Elder Long stretched out his hand, signaling him to come over and sit.

"Professor Zhou Xuemin is here? Come over and sit..."

Compared to some time ago, Elder Long's voice seemed much older and sounded a bit hoarse.

Professor Zhou Xuemin nodded and sat on the chair at the square table.

"Just finished the meeting?" Elder Long asked, looking at the briefcase tucked under Professor Zhou Xuemin's arm.

"Yes." Professor Zhou Xuemin smiled bitterly and nodded.

"It seems the problem is still very tricky." Elder Long poured a cup of tea for Professor Zhou Xuemin, an expression of having already seen through it all on his face.

"Elder Long, your foresight is god-like; it is indeed so." Professor Zhou Xuemin politely took the teacup, sighed, and then added: "The situation is not optimistic; the severity of the disaster has somewhat spiraled out of the control of the relevant departments."

After finishing, Professor Zhou Xuemin took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Elder Long.

What was recorded on it was the content of the conference just now.

It was easy for Elder Long to get this document, so there was no issue of leaking secrets by showing it to him.

Elder Long took the file, leaned back slightly, narrowed his eyes, and seriously looked at the content on it.

The further he read, the deeper his brows furrowed.

"Have there been so many provinces affected by the disaster already?" Elder Long asked, his gaze not moving from the file.

"That's right." Professor Zhou Xuemin nodded with a grave expression.

"In recent days, nearly a dozen provinces in Long Country have suffered from various extreme weather conditions, causing great loss of life and property to the people."

"Not only that, according to observation and forecast data from many departments such as the Observatory and the Meteorological Bureau."

"In the coming months, various extreme weather conditions will continue to appear within the Long Country. Such as sudden temperature spikes, followed by cold waves, large hail, heavy rain, snow, and other weather."

When mentioning this weather, there was a look of disbelief on Professor Zhou Xuemin's face.

Who could have thought that scorching heat and freezing winter could appear in the same season?

If someone had said this before, he would never have believed it.

But now, I'm afraid such things are really going to happen...

Elder Long read for a few minutes and finally finished reading the content on the document.

"Hoo..." He let out a long sigh, gently placed the file on the table, and the expression on his wrinkled face was unusually grave.

The severity of the matter had exceeded his expectations.

If it were caused by external factors, perhaps it could still be turned around.

But in the face of powerful natural disasters, humanity appears so insignificant.

Everything appears so powerless.

"What did the Head of State say?" Elder Long suddenly asked this.

The matter was already so serious that the big BOSS of the Long Country, also known as the Head of State, must have already known.

Professor Zhou Xuemin shook his head and remained silent.

Elder Long immediately frowned.

After a while, Elder Long spoke: "Find a time, I will go see him!"

Professor Zhou Xuemin's heart trembled.

After drinking a few cups of tea, Elder Long asked Professor Zhou Xuemin again: "Is Xiao Hao doing well during this time?"

Professor Zhou Xuemin nodded. "He called me a few days ago to report the progress of the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier."

"If there are no accidents, the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier will be ready for testing in a while."

Hearing this, the expression on Elder Long's face finally relaxed a little.

Then he instructed: "Do not tell Xiao Hao about the things discussed today for now."

"His job now is to build the Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier well. As for these matters, leave them to us old men."

When Elder Long talked about these matters, a flash of undisguisable worry appeared in his cloudy eyes.

Leave it to them? It's hard...

Natural disasters and man-made calamities, why is natural disaster written first?

Because the destructive power of natural disasters, at times, is truly impossible for human power to resist.

Upon hearing Elder Long's instructions, although Professor Zhou Xuemin felt heavy-hearted, he still nodded and agreed.

"Understood!"