Chapter 239 Three days open to traffic
A straight mountain road appeared on the Hengduan Mountains. The floating soil on the road was shoveled flat, revealing the hard rock layer. The hard steel drill was pushed into the rock layer and tied together with the steel bars. The formwork was mounted and the cement was poured. Soon, a flat cement roadbed appeared on the mountain range.
The cement roadbed is equipped with steel rails and rivets, and a simple railway is completed. The railway is inclined forty-five degrees, and in some places it even reaches 60 degrees, and it is directly inserted into the top of the Hengduan Mountains.
Every few kilometers, there is a towing station. The steel cable traction anchor of the towing station is lowered along the railway, and it can hook the car and drag the car directly to the top of the mountain. Every few kilometers of the towing station can continuously relay the car to drag a dozen tons of car to the top of the mountain.
As long as you cross the highest point, the other end will become a downhill road. The carriage can slide along the inclined railway to Caiyun Village, and then turn to the pass of Giant Rock City, and hang down through cables.
This is the shortest transportation route. If it is completed, it can transport more than 300 tons of goods to Jushi City in one day. After the operation is mature, the weight can be increased to 500 tons.
This is already a very terrifying number. The four-wheeled carriage built by Luo Qin only weighs one or two tons. If it were replaced by a human two-wheeled carriage, the load of a car is only five or six hundred kilograms, and two thousand carriages are required to transport so much cargo.
Once this railway was built, the Hengduan Mountains turned the natural barrier into a thoroughfare, becoming a major material transport artery, leading the steel bones to the western continent, and no longer need to detour the Gangbis Canyon, which is convenient and fast.
This railway has been under construction since Maphibidu and others returned to the Stone City, and it is finally about to be completed today.
The person in charge of the railway was a dwarf lich named Tongshi. He was a stonemason rescued from the slave chamber of commerce. He had a deep understanding of the nature of the rock, so he was thrown by Luo Chu to build the road.
The most important thing in building roads in Hengduan Mountains is not the technology of road construction, but the understanding of rock formations. The most important thing is to avoid landslides and landslides.
Sure enough, the bronze stone did not disappoint Luo Qing's attention. The railway was built without any danger, and there were no heavy losses. It only broke more than thirty skeletons and zombies.
This is an incredible miracle for construction in the mountains and ridges. The foodies are nationally mechanized. When the Tianlu was built, more than 170 people were sacrificed in the first phase of the project.
The skeleton zombies were just broken and were not dead. After replacing the broken bones, they could immediately jump around again.
Originally, according to the progress, the railway would be completed in more than ten days, but now, Luo Chu can't wait.
Luo Heng and his party walked along the stairs on both sides of the railway to the top of the Hengduan Mountains. As they walked along the way, Tongshi introduced: "Your Majesty, the road I chose is the most stable geological area of the Hengduan Mountains. The vibrations from the abyss did not affect the roadbed. Only some non-force structures collapsed, and it would be repaired."
Luo Heng had already seen along the way that the cement roadbed under the railway tracks was intact, which was indeed incredible. You should know that this disaster was at the level of plane collision. Even the walls of Motiichuang City had several cracks. Such a long roadbed had not cracked, which was no longer a mere luck.
"You did a good job." Luo Qin was generous in praise.
"It's all thanks to Your Majesty. Thanks to Your Majesty's reminder of the concept of contraction and expansion joints and expansion slide rails, otherwise it would be impossible to keep it so intact. When we built large stone statues in the past, we often encountered fragmentation for no reason. After hearing what Your Majesty said, I realized that it was because of thermal expansion and cold contraction."
Tongstone looked at Luo Xu respectfully and said that so many masters in the stonemason industry could not understand the reason, but probably knew that it was related to temperature. His Majesty the Bone King just said it casually and clearly. This is the real master.
The group quickly reached the highest level of the railway. According to Luo Qin's calculations, the altitude here was at least more than 8 kilometers, and the snow line was crossed early, and the air was very thin.
However, this location is a relatively low point in the Hengduan Mountains, sandwiched in it by peaks over 10,000 meters on both sides.
So, why is it called the Hengduan Mountains, why can it isolate the Western Continent and the steel collar, and why no one tries to climb over it.
By opening this railway, Luo Heng will obtain a major transportation artery and have an advantage in transportation costs. In the future, all chambers of commerce will have to rely on his sniff for trade in the Western Mainland.
Tongshi pointed to the rock at the top and said, "This piece of pumice needs to be destroyed. According to the current progress, it will take half a month to lay the cement roadbed. It will take twenty days, and it will be opened to traffic in twenty days."
Luo Heng shook his head: "It's too slow, it must be opened to traffic within three days."
Tongshi shook his head: "Your Majesty, it's impossible. It will take more than ten days to knock out this puffy rock. The cement roadbed has more than three days of solidification. If the rails are laid on, twenty days are the least."
"What if this pumice rock could be knocked off today?" Luo Qing asked.
Tongshi still shook his head: "Your Majesty, I know you have many people, but the mountain roads here are narrow and no matter how many people there are, they can't put them down. They still have to knock them one by one. They can't use magic, otherwise the vibration will be too great and damage the rocks under the floating rock, which will be even more troublesome."
Luo Heng glanced at Tongshi, without saying a word, rushed towards the floating rock, and punched the rock empty-handedly.
With a muffled sound, the breath of death broke out in Luo Xu's fist, and the rock under his fist burst into the hole as big as a bowl.
Because it was exploding with the breath of death, it was not very powerful and caused no vibration, but it could not withstand the frequency. Luo Heng's fists hit the rock like raindrops, making a series of puff sounds like impact drills. The dust raised soon covered his figure.
Not long after, a thud sounded and a figure came back. It was Luo Xun who was covered in dust.
Gray quickly soothed the wind and dispelled the dust from Luo Xun's body. Mobak quickly condensed a ball of water and poured it on Luo Xun's body. After rolling for a few rounds, he was pulled away again, and he also wrapped the dust that the wind element could not take away.
Luo Heng flew back to the front of the bronze stone, and his body was clean and clean.
"Okay, now the road is completed and it will take a few more days to open to traffic." Luo Qing asked.
Tongshi looked at Luo Xun, then looked at the floating rocks with only a pile of gravel left, murmured for a while, and then said: "Three...three days."
Luo Heng nodded: "From now on, the following traction stations can be started. First, pull the goods to the penultimate traction station. The Three-Tiandao Railway will be completed and all the goods will be transported to the Giant Rock City immediately."
Luo Xu's words were not said to Tongshi, but looked around at the top leaders present with their steel collars, and their tone was unquestionable.
Chapter completed!