Infrastructure: Start to Repair The Elevator in Mount Everest

Chapter 241

Five hours later.

There are fifteen hours left before launch. There were only twelve hours left before the preparation time.

The helicopter landed in Tarim. At this time, along with Li Qi landing, there were also a large number of helicopters carrying a large number of workers from Yishan Reclamation.

As soon as each helicopter landed, the people above immediately came down ~ rushed into the foundation pit.

Li Ming saw Li Qi hurriedly greeted him:

“Boss, now our foundation pit has been dug to a depth of 30 meters. The number of people involved in the excavation has reached 20,000, and there will be another 20,000 people who will arrive in the future.”

Li Qi walked quickly towards the foundation pit: “From the theoretical time point of view, can you keep up with the progress?”

Li Ming frowned: “It is impossible to calculate, theoretically it is possible. However, the soil layer in this gorge…it is not a real soil layer, some places are sand, and some places are pure sand. All have happened. There have been several collapse accidents, and several people have been buried once. Those experts who helped, I won’t let them go down and let them help transport the sand from above.”

Li Qi walked to the edge of the canyon, where it was already illuminated by searchlights as bright as day. The ears are full of noisy shouts, and the ears are full of the sound of digging.

And below, under a huge pothole, under the light, there are countless people digging the foundation pit below with hoes.

Li Qi clearly saw that the walls of the foundation pit continued to have the phenomenon of flowing sand flowing down.

“Li Ming, pay attention to spraying cement on the wall while digging!”

Li Ming nodded quickly: “We have been paying attention to spraying cement. Almost every half an hour, cement is sprayed in all directions to stabilize the foundation pit and prevent it from collapsing. But this cement also needs to dry up quickly. It, It’s not so fast to dry.”

Li Qi was silent for a while, looking at the wall of constant drifting sand, and said solemnly:

“Adjust a few thousand more high-power miner’s lamps. Use strong light to illuminate the place where the cement is sprayed, and add ultraviolet light to irradiate it. This will dry quickly.”

“Okay, I’ll do it right away.”

Li Ming went to arrange work, while Li Qi led Citi around the edge of the foundation pit.

Workers below are digging deep with a hoe, and then shovel the bottom of the sand into the bucket with a shovel, and then one by one above workers lift the bucket up with a rope, and so on.

But this is inefficient.

Li Qi keenly discovered that the speed of digging below is actually very fast, but the speed of transporting sand is slowing down the progress.

Li Qi quickly found someone and asked, “Can’t we send more people to the top? The sand transport efficiency is too low.”

“Boss, it’s no good. People around the foundation pit are full. There are no more seats.”

Li Qi looked around and saw that there were densely packed people standing on the edge, using buckets in groups of three.

But… this is too inefficient.

Now the depth is only 30 meters. If the depth of the digging is more than 100 meters, the round-trip time using the bucket will increase, and the efficiency will once again become geometrically slower. This is not a question of too many people.

“This has to be solved…”

Li Qi murmured, suddenly looked up at the canyons on both sides, and immediately shouted:

“Li Ming!”

“Here is the boss.”

After arranging the work, Li Ming hurried over and said, “What’s wrong with the boss?”

Li Qi pointed to the canyons on both sides: “Use it to increase the efficiency of sand transport.”

“Ah? How can this be used?”

Li Qi said: “In the valleys on both sides, erect several steel beams. Then use winches and cranes to transport sand.”

With that said, Li Qi asked, “Have you seen a well?”

“I have seen…”

“Set up a winch on the well, and then use a bucket to draw water. Then the speed of lifting water will become faster and it will become easier. Now we can use the canyons on both sides to set up the steel support. Then Use bigger buckets to transport more sand at once!”

Li Ming thought for a while, nodded and said, ‘I’ll do it right away. ’

After inspecting some places and jobs again, Li Qi put forward a lot of guidance.

It’s four or five o’clock in the morning.

Li Qi looked up and saw that the sky was already white, and a look of worry flashed in his eyes:

“It’s about to start soon…”

“Tarim doesn’t know when it will be repaired. Are the materials ready? Can the Rockets be better?”

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This was his most race against time, and he had never been in such a hurry.

Citigroup followed behind and said: “Boss, if the time is almost there, you should be able to sleep for a few hours now. Then we should set off to Jiuquan. Many important people from all over the world will come to visit this launch. You Must be present.”

Li Qi nodded: “I will definitely go.”

“Boss, you can sleep for a while. It’s been all night, and then I don’t know how long I will be busy.”

Li Qi sighed worriedly, “I can’t sleep either.”

Too much pressure!

At this time, three winches have been set up on both sides of the canyon.

The first one started to work.

But saw the cargo box of a container truck hung on three iron chains, and quickly put it down.

After putting it down for only two minutes, I saw the winch start to rotate, and then pulled up a container full of sand.

“fall!”

With an order, someone pulled the container along the pulley to the edge of the foundation pit and dumped it out.

Immediately, hundreds of employees carried buckets to carry away the sand that was dumped on the ground and transported them to further places.

Li Qi saw this scene and was happy in his heart: “This works!”

“Li Ming, add a few more!”

“Yes, boss!”

With this large-scale sand transport facility, progress has been much faster. It is estimated that the time will be effectively shortened by 20% compared with the previous time.

Li Qi patrolled the construction site for a while, then returned to the tent and drank a few bags of milk:

“Citi, make arrangements and get ready to go to Jiuquan.”

“Yes, boss!”

Li Qi sighed and took out his phone to browse the news casually. But I saw that the whole screen was about the Long March 5, and all the news was about the space elevator that moved mountains and reclaimed the sea.

There are also many news about visits by guests from various countries.

All of this made Li Qi feel the tremendous pressure for the first time. This kind of pressure is unprecedented.

Standing in front of the tent, Li Qi murmured in the first ray of sunlight in the early morning of Tarim:

“Unsuccessful, you will become benevolent.”