Chapter 71 - 71 Let's Start

"We have to connect the three nearby islands into one big island in about half a year!"

As soon as Shane finished his words, the crowd began to gossip.

"Half a year?"

"Really? Can we finish this work in half a year?"

Among them, there was an engineer who had worked for more than 20 years.

He looked at the three islands nearby and calculated in his mind.

After a while, he shook his head.

According to his calculation, it would take at least three or even five years to complete the job Shane mentioned.

Half a year? He was just kidding!

In the eyes of the engineer, this working time was obviously not enough.

After all, it was not an overnight thing to fill the sea and create the land.

Although Bama State was an island country, it was very familiar with the case of filling the sea.

However, such a project was possible in a few years.

It was good to have an ideal, but it should also be realistic!

Shane continued, "But connecting these islands together is not a complete work. You have to expand the island to a nine-square-kilometer big island on the next basis!"

The engineer didn't know what to say next.

It would take three years for them to be connected. How could it be expanded?

At least ten years!

But judging from General Shane's expression, everyone knew that he was not joking, but how could they finish the job on time?

Shane looked at them with a smile. Before he came here, he had done some research. It would take a long time to carry out the normal work.

Half a year was definitely not enough.

However, their following work couldn't be the same as usual.

"You must be confused now. Do you think it's impossible to finish it?"

"You can look at the ship under your feet. It's an artifact for creating an island!"

Everyone lowered their heads to look at the ship under their feet.

Shane continued, "This ship is a heavy cutter suction vessel. You must be very familiar with it, but do you know how much sand it can dig out in an hour?"

Everyone's curiosity was aroused by him. They stared at Shane and wanted to know the answer.

After a pause, Shane continued, "This ship covers a depth of 35 meters at most! It can dig 6,000 cubic meters of sand per hour!"

"Ouch!"

"What?"

"How is that possible?"

"General, do you think this ship can dig out 6,000 cubic meters of sand per hour? Did I hear it wrong?"

Shane nodded, "Yes, you didn't hear it wrong! It's 6,000 cubic meters! I didn't say anything wrong!"

"Well..."

"6,000 cubic meters? Is it too exaggerated?"

"Yes, the ship I used to work on was only more than 1,000 cubic meters per hour!"

"If it is really 6,000 cubic meters, then this ship is really an artifact weapon for creating an island!"

"Besides, we have two!"

They had a heated discussion. Some were shocked and some were excited.

Shane coughed when he saw that the discussion was almost over.

"With these two ships, we can finish this project in half a year, but it's still difficult for us."

"Why should we fill the sea and create the continent here? You must be very confused. Why do we create the continent in this barren place?"

"I'll tell you the reason now."

Some things could be seen at a glance, let alone these smart engineers.

This job was assigned by the army, and they even sent a lieutenant general to command it. It could be seen how important this job was.

They could guess the reason sooner or later.

It was better to tell them now.

"In fact, we plan to build an airport and a missile base here. After that, we will deploy the helicopters and missiles here!"

"I believe you all know the importance and meaning of this task!"

Shane didn't say that it would be the front line of the aircraft carrier base.

After all, the news about the base of the aircraft carrier was very confidential in the whole Bama State. There were no more than ten people in the country who knew about it.

Most people only knew that Bama State was preparing for a big project.

"So we can only succeed. We can't fail!"

"Yes, sir!"

Shane was touched by the shouts of the engineers.

"Let's start!"

At the order of General Shane, the filling project began.

Just as all the engineers and staff were about to start working at their own positions.

All of a sudden, the two cutter suction vessels started to work automatically.

Any equipment built by Allen could be automatically installed.

Even if there was no one on the ship, they could start to work normally.

"Is this fully automatic?" An engineer exclaimed.

It was the first time they had seen a fully automatic cutter suction vessel.

Everyone was curious.

It could be fully automatic, which meant that it could work 24 hours a day!

It must be more efficient than manpower!

With the roar of two ships, the first batch of sand was extracted.

Allen was observing the work of the cutter suction vessels in front of the computer.

An hour later, Allen was shocked.

Not only him but everyone on the two ships, including Shane, was shocked.

There was a large suction head at the front of the cutter suction vessel, through which the ship worked.

The suction head crushed the sand and rocks at the bottom of the sea, and then the ship was sucked into the ship by a huge tool like a vacuum cleaner.

Then, the sand was transported to a place a few kilometers away through a pipe on the ship to fill the sea.

It was known that the speed at which the ship absorbed sand was 6,000 cubic meters per hour!

At first, Allen didn't realize that it was 6,000 cubic meters. But now, he saw it clearly.

About an hour later, a ship had laid out land as big as a football field.

Now they had two warships!

It only took an hour to make two lands as big as football fields!

No one would believe it!

Allen was already shocked, but the engineers on the ship were even more surprised than him.

They had to deal with the ship every day.

They knew better than anyone what 6,000 cubic meters per hour meant.

Now that they had seen it with their own eyes, they even opened their mouths wide.

The boats they used to work on were only 2,000 cubic meters per hour at most, and most of them were 1,000 cubic meters per hour.

In other words, a Big Fish was comparable to three or four of them!

The efficiency could be imagined!

Two Big Fish equaled seven or eight ships!

Normally, a project team could only operate a ship. The workload of the two Big Fish for an hour was equal to that of their group for a whole day!

This was several times more efficient than them!