March of 20X4
After the land contract was signed and the Russians had been dealt with, Chen Jin found himself with the addition of a $500 billion windfall in his possession.
The weather was getting warmer and the snow was gradually melting. It was a season suitable for construction out in the field.
Xing Hai Technologies' Desert Reconstruction Engineering Department began working in full force. Nearly a thousand human engineers, hundreds of engineering machines, and tens of thousands of robots began construction from the starting point of the northeast corner of the Taklimakan Desert.
The team began to excavate the tunnel and buried lengths of high strength carbon fiber tubes with a diameter of 10 feet. The tubes were then joined together.