Chapter 312 The Rising Threat
Chapter 312 The Rising Threat
However, no matter how urgent the hope is.
Time is still moving forward at a leisurely pace.
When it comes to Su Wu's current scale of power.
Lots of action and planning.
With the support of rigorous calculations and massive manpower, material resources and intelligence.
As accurate as a prophecy.
There is no possibility of being ahead of schedule or exceeding expectations.
4 month 13 day.
The third round of population transfer begins.
Along with 100 newly produced caravan carriages, they also joined the transfer team.
A torrent of caravans stretching across the vast Kuanjiang River Basin.
It carried 600 million people at one time.
This group is almost equivalent to the population of a large pre-apocalyptic city.
In migration.
Make the glaciers and ice fields along the way become lively.
Massive amounts of related photos, videos, and even various derivative creations have been sent to the Internet.
It has created a special kind of prosperity unique to the end-of-the-world environment.
On a quiet plain covered with snow.
In the carriage of a caravan.
A young man is live streaming on his mobile phone.
He pointed the camera out the car window.
Use a voice with some excitement and novelty to explain to hundreds of viewers on the other side of the network.
"In a few minutes."
"We are about to enter the icy fog ahead."
"According to the information I found."
"That patch of ice fog was named the Low Temperature Cold Current A027."
“The coverage area is about 140 square kilometers.”
“The narrowest part is only 3.2 kilometers.”
"Although it is small in scale, it has actually existed for more than three months."
"It is one of the cold currents in the entire East Continent that has the longest known duration and the lowest internal temperature."
"If you're just driving an ordinary modified SUV."
"Once you break in, you basically have no chance of coming out alive."
“It can be said to be a real death zone.”
The mouth said terrible.
There was no sign of fear on the young man's face.
Instead, he looked excited, as if he was about to go on an interesting adventure in the amusement park.
Caravans have been active on the land of Dongzhou for a long time.
Their safety and reliability have been proven through countless experiences of traversing dangerous and desperate situations.
Just stay inside the train.
Don't run away for no reason.
There will be almost no accidents.
If the carriage wasn't so crowded, we would have to take turns sleeping on the same bed.
Board the caravan.
It’s really not much different from traveling.
In the commentary.
The carriage where the young man was located gradually approached the icy fog.
The howling cold wind hit the thick car windows.
The rustling sound became clearer and clearer.
Then fine ice crystals began to adhere to the edges of the car windows.
The view of the outside world that can be observed from inside the car becomes narrower and narrower.
"Go in."
The young man used the camera on his mobile phone to record the moment he entered the ice fog.
Then in discovery.
At this time, you can no longer see any scenery beyond one or two meters.
Then he turned the camera back to the car.
The layout of the car is similar to that of a separate toilet at the end and a limited number of berths.
The remaining space is basically similar to a subway car.
Just two rows of chairs welded to the sides.
These benches are not very comfortable.
But due to the small space, hundreds of people were crammed into it.
Because there are so many people, they have become scarce commodities.
Except for some patients identified by artificial intelligence.
Everyone can only take turns sitting for a while.
Most of the time, you need to stand.
But the space is narrow.
It did not prevent passengers from enjoying entertainment to kill time.
Some of them offered their seats as platforms, and three or two people gathered together to play poker, or set up a chessboard.
Some were chatting in low voices, while others were reading or listening to music on their phones.
"No one seems to be abnormal."
"The status is the same as before."
The young man casually explained.
Then he moved the camera to the front of the car.
There was a TV there playing TV programs from Jianghe City.
From the TV's casing with slight scratches and distortion marks, it is obvious that it is most likely not an assembly line product manufactured together with the car body.
It's a second-hand product that I found from somewhere unknown.
This is normal.
Even a powerful force at the super city level.
In today's end times when resources and energy are extremely precious.
It is also impossible to develop an industry specifically to produce such non-essential civilian products.
Basically, they just picked up those civilian electronic products before the end of the world and used them as they pleased.
Young men don't care about this.
What he wanted to show the online audience was the real-time internal and external temperatures displayed in a corner of the TV screen.
The room temperature is 23.2 degrees.
The outdoor temperature was minus 117.6 degrees Celsius.
"It's the same as the information I found."
"The temperature outside is indeed close to minus 120 degrees Celsius now."
"in other words."
"If the window glass in front of me is broken by accident."
"Then I will probably be frozen and lose the ability to speak within a few seconds."
"And then within minutes they would die of hypothermia."
“This environment is only separated from the world of death by a layer of glass.”
“Only when you are truly there can you appreciate its uniqueness.”
The caravan did not travel long in the icy fog.
After half an hour.
The thick white fog outside the window gradually dissipated.
A continuous range of snow-capped mountains appeared within sight.
And this time.
The roars produced by several explosions could be heard from afar.
The young man, who was still broadcasting live, followed the direction from which the sound came.
Point your phone's camera toward it.
Then in the zoomed in shot.
Several creatures that looked somewhat like insects were clearly seen moving through the flames and black smoke produced by the explosion.
"It's amethyst."
“This time I can finally see them for real.”
The young man looked a little dazed.
There was the excitement of seeing this legendary species with my own eyes.
There is also a faint trembling and fear that comes from the heart.
There is no wilderness to hinder us here.
If it attracts the attention of the other party.
The result is probably hard to predict.
The more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.
After destroying a robot patrol that was fighting them.
A few purple crystals that won.
Let's focus on the caravan carriage carrying the young man.
The caravan was 1 kilometer long and carried more than 2 passengers.
In the eyes of Amethyst.
It is the most delicious fruit.
Without hesitation for a second.
They then charged and ran towards the young man.
The young man's hands shook with fear.
I almost couldn't hold the phone steady.
Twenty seconds later, the monsters on the opposite side were getting closer and closer with unmatched momentum.
Under strong threat of death.
His body seemed to be frozen in fear. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move.
And the other people in the car.
Few noticed anything unusual outside.
Still chatting, laughing, playing cards and listening to music.
If we estimate based on the worst case scenario.
This is actually a kind of luck.
They won't suffer too much.
Only in the last few seconds after the car body is torn apart.
Only then will you realize that death is coming.
But the worst situation did not happen after all.
When the purple crystal approached within four or five kilometers.
The Ice-class land frigate at the front of the vehicle began to automatically activate its defense system.
It rotated the Thunder-class photoelectric cannon it was carrying.
Aim the terrifying multi-barrel shooting holes at the incoming purple crystal.
An extreme metal torrent burst out.
Hundreds or even thousands of these 32mm metal projectiles can actually be called small electromagnetic guns.
At speeds several times the speed of sound.
It crossed a distance of four or five kilometers and bombarded several purple crystals.
The ice and snow on the ground are broken in an instant.
Creating one huge pit after another.
In this intensive shooting.
The leader was a massive purple crystal evolved form that was almost two stories tall.
After enduring several machine gun shells.
The outer layer of grey armor shattered on the spot and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
The several Amethyst evolved forms that were following behind were so frightened that they immediately scattered.
He tried to dodge the subsequent pursuit of the machine gun with agile movements.
But this obviously doesn't help.
There were too many incoming shells.
The Thunder-class optoelectronic cannon has a firing rate of over 10,000 rounds per minute.
Meaning these are locked amethysts.
On average, each one of them successfully dodges one to two thousand times in a minute.
The difficulty is so high that it is almost impossible.
After struggling for more than ten seconds.
These purple crystals attempted to charge the caravan.
All of them fell down halfway.
"so close."
A young man recorded the entire battle with his mobile phone camera.
He breathed a long sigh of relief.
Feel lucky to have escaped.
But it was different from his survival.
There were also viewers who watched the entire event online.
Many people still feel a little unsatisfied.
Amethyst launched a charge, then was shot and killed.
The whole process is simple to the point of being boring.
There was not the ups and downs that I had imagined.
Jianghe City, a farmyard.
Su Wu is conducting his daily inspection of the Kuanjiang River area on the holographic map.
I happened to see this small conflict happening at the foot of the mountain.
There was no fluctuation in my heart.
Similar scenario.
these days.
They have been appearing more and more frequently in caravans and around mines.
As long as the scale does not rise to the point where the number of participating units is counted in tens of thousands.
It was not enough to attract Su Wu's special attention.
However, this battle still made Su Wu think.
"Although every battle."
"The caravan, or more specifically, the Icebound-class land frigate leading the group, still has an overwhelming combat advantage against the purple crystals."
“But that cannot be ignored.”
"There are still too many fights breaking out."
"The overall size of the purple crystal is expanding rapidly."
"They had adapted to life on the ground and should have found enough nutrients to grow quickly."
This is bad news that must be taken seriously.
Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.
When the number of amethysts grows to a certain scale.
There will definitely be terrible destructive power.
By then, don’t even mention ordinary shelters.
I'm afraid even the Qinling Mountains where heavy troops are concentrated, or the super heavy industrial city of Gangcheng.
Not all of them can be contained.
And the commander behind the purple crystal.
It seems to understand humans better.
There are many wild mines where there are clearly no humans or other edible foods, only steel machinery and ores that Amethyst regards as stones and have no value.
It was also attacked purposefully by Amethyst.
It seemed as if he was trying to weaken Su Wu's resource supply.
"Continue to expand armaments and upgrade weapons."
He sighed helplessly.
Su Wu strengthened his determination to develop military strength.
Although this will consume a lot of resources.
To a certain extent, it has slowed down the development progress of farmhouse courtyards.
But look at it from another perspective.
Amethyst is also a natural disaster.
Developing military strength to defend against amethysts is no different than fortifying a farmyard.
The inspection of Kuanjiang River Basin has ended.
Su Wu weighed the options in his mind.
Through the control console, recall all sixth-generation fighters that are transporting supplies.
Let them carry large numbers of reconnaissance drones and special operations drones.
Conduct a dragnet investigation across the entire Dongzhou.
The purpose of the screening is not to target humans or amethyst itself.
Instead, it is mainly used to destroy the flowers of the underworld that are suspected to provide food for the amethysts.
"Although we don't know yet where the purple crystals find the resources to grow."
“But everything has its rules.”
"Given the current level of desolation on the entire surface and even underground."
“There are only a few channels that can provide growth resources.”
"Considering that the rate at which human refuges are falling is not accelerating."
"That's the biggest possibility."
"It's where Amethyst secretly found a place where he could grow the flowers of the underworld on a large scale."
"Increase efforts to find those amethyst farms and destroy them."
"It should be able to effectively slow down the expansion of the amethyst population."
"It will give the farmyards more time to develop."
Accompanied by Su Wu's order.
500 sixth-generation fighter jets represent Su Wu’s strongest air force.
First, gather in a farmyard to get supplies.
Then they flew in all directions in large groups.
Cruising at low altitude at subsonic speed.
While conducting a rough reconnaissance in a broad sense.
At the same time, a large number of drones were scattered in the depths of the wilderness and glaciers.
Under this high-intensity and meticulous search.
A large number of hidden corners that are not easy to find from high altitudes were revealed one by one.
Soon, Su Wu saw many things eroded by magma.
Hidden inside the glacier, in caves that are often tens or twenty kilometers long.
It is full of underworld flowers that are almost one meter high.
Being discovered means entering the countdown to death.
A special operations drone equipped with directional sonic weapons.
Immediately converge on the coordinates given to the reconnaissance drone.
The harvesting process has started.
Rushing into the cave, it killed the underworld flowers there in circles.
at the same time.
The collective action of 500 sixth-generation fighter jets.
It also attracted the attention of a large number of refuges that were not under Su Wu's control.
Not only the super cities, but even the capital of Dongzhou has quietly turned its attention to those sixth-generation fighter jets.
Explore their motivations for not transporting supplies but instead hovering at low altitudes on a large scale.
(End of this chapter)