Four hundred and seventy-fourth block
"Exploration One" can be self-sufficient in both material and energy. The only problem is that the distance from the earth is too far, causing obstacles to signal connection and technical data transmission.
The eldest son, who stood beside Wang Qinian, was also in a state of great excitement. In my memory, there was rarely such an opportunity to face other family members directly. Although the information that he was late for several years was still exciting. He was also already married, with sons and grandsons, and even more family members were born than his younger brothers who were far away on the spaceship.
Although the cosmic cruiser "Yue Fei" displayed by Gao Liquan at the United Nations General Assembly is not the first member of the space force, it is the latest warship.
Its flight speed is higher than any previous aircraft. Based on this, the super-large space comprehensive ecological ship "Room" is expected to be completed in two years. If everything goes well, "Room" will catch up with "Exploration 1" in 21 years. At that time, Wang Qinian will achieve a real family reunion.
When Yang Lulu walked down the gangway of the flying warship, she saw a dirty middle-aged man sitting in the corner of the ruins outside the barbed wire in the distance. He looked not old, but his face was haggard, his hair and beard were almost white. A gray shirt was covered with dirt, and the surface was full of threads. He held a crutch in his left hand and stuck on the ground with his right hand. He seemed to want to stand up hard, but he could not complete this simple move. Although Yang Lulu was looking at it far away, she could clearly see the man crying. Big tears flowed down her cheeks, and she couldn't hear what he was shouting, but she could see his mouth changing constantly. It seemed that he was roaring at the sky, and it seemed that he was begging for something.
This scene left a deep impression on Yang Lulu. It was not because she was sentimental, but because she had seen too many similar pictures in the past hundred years.
A corpse was lying in front of the middle-aged man. To be precise, it was just a pile of rotten flesh that barely kept its human form, but could not recognize its original appearance. The corpse was cut into pieces, with no muscles, only a skeleton that was stained with rotten internal organs. According to the Japanese reception staff's subsequent investigation, the corpse was the son of the middle-aged man.
Yang Lulu could understand this kind of relationship. She learned to kill people when she was very young, cutting off human flesh to feed her father who had become a zombie. For a little girl at that time, this kind of thing was simply the most terrifying nightmare. However, Yang Lulu didn't feel that there was any fear. Even her father, who was rotten in her memory and exuded a strong stench, was still the closest and loved one she loved the most.
The touch was just touching, and Yang Lulu did not intend to evolve it into practical help. The middle-aged man's son was eaten by other refugees. When he heard the news, he only saw this skeleton. From that time on, he had been sitting there. The reason why he was not starved to death was because he kept tearing the leftover meat from the skeleton to feed. Now, the body is rotten. I wonder if the reason why he cried was for the dead son? Or because there was no leftover meat to eat in the future?
Black particles are a very magical creature. They will regulate metabolism stably and orderly according to the host's physiological condition. For different hosts, the regulation rhythm of black particles is also different. Take Yang Lulu as an example. Since decades ago, she has always maintained her appearance when she was 22 years old. This is undoubtedly good news for Yang Lulu. Like all women, she attaches great importance to her appearance. Especially under the transformation of black particles on the appearance of her body, her body proportions are excellent, especially her slender legs and her breasts that may break away from her tops at any time. They have always been the focus of male attention.
Yang Lulu's rank is Major General. Sixty-three years ago, when the 103l Mechanical and Infantry Division was just established, she had already had this rank. The reason why it has not been promoted for decades was entirely due to the relationship between the military headquarters and the Southwest Military Region. Gao Liquan and Lao Song both believed that it should not be a stance to be separated from the military headquarters. Doing so would be like splitting. Although the "bee colony" does not require help from the military headquarters in any aspect, the military headquarters headed by Zhao Zhikai is still the legal leaders on this land.
The little fat man Zhou Pangpang became Yang Lulu's husband without any suspense. In the process of changing the concept from "boy" to "man", Zhou Pangpang also changed from a little fat man to a big fat man. It is strange that the modification effect of the black particles on the host is not reflected in Zhou Pangpang at all. His weight is more than 150 kilograms. Although he is very fat against the height of more than two meters, he is not annoying, but he feels lively and cute.
The Zhou family developed into a huge commercial consortium. Zhou's father was rarely in charge, and the group's dominance was handed over to Zhou Pangpang. In terms of having children, Zhou Pangpang's ability was indeed amazing. According to Yang Lulu's initial idea, he only wanted two children at most. So he gave birth to two daughters. It is difficult for outsiders to interfere in the couple's problems. No one knows what Zhou Pangpang used. Yang Lulu actually agreed to his request to continue giving birth. In this way, when Yang Lulu was seventy-four years old, there were already two men and two women. The long time after Su Hao left the earth was enough for them to grow up, and Yang Lulu's grandson and granddaughter were as many as sixteen.
Lao Song often sighed: This is a terrible era in which the actual age cannot be judged from the outside.
Isn't it? Taking Yang Lulu as an example, who can imagine that this young girl who looks only 20 years old has become a grandmother? Now, many bases and cities can see groups of young women traveling together, but it makes it difficult for outsiders to call her an embarrassing scene.
This is definitely not an exaggeration. Ordinary people do not know the secrets inside the "bee swarm". At the New Nanjing base, a son of a military chief courtship to a beautiful girl and was rejected on the spot. The girl was a confidential officer sent by Gao Liquan to coordinate with the military department. She was already 63 years old at that time, with a husband, children, and grandson.
Gao Liquan decided to appoint Yang Lulu to Japan after repeated discussions with Lao Song.
The envoys were sent not because of mercy, but because of the demand for silver bones and crystals.
The scale of the "bee swarm" is getting bigger and bigger, and silver bones have become an indispensable strategic material for the new "worker bees" in improving their personal abilities. As for crystals, these crystal particles condensed from mutant biological hormones have been increasingly used in daily life. The most significant thing is a small reactor that uses crystals as energy. This thing has extremely strong horsepower. With one milligram of crystals as the calculation unit, it can drive 30-ton heavy trucks to run continuously for two years. Especially with the support of various development projects of the Academy of Sciences, crystals are gradually replacing the status of traditional coal and oil and becoming a new renewable energy.
The three words "renewable" are of course for mutant creatures. At the secret meeting between Lao Song, Wang Qinian and Gao Liquan, it was agreed to treat the entire North America as a mutant creature farm. Due to the geographical particularity and the large population, Japan is actually the most suitable region. The areas that are also suitable include Africa and Australia. However, this kind of thing can only be the secret of the three people. Once it is made public, the entire "bee swarm" will immediately become a public enemy of the world.
The reason why Gao Liquan was tough on the Japanese representative at the United Nations General Assembly was for the same reason. He had already put forward the strong military basis he had. The current domestic situation in Japan is first-class and no country except China is able to send troops. Even Europe, which has just settled down, still needs time to slowly heal the trauma of war. Germany and the French cannot give Japan any support, and the Americans cannot protect themselves. If they want to survive under the siege of densely packed mutant creatures, their only hope is to bee swarms.
The information that Japan asked for help was transferred from the military headquarters. Although the military headquarters did not recognize the legal status of the Southwest Military Region on the surface, in private, the two sides still maintained secret exchanges that were not paid attention to by the outside world. The reason why Zhao Zhikai never took action against Wang Qinian was acquiesced to help the "bee swarm" was because he was attracted by the neutral identity of the Academy of Sciences. Many times, Zhao Zhikai himself regretted that if he had not given such great power to Su Hao, if he had not repeatedly suppressed the 505th Army, if he had performed a little fairly when Sun Zhan and others were unscrupulously, things would have probably not been as difficult as today.
The new Tokyo base city is not what Yang Lulu imagined. When the flying warships slowly descended, it was really hard for Yang Lulu to believe that the desolate and dilapidated cement platform in front of her, with traces of damage left everywhere, was actually a base city airport named after the capital?
However, several armed off-road vehicles that were slowly coming from a distance confirmed the fact that Yang Lulu was most reluctant and difficult to accept. The military off-road vehicles were painted with sunburst patterns, with fully armed soldiers standing in the truck's bucket, and long chains of ammunition were hung on the large-caliber machine guns. It was not until Ozawa Eiriko jumped out of the cab of the leading car that Yang Lulu was sure that the other party was here to welcome her.
The off-road vehicle convoy drove directly into the slope leading to the underground base. The lights in the distance were erratic and the speed was not fast. When she was still dozens of meters away from the open slope entrance, Yang Lulu smelled a strong stinking. She turned her head and looked towards the direction of the source of the odor outside the car window, and found that behind the barbed wire about sixty meters away from the slope, there were dozens of highly decayed corpses piled up. At such a close distance, several mosquito-shaped humans with needle-type mouthpieces were rotting corpses.
Wandering. They pierce the long and sharp syringe mouth into the rotten corpse and suck the smelly pus. For them, these dirty liquids filled with bacteria are the best nutritional products. Although there is a warning tower a hundred meters away, the searchlights on the tower are constantly illuminating nearby, but the guardians do not shoot, and the mosquito-shaped humans do not want to attack the warning tower. They just slowly taste their own food, occasionally raising their heads, and glance at the off-road vehicle that was speeding past nearby.
"It's not that we don't want to fight. They are too many. Humanoids are so crowded creatures. Killing one will attract a group of people. We have limited troops and cannot defend all areas. As long as they don't come to provoke us, we don't bother to pay attention to them."
Yang Lulu heard the obvious tired voice of Eiriko Ozawa. The woman was still very fat. She had taken off her suit and skirt during the United Nations General Assembly and put on a combat camouflage uniform with Japanese characteristics. The epaulette showed that she was a civilian lieutenant colonel, but Yang Lulu saw Eiriko Ozawa carrying an assault rifle and a fighting knife on the side of her military boots.
Such a scene only appears in Yang Lulu's childhood memories.
In the jurisdiction of the Southwest Military Region, the war ended decades ago. Now, the new Kunming base city is no different from the peace period. The above-ground part of the base is connected to the new city, and the air is cleaner than any period in history. It has sufficient water and electricity, so residents can enjoy many living benefits and health care projects. Due to the sharp decline in the population, the development of areas outside the new city is slow. Especially for those abandoned cities that were taken back from mutant creatures decades ago, Lao Song did not have a good solution. Almost every corner of the city is covered with weeds and vines. It is not so much a civilized site of human society, but rather a ruin left over from the last century.
Although it is a ruin, it is also quiet and peaceful. It is definitely not a terrible situation like the moment in front of you that is full of death crisis, with a man-eating fangs close at hand, and may die at any time.
The open base gate was obviously specially prepared for the convoy. When the last off-road vehicle drove through the yellow line on the ground, the thick steel gate also slowly fell from directly above, causing a heavy collision.
In front are several rows of interlaced and weirdly shaped "walls". They are actually electronic protective walls that extend from both sides of the corridor and directly above, and can move back and forth with computer control. This heavy mechanical protective device was first used by the British. There are dense gun and cannon firing ports installed inside the protective wall, with a density of five 5 mm heavy machine guns per square meter, or four millimeter cannons. The ammunition supply system is completely controlled by machinery, and a huge robotic arm grass controls them to run back and forth throughout the corridor. When it is impossible to pass on the left and right sides, a protective wall of meter-high and eight meters wide is enough to block any mutant biota rushing into the base. When necessary, the weapon structure can even be converted and the long-range firepower can be changed into flamethrowers.
The convoy drove directly into the corridor and under the command of electronic signals, he turned into a curve marked "Safety Zone 10U" in Japan.
Right in front of it was a square of thousands of square meters, but the convoy had to stop under the obstacles of more and more people in the square. Through the car window, Yang Lulu saw dense crowds of people rushing towards several trucks that seemed to have just arrived. The rear car was open, and the soldiers took out packaged bags or boxes from the car and distributed them to the gathering civilians in sequence.
"The arrival time you have set is a coincidence. It's the time to distribute food now."
Eiriko Ozawa's voice came from the seat next to her: "In the past, we could only distribute it once a day. The food at that time was very simple, just a rice ball with a certain amount of fat and salt, as well as vitamin pills. Now, we can distribute it twice a day, but the food has been replaced with unprocessed rice or wheat grains. The amount of fat and salt has been reduced a little, and vitamins can barely be maintained."
Yang Lulu heard some of the implications from Eiriko Ozawa's words. The current food distribution volume has almost doubled compared to the past, which means that the number of people who need to be raised has dropped sharply, or the grain output has increased significantly. Judging from the current situation in Japan, the latter situation is simply impossible. They can only count a few base cities with their fingers. Since they can be distributed twice a day, of course, the number of people inside the base is getting smaller and smaller.
"The normal population of the New Tokyo Base City is 300,000. Now, all underground areas are widely used, with more than 1.5 million civilians gathered here. Since more than 60 years ago, we have been expanding new living spaces and building more space farms. However, we need raw materials to do these things. The biggest problem that troubles us is iron ore and various rare metals. Without them, no matter how much underground space is excavated, it has no use value at all."
Although both of them were sitting in the back seat in the carriage, Yang Lulu could feel the hatred gaze in Ozawa Eiriko's eyes. Japan has always been a country with barren resources. This kind of difficulties that lasted for centuries and did not change at all until they dug thousands of meters underground. The location of the base city is very important. Only when it is set up in an area with rich ore veins can it be used to maximize ore refining and geothermal energy. Japan is located in a frequently occurring volcanic area. They do not lack energy, but do not have the necessary raw materials to expand the base city.
The implication of Eiriko Ozawa's Eiriko's words is very clear: If New Tokyo was not set up in this narrow island, but in another continent with a lot of resources, the biological warfare pattern would definitely not be what it is now. Those who live in dire straits would definitely not be Japanese.
Yang Lulu's lips showed a slightly curved curve of upwards. This is not a question she needs to care about, and these things have nothing to do with herself. In the past few decades, she has seen too many more tragic things than this. This is not China, and she does not need to sympathize for people of different bloodlines, and it is even more impossible to provide support and help.
“I don’t have much time.”
Chapter completed!