Chapter 34 034 Walking in the Restricted Area (Part 2)

Chapter 34 034. Walking in the restricted area (after)

The yellow sand rolled on the ground, and the frost and snow covered the sky.

The off-road modified car that originally looked strong and fierce appeared as elegant and quiet as a ragdoll cat in the cold wind and sandstorm in the outside world.

Nomi drove the car skillfully. There were no traffic rules in the outside world, and it was not certain that you would encounter any living creatures even if you walked for hundreds of kilometers. Instead of driving carefully, it was better to rely on the performance of the vehicle and just step on the accelerator to break through the heavy blockage of frost and sand.

Li Aoz put the supplies down and replaced them with fuel to increase the weight of the vehicle to prevent it from being blown away by the strong wind.

It was not afraid of overturning. In the outside world, it was basically on the cold and condensed sand. This car had a suspension system, so there was basically no worry about it turning over on such land. However, according to Li Aoz's many years of experience, if the car would not turn over, it would most likely be taken directly to the sky when encountering a storm.

The material packages take up space in the car, so it is better to replace them with fuel to increase the weight of the car body. The remaining oil barrels can be used to exchange for things, and even if they are not used, they can be transformed into incendiary bombs.

When driving in the outer land, if it is not a cluster convoy, you generally cannot turn on the headlights to prevent being targeted by bandits and mutated beasts.

However, Nomi has good eyesight. People who can be drivers in the outer land basically have night vision comparable to beasts. As a guerrilla of the Rose Army, she must have received special training.

Also, due to the muddy swamps formed by the combination of sand and frost, it is actually very fuel-consuming during driving.

Li Aoz heard a joke from a mechanic player: Because the horsepower of the tanks of the four countries is insufficient, they can't drive in the muddy land of the outer land, and it is easy to be paralyzed directly. They have to develop a new type of armored vehicle to cope with the rapid march of the outer land.

Then there are mechas and powered exoskeletons.

Later, because the humanoid mecha is not cost-effective, the defense area is too small, the efficiency is too low, and it is easy to roll over, so the chassis is changed lower and lower.

But in this way, the head of the humanoid mecha is too conspicuous and easy to be headshot.

So the cockpit was moved from the head to the chest, and later the head of the mecha was simply replaced with a monitor.

Later, it was found that the feet of the humanoid seemed to be less useful than the air cushion, so the contact area was directly increased to make a structure like a hovercraft.

What was obtained later was a tank with arms and two feet stepping on air cushions, which was called mobile armor.

Although it was much uglier, it could indeed replace tanks in the outside world.

Later, after some wars broke out in the four countries, it was found that this thing could only replace tanks, and the problem of infantry armored vehicles could not be solved. They had to be paralyzed in the snow.

This resulted in the infantry's slow speed after the mobile armor rushed up, and they could not keep up with the cover, resulting in their own armored units being directly blown up by the opponent's anti-tank group.

So, in the end, the hovercraft was taken over for the infantry to use.

As a result, the hovercraft was not armored enough and was hit by the opponent's artillery.

So they piled artillery and armor on the hovercraft, but the power was not enough, so they had to enlarge the oil cylinder. Once the oil cylinder was enlarged, there was no space for a large number of infantry, and it could only be driven by 4 people.

The final result became a strange scene of infantry chasing tanks, and tanks chasing mobile armored vehicles.

Of course, this is just a joke made by mechanical men. This group of science and engineering men who are good at doing questions often make some heavy industry jokes, such as the child born by a robot, the father should be C++ or Java, and the online dating scam of 8,000 should be called the practical application of social engineering - the impression given to Li Aoz is that everyone is mentally retarded.

Li Aoz sat in the co-pilot, he put his feet on the front of the car, half-closed his eyes, and his thoughts were erratic.

The outside world is very boring.

The dance of frost and sandstorm is indeed magnificent and beautiful when you first see it, but you will only feel monotonous and boring when you really walk in it.

This epic scene of ice and fire intertwined and roaring, which is enough to be praised by literati, is a deeply hated suffering for the people in the outside world.

There is no life outside.

Miss Qiu Ran in the back seat looked at the scenery outside the car curiously. The sky was dark and she could only see the flashing thunder between the red and black clouds.

"There is no sun outside..."

She said regretfully.

Li Aozi guessed almost the same. Qiu Ran was a frost-plated person, but her origin was worse than Li Aozi's.

According to her, she has been living and growing up in a remote scrap metal recycling station in the countryside. She has never been to the city for more than ten years. If she had not been diagnosed as an infected person by accident and moved to a shelter for treatment, she would not have seen the real vast world until now.

"Of course not, country bumpkin!"

Nomi snorted:

"Hundreds of years ago, the atmosphere was wrapped by those red and black evil spirits, and sunlight could not penetrate. The people of the four countries rely on nuclear fusion technology to maintain a small artificial sun, produce Walden particles, and then use a barrier composed of particle lattices to block the storms and frost from the outside world - although I don't understand the terminology, but basically every town in the four countries has a nuclear fusion reactor under it."

"You don't know Walden?"

Li Oz glanced at Nomi: "We all learned in high school: Dr. Walden is a nuclear physicist of the old times. The Walden hemisphere technology he developed changed the pattern of war. It makes nuclear fusion miniaturized and can be deployed on armored units, which completely changed the pattern of war."

"Not to mention anything else, there is also a small reactor under the shelter, which can be operated with a small amount of uranium fuel rods."

"What a waste of time! I never went to school. Sooner or later, we are going to kick the balls out of Shikoku! Sooner or later, those reactors will be ours!"

Nomi patted the steering wheel impatiently:

"If it weren't for the blockade of the four countries, even if there was no sun, human beings would not be unable to survive."

Qiu Ran was curious: "Isn't there no energy material in the outside world? If there is no sun, isn't it impossible to survive?"

"Then tell me, how did the White Fang Gang's garbage survive? How did those settlements survive?"

Nomi said angrily.

"Hmm... I don't know." Qiu Ran lay beside the window and continued to look at the scenery in the distance.

"No, it doesn't mean that there are no resources in the outside world."

Li Ozi thought for a while and said:

"But having resources does not mean that you have the ability to develop them - oil has always existed underground, but this resource was not discovered until long after entering the industrial age. In fact, the outside world is much larger than the territory of the four countries. 70% of the entire Blue Star area belongs to the outside world.”

It took him a while to explain clearly to Qiu Ran:

Because the sun's rays are blocked and absorbed by the red and black clouds, the earth cannot absorb and reflect the heat from the sun, and the temperature is generally lower than that of the clouds at high altitudes.

The difference between hot and cold between heaven and earth creates desperate strong winds, and the strong winds take away the water on the surface. Without the sunlight to survive, plants can only die. In this way, the original solid soil is completely lost. Without the foundation for wind protection and sand fixation, water and soil were lost rapidly.

So much snow has fallen, but it cannot melt because of the cold temperature. Even if the sand is dug out, there is only cold earth in the deep layer.

They have long been solidified and frozen by the cold, and only diamond drill bits can be used for excavation.

But even if rivers and water storage lakes are artificially dug, how can we cultivate the ecology in the water without sunlight and warmth? How to cultivate farmland? How to feed people?

Without population, it would be impossible to have enough productivity to develop industry. Without industry, there would be no way to tap underground resources.

Only in a very small number of areas with developed geothermal energy, leeward vents, and stopped soil erosion, such as areas backed by mountains and river valleys, and surrounding volcanoes, can large-scale population gatherings be possible here.

"However, the four countries are different. After the war that ended all wars broke out in the old era, people discovered that everything except the war was over. The small countries were completely destroyed, and the four countries became the absolute giant of the Blue Star."

Li Ozi changed the subject:

"Historical records of the four countries: Before the evil shrouded the world, there were a large number of nuclear power plants, marine resources, and wind power plants. The industrial facilities were complete, the agricultural resources were abundant, and the military strength was at the top of the world. Even if the population was smaller, relying on With nuclear energy, there will naturally be a large influx of people into it.”

In order to prevent everyone from triggering another world war in order to compete for energy, the four countries calmed down this time.

They hold most of the energy in the hands of GTB, the Global Trade Bank, which was jointly organized by the four countries.

People from the four countries can easily get energy loans from GTB and open up immigrant cities to the outside world. Raise the artificial sun and hemispherical barrier.

But other small countries and autonomous city-states in other places will have "a little bit" of difficulties.

Banks can use various names to block the energy loan applications of small countries, forcing small countries to purchase sky-high oil, natural gas, electricity, and iron ore from the four countries.

Li Ozi talked about a country where he was born in his previous life - the Kingdom of Arlanca.

Arlanka is a vassal state of the Red Arrow Empire. The two countries are linguistically and economically interoperable, but their races are different. This is the result of the cultural and economic colonization of the Red Arrow Empire.

The small country of Arlanka is obviously sitting on a pile of uranium mines, but it has to sell it to the Red Arrow Empire next to it at a low price of 200 derbies per ton in exchange for political, national defense, and power protection support. In fact, the empire is obviously You can rob it, but you have to pay so little money. It really makes me cry to death.

Li Ozi did not sing a sarcastic tone here, because the Kingdom of Arlanca is really the luckiest small country. It is backed by the Red Arrow Empire, and it needs Gundam, Gundam, and resources. It can make a lot of money just by praising His Majesty the Emperor.

Arlanka, relying on his dog-licking attitude, suddenly became a general presence in the surrounding small countries for dimensionality reduction attacks.

At the same time, the slogan of Tianhuan next door is "Leave no land but no one". The scene is a bit inappropriate for children, and Li Aozhi did not dare to say anything more.

With the capital provided by GTB, the population can grow, the economy develops, and then various enterprises, factories, and service industries are spawned, which improves the people's quality of life, which further promotes population growth.

However, the growing population also brings pressure on employment, survival, and the environment.

In order to develop and transfer conflicts, we will turn our attention to the broad outside world.

Therefore, the people of the Four Kingdoms, who had nothing to do with cold winds and sandstorms, explored the outside world. With sunshine and energy, they could build factories, set up large farms, and dig out mineral materials from other places, causing more serious damage to the mountains and soil. of destruction.

The damage to mineral deposits is also to a large extent damage to the geological environment. During the ruthless construction of machinery day and night, the earth, which was already suffering from serious water and soil erosion, became even more fragile.

People from outside could only watch their hometowns being moved away by strong winds.

Li Ozi used a very understatement when describing it.

As for the glorious prosperity of every hemispheric city, there are countless corpses of people from the outside world buried.

But the four countries are not completely without conscience, and they only know how to plunder.

"Damn it!"

Nomi suddenly cursed. Before that, she stepped on the brakes three times and stopped the car steadily. Li Aoz immediately pulled on the scarf and jumped out of the car.

He just opened the car door, and even with the obstruction of the scarf, a strange and irritating smell rushed straight to his head.

Li Aoz frowned, holding the car door, his thoughts fluctuated.

"What happened..." Qiu Ran got out of the car in a daze, put his hands in front of his eyes, cracked the gap, and looked forward.

Faced with the situation in front of them, several people almost dared not breathe.

More than 800 meters away, they saw a steaming lake, and between the red and black and the pale world, a faint orange-red flash was shimmering.