Chapter 274 Arms Race
Time passes slowly.
The wind and snow that wandered between the mountains became more and more violent.
In the extreme low temperature.
The blockbuster is just a flower of the underworld that is in its bud, which is covered in thick snow.
Through their most dangerous stages.
And a few traces of special nutrients extracted through them use the sounds filled in the air as bridges, gathering little by little towards the depths of the underground of the magma canyon.
At some point.
Flowing in the magma lakes on the surface of the magma canyon.
A purple crystal surface.
Suddenly, dense cracks appeared.
Then it gradually stretches and extends, forming a body shape like an earthworm.
Then a few minutes later.
It squirmed slightly and slowly came to the junction of the magma lake and the shore.
He drilled into the hard rock bit by bit.
Day 2.
After eating the breakfast prepared by Chen Xin.
Su Wu came to the control center.
I plan to check out the dynamics of amethyst before dealing with the daily affairs of the shelter.
And soon.
His original casual mentality was replaced by solemnity.
According to the detector deployed in the magma canyon.
Amethysts that should only passively follow earthquakes or magma had the ability to move actively a few hours ago.
It can even walk through the rock formations.
By now, it is estimated that there are already thousands of amethyst crystals.
It spread around the ground of the magma canyon.
Moreover, this is only within 50 meters underground.
deeper, beyond the scanning range of mass-produced crystal detectors.
How many amethysts are spreading quietly is an unknown number.
This moment.
Su Wu felt extremely difficult.
It would be fine if it was on the surface, but it spread out from the underground.
How should he defend?
But among the bad news, there is finally some good news.
The total number of these evolved amethysts is obviously limited.
In the magma channel that goes straight to the depths of the ground, there are still a large number of amethysts without any changes.
The amethyst that evolved at the same time had extremely limited active movement speed.
The average hour is only between 30 and 45 meters.
It is much slower than the shield machine.
"Lock all underground amethysts and drop armor-piercing bombs."
"Change the patrol route of the Pioneer-class land destroyer and head to Qinling Mountain in advance."
His expression was solemn.
Su Wu first issued two emergency orders in a row.
No matter what the real situation is, it is definitely correct to cut off the spread trend that you can see first.
Received Su Wu''s authorization.
Firepower platforms on the rock walls on both sides of the magma canyon.
Dozens of specially made armor-piercing rockets were fired into the canyon ground.
After a few seconds.
Accompanied by continuous dull roars.
An area on the canyon ground is close to the magma lake.
A violent vibration occurred instantly.
Even the magma lake next to it was boiling.
Thousands have undergone preliminary evolution.
I worked hard to walk through the rock formation for half a night.
Before he could react, he was completely wiped out in the explosion.
More than ten kilometers away from the Magma Canyon.
The huge pioneer-class land destroyer slowly turned in the white snow.
Crushing over an irregular ice layer.
Rumble towards the direction of the magma canyon.
Extremely cold climate and wind and snow.
It cannot stop this steel giant beast created by the most cutting-edge technology of mankind.
And as it approaches.
Information from deeper underground began to appear before Su Wu.
"Not here, nor here."
Su Wu compared the holographic map.
Looking at the data transmitted by the Pioneer-class land destroyer, the pressure in my heart was eased bit by bit.
Thanks to his discovery in time.
The situation underground has not yet reached the point where it is out of control.
The range of activity of amethyst.
It is still limited to the magma canyon.
However, the subsequent situation is not optimistic.
Deeper underground below 50 meters, there are more than 12,000 amethysts, spreading irregularly in all directions.
At the same time, the total number of these evolved amethysts.
As time goes by, it is still growing up.
On average, dozens of amethysts will appear every minute, starting from the magma lake in the magma canyon and drilling into the rock formations on the shore.
"We have to find a way to stop these things."
What to say.
Su Wu is not without weapons that can attack hundreds of meters underground.
Even if he gritted his teeth and used the space-based strike of the Eden satellite.
It is not too difficult to level the entire magma canyon.
But this basically makes no sense.
The birthplace of amethyst is most likely the same as the birthplace of magma.
They all come from the mantle sophora 80 kilometers to 400 kilometers deep from the surface.
Such a deep distance.
Not to mention the extermination, just reaching an attack is countless times more difficult than climbing to the sky.
"It is basically unlikely to completely wipe out the amethyst from the source."
"The only thing that can be done."
“It’s in shallow areas closer to the ground.”
"Try to snipe them as much as possible and don''t give them room to develop."
Su Wu carefully sorted out his ideas.
Want to find a solution.
And when his eyes accidentally swept over the statistical list, the average movement speed of the evolutionary amethysts displayed.
A light of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.
It reminded him of some kind of construction tool.
Shield machine.
A shield machine equipped with a shock crusher can excavate underground material transportation channels up to 15 kilometers every day.
In terms of movement speed, it is almost ten times that of those evolved amethysts.
Naturally, it is the best hunter to hunt them.
"If you wipe out the amethyst underground."
"The shield machine only needs to retain the front drill bit and basic movement capabilities."
“It can move faster.”
“The cost is not high.”
"With the hardness of amethyst, just find them."
"Let the drill bit of the shield machine be crushed a few more times, and then transport it to the incinerator to burn for a while."
"They can easily kill their activity completely, and by the way, they can also obtain the largest amount of wreckage materials."
The more I think about it, the more I feel it is appropriate. Su Wu immediately began to pull out the mapping software.
Draw the design drawings of the new shield machine on site.
After more than ten minutes.
The design drawing of a new modified shield machine named Hunting Crystal by Su Wu was freshly released.
Then it was delivered to the Gigafactory.
Drove in line for production.
noon.
The first crystal hunting type 1 is offline from the production line of the super factory.
After being transported to the magma canyon by a snow truck that had been waiting outside.
The tension and pressure that Su Wu had been wandering in his heart for the whole morning was completely relieved.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
With this professional tool for underground.
Even if all amethysts have evolved into active movement, they will not be able to escape his blockade.
"However, it''s not OK to have only the interception tool."
"The early warning aspect must also be strengthened."
"We have to continue to use the survival point and strengthen the third crystal detector."
"This one can be loaded on a multi-wing drone."
“Let it conduct a wider patrol beyond the Pioneer-class land destroyer patrol.”
"That way."
"It should be enough to ensure absolute safety within 100 kilometers of the surrounding area."
“As for the further distance—”
"Let''s see it then."
The new threat brought by amethyst has been dealt with.
Su Wu opened the underground map of the entire Jianghe City again.
After this accident.
He vaguely realized that the safety of those affiliated shelters was probably much lower than he thought.
If the amethyst evolves again in the future, he will add new abilities that he would not expect.
Maybe before he can make a new response.
All affiliated refuges in Jianghe City may have been captured by amethyst.
“There is no difference between farming wherever you grow.”
"And even if it is destroyed for a moment."
"You can also use the grain in the warehouse for a while. Until the new plantation is built."
"There are also activity areas, which are designed to relieve the mental stress of residents."
"There is the best, and there is no problem in a short period of time."
"At worst, I can squeeze in with others and go to the activity areas that were built before to rest."
"That''s how it counts."
"The new space for the underground shelter of the farmyard in the future."
"For the time being, other functions can be discarded and all used to build standard dormitories."
"At the current construction speed of 2.2 million square meters per day."
“It is enough to accommodate 1.8 million new population every day.”
"It is almost impossible to allow all the foreign populations who have moved there one after another to live directly into the farmyard."
Su Wu abandoned the previous balanced plan to simultaneously expand residential areas and grain production areas.
Once again, the strategy of putting the population first was chosen.
Focus everyone as much as possible in the safest farmyard shelter.
As for the series of hidden dangers and pressures brought about.
Let''s find another way to solve it.
Anyway, no matter how bad the situation is, it will not be worse than death.
"The construction of plantations corresponding to the population size cannot be stopped."
"But they can all be transferred to affiliated shelters, where the remaining space is enough to carry these new plantations. The risk of being destroyed is a little higher at most."
“There is also the current 8-hour labor system.”
"It''s a little too little."
“Mining, factory production, guarding, fighting, building shelters, etc. all require a lot of labor.”
"After all, if the development speed is not fast enough."
"Let those amethyst break through the blockade and flood the entire farmyard."
"The consequences are too serious."
“In the face of such life and death, human rights and labor laws have to stand aside.”
"In the future, everyone will have to force two hours of working hours every day. In addition, they will need to work in the game for an additional 4 hours to ensure sufficient spiritual output."
In careful consideration.
Su Wu enacted a new labor bill.
This unprecedentedly severe new regulations have been promoted in small farmyard shelters that are about to gather half a million people.
The impact it brings is destined to be extremely huge.
It means at least tens of millions of people, and from then on, there is basically no time left for their own every day except eating and sleeping.
A series of resulting from this, such as love, marriage and childbirth, Internet and cultural development, will all fall into stagnation.
"Anyway, even if you leave enough time, there is no place for the shelter residents to have children."
"Let''s focus on development first."
"After building enough studios and family apartments in the future, then consider these future things."
Watch the rules you have modified by yourself.
Su Wu finally felt a little too strict. After thinking about it, he added an additional regulation.
During the forced increase of the two hours of work, you will receive a double amount of contribution value reward.
And these contribution values.
Will have higher permissions.
It can be as short as a few months and at the latest one year later.
Redeem higher-level food, education, medical services, and other luxury goods from the shelter official.
"Everything is for survival-"
The next few days.
Because of the new labor bill and the first large-scale population transfer, a large number of new populations poured into the farmhouses from the Kuanjiang River Basin and the surrounding areas of Yu''an City.
This has once again improved the development speed of Jianghe City.
The development and excavation of the 8th floor underground of the farmyard, which was originally stopped, began to resume construction.
at the same time.
With the formal construction of the 6th floor underground of the farmyard, the farmyard has been completed.
In order to save time, the increasingly large engineering team began to start excavation work from the underground floor 5 to the underground floor 1.
These measures combined have increased the expansion rate of the farmyard''s original 2.2 million square meters per day to more than 3 million square meters.
While the size of the farmyard itself is increasing.
Su Wu''s military strength has also been terrifyingly improved.
The number of reinstalled main battle spider robots exceeded 10,000, and the number of multi-wing drones and express-class drones reached 200,000.
The number of ordinary spider robots has exceeded one million.
However, unlike the first two, they are almost purely used in the military field.
Among ordinary spider robots, only 300,000 are in the production category. Responsible for specifically ensuring the safety of surface transfer fleets and blocking the Qinling Mountains.
The remaining 700,000 units.
Still participating in various labor.
In addition, there are robot dogs that are several times more than ordinary spider robots, as auxiliary combat tools and auxiliary labor tools.
It is widely used in every corner of Jianghe City.
Many ordinary people who have not entered the remote control center, or are assigned to exoskeleton armor, and need to personally participate in physical labor, will be assigned a robot dog.
Used to increase their labor efficiency.
At the same time, a crystal hunting shield machine used to clear out the evolutionary amethyst that can actively move underground.
Hundreds of units have been produced one after another.
They are like miniature underground trains, traveling through the underground of the magma canyon all day long.
A strict underground protection network has been built.
All amethyst can not appear in the underground world within 5 kilometers of the surface.
And as the price of such a sharp expansion.
Most of the resources Su Wu had worked hard to plunder from the Kuanjiang River Basin and the Yu''an City area were consumed.
Even the most common steel that once had been large, became a little lacking.
(End of this chapter)