Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 1836 Battle between Heaven and Earth

Ulanov was assigned to the Second Production and Construction Corps as soon as he woke up. Their next task was very difficult. The number of sanitary facilities around the data release point was limited. It was already the limit to be able to sustain thousands of people for a week.

A large number of sanitary facilities were severely damaged by the scorching sun and could no longer be used.

"So our first task is to carry limited equipment to areas close to the poles, collect as much equipment as possible there, and use the underground rail transit that can still be used to transport it back to the data release point in the equatorial region."

Ulanov led his team on an underground rail train to the two poles.

"We will drive the train manually next. The planet has been severely deformed while adjusting its rotation direction, and we are likely to encounter a track break during the journey. Everyone should be prepared for emergency repairs, as we only have one week. If we don't return with the supplies after one week, there will be casualties at the base due to the loss of survival supplies. We are responsible for the lives of all the first group of people returning to the real world. We must deliver the supplies on time at all costs."

"Understood! Promise to complete the task."

Most of the first batch of people selected and sent back to the real world were soldiers before entering the virtual world. Some of them were even in the same army before entering the virtual world. Under such harsh natural environment conditions, only the soldiers with iron will can survive.

The train started slowly. The twisted track made the train's ride very bumpy, and it could not reach the previous high speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour. The train could only crawl underground like an earthworm. The headlights remained bright 24 hours a day. There were always two soldiers on duty in front of the train, keeping a close eye on the track condition ahead. Once the track broke, they would stop and repair it immediately.

"500 meters ahead, a large area of ​​the track is broken. The broken area is too long. A huge rock drilled out from the ground and directly cut off the track. If you want to repair it, you must first level the rock, even if you ignore the loss of equipment. It will take at least a day to clear it." The scout in the front ran to report to Ulanov with sweat on his forehead.

This news also made everyone on the train sweat. One day could decide life and death. Their speed was already a little slower than expected. If they wasted another day here, the shortage of resources would inevitably lead to a large number of casualties.

Facing the huge rock blocking the train, Ulanov was silent for a moment and then said, "Everyone get off the train. The train is empty now. Dismantle the carriages one by one and we will carry them over! Three hours, I give you three hours. Even if you pull and carry them on your shoulders, you can't get over this obstacle! The repair team will stay here and continue the repairs after the train leaves. After we get enough supplies, we will send a single-soldier motorboat to deliver the supplies to you first. But if the nearest supply station has no supplies left... everyone should be able to imagine the ending, so who goes and who stays is entirely voluntary!"

The supplies carried in the vehicle are only enough for one trip and not enough for a round trip. This means that if the people who stay here cannot wait for support before they run out of survival supplies, they will be directly exposed to the harsh natural environment of this planet due to lack of food, water, oxygen, protective equipment, etc.

There is great fear between life and death. Everyone fell into a brief silence, but soon someone stood up and said, "I'll stay! I didn't have any relatives before entering the virtual world. Even if I die here, I will be free from all worries."

"Count me in. My family is still waiting for supplies at the equatorial base. If the supplies can't be delivered on time, I might as well die here."

"Haha, count me in as one of them. When your wife is reincarnated, maybe she will still be my wife in one of her reincarnations. I can't let you be the only one to be a hero."

One soldier after another stepped forward, carrying only enough supplies to last three days, and began emergency repairs on the tracks.

The rest of the people got off the train and used limited tools to prop up the train body. Then everyone roared with all their might, and with the creaking sound of metal friction, the heavy train was actually lifted up.

A person under the train is like an ant, carrying a heavy object far exceeding his own weight, moving his legs one by one in the same rhythm, using this most primitive method to overcome all the difficulties and obstacles in front of him.

When everyone was about to collapse, all the trains finally got back on track. Two hours and thirty-five minutes later, even they themselves didn't know how they had created such a miracle. The trains started moving again, rushing towards the next supply point.

The supplies in most areas have been damaged due to years of erosion. The several supply points they had encountered before did not have enough supplies. They only hoped to continue heading north, where the situation would be better. In that case, those who chose to stay and repair the road would at least have a chance to survive.

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"It's so hot, and it's getting hotter. We are clearly underground, so why is it so hot?" After a full day of emergency repairs, the road was finally repaved. Brand new tracks replaced the twisted steel, but the team members who were repairing the tracks were lying on both sides of the tracks, motionless.

The motors they carry on their bodies constantly consume energy to help them maintain the temperature inside their space suits and ensure that they will not die from overheating, but the energy will be exhausted sooner or later, and the oxygen they carry will not last long. The high temperature and lack of oxygen are slowly depriving them of their lives, and this is already the state where they lie still and try to maintain the lowest consumption as much as possible. To die in such a waiting state is even more painful than facing death on the battlefield.

At the same time, above the equatorial base, the base turned to the sun again, and the scorching sun shone down.

Lan Nuo led the damage control team to climb up the shielding tower of the data release point as soon as possible. The sunlight was melting the tower, and they had to arrange the water cooling facilities on the shielding tower before the sun rose. Otherwise, once the shielding tower was damaged, the data release point would be exposed to direct sunlight, and the fragile data release point would be directly destroyed by the scorching sunlight, which would mean that they would lose all their backup, and no one would be able to return to reality from the data world.

However, things did not go as planned. The direct sunlight caused the earth's crust to expand, and the rapid change in high temperature brought about an earthquake. The cliff above the data release point suddenly broke, carrying half-melted rocks with it, and roared down like a mudslide.

Lan Nuo, who was repairing the shield tower, had already entered a command into the artificial intelligence system and started the bombardment program before anyone could react. The falling mountain debris was further shattered under the bombardment of heavy artillery. Even so, the broken mountain crashed into the shield layer, still knocking out a huge gap in the base of the shield layer. The gas inside the shield began to leak wildly, and the damage control team had to split up the limited manpower. Lan Nuo led a group of rescue teams to the damage site as soon as possible to repair the broken edge of the shield.

"Go and get the prefabricated alloy plates. We don't have much atmospheric air left, and we can't let it continue to leak out like this." Lan Nuo's forehead was also covered with sweat. He had rarely seen such a bad start in all his time traveling through time. What's more, this time he was using an ordinary person's body and did not have any extraordinary abilities.

Hao Ren's extraordinary abilities can only be used in the data world. After returning to the real world, even the physical scan of the data terminal cannot be used. He is just like an ordinary person. He doesn't even have a rigid shield. At most, his mental protection level is different from that of ordinary people, but it is of no use at this time.

The members of the damage control team quickly took large alloy plates from the warehouse, and then two people in a group risked their lives to transport the alloy plates to the damaged area.

This is a very dangerous task because the alloy plate has to be delivered to the gap area in the face of typhoon-like winds, and the tiny gap can be welded after the gap is roughly closed.

Once he was blown out of the shield by the strong wind, even the gods could not save him. Lan Nuo knew that most people had no experience in this area, so he personally demonstrated with a team member how to hold such a huge alloy plate in the strong wind without being blown away.

But time was running out, and he could only demonstrate it once at most. The others, who were still not proficient in it, picked up the boards and tried to fill other gaps.

In the midst of the strong wind, one of the team members did not keep the plate in his hand parallel to the wind direction. The wind force that the huge alloy plate could withstand was far beyond his personal strength. Two people were directly blown off the ground. One flew out of the shield in despair in the strong wind and was blown thousands of meters away. No one could rescue him. The other team member who was not blown away did not have time to let go of his hand when the alloy plate hit the hole. One of his arms was directly crushed under the alloy plate by the weight of 10,000 tons. He was crushed into a pulp together with his space suit and fell to the ground in pain. The rescue team immediately rushed to the scene to help him seal the wound of the space suit and carried him to the rear for rescue.

The eldest son provided great help to everyone during the rescue process. The source blood can repair almost all injuries. As long as there is a breath of air left in the blood pool, broken limbs can be regrowed and almost all diseases can be cured.

Therefore, many soldiers have been seriously injured more than once when facing extremely dangerous tasks. In the team repairing the shield tower, there were even people who used their own hands to prop up the shield plate that was as hot as a soldering iron in order to prevent the damaged tower from collapsing. By the time their teammates helped to weld the broken shield plate, they had already fainted from the pain.

Although the soldiers of each team have tried their best, the previous earthquake was still unexpected. The damage to the shield caused a large amount of atmospheric leakage, which means that the time they can hold out is further shortened, at least 0.5 days shorter than before. This 0.5 day supply gap cannot be overcome by just enduring it, and it is very likely that they will have to reduce 5% of the population before they can survive.

As time went by, the equatorial base began to become increasingly hot and humid, the power supply began to become increasingly unstable, and the air gradually became turbid. Under normal circumstances, if the energy supply system can be successfully started, then the air purification system and temperature maintenance system will be able to operate normally.

There are not enough parts in the base to repair the energy system. The previous photovoltaic power generation facilities were all designed for normal light levels. Under the scorching sun, most of the power generation facilities have melted and damaged. They can only rely on a small number of nuclear power generation facilities that can still operate, but the problem is that after thousands of years of decay, the nuclear fuel in most facilities cannot be used. Only in the bases near the poles that have not been damaged may there be nuclear fuel stored in special ways. Only with these things can the base resume operation and support until the next batch of people wake up.

However, there has been no news from the elite team that went to collect supplies. The wired telegraph system on the planet has been scrapped, wireless electronics cannot be used at all during the day, and the solar wind brings huge electromagnetic interference. Communication is only possible at night, and the reports received before that are all bad news.

The supply points where supplies might have been found were eventually proven to be damaged. It was likely that only in areas close to the poles did supplies survive.

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"There are still three hours left. After three hours, I will enter a deep sleep and reduce my physiological consumption to a minimum. But that also means that all of us will lose all perception of the outside world. From then on, we can only leave it to fate. If no one comes to rescue us within eight hours, everyone will have to die silently in a coma."

"At least it's better than waiting to die. I don't want to watch my body become barbecue. But you, captain, can hold on for three hours longer than us."

"Heh... When we chose to stay, weren't we already prepared to die here? But when death really comes... ah... who wouldn't be afraid?"

The captain watched as his teammates entered sleep mode one by one to minimize their physical exertion. He slowly sat up and looked towards the end of the pitch-black track, hoping that there would be a ray of light at the end of the track. That was their only hope of survival.

As time went by, the oxygen in the space suit was consumed faster and faster. In the hot and oxygen-deficient environment, he felt as if he was seeing an illusion. There seemed to be a flash of light in the distant tunnel, but he soon shook his head, laughing at himself that humans are like this, deceiving themselves, and they have to give themselves a little hope even when they are about to die.

However, at the moment when the light in the illusion went out, an extremely dazzling beam of light filled his entire field of vision, accompanied by the violent roar of the train.

[To be continued]

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