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Chapter 34 034. Walking in the Restricted Area (Part [-])

The yellow sand rolls on the ground, and the sky is full of frost and snow.

The off-road refitted car, which originally looked like a tall and iron-framed, wild and ferocious off-road vehicle, turned out to be as elegant and quiet as a puppet cat in the cold wind and sandstorm outside.

Nomi drives the vehicle skillfully. There are no traffic rules in the outside world. You may not encounter any living things after walking hundreds of kilometers. Instead of driving carefully, it is better to rely on the performance of the vehicle and just push the accelerator to the bottom to forcefully break through the frost and sand. Heavy blocking.

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

I'm not afraid of tipping over. In the outside world, the car is basically on the icy and condensed sand. This car has a suspension system, so I don't have to worry about it rolling over in this kind of land. Most of the time when there is a storm, it will be taken directly to the sky.

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

Driving in the outside world, if it is not a cluster convoy, generally you cannot turn on the lights to prevent being targeted by bandits and mutated beasts.

But Nomi's eyesight is good. People who can work as drivers in the outside world are basically comparable to wild animals in night vision. As a guerrilla member of the Rose Army, she must have received special training.

Also due to the combination of sand and frost, muddy depressions are actually very fuel-intensive during driving.

Li Oz heard a joke from a mechanic player: Because of the lack of horsepower of the tanks in the four countries, they could not move in the muddy ground outside, and they were easily paralyzed directly. They had to develop new armored vehicles to cope with the rapid march outside.

Then there are mechs and powered exoskeletons.

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

But in this way, the head target of the humanoid mecha is too conspicuous, and it is 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 discovered that the humanoid feet did not seem to be as effective as air cushions, so the contact area was directly increased to make a hovercraft-like structure.

What was obtained afterwards was a tank with long arms and air cushions on the soles of its feet, which was called mobile armor.

Although it is much ugly, it can indeed replace tanks in the outside world.

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

As a result, after the mobile armor rushed up, the infantry was slow and could not keep up with the cover, causing their own armored units to be directly blown to pieces by the opponent's anti-tank team.

Simply, in the end, the hovercraft was brought over for the infantry.

As a result, the armor of the hovercraft was not enough, and it was hit by the artillery on the opposite side.

So we put artillery and armor on the hovercraft, but the power is not enough, so we can only increase the oil tank.With such an enlarged oil tank, there is no room for a large number of infantry, so it can only be driven by 4 people.

The final result became a wonderful scene of infantry chasing tanks and tanks chasing mobile armor.

Of course, this is just a joke made by men who are mechanical men. This group of men who work on science and engineering often make some heavy industry jokes. The child born by a robot, should the father be C++ or Java? It is the practical application of social engineering——Leo Oz has the impression that everyone is mentally handicapped.

Li Aoz was sitting 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 boring.

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

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

There is no vitality in the outside world.

Ms. Qiu Ran in the back row looked at the scenery outside the car curiously. It was very dark, and she could only see the thunder flashing between the red and black clouds.

"So there's no sun outside..."

she said regretfully.

Li Aoz's guess was similar, Qiu Ran was from Shuangbao, but his background was worse than Li Aoz's.

According to her own statement, she has been living and growing up in a remote scrap iron recycling station in the countryside. She has never been to the city for more than ten years. If she was not diagnosed as an infected person by accident, she moved out and entered the shelter for medical treatment. Until now , she has never seen the real vast world.

"Of course not, redneck!"

Nomi snorted and said:
"Hundreds of years ago, after the atmosphere was covered by those red and black ersha, the sunlight could not penetrate. The people of the four countries relied on nuclear fusion technology to maintain a small artificial sun, produced Walden particles, and then used particle crystals to The barrier composed of grids blocks the storm and frost from the outside world—although I can’t understand the meaning of the term, but basically every town in the four countries is a nuclear fusion reactor.”

"Walden, don't you know?"

Li Aoz glanced at Nomi: "It has been said in the technical secondary school: Dr. Walden is a nuclear physicist of the old era. The Walden hemisphere technology he developed has changed the pattern of warfare. It makes nuclear fusion miniaturized and can be deployed. In armored units, it completely changed the landscape of warfare."

"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."

"Whispering! I never went to school. Anyway, sooner or later we're going to kick Shikoku's balls! Those reactors will be ours sooner or later!"

Nomi patted the steering wheel impatiently:

"If it weren't for the blockade of the four countries, even without the sun, human beings would not be unable to survive."

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

"Then tell me, how did the rubbish of the White Fang Gang survive? How did those settlements survive?"

Nomi said unhappily.

"Hmm... I don't know." Qiu Ran lay down by the window, continuing to watch the distant scenery.

"No, it doesn't mean that the outside world has no resources at all."

Li Aoz thought for a while and said:
"However, having resources does not mean that one has the ability to develop them—oil has always existed underground, but such resources were 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 area of ​​the entire Azure Star belongs to the outside world."

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

Because the sun's radiation is blocked and absorbed by the red and black clouds of Esha, the earth cannot absorb and reflect the heat from the sun, and the temperature is generally lower than that of the high-altitude clouds.

The difference in heat and cold between the sky and the earth formed a desperate gale, and the gale took away the water on the surface. Without the sunlight to survive, the plants could only die. As a result, the original solid soil was completely lost. The foundation of windbreak and sand fixation is established, and water and soil will be lost rapidly.

So much snow fell, but it couldn't melt because of the cold temperature. Even if the sand was dug up, the deep layer below was just the cold earth.

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

But even if rivers and lakes are artificially excavated, without sunlight and warmth, how can we cultivate the ecology in the water?How to cultivate farmland?How to feed people?
Without population, it is impossible to have enough productivity to develop industry, and without industry, it is impossible to excavate underground resources.

Only a very small number of areas with developed geothermal energy, leeward outlets, and soil loss have been stopped, such as areas with mountains and river valleys on their backs, and areas surrounded by volcanoes, where large-scale population gatherings are possible.

"However, the four countries are different. After the war to end all wars broke out in the old era, people found that everything was over except for the war, and the small countries perished, and the four countries became the absolute giants of Azure Star."

Li Aoz changed the topic:
"Historical records of the four countries: Before Esha enveloped the world, there were a large number of nuclear power plants, marine resources, and wind power plants. The industrial facilities are complete, the agricultural resources are abundant, and the military strength is at the top of the world. Even if the population is small, relying on Because of nuclear energy, there will naturally be a large influx of people into it.”

In order to prevent everyone from scrambling for energy to trigger a world war again, the four countries calmed down this time.

They hold the bulk of energy in the hands of GTB, the Global Commercial Bank, which was 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.Raised artificial sun and hemispherical barrier.

But other small countries, and the autonomous city-states in the outside world, will have "a little bit" of difficulty.

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

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

Arlanka is a subsidiary country of the Red Arrow Empire. The two countries have interlinked languages ​​and economies, but their races are different. This is the result of the cultural and economic colonization of the Red Arrow Empire.

Allanca, a small country sitting on a pile of uranium mines, had to sell it to the Red Arrow Empire at a low price of 200 derby per ton, in exchange for political, national defense, and power support—in fact, the empire clearly It can be robbed, but you have to give such a small amount of money, it is true, I cried to death.

Li Aoz didn't sing the opposite here, because the Kingdom of Arlanca is really the luckiest small country. It is backed by the Red Arrow Empire. It needs Gundam, Gundam, and resources. It's easy to make money by boasting about His Majesty the Emperor.

Relying on the attitude of licking a dog, Arlanka suddenly became a normal existence that was attacked by dimensionality reduction in the surrounding small countries.

At the same time, the slogan of Tianhuan next door is "Keep the land and don't keep anyone", the scene is a bit inappropriate for children, and Li Aozzi dare not say more.

With the capital provided by GTB, the population has grown, the economy has developed, and various enterprises, factories, and service industries have been born, which has improved the quality of life of the people, and in this way has further promoted population growth.

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

In order to develop and divert contradictions, they will turn their attention to the broad outside world.

Therefore, the people of the four countries, who have nothing to do with the cold wind and sandstorm, explored outwards. With sunshine and energy, they can build factories, build large farms, and dig out mineral resources from outside places, causing more serious damage to the mountains and soil. destruction.

The damage to mineral deposits is also to a large extent the damage to the geological environment. Under the relentless construction of machinery day and night, the land that was already severely eroded by water and soil has become weaker and weaker.

People from the outside can only watch helplessly as their hometown is removed by the strong wind.

When Li Oz described it, he used a very understatement tone.

As for the splendor and prosperity of cities in every hemisphere, there are countless bones of people from the outside world buried.

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

"I rely on!"

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

He just opened the door, even with the face towel blocking him, a strange and irritating smell rushed straight to his forehead.

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

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

Facing the situation in front of them, several people hardly dared to breathe.

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

(End of this chapter)