Walk through the structure of the Ark and wander on the continent of Terra

68. Fusion disinfection, we call it efficient

"I think, Alpha, what you said before is correct." Looking at the humanoid heir in front of her, Gladia knew that the conjecture that Alpha had once raised, the one she least wanted to see, was very likely to be true. of.In that last battle, Skadi, who originally had the modified Haisir blood flowing in her body, fought with Poseidon until the last moment. She herself didn't even remember what happened, but it was obvious that the crowd recognized her. .

Alpha was noncommittal, and the halberd turned lightly in her hand. She could use this weapon to pierce the heir at any time. Even if she didn't take action, others could.

"Hey, monster, I think you should know that there is no way you can get out of here alive, right." Laurentina stepped forward carelessly, the wheel saw in her hand spinning at high speed, making a look ready to go Offensive stance.

The humanoid Haiji nodded silently, but everyone could feel that there was no fear or fear in it. After all, it was not a human being, and its attitude towards death must be completely different from humans.

For a clustered life form like Haiji, the death of a single individual is not an unacceptable situation. Even the death of a certain subgroup is not unacceptable.When faced with casualties, swarm creatures have far greater endurance than humans. Even for them, the death of some individuals is nothing more than a form of material exchange.

Humans and heirs are, after all, two completely different life forms. Therefore, even if the genes of heirs do flow in the bodies of the deep-sea hunters, they should not be the same thing after all.

"Gradia, are you afraid of death?" Somehow, Alpha suddenly asked such a question.

"I will die for Agor."

As an individual with independent thinking and self-awareness, he can also choose to sacrifice himself without hesitation for a certain goal and a certain ideal like a swarm of creatures without blood or tears.Even in this land full of disaster and pain, it is the same.Therefore, it is simply a false proposition to put humans and heirs, two completely different creatures, on a so-called measurement standard to measure the so-called "noble" or "advanced".

Not to mention, the humans and descendants on this planet are all produced by ancestors who have mastered advanced technology.

……

But in the end, the ghost shark's wheel saw and plasma sword did not swing down. The heir finally learned some things about humans. He maintained the arrogance that he represented and belonged to the heir, and did not lead to death.Instead, I got to know myself after leaving a message to him, "The crowd is waiting to communicate with you."The biological tissues that make up this advanced humanoid heir individual began to wither, and the flesh and blood decomposed itself at an extremely fast speed. The originally tall body apoptotic at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a shriveled remains that looked like flower petals.

"This guy is quite tough." Laurentina turned off the wheel saw in her hand and returned to everyone. Now there is only the last problem left in the cave that needs to be solved, which is to deal with it. The last fragments of the huge body of Saltwind Bishop Quintus after the quasar bombardment.If those things are not handled properly, they will eventually attract more heirs and become new hidden dangers.

Skadi and Gladia picked up the quasar again and adjusted the attack mode to continuous burning. The micro-supercharged suction device attached to the side of the weapon began to inhale the air and heated it to a high-energy plasma state in the reaction chamber, which was used to control the limited Fuel replenishment.

This time, the diffusion-constrained magnetic field was weakened, and the jet speed was also weakened. The thinner, high-temperature plasma was ejected in a more stable manner. Two translucent cyan-blue flame tongues passed over Quintus's remains, blowing away those The remaining flesh and blood were burnt and carbonized.Soon, including the scars that had begun to spread on the floor of the cave, the remaining Haihe organizations in the field of vision were dealt with.

"Alfa, if we deal with it this way, there will still be residues left." Skadi looked at the rotten rock walls around him that had been penetrated by Quintus' roots. After those rock layers that can withstand high temperatures, there are still no residues. Know how many remaining Heir organizations there are.

"Yeah." Alpha nodded, "Let's go up first if the fever is almost over."

When everyone reached the ground, Koloff was driving an all-terrain vehicle, running over the piles of dead heirlooms on the ground in the square, and delivered a large can.At this time, the water prison created by Alpha had dissipated. Somehow, the dark clouds that had shrouded this town for countless years appeared in the sky, and an opening shrouded the city, and the sun was shining warmly on the ground.

"Here, boss, what you asked for has been brought to you." Wearing power armor, Koloff still had some difficulty in taking down the big can fixed on the back seat of the all-terrain vehicle.Alpha took the jar, opened a panel on it, and began to set something up.

Gladia took a look at this thing, which wasn't even rust-proofed. The various processing methods looked like something made on-site by the Star of Life. On both ends of the jar, there were small fan patterns composed of yellow background and black patterns. logo.

Gladia remembered that this was a warning icon that would appear in places like nuclear reactors in the Life Star's safety technical standard system.During the chat, she asked Levi, and Levi said that this sign meant nuclear radiation.Agor's nuclear radiation warning sign was different from this one, but this sign meant nuclear material and ionizing radiation, and Gladia immediately memorized it.

Seeing this logo, Gladia remembered where she had seen the shape of this jar. She saw it when she was authorized to browse the weapon and equipment blueprint library of the Star of Life. It was a tactical-grade nuclear fusion weapon. Warhead.

Compared with microwave dismantling bombs, this thing is smaller in size and has a relatively simple process. More importantly, it is more efficient at inactivating toxic and harmful biomass in underground confined spaces.Alpha is really full of martial virtue and spares no effort.

"What is that?" Of course the Grand Inquisitor has never seen such a thing, and judging from Alpha's appearance, she seems to be planning to use this inconspicuous little device to clean up tons of seawater in the church and surrounding squares. The wreckage.

"Nuclear warhead, ideal for high-temperature inactivation." Koloff answered the Grand Inquisitor's question casually.

"Such a small jar?" The Grand Inquisitor looked at the device in surprise. It was not as big as the main gun shells of the Inquisition Army's armed land carriers. He used those heavy cannons to destroy the granite church and the entire surrounding square, at least It requires hundreds of rounds. Can one of these things do it?

But before the Grand Inquisitor spoke, Alpha adjusted the device. She closed the cover of the operation panel, raised her head, and said to the Grand Inquisitor seriously, "Get ready to move the people here."

69. Centralized isolation

The Grand Inquisitor swallowed his doubts in his stomach. This Alpha had too many technologies and extraordinary abilities that were beyond his understanding. If she said that thing could do it, then he had better believe in her judgment.

There are still thousands of people in Salt Wind City, but they have not been killed by the radiation released by the water prison. Alpha has cleverly restricted the damage and death range of the deadly ionizing radiation within the scope of the church square, and the escaping Partially, it is not enough to penetrate the damp and thick stone buildings and kill the residents hiding in their homes.

But here comes the problem. These residents are now highly dangerous Heirloom-infected people. Although they are still humans, no one can give an accurate estimate of when they will mutate into that kind of monster. Maybe it will be today, maybe not until Die of old age.

The Grand Inquisitor knew that ingesting food containing seaweed ingredients did not in itself mean direct mutation. The final result depended on the eater's own will and wishes.Although he could not believe in the willpower of those people, they did not knowingly eat the corpses of the heirs, and they were forced to eat harmful food. The Iberian government had an unshirkable responsibility.

If the city of Salt Wind City had not been effectively managed by Iberian officials for a long time, and the Deep Sea Church, which had grown barbaric here, had not received effective assistance for a long time after the famine, those poor residents would not have been able to do anything. They will be reduced to drawing lots to sacrifice human beings, and then eating those things that escape from the sea.

It is impossible for Iberia to accept these time bombs that can turn into monsters at any time, but it is also impossible to directly sentence them to death.

Until this moment, the Grand Inquisitor clearly realized that the Saltwind City incident was such a heavy burden, and as the highest official official in Iberia here, he was the one who had to make the decision.

"Sometimes, destruction is more difficult to make up your mind than abandonment, right." Alpha saw the expression on the Grand Inquisitor's face, which reminded her of the Inquisitors from the Tribunal in the Hammer [-] series, okay? , their job titles are still the same.The order of extermination cannot be issued easily. Just like the Grand Inquisitor Daario at this time, even if he knew that most of the residents of Saltwind City were potential heirs, he could not make a decision to leave them to wait to be exterminated. Like a nuclear bomb blowing up all together.

The Grand Inquisitor sniffed, and he clutched his hand cannon tightly. Even with gloves on, Alpha could see the tension in his arms and palms.After hesitating for a long time, the Grand Inquisitor nodded slowly.

"I happen to have a solution." Alpha, who was about to walk towards the church with a nuclear warhead in his hands, smiled broadly. "A solution that gets the best of both worlds."

"what?"

"Let me ask you, Dario, how many empty cities did the Golden Age leave for Iberia?"

The question of how many empty cities the golden age left for Iberia was like a heavy hammer that hit Dario's heart hard, making him heartbroken.That is the eternal pain in the hearts of countless Iberians who know that era. It is the endless melancholy left by the Great Silence to this once fertile land.

"All over the coast and inland, everywhere..." Finally, the Grand Inquisitor sighed and answered Alpha's question head-on. The Grand Inquisitor knew very well that this kind of thing could not be hidden from Alpha's eyes. Her kind of unknown Drones made by technology have scanned at least half of Iberia's territory. She may know the current situation in Iberia better than the functional departments of the Iberian government.Even this time, the map he used to bring Elini to Saltwind City, the map from Kelsey, had the symbols of the functional units under Alpha on it.

"Do you know where the nearest empty city is?"

"In the northwest inland, a hundred kilometers away, Rum Town was abandoned later than Yanfeng City, but unlike Yanfeng City, all the people there have been evacuated."

"You know very well, it's easy. It's just closer to the inland, and there are ready-made buildings for refugees to shelter. As for mobilizing a small number of troops for blockade and relief, it shouldn't be difficult for you."

Hearing this, the Grand Inquisitor nodded, these tasks are not difficult to complete.

"Restart that town, use it to house these refugees, give them relief, arrange jobs for them that are enough to support their families, and ensure their survival. But no one is allowed to leave until the sea-borne contamination on them can be dealt with. I think no matter how difficult it is in Iberia, we can still squeeze out these resources."

The Grand Inquisitor nodded without much hesitation. Alpha was right. Although Iberia has been in decline for a long time and is devastated, it is still possible to transfer and feed thousands of refugees by using existing abandoned towns. This resource is still available. from.

"Go ahead, my people will assist you in moving the people here and provide the survival materials needed for this transfer at cost prices. I will give you time to gather manpower and allocate materials."

The Grand Inquisitor nodded gently to Alpha and expressed his gratitude to her. Then he called his apprentice Elini and left in a hurry. Alpha's proposal was indeed the best solution at the moment, but it also meant that they The two masters and apprentices are very busy now.

"Well, evacuating the crowd is a test left to him. On our side, we just need to do a good job in cleaning up." Alpha held the nuclear warhead in one hand and waved the halberd in the other. She once again summoned the water flow. These water flows They gathered from all directions, rolled up the remains of the heirs piled up in the square, and flushed them into the underground cave like a toilet.

Everyone stood there as the water flowed around them. Inadvertently, Alpha threw the nuclear warhead into the water flow and allowed it to be washed into the cave under the church together with the sea heirs that filled the water.

"What's the yield of that warhead?"

"Five thousand tons."

"Five thousand tons..." Compared to the Grand Inquisitor, who knows nothing about nuclear weapons, Gladia certainly has a corresponding understanding of war weapons that release nuclear energy as a method of destruction. Agor also has his own nuclear reactor, and even There are also fusion reactors in large cities.Theoretically, they are able to manufacture this kind of strategic weapon, but they lack the means to project this weapon into an area that can actually cause damage to the sea descendants, and they are even less likely to abuse nuclear weapons unscrupulously in the ocean, because that would cause greater losses. Be yourself.

"Five thousand tons is not enough to destroy this city." Gladia raised her finger and pointed to the spectacular ruins above the city made up of the huge cranes of the former shipyard. This was the former shipyard. The stone buildings built, the concrete foundations left by predecessors, or those solid metal structures will greatly limit the damaging effects of nuclear weapons.

"But one, it's enough to clean up the wreckage."

"That's right. After all, they were all rushed into the cave."

In that kind of confined space, a five-thousand-ton nuclear warhead can easily render harmless all the wreckage of a large pile of sea descendants. This has already achieved its goal.

"Gladia, speaking of nuclear weapons, let me ask you a question. On land, do you think one large-yield nuclear warhead will damage a larger area, or multiple small-yield warheads will damage a larger area."

"Uh..." Being able to manufacture nuclear weapons does not mean that they have an in-depth understanding of this weapon. In addition, Agor is afraid that using nuclear weapons will cause Haiji to change his combat thinking. They have no practical application experience at all for this kind of strategic weapon.

"I didn't expect that you couldn't answer," Alpha shrugged. "One nuclear bomb with a yield of 300 million tons would be needed to blow up Yanfeng City, but five or six nuclear bombs with a yield of [-] tons can achieve the same coverage. Effect. The equivalent and the damage radius are not directly proportional."

"I have learned a lesson." For a moment, Gladia really began to seriously think about the possibility of a nuclear war against Haiji. Unfortunately, Agor was really not good at this thing.

……

At the dilapidated exit of Yanfeng City, with the help of the action reserve team, the Grand Inquisitor successfully organized the surviving people here, and enough relief supplies for them to be transferred to Rum Town have been transferred in place. The Grand Inquisitor's prestige and Violent deterrence made these silent people gather in accordance with his instructions, and with simple salutes, they were ready to move.

The mobilized Judgment Army and Auxiliary Army will carry out simple renovations on Rum Town before the refugees arrive so that it can accommodate these people.

The people were unwilling to leave the town where they had lived for most of their lives, but they did not dare to challenge the intimidation of the Inquisition, because they knew that the Inquisitor came out of the huge water prison that destroyed the church. That water prison not only destroyed the church, but also harvested the lives of tens of thousands of fish.

The power Alpha lent to the Grand Inquisitor was used very well by him to prepare for the forced migration in one day.

The people of Salt Wind City gathered here silently, taking pictures of the crooked but orderly procession, receiving everyone's rations for today, and then they would leave this city where they had lived for generations and go to the place arranged for them by the Iberian government. New home.

"Alfa, are you free?" Levi suddenly found Alpha who was helping to maintain order. He was originally providing basic medical help to these refugees with Seria and the others. At this time, he seemed to suddenly think of something and found she.

"Okay, what's the matter?"

"I want a sample to compare with the data collected from several deep-sea hunters." Levi pushed up his glasses seriously, and Alpha knew that this was a serious project for him to be responsible for.

"Okay, I'll find you a suitable observation subject. But remember, they are still human beings, and you cannot treat them as experimental samples."

"I see."

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70. Volunteer Anita

The volunteer Alpha found for Levi was called Anita. She was the only girl who quietly ran out to see what happened when Skadi and the Grand Inquisitor were performing on the beach.

Alpha met her when she first entered the city. She was curious about this visitor who came from the outside, but she didn't know what to do when facing the visitor.In just a few words, Alpha persuaded her to take him around the city and visit the residents who had a lot of things to do here.

This girl is full of curiosity about the outside world. When talking to herself, her eyes always shine with yearning, which is very different from the numb state of other local residents.The road leading to the church and the surrounding terrain were also pointed out to Alpha by the girl.

According to the preliminary results of the biometric scan, Alpha believes that she can still maintain a high degree of self-awareness and strong curiosity, which is closely related to her age.She was almost the youngest person in the city. Among the people who were forced to eat seaweed due to famine, she was the youngest and consumed the least seaweed ingredients.At the same time, the relatively strong metabolism and immune system of the young person allowed her to temporarily withstand the infection of the heir cells that showed low activity. It can almost be said that she also has the lowest level of infection among the residents of Yanfeng City.

If it weren't for her, Alpha would have felt like he was traveling in Innsmouth at his own expense during this journey around this town.Well, Haiji does have a Cthulhu-like style at least.

When Alpha took Levi to find this girl and extended the invitation, she did not refuse. She didn’t know what clinical medical volunteers meant. In her opinion, she could have full meals, regular blood draws and medical examinations. It was not an unacceptable condition. This simple girl, with curiosity about the outside world, agreed to the invitation of the two of them without even thinking about it.

This made Alpha feel even more guilty. What was the difference between this and abducting an ignorant girl?So she began to explain to Anita the stakes of becoming a clinical research volunteer.But the girl smiled and said, "Sister Alpha is the best, I believe in sister Alpha." Maybe in her opinion, the members of the Tribunal invited by Alpha not only did not arrest people everywhere in Salt Wind City, but also transferred everyone It's a great thing to go to a place where you can be safe and have enough to eat.

When Levi finally took the girl away, this scientific fanatic, who had always been quite ignorant about moral ethics and quite indifferent to human society, had a look of pity and helplessness on his face.Compared to other places on this land, those who are struggling with suffering understand their situation.Like her, being in the midst of suffering and disaster without realizing it is even more helpless and distressing.

"I asked Dr. Hemmer to assist me in restoring her physical condition first, and then carry out follow-up research work and related research work to avoid causing him pain as much as possible." After settling the girl, she returned to the train at the refugee medical aid station. Wei, helplessly rubbed his brow.

"Well, that's good. I measured her biological age. She's not yet an adult. If possible, let her receive education together with Ifrit. We can't let her live a lifetime of ignorance."

"I see."

……

In the rescue station, Helmer, who was wearing a power armor with enhanced biochemical protection kit, finally finished the work at hand. There were about twenty residents. Due to malnutrition, it was difficult to keep up with the transfer team. Fortunately, the small team of action preparation team The guys found several trucks to help them move. Before setting off, Hemer conducted basic checks on the weakest residents one by one and provided medical assistance as much as possible. For a while, she and Seria hung up many bottles of vitamin glucose just for them.

Speaking of which, all the original reserves of powered exoskeletons on the Life Star have been sold to Rhode Island. Lucille used her own private money to buy them all, and Alpha took this opportunity to give all the field personnel Those who needed it prepared power armor that was a replica of the commander's armor given to the doctor.The armor of the Special Operations Forces was also manufactured at that time.

Alpha enhanced the movement and energy components of those armors and, depending on the race of the user, rearranged the electronic muscles and fluid gel buffers and reset the tectonic nervous system.In short, a drastic transformation has been carried out to make it practical for local applications.

Anyway, she doesn't need to care about the cost, and compared to the needs of the Life Star, her current industry is indeed considered a big business.

Helmer added a layer of heavy metal ion bioinhibitory coating to the outside of this armor, then modified the shield system to shield it from biological contamination, and added a biocontamination monitoring and control device to the nervous system of the structure.Finally, the breathing cycle and gas exchange equipment have been greatly optimized. The specially designed filter device can highly purify the external air. At the same time, when encountering extremely dangerous environments, it can switch to internal circulation mode to maintain operation for more than four hours.

No matter what, at least after she stuffed Hemo into the power armor, Ceria said she was relieved.Alpha stuffed Xuyu into the same style of armor, and he felt relieved.

But there is a problem with this suit of armor, that is, it is not optimized for underwater activities. Although it is waterproof and can even serve as a diving suit to a certain extent, it does not have any hydrodynamically designed body shape and lacks an underwater power system. It has no way to perform its performance underwater.If they want to go into the water in the future, Alpha plans to imitate and transform the UEG government's power diving suit and learn from the mature design. It will save worry and effort than thinking about research and development from scratch.

"Alpha, you're here." After walking out of the isolation area and coming to the safe area after decontamination, Hemer took off his helmet and saw Alpha waiting here.

"Well, are there any difficulties?"

Hemer shook her head confidently. This emergency rescue was one of the most abundant preparations and material reserves among the related activities she had ever been exposed to. The sophisticated equipment completely isolated the medical staff from the possible dangers they might face. The dangers and advantages of high-tech levels are fully demonstrated at this moment.