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

Elini clenched her fists nervously. She looked at the rising sea water, covering the mask of the heavy powered diving suit she was wearing. Although the diving suit had complete internal protection measures, she was also wearing professional protective gear. She was lined with protective clothing, but the deep blue water still made her feel a coldness that penetrated into her bones.

Laurentina swam over next to her. The deep-sea hunters among them did not use the deep-shallow power armor or other equipment provided by Alpha. She just put on a respiratory auxiliary mask provided by Alpha.It was as if the pressure in the hundreds of meters deep sea was not painful or itchy to her at all.

"How's it going, little bird, are you still able to adapt to the deep sea environment?" Laurentina patted Elini's helmet.Her breathing assist mask allows her to access the communication channel to speak. If it weren't for this function, the trio of deep sea hunters would probably not even want this mask.

"Alright, alright."

"Don't be nervous, little bird. You are wearing the world's second most advanced pressure-resistant deep diving suit. Remember that the operation manuals you have read are all stupid things. Don't move around, and you will be safe. of."

"it is good."

In fact, beside her, the Grand Inquisitor Daario was also very nervous. As an inquisitor, he had been fighting the sea all his life, but this time he threw himself into the embrace of this dark and deep sea wearing only a metal shell. And a real Agor city is right in front of him at this moment.The Grand Inquisitor was both nervous and excited.Following Alpha was the most correct decision Carmen made for them on this mission.

Ceria started the magnetic fluid thruster on her back, and she unexpectedly discovered that many of the essentials for taking action underwater, where water provides buoyancy to counteract gravity, were actually similar to spacewalking.After that glimpse, she practiced spacewalking for a long time.Coupled with her already good swimming skills, she actually felt as comfortable as a fish in water walking on the seabed this time.

At this time, Alpha's legs turned back into those beautiful fish tails. Ceria swam to her curiously, "Alfa, what is it like to swim with a fish tail?"

"Ahem, it's actually quite strange, but you'll get used to it."

"Is your current machine a model specialized for the ocean? It seems to be completely unaffected by water pressure."

"The body of this stupid fish can easily withstand the water pressure of 4000 meters in the deep sea and move normally. The current depth is not enough."

"That's right..." Ceria nodded, "By the way, if there were no sea heirs, what would the scene look like thousands of meters deep under the sea?"

"A place four to five thousand meters away..." To be honest, Alpha doesn't know much about this area of ​​knowledge. Apart from some documentaries she watched in her previous life, her understanding of deep-sea ecology in the natural environment is limited to a small amount of information from Documentary reports on the Golden Age of Mankind.And many of those reports were recovered from the database of the Atlantis Research Base.Due to the decoding progress, what she saw was incomplete.

For marine organisms, the depth and water pressure of seawater are also important factors that affect and restrict their lifestyles and guide them to choose a living environment. Different water depths have different abundances of nutrients from light, ocean currents and algae, as well as seafloor heat. Due to the complex influence of springs and other factors, water layers at the same depth in different sea areas may show completely different ecological characteristics.

So Alpha picked up what he knew and told Seria roughly. At the same time, she was also planning that after everything settled and she had some time to relax, she would definitely travel across the oceans of this planet, tracing back and looking back. The original ecological appearance here.

……

When the bubble controlled by Alpha finally disappeared under the sea, everyone found that they had stepped on the seabed. The seawater heated by the battle above had not completely penetrated the deep water layer, but at this time, it was boiled The rotten remains of the heirs have begun to sink towards the bottom of the sea. These completely inactivated heirloom fragments have long been smashed into small pieces by the violent fluctuations in the upper layer. They are like snow at this moment. , is sinking downwards.

"It's such a strange sight. It actually snows on the bottom of the sea."

"If this was ordinary marine snow, that would be fine." Marine snow in the traditional sense refers to flocculent clumps composed of a large amount of organic matter that settle from surface seawater to deep seawater. They can serve as rich benthic organisms. The source of nutrition, but the sea snow composed of the remains of Haihe makes people shudder no matter how you look at it. The battle above is not over yet.

In order to prevent Haiji from being attracted to the deep sea by these sea snows, Alpha waved his halberd, driving the ocean currents to roll up these organic debris back to the upper seawater as much as possible, and then used the fierce ocean currents caused by the bombing to dilute and spread them over a wider area. area to go.Therefore, everyone saw that the white falling objects that looked like snowflakes were finally rolled up and floated to a height that could not be seen.

"Everyone should check their equipment for the last time and prepare their weapons. It's time for us to visit." Alpha swam briskly past each of his companions who participated in the operation, personally helping them check the status of their equipment and confirming that everyone was in good condition. After she was in good condition and full of energy, she waved the halberd again.The ocean currents cleared away any dangers that might still be hidden around them, clearing the way for everyone.

Everyone started their magnetic fluid thrusters one after another, followed Alpha and the three deep-sea hunters, and swam towards the Agor city, which looked very abnormal from all aspects.

95. Deep Sea Market City

For people on land, this is a city located deep in the ocean. From a distance, row upon row of magnificent tall buildings stand under a series of huge underwater domes. Those huge domes isolate the city from the sea, like The crystal clear crystals shine like the neon lights of the city. The seabed where the aftermath of the war has spread is silent and motionless.

But for several deep-sea hunters, even just from the appearance, this city is confusing enough. Compared with the mature standard urban building plan that Agor has used for hundreds of years, The scale of this city looks much smaller. Generally, in urban standard planning, the ecological domes and agricultural cultivation bases that should be built in a certain proportion according to the scale of the city cannot be seen from the appearance of the city.

The second is the appearance of the buildings. Those silhouettes that look far more prosperous than any Iberian city, or even most cities on this land, actually reveal a failed and pathological planning. , a large number of high-rise buildings full of neon lights stand in several major domes at a density far exceeding the standard, and under those high-rise buildings are piles of illegal buildings.

The pipes and shacks built using discarded building materials made several of them feel severe discomfort even when they looked at the sea water purified by the peripheral purification tower from half a kilometer away.

Moreover, the city still lacks protective fortifications. According to Agor's urban planning standards, this kind of settlement area composed of more than three large domes can already be used as a sub-central city node of the district. In the perennial Haihe War, A node of this level should deploy at least three to four automated armed fortresses and more than two fleet harbors as the city's defense force.

But when Alpha made such a big noise here, the city didn't react at all. There were only some small defensive turrets in the distance staring at the people who hadn't come close.

"This city is too abnormal." Gladia swam to Alpha and pointed to the dome in the distance. "It is too dilapidated. It is as dilapidated as a group of refugees who have just fled here."

"Yes, this is also my most intuitive feeling." Alpha was able to sense more details of the city, and then she discovered something that surprised her even more, "I said Gladia, generally Alpha of this scale What method will Gore City use to supply energy?”

"For settlements above residential stations and outposts, with a population of less than 200 people, we generally use simple and reliable small-scale thorium molten salt reactors to provide energy in conjunction with ocean currents and temperature difference power generation, for more than 200 people and less than 5000 people Standard thorium molten salt reactors will be used in residential areas. If it is a residential area with a relatively concentrated heavy industry, fusion circulators will be used to generate electricity. Cities with more than 5000 people should all use fusion circulators arranged with distributed nodes to cooperate with the central government. The power grid system provides power. The fusion circulator we use is very similar to the one on the Life Star."

"I understand, what you are doing is a tokamak converter, which is quite advanced and meets the construction cost, but guess what."

Gladia has not read many nuclear physics books published on the Life Star. She has read more of the biological materials collected by Alpha. When chatting with Levi, she rarely talked about nuclear physics, so she Of course, she didn’t know what the tokamak in their mouths directly referred to, but based on the context, Gladia could easily guess that this was the name for a certain type of nuclear fusion reactor configuration in those worlds. "You don't mean to say that there is no fusion circulator in this city."

"Yes, you are right." Alpha processed the data he sensed into a three-dimensional holographic image and projected it on the head-up display of Gladia's breathing assistance mask. "This is the result of my detection. , under the main dome closest to us, among the underground structures of different high-rise buildings, there are more or less independent fission reactors with relatively stable output of thorium molten salt, but there are also several very early graphite reactors. , I even sensed leaked nuclear radiation in some areas.”

As she spoke, Alpha showed the specific reactor structures she had discovered one by one to Gladia. The latter looked more and more strangely, "How come even the old-fashioned marine reactors that were eliminated more than 100 years ago came out? What's going on? thing?"

"So, maybe they are really refugees."

As everyone got closer and closer to the city's dome boundary, the city finally made a reaction that Gladia felt should have happened long ago. Several small-sized armed ships with a tonnage of about a few hundred tons. The submarines drove out from the area between several domes in the city. They turned on their searchlights and cautiously headed in the direction of everyone.

"By the way, Gladia, Ulbian thinks it's better not to go back to Agor directly now, and I think so too. With your status, you may appear in such a city where the current situation is not optimistic. It will cause a lot of trouble.”

"..." Gladia looked at those small boats. Among Agol's deep-sea fleet, those few small boats could only be regarded as small things ranging from gunboats to frigates. But at this time, they looked like It's like the only armed force in this city. It's no wonder that the fight above was so fierce, and the city was just shrinking under the water.There is not even a cruiser, so why can he participate in the battle between the gods above?

Alpha's Basilosaurus, the output firepower of the two vertical hair units on its back alone can match half of the navy in Agor's heyday, and the microwave disassembly missiles and heavy plasma bombs are scattered outside as if they are free, Fentian Boil the Sea is talking about its exaggerated destructive power in the literal sense. This does not include its exaggerated protective capabilities and several high-energy laser arrays that can cut ordinary Agor warships into butter. Even Poseidon will be defeated by it here. One head was killed.

This kind of exaggerated thing is fluttering overhead, and except for a few fortress core cities, it seems that ordinary node cities dare not act rashly.

However, thinking so, Gladia did not accept Alpha's suggestion, "Alfa, I know what Ulbian means and I know your concerns, but I am the technical consul of Agor, even if I have already Having become a deep-sea hunter, even though I may be considered an outlier, I can't just sit idly by when my people are in trouble."

96. Broken and desolate

The light frigates slowly came closer. The searchlights on the ships passed through the deep water and shone on the group of people who were planning to swim to the city. For a moment, Alpha felt that he should build his own deep-sea flagship first. Well, let’s come back again. Swimming all the way like this is a bit of a loss.

But now, it’s all here, so let’s change the approach. The Basilosaurus whale Keshira who was just killed in the sky has no target to destroy at this time, so Alpha commanded it to swim down from the upper water body. This whale The mechanical behemoth's huge figure, with its lights flashing and the glow of its energy-charged amplification shell flowing, passed by the small frigates, and the water it brought up almost overturned them.

To Alpha's satisfaction, at least the military and psychological qualities of the crew on the ships were pretty good. When the Basilosaurus came, they quickly maintained their formation and did not fire blindly.

"Alfa, can you set up a signal light?" Gladia swam over and said to Alpha.

Alpha nodded, "It's quite simple to light up." Lamia's body is good at camouflage and invisibility. The optical mechanism on her body can be used to light up with just a few adjustments, and there are many other ways to light up.

"I'll give you a set of communication codes, and you can send them via light signals."

"Okay, but this is underwater, why don't you use a signal?"

Gladia shook her head. It seemed that she had her own conclusion, but was a little embarrassed to say it.In fact, it was because she heard the sonar waveforms of those frigates. They were several different models of sonar, but they all had a common feature, that is, the noise mixed in the sonar waves emitted, Gladia was able to confirm with certainty that those ships could not hear the acoustic signals used for communication.

However, that’s too tragic. The sonar of the submarine ship is a scrap...

But it seems that they can still use lasers to keep in touch with the city behind them. High-tech things like X-ray laser underwater short- and medium-range communications are actually good. What is going on with this group of people? Are they the ultimate trash guys?

Alpha followed Gladia's instructions and created a light signal with a specific frequency. Not long after, one of the small boats came over. The rather tattered and crude weapons on its hull were not raised to aim at the group of people. , seems to be friendly.

Alpha noticed that there were a total of four torpedo tubes with a caliber of about [-] mm on both sides of the bow of this small frigate. There were also several turrets on the body that fired live ammunition. It should be some kind of underwater electromagnetic gun. Judging from the acceleration trajectory, Shape, it should fire spike ammunition suitable for underwater use, and then there are some other turrets or weapon-like structures.There is also a ship with a huge bulbous bow on the bow, which is not a sonar but a sound wave focusing weapon.This small fleet looks like a motley army, and the weapons on board are all the same, even though their movements are quite uniform, and they maintain the order and prohibition.

Under the side of the frigate, a hatch was opened, and a moon pool airlock was unfolded for divers to enter and exit. Through the light signal of the searchlight on the ship, Gladia told everyone that this ship was inviting everyone to come on board. .

"Let's go up and have a look."

Alpha took the lead and swam over, and with a flutter of its tail, it jumped up happily from the moon pool, and finally landed on the not spacious deck inside the ship, and then followed a few Ah's wearing patched combat uniforms. The Gores looked at each other.

At this moment, the desire to complain about whether the other person was a trash guy rose to the extreme, but was restrained by Alpha.Those Agor people are obviously not deep-sea hunters with strong martial arts. They are just some of the thousands of ordinary people in Agor society who have not undergone biological modification. Among them, they wear big-brimmed hats and look like military officers. The guy was wearing a heavy pistol on his waist, which should be an electromagnetic weapon. Some of the people standing next to him were holding pneumatic harpoon guns and even cold weapons.

Fortunately, Alpha was not embarrassed for long. Gladia and Skadi jumped out of the water first, following her. These two visitors made the officer-looking guy's expression more complicated, but he seemed to realize that he was now boarding the ship. These three guys are all ruthless characters who wander around in the deep sea without wearing diving suits. They don't dare to make any moves.

Then Seria swam up. She was not skilled enough to jump out of the water, but with the help of the power armor and a push of her right hand, she easily broke out of the water and climbed onto the deck. At this time, the magnetic field behind her The fluid propeller is still humming regularly.This time, the expression of the Agor man opposite was even more complicated.The arrival of Seria and her big tail completely filled up this already small moon pool. It is surprising that the space inside a gadget with a displacement of hundreds of tons can be so large.

The officer's face was really wonderful. He was happy for a while, worried for a while, scared for a while, and a little sad for a while. I don't know what kind of mental journey he went through.

"Captain, I am the technical consul Gladia. I order you to report the current situation to me immediately." Gladia walked to the front of the four people. She is the consul of Agor, and she has reasons and enough Because of his status, he asked the Agor officer in front of him, who was a captain but was driving a shabby frigate, to report everything that should be reported to him.

But at this moment, this Angzang Agor man, who could still keep his composure even in the face of four powerful female murderers, burst into tears when he heard Gladia announcing her home. rushed out.

The same goes for the sailors beside him. The weapons in their hands fell to the ground with clatter. These men with originally resolute faces broke down in tears almost instantly.

"Archon, is it really you! You, you deep-sea hunters, why are you back!"

At this moment, the complexity of Gladia's heart was all written on her face. She had imagined countless different ways of meeting and a million ways to deal with being difficult and domineering, but she was the only one No one dared to think about such a scene happening.Deep-sea hunters should not receive such courtesy in Agor's society. After all, they have the blood of hostile aliens flowing in their bodies.

"Don't cry! You are a soldier! Captain!" No matter how complicated Gladia's heart is at this moment, she must still show the fortitude as a consul and the coldness as the chief designer of the deep-sea hunter war. She knows that in In this situation, Alpha will not try to dominate the situation, he must control the entire situation.

"Yes," the officer wiped his tears, "Yes, Lord Consul, you are right!"

97.GIVE ME GUNS

The Rhode Island Office Building in Siesta is a highly unmanned building. Recently, two new companies have opened their doors for business here. One of them is independently responsible for Siesta's security contracting business. of Rhode Island security and defense contractors.

Considering the increasingly complex security and defense business needs of Siesta, as well as the debt issues between Rhode Island and Alpha, even if Alpha is now a member of Rhode Island’s management, these debts still need to be settled. Such an independent company The subsidiary company was registered and launched here. However, this company is just a leather company that provides legal and economic convenience for the security contracting business between Rhode Island and Siesta. All its personnel are still all From the Rhode Island Office in Siesta.

In addition, another company is the newly launched Lava Flow Tactical Solutions, a commercial weapons company registered under Alpha Norman Industries and specializing in weapons and ammunition business.

However, this is also a leather company, which is one of the conveniences provided by Alpha to Rhode Island. This lava flow tactical solutions company will sell several small arms produced by Rhode Island's engineering department.Let those weapons be legitimately sold through legal channels to collect research and development funds for Rhode Island and fill the shortage of funds encountered in operations.Through this change of hands and a series of public relations operations, the public pressure on Rhode Island to enter the international arms industry was reduced.

Both Kelsey and the doctor are very cautious in this matter. Selling arms on a land already full of suffering is tantamount to selling death.But Alpha's words of wisdom moved them. After all, the arms they sold were special products that could enter the civilian market.

There are no complex and expensive devices for refining Origin Stones or synthetic jade, there are no sophisticated spell etching materials, and they do not require powerful Origin Stone skills to be used. Individuals can pick them up and shoot them, which means that they will become oppressive. With the help of the oppressed, it will become a weapon for the oppressed to resist oppression.

However, this positioning led to unsatisfactory sales of weapons in the early days of opening. The Rhode Island Security Company, which equipped a large number of standard lightning rifles, distributed their lightning rifles directly from the factory, while another company installed them in batches. The New Chernobog People's Army of this weapon has purchased a complete production line. Except for accessories such as sights that they cannot produce, they will no longer purchase rifles and energy packs on a large scale.

As for the remaining potential customers, since the price of lightning rifles and supporting equipment is a bit high, and they currently do not have a very impressive record, they are not yet qualified to compete with Thor Industries, which has been in business for many years, in the market.

After all, for the vast majority of people who don’t know the inside story, there is not much difference between the Rutland Gun, Thor Industrial Rutland Gun and Lava Flow Electromagnetic Rifle, at least in appearance.For them, there is no difference.Before truly comparing the differences between the three, few people would choose to believe in a weapon that seems to have no essential changes but comes from an unknown small factory.

And it's really not cheap enough now, at least not as cheap as the AK in some places in Alpha's hometown.Even in order to open up the market, Alpha very generously provided a nearly free production line. The exaggerated subsidies allowed Lava Flow to sell the basic lightning rifle at [-]% off the cost price, but the price of buying a Thor industrial handgun was only Can buy five lightning rifles.

At least when Alpha and his team were chasing Quintus in Saltwind City, there were only a few mercenary groups and security companies selling firearms in Lava Flow, and they tended to wait and see.

But the turn of events came so quickly that the person who was dealing with business that day almost didn't react.

To put it simply, the New Chernobog People's Army and the Ursus Fourth Army fought in an infected concentration camp more than 100 kilometers north of the original Chernobog. Two platoons of People's Army soldiers A fierce battle broke out with the garrison of the Fourth Group Army stationed in the concentration camp. In the end, relying on the advantages brought by the newly replaced weapons, the soldiers of the People's Army eliminated the garrison of the concentration camp at a very small cost and drove them to the concentration camp. The reinforcements that came to support and encircle the enemy were defeated one by one and dispersed on the spot.

The effective range is over 500 meters. The standard ammunition is enough to penetrate the shields and heavy armor of old shield guards. The lever-type reloading speed is much faster than that of a crossbow. Up to eight orbital rounds can be loaded at a time to provide continuous firepower. The lightning rifle, which was far more powerful than the crossbow, played an irreplaceable role in this battle.

Most of the surviving Ursus soldiers said in horror that they had encountered an incomprehensible phenomenon. Often before they saw anyone, they heard an extremely sharp scream in the air, and then there were people around them. A teammate fell to the ground, his body was torn apart by some powerful long-distance flying object, and his internal organs were sprayed behind him...

After that battle, the People's Army guerrillas carrying new weapons continued to carry out extensive activities within the territory of Ursus. Since there was no way to deal with the new weapons, for a long time in the beginning, Ursus' army They don't even know what's killing them.

After that, several mercenary groups and security companies immediately submitted small-volume purchase contracts to the lava flow.

But the real turning point is yet to come. The news of that encounter spread very quickly. After all, it is not uncommon for Ursus's army to be devastated. However, the encirclement of reinforcements still left Ursus's army unscathed. This kind of thing is rare. Many old enemies of Ursus are happy to see the rapid spread of this kind of news, among which Casimir's journalism is the most enthusiastic.

Then, on the second day after that battle, a half-hour action short film shot by Rhode Island Film Industry Studio was launched. It was spearheaded by the well-known self-media person on the intercity network, Rhode Island operator Kada. uploaded to the intercity network.

It was a pure action film, and the script and script were written by Xu Yu in his spare time on the way to Iberia. The content of the story was mainly based on a battle that took place in Siesta not long ago.The entire short film tells the story of a beautiful girl killer who was once forced to work for Casimir's underground killer organization. After coming to Siesta and joining the Rhode Island security and defense contractor, she single-handedly and viciously dealt with a vicious kidnapping case. The story of gangster fighting.

The script is an ordinary script, but it was probably influenced by the classic action movie from the "Give Me Back My Life" series when Xu Yu was watching a movie with Alpha Link's Sea of ​​Consciousness before writing the script, and then heard that it was about to The listed lava flow tactical plan is soliciting promotional videos.

This script was written by Xu Yu in one go. Ashes, who had not yet gone on a mission and was watching the training of the new operators of the "Special Biological Contamination Disaster Prevention and Control Team" and had nothing to do, used his professional and technical knowledge. Polish it, and finally discuss the details with a certain Xintera girl who was chosen as the heroine.Several members of the Rhode Island Movie Fans Club helped create scene storyboards, and the elite operator's logo appeared in a mask as the villain. The engineering department used spare quality printers to help create props, and Lucile and Artificial Intelligence provided technical and technical support. In the later stage, it took 50 Longmen coins and half a month to shoot and produce.

As a result, this short film exploded into millions of views in just one week on the intercity network, which is far less developed than the Internet in 3202 Earth.Compared with the written reports from the battles between Ursus and the Xinchecheng People's Army, which are more valued by military experts.This half-hour short film uses powerful images and visual effects that transcend the times to present the tactical weapon system of the lava flow tactical plan to the audience, triggering a wave of praise and consultation.

While the short film caused a huge response, enthusiastic Colombian netizens discovered that the current weapons used in lava flow tactics are, in theory, completely outside the control of Colombian laws. In other words, before the introduction of the new legislative amendments, cigarette smoke The Liquor Spelling Unit and the Source Stone Products Management Bureau couldn't even take action on this thing.

This was a great time to have fun. According to Colombian law, unless there is an imminent war, no matter how urgent things are, the new amendment will not be implemented within a month, so many pioneers in southern Colombia began to buy lava frantically. Weapons and ammunition are being exported, but the Colombian Federation can't do anything yet. The trade preferential agreement and Siesta's federal membership are there, and they don't even need to go through customs when bringing goods!