From star abyss

Yellow sand rolled over the ground, and frost and snow covered the sky.

The off-road modified vehicle that originally looked majestic and ferocious turned out to be as elegant and peaceful as a ragdoll cat in the cold wind and sandstorm outside.

Nomi drove the vehicle skillfully. There were no traffic rules in the outside world, and you might not encounter living creatures even if you walked hundreds of kilometers. Instead of driving carefully, it was better to rely on the performance of the vehicle, just step on the accelerator to the bottom, and forcefully break through the frost and sand. Heavy blockade.

Li Aozi put down the supplies and replaced them with fuel in order to increase the weight of the vehicle and prevent it from being blown away by strong winds.

I am not afraid of tipping over. In the outside world, it is basically on the cold and condensed sand. This car has a suspension system, so there is basically no worry about tipping over in this kind of land. However, according to Li Aozi's many years of experience, if the car will not tip over, then 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 use fuel to weight the car body. The remaining oil barrels can be used to exchange items, even if they are not used, they can be transformed into incendiary bombs or the like.

When driving in the outside world, if you are not in a convoy, you generally cannot turn on the lights to prevent being targeted by gangsters and mutated beasts.

However, Nomi has good eyesight. People who can work as drivers in the outside world have basically the same night vision as wild beasts. As a guerrilla of the Rose Army, she must have received special training.

Also due to the muddy areas created by the combination of sand and frost, it actually consumes a lot of fuel when driving.

Li Ozi heard a joke from a mechanic player: Because the tanks of the four countries lacked horsepower, they could not drive in the mud in the outside world and could easily be paralyzed. They had to develop new armored vehicles to cope with the rapid march in the outside world.

Then there are mechas and powered exoskeletons.

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

But in this case, the head target of the humanoid mecha is too conspicuous and it is easy to get a 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 useful as air cushions, so the contact area was directly enlarged to create a hovercraft-like structure.

What came out after that was a tank with arms and two feet on air cushions, euphemistically called mobile armor.

Although it is much uglier, 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. There was no way to solve the problem of armored vehicles for infantry. They had to be paralyzed in the snow when they should.

This resulted in the infantry being too slow to keep up with the cover after the mobile armor rushed forward, causing their own armored units to be directly blown to pieces by the opponent's anti-tank group.

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

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

So we added artillery and armor to the hovercraft, but the power was not enough, so we had to enlarge the oil cylinder. With such an enlarged fuel tank, there is no room for a large number of infantry, so it can only be driven by four people.

The final result turned into a bizarre scene of infantry chasing tanks and tanks chasing mobile armor.

Of course, this is just a joke made by mechanical men. This group of science and engineering men often make some jokes about heavy industry, such as the child conceived by a robot, should the father be C++ or Java, and what should be called the online dating scam that cheated 8,000 yuan? This is a practical application of social engineering - the impression given to Li Ozi is that the bar owner is mentally retarded per capita.

Li Ozi was sitting in the passenger seat. He put his feet on the front of the car, half-squinting his eyes, and his thoughts were wandering.

The outside world is boring.

The dance of frost and sandstorms is indeed spectacular and beautiful when you first see it, but when you actually walk there, it just feels monotonous and boring.

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

There is no life in the outside world.

Miss Qiu Ran in the back row looked curiously at the scenery outside the car. The sky was dark and she could only see the flash of thunder between the red and black clouds.

"It turns out there is no sun outside..."

she said regretfully.

Li Aozi's guess was pretty much the same. Qiu Ran was a frost-plated person, but his background was slightly worse than Li Aozi's.

According to her own words, 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 had not been accidentally diagnosed as an infected person, she had moved out to seek treatment in a shelter, and she has been there until now. , she has never seen the real vast world.

"Of course not, bumpkin!"

Nomi hummed:

"Hundreds of years ago, after the atmosphere was enveloped by those red and black evil spirits, sunlight could not penetrate. The people of the Four Kingdoms relied on nuclear fusion technology to maintain a small artificial sun, produce Walden particles, and then use particle crystals to The barrier composed of grids blocks the storm and frost from the outside world - although I don't understand the terminology, basically there is a nuclear fusion reactor under every town in Shikoku."

"You don't even know about Walden?"

Li Ozi glanced at Nomi: "It has been said in technical secondary schools: Dr. Walden was a nuclear physicist from the old era. The Walden hemisphere technology he developed changed the pattern of war. It made nuclear fusion miniaturized and deployable. On armored units, it completely changed the pattern of war.”

"Among other things, there is a small reactor underneath the shelter, which can be run with a small amount of uranium fuel rods."

"What a waste of time! I never went to school. Sooner or later we are going to kick Shikoku's balls out! Sooner or later those reactors will be ours!"

Nomi patted the steering wheel impatiently:

"If it weren't for the blockade of the four countries, even if there was no sun, human beings would not be unable to survive."

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

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

Nomi said angrily.

"Hmm... I don't know." Qiu Ran lay beside the window and continued to look at the scenery in the distance.

"No, it doesn't mean that there are no resources in the outside world."

Li Ozi thought for a while and said:

"But having resources does not mean that you have the ability to develop them - oil has always existed underground, but this resource was 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 entire Blue Star area belongs to the outside world."

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

Since the sun's rays are blocked and absorbed by the red and black clouds, the earth cannot absorb and reflect the heat from the sun, and the temperature is generally lower than that of the clouds at high altitudes.

The difference between hot and cold between heaven and earth creates desperate strong winds, and the strong winds take away the water on the surface. Without the sunlight to survive, plants can only die. In this way, the original solid soil is completely lost. Without the foundation for wind protection and sand fixation, water and soil were lost rapidly.

So much snow has fallen, but it cannot melt because of the cold temperature. Even if the sand is dug out, there is only cold earth in the deep layer.

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

But even if rivers and water storage lakes are artificially dug, how can we cultivate the ecology in the water without sunlight and warmth? How to cultivate farmland? How to feed people?

Without population, there would not be enough productivity to develop industry, and without industry, there would be no way to tap underground resources.

Only in a very small number of areas with developed geothermal energy, leeward vents, and stopped soil erosion, such as areas backed by mountains and river valleys, and surrounding volcanoes, can large-scale population gatherings be possible here.

"However, the four countries are different. After the war that ended all wars broke out in the old era, people discovered that everything except the war was over. The small countries were completely destroyed, and the four countries became the absolute giant of the Blue Star."

Li Ozi changed the subject:

"Historical records of the four countries: Before the evil shrouded the world, there were a large number of nuclear power plants, marine resources, and wind power plants. The industrial facilities were complete, the agricultural resources were abundant, and the military strength was at the top of the world. Even if the population was smaller, relying on For nuclear energy, naturally a large number of people will flock to it."

In order to prevent everyone from triggering another world war in order to compete for energy, the four countries calmed down this time.

They hold most of the energy in the hands of GTB, the Global Trade Bank, which was jointly 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. Raise the artificial sun and hemispherical barrier.

But other small countries and autonomous city-states in other places will have "a little bit" of difficulties.

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

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

Arlanka is a vassal state of the Red Arrow Empire. The two countries are linguistically and economically interoperable, but their races are different. This is the result of the cultural and economic colonization of the Red Arrow Empire.

The small country of Arlanka is obviously sitting on a pile of uranium mines, but it has to sell it to the Red Arrow Empire next to it at a low price of 200 derbies per ton in exchange for political, national defense, and power protection support. In fact, the empire is obviously You can rob it, but you have to pay so little money. It really makes me cry to death.

Li Ozi did not sing a sarcastic tone here, because the Kingdom of Arlanca is really the luckiest small country. It is backed by the Red Arrow Empire, and it needs Gundam, Gundam, and resources. It can make a lot of money just by praising His Majesty the Emperor.

Arlanka, relying on his dog-licking attitude, suddenly became a general presence in the surrounding small countries for dimensionality reduction attacks.

At the same time, the slogan of Tianhuan next door is "Leave no land but no one". The scene is a bit inappropriate for children, and Li Aozhi did not dare to say anything more.

With the capital provided by GTB, the population can grow, the economy develops, and then various enterprises, factories, and service industries are spawned, which improves the people's quality of life, which further promotes population growth.

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

In order to develop and transfer conflicts, we will turn our attention to the broad outside world.

Therefore, the people of the Four Kingdoms, who had nothing to do with cold winds and sandstorms, explored the outside world. With sunshine and energy, they could build factories, set up large farms, and dig out mineral materials from other places, causing more serious damage to the mountains and soil. of destruction.

The damage to mineral deposits is also to a large extent damage to the geological environment. During the ruthless construction of machinery day and night, the earth, which was already suffering from serious water and soil erosion, became even more fragile.

People from outside could only watch their hometowns being moved away by strong winds.

Li Ozi used a very understatement when describing it.

As for the glorious prosperity of every city in the hemisphere, there are numerous corpses of people from outside the world buried.

But the four countries are not completely heartless and only know how to plunder.

"Holy shit!"

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

As soon as he opened the door, a strange and pungent smell rushed straight to his forehead, even though he was blocked by a towel.

Li Aozi frowned and held the car door, his thoughts fluctuating in his heart.

"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.

Faced with the situation in front of them, several people almost didn't dare to breathe.

More than 800 meters away, they saw a steaming lake, with a slight flash of orange between the red and black and pale sky and earth.