From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

February 14th.

Five days after the space gate was opened, after the engineering department worked hard all night to build it, the frontline base finally had a general outline.

Except for a small number of semi-open areas without air filtration systems, buildings such as barracks, biological centers, maintenance workshops, underground hangars, and command buildings have been put into normal use.

Coupled with the daily supplies transported to the base warehouse, it can fully meet the daily needs of 4,000 people within two years.

Factories equipped with 3D printers and robotic arms can use local materials to continuously produce building materials, weapons, ammunition, and armored vehicles for the base.

As the scale of the base increases, the engineering department is also expanding the coverage of the canopy to ensure that the base is always hidden.

At this moment, Lima is on the sunny side, almost in the afternoon.

Command building, in personal office;

Swish-.

Automatic door opening and closing.

Sui Yang entered the office from the corridor, hung his black coat on the hanger next to the door, walked towards the leather office chair not far away, unbuttoned the buttons, and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt.

Turn around and sit down.

He woke up the main unit in standby, lit up the two holographic screens, and called up numerous graphics, text and video materials with a light touch of his fingers, most of which were shot by the fully assembled Ernie-006.

Affected by high temperatures and thick clouds, the high-altitude bird's-eye view taken by Ernieo 006 in orbit is blurry and unable to show more details.

However, these only blurry images still show that frequent volcanic movements have aggravated the deterioration of the environment. At the same time, North America has the strongest heat source response, including a large number of "movable giant heat sources."

Secondly, the average high temperature of 40 degrees has melted 90% of the Antarctic ice sheet, causing sea levels to rise by nearly 60 meters.

This caused the ocean to swallow up most of the coastal land. Only a few high-altitude areas escaped the disaster. For example, the city of Lima, where the space gate is located, is about 154 meters higher than the original sea level (approximately 100 meters along the coast of Los Angeles). 1 meter).

But through Ernieo 006's continuous high-altitude photography, Sui Yang and Atlas discovered that there was a steel city on the remaining ice sheet, and that city was protected by a giant wall more than 200 meters high.

Taking advantage of the time when the clouds were weak, Ernie 006 took ultra-long-distance photography and successfully observed the entire steel city.

The streets and areas maintain a certain degree of orderliness, but most of the buildings are giant buildings integrating housing and work, or factories for light and heavy industries. There are no fancy art centers or exhibition halls. Everything seems to be based on survival and construction. benchmark.

This steel city represents that even in such a harsh environment, mankind has never given up any hope.

However, the emergence of this steel city also means that humanity in Universe 06 has no retreat. If even the last ice cap melts and disappears, then humanity in Universe 06 will face extinction.

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After reading this, Sui Yang frowned unconsciously.

Combining carbon dioxide, ammonia, and a high-temperature environment, the melting of glaciers has caused a significant rise in sea levels, and more than 90% of coastal cities have been destroyed. There are also "giant mobile heat sources" in the interior of North America, and the architectural styles of Antarctic cities, especially It was the two-hundred-meter-high super giant city wall. All kinds of information reminded Sui Yang of the mecha and monster movies he would rewatch several times every year before traveling through time—

"Pacific Rim".

In the movie, there is an alien race called the Precursors. They have a considerable degree of biological genes and hyperspace technology, and can connect other planets with their home planet by building "wormholes."

They also used a large number of biological samples obtained from different planets, combined with their own genes to conduct experiments, and then cultivated and cloned behemoths weighing 2,000 to 7,000 tons.

Every time the Pioneers find a new planet and establish a wormhole to connect it to their home planet, the first thing they do is reconnaissance.

If the environment is similar to that of their home planet, giant beasts will be sent to invade through wormholes, and the excrement and blood of the giant beasts will seriously pollute the ecology, gradually transforming it into a colony suitable for them to live.

If the oxygen content is extremely high, the Pioneers will choose to wait patiently until the planet is seriously polluted and damaged by local civilization, and then they will send behemoths to attack, just like the Earth in the movie.

According to the plot, the first giant beast passed through a wormhole in the Pacific Ocean in mid-2013, destroying cities such as San Francisco and San Jose on the West Coast of the United States, and was eventually killed by a tactical nuclear bomb.

However, as the behemoths launched frequent attacks, and the intervals between attacks became shorter and shorter, humans discovered that the radiation and destruction caused by nuclear bombs, as well as the highly toxic flesh and blood of the monsters, were exacerbating the deterioration of the ecological environment, prompting governments and militaries of various countries to establish "Pan Pacific Defense Force (PPDC)".

After that, the National Defense Force established the "Jaeger" project to manufacture giant mechas to replace nuclear weapons against the behemoths.

The Hunter Plan had a remarkable effect in the early stages of the war, but the financial resources consumed were also quite staggering. On the other hand, the speed at which the Pioneers upgraded and cultivated the behemoths completely surpassed the construction and improvement of human mechas.

When the time in the movie arrives in 2024, the government chooses to cut off funding to the National Defense Forces and instead builds high walls to try to resist the invasion of the behemoths.

The result is that the high wall is useless against the behemoth.

The defense force abandoned by the government gathered the only mechas in service and obtained the key information that "behemoth DNA is needed to pass through the wormhole", and launched a final raid on the wormhole at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

In the end, a mecha named "Dangerous Wanderer" successfully passed through the wormhole.

Before the driver boarded the escape pod to escape, he successfully destroyed the wormhole by overloading the nuclear reactor, and also carried out a nuclear strike on the Pioneer's home planet.

But the doomsday scene of Earth 06 showed that the defense force's final raid had failed, and humans had to continue to use nuclear bombs to deal with the behemoth, causing the living space to be compressed rapidly, and they had to retreat to the only remaining stronghold, Antarctica.

As for the fact that the behemoth has not yet broken through the Antarctic, Sui Yang believes that the Pioneer is afraid that humans will choose to "burn down together", and would rather sacrifice the entire tribe to carry all the nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs, and continue to launch a suicidal raid on the wormhole.

They dare not gamble, let alone take risks, because humans do have the energy to do so.

On the contrary, if a certain amount of survival and breathing space is given, then emotions such as luck and conservatism, as well as radicalism and recklessness, will spread among humans.

Combined with some just-right infiltration and instigation, the Antarctic stronghold will probably be destroyed by human internal struggles, or some naive guys will be elected as leaders, hoping to reach a "peaceful coexistence" agreement with the pioneers.

In this way, without a single soldier, humans will fall apart.

But this is just Sui Yang's speculation.

And speculation is not enough to support precise strikes and well-prepared military operations, so more than ten minutes ago, Sui Yang arranged two reconnaissance teams to go to the North American continent covered by thick clouds and the human Antarctic stronghold respectively.

Only by obtaining detailed intelligence can we "prescribe the right medicine for the disease."

In the underground hangar of the front-line base;

The structure here is similar to the transportation hub area of ​​the ruins base. Although it is much smaller in scale, it is also spacious and bright. It has a vertical parking platform with lifting function, a rail train to improve transportation efficiency, and a large number of busy logistics personnel.

At this time, a train passed through the underground tunnel to the hangar and finally stopped between the parking platforms numbered 12 and 14.

Open the hatch.

Forty elite ARS First Reconnaissance Company wearing exclusive stealth equipment, the Hunters, walked out of the carriage

After two years of updates and improvements, the stealth equipment does not seem to have changed much in appearance, but while ensuring the advantages of compactness, lightness, and agility, it can also allow Hunters in extreme environments to maintain a hidden state to carry out reconnaissance missions.

And it can work in space like the individual equipment of the Orbital Commando (ODST) and the dangerous work suits (HEV) of the advance team. It is also an advanced equipment close to power armor. Of course, its cost is also very high.

However, among this group of hunters, there is an "alien" who is over two meters tall.

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The hunter whose helmet screen shows "Aya Brea/rank second lieutenant" seems to be thinking that if the other party does not have stealth equipment, it is easy to be exposed and slow in action.

But she has seen the boss's descendants, that is, Sanguinius and Leon in battle.

You can only see a residual image with your naked eyes, and only through the dynamic capture of the helmet screen can you observe the trajectory of action very reluctantly.

This level of single combat power is enough to determine the direction of a battle of a thousand people, and the "alien" not far in front of Brea is actually another descendant of the boss, Magnus.

Their family has been working for Atlas since their grandfather's generation, executing some "physical means" business competition for the boss.

Therefore, when the boss's offspring showed extraordinary combat power, she and her comrades were not only excited, but also glad that the original body was the enemy's "demon" and "nightmare", and also confirmed that their boss had a stronger individual strength.

In the process of exploring different universes, as long as the boss was in the rear and commanded and dispatched, she and her comrades could face the unknown without hesitation. Even if they were unfortunately killed, they firmly believed that the boss would use the most "horrible" and "bloody" means to avenge the enemy for them.

At this moment.

The forty people were divided into two groups.

Magnus and others went to platform No. 12, while Brea and his party went to platform No. 14, and entered two ready-to-use Silver Gull transport planes respectively.

The ground crew who completed the inspection raised their hands and signaled to retreat to a safe distance.

Then, the lifting platform carried the two Silver Gulls through the first gate on the top of the hangar to the pressure chamber, waiting for the pressurization procedure to be completed before continuing to pass through the second gate to the surface.

When the lift platform came to a complete stop, the four pilots controlled the two Silver Gulls to avoid the canopy, activated the optical camouflage stealth mode, and instantly disappeared from sight.

Not long after.

In the cabin.

Brea just shook his head, which was a little dazed, and his teammates did not have any strong adverse reactions. It seemed that they had long been accustomed to this kind of overload flight.

"Everyone pay attention!" Suddenly, Arthur Morgan's voice came from the communication channel: "I will remind you again that Group A, led by Lieutenant Brea, is responsible for the reconnaissance of North America. In addition, the environment within the mission area is extremely harsh, and there are suspected large extraterrestrial creatures and alien races. Therefore, the Silver Gull of Group A will serve as an action base station to provide transportation and evacuation services throughout the journey.

Group B, led by Lieutenant Payne, and Magnus, who serves as a special investigator, will take the Silver Gull directly to Antarctica to look for opportunities to sneak into the steel city.

The company has provided you with exclusive action casual clothes for the investigation department. If conditions permit, try to infiltrate the crowd to obtain intelligence, which will help us to have a more comprehensive understanding of the situation on Earth Zero Six and detailed information on the alien races.

Okay, I show here that Group A is about to return to the atmosphere, so I wish you all good luck. See you back at the base, Morgan is over."

Hearing Morgan's reminder, Brea couldn't help but take a breath and waited patiently for the Silver Gull to complete the orbit adjustment.

Boom-! Boom-!

Soon, the two nuclear fusion engines began to increase their power output.

Unlike the "hard-breaking" method of the airdrop chamber, the Silver Gull controlled by the pilots is like "skipping stones on water", and is returning to the atmosphere layer by layer.

In this way, it can effectively avoid the plasma fireballs caused by high-speed friction and the black barrier area where all external communications are lost, and there will be no obvious "meteor" traces, ensuring the concealment of the Silver Gull.

It didn't take long for the vibration amplitude to be no longer obvious, and the flight posture was much more stable. Relatively speaking, the speed began to slow down.

"Lieutenant Brea, we have arrived in the stratosphere. It is expected to remain stable in the troposphere about 8,000 meters above the ground in one minute, and will also pass through the thick cirrus area. Visual sharing is currently in progress."

At this time, Brea's helmet screen generated a small floating window and began to play the outside view.

"Visual sharing has been completed, Lieutenant Brea, if you notice any places worth investigating, please mark and remind us immediately."

"Okay." Brea responded on the communication.

Through the pilot's vision, she and her comrades first saw the thick clouds filled with red light, and heard the "tap, tap" sound of small particles hitting the cabin wall.

When the Silver Gull carried them through the cirrus area, everything became "suddenly clear".

However, under the thick clouds, the hot flowing magma replaced the previous rivers, and the high-rise buildings representing human civilization had already collapsed, but the high-rise buildings like bacteria colonies occupied the surface of the earth.