Chapter 1689: The Wanderer Returning Home
Through the observation window, Xu Yichen can already see the Earth close at hand, as a wanderer, his days away from the earth are actually not long, far less than many staff working on the moon base and space station.
But he's gone too far, he's experienced too much along the way, and so much has changed on Earth.
Xu Yichen has never seen the earth so 'dim', in the past, when he took a landing ship to orbit the earth outside the atmosphere, once he crossed the morning and dusk line, he could see the bright lights below, which was not inferior to the beauty of the starry sky.
By now, most of the area had become dark.
"Look there, the rainforest in South America was ignited three weeks ago, and it's burned until now, and the dust has covered a third of the continent." A casual science officer pointed out the situation on Earth: "No one knows what is going on under the dust, satellite imagery is blocked, traffic signals are jammed, and all liaison officers who venture into it are gone. ”
"What's worse is that this is the last thing we see through the satellite." The scientific officer showed Xu Yichen the image on the PDA, and in the dim clouds, a looming black shadow flashed: "An unknown species with a length of more than eight kilometers, if this kind of thing appears in the loess area, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
The eight-kilometre-long unknown species is not a big deal compared to the behemoths built by humans, but it means that a new biosphere is being formed under the cover of dust, and one or more organisms that have never appeared on Earth are active.
This means that humanity has lost that land forever, just like Australia did back then.
Xu Yichen looked at the earth without saying a word, watching the spacecraft break through the atmosphere and fly towards the land that nurtured him.
The sun is still shining, the clouds are still white, the city circle below is still thriving, and countless super buildings are towering high into the clouds, reflecting colorful light in the sun, as if showing off their power.
The mountains are still the same, the rivers are still the same, and countless scenery flies by along the way, the landing ship keeps slowing down, the huge hull constantly rubs against the air, and finally lands at a relatively remote military airfield.
In this era, the loess region can no longer find a piece of deep mountains and old forests in the traditional sense, so the military has invested a lot of money to build a military space station in Earth orbit, and a military base on the moon, on Mars, and even more distant places.
The military airfield where the landing ship landed is a bustling urban area more than a dozen kilometers away, and based on the strong military background of the people in the Loess District, the closer it is to the military area, the higher the price of housing.
But the once prosperous urban area is no longer bustling, a large number of reservists have been drafted, retrained, adapted to new equipment, the imminent threat has made all the new Chinese people are preparing for war, everywhere is the construction site is under construction, countless fortifications form a complex defense system, and shelters hundreds of meters deep are constantly being built.
The Loess District has already tried, and they can't keep the enemy out of the country, but they can at least do it, so that anyone who has the heart to resist will not be unarmed and unable to find a place of refuge.
The war may be quite long, and it may be too fast for people to react, but it is destined to be a general war, and the people of the Loess region will fight to the last soldier.
Escorted by a whole team of black coats, Xu Yichen directly entered the underground transit hub, and he felt a little unfamiliar with everything here.
It seemed that in the short time he had been away from Earth for a year and a half, the place had changed dramatically, with the black coats wearing semi-covered exoskeletons he had never seen before, more stealthy and more flexible than previous reinforcements.
The soldiers on patrol held individual weapons that he had never used, generally with a caliber of about 12 millimeters, and the accompanying scientific officer requisitioned one when he passed by a weapon cabinet and handed it to Xu Yichen for inspection.
"It's not a new technology, it's just a big step forward on the road to practicality." The scientific officer explained in detail: "The new Gauss rifle, using a new type of nail ammunition, has a better penetration and cavity effect than traditional bullets, and a battery pack is integrated into the magazine, and each mixed magazine can continue to fire 240 times. ”
"Good stuff." Xu Yichen sincerely praised the 'artwork' in his hand, because in addition to the various characteristics mentioned by the scientific officer, this new standard firearm also inherits the shape of the previous generation of standard rifles to a great extent, as well as the way of handling, so that soldiers do not need to re-adapt to the weapon at this time.
"The Academy of Sciences has accumulated a lot of similar good things over the years, but it has not been taken out before." The scientific officer let out a rare smile: "After all, we couldn't use more advanced weapons before, what you see now are mature weapon systems, and the relevant departments of prototype weapons have been secretly installed for more than ten years." ”
Yang Yuefan hadn't said a word before that they still had this kind of hidden benefits, Xu Yichen smiled, and secretly said in his heart: "Insidious guy." ”
But that sinister guy may soon become the Lord of Dawn, a sun god with a gloomy face and full of intrigues, Xu Yichen suddenly figured out why the Dawn Church didn't like to erect statues and paint huge murals for the gods they believed in like the Temple of War and the Waujin Church.
That's really hard to handle, and it's easy to lose powder.
"We've dug an underground track from here that goes straight to the Himalayan station, and once we've placed you and activated the Himalayan station's automatic defenses, we'll go back the way we came, and blow up the passage." The Science Officer scratched his head and looked at the tall Xu Yichen: "We didn't consider the possibility that you could come back, don't mind, this is done to ensure that the Himalayan Station will not be affected by the Corruptors." ”
"I don't mind, I didn't think about that myself." Xu Yichen shook his head: "What about the corrupted psionics?" They can perform void jumps, and traditional defenses can't stop them. ”
"The Heart of Machines, we've reproduced it." "It makes it impossible for the psionics to locate you, and it doesn't tear apart the space that's completely ordered, but the special survival pod we used to house you was built exactly to the liking of that thing, and God knows how many days and nights we've stayed up for a perfectly symmetrical structure, but it's all worth it." ”
"Hopefully it's worth it." Xu Yichen took one last look at the underground space, which was crowded with officers and soldiers, and lowered his head and stuffed himself into a somewhat narrow transport bag.
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