The snow was still falling, and as far as the eye could see, the land seemed to have been filled by the wind and snow, and there were no more ups and downs.

The sky is leaden gray, and near the ground, in addition to snow, there is also ice fog, in which there are cold fine ice crystals flying, and inhaling the air in the ice fog area without a mask can cause great damage to the trachea and lungs.

Li Weiyong pulled a homemade snow plow, and walked forward with difficulty, his feet covered with snowboards, and he did not sink deeply, the main problem came from wind resistance.

Bags were tied to the plow, and his pregnant wife was still sitting.

And behind them, there was a long line.

They had vehicles before, but it was so cold that the parts froze and cracked, so they had to walk.

No one was in the mood to speak, and the pistachios in the team had fallen into a soft snow nest yesterday, like sinking into a swamp, and by the time the people dug up the snow, they had suffocated to death.

After walking for about 1 hour, Li Weiyong took out his mobile phone, activated the positioning of the 'Big Dipper', and confirmed the location.

The Big Dipper is a positioning system opened after the outer city-states took over from the Federation, and as long as you have a mobile phone, even in the post-disaster world with serious dust and dark clouds, you can calibrate your position at any time. Accurate down to the decimeter level.

"Just ahead, the bazaar in Hongshan Town, less than 100 meters away, it looks like we're going to have to dig up snow again."

There was no flat terrain in front of them, and if it weren't for the positioning system, it would be impossible to tell that their party was actually in the near center of a town of 20,000 people.

When they arrived at the ground and confirmed the location of the portal, a group of people began to dig by hand with tools.

It doesn't take long before it gets dark, and after dark, the temperature plummets, and the low temperature changes the nature of their fabrics, making them more prone to chipping. If their clothes are damaged, the cold can kill them.

Many people die like that, their clothes are torn and they don't think about it, their body temperature is lost rapidly, and eventually their organs fail and die.

Now that Earth's environment is as harsh as Mars, refugees must get used to it, and they can't afford to be careless about details.

When the sky was already very dark, the passage was finally dug out.

Pushing open the door, the smell gushing from inside lifted the spirits of several people near the door.

The cold smell has been smelling for too long, even if the smell in the bazaar is not good, it still makes people feel intimate, this is the smell of human civilization, it is a taste that they were extremely familiar with and accustomed to in the past, but now it is a very rare taste.

"Quick, get inside! Don't run out of heat! "Someone urged.

"Wait." Li Weiyong stopped, took out a flashlight-like instrument from his arms, stepped forward, and irradiated and scanned the dark interior at the door.

Portable neutron scanners, this item was likewise had after the Outland city-states received the Federation in the mess of Earth. At the same time that 20 million minors were being sent to Starport, the items were sent to the refugee camp by the Harrier aircraft.

Its appearance greatly improves the safety factor of refugees, and it is far away, and it can be used to distinguish whether the opposite side is a human or an alien infiltrator. In general, it is very difficult for an infiltrator to rush over a distance of 100 meters without being killed by the fire of the human side's weapons.

The results of the scan made Li Weiyong's heart sink as he said to the others, "There are several old raiders inside. ”

This is technically incorrect, as there is no distinction between old and new raiders, only raiders who are unable to adapt to extreme cold due to lack of resources.

Many of the refugees who left the camps for the delta in the early days, or who were on their own feet, were killed by these alien creatures, and because the information was developed and most of it was shared, the refugees quickly learned what was out there.

Bazaars like this one were confirmed to be usable by previous migration teams. There's even quite a bit of food in it that can be cooked.

Unexpectedly, it was less than a week before the robbers got in.

"Are you mistaken?" A skinny refugee asked anxiously.

Li Weiyong shook his head and didn't say anything more.

Behind him, some weak-willed women couldn't help but cry. It's getting dark, but they don't have a place to stay, it's the rhythm of death!

"Go in and fight those monsters!"

Li Weiyong shook his head again and said, "They are as desperate as we are, if we don't go in." ”

"What then?"

"We dig snow holes."

"Okay, you're the team leader, you have the final say."

The snow cave itself is a good cold-resistant facility, which can keep the temperature in a relatively high and stable state, and the key is not to suffer from the cold wind, which is deadly enough to know that the wind and cold are enough.

However, for the refugees, the continuous wind and snow day and night will make the snow cave risk of being buried and collapsing, either of which is very scary, so the refugees still prefer to stay in a buried building that is strong enough, rather than go anywhere to carve out a temporary shelter.

Now there is no way but to do it.

According to Li Weiyong's instructions, first build a snow mountain, and then open a hole in the leeward place, so that overnight, even if the snow cave is buried by wind and snow, it will not be too much.

This time, even the women had to stretch out their hands, and time was running out.

It's been just over ten minutes.

The thin man who had asked Li Weiyong before suddenly said, "Listen! Did you hear anything? ”

By this time it was completely dark, and lighting was needed to continue working.

"No sound, don't be surprised."

"No, there must be, my ears are sensitive."

Li Weiyong stopped his movements and listened carefully, there seemed to be a strange sound in the wild wind of the call sign.

"Quick, daughter-in-law, use a laser."

Li Weiyong's pregnant daughter-in-law hurriedly threw down the flashlight, took out a short sugarcane stick from the bag on the snow plow beside her, and twisted it to use it, with the lamp head facing up.

The human eye cannot see the laser beam emitted by the light tube, but under the relevant instruments, it is a beam of light that rises into the sky, and the heavy dark clouds cannot block it.

After a while, the peculiar sound became distinct, and everyone jumped or hugged each other with joy, the familiar sound made by the rotor propellers used by the Harrier to save energy.

Sure enough, after a few more minutes, the diffuse headlights shone in the air, and then the gyrocopter landed.

The troop transport compartment that was once used to accommodate the battle armor has now been changed to a dual-purpose for passengers and cargo, and the commander who came down from the inside and wore a mecha suit directly asked Li Weiyong and them about the situation.

After learning that this route was a common route for the camp's migration teams, the commander reported it to his superiors and finally decided to establish a station there.

It turned out that they were the vanguard exploration troops of the engineering corps that was ordered to establish a transit station.

Due to the wind and snow, the original main route from the Sichuan-Yunnan Lake Delta to the Asian refugee camps was no longer suitable and needed to be re-surveyed.

The front is explored, the back is laid, and now it is more than half of the trip.

With armor troops, some of the looters are naturally dead.

These warframes were originally designed to fight in space, so the cold temperature was not enough to overwhelm them, and when they entered the bazaar, they quickly strangled several raiders. Li Weiyong and the others no longer had to go to the bazaar to camp, but rested in the troop transport cabin.

Sleeping until midnight, Li Weiyong got up at night, and saw that construction was already underway outside:

In space, the directional energy emission of the arsenal ship is activated, and the low-power irradiation becomes warmth when it reaches the ground, as if the ozone layer is broken and the heat wave of the direct solar wind causes the ice and snow in a region to melt and transpire, and Hongshan Town reappears in the field of vision.

The construction party obviously did not care much about the damage to the building facilities or utensils in the irradiation, and when the irradiation was completed, the huge frame was transported into place, the assembly was built, and then the passage was connected and the building solution was poured in.

Snort! The exhaust valve at the bottom of the frame continuously discharges the air from the frame. Li Weiyong was woken up by this voice.

This kind of construction is not new to him. The Federation has also been using it for a long time, and it is similar to the operation of concrete pouring, but during the construction of the outer city-states, the frame erection and the construction solution used are more pressurized.

Of course, what Li Weiyong admires the most is the speed of construction. He saw clearly, after the completion of the frame, it is obviously a dome-type ecological circle of the big cover frame, this is a large cover that completely envelops a town covering an area of nearly two square kilometers.

When the sky brightened the next day, many people in Li Weiyong and his party were surprised by the overnight city built by the foreign city-states.

There is no mistake in admitting that the ecosystem of the outer city-states has a unique hexagonal large frame structure, which is different from the diamond-shaped structure that has been formed by the Federation and the circular structure that has been formed by the Republic, which is very easy to recognize.

By now, not only has the main body of the frame solidified, but even the semi-embedded pipes have been laid, and bubbles are blowing.

It is also an application of material technology, where the blank space between the frames is not embedded in the material like glass, but is 'blown' through the pipe nozzle.

This technology uses silicon nanobots and new attachment materials, and the end result is a complete carapace, with the frame as its keel. Such a shell is not only sturdy, but also self-repairable.

At the same time as the shell was being built, construction had already begun on the interior of Hongshan Town.

Robots enter the facility and collect all the furniture that is still usable. Then it was demolished with a demolition machine.

This machine uses the principle of microwave resonance, which looks like directional irradiation, and the house is irradiated, and the sudden 'poof' becomes a pile of powder, which is piled on the ground.

Therefore, this kind of demolition is absolutely fast, if it is not for the furniture to be moved, just demolishing the house, a few machines can completely dismantle this place in half a day.

In fact, it is not only the demolition equipment that is used to carry out the project, but a whole series, including material sorting machines, material screening and processing equipment, as well as excavation equipment and so on.

The effect of 'fossils to mud' like magic can also be completed by energy irradiation, chemical additives, like mud and sand, poured on the ground, and then heated directionally, accelerate the reaction, after a short time, it becomes a pit of good mud, dig it out, stir and sift it, and use it for other purposes.

In this way, a large area of land was dug with holes, huge pits were everywhere, and then coolies such as excavators and other unskilled coolies came on the scene, and the rest of the earthwork was cleared, and the super giant pit appeared.

In the early 21st century, it would take half a month to dig out such a huge pit, and now it is a matter of more than ten hours, which is not half a star.

Since human beings have more majestic energy available, the ability of equipment has also been greatly improved, and it is indeed very energy-consuming, but the effect is also just.

The outer city-states are even worse in this regard, so it is said that energy consumption is the benchmark of civilization, the level of civilization, and there is a rough estimate of the energy throughput rate per unit time.

Li Weiyong and the others packed their bags and embarked on the road of migration again, and the engineering team of the Difficult Management Association only helped them and did not arrange them to move diligently.

However, the next road has been a lot better, after all, the transfer station of the difficult management association has been repaired here, indicating that the last transfer station has been basically formed, and is hoarding supplies and preparing to open in full swing.

According to the design of the Difficulty Management Committee, the distance between the transfer stations is 50 kilometers, and it takes 10 hours to travel hard to reach the speed of ordinary people in this harsh environment. It's almost the same distance that you have to travel all day during the day.

In fact, migration teams like Li Weiyong who have made certain preparations will choose to start after 9 a.m., even if they walk a short distance after dark.

Because the morning is the coldest of the day, although the amount of daylight is large, the temperature dropped overnight will not make up for it immediately, and it will take a while for the temperature to warm up.

They also walked at about this point today, feeling a lot lighter, mainly with hope in their hearts, they knew that after repairing the transfer station, there would be drones patrolling at low altitudes along the way, and once they found alien creatures, they would shoot them, and refugees who found out of the situation would also be rescued.

In the eyes of the people, the policy of the foreign city-state is relatively cold, and many places are not close to people, and there is even a suspicion of watching you die, but as long as you do it, it is very reliable, far more beautiful than the words of the Federation, but in practice, all kinds of big and small problems are constantly done in a more reliable style.

Therefore, either you can't see the power of the outer city-states, and if you see it, it is very secure, which is almost the consensus of people, not only the refugees on the earth, but also the people who are stranded in space......

(End of chapter)