Chapter 349: Fire and Electricity

It's hard to imagine that without the control of a higher level of intelligence, the monster would willingly turn itself into an oversized bio-bomb.

Meng Chao felt that the "mystery of the demon god" hidden behind the strange beast would surface two years earlier than in his memory.

If in the depths of the mist, there is really a satellite town that has been eroded beyond recognition by the other world.

In the previous life, because the white ghost detonated the red glow jade vein, causing heavy damage to Dragon City, at least for two or three years, Dragon City was unable to launch a new external offensive, and this ill-intentioned satellite town could develop and infiltrate calmly.

Now, because of the butterfly effect set off by Meng Chao, instead of losing its troops, Longcheng has ushered in a "golden generation".

The Red Dragon Army received the resources of the Northern Development Zone, and its firepower became more ferocious.

In just half a year, the area under its control has expanded by 30%, and even observation posts have been set up nearly 100 kilometers away from the city, with a huge radiation range.

If Dragon City continues to swell like this, no matter where that deformed and mutated satellite town is hiding, it will be discovered, right?

Therefore, Meng Chao estimated that the other party had to make a move.

Among the memory fragments of previous lives, there are many "big events" that should not happen until two or three years later, and maybe within three or five months, they will be intensively staged.

That's a good thing.

Because judging from the examples of White Ghost and Gao Ye, the other party's secret weapon, the "Nine Great Demon Gods", has not yet been concocted.

The infiltration of Dragon City will definitely not reach the level of pervasiveness in the memory of the previous life, two or three years later.

Forcibly advancing the conspiracy would only expose their organization and allow Dragon City to eliminate them once and for all.

The day the "Mystery of the Demon God" is solved, it is the time when Dragon City wins the monster war.

As the intelligence of monsters has increased to a degree that is visible to the naked eye, various new forms of "alien beasts" have appeared one by one, and the authority of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau has become more and more large, and more and more personnel have been recruited or seconded from various forces.

Even so, the core team is still busy, with each senior investigator often responsible for investigating more than a dozen cases at the same time.

Otherwise, it would not be Lu Siya's turn to be Meng Chao's instructor.

There is an extreme shortage of manpower, and Meng Chao's usual performance is quite outstanding, the so-called "final test" is almost a formality, and the day after the test was passed, Meng Chao was pushed to the front line like a duck on the shelf.

This is the north of the city, near the waste-to-energy plant of Longcheng Iron and Steel Group.

After the Dragon City crossing, there was hardly a speck of oil and coal underground, and except for a few solar-powered facilities, the city's thermal power plants were almost paralyzed for two decades.

It wasn't until humans gradually mastered the technology of using fire-based spars, thunder-based spars, and various monsters to generate electricity, and that household appliances such as televisions, computers, and electric lights, which can be found everywhere on the earth, re-entered thousands of households.

However, for the people of Longcheng, the most important role of "electric energy" is not to light up TVs and computers.

Instead, it recharges the defense system of each community, and uses high-voltage electricity to construct the first line of defense against monsters.

All communities in Longcheng, regardless of the old and the new, rich and poor, have the function of "fortressing".

In the case of "fortification", the main and secondary roads of the community will be closed, and barbed wire will be raised with high-voltage electricity.

On the façade of the building, gears are also driven by electric energy, and layers of armor are draped to cover all the doors and windows.

Not to mention, the aggressive electromagnetic coils that can be found everywhere in the community, as well as the searchlights that stab the eyes of people, all need electricity to drive.

If the power grid is paralyzed, even if the "fortification" is barely completed, the defense will be greatly reduced, and the defense line will be easily overwhelmed by monsters.

Because power security is so important, Dragon City, with a population of tens of millions, is far more than just a power plant.

Instead, five power plants were set up in the southeast, northwest, and outside the city, regardless of pollution.

Many important units, as well as their own spar generators, ensure that the towers and searchlights do not stop in the event of an interruption in external power transmission.

Ordinary old communities naturally do not have such advanced functions.

In the past three months, there have been at least five cases of fog falling, monsters attacking, power plants suffered mysterious explosions, large-scale power grid paralysis, "fortressed" communities suddenly blacked out, and barbed wire, which should have been connected to high-voltage electricity, was gently pulled by monsters, and it was a mess.

The loss of power supply caused the community's defense to plummet.

In the dark, human beings have more violent fluctuations in the psychic index, and they are more likely to be swallowed by fear.

In five communities with sudden power outages, the monsters managed to break through the defense lines of four of them and engage in hand-to-hand battles with residents.

Under the desperate struggle of the residents of the community, the monster was finally repelled by them.

But residents have also paid a heavy price.

Regardless of the number of dead and wounded, most of the buildings in the community were destroyed by monsters - not the flames that melted the steel bars inside the buildings, making the buildings crumbling and turning into dangerous buildings that could collapse at any time; It is to rush into the interior of the building and spray acid and venom, turning the building into a paradise for snakes, insects, rats and ants.

According to preliminary statistics, at least tens of thousands of residents' houses have been seriously damaged and have lost their value for repair.

The housing problem of the citizens has plagued Longcheng for many years.

Until now, countless citizens have to live in a dark, cramped, damp nest city with a high crime rate.

There are also countless citizens, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, and more than a dozen people, all crowded into a humble room of fifty or sixty square meters.

Houses with a height of two meters and two or three floors, separated by beds on the upper and lower floors, are commonplace.

The displacement of tens of thousands of residents has made the problem of living space in Dragon City even worse.

If it cannot be properly resolved, it is very likely to exacerbate the conflict.

Perhaps, this is the purpose of the other party.

The Beast Investigation Bureau has carefully checked the data from previous years.

It was found that these five sudden power outages were very different from the power grid paralysis caused by the overload of the defense system in previous years.

In recent years, Longcheng Power Group has carried out a comprehensive technical upgrade of the city's power grid, even if hundreds of communities are "fortified" at the same time, it can support the attack of the strongest power output of the electromagnetic tower.

But these five times, the fog descends, and the monsters surge out of the gaps in space, and the nearby power plants will encounter mysterious explosions.

And these power plants, obviously not shrouded in fog, should not be the target of the monster invasion.

"There have been monsters for a long time, when the fog fell, secretly hidden, and quietly sneaked towards the power plant, patiently hibernating under the power plant, and when the next fog fell, when the power plant was running at full power, they launched a suicidal raid to create favorable conditions for a new batch of monsters to destroy human houses."

This is the inference of the experts of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau.

According to past examples, different types of monsters rarely have the concept of coordinated operations.

"At the expense of oneself to create offensive opportunities for comrades on different battlefields" seems to be a concept exclusive to human beings.

If the monsters do, it proves that they have human-like intelligence.

Knowing that the "power plant" is lurking and raiding this important facility, it shows that the monster realizes that the human defense system is closely related to electricity, and that these buildings with huge steam towers can provide humans with a steady stream of electricity.

No matter how you think about it, it's impossible for a simple monster to know these things.

They are most likely "alien beasts" that have devoured human intelligence.

The Municipal Meteorological Bureau predicts that another fog will fall tonight.

Moreover, from the analysis of the amplitude of the spatial ripples, it is the largest and longest fog coming in the past six months.

It is highly likely that a large number of Nightmare Beasts and Hell Beasts will break into Dragon City.

In the past six months, the speed of evolution and mutation of monsters has accelerated, and ordinary monsters like the Sword Halberd Demon Pig have more than ten or twenty mutant forms.

Although the Transcendents and the Red Dragon Army can rely on highly targeted new battle modes such as "Extreme Stream" to kill these mutants in the wilderness without leaving a single piece of armor.

Urban warfare, however, is a different matter.

There are a large number of ordinary citizens living in the city.

Many important facilities are also full of flammable and explosive materials.

And the houses of the citizens, no matter how much they are reinforced, cannot be reinforced to the level of a battle fortress.

There's nothing wrong with killing monsters.

But if a devastating nirvana passes, blasting the monster into slag and pulp along with the residential buildings behind it, along with the inhabitants inside, it will definitely not be considered a victory.

Street battles are ten times more difficult than field battles.

Fighting in the streets in one's only city is even more constrained, and ten percent of the combat effectiveness may not be able to exert fifty percent.

If at a critical moment, another monster comes out to destroy the power plant, causing a large-scale collapse of the power grid, the consequences are unimaginable.

The scope of this mist encompasses the seven districts of the city, east, west, north and south.

The Alien Beast Investigation Bureau can only disperse the elite soldiers into five power plants and fortify them one by one.

Meng Chao and Lu Siya were deployed at a waste-to-energy plant in the north of the city.

State-of-the-art biotechnology is used to dispose of waste not with giant sandworms, but with special microorganisms that have been modulated.

Garbage processed by microorganisms and then fermented by a special process will be turned into a substance similar to chemical fertilizer.

This substance is mixed with the feces of monsters, as well as the powder of fire and thunder hedron such as "Thunder Stone", and it becomes the best fuel, far more efficient than any thermal power plant in the Earth era, and can convert 65% of the heat energy in the fuel into electricity.

Biotechnology, which was originally quite advanced, has now become a great hidden danger.

Because in the fuel fermentation warehouse of the power plant, nearly 1,000 tons of semi-finished products are still stacked.

Meng Chao didn't want to know how large a fire would be caused once these semi-finished fuels were ignited by the alien beasts using secret methods.

Anyway, in the fragments of his past life memories, in the next few years, there will be at least three or five mega-fires that will affect the whole city.

The most serious of them even burned down a third of the "Golden Tooth Nest City"!