On the morning of the 5th, Bai Xiao and the others had already packed up their equipment and waited for Lu Chen, and Lu Chen made an incubator for placing the snow, and then brought it to the RV, Bai Xiao and the others also boarded the RV.

Shelter 1 port, the Morningstar is already at anchor in the harbor, waiting for the arrival of the landing morning,

After a while, Lu Chen's RV began to approach, and after arriving at the port, the rear compartment of the Morningstar opened, and Zero controlled the RV and drove in.

After the RV drove in, the hatch closed, the cabin temperature began to rise, and when the predetermined level was reached, everyone could finally take off their protective helmets and move freely around the cabin.

Lu Chen and Bai Xiao came to the bridge and looked at the ocean in the distance, Lu Chen began to give orders: "Zero, start the Morning Star, let's set off and join the Dragon Navy"

"Yes sir, the power system is online, the Morning Star is starting to move, the waters ahead are in normal condition and can sail at full speed, the Morning Star is starting to accelerate, reaching maximum speed, and starting to enter cruise mode!"

"Bai Xiao, send our coordinates to the Dragon Navy, and ask them where we meet,"

"Okay, Mr. Lu!"

After speaking, Bai Xiao began to contact Ding Haifeng, and after receiving Bai Xiao's communication, Ding Haifeng on the Nanchang ship locked Lu Chen's location.

"The fleet goes to this coordinate, moves at full speed and converges with the target as soon as possible."

The entire mixed fleet began to adjust its direction and sail at full speed,

On the other side, Lu Chen also knew from Bai Xiao that the Dragon Kingdom fleet was approaching him at full speed, so Lu Chen directly ordered Zero to reduce his speed and wait in place here.

As the Morningstar gradually stopped, Lu Chen asked Zero to release the Morningstar's drone to monitor the surrounding situation, and then began to look at the mineral distribution map of the nearby area, ready to see if there were any minerals with high reserves in the surrounding countries.

After searching for a while, Lu Chen selected several places, one is Nisia and the other is Laowo, the former has a lot of oil resources, and the latter has a lot of coal resources.

Petroleum can refine various chemical materials, as well as aviation fuel, etc., although modern fighters cannot be lifted into the air now, but I have learned from Bai Xiao that it will not be long before the volcanic ash can be removed, so it is better to give priority to reserves, and coal is a necessity for building thermal power generation by itself, in the current environment, the fast reactor cannot produce nuclear fuel rods for the time being, so it is the best choice to directly use thermal power generation to supply mining areas,

In addition, Lu Chen also chose another place, which is Australia, but I heard that the country has taken over the original state-controlled mines, and after the volcanic ash is eliminated, satellites in space can directly monitor the earth's surface.

Therefore, the pawn of this Stars and Stripes country will definitely attract attention, and at that time, his mining base will be exposed, and Southeast Asia will be better, after all, it is still relatively close to his nest, and there is a guarantee of safety.

The final focus must be on seabed mining, Lu Chen plans to build an offshore operation platform first, which can be directly exercised to the top of the seabed mining area, and then transport the ore below to the sea, and then after preliminary screening and smelting, form metal ingots and transport them back to China.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly thought that if the volcanic ash was removed, then the sunlight would definitely shine back on the earth, and the ecology would slowly recover, then there would be a potential danger in his No. 1 shelter in Annan, after all, he directly built a base on their land and mined ore without Annan's permission, so it was likely to attack him directly,

And for the sake of the international image, it is impossible for the Dragon Kingdom to directly force Annan to admit his legitimacy, so Lu Chen issued a new order to Zero,

"Zero, from now on, start manufacturing transport ships in the shipyard, first build two 10,000-ton freighters to transport supplies for shelter No. 1, and then find a relatively flat place on the seabed in the open sea to build a submarine base, and at the same time make every effort to build a submarine robot, the submarine prospecting operation is temporarily suspended, and the construction of a submarine base is the first priority, and then increase the thermal power generation units in the Annam mining area to carry out saturation mining in the mining area,

In addition, the mining base in Laowo and Nicaea is also fully expanded, to ensure that there will be no problems before the completion of the submarine base, by the way, those offshore oil production platforms near Indonesia have all been activated for me, and I will go all out to extract oil, and I will ask the official to store this oil on a piece of land,"

"Yes sir, development priorities have been revised,"

"In addition, I will call up the map of Indonesia, I will select a few port cities to search and see if there is any gain, I have to take advantage of the current wave of fish,"

"Sir, the map has been called up!"

Lu Chen looked at the Indonesian cities shown on the map and chose a route such as Kuching - Shan Kou Yang County - Jakarta - Surabaya - Bali - Dili - Manado - Semporna - Malai - Manila.

And Lu Chen's current location is here in the Xisha Islands, according to such a route, the total range is more than 10,000 kilometers, and the cruising range of the Morning Star has reached 8,000 nautical miles, which is converted to 14,400 kilometers, which is enough for his own use

After some calculations, counting the detour in the middle, the total voyage is almost 6,000 nautical miles, and the speed of the Morningstar is 25 knots, not considering the time of stay, then it is 10 days to return to the Paracel Islands, plus the time to carry supplies in the middle, almost exactly one month.

Lu Chen felt that it was almost time to deal with the volcanic ash in a month's time, and then he continued to hide in the country and continue to farm, but it was still a little uneven outside, and his life was still important.

At this time, Bai Xiao walked over and said to Lu Chen, "Mr. Lu, the fleet has arrived, do you need to take a look?" ”

"It's here so soon, let's go, let's see,"

The two came to the bow of the ship, looking at the mixed fleet in the distance, Lu Chen said: "A hundred years of navy, now my country's coastal defense forces have also come up,"

At this time, a helicopter took off from the Nanchang ship in the distance, flying towards Lu Chen, Lu Chen and Bai Xiao also walked towards the tarmac behind, and when the helicopter landed, the adjutant of the Nanchang ship came over, Bai Xiao saluted, and the adjutant looked at Lu Chen and said: "This is Mr. Lu, we will escort you on this trip,"

"Thank you for the attention of the military, thank you here,"

"Where is Mr. Lu, we are also grateful to Mr. Lu for the technology provided, which has greatly increased our combat power."

Lu Chen saw that he didn't elaborate, and it was estimated that there were confidentiality regulations, so he skipped this topic, and after chatting a few words, the first mate asked Lu Chen about the route of the voyage, and Lu Chen handed over the sailing route he had just decided to the first mate, and then the first mate returned to the Nanchang ship first.

Then Lu Chen was connected to the fleet channel to facilitate communication and unified command, and Lu Chen's Morning Star sailed into the center of the fleet.

After seeing that everything was ready, Ding Haifeng ordered the fleet to start sailing, and Lu Chen began a month-long sailing life starting from the Xisha Islands.

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Stars and Stripes, near the Yellowstone volcano, due to the volcanic eruption, although the surface temperature here is low, but the temperature located in the ground is still very high.

And in such an underground, a rat's nest was built in it, and this rat's nest was more than ten times larger than the usual rat's nest.

At this time, the rat kept running in, and I saw that the size of this rat was big and scary, comparable to those large dogs.

If you can see through the ground from the air, you will find that such rat holes are everywhere, and a huge rat paradise has been formed.

And due to the proximity to the volcano and the influence of volcanic ash, there are no humans in this area.

So these rats often look for food in the cities on the surface, and those newborn rats begin to acclimatize, their fur becomes resistant to extreme cold, and in warm areas they can open their pores to dissipate heat.

The withdrawal of humans has led to the rapid reproduction of mutant rats in this area.

Because of the damage to the nearby laboratory, these rats were contaminated with some experimental materials, and the symbiosis of spores made these rats grow larger and larger, and eventually grew to the same size as large dogs.

After a few months, the food in the city has been consumed by the rat colony, and in order to reproduce the population, the rat colony begins to migrate to other areas.

Gradually, the rats are about to come into contact with humans.

At night, in a shelter near the Stars and Stripes Country,

Bowers returned to his dorm room at the end of the day.

The rest of the roommates hadn't come back yet, and after taking off his overalls and throwing them on the chairs, Bowers was going to get some water and take a shower.

In the past, bathing was directly drenched in the rain, but now you can only use a basin to catch some water and wipe it with a wet towel.

In the bathroom, Bowers was taking a shower, and suddenly heard movement outside, thinking that his roommate was back, so he didn't care much, but then he heard the sound of things falling on the ground,

"Carl, is that you? What are you doing? ”

"Carl?"

Hearing that there was no response outside, Bowers felt a little strange, quickly wiped it, put on his clothes and went out of the bathroom, only to see a creature as big as a Tibetan mastiff in the house with his back to him eating something,

The sound of Bowers opening the door attracted it, and then it became clear that it was a big mouse, and before Powers could scream, the mouse pounced on it and bit Bowers' throat directly.

When the other roommates returned, they found that the door was locked, and after several knocks on the door without response, several people discussed and broke open the door.

The moment the door was knocked open, several people saw a room of big rats, and before a few people could react, they were swarmed by the rats, and before he died, Carl vaguely saw a big hole in the ground in the dormitory, and there were constantly rats scared up.

Soon, the shelter was lost.

And with the destruction of this shelter, far away in the heart of the galaxy, there was a mutation.

Lewen