Chapter 21 The Energy Crisis

The Gate of Heaven, a mysterious church organization that had been secretly laid out before the end of the world and had risen rapidly in the northwest region after the end of the world, collapsed overnight.

Whether it was because of the sharp decline in the strength of the Bright Alliance, or because of the carelessness of being raided by Phoenix, the overnight collapse of Heaven's Gate once again made the Doomsday Phoenix a reality.

Doomsday Phoenix, a force that has only recently risen rapidly and gradually entered people's attention, has been established for less than a year, but it has swallowed the two super forces of the Light Alliance and the Gate of Heaven in more than a month, which cannot be described as a snake swallowing an elephant.

The rapid rise and growth momentum of Doomsday Phoenix City made all the forces in the Qinghai area, large and small, look sideways and shocked.

Some people are extremely excited about this, and they seem to see the birth of a unicorn, and the Qinghai region is torn apart, and the situation of humans killing each other is about to end. There are also people who are trembling because of this, the gate of heaven is by no means the end of the Phoenix conquest, maybe the next turn will be their own.

At the very least, the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Hercynian regime unanimously chose a truce after receiving information that the Gates of Heaven had collapsed. The two sides had been entangled in a battle-and-death situation for months, but it came to an abrupt end with a victory in Doomsday Phoenix.

Shan Xiongzhong and Tian Ziming are not fools, but the war in Doomsday Phoenix City that seems to have nothing to do with them has changed the power structure in the Qinghai region, from a four-way confrontation to a three-legged standoff, and the balance pattern has been broken.

Neither Shan Xiongzhong nor Tian Ziming thought that Doomsday Phoenix had the strength to defeat either the Light Alliance or the Gates of Heaven. They prefer to believe that it's just that the two sides fought and both lost and happened to be picked up by Doomsday Phoenix City for a bargain.

The reason why the two chose to stop fighting at the same time is because no matter which side wins in the end, the price paid by the victorious side will inevitably be huge, and neither of them wants to give Doomsday Phoenix another chance to profit and take advantage of this opportunity to dominate Qinghai.

But later it turned out that the two of them were completely wrong in their calculations at that time.

Because at that time, Phoenix City was even more unable to free up its hands to start a new war. The raid on the Gates of Heaven was not without a price, especially the desperate counterattack of the Gates of Heaven cultists in the final stage and the attacks of Megan and Baili Wuwu against ordinary evolutionaries. In this battle, the Phoenix City Special Combat Team lost more than 40 people, a reduction of one-fifth, and the Phoenix City Escort Division also lost nearly 2,000 people, a reduction of nearly a quarter.

And because of Duke and Zhongli Yuhua's escape, Phoenix City also has to put part of its strength on sweeping away the remnants of Heaven's Gate and guarding against the other party's counterattack. The truce between the two sides gave Doomsday Phoenix time to further consolidate and strengthen its own strength.

Within a few months of the end of the Doomsday Phoenix vs. Heaven's Gate War, the situation in Qinghai unexpectedly entered a period of unprecedented calm.

During this period, except for the occasional fight between small forces, none of the three superpowers took the initiative to provoke wars.

The Doomsday Salvation Army and the Haixi regime are using this time to lick their wounds and replenish their training troops.

When they had the strength to refocus on their respective spheres of influence, they found that the number of people in their spheres of influence was almost half, and the vast majority of them had fled to the sphere of influence of Doomsday Phoenix.

The two forces hurriedly introduced remedial measures to strictly prohibit the movement of people in their spheres of influence.

Once the hearts of the people are lost, they cannot be stopped, and the population is still being lost, and even the entire camp is fleeing.

The two forces have also learned from Phoenix's practice of clearing wasteland and encouraging farming, but they have missed the best time to cultivate. They also tried to issue currency, but the currency that was issued was not even used by the evolutionaries and soldiers of their own troops, and the people would rather die than accept it. Then, they discovered something even more terrifying, the Phoenix Coin was actually circulating privately in the sphere of influence they controlled, and even the evolutionaries and soldiers of their own troops were secretly hiding.

When the economy is controlled by the other side, when their own soldiers carry each other's currency in their arms, how can this war be fought?

Unless they take the initiative to provoke a war, the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Haixi regime are helpless, but neither of the two families is willing to provoke a war easily, because in the end the beneficiary will be the one who chooses to watch from the sidelines, and the matter has been dragged on.

Compared to the scarcity of the Doomsday Salvation Army and the Hercynian regime, Doomsday Phoenix is a completely thriving and busy scene.

The victory over the Heaven's Gate War hastened the integration of the troops, and the evolutionaries and soldiers of the remnants of the original Light Alliance have been completely glued together through the life and death of this war.

The Phoenix Special Operations Team and the Guardian Division used this time to replenish their strength and clean up the remnants of Heaven's Gate. Duke and Zhongli Yuhua have fled, but the faith they have established by brainwashing their followers is still there, and if they don't sweep away the remnants of the church, they will be able to reunite a group of people one day as long as they come back and raise their arms.

Wars of Religion have always been the most brutal, with the Crusades lasting nearly 200 years in which millions of people were killed for their faith. The cleanup of Phoenix City was also cruel, because Chi Hua always believed that once a person's brain was incorrigible, this person would be completely irretrievable, and this tone was laid after the war from the massacre of prisoners of war, and the army of Phoenix City slaughtered all the fanatics among the prisoners of war who still adhered to the set of beliefs of the Heaven's Gate Church.

Therefore, Chi Hua has always had two contradictory images in the folklore of the last days. One is the image of the castle lord who is polite and smiling, bringing infinite hope to the doomsday humans, and the other is the image of a demon who is full of murder and murderous faces.

For Zhong Liyi, who secretly let go of Zhong Li Yuhua in the battle. Military law was ruthless, even if everyone pleaded for mercy, Chi Hua removed Zhong Liyi from his position as brigade commander, and was confined for a month with thirty lashes, and the position of brigade commander was temporarily replaced by You Yong.

The construction of cities and affiliated camps is changing day by day. Phoenix City's sphere of influence now has three subordinate cities: Phoenix City, Heavenly Chosen City, and Hibiscus City, and the number of affiliated camps has increased to thirty-seven. The city's population and number of affiliated camps are increasing rapidly, with a new encampment being added every few days, and hundreds of new people becoming city dwellers every day.

Stable social order, stable living environment, job opportunities, free breakfast, and a series of elements that make people look forward to the end of the world, so that the three cities of Phoenix, the Chosen City, and the Hibiscus City are like a huge magnet, attracting people to move into the sphere of influence of the Doomsday Phoenix City.

There was no even need to be conquest, and many large and small camps came to join Doomsday Phoenix.

After a certain amount of screening, as long as it is not a camp that used to be dominated by robbery and plunder, Phoenix City will break up each camp and accept it. As a result, the population of Doomsday Phoenix's sphere of influence increased rapidly, quickly gathering more than 400,000 people in a radius of several thousand square kilometers. The widespread circulation of Phoenix coins in the surrounding area further contributed to the speed of population gathering and the sense of identification with Phoenix.

And Phoenix, as the center of power, has almost regained its modern urban civilization, with clean city streets, thriving business districts, busy people, except for the absence of mobile phones and the Internet, which is almost what the pre-apocalyptic city looked like.

Phoenix has gradually become a holy place in the hearts of human beings in the last days, and there are countless people who are willing to work and work hard, just to save enough points to become residents of Phoenix.

But the founders of the city did not stop there, the chariot of Doomsday Phoenix has hit the road, and it will rumble forward.

Doomsday Phoenix Conference Hall.

Chi Hua, Song Yu and Yi Fengleng, in addition to the three-person committee of Phoenix City, Ouyang Minglang, who was in charge of intelligence, was also present.

There was not much joy on the faces of several people, but they were all slightly tired, and Song Yu had big dark circles under his eyes. The construction and management of the city and various affiliated camps are complicated, all of which are supported by Song Yu alone, although he has gradually established a set of administrative teams, but all kinds of things must be reported to Song Yu in the end, so that Song Yu is busy all day long.

"Sister Yu, you have to pay attention to maintenance recently, otherwise you won't be able to marry a yellow-faced woman." Chi Hua was still in the mood to laugh at Song Yu.

"The old lady is so busy all day that she is a thief to death, but the two of you are hiding next to you, I can't marry Chi Hua, so you will come to the bottom." Song Yu choked Chi Hua angrily.

"Sister Yu, I also have all kinds of things all day long, and if I want to talk about leisure, Brother Hua is alone." Yi Fengleng surprisingly did not choose to be on the same front as Chi Hua this time.

"Sister Yu, aren't you in a hurry to find me and Feng Leng? Let's get down to business. Chi Hua deliberately misplaced the topic.

Song Yu of the three-member committee is in charge of internal affairs, Yi Fengleng is in charge of the army, and Chi Hua is in charge of the overall situation. When Song and Yi were both busy with their own things, Chi Hua was really more idle, and Chi Hua, who knew that he was at a loss, hurriedly changed the topic.

Song Yu did not hold on to Chi Hua, but shifted to the topic, "The biggest problem facing the development of the city now is the energy problem, with the successive start of light and heavy factories in the city, the electricity generated by our small thermal power plant is barely even urban lighting, and it cannot support the factory's electricity at all." Nowadays, many factories are facing the problem of not being able to operate without electricity. ”

Everyone here is a smart person, and Song Yu doesn't need to say a little bit to understand it.

The foundation of a modern city is industry, and the basis of modern industry is electricity. Without electricity, the machinery and equipment of each factory cannot function, and without machinery, the output of manual work alone can never meet the needs of a modern city.

As soon as Song Yu's question was thrown, Chi Hua's two thick eyebrows were twisted into a figure of eight. Building a medium-sized and large power plant is not an overnight effort, and the most important thing is that even Doomsday Phoenix does not have the capacity to build a power plant.

Song Yu saw Chi Hua's brows tightly knit and sneered, "I know that you can't do anything, so I have already figured out a way out for you." After speaking, he gave Ouyang Minglang a look.

"There is intelligence that 320 kilometers southeast of Phoenix, there is a large preserved wind farm." Ouyang stepped forward unhurriedly to report.

Chi Hua's frowning brows gradually relaxed, and his eyes burst out with dazzling brilliance.