Thanks to JEFF1977 for the commuter pass.

PS: Monthly pass plus update -

Wu Chen's impression of Fuling is probably Fuling mustard.

The biggest difference between the Fire Dragon Empire and other apocalyptics is that the ground has been burned to ashes and the scabs formed by various molten materials, preventing the gestation and rebirth of vegetation. From a distance, all the ground was gray. Because of the massive reduction in population and animals, oxygen consumption and emissions of various pollutants are almost zero. So when the flames went away, the air on Earth was surprisingly good.

PM2.5 levels are almost zero.

I don't know if that's a positive.

On Earth, the ocean has always been a major producer of oxygen. The ocean has not been poisoned by the fire dragon and has maintained a normal ecosystem, so even if all the forests on land are burned to ashes, the earth is not in danger of suffocation. What's more, there are fewer people who need to breathe.

The abandoned highway is littered with the ruins of various vehicles, and the scene of a series of car accidents that have been massively blocked off the road can be seen every other section. Scattered items also have traces of being torn and picked up. Many of them are rodent mutants. The fact that the car was able to survive means that there are no gold-eating ants here.

In the black-and-gray wilderness, the number of pronghorned cattle began to increase. Wu Chen even saw a herd of cows. They were digging through the tubers of vines under the ashes with their long forked horns. Wu Chen feels that this is also a kind of restoration mechanism for the earth. The scabbed ground that has been turned over by the horns of the cow is more likely to grow vegetation. This is the same as plowing is an effect.

A place called Lidu Town appeared on the rusty highway sign. The TT40 compares the map to the Kawato Shipyard after crossing this small town full of industrial areas. Dogmeat jumped off the highway and turned onto the secondary road to the shipyard. As the air humidity began to increase as it got closer to the river.

Some mutants raised their heads from the human ruins on either side from time to time, staring curiously at the big dog that was running wild.

"The hosts. The shipyard arrived. I don't know how long it took, the sleepy Wu Chen was woken up by TT40.

Looking up, although the huge dock was covered with dust, it seemed to be very well preserved, which made Wu Chen feel happy. However, wait to go to the other side of the dock. A terrifying breach nearly tore the entire dockyard in two.

The TT40 was quickly determined to be the work of the fire dragon.

After tearing apart the steel roof with its claws, a fire erupted into the interior of the dock, and the safe shelter immediately became an incinerator for the crematorium. The pervasive nitrate will burn everything to ashes. Under normal circumstances, the maximum temperature of gasoline combustion is only 1200°C, but after nitrification by the special glands of the fire dragon, and then forced through the long neck, the core temperature will reach 3000°C.

This is the same reason that the temperature of the blue flame of the methane blowtorch can reach more than 2800°C. High-pressure squirting. Fully burned with air, extremely high temperatures.

So the dragon can be seen as a giant biochemical gasoline blowtorch.

At 3000 °C, it can burn most of the man-made objects. Including tungsten carbide. The melting point of ordinary steel is only about 1500°C.

Therefore, what is left in this dry dock that manufactures thousand-ton freighters, Wu Chen is no longer looking forward to it.

Sure enough, inside the dock was a chemical steel hulled ship under construction. However, the entire hull is in a state of distortion that is half melted and then condensed. After the TT40 was scanned with the Life Field Radar, nothing was found.

In a semi-civilian and semi-military shipyard like the Chuandong Shipyard, there must be hidden bunkers.

The dock near the river was not found. Wu Chen drove Dog Meat towards the ruins of the main building halfway up the mountain.

After scanning the mountain, Wu Chen found the entrance to the secret bunker. However, I can turn on the power supply. After taking the industrial elevator down to the secret bunker in the mountain, the scene in front of him was not optimistic at all.

A corpse leaned in front of the elevator door, and as the door opened, it fell back and fell at Wu Chen's feet. It is not difficult to judge from the bullet casings scattered around, a rusty pistol and bullet holes near the temples. The person died by suicide.

There were also several dented craters in the blast doors of the industrial elevator, which was clearly the man's last attempt to survive.

Gently stepping over the shriveled corpse, Wu Chen walked into the hall. Boxes of fully packed equipment were scattered throughout the hall, and scrawny corpses lay in the process. They moved all the most important precision machinery and strategic materials underground, but did not store enough of the living goods. Wu Chen followed up and found a large generator set that had run out of diesel. I don't know in the days when the fire dragon attacked the city. How long did they hold out. However, when the last trace of power ran out, they were all trapped here.

In other words, there should be temporary escape exits such as ventilation ducts and drainage ditches. Wu Chen also quickly found the blown up vent. It's a pity that the inner diameter is not enough for humans to enter and exit.

Anyway, this kind of old-fashioned underground bunker is naturally very safe, but the biggest problem is that there is no preset safe enough means of escape. And the workers of the shipyard are not the first to ensure their own lives, but these precision instruments.

Are they wrong?

Wu Chen sighed.

Everything remains the scene of a post-apocalyptic struggle to survive. Wu Chen even saw a large amount of shredded paper from the perforated throat of a long-haired dry corpse. They ate everything they could, but left each other's withered corpses. Wu Chen could even imagine various scenes from the last moments of their lives. It made him feel bad.

Everything was fine. It wasn't until Wu Chen walked to the door of the war readiness warehouse that there were two dry corpses lying down and opened a crack.

There was no problem with the door, there was no sign of it being moved. At the end of their lives, the people who were sealed in bunkers tried to find possible supplies from the war-ready warehouses, so the doors were opened by themselves.

Wu Chen glanced sideways and found that a huge metal safe was displayed inside.

So I walked over curiously.

It is a purely mechanical safe, with no electronic devices.

I reached out and tried it, and the door locked.

A complex cipher disk needs to be turned to complete the unlock. Wu Chen didn't have time to waste, he pulled out a brand-new alloy knife with his backhand, and split the door with a few knives.

The exhibits inside are all there, and Wu Chen has seen them in turn. It's all confidential recipes and blueprints. Judging from the faint layer of dust, there is no sign of artificial movement of the ornaments inside. These so-called high-tech technologies are completely meaningless to Wu Chen. After all, the level of science and technology in the new Hong Kong is far greater than that of the Fire Dragon Empire.

In general, nothing.

Just as Wu Chen was about to leave, TT40 inadvertently scanned the safe door that had been cut off by Wu Chen, but found clues.

"Hehe......" Wu Chen smiled. So someone still quietly opened the door of the safe and looked at it. Quietly closed again, didn't he? So it was scanned by TT40 and found that there were traces of rotation of the gears inside.

After searching carefully, Wu Chen walked into the elevator empty-handed.

The TT40 scanned the entire plant again, still finding no signs of the presence of a life field.

Wu Chen stood halfway up the mountain and looked around, the dock destroyed by the fire dragon was the only conspicuous relic of the entire factory.

"TT40, is it possible that the shielding effect of the thick hull is there?"

"It takes a very high-grade alloy to do that." TT40 did not refute.

"Let's try it." Saying that, Wu Chen rode on the dog meat and ran to the dock by the river.

Standing in the huge gap torn by the fire dragon, Wu Chen raised his hand and shot a bullet over.

Dense sparks kept exploding on the twisted steel shell, waiting for Wu Chen to stop shooting. Not a single pit was left in the steel shell.

Wu Chen smiled: "My biochemical energy bullets can't make a mark, can the dragon breath of the fire dragon be burned?" ”

Seeing that no one responded, Wu Chen patted the dog meat beside him again.

Dog Meat immediately raised the laser cannon on his back, rushed at the jet-black steel shell, and fired a fierce shot!

Hum -

The high-energy laser hits the hull of the ship in response. The shell is red hot at a speed visible to the naked eye, fused, rippling layer upon layer?

"Master!" How could molten steel ripple! TT40 hurriedly gave a warning.

The steel shell behind it suddenly expanded. Laser rays of dog meat pass through the hull and melt through the walls behind!

As soon as the high-energy laser disappears. The hull of the ship suddenly changed!

Countless shiny metal flying insects? Swarming out of the hull, instantly engulfing the entire dock, hovering over the head of the chemical ship's hull!

TT40 zooms in on the flying insect: "Master, discover an unknown creature!" ”

Wu Chen also didn't recognize the origin of the flying insects.

However, when the flying insects gathered more and more, Wu Chen suddenly discovered that the entire ship seemed to be made of flying insects!

Wu Chen's heart moved: "Li Xianzhi?!" ”

The metal flying insects hovering overhead suddenly rolled up a thin tornado to the ground.

Immediately following a familiar figure, it was quickly reconstituted by the flying insects.

Sure enough, it's Li Xianzhi!

It's just Li Xianzhi who completely nano-wormed his body. I don't know if I have died in the electromagnetic storm released by Wu Chen! This zero can be proven!

Just as Wu Chen, who was extremely confused in his thinking, was still speculating about the various possibilities of Li Xianzhi's survival, 'Li Xianzhi' had already smiled and said: "Hello, an intruder from another world. ”

Wu Chen suddenly came to his senses: "The patron saint of the (Fire Dragon Empire) world?!" "The 'Fire Dragon Empire' that Wu Chen blurted out was automatically blocked by the ubiquitous Zero Adult.

"It's me. Nice to see you. Li Xianzhi calmly walked to the opposite side of Wu Chen.

"You copied Li Xianzhi's nanoworm?"

"No, no. But his bugs. It really gave me a lot of inspiration. Li Xianzhi stared at Wu Chen's eyes and smiled calmly: "Sorry for disrupting your plans." ”

"What?" Wu Chen hadn't reacted yet.

"Your plan to invade the world."

"Actually, I don't mean anything." Wu Chen definitely didn't want to provoke an 8-star guardian god!

"I know. But as you said, it's not a personal issue. The Patronus replied softly.

"Why here?" This is Wu Chen's question. Entrenched in the East Sichuan Shipyard, the pattern of the 8-star god king is too small.

"I feel like you're left nearby." The Patronus has nothing to hide: "So, I chose this place." Sure enough, you still noticed it. ”

"What are these bugs?" Wu Chen spied on the news as much as he could.

"A kind of archaea. I genetically modified him with the help of a mutant. As you can see, your enemies should be them in the future. ”

"I really just want a base." Wu Chen sighed.

"Okay." After speaking, Li Xianzhi turned around and walked back to the hull.

The swarm hovering overhead immediately rolled up the clouds of death! (To be continued.) )