“…… According to the GSDC Ministry of Energy, the Röentgen power station is running steadily and is now responsible for about 17% of the electricity supply in northern Europe, but critics, led by the environmental group Green Future, argue that this model is still too inefficient and has irreversible negative impacts on ecosystems......

-- The Alliance Times

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On April 12, 2178, on the outskirts of Brussels, the former capital of Belgium, the 'Roentgen' lightning power station.

The bean-sized rain crackled against the glass window, and Ling Yu stood in front of the glass window with his hot coffee in his hand, looking at the masterpieces of these particle thunderstorm generators, but frowned slightly.

The so-called "Roentgen City", or "Real Yàn Lightning and Laser Transmission Power Station", is a power station located on the outskirts of Brussels that has been tasked with exploring the next generation of energy for the Alliance, although it does not seem to have been so successful now.

It seems to be an insatiable fear of the energy crisis, although fusion reaction technology has made great strides and the cost of fission reactors has been greatly reduced, but the alliance still has a large annual budget focused on research and development of new energy sources, and this laser transmission station is also one of the test projects - this kind of power station can accept lasers from geosynchronous orbit and convert them into electricity, and satellites in geosynchronous orbit convert solar energy into lasers, which were originally the alliance's laser attack satellites, However, because the deflection and consumption of the laser in the atmosphere are too strict, the destructive power is slightly insufficient, and it is a good choice for power transmission.

There is also a job in the city of Roentgen. That is, when the weather is bad and the cloud repellent cannot keep it clear, it absorbs the energy of lightning and converts it into electricity - this method uses the ultra-low power ion cannon on the satellite to quickly ionize the cloud and rain area to produce a lightning storm, and then the directional laser on the receiving tower of Roentgen City guides and stores the energy of lightning with the help of a supercomputer.

The hybrid application of these two technologies quickly made the city of Roentgen a pivotal position - it could transmit large amounts of electricity to the industrial regions of northern Germany and France and southern Britain in the south of England, which supported the operation of the entire European theater of operations, a large number of weapons and equipment were manufactured and transported to the front with an ample supply of electricity, and the civil power network could also be stabilized - during the century of the energy crisis, Europe's nuclear power facilities were massively shut down by the combined attacks of oil associations and environmental terrorists. And the last two decades. The League also only gradually started the work on the nuclear power plant in the south, because of the preservation of the city of Roentgen in the north.

As a result, the city of Röntgen is considered a "post-nuclear era", and the rail power station cannot be completed for various reasons. An important choice. The past ten years. A large number of Röntgenium-based technologies are used all over the world - laser transmission can be placed in deserts, grasslands or alpine plateaus where the weather is fine all year round, while lightning catalysis and reception can be used in areas with rainy and thunderstorm conditions.

Here's why. The reason why it would become what Logan called the "thirteenth target" was that the war with the ACA had left northern Europe in the rear, with a large amount of military equipment dependent on it, and the destruction of the civilian power grid would cause great panic.

Therefore, after the primary target Berlin did not find anything abnormal, Ling Yu and the others came here, but as soon as they got off the plane, they were involved in a series of troubles.

Looking at the torrential rain brought by the lightning storm, Ling Yu frowned slightly, and in the next second, the door of the room was pushed open.

"Damn, these guys are endless."

Logan, who was wearing a raincoat, rudely pushed open the door, tore off the poncho and threw it into the clothes tube next to him, then took down the towel on the shelf and wiped his face, rushed to Ling Yu's side, took the coffee in Ling Yu's hand, drank it all, and then rushed to the water dispenser and poured himself a cup of hot water.

"My throat is going to explode."

"Have the demonstrators been dispersed?" Ling Yu calmly picked up the cup that was empty by Logan, walked to the coffee machine and poured himself another cup of piping hot coffee.

"The base commander said that if he couldn't stop it, he would use tear gas, but with such a heavy rain, the effect is not good." Logan shook his head and poured three glasses of water in a row before he could catch his breath.

"What happened to the wounded soldiers?" Ling Yu raised his eyebrows, and there was some coldness in his voice.

"One was rescued, and the other is still being rescued in the ICU, and those dogs *mothers* raised* are too ruthless."

Logan replied that the reason for Ling Yu's question was an incident three days ago - two base guards were attacked by a "crowd of demonstrators" at the gate while on duty and were seriously injured, and this kind of thing has happened three times in the past year.

The cause of the incident, which dates back to about four years ago, is due to the climate change brought by the city of Roentgen - the original drizzly temperate oceanic climate on the outskirts of Brussels has become a grassland climate with either dry or heavy rainfall, in fact, from the beginning, many people were opposed to the construction of such a real power station in Brussels, which has an oceanic climate, but the importance of electricity as the main energy supply method is naturally self-evident for Europe in the war zone, after all, whether it is the Caribbean theater or the Indian theaterThe ACA is still far from the core of the league.

However, since four years ago, a radical environmental group called "Green Future" has repeatedly attacked the city of Roentgen, which claims that the Roentgen base will desertify the whole of Brussels within five years - which is obviously ridiculous, in fact, the answer given by the chief scientist is that with the help of supercomputers, the rainfall around the base has been kept at about the same level as in a normal year, and the impact on the environment is indeed inevitable. But observations over the years have shown that the impact of the city on the surrounding environment is only half that of a thermal power station, and this climate impact is almost negligible considering the actual amount of electricity generated.

But when some people are convinced of a fact, it's hard to convince them -- especially if they have little necessary scientific literacy, very quickly. The peaceful demonstration turned into an armed protest, and even though the armed forces on the opposite side were limited to stones, Molotov cocktails and steel pipes, casualties began to appear on the side of the guards.

"If you want me to say, the alliance should deal with these environmental terrorists according to the sentencing of terrorists, from a hundred years ago to now, they have never changed, and they have always been an obstacle to human progress!" Logan slammed the cup on the table, "What do you mean by picking quarrels and provoking trouble, will you let them out for more than 20 days and let them continue to mess around?" ”

"I'm all for you on that." Ling Yu turned around. Walked over to the table and pulled out a stool and sat down. "If you want to say that there are no ACA people in it, I don't believe it."

"These brutes, the people here are giving them electricity, and at the same time they have to risk being killed by them. What a reason? During the energy crisis, why didn't you jump out and talk about environmental protection? This is the same group of people who demonstrated to the government to solve the energy crisis when they couldn't eat, and now they want to protect the environment...... According to me, each person should be given a knife and thrown into the Amazon forest. Let them get in touch with nature. ”

"I want electricity, thermal power is polluted, hydropower is unstable, nuclear power is too dangerous, but I just want to use electricity, if you don't give it to me, I'll roll around." Ling Yu turned his head and summarized succinctly, "If you want the horses to run, and don't want the horses to graze, I think they are living too well." ”

"Totally agree! I think it's almost time for Europe to engage in military management, obviously the most dangerous theater of operations, obviously the defense line collapses, the ACA can be pushed from the Mediterranean to the English Channel in a week, and these bastards are still living so leisurely. Luo Gen sighed viciously, shook his hand, and motioned for Ling Yu to change the subject, "Jiesi, don't they have any news yet?" ”

"I was contacted just now, and there is no change in Berlin or Geneva." Ling Yu shook his head slightly, because Europe was too vast, the five of them had to disperse, Ling Yu and Logan came to Brussels, Linya stayed in Berlin, and Jesse and Helis went to Geneva.

"It's the 12th today." Rogan propped his hands on the table, covering his wet forehead, "It's been 2 days since the bottom line guessed by Helis, and there is still no progress. ”

"The Secret Service is also under a lot of pressure, and the unprovoked anti-TF exercises have made the Secret Service scolded miserably, and Han Fei and Anderson are also under tremendous pressure." Ling Yu thought of Han Fei, who had a video call with him last night, and sighed - did this kid really do research at the Academy of Sciences? Why does it feel like he's been taken over by the Secret Service? "But speaking of which, Commissioner Morgan has given tremendous support."

"That David. Morgan? Logan raised his head and raised an eyebrow, "Isn't he famously good old man?" The director of the Secret Service, who has the most zài sense, how did he suddenly become tough. ”

"That's not a good man, it's forbearance, and the last thing the submarine captain lacks is patience." Ling Yu picked up the coffee on the table that was no longer hot and shook it slightly, "'I like submarine captains because they don't always have much nonsense. ’”

"You're not in a wheelchair," Logan smiled lightly, revealing the source of the line quoted by Ling Yu, "Getting down to business, what should we do next?" ”

"We can't stay here forever, Jesse is right, we need to keep tracking down the Candlewax Project." Ling Yu thought for a moment and put forward the strategy for the next stage of deployment, "There are only a thousand days for thieves, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, the alliance has not yet fallen to the sake of relying on the five of us little guys to save it, if Marshall knows that the plan is leaked, it may be possible to modify or even cancel the plan, this kind of thing is ......."

"Hmm...... I always feel that I am so unwilling. Logan gave a look of pity, but then made a two-finger salute, "But you're the boss." ”

"I understand that this is your home, and if the intelligence is that the ACA is going to attack East Asia, I will definitely be very nervous." Ling Yu closed his eyes and struggled slightly, "But as long as the alliance pays attention to it, it shouldn't cause too much damage, which is why we have to track down the 'candlewax' operation, because the alliance still thinks it's just a joke." ”

"OKOK, no problem," Logan made an OK gesture and took a sip of water, "So when are we going to leave here?" ”

"Hmmm......"

Ling Yu lowered his head, but before he could speak, suddenly a shrill alarm sounded in the room.

The two people sitting at the table changed their expressions in an instant - this is the fourth level of alert that represents the highest alarm, and the alarm will only appear when the base is attacked by "enemy personnel"!

"Are you coming?"

The two jumped up from the table in an instant, and rushed out of the room before they even had time to put on their raincoats.

***

On the open flat ground in the south of the base, the huge rain could not stop the raging flames, and the barbed wire wall that was originally used to block the crowd had been blown out of several huge holes, and the guards who had blocked the crowd in front of the barbed wire wall had now turned into flying pieces of flesh and blood.

Private Bashile. Henry, one of the few survivors of the group, was crawling in an unrecognizable direction in the warm dirt and icy rain with his legs blown off, with his only remaining sense of survival.

He still doesn't know how this happened — a few minutes ago, he and his teammates were carrying rifles with non-lethal ammunition on their backs, forming a wall to block the demonstrators holding signs, which is not a complicated job, and he has done so many times in the past four years.

But ten seconds ago, things suddenly changed, and the people who were originally crowded in front of them suddenly ran backwards in confusion but in an organized manner, and immediately after, more than twenty masked men and women appeared behind them.

The men and women, on the other hand, took the rocket launcher out of the dirt under their feet and pulled the trigger at themselves. (To be continued......)

PS: The book review area had a convulsion yesterday and is good today, and the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion seems to be relocating, so let's bear more