The world moves slowly and according to its own laws.

Dr. Connor, who had lost seventeen voters in one fell swoop, fell into complete silence and did nothing else. Even if he wanted to make a move, there would be no more voters for him to squander. Bebraz, who indirectly suffered two big losses from Helen, didn't say anything, and the terrifying high-level abilities under his command all stood their posts and stood still. Haydn remained in the voter factory, and the few capable people directly under him were blind to the sudden decline in the number of voters as if nothing had happened. Helen was busy with her research, and Rafi and Curtis, who were increasingly in crisis, gradually reduced the number and intensity of infighting.

The war is still spreading across the vast land, and more and more families and forces are involved in this war between the two giants. In the early days, most of the people who went to war did it for profit, but in the later stage, more and more people joined the war because of hatred. But Bebraz and the Spider Queen, who started the war, stood like two silent mountains, staring at each other from afar, but did not make any other moves.

The situation is deadlocked.

In the west of the no-man's land, the western region of the Great Lakes is not peaceful. After at least nominally unifying the entire region, the Iron Gate's warplanes rumbled into action, with enough equipment to arm hundreds of warriors every day coming off the assembly line and distributing to the fighters who awaited them a few days later. Almost every few days, a well-guarded convoy rolls into the Iron Gate from Crane City, guarded by hundreds of warriors with boxes of power recipe potions!

Power is both an angel and a devil, and it has changed the world and the history of mankind.

Standing at the top of the command building, Su silently looked at the hundreds of fighters who were practicing in the square not far away. They haven't had time to equip themselves with weapons, but they already have uniform uniforms, and after more than ten days of intensive training, they will go to the battlefield one after another, giving up this playground to the newly recruited latecomers.

For more than a month, thousands of soldiers have stepped out of the Iron Gate to join the battle on the front line, burning the endless flames of war even more vigorously. Rigore and Rei are leading a fierce battle in the south, and their strategic goal is to open a passage along the mountains to the sea to the south. And the first obstacle in front of them is the Brotherhood of Alloy. Although the Alloy Brotherhood is still using the first-generation full-coverage power armor technology, the overall combat performance has far surpassed that of the first generation of mechas.

But Rigore and Rei, who came from the Dark Dragoon, have a way to deal with this iron giant who continues the tank warfare ideas of the old era. For example, infantry missile launches, such as the introduction of anti-tank minefields, such as heavy artillery cover shooting, are all good ways to deal with a generation of mechs with insufficient mobility. Relying on the huge military manufacturing capacity of Steel Gate, as long as there is a thought, it is not a problem to create some RPG-style individual anti-armor weapons. As for the shortcomings of the absence of long-range precision guidance, it can be compensated for by the number of fighters. The cost of one power armor can be exchanged for two entire companies of soldiers. On the battlefield, relying on Leigh's strategic command and Rigore's tactical toughness, it often only takes seven or eight warriors to destroy a Metal Brotherhood's power armor.

The war has been going on for more than a month, and the Alloy Brotherhood is retreating one after another, but the other side also has generals who are good at commanding, and several unexpected counterattacks have regained many disadvantages. In the era of losing efficient three-dimensional reconnaissance, on the battlefield, the command art of generals has once again become one of the factors that determine war.

However, Sue was well aware that Rei was not using her full talent. After Xiao Luo fled, Li's whole person seemed to have lost her spiritual support, and after sinking into decadence for a period of time, she suddenly devoted all her time and energy to the war, from the training of the troops, the design of equipment and even the front-line combat command, she spared no effort. After the defeat of the Brotherhood of Alloy, and the start of the war, she personally led her troops to the front line and never returned to the Iron Gate.

Leigh wasn't into war, she just didn't want to see Sue.

And Rigore, after handing over the command to Rei with a wry smile, did not return to the Steel Gate, but stayed by Rei's side and faced the battle of the Alloy Brotherhood with her. In continuous battles, Rigoray has upgraded his area control ability to the second order, which is equivalent to the level of the sixth order, which can increase the attack, defense, or speed of allies in the control area by one-third, and it can also hinder the enemy's movements. On a small-scale battlefield, this is enough to determine the direction of the battle.

Again, Rigore didn't want to win the war, but he didn't want any surprises.

And what about Sue? At this moment, Su, who was silently watching the soldiers under his command train, what was his persistence and goal?

The power of the Iron Gate is growing rapidly, and the steel and energy resources that represent the potential for war are still abundant, and the population is much higher than originally expected. A conscription order makes the outcasts hidden in the vast wilderness flock to them, and those who are qualified from among them can enter the army, and after a month of brutal training, they will be sent to the battlefield to become cannon fodder at the bottom. But cannon fodder also has a much better chance of surviving than being an outcast in the wilderness. Moreover, joining the army means having the basic ability to take care of the family. Displaced people don't have a home, but that doesn't mean they don't want to have one.

After all, only a few people can be selected for the army, but the rest of the homeless people who gathered at the Iron Gate were not disappointed. With the full operation of military aircraft, steel mills, military factories and even various service organizations began to lack manpower in large quantities. The largest shortage of workers is in iron ore, coal and other rare metal mines. Large-scale mining machinery in the mines has been stopped or abandoned, largely reverting to the traditional methods of relying on human production. This not only means a decrease in work efficiency, but also an increase in accidents. Almost every few days, there is a mining accident, big or small, that kills a few or dozens of people. But if you calculate the death rate, compared to the number of tens of thousands of miners, it is nothing. This mortality rate is also much lower than that of a homeless person living in the wilderness.

As Su learned, war is a double-edged sword, which can create a lot of demand while destroying it. Of course, this need is temporary, unreproducible, and illusory, if it is not possible to exchange the great destructive power that has come out of the creation of zào for land, resources, and population.

Although people die every day on the battlefield, the steel gate that the war machine opened with all its strength has absorbed more than 100,000 men in the prime of life and fed three times the number of old ** people. And as the expansion progresses, this number is still expanding, and the upper limit of the expansion is 1.2 million. This is the upper limit of the capacity of the water purification facility that the Iron Gate has. Originally, according to Su Yuan's calculations, the upper limit of the population that the water treatment capacity could support was 800,000, and after deducting the existing population of more than 200,000 in the three cities, it could support another 500,000 people at most, and this was under the premise of implementing a full rationing system. But in just one year, the number of displaced people recruited has changed a lot. They are becoming stronger, more resilient to their environment, and their evolutionary potential is increasing rapidly. Many of them can already survive by drinking water with moderate radiation, which means that nearly half of the wilderness can already be used as their living space.

In addition, there has been a marked increase in the number of capable people among the displaced population. Due to the large base, almost half of the strong men who were selected to become warriors already had first-order abilities, and a small half even possessed second-order abilities. After the physical fitness test, there are more than 100 people with third-order ability potential. The ratio of people with this ability is close to that of pure-blooded humans under the strict protection of Dragon City.

In the extremely harsh environment, the reproductive cycle of the displaced people has been shortened, and the average age of women giving birth for the first time has dropped to 10 years old, and there are even records of children starting to give birth at the age of seven.

Increasing capabilities, resistance to harsh environments, and vastly increased fertility indicate that the ability of the outcast race to adapt to a world of radiation is rapidly improving. In time, their place in this world may not necessarily be taken away by an endless stream of strange mutated creatures. On the contrary, the pace of evolution of pure-blood humans, who are under heavy protection, has slowed down a little, and the proportion of those who produce abilities has begun to be overtaken by the outcasts.

But mutation does not come without a cost, on the contrary, it is costly. The homeless people generally grow large patches of mutated tissue, and the cells that make up the mutated tissue are very similar to the cancer of the old era, which grows uncontrollably and disorderly. The combination of mutated tissues and the accelerated menstrual cycle has shortened the average life expectancy of displaced people to about 30 years. This refers to the life expectancy without accidental injury. And with the advancement of technology and ability, the average lifespan of pure-blooded humans in Dragon City has approached a hundred years, and the lifespan of capable people has exceeded this number.

Two environments, two destinies, two different paths, belong to the human race, which was originally one. The difference between the superior and the inferior can only be seen decades or even centuries later. In these cruel times, the process is no longer important, and the result is decided.

It was the Soviet Union who started the war.

After unifying the Western Regions of the Great Lakes and relying on his personal terror to deter all the forces that dared to oppose him, Su immediately launched a war in the southwest and invested the resources of the entire Iron Gate. By now, the Iron Gate has 3,000 troops fighting on the front line, 2,000 soldiers stationed in the three core cities, and another 5,000 reservists are training, and in a month and a half at most, they can be sent to the battlefield as a new rookie warrior. And the number of displaced people waiting to be recruited exceeds 300,000!

The horrors of the war of unification and the immediate start of an all-out war allowed the name of the Soviet Union to spread in the surrounding areas, and it became louder and louder. It was only before the name that the people who feared him added a new prefix, the Apostle of Hell. Some also called him, the Death Spreader.