Exploration 1 is self-sufficient in both material and energy. The only problem is that the distance to the Earth is too long, which creates a barrier to the transmission of signal connection and technical data.

The eldest son, who was standing beside Wang Qinian, was also in a stirring mood. In my memory, there are very few such opportunities to face other family members directly. Even though it's a message that's been several years late, it's still exciting. He was also married, with sons and grandchildren, and even more family members than his younger brother who was far away on the spaceship.

Although the space cruiser "Yue Fei" displayed by Gao Liquan at the United Nations General Assembly is not the first member of the Space Force, it is the latest type of warship.

It flies faster than any other aircraft ever before. Based on this, the super-large space integrated ecological ship "Roaming" is expected to be completed in two years. If a qiē shun lì, the "Roaming" will catch up with the "Exploration One" twenty-one years later. At that time, Wang Qinian will achieve a real family reunion.

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When Yang Lulu walked down the ramp of the flying battleship, she saw a middle-aged man slumped in the corner of the ruins outside the barbed wire fence in the distance. He did not look very old, but his face was haggard, and his hair and beard were almost entirely white. A gray shirt was covered in dirt and threads all over the surface. He held a cane in his left hand and clubbed the ground with his right hand, as if trying to stand up, but he couldn't complete this simple movement. Although Yang Lulu was looking at it from a long distance, she could clearly see the man crying. Large tears flowed down his cheeks, and it was hard to hear what he was shouting, but he could be seen changing the shape of his mouth. It seemed to be roaring at the sky, and it seemed to be begging for something.

This scene left a deep impression on Yang Lulu. It's not that she's sentimental, it's that she's seen too many similar drawings over the past hundred years.

A corpse lay in front of the middle-aged man. To be precise, it was just a pile of rotten flesh that barely maintained its human form, but it was impossible to recognize its true face. The corpse was cut to pieces, with no muscles left, only a skeleton stuck together with rotting entrails. According to the Japanese receptionist's investigation after the fact, the body was the son of a middle-aged man.

Yang Lulu can understand this feeling. She learned to kill at a very young age, cutting human flesh to feed her father, who had become a zombie. For a little girl at the time, this kind of thing was simply the most terrible nightmare. However, Yang Lulu didn't feel that there was anything to fear. Even her father, who was rotten in her memory and exuded a strong stench, was still her closest and most loved person in her eyes.

Moved is just moving, Yang Lulu does not intend to evolve it into practical help. The middle-aged man's son was eaten by other refugees. When he heard the news and came to him, he only saw this skeleton. Since then, he has been sitting where he is. The reason why he was not starved to death was because he kept tearing leftover meat from his skeleton for food. Now, the corpse is decomposed. I wonder why he cried for his dead son? Or is it because there will be no leftovers to eat in the future?

Black particles are a very amazing creature. It will regulate the metabolism in a stable and orderly manner according to the physiological condition of the host. For different hosts, the rhythm of regulation of black particles is also different. Take Yang Lulu as an example, since decades ago, she has maintained the appearance of a twenty-two-year-old. This is undoubtedly good news for Yang Lulu, who, like all women, attaches great importance to her appearance. Especially under the effect of black particles on the appearance of the body, her figure is extremely well proportioned, especially the slender legs and comfortable breasts that can break free from the top at any time, which have always been the focus of men's attention.

Yang Lulu's military rank is major general. Sixty-three years ago, when the 1031st Mechanized Infantry Division was just beginning to be established, she was already in this rank. The reason why it has not been promoted for decades is entirely because of the relationship between the military headquarters and the Southwest Military Region -- both Gao Liquan and Lao Song believed that they should not put on a posture of separating themselves from the military headquarters with open swords and guns. To do so would be tantamount to splitting. Although the "swarm" does not need help from the military department in any way, the military officials headed by Zhao Zhikai are still the legitimate leaders of this land.

The little fat man Zhou Pangpang became Yang Lulu's husband without any suspense. In the process of transforming the concept from "boy" to "man", Zhou Pangpang also changed from a little fat man to a big fat man. It is very strange that the modification effect of black particles on the host is not reflected in Zhou Pangpang at all. He weighs more than 150 kilograms, and with a height of more than two meters, although he is very fat, he is not annoying, but has a lively and cute feeling.

The Zhou family developed into a huge business consortium. Zhou's father is no longer in charge of affairs, and the leadership of the group is all handed over to Zhou Pangpeng. In terms of having children, Zhou Pangpeng's ability is indeed amazing. According to Yang Lulu's original idea, she only wanted two children at most. So two daughters were born. It is difficult for outsiders to intervene in the problems between husband and wife, and no one knows what method Zhou Pangpang used, Yang Lulu actually agreed to his request to continue to have children. In this way, when Yang Lulu was seventy-four years old, she already had two men and two women under her knees. The long time after Su Hao left the earth was enough for them to spread out, and Yang Lulu's grandsons and granddaughters were as many as sixteen.

Lao Song often sighed: This is a terrible era when you can't judge your actual age from your appearance.

Isn't it? Taking Yang Lulu as an example, who would have imagined that this young girl, who looked no more than twenty years old, was already a grandmother? Now, in many base cities, you can see groups of young women traveling together, but it is difficult for outsiders to call them embarrassing.

This is definitely not an exaggeration. Ordinary people are not aware of the secrets inside the "swarm". At the new Nanjing base, there was an incident where the son of a military officer courted a beautiful girl and was rejected on the spot. The girl was a confidential officer sent by Gao Liquan to coordinate the work with the military department. She was sixty-three years old at the time, with a husband, children, and grandchildren.

Gao Liquan decided to appoint Yang Lulu as an envoy to Japan after repeated discussions with Lao Song.

The envoys were not sent out of mercy, but out of a need for silver bones and hedrons.

The scale of the "bee colony" is getting bigger and bigger, and the silver bone has become an indispensable and important strategic material for the new "worker bees" to improve their personal capabilities. As for spars, this crystalline particle formed by the condensation of mutated biological hormones has been increasingly used in daily life. The most notable is the small reactor that uses spar as an energy source. It's so powerful that it can drive a 30-ton heavy-duty truck for up to two years, measured in milligram hedron units. In particular, with the support of various development projects of the Academy of Sciences, hedron is gradually replacing the status of traditional coal and oil as a new renewable energy source.

The word "renewable" is, of course, for mutated organisms. At the secret meeting of Lao Song, Wang Qinian, and Gao Liquan, it was agreed that the whole of North America would be used as a breeding ground for mutant organisms. Due to its geographical characteristics and large population, Japan is actually the most suitable region. Equally suitable are Africa and Australia. However, this kind of thing can only be a secret within the three people, and once it is made public, the entire "swarm" will immediately become a public enemy of the world.

The reason why Gao Liquan took a tough stance on the Japanese delegates at the UN General Assembly was precisely for the same reason. He has already laid out the strong military foundation he has, and the current situation in Japan is chaotic, and no country can afford to send troops except China. Even Europe, which has just settled down, needs time to heal the wounds of war. The Germans and the French could not have given Japan any support, and the Americans themselves could not afford it. If you want to survive under the siege of dense mutant creatures, the only hope can only be "bee colony".

The Japanese side's request for help was forwarded from the military headquarters. Although the military department does not recognize the legal status of the Southwest Military Region on the surface, in private, the two sides still maintain secret exchanges that are not concerned by the outside world. The reason why Zhao Zhikai has not taken action against Wang Qinian, but acquiesced in his unscrupulous help to the "bee swarm", is precisely because he has taken a fancy to the neutral status of the Academy of Sciences. Many times, in fact, Zhao Zhikai himself regretted it very much: if he hadn't given Su Hao so much power at the beginning, if he hadn't repeatedly suppressed the 505 Group Army, and if he had been a little more fair when Sun Zhan and others acted unscrupulously, I am afraid that things would not be as difficult to settle as they are today.

The new Tokyo base city is not at all what Yang Lulu imagined. When the flying battleship slowly descended, Yang Lulu really found it hard to believe that the desolate and dilapidated cement platform in front of her, with traces of damage everywhere, was actually a base city airport named after the capital?

However, several armed off-road vehicles that were slowly approaching from not far away just confirmed the fact that Yang Lulu was most unwilling and difficult to accept. The military SUVs were painted with a sunburst pattern, heavily armed soldiers stood in their bodies, and long, bullet chains hung from large-caliber machine guns. It wasn't until Eiko Ozawa jumped out of the cab of the first car that Yang Lulu was sure that the other party was the one who came to greet her.

The off-road convoy drove directly into the ramp leading to the underground base. The lights in the distance were erratic, and the speed wasn't too fast. When there were still dozens of meters away from the entrance of the open slope, Yang Lulu smelled a strong rancid smell. She turned her head and looked out the window in the direction of the source of the odor and saw dozens of highly decomposed bodies piled up behind barbed wire about sixty meters from the slope. At this close distance, several mosquito-like humans with needle-tube mouthparts were wandering among the rotting corpses. They stick long, sharp needles into the carrion, sucking the fouling pus. For them, these filthy liquids full of bacteria are the best nourishment. Although there was a guard tower a hundred meters away, and the searchlights on the tower were constantly shining nearby, the soldiers guarding the tower did not shoot, and the mosquitooid people did not want to attack the guard tower, but slowly tasted their own food, occasionally raised their heads, and casually glanced at the off-road vehicles speeding by.

"It's not that we don't want to fight. There are just too many of them. Humanoids are social creatures, and killing one will attract a swarm. We have limited forces and are unable to defend all areas. As long as they don't come and provoke us, we don't bother to pay attention to them. ”

Yang Lulu heard the obvious tired voice of Sakae Ozawa in her ears. The woman is still fat, and she has taken off the suit and skirt she wore at the United Nations General Assembly and changed into a combat camouflage uniform with Japanese characteristics. The epaulettes showed that she was a civilian lieutenant colonel, but Yang Lulu saw Ozawa Eiko carrying an assault rifle and a combat knife on the side of her military boots.

Such a scene will only appear in Yang Lulu's childhood memory.

In the jurisdiction of the South-Western Military District, the war ended decades ago. Now, the new Kunming base city is no different from peacetime. The above-ground part of the site is connected to the new town, the air is cleaner than ever before, there is ample water and electricity, and residents can enjoy many living benefits and health care programs. Due to the drastic decline in the population caused by biological warfare, the development of areas outside the boundaries of the new city has been slow. Especially those abandoned cities that were taken back from mutant creatures decades ago, Lao Song didn't have a very good way to deal with them. Almost every corner of the city is overgrown with weeds and vines, and it is not so much a site of civilization as a ruin from the last century.

Although it is in ruins, it is also peaceful and serene. It's definitely not a terrible situation like the moment in front of me, where the cannibal fangs are close at hand, and you may lose your life at any time.

The open base gates were clearly reserved for the convoy. When the last off-road vehicle drove over the yellow line on the ground, the heavy steel brake also slowly fell directly above, sending out a heavy collision.

Directly in front of you are rows of "walls" of strange shapes. It is actually an electronic protective wall that stretches out from both sides and directly above the corridor and can move back and forth with the computer control. This kind of heavy mechanical guard was first used by the British. Inside the protective wall are densely packed with gun firing ports, and the density is generally five guns12 per square meter. 5 mm heavy machine guns, or four 20 mm cannons. The bomb feeding system is completely mechanically controlled, and a huge robotic arm steers them to reciprocate throughout the corridor. In the case of impassability on the left and right sides, a protective wall 12 meters high and eight meters wide is enough to hold back any mutant biota that rushes into the base. If necessary, it is even possible to convert the weapon structure and change the long-range fire to a flamethrower.

The convoy drove directly into the road, and under the command of the electronic signal, turned into a curve marked "Safety Zone 106" in Japan.

Directly in front of it was a square of thousands of square meters, but the convoy had to stop due to the obstruction of more and more people in the square. Through the car window, Yang Lulu saw a dense crowd of people rushing towards several trucks that seemed to have just driven over. The rear carriage was opened, and the soldiers took out the packed bags or boxes from the compartment and distributed them to the gathered civilians in order.

"Your arrival time is unfortunate. It's just time for the food distribution. ”

Eiko Ozawa's voice came from the seat next to her, "Before, we could only distribute once a day. At that time, the food was also very simple, just a rice ball, with a certain amount of fat and salt, and vitamin pills. Now, we can distribute twice a day, but the food is replaced by unprocessed rice or wheat grains. The amount of fat and salt has been reduced somewhat, and the vitamins can barely be maintained. ”

Yang Lulu heard part of the meaning from Sakae Ozawa's words. Food distributions are now almost double what they used to be, which means that the number of people who need to feed them has plummeted, or that food production has increased dramatically. In Japan's current situation, the latter scenario is simply impossible. They only had a few base cities that they could count on their fingers. Since it can be distributed twice a day, of course, the number of people inside the base is getting smaller and smaller.

"The normal population of New Tokyo Base City is 300,000. Now, various underground areas are widely used, and more than one and a half million civilians have gathered here. Since more than 60 years ago, we have been expanding our living spaces and building more space farms. However, all of these things require raw materials. The biggest problem that bothers us is iron ore and various rare metals. Without them, no amount of underground space can be excavated. ”

Although both of them were sitting in the back seat of the carriage, Yang Lulu could feel the hateful gaze in Ozawa's eyes. Japan has always been a resource-poor country, and this dilemma has lasted for centuries until they dug thousands of meters underground. The location of the base city is very important, and only by setting it up in an area with abundant ore veins can the ore refining and geothermal energy use be maximized. Japan is located in a volcanic zone, so they do not lack energy, but they do not have the necessary raw materials to expand their base cities.

The implication of Ozawa's words is clear: if New Tokyo were not set on this narrow island, but on another continent with many resources, the pattern of biological warfare would certainly not be what it is now. Those who live in dire straits are definitely not Japanese.

Yang Lulu's lips slightly showed a trace of curved upward. It's not something she needs to care about, and these things don't have anything to do with herself. In the past few decades, she has seen too many more tragic things than this. This is not China, and there is no need for her to sympathize with people of different bloodlines, let alone support and help them.

"I don't have much time."

Yang Lulu glanced at her watch and said with a cold expression: "If you don't want to negotiate, then I'll leave now." Don't prevaricate me with excuses like people getting in the way. That doesn't work, I don't eat it. "It's what it looks like now. Those who live in dire straits are definitely not Japanese.

Yang Lulu's lips slightly showed a trace of curved upward. It's not something she needs to care about, and these things don't have anything to do with herself. In the past few decades, she has seen too many more tragic things than this. This is not China, and there is no need for her to sympathize with people of different bloodlines, let alone support and help them.

"I don't have much time."

Yang Lulu glanced at her watch and said with a cold expression: "If you don't want to negotiate, then I'll leave now." Don't prevaricate me with excuses like people getting in the way. That doesn't work, I don't eat it. ”