Chapter 280: Based in Deep Winter City
Greenland is a vast island with huge geographical differences between the north and the south.
The central and northern parts of the island are simply ice caps, with no grass or flowers, and even the bare rocks are basically found from the mountains, and the rest are ice and snow.
The eastern coast is clogged with impassable ice, difficult to sail and inaccessible to people.
Britain was able to open up Hope Harbor in this northeast corner, and naturally made great efforts.
Because of this, Kane was puzzled by the early closure of the port. If it was him, the project lost so much money that the flesh hurt to death.
He explores Hope Harbor and discovers that there is no Energy Tower at all. There are no foundations, no reserved places.
He also noticed that the level of warmth in the houses here is relatively average, estimated at minus 50 degrees, which is not much different from living in an ice cellar, let alone ultra-low temperatures.
"In other words, in the eyes of the magnates, the positioning here is a port for unloading?
He did know that about 24 kilometers south-west of Hope Harbor, there was indeed a city of refuge. New Liverpool.
His destination this time is also there.
Greenland covers an area of 2.16 million square kilometres, which is 9.5 times the size of the island of Britain.
And he chose to go ashore here, naturally he was also particular.
First of all, it is located north of the 80th parallel, which is not the closest to the pole, but it is not far away.
Secondly, according to the information he has, there is a high-quality coal field with rich reserves about 10 kilometers northwest of New Liverpool, and 4 kilometers south of New Liverpool, there is a variety of rare metal iron ore.
The ore quality of this iron ore is average and the reserves are not high, but it is enough for him to play vigorously for ten or eight years.
Third, the location of the new Liverpool is surrounded by icebergs and a natural place of refuge.
The fourth is this port, where the terrain is not bad, and it is a natural harbor. It can be used as a port of entry to the outside world.
It can be said that after he looked through a lot of information, Greenland could not find an area with a higher overall score than this Ice Cape region.
And the information he collected from Denes taught him that the British did not attach much importance to the new Liverpool City. One of the reasons for this is that the deep-buried high-quality coal mine has not been found.
The situation in the coal mine seems to have been known to him by reading the geographical information of the world of sinful souls collected in his previous life.
There is also an iron mine, with the smelting technology of this era, which is not able to digest the low-grade iron ore rich in a variety of rare metals, so there is no will.
As a result, the new Liverpool has become a pure material relay station, and has not been developed in a focused manner.
Kane thinks it's okay because he can bounce back less and die less when he takes it. Killing people doesn't make him happy, not to mention that the Catastrophe has killed so many people that it's really tireless.
Greenland is warm in the southwest, cold in the north and northeast, and of course the coldest in the Central Plateau, with an average temperature of minus 45 degrees Celsius and an absolute minimum of minus 70 degrees Celsius.
It's early March, and the average temperature on the southwest coast is minus 4 degrees, while the average temperature in the Cape area is minus 13 degrees.
Compared to the extreme cold in the south of Iceland, the temperature is undoubtedly very pleasant.
The 23-metre-long, 4-metre-wide, and 5-metre-high heavy-duty off-road armored truck moves slowly through the frozen ground, its wide steel wheels and heavy body make it function as a road roller, and the stones are crushed, but the vehicle is always stable.
Kane, who was in the car, pondered that maybe when he had some free time, he could let the iron pillar go back and forth a few more times, and press the road between New Liverpool and Port Hope.
At a turtle speed of 25 kilometers per hour, Kane reached the crater where the new Liverpool is located.
The terrain here is similar to that of the Scarlet Manor, but it is much more natural, even if it is really smashed out by meteorites, I am afraid it has gone through more than 10 million years, so that the pit has been seriously deformed, and only from a high altitude can you see that Mingtang.
In the southeast of the crater, there is a large gap more than 100 meters wide, the effect is like a neat row of teeth, but somewhere half of them have been lost, climb over this semi-artificial gentle slope, you can see about 3.5 square kilometers of ovoid basins in the crater (about 1 kilometer radius).
If this was a crater, Kane wondered, it might have been the one responsible for the dinosaurs' demise.
There is no such crater in the origin world, but there must be one in the world of sinful souls, and I don't know what to say, maybe it was a secret realm in the past?
The armored heavy truck climbed the slope slowly but firmly with full strength, and Kane took the first step to see the scene in the basin through the drone.
A body blow.
New Liverpool, turned out to be a ruin!
Even, the town was abandoned before it was built.
Once you're in town, explore as always.
There is no need for Kane to walk around personally, the brain puppet is the best eyeliner, and the 20 brain puppets are sent out, and the search efficiency is still very good.
Through letters, documents, diaries, and work logs, Kane learns what has happened here.
The root of everything lies in the struggle for power and profit, and the selfishness of human nature.
Know that the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In terms of ethnicity, there are also differences.
In addition, people are divided into groups, different parties, relatives and nobles, and the powerful are not a unified whole.
In this context, when external forces force them to unite and save themselves, contradictions are already brewing.
Everyone wants to give less and keep as much wealth as possible.
As a result, before the important distribution meeting began, there was a lot of behind-the-scenes dealing.
Then there is apportionment, at least fairness, but the gap between the rights and interests of each other is actually still very large, some people can call the wind and rain, and some are like fat pigs to be slaughtered.
Had it not been for the pressure of the general trend to reach a basic consensus, the entire evacuation plan would have collapsed during the drafting process.
The big plan was finally finalized and up and running, but the root of the problem was laid.
In the specific operation of the project, there have been many problems such as damage to the public and private interests, concealment of information and so on.
The end result was the largest and most speculative new London, but it was far from what was planned.
The population is overstaffed, and the material reserves, mainly grain, are not sufficient.
By the time these important figures are listed, secondary cities, or satellite cities, are already being built.
These were the original political promises that inspired people to build a new London.
"As long as each of us takes our responsibilities seriously, we have plenty of time to build a new London, and a sub-city, and ask you to do it, for yourselves, and for your loved ones. ”
This is what the elite say most often, both for technicians and workers who are proficient in their work.
New London was built, but the magnates wanted more. Instead of keeping their promises, they demanded more, saying to the people: "Supplies and personnel are still arriving, and with their help, your shelter can be completed within the deadline, and you will have enough supplies to get what you need." ”
And in reality, this is not the truth.
After satisfying their basic survival needs, what the powerful want to do is to possess more, more of their own people, more material storage, more power, and more influence.
The extreme cold crisis has occurred, and the delivery of materials is becoming more and more difficult, and the wear and tear is increasing.
More and more people are joining the bargain, from captains to crews, engineers to workers, officers to soldiers.
Clear statements are no longer enough to appease them, they need to see and feel the progress.
If they can't get it, why do they have to work so hard?
To borrow a description from a technician's diary: "God, look what I'm missing? My beloved wife and son, I couldn't be there for them when they were most helpless, I was busy with a promise that I couldn't keep, and now they're dead, what's the point of my efforts?"
If that's all it is, it won't collapse all at once.
The beginning of the collapse stems from the fact that New London is not a place of good order, but has inherited corruption, power for personal gain, or all kinds of evil deeds are even crazier than in the past.
This is actually Kane's most critical of Westerners.
To use the description of an American drama fan: If you watch too many American dramas, you will find that almost all American dramas are repeatedly describing a situation, that is, the characters are self-righteous, each has their own demands, is impatient, uncompromising, cannot be wronged, for their own reasons, years of friendship, family affection, and love can be a fart.
Freedom and personal supremacy.
Freedom or death!
White Westerners can really do it, and there are definitely not a few.
In those diaries, Kane saw a lot of complaints about overtime, working 12 hours a day, bitter, wronged!
Kane watched it all out of time. It's 1887, the legendary era of sweatshops, isn't it the norm to die of exhaustion? It turns out that the skilled workers in this period have already begun to be 'tsundere'?
But now it's the end of the world, isn't it? What's wrong with working overtime? It's not unpleasant, but it's not going to be dead or alive, right?
It is no wonder that in the eyes of many Westerners, Orientals are big animals in human form. It's thousands of years of inheritance that makes the bottom line of the Oriental people in this regard too low, so can't you feel it?
How can you not work hard in life? Hard work is a virtue. In other words, this is about the root of human nature to plunder civilization, to be free, to grab what is lacking......
Kane didn't have much sympathy for the people who were fooled by the powerful and plundered in the end, he felt that they were all bastards from top to bottom, each with their own lowly qualities.
The collapse of New Liverpool, ostensibly after the closure of Port Hope, the people there were allocated to eat in New Liverpool, and the materials of New Liverpool were exploited by New Toronto, and people broke out in despair, destroying facilities, and completely stopping the operation of the city, accelerating its demise, and finally basically dying.
But at a deeper level, Kane felt that people couldn't do it, and if he was an Oriental, he would definitely be able to play more content, such as intensifying coal mining, and running the ships in Hope Harbor to fish.
And because the east coast of Greenland is inaccessible, it is a paradise for wildlife, sea lions, walruses, seabirds...... This period is not like the 21st century of the original world, the oceans have been emptied, and wild animals are almost extinct.
As a result, it was chaotic and desperate, and no one raised their arms and shouted and led everyone to New London to make trouble, but in a series of bloody grievances and hatreds, they destroyed and exhausted the last provisions, and there was no longer the feasibility of operation.
Kane didn't know where all of these people had added their IQ points.
"Well, ridiculing others is the root of human inferiority, and this round of self-superiority can be over. From now on, this place will be mine, not Liverpool, but Winterfell. ”
The transcendents of this world have closed themselves to live their high-end lives after plundering the world, and now they are playing the means of covering the world like a Dyson ball and intercepting the sun.
In this context, he felt that he might as well be a groundhog, concentrate on farming, and climb back to pure technology. Lay a solid foundation in the early stage, and in the later stage, under the cover of the human survivors after the catastrophe, collect resources all over the world that transcendents do not look at, and then use the mechanical army to cut off the source of the opponent's extraordinary power, the power of hell.
I have to say that Kane's judgment on the general trend is still quite level.
In the world of sin souls, aside from elemental power and magic power, the most suitable transcendent power system is the life soul series. Other than that, it's going to be hell.
The power of hell cannot be seen as a transformation of the power of the soul.
This huge extreme cold crisis is indeed the handiwork of the snake father Igo. Of course, it is not alone, but it has attracted many people to operate together.
With this operation, Igo can achieve two goals. First of all, hell is flooded with a large number of people who have died. Hell welcomes such negativity-filled souls, who act like alternative invokers, generating the negative power of faith, which is the source of the power of hell.
Gods and demons, the two are always compared to each other, because from a certain point of view, they are indeed the same level. Divine power and prison power are actually the transformation of the spiritual power of intelligent creatures, one positive and one negative.
Although the latter seems easier to obtain, it also needs to bear the price, after all, it is a pot of miscellaneous pieces, and the heavy metals exceed the standard......
Igo's second purpose is that after this operation, there will be no more daylight in the true sense of the word, but only 'cloudy days', which means that the creatures of hell can wreak havoc around the clock.
Igo did his best to operate the super-large ritual magic, failed to pay attention to the space-time trap in time, and transferred Voldemort to work, so Voldemort could only end the large-scale search, and did not take the initiative to tell Igo that Kane had arrived in this world, and the big mistake began to brew......