Chapter 968 Pre-War Heritage, Industrial Area Behind High Walls!

"Good afternoon, dear friends of the Qinggang Shelter, I am your announcer, Latwell.

"It is still foggy in Qinggang today, and it will take a long time before we can see the sun. But the difference is that there will be a group of special guests coming to the shelter today!"

"Yes, that's right, they are the managers of other shelters in Qinggang City. They will come to Qinggang Shelter in person to visit our industrial area, planting area, and living area to experience the wonderful life that we have completely walked out of the underground. "

"Now issue the order of the manager: For your personal safety, all residents are strictly prohibited from talking to guests alone, trading with guests, and accepting money from guests."

Industrial area in the north of Qinggang City.

The micro-speaker kept echoing in the noisy ground, and a loud voice was heard from it.

Unlike other old mole shelters, tens of thousands of people were crowded in small dark rooms, day after day, year after year, and it was difficult for them to breathe a few breaths of fresh air from the ground even until they died.

The development of Qinggang Shelter is obviously much more advanced.

Not only did they move out from the underground, they also occupied the entire The largest and best-preserved industrial area in Qinggang City is one-tenth the size of the entire city.

Moreover, Qinggang Shelter does not impose absolute restrictions on the personal freedom of every resident.

Except for not being able to go to the industrial area, everyone can freely come to the ground and move around in the designated area, living an enviable fairy life.

As the reminder sound in the loudspeaker was repeated over and over again, the time gradually came to noon.

It was also from here that people began to appear under the nearly 20-meter-high electric fence at the edge of the industrial area.

"Damn, the high wall here has been expanded to this extent, it's simply inhuman! "

Walking into the open gate under the high wall, the man wrapped in a gray-yellow robe turned his head and looked into the distance, cursing in his heart.

I still remember that when he came here eight years ago, there was only a three-meter-long wall at the edge of the industrial zone.

The material of the wall was very poor quality, mostly made of mixed construction waste recycled from the ruins of the city.

There were many mottled handprints and footprints on the cement left in the gaps of the waste, which looked as funny as graffiti painted by children.

But now.

Looking at this huge wall that was as high as seven stories and stretched as far as the eye could see, Bernie swallowed his saliva, and an unreasonable fear rose in his heart.

Monster, pure Monster!

Does the Qinggang Shelter want to build this place into a steel fortress?

Do they no longer intend to stay underground and want to live on the ground?

Crazy.

After giving his evaluation in his heart, Bernie turned his head and suppressed his giant fear in his heart.

For the Blue Star humans living in the post-war era, especially for the old mole, living on the ground is actually a very difficult thing to accept.

From the moment they were born, they were underground in the dark.

They grew up there and grew old there.

Many people have a natural and unreasonable fear of the ground, just like humans always have awe of the deep sea. Generally.

They only heard that in the pre-war era, humans lived on the ground, in these steel jungles.

At that time, there were no terrifying radioactive mutants, mutants, or predators and wanderers with ill intentions.

People lived and worked in peace and contentment, enjoying family happiness and breathing fresh air.

Moreover, there was no war that could break out at any time in that era.

Unlike now, as long as you go to the ground, you must first be on guard against any danger nearby.

While thinking, Bernie walked inside after leaving the terrifying high wall.

Fortunately, everything became normal immediately after arriving inside.

The well-arranged factory buildings are distributed on both sides of the main street , a two-wheeled industrial robot full of technology is busy moving through the crowd.

The patrolling guard stands in a tall sentry tower, overlooking everything below.

The residents of Sunny Harbor City seem to have gotten used to life on the ground, walking around the streets at will.

Or enter a small shop with a sign, or deliver the packaged materials to a designated location.

Unlike the pre-war era when all work was taken over by the intelligent brain, humans only need to sit in front of the terminal to check the results.

The industrial area of ​​Sunny Harbor Shelter has formed a unique tacit understanding.

Humans and robots have different jobs, and the two do not interfere with each other.

"Has it developed to this point? "

Bernie showed an expression of uncontrollable surprise on his face.

This kind of development progress.

Is it the result of the Sunny Harbor Shelter's silent efforts in the past eight years?!

This is too exaggerated.

They actually secretly built an industrial zone of such scale behind the high wall.

No wonder the war between the Pingtan Shelter and the Sunny Harbor Shelter was stopped by a simple threat that night.

"Dear manager of the Flamingo Shelter, Mr. Bernie, welcome to our Sunny Harbor Shelter's expedition meeting."

Walking all the way inside, he finally came to a wall again.

Before Bernie could react from his daze, a blond man walked into the open doorway below.

"Remember the last time you came here, I was the one who received you, right?"

"Minister Lewis?"

"Fortunately, it seems that you haven't forgotten me. The blond man showed a grateful and polite smile.

"This is just our peripheral industrial area. If you want to visit, I will assign someone to take you around after the meeting. Our meeting today is held on the harbor island."

"Island?"

"We're here. In front is the first line of defense of the Sunny Harbor Shelter, the Lightning Barrier!"

Passing through the complex city ruins, the towering giant wall defense line finally came into the sight of four figures wearing power armor.

Standing in the middle, Su Mo showed a surprised expression on his face.

Is it such an ancient defense line?

In the impression of the future ruins, only some small settlements will adopt such a defense method to ensure the safety of the residents inside.

Large settlements will not invest in this area at all, and confine their outward development routes to one acre and three points of land.

This Sunny Harbor Shelter

"The original intention of building this lightning wall was not for the safety of residents, but to save materials. "

As if he saw Su Mo's doubt, the tall man in power armor walking beside him spoke.

"On Blue Star, there will be riots of radioactive beasts every few quarters. They will lose their minds and attack the buildings left by humans on the ground. You can see that most of the remaining ruins in the city are their work."

"If the Sunny Harbor Shelter wants to develop industrial areas on the ground, it must reduce the losses caused by the riots."

"Of course, it may be unnecessary to change the place now."

Mature technology has indeed changed human life.

When starch protein technology went into mass production, farming has become a thing of the past in a sense.

With sufficient energy supply, humans only need to continuously develop industry to quickly restore the glory of their heyday.

Therefore, even if it costs more manpower and materials.

As long as the industrial area can be protected, it means that the rations are well protected.

The four continued to move forward, about a hundred meters, and finally reached the outermost perimeter of the Sunny Harbor Shelter.

In front of the open alloy door, there were twelve people wearing exoskeletons. Militiamen in skeleton armor standing guard on duty.

Seeing the power armor coming from afar, the captain in the lead showed a trace of awe on his face and hurried to meet him.

"Dear guest, please stop. You must use all weapons to enter the Qinggang Shelter. The power armor is also..."

Before he finished speaking, the man in black power armor silently clicked the left side of the armor.

Huh.

A blue projection shot out and shone on the wall, and a hollow gold coin pattern appeared.

As if someone was strangling his throat, the captain's second half of the words was stuck in his throat, and he could only hum awkwardly.

"It turns out to be the adults of the foundation, please come in. "

A local snake shelter in a port city is really not worth mentioning in front of the giant foundation.

Even if these people may only be members of the branch of the foundation, as long as they are willing to use this symbol, it also means that they are attending the event as the foundation.

Even if they are not invited, dare to stop this group of people?

The captain made a bitter face and quickly asked people to make way for the passage inside.

However, to his surprise, the man wearing a red and black close-fitting power armor that was obviously more advanced did not leave immediately.

He only walked for two Step, and took out a light green invitation letter from the armor.

"You are"

The invitation letters sent out are purple, red, yellow, and green, depending on the strength and scale of the shelter.

Purple represents the strength of entering the top five of Qinggang City.

Green represents that it is not yet in the mainstream, or has not participated in real battles to test its strength.

"Tianyuan Shelter"

"Hmm"

The captain had never heard of this name in his mind. He secretly complained about the person who sent the invitation letter, and then handed the letter back with a smirk.

"You and the adults of the foundation?"

"Together, Tianyuan Shelter is our F-level signing gathering place." The man in the power armor said solemnly.

"Come in, come in quickly! "

If we had let this group of people in before without an invitation, we might have been blamed.

But now, with an invitation, why bother?

Su Mo nodded, took the invitation and put it in his armor, and the four of them walked inside along the passage.

"This industrial zone in Qinggang City was originally the asset of Hualing Heavy Industry, which stored several medium and large industrial cores, and mainly exported medium and large high-precision equipment to other parts of the world. Later, because of the sudden outbreak of war, Hualing Heavy Industry failed to transfer the industrial cores in the first place, so it was cheaper for Qinggang Shelter, which took over later."

"Of course, they have spent a lot of money over the years to repair these industrial cores and gather enough energy to use them."

The lightning barrier divides the entire Qinggang City into two halves.

Once you enter the high wall, it seems like you have come to another world.

Outside are the ruins of the city, and inside is the nascent civilization.

"Industrial core, what is that? "

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Su Mo tried to make his tone sound calmer.

Looking around, this industrial zone is indeed more shocking.

Planning determines the upper limit of industry.

Take the chip building in the territory that cannot be opened yet as an example. These industrial plants that are more than ten meters high and look like square boxes can feel the technology contained in them just by looking at the outside.

"The industrial core is a highly integrated manufacturing device."

"It stores a huge amount of manufacturing data and is equipped with the top manufacturing concepts of the pre-war era."

"Small industrial cores only have manufacturing capabilities. By investing the corresponding materials, they can automatically produce products continuously, while medium-sized and above industrial cores begin to have the ability to grow."

"How should I put it? You can understand it this way. The position of each medium-sized and large industrial core in the industrial system is like a baby to humans. As long as you can provide the materials it needs, the industrial core will autonomously grow iteratively according to the internal data, with more and more functions and more terrifying manufacturing levels."

"A machine that can grow by itself?"

After hearing the first half, Su Mo almost thought that this industrial core was a replica of a modular product.

But the second half was a bit scary.

The industrial core can actually add more functions with materials by itself?

"For example, an industrial core that can manufacture a small mobile Axd handheld game console, when its manufacturing speed and manufacturing level have reached a certain level, it will autonomously generate evolutionary needs and begin to ask users for materials. At this time, if you can provide materials, it will use these materials to self-manufacture new functional modules, such as adding an external communication function to the handheld game console."

"All of this comes from its internal data. Small industrial cores do not have the ability to self-learn. Only medium-sized and above industrial cores have the ability to self-absorb and self-learn and iterate."

After listening to the clear and easy-to-understand explanation, Su Mo nodded slightly, and couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of the reasons for the outbreak of the war on Blue Star.

Good guy

Uncontrollable is always one of the biggest drawbacks of artificial intelligence.

No wonder some people on Blue Star did not trust the development of artificial intelligence. This machine has already iterated in addition to the ability to grow by itself. What if it gets out of control and evolves into a weapon module?

"So this is also one of the reasons for the outbreak of the war, but not all of them."

The man explained and didn't continue.

The group walked along the main street of the industrial zone in silence, following the roadside signs all the way inside.

After walking about three kilometers, they arrived in front of a five-meter cement wall that was obviously shorter.

Along the way, the residents of Qinggang Shelter were surprised to see the power armor.

But the guards under the low wall did not react at all, and it seemed that they had received the message from the captain before.

"Dear Foundation masters, welcome to visit Qinggang Shelter."

"I am Lewis, the Minister of Development of the Outer City."

The blond man Lewis walked over and bowed his head very humbly.

"Peng Qiu, deputy captain of the Foundation's Operations Department in Qinggang City."

The power armor helmet opened, revealing an oriental face full of determination.