A Will Eternal Chapter 280
Greenland is a vast territory with huge geographical differences between the north and the south.
The central and northern parts of the island are simply ice-covered areas, with no grass or flowers, and even bare rocks are basically found from the mountains, and the rest are ice and snow.
The eastern coast is full of insurmountable ice blocks, making it difficult for ships to sail, and there are few people.
The UK was able to open up Port Hope in this northeast corner, naturally it has put in a lot of effort.
Because of this, Kane was puzzled by the early closure of the port here. If it was him, the project lost so much money, it hurts like hell.
He explored Port Hope and found that there was no energy tower installed here at all. There are no foundations, no reserved places.
He also noticed that the houses here are relatively insulated. It is estimated that minus 50 degrees is not much different from living in an ice cellar, let alone ultra-low temperature.
"That is to say, in the eyes of the rich and powerful, this place is positioned as a port for unloading? At critical moments, people here will go to the inland for refuge?"
He does know that there is indeed a refuge city about 24 kilometers west and south of Port Hope. New Liverpool.
His destination this time is also there.
Greenland covers an area of 2.16 million square kilometers, which is 9.5 times that of the British Isles.
And he chose to go ashore here, so he was naturally particular about it.
First of all, it is located north of the 80th parallel north latitude. It is not the closest to the pole, but it is not far.
Secondly, according to the information he has, there is a high-quality coal field with abundant reserves about 10 kilometers northwest of New Liverpool, and 4 kilometers south of New Liverpool, there is an iron mine with various rare metals.
The quality of the ore in this iron ore is average and the reserves are not high, but it is enough for him to play boldly for ten or eight years.
Thirdly, the location of New Liverpool is surrounded by icebergs, a natural refuge.
The fourth is this port. The terrain here is not bad, and it is a natural port. It can be used as a port of entry to the outside world.
It can be said that after he read a lot of information, Greenland could not find an area with a higher comprehensive score than this ice corner area.
Moreover, the information he collected from Deness told him that the British's attitude towards New Liverpool City,
Not particularly important. One of the reasons is that no high-quality coal mine buried deep there was found.
The situation of the coal mine seemed to be known to him by reading the geographical information of the sinful soul world collected in his previous life.
Where else is the iron ore, with the smelting technology of this era, it is still not able to digest low-grade iron ore rich in various rare metals, so there is no willingness.
As a result, New Liverpool has become a pure material relay station, and has not been focused on development.
Kane thinks this is also good. After he wins there, there will be less rebound and fewer deaths. Killing people does not make him feel happy, not to mention that the catastrophe has killed too many people, it is really tiresome.
The southwest of Greenland is warm, while the north and northeast are cold. Of course, the coldest is the central plateau. The average temperature of the coldest month is minus 45 degrees, and the absolute minimum temperature is minus 70 degrees.
It's early March, and the average temperature along the southwest coast is minus 4 degrees, while the average temperature in the Cape is minus 13 degrees.
Compared with the regions south of Iceland that are currently suffering from extreme cold, this temperature is undoubtedly very pleasant.
The 23-meter-long, 4-meter-wide, and 5-meter-high heavy-duty off-road armored truck is slowly moving on the frozen land. The wide steel wheels and heavy body make it function as a road roller. The stones are crushed, and the vehicle is always on the ground. Take it easy.
Kane in the car thought, maybe when he has free time, he can let the iron column go back and forth a few more times, and get out of the road between New Liverpool and Port Hope.
At a turtle speed of 25 kilometers per hour, Kane arrived at the crater where New Liverpool is located.
The terrain here is comparable to that of Scarlet Manor, but it is much more natural. Even if it was really smashed out by a meteorite, it may have experienced more than tens of millions of years, so that the pit body has been seriously deformed, and it can only be seen from a high altitude. Looking down, you can see such a bright hall.
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 half of them are missing somewhere. Climb this semi-artificial gentle slope, and you can see about 100 meters in the crater. An oval basin of 3.5 square kilometers (a radius of about a little more than 1 kilometer).
Kane wondered, if this is really a crater, then maybe it was the one that caused the demise of the dinosaurs.
This crater does not exist in the original world, but there must be in the world of sinful souls, and I don’t know what to say, maybe it was a secret place in the past?
The armored heavy truck was full of strength and climbed the slope slowly and firmly, while Kane took the first step to see the scene in the basin through the drone.
Big disappointment.
New Liverpool turned out to be in ruins!
Even before the town was built, it had been abandoned.
After entering the city, explore around as always.
There is no need for Kane to walk around in person, the brain-implanted puppet is the best eyeliner, 20 brain-implanted puppets are sent out, and the search efficiency is still very good.
Through letters, documents, diaries, and work logs, Kane learned what happened here.
The root of everything lies in the struggle for power and interests, and the selfishness of human nature.
Know that the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom composed of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. From the perspective of nationality, there are also differences.
In addition, people are divided into groups, parties are different, relatives are high or low, and the powerful are not a unified whole.
Against this background, when external forces forced them to unite and save themselves, conflicts were already brewing.
Everyone wants to pay less and keep as much wealth as possible.
As a result, before the important distribution meeting started, a large number of behind-the-scenes transactions took place.
Then there is apportionment, which is at least fair, but the gap in rights and interests between them is still very large. Some people can call the wind and rain, while others are slaughtered like fat pigs.
If there is no general pressure to reach a basic consensus, the entire evacuation plan may collapse during the drafting period.
The big plan is finally finalized and working, but that's where the seeds of disaster are planted.
In the specific operation of the project, there have been many problems such as harming the public and benefiting private interests, concealing reports and so on.
In the end, the largest and highest-spec New London was indeed built, but the specific situation was far from the plan.
The population is overnumbered, and the material reserves, mainly food, are not enough.
When these important data are listed, secondary cities, or satellite cities, are already under construction.
These were the original political promises to inspire people to build a new London.
"As long as each of us can seriously perform our duties, we have plenty of time to build a new London and secondary cities. Please work hard, for yourself and for your loved ones."
This is what the rich and powerful say most often, and it says the same thing about technicians as well as skilled workers.
New London was indeed built, but the rich and powerful wanted more. Instead of fulfilling their promises, they asked for more. They said to people: "Materials and personnel are still arriving in a steady stream. With their help, your shelter can be completed within the deadline, and the materials you need will be gathered together." Enough."
And actually that's not the truth.
After the rich and powerful have met their basic survival needs, what they want to do is to possess more, more people of their own, more material storage, more power, and greater influence.
The extreme cold crisis has already occurred, and the transportation of materials is becoming more and more difficult, and the consumption is increasing.
More and more people joined the ranks of bargaining, from the captain to the crew, from engineers to workers, from officers to soldiers.
Clear statements are no longer enough to appease them, they need to see and feel the progress.
If they still can't get it, why do they still work so hard?
Borrowing the description in a technical worker's diary: "God, look what I missed? My beloved wife and son, when they were most helpless, I was not by their side. Promised to be busy, now that they're dead, what's the point of my efforts?"
If only this is the case, it will not collapse all at once.
The collapse began because New London was not a place of good order, but inherited corruption, power for personal gain, or in other words, all kinds of evil deeds were crazier than before.
This is actually what Kane criticized the most for 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, and they are impatient, uncompromising, and cannot be wronged. My own reasoning, years of friendship, family affection, and love can all be nothing.
Liberty, personal supremacy.
Give me liberty or give me death!
Western whites can really do it, and there are definitely not a few of them.
In those diaries, Kane saw a lot of complaints about working overtime, working 12 hours a day, suffering and grievances!
Kane even saw some time confusion. It's 1887, the age of the legendary sweatshops, right? Isn't it normal to be exhausted? It turns out that technical workers in this period have already begun to be "tsundere"?
But now is the end of the world, right? What's wrong with working overtime? It's not good, but it's not about to die or live, right?
No wonder, in the eyes of many Westerners, Orientals are big animals in human form. Is it because of thousands of years of inheritance that the bottom line of the Orientals in this area is too low, so they can't feel it?
How can life not work hard? Hard work is a virtue. Are you pretending to be a reasonable excuse for your laziness? To put it another way, this is roughly the human root of plundering civilization, freedom and freedom, and robbing whatever is lacking...
Kane didn't have much sympathy for the people who were fooled by the powerful and finally robbed. He felt that they were all bastards from top to bottom, each with their own low status.
The collapse of New Liverpool, on the surface, after the closure of Port Hope, the people there were assigned to eat in New Liverpool, and the supplies of New Liverpool were exploited by New London. People broke out in despair and destroyed the facilities. It also completely stopped the operation of the city, accelerated its demise, and eventually almost all died.
But at a deeper level, Kane thinks that people are not good enough. If they are replaced by Orientals, they will definitely be able to play more content, such as strengthening coal mining and operating the ships in Port Hope to fish.
And because the east coast of Greenland is inaccessible, it is a paradise for wild animals. Sea lions, walruses, seabirds... This period is not like the 21st century of the original world. Resources are still relatively abundant, so we have to struggle.
The result was chaos and despair, and no one raised their arms and shouted to lead everyone to New London to make trouble. Instead, they destroyed and exhausted the last supplies in a series of bloody grievances, and there was no longer any operation. feasibility.
Kane didn't know where these people put their IQ points.
"Okay, laughing at others is the inferiority of human beings. This round of self-superiority can be over. From now on, this place belongs to me. It is not called Liverpool, but Deep Winter City."
After plundering the world, the transcendents of this world live their high-end life in seclusion, and now they play the method 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 return to pure technology. Lay a solid foundation in the early stage, and use the human survivors after the catastrophe as cover in the later stage to collect resources that extraordinary people don't care about all over the world, and then use the mechanical army to cut off the source of the opponent's extraordinary power, the power of hell .
It has to be said that Kane's judgment on the general situation is quite good.
In the world of sinful souls, apart from elemental power and magic power, the most suitable extraordinary power system is the Fate Soul series. Other than that, it's the power of hell.
The power of hell may not be regarded as a deformation of the power of life and soul.
This huge extreme cold crisis was indeed the work of the snake father, Yi Ge. Of course, it is not alone, but it has attracted many people to operate together.
Through this operation, Yi Ge can achieve two goals. First of all, hell is filled with a large number of violent deaths. Hell welcomes such souls full of negative emotions. They are like alternative petitioners, producing negative power of belief, and this power is the source of hell power.
Gods and demons, the two are always compared, because from a certain point of view, they are indeed at 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 it seems easier to obtain the latter, it also needs to bear a price. After all, it is a pot of offal, heavy metals exceeding the standard...
Yi Ge's second goal is that after completing this operation, there will be no real daylight, but only 'cloudy sky', which means that hell creatures can wreak havoc around the clock.
Ego tried his best to operate the super-large ritual magic, failed to pay attention to the time-space 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 Ego that Kane had arrived in this world , a big mistake began to brew...