Chapter 64: Humanity's Last Stand (Updated, Urgently Needed to Read)
Wow!
Another huge wave hit the deck, and the whole warship shook violently.
"We can't go on like this!"
The officer shouted.
Ever since Digital Tu Hengyu started the steering engine, the sea has been choppy, and the waves are higher than one another.
Fortunately, the salvage team is all warships.
Warships have strong wind and wave resistance, and there is no risk of capsizing for a while.
But they were trapped in these waves, almost unable to move, and even if the waves subsided, it would be difficult to continue working, because their deep-sea detectors were swept away to an unknown place by the waves.
"The detector is gone! What about the mission?"
"Can't contact the United Government!"
"Wait a little longer!"
Lieutenant Colonel Lanlus was very helpless.
At first, the communication was blocked, and the digital life tricked him into staying on standby, missing the first salvage window.
He finally got to the second salvage point, but the digital life started the planetary engine.
The sea suddenly became a cradle of danger.
He was sick.
"Intelligent technology should have been restricted long ago!" he said angrily, "Digital life can actually pretend to be the United Government and give orders to the middle and lower levels. How can we fight this?"
He has given up the salvage mission.
It's not that he can't stand the setback, but his detector and submarine were swept away by the waves.
People can't go to the bottom of the sea thousands of meters below with their physical bodies.
That's meaningless suicide.
Lieutenant Colonel Lanlus said with a gloomy face: "If other teams are the same as us, then we can't even salvage a piece of antimatter."
Three pieces of antimatter exploded at the same time.
Not to mention what impact this will have on human civilization, their salvage teams will be the first to be annihilated in the surging light and heat of antimatter.
In the headquarters of the United Government, everyone's face was tense and the air was filled with tension.
No one dared to speak carelessly.
Because they were still being broadcast live, many people buried under the ruins were watching their reactions.
If they were discouraged or even said discouraging words publicly, the people buried in the ruins might commit suicide out of despair.
For the sake of the millions of people watching the live broadcast, anyone who enters the command center must manage their emotions.
Even if they want to cry, they have to hide in the toilet and cry secretly.
But their efforts are not recognized, and there is a lot of scolding in the live broadcast room.
"A bunch of useless things, actually let a program play around!"
"Without the procedures of the United Government, how did the digital life start the engine?"
"Has the antimatter not been fished out yet?"
"Hangzhou No. 1 Underground City, we have magma leaking here, who will save us?"
"I can also go to the United Government to be an official, anyway, it won't be worse than it is now."
"..."
Even the hall of the command center itself has a screen broadcasting live.
Dirty words are visible at a glance.
The members of the command center are very discouraged.
They have tried very hard, but the enemy is far stronger than they imagined, and they really blame them for relying too much on intelligent programs.
Take the planetary engine as an example.
If the regulations are changed to: a commissioner of the United Government must be present before the planetary engine can be started.
And some restrictions are placed on the commissioner,
the crisis may be over.
Because the United Government only needs to fish out the antimatter from the sea.
The sea was still calm at that time.
The commander-in-chief glanced at the bullet screen in the live broadcast room, and his emotions did not fluctuate.
Do your best and leave it to fate.
This is a saturation rescue.
More than 1.5 million people from all over the world have been dispatched, and most of the abnormally started engines have been shut down.
It is estimated that it will not take long to shut down the remaining ones and quell the disaster on land.
Now there is only one urgent problem to be solved.
Antimatter!
Although the salvage team was not completely wiped out, it has basically lost its salvage ability and needs to send three new teams to replace them.
"Count how many usable detectors are there."
"If it was damaged in the earthquake, let the engineers try to repair it. We have more than 20 hours left. Try to get six usable detectors to support three salvage points."
"Six." The intelligence officer said with difficulty, "I'm afraid it's difficult."
The deep-sea detector is worth hundreds of millions, and each one is produced according to order.
There are only a few in stock, and part of it was damaged in the earthquake caused by the planetary engine not long ago.
It's impossible to get so many in a short time.
This is because Pandora's deep-sea business is very popular and the manufacturer has goods in the warehouse, otherwise they can't even take out a detector now.
As for the deep-sea detectors on Pandora, they were urgently recalled by the United Government as early as the 36-hour countdown began.
Later, all of them were lost in the hands of the salvage team and the salvage team's reserve team.
"At least three ships must be collected."
The commander-in-chief said firmly.
The intelligence officer nodded and said, "I understand."
The commander-in-chief said in an orderly manner: "Although the sea waves are very strong, there is no way out."
"Wait for the last half an hour, put the people in the detector, let them dive as soon as they enter the water, and then throw the detector into the sea."
"Remember to check it well."
"This may be the last fight of mankind."
Antimatter explosion countdown: 23 hours!
The Pioneer carried the sacred tree of the Na'vi across the starry sky and landed in the botanical garden carefully prepared by the United Government.
The lighting, temperature, and air composition of this botanical garden are the same as those of Pandora.
Even the soil was freshly transported from Pandora, with a strong smell of natural biological fertilizer.
Chen Fan overlooked the botanical garden.
Although it was prepared by humans, it was rounded off as a gift from him to Ava.
I wonder if Ava will like it?
This time he formally invited Ava to be his guest, and he was inexplicably a little nervous.
"Come! Insert it into the tree pit!"
"Slow down!"
"Don't break it!"
The exoskeleton soldiers carried more than a dozen soul trees into the botanical garden.
They carefully inserted the soul trees into the tree pits, and then shoveled the roots with soil.
The branches of the soul tree emitted a faint fluorescence and looked sickly.
The core part of the soul tree is the trunk, and the older the trunk, the greater the demand for nutrients.
This demand was originally matched with the coverage range of the root system.
However, the internal space of the Pioneer was limited, and most of the roots of the soul tree had to be cut off during the transplant.
This resulted in the Soul Tree being unable to absorb the nutrients it needed even though it was transplanted into the same soil.
So the Soul Tree became sickly.
However, Ava had already considered this situation and specially prepared a bottle of nutrient solution for watering the tree.
Although the amount was not much, it was enough to restore the Soul Tree to its best condition and keep it until the roots grew again.
At this time, Liu Peiqiang walked in.
He carried a bottle of blue liquid and walked straight to the Soul Tree.
Chen Fan was a little nervous.
As long as Liu Peiqiang poured the nutrient solution on the roots of the Soul Tree, he would start business. This would be his first communication with humans.
It was of great significance!
Chen Fan was somehow reminded of the famous saying of astronaut Armstrong: "This is a small step for me, but a giant step for mankind."
At this moment
Liu Peiqiang raised the blue liquid and tilted his neck back.
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