Chapter 126 126 "When There Is Nothing to Lose on One End of the Scale, There Is No Deterrent."

Chapter 126 126· “When there is nothing to lose on one end of the scale, there is no deterrent.”

October 30, 2024, 00:27 in the morning - there are still twenty-three hours and thirty-three minutes before the "Clock of Disaster" hangs high in the sky of blue stars.

Shuinan City, Refuge Area No. 1, Refuge Building No. 1.

By this time today, Lin Li was no longer staying in the hotel, but had come to the shelter he was assigned to.

I have to admit that Lin Li's shelter can definitely be called luxurious in the era of natural disasters - three bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. This is after Lin Li emphasized that he does not need to be particularly large. , Dongguo prepared for it.

This is a space with a usable area of ​​about 90 square meters. In fact, most suites are this large, and Lin Li still uses it with his parents, so it is probably average on weekdays.

But being able to have the same space as usual in the era of natural disasters is already a manifestation of luxury.

And it has been completely renovated. According to what Mr. No. 1 told himself, this house can ensure that Lin Li's parents, who drank the 5% [Hope] potion, can live like normal autumn or even summer during the ice disaster.

There must be a lot of design hidden in it.

Even Mr. No. 1 and Mr. No. 3 have visited many of their rooms. Apart from being independent small spaces, there is nothing else that can compare with mine.

However, Lin Li was not in his room at this time, but in the special conference room of the Refuge Building No. 1 with Mr. No. 1 and Mr. No. 3.

There was silence in the conference room with only three people. There was a huge display screen on the wall. In the grids divided one by one, there were other gentlemen from the top ten members of the Eastern Kingdom.

What was taking place at this moment could be regarded as the most top-level 'meeting' in Dongguo - not really a meeting.

Lin Li's appearance in this group was like a domesticated husky suddenly sneaking into the pack of ferocious wolves.

Husky also remained quiet at this moment. He couldn't help but look to the northeast with complicated eyes.

I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but Lin Li always felt that he could see the firelight and rising clouds in the distance, as well as... the lifeless ruins.

living hell.

All acquaintances.

At this moment, the tablet in his hand displayed the comparison picture recorded by the satellite.

In just half an hour, the island flower's location, even through the atmosphere, could be seen to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

In addition to satellite images, Lin Li also had many rare images in his hands - these were recorded by drones sent by Dongguo. Some kept a distance and recorded the rough completion process, while others were extremely close. The image is recorded until the main body is damaged in the nuclear explosion and cannot be transmitted back.

Nuclear bomb.

This thing, which only existed in textbooks in Lin Li's memory, now showed its power so clearly before his eyes, and there were more than one.

A country was easily destroyed in just one hour.

It was really easy. Lin Li could clearly see through the screen that countless tiny stars appeared in the lens, falling scattered all over the island.

They really didn't look big, but the yellowish light brought by the subsequent explosion swept across the entire island flower, and no one was spared.

Even the air waves are crystallized extremely clearly at this time.

The contrast is so shocking and so overwhelming.

First of all, because the country that was destroyed was the island flower, Lin Li sighed with emotion from the bottom of his heart - it would be better to die, especially in the hands of his father Fei Ying - it would be even better to die.

But after the "good death" comment, Lin Li will inevitably feel sad. No matter how shitty a country is, there is always gold in it. If he suppresses his hatred for a while, how many innocent people will die in such a disaster tonight? Among them.

In addition, it is a bit ridiculous. Can a hundred-year feud be completely eliminated in a physical sense in just one night?

Human beings are really fragile.

"Is it the era of natural disasters that is terrifying, or the era of man-made disasters?" Lin Li thought in his heart.

I'm afraid that four months later in the previous life, there must still be people on Island Flower who are still trying to survive.

But now, Island Flower has completely turned into a deserted land.

To a certain extent, his own rebirth brought disaster to Daohua.

Of course, Lin Li felt no guilt at all.

In the end, the cause was Aikawa Ryoki himself.

After turning off the screen, Lin Li looked up and saw that Mr. No. 1 and Mr. No. 3 were both frowning at the moment. It was obvious that they were not in a good mood.

"Sure enough, the most terrifying kind of person in the world is a madman." Mr. No. 3 said with emotion.

"That's why the world is afraid of us who are 'crazy'." Mr. No. 1 rubbed his eyebrows, "But now that others are going crazy, it's our turn to have the headache."

"Didn't Feiying try to attack us?" Lin Li asked in a low voice at this time, and Husky was preparing to learn from the Wolf King.

"No, they are very self-restrained in this regard and have not made any attempt to deviate from us." Mr. No. 1 nodded, "After all, they know that we have the ability to give 'gifts' in return."

As if he knew what Lin Li was wondering about, Mr. No. 3 continued:

"Feiying doesn't dare to do it today, but that doesn't mean he won't do it in the future."

"The reason why Chris chose to tear up the agreement not to actively use nuclear weapons was not only to show off his muscles and maintain his dignity, but also to tell us that there are fewer and fewer things that he can worry about."

"Xiao Lin, this is not to boast, but it is an obvious fact - our Eastern Kingdom is likely to become the longest-lasting country in the era of natural disasters.

Other countries' ability to deal with risks is definitely not as good as ours.

Feiying does not dare to launch a nuclear attack on us now, because he knows very well that after it is launched, there will be an endless war between the two of us, and the final outcome will definitely be a lose-lose situation for both sides.

Both sides will suffer unbearable losses, which is a prerequisite for nuclear deterrence to continue to this day without destruction.

But what if... Feiying himself dies in the future?

It doesn't just mean Flying Eagle, any country that reaches the end of the road, they find that they have no hope - in this case, there is nothing they can't bear.

Moreover, they have the capability of long-range nuclear strike. When they go crazy, directly abandon the unity of mankind, and make the decision to "let Blue Star be buried with their country" and launch an indiscriminate world-class nuclear strike, what should they do?

This statement may be a bit alarmist, but it is by no means unfounded. The horror of human nature is the most difficult to estimate. "

Lin Li raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Indeed, his first reaction when he heard these words was "unreasonable". He turned his back on human nature and dragged others down in a behavior that was not beneficial to him at all. He had no motivation to do so.

But what if a desperate country meets a crazy leader?

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. Anyway, they have nothing to lose, and they will not even be reviled by others - maybe mankind will perish directly due to this operation.

There is a more likely scenario, if -

"If the country that has reached its end by then uses this to coerce the world and ask the world to reinforce it, otherwise it will perish together, what should we do? The best of us who survive by then will most likely become the number one target."

No. 3 spoke out what Lin Li was thinking in his heart.

The nuclear bomb has now become a weapon that threatens the Eastern Kingdom.

Dongguo will not even have any effective way to deal with this.

The opponent is no longer afraid of nuclear weapons - although it is because of breaking the pot, the balance of deterrence has also been broken.

Of course, there will be internal differentiation solutions at that time, but this is ultimately uncertain.

"It would be great if we could intercept them all, but what a pity, what a pity, the result is really not satisfactory to us." Mr. No. 3 sighed again.

Lin Li knew why he said that.

Daohua immediately asked Dongguo and Beimaoguo for help, hoping that the two countries would help intercept the nuclear bomb. In response, both countries agreed to help without hesitation.

And this is not a lie, nor is it just a pretense.

Lin Li on the North Mao side was unclear, but on the Dongguo side, they were almost trying their best to intercept these nuclear bombs.

Beimao is probably about the same.

Of course, the purpose of this is not to protect the Island Flower Country. The relationship between Beimao and Donghe Island Flower is not good.

First of all, nuclear weapons are extremely harmful. Shimahana is not far away from Dongguo and Beimaoguo. After the destruction, the residual material produced by the explosion will one day affect Dongguo. Help Shimahana, and to some extent, it will also help. Own.

Secondly, for Dongguk, this is an actual nuclear bomb interception battle and an excellent opportunity to test the Dongguk missile interception system to intercept nuclear bombs.

It's all a drill on weekdays - the data will inevitably be biased.

Unfortunately, the result did not satisfy Mr. No. 3.

According to the information Shimaka provided during the day, coupled with the tracks detected on his side, the interception rate of the Dongguo anti-missile system was 52% for the discovered nuclear bombs - of course, this does not mean that Dongguo intercepted more than half of the nuclear bombs. In fact, most of them have not been discovered.

Especially the Yankee missile cannot be intercepted before it appears on the water. After it leaves the water, it is too late, and the interception rate is found to be very low.

Lin Li is not an expert in this field, but according to Mr. No. 3, this data is actually normal, even quite good.

After all, if the target is not Dongguo, the radar system used for the core detection trajectory will not work at all, and the difficulty of cross-ocean interception is even worse.

Mr. No. 3 speculated that if the target was Dongguo, with this experience, the interception rate would be very high.

But Mr. No. 1 and Mr. No. 3 both expressed a concept - very high, but by no means 100%. If it is not 100%, it is not good enough and unsatisfactory!

Lin Li understood this very well. If a nuclear bomb was not defended, the damage would be incalculable.

Although most of today's nuclear bombs have become lighter and more precise, the times are advancing, and it is difficult to compare the power of today's hydrogen bombs and neutron bombs with those of the atomic bombs of the past.

There is an intercontinental nuclear bomb in Beimao, which is more than 1,600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb Daohua encountered back then!

From what Lin Li saw just now, he could also feel that a nuclear bomb could really cause the destruction of life within thousands of kilometers and turn it into a wasteland, and those nuclear bombs that could split could even cause an exaggerated one-time strike. An area of ​​10,000 kilometers!

This is something that no country can bear, not even Dongguo, nor Feiying.

Even if the interception rate is as high as 99%, the day when the 1% appears, it will be the final moment for millions of people.

After armaments, the reserves of nuclear powers have reached an inestimable level.

If you use them all, Blue Star will be turned upside down.

"When nuclear weapons, which are currently unstoppable, appeared and more than one country possessed them, we had already previewed that the situation might evolve into this, but we didn't expect that this day would come so early." Mr. No. 1 said.

"Chris took this opportunity to tell us that he can also turn into a madman. We really can't do anything about this kind of death. According to you young people, does this count as a "boomerang hitting yourself"? "

The Eastern Kingdom went "crazy" and the world retreated. The flying eagle went "crazy" and the Eastern Kingdom had to worry.

Mr. No. 3 smiled, and then asked curiously:

"Xiao Lin, are you sure that you have lived for four months in the era of natural disasters and have not heard anything related to nuclear weapons? Theoretically speaking, when encountering a wave of alien species, it is very likely that nuclear bombs will be used to clean out their nests. Consider the situation.”

"I really have no impression... but I can't guarantee it, because in my previous life, we no longer had a worldwide network - at least I was a civilian at that time, so the degree of information occlusion was very high, and I had no idea about the outside world. I don't know, there's no guarantee.

As for the alien disaster, my comrades and I talked about this core, but we speculated at the time that it would easily affect us ordinary people, so we gave up using it. "

Lin Li frowned and thought about his memory, and then said slowly.

"Understood," No. 3 nodded, with a somewhat complicated expression: "At this time, I don't know whether to pray that the nuclear bomb will be useful or useless by then. If it is useful, it may be used by fellow humans to threaten ourselves. If it is not useful, just We have lost a powerful weapon against foreigners."

"Mr. No. 1, what should we do now?" A gentleman asked on the screen, "This incident will definitely have an impact on our people - one of the two familiar countries around us has collapsed and the other has been destroyed.

The two have many connections with us. Even if the relationship is not harmonious, the public's mood will probably be low after knowing about it. Especially after the Island Blossom Incident broke out, the mood of worrying about the attack on Dongguo will definitely be reach the peak.

This is probably one of the reasons why Chris did this.

Messages can be blocked, but I think this is not a good method and can only be left as a last resort. We'd better have other measures to deal with it. "

"You really need to calm down your emotions."

Mr. No. 1 tapped his fingers lightly on the table and closed his eyes.

Although he didn't say anything, everyone knew he was thinking, so they didn't bother him.

for a long time.

"Strengthen the maintenance of our missile silos, missile vehicles and anti-missile systems to ensure that they can operate at any time." Number One finally spoke slowly.

And some information is disclosed so that the flying eagle can also understand our muscles.

"Reducing the "ten different stations" to "three different stations", we should try our best to spread out in the East Country, No. 4 and No. 7. You don't need to come back. You can move to the No. 5 refuge area. "

Mr. Si Hao and Mr. Qi Hao are also in Shuinan City, but they are not here for the time being.

Lin Li also understood that the main purpose of doing this was not to let them rule other regions, but to avoid risks - in the Eastern Kingdom, except for extremely special seasons, ten gentlemen would rarely appear in the same place at the same time. .

After all, we have to prevent any accidents, and all ten gentlemen are involved in an accident, leaving the Eastern Kingdom without a leader.

This was originally to guard against gas explosions and earthquakes, but now, we also had to guard against a nuclear bomb falling on our heads due to madness.

The gentlemen nodded and had no objection to this, but they did not speak.

Because it has not yet touched upon how to appease the people's emotions.

"It was actually the plan to do it, but now it may have to be done."

"Today, before the depressing "bell of disaster" appears, let's hold a military parade and have a party. "Mr. No. 1 said.

Two in one, 4,400 words.