Chapter 482 Franklin's Little Trouble

"Mr. Franklin, we may be in trouble."

A slightly anxious voice reached Franklin's ears. He put down the terminal in his hand, raised his head and looked at the person with bloodshot eyes.

The dirt and scars on his face could not conceal the greenness in his eyes. The combat uniform that was obviously one size too big on his body also made the body even more thin. The combat exoskeleton that covered most of the body made the visitor look more frail. It seems a little inconsistent.

It's like this outfit shouldn't be on her.

This is Franklin's assistant, Anna Eleanor, who is also his schoolmate at the Federal University of Political Science and Economics.

Before the large-scale armed rebellion in the Rubian system began, the daughter of a high-ranking federal official who had always had a good impression of Franklin chose to follow Franklin's footsteps and came to the Rubian system for an internship despite her family's strong opposition.

After the outbreak of a large-scale armed rebellion, she assisted Franklin in completing a series of impossible 'feats', pulling the initially weak team to its current size and becoming one of his most trusted people.

"Miss Eleanor, I've told you many times, just call me Franklin."

After seeing that the person coming was Eleanor, Franklin, who had a serious expression because he was looking at the summary of the recent situation, rarely relaxed, and his tone of voice also had a touch of softness.

"How about that? As the leader of this team, you must have enough authority, so I have to pay attention to every detail."

Eleanor's tone was still serious, obviously firmly grasping her position as Franklin's assistant, and she had not forgotten why she came to Franklin, and then said:

"The fifteen large cities currently under our control in Patron, Angre, Mitara, Huey, and Talam, plus the city of Ptolemy where we are now, the logistics departments of the temporary city halls of each city have issued Warnings were issued that reserves of supplies are too low. The most important issue is food reserves, which are about to approach the red line.

According to the report of the logistics department, after the repair of the last protein synthesis factory and hydroponic tower in the city failed, we lost all means of food production. Even the most basic protein energy bars cannot be produced. Collect them on the market After the food was consumed, emergency storage warehouses have been opened in various places, so during this period our food reserves have been in a state of 'only in but not out'."

Listening to Eleanor's report, Franklin's expression returned to seriousness: "Close to the red line? How long can it last?"

"Each city's emergency reserve and population are different, so the time it can last is also different. Some can last for half a month, while some can only last seven or eight days."

"How could it be so fast?"

Franklin couldn't help but clenched his fists, and an unprecedented sense of powerlessness came over him. He never thought that in this era of oversupply of supplies, we would encounter a 'food crisis' that mankind had declared a hundred years ago. The problem has been completely solved.

The existence of automated farms, protein synthesis factories, and hydroponic towers was initially intended to prevent food shortages in human colonies established on alien planets. Later, it became a 'tradition' of human urban design and planning.

Even later, in order to further optimize the living environment and completely distinguish the residential areas and industrial areas of the city, various factories, including large food processing plants, were moved to the outskirts of the city or behind satellite cities.

Major cities will still retain the two most basic facilities, protein synthesis factories and hydroponic towers, to ensure that there are no problems with the food supply within the city in critical situations.

After Franklin organized a team in an almost legendary way by relying on his personal ability, and gradually controlled sixteen cities, including Ptolemaic City, infrastructure such as protein synthesis factories and hydroponic towers in these cities, It also played an extremely crucial role.

Especially after another 'warlord' who has risen recently has gradually taken control of the industrial areas around these cities, making it impossible for Franklin and others to obtain various supplies from these places, these infrastructures have greatly guaranteed the food in the city. Supply is not affected.

It can be said that if it were not for the existence of these infrastructures, even if Franklin has assembled such a large team and has become a dominant force on Rubian 5, it will collapse in minutes due to the problem of basic material support.

But now, this thorny issue is truly on the table, waiting for him to solve it.

Franklin and his people knew that this food crisis was man-made. Ever since the first protein synthesis factory and hydroponic tower were professionally exploded, they knew that they were being targeted.

But no one expected that the other party was planning to push them to a dead end from the beginning.

Due to the maintenance of the main expressways between cities and the rigid requirements of the outer defense line, after Franklin and his staff allocated their only forces, they only had sporadic mobile forces left on hand. Half a point.

In this case, these precious troops also need to be assigned to protect the sewage treatment plants and water recycling plants in various cities. After all, compared to food, clean water sources are a higher priority for human survival.

The people who were eyeing Franklin obviously thought of this, and then began to attack protein synthesis factories and hydroponic towers in various cities unscrupulously.

The professional infiltration and blasting methods not only proved that the other party was once a military or even elite force, but also made the food crisis facing Franklin more and more serious.

Until today, after losing the last food production facility, the food crisis has become the biggest trouble at present

Franklin naturally considered taking over the food processing plants around the city, but the armed forces under the "warlords" who occupied these areas were obviously not something that the scattered soldiers and guerrillas he had encountered before could touch.

After the attempts to attack from all directions failed, Franklin ordered the garrisons in various cities to stop the attack and switch to a full defensive posture.

Although they had a military advantage, the armed forces mainly composed of ordinary police, armed police and the first wave of anti-insurgency forces still found it difficult to break through the defense line obviously built by the elite main force.

The two sides were deadlocked. It was difficult for Franklin's side to take over the area controlled by the other side, and the other side could not break through the defense line of Franklin's side, which was well prepared and had a military advantage. The problem of weak combat quality of the troops reflected in the offensive war was obviously not so great in the defensive war.

But such a stalemate is obviously very disadvantageous to Franklin, especially after the outbreak of food shortage, various other derivative problems also followed.

The "warlord" who besieged Franklin in this way was also full of patience, just watching quietly, waiting for the day when the city's defense collapsed.

"This seems to be the problem that General Lampard has given us." Eleanor frowned and said, "In this way, he can achieve 'conquer the enemy without fighting', waiting for us to fall apart because of food problems, and even have to bow to him."

The 'General Lampard' in Eleanor's mouth is the name of the warlord, but Franklin and she have always believed that the other party should not be a real general.

After all, the generals of the Rubion galaxy garrison are hiding in the space city or starport at this time, and dare not approach the orbit of Rubion V, let alone come down to the ground.

So they guessed that it should be a grassroots commander, but after the team continued to expand, it was called a 'general'. ’

“Although I don’t want to admit it, I have to say that he did it.”

Franklin shook his head, and he was entangled in this thorny problem.