Chapter 530

The red soil on the Arizona wilderness looks like an alien battlefield after the sky is covered by scarlet.

After nightfall, the scarlet becomes thick and pitch-black. The minus 50-degree cold wind scrapes a layer of blood frost on the ground. The joint train battle line stops on the wilderness, accompanied by the endless extension of the car fleets and the army along the Iron Guard Brigade on both sides.

Two million people are like a wilderness migration, and the vast steel dragon is still ready for battle at all times. In the darkness, except for drones and manned mechas deployed with dark energy synchronization devices patrolling, everyone is hiding in vehicles.

Not only scarlet, but also bone-chilling cold. Anyone exposed to this hellish environment will clearly feel that they are being approached by the god of death. In this case, the synchronization frequency device driven by blood essence is more important than food and water. This is the key to the shelter that everyone relies on for survival.

From north to south, thousands of carriages of all shapes and sizes are connected end to end. These trains are not connected and are life ties formed by more than 200 car fleets in the same battle line.

Some carriages are illuminated by cold light, reflecting the ammunition maintenance platform, with brass shell casings just cast into small mountains. Many people maintain ammunition overnight to prepare for the big battle that may appear at any time. Some carriages are screaming, and medical team members tear open blood-stained bandages, shouting "Hold him!" and then start injecting painkillers.

In the living carriage of the Flying, women are distributing food. The middle-aged woman leading the team holds a long spoon and hits the iron bucket: "Those who fight eat first, everyone else wait!"

On the armored truck of the 9th Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 22nd Brigade, the Iron Guard Brigade soldiers lifted the power armor mask, and steam rushed out of the self-heating military ration box. The new recruit Wang Lei stared at the paste-like potato beef in the can, and suddenly retched, and was slapped on the back of the head by the squad leader: "You kid, it's hard to say whether you can eat hot food tomorrow, eat it quickly!"

The sight extended all the way, and every carriage was fully loaded with passengers. Some car fleets were urgently repairing damaged carriages, welding sparks flew, and in the wilderness, some survivors wearing full-coverage power armor were trying to find blood essence from the monster pile in the dark, and were stopped by the patrolling Iron Guard Brigade mecha troops and driven away.

In the direction of Red Rock Canyon, in the dark thick mist, the drone construction team controlled by Viola was laying tracks intensively. And tonight, the team responsible for protecting the construction machine group was led by Long Zhijie and Lv Chang who drove a Vulcan.

Inside the main bridge of the Sky Dome train, the busyness in the communicator almost never stopped for a moment. At the combat meeting, most people accepted the suggestion from Utopia. Utopia, Iron Guard Brigade Information Corps, Silver Star, Infinite Alliance, and Joint Alliance formed the lineup for this steel refining factory construction. But at the same time, the drone track laying did not stop.

As soon as the meeting ended, Marcus and Xiao En of Utopia immediately promoted site selection and construction. Nearly 30,000 people from major main teams were deployed, and resources from almost all car fleets were mobilized to gather.

At this moment, whether it was a large or small car fleet, all were mobilized. The track fleet was brightly lit, and all kinds of mechanical materials and drone clusters began to gather toward the canyon direction.

On the sky bridge of the Sky Dome train, Chen Sixuan looked at the dense mechanical lights below with a solemn expression, and was discussing something with Mo Nika and Qian Dele. At this time, a voice sounded.

"Building a steel refining factory within 48 hours, I have to say, I originally thought only that person could think of such a plan." Jian Xuwei, wearing silver battle armor, stepped over, followed by Jiang Yun.

Chen Sixuan turned to look at Jian Xuwei. For months, Jian Xuwei had used the Silver Star as a foundation to unite most of the track resources and car fleets of Dawn City, forming a huge force. In Chen Sixuan's view, this woman possessed a transcendent leadership charm, which made people unable to underestimate her even in the scarlet.

Calm, rational, gathering and deploying engineers, terrain exploration, route breakthrough, the entire track marching plan was almost proposed by this woman, which was not strong.

"Are you talking about Lin Xian?" Chen Sixuan's eyes dimmed slightly, and then she said: "For him, a steel refining factory is not very necessary."

Jiang Yun smiled: "That's true, he is a factory... no, it should be said to be a whole industrial cluster. Ordinary factories cannot manufacture a train without a parts supply chain."

Several people's eyes met and smiled faintly.

"By the way, can this steel refining factory really be realized?" Qian Dele, who was on the side, leaned on the guardrail and looked at Jian Xuwei with his arms crossed: "I don't understand these technical problems, but I think metal smelting and preparation are not simple problems."

"Theoretically impossible, it seems to be simple iron rails, but the industrial chain and industrial level contained are not simple."

Jian Xuwei's expression was calm: "High-strength steel rails need special steel plants, iron and steel metallurgical industry, need civil engineering construction, roadbed bridges, need four-electric integration, communication, signal, traction power supply, power supply system..."

"So with our current resources, it is impossible to build a factory in this scarlet. However, Marcus and the others certainly know this. Their plan is actually to prepare to enlarge the metal printing drones, and then gather available metal resources to solve the efficiency problem of the current drones. This is actually very easy to achieve. To put it bluntly, it doesn't need too much technical content."

"It is equivalent to changing the current building while walking to building a distribution center for batch construction, and then directly laying it after it is built, so as to improve efficiency?" Mo Nika raised her eyes and hit the point in one sentence.

Jian Xuwei nodded: "Although it is not so simple, it is almost the same. I considered this plan, and it is indeed worth a try."

"The premise of being worth a try is based on the attack law of these tides on us." Chen Sixuan took a breath: "Stopping means we are camping on the spot. If these monsters are really to delay us and wait for the world-class disaster to come, then our approach is no different from a gamble."

"Yes, and we can't confirm whether the Tower People can know our strategic intent. With the Advent Sect of the Foundation, this is also a hidden danger. Even if everything goes well, we can't confirm where the monster comes from." Jiang Yun looked at the scarlet black mist in the sky: "Or..."

"What time is it coming!"

On the huge dark red planet, the material tide is captured by strong traction to form a flood with a diameter of more than several kilometers, which is swallowed by the black mechanical celestial body. Dust floats around the gravitational field, like a gray light ring cut on the planet's orbit.

Lin Xian sat on a deck above the celestial body swallowing mouth, like a tiny dust, looking at this magnificent scene of destroying the earth and capturing the stars.

"What result did you get, Grace?"

【Based on the principles of astrophysics and civilization development theory, this civilization level may have reached the mid-stage of Kardashev Type II. Celestial capture requires theories or conjectured technologies such as gravitational traction beams, force field anchoring, and mass drive arrays. In science fiction literature, there have been many cases of extracting celestial bodies, such as the "Furnace Star" in "Hyperion" using gravitational siphon technology to extract core metal flow.】

"Then how much ahead of us is this civilization?"

【The development of human industrial civilization does not show regular or gentle upward trends. This is related to social education and the progress of productive forces combined with energy development. If estimated according to the development speed of Blue Star human civilization, it will take at least 2000 years or longer.】

"2000 years..."

Lin Xian pondered in his mouth, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he said: "Has the result of the discussion from Chief Engineer Yang been sent back? Is there any way to locate this celestial body."

【Cannot be done】