Chapter 965

"Good afternoon, dear residents of Clear Harbor Refuge, I am your announcer, Rattiwill."

"Today's Qinggang City is still foggy, and it will take many days before we welcome the sunshine. But the difference is that a group of special guests will arrive at the shelter today!"

"Yes, that's right, the managers of our other shelters in Qinggang City, they will come to Qinggang Sanctuary to visit our industrial area, planting area, living area... feel that we have completely come out of the ground good life."

"Issuing the instructions of the lord manager: For your personal safety, all residents and friends are strictly forbidden to have private conversations with the guests alone, to conduct transactions with the guests, and to collect money from the guests..."

Qinggang City North Industrial Zone.

The miniature loudspeaker kept echoing high above the chaotic ground, and a sonorous broadcast sound came from it.

Different from other old gopher shelters, tens of thousands of people are crowded in small, dark rooms, day after day, year after year, even if they die, it is difficult to breathe a few mouthfuls of fresh air from the ground.

The development of Sunny Harbor Refuge is obviously much more advanced.

Not only did they relocate from the ground, but they also occupied the largest and best-preserved industrial area in Qinggang City, fully one-tenth the size of the entire city.

Moreover, Sunshine Harbor Sanctuary does not restrict the personal freedom of every resident in an absolute sense.

In addition to not being able to go to the industrial area, everyone can freely come to the ground to move around in the designated area and live an enviable fairy life.

As the reminder sound played over and over again on the horn, the time gradually came to twelve o'clock noon.

It was also from here that under the nearly 20-meter-high electric fence on the edge of the industrial area, people began to appear one after another.

"Damn it, the high walls here have been expanded to such an extent that it's simply inappropriate for... people!"

Walking in through the open door under the high wall, the man wrapped in a gray-yellow robe turned his head and looked into the distance, cursing inwardly.

I still remember that when he came here eight years ago, there was only a three-meter wall on the edge of the industrial area.

The material of the walls is very poor quality, most of which are mixed construction waste recovered from the ruins of the city.

There are many mottled handprints and footprints on the cement left in the gaps of the waste. At first glance, it looks like graffiti drawn by children, which is ridiculous.

but now.

Looking at the huge wall that was seven stories high and could not be seen at a glance, Bernie swallowed, feeling an unreasonable fear in his heart.

Monsters, pure monsters!

Could it be that the Clear Harbor Refuge wants to build this place into a steel fortress?

Don't they plan to continue to stay underground and want to live on the ground?

madman.

Giving an evaluation in his heart, Bernie turned his head forcibly, suppressing the phobia of giants in his heart.

For the Blue Star humans living in the post-war era, especially for the old gophers, it is actually difficult to accept living on the ground.

From the very beginning they were born in the dark underground.

I grew up there, and I grow old there.

Many people naturally have unreasonable fear of the ground, just like human beings always have awe of the deep sea.

They only heard that in pre-war times, humans lived above ground, in these steel jungles.

At that time, there were no terrifying radiation mutant beasts, mutants, nor predators or wanderers with ulterior motives.

The people live and work in peace and contentment, enjoy family happiness, and breathe fresh air to their heart's content.

Moreover, there was no war that could break out at any time in that era.

It's not like now, as long as you go to the ground, you have to be on the lookout for any danger nearby.

While thinking, Bernie walked inside after leaving the terrifying high wall.

Fortunately, once inside, everything went back to normal immediately.

The well-proportioned factory buildings are distributed on both sides of the main street, and the two-wheeled industrial robots full of technological sense are busy walking through the crowd.

The patrolling guards stood in the tall sentry towers, overlooking everything below.

The residents of Qinggang City seem to have gotten used to life on the ground, walking around the streets casually.

Or enter a small shop with a signboard, or deliver the packaged materials to the designated location.

Unlike the pre-war era where all work was taken over by the brain, humans only need to sit in front of the terminal to check the results.

The industrial area of ​​Clear Harbor Refuge forms a unique rapport.

Humans and robots have different jobs, and the two do not interfere with each other.

"Has it developed to this point?"

A look of uncontrollable surprise appeared on Bernie's face.

the progress of this development.

Is it the result of the quiet work of the Clear Harbor Refuge over the past eight years? !

This is too exaggerated.

They actually managed to create such a large-scale industrial area secretly behind the high wall.

No wonder the war between Flat Beach Refuge and Sunny Harbor Refuge was stopped by a simple threat that night.

"Honorable Flamingo Refuge Manager, Mr. Burney, welcome to our expedition meeting at Clear Harbor Refuge."

Go all the way inward, and finally come under a wall again.

Before Bernie could react from his stupefaction, a blond man walked into the open doorway below.

"Remember the last time you came here, I received you, right?"

"Minister Lewis?"

"Fortunately, it seems that you haven't forgotten me." The blond man showed a thankful and polite smile.

"This is just our peripheral industrial area. If you want to visit, I will assign someone to take you around after the meeting is over. Today our meeting is held at the small harbor island."

"Island?"

...

"Here we are, the first line of defense of the Clear Harbor Refuge is ahead, the Lightning Barrier!"

Walking through the complex city ruins all the way, the majestic defense line of the giant wall was finally within the vision of four figures wearing power armor.

Standing in the middle, Su Mo showed a surprised expression on his face.

It turned out to be... such an ancient line of defense?

In the impression of the future ruins, only some gathering places with small terrain will adopt such a method of defense to ensure the safety of the residents inside.

Large-scale gathering places will not invest in this area at all, and confine their outward development routes to one-third of an acre of land.

This Sunny Harbor Refuge...

"The original intention of building this lightning wall is not actually for the safety of residents, but to save supplies."

As if seeing Su Mo's doubts, the tall man in the power armor walking beside him made a sound.

"In Blue Star, there will be radiation beast riots every few seasons. They will lose their minds and attack the buildings left by humans on the ground. You can see the remaining ruins in the city, most of which are left by them. The handwriting that came down."

"If Sunshine Harbor Sanctuary wants to develop an industrial zone on the ground, it must reduce the losses caused by the riots."

"Of course, it may be unnecessary to change the place now."

Mature technology has indeed changed human life.

From the moment starch protein technology moved towards mass production, farming has become a thing of the past in a sense.

With sufficient energy supply, human beings only need to continue to develop industries to quickly restore the glory of the heyday.

Therefore, even if it costs a little more manpower and materials.

As long as the industrial area can be protected, it means that the food rations have been kept.

The four of them continued to move forward, about a hundred meters, and finally reached the outermost edge of the Qinggang Shelter.

In front of the open alloy gate, there are twelve militiamen wearing exoskeleton armor standing guard.

Seeing the Power Armor approaching from afar, the leader leader showed a trace of awe on his face, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Guests stop, you must touch all weapons when entering the Clear Harbor Refuge, and the power armor is also there..."

Before he finished speaking, the man in the black power armor silently tapped the left side of the armor.

call.

A blue projection shot out, shining on the wall, and a hollow gold coin pattern appeared.

As if being choked by someone, the second half of the captain's words got stuck in his throat, and he could only make two embarrassing groans.

"It turns out to be the master of the foundation, please come in."

A sanctuary for local snakes in a port city is really not worth mentioning in front of the Behemoth Foundation.

Even though these people may only be members of the foundation's branch, as long as they are willing to use this logo, it means that they are attending the event as a foundation.

Even if you didn't invite the other party, dare to stop this group of people?

The captain made a bitter face, and hurriedly beckoned someone to make way for the inner passage.

But what surprised him was that the obviously more advanced man in the red and black close-fitting power armor didn't leave right away.

He took two steps and took out a pale green invitation letter from his armor.

"you are..."

The invitation letters sent out are divided into four types: purple, red, yellow, and green, depending on the strength and scale of the shelter.

Purple represents that the strength has entered the top five in Qinggang City.

Green means that you are not yet popular, or you have not participated in real battles to test your strength.

"Tianyuan Refuge..."

"Well.."

He didn't hear the name in his head, and the captain secretly complained to the person who sent the invitation letter, and then handed the letter back with a smile.

"You and the adults of the Foundation?"

"Together, Tianyuan Refuge is our F-level signing gathering place." The man in the power armor said solemnly.

"Come in, please come in!"

There was no invitation letter to put this group of people in before, and perhaps it is possible to bear the responsibility of being blamed.

But now, with the invitation letter, there is nothing to do with ink.

Su Mo nodded and took the invitation letter and put it into the battle armor, and the four of them walked in along the passage.

"This industrial area in Qinggang City was originally the property of Hualing Heavy Industry Company. Several medium and large industrial cores were stored in it. It mainly exported medium and large high-tech equipment to other directions around the world. Later, due to the sudden outbreak of war, Hualing Heavy Industry failed to transfer the industrial core out immediately, so it was cheaper for the Qinggang Refuge that was later taken over."

"Of course, they have also spent a lot of money to repair these industrial cores and gather enough energy to use them over the years."

The lightning barrier separated the entire Qinggang City into two halves.

Once inside the high wall, it seems to have come to another world.

Outside are the ruins of the city, and inside are nascent civilizations.

"Industrial core, what is that?"

Suppressing the shock in his heart, Su Mo tried his best to sound calm.

Looking around, this industrial area is indeed more shocking.

Planning determines the upper limit of industry.

Take the current chip building in the territory that can't be opened as an example. These industrial plants that are more than ten meters high like a square box can feel the technology contained in them just by looking at the outside.

"Industrial core is a highly integrated manufacturing equipment."

"His internal storage is a massive amount of manufacturing data, and it is equipped with the top manufacturing concepts of the pre-war era."

"Small-sized industrial cores only have manufacturing capabilities, and the input of corresponding materials can automatically produce products without interruption, while medium-sized and above industrial cores begin to have the ability to grow."

"How to put it, you can understand it this way. The status of each medium and large industrial core in the industrial system is like a baby to human beings. As long as you can provide the materials he needs, the industrial core will autonomously carry out the process based on internal data. Iterative growth, with more and more features and more terrifying manufacturing levels."

"A machine that grows by itself?"

Hearing the first half, Su Mo almost thought that the industrial core was a replica of a modular product.

But in the second half, this thing is a little scary.

The industrial core can actually use materials to add more functions?

"For example, an industrial core that can manufacture small mobile Axd handhelds. When its manufacturing speed and manufacturing level have reached a certain level, it will automatically generate evolutionary needs and start asking users for materials. At this time If you can provide materials, he will use these materials to self-manufacture new functional modules, such as adding an external communication function to the handheld."

"All of this comes from his internal data. Small industrial cores have no self-learning ability. Only medium-sized and above industrial cores have the ability to self-absorb and self-learn and iterate."

After listening to the clear and easy-to-understand explanation, Su Mo nodded slightly, and could not help but have a deeper understanding of the reasons for the outbreak of the Blue Star war.

good guy...

Uncontrollability will always be one of the biggest disadvantages of artificial intelligence.

No wonder some people in Bluestar didn't trust the development of artificial intelligence back then. This machine has been iterated except for the ability of self-growth. What if it gets out of control and evolves into a weapon module?

"So that's one of the reasons why the war broke out, but not the whole reason."

The man explained and did not continue.

A group of people walked through the main street of the industrial area in a little silence, and followed the roadside signs all the way inward.

After walking for about three kilometers, I arrived in front of a five-meter concrete wall that was obviously shorter.

Along the way, the residents of Clear Harbor Refuge were surprised to see the power armor.

But the guards under the low wall didn't respond at all. It seems that they should have received a summons from the previous captain.

"Honorable adults of the Foundation, welcome to visit the Clear Harbor Sanctuary."

"I'm the Minister of Development for Outer City, Lewis."

The blond man Lewis came over and bowed his head very humbly.

"Peng Qiu, deputy captain of the Foundation's Qinggang City Operations Department."

The power armor helmet opened, revealing an oriental face full of determination.

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