Chapter 349 Fire and Electricity
It is hard to imagine that without the control of a higher level of intelligence, a monster would willingly turn itself into an oversized biochemical bomb.
Meng Chao feels that the "mystery of demons and gods" hidden behind the strange beasts will surface two years earlier than in memory.
What if there is really a satellite town hidden deep in the fog that has been eroded beyond recognition by the alien world.
In the previous life, because the white ghost detonated the red jade veins, causing heavy damage to Dragon City, Dragon City was unable to launch a new external offensive for at least two or three years. This satellite town with ulterior motives could develop and infiltrate leisurely.
Now, because of the butterfly effect set off by Meng Chao, instead of losing troops and generals, Dragon City has ushered in a "golden generation".
The Red Dragon Army obtained resources from the northern development zone, and its firepower became more ferocious.
Dragon City has made rapid progress in all directions. In just six months, the area under its control has expanded by a full 30%. Observation posts have even been set up nearly a hundred kilometers away from the city, with a huge radiation range.
If Dragon City continues to expand with successive victories, no matter where the deformed and mutated satellite town is hidden, it will be discovered, right?
Therefore, Meng Chao estimated that the other party had to take action.
Among the memory fragments of past lives, many "big events" that should have happened two or three years later may be staged intensively within three to five months.
This is a good thing.
Because judging from the examples of White Ghost and Takano, the opponent's secret weapon "Nine Demonic Gods" has not yet been prepared.
The penetration into Dragon City is definitely not as pervasive as it was two or three years later in the memory of the previous life.
Forcibly advancing the conspiracy will only expose their organization, allowing Longcheng to eliminate them once and for all.
The day the "Mystery of the Demon God" is solved is when Dragon City wins the monster war.
As the intelligence of monsters increases to a degree visible to the naked eye, various new forms of "alien beasts" appear one by one. The authority of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau is getting larger and larger, and more and more personnel are recruited or seconded from various forces.
Even so, the core members are still extremely busy, and each senior investigator is often responsible for investigating more than a dozen cases at the same time.
Otherwise, it would not be Lu Siya's turn to be Meng Chao's instructor.
There was an extreme shortage of manpower, and Meng Chao usually performed very well. The so-called "completion test" was almost a formality. The day after he passed the test, Meng Chao was pushed to the front line like a duck.
This is the waste-to-energy plant near Longcheng Iron and Steel Group in the north of the city.
After Dragon City passed through, there was almost no trace of oil or coal in the ground. Except for a very few solar power supply facilities, the thermal power plant in the city was paralyzed for almost twenty years.
It was not until humans gradually mastered the technology of using fire crystals, thunder crystals and various monsters to generate electricity that TVs, computers, electric lights and other household appliances that can be seen everywhere on the earth began to enter thousands of households again.
However, for Longcheng people, the most important role of "electric energy" is not to light up TVs and computers.
Instead, it recharges the defense system of each community and uses high-voltage electricity to construct the first line of defense against monsters.
All communities in Longcheng, regardless of old or new, rich or poor, have the function of "fortress-like".
In the case of "fortification", all the main and secondary roads in the community will be closed, and barbed wire fences filled with high-voltage electricity will be raised.
Electric energy will also be used to drive gears on the building's exterior, and it will be covered with layers of armor to cover all door openings and windows.
Not to mention, the offensive electromagnetic coils that can be seen everywhere in the community, as well as the searchlights that can blind people's eyes, all require electrical energy to drive.
If the power grid is paralyzed, even if the "fortress" is barely completed, the defense will be greatly reduced, and the defense line will be easily overwhelmed by monsters.
Precisely because power security is so important, Longcheng, with a population of tens of millions, is far more than just a power plant.
Instead, a total of five power plants were installed in the southeast, northwest and city, regardless of pollution.
Many important units also have their own spar generators to ensure that electromagnetic towers and searchlights will not stop operating if external power transmission is interrupted.
Ordinary old residential areas naturally do not have such advanced functions.
In the past three months, there have been at least five cases of fog falling and monsters attacking, power plants experiencing mysterious explosions, large-scale power grid paralysis, and communities that were being "fortified" suddenly experiencing power outages, and barbed wire fences that were supposed to be connected to high-voltage electricity.
, being pulled lightly by a monster will tear you apart.
Without power supply, the community's defense suddenly plummeted.
When humans are in the dark, their mental index fluctuates more violently, and they are more likely to be swallowed up by fear.
In five communities that suffered sudden power outages, monsters successfully broke through the defense lines of four of them and started bloody battles with the residents.
Thanks to the desperate and desperate efforts of the residents of the community, the monster was finally defeated by them.
But residents also paid a heavy price.
Regardless of the number of casualties, most of the buildings in the community were destroyed by monsters - either they sprayed flames and melted the steel bars inside the buildings, making the buildings crumbling and turned into dangerous buildings that could collapse at any time; they also rushed into the buildings and sprayed acid and venom.
, turning the building into a paradise for snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
Preliminary statistics show that at least tens of thousands of residents' houses were severely damaged and have lost the value of repair.
The housing problem of citizens has troubled Longcheng for many years.
Until now, countless citizens still have to live in the dark, narrow, damp, nest city where the crime rate remains high.
There are also countless citizens, three generations of grandparents and more than a dozen families, all crowded into shabby houses of 50 to 60 square meters.
It is common for a house with a floor height of 2.23 meters to have beds separated into three floors.
Tens of thousands of residents were displaced, making Longcheng's living space problem even worse.
If it cannot be properly resolved, it is very likely to intensify the conflict.
Perhaps, this is the other party's purpose.
The Alien Beast Investigation Bureau has carefully reviewed the data from previous years.
It was found that these five sudden power outages were very different from the grid paralysis caused by the overload of the defense system in previous years.
In recent years, Longcheng Electric Power Group has carried out comprehensive technical upgrades to the city's power grid. Even if hundreds of communities are "fortified" at the same time, it can still support attacks with the strongest power output from electromagnetic towers.
But these five times, the fog descended and monsters surged out of the gaps in space. At the same time, mysterious explosions occurred in nearby power plants.
And these power plants are obviously not shrouded in fog and should not be targets of monster invasion.
"There have long been monsters who hid secretly when the fog came, and quietly sneaked towards the power plant, patiently dormant under the power plant, and waited until the next time the fog came and the power plant was operating at full power, they would start again
Suicidal raids create favorable conditions for a new batch of monsters to destroy human houses."
This is the inference of experts from the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau.
According to past battle examples, different types of monsters rarely have the concept of coordinated combat.
"At the expense of oneself, creating offensive opportunities for comrades on different battlefields" seems to be a concept unique to humans.
If the monsters really do this, it proves that they possess human-like intelligence.
Knowing how to lurk and raid the important facility "Power Plant" shows that the monsters are aware that human beings' defense system is closely related to electrical energy, and they also know that these buildings with huge steam towers can provide humans with a steady stream of electrical energy.
No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for a simple monster to know these things.
They are most likely "alien beasts" that have swallowed up human intelligence.
The Municipal Meteorological Bureau predicts that fog will come again tonight.
Moreover, judging from the amplitude of the space ripples, it is the largest and longest-lasting fog in the past six months.
It is very likely that a large number of nightmare beasts and hell beasts will break into Dragon City.
In the past six months, the rate of evolution and mutation of monsters has accelerated. Ordinary monsters such as swords, halberds, and demon pigs have had more than ten or twenty mutant forms.
Although the Extraordinary Ones and the Red Dragon Army can rely on highly targeted new battle modes such as "Extreme Flow" to kill these mutants in the wilderness without leaving a single piece of armor behind.
Urban combat is a completely different matter.
There are a large number of ordinary citizens living in the city.
Many important facilities are also filled with flammable and explosive materials.
As for citizens' houses, no matter how hard they are reinforced, they cannot be strengthened to the level of a battle fortress.
Of course there is nothing wrong with killing monsters.
But if a devastating move hits the monster, the residential building behind it, and the residents inside, all reduced to crumbs and pulp, it will definitely not be considered a victory.
Street fighting is ten times more difficult than field fighting.
To engage in street fighting in our only city, we are even more constrained, and 100% of our combat effectiveness may not be able to exert 50%.
If another monster emerges and destroys the power plant at a critical moment, leading to large-scale paralysis of the power grid, the consequences will be disastrous.
The area where the fog fell this time covered seven districts in the city's east, west, north, and south.
The Alien Beast Investigation Bureau can only disperse its elite soldiers and generals to five power plants to set up defenses one by one.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were deployed at the waste-to-energy plant in the north of the city.
The most advanced biotechnology is used here, not using giant sandworms, but special modified microorganisms to process garbage.
Garbage processed by microorganisms and then fermented by a special process will turn into substances similar to chemical fertilizers.
This material is then mixed with monster excrement, as well as the powder of fire and thunder crystals such as "Thunder Stone", and it becomes the best fuel. The conversion efficiency far exceeds that of any thermal power plant in the earth's era. It can convert the fuel into
65% of thermal energy is converted into electrical energy.
Biotechnology, which was originally quite advanced, has now become a huge hidden danger.
Because there are nearly a thousand tons of semi-finished products stacked in the fuel fermentation warehouse of the power plant.
Meng Chao didn't want to know how large a fire these semi-finished fuels would cause once they were ignited by strange beasts using secret methods.
Anyway, according to the memory fragments of his past life, there will be at least three or five large-scale fires that will affect the whole city in the next few years.
Chapter completed!