Chapter 312 Polar Suspicion

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Although humans have achieved initial results in transforming the climate and ecological environment of the three desert areas in Oceania, a beautiful place with farmland, grassland, woodland and wetland intertwined has been born. However, the lack of freshwater resources still limits the region. further expansion and sustainable development.

At present, 45% of the entire reconstruction project has not been completed. The main reason is that there is a huge gap in freshwater resources. The completed parts have consumed about 90% of the freshwater quota, especially the amount of water used in agriculture and animal husbandry.

In order to meet the food and meat supply for nearly 9 billion people, nearly 30% of the area in the entire transformation plan was opened up as farmland and grassland. The average daily water consumption of the two accounts for more than 40% of the daily output of the desalination plant. .

In addition to urban residential water and industrial water, even if more than 23,300 large-scale desalination plants operate at full capacity, they will not be able to alleviate the growing water shortage.

The number of ultra-large desalination plants currently under construction has been urgently reduced to 500 due to environmental issues and land occupation factors. According to the dynamic model of daily average water consumption of relevant departments, even if all 500 ultra-large desalination plants are put into use, they still cannot Meet current water needs.

The limitation of fresh water resources has also affected the transformed area to a certain extent, and the formation of a sustainable self-sufficient ecosystem has been fully realized. At present, the area that can form the above functions is limited to a small part of the planted forest land.

According to the entire "New World" plan, if we want to fully realize the construction of a sustainable self-sufficient ecosystem in areas under human jurisdiction, we need to complete the transformation of 55% of the unfinished area.

The amount of water required to complete this project is staggering, equivalent to building another 56,000 ultra-large desalination plants, which is an unbearable burden on the environment and land use.

Abandoning the original is more practical than building.

As a last resort, mankind has set its sights on the nearby Antarctica, where the huge amount of ancient ice shelves can provide mankind with a much-needed and continuous supply of fresh water.

But the cruel facts once again awakened mankind from their sweet dreams. According to the "Strategic Mutual Trust" agreement signed between mankind and the Tiberians, except for the Oceania region within the range of 120 degrees east longitude to 135 degrees east longitude, mankind cannot set foot on the earth. Any piece of land or sea.

Even airspace.

Of course, this also includes Antarctica, a "terrain" land.

If you want to exploit the rich glaciers in Antarctica, you will inevitably destroy the agreement signed by both parties, and humans will risk an all-out war with the Tiberians.

This is something that people on earth are extremely unwilling to see.

Fortunately, every year in the southern hemisphere summer, between December and February, due to rising temperatures in the southern hemisphere, large glaciers will break away from ancient ice shelves and float to the ocean.

Due to the influence of monsoons and ocean currents, some of it will drift to the vast Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean.

These glaciers often cover several square kilometers, and the area of ​​some large glaciers even exceeds the area of ​​a large city. The fresh water resources they provide are tens of thousands of times the average daily output of all large desalination plants currently in use.

The good news is that a very small part of the fallen glaciers will still float to the southern seas of Oceania. Although it will be melted and evaporated over a distance of more than 4,000 kilometers, this part of the glaciers can still be captured as long as proper measures are taken.

Once captured

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With the acquisition of these glaciers, the current problem of severe shortage of fresh water resources that plagues mankind will be easily solved.

Just when humans were targeting this part of the glacier, people were shocked to find that during the entire southern hemisphere summer, not a single glacier floated to the southern waters of Oceania.

They either dive headlong into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, or drift into the wider Pacific Ocean, as if they deliberately avoid this route.

In order to find out the reason, the Crisis Plan mobilized all civilian and military reconnaissance satellites located above Oceania. These satellites are all located in Earth's synchronous orbit, and all satellites outside Oceania are blocked by the Tiberians' anti-satellite systems.

This is also part of the implementation of the "strategic mutual trust" agreement signed by both parties, and people on earth have nothing to do about it.

Although the people on earth used all the satellites, apart from taking a few blurry photos, no valuable intelligence was detected.

The Tiberians installed ground-based anti-satellite jammers in Antarctica.

After analyzing and comparing those blurry photos, the Crisis Plan found that three large factories appeared on the Knox Coast, Benzare Coast and Ötzi Coast in Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

A large number of large ocean-going cargo ships appeared around the factory. Later, through analysis of photos taken by satellites over the waters near Oceania, it appeared that these cargo ships were carrying an alarming number of unknown objects.

What surprised the Crisis Plan Agency even more was that these cargo ships frequently traveled between Antarctica and Dark River Company.

What exactly is the Dark River Company carrying?

In order to understand and solve the reason why some glaciers bypass Oceania, and also to find out what is the unknown object carried by Dark River Company from Antarctica?

The Crisis Plan immediately worked with relevant departments to come up with response plans to solve the above two problems.

Soon, the Intelligence Section under the Crisis Planning Agency and its special operations team were entrusted with important tasks. Wu Yijun and Li Sujia, the chiefs of the Intelligence Section, became the main persons in charge of this operation.

Wu Yijun also came up with corresponding response plans as quickly as possible. According to his deployment, he will sit at the headquarters as the commander-in-chief, leading the overall situation and providing necessary intelligence and personnel support for the entire operation.

Li Sujia will lead a special operations force composed of flying combat mechs to secretly sneak into the Knox Coast, Benzare Coast and Ötzi Coast in Wilkes Land, Antarctica, to carry out this secret combat mission.

The flying combat robots of the Earthlings are a newly established autonomous combat robot force equipped with artificial intelligence. It has the trinity of land, sea and air combat capabilities and is a new type of armed force that can perform reconnaissance, anti-submarine, attack and cooperate with air vehicles to perform combat missions.

Its technology was derived from the flying combat mechas of Dark River Company. Of course, this technology first came from the Tiberians.

After reverse engineering it, the Science and Technology Agency led by Liu Hanyang finally developed a new generation of heavily equipped flying combat mechs.

In order to improve the performance of the mecha, Liu Hanyang's team put a lot of effort into it. After nearly three months of scientific research, a new generation of heavily equipped flying combat mecha was born.

In terms of artificial intelligence, weapon performance and flight distance, the new generation of mechas are superior to the original Dark River Company's combat flying mechas.

In addition to the original weapons

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Outside the system, the new mecha is equipped with long-range dark matter missiles and new electromagnetic pulse bombs; in terms of flight distance, the new mecha can fly up to the Earth-lunar orbit, which is a significant improvement compared to the previous one.

In addition, in terms of protection, the new mecha inherits the dark matter protective barrier technology of space vehicles and large interstellar ships, which can effectively resist the attacks of the Tiberians' electromagnetic pulse bombs and laser weapons.

According to actual combat tests, it takes 9 laser weapons and 3 electromagnetic pulse rounds to finally destroy the dark matter protective barrier. This is already a very high combat indicator.

In terms of artificial intelligence, the flying combat mechas provided by the Tiberians to Dark River Company had some of their artificial intelligence modules emasculated. Their artificial intelligence was limited to executing attack instructions, and their autonomous consciousness was completely blocked.

After Liu Hanyang's team took over, they partially activated and reorganized the shielded autonomous consciousness module, making it a truly intelligent flying combat mecha that could learn and execute attack commands autonomously.

To a certain extent, this type of robot is on the eve of the identification and stimulation of self-awareness.

Self-aware robots have always been vigilant and guarded against by humans. However, in order to improve the performance of mechas, humans have only partially activated and reorganized their consciousness control modules, and have not carried out large-scale upgrades and transformations.

Despite this, humans have not relaxed their vigilance, and have implanted programs in their consciousness control modules that suppress the recognition of self-awareness. If the program is broken through or the instructions are rewritten due to the mecha's learning ability, humans have another emergency plan.

This emergency plan is actually a backdoor program. Once the mecha breaks through the above restrictions and enters the stage of self-awareness identification, the backdoor will be activated urgently and designate a spiritual leader for the mecha.

This spiritual leader is a person with a human brain but a synthetic metal body and organs - Li Sujia.

Perhaps humans believe that only human moral consciousness can regulate and guide this group of cold machines, so that they can play their greatest role within the framework of their morality and order.

As the future leader of this group of heavy flying combat mechas, Li Sujia naturally has to match the corresponding capabilities in order to better lead this mecha force.

Therefore, it was put on the agenda to improve Li Sujia's physical performance and protective power, and she would be transformed into a heavy flying combat mecha with a human brain.

During the first contact with the Taibo people, Professor Li Mosen's sacrifice once plunged Li Sujia into deep grief. For several months, she did not get out of the haze of her father's sacrifice.

She couldn't accept this cruel fact.

She does not hate anyone for her father's sacrifice. She knows very well that what her father did was a heroic decision for the survival and future of all mankind. As a family member, she should feel supreme honor and pride for him.

But as a daughter, her father's death is equivalent to a mountain falling forever. The father she respected and was proud of has passed away forever.

Since she became an agent, she and her father have been together less and more apart. In the past five years, she has only seen her father twice, which lasted no more than 9 hours. A telegram put her on the road again. The journey to carry out the mission.

Endless longing and unresolved emotions made her unable to face everything in front of her.

But life must go on.

The task still needs to be carried out.

(End of chapter)

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