I Have a Job

Chapter 296: Humans in the greenhouse

adjust their defenses against the ground.

The complexity was slightly beyond Su Wu's expectations.

I was busy until the next day.

Su Wu had just completed all the planning.

On the whole.

The main decision, in addition to strengthening the defense strength of all surface units.

Another thing is to continue to retain the configuration of the Qinling Mountain war zone.

Because Su Wu discovered that even though the purple crystal had opened up many other channels.

But their favorite gathering area is still the lava canyon area of the Qinling Mountains.

It was as if it was some strategic location.

In fact, this also left Su Wu a place to efficiently harvest the purple crystal debris.

There is its existence.

It is easier for Su Wu to become stronger as he fights more.

And after completing all the defensive deployments.

Su Wu also made minor adjustments to the daily patrol routes near the surface of Jianghe City.

The four special crystal detectors currently in hand, which have been enhanced using survival points, have been redistributed.

Among them, the farmyard shelter and the Qinling Mountain battlefield each still have a special crystal detector stationed there.

To ensure these two most core and important areas.

Won't be attacked by purple crystals from underground.

The other two.

The troops were transferred from two patrolling Pioneer-class land destroyers to a biplane helicopter and a sixth-generation fighter jet respectively.

Among them, the biplane helicopters are responsible for conducting low-altitude patrols in the surrounding areas with Jianghe City as the center every day.

Once you find where a large number of amethyst crystals are gathered.

Just call the farmyard shelter directly and use rockets and heavy artillery to carry out long-range strikes.

The sixth-generation fighter jets are responsible for escorting caravans outside Jianghe City.

There are also regular inspections of the various subsidiary shelters and mines.

Because the route that the sixth-generation fighter jets need to cover is too long.

Su Wu did not have high requirements for it.

It only needs to fly over 1 km above the ground.

Just make sure that there are no large-scale gatherings of purple crystals along the caravan's route and within 4 kilometers underground of all important ground facilities.

As for the remaining details.

Other aircraft and ground forces will be responsible for responding.

Amethyst that has lost its sneak attack attribute.

Before it actually breaks out of the ground, the harm is not too great.

It's also easy to deal with.

"That's how it happened."

"The absolute safety of the special crystal detectors can no longer be guaranteed."

"After all, no matter how advanced ordinary aircraft are, they can't compete with land destroyers for the time being."

"Just get hit by one or two individual rockets."

"There is a risk of loss of control and crash."

This is the price of wanting the best of both worlds.

Su Wu was unwilling to waste survival points to produce more special crystal detectors.

They also want to protect properties outside Jianghe City from serious losses.

You can only take a slight risk.

This afternoon.

The biplane helicopter carried out its first patrol mission 200 kilometers east of Jianghe City.

I unexpectedly discovered a species covered with light white tender shoots that looked like snow.

Su Wu received the news later.

In the suburbs of Jianghe City, in an independent biological laboratory converted from a small shelter.

Remotely controlling the robot.

Got a sample collected by the biplane helicopter.

After a quick analysis and inspection, it was finally determined that they were the seedlings of the underworld flowers that had been studied before.

"They grow on ice."

"The part exposed to the outside world is less than one millimeter in length on average."

"Inside the ice is a nearly transparent rhizome system."

"The longest length can even exceed 100 meters."

"You can reach the frozen ground beneath the ice."

"It's such a huge, sophisticated plant."

Su Wu looked a little surprised.

This rhizome structure allows it to easily absorb nutrients from the soil.

However, the strange thing is that the seedlings of the underworld flowers apparently did not use too much of the nutrients they had previously absorbed for their own growth.

Instead, it seemed to disappear out of thin air.

The evidence comes from a set of controlled experiments.

In a space sealed with one meter thick quick cement.

The seedlings that are provided with sufficient nutrition will naturally develop at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A control group under the same conditions in ordinary space.

Although the nutrients absorbed are no less than the former, there is still no change.

"It's interesting."

Su Wu looked thoughtful and vaguely understood something.

Where do the raw materials needed for the evolution of amethyst come from?

A little consideration.

He burned his spiritual power and conducted more in-depth tests and research on these young shoots.

Some useful targeted equipment were drawn by him one after another.

Two hours later.

A multi-wing drone was quickly thrown by a sixth-generation fighter jet 200 kilometers away to the place where the seedlings were found.

Then this multi-wing drone was in the air 5 meters above the ground in those areas.

The reconnaissance range began to expand outward in circles.

Finally, an area of 7.5 square kilometers was surveyed, which was suspected to be an area where the seedlings of the underworld flower were also distributed.

"Even with the help of new specially designed detectors."

"It's also very difficult to find the seedlings of the Underworld Flower in the ice and snow."

"The success rate is only one in a thousand at most."

"But this probability is enough."

"Discovering one plant is like discovering a whole field."

"Then what remains is to destroy them indiscriminately."

Sit at the console.

Su Wu looked at the images transmitted back by the multi-wing drone on the screen.

If we didn't know in advance, we would know that there were indeed seedlings of the flower of the underworld there.

This glance over.

Just like any ordinary snow-covered valley.

"Destroy them."

Sufficient data has been collected.

Su Wu gave the last order.

Under the body of the multi-winged drone hovering above the valley.

A device similar to a honeycomb missile launch box began to slowly emerge.

The next moment.

Invisible and invisible attacks are launched from the device.

After hitting the ground.

Resonates with the sprouts of the flower of the underworld located on the ground.

Eventually, they died silently and on a large scale along with their huge root systems that were rooted in the ice and permafrost.

This is an infrasonic weapon specially designed to target the Flower of the Underworld.

The range can reach a radius of 100 meters.

It can penetrate deep into the thick ice and permafrost, causing devastating damage to every part of the Flower of the Underworld.

At the same time, the damage to the environment is almost zero.

"This thing doesn't work very well on purple crystals."

"The price/performance ratio is too low."

"It is the most suitable tool for removing the more fragile flowers of the underworld."

After observing the screen for a while, I saw the efficient cleaning speed of the multi-wing drone.

Su Wu was quite satisfied with this newly designed weapon.

It is intended to be popularized as a regular component in some combat drones.

There is such a useful weapon.

In the future, in many places, even the reconnaissance step can be omitted.

Just send out drones indiscriminately and let them fly around.

Anyway, only a small amount of electricity will be consumed throughout the process.

It won't take up many drones.

The overall cost is almost zero.

The following days.

Accompanied by multi-wing drones equipped with infrasonic weapons.

Large-scale indiscriminate sweeps were carried out within a radius of several hundred kilometers around farmhouses.

From the lava canyon to the exit location dug out from other amethyst crystals.

The number of evolved amethysts has obviously decreased sharply.

Qinling Mountains.

For some time past, the roar of heavy artillery has almost never stopped.

It has become sparse after a long time.

Sometimes, it would take more than half an hour before he would have an orgasm.

The rest of the work was done in advance by spider robots on land and combat drones in the air.

However, due to the limitation of evolved forms with active mobility and combat capabilities, the number can never be increased.

Su Wu once predicted the scene where human shelters would fall to the hands of Amethyst on a large scale.

It didn't really show up either.

More often.

As long as they dare to appear on the surface in a brazen manner.

It won't be long before they will face high-altitude bombing from Su Wu's sixth-generation fighter jets.

If it is an invasion of the shelter.

Just give the people inside a chance to call for help.

Usually, you can wait for rescue from the Suwu spider robot before the entire shelter is destroyed.

But I got beaten a lot.

Amethyst also slowly learned how to deal with it.

More and more amethysts were found after plundering the initial resources from within the human shelter.

They successfully fled into the wilderness before Su Wu's spider robots arrived.

And as they moved further and further away from the farmyard.

The intensity of Su Wu's attacks and the frequency of his inspections were decreasing each time.

In a vicious cycle.

Amethyst also began to grow gradually on the surface.

Some lucky ones obtained enough resources of purple crystals.

It began to evolve into an elephant-like body shape and developed long-range weapon organs with even more destructive power.

From then on, the entire Dongzhou gradually entered a turbulent era.

March 15th.

Just when Dongzhou was gradually getting used to the existence of the dangerous species Amethyst.

The far west.

A disaster caused by purple crystals also broke out.

In the central part of Xizhou, there is a super-large shelter with a population of 8 million.

He became the first victim of this disaster.

Two days later.

Traces of amethyst also appeared on the southernmost peninsula of Africa and in North America where the federal central government is located.

At this point, the federal government, which had been watching East Continent fall into chaos, was no longer a fan of the past.

He was also forced to be involved in the quagmire of the war with Amethyst.

The situation of all mankind has become even worse.

March 20th.

Farmhouse courtyard, control center on the underground floor.

Today, the overall area of the control center has nearly doubled in size.

Two relatively small holographic projection platforms and a larger number of screens were added.

Just a glance.

Except that Su Wu was the only one here, the place seemed a bit empty.

Overall, it looks like a military headquarters or the bridge of a huge ship.

But in fact.

That's true.

In addition to those new screens, there are two small projection platforms.

It almost always displays the garrison troops at various important strongholds and various ongoing battle scenes.

It is staffed by artificial intelligence and a large staff team located in the residential area on the 2nd underground floor.

Responsible for directing them.

Be here.

Even if you don't care about anything, you can easily feel a tense and busy atmosphere.

"The society inside the shelter is becoming increasingly separated from the outside world."

Standing next to the only large metal platform.

Without paying attention to the battle situations everywhere, Su Wu first looked at the projected scene of the residential area inside the shelter.

From the children playing and fighting on the streets and the pedestrians talking and laughing with each other, he could clearly feel an atmosphere that was incompatible with the end of the world.

Check the management log of artificial intelligence at your convenience.

Su Wu even saw an application signed by many people hoping to hold a concert.

You know, the outside world at this moment.

Almost every day, a shelter is completely destroyed by amethysts.

Thousands and tens of thousands of deaths.

These messages.

It's no secret on the Internet either.

But it seems like there is an invisible firewall.

They were isolated far away from ordinary people inside the farmyard shelter.

Let them turn a blind eye to this and even have the mood to chase stars and party.

"The entire network at present,"

"The mentality closest to the pre-apocalyptic era is that of the farmyards, which have slowly grown to a population of 62 million."

"The second is the underground shelter complex in the capital of Dongzhou."

"And then there are the super cities."

"And below the super cities."

"It includes official shelters in second-tier cities, as well as large private shelters."

"Their mentality is completely different, closer to a normal reaction in the end times. They are quite uneasy about all kinds of news from the outside world."

The different mentality of the shelter residents.

It also corresponds to the size and strength of their shelter.

The stronger it is, the more sense of security it can give, and the more relaxed the residents there will be.

Even this sense of security.

Maybe it's just an illusion.

Su Wu was actually not very disgusted with this phenomenon.

Some people are even happy to see it happen.

Please be more clear.

Su Wu's original intention of building the Internet after large-scale communications were cut off at the end of the world was actually out of remembrance and nostalgia for the prosperous society before the end of the world.

Rather than wanting to see a place filled with despair and chaos.

And, for those ordinary people living in farmyards.

Su Wu mainly regarded them as labor and tools that could produce resources.

In essence.

It is no different from wheat and vegetables carefully raised in a plantation with sufficient fertilizer and a warm environment, or flowers growing comfortably and blooming brilliantly in a greenhouse.

Su Wu didn't need them to feel the wind, rain and cruelty of the outside world.

It is enough to just concentrate on providing him with production resources and providing him with a good mood.

"It's best to keep them in a good mood all the time."

"Until one day."

"I encountered a horrific disaster that even I couldn't handle."

"The entire shelter was destroyed."

"Until everyone dies together with the knowledge of peacetime—"

Su Wu's eyes were so calm at this moment that they were almost indifferent.

Just like a god's residence.

Weaving the fate of tens of millions of people in his hands.