#472 - Chapter 472 The Ice Age is Coming

The mechs were delivered in the afternoon, just as the Armored Scorpions were at the city's doorstep.

There's definitely no time to train drivers now.

All mechs are to be uniformly transformed into armored vehicles and aircraft, using automatic attack functions for defense.

The other functions of the mechs will have to wait until the drivers are trained.

Because there are two cities, Sunlight City and Naqu City, that need defending, each city can only be allocated 10 warships and 50 mechs.

This firepower is definitely not enough.

The soldiers can't use the weapons in their hands, and it will take time for the electromagnetic cannons that Dongfang Chen is producing for city defense. So how do we hold out during this time?

Yan Zhengping thought of the gasoline exchanged from Russia.

Bai Li Ji hadn't collected enough crystal cores yet, so the gasoline was still with him as collateral.

He immediately ordered that all the gasoline in the city be gathered and hoisted outside the city using the hoisting machines meant for the scorpions, and poured onto the already dead scorpion corpses.

Finally, ignite the gasoline.

A raging fire blazed up.

The scorpion corpses, ignited by the gasoline, were completely engulfed in flames.

A line of fire was thus formed.

However, to prevent the scorpions from diverting to the sides, causing the battle line to lengthen,

Yan Zhengping ordered a 200-meter-long passage to be left open in the middle of this fire line.

This way, all the scorpions could only come through this passage. Not only would their movement speed be greatly reduced, but we could also concentrate our firepower to eliminate them, killing two birds with one stone.

Dongfang Chen also had the Queen Bee in Sunlight City dissect an Armored Scorpion to analyze the composition of their outer armor, in order to determine whether these scorpions could be used directly as feed.

The analysis result was positive.

Their surface armor was also a type of keratinous armor, very thick. It's just that a very thin alloy layer composed of elements such as iron, chromium, and manganese forms on the surface of the armor.

This reflective layer is many times smoother than a human fingernail and is also covered with a layer of liquid oil. This results in their armor having a strong reflectivity and being resistant to scratches.

Dongfang Chen couldn't help but repeatedly marvel when he saw the analysis results.

The evolution of living things is truly miraculous; this idea is not something an average person could come up with.

Since the existence of the armor doesn't affect the production of feed, it must be put to good use.

Otherwise, if it's purely consumption, Yan Zhengping simply won't be able to hold out for more than a few days.

Not just Yan Zhengping, but the entire Hua Nation wouldn't be able to.

War is about spending money, burning through piles and piles of it.

Only by sustaining war with war can we achieve the foundation for a protracted war.

Fifteen days later, all the electromagnetic cannons that Dongfang Chen had urgently produced were in place and successfully deployed on the city walls of Sunlight City and Naqu City.

Furthermore, in order to increase the supply speed of ammunition, he also had the Queen Bee build a bullet production warehouse underground in each of these two cities, fully supplying bullets.

Originally, these two cities were major producers of crystal cores. Even after purchasing bullets, they still had half of their income left over, so a protracted war could continue to be sustained.

November 1, 2056 AD.

For the North, it was usually this month that temperatures began to drop.

But this year was completely different.

It had already started snowing in the sky.

This was the first snowfall of the year in the area north of the Yangtze River, much earlier than in previous years.

This snow was very heavy, extremely heavy.

In just one day, the average snow thickness had reached a terrifying 40 centimeters.

The surface temperature dropped rapidly within a day.

Winter had arrived.

Within the Hua Nation, everyone was clear that this was not an ordinary winter, but an ice age that no one knew when would end.

The Blue Star's ecosystem was really not as resilient as imagined.

The hottest it got this year was only around 20 degrees Celsius, so there was a high probability that there would be no summer next year.

The snow that accumulated in winter probably wouldn't melt next year.

If that were the case, the entire ecosystem would really collapse.

Thanks to Huatong Construction's vigorous construction this year, most of the major settlements in the entire Hua Nation had completed the construction of underground survival bases.

Of course, there were still many settlements that, due to their remote location or relatively small population, did not have the conditions to build.

Now, they only had one path in front of them: to rely on nearby large settlements.

Apart from that, there was no other way.

It was one thing for Dongfang Chen to reveal the severity of the ecological crisis to the council, but it was another thing for everyone to witness this day with their own eyes.

The council was collectively silent on this day.

Everyone now understood what the situation would be like without the Huatong Business Association.

They now believed that without these underground bases, the vast majority of people would have to die.

Three days, at most three days, most people would freeze to death.

Three days!

How ridiculous, they had previously been thinking about how to weaken or even resist the Huatong Business Association.

Everyone is the same; they really don't understand what survival is all about until they personally experience it.