#1000 - Breaking the deadlock

African Union.

After the internet was fractured and the United States fell into civil war, Africa has completely lost contact with the outside world and is in a more difficult situation than Europe:

There's no Riel here to help them fix the broken network.

What's more, Ultron made his fortune in North Africa.

Several months ago, after the network completely collapsed, the African Union has been unable to restore network communications, and even the engineers of the Atlas Group could not find the problem.

The turbulent network environment makes stable network construction a luxury, and the situation here is the same as in Europe: the electronic equipment that is started almost regularly bursts into flames, and no one knows what happened.

In order to solve this situation, Wakanda proposed a new solution:

First of all, since the equipment loss speed is accelerating, the African Union will focus on improving maintenance manpower, maintenance resources, and reducing maintenance difficulty. In just one year, the African Union has fully promoted brain-computer interfaces.

Countless people who have never received education have been forcibly installed with brain-computer interfaces and directly instilled with work skills.

The Atlas Group, in order to cooperate with these "knowledge-instilled" workers who do not have basic knowledge, has carried out almost perverted modularization and standardization of equipment, which is equivalent to turning the operation work into an assembly line production.

The disadvantage of this method is that a maintenance line that originally only required one engineer to be responsible for may now require ten or even more workers to complete the maintenance!

Due to the need for continuous maintenance and replacement, material consumption has also soared. Fortunately, industrialized technology has always been the strength of the Atlas Group and the main reason for their arrival in Africa.

With the wholehearted cooperation of several old resource countries such as Tanzania, there is no bottleneck in this industrialization at all, and almost everyone has been forcibly put on the job!

Of course, the limitation of wireless communication is still a big problem. This "industrialization" is also very strange. It is still promoted with a large number of human resources as the core. The so-called industrial equipment is basically concentrated on the individual scale:

Industrial exoskeletons, powered machinery, smelting furnaces without any communication function

Basically, it is an extreme solution customized based on a huge population and a powerful central control force.

At the same time, in terms of resource allocation, the priority of ordinary civilian areas has been adjusted to the lowest, and industrial areas are given priority for maintenance, and the same level is military radio —

And the military action cycle has also been fine-tuned. The engineers of the Atlas Group and Wakanda jointly determined an action cycle with a relatively low probability of accidents. The military squads that go out will be resupplied within seven days.

In short, the atmosphere in the entire Africa is very tense, and unknowingly, Africa has completed something it has never had before:

Unification.

Losing external interference, the African Union, which possesses advanced science and industrial technology, has unexpectedly controlled the entire Africa. The government orders are issued from the parliament to the grassroots level in less than a day, and no one has the ability to engage in any "national liberation front".

Of course, all of this is indeed built on suffocating oppression and control:

After all, this is a war, and the entire society is under pressure. Thinking that war is the heroic sacrifice of soldiers, or thinking that there is only a little possibility of "losing dignity" when it fails, is a naive fantasy.

But here, in this world where vibranium is pitifully scarce, and may even be out of print, Wakanda only has fertile land and unique terrain advantages.

But now, with the help of the Atlas Group, it is almost back to that position—

The vast plains have all been developed, and countless mechanized agricultural workers are working day and night, working diligently on this land that can be harvested three or even four times a year without fertilizer.

Using customized greenhouse technology, single-season crops can even achieve six harvests a year!

Wakanda used to be able to feed half of Africa with backward technology, and now it is enough to feed the entire Africa with the agriculture of the Wakanda Plain alone.

The prosperous land is home to advanced cities, but it has a feeling of advanced technology but backward application:

Because many of the cars on the road are human-powered, but this "human power" is equipped with very advanced exoskeletons and implanted prosthetics.

This is a microcosm of the current situation of Wakanda's logistics industry: there is no way to use autonomous driving vehicles here. The equipment will experience internal combustion within one to two days, either out of control or paralyzed. If even the logistics equipment has to be maintained, then the African Union will be able to do nothing now.

Now T'Challa is sitting in such a human-powered car. The car arrives at the parliament building in an orderly manner following the road on the ground. After clicking the confirmation button, the driver pulls the car away—

As a porter, his main job is to carry supplies, not humans.

There is another person getting off the car at the same time: but this person is a Hetero, and he has obvious signs of cybernetic modification.

Half of his face has been replaced with a carbon fiber panel, and his prosthetic eye emits a faint red light, which is not like a high-end prosthetic eye that resembles a human eye.

The skin exposed at the neck is unreservedly exposed, and it is a structure made of some kind of alloy, extending downwards—

Obviously, his entire torso has been replaced with prosthetics on a large scale, and his clothes are bulging. The most obvious replacement is the lower body. This is the most common "miner's legs" in the African Union, which are thick and industrialized, and difficult to make fine movements, but have strong compressive resistance.

This is an obvious Hetero in the upper class: no matter in which era, the prosthetics of the upper class are the best, powerful, and undetectable. If anything can be detected, it is things like "wealth" and "power". To see these things requires not terrifying and exaggerated industrial prosthetics, but legal protection or inherently rare resources.

He is printed with the logo of Tanzania, the country where Atlas first conducted industrial cooperation. Riel took the uranium mining rights from them, and this country has naturally become the leading country in the African Union, second only to Wakanda.

And this person actually had a "one-sided relationship" with Riel. He was the original Minister of Mines of Tanzania, Minister Moss, who first faced Stark Industries combat robots at the uranium deposit, and is now President Moss.

T'Challa naturally leaned over, and the two walked into the building side by side.

Moss took the lead and said: "Are you sure those robots are gone?"

"Absolutely."

T'Challa said firmly, "The news returned by my people shows that they flew towards the Middle East, but it is very concealed. If it weren't for luck, they might have missed the news.

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A lot of people died reaching that position... a lot of people."

"People have been dying all year round, a lot of people, Prince—I have everything settled on my side, you won't drop the ball, will you?"

T'Challa stopped directly and put his hand on Moss's shoulder: "Are you looking down on me?"

When his arm was clasped on Moss's body, under the light, it could be seen that T'Challa was not simple either:

His arm is completely made of metal, and his fingers seem to be able to pop out some other things, I don't know if they are claws or bullets.

It can also be seen from his neck that his body is also completely cybernetically modified—

Many of Moss's prosthetics are industrial prosthetics, and many of his are military prosthetics.

Both of them are very different from the councilors who are walking quickly into the building.

Moss let out a low laugh: "Heh heh... it's time to break the deadlock."

At this time, a sonorous female voice came from behind:

"You two, why aren't you going in at the door?"

The two turned their heads to look at the same time. It was Silver Sable, the chief defense captain of the Atlas Group stationed in Juarez City.

"About to go in."

The three walked into the elevator.