#1005 - Dangerous Experiment

To be honest, Riel really hadn't expected Ultron to have developed to this scale:

The number of Ultron machine soldiers they had defeated was probably close to ten million, not to mention completely destroying the entire mechanical hive—

If they hadn't absorbed the industrial resources of the entire Europe, they might have run out of supplies halfway through their advance in the city.

Even with the support of European industrial resources, plus an unprecedented nuclear bomb, the battle situation was still not optimistic.

This also highlighted the importance of fighting Ultron as early as possible: any later, and even nuclear bombs the size of the King's Seat wouldn't be enough, even if you had more of them.

Moreover, with Ultron's increasingly terrifying industrial capabilities, no one knew when it would dig up nuclear fuel and possess nuclear weapons. If Ultron had nuclear weapons, they could just wait for death.

As for the situation in Africa, Riel had of course considered reinforcements, but Ultron had also considered this. A powerful electronic warfare jamming system could prevent any wireless signals from crossing the Middle East. Ships, planes, and drones were also unable to pass through the blockade as Ultron expanded.

At the beginning of this great division, it was the Roxxon Group that guarded the Middle East. At that time, Europe could still send drones to try to communicate, but after Ultron took over, there was only silence left.

In other words, Riel felt that support for Africa was possible, but it was definitely not in the strategic deployment and consideration, so he had not mentioned it at the war meeting—

Fortunately, his former allies had not disappointed him. During the rise of the Atlas Group, he abandoned the big cities where financial capital gathered and prioritized developing Africa. After a few years, these Africans had also lived up to expectations this time.

". We have had multiple encounters with Ultron, and they have almost occupied the entire North Africa region, from the coastline to the jungles, grasslands, and deserts...

Our drones and troops simply cannot penetrate. Every piece of intelligence sent back to the meeting comes at a heavy price, but Ultron's large-scale withdrawal from North Africa is a first—

At that time, I realized that the time was right. This must be our best opportunity, and we must seize it!"

Riel was somewhat dazed as he looked at Moss, who was speaking:

The last time he had seen this Tanzanian Minister of Mines was when he was competing with Roxxon for uranium deposits. This senior black man who had returned from studying abroad was full of modern knowledge, but when it came to actually taking action, he was timid and hesitant, and couldn't even learn how to communicate with the workers.

At that time, he was still a slightly fat black man, but now—

He was almost filled with cybernetics. Although he was still a small man in front of Riel, his height of two meters was also a large size among ordinary people.

Even in Night City, he would be considered a heavy cyberware user, not even inferior to the Maelstrom gang.

However, Riel probably understood why this was the case: it wasn't to show a sense of "leading by example," but because Moss and Captain Carter were buried under the mine for a while at that time and definitely had symptoms of radiation sickness. Directly replacing the diseased parts was a very direct and effective treatment method.

It was this once-green college student who launched a coup, and now he was the Executive Prime Minister of the African Union.

This was definitely something Riel had not expected.

Moss also realized something and said with a smile: "The uranium deposit incident made me understand one thing: if you want to control the future in your hands, then just do it, instead of standing in place thinking and thinking—

When I received intelligence from Prince T'Challa and observed Ultron leaving Africa, I made this decision.

When we attacked Ultron's base, the number of machine soldiers there was far less than we imagined. When we advanced into the base, sent reconnaissance drones towards the Middle East, and received the return message, we knew—"

As he spoke, Moss looked up at the sky.

The explosion of a 50 million-ton TNT-level super nuclear bomb does not just produce a huge fireball.

Or rather, the fireball alone is not simple. People thousands of kilometers away can see the dazzling flash, and the mushroom cloud produced by the explosion easily rises to more than a hundred kilometers, forming a huge, dense cloud layer in the sky. This huge cloud column can be seen hundreds of kilometers away—

And the expansion of the cloud layer will eventually create anomalies within a range of thousands of kilometers, which can be observed without any equipment.

"An immature young man?" Moss's expression was a little strange, "But you are even younger than me, if you put that aside, I think you are right."

Before Riel became his current completely metal body, his thin body easily reminded people of his past:

That was a young man who suffered hardship. An accident caused him to become paralyzed and diseased at an age when he was growing. Although he worked hard to overcome the pain, his body was still forever underdeveloped, and his face was even younger.

Now it's different. If you don't deliberately think about it, people will even forget Riel's age and experience, as if he was born to be so invincible.

Riel skipped this question, looked at the soldiers and engineers busy in the mechanical hive, and put a big stone down in his heart.

"We must properly handle this place."

The core of Ultron's mechanical hive is the manufacturing and data center, which is continuous and develops horizontally.

But machines are not conjured out of thin air. At various metal and oil resource points, it digs very, very deep, even building factories directly on some surface resources. Shallow resources are developed into surface resources, and the exploitation of deep resources opens deep cracks in the earth.

The resources of the entire Middle East have been almost hollowed out by it, whether it is oil or other things.

The latest and fastest novel is at 69shuba!

The alloy in the mechanical hive can be recycled if it has not been affected by radiation, and engineers can also scan the design of this hive to improve industrial design.

This used to be hell, but that was then. Hell has now been conquered.

Then—

Riel looked at Moss: "Ultron is no longer a problem. The rest is to settle the score with the United States and the Roxxon Group."

"I have solved the communication disorder problem. Notify your engineering team to prepare for transoceanic communication construction. We must unify production technology and immediately carry out industrial recovery, the sooner the better."

"So fast?" Moss was stunned for a moment, "Shouldn't we take a rest first?"

"No, we may not have that much time."

Riel found something in Ultron's database that indicated they might not have that much time to slowly develop and then blow up the Roxxon Group and the United States' lairs.

The Roxxon Group is trying to carry out a dangerous experiment.