Four Hundred and Twentieth Five, Prepare for a Rainy Day
The missions of Ye Han and the investigation team have come to an end, but the impact of the asteroid swarm has just begun, and the defense forces prepared by the countries of the earth for the asteroid swarm have been exhausted in the first wave of asteroid impacts. Inability to continue to intercept subsequent asteroid groups, coupled with time constraints, also has no ability to replenish weapons and equipment to space orbit.
At this time, the earth is like an undefended child. Any intact asteroid hitting the ground will detonate a global ecological disaster.
Luckily the aliens didn't intend to do that.
However, the infrastructure around the world was seriously damaged in the impact. When Ye Han just returned to the animation institute, he was still able to communicate with Bai Xiaoting on the phone. After two waves of meteorite rain fell in a row within a few days, the wireless communication systems in various places were damaged. Seriously, even local calls often fail, let alone long distance calls.
The situation of military communication is slightly better, but it is only a little bit stronger. Communication stations in various places have suffered certain losses. Although they have been restored after emergency repairs, wireless communication is still intermittent. Only communication that relies on satellite transfer can still keep it normal.
In view of the fact that the follow-up asteroid swarm impacts will last for nearly a month, the country simply gave up the idea of repairing communication facilities and prepared to wait until the impacts are all over.
A few days later, the National Biological Laboratory.
A worried Xu Jiaye waited anxiously outside the laboratory, but refused to disturb the ongoing experiment.
Half an hour later, the tired Qin Zhenguo walked out of the laboratory, and Xu Jiaye hurried up to meet him: "Old Qin."
Professor Qin nodded as a greeting, poured himself a glass of water and drank it all in one go: "Director Xu, what do you want me to do?"
"It's not because of the worm tree. It's been three days, and the higher-ups have been urging it to bear fruit."
"It's only been three days, what results can be obtained?" Professor Qin said dissatisfied.
Xu Jiaye sighed in embarrassment: "Professor, I understand what you mean, but the officials at the first level crush people to death, and the higher-ups have to consider the ideas, right? Even if you can't produce comprehensive experimental results, let's show some simple things to the higher-ups first." It’s okay to look at it, didn’t the composition of that egg liquid have been known for a long time?”
Professor Qin pinched the corners of his eyes: "If you have any questions, hurry up and ask, my time is precious now."
"What do you say, I'll listen." Xu Jiaye put on a straight posture.
"The specimen of the insect tree has been studied. It looks like meat, but it is still a plant in essence, but the cell structure is somewhat different from that of earth plants. You can understand it as muscle cells with a layer of softened cell walls."
"So that's the case, I'm still thinking about it, if there are bones growing in the worm tree...haha." Xu Jiaye smiled embarrassedly.
Professor Qin was stunned for a while, and then laughed: "How dare you think that there are bones growing in the tree...haha."
"Isn't this Chongshu very different!" Xu Jiaye said with a smile.
"Go back and get a worm tree and dissect it to see if there are any bones." Professor Qin joked, and immediately said seriously, "The composition of the liquid in the worm tree has been clarified. This liquid is very nutritious and has a ratio of trace elements. Very plausible, with a high concentration of puffed virus."
Xu Jiaye snapped cleverly: "What exactly does Chongshu do?" He had vaguely guessed the answer, but he didn't want to believe that guess in his heart.
Professor Qin said: "We discussed it a few times and thought that the function of the worm tree is probably to cultivate giant worms. The canopy of the worm tree is the incubator for giant worms, and its function is similar to that of a biochemical cultivation tank."
Half an hour later, the Beidu underground command center.
"Biochemical culture tank?" The first brother widened his eyes in surprise, "What do the aliens want to do?"
"Professor Qin believes that aliens are probably dissatisfied with the mutation speed of ordinary insects, so they sent insect trees to the earth to accelerate the evolution of giant insects." Xu Jiaye said.
Brother Yi gasped: "Are you sure?"
"It's still speculation at the moment, the laboratory is organizing the test, but based on the known situation... the possibility is very high."
Brother Yi's expression froze: "What can the worm tree grow?"
"It's not clear yet,
It should be a powerful biochemical weapon based on insects. " Xu Jiaye said.
"How strong is it?" Brother One asked again.
Xu Jiaye thought for a while and said, "This depends on the alien's technical level."
Brother Yi rubbed his temples with a headache, thinking carefully about the changes that the worm tree might bring.
Giant worms have already brought great trouble to human beings. Although the military used the just-ended winter to eliminate a large number of dormant giant worms, the situation of insect resistance is not very optimistic, whether domestic or foreign.
Although there are not many types of giant worms that have appeared in the human field of vision, there are indeed a lot of them. It will not be cleared in a while, and there must be giant worms that have not been exposed yet.
However, most of the known giant insects are enlarged versions of insects, and only a few have evolved special abilities. Generally speaking, giant insects are indeed a threat to human beings, but they are far from threatening the survival of human beings.
But the worm tree is very likely... no, it will definitely become a catalyst for the evolution of the giant worm. The giant worm, which was not aggressive before, is likely to become extremely aggressive after being catalyzed by the worm tree.
If it develops in the direction of biochemical weapons, the giant worms bred by the worm tree must have faster speed, stronger worm shells, more aggressive aggressiveness, and a more suitable appearance for combat.
Thinking of the overwhelming sea of insects in the movie, Brother Yi felt shuddering.
Infantry is definitely not able to stop the sea of insects, even mobile soldiers are no exception. Armored soldiers may have the ability to resist, but the wheels of wheeled armored vehicles are a weakness. Only tracked armored vehicles have the possibility of fighting biochemical giant insects, at least Only medium-sized and above tanks are sure to resist giant insects.
The armament must be strengthened immediately!
Brother Yi shot a firm light in his eyes.
However, armaments are not as easy as imagined. All parts of the country have been attacked by giant insects, industrial and agricultural production has been severely hit, material transportation and various industrial chains have been greatly affected, even if the industry has turned to armaments in an all-round way, the explosive power is far greater than less than pre-war levels.
However, to deal with giant worms, it is not necessary to use expensive advanced weapon platforms. The old models are also easy to use. The large number of old tanks in storage is enough to double the number of tanks in the entire army.
The national automobile industry has fully converted to production, plus unsealed old equipment. The problem facing the first brother is no longer a shortage of equipment, but a lack of sufficient production resources and tank soldiers.
And just having troops is not enough. Modern warfare is about resources. No matter how many tanks there are, it is useless without fuel.
Fortunately, giant worms are not interested in oil. As long as the measures are taken properly, major oil fields and offshore drilling platforms can provide a stable supply of crude oil, so they don’t have to sit on the mountain and consume reserves of oil all the time. (To be continued.)