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Another year of winter.
It's already getting colder in November. This year's winter seems to have come earlier, and more and more data show that the earth's environment is getting worse day by day. According to statistics, the days of cold winter are increasing year by year. If these data are used to deduce, then ten years later, winter will be extended to as much as four months. This still refers to the Central Continent, the continent located in the center of the ocean, and those regions that are biased toward the poles, the winter time may last as long as half a year!
Therefore, some scholars appealed that companies or organizations should slow down the plundering of the earth's resources and invest funds and manpower in projects to improve the earth's environment. Otherwise, fifty years later, even in the Central Continent, the winter time may last as long as half a year, or even longer.
And a hundred years later, the earth is more likely to usher in an eternal winter. At that time, it will really be the end of the world.
It's a pity that these voices are not heard by the big shots. In their view, no matter how bad the surface environment is, it has nothing to do with them. Instead of investing a lot of resources to improve the overall atmospheric environment, it is better to directly build some underground cities. In terms of investment and return, it is definitely more direct than the former, and the return is faster.
Similarly, this kind of problem is not something that Shengdou Xiaomin can worry about. So when Ling drove past the small square in front of the Congress and saw several scholars mobilizing the passing public to demonstrate for improving climate issues, Ling just laughed.
A small person cannot let the world hear his voice, and the only way to do this is to become a big person.
Things like public opinion may still have some effect in the old days. But in the new era, absolute power will overshadow so-called freedom and democracy. Even in a city like Asgard that flaunts freedom and democracy, these two things have limits.
The root of everything lies in the emergence of capable people.
Judging from the huge base of the human race, ability users occupy only a very small amount. The irony is that the balance of the new era is absolutely crazy. It is these very few people who make the balance of fate completely tilted towards them. Ordinary people are like pigs and sheep to capable people. Either become a slave or kill.
Ordinary people who can live in Asgard are already much luckier than people in other places in the wilderness. At least they don't have to be slaves all their lives. Limited freedom, so that they can be promoted to free people as long as they work hard and pay.
But that's all.
Isn't it a joke to use a little bit of power given by the superior to threaten the superior in turn? The reason why the Hall of Valor provides a stage for the public to speak freely is nothing more than to channel some negative emotions from the people at the bottom. No matter how intense these emotions are, they are, at best, fast-flowing rivers. No matter how urgent the river is, it can't cross the towering dam built with iron bars.
After passing the meeting square, Zero drove along the highway towards the exit of the city. He accepted a mission in the mission system of the headquarters, and the code name of the mission was "Winter Hunting". This is a mission of a crusade nature, and the target of the crusade is a foreign race that had previously maintained friendly relations with Asgard.
The alien race named Ace is a half-human, half-beast monster. They are covered with long hair, with one eye and huge mouth, with fangs. The arms of the Essians are like apes, they are so long that they touch the ground, and they are good at climbing. There are flesh [slits] between the palms, and sharp and short bony spurs can be protruded from the flesh [slits] when encountering an enemy. The bony spurs are hollow, and there are slender channels in them that can be controlled by certain organs, pressurized to eject and paralyze the prey Nervous venom.
This is the most commonly used hunting method of the Aesi tribe. This alien race is a low-level intelligent creature in the evaluation system of Asgard. Their intelligence is similar to that of the Aarons that Zero had contacted before. They already have their own simple language system and can make simple tools.
The El family occupied a small sanctuary in the old days, and designated the sanctuary within a hundred miles as their own territory. This alien race has about 300 members, of which about 200 are in their prime. Although the El tribe has a bad temper, they have maintained a friendly relationship with the resident personnel in Asgard since the days of contact with Asgard.
But just recently, Asgard suddenly received a request from the garrison of the El clan. For unknown reasons, the El family suddenly changed their temperament. After brutally killing the only three guards, they chopped off their heads, and finally pierced their heads with sharp wooden stakes, and stuck them in the the edge of the territory. This is a common demonstration method used by low-level foreign races to warn the races whose heads belong to the stakes not to enter their territory.
Otherwise, the consequences will be the same as those warning objects.
Undoubtedly, this was the biggest provocation to Asgard, and Asgard naturally had to respond, so this crusade mission was released.
It is true that the reward for the mission is very good, but the opponent is about 300 aliens, but it is not a mission that an ordinary adventure team can win. As for the army of the nature of the company, they look down on mission rewards. So the mission sat idle for nearly a week, only to be taken down by Zero when the command decided to take it back and turn it over to regular troops for handling.
The most important thing is not the reward, but to give the newly formed army a chance to practice.
Although in terms of quantity, Zero's army only has about a hundred people, but the equipment of the army is not comparable to that of the El tribe. And with one hundred versus three hundred, there wouldn't be too much of a disparity in numbers. If the number of El clan exceeds 500, then Zero will not take up this task. It is impossible to win more with less. Quantity and quality are always relative.
When the number is too large, no matter how good the quality of the soldiers is, even if they can win, it will be a miserable victory. Such a victory means nothing at all.
What Zero needs is an opportunity to review the soldiers' cooperation in combat, not to push them out to die.
After simple identity confirmation, Zero left Asgard in an off-road vehicle. After driving out of the long tunnel, a silver world lay in Zero's eyes.
The wilderness has been covered with white snow. Although it is full of strong radiation, there is no doubt that the wilderness decorated with white snow looks much more beautiful than usual. At first glance, the snow-capped, undulating snow slopes pile up a tranquil beauty. Occasional mountain rocks become the embellishment of some blue-gray blocks in this snow scene, making it more layered.
It's a pity that not everyone can appreciate such a beautiful scenery. With the arrival of winter, the snow-covered surface has three to five times the radiation intensity of other seasons. If ordinary people travel, they already need the highest configuration of protective clothing to ensure that the body is not harmed by radiation. In addition, only those people with mutated tissues in the wilderness can walk normally in such a strong radiation environment.
It's just that in the coming year, their mutated tissues will also increase by two to three times, and their lifespan will be shortened by one to twenty percent.
This is a fair deal between man and nature, and there will never be a free lunch in the world.
As for ability users, the environment below the fourth level will also affect them. And above the fourth order, the impact is much smaller. For an ability user like Zero who has reached the eighth level, the threat from the environment is so small that it is almost negligible.
The evolution of genes and all aspects of the body has allowed capable people to escape the category of human beings. It's like Ye Liu, a new member of Team Zero, despite her petite stature, she has wandered alone in the wilderness for two years. This ability to immunize against the influence of the environment alone cannot be achieved by those muscular men with well-developed limbs but no abilities.
And this is only the slightest difference between ability users and ordinary people.
The off-road vehicle is driving on the snow, and the modified vehicle is not impassable due to the change of the environment. However, it is an indisputable fact that the environment of the new era limits the inconvenience of human transportation and transportation. Otherwise, with the financial resources of Asgard or Eternal Night City, why the expansion of the territory in the past few decades is almost negligible. This may be another way for nature to restrict human beings.
Driving on the quiet snow field, Ling's thoughts are flying. He thought of many things, such as the blueprint planning, the advancing route, the people and things needed, etc. Various factors and data flashed through his mind, and he stored them in different categories, and released the data when needed. Before that, he still needs to make constant revisions, and finally perfect and complete the ideal country.
When people are thinking, time always passes very fast. In the concept that Zero might be just a "moment", he had already seen the outline of his company's surface building. This is the first territory he owns, and Zero's ideal will take root in this soil. And now, the ideal flower has grown a small bud. What Zero has to do is to take good care of it and nurture it to grow into a towering tree.
As for now, Zero will pour water on it. This handful of water will be brewed from blood. There may be the blood of one's own soldiers, but more often, it will be the blood of prey. Zero believed this, and never wavered in his own mind. Adhering to one's own beliefs and walking slowly are the only rules for becoming a superior. Zero has already started walking on this road and will go far.
The off-road vehicle drove into the base, and 10 minutes later, a combat meeting was held in the base. After lunch at noon, three large trucks and an off-road vehicle drove out of the base, and their convoy drove to the vast snowfield and headed in the direction of the El family.
This time, it was a hundred soldiers who had just completed training. As for the ability users, there are Ling, Brown, Haiwei and Yeliu. Feng, Su and Berrien were left in the base by Zero. After all, this is an opportunity to review the combat power of the recruits, and even Zero himself is not ready to fight. He handed over the stage of performance to the army headed by Brown, so that he can objectively and comprehensively evaluate the true combat power of this army.
As the convoy leaves the base, the "Winter Hunting" mission officially begins!