The metropolitan area is completely unaware of the current situation of Country Z's northern neighbor, but their plans continue.
At ten o'clock in the morning, a convoy consisting of thousands of experienced searchers and army officers and soldiers, under the cover of "smog", set out at a leisurely pace from Piaocheng West Station, which had been cleared after the war, and embarked on a new expedition heading north.
They would follow the pre-war railway hub, passing through several important cities before splitting into two groups at the Shangjing refuge, one group retrieving the survivors there while the other continued northward. Their total distance covered was approximately 10,000 kilometers, but compared to the expeditionary campaign, which had incurred heavy casualties, this northern mission was well-prepared. Not only were they equipped with the latest weaponry in large quantities, but they also received significant assistance from veterans of the previous operation. Therefore, computer simulations pre-mission gave them an acceptable survival rate.
After learning this number, Li Wenjia volunteered to become the supreme commander of the "Northward Movement". There were several familiar people traveling with him, but most of his old friends who had worked with him could no longer join - because of severe radiation sickness.
Looking further south, at almost the same time, the largest particle accelerator ever built by mankind in the experimental area began trial operation. Its diameter is about 60 kilometers. Theoretically, the energy consumed in each operation needs to be supplied by six large thermonuclear fusion devices along the line. The waste heat generated will melt the ice sheet in the waters near Hangwan and heat it to 4.1℃.
These high-temperature areas naturally cannot escape the sensors of satellite weapons, but they are originally used to attract firepower. Considering their original purpose, it can be said to be a great thing that kills several birds with one stone.
Two hours later, in the distant southeastern waters, near the Tropic of Cancer, the calm sea became jubilant again. Several large submarines covered in light blue armor ignored the threats from the sky, broke through the ice, and released some six-wheeled all-terrain unmanned monitoring vehicles the size of vans. They then dived two hundred meters underwater and began to receive and analyze the data sent back from the ice surface.
The armor is made of a biomimetic synthetic material capable of withstanding high-energy lasers. This thin, lightweight aerogel material is also used extensively on Buzhou Mountain. Engineers stacked these hexagonal, translucent cards, each less than 100 μm thick, like onion skins, to create an external armor piece codenamed "BGG-1," though it's more commonly known as "barnacle gel."
On the other side of the world, Plant and his men crossed the Rocky Mountains and began their journey to the rumored East San Francisco settlement. The journey lasted seven months, during which time a total of 165 tribal conflicts, large and small, broke out.
Plant still belongs to the Robert family, but the family's influence is no longer as great as before. Thanks to the large amount of supplies stored in the private estate before the war, he has become the backbone of the family as he wished, and is no longer the "house-elf" who was restricted everywhere.
Although he had lost a lot, he was never freer than he was now.
He proudly embraced two curvaceous blondes as they stood on a protruding natural outcrop, squinting at the shimmering water in the distant ruins of the city, searching for landmark buildings. He saw that the steel bridge, hailed as a national symbol by the United States, had broken into six sections, and the only remaining standing lattice-style tower at the south end had become rusty from lack of maintenance.
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