It was night in the Eastern Hemisphere, but five minutes after Bai Yi gave the order, the sun rose.
The sun rose from the other side of the horizon.
However, compared to the sun that Luo Fan originally orbited, this sun looked bigger and more dazzling. Its light was white, and it rose at an astonishing speed, jumping out from below the horizon almost instantly.
This phenomenon has occurred three times before, but the scale of the previous times was much smaller than this time.
The immigrant fleet hadn't yet completely left Luofan's orbit. The Luofan residents who had fallen behind the fleet all crowded around the windows, staring at the pale death light in amazement. The unaware crowd whispered among themselves, sharing their own speculations.
In the crowd, Felix, the president of the United States of Acre, stared at the scene outside the window with a grim expression, and his colleagues around him also had solemn expressions.
This is a nuclear explosion, and it is the kind with a super-large yield.
A super-nuclear bomb with a TNT equivalent of 100 million tons detonated at an altitude of 5,200 meters. The resulting fireball engulfed 117 square kilometers of land, and anything caught within it was vaporized by the hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. Buildings within 30 kilometers of the detonation point were razed to the ground, and the already devastated town next to the bunker was now reduced to rubble. Heat radiation ignited forest fires within 57 kilometers. All exposed animals within 74 kilometers suffered third-degree burns, the most severe, but painless, as the burns had spread throughout the skin and damaged pain nerves.
The explosion was 4,300 times more powerful than the two atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan during World War II. The shockwave traveled thousands of kilometers across the surface of Lofan, creating a mushroom cloud over 55 kilometers high—seven times the height of Mount Everest. The cloud's diameter reached 204 kilometers, covering 130,000 square kilometers. The resulting dust was highly radioactive and would be carried thousands of kilometers by atmospheric flow over the coming months. Exposure to this dust would increase the risk of leukemia and other malignant tumors by 4,000 times over the next two years.
The nuclear strike left a 2km wide and 450m deep crater on the plateau. It was the largest explosion ever recorded on the planet.
Bang bang bang.
There was a knock on the door. As the leader of a superpower in the Luofan civilization, Flix naturally got an office of his own.
"Come in."
After getting the reply from inside, Dolap pushed the door open and walked in.
"Greetings, Mr. President." Even though the other party was merely the ruler of an indigenous civilization that had just entered the space age, Dolap remained respectful. After all, the other party was now his client. When it came to business, the Lalong people were undoubtedly as skilled as humans.
"Ah, Mr. Dorap." Felix wiped the sweat from his forehead and cleared his throat. "What can I do for you?"
"Please follow me, someone wants to see you." Dolap stood at the door without moving, but his tone of voice was unquestionable.
Felix felt uneasy. He didn't know who the other party was talking about, nor did he know whether he had obtained any evidence by being asked to go at this critical moment. In short, he was very reluctant to go, but he couldn't show it.
So I had to pretend to be calm.
"What can I do for you?"
He didn't ask who the other person was because it was pointless. He probably didn't recognize the name that came out of Dolap's mouth, so it would be more useful to ask directly about the purpose.
However, Dolap's next words confirmed Flix's ominous premonition.
"Mr. Bai Yi has something to tell you. Please follow me. Don't keep him waiting for too long."
Flix could see no change in Dorap's green face.
"Okay." He finally agreed reluctantly.
Flix didn't bring any followers with him. He just followed Dolap less than a meter away until the other party came to a round plate and motioned for him to stand on it.
"This is the ship's transport system," Dolap explained. "When you boarded the ship earlier, the main line was undergoing maintenance, so we had to use carts to transport cargo. But now, we can use it to achieve two-way transport of materials between the two stations, which can save a lot of time."
"You won't be late for work, right?" Flix told a joke that he thought was funny, but Dolap didn't laugh, which made the atmosphere a little awkward.
After both of them stood still on the disc device, Dolap pressed a button and a beam of white light came down from above, scanning the two of them.
Then Flix felt a wave of dizziness, like seasickness, and his surroundings began to stretch and deform. When the changes finally settled, he found himself in a white circular hall.
"Hello, Felix."
The president saw a man walking towards him and subconsciously shook the hand that the other person extended.
"I'm Bai Yi, we've met before."
"Bai Yi." Flix was stunned for a moment. "You look different from what you saw in the video."
"Oh, this one." Bai Yi scratched his head. After all, his image in the video was someone else's free material, so there were naturally some differences from the current physical model.
"I turned up the beauty filter." He made up an excuse. Whether the opponent believed him or not, he pulled Felix to sit at a table nearby.
"Boss, do you have any wine or anything here?" Bai Yi asked Dolap.
"Yes, yes, please wait a moment." Dolap nodded repeatedly, "I'll get it right away."
After sending Dolap away, Bai Yi looked at Flix with a smile on his face, "Mr. President, do you know why I came to see you today?"
Flix looked at him and sensed the danger lurking beneath that smiling face.
After a brief pause, Flix nodded, "I know."
"Then can you tell me the reason why you do this?" Bai Yi took out an epaulette from his pocket like a magic trick and handed it to him. The latter recognized it as the emblem of the Acre United States Marine Corps at a glance.
"It's just a deal." Felix gently stroked the patterned side of the epaulette with his fingers. "I'm responsible for providing financial support to Ansheng, and he'll help me take care of the rest."
"What's the rest?"
"The transport capacity we can provide is ultimately limited, and we must select those that are valuable from the remaining populations in the southern hemisphere."
"So you two actually cooperated and put on a show for Liu Shasha." Bai Yi suddenly felt a little sorry for this girl.
"That's about right." Felix's eyes were still fixed on the chapter. "As for the attack on you, it really had nothing to do with me. I was only responsible for providing Ansheng with the necessary financial support. Haha, we haven't even met."
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