The war left behind a pile of rubble.
Right now, the Fishbone base was filled with glass shards, exposed steel bars, and cement chunks that fell from the wall. The apartment buildings near the walls were basically half-destroyed by the recoilless cannons and grenades when the two sides exchanged fire. The community center also suffered quite a bit of damage. Even Jiang Chen's mansion had half a wall collapsed due to the heavy machine gun bullets.
Steel scaffolding was erected around the buildings and walls that needed to be repaired. Lu Huasheng commanded the survivors to begin the repair work. Wang Qin led the logistics department to assess the loss of supplies and coordinate with the military factory to resume production.
The 500 recruits lost 70% of their forces, and the Hunter Division lost half of its members. The situation could only be described as devastating.
Jiang Chen personally conducted a funeral for the fallen warriors and buried their bodies in the cemetery outside the base.
It was not an exaggeration to say that they had suffered heavy losses.
But it wasn't like there were no gains.
For example, in Jiang Chen's storage dimension, there were a bunch of quadruped robots and drones that couldn't move. Without the guidance of the drone control terminal, the robots without intelligence could only move their limbs in the empty storage dimension. Their engines were idling as they consumed the remaining power to search for enemies that didn't exist.
Once the robots ran out of power, Jiang Chen would be able to get them out and send them to the fallout shelter for technical restoration and modification.
To arrange the reconstruction after the war, Jiang Chen found Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin's arm was obviously shot as he was wrapped in bandages. He looked rather disheveled. Although Jiang Chen sympathized with his situation, there were more important things to do. Therefore, Jiang Chen didn't say much and went straight to the point.
"It has been confirmed that the God's Cane is controlled by NAC's hostile forces. Do you have any way to take it down?"
"God's Cane?" Jiang Lin looked troubled. "It's difficult. That thing is known as the Sky Fortress. If we use missiles, they would be destroyed by its laser anti-missile system the moment they reach low Earth orbit. "
"Is that so?" Jiang Chen frowned.
The God's Cane was like a sword hanging in the air. If they didn't take it down, they wouldn't be able to sleep well. Even if it ran out of tungsten rods, Lin Chaoen would find a way to reload it from the geosynchronous orbit.
"The key is, to what extent did he repair the God's Cane. But even if the laser anti-missile system hasn't been repaired yet, our damage in the geosynchronous orbit is limited, "Jiang Lin said helplessly.
"The God's Cane shouldn't have been repaired that thoroughly. If we use Northwind-76, can we damage it? "
"Theoretically, Northwind-76 can reach the geosynchronous orbit, but if it carries conventional explosives, detonating in the geosynchronous orbit in a vacuum environment, the resulting shockwave would be hard to damage the shell of God's Cane," Jiang Lin explained.
After all, it was a weapon that NATO had continuously perfected for a century. It would be difficult to destroy the "Space Fortress" with a knockoff version of the Northwind-76.
"What if we replace the combat components with EMP?" Jiang Chen asked in an undertone.
"Normal EMP weapons can't damage the electronic components of the God's Cane, or else it wouldn't be so hard to deal with." Jiang Lin shook his head.
"We don't need to damage the God's Cane." A smile appeared on Jiang Chen's face. "We just need to take out the robot hidden in the God's Cane."
Jiang Lin paused for a moment before he fell into deep thought.
"In theory, it should be possible. If the surface armor of the God's Cane is broken, the wide-area EMP weapon should be able to damage the unprotected mechanical unit inside."
After Jiang Lin took care of the problem in the sky, Jiang Chen immediately went to the community center and summoned the three corps leaders as well as the Hunter Corps leader Ma Zhongcheng to hold an emergency meeting.
Just half an hour ago, Yaoyao, who had been trying to break through the radio blockade, accidentally intercepted the communication coordinates between the God's Cane and the ground facility. The target of the God's Cane was within Wanghai City. Jiang Chen obviously wouldn't let this guy go.
The target was at the eastern edge of the city center, which was the right bank of the Huangpu River. Considering the relationship with Liuding town, the right bank of the Huangpu River was not included in the range of the rocket bombardment.
After a simple war mobilization, Jiang Chen issued the combat order and Han Junhua made the combat deployment.
The meeting ended in ten minutes. Ten minutes later, the three corps completed their preparations. After leaving 1000 soldiers to defend, the three corps departed together. At the same time, the eight "Fireball-1S" on the rocket launch site were all loaded. They used incendiary bombs to cover the area around the target to eliminate any mutants that might be in the way.
At the same time, the helicopter transported the researchers from the Aerospace Technology Research Institute to Shenxiang town to change the combat components of the Northwind-76 ballistic missile deployed there. The conventional explosives were replaced with wide-area EMP devices.
Once the combat components were changed, it would be launched to the synchronous orbit to eliminate the robot in the space station – Lin Chaoen.
…
Half an hour had passed since the Northwind-76 with the wide-area EMP combat components was launched.
Inside the Lin fallout shelter three thousand meters underground.
The main control computer in the middle of the room quietly operated. In the silent space, only the buzzing of the computer could be heard.
The screen above the main control computer flickered with a faint light. The middle-aged man on the screen held his chin and fell into deep thought as he faced the empty fallout shelter. He glanced at the culture tank below. The life support device stored his brain.
Ever since he gave up his body twenty years ago, he never looked at it again. But when he looked at it now, he couldn't help but feel nostalgic.
Of course, the heart here was an abstract concept. He didn't have a heart. Other than his brain, everything was replaced by machinery. When he found the tool to replace his brain with machinery, he could even abandon the last piece of baggage.
A cold light slowly lit up in the fallout shelter. It came from the bottom of a hibernation chamber. The inert gas leaked out as the door slowly opened. A handsome man walked out of the hibernation chamber.
The convenience of robots was this. Even if they were destroyed countless times, as long as the backup data was still there, they could be reborn countless times.
"Father." Lin Chaoen kneeled on one knee.
"Mhmm." He didn't say anything else.
Rarely, this time, the "father" didn't give his son any instructions. He just quietly looked at his son. Whenever he looked at it, he felt like he was looking at a marionette.
However, he understood this feeling because intermediate artificial intelligence lacked emotions. Rather than saying they were like individuals, it was better to say that they were more like tools without desires or desires.
The silence lasted for a long time before he suddenly opened his mouth.
"What should we do now?"
Lin Chaoen raised his head and smiled.
"Waiting for your instructions."
With a sigh, his father shook his head. Although he was infinitely close to the realm of God, at the end of the day, before he completed the digitization of his thoughts, he was only a human. Without the authority of God, he lost everything. The satellite image from the God's Scepter showed that the united NAC was advancing toward his fallout shelter. Not only did they launch EMP missiles to attack the God's Scepter, but they also used incendiary bombs to clear the mutants in the nearby area.
Based on the original plan, the mechanical force under his control would surround the Fishbone base. Whether Jiang Chen surrendered or died, the NAC would collapse under his leadership. The entire Wanghai city would once again fall into chaos. All the survivors would become the supreme believers. He would have the opportunity to restart the advanced artificial intelligence research project and lead all believers on the path of digitization.
But reality and the plan were different.
Both Lin Lin and Jiang Chen's abilities became variables that affected the final outcome.
At this moment, with their position exposed, they would have to face the wrath of NAC.
"With the ability of the quantum computer, can't you calculate the next move?" His father asked.
Lin Chaoen didn't answer as he quietly waited for his father's order.
Computers themselves couldn't think unless humans told them to think.
[Just a little bit more?]
Looking at Lin Chaoen kneeling on the ground, his father fell into deep thought.
But at this moment, Lin Chaoen abruptly broke the silence in the fallout shelter.
"Speaking of which, in that base, I saw Lin Lin."
The kind father on the screen first paused before his pupils began to shrink.
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