At least one of Liang Lu, Luo Nan, and Zhan Xiao's mouths had been blessed.
With the prediction of the situation still ringing in their ears, after a brief meeting, the base's military resolution team announced that the relay station was executing a "level two pollution response" and entering a state of emergency. In accordance with the standard of falling into the Medium Level Evil Poison Contamination Area, the various drill rules and regulations were strictly implemented.
Don't be fooled by the word 'strict' hanging on the announcement. From Luo Nan's perspective, the drill rules and regulations he had learned some time ago would have to be abolished by at least half if they were to be implemented according to the new rules.
The feeling it gave people was that of a dust-free electronic workshop, where every cubic meter of air contained specks of dust, had a sudden change in style. It had become a steel mill with surging heat waves and flowing molten iron.
At the same time, the worker bees within the three hives canceled all rest and rearranged their positions. They were required to familiarize themselves with their new jobs in the shortest amount of time possible and enter a state of mind.
The so-called 'rearrangement' was done in accordance with Sheng Zhan's suggestion to Chang Yihui: substantially reduce the number of people in charge of daily maintenance at the base and fill them up with direct production positions.
The direct result of this adjustment was that all the maintenance soldiers became the busiest group of people in the logistics department in a single leap. There was no one else.
While their former colleagues were scrambling to adapt to their new production positions, Liang Lu and Luo Nan, who remained in their original positions, needed to be in charge of a maintenance area several times larger than before.
For example, the previous "Second Patrol Team for the Maintenance of the Central Pipeline and Safety Partition Area Extension" had now become the "Maintenance Team for the Global Pipeline Extension Area". It had been merged with two other personnel of the same post into a large team, and it was led by a senior lieutenant. However, the area of responsibility had increased by more than ten times.
Under these circumstances, if they were to strictly follow the routine drill rules and carry out maintenance tasks, they would need to chop two people into ten pieces, twenty pieces, and then blow a mouthful of immortal energy to form a clone. Only then would they be able to meet the basic requirements.
Under the pressure of reality, they were bound to give up some things.
"Full Yanwei Division Two has discovered a low pollution area. Coordinates..."
"Don't waste time. Just stare at the pipelines, equipment, and maintenance machines. Don't pay attention to anything else... Even if the living evil poison reaches the tip of your nose, pretend you don't see it as long as it doesn't eat you!"
"Roger that."
Liang Lu hung up the call in a straightforward and efficient manner. He curled his lips and indicated for Luo Nan to drive the specialized maintenance vehicle. The vehicle ran straight through the middle of the area labeled as "Low Intensity Pollution". As for the alarms that were still flashing incessantly, Seiji only needed to punch them with his fist … Ah, no, he needed to adjust the alarm level and the alarm would stop flashing.
"Look, on the command deck of the beehive, the stress of dispatching over the past two days has fried a lot of people's brains. The odds of us running into Gibberish have significantly increased, too."
Luo Nan's eyebrows unconsciously twitched twice as the specialized maintenance vehicle buzzed through the polluted area as they spoke. The intricate and detailed mental senses interweaved with the deep impression of the drill manual's requirements. This was more or less a type of torture for a patient with mild obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Liang Lu mentally prepared him with the tone of an experienced person. "Now, don't think of the base as a base. You can close your eyes and imagine a military stronghold that was built before the World of Sin and was later abandoned. Now it is completely abandoned. Only mutant species that grew up in the evil environment will occasionally pass by … That's basically what a moderately polluted area means.
"What we're doing now, you can just treat it as field work. Even the logistics personnel will occasionally have the opportunity to go out into the field. This is a rehearsal ahead of time! "
Luo Nan laughed, and Liang Lu laughed as well. He punched the control panel of the vehicle again. "Who would've thought that a problem would occur with the jade crystal array? It's all that self-righteous, wicked thing's fault! "
Luo Nan, who was given the title of wicked thing, had a smile that collapsed a bit. Luckily, Liang Lu didn't notice. He just sighed. "Honestly speaking, our luck is far too bad. The follow-up treatment is quite troublesome after staying in this environment for too long … But it's fine. We're fully reimbursed. We don't need to worry about the cost. "
It was hard for Luo Nan to imagine the situation outside of the game setting. But through his observations during this period of time, he discovered that the citizens of Heavenly Abyss of the Hanguang System had a contradictory attitude toward the evil poison.
Of course they knew that the evil poison pollution was a very troublesome matter. Otherwise, Zhan Xiao's mentality wouldn't have nearly collapsed. The early stages of the World of Sin Calamity also wouldn't have so many tragic cases that made people feel suffocated.
But the evil poison pollution was a problem that the people of the Hanguang System had to come into contact with, face, and endure. No one lived in a vacuum, let alone a vacuum that couldn't block the pollution and infiltration of the evil poison environmental rules.
Therefore, in the face of such a terrible situation, everyone in the relay station, be it the knights, the colonels, the sergeants, or the privates, all displayed a kind of calmness, as though they had "given up".
The evil poison was truly disgusting …. Well, since they had already splashed it all over their bodies, then so be it!
Of course, the evil poison pollution would have repercussions, and it would be very serious. There were over ten thousand soldiers in the base. Don't look at how each and every one of them was alive and kicking right now. After the war, they would have to pay a huge price for treatment. Even if the expenses were reimbursed, the treatment was bound to drag on for a long time. Variables would crop up everywhere.
But so what?
"Everyone is forced to do so. Since the beginning of the World of Sin Calamity, the public version of the Empire's Internal Cultivation and Law Deployment has been updated practically every thirty years. After several hundred versions, it has long since changed beyond recognition when compared to the current one …. Why? "
Liang Lu used his chin to point at Luo Nan as he asked this question. But he didn't expect Luo Nan to answer at all. He continued speaking, "Key techniques like Internal Cultivation and Law Deployment have been tempered over and over again. How many years have passed before they have accumulated their essence? They are the results of basic research done to the extreme. But how can basic research be broken through that easily? One iteration every thirty years. If one could have this kind of speed of progress, then the Godly Kingdom of the Heavens would have to crawl on the ground and call them daddy!
"In the end, everyone has been living in the evil poison environment for a long time. They have been polluted and mutated by the environmental rules. They have no choice but to do this. Perhaps in a few hundred years, a few thousand years, people like us will be a completely different species from our ancestors even though we still retain our historical memories. We will be forced into a different evolutionary direction by the evil poison …. Hey, did I say a bit too much? I didn't scare you, did I? "
Luo Nan answered honestly, "Not at the moment."
"Oh, you're that courageous?"
"Our situation this time won't be worse than the one Captain Lu faced in the war to defend the Ancestral Domain back then."
Liang Lu was startled for a moment, then he laughed out loud, "That's the right way to think!"
The car slowed down on its own in the middle of his happiness. A large bionic device in the shape of an insect lay quietly within the pipeline tunnel approximately fifty meters in front of them. The six limbs spread out symmetrically. Each limb was as thick as an arm, but compared to the curved main cabin that was the size of a train carriage, they still appeared slender. As a result, when they propped themselves up at the bottom of the tunnel, they felt soft and powerless.
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