Chapter 1741 The Tragic World
As soon as these words came out, the whole place fell silent!
The keyboard that had been crackling just now suddenly disappeared. Everyone turned their heads and looked at the operator, with surprise and disbelief in their eyes.
Tango Wolf!
This famous name is loud and clear to everyone present and even to people all over the world.
It's not how powerful or special it is, but what this name is associated with is a tragic accident.
The casualties at that time alone reached a million, and tens of millions of people were exposed to the radiation and radioactive dust of the nuclear explosion. Half of those who survived would be killed in the next He died one after another in a few years.
Although the specific statistics are not disclosed to the outside world to avoid unnecessary trouble, after all, this is already the case for those who know it or not, but everything is done externally and not internally, and people outside are in great danger. For things that are impossible to know, for insiders, most of them can get some rumors from gossip.
Dong, the Battle of Jingwan, so far, the death toll has reached 5 million, and it is expected that another 3 to 6 million people will die from exposure in the next ten or twenty years. A series of diseases caused by excessive radiation.
This also means that the original battle resulted in the tragic death of more than ten million people.
The human casualties alone were so tragic, and the economic losses were even more terrible.
Due to the nuclear explosion, Tokyo and Beijing became a severe radiation zone. The entire city was basically abandoned, and the damage could not be measured in numbers.
You can tell how serious the loss was by just saying one thing. Before the Battle of Tokyo and Beijing, Neon’s GDP ranked among the top three in the world all year round, and it even occupied the second place for thirty years. , it can be seen how strong its economic strength is, but after the Battle of Tokyo, Neon fell directly out of the top ten the next year, and has been in decline since then, never entering the top ten again.
The reason is that in the Battle of Dongjingwan, the tens of millions of people injured were basically the backbone. High-quality and high-tech talents, as well as most of the high-precision enterprises, were almost completely lost. .
It is equivalent to having your spine broken and it is difficult to stand up again.
And it was not just Neon whose spine was broken in that battle, but also their originally brilliant Earth Defense Force-UNDF. Since that battle, it has lost the trust of various countries and people and began to leave. Downhill.
It can be said that the Battle of Dongjing and the Tango Wolf responsible for that battle are a taboo in UNDF. Everyone has a tacit understanding not to talk about it, and the old people also choose to forget it as much as possible. .
But nearly twenty years have passed, but I suddenly heard this name again, and what’s even more incredible is that its internal ‘echo system’ for luring monsters has been activated.
This.
How is this possible?
This is everyone's first reaction.
Although everyone doesn’t talk about it openly, as if there has never been a Tango Wolf and the Battle of Dongjing, but in fact, everyone has the desire to explore, and the more taboo, the more they want to know, There are not a few people who secretly watch it in private. This can be seen from the fact that the number of views in the backend has always been the first. People have a strong thirst for knowledge about secrets.
Therefore, Tango Wolf, which is rarely discussed by anyone, is actually known to everyone.
Tango Wolf is one of the five first-generation mechas. It is a trial type and is used for technical verification and parameter collection.
At that time, the first wave of monsters appeared. Humans used hundreds of nuclear bombs around the world and eliminated more than ten monsters. However, due to the huge pollution and damage of the nuclear bombs, although the monsters were eliminated, But it also wiped the city off the face of the earth, and the intense nuclear radiation also made that area of land a heavily polluted area unfit for human habitation.
Monsters are still appearing one after another, and monster disasters have spread across the world.
And every time a monster appears, it is in a densely populated city. If a nuclear bomb is fired, the monster will not die. Some monsters need two, three or even seven or eight nuclear bombs to destroy them. But it only takes one nuclear bomb to make a city unfit for human habitation.
If nuclear bombs are used all the time, humanity itself will be destroyed without waiting for the monsters to take action.
The reason is very simple. Keep dropping nuclear bombs. How many cities can afford such a waste?
When the land becomes a nuclear pollution zone, humans themselves will become extinct.
But what is helpless is that even though we know that the damage caused by nuclear bombs is greater than that of monsters, we still have to use nuclear bombs to destroy monsters, because if we do not destroy monsters, monsters will continue to destroy. As long as we give monsters time, that one monster can destroy the whole world. The world, and the conventional weapons controlled by humans cannot cause fatal injuries to monsters.
As for superimposed damage, grind the monster to death by slicing its blood. This method was used by Bald Eagle. The battle lasted for three days and three nights. The largest city on the west coast was razed to the ground, and a third of the monster was destroyed. Two-thirds of the army's tanks, fighter jets, missiles and other weapons were destroyed. The army defeated five divisions. The civilian casualties were not small at all. On the contrary, the number of casualties caused by the army's many mistaken attacks was more than any previous monster attack on the city. high.
Since then, no one has mentioned the use of conventional weapons to deal with monsters. Even a superpower cannot withstand such consumption. It will wipe out five divisions at once. If you fight a few more times, it will be considered a weapon. Ammunition can still be supplied, and the army has run out.
Nuclear weapons are too polluting, conventional weapons are too damaging to cities, but we cannot watch monsters wreaking havoc in the city. This seems to be an unsolvable problem. We can only choose between death and chronic death. .
But someone broke the situation and came up with something that has been frequently seen in novels, animations, cartoons, and movies for a long time - a giant battle mecha!
That is, giant monsters are dealt with by equally huge robots.
This whimsical idea was approved by the expert group after demonstration.
The reason is simple. At that time, the biggest problem in dealing with monsters was not how to destroy them, but how to avoid greater losses.
Often after a war, humans themselves destroy more cities than monsters.
If you can take the monsters out of the city and deal with them in the wilderness, you no longer need to restrain your hands and feet, and you can freely fight and blow up. Therefore, the plan of a giant robot may seem whimsical, but it is actually very interesting.
But if you want to realize a huge robot, the first problem is such a heavy robot. What kind of materials can be used to make shafts and bearings that can support such a weight? What kind of materials should be used for such a huge robot? It is driven by energy, and there are...
There are many problems and difficulties, and each one feels as difficult as climbing to the sky. There are too many technologies that are beyond human beings.
But what makes the world and even many experts find it incredible is that various countries actually agreed to this rather whimsical idea and quickly established a joint defense organization - the Earth Defense Force UNDF.
The most incredible thing is that in September 2014, the Earth Defense Force was established and publicly announced that it would build large-scale combat mechas to protect the peace of the earth. Just four months later, in 2015 In February of that year, a prototype that was 70 meters tall and weighed 70 tons was actually put out for testing.
The speed is as fast as the two people here just announced that they are together, and they pushed a child out to go shopping the next day. If the speed of human pregnancy had not been accelerated, then they would have only started researching and practicing making children a long time ago. This one is possible.
Forget about researching in advance. The most incredible thing is that this large mecha actually uses a nuclear power furnace, which directly outputs high-energy plasma to drive this large mecha.
Nuclear power all over the world relies on boiling water. To create a plasma engine, this technology can be said to be a complete mess.
No matter how unbelievable it is, the prototype was built, and the test results were quite good. Countries were very satisfied and immediately increased investment. Ten months later, the first prototype was built. Collect five kinds of giant mechas for formal combat and join in the battle against monsters.
The actual combat effect was better than expected. One monster after another was defeated by the giant mecha without causing much damage to the city. This made all countries rejoice and thought that they had found a weapon against monsters. Earth Defense The status of the military has naturally increased, and the pilots of these giant mechas have also been regarded as heroes and have become the object of much attention. The school specially designed to train giant mecha pilots has also become a top institution, and mecha pilots It has also become the most popular and favorite profession at the T0 level.
However, the requirements for the pilots of giant mechas are extremely high, and the selection standards are not much better than those of astronauts. Moreover, only those with the highest overall quality can be selected, because the size of giant mechas is too large and extremely difficult to operate. Humans simply cannot withstand the tremendous pressure on the neuron transmission system. Two people must work together, one to control the left brain and the other to control the right brain, to complete the operation of the giant mecha.
But how can two people cooperate tacitly?
Even if they are twins, they cannot be said to be completely identical.
So 'synaesthesia' came into being, which is to connect the brains of two people together so that their thinking synchronizes, and they naturally become like one person.
So, if you want to become a pilot of a giant mecha, you must not only have outstanding overall qualities, but also be able to communicate with others. This is extremely difficult. Therefore, there are not many qualified pilots. This makes pilots the biggest reason that hinders the number of mechas.
After giant mechas began to be manufactured and deployed on a large scale, humans 'defeated' the monsters for a while, allowing everyone to see the dawn of the complete eradication of the monsters. They believed that as long as more powerful mechas were built, the monsters could be defeated more easily, allowing everyone to Monsters are no longer a threat to humanity.
But just when the second-generation mecha was just starting to be tested, a second-generation monster that was more powerful than the monsters that appeared before appeared, and a fierce battle started with Tango Wolf in East Kyoto.
As a meritorious mecha, Tango Wolf killed six monsters in a row. However, in front of this crab-like monster, he was beaten to pieces in three or two blows. His body was covered with scars, and one of his arms was also beaten. The giant pincers were pinched off, almost losing its combat effectiveness, and the monster began to cause wanton destruction.
Then Tango Wolf's nuclear reactor exploded. No one knows the specific situation, or it may have been tightly sealed. All we know is that only ten minutes into the battle, the defeated Tango Wolf suddenly fired the nuclear reactor. The out-of-control signal was immediately followed by a huge mushroom cloud rising into the sky among the cities that had just begun to evacuate.
Tango Wolf lost its signal and the monster was killed on the spot, but the price was that the prosperous place of Huandong and Jingwan became a highly polluted radiation zone and was forced to give up. The casualties were incomparable. heavy.
And this is just the beginning. Each of the monsters that appear next are stronger than the mechas currently in service. The mechas that easily defeated monsters in the past are now being defeated by monsters.
One, two, three.
Every time a monster appears, the mecha will inevitably be severely damaged, many of which are irreparable and huge damage, causing the mecha to retire. The speed is getting faster and faster.
Every time the mechas retreat, it means that more powerful monsters can destroy cities and slaughter people at will, which also makes people more and more dissatisfied and resentful towards UNDF.
Each mecha is extremely expensive to build. For this reason, extremely heavy taxes and fees are levied all over the world for the research and development, manufacturing and maintenance of mechas. The people bear a heavy burden in order to be protected. .
But you took the money and couldn't protect me, so why should I give you the money?
In order to fight against more powerful monsters, the development and manufacturing progress of the second-generation mechas were accelerated, and they quickly entered active service, and were then used to fight against the monsters known as the second generation.
But the situation did not improve because the second-generation mechas joined the active service, because after the second-generation mechas appeared, third-generation monsters that were more powerful than the second-generation monsters also appeared. Once again He defeated the second-generation mecha that had just entered service, destroyed Yokohama and left.
Mechas that were once regarded as human swords and shields have turned into paper swords and mud shields. They can no longer protect the safety of the city and the people, and even the UNDF has suffered a lot. question.
When faced with doubts, the best way is to defeat them with facts.
So the third-generation mechas began to be developed and quickly put into actual combat, but the fourth-generation monsters appeared; so humans began to develop the fourth-generation mechas, but soon after the first and fourth mechas were put into actual combat, the fifth-generation mechas Generations of monsters appear.
Every time, a stronger mecha appears, and soon a stronger monster will appear, making human efforts in vain.
The giant mecha is questioned!
Today, twenty years have passed since the Tango Wolf incident that marked the turn of mankind from victory to defeat. During these twenty years, the UNDF mecha troops have won less and lost more, and have lost more and more mechas. The numbers have reached a very exaggerated level.
The priceless mechas have become consumables. Even if they are jointly supplied by the world, they cannot survive. Therefore, various countries have launched many discussions. In the face of today's severe situation, the results are already very poor. Is it really necessary to continue using the giant mecha?
If there were no replacements for the time being, the mecha troops and UNDF would have been canceled long ago.
(End of this chapter)