Chapter 1282: Three difficult choices, the future and the present!
“Something is wrong, something is very wrong!”
“This disaster has only ended for half a month, so why is the next disaster coming again!”
Game panel The sudden reminder was like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, completely interrupting Somo's interest in continuing to watch the first voyage.
Perhaps because the recent disasters have not had much impact, and the Ten Thousand Trails competition has delayed many disasters, players have become more and more aware of the threat of natural disasters. weak.
However, in the previous game processes, natural disasters have been a heavy topic from beginning to end, and the frequency of their occurrence has been stable at about half a month.
That is, after each disaster ends, a new round of 15 days will start.
After the 15-day trimming period is over, the next 7 days will be the announcement period for the next disaster.
At the end of the announcement period, the next round of disaster process will begin immediately.
Such an exaggerated frequency of disasters means that in 365 days of a year, players need to face at least 10-14 natural disaster tests on average.
But if we go by the current frequency of wasteland disasters, they will only occur 6-8 times a year at most, which is a full reduction by half.
“The recovery time of the disaster frequency happens to be stuck in the stage of spring plowing and trade and navigation, which is really unlucky.”
“It would be great if it could be half a month later!”
Get on the return train.
Sumo swung his arms, reached for the purse-shaped storage module at his waist, and took out the palm-sized World Cauldron.
Sure enough, the world is like a cauldron and all living beings are like firewood!
The current situation seems to be calm, but a disaster with a wider impact may destroy everything.
With a heavy heart, Somo touched the top of the cauldron, and his eyes suddenly began to deflect.
The originally clear world in my vision quickly lost its color like an old silent movie. All the scenes melted and faded before my eyes, eventually turning into a bottomless darkness.
In an instant, this darkness seemed to swallow up all the light and hope, turning it into nothingness.
Only a few weak fires in the center burned tenaciously, like ancient stars, bringing a glimmer of life to this chaotic darkness.
The blurry and dizzy feeling gradually subsided as the consciousness was transferred, and Somo's vision became clear again.
It is still the familiar boundless dark space, and it is still the extremely familiar huge sand table in the center.
Su Mo suppressed his anxiety and tried to calm down some of his uneasiness. He walked to the sand table and wiped it with his hands.
A layer of light curtain immediately appeared on the sand table, and the 'disaster authority' function on it no longer looked like the black and gray color it had been used before. Now it became shiny and shiny, and at the same time, there was an additional one in the upper right corner ( 1) Logo.
Concentrate your thoughts and tap gently.
The familiar disaster selection box pops up, showing three disasters to choose from in the new issue.
[Disaster Codename]: Three Downfalls of Spring Cold (Determined Disaster)
[Disaster Difficulty]: Green (white, green, blue, red, crimson, purple, black)
[Attribution]: Astronomical type; Time type
[Disaster time]: 15 days
[Disaster description]: When spring approaches, everything recovers, and life is rejuvenated, a special celestial disaster will quickly drop the temperature to the low temperature range, and then return to the low temperature range. to cold winter levels.
[Disaster details]:
Every five days, starting from the average temperature of 18 degrees, the temperature will drop by 15 degrees Celsius each time.
The cooling will be superimposed, that is, the current temperature is 18℃, the first cooling to 3℃ (maintained for 5 days), the second cooling to -12℃ (maintained for 5 days), the third cooling to - 27℃ (maintained for 5 days).
[Disaster code]: Bulimia (alternative disaster)
[Disaster difficulty]: Green
[Attribution]: Special type; Time type; Neutralization type
[ Disaster time]: 30 days
[Disaster description]: A mysterious monsoon will blow across the New World, bringing continuous changes to the creatures in contact. The digestion capacity of the affected organisms will increase several times in a short period of time, and the metabolic capacity will also increase several times its original level.
[Disaster Details]:
Every 10 days, the biological digestion capacity doubles.
Highest amplitude: 3 times.
[Disaster Codename]: Magnetophoretic Storm (Alternative Disaster)
[Disaster Difficulty]: Blue
[Attribution]: Astronomical type; Frequency type
[Disaster frequency]: Once
[Disaster description]: A special magnetophoretic storm will sweep across the entire wasteland in a short period of time, bringing great disaster A wide range of interference effects, especially equipment driven by electronic signals, will be damaged by direct impact.
[Disaster details]:
Destruction intensity: E≥2.75
Destruction frequency: 1 time
Gan!
Su Mo really hopes that he can have a big heart, and at least be able to stay calm enough in the face of this damn three-choice disaster.
But the fact is that from beginning to end, he couldn't calm down at all.
This time, the three choices are not the same as the last punishment disaster. There will be a disaster that does not have such a serious impact on mankind.
No matter which one you choose now, the impact will be fatal enough.
The first is the established disaster ‘three cold springs’.
When he saw the name of this thing, Sumo was so disgusted that he couldn't help but curse.
What the hell, it’s targeted, right?
Right now is the hottest stage of spring plowing, and over 90% of the territories have already opened up cultivated land and planted seeds.
If the temperature suddenly drops to minus 27 degrees, I can't imagine what kind of horrific harm it will cause.
Perhaps most of the seeds were frozen to death in the soil and could not germinate.
“If the spring plowing fails, the autumn harvest will be a hammer.”
“There is not enough food supplies. I don’t know how many people will die in the winter.”
Plant now. The seeds are the food that the survivors saved from their mouths.
If there is a disaster, all efforts will be in vain.
Under the huge blow, the New World is bound to set off a wave of war to reduce the huge material pressure.
Going further down the list, one of the alternative disasters is bulimia, which happens to be the opposite of the three-year-old spring cold.
If the "three cold springs" are a severe test for the future reserves of the major territories' material reserves, then "bulimia" is a direct challenge to the current material reserves.
The several times improvement in digestion capacity and metabolism is undoubtedly a double-edged sword.
If all the territory's supplies were particularly abundant, Sumo would definitely choose this option without hesitation.
Because in this case, the enhanced digestion and metabolism capabilities will allow the survivors to consume and replenish energy faster, thereby quickly making up for the physical deficit during the period of traveling to the new world.
However, the reality is often cruel. Today's material reserves obviously cannot support the doubling of the survivors' food intake.
Especially when digestive capacity doubles, human demand for food is not a simple linear increase in multiples.
When the digestive and metabolic capacity doubles, food demand will probably increase to about 2.7 times. But when it doubles again, this number will immediately increase to a terrifying 5.15 times!
As for three times, there is no exact data to support it, but the consumption will never be less than 12 times.
Just imagine, an adult’s daily rice consumption originally required about 300g, but now it has directly increased to a minimum of 3.6 kilograms.
For a super territory with a population of over 10 million or nearly 100 million, this is simply an unimaginable devastating blow.
What's more, even if there are so many supplies, just transporting them to everyone's hands is a big problem that cannot be solved at present.
As for the third item, Magnetophoresis Storm, I just took one look at Sumo and eliminated it from the selection.
Even if you ignore the fact that the first two disasters are green, Magnetophoresis Storm is blue.
What is the concept of E≥2.75?
This thing is basically equivalent to the electromagnetic pulse caused by a two-million-yield nuclear bomb detonating near the ground.
As for the various types of equipment in major territories that do not consider shielding protection at all, I am afraid that they will all be burned down as soon as the magnetophoretic storm breaks out.
Choose to sacrifice all the development of super territories and large territories in the past six months to benefit other small and medium-sized territories in the wasteland?
Sumo thought that he could not make such a mindless choice.
If the alien race takes advantage of this moment to launch an attack, the threat may be much greater than the first two disasters.
And you must know that this disaster is just an ordinary and routine disaster.
If we avoid for the sake of avoiding, the pace of human development will remain at the same pace or even go backwards.
So when the next big disaster comes, Sumo really can't imagine what the result will be.
“I was still talking to Mr. Qiao this morning about sacrificing the interests of a group of people to preserve the interests of the majority.”
“Unexpectedly, at noon, the game will be Forcing me to choose."
Sumo sighed secretly, his eyes wandering back and forth between the cold of spring and bulimia.
It is indeed a difficult decision to make.
Reason forced Somo to choose bulimia in order to preserve the layout of mankind for nearly a year.
Even if it causes chaos in a short period of time, even if many people go to extremes in the process.
As long as we can survive until the autumn harvest, all problems will be solved.
But reality forced Sumo to be unable to make such a decision, unable to bet on the specific harm of the disaster.
“Twenty-seven degrees below zero, five days”
Somo thought secretly.
There are seven days of disaster warning, and there are ten days left until the temperature drops to minus 27 degrees.
If humans can prepare in advance, the harm may not be as deadly as imagined.
Of course, this is only relative.
It is close to minus 30 degrees. Even if you think about it with your buttocks, you know how serious the impact will be.
"Damn, it would be great if there were not 10,000, but preferably 100,000 starch making machines!"
Compared with complex module technology, starch making machines are not a black technology product.
With the few units brought by the Red Spider Caravan as a reference, the territory has even completely analyzed the internal technology.
However, knowing the technology is one thing, being able to copy it is another.
The most important layer of dialysis touch in the starch machine has almost touched the pinnacle of Blue Star's manufacturing industry.
Cutting-edge industries are often so simple and unpretentious. Without a solid foundation, people can only be disappointed.
This is also the reason why the three major forces of the academy, the foundation, and the enterprise have never added technical blockades to the starch manufacturing machine.
They are fully confident. If a large-scale industrial force really achieves a breakthrough and can solve the crucial dialysis membrane, then this force will largely disdain to produce such a small-scale dialysis membrane. Stuff makes money.
After all, the calendar life of a starch machine can reach about forty years. With good maintenance, it is not a problem to use it for a century.
Even if a breakthrough technology is achieved, how can there be so many markets for you to recover the R&D costs?
Shaking his head to clear out these random thoughts, Somo chose to distract himself and stared at the endless black space slowly fading away.
There are still about 11 hours until the end of the selection disaster, so there is no rush.
While taking advantage of this time, he needed to ask two questions as soon as possible.
First, find experts in territorial agriculture to confirm how serious the damage caused by low temperature to spring plowing.
If the damage caused by minus 27 degrees Celsius will reduce the autumn harvest to an unacceptable level.
Then we must carefully consider whether to replace the disaster and preserve the hope of the autumn harvest.
Second, find the college’s biological expert Catalina to conduct research and evaluate the specific effect of tripling the metabolic rate as quickly as possible.
Then communicate with the three super territories through the secret language of the world channel.
If the materials in the three major territories can support the impact of bulimia, then replacing the disaster is undoubtedly the best choice.
But if the gap is huge, this item must be eliminated.
Otherwise, if these tall men fall down, the chain reaction will inevitably plunge the New World into complete chaos.
"Tighten up the schedule, I need to know the answer within six hours!"
Through the remote communicator on the Neng car, the tasks were distributed smoothly.
Sumo was not asked to wait any longer. About three hours later, the news came from Catalina first.
“Double metabolism is about 1.47 times resource consumption.”
In the illusory light screen projected by Zero, Catalina was wearing a black sweatshirt with a bear pattern, and her hair was permed into a rather fashionable wave with steel clips.
Although due to the influence of the territorial delicacies, I have gained more than two pounds.
But in terms of mental state, it is much better than when Sumo first saw him, and his whole person is completely rejuvenated!
“The reason why the number is lower than the normal number is that you people are simply too weird. Your original metabolic capacity has reached a very exaggerated level, and your material consumption is almost three times that of us Blue Star people. In this case, if the metabolic capacity is doubled, the demand will not increase much.”
“However, it should be noted that once the metabolic capacity is doubled, this number will be exaggerated. The increase will probably increase to about 5.53 times and then double. Well, the result calculated based on the data model is 9.18 times!”
It was much less than originally expected.
But at that time, Sumo did not expect that human metabolic capacity had increased due to the influence of the route.
According to the current demand for 750g of rice per capita, three times the material consumption is 6.8kg.
Grass.
This is really a loser!
A person eats close to seven kilograms a day, which is at least thirty-five kilograms in five days.
Based on the size of the Northern Alliance's 30 million people, this would be...
One million tons!
Eating so much in five days, anyone who sees this number will probably call it outrageous.
(End of this chapter)