Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 486 - 241: Planet-level Life Form, Engine Descent (Part 2)
Even if you hide inside a shelter, you will be subjected to intense high-energy radiation and ultimately die from internal hemorrhaging and decay.
With such explosive power, any underground shelter near a planetary engine will have no chance of survival. πππππ¨π²πππ¨π―ππ.ππΌπΊ
The Wandering Earth Project was meant to build ten thousand planetary engines, equivalent to ten thousand Tsar Bombas...
If even one percent of them detonated, it would spell disaster for any surviving humans.
Therefore, at the design stage, very rigorous safety measures were implemented to ensure the safety of the engines.
If an engine is subjected to a collision or damaged to an extent of 15% where it cannot operate safely, it will automatically shut down.
Rapidly reducing the temperature of the reactor to decrease the scale of sustained heavy nuclear fusion.
In this way, when Earth slips into space, engaging in cosmic wandering, it surely must have encountered a global crisis of massive scope...
For example, a swarm of asteroids, with tens of thousands of meteor impacts, causing significant engine shutdowns, deteriorating into dust over time.
This might also explain why an Archbishop concluded that the engines didnβt exist.
However, the first edition of the Holy Spring Scripture recorded an additional possibility.
That these energy-rich engines became auxiliary tools for evolution.
According to detailed analysis by senior officials of the Evolution Alliance, and a team awakened with Brain Domain Evolution to become Evolution Researchers, a road of initial transformation was discovered.
That is to shape the evolution of life forms along the trajectory of stellar evolution.
In other words, after humanity evolves to the third stage, it has already reached the limit of life forms.
At this point in the flesh, at Level 39 at its peak, one possesses immense power, even able to alter the planetβs surface environment with full output.
But beyond this, the body faces limitations due to cellular structures, making further advancement difficult.
Even if one can briefly unleash strength exceeding tons, or break through multiple times the speed of sound, it imposes a significant load and damage to the physical body.
Moreover, maintaining such a powerful third-tier body requires continually providing abundant energy, equivalent to eating non-stop for 24 hours.
Even with hibernation to reduce the demand, for the body...
To grow stronger, one must gradually abandon the original flesh, using energy radiation effects to transfer to a new carrier.
Lin Feng sensed an inkling that this initial transformation route might be closely linked to the Agent Project already underway.
As he turned the first page, reaching the second, indeed the Agent Project came into view.
The agent, this semi-mechanical, semi-flesh life form, is a transition body designed by Evolution Alliance executives to achieve transformation.
Their ultimate aim, apart from solving the evolution upper limit of the flesh, is also to tackle the main issue troubling Tier Three Kings, the food source.
This led to the Planet Engine Project, calling upon global humanity and evolutionary beasts to participate, following the proposal of the Wandering Earth Project!
The primary goal of developing the heavy nuclear fusion devices was, apart from propelling Earth out of the Solar System, to provide these Tier Three Kings, upon transcending to deity status, with infinite energy power.
In this way, they could become gods in the true sense, independent divine beings without attachment to any entity.
And in subsequent development, the agents initially responsible for managing shelters and maintaining the normal operation of the engines became test subjects of this plan.
The agents continuously modified themselves until they could integrate a nuclear fusion device into their bodies, becoming living humanoid mobile planetary engines.
Also known as... Planet-level Life Forms!
If so, the ten thousand planetary engines built with the worldβs resources at the time might have been exhausted by experimentation over the long years.
Becoming stepping stones for the Evolution Alliance high-level to break through the third-tier upper limit and transform into gods.
And at the end of the research on engine remnants, a thousand engine locations in the Northern Hemisphere were marked out.
However, most of them are coastal, near what used to be the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Ocean regions, because compared to land, proximity to the sea was convenient for operation and transport, and naturally cooler.
In the old era, most nuclear power plants were also built near the ocean.
While a few existed within the continent, they were specifically constructed to support underground shelters, not primarily for propelling Earthβs wander.
Among the remaining planetary engines in the Northern Hemisphere, those still operational at the time were divided among late-stage Tier Three Celestial Kings and subsequent gods.
During the Battle of Shenli, and later the War of the Gods, most of these engines suffered severe damage due to their massive size, only to be disassembled as parts.
After the Day of the Divine Birth, when global wars ceased, the Holy Spring Sect obtained eight small engines and one large main engine.
The Northern Giant Enterprise Alliance, inheriting from the Evolution Alliance, held as many as thirty operational planetary engines.
However, over time, these have become the power cores of major moving cities, no longer fixed bases with jet propulsion devices.
Additionally, the operating power level adjusts with demand, maintaining a basic level.
Seeing this, Lin Feng thought of the city-level battleship on the town-level battleship.
As per the Great Assistant Priestβs introduction, the corresponding disaster level exceeds city-level to country-level.
Accordingly, above city-level battleships, there should be the highest level of mobile bases, national-level battleships.
This level of mobile entity exceeds what the term βbattleshipβ can describe; it should be called a mobile castle.
It probably measures over a kilometer in diameter.
Equipped with nuclear fusion devices as the power source propelling this million-ton city forward.
The church obtained nine engines in total.
Matching the current eight archdiocese and the original Earthly Divine Kingdom presided over by the Master of the Holy Spring.
This was confirmed in the subsequent introduction.
The nine dismantled engines serve as the core power of a mobile metropolis, driving massive city groups across the wasteland.
Even thousands of years later, in the Wasteland Era, they continue to maintain the operation of large settlements.
This concludes the content of the first Chapter.
Lin Feng pinched the bridge of his nose and turned towards the annals of the First Year of the Old Calendar concerning the Age of Gods...
A voice came through the radio in his arms:
"Governor Lin, are you there? The second-day Tier Two martial contest has started, please come to the command control room."
Lin Feng frowned slightly, thinking he had only read for less than two hours, how could it be the second day already.
He quickly looked at the old wall clock hanging on the wall beside him.
Judging by its displayed time, it was just past twelve noon; it was already the early hours of the second day now.
Which meant, the Tier Two Evolution martial contests began directly from midnight.
The conversation partner he had in the VIP lounge, Li Mingquan, was likely about to take the stage!
Lin Feng furrowed his brow, something must have happened prompting one party in the contest to choose an early start.
"How long until the match begins?"
Picking up the radio, Lin Feng asked.
"Forty minutes until it begins, as per the schedule, it starts at one sharp."
Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, initially wanting to ask about the churchβs arrangement but decided not to.
He then relayed the results of his discussion with Li Mingquan to the other party.
The Great Assistant Priest was trusted by the Lord Bishop, serving as the actual commander of the command control room and the real captain of the Oasis Battleship, assuredly a confidant of Bishop Zhang Hui.
There must be a direct communication link between them.
Informing her of the intel was equivalent to informing the bishop.
After speaking, Lin Feng closed the book and left the bishopβs secret room, heading to the Church District.
He found Shen Yue, who was just about to rest, and through her, contacted Zheng Yan Ying, who was still on night duty.
Currently, Shen Yue and she are both Tier One Late-Stage Evolvers, Elite Assistant Priest and Elite Priest, standing on equal footing.
Lin Feng expressed the desire to save an individual, the canteen lady Rong Yanβs son, whom he had promised to help.
Upon hearing Lin Fengβs words, Zheng Yan Ying frowned a little.
The young upper-class citizen named Rong Xuan hadnβt slept the previous night, instead attending a secret gathering organized by traitors in a certain house.
They disseminated illegal content advocating rebellion against the church.
Moreover, this wasnβt Rong Xuanβs first time attending; he had been introduced to it several years ago already.
Was one of the seasoned traitors.
Though he hadnβt taken any action yet.
At this moment his upper-class status has been revoked, and once the contest matters settle, he will be sentenced to slavery, handed over to the Holy City.
In this matter, Zheng Yan Ying does not have the authority to make unilateral decisions.
