Son of the Stars

Chapter 109
The damage to the Argentario Mountain base was more serious than everyone expected at the beginning.

Strictly speaking, even if the entire Mount Argentario base is blown into powder, it won't be a big problem.After all, its main task is to assemble and conduct experiments in advance before scientists actually use certain new experimental equipment - to ensure that this thing will not directly lead to the destruction of the world.

The equipment placed in Monte Argentario is something that has fulfilled its mission. Although these equipment are well maintained, although they even perform better than those in Central University and several other research centers, these things Essentially, they are all "waste" that are no longer useful.

If it was destroyed, it would be a pity and heartbreaking, but in the end, that's all.If it's broken, it's broken, and it won't be used anyway.Maybe the accounting department will have a headache because this year’s reports won’t look good—but that’s about it.

But the problem now is that they are not just destroyed.

The existence of the Monte Argentario base has its significance, and it has indeed helped the coalition government and academic committees reject more than a dozen scientific research projects.

And now, its contents are missing—and in the hands of a cultist.Every coalition government staff member who knew the inside story had his or her blood pressure uncontrollably rising by dozens of millimeters of mercury.

Guess why it was rejected among the dozens of scientific research projects that were rejected?
After learning that the Mount Argentario base had been invaded, the coalition government's core control team made a quick decision.Due to the excessive power of the neutron bomb placed in S3C7's body, the idea of ​​sending out SS soldiers to try close combat and street fighting was first abandoned - of course the soldiers must not be afraid of death, but their deaths must at least be valuable. .

It is simply stupid to have a group of brave young soldiers rush into a mountain with severely exceeded radiation standards, then fight bloody battles with the robots inside, and finally trigger a neutron bomb to kill them all as a reward for victory - this behavior is simply stupid.

So the core military affairs committee member issued a processing order to his deputy defense commissioner, "There is no need to use a rat weapon. It can be destroyed together with the Mount Argentario base."

The Union Guard is a very powerful armed force, and its strength is particularly evident in its expertise in delivering explosives.

After all, the coalition government inherited tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, as well as the large ballistic missiles to deliver them.It is too inhumane and overkill to use these things to blow up a cultist camp with a maximum of one or two hundred people.

Now is a very suitable opportunity to use it.

The Defense Commissioner is a middle-aged man who fits the stereotype of a "hard-core senior military officer" in traditional movies.However, after receiving the order, he rarely hesitated.

"Are you sure?" This officer, who was born in Central Asia and has a white beard and hair, seems to be more like an actor than an officer. "We will attack the Mount Argentario base with limited damage at all costs?"

"Most of the things in that base are harmless scientific instruments." the core military committee member said sternly, "but there are some things that can easily destroy the world. On behalf of the core control team, I would like to make a request to you - —Don’t let them take away things that can destroy the world. As long as you achieve this goal, it doesn’t matter what you use.”

As if afraid that the defense commissioner did not fully understand what he meant, the core military affairs committee member simply made it clear, "I know you have some good things in your hands. Such as ground-penetrating tactical nuclear weapons, hypersonic missiles, and even strategic nuclear weapons. These things should be Use it when you take it out." After receiving the order, the defense commissioner ended the call and stood there alone for several seconds.

Then he rushed out with a pace that was obviously bigger and faster than before.

"Get me the strategic strike force, open the high-level command box, and be quick!" Admiral Salman shouted to his secretary. "Order the Mediterranean patrol force to enter the first level of combat readiness. This is not an exercise. We must do it for real." Got it!"
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"We are serious." Lu Chen explained to the three core members, neither humble nor overbearing. "The only possible method at present is brain resection, but is it useful? We still need more experimental samples."

Yang Weimin then added, "The only one we have done so far is Watanabe. He does not have much reference value."

The three committee members looked a little anxious. Core member Mavie Newman asked again, "Can installing microwave-resistant materials in the room to block microwave exposure reduce the incidence of quantum potential energy synthesis?"

"Doing so may increase the incidence rate." Tang Qinglong joined the explanation team. "We currently judge that the orbit of the solar system has deviated from the north pole region of the Crab pulsar. The earth receives fewer and fewer electron bursts and other rays. This will instead cause the hydrogen electrons in the human body to become unstable."

"This is the plan and principle of the cult group trying to destroy the Mars manned spacecraft by providing better radiation-resistant materials." Giuseppe spread his hands, "They are smarter than the monkeys hiding in the forest with AK47s. Now... … It’s too late to stop the mission.”

Such a result is naturally unsatisfactory. Several committee members frowned and discussed for a while and asked, "Then what can we do about it? At least we must have some plans and means to deal with it, right?"

Maeve Newman added again, "If we can't prevent or reverse the occurrence of quantum potential energy syndrome, we must at least give us some decent-looking solutions that can alleviate social panic, right?"

That’s what government agencies are—it actually has nothing to do with right or wrong, and in many cases it has nothing to do with good or evil.The meaning of government agencies is order, management, allocation of social resources, and providing some stable expectations for this turbulent world.

This is not surprising.

"The solution we can definitely provide now is the identification method." Lu Chen, Mu Zhiran and others looked at each other, and then said, "The fatal fever that cannot be suppressed, and the human body's ultraviolet state that is enough to cause electro-optical conjunctivitis Once both are present, it can be 100% certain that this patient suffers from quantum potential energy syndrome."

"But the second item of ultraviolet release is already a very terminal symptom." Yang Weimin said, "From the direct perception by the human body to the final explosion, this process only takes a few minutes to tens of seconds. If ultraviolet release is to be used as a diagnosis One of the criteria is that a triage system must be set up in advance to ensure that fever patients are kept away from the crowd. An evacuation mechanism must also be established to 'evacuate' patients to a sufficiently far away place within tens of seconds."

Maiev Newman nodded, "As long as we can distinguish, there are some basic coping methods." She leaned forward and said to Lu Shen and others, "The research must continue, and it must be faster - we We must find a cure before Quantum Release Syndrome destroys us."

(End of this chapter)