Industrial Cthulhu doesn't believe in the end times.

Chapter 22 will really be against the will of Heaven, won't it?
September 20, 2*30.

Countdown – 26 days.

sunny.

Coastal base.

The effects of sleep deprivation and exhaustion were beginning to show. When Su Xun woke up, she found that she had a few gray hairs and looked much more haggard.

He didn't care much about these things, but he lamented that his body really couldn't handle the same kind of physical exertion as it did when he was a superhuman after the apocalypse.

Upon hearing that the first two astronauts to land on the space station had landed safely and that a new launch mission was being prepared, he secretly hoped that the plan would proceed smoothly, and then began to attend to his own work.

With the impact of various policies in recent days, the overall environment has undergone tremendous changes, and the development direction of many things has shifted significantly.

At this point, the memories of her past life could provide less and less reference. As a butterfly, Su Xun had already stirred up a storm that could affect everyone.

Under these circumstances, the project team members gradually had more contact with various departments, and even Su Xun occasionally needed to go out to attend meetings.

"Advisor Su, the first batch of landmines and explosives has been shipped out and is currently being loaded onto trucks."

How much was shipped out?

"Five hundred wagons."

"That's too little. Continue to issue tasks, and we can reduce production capacity in other areas as appropriate."

"Yes!"

The comrade who came to report the situation had no questions and left after receiving instructions. However, Shao Xuezhen, who had just finished his work and entered the room, was quite surprised.

He already knew the purpose of the explosives, but he still couldn't help asking, "Do we really need so many explosives?"

Su Xun nodded, his expression quite serious on this issue: "For the whole of Asia, Mahish is the most threatening natural disaster."

The tenth order is often referred to as a natural disaster by people after the apocalypse. Some call them false gods, while others worship them as deities.

These beings, which are even difficult to define as beings, are certainly not formed overnight and have their own development process, but each one is extremely difficult to interrupt and even difficult to find—this stems from their origin and formation process.

For example, Mahishi, the zombie overlord known as the calamity of destruction, is essentially the collective will of all zombies in the South Asian subcontinent. He will appear whenever the large zombie horde grows to a certain size.

The origins of every being who can reach the tenth rank are extraordinary. Their very existence is the greatest and ultimate calamity of the apocalypse, exerting immense and terrifying pressure not only on humans, but also on mutated beasts, zombies, and even on the entire world.

Perhaps the authority and power of these beings are so great that even they themselves cannot bear it. Every time these powerful beings awaken, they suffer considerable damage, so that after a period of activity, they often fall back into slumber.

Of all the calamity-level beings, the one that has been active for the longest time, is the most hostile to humanity, and causes the most damage is none other than Mahishai.

High-level consciousness built by clusters is not uncommon in the apocalypse; there are more than one among the calamity-level beings. While Mashihai is not actually considered powerful among the tenth-level beings, he is definitely troublesome.

Su Xun explained the situation of Ma Xihai to Shao Xuezhen in detail again, which made the other party frown repeatedly.

"Therefore, we cannot allow this massive zombie horde to grow unchecked. We must at least establish a strong defensive line. That is why I proposed manufacturing a large number of landmines and explosives to block the land route from the subcontinent to ASEAN."

Su Xun drew a circle on the map with a pen: "Thanks to the Himalayas, even in the apocalypse, this natural barrier will protect us. Given the zombies' instincts, they will only approach us from Southeast Asia." "The Southeast Asian countries are now our allies. What I plan to do is cover the entire Southeast Asia with landmines and explosives, so that during the future zombie migration, we can massively kill and deplete these zombies, thus severely damaging Mahishai!"

Su Xun had discussed this logic with Shao Xuezhen before, but his thoughts weren't as clear then, and he hadn't explained it directly enough. At this moment, Shao Xuezhen squinted, scanning the map around, and remained silent.

Indeed, doing so would face immense pressure and would be very unfair to allied countries.

However, if it weren't for the drastic changes in the international situation in recent years, Dongda would never have joined forces with these small countries to establish the new ASEAN.

If sufficient benefits are offered in exchange, it is not impossible to carry out this plan.

Su Xun was about to try to persuade him again when he saw Shao Xuezhen frown and point to the location of the subcontinent.

"If this terrifying natural disaster was caused by a horde of zombies from the subcontinent, could we completely extinguish it by leveling the subcontinent before the apocalypse?"

Su Xun broke out in a cold sweat. He had thought his approach was quite radical, but compared to this old man, it was actually rather conservative.

No, aren't you a leader in the industrial sector?

Isn't doing this slightly against the natural order?

"Ahem." Su Xun shook his head and explained, "The birth of Ma Xihai was inevitable, and it is difficult to destroy it through this method—this is related to the nature of spiritual power."

"It connects the material and the spiritual. The common view among us is that this kind of energy fluctuation involving the universe did not arise out of thin air. It has always existed, but it has not been revealed. This is one of the reasons why we call the Great Cataclysm the Reiki Revival—it is a revival, not an emergence."

"This force has been influenced by the overall ideology of a large population, thus forming a series of entities with mythological elements. Even if these people are eliminated now, this influence will still exist, only it will appear in the world in a different form."

Who knows what kind of monsters the resentment of billions of dead people can breed? Perhaps then they will no longer face a zombie horde, but a genuine catastrophe of the undead.

Su Xun felt a chill run down his spine just imagining that scene; he knew better than anyone what kind of terrifying power existed at that level.

"No, we absolutely cannot do that."

Su Xun offered a different perspective, advising, "A large-scale war of annihilation or even extermination would inevitably trigger extreme panic in the entire international community and could very well spark a world war."

"This will inevitably take up more of our energy and bring many post-apocalyptic preparations to a standstill."

"By then, much of our effort will have been in vain, and the whole world will enter the apocalypse in a more weakened state, which is completely contrary to the original intention of preserving more survivors in the future."

Shao Xuezhen nodded.

In fact, as an industrial powerhouse that accounts for more than 60 percent of the global total, it is not as difficult as one might imagine for ASEAN to achieve all this, but doing so ultimately goes against its own principles.

None of the things Su Xun described were as serious as betraying one's own beliefs.

If the ideals remain and the faith endures, then no difficulty can be overcome. If this thing collapses, then even if it is not Mahisha who will ultimately bring destruction, it will be something else.

He would ask such a question simply to find out if it was possible—frankly, just like an emergency plan for dealing with an alien invasion, even if it's impossible, we should think it through and make a plan.

(End of this chapter)