Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

After saying this, Raphael thought of the person who had received formal treatment before leaving, and felt that fate was also very fickle.

Two years ago, I was full of despair about the future, but in the blink of an eye, I jumped out of that muddy pit.

Thinking of Harry's high-spirited look... Raphael stood up and took out the pistol hidden deep in the suitcase.

"I'm going downstairs to practice shooting for a while." She put on the woolen coat issued to officers by the navy, and disappeared out the door before Asuka could react.

It takes about 30 minutes to walk from the back door of the institute to the shooting range set up in the forest.

The site that had been devastated by the "war" was full of traces of a mess. Among them, there was a newly opened long open space about 50 meters long, with several human-shaped targets standing at 100 meters and meters in the middle.

She ignored the nearest 10 meters and 20 meters, and the dotted line formed by the pistol's crosshairs and her eyes extended straight to the center of the target covered with frost.

“Guoooo——”

I hope the owl won't be scared by the gunshot, Raphael thought, as he put his finger on the trigger and pressed it down the moment the trigger lock was released.

In contrast to the violent noise of the muzzle gas eruption, the metal body of the 50-meter target flashed a bright light and made a crisp "ding" sound.

Then, bang bang bang... ding ding ding...

All 15 bullets hit the target without any omissions, and Raphael was very sure of his result.

In the low-light environment at night, the 50-meter fixed humanoid target shooting was completed using only low-light vision and the IR indicator mounted on the rail under the pistol as an aid.

I believe that if such results were presented to ordinary people, they might consider them to be fraudulent.

Many people say that shooting a target 6 feet away with a pistol is crazy.

In fact, long-range shooting with a pistol is not difficult, and it is easy to train and acquire this "crazy" skill.

As a bionic humanoid, Raphael's learning curve for all skills is the same as that of humans, from imitation to understanding to creation. This is completely different from the robots in science fiction works that can directly apply knowledge acquired through data cables.

The biggest difference between her and humans is that once she understands something, she can apply it very quickly, just like now.

Replace the new standard 15-round magazine and aim at the 100-meter target.

"…begin," she said to herself.

Bang, bang, two shots were fired.

Two melodious metal collision sounds were heard from afar, and the distance was close to the combat range of rifles.

"Timer ends: 1.7 seconds, huh—"

The quality of AREX Delta 2 is really good. Raphael touched the gun body. It was the first time for her to shoot at such a long distance with this gun.

In the past, at the shooting range, the pistol she used most easily was a product of HK, the USP pistol that used .45 bullets.

On the other side, Lingyin and Luhui squatted on the roof and peeked at the shooting range.

They wore microphone headphones on their heads and held binoculars with night vision capabilities in their hands.

"Oh...it can hit so far," they both exclaimed in unison.

Luhui looked at the small shining point of light in the mirror and murmured, "How can I shoot so accurately and so far?"

"Go outside for training and understand the knowledge inherited from the host."

Lingyin took a deep breath of the cold air from the north.

"This world is getting crazier by the day. Be a kind person. Don't abandon empathy and compassion. Train and be prepared."

She turned her head and looked at the little sister who had "come back to life":

“We are born to fight, but be prepared or be the face in the obituary.”

Chapter 25: The Belated Report on the Salt Lake City Incident

The disaster in Scandinavia was like the start button. Once pressed, Europe began to decline at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Amid the loss of tens of millions of people, the old world system began to fall apart, gradually creating chaos on a global scale.

There is no doubt that a huge change is gradually taking shape.

Many companies whose main business was in Eastern Europe were hit hard, their corresponding stock prices fell rapidly, and the savings of countless civilians disappeared overnight.

The bloated and prosperous European economy suddenly collapsed, and the subsequent refugee crisis dealt a heavy blow to the economies of EU member states.

The declining economy and riots caused by the vagrant population have led to a shortage of social resources and a deteriorating public security environment.

This disaster, whose cause and instigator are unknown, eventually evolved into a population conflict that tested human nature.

With the economy on the verge of collapse, the high social welfare of traditional developed European countries can no longer be maintained; and refugees from East Asia, Northern Europe and other places have become the most destabilizing factor in the European Green Zone.

A fierce conflict broke out between the extreme left-wing forces demanding that resources be allocated to refugees and the right-wing forces calling for safeguarding national and ethnic interests.

European people are roughly divided into two factions: conservatives and progressives, and are constantly moving towards distinct extremes, which has almost led to conflicts within the whole of Europe.

The violence of foreign refugees is pushing Europeans more and more towards conservative forces.

Interestingly, when Asuka and Suzune left the institute and went to the city of Frankfurt to purchase daily necessities, they unexpectedly saw that "Mein Kampf", which had been banned for many years, was republished and printed again, and the shelves were filled with it again.

Many young people stood on the shattered roofs of cars, waving the books they had just bought and using all their strength to squeeze out all the air from their lungs.

They are calling on their companions to tear apart the lowly outsiders who have polluted their bloodlines.

That kind of crazy energy makes it hard not to remind people of the down-and-out painter who started a war on this land 90 years ago, and his fanatical followers who completely obeyed him.

This chaos turned into an anti-green and anti-black wave that swept across Europe. This violent action led by conservative forces led to Europe gradually becoming a culturally homogeneous and conservative region in the following three years of riots and killings.

This is the current situation in Europe. Raphael asked Harry for an assessment report on the Salt Lake City incident, which can only be described as heavy losses and shocking.

This report was made six years after the incident, but it is still preliminary and many details are still unclear.

The collapsed crystal lattices that fell into the Pacific Ocean drifted to the waters of the western Pacific Ocean along the Pacific ocean currents, extending from Alaska to the coast of Panama, with collapsed crystal lattices washed ashore everywhere.

The cracked, collapsed lattice released a plume of collapse smoke that swept across the west coast of North America on the sea breeze.

But that’s not the worst.

The worst part is that some of the collapsed liquid crystal cells were salvaged by companies related to relic technology and transported to big cities such as Salt Lake City and Phoenix.

In the absence of any understanding of the collapsed liquid crystal cells, these companies chose to use brute force to dismantle the products.

There has been no progress in the qualification approval cases for those companies so far, and it seems that there will never be any progress.

The radiation cloud caused by the explosion of the collapsed liquid crystal lattice directly engulfed the western and central regions.

What's worse is that the federal president at that time built a purification wall directly on the central and eastern border and directly abandoned the survivors and industrial facilities there.

Needless to say, there were people who were killed directly by the explosion, those who became ELID infected creatures due to radiation, and those who finally reached the safe zone but were blocked outside by the purification wall...

Rough estimates suggest that 50 to 60 million people died directly and indirectly as a result.

In addition, the high-tech information industry also suffered serious losses. All western industrial zones involving industries such as aerospace, electronics, information technology, and automobiles, as well as heavy industry and energy projects, as well as some major industrial centers in the central region were destroyed.

Boeing Phantom Works, Skunk Works, Caterpillar, EOTECH, Chrysler Group, Cernas, General Land Systems and other military industrial enterprises and related military factories were completely wiped out.

What's even worse is that a large number of naval bases were destroyed, and the only shipyard left was the Bath Iron Works, which had no experience in building large ships.

In other words, the United States has lost the ability to manufacture aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, as well as advanced stealth fighters at this stage...

After all, the only shipyard capable of building aircraft carriers is in Virginia, and Huntington Ingalls Industries, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, is located in Newport.

Although the place looks okay - judging from the satellite images, it is just very desolate - it has actually long since become a forbidden zone for life, and anyone who enters there will end up with no remains left.

Although the technical data has been fully backed up, there is no one left who can lead and advance these projects.

This directly caused the United States to fall into the old path of former Russia and the current Soviet Union, where the development of science and technology depends entirely on archaeology.

Raphael thought that this might be part of the reason why Harry B. Carnegie was able to regain his important military position.

After all, he still serves as the director of the DOD Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The military losses were largely due to the complete failure of the Pacific strategy.

The linkage between the Nobuoyama ruins and the Salt Lake City incident directly led to the annihilation of all military bases on the West Coast that were crucial to the naval strategy, especially the San Diego Naval Base.

The second island chain was contaminated by the high-concentration collapse fluid leaked from the Nobuoyama ruins, and a small part of the bases in the third island chain were attacked by collapsing cumulonimbus clouds, killing all personnel.

Obviously, these two events put the navy into an extremely unfavorable strategic passive position in the Pacific.

The Salt Lake City incident completely invalidated all strategic deterrence projects in the Midwest, especially the installation of the Minuteman II/III intercontinental ballistic missiles, which were severely contaminated.

The double BUFFs of nuclear radiation and collapse radiation were maxed out, and no one dared to carry out the decontamination operation.

When Raphael saw this, he instantly understood why the president issued a second-level defense alert order directly to the navy's underwater fleet.

All the roadbed facilities were scrapped. Before the new foundation project was completed, the underwater strategic counterattack force could only improve its combat readiness and be ready to counterattack at any time.

It can be said that the United States today is like a balloon filled with air, and it will explode without mercy if anyone harasses it.

There are rumors that the Marines who were originally stationed at the purification wall and occasionally went out to fight through the isolation gate have been rotated with the army troops that were mobilized and arrived later.

At this point, the Marine Corps' transfer information completely ceased, as if they no longer existed.

There are also reports that some military supplies are currently being assembled in the direction of the Great Lakes region, although this seems unlikely as the source of supplies is from relatives and friends.

However, after investigation, it was found that the materials being mobilized were fuel, artillery shells, medical supplies and combat rations, and many air wings were also on the move.

The only counter-intuitive conclusion is that the US military intends to move north, and the Marines will be the vanguard. Given the military strength of Gama, there is basically no ability to resist.

The reaction was a bit extreme. Raphael was sure of one thing: the "Northern Lights" incident in Oslo, the capital of Norway, seriously stimulated the US military and the federal government.

"The Cold War is back."

Chapter 26: The New Cold War Era

"The Cold War is back."

The world server was forced to update its version. Of course, it should have entered the event remake - the territorial disputes in the 19th century and the Cold War in the 20th century.

Those small and medium-sized countries were either destroyed by the pollution of the collapse fluid, or were divided up by the big gangsters and reduced to their sphere of influence.

The overall peaceful situation has disappeared, and most regions are either caught in war or brewing new wars.

The smoke-filled Cold War and Hot War have returned at the same time, which really makes people feel tears welling up in their eyes.

Raphael looked at her watch and decided to eat at dinner. Her sleep cycle was irregular, and she would only sleep when she felt "mentally" tired.

The only food provided by the institute was traditional German cuisine. For an outsider like her, it was a novelty to eat it occasionally, but it was really unbearable to eat pork knuckles every day.

There was no one walking in the corridor.

However, one can often see patrolling Wehrmacht soldiers outside the institute. Their expressions are very serious because several problems had occurred not long ago.

But there was no sign of activity this weekend morning.

Raphael walked to the door of the office and saw that his team members had all arrived, and a smile naturally appeared on his face.

……

"How did that go, Harry?"

"The information about the bionic humanoid has been leaked?" The general shrugged. "I'm just a technical researcher. How can I understand counterintelligence? That should be the job of the Ministry of Defense's counterintelligence department..."

"No news at all?"

"That's a department directly under the Ministry of Defense and there's no need for it to report to me," Harry said.

To be honest, he would have been extremely nervous a few years ago when he realized that information and intelligence were continuously being leaked.

Now, there is no need to be so conservative.

Equipment such as automatic robotic arms, intelligent CNC machine tools, and automatic circuit board lead welding machines have been fully developed in the first 20 years of this century.

Although in the first 20 years, it was large industrial robots and service robots on wheeled carrier platforms that developed rapidly.

Robots based on human appearance or multi-legged robots mostly remain at the concept or model stage.

Even though small multi-legged robots have entered the military field, the mainstream technology level is still in its early stages.

Obviously at that time, compared with the robotic arms and wheeled chassis automatic machines that capital could see returns on, humanoid and multi-legged robots were expensive, had great technical risks, and it was difficult to recover the costs in a short period of time.

So much so that the market rarely invests in this area.

Capital, after all, is so short-sighted and superficial.

Despite this reaction from the capital market, some of the world's top science and engineering universities have the foresight to recognize their potential.

In the laboratories of academic institutions, many small bionic robots and multi-legged designs have been born.