Chapter 649 Storm Three

The mechanical insect swarm is like a ray of waves, coming from the north and rolling forward. The Bloody Parliament is the largest reef in front of the sea wave. The wave line crosses the Bloody Parliament and continues to move forward. However, as the wave line moves forward, the density of the mechanical insect swarm also decreases, and omissions and voids inevitably appear.

From the civil war in the bloody parliament to the emergence of mechanical insect swarms, the entire Northern Continent was in chaos, with nearly half of the refugees dead in the war, while the rest fled in all directions. In large-scale wars, the battlefield had long extended beyond the original sphere of influence, and many small forces were destroyed. For example, large and small companies, and the Alloy Brotherhood. Smaller forces or organizations were destroyed silently. They had no influence when they were alive, and they could not die vigorously. In an era of abilities, ordinary people had no chance to fight to the death. In other words, they had no chance to be a tragic hero.

However, in the storm era, no one noticed that in a quiet area in the south, a brand new human settlement was flourishing. Now this settlement has grown from the initial few hundred people to nearly two thousand people, most of which are absorbed outsiders, but the initial few hundred people are obviously backbone. The water behind the settlement is forested and the river water is injected into a step-shaped continuous pool through the canal. After filtration, precipitation, absorption and other steps, it is initially converted into clean water. The most important thing is that the radiation is also reduced, and it can be used as the daily drinking water for people in the settlement. Several large pieces of farmland have been opened around the settlement, and several strange plants are planted in it. Although it is not conventional food, it can be eaten, and the yield is not too low. The most important thing is that they grow very vigorously and it seems that they can mature in less than a month or two.

Even more eye-catching is a factory next to the settlement. This is actually a real factory! Several large steel tanks are standing side by side, heated with steam. The steam-generating boiler also drives a small generator to supply a small but very precious electricity to the settlement. Next to the factory, the second factory has begun to take shape and is installing equipment. The so-called equipment and assembly lines are produced by residents by hand and assembled. Not far from the second factory, the third factory is excavating the foundation. If it is a technical official from the Bloody Parliament

, you can see at a glance that these three connected factories are the cornerstone that supports the development of the Bloody Parliament, the synthetic food factory. The Bloody Parliament has not lacked energy since its establishment, so the synthetic food factory established is basically fully automatic, and the products also emphasize quality. The production is both nutritious and taste-free, and is completely uncontaminated by radiation. All people with status basically use this synthetic food as their main ingredient. Of course, the real upper class can also enjoy truly natural and pollution-free good things, such as Morgan's coffee.

The process principle of the food factory in the settlement is the same, but the process and details have been greatly improved. A large number of links have been streamlined, and many fine processing processes have been directly cancelled, so the production is completely waste that cannot be eaten. They are rough, have no taste, and have a lot of impurities and radiation. The only advantage is high calories, but this is exactly what upper class people who need to maintain their size hate the most. The modified process consumes less energy to a minimum, and it also has electricity.

Reliance is closer to zero, and the main energy and heat supply are coal. Not far away from the neighborhood is a small open-pit coal mine left before the war. The output is not large, but it is more than enough to supply settlements. Such synthetic food factories produce semi-finished products, but the output is more than twice as high, and they are still edible. People in the settlements can eat them. In the eyes of big people, such things can only be considered pig food, and in the eyes of refugees in the wilderness, they are actually inferior to pigs.

However, once this factory is built, the significance is obvious. Its technology is simple and can be built by hand. The demand for energy is wider. It is only possible to have fuel coal, and it is of course better to have oil. The types of input raw materials are more extensive than prototype factories. In the wilderness, there can be sufficient raw materials for supplying them. Many plants that were originally uneducated can be turned into raw materials for synthetic food. The output can feed 5,000 people. In the wilderness, this is definitely a large number. There is also water, almost unlimited supply of water. With these two guarantees, coupled with the rapid reproduction and shortening of more than half of the development cycle, this settlement will develop into a city of ten thousand people in less than twenty years.

Another meaning is that simplified synthetic factories can be built by hand, without a lot of energy or powerful abilities, but individual equipment may require several second-order power abilities to carry. In the wilderness, second-order abilities are not very popular, but there are definitely quite a few, with a proportion similar to tall men in the old era. This means that ordinary humans living in the wilderness can return to industrial society and rely on their own strength to obtain food through production. Instead of relying on robbery, scavenger hunting and hunting as in the past

Survival. Before this, only superpowers such as the Bloody Parliament or the Holy Raid Crusades that have the power, materials and technological background were powerful, material and technologically informed. The factories they built were of course only for the middle and upper classes. The residents in the wilderness that really needed a large amount of low-quality food, but they had neither the resources nor the technology of building synthetic factories. Decades have passed, and everything has become habits and nature, as if those who are capable should eat better, while those who are incapable always have to struggle on the brink of life and death.

The settlement had walls, and fixed guards and guards, and the internal buildings were also organized. In the corner of the settlement, there was a small church. The square in front of the church was quite wide, with six completed statues standing. There were a stone in the corner of the square. It had just been cut open a few sides and placed there. The church was still on, and the priest was reading the book of revelation under the dim light. At this time, the door opened gently and Sally walked in. She was obviously thin, her eyes were deeply sunken, and her face was morbidly pale. But her thin body felt that it was still burning with vigorous flames.

"Sally, why are you here? Can't sleep? This is not possible. What you need is rest rather than work. If you fall ill, then the settlement will lose its soul." The priest said with a smile.

Sally smiled weakly and said, "I don't know why, but I always feel very uneasy tonight, and it seems that I'm afraid of something. However, the synthetic food factory is almost built, and the design ideas of several new factories have just been completed. The simplified steam turbine has also been thought. If it can be completed, then we will not be short of electricity, just find coal. When the steam turbine is also built, what I can do is really limited."

"Don't underestimate everything you have done. In this chaotic era, you have actually opened up another path, a way for ordinary people to survive and live well without relying on their abilities." The priest said kindly. He always encouraged Sally, and was not empty, and every word was meaningful.

Sally's gloomy mood disappeared a lot, and she turned to the part that the priest was reading and asked, "How long will it take to see the seventh apostle statue?"

"This..." The priest thought, finally shook his head, and said helplessly: "I don't have a mature idea yet, and I don't have any inspiration. The seventh apostle... can only wait for one day, and the Lord will give me revelation."

Sally was particularly restless tonight. She always wanted to say something, but in fact what she said was not important, mainly because she didn't want to leave. Only staying in the chapel would make her feel calm and safe. So she tried every means to find some topics. In a trance, she asked a question that had been circling in her heart for a long time: "Father, what are the apostles?"

Sally had asked this question before, but at that time the priest gave either an ambiguous answer or just arbitrary comments. But tonight, the priest pondered for a while and said slowly: "Sally, you know that our human abilities are divided into five major abilities areas."

Sally nodded. This is common sense for every ability person. Even first-level ability persons know this, so she doesn't understand why the priest suddenly mentioned this.

"The apostles are the incarnation of God's walking on earth and the conveyor of God's will. Therefore, they must have supreme power in order to convey God's will smoothly and resist the slander and attack of the unbeliever." The priest's words sound like a common routine used by preachers and are also what has been repeatedly said in Revelation, but his serious expression and low voice show that this passage is not a simple religious brainwashing that is empty and nothing.

"It is not a random way to divide the domain of ability into five major domains. Perhaps there is a coincidence that the initial division of the five major domains of ability was also reflected in unknown ways. In the next few decades, new abilities were constantly discovered, old abilities were constantly updated and strengthened, and almost all the initial theories about ability were proved to be more or less wrong, only the division standards of the domain of ability were retained and proved continuously. At that time, the foresight and accuracy of human division of the domain of ability had surpassed common sense. The apostles actually corresponded to these five domains of ability. Each domain of ability has unique apostles. They have unparalleled abilities in their own exclusive domains, and their abilities are powerful enough to match miracles. Or according to the rank classification we are used to, each apostle should have mastered a twelfth-order ability in this domain."
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