84: An underground base in the mountain? No, this is the Doomsday Fortress!!!

When asked about the origin of that thing, Aris had already thought it through and replied,

“I don’t know. I can only make a preliminary deduction using the elimination method.”

“First, observe the figure of the person walking out of the fire. His gait is basically no different from that of an ordinary human, so we can rule out it being a robot.”

“Currently, the field of humanoid robots has not yet reached such a high level of technical proficiency in imitating human form and gait, let alone humanoid robots suitable for intense combat.”

Savitz and Claire, who were present, had no objection to this point.

Aris: “If we rule out that it’s a humanoid robot, but it looks like a person, then there’s another possibility: it’s a human soldier wearing some kind of external armor.”

“However, this external armor must simultaneously meet the requirements of impact resistance, heat transfer prevention, and gas protection; otherwise, it would be difficult to withstand bombs, bullets, flames, tear gas, or toxic smoke.”

“Such external armor, given current technology, is also very difficult to produce.”

Savitz and Claire nodded again.

Aris: “Additionally, there’s only one type of speculation left.”

“This humanoid creature is indeed a person, but not a conventional one.”

Savitz: “You mean?”

Aris: “A ‘bionic human’… or rather, a ‘bionic warrior’.”

“Such warriors are not afraid of pain, nor do they fear death. They are powerful, and simply wearing an ancient suit of armor makes them brave and invincible, with nothing able to stop them—”

Savitz and Claire suddenly exclaimed in unison: “That’s it—”

For the confident United States, if a military concept does not yet exist in the United States, it certainly does not exist in Dragon Country. Even if Dragon Country already possesses certain advanced technological products, the United States must have already been aware of them.

For example, research on bionic warriors.

During the US-Soviet confrontation, both sides even researched superhuman warriors.

Concepts like Superman and zombies also became popular during that period.

If Dragon Country secretly continued this research and achieved results first, the possibility cannot be ruled out!

Savitz’s face was solemn: “It seems this deduction must be reported to President Qiao Laxi.”

“The United States must also restart its bionic warrior project—”

—

Fang Le had no idea that the one thousand Mechanical Warriors he had materialized through the system had led the US high-level officials astray.

After five or six days, the Anti-War Army finally compiled all the detailed topographical and geographical information of the MacDonnell Ranges, covering hundreds of kilometers, onto a map.

Fang Le gathered Yue Hanshan and other military high-level officials to study the map.

Ultimately, they selected several locations with extremely high strategic value.

Fang Le put away the map and said, “Let’s go, everyone.”

Soon after, several military armed helicopters carried Fang Le and others to the selected locations to test whether they were suitable for materializing system buildings.

One day later, Fang Le gathered all the soldiers and publicly announced: “After more than a week of hard work by our engineering corps.”

“I now declare.”

“The Anti-War People's Army’s home in the MacDonnell Ranges has been built.”

“All soldiers can move into the spacious, bright, and livable base dormitories.”

“I won’t say more. Let’s move—”

All officers and soldiers responded in unison: “Yes—”

—

More than an hour later, Fang Le, Yue Hanshan, and other military high-level officials toured the Anti-War Army’s “new home.”

This was a military base materialized through the system, deeply buried beneath the surface, within the mountain.

Yue Hanshan explained as he walked:

“Commander-in-Chief, we are currently only utilizing 10% of this MacDonnell Ranges Comprehensive Military Base, but it is entirely sufficient to accommodate our more than 10,000 people.”

“The residential area alone can accommodate up to 200,000 military and civilian personnel, and it’s still very spacious.”

“And the military zone, production zone, research zone, resource collection and processing zone, storage zone, etc., combined, are much larger than the residential zone and can accommodate even more people.”

“The military zone has barracks, whose functions are similar to ground military bases.”

“The military zone can also produce military equipment. Currently, the mountain base has the capability to produce most conventional military equipment, but based on our current military industrial technology, we can basically only produce American-style equipment.”

Fang Le waved his hand: “American-style or not isn’t important. What’s important is that we have basic military production capabilities, so we dare to fight tough battles and long-term wars.”

“You continue.”

Yue Hanshan: “Yes… Next is the production zone.”

“Our current underground base relies on a mountain body with an average thickness of up to 1,000 meters as a barrier. When necessary, the base entrances and exits can be isolated from the outside world, forming a sealed, independent living environment.”

“At that time, everything within our base can be self-produced.”

“Production includes industrial production and agricultural production. Industrial production is not much different from that on the ground, but agricultural production is more difficult.”

“Things like greenhouse cultivation, soilless cultivation, vertical cultivation… the base’s agriculture must produce the freshest vegetables, fruits, and high-yield, high-nutritional value food crops, cash crops…”

“And all these agricultural products, grains, fruits, and vegetables produced must be able to support the daily consumption of at least 100,000 to a maximum of one million people in the entire mountain base.”

“The research zone is responsible for military and civilian research. Each research institute is currently equipped with a certain number of high-quality research talents.”

Yue Hanshan’s words implied that when these buildings and facilities were materialized, they came with some high-quality synthetic humans.

For example, if you materialize a laboratory, what appears is not just the laboratory, but also the scientists and research assistants that come with it, which saved Fang Le a lot of trouble.

Yue Hanshan: “The resource collection and processing zone and the storage zone are easy to understand. Currently, both mineral resources and water sources temporarily need to be obtained from external sources.”

“Although the mineral resources in the MacDonnell Ranges are not very abundant, they are there nonetheless.”

“Finally, two units must be specifically mentioned: first, the base’s engineering corps.”

“The engineering corps possesses many of the most advanced large-scale engineering machinery, even tunnel boring machines.”

“They can further improve the base’s construction on its existing foundation.”

“The second noteworthy unit is the base’s facility maintenance unit… the talents in this unit also appeared in conjunction with the entire base.”

“Since the entire base adopts a high degree of intelligent management and also requires that production order can operate normally even when completely isolated from the outside world, daily maintenance is very important…”

“In addition, the entire base also adopts a self-circulating system, where air, water, and various types of waste can all be recycled and reused…”

As he listened, Fang Le was secretly astonished.

He felt that this entire underground mountain base he had materialized was not merely a military base; it was practically a “doomsday fortress.”

It was a “paradise” that could be isolated from the world, operate independently, and protect itself in the event of a nuclear apocalypse or major natural disaster outside.

One could even say that if this entire mountain and its base facilities were transferred to space, the whole thing would become an independent space colonization point.

He was stunned, utterly stunned.

Moreover, as he later learned, the outer shell and main structural parts of all these underground facilities were made of special high-strength materials.

They were resistant to high pressure and high temperatures. Even if the entire mountain collapsed, or there were earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, the overall structure of the base would remain extremely stable.

“By the way, Old Yue, you said earlier that the military products we are currently producing are all American-style equipment, right?”

Yue Hanshan: “That’s right, because People's Army currently only possesses American-style equipment, which allows us to reverse engineer them and produce blueprints…”

Alright.

Fang Le: “In addition to conventional military industrial research, have those military industrial experts work hard to research a suitable equipment system for ourselves, and then fully re-equip later. I don’t want us to keep using American-style equipment.”

Yue Hanshan: “Understood.”

Fang Le then went to tour other areas. When he arrived at the air force base, he suddenly thought of a very urgent matter!