394: Chapter 393 For the sake of China, bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable!

After signing a few approvals simply, Lin Mo handed the documents to Secretary Liu.

"Let's go."

"We're heading to the Space Force Base."

Traveling by official car, Lin Mo and his entourage arrived at the Space Force Base.

It was exactly 11:00 AM.

There was one hour left until the oath-taking ceremony for the expedition.

At this moment, the 30 Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet formations preparing to head to the Asteroid Belt to carry out their mission had all completed their preparations.

They were busily conducting the final phase of safety screenings.

After meeting with several high-ranking officials, Lin Mo joined them in inspecting the Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet formations.

"...This mission is indeed unprecedented in its difficulty..."

Everyone walked and observed. Chief of Logistics Department Jiang Cheng followed alongside them, pointing out various areas and briefly briefing the leaders.

"Among the 30 formations participating in the mission, the one with the longest mission duration is expected to take 9 months and 12 days for the round trip."

"The formation with the shortest duration will still require 6 months and 8 days for the round trip."

"To ensure nothing goes wrong,"

"we have secured at least three times the mission duration's worth of logistical supplies for each formation to provide rescue redundancy in case of special emergencies."

"However, the weight limit for logistical supplies on each Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet is only 78 tons."

"Therefore, we have to make compromises when selecting the supply materials..."

Chief of Logistics Department Jiang Cheng paused, then gave a bitter smile.

"After extensive research, we finally decided to provide the Space Force soldiers executing the mission with high-energy concentrated nutrition bars capable of supplementing the body's three major nutrients and trace elements..."

"There are 12 different flavors of nutrition bars... one bar per day, serving as the main diet for the entire duration of the mission."

"In addition, the soldiers' daily water supply must also be circulated through the Kunlun Armor's self-purification system..."

Lin Mo was, of course, familiar with the self-purification system.

Simply put, the urine and sweat excreted daily by the Space Force soldiers would be collected and purified by the Kunlun Armor, then recycled for the soldiers to drink.

After hearing Chief of Logistics Department Jiang Cheng's report, Chief Designer Bai Yannian shook his head and sighed.

"For over half a year, the Kunlun Armor cannot be taken off..."

"The activity area is only the size of a high-speed rail carriage..."

"The daily diet is just one nutrition bar, and even the drinking water has to be recycled..."

"...Sigh! It's truly hard on these Space Force soldiers and technicians..."

Chief of Logistics Department Jiang Cheng and Zhang Zhaozhong were also very helpless. They could only say that this mission was too rushed.

Not to mention how thorough the logistical support work was; being able to complete it at all was already quite good. If there had been over a year of preparation time...

This also meant that the overall success rate of this special combat mission was only about 68%.

This meant that approximately 10 Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet formations would encounter various issues, leading to mission failure.

These Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet formations that encountered setbacks would be forced to wait for rescue from the motherland in the Asteroid Belt.

But because the Asteroid Belt environment is harsh and fraught with danger, one slight mistake could lead to the entire formation sacrificing their lives for the country...

This was a choice. If 10 formations failed, and assuming half were lost—meaning sacrificing about 5 Xuan-Nu Fighter Jet formations—to mine a batch of Vibranium resources and return to Earth to buy China one year of development time...

With extraterrestrial enemies eyeing them covetously, for the survival and continuation of Chinese civilization, in the eyes of China's top leadership, this was a simple choice...