CHAPTER 444: CHAPTER 442: A NEW DISASTER

The subsequent modification of Chao Feng is just one of the many research projects in this scientific base.

Chen Xin merely inspected around, giving out assignments before turning and leaving.

He is now responsible for the entire scientific base, thus leaving individual projects for the research staff to handle rather than getting involved personally.

However, since the scientific base has just been completed not long ago and the personnel has not been fully equipped, there are temporarily not many people here. Only when the state sends over the equipped research staff can the base officially operate.

So after making a round, Chen Xin was ready to return to his shelter.

After all, the entire research base indeed felt quite empty, even the Ecological Dome had no plants, appearing very barren.

Fortunately, the plant seeds will come along with the relevant research personnel, and once they settle in, they will start planting, leaving Chen Xin no worries about the plant seeds.

As for the special forces, after the upgrades, changes in the entire defense system, Chen Xin needed to communicate with the Commander, instructing him to arrange personnel to take over and master the entire defense system.

Although the Commander was surprised by Chen Xin’s upgrade of the entire defense system, he showed no signs of misunderstanding.

He merely asked Chen Xin for detailed blueprints of the entire defense system to facilitate his own deployments.

To this request, Chen Xin gladly complied, providing the Commander with the blueprints of the entire defense system he specifically copied from the system, along with manuals of the related facilities.

This was something Chen Xin had considered during the upgrade, where the entire defense system’s upgrade was not merely about laying a wall or electric grid but a complete automatic defense network.

Aside from the intended walls and electric grids, surveillance cameras, patrol drones, automated defense turrets, dynamic sensing alarm systems, etc., many defense facilities are spread throughout the scientific base.

Without the blueprints Chen Xin had, even a well-trained special forces team would need at least a week to understand the general situation here.

But now, with the blueprints and related manuals, the Commander is confident of fully mastering the area within three days.

However, upon looking at the blueprints and manuals, seeing that Chen Xin also set up automated defense turrets and patrol drones, the Commander felt deeply that unless a large force was employed for a strong attack, there was no point attacking here with small operations or individual infiltration.

He even estimated the likelihood of his special forces attacking here with the new equipment provided by Chen Xin, resulting in an answer that made him feel a bit frustrated yet somewhat reassured.

That is, with this special forces team defending alongside this defense network, another special forces team with the same armaments would require more than double the forces to possibly break in.

This undoubtedly proves the reliability and security of this defense network, which also makes their security work somewhat easier.

Seeing the Commander’s satisfaction with the defense network, Chen Xin said nothing more and returned to his shelter.

The Ecological Dome of course also prepared a lab and office for him, but since the entire Ecological Dome is sparsely populated, naturally Chen Xin would not stay there.

Returning to his shelter, Chen Xin was still a bit unaccustomed to the upgraded environment, but at least it’s much more comfortable to live in now than before, which greatly satisfies Chen Xin.

The workspace on the third floor of the new shelter, whether in terms of equipment or environment, is vastly superior to Chen Xin’s original workspace.

If the original workspace was like a workshop in a private garage, the newly upgraded one is akin to a processing center in a high-end laboratory.

The clean and tidy environment and the precise and advanced equipment not only allow Chen Xin to realize any of his ideas and process various precise components but also provide a good and comfortable work environment, unlike the previous workspace where he was covered in grime after work.

Especially satisfying for Chen Xin was that during the upgrade, his original laptop had become a graphics workstation, paired with a mainframe as a storage terminal, where all data and information were transferred.

For Chen Xin, having once used a graphics workstation and mainframe back at work, reconnecting with these things gave him a long-missed sense of familiarity.

With the workstation and mainframe, Chen Xin will find it more convenient to design blueprints and create more complex drawings in the future.

However, though the new equipment certainly excites and pleases him, Chen Xin did not immediately attempt to test if the new equipment was functional but instead sat before the workstation, opening the screen to review his previously stored information.

The issues in the Southwest Region remain on Chen Xin’s mind. The Toba Volcano eruption has been past half a year now, and its global impact has gradually begun to manifest.

Apart from frequent small earthquakes in the Southwest Region over the past few months, volcanic ash hasn’t caused much impact.

After all, the whole world is currently shrouded in dust and haze, having not seen sunlight for one or two years, so now volcanic ash only serves to extend these sunless days further.

What truly worries Chen Xin is that once planes could fly again, a few fearless scientists took to the skies, reaching the stratosphere to collect samples of air and dust for analysis.

In these air and dust samples, they detected not only the dust from the previous meteor impact and material from the Toba Volcano eruption but also emissions from other volcanic eruptions.

Through comparison, scientists determined that these were eruptive materials from the Federation’s Changjin Volcano and Aso Mountain in the Island Country.

Both of these volcanoes were deemed potential eight-grade eruptions by earlier geologists, and now, similar to the Toba Volcano, they have evidently erupted.

Simultaneously, three volcanoes of over seven grades erupting poses an apocalyptic disaster for the entire Blue Planet.

Emissions from these three super volcanoes have already spread throughout the entire atmosphere; even without the dust from the meteor impact, these volcanic ashes alone could still plunge the Blue Planet into a volcanic winter, veiling the sun in the sky.

Although the weather conditions haven’t worsened significantly, no one can predict what the eruptions of these three super volcanoes will bring to the Blue Planet.

This is why Chen Xin reviews his stored data, hoping to find a way to address the possible impending disasters.