Chapter 657: Hidden History
The intelligence of this artificial AI "butterfly" is far less than that of a real-life Cooper, and the communication between Qi Lin and her can only be carried out through a simple question-and-answer mode.
It took Qi Lin nearly an hour to figure out the origin of this super battleship named "Kowloon".
In 1995, when the Boeing 777 aircraft had just been put into use, the concept of a super warship was first proposed in a secret weapons research institute in northern China.
The so-called super battleship does not refer to a kind of extra-large battleship, history has proved that the glory of the giant ship cannon has long ended, no matter how powerful the firepower of a battleship is, no matter how thick the armor is, under the repeated attacks of several aircraft carrier fleets, it can still only become a fish to be slaughtered by others - the aircraft carrier can be used as an active airfield for carrier-based aircraft, and its strike radius is far stronger than just a battleship that exists as a firepower platform, which is outdated in the modern battlefield......
However, in the face of the military's doubts, the group of madmen in this arms research institute with no name or code name only said one sentence.
"Who said we're going to build a boat? We're going to build an island that can be opened—"
The Kowloon-class super battleship "Kowloon" took 20 years from the concept to the concretization of the design idea, and when a detailed drawing was taken out by that group of madmen, even those who had the strongest opposition before had to let out an astonishing exclamation.
This is a work that transcends its time, and it is the ultimate weapon that can draw an end to future wars.
Although the construction of such a warship would consume enough resources to delay China's economic development for decades, as long as it can be built, it will be worth it no matter what the cost.
In 1956, a great man once said that even if you want to tighten your belt, you must let Huaxia have its own atomic bombs and missiles, and this super warship is no less deterrent than a nuclear weapon that can completely destroy mankind.
Transform an entire island into a battleship, a moving island...... At that time, almost no one went back to imagine such a thing, but they not only thought of it, but made it!
Construction began in 2019 on the Kowloon Peninsula adjacent to Hong Kong Island.
When foreign spy satellites pointed their cameras at the uninhabited desert in the northwest, no one would have imagined that just below the southeast coast, under an extremely prosperous metropolis, a warship that would shock the whole world was slowly taking shape.
Rock formations are chiseled open, hollowed out, molds are built inside, and tens of millions of tons of molten steel are poured into secret passages......
Huaxia's own annual steel production is more than one billion tons, in order to build the Kowloon, for several years, Huaxia has cut the volume of steel exports, which once caused great dissatisfaction in the international community, and for these dissatisfied voices, the Chinese government has only remained silent.
The six large nuclear power plants built on the southern coast in just four years, which are officially claimed to be densely populated and have a shortage of power in the southern region, are in fact four of the six large nuclear power plants were built for the Kowloon project.
However, there are no impermeable walls in the world...... In the sixth year of the Kowloon's construction, information about it was finally passed on by a senior spy of the United States.
After thinking about it again, he finally decided to disclose the news to several other top powers and the strongest consortium in the world at that time, hoping to force the Chinese authorities to abandon the project through pressure from many sides......
However, they did not succeed, but due to the withdrawal of a number of consortia from Huaxia, it led to a huge shock in Huaxia's domestic economy at that time, but at that time, people were concerned about soaring prices and a miserable green stock market, and no one would have thought that so many forces would unite against Huaxia...... Just because they're afraid.
Although the construction of the Kowloon was not suspended, under great pressure, the progress slowed down suddenly, and until the outbreak of nuclear war, the completion rate was less than 80%.
Almost every country that knew about the Kowloon plan regarded the Kowloon Peninsula as a target on the same level as the Chinese capital, but how could the Chinese authorities not think of this - a week before the outbreak of a full-scale nuclear war, the entire citizens of Hong Kong, including the Kowloon City District, were transferred to the mainland and assigned to various shelters, and by the time hundreds of nuclear bombs were ignited, the Kowloon Peninsula had begun to slowly sink into the sea.
Although the Kowloon Peninsula sank into the sea, the starting core was brought out, and when they tried to use an aircraft to send the starting core to the hands of the Chinese military, the plane was shot down by the enemy in the sky over the Soviet Province.
At that time, the remnants of the fleets of various countries that had escaped the first round of nuclear strikes were fighting in a mess on the sea area, every fighter plane that could still take off, every ship that could still leave the port, and every missile that could still ignite was almost all mobilized, and a huge mushroom cloud had risen on the land of the motherland behind them, and every officer and soldier knew that this war had become a dead end, and there was no longer the possibility of peace talks.
No one knows whether the plane carrying the starting core was shot down because of an intelligence leak or if it was crooked, but in short, the starting core did not reach the military commander, but was left in the area where the plane crashed.
In order to prevent accidents, the emergency procedures already in place within the activation core have been prepared, and in such a situation, the activation core will automatically disintegrate in the air - even if the military cannot obtain the activation core, this thing must not fall into the hands of the enemy country.
Later, due to the heavy losses of the Huaxia military in order to cover the withdrawal of ordinary people into the shelters, at this moment, those large conglomerates that were still in a cooperative relationship with Huaxia suddenly turned their faces and seized control of a large number of shelters through the back door left in the shelter system.
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Since all of this was recorded by the mastermind in the virtual game world, Qi Lin had every reason to believe that the consortium alliance must have known about the existence of the Kowloon and the starting core, and the starting core in the real world was likely to have fallen into the hands of a certain force.
It's not just the mastermind's robots that will explore the ground, those big conglomerates have also sent many elite squads back to the ground, although Qi Lin doesn't know if they came back alive in the end, but the task of collecting the fragments of the activation core will inevitably appear in their task list.
The wasteland in the real world, although more dangerous than in the game, but there are not so many "players", mutant creatures will not be interested in mechanical fragments, from a certain level, in the real world to collect the fragments of the activation core, maybe the difficulty is lower than in the game world.
And those players outside should belong to this force that is likely to have obtained the activation core.