I Have a Job

Chapter 283: The Rioting Amethyst

"What's there to be afraid of those things?"

"He runs slowly, so he's not a threat yet."

"You can wipe out a large area with just a random shot with a gun."

Qin Zhenghao disagreed.

He is not the only one who thinks so.

In fact, although Su Wu tried his best to publicize the threat of Amethyst.

However, due to their range of activities, they have never been able to break through the Qinling Mountains' magma canyon area.

The videos that have been circulated do not show anything particularly dangerous.

If you don't show up, you will be shot to pieces by the electromagnetic rifle that doesn't seem to have much destructive power.

When they jumped or acted in a group, they were easily swept down by the high-altitude firepower platforms.

The scene was not much different from the Musou mini-game used for stress relief.

Even the batch of purple crystals that drilled into the ground.

Because of their slow movement speed, no one could escape the hunting of the Crystal Hunting Type 1 shield machine.

The overall feeling.

It's like amethyst is just a stone that can bounce around a few times on its own.

Intentionally or unintentionally, people ignore the fact that when it approaches humans or any other life form, it can actually devour and digest them.

"But there are too many."

"There may be some fish that slip through the net—"

"All right."

"I'm overthinking it."

The boy tried to defend himself, and then thought of the exaggerated mechanical army that surrounded the entire mountain in the video.

I also think that this is too ridiculous.

So he shrugged helplessly and admitted that he was worrying too much.

"That's right."

"I just saw someone online saying that Jianghe City will implement an eight-hour work system in six or seven days."

"This news has been confirmed to be not a rumor."

"It seems that we are lucky enough to have caught up with the right time."

"yes."

"I couldn't imagine before the end of the world that I would only have to work eight hours a day."

"If this is true, it would be really cool."

"I heard there is a special activity center."

"Then we can find someone to form a basketball team."

Speaking of this, Qin Zhenghao couldn't help but feel a strong interest and desire to talk.

It concerns his own future life.

This is more important than the purple crystal that only circulates on the Internet.

While the two people in the off-road vehicle were looking forward to Jianghe City.

In the lava canyon of the Qinling Mountains, not far from them.

It was once a one-sided hunt.

It has unknowingly evolved into a real battlefield.

Boom!

A huge ball of fire exploded in the canyon.

The terrifying impact.

In an instant, the erupting magma torrent with a diameter of hundreds of meters was broken up.

Let it die halfway before it breaks out of the canyon.

It turned into a torrential rain of fire.

Drop back down toward the canyon floor.

On both sides of the canyon, there are two to three hundred firepower platforms built on the cliffs.

Faced with this horrific lava rain that was almost like a natural disaster and covered everything indiscriminately, no one was able to escape.

On quite a few firepower platforms.

Turrets, machine guns, ammunition depots, logistics warehouses, drone landing and take-off sites, communication stations, etc., almost everywhere, suffered severe attacks.

For a while.

Damage alerts were sent from all locations to the control center far away in the farmyard.

At the same time, it was disturbed by the magma falling from the sky.

Most of the firepower platforms are temporarily unable to launch attacks.

Ever since they were built, a web of fire has been woven over the lava canyon.

For the first time, a clear gap appeared.

[Warning, the comprehensive damage rate of the Magma Canyon fire blockade platform has reached 37%.]

[It is expected that the initial repair will be completed in 17 seconds.]

A large number of micro robots began to be awakened from the core warehouse inside the fire platform.

Then they climbed in groups to the damaged parts of the platform to carry out emergency repairs.

They will repair machine guns first, in the order of machine guns, turrets, and ammunition magazines.

To facilitate in the shortest possible time.

Make up for the gap in firepower.

But even so.

The entire repair process still seems a little too slow.

Canyon floor.

It seems that it is because of discovering this precious opportunity.

Except for the recent eruption, the magma lake was relatively calm.

Completely boiling.

Streams of magma began to erupt into the air everywhere.

There will be thousands of amethysts.

Continuously sent to the ground outside the canyon, and -

On the firing platforms on both sides of the canyon.

These purple crystals not only want to escape from the canyon, but also want to take down the firepower platform that has suppressed them for so long.

Also completely destroyed.

To this end, they have even evolved the ability to self-destruct.

Every purple crystal that successfully touched the firepower platform, no matter how small it was, such as an insect or the size of a basketball.

All of them can explode like a bomb.

The destructive power is proportional to its size.

The largest purple crystal was even enough to blow a two-meter-high turret into irreparable wreckage on the spot.

In just 17 seconds.

More than 30 firepower platforms were completely destroyed.

Until a large number of electromagnetic machine guns were repaired and joined the battle.

The invasion trend of this amethyst was suppressed.

Little by little, they were forced back into the lava lake in the canyon.

Outside the canyon,

A large amount of purple crystals ride on the magma and the strong winds in the sky.

Start spreading as far as possible.

Some of them are extremely fast, shooting out in a straight line at speeds close to subsonic.

Some of them spread their transparent wings like insects and glided in the air while changing their body structure to look more like rock after cooling magma.

This caused a lot of trouble for Su Wu's crystal detector.

A lot of times.

In the detector's perception, they are all vague.

It is difficult to locate its coordinates accurately.

The purple crystal appears outside the canyon in the first second.

The first line of defense is deployed on the Qinling Mountains outside the canyon.

Begin activating aerial intercept fire.

At a rate of hundreds of thousands per second, a black mass of metal bullets was fired.

Splash it on the purple crystals that show their traces.

7th second.

Artificial intelligence analysis data discovery.

Because the exact target location is often impossible to obtain, and the target moves at an extremely fast speed.

Relying solely on a simple electromagnetic machine gun.

The situation is no longer under control.

After killing more than half of the purple crystals that appeared, there were still quite a few that managed to escape to other areas.

The alert level is automatically raised by one level.

They began to use high-powered rockets one after another, launching indiscriminate area attacks.

There is no desire to actually kill Amethyst.

As long as we can force it out of its hiding state.

But obviously, the results of this attempt are not very satisfactory.

As a result, within the next ten seconds.

More and more areas were drawn into the war.

Su Wu's second and third lines of defense arranged on the Qinling Mountains were thus forced to join the battlefield.

Three consecutive lines of defense participated in the battle.

This will further increase the importance of artificial intelligence.

At the same time, we began to try to change tactics.

Indiscriminately all the purple crystals and rocks that reached the second and third lines of defense.

All are targeted for elimination.

Since it is impossible to quickly identify the enemy, just destroy all suspicious existences.

As for how much extra ammunition will be wasted.

None of them are considered within the scope of artificial intelligence.

With the change of tactics.

More rockets began to explode in the sky.

A series of orange-red fire formed in the air, like elongated clouds.

Swallow all the solid matter that is ejected.

Until a dozen seconds later.

Passed the initial intensive impact phase.

The amethyst crystals and magma debris ejected obviously dropped by several orders of magnitude.

The sea of fire that burned almost half of the sky gradually faded away.

Instead, a torrent of metal was unleashed by the electromagnetic machine gun.

Continue to take over the interception mission.

And it has come to this.

The number of purple crystals in the air has been drastically reduced, and there is no possibility of moving forward.

What awaits them is only to be gradually wiped out.

[It is detected that the purple crystals in the air have been basically eliminated.]

[Alarm lifted.]

[Maintenance of the firepower platform and replenishment of ammunition have begun.]

In the farmyard shelter.

Hundreds of thousands of spider robots.

The combat readiness status was lifted silently.

They also returned the weapons and ammunition they had received along the same route.

Continue to return to the engineering team and continue to work.

No one knows for now except the workers in the remote control center who are responsible for operating them.

The huge underground city of the farmyard.

Just recently, we experienced an emergency mobilization.

It's only a thin line away from all-out war.

In the Qinling Mountains.

Wait until everything calms down.

The total ammunition reserves of the second and third lines of defense arranged by Su Wu dropped to 26% and 34% respectively.

It is close to, or even below, the minimum reserve line of one third.

The ammunition of the first line of defense was almost exhausted.

If Amethyst organizes another large-scale riot.

These lines of defense may not be able to successfully intercept them.

But Amethyst had experienced previous shocks.

It seems that he is seriously injured.

At this time, all of them shrank into the depths of the magma lake.

In fact, the past has become a daily test.

It didn't proceed any further.

That's it.

Both sides began to repair their respective damages at the same time.

Silently accumulating for the next battle.

More than 800 kilometers away.

In a shelter by the sea near Yu'an City.

A middle-aged man with an unshaven beard.

Curled up in bed.

I browsed the news on the Internet under the dim light of the dormitory.

Throughout the shelter.

Now he and a few other people are the only ones left, responsible for maintaining the basic operations of the shelter.

In order to save unnecessary energy consumption.

Even the central air conditioning in the shelter was not turned on.

Just hot water by burning coal.

A relatively high temperature is maintained in the living area and several main working areas.

Of course, this higher temperature is compared with the extreme cold of minus 60 to 70 degrees Celsius on the ground.

In fact, the average temperature is still below five degrees.

This means that even staying in the dormitory seems a bit damp and cold.

This forces middle-aged men to hide under their covers to ensure a comfortable environment during their rest period.

"Another purple crystal impact incident broke out in Jianghe City."

"It looks really lively."

The middle-aged man sighed, but a hint of envy appeared on his face.

No matter what.

There is also a human society that is about to gather half a billion people.

In any case, there will be no lack of prosperous atmosphere.

Not like here.

With repeated large-scale population migrations.

Within a radius of nearly 100 kilometers.

Apart from a few people in this shelter where he was currently, there were no other humans left.

Not to mention people, there weren't even any rats or cockroaches.

Low temperatures and almost no food.

Even some of the most tenacious pests on Earth in the past are unable to survive here.

Dark, cold, lonely.

It is currently the only theme on this frozen land.

"Wait for the next caravan to arrive."

"We can take away all the remaining supplies in the shelter at once."

"Then we can move to Jianghe City together."

"Calculating the time, it will be at most a month later."

After expressing his envy, the middle-aged man couldn't help but calculate the date of his moving.

Compared to the other shelters, there are still a large number of survivors left.

Middle-aged man here.

The only things of value were some fuel and cheap metals.

There are also various second-hand equipment in the shelter.

The value of these things may be barely higher than the cost of a caravan trip.

Therefore, his priority in the task of transferring the caravan was obviously at a very low position.

Wait another month.

This is the manifestation of the backwardness.

"Luckily there is still internet."

"It's not like they are really out of touch with human society."

"Luckily there are people who are worse off than me."

I sighed that I would have to stay in this hellish place for another month.

A middle-aged man swipes the screen of his mobile phone.

My eyes fell on a friend on the chat app.

I felt a little comforted.

From the perspective of physical distance.

That good friend was the person closest to his shelter at that moment.

However, his location was not on land, but in the ocean further east.

There used to be land along the coast.

After the tsunami at the beginning of the apocalypse.

Now it has become a real seabed.

And, affected by the extremely cold climate.

The sea surface there has formed a layer of ice more than 20 meters thick.

Without outside help.

I'm afraid I'll never be able to leave the shelter on my own in this lifetime.

"He is the only one in the entire shelter."

"Within 20 to 30 kilometers, people in other shelters have either fled or died completely."

"It's suffocating just thinking about it."

The middle-aged man murmured to himself, and couldn't help but admire his good friend's strong will.

However, this is probably the biggest factor that has allowed him to persist until now.

You should still be able to connect to the Internet.

The Internet allows him to have unlimited close contact with billions of people across East Continent on a spiritual level.

If you have a better attitude.

In fact, it doesn't feel that much different from normal life in human society.

"Jianghe City's satellite network."

"It's really remarkable when you think about it."

"I don't know how many people I've brought hope to live."