Starships of All Realms Online

Chapter 68 Arrival on Earth, Establishment of a Base

Elysium, Earth.

Due to overexploitation, Earth's resources are nearing depletion. Therefore, all the wealthy people on Earth jointly created a paradise in space to distinguish between the upper and lower classes.

Thanks to the rapid development of robotics technology, citizens of Elysium can enjoy the most comfortable services without having to work.

The successful development of medical pods has made aging and death a thing of the past.

However, without deaths, the population could explode rapidly. Therefore, to ensure the normal operation of Elysium, the wealthy within Elysium have agreed to reduce their desire to have children.

This is the background of the real Elysium world, which Fang Heng scoffed at after learning about it.

Originally, during Earth's industrial era, the excessive exploitation by capitalists led to numerous worker strikes, eventually resulting in workers gaining the right to an eight-hour workday and weekends off.

Here, thanks to the establishment of Elysium and the development of robotics, capitalists have absolute military power and manpower, and do not need to worry about worker riots.

In addition, due to the scarcity of Earth's resources, there are not many job openings on Earth, so the workers here have once again entered an era of being exploited by capital.

Meanwhile, as the fleet entered orbit on the far side of the moon, Fang Heng immediately began the base construction plan.

"Commander, we have detected a natural cave that can serve as a site for our base."

As the specific location was displayed on the holographic projection on the bridge, Fang Heng nodded.

"This is it. Building a lunar base would be too obvious. It's better to be discreet underground."

Soon, four Raven transport planes carrying engineering robots arrived on the lunar surface.

The engineering robots moved quickly, and soon all of them entered the cave to begin base construction.

"Commander, based on the current construction progress, the base is expected to be completed in about a month."

"Okay, have the teleportation coordinates for Earth been determined?"

"It has been confirmed that the teleportation location will be set to East Asia."

"What's the situation here?"

"The outlook is not optimistic; many of the resources here have been almost completely depleted."

"What is the dominant ethnic group?"

"Han Chinese".

"It hasn't developed?"

"No, Commander. The development of history is full of chance. What happens in the main world may not happen in other timelines."

"Okay, I understand."

Having put this sensitive topic behind him, Fang Heng had a new idea in mind.

The advanced nature of Chinese civilization has already been well demonstrated in the main world, so he felt that this place could serve as a new base without any interference.

In previous worlds, whether it was the biohazard world or the Terminator world, the existence of Dongda always prevented him from developing freely.

In this situation, however, there's no need to worry about so many things.

How is the management of ideas handled on Earth today?

"The regulations are quite strict. The existence of machine guards means that many ideas can only be carried out in secret, and the ideas of the main world have not appeared here."

"Looks like I've got something to do."

Fang Heng had also made up his mind: he had to take over this world. A world where he could develop rapidly without any scruples was extremely rare.

"Ethan, send an advance team into East Asia to establish a base. The first base on Earth will be built underwater. Keep a low profile."

Furthermore, have they found the so-called protagonist in North America?

"Not yet. The population registration on Earth is currently very chaotic. Only citizens in Elysium have complete information records. Citizens on Earth only have basic identity information and whether they have a criminal record."

"Find this guy as soon as possible; we need to determine the current timeline."

"Yes, Commander."

As orders were issued, fully armed Marines, already on standby on the lower deck of the Punisher, quickly entered the teleportation area and initiated a group teleportation.

Thanks to in-depth research by scientists, the teleportation device on the Punishment has been developed for various uses, including single-person spacetime teleportation, multi-person spacetime teleportation, fleet spacetime teleportation, single-person space teleportation, large-scale space teleportation, and so on.

However, it is unclear whether due to certain limitations, space teleportation between fleets in the same world cannot be achieved. Researchers speculate that it may be related to spatial coordinates, making random teleportation impossible.

Once the teleportation device was activated, all Marines within the teleportation area disappeared, and the next moment, they reappeared on Earth.

This is an abandoned square, 100 kilometers away from the nearest gathering place.

After years of searching, there is nothing left to recycle here, so even scavengers are unwilling to come.

Therefore, the guard robots will not patrol this area.

In fact, the main patrol areas of the Earth's guard robots are concentrated in the areas of capitalists' factories, while the settlements of residents are patrolled by the official Elysium patrol teams.

However, these patrol teams were all just going through the motions.

After learning about these circumstances, Fang Heng couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the underground organization in the plot wanted to overthrow Elysium and make all Earth's inhabitants citizens of Elysium.

"The advance team has arrived on Earth and is establishing battlefield awareness."

At this moment, the advance team's teleportation landing point was deserted.

However, from another perspective, 20 advance team members can be seen here.

An invisible advance team member opened a box, and the next moment, dozens of spherical detectors flew out and quickly dispersed, covering an area of ​​one kilometer in the surrounding area.

"Battlefield awareness within one kilometer has been established. No living organisms or robotic guards have been detected. Data link connections are open. Expand the search area."

As the team members operated the probes, these spherical probes began to fly away into the distance, stopping after reaching a range of 10 kilometers.

"Punishment Ship, this is the advance team. No intelligent life forms or machine guards have been detected within a 10-kilometer radius of the current teleportation point. Shall we proceed with the next step?"

"Punishment number received. Execute Plan 1."

"Advance team received."

Soon, the advance team began its operation, following the route on their personal terminals to enter an abandoned underground parking garage.

"Transportation beacon established; vehicle can now be transported."

"Punishment Order received. Vehicle teleportation countdown: 3, 2, 1. Teleportation complete."

With a flash of light, three all-terrain vehicles appeared at the teleportation point.

This is a hovering terrain vehicle used for ground operations, capable of ignoring most terrain limitations and traveling at speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour.

"Get into the vehicle immediately and proceed to the nearest settlement. Be sure to gather data, activate the armor mimicry function, and execute Plan 1."

"Yes, Captain."

The advance team moved very quickly, boarding the vehicles and setting off immediately.

At this time, the area was about to fall into darkness, which made it convenient for the advance team to move around.

As the convoy approached the settlement, the vehicles quickly came to a stop.

"Captain, scan complete. Three patrol teams have been detected patrolling near the settlement. The route map has been drawn, and the real-time locations have been updated."

"Captain, a small underground space has been discovered, preliminarily identified as a gathering point for an underground organization."

"Mark it first, don't alert them."

"Yes."

Soon, the situation of the settlement was scanned, and the results were astonishing.

The settlement in front of the advance team was a redevelopment of the city ruins. It looked dilapidated, but at least 10 people lived in this area.

Ten kilometers away from the settlement is a food factory that produces the food needed by Earth's inhabitants.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the settlement, there was a large expanse of farmland, where the crops were in very poor condition, giving the impression of malnutrition.

The advance team did not take action, but continued to probe the situation at the settlement.

An hour later, all the data from the settlement had been collected and uploaded to the Punisher.

"Commander, data on settlements near the landing point has been received, and data analysis is complete."

"It's done so quickly? Let me see."

"Yes, Commander."

Fang Heng looked at the data on the settlements, his brows furrowing more and more as he read.

"I never expected these capitalists to go to such extremes."

Data shows that residents of the settlements rarely own their own property. The surrounding land belongs to capitalists, and residents have to pay rent regularly for their houses. Even if they buy out their properties, they still have to pay high inheritance taxes after inheriting them.

Moreover, those farmlands, where crops are grown, require rent payments to capitalists. They don't own their own land, and given the current state of the Earth's environment, the farmers work extremely hard.

Therefore, the residents have very little savings and are constantly struggling to survive. No wonder Max in the movie never managed to save enough for a ticket to Elysium.

Moreover, most jobs have now been replaced by construction machinery, resulting in a shortage of jobs while there are many people, making the competition for jobs extremely fierce and further intensifying the exploitation by capital.

Fang Heng was also very curious about the capitalists' thinking. Since robot technology was already so advanced, why not fully deploy automated factories? That way, they wouldn't even need workers, which would save even more costs.

Moreover, given the current situation, Elysium is extremely rich in resources, so why would we need to build factories on Earth?

All of this puzzled him greatly. After thinking about it for a long time, he finally understood: with different values, it was natural not to understand each other's thoughts.

"Ethan, establish the outpost as planned. It's time to prepare to launch the Ideology Project."

"Commander, this plan may take a long time. Based on the current data analysis, we may need to lay some groundwork at the beginning. Only after this groundwork is completed and the foundation for the emergence of the ideology is laid can we proceed to the next step."

How long will this process take?

"About a year."

"A year isn't a long time, let's get started."

"Yes, Commander."