Changkong Fighter

Chapter 349 A World on the Verge of Collapse (Formatting error, now fixed)

There is only one University of Tokyo on Earth, and it can only take care of the area around it; it cannot reach other places.

So, in just three or four years, extraterrestrial civilizations have already taken root in Australia, Mexico, and South America—yes, literally, taken root!

Multiple towers took root in locations beyond the reach of the Eastern Continent, and the nation's civilization was unable to withstand the powerful military force of the alien civilization. To make matters worse, the United States was unable to intervene and assist in these efforts.

The US Navy is tied down in the Eastern Pacific, while smaller countries are unable to confront the bases of extraterrestrial civilizations.

Even by 2027, some small countries will not even have full access to electricity. More than 80% of human industry is in Asia, with the remaining industries scattered in the Americas and Europe.

Under a protracted war, those small countries will inevitably collapse, and after their collapse, extraterrestrial civilizations will flourish on Earth.

What will happen then? Like the West says, will we coexist with extraterrestrial civilizations?
Only two and a half countries in the world are capable of establishing a complete defense system. The existing anti-missile systems are used to defend important industrial, military, political, and technological cities within major countries. Meanwhile, extraterrestrial civilizations can open wormholes and launch orbital attacks.

A single meteorite could wipe the world-famous city of Sydney off the face of the earth! This method is not only applicable to Sydney; other cities are equally vulnerable to such strategic weapons from extraterrestrial civilizations, including major powers.

Overall, it's fortunate that the target of this attack was not a major city in Tokyo, otherwise the entire human strategy and industrial output would have been affected. This is not an exaggeration, but the truth!

This makes the University of Tokyo very wary. If the University of Tokyo is attacked, the entire human defense line will collapse. This is not an exaggeration, but a deduction made by think tanks.

There is also a significant gap in energy levels between the two sides. According to experts' research on the weapons of extraterrestrial civilizations, the objective fact is that extraterrestrial civilizations also far surpass humans in their use of energy.

Even with the use of anti-radiation warheads, the combat system is severely limited by the interference with communications and radar, unless humanity can quickly break through communication technology, at least to the point of achieving interference-free quantum communication or neutrino communication.

However, for neutrino communication, it currently only exists in theory, and quantum communication is limited to quantum encryption, unable to achieve the quantum entanglement communication methods seen in science fiction films.

Quantum communication is not yet widespread, existing communication technologies are vulnerable to interference from extraterrestrial civilizations, and laser communication is unstable, making it difficult to maintain stability when fighter jets are flying at high speeds.

Ultimately, and most importantly, the experts' research revealed a "protracted war" between human civilization and extraterrestrial civilization.

Almost all of the world's rare earth technology is located at Tokyo University. It can be said that Tokyo University has an absolute technological monopoly. Even if other countries give them rare earth, they will not be able to produce it.

Without strategic resources such as gallium and indium needed to manufacture chips, global reserves are only enough to sustain high-intensity warfare for 2-3 years, and now less than 2 years have passed. According to sources within the US, a large amount of strategic reserves have already been consumed and are almost depleted. If an alien civilization were to blockade cobalt mines or copper mines in Chile, the US military's industrial production chain would be disrupted.

Then, because the weapons couldn't keep up, a vicious cycle ensued, ultimately leading to a global collapse.

These are just the surface-level issues. People won't die without rare earth elements, but the most important thing for people is to eat!
Small and medium-sized countries have enough food reserves to last only 4-6 months. Large agricultural countries are in a better position, but those with insufficient food production rely entirely on food imports. Under the long-term war waged by extraterrestrial civilizations, famine is an unavoidable problem. Many chemical plants have shifted from producing fertilizer to producing explosives. If synthetic ammonia plants cannot supply the market, agricultural food production will fall behind. Coupled with transportation difficulties, triggering a global famine is not an exaggeration.

Oil refineries and uranium enrichment facilities have also been shut down due to oil transportation problems, keeping international oil prices high!

Currently, global governance on Earth has failed. The United Nations exists in name only, and the permanent members of the Security Council are bound to split on issues such as the division of war zones. This view on wormholes of extraterrestrial civilizations is a harbinger of this impending division and collapse.

After losing global treatment, the collapse of social order became inevitable. Many small and medium-sized countries suffered government dysfunction after being attacked by alien civilizations, resulting in armed militia separatism, police system collapse, and gangs taking over government management. However, these gangs were nothing in the face of alien civilizations.

Mexico is a case in point. After many of Mexico's Pacific coastal cities fell, gangs took over, but when faced with alien biological weapons, they collapsed very quickly, practically crumbling at the slightest touch.

Now, the fall of the West Coast is only a matter of time, and with the fall of Mexico, the United States itself will be attacked by an alien civilization, severing the connection between North America and South America.

American think tanks anticipated this, but they lacked the capacity to change anything.

The alien civilization's offensive in the eastern Pacific has already given the United States a major headache, leaving it helplessly watching as its ground is ravaged by alien civilizations.

On the contrary, Chile signed a cherry-for-military agreement with the University of Tokyo, purchasing a considerable amount of military equipment from the university. Although it cannot help other neighboring countries, it has no problem protecting its own territory.

All of this proves that under prolonged war, the world may face total collapse, and then Tokyo University will have to shoulder all the pressure alone. What is making Tokyo University somewhat mentally broken is that in this extremely cruel environment, his teammates are a group of people who have to coexist with an alien civilization.

"The Wandering Earth" is just a science fiction film.

"Our aircraft carrier strike group has arrived near the sinkhole and is ready to carry out its mission."

The old commander stared at the positions of 003 and 002 on the tactical sand table, which were only 100 nautical miles away from the sinkhole identification zone.

Research on Hiroshima survivors has shown that when the mortality rate exceeds 30%, society enters a "walking dead" state. If no way is found to close the sinkhole, the population of those small countries will be wiped out by alien civilizations like in a game of Candy Crush, and then the entire human civilization will fall into despair.

Therefore, even though the current "battle report" shows that humanity has a chance of winning, the top leadership of Tokyo University, which is best at protracted warfare, also realized that they could not afford to wage a prolonged war against an alien civilization.

Therefore, the real mission for the 003 and 002 carrier strike groups this time is to completely close the entire sinkhole on the other side of the door, just like cutting off the wormhole in Sydney.

The old commander had never felt such heavy pressure, because this was a huge gamble, a gamble on the strength of the navy and the quality of the naval aviation!

(End of this chapter)