Ice Age Apocalypse: I've Stockpiled Billions of Resources

Lin Luo took a step and walked towards the light.

The sound of combat boots stepping on gravel was completely drowned out by the surrounding roar of massive machinery.

The ruins of Jinghai City are disappearing at a speed that defies the laws of physics.

Hundreds of streamlined Mars heavy transport ships hovered low in the air, their belly hatches wide open, releasing countless silver metal cubes.

These cubes disintegrated automatically in mid-air, transforming into hundreds of millions of nanomechanical insects. They resembled a silvery wave, covering the remaining construction debris.

Steel bars, cement, monster skeletons—everything was instantly decomposed and reassembled.

The smooth alloy foundation spread wildly outwards from beneath Lin Luo's feet.

"The foundation for Zone 1 has been laid."

"Energy transmission pipeline connection".

"Begin pouring the outer city wall."

A synthesized audio prompt broadcast across the entire frequency band. Lin Luo stopped and looked up. Dozens of giant 3D building printers, each hundreds of meters tall, stood in a row, their massive robotic arms spewing out dark red, rapidly setting alloy slurry.

The slurry cools and turns black the moment it comes into contact with air, transforming into an indestructible armored wall.

Fifty meters. One hundred meters. One hundred and fifty meters.

A 30-meter-thick ring of steel wall was erected, completely enclosing the newly cleared core area of ​​Jinghai City.

The surface of the city wall shimmered with eerie blue electromagnetic pulse patterns, indicating that the high-voltage defense network was being charged.

The Earth's catastrophic climate remains violent.

Outside the walls, a cold current carrying hail and acidic substances violently pounded against the city walls, producing a piercing screeching sound. Gale-force winds whipped up sand and dust hundreds of meters high, attempting to engulf the nascent city.

Inside the wall, four enormous environmental stabilization towers simultaneously lit up.

A pale golden plasma shield rose up from the top of the city wall and closed over the city.

Strong winds, hail, and acid rain were completely kept out.

The air purification system inside the shield was operating at full capacity, removing the pungent smell of gunpowder and the stench of monster blood, and replacing it with pure oxygen.

The numbers on the temperature display jumped rapidly from minus forty degrees Celsius to a constant twenty-four degrees Celsius.

Tian Xiaoyu unzipped her tightly bound combat suit and let out a long breath.

She sheathed the long sword in her hand and shook the dust off her hair.

"This weather on Earth is truly awful." Tian Xiaoyu looked up at the energy shield above her head that was blocking the wind and snow. "Our Martian dome system is much better. With this shield up, it finally feels like a place for humans to stay."

“Construction on Mars has never stopped. There are no technological barriers to transferring that mature system to Earth.” Lin Luo looked at the wide metal streets. “Building an outpost city is too easy. In a maximum of twelve hours, all the indicators here can reach the standards of the main city on Mars.”

A low sonic boom echoed through the sky.

A Royal-class interstellar frigate, entirely black with gold-edged ramming crests, broke through the clouds and landed steadily on the newly built central helipad. The airlock hissed as it released pressure, and heavy metal ramps slammed onto the ground.

A squad of guards clad in silver powered armor were the first to disembark from the spaceship and quickly formed a perimeter on both sides.

Shen Kexin walked at the very front.

She was dressed in soft beige loungewear, a stark contrast to the cold, steel surroundings. Carrying a multi-tiered, temperature-controlled food container, she walked briskly towards Lin Luo.

Following behind Shen Kexin were Su Xinyue, Ye An'an, Jiang Yiyi, and Karina.

Su Xinyue, wearing a pair of semi-transparent data glasses, quickly swiped her fingers across the virtual panel, connecting to the logistics management system of this new city.

"Honey, eat something first."

Shen Kexin walked up to Lin Luo and opened the temperature-controlled food box.

The rich aroma of meat spread instantly.

The top layer is a large bowl of braised pork, with a bright red color, and the layers below are steaming rice and several delicate stir-fried dishes.

Without saying a word, Lin Luo took the chopsticks and bowl and began to eat heartily.

"Your skills have improved again," Lin Luo commented after swallowing a piece of meat.

Shen Kexin took out a tissue and gently wiped away a speck of ash from Lin Luo's cheek, her eyes full of concern. She didn't ask how dangerous the battle had been; she simply watched Lin Luo eat.

Tian Xiaoyu leaned over, unceremoniously picked up a piece of meat from the box and popped it into her mouth, saying indistinctly, "Kexin, you were so comfortable in the Martian kitchen, what are you doing here in these ruins?"

"Everything is normal in the main city of Mars. With the adjutant keeping an eye on things, there won't be any trouble." Shen Kexin handed a bowl of hot soup to Tian Xiaoyu. "Since my husband is here, of course I had to come. Besides, these soldiers have been fighting at high intensity for a long time, and taking too many nutritional supplements is affecting their condition. I've already had the logistics kitchen move some down, and we can supply hot meals to the entire army soon."

Natasha leaned against the armored vehicle next to her, wiping the barrel of her gun, and added coldly, "You need to be well-fed to have the strength to kill monsters."

Karina walked over to Natasha and flicked the gun barrel with her finger: "Those scum outside couldn't even withstand a round of artillery fire, how dare you fire a shot. Lord, let my men handle the next expansion mission, my sword is practically rusting."

Lin Luo picked up the soup bowl, took a big gulp, and handed the empty bowl to Shen Kexin.

"What's the rush?" Lin Luo looked at Su Bo. "How's the public's reaction on Mars?"

Su Bo immediately stepped forward and pressed a few buttons on the terminal on his wrist.

A giant holographic projection screen unfolded before the crowd. The screen was divided into thousands of smaller images, each connected to various city squares of the Martian Alliance.

The scene was filled with crowds of people.

In the Martian underground city and surface ecosystem, countless residents gathered in front of a giant broadcast screen.

The screen was showing the scene of Jinghai City being surrounded by high walls and its energy shield lighting up.

Deafening cheers echoed through the new city square on Earth via the audio transmission system.

Subo switched to a main screen. It was the central square of the fifth sector of Mars, with hundreds of white-haired elderly people crowded at the front.

They wore temperature-controlled suits uniformly issued by the Mars Alliance, and many of them still had old items from Earth's era hanging on their clothes, such as faded plastic keychains and badly worn mechanical watches.

These people are all over seventy or eighty years old.

They were sent to Mars as the first workforce and technicians when the cataclysm broke out decades ago.

On that barren red planet, they mined, built cities, and ate synthetic clay, dedicating half their lives to the development of Mars.

On the screen, an old man with a face full of tears was gripping the guardrail tightly, his tears falling onto the metal bars.

"Earth...that's Earth's sky!" The old man's voice was hoarse as he pointed to the newly built city walls of Jinghai on the screen. "The city lord has conquered Earth! Earth has been restored!"

An old woman next to him covered her face, her body trembling violently.

"I want to go back. I dream of going back to see it."

“When I left, the cross-sea bridge in Jinghai City was still there. My son is buried under the bridge. I want to go and sweep his grave, even if it's just to see the ruins.”

"Lord! Let us go back! Even if this old body dies, it wants to die in the earth's soil!"

The emotions in the video were completely out of control, with countless elderly people reaching out towards the screen as if trying to touch the air of the earth through it.

The young Martian generation around them were also shouting Lin Luo's name, their fervent emotions almost lifting the Martian dome.

Looking at the screen, Su Bo said in a serious tone, "Lord, the Martian Civil Affairs Bureau's communication lines have been overwhelmed with application forms. More than 30 million eligible people have applied to join the Earth Pioneer Army. In particular, the older generation of residents who left Earth have jointly submitted a petition demanding to return to Earth immediately."

Su Luo looked at the tearful old faces on the holographic screen.

Su Xinyue walked to Lin Luo's side and pulled up a data panel: "The ecological cycle system inside Mars is already operating perfectly. We have inexhaustible resources and a mature city model. At the current pace of infrastructure development in Jinghai City, the residential area will be able to accommodate 100,000 people in four hours. The return of these people will not have any impact on Earth's logistics."

Ye An'an also looked up, controlling the drone to hover in the air: "The Mars orbital elevator and interstellar transport ship are ready. As long as you authorize it, the first batch of immigrants can complete atmospheric descent within thirty minutes."

Lin Luo stretched out his finger and pressed heavily on the receive button on the holographic screen.

"approve."

Lin Luo's voice instantly spread to every corner of Mars through the main control system.

"Starting from Jinghai City, the First Mars Fleet will open a space-to-ground passage. Priority will be given to older Earth immigrants over seventy years old to board the ships. They shed blood for Mars, and now that Earth is built, it's time to bring them back to enjoy their lives."

A thunderous roar erupted from the Martian plaza on the holographic screen. Countless people embraced each other wildly.

"but!"

Lin Luo emphasized his words, his voice cutting through the noise.

"Tell them that Earth is now a war zone. Inside the walls is heaven, outside the walls is hell. Anyone who wants to come back must strictly abide by military regulations. Anyone who dares to cause trouble in the city or disobey orders will be immediately thrown over the walls to feed the mutants. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Su Bo stood at attention and gave a standard military salute.

"Execute it."

Lin Luo turned off the communication screen, turned around, and looked at the outskirts of the city.

The inner city of Jinghai is taking shape, but it's only the size of a tiny postage stamp. Earth is vast, large enough to contain all the ambitions of the Martian Alliance.

Jiang Yiyi, carrying a sniper rifle, walked to the edge of the outer wall and looked into the distance through a high-powered scope.

"Lord, the temperature outside the walls is dropping, and the blizzard is intensifying. A large heat source is moving towards Jinghai City. It should be the large-scale explosion that triggered the migration of the beast tide. There are many of them, with an initial estimate of over 100,000."

"One hundred thousand?" Karina sneered, pulling two high-frequency vibrating battle axes from her back. "Not even enough to fill our teeth."

Lin Luo glanced at his watch.

"Are all the defensive towers on the wall installed?"

"The heavy electromagnetic railgun matrix is ​​online. The laser interception network is fully charged. The surface-to-surface bombardment missiles are ready to be launched at any time," Su Bo reported quickly.

"Open gate number three on the north side," Lin Luo ordered.

A tremendous clanging of gears filled the air. The thick alloy walls slowly slid open to the sides, revealing an exit fifty meters wide. A gale-force wind, carrying ice and snow, rushed in and lashed against the soldiers' armor.

Three hundred ten-meter-tall Titan-class heavy combat mechs strode heavily through the gate into the snowstorm. The thrusters on their backs spewed out eerie blue flames, melting the surrounding snow into water.

Thousands of tracked unmanned combat vehicles followed closely behind.

Lin Luo drew his Gauss pistol from his waist and chambered a round.

"Leave 10,000 men to guard the city. The rest of you, come with me. Tonight, wipe out every single mutated creature and monster breathing within a 300-kilometer radius of Jinghai City."

Lin Luo stepped out of the city gate, his combat boots crunching on the thick snow outside the wall.

On the city wall behind them, thousands of heavy electromagnetic cannons simultaneously adjusted their muzzles. Blinding flashes of charging light emanated from inside the cannon barrels.

The wind and snow were howling.

From the darkness in the distance came the frenzied roars of countless mutants. Countless red dots appeared and disappeared in the wind and snow, like a surging red tide rushing towards the glowing city.

At the very front of the mech formation, a command mech painted in dark gold raised its massive beam saber.

The artillery fire instantly tore through the darkness.