I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 503 - 501 Asking for Domestic Support

The moment the trapped rescue team members and Lucia’s medical researchers sent out a distress signal, Captain Dog and Captain Pig became aware of the incident and the situation they were trapped in.

Upon learning of this, the captains of the Dog and Pig Arks immediately planned to organize personnel for a rescue operation.

After all, aside from the rescue team members they brought along, all the crew on the two arks were transferred from naval warships. They are professionally trained soldiers, ready to fight with weapons in hand.

Given the number of crew on the two arks, organizing a rescue team to go down and save people would not be a major issue.

However, when they began to formulate a rescue plan, they found that rescuing people was fraught with difficulties.

Though Lucia could not temporarily allocate enough manpower for assistance, they provided significant support in intelligence and information. They obtained the architectural plans of the medical research institution where the trapped personnel were located, a map of the surrounding area, and Lucia’s real-time shared riot situation.

After some research, they helplessly discovered that rescuing people required breaking through several underground passages. Not to mention whether the rioters would block these passages with obstacles, just getting through the countless rioters was not easy.

This isn’t urban guerrilla warfare. There’s only one underground tunnel road, and if you want to pass through a certain passage, you can only go straight, without any way to flank.

Although they do have the capability for a frontal breakthrough, heavy weaponry cannot be used in the underground tunnels to prevent their collapse.

Moreover, while the Ark is equipped with weapons, they do not have heavy or large destructive weapons; they can only utilize the military Exoskeletons and Electromagnetic Rifles, as well as the Assault Rifles they originally had.

With these weapons, they could forcibly fight their way in, but the casualties would be too significant.

Even though it’s not impossible, their goal was to rescue people, not suppress a riot, let alone kill people. So after serious discussion, they abandoned the plan to fight their way straight in.

"It seems we can only dig from the surface!" The captain of the Dog Ark, having stayed on the Ark, was not infected like the crew who went to the ground and could now come to Pig Ark to discuss the rescue plan.

The captain of the Pig Ark nodded in agreement with the captain of the Dog Ark but also frowned, highlighting the difficulties: "However, based on the information from Lucia, this site was constructed during the Suyia era. The structure is quite solid, and there’s about ten to twenty meters of snow outside. Without any engineering equipment, digging in isn’t easy!"

"Even if it’s not easy, we have to try. We can’t just watch them trapped and do nothing, right?" The captain of the Dog Ark evidently cared more about the trapped rescue team than the captain of the Pig Ark. After all, the rescue team came to save them, which left him with a sense of guilt and indebtedness, prompting him to exert more effort to rescue them.

Although it’s said that Lucia’s authorities are mobilizing the military to suppress the riot, and according to their progress report, reinforcements could arrive in three to five days to suppress the riot.

But the captains of the Pig and Dog Arks clearly couldn’t pin their hopes on Lucia successfully quelling the riot.

The captain of the Pig Ark understood this reasoning, so he nodded and said, "Alright, let’s gather the soldiers equipped with Exoskeletons from each ark and have them start digging from the ground. Meanwhile, we’ll inform the homeland about the situation here and see if they have other solutions."

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After receiving the situation from the Pig and Dog Arks and Lucia’s information, the homeland was also very concerned about this matter and found it tricky.

The present isn’t like the past. In the past, the high-level officials of the Flame Country believed Lucia could handle this matter.

Even if they couldn’t, sending someone from the homeland for rescue was feasible. After all, flying from the Flame Country to Lucia used to only take around eight or nine hours, not particularly far.

But now, there aren’t many quick ways to reach Lucia.

Thanks to Chen Xin, domestic flight problems have been solved, but without satellite navigation, landmarks, or even the sky and ground for reference, flying to Lucia overnight for nearly ten hours is a daunting challenge for pilots.

This not only requires a high level of mental focus but also severely tests the pilot’s mental fortitude and endurance.

After all, flying in such darkness for nearly ten hours can easily disorient one and cause them to lose their sense of direction and awareness of external conditions, not knowing where they are or what lies ahead.

Especially now, without being able to ascend above the stratosphere and only flying in the troposphere, the complex weather conditions along the way pose significant tests to the pilot’s judgment and emergency handling skills.

Therefore, though a rescue team was previously dispatched to Lucia, they only used the Airbag Ark, a slower mode of transport, not the now-refunctional airplanes.

Moreover, planes present another issue, the takeoff and landing problem. Unlike the Flame Country, Lucia currently doesn’t have an operable runway for planes.

But the country cannot ignore this incident; they must consider how to provide support.

Normally, they might have to risk pilots flying nearly ten hours to Lucia’s capital, notifying Lucia to prepare a temporary runway within that time for landing.

However, another option now is to see if the Research Center can propose any effective solutions.

Having received instructions from the high-level authorities, Chen Xin was indeed surprised. While he anticipated issues with Lucia, he didn’t foresee problems of this nature. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

He expected perhaps an outbreak of an ancient virus mutation, where disease control failures might trap the rescue team.

He hadn’t thought one of the top five formidable one’s on Blue Star, Lucia, would face a riot, especially in their capital!

Despite his surprise, since the high-level authorities had approached him, he naturally had to propose solutions.

Under such circumstances, producing a rapid and effective rescue solution thousands of kilometers away might only be within Chen Xin’s capabilities.

Luckily, Chen Xin had previously considered rescue efforts for Lucia, so he wasn’t completely caught off guard.