I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 530 - 428: Lucia’s Bargaining Chip

Lucia wants to protect its own Capital, but relying solely on their own strength is now impossible.

Whether it was the previous chaos caused by the "Revolutionary Army" or this war brought by the oligarchic forces, both have irreversibly damaged the order in the Lucia Capital, further destabilizing Lucia’s official rule.

Although the army and the country are still in the hands of Lucia’s officials, they do not have many cards to play at this point, nor do they have any good solutions to change the dire situation before them.

Except to make a final plea for help from the Flame Country.

Despite having already handed over many of their last-resort resources to the Flame Country during their previous plea for assistance, this was what moved the Flame Country to pull valuable resources to aid Lucia, even in such a situation where every nation is struggling to manage its own problems.

But it must be said, as a former superpower that dominated the world for half a century, even after thirty years of depletion, Suyia’s legacy remains surprisingly abundant.

Lucia’s officials unveiled a new bargaining chip, forcing the senior leaders of the Flame Country to reconsider whether to help Lucia overcome its difficulties.

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"What exactly did Lucia reveal to make the high-level authorities agree to let us stay and continue helping the Lucians?" On the Ark, the Commander of the previously reinforced troop was inquiring of Chen Xin.

After the Lucians suppressed the unrest caused by the oligarchs, they reached a new agreement with the high-level Flame Country authorities, trading a cost for the continued support from the Flame Country.

The question of exactly what bargaining chip Lucia presented to gain the high-level approval of the Flame Country naturally became a matter of great curiosity for everyone.

But clearly, such matters would not be casually disclosed to subordinates by the high-level authorities, so among all those from the Flame Country in Lucia, only Chen Xin knew the exact details.

He was about to inspect the item presented by the Lucians, accompanied by officials dispatched by Lucia, while the previously reinforced troop now served as his bodyguard, providing him with personal protection.

As the Commander of the reinforcement troop, he could somewhat grasp some information, naturally making him curious about what item the Lucians used to persuade the high-level authorities.

While he was well aware of the confidentiality protocols as a soldier and knew not to pry into things he shouldn’t, as Chen Xin’s bodyguard, they would soon accompany him to inspect the item, and would naturally see what it was by then, so it was just a matter of satisfying his curiosity a bit ahead of time.

Understanding the Commander’s curiosity about what the item was, Chen Xin merely played coy and smiled, saying, "You’ll find out soon enough, it’ll definitely amaze you."

Chen Xin naturally knew what the Lucians had presented, and to be honest, he was also quite surprised that the Suyia people from back then had actually managed to build such a thing. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Upon seeing the land cruiser sealed by the Suyia, Chen Xin had already been astonished by the Cold War-era technology from the bipolar confrontation period, but didn’t expect that it wasn’t the limit.

Needless to say, in the Cold War era, Suyia and the Federation scientists, driven by the threat of war, indeed applied some technologies that could have benefited humanity to the art of killing efficiently, creating many terrifying weapons.

However, it cannot be denied that the Cold War era was also the period when human technology advanced most rapidly.

In the Cold War era, solely in the field of aerospace, Suyia launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, and achieved manned spaceflight in 1961, with the first astronaut Gagarin entering space.

Then, eight years later, in 1969, the Federation achieved a moon landing, marking the first time humankind set foot on another celestial body, symbolizing humanity’s first step out of its cradle, even though it was just the Moon, Earth’s satellite.

From then until 1972, the Federation achieved a total of six moon landings, but in the subsequent decades, humanity never launched manned spacecraft beyond low Earth orbit again.

While the Cold War era had humanity living under the shadow of war and even nuclear apocalypse, and brought humanity to the brink of a third world war, it must be said that it was indeed the era where human technology developed the fastest.

The Federation, by vigorously advancing the Apollo moon landing project, made unprecedented progress in the field of aerospace, accumulating a vast amount of technological prowess, and this became a pivotal reason why, after Suyia’s dissolution, Federation’s technology continued to lead the world.

Aerospace exploration is a project difficult to benefit from in the short term, demanding enormous funds and vast resources, which is a substantial burden even for a superpower.

This causes many to believe that instead of throwing so much money into a seemingly unprofitable project, digging rocks in space, it would be better to spend that money on underprivileged kids in impoverished areas, buying them extra lunches.

But these people shortsightedly overlook the catalytic impact of developments in the aerospace domain on technological advancement, they fail to see that as aerospace technology progresses, it drives development and technological upgrades in all associated industries.

Only technological advancement can make people’s lives better, although many people feel technology develops too quickly and many fall behind its pace, it’s not a reason to oppose technological progress.

In fact, many times Chen Xin ponders, if the Cold War rivals had persisted in competing in the aerospace field, and Suyia had not fallen so early, humanity might be colonizing the Moon already.

In that case, perhaps many wars and conflicts over the subsequent decades wouldn’t have occurred.

After all, many wars and conflicts, in some sense, have always centered around the fight for strategically vital resources like oil.

If aerospace technology developed sufficiently, humanity might already have developed new energy technologies to replace oil, eliminating this fossil energy, and adopting cleaner, more efficient energies, maybe even realizing some of those scenes from science fiction.

Like if Chen Xin had chosen himself a safe path alone, he would not have conceived ideas of creating things like Titan, Mobile Base, aircraft, medical capsules, for there would be no necessity.

This aspect is vividly reflected in the item they are about to assess; for Suyia at that time, although developing this powerful machine, it held little practical utility.

Because, for Suyia back then, there was no way to utilize the Weather Controller capable of only manipulating the weather within a region centered on the machine as a weapon.