Chapter 336: Chapter 335: Post-Disaster Statistics

Since the last catastrophe, five days had passed…

With the complete surrender of the Badit people, the aftermath of the war gradually ceased and the cleanup of the battlefield began in an orderly manner.

Kunlun Mountain was severely damaged, even some basic facilities were destroyed, which made it a struggle for nearby escort ships to barely moor in the vicinity of Kunlun Mountain. These ships were in poor condition and all required comprehensive maintenance.

Thinking back to the great battle a few days ago, every soldier cleaning the ruins on the battlefield felt an unreal sense of illusion, coupled with a relief that they had survived the ordeal…

They had won, truly won.

There was no falsehood!

The area of Kunlun Mountain hit by the nuclear bomb resembled a forest of steel scorched by fierce flames; most things were destroyed, leaving only the metal liquid that had cooled and solidified again, speaking of the once horrifying war.

The losses this time were just too great. All the soldiers had gone through this ordeal, silently licking the wounds they received in the war, both physical and mental.

On the other hand, about two thousand surviving Badit people had taken off their armor, disarmed, and surrendered to the humans.

They were inside the prison, anxiously worrying about their own fates…

Human engineers had tailor-made a simple ecosystem for them; of course, the conditions inside were nothing to boast about, but it was sufficient for temporary survival.

Strikingly, these Badit people had excellent physical condition, both in terms of muscle and intelligence. They could even briefly adapt to a vacuum environment, surviving in vacuum for at least six hours, which was truly unbelievable.

Of course, the Badit people’s preferred environment was not a vacuum, but an atmosphere with 12% oxygen concentration, small amounts of nitrogen dioxide, and difluorodichloromethane, thin gases with oxidative properties that could aid in respiration and provide energy.

“Why are we even preparing a survival environment for these damned aliens, if you ask me… they should just be shot dead! These damned war criminals! Damn it!”

“Keep it down. Shooting them is out of the question, don’t you think that shooting them would be letting them off too easily? These are beings of alien intelligence… If we had more cosmic knowledge, we wouldn’t have faced this catastrophe. The knowledge in their brains is the key factor.”

“I even feel that dissecting them would be better than shooting them.”

“Dissection…”

Several guards were in front of the monitoring room, supervising this group of aliens.

This younger soldier rubbed his temples, forcibly quelling the anger in his heart: “Ugh, it just feels incredibly frustrating, especially those leaders who keep demanding better treatment, who does he think he is!”

But as angry as they were, everyone knew that before extracting the remaining value from this alien civilization, these damned war criminals still needed to be well taken care of.

The loss of humanity must be wrung out of these aliens!

Just then, a high-ranking officer and several diplomats walked into the prison entrance, led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Wang Junpeng.

One of the officers asked, “So, these aliens haven’t been up to any tricks, have they?”

“Report, Captain, there are no errors!”

Most aliens were detained separately, except for some high-ranking nobles, as they had requested during their surrender.

Regarding this matter, humans had no need to directly break the treaty. As long as the aliens’ leadership recognized their situation, it would be beneficial for the forthcoming recruitment of prisoners.

Wang Junpeng nodded, “The trial will begin soon… Go and bring them out.”

“Yes!” The soldier puffed out his chest, his heart ablaze with excitement… Yes, a trial, humans trying aliens, truly a first in history.

At this moment, Zhang Yuan was in the Captain’s Room, discussing the cleanup of the battlefield.

The final post-war statistics were out, and at least one fifth of Kunlun Mountain had been destroyed by nuclear bombs.

The damned “Yingsun 1” truly showed no mercy, destroying one fifth as instructed, obliterating the outer regions of Kunlun Mountain and an alien spaceship into utter ruin!

This resulted in very few valuable spoils of war… and the process of salvaging them was extremely difficult.

“It’s still uncertain how much we can recover, we’ve deployed a lot of manpower in that area… but the regions hit directly by the nuclear bombs are still extremely hot, and unknown dangers might occur. We estimate it will take another two to three days for it to cool down gradually.”

Zhang Yuan nodded, “Don’t rush, take it slowly.”

In space, heat dissipates only through thermal radiation, and it’s very slow. It’s not unreasonable for such high temperatures to last several days.

The most valuable were likely these surviving aliens, whose knowledge could be considered humanity’s most important spoils of war.

“The damage report is out… 2 Haiyan-class frigates were completely destroyed by enemy drones, with all 228 soldiers aboard perishing. 14 frigates suffered varying degrees of damage, 2 Yingsun-class destroyers, including Yingsun 1, were severely damaged and might need many years of repairs before they can be combat-ready again.”

“Inside Kunlun Mountain, 3,346 soldiers died in battle, among them, 1,512 had undergone emergency consciousness upload, so the actual number of deaths was 1,834.”

“The total number of various injuries was… 5,522 occurrences.”

“Countless robots were scrapped… the exact numbers are still unclear, probably about seventy to eighty thousand, including various military robots and conventional service robots affected by the war. One fifth of the military corridors were destroyed, and various electronic devices were also destroyed, with specifics yet undetermined… There’s just too much, and it’s really hard to sort through everything right now.”

Minister Ma, responsible for logistic material management, was reporting the data with a pale, grim face.

“It’s been hard on you… This is an army of heroes, they protected our homeland!” Zhang Yuan sighed, continuously rubbing his head.

This could be considered the greatest loss humanity had suffered since their debatable emergence…

Fortunately, there was consciousness upload technology, which allowed the urgent upload of those severely injured beyond medical help, saving quite a few lives.

At that time, where could so many doctors be found? Robot doctors were all paralyzed; human doctors took several hours per surgery… But injuries occurred much faster, several per minute.

Unable to do otherwise, after a brief discussion, the management decided it was better to opt for emergency consciousness uploads than to let the soldiers die in agony… But whether these uploaded consciousnesses were truly “alive” was still a matter for debate…

Ultimately, this dark technology was exposed to the public this way. Anyone with even a slight knowledge of Information Science began to wonder how the Ten-thousand-year Worm was truly eradicated… How to explain the sudden exposure of the Pangu Brain project also remains a major headache for the new civil government.