Chapter 5: Dead Hand System

"How did you hurt your hand?" Emily looked at Li Nian's right hand injury with concern, and hurriedly used her good right hand to open the medicine box, wanting to apply medicine to Li Nian.

"Forget it. I got beaten up by my chickens yesterday. I just wanted to pick you some fresh vegetables for a salad, but I didn't expect the cabbages I grew to get beaten up too. Not to mention the insect breeding box. If I hadn't found it early, the box would have been bitten through by them. If I had found it later, they would have run all over the place."

"Here, try the fighting cabbage with the indestructible little strongman salad." With that, Li Nian took out a plate of vegetables from behind him.

The cabbage, which should have been an ordinary vegetable, had two very long leaves growing from the left and right sides, with the ends curled up like the arms of a boxer. The yellow mealworms, which had been raised as doomsday protein, had also grown hard armor and sharp teeth. At this moment, they had been cut off their shells, leaving only milky white fat and muscles, which looked exceptionally attractive.

Emily picked up a piece of cabbage and put it in her mouth. A fresh, yet tough, taste spread across her taste buds. "Mmm, this cabbage really tastes delicious. And the meat, so tender and melts in your mouth. If we could package it, it would become popular all over the world."

In a few seconds, Emily's high spirits disappeared again. There were now very few living people in the world who didn't know, and business had completely lost its meaning.

"Never mind, we can grow our own and eat it. Even if we're the only two people left on earth, we should treat ourselves well."

"Then we're the new Adam and Eve?" Emily, a Christian, became emotional again, mumbling incomprehensible words about this being God's will and us being God's chosen people.

"Hallelujah..."

A religious hymn sounded, and Emily almost thought that the real God had really appeared.

At that moment, an excited voice came over the radio.

"Dear chosen people,

this evolution is not a coincidence, but a test and a gift from God. Those of us who have survived this evolution are the people chosen by God. He has given us a new mission and is calling on us to unite as one and create a brand new world.

The new Garden of Eden will be located at 56 South Street, the old church, where our New Dawn Church will work together to build a paradise full of love and harmony. Let us abandon the decay of the old world and join hands to move towards the bright future God has shown us.

May the glory and grace of God always protect us."

"It doesn't sound like normal people."

"This is the well-known local religion, New Dawn Church. I heard before that they encourage cannibalism."

"Oh my god, you guys don't care about this kind of religion, it's definitely a cult."

Emily shrugged her shoulders, "You know, this is America, every small town has its own cult."

Li Nianyi turned around, grabbed a chair and sat down, eating while talking. "It's okay, we just don't go, they can't find this place, and even if they do, there's no way they can conquer this fortress of the end times. I've been preparing for this for 2 years, spent 7 million dollars, and equipped with a large number of secret weapons."

"Look here, three underground floors, surrounded by high-grade concrete, with steel plates inside and external video, infrared, AI, and scent monitoring systems. I've also installed mines and other weapons, which are currently all activated. There is also an abundant power system, energy system, self-circulation system, simple industrial system, entertainment system, medical system, and a farming system. Even if the farming system collapses, there is enough food in storage for me to eat alone for ten years. Of course, now with you, it's enough for the both of us for five years. It also comes with a large number of weapon systems, including automatic machine gun arrays, as well as rockets and explosives, and a secret weapon I got from the black market." Li Nian winked when he talked about this secret weapon.

Emily, however, was already deeply shocked. What kind of rich second generation would spend a huge sum of money to build such a huge doomsday fortress? What kind of lunatic would tirelessly strengthen this fortress?

And of course, what kind of luck would it take to wait until the day this fortress was activated.

Li Nian was still going on and on, but Emily's heart gradually calmed down. Maybe this was the end of the world, but relying on this place was enough to survive.

The shrill air defense alarm sounded from all the still-functioning sound systems in the city, and the radio kept broadcasting "Warning, warning, the current United States mainland is suffering from a nuclear attack from a hostile country. Air defense systems across the country have been activated. Citizens are urged to quickly go to nearby shelters or underground bunkers. Follow the instructions of local governments, avoid going out as much as possible, and close all doors and windows."

Although the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) had long since gone kaput, and there were even fewer people in the government left alive, the anti-missile systems that had been left over from those days were still doing their duty.

Where Li Nian and the others could not see, the MDA's functioning radar and air defense missiles automatically sounded the alarm at the shrieks of the monsters who had become the duty officers. After the alarm went unanswered, the AI determined that all command structures had been lost and automatically activated the defense system. Countless air defense missiles shot up from the ground, pulling white plumes of smoke as they went, to intercept the ballistic missiles reentering the atmosphere.

The first to initiate a global nuclear strike was Russia, using the "Dead Hand" system left behind by the Soviet Union. This system ensures that all nuclear and ballistic weapons are in an activated countdown state 24 hours a day. If no reset countdown command is received from the center, it will automatically start and launch a nuclear strike on the predetermined target. Unfortunately for Russia, none of their leaders survived the virus mutation.

The "Dead Hand" system was activated.

The huge nuclear arsenal that once belonged to the Soviet Union was all activated. The covers of the launch silos on the outskirts of Moscow opened automatically. The train cars that had been moving irregularly around the clock on the Siberian railway network suddenly shed their camouflage. One by one, ballistic missiles were erected. The nuclear submarines that had survived in the deep sea closed their captain's rooms to defend against the monster's attack while quickly surfacing to activate their nuclear weapons.

Ballistic missile defence systems and attack systems around the world were automatically activated.

Although the previous strong electromagnetic storm had hit all ballistic weapons, these weapons were designed for doomsday nuclear retaliation and had strong EMP resistance capabilities, and even had multiple sets of purely mechanical systems.

After the end of the electromagnetic pulse, regardless of whether communication was restored, the military forces of all countries repaired the nuclear weapons as soon as possible.

Forty percent of nuclear weapons were successfully launched.

At this moment, mankind sounded the real doomsday bell.

The incoming ballistic missiles not only came from Russia, Cao County and Huaxia, countries that have always been hostile to the United States, but also from NATO allies.

This is a war with no winners. Regardless of whether the person in power wants to initiate a strike or not, in the face of an incoming nuclear strike, a nuclear counterstrike must be initiated, otherwise your country will be destroyed, the enemy's country will be fine, and after the end of the apocalypse in the future, your country and nation will lag behind, or even completely perish in the apocalypse.

After all, there is no need for a world without a motherland to exist!

Li Nian was not overly alarmed. He had already done some research and found that his town, with a population of only 1,000, was surrounded by no industrial facilities or military bases, so there was no need to worry about being attacked.

Then Li Nian and Emily looked out at the beautiful view from the periscope installed in the bunker.

In the clear blue sky, ballistic missiles were reentering the atmosphere with a red glow, and they were even constantly maneuvering to change their orbits and detach their warheads. On the ground, anti-aircraft weapons were desperately firing, but unfortunately, even the world's best defense system, under absolutely favorable exercise conditions in its own favor, had an interception probability of less than 20%, not to mention that all the anti-aircraft defenses were almost completely destroyed, leaving only some repaired AIs commanding the remaining anti-aircraft defenses to make futile intercepts.

Emily saw it with her own eyes. More than 20 anti-aircraft missiles with long tails streaked towards a red target that was changing its trajectory at high speed, but none of them hit the target, and the red target then flew out of sight.

And Li Nian, that psychopath, was still mumbling something in Chinese.

"A thousand trees release their flowers at night in the east wind, and the falling stars rain down even more." The poet vividly depicted the beautiful sight of an oriental ballistic missile re-entering the atmosphere.

"The ancients did not deceive me, it really is beautiful!"