Chapter 628 - 604: Call the Wind and Summon the Rain
Chapter 628: Chapter 604: Call the Wind and Summon the Rain
In the northwest, the high-latitude cold air mass was also dragged into this atmospheric symphony, colliding head-on with the warm, moist ocean currents!
Above the originally cloudless desert, wisps of white water vapor began to appear at a speed visible to the naked eye. At first, they were like threads of silk, but in just over ten minutes, they rapidly expanded, piled up, and condensed into heavy, gray-black cumulonimbus clouds.
The clouds continued to grow. More water vapor surged in from all directions, joining this supernatural atmospheric engineering project.
Half an hour later, a cyclonic storm with a diameter spanning thousands of kilometers fully formed above the Great Red Desert! It was as if a giant, coldly rotating eye had suddenly opened in the center of the continent, and the core of the giant eye’s pupil was exactly the Monarch of the Clouds circling the sky.
Inside the Cybertron Command Center, Jarvis’s data streams refreshed frantically.
[Atmospheric circulation data anomalies are under continuous monitoring...]
[The Storm Law is forcibly altering the atmospheric convection pattern within a 2,000-kilometer radius. Ocean water vapor transport flux has increased by 3,700%. The water content of the cloud system has reached critical levels.]
[Precipitation is about to begin.]
SPLAT.
The first plump raindrop fell from an altitude of ten thousand meters, shattering on the scalding red gravel. White smoke steamed up, dissipating in an instant.
But closely following it was the second, the thousandth... a torrential downpour!
The fierce yet nourishing torrential rain tore through the clouds, crashing down like a cascading heavenly river upon the red desert that had been parched for countless ages. The dry gravel made thirsty sucking sounds as the color of the land shifted from a blinding, dark red to a moist, dark brown. Countless dried-up ancient riverbeds frothed with white foam once more, and roaring turbid streams converged into surging rivers.
One day, two days, three days passed.
The Monarch of the Clouds entrenched itself in the center of the swirling cloud system, continuously maintaining the output of the Storm Law. Its eight Magic Furnaces operated stably at 67% capacity, drawing energy from the atmosphere of the G-771 Plane and converting it into fuel to drive the Law.
For a strategic weapon designed to drive continental-level storms, this was nothing more than a light warm-up.
On the evening of the third day, Allen finally withdrew the Law’s intervention. Having lost the pull of supernatural forces, the giant swirling cloud system slowly began to collapse, but the accumulated water vapor continued to drop a continuous drizzle under the force of inertia.
[Meteorological data summary.]
[Cumulative precipitation over three days: 712 millimeters, with peak areas reaching 987 millimeters. Coverage area: approximately 30,000 square kilometers.]
[Surface hydrological changes: 17 dried riverbeds have restored surface runoff; 3 low-lying areas have formed temporary lakes, with the largest surface area being approximately 2.4 square kilometers.]
[Soil moisture: The water content in the top 50 centimeters of soil in the target area has increased from 0.3% to 34.7%.]
When the clouds dispersed, the real-time monitoring feed transmitted back by the Demon Eye revealed that scattered, faint hints of green had actually begun to emerge on the fringes of that barren red wasteland. Drought-resistant ancient seeds, which had slumbered deeply beneath the gravel for hundreds of years, broke through the soil, awakened by the abundant, sweet rain.
Sending down floods—this was already the authority of God.
"Not bad. For the first test, energy consumption was 6.7% lower than estimated. The Storm Law’s interference efficiency on the atmospheric circulation is very high." Allen looked at the newly born green shoots, feeling quite pleased in his heart.
This was merely one of the Monarch of the Clouds’ abilities.
After thoroughly satisfying his urge for a "Dragon King’s Rain," Allen’s consciousness returned to his Puppet body. He sat in the Commander’s high-backed chair, his eyes regaining that heart-palpitating calmness and profundity.
This was just a crude proof of concept. The precipitation distribution was uneven, and without follow-up water retention measures, most of these green shoots would wither and die within half a month.
But it proved one thing.
"The Storm Law can rewrite the atmospheric circulation of this plane. As long as it’s planned properly, we can achieve sustainable climate transformation instead of a one-time, violent irrigation."
He expanded the comprehensive meteorological and geological model of G-771 on the holographic sandbox. On the continent’s 3D topographical map, data layers such as pressure belts, ocean current directions, monsoon paths, and groundwater levels overlapped, forming an extremely complex system network.
His fingers sequentially circled five areas on the sandbox, highlighting them in orange.
First Priority Transformation Zone: The First Desert Belt in the central-south (the area where the test was just completed), covering an area of 500,000 square kilometers.
Second Priority Transformation Zone: The Saline-Alkali Tidal Flat Belt in the southeast, covering an area of 410,000 square kilometers.
Third Priority Transformation Zone: The Second Desert Belt in the central region, covering an area of 960,000 square kilometers.
Fourth Priority Transformation Zone: The Plateau Belt in the northwest, covering an area of 730,000 square kilometers.
Fifth Priority Transformation Zone: The Subpolar Tundra Transition Belt in the north, covering an area of 640,000 square kilometers.
The five areas totaled approximately 4.02 million square kilometers, nearly one-tenth of the entire continent’s area.
"The regulatory plan will be advanced in two steps."
Allen planned the cruising route for the Monarch of the Clouds, drawing a winding, circular path between the five transformation zones.
"First step: atmospheric circulation regulation. The Monarch of the Clouds will patrol the skies along this route according to seasonal cycles. Whenever it reaches the airspace above a transformation zone, it will use the Storm Law to precisely intervene in atmospheric convection, fine-tuning the transport paths of ocean water vapor. This will divert excess water vapor that originally flowed toward the ocean into arid inland areas, forming stable, periodic precipitation."
He simulated the transformed meteorological model on the sandbox. The monsoon belt, which originally blew straight across the center of the continent and carried water vapor to the eastern ocean, developed several artificial bends under the intervention of the Monarch of the Clouds’ Law. This "diverted" a portion of the water vapor to the five transformation zones.
"I must grasp the right degree for this ’fine-tuning’."