bookpower Chapter 222: 209: The Arrival of South City
Chapter 222: 209: The Arrival of South City
Chapter 222: Chapter 209: The Arrival of South City
As more modern buildings were occupied and the population continued to increase, the restoration of production order had become urgent.
Take metal forging as an example, the cargo compartments of the Vine Giant Rat trucks, the plate armor of the Tree Domain warriors, melee weapons, and consumable weapons like crossbow arrows were all primarily produced by metal forging.
Initially, these things could have relied on Su Han and the Scorpion Spider Demon for forging, but that was evidently not suitable now.
The base use was too large, and if the Scorpion Spider Demon were made to do it, it would be tantamount to fixing the Scorpion Spider Demon into the position of a ‘blacksmith.’
This was a tremendous waste and would actually hinder Su Han’s progress.
Therefore, right from the start of the increase in personnel, Yan Meiyu had planned the restoration of production, especially in areas like small-scale metal processing and forging.
A large portion of the crossbow arrows used in the Second Ring Area combat operations were forged at the temporary steel mill, and so were some of the plate armors.
However, this was still not enough, as just manufacturing these simple items could not meet the entire camp’s demands.
Therefore, it was necessary to find a way to expand this steel mill and restore other similar factories.
In a population of over ten thousand, there were more or less some people who knew the trade, so the progress of the tasks was relatively smooth.
Yan Meiyu was already organizing people to start selecting sites within the Second Ring Area to set up parts of the factories.
She also dispatched a large number of subordinates to further clear out resources after clearing the area of monsters.
A multitude of cars, metals, pharmaceuticals, clothes, and other items were all targeted for collection.
The northern Second Ring of the city, despite more than four months post-apocalypse, many things had already changed, but a considerable portion of the above-mentioned items were still available.
The number of vehicles was the highest; although it was just a northern district of the city, they had continuously found about twenty thousand vehicles, scattered across various parking lots and streets.
Due to the long duration of the apocalypse, monster rampages, and various other reasons, two-thirds of these cars were damaged.
Beyond that were other assorted resources, all classified and stored, managed by Yan Meiyu.
Su Han arrived with the Scorpion Spider Demon at the site where old cars and a lot of metal were piled up.
The cars piled up like mountains, filling the entire street, and almost every car had been dismantled into pieces, with their usable parts already removed; before the production was restored, many of these parts were difficult to manufacture.
To save a bit where they could, the cars had been disassembled.
The oil inside the cars had also been drained, the tires removed, leaving only the car frames stacked together.
Su Han commanded the Scorpion Spider Demon to stride forward, activating its Advanced Metal Control ability. Driven by this ability, countless car frames began transforming, shedding unnecessary paint, and other substances, continuously compressing into individual metal cubes.
Under Advanced Metal Control, the transformation was rapid; the Scorpion Spider Demon merely strode forward, and after about ten minutes, tens of thousands of car frames, countless iron fences, and scrap metals were all transformed into compressed enhanced metal cubes.
Starting from the street corner, the metal cubes were stacked on top of each other, shining a dull black luster, forming a human-height flat cube pile.
Each cube was not large, but hefty, weighing about two tons each, with solid strength.
The trucks were loaded with goods, not short of monster meat and flesh, all from beasts of at least First-level Intermediate level. Although there were few from the Second Order, their value was not low.
Besides, there were many other supplies produced by their base, from machinery to daily necessities, all sorts available.
Although he hated to admit it, each trade with the Tree Domain heavily saw their major goods flowing into the Tree Domain, in exchange for injectables, enhancers, and mostly such goods, along with specialty metals and Evolved Kind food.
For the Tree Domain, acquiring these items was far easier than for them.
In these trades, South City had gradually become the weaker party.
“Shasha sha”
As he contemplated, a crisp noise came from within the fog, and a squad of Vine Giant Rats hurriedly approached.
The stomping shattered the fog’s stillness, and the fully armored patrol team appeared before Mr. Guo.
“Mr. Guo,”
The person who came was Gan Xinglei, wearing a smile, he also greeted Captain Cheng beside him, “Captain Cheng, been waiting long? Come with me.”
“Hmm?”
Mr. Guo nodded, but both he and Captain Cheng, coming from the Armed Forces background, were highly sensitive to danger. They exchanged looks, both thinking simultaneously: Gan Xinglei’s strength had improved again.
“Brother Gan is too polite, your recent gains must be significant for the descendants to have reached here,” Mr. Guo replied as he followed the patrol team, increasingly astonished by the number of Parasitic Corpse Willows lining the street.
Hundreds of Corpse Willows down one road, each with the strength of at least the First Rank, though not all Medium or High Grade. But just the number of vines and Vine Puppets was enough to defend against and delay a large number of monsters.
With this number, not even a thousand monsters would think of easily trampling down this street.
And that was just to breach it. If they managed to delay, then the Tree Domain would have already had time to react.
Gan Xinglei cracked a smile, “A bit of a harvest, you’ll know soon.”
He was playing coy, but Mr. Guo grew more curious. Suddenly, a shadow loomed up ahead. He abruptly looked up towards the edge of the fog, revealing a shocked expression.
“You’ve expanded to here?!”
They hadn’t gone far when a towering wall nearly ten meters high appeared before him, completely spanning the twenty to thirty meters wide street, flanked by towering buildings embedded seamlessly into the wall without any gaps or flaws.
The last time he saw such a wall was near Riverside Avenue, similarly arranged with Parasitic Corpse Willows.
He had thought that this time it was merely an extension of the weird descendant lineage of the Parasitic Corpse Willows, but it turned out to be a complete expansion.
He was astounded. From Shanhu Villa District to this place, it was almost half of the northern part of the city, wasn’t it?
Seeing Mr. Guo’s astonishment, Gan Xinglei couldn’t help feeling pleased, saying, “Our new gains. Let’s enter the city first. Mr. Guo, are you here to see our leader this time, or to find Meiyu?”
To seek Su Han was to discuss something of great importance, whereas seeking Meiyu was for routine trading.
With Mr. Guo’s personal presence, Gan Xinglei suspected there must be something significant.