Chapter 256: Silent Transformation

After transporting the materials for manufacturing the Twin-Winged Helicopters back from Zhenhai City and Changming City, Su Wu immediately began the mass production plan.

At the same time, he started constructing twelve Twin-Winged Helicopters and ten Icebound-class Land Battleships, raising the production line utilization rate to a full hundred percent.

The large-scale construction of these vehicles quickly made the temporary warehouse set up on the surface of the farmhouse insufficient.

After several rounds of urgent expansions, it barely met the requirements.

Correspondingly, just 24 hours later, all the Twin-Winged Helicopters were declared completed.

Excluding the three that needed to be delivered, Su Wu now had a total of ten Twin-Winged Helicopters.

Each capable of transporting 200 tons of goods from the air.

And this was just the beginning of real development.

As previously mentioned, what Su Wu lacked was not productivity, but sufficient resources.

With ten Twin-Winged Helicopters, combined with the existing thirty Azure Sky-Class Transport Drones, Su Wu's aerial transport capacity was no longer limited to minor operations.

He had the ability to transport thousands of tons of conventional goods daily from Gangkai City.

These conventional goods, while not enough to build advanced transport tools like Icebound-class Land Battleships, could fully meet the needs for manufacturing snow transport vehicles.

With this abundant resource support, the manufacturing center's daily production of snow transport vehicles surged from ten to fifty.

In roughly one day's time, a complete caravan could be produced.

On December 3rd, the ten Icebound-class Land Battleships, produced in bulk, were completed after 72 hours.

At this point, the newly manufactured snow transport vehicles had accumulated to 170.

Su Wu continued to organize three new caravans, each consisting of one Icebound-class Land Battleship and fifty snow transport vehicles.

Under Su Wu's orders, these caravans, loaded with a large amount of mining equipment and various construction robots, departed from the farmhouse to Gangkai City.

This marked the first time they traveled overland to Gangkai City.

Due to the need for appropriate road-clearing work along the way, it might take over twenty hours.

However, for subsequent round trips, the one-way time could be compressed to under twelve hours.

This way, they could complete a transport trip in a day, bringing back over 18,000 tons of goods from Gangkai City.

These goods could then be quickly transformed into thousands of Spider Robots, Exoskeleton Armors, and dozens or even hundreds of engineering vehicles suitable for underground construction through the manufacturing center at the farmhouse.

This brought an almost terrifying enhancement to the overall strength of Jianghe City.

The remaining seven temporarily vacant Icebound-class Land Battleships would gradually form fleets with the newly produced snow transport vehicles in the future.

At a rate of about one new caravan per day, they would continuously expand.

Moreover, the new caravans would no longer head to Gangkai City but would operate as independent scavenging transport fleets.

They would go to the unclaimed shelters within the coverage of the communication signal towers, transporting the goods inside back to Jianghe City.

"Previously, the priority was to shelter refugees."

"Now it seems."

"It may not have been a very good choice."

"If the scale of the caravan doesn't increase, no matter how hard we try to save the refugees."

"The final number of people we can shelter will still be quite limited."

"On the contrary, if we concentrate our efforts in the early stages to collect the finished resources left in the ruins."

"Maximizing the industrial productivity of the manufacturing center."

"Producing the maximum number of transport vehicles in the shortest time."

"Then, the scale of refugees we can accommodate will definitely not be as small as it is now."

This principle of sharpening the axe does not delay the work of cutting wood became clear to Su Wu after witnessing the changes brought by the resources from Gangkai City to the farmhouse.

It made him realize that he could choose a path that would allow for faster growth.

As for how to implement this path, it was quite simple.

Within the coverage of the communication signals, there were countless abandoned underground shelters for various reasons, or those with a bad reputation.

First, he would collect information online and dispatch reconnaissance drones to conduct a thorough search.

Finding the specific coordinates of those shelters.

Then, the caravans would take turns to forcefully take control of them based on their proximity.

The entire process wouldn't take too long to easily acquire a large amount of resources.

Of course, this behavior could be considered, to some extent, as robbery.

But in the apocalypse, as long as one does not make too much noise, it is hard to attract outside attention, let alone trigger sanctions from the Federation.

The risk of Su Wu temporarily playing the role of a robber could be considered negligible, given that he was already a regional overlord.

The benefits derived from this, however, were nearly limitless.

"The resources obtained from Gangkai City."

"Can still support the construction of two more Icebound-class Land Battleships."

"And about a thousand snow transport vehicles."

"Enough for the manufacturing center to continue operating at full capacity for nearly half a month."

"And by then, the caravans should also be able to bring back some resources scavenged from other areas."

"Ensuring that the manufacturing center can always maintain a high operating ratio."

Su Wu did not think further about what would happen later.

But he knew that a more glorious future was about to unfold before his eyes.

This silent transformation occurred on an ordinary day, December 3rd.

Accompanied by Su Wu's shift in perspective.

From this day forward, the development of Jianghe City began to rise rapidly at an almost exponential rate.

Within Jianghe City, in the underground station of the farmhouse's fifth level, the speed of the four passenger channels reached the theoretical limit.

Every day, nearly 120,000 people could be transported from various affiliated shelters into the seventh level of the farmhouse.

This scale of population transfer could cause a significant impact, even for a super city with a population of ten million.

As a result, every passing day, the population still active in the various affiliated shelters beneath Jianghe City was visibly declining.

The overall prosperity level was diminishing day by day.

Eventually, it became impossible to find any idle population.

They could only gradually start packing and transferring workers who were operating from the remote control center, along with the related equipment, to the farmhouse.

In contrast to the declining affiliated shelters, the seventh level of the farmhouse grew stronger day by day as the population gathered.

Thanks to the widespread use of electric tools, increasingly spacious construction areas, and more labor force joining in.

The expansion speed of the seventh level reached a level of one million square meters per day.

Equivalent to expanding an area the size of 142 football fields in a single day.

(End of Chapter)