With the crane operation experience accumulated from previous engine repairs, the factory building was completed in less than two days. Afterward, Lu Yuan, taking advantage of no one being around, summoned the 3D Printer Model 2860.
Guo Li Cheng and Xue Jie, who came online in the early morning, were the first to witness this most powerful machine to date.
Guo Li Cheng: "Is this the new industrial equipment mentioned in the update announcement?"
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Nan Guo de Xue: "It should be. It's so huge..."
Compared to the previous Printer Model 2839, the Printer Model 2860 is completely an industrial behemoth. It's at least as large as a yacht, and its printing cabin and decomposition cabin could both fit a minibus.
Moreover, its efficiency is very high. It can print a player's dormancy pod in 6 hours, a drone base station in 3 hours, and a brand new all-terrain vehicle within a day.
As for the most advanced "Worker Ant" industrial exoskeleton in the camp currently, it requires 40 hours and consumes 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
Next, with the completion of a second, slightly smaller factory building, Lu Yuan spent all his points and summoned the camp's second small 3D printer.
Based on the current power generation capacity, it can only support these three machines at most.
The printer in the cargo hold of the aerospace plane can focus on manufacturing solar panels from now on, allowing the power generation to grow steadily at a rate of 96 kilowatt-hours per day.
In the following days, the camp could be said to change day by day.
Male players were enthusiastic about building defensive facilities. Now, the main gate of the camp is guarded by two defense towers with fierce firepower, each equipped with heavy machine guns and heavy grenade launchers.
Jubian and Black Smoke were also discussing installing fully automatic machine gun turrets on the mountaintop.
The living area was contracted to the female players who had a greater pursuit of quality of life. Double-story single-room dormitories, restaurants, and buildings that were both practical and aesthetically pleasing emerged like mushrooms after rain.
Ye Xing's live stream audience repeatedly broke records. Many people were even more concerned about the construction progress than Lu Yuan, the Executive Officer. They would check on the progress three times a day, in the morning, noon, and evening, and constantly suggest design modifications.
Completely like a cyber Party A.
Of course, besides Coffee Cat and Hammer Girl, these two hardcore building enthusiasts, others didn't spend all their time building houses.
When they got bored of building houses, everyone would either do profession-related tasks, practice shooting outside, or clear dungeons.
Among all players, Caoyuan, Ye Xing, and Guo Li Cheng have basically mastered plasma melee weapons and are capable of solo clearing dungeons. The rest usually team up in groups of three.
When there weren't enough people, Lu Yuan, as the leader, would also personally participate, treating it as helping out.
As the dungeons were explored deeper and deeper, the number of captured Mechanical Desert Spiders also increased from one to three.
They were busy moving in and out of the dungeons. Now, the younger players only needed to focus on combat, leaving the task of collecting loot to these mechanical pack beasts.
During this period, the main industrial product in the camp was drone base stations.
When the inventory of base stations increased to 8 units, Lu Yuan found Caoyuan and the newly joined Moonlight Ma Lou.
"For the next few days, the all-terrain vehicle is yours to use. Your mission is to place these base stations. You should both know how to rock climb, right?"
"Yes."
The two Soldier players replied in unison.
Caoyuan's rock climbing skills came from previous combat training, while Ma Lou was an outdoor expert and had participated in mountain rescues.
"That's good. Go to the 3D printer and print two sets of climbing gear, and place the base stations as high up as possible where they are difficult to spot from the ground."
For items with simple structures like climbing gear, as long as you feed it a few online images, the AI-assisted design program will automatically generate blueprints.
Ma Lou: "Like those wind-eroded towers with cliffs on all sides?"
Lu Yuan: "That's the best choice, provided you can climb up. Don't forget, you also have to carry the base station components up and assemble them, which includes two drones, nearly 20 kilograms of batteries and charging docks, and solar panels."
Caoyuan: "We'll try! I've seen the base station blueprint, the solar panels are foldable, so they should be easy to carry."
Lu Yuan: "Alright, be careful."
Just as he finished giving this task, a sudden burst of noisy human voices came from the direction of the underground dungeon.
What's going on?
Lu Yuan realized that an accident might have occurred.
"You two, come with me first!"
Rushing to the cave entrance, he saw Guo Li Cheng carrying Xue Jie running out of the dungeon, looking quite disheveled.
"Someone, help!"
Xue Jie was injured.
Because the players' pain sensation had an upper limit, her condition looked alright. She still had that cool demeanor, and there was even a hint of curiosity in her eyes.
But it was obvious that she had been shot in the forearm, and blood was gushing out.
"Executive Officer, I can handle wounds! I'll go take a look at her!" Caoyuan volunteered.
"I've also learned first aid and can help," Ma Lou said.
"Okay, you two go."
"Over here!" Caoyuan shouted to the visibly flustered Guo Li Cheng, "Go to the cafeteria! Put her directly on the dining table, and Brother Ma Lou go get the first aid kit from the aerospace plane!"
"Okay!"
The thing Lu Yuan worried about most still happened.
In the current camp, the weakest area is medicine.
There's no helping it; resources and manpower are limited.
Players can resurrect, so relatively speaking, medical construction is not as urgent.
Lu Yuan followed behind everyone and entered the restaurant.
Fortunately, after Caoyuan's examination, Xue Jie's forearm was shot through, and the bullet did not remain in her body. After bandaging it, she just needed to quickly get into a dormancy pod and go offline. She could recover after a sleep without surgery, only consuming a small amount of organic material during this time.
Wait a minute.
Gunshot wound?
Lu Yuan suddenly realized the key point.
"Was she accidentally injured by a teammate?" Caoyuan also noticed this.
That's impossible.
The internal test players were carefully selected by him. Besides Coffee Cat and Hammer Girl, who specialized in building, the rest were all skilled fighters. Accidentally injuring a teammate shouldn't happen.
Moreover, Xue Jie went into the dungeon with Guo Li Cheng. Who is Guo Li Cheng? The Chief Great Swordsman of Cangyuan, wielding a plasma greatsword with incredible skill, she wouldn't even bother using a gun.
Could it be...
Nan Guo de Xue weakly pointed to her tactical helmet: "The combat details... I've all recorded them."
Downloading the video to the Pad and clicking play, everyone exclaimed in surprise.
The monster manual has been updated!
The screen showed a unique enemy. It was based on the six-legged Mechanical Desert Spider, but it had a long, spiky tail behind it and two machine guns on either side of its head.
"These guys can use guns too?" Brother Black Smoke was greatly surprised. "Could they be imitating us and evolving on their own?"
"They should just be higher-level monsters."
"I think so too. If they were imitating us, their ranged weapon should be a grenade launcher."
Only Lu Yuan knew what had really happened.
Damn it!
This triggered the swarm's defense mechanism, causing the Mechanical Desert Spiders to undergo militarized modifications!