"...Alright, when and where is the delivery?" Coffee Cat read out the script Lu Yuan had given her.
"Delivery in 48 hours. Diesel goes to the main camp, gasoline to the southern camp. You just drive, our people will meet you halfway. No waiting if you're late."
"No problem. Will you send armored vehicles to escort us?"
"What are you talking about? Of course not! Handle security yourselves!"
After the communication ended, Lu Yuan sat and thought for a moment under the gaze of the players.
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Then, imitating the tone of the Stormwind Gang, he connected to the Oasis City City Lord's secretary's radio.
"Lion's Den calling Oasis, Lion's Den calling Oasis, please respond."
The real City Lord's secretary quickly picked up the receiver and replied.
"What is it?"
Lu Yuan repeated the Stormwind Gang's previous request, but, being "kind" enough to help Hart ask for an exorbitant price, he raised the asking price to 2.5 times, which is a total of 150 tons of fuel.
Since he had previously inquired with Town Chief Shen about the approximate locations of the Stormwind Gang's various camps, he requested that 90 tons of the fuel be transported to the "Eastern Camp," which was closest to the Devil Mountain Camp and actually had no need for it.
Miss Secretary didn't suspect anything, and the communication ended.
The players who were watching the fun were extremely excited, some covered their mouths tightly, almost unable to hold back.
Gasoline and diesel are good things. They can greatly increase the camp's power generation capacity in a short time, and after consuming a certain amount of electricity, they can also be quickly converted into aviation kerosene needed for the spaceplane in the 3D printer.
The Stormwind Gang only needs 60 tons of fuel, but Oasis City thinks they need 150 tons.
So, where will the extra 90 tons of oil end up?
It's so hard to guess!
Lu Yuan looked at Black Smoke.
"Do you still have the Raider robes and weapons we confiscated before?"
"Don't worry! They're all buried outside the camp!"
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At the same time, the Red Iron Town convoy returned smoothly.
The heavy-duty truck drove all the way to the town hall, and many workers and children who were on their way to work gathered around curiously.
They vaguely saw that there seemed to be some novel items in the truck's canopy.
"Old Town Chief, what good things did you bring back?"
The Town Chief got out of the car and looked at the townspeople with mixed feelings.
Among them, there should be Oasis City's informants.
"We made a deal and exchanged for a batch of automatic mining machines."
Many people knew that the Town Chief had gone to find "Cangyuan" this time. It would be too fake to say that nothing was discussed. Lu Yuan had specifically instructed on this point.
"What? Automatic mining? How automatic?"
The Town Chief called Shen Quan over.
"Show everyone!"
Shen Quan held the Pad given by the Executive Officer and performed a series of operations.
The onlookers thought that the thing he was holding was the mining machine and began to whisper.
Can this thing mine? The Old Town Chief wasn't tricked, was he?
However, as the heavy-duty truck began to vibrate, the surroundings suddenly fell silent.
A few seconds later, four miner-type Mechanical Desert Spiders jumped out of the truck bed, curiously looking around.
"Oh my god!"
The faces of the surrounding crowd turned pale, and they quickly retreated, some almost falling down.
"Don't be afraid, everyone!" Shen Quan quickly explained, "These Mech Guardians have had their programs rewritten. They now obey humans. Whatever we tell them to do, they will do."
The crowd was a bit confused and still didn't dare to come forward, only daring to watch from a distance.
Shen Quan didn't explain further.
"Follow me."
Under the gaze of the townspeople, the mechanical miners neatly lined up and walked towards the mine.
The onlookers followed behind, and more people kept joining along the way. Children wanted to get closer to see the striding Mech Guardians, but were quickly stopped by adults.
Upon entering the mining area, this curiosity reached its peak. The miners who saw the scene rubbed their eyes vigorously, thinking they were still dreaming.
Shen Quan stopped, turned around, and introduced to everyone how Cangyuan Future Technology captured and modified the Mechanical Desert Spiders, and what new functions they were given.
"No, that's impossible... According to you, wouldn't these guys be able to do anything? Weren't they created by the first generation of colonists to kill people?"
"No, watch carefully!"
Facing everyone's doubts, Shen Quan softly gave commands, and the four mechanical miners quickly responded. Their drill bits rotated at high speed, their movements were agile, and they ran to the rock face and began mining operations.
The surrounding townspeople were in layers upon layers, completely stunned by the scene before them.
The mining efficiency of the mechanical miners not only far exceeded manual labor, but the four combined also exceeded the large mining blades purchased at a high price from Oasis City.
Red Iron Town is backed by a mountain with open-pit iron ore mining possible, and other metals inside the mountain. So Shen Quan had the mechanical miners enter the mine to demonstrate other functions.
Building ore conveyor belts is faster than humans.
Installing underground supports is still faster than humans.
Even the walking speed exceeded the underground mining carts purchased from Oasis City!
The underground mining area was now crowded with people, whether it was the men who went down to the mine or the women who didn't, everyone who saw it was beaming with joy.
This is too awesome!
High mining efficiency is one thing.
The key is that these machines are fully automatic and don't need people to attend to them. Even if there is a mine collapse accident, there will be no casualties.
"With these things, will we not have to go down to the mine anymore?" a thin young miner asked timidly, his safety helmet looking extra out of place on him.
"If there are enough of them, I don't think so!" someone answered him, "Only a very small number of people need to be kept at the mine, going down once a day to give commands to these machines!"
The workers started a heated discussion.
"Then... will we miners be unemployed?"
"Are you stupid? The machine does your work and you're not happy about it? When you don't have to go down to the mine, what can't we do!"
"Yes, I want to go into transportation! That makes money fast!"
"I want to open my own tailor shop!"
"How about we go to Oasis City to work together?"
"Look at your lack of ambition! We'll start our own factories, build our own cars, and machines. Why do we have to go to Oasis City to work?"
"If you produce these things, you'll be in direct competition with Oasis City. How could they just let it happen..."
The Town Chief listened to these discussions quietly.
He now somewhat understood why the Executive Officer gave these mining robots away for free.
"But Town Chief, these machines must be very expensive, right?"
Finally, an old miner asked.
The crowd fell silent.
"Yes, they are indeed very expensive," the Town Chief said in a deep voice, "I exchanged them for over eighty percent of our alloy production for the next month and a half."
The fact that the mining robots were free but he had to lie and say they were expensive was also something Lu Yuan had specifically instructed.
The purpose was to cover up the actual transaction content.
That evening, the drone surveillance network intercepted a radio communication from an "unknown user" in Red Iron Town.
This communication was clearly from an informant secretly placed by Oasis City.
"The Town Chief seems more honest than previously imagined. He traded metal with outsiders for high-tech mining equipment that can increase production, not weapons. Red Iron Town's defenses have not been strengthened."
Upon receiving this news, Lu Yuan's lips couldn't help but curl up slightly.
It would be difficult to root out Oasis City's informants in a short time, so it was better to leave them for now.
Making Oasis City and the Stormwind Gang believe that Red Iron Town was not preparing for war was actually the most difficult step in the intelligence war.
Later, things would become smoother.
