After waking up, Lu Yuan discovered a significant private message on his Xing Hai community administrator account.
A user named Ying Ji Chang Kong sent him a complete set of technical drawings for a racing drone, along with the corresponding flight control program.
Racing drones are good things!
They are much smaller and more agile than the drones currently produced in the camp. Skilled pilots can control them to perform flexible rolls, translations, and inversions, and even fly at high speeds inside buildings.
As long as they carry about 1 kilogram of explosives, these drones transform into battlefield suicide weapons that are difficult to defend against. The only drawback is a severe reduction in load capacity and subsequent flight time, measured in minutes.
Lu Yuan examined the drawings carefully. The parameters sent by the other party were all high, especially the maximum speed, which surprisingly reached 380 kilometers per hour, double that of racing drones.
If the lithium battery in the drawings were replaced with a high-energy battery, and the TNT explosive were swapped for an ONC shaped charge armor-piercing warhead, the range and power would be unimaginable.
Out of gratitude and concern, Lu Yuan sent a reply to this cloud player.
【Navigator】: "Data received. Thank you for your strong support of the game activities! By the way, is the source of this data convenient for public disclosure?
The drawings can definitely be used for production with minor modifications. Whether it's legal or not is another question."
Soon after, the other party replied.
"Don't worry, the drawings and flight control were handcrafted by me after work. They are completely independent intellectual property. However, they do indeed have military-grade performance."
Lu Yuan immediately did some research and found that Ying Ji Chang Kong's main job was drone research and development, and he was a remarkably rare master of flight simulation games, primarily playing DCS and Microsoft Flight Simulator.
In short, this is a very pure aviation enthusiast; even his online name reveals this.
He had the idea of recruiting Ying Ji Chang Kong early. The reason was simple: after the racing drones are made, debugging will be necessary, and training pilots will also require a coach.
【Navigator】: "That's good~ By the way, are you interested in becoming one of the next batch of beta testers?"
【Ying Ji Chang Kong】: "When? Now?"
【Navigator】: "Approximately three days from now."
In the past few days, another 6 player hibernation pods have been produced in the camp. Lu Yuan plans to recruit the next batch of players when the total reaches 10.
【Ying Ji Chang Kong】: "Of course I'm interested! It's just... could you wait a few more versions?"
【Navigator】: "Why is that? May I ask the reason?"
【Ying Ji Chang Kong】: "Uh... none of the current four professions are particularly suitable for me. I want to be a pilot, and I probably am only suited to be a pilot. Xing Hai is a space-themed game, so as the plot develops in the future, there should be space fighters, right?"
As expected.
Lu Yuan had guessed this would be the reason.
【Navigator】: "That's easy to say. Aerial combat is one of the important future gameplay elements. Just participate in the beta test, and the game will definitely add a pilot profession at that time."
【Ying Ji Chang Kong】: "That's great, count me in!"
Lu Yuan sent the same invitation to Bei Hai Xian Yu. The other party also expressed a desire for more professions and wanted to serve on a space battleship, even if just as an ordinary sailor.
These wishes are easy to accommodate.
For Lu Yuan, creating two new profession sequences was just a matter of moving his fingers.
Next, the busy day officially began. Players each received their tasks and actively prepared for battle.
In the camp, the number of vehicles increased to four. Lu Yuan also arranged for two more groups of players to set up drone base stations, expanding the monitoring and early warning network to its full capacity within a day.
Ye Xing's reconnaissance range extended beyond the drone surveillance area. This Chief Investigator under the Executive Officer became increasingly skilled and had already figured out the route taken by the Oasis City merchant caravan.
Other players went underground. The Soldier profession was responsible for harvesting ground vines.
Engineers and Scholars were responsible for dismantling the production line within the Mechanical Hive, then transporting it with mechanical pack animals to the large space at the cave entrance for reassembly.
The equipment in this production line was quite diverse. For metals, there were vacuum electric heating recovery furnaces, additive manufacturing equipment, and laser cutting equipment, with the potential to produce alloy parts of various shapes.
For energy, there was methane catalytic equipment.
For non-metallic materials, there was carbon chain synthesis and molding equipment capable of producing synthetic rubber and engineering plastics with specific properties and shapes, as well as lubricants and engine oil.
Finally, there were industrial robotic arms to assemble components.
Several Scholar and Engineer players gathered together and, after some discussion, concluded that, on a "setting" level, these things were much more advanced than similar equipment on 21st-century Earth.
It would take some time to fully understand them.
However, at the current stage, it should be possible to rewrite the programs to make the production line produce relatively simple metal components and rubber tires.
This single action could relieve over 70% of the production capacity for all-terrain vehicles and over 60% for drones, allowing the large 3D printers to approach a speed of nearly two all-terrain vehicles per day and the production of racing drones to approach 30 per day!
This will greatly increase the speed of accumulating weapons and equipment.
The question is, who will do the programming?
Everyone looked at Jubian.
"Well... it's true I can program, but my skill level is just average," Jubian quickly waved his hand and looked at Nan Guo de Xue.
"Okay, I'll do it then."
Xue Jie's gaze was as calm as water. She nodded slightly, still so cool and distant, fully displaying her expert demeanor.
Lu Yuan smiled slightly.
These elite players, it could be said, each possessed unique skills. This was something he had never doubted.
Lu Yuan planned to further select high-level players with professional skills to join the beta test, including talents from the chemical industry, people with workshop production experience, those with CNC machine tool operation experience, talents from the meteorology and geophysics industries, geological exploration talents, and so on.
In summary, everything was proceeding smoothly.
Lu Yuan came to the workshop and squeezed in the production of oil storage tanks and oil pumps.
"Good things" need to be prepared in advance.
...
At midnight on the second day, the forward scout Ye Xing sent a message.
"'Fat meat' is already on the road, a grand procession. A total of 7 oil tankers and 4 all-terrain vehicles acting as escorts."
"Understood."
In the driver's seat, Black Smoke, wearing a native robe, looked at Lu Yuan, who was also disguised as a Raider next to him.
"Team Leader, shall we depart?"
"Depart."
Three all-terrain vehicles, carrying 12 players who clearly weren't good guys, sped away, leaving dust in their wake.
Three and a half hours later, 4 oil tankers and half of the escort convoy left the westward road and turned north.
Lu Yuan was already waiting on their inevitable path.
At 8:30 AM, Earth Eastern Eight Zone time, during the morning rush hour, tens of thousands of cloud players followed the action via live stream.
A moment later, the Oasis City convoy appeared in sight.
The players excitedly jumped out of the vehicles. Black Smoke signaled to stop, others raised their "Madman" automatic rifles and aimed, while Lu Yuan stood still with his hands behind his back.