The next day, Cangyuan's industry continued to expand, the number of small 3D printers reached 4, and the second set of metal processing production lines began construction.
After yesterday's little incident, Apollo should also quiet down for a while.
We must make good use of this peaceful time and develop as much as possible.
Besides developing productivity, the mission to infiltrate Oasis City is equally important. In the afternoon, Lu Yuan called together some of the most active players and also invited Town Chief Shen to a radio call to discuss this mission together.
"Sending spies to Oasis City..." the Town Chief mused on the other end of the communication, "That's not easy."
"My initial plan is to hijack a caravan and then disguise ourselves as merchants to blend in," Lu Yuan said. "Of course, caravans won't come to Red Iron Town anymore, but we can intercept them on other necessary routes."
"That's not appropriate," the Town Chief said. "In Oasis City, not just anyone can run trade. It's a very important, high-paying, and relatively safe public position. Our own transport personnel are easily robbed. In fact, my grandson Shen Quan was captured while running transport. He was lucky; the others who were with him, their fate is still unknown...
"In short, the caravan personnel in Oasis City are very fixed. The city guards know them and will carefully inspect the trucks entering the city."
Hmm... it seems this path won't work.
Oasis City has walls; going through the gate will be checked by guards, and climbing the walls, no matter how agile one is, is easily discovered.
"Okay, I understand, I'll think about it again."
Lu Yuan hung up on the Town Chief.
Only one method remained.
"Airdrop."
He softly uttered the word.
Parachute into the city!
Hearing this decision, the players were all excited.
"Then we can only airdrop at night; it's too easy to be exposed during the day," Caoyuan reminded. "But even parachuting at night, the plane must fly directly over Oasis City, which will expose it to the range of enemy anti-aircraft weapons. Plus, now that the other side is prepared for us, I'm afraid..."
"It's okay, I planned to fly in openly anyway."
Lu Yuan's words were astonishing.
"The wreckage of yesterday's reconnaissance plane has been dragged back, and it contains a complete and undamaged IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) system," he explained unhurriedly.
"Oh..."
Caoyuan already understood most of it.
COD6 classic plot re-broadcast.
"I see," Apollo insisted we are not Celestial, so he probably doesn't believe in his heart that we know what an IFF (Identify Friend or Foe) system is, let alone believe we can repair the reconnaissance plane."
"Mm."
Lu Yuan nodded slightly.
"So I guess Apollo won't go to great lengths to change the IFF. When the reconnaissance plane passes over Oasis City, since both its signal and appearance are exactly the same as Apollo's own, it will still be identified as a friendly target and won't trigger an alarm. Since they chose arrogance, they will pay the price for their arrogance."
"I think it's feasible!" Ye Xing was the first to raise his hand in agreement. "At least we can try. When do we start practicing parachuting? I can't wait!"
Who wouldn't be tempted by this kind of expensive entertainment project in reality, now available in the game for the exact same, or even more exciting, experience?
"So the next step is to repair the reconnaissance plane?"
Chang Kong's eyes lit up; he had long wanted to fly something with stronger maneuverability.
"We'll start parachute training tomorrow," Lu Yuan said. "But the repair of the reconnaissance plane can wait. We'll train on our own aerospace plane first; it has better radar stealth performance and can ensure the plan proceeds secretly. Otherwise, once Apollo discovers we've repaired that reconnaissance plane, it'll be easy for him to deduce what we plan to do."
Indeed.
It has to be the Executive Officer; his considerations are thorough.
At this stage, the various gameplay options of Xing Hai have greatly expanded, and there are already many things to do after going online.
Daily tasks include target practice, driving practice, FPV drone operation practice, gathering ground vine taro, stealing cables, and maintaining various equipment within the camp.
In addition, you can team up to clear underground dungeons, or go around clearing small and medium-sized bandit gangs, corresponding to PVE and PVP content respectively.
If you don't want to fight and kill, you can also participate in the exciting Great Reconstruction of Red Iron Town and experience the wildness and unruliness of brick-carrying laborers.
In the coming days, parachute training content will be added.
If you want to do all these things, one day is simply not enough time.
This is precisely the effect Lu Yuan hoped to achieve.
Even without major "main story events," the game is becoming increasingly addictive for players.
The players dispersed, and at this moment, Lu Yuan completed a main quest.
The power generation panels sent to Red Iron Town are still registered under Cangyuan's name. Now, at the peak of the midday sun, the combined peak power generation of Devil Mountain Camp and Red Iron Town has finally exceeded 1 megawatt!
【Main Quest Completed: Construction III; Power generation reached one megawatt, gained 40 exchange points】
【Main Quest: Construction IV has been activated, Quest Objective: Power generation reaches five megawatts】
Lu Yuan now had another 43 exchange coupons; he opened the store page.
The item 【Outer Space Resource Point Coordinates】 is still available for purchase, but the price has doubled, rising from 30 to 60.
With the current 43 exchange coupons, he could open a blind box. Judging from the price, the blind box should contain good items, at least no worse than the "Worker Ant" industrial exoskeleton.
It's hard to decide...
Lu Yuan decided to go for a delayed reward, waiting until before the second space mission to make a decision. By then, he might be able to purchase both items simultaneously.
............
Two more days passed, and the branch base located at the entrance of the underground mining area was completed.
The branch base contained a staff dormitory, a command post, an armory, and a factory building.
The factory building had four newly transported small 3D printers, which could be used to manufacture or repair equipment when needed. The rest of the time, they would continuously support Red Iron Town by manufacturing power generation panels and domestic water treatment devices.
As long as these four machines are available, Red Iron Town's basic electricity supply can be restored in as little as 10 days, and the freshwater issue can also be resolved within the next 10 days. After that, with no worries about basic resources, they can focus on developing civilian industry.
This is the power of technology and industry!
Refreshing!
Players can sleep and log off in the dormitory here, or simply drive their hibernation pods over and change their save location to Red Iron Town.
In fact, 6 players have already done this, including Black Smoke, a heavy dungeon enthusiast.
"Has everyone brought their equipment? We're about to set off! I always feel like the dungeon here is emitting an aura of strength; maybe we can find rarer technology!"
"Charge, charge, charge!"
The players rode on mining robots and headed deep underground. These AI workers who were going to "work" could conveniently take them along.
Besides clearing the Mechanical Hive, these players also had an important task: to hunt as much as possible and gather ground vine taro on the way back.
Otherwise, Red Iron Town's food reserves will quickly run out, and at that time, the first crop won't have matured yet.
After the news spread that the branch base was open for casual visits for one day, half the town's people gathered around, especially the housewives.
Susan walked into the staff dormitory. She had never seen such a beautiful house; both the exterior walls and the interior were so clean, spotless.
She sat on the light gray polymer sofa, amazed by the softness of the cushion.
Do the nobles in Oasis City usually sit on this kind of "chair"?
However, this was just the beginning.