"Forget it, it's a bit too early to think about this now."
Xu Zhengyang quickly adjusted his mindset and confidently said, "The apocalypse has already arrived. The shackles of the past have been completely unbound. As the productivity of the shelter gradually increases, I will be able to achieve this sooner or later!"
After saying that, Xu Zhengyang immediately opened his task list to check the latest main quest:
[Main Quest: Steel Demand (In Progress)]
[The development speed of your shelter has been shackled by materials. To ensure that the production line of the shelter has enough steel to use, please increase the steel production capacity of the shelter!]
[Task Objective: Increase the steel production capacity of the shelter to an annual output of over 5,000 tons]
[Task Reward: GX Series Engineering Robot (Blueprint)]
Upon seeing the details of the main quest, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but frown.
Below his shelter, there was a mineral vein cultivated using the Miracle Item: Mineral Vein Seed, which produced an iron ore vein. However, that vein seed only yielded a total of 3,400 tons of iron ore. Even if Xu Zhengyang completely mined out all the iron ore from that small vein, he still wouldn't be able to meet the task requirement of 5,000 tons of steel.
"I must find a way outside the shelter..."
Xu Zhengyang said, and suddenly an idea struck him. He turned to Da Bai and said, "By the way, Da Bai, organize the information on Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. and send it to me!"
"Okay, Master."
Da Bai replied, sending a series of images to Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses while saying, "Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. is located in Nanfeng County, northwest of Baicheng, 37 kilometers away from the shelter in a straight line. According to the information released by Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. before the apocalypse, this iron mine has a maximum daily extraction of about 800 tons of iron ore, and can produce up to 320 tons of steel daily!"
"320 tons of steel per day?"
Xu Zhengyang nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this. Such output could already meet his current construction needs!
Without hesitation, Xu Zhengyang immediately said to Da Bai, "Send me the navigation information!"
After saying that, Xu Zhengyang went to the surface, switched his Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha to shuttle mode, and flew straight towards the address of Changxin Mining Co., Ltd.!
...
Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. is a pillar enterprise in Nanfeng County, with over 500 employees.
For a county, having over 500 employees is not too many. However, because Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. is located in Nanfeng County, many steel processing companies chose to establish branches in Nanfeng County to obtain first-hand finished steel products.
After various steel processing plants settled in Nanfeng County, a steel industrial park naturally formed here! The overall economic development driven by this park is among the top in the province, not to mention Baicheng!
And now, when Xu Zhengyang, using Mech-Force to control his mechanical army, cleared out all the Blood Plague Zombies and Blood Plague Beasts in this steel industrial park, this steel industrial park, which was originally a key development project for Baicheng in the next twenty years, had been completely taken over by Xu Zhengyang!
Xu Zhengyang dispatched twenty drones.
Seeing that this industrial park had all kinds of processing plants for plates, pipes, profiles, wires, etc., Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but nod and said with satisfaction, "Just in time for a round of industrial upgrades for my shelter's steel processing industry!"
As he spoke, Xu Zhengyang successfully occupied the entire steel industrial park as his Outpost!
Although Xu Zhengyang's shelter had some steel processing capabilities, they were limited to what he had prepared before the apocalypse, and the range of steel processing was extremely limited.
Now that this steel industrial park in Nanfeng County had become ownerless, facing the dazzling array of steel equipment here, Xu Zhengyang naturally would not be polite!
So, Xu Zhengyang first placed fifty drones on the ground.
Then he said to Da Bai, "You control the drones to observe the equipment in this industrial park as a whole. Then provide me with a relocation plan. I want to move all the processing equipment from this industrial park into the shelter!"
"Okay, Master."
Da Bai agreed, and the fifty drones soared into the sky!
...
Da Bai's actions were quick.
In just ten minutes, he projected an aerial view of the steel industrial park onto Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses. Then he marked the equipment that needed to be dismantled with green shadows.
Immediately after, Da Bai said to Xu Zhengyang, "Master, although the processing enterprises in this steel industrial park produce different products, most of their processing equipment operates on similar principles. The equipment I marked is the best-performing equipment after comparison. You just need to take them back to the shelter."
Xu Zhengyang nodded upon hearing this.
Then he said to Da Bai, "Then optimize the layout of the industrial area in the shelter as well. By the way, create new spaces in the industrial area to accommodate these things."
"Okay, Master."
Da Bai agreed and immediately began to operate the Engineering Robot to get to work.
...
When Da Bai started working, Xu Zhengyang immediately used the Teleport Shelter Plugin to return to the shelter, bringing over eighty general-purpose robots.
Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. is a modern high-tech mining company that integrates mining and smelting, with all equipment being the latest high-intelligence and high-automation production.
Because of this, after excluding more than 300 leaders from the over 500 employees at Changxin Mining Co., Ltd., there were only over 200 frontline workers left. Moreover, these frontline workers were divided into three shifts to ensure that the mining company could operate continuously 24 hours a day.
Therefore, bringing over eighty general-purpose robots was enough for Xu Zhengyang to take control of this iron mine and get it running again!...
Three hours later, when Changxin Mining Co., Ltd. resumed operations, the first batch of smelted steel ingots was just produced.
A series of system subtitles appeared before Xu Zhengyang: [Main Quest: Steel Demand (Completed)]
[Reward Obtained: GX Series Engineering Robot (Blueprint)]
Looking at the system subtitles that appeared and the influx of new blueprint information into his mind, Xu Zhengyang exclaimed excitedly, "Finally got it!"
With the development of the shelter, Xu Zhengyang's existing three Engineering Robots could no longer meet his construction needs.
But now, with the blueprint for the Engineering Robot, he could finally expand his team of Engineering Robots!
This way, whether it was expanding or renovating the shelter in the future, the engineering progress would receive a qualitative boost!
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