256: Chapter 256 The First Fishing Flying Vehicle

“Finally, Level 4!” Oriental Chen exclaimed.

It had been over a year for the Space Station to upgrade from Level 0 to Level 4.

Level 4 was a dividing line.

Before Level 4, the Space Station could only be considered a miniature Space Station, its purpose merely to provide the necessary conditions for building a large Space Station later on.

“Commander, the Space Station meets the upgrade requirements. Would you like to proceed with the upgrade?” Xiao Lin asked.

“Upgrade,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood.”

“System upgrading, please wait…”

Since all ground operations were currently handled by the Supercomputing Center, the Space Station's upgrade would not cause any interruption to ground services.

Half an hour later, the system upgrade was complete.

As before, the Space Station's upgrade only involved adjusting the pointers of the program valve. After the upgrade, only the core module and power module had their functions released, raising their levels to Level 5. The other modules remained at Level 4 without any adjustments.

“Commander, the core module needs to be expanded, otherwise it cannot be upgraded again. Would you like to start building a new core module?” Xiao Lin asked.

“Start,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood. Would you like to simultaneously proceed with the upgrade tasks for the other modules?” Xiao Lin continued to ask.

“Proceed simultaneously!” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood. The command has been issued,” Xiao Lin said.

“Why does building the core module take so long?” Oriental Chen was very surprised to see the estimated time displayed on the screen.

It showed: 43 days.

In his impression, with the current number of Worker Bee Robots, building a new module would take at most a few days.

“Commander, the new core module is larger and requires more raw materials,” Xiao Lin replied.

“Then if all Worker Bee Robots are used to build the core module, how long will it take?” Oriental Chen asked.

“It is estimated to take 21 days,” Xiao Lin replied.

“Then so be it. Other work will be paused. All Worker Bee Robots will be used to build the core module,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood, Commander, the command has been issued,” Xiao Lin said.

“Currently, 20 Settlements have deployed signal towers, which meet the prerequisite conditions for providing basic communication services. Xiao Lin, design a mobile phone that can use signal towers for communication, in the style of our early human flip-phone keypad phones. Following the method of previous mobile communication providers, integrate the chip onto a SIM card,” Oriental Chen said.

“Commander, wouldn’t it be more convenient to integrate the chip inside the phone? Why produce SIM cards separately?” Xiao Lin asked.

“You don’t understand this. Just do as I say,” Oriental Chen said.

“Understood, Commander,” Xiao Lin no longer asked.

“Commander, the first fully automatic amphibious fishing and feed processing aircraft has been assembled,” Xiao Lin then reported another piece of news.

“Excellent, I’ll go up and take a look!” Oriental Chen was overjoyed.

This was the main money-making machine for a long time to come, so he had to pay close attention to it.

The aircraft was already parked in the base’s underground hangar.

Looking around, the size of this fishing aircraft was much larger than his plane. And on all four sides and the top of the aircraft, several robotic arms were integrated. The shape of each arm was different, likely designed to perform different operations.

This aircraft was generally a rounded rectangular shape, nearly 50 meters long and about 20 meters wide. It had no wings and looked very bulky. On the front, back, left, and right sides of the aircraft, there was also a side thruster, designed to maintain the stability of the fuselage as much as possible when fishing or hunting large animals.

Including the dozen or so landing gears at the bottom responsible for support, its overall height was 15 meters.

Oriental Chen could understand why this aircraft had to be built so large. That was because a fully automatic feed production line was also integrated inside.

Oriental Chen’s original reason for designing it this way was to simplify the process of hunting insects and fish as much as possible. If a batch was caught, it would be troublesome to transport these carcasses back and forth. Not only would it waste time, but the operating costs would also be high. The Chamber of Commerce would need people specifically responsible for recycling, right? They would also need to establish a dedicated feed production warehouse, right? After producing feed, they would still have to sell it, right? Just thinking about it was troublesome.

So, what feed to sell? A waste of effort.

Thus, he made the decision to sell the aircraft directly and earn all the money back at once.

As for the matter of producing feed, he left it to those who wanted to do it, stating he had no interest.

Lowering the gangway, Oriental Chen entered the aircraft.

It was quite spacious inside, like a very large office. Around the perimeter were control panels, with a total of 16 seats. Each seat was equipped with a seatbelt and a restraining bar to ensure that staff would not be thrown out during high-speed flight. Directly opposite each seat were three screens, likely for displaying different information.

These seats could rotate 180 degrees. This made it convenient for everyone to work while looking at the screens, or turn towards the center to discuss matters face-to-face.