6: Limited development

After selling the food, he entered the trading channel again.

"Collecting junk! Everyone, hurry and take a look! Fresh food has arrived! First come, first served!"

"Holy crap, the King of Junk is here again?"

"I knew Da Ge definitely had new stock! I saw a broken saddle on the way to cut wood, and I specifically picked it up for you!"

"Been waiting for you for ages! Come on, let's trade quickly!"

This trade was even easier than the first. Originally, people wouldn't pick up waste or trash they saw in the wilderness, but because Han Huohuo needed it, everyone conveniently picked it up, so nothing went to waste.

He didn't trade everything, using 600 food to exchange for 480 Iron Ingots.

Han Huohuo was happy, thinking that if he could recruit a large group of robots, wouldn't the camp develop rapidly?

No wonder this is an SSS-grade building, it's really powerful!

Of course, when others need food, and he needs iron, this advantage of staggered development becomes enormous.

Just as he was walking happily towards the Mecha Workshop, he suddenly paused, realizing he seemed to have miscalculated something.

Three mechanical Giant Wolves were lining up to charge!

Slapping his head, Han Huohuo let out a loud shout, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Damn it, I forgot these robots need regular charging, and charging requires waiting in line. Right now, he has few robots, so charging isn't a big problem, but if he recruits a few more robots, he will definitely get stuck here with charging.

This Mecha Workshop can only charge one robot at a time! Looking at the Mechanical Giant Wolf's charging status, it's not something that can be charged instantly!

This is a real big problem; he simply cannot blindly expand the robot scale.

Han Huohuo is a meticulous person. He squatted on the side and carefully studied the charging time. It takes about ten minutes to fully charge a Mechanical Wolf. If the mechanical Workers take the same amount of time, in six hours, at most thirty-six mechanical Workers can rotate charging, reaching the limit.

This is just theoretical data. In reality, fewer mechanical Workers can be recruited, probably reaching the limit at thirty.

And this doesn't even include charging the mechanical Giant Wolves!

He didn't dare to recruit more mechanical Wolves. Early-stage workers are more important, and there are no enemies threatening him nearby. Three mechanical Giant Wolves are enough. At the moment, a large amount of resources is still needed.

After Han Huohuo figured it out, he gritted his teeth and recruited another twenty-six mechanical Workers in one go, making it a total of thirty.

He arranged for ten workers to cut wood and ten workers to collect stones.

Then he decided to take the remaining ten mechanical Workers to occupy the iron mine.

Gou San's calves were still twitching, and he was dragged by Boss again to attack the iron mine.

He gave Boss a small look, indicating if he could not go? As a result, Han Huohuo completely ignored him.

He secretly called himself unlucky!

This time the team was even larger. Besides the three mechanical Wolves, he also brought ten mechanical Workers, marching towards the iron mine in a mighty manner.

Although the mechanical Workers had low combat power, they were numerous, and the team's momentum immediately rose.

This is the power of numbers!

After leaving the stockade gate, they reached the iron mine in one hundred meters.

Just arrived near the iron mine.

[The Goblins guarding the iron mine, fearing your powerful army, have fled at the mere sight of you. Do you want to pursue?]

What's going on?

The ones guarding the iron mine were three little Goblins. Seeing Han Huohuo's team charging over aggressively, they ran away without looking back, their legs pumping in the distance.

It turned out that these Goblins saw Han Huohuo's team from afar and were completely shocked. Their eyeballs almost fell to the ground. Has this been cursed by heaven? How can we three little Goblins be worthy of such a large team coming to attack?

The few little Goblins instantly lost interest in guarding the iron mine. While running, they shouted, "Brothers, let's scram! A extremely abnormal Lord has come! How can he have so many troops? This is too bullying for Goblins! Run, run!"

They ran away extremely fast.

Han Huohuo was eager to collect Iron Ore, so he wouldn't waste time chasing Goblins. He chose "Do not pursue!" and directly occupied the iron mine.

Those few little Goblins who ran away, even their shorts were tattered. They were clearly poor. Han Huohuo really didn't have the interest to chase after a few poor Goblins.

"You ten, are responsible for collecting Iron Ore!"

The intelligence of the ten mechanical Workers was even higher than Gou San's. After receiving the order, they immediately entered the best positions for mining and began mining in a very orderly manner.

For a while, there was a constant clanging sound.

Ten workers can theoretically mine 20 Iron Ore in one hour. The efficiency of collecting Iron Ore is much slower than cutting wood and collecting stones.

The time it takes to collect one Iron Ore is equivalent to collecting ten wood or food, or five stones.

Gou San followed behind, finally letting out a long sigh of relief. It was great not to have to fight. He finally didn't have to be cannon fodder.

Thirty mechanical Workers began to work desperately.

Wood +10

Stone +5

Wood +10

Iron Ore +1

Stone +5

Iron Ore +1

.......

Seeing the resources gradually increase.

Han Huohuo returned to the camp, sighing, looking at the bustling construction site, but regretting that he couldn't manufacture more mechanical Workers.

Other Lords at this time were personally on the battlefield, leading a few farmers to do farm work, or acting as lumberjacks, or stone miners, all tired like dogs. If they heard Han Huohuo's complaints, they would probably jump up in anger and hack him to death with an axe.

Then they would curse, "Bitches are just pretentious!"

While the workers were all working and there were temporarily no enemies around, Han Huohuo began to research upgrading the Main Camp.

[Main Camp]: Level 1, Ancient Era building. This is your center of power. Upgrading can unlock more building sequences. The Main Camp can evolve to the next era after level 10.

[Population Limit]: 100 people (including workers and troops)

[Construction]: Can construct civilian houses, markets, warehouses, Level 1 fertile fields, Level 1 wooden walls, recycling furnaces, blacksmith shops, wells, catapult barracks, club barracks.

[Upgrade]: The next level requires 1000 wood, 500 stone, and at least three Ancient Era buildings.

Hmm?

Han Huohuo counted and found that he had only built a market and a recycling furnace, and needed to construct one more building.

The blacksmith shop must be built. Without a blacksmith shop, Iron Ore cannot be smelted into Iron Ingots.

The well must be built; he was almost dying of thirst.

After hesitating for a moment, smelting the Iron Ore into Iron Ingots was not urgent for now. Building a well was the most important thing.

[Well]: Provides fresh water resources

[Construction]: Requires 100 wood, 50 stone.

Han Huohuo looked at his resources and found that he had enough without realizing it. He directly clicked on construction.

[Are you sure you want to construct a well?]

"Confirm!"

Wood -100, Stone -50

A square platform instantly appeared, with a circular well in the middle, right in the center of the camp. The wellside was also equipped with a pulley and a wooden bucket with a rope, the configuration was quite complete.

Han Huohuo's throat was smoking. He quickly went over, pulled the wooden bucket, and drew up a bucket of water.

The water was extremely clear. It truly lived up to being in an ancient world, emphasizing zero pollution. The well water even had a hint of sweetness after entering the mouth.

Good water!

Just as Han Huohuo was feeling great, a sudden thunderclap from the sky startled Han Huohuo, causing him to knock over the entire bucket of water.

"Damn it, that old heaven just likes to scare me!"

While he was still complaining, the pouring rain came down.

"Holy crap!"