118: Chapter 118 Territory Expansion, the Blood of Industry Born!

A global notification was triggered; it seems discovering a new mineral is a rather important milestone.

But come to think of it, that makes sense. Generally, technological Breakthroughs cannot be separated from Breakthroughs in Materials.

Discovering a new mineral might just be the node for entering a new era.

Su Yang's thoughts flickered, and he wanted to use Shallow Vein Migration on the anatase.

[Target cannot be migrated; Advanced mineral mining technology is currently not unlocked.]

It was just as expected; such Advanced Materials are not so easy to obtain.

Su Yang didn't dwell on it; after marking the location on the map, he closed the panel.

He ordered General Li Xin to lead the troops to continue clearing the site, and had General Meng Tian lead the support troops back.

The fuel for the first black iron chariot was almost exhausted; it was time to unlock the fuel technology.

Biomass Fuel technology still had 11 hours remaining. In the past, he would have definitely waited it out, because using a Heart of the Hive for these 11 hours really wasn't worth it.

However, this time he had obtained the Splitting Synapse, which allowed for the decomposition of the Heart of the Hive, a capability to split and reduce time.

Su Yang opened the Shennong Creation Institute, specifically the Xenomorph biological branch.

[Technology: Xenomorph Splitting Technology]

[Precise and Elegant: Analyze the cell division ability of the insect race, and acquire the technology to split the Heart of the Hive.]

[Function: Gain the ability to split the Heart of the Hive, capable of splitting large pieces of the Heart of the Hive into smaller pieces for use.]

[The minimum unit is a chunk of flesh capable of reducing 12h; any smaller unit of flesh will lose the ability to reduce time.]

[Prerequisite Technology: None (This is a substance similar to a malignant tumor; no matter how many pieces it is cut into, it can continue to survive.)]

[Unlock Cost: Splitting Synapse * 1]

[command points: 8000]

[Time: /]

Researching the Splitting Synapse does not require time, so it doesn't occupy a slot and can be upgraded instantly.

[command points - 8000]

[Technology: Xenomorph Splitting Technology research complete.]

Upon completion of the research, Su Yang immediately proceeded to cut the newly obtained Expert-level Heart of the Hive.

Expert-level provides 3 days of high-energy reduction, with a minimum cutting unit of 12 hours.

12 hours was just right for the Biomass Fuel technology, wasting only a few minutes.

This was much better than the previous waste of half a day or a whole day at every turn.

Su Yang followed the prompts and cut off a small piece to use for accelerating the Biomass Fuel technology.

[Used item: Fragmented Heart of the Hive, shortening the required research time by 12h.]

[Technology: Biomass Fuel research complete, obtained new building: Biomass Smelting Station.]

[Used small piece of Heart of the Hive for acceleration.]

[Achievement Unlocked: Penny-Pincher, command points + 1]

Huh?

This can also unlock an achievement?

And what kind of lousy achievement is this, adding 1 command point?

Su Yang's expression was puzzled; has the little System overstepped its bounds a bit?

It actually dares to mock me?

Report your lineage, so I can teach you a lesson!

Su Yang shook his head and closed the panel.

There was no point in arguing with this alien System.

The most important task now was to get the Biomass Smelting Station working.

Su Yang came to the industrial zone within the territory and placed the Biomass Smelting Station right next to the Great Qin Smelting Center.

Yes, after General Meng Tian's planning, the territory now possessed a dedicated industrial zone.

While General Li Xin was out killing enemies, General Meng Tian had not been idle.

He led the soldiers to thoroughly survey the surrounding environment, and then discussed and analyzed the current main attack directions of the Xenomorphs with Su Yang.

Combining these conditions, General Meng Tian planned the expansion of the current territory's scope.

Compared to how Su Yang had previously expanded bit by bit, General Meng Tian's expansion plan could be called bold and unrestrained, exactly like his forthright personality.

He retained Su Yang's 50x50 lord's residence area, and then used it as the center to push all the city walls outward by 50 meters.

The production zone located on the west side was pushed out an additional 50 meters compared to the other three sides.

This brought the total area of the territory to 200x150, or 30,000 square meters.

The largest rectangular area on the west side, 150x100, was divided into a production zone and an industrial zone in a two-to-one ratio.

The production zone remained for mineral veins, mining machines, and various production facilities.

The industrial zone housed the Great Qin Smelting Center, refineries, and other buildings that further processed raw Materials to generate higher-level Materials.

The west and east sides were separated by a city wall crossing the territory, isolating the noise.

On this side of the wall were the lord's residence area, the barracks area, and the crusade preparation area.

Within the lord's residence area, the lords residence and various scientific research buildings were still set up.

Other war buildings like the skyfire tower and Sonic Detector were moved to the northern barracks area.

Barracks areas were established on both the north and south sides, facilitating the soldiers' quick response to orders for defense.

And the 50x50 area on the east side, directly facing the east gate, was designated as the crusade preparation area.

The massive Gongshu Heavy Weaponry Camp was set up here, so that in the future, after soldiers assembled at the east gate, they could directly board the black iron chariots and depart.

The new territory plan involved rebuilding nearly 800 meters of city walls, which was terrifying in terms of resource consumption.

But fortunately, General Meng Tian possessed the passive skill "Great Wall Guardian". When building or upgrading city walls, consumption is reduced by half, and wall length is doubled.

Compared to before, building the same length of city wall now only required one-quarter of the resources.

Building 800 meters of wall only consumed resources for 200 meters.

It is truly worthy of being the passive skill of the Huaxia Civilization, known as the infrastructure maniacs!

In the end, the territory expansion was completed and everything was upgraded to Level 2, costing only 200 units of copper ore and 400 units of stone.

It cost the same amount of resources as his previous small-scale expansion.

Hiss — — — — — — — — — —

With a burst of black steam, the Biomass Smelting Station was built.

Su Yang clicked in to view the specific details.

The Biomass Smelting Station could convert Xenomorph corpses into biomass and then refine them into bio-crude oil.

Afterward, the bio-crude oil would go through the refinery to be finally refined into various chemical substances and fuel.

The volume of 2 Stinger Bugs could be converted into 1 unit of biomass, and 5 units of biomass could be refined into 3 units of bio-crude oil.

The refinery's ratio for refining petroleum crude oil into fuel was 2 units of crude oil to 1 unit of fuel; the ratio for bio-crude oil was not yet known.

The Stinger Bug was the unit with the largest proportion in the Insect Swarm, so the Stinger Bug's volume was used as the reference value.

From the time they first started collecting corpses until now, the soldiers had fought battles with the Double Mother Insect Nest, the crystal insect nest, and a third-generation insect nest.

The Insect Swarm volume collected and compressed by the black iron chariots was about 1500 Stinger Bugs, which would refine into about 500 units of bio-crude oil.

Su Yang started the Biomass Smelting Station and sent soldiers to throw Xenomorph corpses into the feed inlet.

The smelting station's speed for smelting Xenomorph corpses was very fast, with a maximum daily production capacity of 500 units.

Soon, the storage panel showed the relevant display for bio-crude oil.

Su Yang then put the bio-crude oil into the Great Qin Chemical Plant.

As bursts of black smoke rose, the industrial blood produced autonomously within the territory was about to be born!