39: Chapter 39 Sound Wave Detector, The Future of the Dragon Kingdom

For this upgrade, Su Yang decided to unlock several new technologies he had recently acquired.

One was the Sonic Detector from the defense branch.

[Technology: Sonic Detector]

[Unlock Sonic Detector technology, a reconnaissance and defense device composed of sound-receiving equipment and biological signal fragments.]

[command points: 1000]

[Time: 8h]

Although tonight's defense went very smoothly without any errors, the territory was still breached by the Giant Insect.

As someone with a very strong sense of territorial ownership, he could not tolerate anything swimming freely beneath his base.

By observing the tunnels dug by the Giant Insect, Su Yang discovered that the tunnels were not deep.

The Giant Insect of this Rank could not break through the deeper rock layers, so they could only move in the soil layer 2 to 3 meters below the ground.

And at this depth, as long as the specific location was found, the ballista could completely shoot through it.

The problem was how to determine its accurate location before the Giant Insect burrowed out of the ground.

He had tried using the naked eye before, but it was impossible to detect.

The Giant Insect could hide soil changes very well through some method, and one would only observe the soil bulging when it broke through to the surface.

Since the naked eye could not observe it, he would have to use some high technology.

After the detector underwent Fusion with rare-grade biological tissue fragments, it would be able to monitor Insect Swarm activity within a large range.

By capturing race-specific audio, it could accurately capture them whether they were above or below ground.

This would not only assist the ballista tower in sniping the Giant Insect in advance, but also break the Insect race's ambush tactics.

If there was any miscalculation today, it was not expecting that the Insect race would keep lurking to avoid reconnaissance and only start their charge when they reached the periphery of the territory.

Su Yang suspected that although these insects came from different hives, there was some kind of connection between them.

They would exchange combat experience with each other and constantly evolve from failure.

The intelligence level of the Insect race broke through Su Yang's imagination time and time again.

However, the ambush tactics would end here.

The Sonic Detector would leave them with nowhere to hide.

Another technology Su Yang wanted to unlock was terrain mapping for the troop route.

[Terrain Mapping: Unlock terrain mapping knowledge,]

[Technology: Terrain Mapping]

[Unlock Terrain Mapping technology, allowing the Scout to perform detailed mapping of terrain areas, building structures, and biological forms.]

[command points: 1000]

[Time: 12h]

Currently, the intelligence passed to Su Yang by the Scouts and soldiers was in the form of verbal accounts and text.

For many special situations, such as hive scale, defensive configurations, detailed terrain, etc., it could not be accurately conveyed.

After unlocking this technology, with drawings combined with text, the Scout would be able to accurately transmit some special information back to Su Yang.

This would greatly enhance Su Yang's control over the territory and the battlefield, thereby allowing for better command.

These two technologies were what the territory currently needed to unlock.

As for the precise mechanical structure obtained at the same time as them, Su Yang planned to unlock it next time.

The precise mechanical structure could allow the Crossbowman to fire in bursts.

Although it could greatly enhance the troop's combat power, upgrading the troops required consuming a large number of command points.

Furthermore, after upgrading the Crossbowman, the consumption of copper resources would also increase.

Therefore, Su Yang planned to reserve this upgrade until after the Hero-class unit appeared.

The Thousand Mechanism Tower could only perform one technology upgrade at a time.

Su Yang prioritized the Scout unit and directly consumed a Heart of the Hive to complete the upgrade.

[command points - 1000]

[Terrain Mapping technology under research...]

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

This Heart of the Hive was dropped after dealing with two hives in a row previously.

Currently, he still had two left in his hand, one common-grade and one rare-grade.

Technology unlocked, Su Yang opened the panel to upgrade the Scout unit.

[Unit type: Great Qin Thousand-Mile Scout]

[Rank: Rank 1 >>> Rank 2]

[Effect: Unlock detailed mapping ability, increase detection range]

[command points: 600]

Consuming 1200 command points, he upgraded both Scouts together.

Next was unlocking the Sonic Detector.

There was no rush for this; it would be fine to have it repaired by tomorrow night.

[command points - 1000]

[Sonic Detector under research...]

[Time: 8h]

Closing the panel, the soldiers finished cleaning up the battlefield and returned to the territory one after another.

Tonight's battle had completely come to an end.

It was only one night away from the large-scale hive.

What kind of battle would be experienced then?

...

The next day at dawn, the Sonic Detector research was completed.

Su Yang spent 10 units of copper to build the Sonic Detector.

In the center of the base, a tower with a huge sound-receiving device rose from the ground.

With the appearance of the Sonic Detector, a new column appeared on the defense panel.

Sonic Detection.

Clicking into it revealed a terrain and landform map composed of various data lines.

This was the maximum range the detector could currently monitor.

Su Yang estimated that the detection range reached about 5 kilometers.

Construction completed, the detector began to operate.

[Collecting sound waves under normal scenes...]

[Mechanical operation, steam conversion, plant swaying, wind sound, animal calls...]

Seeing the workflow, Su Yang immediately understood the working principle of the detector.

First, it would capture and record all sounds in a safe scene.

Regardless of whether these existed or not, they would not trigger an alarm.

And once audio that had not been recorded as a safe sound entered, the detector would immediately report it.

After Fusion with biological fragments, the detector could more accurately capture the specific audio of signals emitted by the Insect race.

Leaving the Insect race that entered the reconnaissance range with nowhere to hide.

With the combination of the detector and the ballista tower, even the Giant Insect would no longer be able to penetrate one step into the territory.

...

Dragon Kingdom Military Department, high-level conference room.

Today, the atmosphere in the conference room was no longer as lively as it had been in the past few days.

A group of officers had serious expressions on their faces.

Last night, they received the latest news from the Intelligence Department.

The Lord of Afghanistan had already extracted oil and was actively seeking cooperation with various countries.

Oil was the Bottleneck limiting the development of modern industrial civilizations.

It was precisely because of the existence of this Bottleneck that Lords who had chosen civilizations with slightly lacking technology in the early stages had a chance to catch up.

Now that oil had been discovered in the first week, modern industrial civilizations such as the United States entered a state of unrestricted development directly.

This would further increase the gap between the two sides; the strong countries would become stronger, and the weak countries would become weaker.

"What the f***! Just when things were finally looking up, this happens again!"

An officer couldn't help but curse, extremely angry.

Although the other officers did not show it, they were also resentful in their hearts.

They had originally hoped that Su Yang could secure a ranking among the Lords.

With this, the shortcoming of the Qin Dynasty's weak technology was fully exposed.

How would they compete with other countries in the future?

Where exactly did the future of the Dragon Kingdom lie...