Chapter 1557 - 524: The Angry Subjects Stir Up the Mist!
Including Cao Xing and Liu Muxue, upon hearing the system prompt, joyful smiles appeared on their faces.
“Indeed, just as I thought, the fog disaster is about to end.”
During these eight days, they basically stayed within the territory, with no significant improvement in strength.
It’s akin to a brief period of recuperation.
If it weren’t for this fog, Cao Xing would have prepared to destroy the Light Church once the second round of monster siege ended.
But now, due to the fog disaster, this force has lived a few days longer.
“These eight days, I wonder how the Old King and Kro have been negotiating over there, whether they have a specific plan in place?”
“Once the fog disaster ends, should we be able to act?”
And this also reminds Cao Xing of another matter.
“If the next step is to deal with the Light Church, I definitely need to split my troops for battle.”
“Besides handling the personnel at the headquarters, other outposts also need to be raided by assigned individuals.”
“But these outposts are too far apart, and my small communication devices only have a communication distance of 320 kilometers, making it impossible to monitor the movements of other teams.”
“It seems I need to find some longer-distance communication devices.”
Thinking of this, Cao Xing kissed the person beside him on the cheek and quickly got up.
He then proceeded directly to the area next to the territory’s [market].
Once he opened the trading interface, a vast array of auction information appeared before him.
He ignored them all and entered the keyword ’Communication Device’ in the search bar.
Dozens of trading information instantly appeared at his fingertips.
Cao Xing glanced through, seeing small, medium, and even large communication devices.
However, he skimmed through the attributes.
Although the last two types of blueprints have a very long communication distance, some even reaching five thousand kilometers, they have a fatal flaw.
That is, their size is too large to carry conveniently.
Especially the large communication device at the end, which is almost the size of a small car, akin to a communication base station.
But what Cao Xing needs is an item that’s capable of long-distance communication, lightweight enough to carry on the body.
After a thorough search, he indeed found a blueprint.
This blueprint is called [Long-Distance Communication Device Blueprint]!
The seller is a survivor named Tang Qiqi, a person Cao Xing hasn’t heard of.
However, what she wanted was a piece of level 30 or higher golden equipment, and any equipment would do.
Cao Xing was too lazy to haggle with her, so he directly exchanged an entire piece of [Saber-toothed Tiger Meat (Golden)] for the blueprint.
Upon seeing his name, the other party naturally proceeded with the trade cheerfully.
[Obtained: Long-Distance Communication Device Blueprint]
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Once the blueprint was in hand, a smile appeared on Cao Xing’s face.
He then looked at the attributes.
[Long-Distance Communication Device Blueprint]
[Durability: 300]
[Maximum communication distance: 4500 kilometers (Due to the excessive communication distance, there’s a certain delay in transmission, allowing communication every 30 seconds)]
[Materials needed: Advanced Mechanical Factory, Electronic Components*1, Copper*50, Mithril*10]
[Blueprint Introduction: A small communication device harnessing the peak technology of the Human Empire, capable of connecting with your subjects or other natives.]
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Cao Xing exclaimed, “Small communication devices have only 320 kilometers of communication distance, this one directly leaps to 4500 kilometers!”
“Such a long distance should be sufficient!”
Though this long-distance communication device has a restriction of only transmitting every 30 seconds, it doesn’t matter.
As long as he can deliver instructions to others on his side.
Thus, Cao Xing quickly proceeded to the [Advanced Mechanical Factory] and pushed the door open.
“Rumbling! Rumbling!”
The mechanical factory was filled with the roar and noise of various machines running.
A few goblins in gray overalls kept bustling inside, transporting various components back and forth.
Seeing Cao Xing, they stopped their actions and bowed to him.
These are Rock’s assistants, responsible for some simple assembly tasks.
Cao Xing traversed through various large machines to the depths of the mechanical factory, finding Goblin Rock who was crouching and working.
At this moment, the goblin was dressed in a white uniform, covered in oil stains.
Upon seeing Cao Xing, he swiftly turned around with a smiling face.
“Lord, may the new day bring you wealth and honor.”
Cao Xing directly asked, “Rock, how’s the robot production been recently?”
Rock replied respectfully, “Lord, you know, the noise of the mechanical factory running is too loud.”
“Due to the influence of the Chenmai Fog Disaster, we have to stop working at five every afternoon, leading to a significant drop in robot production.”
“Currently, there are a total of 245 Elite Level predator robots.”
“And 490 Ordinary Level repeater robots.”
Cao Xing mentally calculated, adding up to over seven hundred robots, taking up nearly a thousand population, already a rather formidable force.
Rock continued, “There’s one more thing to report, due to the high resource consumption for building these robots, our territory is running low on materials.”
“You see…,” the goblin cautiously glanced at him.
Cao Xing nodded slightly; of course, he knew about the dwindling material situation.
This period, without mining veins, the territory’s resources are only being consumed without any input, and even a large establishment can’t sustain for too long.