While the shelter was being expanded, Xu Zhengyang was not idle.
These days, he had been using his knowledge card, "Weight Reduction Structure," to slightly optimize the smallest aerospace carrier, the "Swift Falcon," and successfully produced it in the heavy factory!
The Swift Falcon might sound small.
But in reality, it is a colossal behemoth with a length of 140 meters and a width of 110 meters!
The Swift Falcon weighs 320 tons, but its maximum takeoff weight can reach an astonishing 960 tons when fully loaded.
Even under full load, the Swift Falcon can still achieve a flight speed of 1,600 kilometers per hour, far surpassing all current transport aircraft on Earth!
Not only that.
The Swift Falcon has extremely low requirements for takeoff and landing.
As long as there is a relatively flat open space, the Swift Falcon can vertically take off and land using its propellers. No matter how harsh the region, it cannot stop the Swift Falcon's advance! After seeing the detailed parameters of the Swift Falcon.
Xu Zhengyang said with satisfaction, "Even the basic version of the aerospace carrier.
Its performance can completely surpass Earth's technological level before the apocalypse to some extent!"
As soon as he finished speaking.
Xu Zhengyang's shelter expansion was also completed, and a series of system messages appeared before his eyes: [Main Quest: Expansion V (Completed)]
[Reward Obtained: Focused Electromagnetic Cannon (Design Blueprint)]
...
[Focused Electromagnetic Cannon (Design Blueprint)]
[Weapon Parameters]
(Conventional Range: 240 kilometers)
(Conventional Shell Muzzle Velocity: 10.4 kilometers/second) (Conventional Maximum Shell Weight: 17Kg)
(Conventional Charging Time: 1.4 seconds) [Skill]
(Focused Shot: Through a 7-second long charge, increase your maximum range to 2,100 kilometers and the shell muzzle velocity to 51 kilometers/second!)
[Evaluation: Please note, the Earth is round!]
After seeing the parameters and skills of the Focused Electromagnetic Cannon, Xu Zhengyang's breathing became rapid with excitement! The conventional range of the Focused Electromagnetic Cannon reached an astonishing 240 kilometers, and it could fire a 17-kilogram shell every 1.4 seconds...
"A monster!"
After reviewing the parameters of the Focused Electromagnetic Cannon, Xu Zhengyang's face was filled with satisfaction.
If this thing were made and installed on his primary aerospace carrier, the Swift Falcon, the scene would be absolutely perfect! So Xu Zhengyang immediately said to Da Bai, "Immediately allocate part of the production capacity to start building the Focused Electromagnetic Cannon!"
"Yes, Master," Da Bai replied and immediately began to act.
*After assigning the task to Da Bai, Xu Zhengyang opened his task list to check the latest main quest:
[Main Quest: Resource Reserve (Ongoing)]
[With your rapid development, your consumption has gradually exceeded your reserves. To ensure the healthy development of the shelter, please collect sufficient resource reserves]
[Quest Objective: Own 10 mines with a total reserve of no less than 25 million tons
(Must include the three most consumed mines: copper, iron, and limestone)]
[Quest Reward: Secondary Power Awakening Serum]
After seeing the quest details, Xu Zhengyang immediately asked Da Bai, "Da Bai, filter out the ten mines with a total reserve of over 25 million tons that are closest to the shelter."
"Yes, Master."
Da Bai acknowledged and immediately sent the map information to Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses, marking ten small points.
Seeing that these mineral resources were all near White City, with the farthest straight-line distance being just over a hundred kilometers.
Xu Zhengyang waved his hand decisively.
He immediately commanded the Sky Carrier Swift Falcon, loaded with his various combat units, to take off and head towards the resource points following the route recommended by Da Bai!...
Xu Zhengyang was in luck.
The resource points marked by Da Bai were either abandoned or occupied by the Blood Plague Virus.
So, Xu Zhengyang only needed to clear out the various monsters at the resource points, set up a space gate there, and instantly take over the mines for his own use!
Just as Xu Zhengyang was methodically advancing.
Da Bai suddenly said to him, "Master, the electromagnetic shield beneath the shelter is under constant attack. It seems like monsters are attacking us from underground!"
"Attacking us from underground?"
Xu Zhengyang was momentarily stunned, then he immediately activated his Hyperdimensional View skill to inspect beneath the shelter.
Indeed!
Directly below Xu Zhengyang's shelter, a group of Blood Plague monsters, each about five to six meters long and resembling worms, had already dug countless holes!
Not only that.
Those worms were now starting to attack Xu Zhengyang's shelter from underground! If it weren't for the electromagnetic shield Xu Zhengyang had deployed to block them, those Blood Plague worms would have already dug into the shelter's interior!
Just thinking about this scene.
Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine. He hadn't expected the Blood Plague Mother to spawn such monsters capable of launching attacks from underground!
When Xu Zhengyang shared his discovery with Da Bai.
Da Bai immediately followed up, "Master.
I suspect these Blood Plague worms are deliberately undermining the soil structure beneath the shelter. If we don't deal with them soon.
It won't be long.
Before our shelter experiences uncontrollable subsidence!"
"I understand," Xu Zhengyang frowned deeply.
Although he could use his Hyperdimensional View skill to "see" everything happening beneath the shelter.
Xu Zhengyang currently had no weapons to deal with enemies hidden underground.
So even if he saw them.
He could only watch helplessly as those Blood Plague worms recklessly destroyed the soil structure beneath the shelter...
"How disgusting..."
Xu Zhengyang said, immediately instructing Da Bai, "Have the heavy engineering robots outside the shelter transform into drilling mode.
At a 45-degree downward angle, dig a tunnel for me!"
"Understood, Master."
Da Bai acknowledged and immediately directed the engineering robots to move out.
If the Blood Plague worms could dig, Xu Zhengyang's engineering robots certainly could too!
Moreover, Xu Zhengyang could equip the heavy engineering robots with Dimensional Space Pockets to collect the excavated soil.
Thus, the digging speed of the engineering robots was hundreds of times faster than that of the Blood Plague worms!...
The mouthparts of the Blood Plague worms were extremely sharp.
Not just soil, but even granite could be completely crushed by the Blood Plague worms, which then mixed it with the mucus in their bodies to transform it into a special biological building material.
The performance of this material was not much inferior to high-grade concrete.
Precisely because of this.
The nest of Blood Plague worms had even constructed an underground lair at least the size of two football fields, located fifty meters diagonally below Xu Zhengyang's shelter! According to the Hyperdimensional View's investigation.
This underground lair served as both a hatching and nurturing ground, housing not only over thirty adult Blood Plague worms.
But also numerous clusters of larvae that had yet to mature, seemingly preparing for a prolonged standoff with Xu Zhengyang!
(End of Chapter)