Chapter 442: Chapter 442
The car continually advanced on the gray-white road composed of stones.
Regarding road construction, although Lin Yue couldn’t guarantee he was the first, he was definitely the one who built the longest mileage.
Asphalt roads, while smoother and more aesthetically pleasing, also have deadly disadvantages.
In this extremely hot weather, the intense sunlight almost causes it to melt, and if you continue to drive on it, it could damage the smooth surface, leading to various possible problems.
So, Lin Yue decided not to pave asphalt roads anymore.
He wasn’t a late-stage perfectionist; the stone road joined to the original asphalt road was acceptable.
Moreover, there’s a trick to road paving that can be exploited, which is constantly decomposing into design maps, just like last time; he managed to produce a design map for ten kilometers of asphalt road, and if there’s enough material, this ten kilometers could further be extended to twenty kilometers, forty kilometers, and a hundred kilometers!
This naturally can also become the main support for his future infrastructure development.
As his resource points continue to multiply and his territory expands, the importance of roads will increasingly become prominent.
He doesn’t care how other survivors view this road, nor does he care how the Lizardmen and beggars view it, but if anyone wants to destroy the road or set obstacles for him.
Then the consequences are simple.
Lizardmen leave treasure chests, survivors or beggars leave storage spaces.
Lin Yue felt there’s no need to reason with unreasonable people; making only himself survive on the scene would resolve the matter perfectly.
Stone paving continued uninterrupted, and Lin Yue kept driving forward; the journey from Berg Mine to Nitrate Ore was only about ten kilometers, and the road surface was quickly completed.
When leaving Ore Mountain, he didn’t forget to set up a small solar power set along with sockets and also individually programmed the machine dogs for idle-time charging.
With this, they can truly work continuously 24 hours, and the efficiency in mining ore will be even higher!
Before the disaster officially arrives, the machine dogs can’t have a proper rest.
Speaking of which, 30 pieces of stone material are needed to pave a five-meter-long and wide road, which is quite costly, but the amount of stone he had was unimaginable; the total number extracted by the machine dogs working day and night was enough for him to pave the road and even go farther.
Little Meng had already smelled the scent of the owner early on and excitedly pushed the huge rock from the gap in the wall fortress, along with Black Dot, Green Claw, and other Little Ice Lizards, all excitedly surrounding the owner’s car.
"Thanks for the hard work these past two days!" Lin Yue took out Lion-headed Bear’s steak to reward these little buddies who had held their posts for two days.
"Guao!" Little Meng was especially excited; this weather was truly terrible, absolutely awful.
It and other Little Ice Lizards had to dig a small cave with the help of the machine dogs to hide from the scorching heat torture.
During these two days, apart from being attacked by hundreds of Lizardmen on the morning of the first day, it had been peaceful ever since.
Those hundreds of Lizardmen didn’t even give them a chance to act; those machine dogs settled it all.
Little Meng felt frustrated by this, but upon seeing the capable machine dogs continuously mining out the massive nitrate ore, stacking them into ore mountains resembling small hills, they felt quite impressed.
However, the overly dull life and the scorching weather made them miss life in the shelter even more; since Bai last brought food, they’ve been waiting persistently for the owner’s arrival to take them back.
Lin Yue indeed thought the same.
Bring Little Ice Lizards, along with Little Meng, back to the shelter, don’t let them suffer here any longer.
Arriving at the stone platform left by Lizardmen earlier, Lin Yue took out the high-precision research workstation and connected the two.
[You obtained a Stone Lookout Tower Design Map!] Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝘯𝘦𝘵
Alright, now it can also be set at the shelter, although he doesn’t need the lookout tower; this thing is more suitable as a base for the medium electric guard machine gun platform.
It’s not that he couldn’t build this thing, and since it’s here, there’s no need for him to exert effort researching it himself.
Then, Lin Yue swiftly started gathering.
[You obtained Shelter Design Map X1]
[You obtained Shelter Design Map X1]
The system’s voice continuously sounded.
Lin Yue, like an emotionless collection machine, constantly converted the shelters remaining on the nitrate ore into design maps, storing them in the storage space.
Previously, a large number of Lizardmen and beggars gathered here and left a considerable number of shelters, and these shelters, after the nitrate ore battle, also became part of his trophies.
It’s just that he hurriedly left last time without fully incorporating them, and since he’s here this time, there’s no need to be polite.
In no time, he completely collected these 167 shelter design maps!
The reason why only so many remained, he felt, was partly due to those beggars fleeing when he attacked the nitrate mine internally; some of them might have collected quite a few.
Otherwise, there should have been more.