Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 698 Change of Thoughts
Facts have proved that no matter if you are a coward or a person who is afraid of death, even if you can find ten thousand shortcomings in the contractors of Apocalypse, as long as it involves resources, as long as you mindlessly follow the methods in the guides marked as produced by Apocalypse Paradise, you can basically make a fortune.

For example now——

A total of 191580.08 tons of pyroxene crystal resources were harvested in less than one day. One should know that the entire Order Tower had only accumulated more than tons of pyroxene crystals over hundreds of years. Moreover, this only counted the harvest of pyroxene crystals, excluding those extraordinary metals and super rare pyroxene metals.

I can only say that when it comes to mining, the old saying always applies: if you laugh at miners for being country bumpkins, miners will laugh at you for being country bumpkins.

However, such a huge harvest at one time will also lead to some small problems, such as...

"In total, there are nearly 600,000 tons of ore to be refined... Xiaobai No. 1, what is the overall refining efficiency of all the smelting furnaces in the fortress now?"

On the reef, Xin Lailai realized that he had obviously underestimated the benefits of mining and asked in his mind. The next second, a childish electronic voice quickly sounded in his mind:

[Ding! Command confirmed, counting in progress...]

[Statistics completed, the refining efficiency of all smelting furnaces in the current fortress is as follows]

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Large pyroxene ore vein smelting furnaces * 376 (average refining efficiency of each furnace is 507.6 tons/day, and the average operation consumes 0.31 tons of pyroxene crystals/day)
967 medium-sized pyroxene ore smelting furnaces (average refining efficiency of each furnace is 129.5 tons/day, and the average operation consumption is 0.08 tons of pyroxene crystals/day)
Small pyroxene ore smelting furnaces * 3063 (each furnace has a refining efficiency of 36.7 tons/day and consumes 0.013 tons/day)
Total refining efficiency: 428496.2 tons/day

Total operating consumption: 233.739 tons of pyroxene crystals/day

……

Very good, now it will take all the smelting furnaces in the Order Tower a day and a half to refine this batch of ore, and this does not include the time required for the transportation process. If everything is calculated in, with their current refining efficiency, it will take at least two days to digest this batch of minerals.

This is the result of Xin Lailai asking Xiaobai to allocate part of the productivity to frantically produce smelting furnaces in the past two days. If the tower were in its original condition, it is estimated that this batch of minerals alone would be enough for the entire Order Tower to digest for more than half a month.

"It seems that we need to adjust the production plan slightly..."

According to Xin Lailai's original idea, after getting the first batch of minerals, they should start to focus on both the mechanical army and the ocean mining team. After all, there are only four days left before the last batch of space coordinates are generated. If they don't start accumulating the mechanical army, they may not be able to snatch the Zerg army and the Undead Army from the White Mage and Randy in the first round of fighting, allowing the opponent to form a snowball-like advantage.

But now, it seems that the most correct choice is to appropriately give up the previous one or two rounds of competition, temporarily slow down or even stop the production of the mechanical army, and shift the focus completely to the ocean mining team + resource conversion efficiency.

After all, the reason why he initially planned to advance arming and production at the same time was because he set the return rate of pyroxene crystallization in the ocean area at 200%.

Taking this time as an example, in order to ensure the operation of the seabed mining team, they moved 200 tons of the tons of pyroxene crystals stored in the fortress to be used as fuel for the seabed mining team for the whole day. Therefore, these tons of pyroxene crystals are the starting cost of the seabed miners this time, and the % return rate means that the seabed mining team must mine back enough pyroxene veins to refine a full tons of pyroxene crystals.

Normally, this is actually a return rate guess that is bold enough to drive people crazy, but the facts prove that their understanding of mining is still too conservative.

191580.08 tons.

A return rate of nearly 500%.

With this level of profit, as long as they can ensure that the crude ore harvested from a certain time can be quickly refined into effective resources that can be put into production, they don’t have to worry about the other two camps using the space coordinates and the resources of the Old Continent to snowball, because... by then, they will be the ones whose snowballs are rolling the most outrageously!
You have to know that the current seabed mining fleet has just started. As the main excavators and the main transport and guards, only 4037 deep-sea excavators and 978 deep-sea divers have been built respectively. At the same time, only less than 19.16 miners have been trained to participate in the mining team. This has reached a terrifying number of tons a day. If it continues to develop, even Xin Lailai dare not imagine how terrifying the resources produced every day will be.

Of course, that being said, if we really want to put it into practice, there will definitely be a bottleneck in the output of this resource. After all, there are only so many pyroxene vein resources in an area. After they have cleared out all the pyroxene veins in the offshore area, they can only go deep into the deep sea area if they want to mine more pyroxene veins. By then, whether it is the increased refining cost with distance or the increased water pressure caused by the increased ocean depth, it will have an extremely obvious impact on the mining income of the pyroxene veins. But even so, it is enough for them to roll out an extremely terrifying resource advantage.

"The problem is how to withstand the attacks from White Mage and Randy..."

Xin Lailai thought about it, frowning slightly.

If they choose to focus on rolling resource advantages, it means that the productivity they can invest in frontal combat will be greatly reduced. In this case, if they cannot control it well, the frontal battle line may collapse and they may be attacked from all sides by the opponent.

If it turns out like that, then placing the focus on resource advantages would be a bad move, which is equivalent to working hard to build up the economy, only to be defeated before you have time to convert the economy into equipment advantages.

But given the current situation, the probability of such a thing happening is extremely high. After all, the threat from their side is obvious. It can be said that once they enter the third stage of the battle, they will inevitably become the target of the other two camps. As long as they dare to show any obvious decline on the front battlefield, they will immediately be defeated by the two sides.

We must find a way that does not take up much productivity and can effectively increase the strength of our front line...

On the reef, Xin Lailai faced the sea breeze, lowered his eyes and thought, and finally...

Om-! !

A loud buzzing sound exploded in Xin Lailai's ears. It was the sound of the warship's whistle when it docked.

While Xin Lailai was listening to the buzzing sound made up of hundreds and thousands of whistle sounds, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the dark silver warships in front of him. After staring for a while, a smile appeared on his face.

He seemed to... have found a way to solve the problem of front-line strength in the face of insufficient productivity.

Ultimately, the current problem is that they have to snowball resources, which results in not having enough productivity to invest in the mechanical army. In other words, they are unable to gain an advantage in terms of numbers.

In this case, they can completely change their thinking.

——Since we can’t increase the quantity, then... let’s start with the quality.

Just like the Zerg and the Undead can produce elite and even heroic units, although there is no such thing as heroic mechanical units in the Mechanical Legion, the concept of ace pilots has existed since before the Mechanical Legion became established.

Remote VR remote control + top operators, combining these two things, even if it is an ace force of only a thousand people, he is sure to make it play the style of tens of thousands of heroic units on his side!
……

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Dark Glow Continent, Wilderness.

Crack! The sound of sparks popping came from the swaying campfire. In the desolate wilderness, tired wandering infected people were seen gathered around the campfire, arguing fiercely with each other.

"What a joke! Why should we give up our food to you? If it weren't for the beast tide you brought, we wouldn't have suffered such a huge loss!"

"Haha! What do you mean by the beast tide we attracted? It should be said that if we hadn't kindly reminded you, you would have crashed into it and turned into the shit of the pyroxene beasts!"

"Huh? You alien bastard, keep..." "Enough!!!"

The sound of fierce quarreling lingered from under the dim sky, and as the quarrel between the wanderers on both sides became more and more intense, the lion-haired man in the front suddenly roared, and with his strong and rough voice, he silenced all the infected people around him.

"Everyone, be quiet. What are you arguing about? Do you think the fire isn't conspicuous enough? Do you want to make more noise and attract the pyroxene beast?"

"Well, just like Mr. Lionfang said, Black Crow, I never told you to bring up the issue of food, did I?"

"S-Sorry, Boss! I was too impatient!"

The lion-haired man looked around at the crowd and shouted, while the charming lady sitting opposite him, who was wearing a black fur coat and heavy eye shadow, glanced at the subordinate who had provoked the conflict, causing the other party to tremble violently and quickly admit his mistake.

Seeing this, the woman in black fur nodded, retracted her gaze, then looked at the lion-haired man in front of her, smiled charmingly, and said:

"Okay, Mr. Lionfang, let's get back to the point~! Like I said, the Black Eagle Gathering Area has been completely destroyed by the Pyroxene Beasts. Even if you go there now, you will probably only find a group of hungry Pyroxene Beasts~!"

"Isn't there anyone coming over from the tower?"

"Who knows? Logically, there should have been a fortress two days ago, but until the pyroxene beasts crawled out of the ground desperately, there was no sign of a fortress. Maybe those warlocks above think that our lives are too cheap and don't bother to care~?"

The lady in black fur smiled, took a puff of the old pipe in her hand, exhaled circles of smoke, shrugged her shoulders, and spoke in an indifferent and lazy tone, as if she didn't care about these things at all.

The lion-haired man fell silent after hearing this. After a long while, he looked at the black fur lady in front of him and said:

"So what are you going to do?"

"What else can we do? Just wait to die. Haha, lives like ours are worthless anyway. We have made enough money by being dogs. The rest is nothing more than choosing a more decent way to die. Do you think you can enjoy your old age?"

"Wait, Boss, we shouldn't..."

"What shouldn't we do? There are so many of us, and there are pyroxene beasts everywhere. We don't have enough food. Even if we really have a conflict with Mr. Lion Fang and his men and snatch the food, with injuries and less fighting power, do you think we can go far in this damn place with our limited strength?"

"I……"

The black fur lady said indifferently, causing her subordinate who was about to refute something to be stuck there for a moment, not knowing how to respond to the other party's words, and finally could only mutter in a low voice:
"You can't just wait here to die..."

After he finished speaking, this time, the infected people around him fell silent at the same time.

Indeed, in the current situation, everyone can see that they are doomed, but when they are asked to say that they are ready to die here like the black fur queen, no one can say it.

For a moment, the atmosphere around the campfire fell into a deathly silence, until an old and hoarse voice sounded:

"Ahem... maybe... I know a way to survive."

"?!!"

As soon as the voice fell, all the infected people present, including the lazy-looking lady in black fur, looked in the direction of the source of the voice.

"Mr. Antoine, are you telling the truth?!"

The lion-haired man looked at the old teacher in front of him and asked with a somewhat hurried breath.

"It's just... ahem... maybe. We should be near the Kanos Wasteland now. If I remember correctly... ahem... if I remember correctly, going east from the Kanos Wasteland, there is an abandoned fortress that was not reclaimed by the tower. It was what was left over from the Battle of Shuton Langqi thirty years ago. Because it fell on the territory of the Gusa Federation, the great warlock who controlled the fortress at that time evacuated directly after destroying the core tower."

"Although... ahem... although thirty years have passed, if I remember correctly, each fortress has its own emergency food storage. The backup energy inside can operate automatically for more than fifty years even if the core tower is destroyed. The Guza Federation generally has no interest in plundering such things, and this place is remote enough. Therefore, if we can find that... ahem... that place, maybe we can settle down there, hold on for a while, and even build... ahem... build a new gathering place."

Under the bonfire, the old teacher coughed weakly and slowly expressed his proposal in a hoarse voice. The lion-haired man heard his words and his expression moved. After thinking for a while, he asked:
"Mr. Antoine, how far is the fortress you mentioned from here?"

"I... ahem, I don't know either, but it should be at most four towers away from here, and there are no mining areas in that direction, so the number of pyroxene beasts should be much smaller."

Four Tower Days...

Hearing this, the lion-haired man looked at the crowd around him, then looked at the charming black fur-clad lady who was also looking at him, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said:

"It seems that we can still struggle a little longer. Black Eagle, what is your decision?"

"Well~ If I don't agree, Black Crow and the others will probably tear me into pieces, right? So..."

The black fur lady shrugged her shoulders, looked at the tall lion-haired man in front of her, smiled charmingly, put down her pipe, and stretched out her hand:

"It's been a pleasure working with you, Mr. Lionfang."

"To be honest, I'm a little curious. How long can wild dogs and vultures like us, who should have been buried long ago, survive in this man-eating land?"

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(End of this chapter)