All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

Chapter 147 Transportation

Workers who meet the requirements for steel smelting plants don't need much brains; they just need to be strong and have some technical knowledge. Moreover, although that 30-year-old steelworker knew more technical skills, his body could no longer withstand eight hours of high-intensity work, so he was deemed unqualified.

Yang Fei was speechless. Whether it was Azure Star or Qianwu Star, the development of technology had gradually entered the era of AI and mechanization. Factories that actually used people to refine ore were basically non-existent. How could there be workers who both understood the technology and could actually work on the ore refining field?

However, despite the complaints, this incident also served as a reminder to Yang Fei that he should not lack basic workers for the development of Sky Island in the future, as the skills required are relatively low. For example, lumberjacks and miners are jobs that most people can meet with a little training.

However, there might be a real shortage of workers for secondary products like smelting and textile manufacturing, because according to the criteria set by Dao A, there aren't many workers on the entire Azure Star and Qianwu Star combined who meet the requirements.

Especially on Azure Star, after seven rounds of assessments, the qualified workers have probably already been selected. Even if someone later understood this, probably not many people would bother to specifically learn these things.

There's no way around it. Even if they were selected, the weekly wage of 2 copper coins is ridiculous. Perhaps the sky island job offers basic citizen support, which is very tempting for the summoned citizens. But for the Azure Star people, 2 copper coins is still far too little; it's worthless and offers no future whatsoever.

Therefore, many Sky Island workers are recruited by summoned citizens and native inhabitants. These recruited citizens and native inhabitants are random products, and even if they have good physical fitness, they need to spend time training these skills in order to achieve the Sky Island's objectives.

Therefore, Yang Fei had to make plans early. He knew very well that the expansion speed of his Sky Island far exceeded that of ordinary people. In the future, there would be no shortage of such smelting plants and textile factories. These factories would definitely need a large number of workers. It was necessary for him to start training them in advance. Wouldn't it be ridiculous to have factories but no workers?

After dealing with these two basic gains, Yang Fei turned his attention to the treasure chests and drops. The treasure chest gains this time were not too many, only 30 white and 90 gray items, and 100 revived white and 300 revived gray items, which was slightly more than the previous batch.

Since the total number of attacks could no longer be deployed near the Sky Island Blue Gate, this wave saw a split-off attack, which is a good thing in terms of the total gains.

However, most of the types of mimics are concentrated in the revival chests that cannot be opened directly, while there are relatively few chests that can be opened directly.

As for the quality of the drops, it's even worse. As mentioned before, there are even more berserk slimes this time, which seriously reduces the appearance rate of elite slimes.

The total number of special items in this wave was only about five times higher than that on easy difficulty; on the contrary, the total number of other basic items increased to about twelve times.

In summary, Yang Fei obtained the following: "56 gray ice arrow tower cards, 101 gray arrow tower cards, 666 gray crystals, 18666 bio rubber, 1543 units of wood, 1311 white rice seeds, 61 silver coins, and 80721 copper coins."

After sorting and putting away all the items, Yang Fei, leaning against Mona's chest, turned his gaze back to his sky island and considered its future development. The most important issues were transportation and various production tools.

Production tools are manageable; I can purchase some basic tools from the Heavenly Dao Shop so everyone can cultivate the sky island first. Once I unlock seed permissions, I can directly plant seeds and cultivate the land.

This is a fundamental issue for the rational development of Sky Island. Whether a lord can become a great lord, and whether a Sky Island can become a great Sky Island, the most important proof is whether it can be self-sufficient in terms of food.

If you want to develop, the first thing to solve is the problem of food. Food is the foundation of everything. Even if you have money, you should still develop agriculture, and even animal husbandry, because this is the starting point for supporting the supply and demand relationship of normal life.

If your sky island only buys food and can't produce it, it might end up being full of people who are warlike and greedy, or full of unscrupulous merchants. That's not a pleasant idea. Moreover, a sky island that can't even produce food is easily manipulated by others.

Throughout history, the concept of having enough food has been a principle of social development in any world. If you cannot produce food, the people living in your territory will naturally feel insecure. This insecurity may not be a big deal in peacetime, but it can easily lead to major problems in times of war.

Famine is a natural disaster, a man-made calamity, and a powerful weapon of gossip. Whether the government distributes grain during wartime, or how much grain is destroyed by the enemy, will exacerbate people's sense of insecurity. This insecurity may lead to riots, protests, and so on in the rear areas that should be peaceful.

Yang Fei was powerless to predict the future, but as a lord, he still needed to have a basic sense of crisis. His Sky Island had to take the path of self-sufficiency. Even if he had money and resources, he still needed to support the various basic infrastructures for the development of the Sky Island.

There are spirits in the spirit fields, so I won't lack cultivation resources in the future, but I also need to have enough food. I had already planned to entrust food production to the people of Qianwu Star and Canglan Star, and I would only need to take a portion of their harvest as "rent" to meet my living needs.

Therefore, this development strategy must be implemented as soon as possible. Only with grain production can we calmly execute our various subsequent development strategies. Otherwise, we will really be unable to eat or sleep in peace!

Next, there's the matter of transportation. My island's radius is already 4 kilometers, which is no small amount.

Moreover, he has an astonishing reserve of core stones, and this area will only grow larger in the future. Without reaching the Qi Refining Realm, there is no extraordinary ability. Therefore, for both himself and the people of the Sky Island, transportation has become an urgent problem to be solved.

Regarding this, I currently have three solutions: firstly, the modern society on Qianwu Star; secondly, various sky island buildings and transportation cards; and thirdly, the customization service of the Abyss Shop.

Each of these three approaches has its advantages and disadvantages, and Yang Fei wants to implement them all.

First and foremost, the simplest and least costly option is the modern society of Qianwu Star! Yang Fei doesn't require cars, trains, or airplanes, but at the very least, he needs to get some non-motorized vehicles like bicycles.

Since secondary products cannot be brought into Sky Island, while Yang Fei's Fallen Heavens can circumvent this rule, this solution is the simplest and least costly.

However, that world is teeming with zombies, so finding these vehicles is no easy task.

Yang Fei's attitude towards this was simply to do his best. He wasn't quite clear about the zombie spawning rules of that world, and he didn't know if the endless zombies of that world and the endless mode of this world were the same thing. If they were, then Yang Fei couldn't break in for the time being and could only take it one step at a time.

The second option is various sky island buildings and transportation cards. For example, the port that Yang Fei is still building can produce void ships, which are the most important means of transportation in this world.

However, low-level void ships cannot land on the sky islands and can only travel in the void, making them unreliable for internal transportation within the sky islands. Yang Fei still needs to obtain something similar to a bus station or even a train station to build transportation within the sky islands in order to realize this plan, which will depend on luck.

Moreover, both ports and train stations require supporting facilities. For example, ports need docks to berth empty ships, and train stations need stations and tracks. All of these require time, various materials, and corresponding workers, so we can only take it one step at a time.

The third option is the customization service from the Abyss Shop. I have to say, the Abyss Shop really surprised me. It was my last line of defense. When other options couldn't proceed due to various material or equipment problems, this thing was always there to help me solve this big problem.

However, the Abyss Shop's customization service is already fully booked these past two days. If we can prioritize solving the problem of the Mimic monsters, then we should prioritize solving the Mimic monsters. The priority of transportation is definitely not as high as defending against monster sieges.

Therefore, each of these three options has its own advantages and disadvantages, and they can complement each other. Yang Fei does not intend to abandon any of them, but will implement them in stages, depending on the situation.

With Qianwu Star as the main force and opening treasure chests and the Abyss Shop as supplementary methods, Yang Fei gradually developed the transportation of his Sky Island. This was Yang Fei's answer to the "transportation" requirement among the basic necessities of life for his Sky Island.

However, no matter which plan is chosen, it will take time to implement, which is not what Yang Fei needs at the moment. What he wants to do now is to resolve the issues related to his inspection of the various developments on the Sky Island and his travel back and forth.

Even just one bicycle would be fine. It's not that we have to patrol or rest, but some small problems always suddenly arise. For example, because we get a lot of resources from each wave of monster attacks, there are problems with the classification and storage of the various resource accumulation areas.

The lesser demons are not good at making decisions on their own, or rather, they are too clever and always like to do unnecessary things. The management demons are too busy to rest and can't solve the problems themselves, so they have to go in person. The price of going in person is physical and mental exhaustion, which gives them a headache. Therefore, transportation or communication is one of the most important issues at present.

Moreover, solving the transportation problem can save the people a lot of trouble. Take the lesser demons as an example. The refugees and wounded elves on Qianwu Star who have not joined him have their activity areas restricted by Yang Fei, but the lesser demons are different. Many lesser demons, especially the members of the transport team after each wave, are quite busy.

As the Sky Island gradually grows larger, especially after the fifth wave begins, and since I plan to upgrade the Sky Island, I must find a way to solve this problem before then.

Rest time always flies by, and before they knew it, almost half an hour had passed. Without hesitation, Yang Fei had everyone take their places and then started today's daily challenge.

"Apprentice Lord Yang Fei—1, your daily challenge will begin in ten minutes. Check your current progress; this is the beginner's challenge."

The fourth wave of the Extreme difficulty level has been cleared. The siege monsters are sprites. A total of 12 double-strike Extreme Mode levels are required. Completing the daily challenge will grant a 60% bonus to the final reward. The challenge will begin in ten minutes; please be prepared to defend.

"Please note that this daily challenge is a result of the fourth wave of extreme difficulty monster siege. The monster type is Sprite, level - Beast 0, and the number of monsters is -10000, which has reached the daily challenge monster limit. The attributes are one-tenth of the normal wave."

"Please adjust the position of the War Slab — the move and rebuild functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

"Note: Regardless of the monster that appears in the daily challenge, please pay attention to the challenge time."

With the appearance of this new wave of monsters, the siege monsters have also changed accordingly. Since Yang Fei did not trigger the special event for the sprites, all the sprites that came in this daily challenge were the normal versions. Their attributes were not only one-tenth of the normal versions, but their speed, which they were proud of, was also weakened, making them extremely weak.

The entire wave proceeded smoothly. Even though the succubus sisters didn't make a move, and Yang Fei didn't give any orders, the defense was still very easy. The entire battlefield was dominated by thirty elven arrow towers, with the tentacle jellyfish fighting in their physical form below the towers as support, which easily annihilated the entire elven army.

The only slightly difficult one was the Mimic, but because the defensive pressure wasn't high this wave, and with the Succubus sisters' excitement boost at night, the Arrow Towers easily eliminated all the Mimics.

Ultimately, these mimics, who had become frequent visitors to the Sky Island, contributed 30 white mimics, 60 gray mimics, 60 white resurrection mimics, and 320 gray resurrection mimics to Yang Fei. The total income from mimics increased again, but the number of mimics that could be opened and used continued to decrease.

Yang Fei was also helpless about this. He had treasures but couldn't use them. The Treasure Chest Monster King, whose existence was uncertain, was really annoying. Wasn't this just messing with his mentality?

Moreover, Yang Fei couldn't just ignore these guys. If they were to launch a sneak attack when he wasn't looking, things would get really messy. Fortunately, he had the Tentacle Tower and Storm Tower as their "guardians," so these guys would never cause trouble.

But we can't keep doing this forever. Using the Tentacle Tower and Storm Tower to deal with them is only the final solution. Yang Fei also wants something that can directly eliminate them while they are dormant.

It seems my Abyss Shop will have work to do again, but not right now.

As mentioned earlier, the Abyss Shop needs to prioritize solving the problem of the treasure chest monster swarm attack, followed by the transportation problem, and then this problem. The order of priority for these problems must be based on their size.