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Q: Since Lao Xia didn't show off his muscles, why is no one coming to eat up this ten million tons of sugar and feel so good about it?

A: He lit up, not with a nuclear bomb, but with those ten million candies, which is the muscle he showed.

If you still can't understand, then it only means that you are probably even more... like the Crouching Dragon and the Young Phoenix than the Showa-era Japanese staff officers.

Because Yamamoto Isoroku's first reaction after seeing Detroit's Motor City was—Japan couldn't possibly win.

Similarly, what does Lao Xia's ten million tons of sugar mean?

System resources that appear out of nowhere? Treasures dropped by monsters? Benefits and treasures that seem to appear out of nowhere in a light novel?

This sugar is legitimately produced, especially since sugar is an agricultural product.

This means that if he can produce 10 million tons of sugar, he can produce 20 million tons of sugar crops. And if he can produce 20 million tons of sugar crops, based on the normal agricultural population needs of Terra, these tycoons and countries (if they have a reliable prime minister) can do a simple math problem to estimate a figure.

That is, without having a God's-eye view and not knowing that Lao Xia possesses supernatural and bizarre technology, how large a planting scale and how many people would be needed to produce ten million tons of sugar?

Then, based on the population's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter, how many people are needed for ancillary industries? And how large an army can be formed from these people at a ratio of 1 in 20?

Leaving aside the fact that sugar is a luxury in Terra, meaning that they are a surplus product of having met their basic needs.

So, what's your reaction to a force that's heading straight for mega-production cities, or even small countries? Should you board a dirt plane? Or swallow them whole and be all smiles?

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that these people are just as incompetent as Western governments in reality.

Since they want to profit from Lao Xia's sugar business, they first need to understand two things.

First, where is this sugar stored, and where was it produced?

Second, how do we transport this sugar out of the Ursus snowfield?

If you don't understand these two points, you won't be able to rob or take possession of anything—because even when you rob someone, you need to know where the fat sheep is.

And to understand these two...

Either you get blocked by Ursus's blockade and find that the other side can move back and forth with Ursus's regular army vehicles, forcing them to close their gates.

Either you're lucky enough to get into the vicinity of the farm and bump into the Patriots' Shield Guards and the Yeti, and then...

Your spies or intelligence agents, if they had even a shred of professional ethics, would report to you that "the enemy's strength is unfathomable; we must not antagonize them..."

This is such a stupid question, it's like... how should I put it?

The Soviet Union exported large quantities of oil and natural gas, so why didn't anyone invade the Soviet Union to control crude oil production, and why did they have to endure their price suppression?

Prologue: The Pioneers

Prologue:

"We hereby appoint Mr. Xia Lin of our company as a technical assistant for the 'Star Road Pioneer' project. He shall report to the colony pioneer in charge at the temporary colony on Planet 7 of the 14th new settlement of the 'Star Road' project before January 24, 2296."

—December 7, 2295, Planetary Reclamation and Planting Company…

With a "whoosh," he casually tossed the document aside, revealing the electronic ticket underneath. The graphene card was printed with the MVS (Interstellar Shipping) company's logo and slogan. "Whoosh—" The young man tossed the ticket and document together, leaned back, and rested against the slightly stained bulkhead.

The first-class cabins on the large transport ship Windrunner are standard double rooms, with bunk beds and a cabinet that doubles as a table being all the furniture.

However, there's only one customer currently staying in the entire cabin. There's no way around it; the Starpath Expansion Project is essentially a large-scale development of the border star rings, and very few people will take this ship, let alone buy a first-class ticket.

"Buzz!" The bulkhead made a buzzing sound, and the low-frequency vibration, like a massage, was transmitted to every part of the body. Don't expect this kind of old-fashioned long-haul spaceship to have a warp damping shock absorber. The gravitational shock wave after each warp will become this kind of low-frequency vibration throughout the ship.

It makes you feel itchy all over, as if someone is tickling you with a feather.

However, the crew members had gotten used to this feeling and regarded those spaceships equipped with advanced damping and shock compensation devices as something driven by "sissies"—just like the hierarchy of contempt between manual and automatic transmissions.

The porthole panel slid down automatically, revealing the starry sky outside and the approaching space station. The spacecraft would complete some unloading and loading work here, with an estimated stay of 2 hours, mainly to replenish some necessary supplies for the newly established colonies.

Most of these newly developed planets are difficult to be completely self-sufficient, mainly because they need to import some industrial products and equipment from the outside, with equipment being the main component, such as oxygen production equipment, aquaculture equipment, and so on.

"Mr. Xia Lin, customer of warehouse number 9, please come to the warehouse immediately to assist with opening and inspecting the boxes."

Just as the young man was staring blankly at the ceiling, a communication message came through his Personal Neural System (PNIS): "Customs inspection, there is a problem with your cargo."

The Windrunner is a standard large passenger and cargo transport ship, but in terms of interstellar transportation, it only has spacecraft as its means of transportation.

Therefore, they are often used interchangeably as transport ships, rather than passenger ships carrying people and cargo ships carrying goods, which would require two separate ships.

However, intraplanetary shipping is separate: people travel by spaceship, while cargo is launched via a cargo orbit accelerator. Although the speed is slower, the cost is lower.

It has 12 cargo bays on each side. Cargo bay number nine is located near the living area at the stern and is a standard starship cargo bay. Standard containers and airdrop pods are fixed to their respective platforms and held in place by mechanical claws to prevent them from being thrown out during spacecraft acceleration and maneuvering, or from being damaged by gravity.

"Mr. Xia Lin from Xingken Company, right?" After confirming his identity, the male staff member in the customs uniform took out a tablet terminal.

Although PNIS can serve most of the functions of mobile phones, tablets, ID cards, and computers.

However, these old devices and processes still exist as a necessity for official record-keeping.

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"Please assist us with unpacking and inspection. Our remote scanning shows that your device contains positioning signals of military-standard equipment..."

“I have the Pioneer Certificate and the corresponding S1-specification weapons license…” Xia Lin forwarded an electronic document to the customs officer. “I don’t think there should be any problem with this, right?”

The Pathfinder Certificate and S1 Specification Weapon License allow him to carry a limited number of licensed military weapons and equipment when traveling to frontier planets as a Pathfinder.

"Yes, we have verified your company's documents and your permission. However, in order to prevent the smuggling of prohibited equipment into the outer ring area, please assist in opening the box for inspection."

"Okay, okay..." There's no point in arguing with customs, and you can't win anyway. Xia Lin tossed a gene verification code onto the warehouse, and the warehouse gates opened automatically to both sides.

"Look, it's all standard equipment used in state farms, except for the addition of a small electronic melting furnace..."

"Indeed—" Customs inspected the cargo boxes, scanning the internal structure and checking the serial numbers and instructions on the external packaging to see if they matched, as well as for any hidden compartments or concealed parts.

"Look, the basic composite production line, machine tools, seed storage, and an agricultural machinery assembly station—that's it." "Then what about this airdrop capsule…?"

Customs refers to the rather large industrial airdrop capsule, which is like a small building that is five or six stories high.

"It's for establishing new colonies, so I don't think that counts as smuggling, right?"

“Indeed…” After a thorough inspection, apart from a package of military-grade equipment with special permits and related documents, all the other items were equipment commonly used in the colonies.

"Have I been reported?"

"No, that's not true. It's just that recently, the Long March Galaxy caught several guys trying to smuggle military equipment to non-human races outside the outer ring, especially those with production equipment on the blockade list, so they're cracking down hard now."

The customs officer shrugged. "Blame them if you want. There's nothing we can do. These days, we've been checking almost every container heading to the outer ring road..."

"You've really worked hard..."

"That's right... I wonder when this will ever end." As fellow office workers "exiled" to the inner ring area, they suddenly felt a strange sense of empathy and mutual understanding.

After the inspection was completed, the customs ship withdrew from the Windrunner and set off again. Xia Lin needed to sort through the cargo boxes that had been opened before in the cargo hold and confirm that there were no problems such as damage.

Among these things, the cheaper electronic furnaces are manageable, but he can't afford to lose that "Tree of Life" synthetic seed bank. Don't assume that agricultural stuff is synonymous with cheap; agricultural machinery and equipment are not cheap at all, and may even be several times more expensive than those seemingly high-end gadgets.

After several days of travel, the spacecraft is finally about to reach its destination. "The spacecraft is about to enter stargate jump mode. There is no docking station at the destination. Please arrange the airdrop operation, customers in module nine..."

As a new colony without an orbital station, or to put it more bluntly, a station with only four people on the entire planet is clearly not capable of landing a massive cargo ship weighing tens of millions of tons in the atmosphere and then carrying its small cargo.

This is why an industrial drop pod is needed. The ship will only orbit twice, then drop him and the drop pod together. The ship will then head to its next destination to deliver a large number of prefabricated components—commonly known as interstellar scaffolding—to a planetary pyrolysis mine, along with 15 compartments of decomposition furnaces for constructing mineral separation arrays.

The industrial airdrop pod is a commonly used colonial airdrop device for building new settlements. It is a cylindrical prefabricated structure with an outer diameter of 13.5 meters, an inner diameter of 9.9 meters, and a height of 18.8 meters. It contains two cargo platforms and one vehicle platform. It adopts a simple modular self-disassembly design, which can be easily disassembled and reconstructed into a standard colonial workshop after landing.

It is used to install the "Architect" basic composite production line and other production equipment, and it also carries personnel compartments to transport personnel. Compared with cargo airdrop capsules, it is larger and should be described as a disposable emergency landing rocket - the retro-rockets take up more than half of its length and space.

Xia Lin checked once again to make sure that everything in the frozen cargo box was alright. If anything happened to the embryos and seeds, he would have to wait and eat "emergency biscuits" made from organic sauce for a whole year with his four future colleagues. That kind of terrible torture would be enough to make even the most determined person feel like taking their own life.

Not to mention the possibility of severe penalties from the company, as these are expensive items that have been specially cultivated and customized by professional institutions on Earth, and are important production materials for building this border organic agricultural production base.

The tissue culture tanks and advanced hydroponic chambers in ordinary hydroponic agricultural bases are not as expensive as the seeds and embryos in this large frozen cargo box.

In addition, the "Tree of Life" seed synthesis library is also an incredibly expensive device, used to genetically modify and synthesize certain alien plants to adapt to the alien environment.

It's like an automated genetics workstation. This is the item requested by the alien botanist at the site, and I don't know if the management has lost their minds, but they actually approved his application.

The rest are typical agricultural machinery and equipment, such as builders for constructing cultivation chambers, recycling and decomposition tanks for making synthetic soil from local materials and household waste, as well as water pumps and machine tools, etc.

The term "exploration technology assessor" sounds like a thrilling job involving exploring alien planets, opening up new living space for humanity, and assessing and investigating various dangers in the colonies—yes, that's a high-EQ way of putting it—but the real meaning is... a low-EQ way of putting it.

Low emotional intelligence: This is exactly what agricultural technicians who go to the countryside to support agriculture are like.

The development of colonies presents some technical challenges in agriculture and maintenance, requiring him to bring the necessary equipment and supplies to guide their installation and use, conduct on-site assessments of local conditions, and provide tailored technical support in agriculture, animal husbandry, and forestry.

After confirming that everything was secured to his cargo platform and racks, including the chassis of the General Motors agricultural tracked truck, Xia Lin ran to his personal cabin and brought his luggage over, stuffing it into the luggage rack of the personnel drop-off bay on the second floor.

Although there's still some time before we arrive, it's better to avoid being hasty and careless. If we forget something, it will cause a lot of trouble. A spaceship isn't a taxi; you can't ask the driver to turn back.

After carefully checking the cargo and luggage list to make sure nothing was missing, Xia Lin sat down in the airdrop pod, pulled down the safety harness, and fastened her seatbelt.

"Welcome to Elite Technology, FD4 Industrial Drop Pod..." After adjusting all modes on the panel to automatic mode, Xia Lin pulled down the helmet of her extreme environmental protection suit, and after confirming that her posture and safety devices were correct, she waited for the captain to start dropping things at the destination.

"Jump complete, spaceship is entering orbit..." Xia Lin, inside the drop pod, couldn't see what was happening outside, nor could she hear the panicked screams from the bridge. She only heard a deafening roar, "Boom!"

Sharp, bluish-black unidentified rocks pierced the spaceship's hull, followed by more sharp stones. These objects, which looked like some kind of ore, crackled with lightning and instantly overloaded the nearby circuitry.

"What's going on? What happened?!" Xia Lin twisted and turned, not knowing what was happening outside, why the spaceship was shaking so violently, and what the explosions and impacts were all about.

"Crack... hiss—" The sound of depressurization came from the cargo hold, followed by the first cargo hold detaching from the main support. Clearly, the spaceship seemed to be attempting to reduce weight and accelerate, jettisoning the cargo in an attempt to survive.

Soon, it was Xia Lin's turn. "Bang!" The airdrop pod was violently thrown out of the cargo hold.

The cargo module rotated in the starry sky, separating from the airdrop pod. Various large and small packaging boxes flew around wildly due to inertial rotation, colliding with those bluish-black, meteorite-like objects and sparking everywhere. Further away, the Windrunner had already jettisoned most of its cargo, attempting to forcibly escape the gravitational field and fly towards a safe location.

"Bang!" The airdrop pod hit something and started spinning instantly. A piercing alarm sounded throughout the pod, and then it was engulfed in crimson flames.

On the snow-covered plain, a small figure wrapped in thick blankets and clothes raised its head. In the azure sky, shooting stars descended from the heavens, trailing long tails, like dazzling fireworks blooming in the morning sky.

The largest meteor roared through the clouds, shattering the pale snow mist in the snow-covered forest. The thick conifers were no match for the crushing force of this behemoth, emitting a series of snapping and cracking sounds.

The giant cylinder landed smoothly on a clearing next to a coniferous forest. Its protective outer shell fell in all directions, while the positioning and communication beacon on top emerged from the protective shield and extended into the sky.

"Whoosh!" "Bang!" The communication beacon, which had just been extended, was struck by a burst of flame. The spinning spaceship debris sliced ​​the entire beacon in two like a sharp blade. Then, more small fragments hit the barn-like structure, riddling the external equipment, which had already been stripped of its protective shell for easy disassembly, with holes.

As an industrial airdrop capsule, its designers considered various unforeseen circumstances, including the possibility that the spacecraft might fail to operate properly during deployment, causing it to deviate from its orbit, or even land lying horizontally on the ground, or being dropped in the wrong location.

The only thing they hadn't considered was the possibility of the spaceship exploding the moment it was airdropped, and they hadn't even considered the low probability of being hit by spaceship debris after landing and completing the normal procedures to remove the protection – after all, this was just a civilian product, not a military item to be delivered amidst gunfire on the battlefield.

Chapter One: To get rich, first...

Chapter One