Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

However, considering that this guy has a fully automated explosives factory, blowing up a mountain is just a matter of physical labor and time.

"Safety first, you should get into the bunker. Otherwise, I won't be able to explain it to Kal'tsit if you die..."

"Okay, okay—" After all, they were just thinking about their own safety. The Sarkaz witch, who didn't care, jumped into the bunker. There were almost no explosive boxes placed at the test detonation point anymore. Only the long relay cable and W's test Originium blocks stretched all the way to the bunker's observation port.

With a clang, a brown guardrail came down. The sturdy metal, prestressed metal mesh, and multi-layered graphene lenses gave the impression of a formidable enemy.

"Is it really necessary—" W shook his head, "Cowardly young man, are you ready to face this fiery world?"

"Wait a minute," Xia Lin closed the blast door, locked the three bolts and the turntable, and carefully checked all the locations of the observation bunker. "Alright, that's enough."

"Tsk!" W pressed the detonation button...

"Here, the soil is hard, don't dig; dig along this path, don't go astray." The tall and burly Mudrock pointed with her hammer at a line formed by crystals on the ground. Under her Originium Arts, fine Originium dust continuously rose from the soil, forming a line, and different shades indicated whether the ground below was soil or gravel.

The burly warrior, who possesses the sorcery to sense the state of the soil and even control it using Originium particles as sensors, has exceptional abilities in assigning tasks, laying lines, and leveling terrain.

She can even arrange the right number of excavators based on the actual state of the soil, so that a small group doesn't have to deal with hard permafrost, while a large group has to deal with loose soil that's easy to dig. She also arranges preparatory work such as pumping water in advance based on the actual degree of freezing and moisture content below.

This significantly accelerated the progress of the two basic water conservancy projects: drainage ditches and irrigation canals. The only thing Mudrock wasn't good at was how to operate and deal with Xia Lin's cement without Originium. Fortunately, there were still a few bricklayers among the infected.

"Yes, boss." The infected workers swung their shovels, sweating profusely. This expert was not only highly skilled, but his burly physique also convinced them. That's how the Ursus people were.

If you are a "benevolent father" like Stalin, then they are the best workers and soldiers in the world.

But if you're a simpleton like Talulah, then they might be the most terrifying troublemakers in the world. The harsh environment of the snowfield makes them never afraid of tyrants; on the contrary, they are more afraid of poverty and more likely to fall into depravity through alcohol and pleasure.

"It's getting late. Is it okay to work tonight?" The sky was already filled with the glow of sunset. In winter, the days in Ursus are very short, usually only 2-3 hours long, while the days in summer are extremely long, resulting in a day-night phenomenon, where the sun never sets and the entire sky appears dimly lit due to atmospheric scattering.

"We have industrial lighting fixtures, we'll go get them right now..."

"Hmm," Mudrock continued, her head bowed, as if communicating with the soil. Whenever she was in this state, the rest of the team would not disturb her.

Although the Mudrock Leader is much quieter and gentler than the Bob Leader, or rather, she is as quiet, gentle, and tolerant as a silent earth—but when the earth unleashes its fury, it is far more terrifying than any storm.

"Huh?" The soil in front of him suddenly lit up, as if under the midday sun. Is this what they call industrial lighting? Mud Rock looked up and saw a new sun rising on the horizon.

The sun sank towards the earth, dimming the starry sky. The entire world was illuminated by its blazing light, turning from incandescent to dark red. Shockwaves pounded the ground, the shockwaves spreading rapidly along the rock layers and soil. Trees fell to the sides, the intense heat having already stripped them of all moisture before they fell, leaving only the shadows of carbon in the shape of trees.

The rising smoke and mist spread rapidly into the sky under the action of thermal convection, and expanded under low pressure, forming a shape like a mushroom reaching from the sky to the ground.

"Clang!" The wine glass filled with red wine shattered on the carpet. Kosichek looked in the direction of Kitahara. Through the snake scales at the front line, he could almost see the sun brewing below the horizon and the terrifying smoke clouds.

"No, no, no, impossible, impossible! How could this be? How could this be?! How could this be?! This is not a power that a human should have, not a power that a human should possess. This is a mistake, no, a mistake! A mistake that must be corrected!"

“My God—” Kal'tsit took off her glasses, “Now, those ‘gods’ and ‘Old Ones’ are going to go crazy…”

"What is this? It's so cool!" Kroos rubbed her eyes, which were red from the light. "How about we get one too?"

"This is the lament of a fallen god, and the flames that slay gods. It seems my judgment of the visitor from the stars was far too superficial."

Meanwhile, back in Yan, the mysterious Draco girl, who was enjoying hot pot, suddenly looked up, as if sensing something.

"My God! Weren't all those things used up? I destroyed the ones I didn't finish using. Where did those bear-men find new ones from? Wait, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with me, does it?"

The god of fire and forging suddenly remembered something, then scratched his head, "I don't think I'm a guardian deity anymore? Oh well, never mind."

"So, your fear of firecrackers is the root of this problem?"

"How dare you! Why are you slandering me? Was I afraid of firecrackers? Were those firecrackers? Can you even call those things simple firecrackers? If the Yan people found seven or eight of these firecrackers in the mountains and threw them at your face, wouldn't you be afraid?!"

"You've managed to survive until now, that's truly amazing!"

"Hey, if the firecrackers they found were still intact, I'd probably have them all over the place by now. I packed up and ran away as soon as I saw them bring these things out."

As it turned out, those Yan people actually dared to boast that they had killed a god... The other old guys were the same; as soon as they saw the Yan people set off such a big firecracker, they immediately packed their bags and ran away without a moment's hesitation.

“But the Black Serpent is still in Ursus, he hasn’t moved, and he seems to be trying to move north.” Draco, carrying a paintbrush, pointed to the northwest.

“He is truly brave! I, Lord Nian, am completely convinced and will definitely visit his grave often to sweep it, and bring the other old fellows along to give him a proper send-off.”

"You mean to say, you'd immediately drag everyone to the scene and laugh at us, right!?"

"That's called being decent!" The white-haired, red-tattooed girl grabbed her chopsticks. "That piece of tripe is mine! I saw you steal my tripe!"

"Whoever gets it first keeps it!"

“Crackling sound—” Inside the dark bunker, the two looked at each other. “So, if I hadn’t given you a hand, you would now be scattered across the Ursus snowfield, merging into this land in the form of carbon cycling.”

"No, you call this mining explosives?" W thought for a moment. "Or do we have some disagreement or misunderstanding about the definition of a bomb?"

"No, this is mining explosive. I told you before, just blow up one to see. You insisted on putting in two boxes. Although it's not a fusion reaction explosive, but just all-nitrogen anion explosive, with two big boxes and half a box of plasma batteries, the power is not much less than a nuclear bomb."

"So you're not kidding when you say you're going to blast through 1.1 kilometers of rock to mine?"

W always thought he was just joking. After all, what does it mean to blast open a rock layer more than 1100 meters deep? It would take at least half a year to achieve that with ordinary mining explosives.

"So, do you have a plan now?"

"I need to... think this through carefully. This isn't just a simple matter of blasting; you'll need to find professional mining and geological experts to help. Otherwise... the mountain really might collapse from your blasting."

"Also, how much of this explosive do you have left?"

"No, it's made and fried to order, absolutely not stored for long periods, it's too dangerous." Xia Lin didn't dare store this stuff. "As for production, it's no more than half a ton per day..."

"Half a ton? Five hundred kilograms? How have the Ursus Empire's blockade lines survived until now?"

W was completely baffled. Half a ton of this stuff every day could blast the entire Ursus territory into a paste bit by bit, so why were their blockade lines still intact?

"How to deliver it? How to detonate it safely? How to avoid affecting civilians?"

“Indeed…” W nodded. “I didn’t expect you to care about ordinary people?”

"Without them, am I supposed to dig the soil and plant the crops myself, then sit around with a huge pile of raw materials eating chaff and drinking thin gruel?" Xia Lin turned the door hinge with all her might. "Come and help me, this thing seems to be stuck."

After scrambling out of the bunker, the aftershocks of the explosion had gradually subsided. In a sense, it was just a conventional explosion, without gamma rays or radiation contamination, and the crater at the epicenter wasn't too big. It was just that the scene during the explosion was somewhat horrifying.

"Mr. Xia, is this the explosive you wanted to test?"

“Ah, she put several boxes in. I said one would be enough. Hmm, not the kind of thing you’re thinking of.” Xia Lin immediately saw what Kal'tsit was talking about. “That kind of thing, I don’t have a high-speed centrifuge to separate enough deuterium, and I can’t get enough helium either. I do have an ignition device, but it’s for reactors. Speaking of reactors, where’s the electrical engineer you promised?”

"That's me. What are you planning to do, boss? I'm not bragging, but I set up the entire power grid system for Rhodes Island. It only requires a tiny little cost—" Kroos rubbed her hands together.

"The blueprints are here," Xia Lin said, placing the wiring diagram she had prepared earlier into Kroos's hands.

To be honest, it looks very chaotic, but from the perspective of power grid engineering, it is considered a small project.

It was just too troublesome; each settlement used its own generator, and they didn't use many electrical appliances.

It's essentially not connected to the grid at all. The only connection is the power grid from the workshop to the workshop street, plus the separate transmission relay tower and heat collection tower.

It's at most the level of indoor wiring in a residential area. Kelushire just glanced at the drawings and had a general idea of ​​what it was like. It seemed complicated.

Actually, it's quite simple. It's just that we don't know if Boss Xia plans to straighten out the power grid or connect the various settlements to the grid. If it's the latter, then it will be a bit more difficult.

Xia Lin's current power grid is a typical star topology that is not fully connected to the grid. Each settlement has a generator to power the electric water pumps and a small number of household appliances in the settlement. Although the lines are messy, the structure is actually very simple.

A single power source, a small number of electrical appliances, and uniform power usage time and standards represent a design challenge typically found only by beginners in electrical engineering.

"So, what is Mr. Xia planning to get?"

"The entire industrial power grid and a residential power grid are connected together, reserving space for future upgrades, to form a dynamic power grid structure."

“Uh…” Kroos looked at the map and blueprints and swallowed hard. “Approximately how big is it?”

"Oh, let me see. From here to here. By the way, those probes in the wilderness are also within the power supply and usage range. Also, a mine is planned to be built here, so a super high-voltage power line will need to be laid there in the future. Oh, and here... here..."

"Master Ke, what do you think?" Kroos looked at the stranger, who stared at the mountain of blueprints and thick stack of data for a few seconds in silence. "Is it too late for me to resign now?"

Despite its small size, this thing is almost as complex as the power grid engineering of a complete mobile city.

Mobile cities are better, at least they don't involve intercity power transmission systems, and their electricity consumption is mainly concentrated in a few major areas, which are several independent power grid systems. But here, they are required to be connected together.

If it were just about connecting the existing facilities to the network, it would be a beginner's challenge. However, the problem is that Xia Lin proposed leaving enough room for his future grand plans.

Moreover, after reviewing those parameters, the power output of those generators was excessively large, meaning that if they didn't want anything to burn out due to grid fluctuations, they would need enough idle units to handle the buffering work.

"How many generator sets does Boss Xia have left?"

"Are there any parameters, such as their frequency, that can be adjusted?"

"Yes, actually, I use wireless power transmission and superconducting power transmission here. It's just... for certain reasons, it can't be widely adopted."

"That's alright..." It's a big project, but it's still within the scope of what humans can handle. Anything more advanced, he could only suggest Xia Lin play with a green electric grid—I figured that would make it run! What? It's working? Then don't touch it.

Chapter Ninety-Eight: Concentrating the Power of the Sun at Your Fingertips

Chapter Ninety-Eight

The workshop and living area, which were originally empty, have been divided and filled up. In addition to dividing the original bedroom into two rooms to give Yelena her own small room, the original dining room and living room have also been divided up to be used as an office and drawing room.

"Hmm—" Xia Lin stared at the holographic projection floating on the drawing platform. It was a scanned structural map of the environmental terrain around the farm, used for planning water conservancy and infrastructure. After making a few modifications, Xia Lin pressed a button on the side of the drawing platform, and sheets of paper drawings quickly gushed out of the machine.

"Phew—" Looking up at the window, it was already pitch black. The holographic clock on the window showed that it was around one o'clock in the morning. "Ah—" Xia Lin stretched and stood up.

"Woo-woo—" Yelena, dressed in cute bunny pajamas, knelt on the chair, her upper body slumped against the back of the chair, already asleep.

"Go back to your room if you want to sleep—" Old Xia shook his head, reached out and picked up the white rabbit around the waist, feeling its texture. "Hmm? Has it gotten heavier?"

"Honestly, you're a grown woman now, you should be a little more particular." He put the white rabbit back on her bed, drew the curtains, and closed the door. "Ha... it's getting late, I'll go to sleep too."

"Hey boss, I'm here to see you! When do we start work?!" The next day, W's cheerful voice rang out from outside the door as he pounded on the workshop door. "We should go do some site scouting!"

Blasting mining inevitably involves on-site exploration. Whether to drill holes, how deep to drill, and how much explosive to bury are all matters of careful consideration.

It's not that it's impossible to blast it open, but that would require a huge amount of explosives, which Lao Xia's production capacity simply cannot supply.

Moreover, he obviously wouldn't produce or store such a dangerous substance in large quantities for a long time, waiting for it to explode or spoil.

Although Lao Xia had previously explored the mining face, it was a standard cliff slope with rocky terrain and no soil.

Strictly speaking, the ore begins to appear less than 1 meter below the rock, but due to its low grade, it has no smelting value.

"Oh, I see. Wait for me to get my equipment. Yelena, go and call Skadi. There might still be some Sea Sirens in those mountains."

"Got it." Yelena yawned and quickly disappeared outside the farm. Not long after, Skadi, who was still wearing long pants and a tight vest in the dead of winter and seemed completely oblivious to the cold, came over carrying a greatsword.

Of all the people on the farm, Skadi was the most difficult to get along with. No one knew what she was thinking. Beneath her serious or rather, indifferent and calm appearance, she might not be thinking about anything at all, but her temperament and appearance were undeniable.

This caused even the other infected employees working in the workshop to be somewhat afraid of her, and they usually didn't dare to get too close. Fortunately, Skadi herself wasn't a talkative person, and she seriously played her role as an assistant, occasionally patrolling along the river to see if any fish or creatures infected by the sea appeared.

"Everyone's here, let's go." Xia Lin tossed the exploration equipment into the trunk of the patrol car and got into the driver's seat. Skadi sat next to her, holding a rifle. She wasn't good at or liked using ranged weapons, but it was indeed inconvenient to swat with a sword in the car.

As for W, he stayed with the equipment and the explosives used for on-site testing. Although they were called explosives, the actual amount was not much; they were just testing the blast resistance of specific rock formations.

To avoid the situation where the explosion causes a collapse instead of an explosion, the amount of earthwork to be cleared would be an epic undertaking. Not only would the amount of earthwork be a problem, but with the arrival of snowmelt in the summer, it might even turn into a mudslide, giving everyone a real spectacle.