DipNovel Chapter 147 Harvest from the Port and Dock Area
Chapter 147 Harvest from the Port and Dock Area
Chapter 148 Harvest from the Port and Dock Area
However, after Dong Qi actually entered Phoenix City, the snow-covered scene he had imagined did not appear.
Phoenix, on the contrary, presented a scene of desolation and quietness.
If Dong Qi hadn't seen on the screen on the center console that the outside temperature had dropped to minus 120 degrees Celsius, he wouldn't have been able to see this.
It's unimaginable that the temperature could be this low in a place where there's not a speck of frost outside.
However, Dong Qi did not linger in Phoenix City at this time, but went straight to the area where the port and dock were located.
Even though Phoenix's port was once a bustling and prosperous place, in this special period, most of the area is still covered by seaweed that has spread from the sea.
In fact, in coastal areas like Daxia, which were originally quite prosperous, they first tried to clear the seaweed off the ground.
Even if all of them are harvested on the same day, or even if the land is dug up and the seaweed is uprooted, it will not prevent the seaweed from reappearing the next day.
Perhaps because those areas were indeed quite important, after struggling for more than half a month, they finally had no choice but to give up after confirming that it was impossible to completely remove the seaweed.
When Dong Qi drove to the port terminal, to the area covered by seaweed...
Looking ahead, the area was still covered by dark green seaweed, not much different from the scenery in other areas.
However, when Dong Qi glanced at the outdoor temperature displayed on the screen on the center console, he noticed that the temperature in this area was unimaginably low, at minus 153 degrees Celsius.
Just as he suspected, the closer you get to the sea, the lower the outdoor temperature becomes.
However, the low outdoor temperature did not deter Dong Qi from continuing to approach the sea, wanting to explore that area further.
With the robotic arm, Dong Qi will no longer need to use the electromagnetic cannon to make such a commotion if he wants to venture deep into the seaweed beds.
After the three curved claws at the end of the robotic arm open 180 degrees, they rotate rapidly and transform back into a harvester for harvesting seaweed.
However, when the mechanical claw approached but had not yet touched the seaweed, perhaps the strong wind generated by the rapid rotation of the mechanical claw directly turned the seaweed that was about to approach into powder.
Upon seeing the scene ahead, Dong Qi was puzzled and immediately stopped what he was doing.
To verify whether he had misjudged the situation, Dong Qi deliberately stopped the high-speed rotation of the mechanical claw. Then, using the conventional method of using the mechanical claw, he tried to grab some seaweed and bring it to the windshield to observe the situation more closely.
However, to Dong Qi's utter surprise, even after stopping the mechanical claw's rotation and harvesting, and merely attempting to grab the seaweed, the moment the mechanical claw touched the seaweed...
The target seaweed, like a building block structure about to collapse, shattered into dust the moment the mechanical claw touched it.
Seeing this scene, Dong Qi felt not fear, but rather a strange sense of familiarity.
After briefly recalling this scene in my mind, I quickly found a similar image in my mind.
This scenario has appeared in many science fiction films and television dramas, and the general situation is that the target is rapidly frozen by ultra-low temperature.
Although the surface of the body remains in the state it was in before it was frozen, its entire body was actually frozen and sealed the moment the low temperature appeared.
If there is no external interference, this form can be maintained for a long time, but as soon as there is any external interference, even a slight breeze with strong winds will instantly turn the target into dust.
Considering the extremely low temperature outside, Dong Qi thought that the current state of this seaweed patch was probably quite normal.
Dong Qi tried to collect some seaweed fragments that had turned into powder, but found that even if he collected them in the farm space, he could not decompose them again to gain experience.
Upon seeing this, Dong Qi quickly lost interest in the seaweed.
Although theoretically those seaweeds were already very fragile and vulnerable at this point, even ordinary vehicles could drive freely through them without any special preparation.
However, just in case, and given that Dong Qi didn't lack the energy to use the robotic arm, he decided to take precautions.
Therefore, Dong Qi still followed the most prudent method, relying on the robotic arm transformed into a harvester to clear the way in front of his vehicle.
As Dong Qi gradually ventured deeper into the seaweed-covered area, he was about to approach the sea.
Unsurprisingly, Dong Qi also discovered the mutated giant marine creature that occupied this area.
To prevent any accidents, Dong Qi did not deploy drones to observe it at close range. Instead, he directly used the electromagnetic cannon, adjusting its power to the maximum.
The process still begins with the intelligent control center calculating the approximate location of the giant mutated marine creature's vital points in the distance, before using the electromagnetic cannon to eliminate it.
To Dong Qi's utter surprise, this time the electromagnetic cannon attack did not penetrate the giant mutated marine creature's body as it had done before. Instead, the moment the electromagnetic cannonball touched the giant mutated marine creature's body, it shattered into countless fragments, just like the seaweed from before.
Seeing this scene, Dong Qi was momentarily at a loss.
But Dong Qi was unaware that this was the very result Blue Star desired after deliberately plunging the planet into a great ice age in order to eradicate the invading creatures.
Freeze everything and eliminate the invaders.
Upon seeing this scene, Dong Qi quickly drove towards the area where the giant mutated marine creature was located. Having learned from his previous experience, this time Dong Qi did not curiously collect some of the giant mutated marine creature's flesh and blood.
He was simply manipulating the mechanical claw to try and grab some of the flesh and blood of the giant mutated marine creature, and was observing it closely through the car window.
No matter how slight the mechanical claw's grasping motion was, every time the mechanical claw touched the ground, the target would shatter into even smaller pieces from the fragments of those giant mutated marine creatures.
After trying several times, Dong Qi had no choice but to give up on his idea in the face of this situation.
However, since the giant mutated marine creature has already become like this, then if nothing unexpected happens, the coastal area should be free of other dangers except for the extremely low outdoor temperatures.
Although Dong Qi felt that his judgment was probably correct, just in case, he still used the robotic arm to clear a wide path for the journey as he moved forward.
However, once they arrived at this place, there was not much distance left to go before reaching Dong Qi's destination.
Before long, Dong Qi arrived at his destination without any trouble. It was a cargo transshipment terminal that was not well-known among ordinary people, but was very famous among the industrial enterprises of Daxia.
Because the ships docked at this pier are mostly heavy cargo ships, ordinary people generally don't know or even know that this port exists.
However, this port terminal handles about 17 percent of the cargo loading and unloading in the entire Great Xia every year. Although its loading and unloading volume is not among the top three in the country, it has always hovered around the fifth or sixth position.
Dong Qi came here taking advantage of this special weather to replicate his experience in the island nation, using the refining of ships to obtain a large amount of metal materials.
When Dong Qi approached the port terminal, the scene there left him somewhat bewildered.
Compared to the mountain of containers piled up in the island nation's warehouses, the port area in Phoenix is completely empty, not a single thing left.
Although Dong Qi had already guessed that the Great Xia, with its organizational capabilities, would never allow valuable things to remain untouched like the island nation did.
But they thought that when the Phoenix City government organized the evacuation of the people, they might take away the valuable items in the containers, but leave behind the containers that were not very useful and were very heavy.
When Dong Qi arrived in this area, he discovered that Phoenix City's actions upon leaving were remarkably similar to his ruthless exploitation of the island nation.
Dong Qi was unaware that the reason the container storage area was empty at this time was not because the Phoenix City government had taken everything with them when they organized the evacuation.
Instead, when the Great Xia Dynasty decided to build the survivor base in Kyoto, they specifically transferred all usable resources from the surrounding area due to a lack of materials.
Therefore, it's not that when they fled Phoenix, they took all the items here with them.
Before Phoenix organized its evacuation and relocation, all the items here had already been sent to Kyoto.
Although Dong Qi was somewhat disappointed by the empty container warehouse, he wasn't too disheartened.
After all, the original plan for this trip was not to obtain much metal material from here, but just to think that perhaps when we came here we could find some bargains like we did in the island nation.
However, since he couldn't find any bargains in this area, Dong Qi had no choice but to continue towards the dock area.
The scene at the dock this time did not deviate from Dong Qi's original plan.
Rows of huge cargo ships were quietly moored on this side of the dock.
The seawater, which should have been rising and falling, had been frozen into ice by the cold outside temperature.
Although the vehicle was capable of traveling on water, Dong Qi still used the robotic arm to test the thickness of the ice on the sea surface, just in case.
After several attempts to strike the ice, the robotic arm only managed to smash countless ice shards into the ice surface, without actually determining the thickness of the ice layer.
To ensure the success of the operation and to put his mind at ease, Dong Qi directly deployed the electromagnetic cannon.
Looking at the bottomless ice hole that Dong Qi had punched in the ice layer, although it was not measured carefully, the thickness of the ice layer should be more than ten meters, just by visual estimation.
Having determined the approximate thickness of the ice, Dong Qi felt reassured and allowed his vehicle to step onto the ice.
Yes, that's right, it means stepping onto the ice.
At this moment, the vehicle was operating at full power, and all six robotic arms appeared.
Six robotic arms lifted the vehicle directly. The robotic claws at the ends of the robotic arms opened up like open bird claws, keeping the robotic arms firmly planted on the ice and preventing them from slipping.
At this moment, Dong Qi's natal vehicle, which resembles a spider in appearance, has six mechanical arms that, like the six legs of a spider, lift his body directly into the air.
Although we had tried this method of movement, using a robotic arm as a robotic foot, during testing.
But at that time it was just a test, and it only traveled a short distance, so now it can be considered the first time it has been officially used.
Because of the control of the intelligent central hub, the mechanical feet may appear to move in a chaotic manner, but Dong Qi, sitting in his vehicle, does not actually feel any bumps or jolts.
We don't know if there are any mutated marine creatures, because the outside temperature is cold, so they are hiding in the cabin.
Perhaps due to the sudden drop in outside temperature, even those mutated marine creatures hiding in the ship's cabins may have already frozen to death.
In any case, when Dong Qi put the entire ship into the Hundred Refinement Furnace space, he did not feel any obstruction.
As ships are refined into metal materials in the hundred-refinement furnace, Dong Qi's reserves of basic metal alloy energy are also constantly increasing.
However, since the natal vehicle has already reached the level of a treasure, if you want to continue to upgrade the level of the vehicle frame, the metal materials required for the upgrade are no longer basic metal alloys, but intermediate basic alloys.
Although a batch of intermediate-grade metal alloys was indirectly obtained during the collection of metal alloys, those intermediate-grade metal alloys were only an accidental find.
Although it has accumulated over a long period of time, it weighs tens of tons.
However, if we look at it purely from the perspective of weight, tens of tons may seem like a lot, but if we change the unit, tens of tons of metal alloy is actually only two or three cubic meters in size.
For example, a cubic meter of gold weighs nearly twenty tons.
Therefore, the amount of intermediate metal alloys in the inventory is at most enough to upgrade one or two levels, which is still the amount of the first two levels of intermediate metal alloys consumed initially.
Fortunately, after the Hundred Refinement Furnace was upgraded, it can now refine basic metal alloys and elevate them to intermediate metal alloys.
Therefore, as long as Dong Qi can collect enough metal materials, regardless of the quality of the raw materials, as long as they are refined in the Hundred Refinement Furnace, they can be transformed into intermediate metal alloys.
The calculation method for the self-weight of a normal ship is basically based on the following formula: displacement - deadweight = ship's self-weight.
The 10,000-ton cargo ship that people usually talk about does not refer to the ship's own weight, but rather the weight of the cargo it carries.
Typically, the weight of the hull is about one-quarter of the ship's displacement and one-third of its carrying capacity.
This means that for every 10,000-ton cargo ship that Dong Qi refines, he can obtain approximately 3,000 tons of metal materials.
The conversion rate of ordinary metal raw materials into basic metal alloys is extremely low.
The conversion from basic metal alloys to intermediate metal alloys is more efficient than the conversion from raw materials to basic metal alloys, but the efficiency is still limited.
So even though there are many cargo ships docked at the port, even if Dong Qi refines and collects them all, he still won't be able to obtain enough metal materials for his natal vehicle's next advancement.
If it weren't for the special circumstances, and the fact that Dong Qi's original vehicle was only a light passenger vehicle, rather than a large truck or heavy mining truck.
Dong Qi's initial level-up of his vehicle is decent, but in the later stages, unless he leaves the Great Xia and establishes himself as king in a chaotic, resource-rich region, he will be in serious trouble.
Otherwise, obtaining enough metal materials to upgrade one's vehicle would be virtually impossible.
Just as Dong Qi guessed, by collecting metal materials on one hand and refining them directly in the Hundred Refinement Furnace to upgrade them to the grade of intermediate metal alloy on the other.
Even for cargo ships weighing tens of thousands of tons, the amount of intermediate metal alloys obtained after refining each ship is not very large.
Fortunately, metal alloys are now widely used in the construction of modern ships. Although most of them are just ordinary metal alloys, the base metal alloys produced during refining are still of higher quality than ordinary metals.
After all the ships that were originally frozen in this sea area disappeared, Dong Qi poured all his intermediate-grade metal alloys into upgrading his vehicle.
Dong Qi didn't keep the remaining basic metal alloys. After thinking for a moment, he upgraded the drones and mechanical wolves.
While initial level upgrades won't bring about a qualitative change in drones and mechanical wolves, at least a few level upgrades might make them more durable.
My personal item type: Lightly modified vehicles.
Grade: Treasure-grade vehicle body frame: Enhancement level LV27
Power System: Enhancement Level 10
Electrical equipment:
Composite Radar: LV10
Oxygen generating equipment: LV10
Thunder Dragon Electromagnetic Cannon: LV10
Intelligent Hub: LV1
Mechanical items (six): LV1
Laser Cannon (Bend Type): LV1 (Removed, not installed)
Laser Cannon (Scattering Type): LV1 (Removed, not installed)
Signal communication base station: LV1 (removed and not installed)
Stealth and shielding device: LV1 (removed, not installed)
Other equipment:
Hundred Refinement Furnace LV10
Universal Furnace LV10
Mechanical Guards:
Swarm of multi-functional drones (20 units): LV5
Mechanical Wolves (Basic Model) (5): LV5
Two mechanical wolves equipped with heavy machine guns, one mechanical wolf equipped with a sniper cannon, and two mechanical wolves equipped with automatic rifles.
Farm space:
Land: LV1 land requires nine collisions, LV10 land requires one collision. Well water: LV10 (100 liters per day).
Warehouse: LV10 (10,000 cubic meters)
House: LV11
Number of times the idea has manifested: 4 times. Unknown special energy value: 3662.
(Each manifestation consumes a minimum of 100 energy points, with no maximum limit.)
Aside from the equipment that has been removed but not yet installed, to be honest, the other projects are indeed of a rather low standard.
However, Dong Qi did his best. If it weren't for the current special period, it would have been impossible for Dong Qi, who used to be a homebody programmer, to upgrade his favorite car to this level.
In fact, if Dong Qi didn't focus on improving the grade of his signature car and instead improved the level of all its attributes on an average basis, it would be possible for him to reach level 20, let alone level 15 for all attributes.
Everyone talks about the "barrel theory," which suggests that you should make up for your weaknesses. But in reality, it is often only those who excel in one area who are particularly strong in another that can achieve great things. The stronger their strength, the greater their achievements.