CHAPTER 517: CHAPTER 384: GREATLY INCREASED STORAGE SPACE, THE SIGNIFICANT ROLE OF NITRATE ORE

"194 cubic meters of Storage Space, plus the previous 1030 cubic meters, wow, it has reached 1224 cubic meters?"

Lin Yue was quite satisfied as the Storage Space was expanded once again.

It had finally increased in volume once more, but it seemed it had been a while since that last happened.

"Well, it’s true, I haven’t fought much for a long time, always been collecting and doing infrastructure work, speaking of which, is there no other way to expand Storage Space?"

Storage Space cannot be expanded by opening treasure chests; it can only be increased by killing others or occasionally finding a glowing white dot near a corpse.

It must be said that Storage Space is a most direct witness to deaths, as it only appears when someone is killed or dies unexpectedly, leaving a glowing white dot by the body.

If you pick up this dot, the Storage Space of the original owner will transfer to you, adding its capacity to your own.

All the supplies, food, and water inside will naturally transfer to the new owner as well.

In other words, this could be considered as a type of "inheritance."

Lin Yue recalled how he acquired this "inheritance," mostly related to raiders and beggars, and rarely encountering ordinary corpses.

This large amount of Storage Space was continuously expanded and increased through repeated battles with raiders and beggars.

Of course, it was built upon the lives of others to reach this frightening number.

After finishing this, Lin Yue and Bai gathered all the Lizardman and beggar corpses and set them on fire with a torch, as burying them would require the trouble of digging holes.

"Sizzle, sizzle." Black Spot and Green Claw continued to idle the whole time; they realized that the master and Bai handled all the fighting, and they couldn’t help much with carrying tasks, so all they could do was stare blankly.

"You two... never mind, go search the nitrate ore pit and surroundings for more enemies!"

Lin Yue felt a bit helpless watching the two clueless little ones; he had intended to bring them out for some evolution training, but it seemed like they never got the chance.

Bai aimed for the treasure chests, so naturally, the Lizardmen wouldn’t let them act; and the beggars were too few in number, leaving the two Little Ice Lizards with nothing to do.

After giving them some food, Lin Yue let them roam freely.

They should do what they can for now.

Lin Yue also had a thought; after finishing his work, he would decide whether to let the two little ones experience life here.

Everyone has evolved, and if you two don’t evolve, it wouldn’t make sense...

"Gaooo." Bai watched the two leave and seemed to understand the master’s feelings; although the combat power had improved, it was still not enough.

They needed to be capable of standing on their own.

"Bai, let’s head to the Shelter, we have plenty of work to do too."

Lin Yue called out to Bai and headed to the underground Shelter near the nitrate ore mine.

"Those Lizardmen and beggars seem to have used this place as a resting point too, Bai, look, there are some bedding and such over there." This Shelter wasn’t properly sealed when they left last time, unlike those underground warehouses.

This made it the best resting space for the beggars and Lizardmen.

Indeed, there were a few new stone shelters built at the nitrate mine, but not too many, matching the number of beggars he took down earlier.

If I come back in a couple of days, maybe there will be more enemies to hunt?

Lin Yue thought about this as he started working again, setting up a power generation system.

He first erected some photovoltaic power arrays and hooked up the power supply.

Then, using alloy brought from the main Shelter, he built sixteen Medium Electric Guard Machine Gun Platforms, placing them at the four cardinal directions of the circular wall surrounding the nitrate ore mine, with four in each direction, maintaining distance between them.

He connected the electric wiring of these Medium Electric Guard Machine Gun Platforms to the photovoltaic power arrays and successfully activated them.

Of course, Lin Yue made sure to set up shielded attack targets, as it would be funny if he got shot by these unintelligent machines.

Next, Lin Yue took out fifty robotic dogs and configured them.

Fifteen were assigned to guard duties, patrolling inside and around the walls, ready to attack enemies swiftly.

Their numbers may not be large, but they are essential to guarding the large nitrate ore mine, and an important support for the Medium Electric Guard Machine Gun Platforms.

Among the remaining thirty-five, twenty are designated for mining.

During a time of extreme heat disaster, nitrates became a crucial tool for many Refugee Villages to survive, but the primary use of nitrates wasn’t just for ice production; their main task was for making gunpowder!

Previously, Lin Yue had a thought while selling those nitrates.

After the disaster, many Refugee Shelters would likely acquire nitrates from seemingly valueless sources, then use them for making firearms!

Will this cause a considerable technological leap forward?

Of course, that’s only if they can find nitrate ore elsewhere besides Lin Yue’s mine.

If none exist elsewhere, Lin Yue thought he could potentially hinder others’ technological development levels.

No matter what, the nitrate ore mine needs to continue large-scale production; selling is secondary, consuming it to create explosives is to diversify offensive tactics.

Whether dealing with large-scale enemy attacks or attacking fortresses and settlements, gunpowder has a wide range of uses.

So mining is quite necessary.

The remaining fifteen are responsible for transportation and some defense, handling and stacking nitrate ore and other ores or materials mined, ready for collection and transport.

As for the robotic dogs’ recharging, they are set to recharge in the Shelter at night when the power is low, and use solar charging during the day when idle, with a dual-mode, twenty-four-hour work schedule.

After completing these tasks, there was still more to do.

Lin Yue and Bai finally returned to the large underground warehouse established earlier, looking at the previously stored abundance of alloy and various parts.

"There are a mountain of tasks to do, but it seems we’ve started off well?"

After a simple tidying up, Lin Yue unexpectedly found twenty-one precision electric linear actuators necessary for the robotic dogs, which he was surprisingly lacking!