Chapter 1811
Chapter 1811 - 1807: Blossoming on All Sides
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The era has brought about many changes... except for the arduous career of the civil engineering big brother.
And the civil engineering involved in opening up the Exotic Realm is actually more arduous than on Earth, especially during the pioneering period.
Relying entirely on Foreign Domain freight for raw materials is unrealistic; sourcing materials locally is the only feasible option, and just collecting materials, when engineering machinery can’t be used, is like a scene from hell.
"If possible, please deploy some tame beasts for us, large or medium-sized ones will do..."
"That’s outside the contract, isn’t it... alright, alright, we shouldn’t be fussing over that right now. But even if we try to use tame beasts as labor, do you have devices to control their strength? Don’t push it too far, or those beasts might eat you. This isn’t a scare tactic; our tame beasts are prepared for combat."
𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"Then give us some professionals who can alter the terrain and environment, your Extraordinary Group..."
"That’s really not possible. Those who command the elements are middle-high tier professionals, their numbers are very limited, and you want them to dig? They can quickly construct some trenches or bunkers, but to build a city of several square kilometers, they’d die from overload... aren’t you guys professionals? Why is it that this doesn’t work and that doesn’t either?"
"We really didn’t expect it to be so difficult..."
The contractor wore a bitter expression; this long-term job had generous benefits, but it seemed truly hard to accomplish.
The Rebirth Commerce isn’t omnipotent either; the other feature of "new money" is that it often lacks mature accumulation when it comes to unknown work domains.
The business group does have some talent in civil engineering, after all, every world needs places to live. However, this time requires building a "city-state" from scratch.
It’s not as simple as just setting up houses. It involves coordinating from design, city layout, to construction across multiple aspects, with water and electricity in place during the initial construction phase, and now even the division of rail transport is needed... all these require professionals.
As expected, the Rebirth Commerce hired some engineering personnel, but once their team began working, they encountered many unforeseen difficulties.
In fact, these civilian construction groups hired by Lu Ping’an’s forces didn’t expect the construction difficulty in the Exotic Realm to be so high.
Actually, they barely qualify as all Extraordinary little superhumans, with various demonized Extraordinary tools, cutting ordinary steel with no difficulty.
They initially didn’t rely on vehicles and machinery; they had various contingency plans in advance. But when they truly got started, they found that constructing Gui Xiang City was like hell-level difficulty, with most of their plans turning to waste paper.
"The wood is too hard, all of our demonized chainsaws are jammed."
"Is this really wood? It’s harder than titanium alloy, what the hell."
"All the cement we brought can’t be used; is it deteriorated?"
"The physical laws have changed, so of course it’s useless... wait, if wood is harder than iron, how do we handle the rebar in reinforced concrete? Should we just build wooden houses instead..."
The suffering civil engineering brother found himself confused.
The Rebirth Business Group also suffered from a lack of experience... But unless they found some experienced construction teams from Wanjing, they have to figure it out themselves.
"How did you guys handle the bidding..."
The report finally landed on Lu Ping’an’s desk, making him a bit annoyed.
"They were already the best engineering team from the Ancient City, but they lack some experience. Projects of this scale wouldn’t have landed on us in the Ancient City before...."
Okay, now Lu Ping’an understood.
Some things should naturally prioritize our own people, especially when it comes to technological accumulation.
The Ancient City also needs to cultivate its own Exotic Realm construction team for future Star-zone immigrants.
Generally, this kind of thing wouldn’t be reported to Lu Ping’an’s level, but now that it’s a mess, the person in charge trembled before Lu Ping’an.
Lu Ping’an glanced over, sighed, and said nothing.
When it comes to engineering, it’s strange not to encounter any problems; the tuition fees must be paid. Even those professional Exotic Realm engineering teams have to reshuffle materials and construction methods based on the local situation.
However, those old hands would be much more skilled, unlikely to get stuck at the current situation...
"Let most people reside in the courtyard for now. Perhaps we need to contact the locals ahead of time, at least to get some local technology as a reference...."
The development of the situation quickly exceeded expectations.
The living environment might be able to be patched together, but a safe camp is the prerequisite for development. Although the chosen landing area was a relatively safe uninhabited zone, there were still some troublesome beasts and magical beasts.
Nobody wants to experience getting dragged away by beasts in the middle of sleep.
"Let the warriors help for a period as well. Oh right, Eve’s Crystal Army should be able to assist in construction...."
Using top combat power to build houses is, in a sense, an insult and a waste, but clearly, there’s no other choice now.
And this is the best way to address the problems of establishing a new territory.
"Food poisoning...."
The greatest advantage of Extraordinary people as explorers is the semi-inhumanity of their bodies, allowing them to easily adapt to bacterial issues that ordinary people can scarcely handle.
If ordinary people enter Exotic Realm exploration unprepared, what might kill them first could be air, water, sunlight, or one of the microorganisms.
But now, widespread food poisoning has emerged, even if it’s only at the level of diarrhea, some planned city zones have become deserted because of it.
Simultaneously, it severely impacted the progress of the engineering work.
"Our warriors already tried the food though...."
"Just because warriors above the third-tier can eat it doesn’t mean the first-tier logistics can."
"Magic potions should be effective, just treat them with it...."
"Magic potions and materials were heavily purchased by the procurement teams of the other two, we’ll need to wait for restock. Especially for the treatment side, almost all were bought out."
Even the decision-makers were at a standstill, they didn’t expect the ally’s massive drug purchase was for this.
And the frustrating events had only just begun.
"Drowned? How? Wasn’t he a sailor?"
"The density and composition of the water here are a bit strange...."
In the past, the reality wouldn’t be difficult because it was backed by extensive data and information.
And now, the fresh team taking up the pioneering task naturally faced blank and problematic challenges everywhere.
Including Lu Ping’an, the high-levels were forced to be thrown into all sorts of plugging leaks as combat power.
Strength creates miracles; food poisoning, allergies, interference by unknown pathogens? Let Lu Ping’an’s top-tier postponed payment hold them off first, if necessary, provide Life-points and wish for a cure in the courtyard or change life-form.
Unable to cut wood? Use Rule-level Metal Transformer (Hua Xueyi) as a chainsaw to clear a large area at once.
No engineering machinery, Zhi Xi, get on it, use these Animated Armors as processing tools.
Panda-man.... no assigned task for you, perhaps, you should patrol outside and not interfere with the engineering progress.
The busiest were Miss Lo and her Magic Alchemist team; various potion orders were simply unending, and they were also required to develop potions based on situations.
More difficult, though, were the researchers from the Ancient City University, as merely adapting and understanding the local physical and chemical rules tired them out, while they still had to accept tasks like "develop local cement/hemostatics/accelerants/insect repellent soon."
The addition of top combat forces did indeed ease pressure across the board, the entire force was striving to develop, seemingly fighting just to survive.
"Survival was always the top priority battleground."
And this was the essential path for Lu Ping’an’s team towards independently developing into a top force in the Star-zone.
— End of Chapter 1811 —