NOVEL NEXT Chapter 157: Consecutive Eliminations
"These guys seem to have quite an abundance of resources."
Zhou Yingting looked around and quickly found the method for disguising the signal.
The most common method is to build the signal tower far away from one's own location.
This way, even if the disguised signal is deciphered, there's no worry of exposing the base's coordinates.
However, this approach requires a significant amount of resources.
"Warning, warning, cold warning!"
"Cold warning!"
"Extreme cold storm warning!"
Zhou Yingting hadn't diverted his gaze from the central main control screen when he immediately heard an urgent alarm sounding next to him.
Upon hearing the urgent alarm, Zhou Yingting paused for a moment, then quickly turned his eyes to the screen beside him.
On the screen, several large warnings appeared prominently.
Looking at these warning displays, Zhou Yingting frowned instantly.
The cold warning is one thing, but this extreme cold storm warning seems a bit off, right?
He had seen Weather Weapon in the Technology Tree, which can create extremely harsh climate environments.
Could it be that some civilization has used this Weather Weapon?
Fortunately, just earlier, Zhou Yingting had mined a large amount of gold, so while building various equipment, he also constructed all kinds of warning devices.
Otherwise, when this extreme cold storm sweeps through, Zhou Yingting fears he might be exposed.
Without any prior preparation, the factories could easily be destroyed by the extreme cold storm, causing them to go offline.
Moreover, the previous smoke car could also be destroyed, resulting in the failure of concealment, thus being detected.
Zhou Yingting checked the warning and found that the extreme cold storm was still a day away from him.
In a day's time, the extreme cold storm would sweep here, rendering various factories useless.
"The Technology Tree has a Level 5 survival net. With this, the extreme cold storm can be resisted. But it's a Level 5 technology, requiring a total of 131 facilities to reach Level 5."
"One hundred and thirty-one factories need to be upgraded to Level 5, and one day isn't nearly enough."
Zhou Yingting calculated carefully, immediately feeling an extreme headache.
This is a tactic from some Advanced Civilization. With their interference, all his upgrade progress will have to halt, prioritizing resources towards this counteraction.
Though feeling a bit helpless, Zhou Yingting dared not stop.
Within a day, he simply couldn't manage to upgrade over a hundred factories to Level 5. The priority now is to build the Engineering Mansion.
The Engineering Mansion, once built, can significantly shorten the construction time of various projects.
However, an Engineering Mansion requires an expenditure of one million units of gold.
If Zhou Yingting hadn't discovered these gigantic gold mines and expanded the mining scale, he wouldn't have been able to come up with this one million units of gold.
Once the Engineering Mansion is constructed, the build times of other factories can be greatly shortened.
As the Engineering Mansion was completed, Zhou Yingting immediately began upgrading other factories.
The Speed of the extreme cold storm is extremely fast, and given that Zhou Yingting's warning range wasn't too large, one day's time is enough for the storm to reach here.
According to his Technology Tree, when the extreme cold storm passes through, the temperature can drop directly to around minus one hundred degrees Celsius.
In such temperatures, the factories and equipment exposed outside will be directly destroyed.
The many factories Zhou Yingting painstakingly built here would be wiped out, and without proper defenses, Zhou Yingting would be eliminated by this extreme cold.
Perhaps there are so many signals that one Advanced Civilization got annoyed, producing such a ploy.
After the extreme cold storm passes, everything will be white as snow, and those who didn't cover up will be easily discovered.
Moreover, those whose technology isn't up to standard will easily be eliminated by this extreme cold storm.
"Such a hassle, this situation makes it impossible to continue mining many resources, as it would risk exposure."
Zhou Yingting looked at the nearby map, and the surrounding mines had already been cleaned out; the leftover mines were quite far away.
These distant mines, if mined after the extreme cold storm arrives, the tire tracks back and forth might be discovered.
Too far a distance, his current capacity to cover such large areas with a survival net isn't feasible.
After the extreme cold storm passes, there would need to be a period of dormancy, waiting for the ice and snow to melt before resuming development.
As time slowly passed, Zhou Yingting's factories were undergoing urgent upgrades outside.
If the perspective is elevated a bit, one can see a massive planet with a white speck continuously expanding.
To such a massive planet, this white speck initially looks insignificant.
But in reality, being visible from such a gigantic planet means that this speck occupies a substantial area.