The journey back to the fortress was not so easy. They encountered several wild beasts, which caused them more casualties. Ye Chong did not interfere too much and let these students fight hard on their own. His original intention is to train these students. If he is always a nanny, why bother? As for casualties, he could accept it as long as there were no large-scale casualties.
This elimination process is cruel, but it is necessary.
Back at the fortress, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. In the next few days, Ye Chong did not let them go out for actual combat, but ordered them to summarize together. The post-war summary can help recruits grow up quickly and also give them a deeper understanding of tactical cooperation.
This batch of trainees have truly understood the cruelty of battle, and no one takes it lightly. To do so would be irresponsible for their own lives. When fighting in a group, whether you can survive does not depend on how strong you are alone, but on the cooperation and assistance between you.
Xi Yan found Ye Zhong: "Teacher, all the spare parts for the light armor have been completed. What should we produce next? More and more metal is piling up in the warehouse. If some are not consumed, we must build a new warehouse." He Now he is the general manager of the technical department of the entire fortress, which also makes him quite busy.
Ye Chong was stunned when he heard this, and then he couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Darkness was indeed a rich place. Such a huge metal reserve is too rich for five thousand people. The metal extracted from the Huoyan River is constantly flowing every day, which directly leads to their current warehouse being almost full.
Five thousand people's mechs were completed, and each mech even had five sets of standard spare parts prepared, but that was it. A large amount of metal that had no time to be consumed filled the warehouse. He also didn't expect that one day, he would be troubled because there was too much metal on his hands.
Ye Chong thought for a moment and said, "Produce armor. Install half-meter-thick armor on all the outer walls of the fortress. Well, all the supports should also be replaced with alloy."
"Okay." Xiyan quickly agreed to come. The stone fortress was indeed not very safe. Xiyan and the others have always been somewhat afraid of Darkness. Installing armor on the fortress is not a small project, but making armor is much simpler than making light armor. I believe it can be completed soon. In this way, a large amount of metal in the warehouse can be consumed, and the warehouse problem that he has been having a headache can be solved.
"Well, take advantage of this renovation. Expand the fortress five kilometers outward. The renovation project must be carried out in stages. Once one place is completed, another place will be moved on." Ye Zhong reminded Xiyan. Safety comes first at all times. During the transformation process, the protective capabilities of the fortress will be reduced to a certain extent. If a large group of wild beasts attack the fortress while the fortress is being fully renovated, it will be very fatal.
Xiyan nodded to indicate understanding.
Ye Chong thought of a question and asked Xiyan: "How is their study?"
Xi Yan knew that Ye Zhong was talking about those technicians. He smiled and replied: "These guys don't know how to pay attention. Everyone knows that this is a rare opportunity. The teacher is so generous and brings out so many precious skills. How can they let go of this opportunity?" I hate having to eat and not sleep."
"What about the results?" Ye Chong asked.
Xiyan mused: "They are all very good, especially the young people. They accepted it quickly. But the others have more experience, so they are also ahead now. But I think those young people have more potential. Big. But it takes time to develop well.”
Ye Dian nodded, thought for a while, and said to Xi Yan: "Divide them into groups of five. Each group will be assigned a laboratory. If they need any materials, they can come to you to get them. But let them get the instruments they need. Solved. Well, they have access to all the instruments.”
There are a lot of instruments needed in a laboratory. Ye Zhong did this because he wanted them to have one more chance to do it. First of all, they need to learn how to use various advanced instruments, and making instruments is even more difficult. It not only requires them to have a solid theoretical foundation, but also requires them to have strong hands-on skills. Ye Chong did not expect them to complete it immediately, or to become a master immediately. He just hoped that in this way, they would speed up their acceptance of new theories.
Xi Yan nodded clearly: "Okay, I'll do it right away."
The battle summary meeting was finally completed. Ye Chong was quite surprised by the thick summary reports sent by these students. These students did even better than he imagined. In the entire report, they were very specific and detailed about how to improve every mistake in the battle and how to improve every omission. Except for a few minor details, Ye Chong felt that everything was impeccable.
Anbi Luoqi, Duan Qian, and Shu Mo'er each also gave a piece of experience. Duan Qian and Shu Moer paid more attention to the details of the battle. What surprised Ye Chong the most was Anbi Luoqi's report, which was eloquent and long. After reading it, Ye Chong immediately decided to let him take the role of commander in the future. And his last command also convinced the students. If it weren't for his several key decisions, the number of casualties would have been even more severe.
After a few days, the students' spirits finally calmed down.
On the training ground, students who have experienced combat and those who have not can be distinguished at a glance. Their training is more targeted. Ye Zhong then arranged a new actual battle. This time, Ambi Lodge led the team, and one hundred people were drawn from the commando team that had already had actual combat experience. These one hundred people were used as the backbone, and each person led five students who had not experienced actual combat. Ye Zhong couldn't take them to actual combat every time. Only by completely throwing away the crutches could they truly grow.
Six hundred light armors left the fortress in a mighty manner, and they were about to undergo a baptism of blood and fire.
In the fortress, all the remaining students worked harder. They knew that they would eventually face a battle, and the biggest weight that could ensure their survival was their combat skills.
Ye Zhong, who was not leading the team, reentered his research room. He planned to build a pulse signal tower, a pulse signal tower that could cover the entire Darkness. The pulse signal tower was very familiar to Ye Zhong. When he was on the junk star, his home lived under the pulse signal tower of the junk star. Pulse signal towers are the most important and fastest way to transmit information between planets.
There are many advantages to building a pulse signal tower. The biggest advantage is that no matter whether their light armor is in blue, they can contact the fortress. Another benefit is that the entire Darkness can be explored through unmanned reconnaissance aircraft like the Hummingbird.
For Ye Zhong, these two benefits were real and urgently needed.
The pulse signal tower did not pose much difficulty to Ye Zhong. All its technologies are no problem for him. And with the absolutely luxurious instruments he had on hand, it would not be a problem to build a pulse signal tower.
However, the problem Ye Zhong needs to face now is that if he wants the pulse signal to cover the entire Darkness, it means that the intensity of the pulse signal needs to be very large, which consumes a lot of energy. After all, it has to be on all the time. .
Ye Zhong doesn't have many energy crystals on hand now, and considering the consumption of students every day, it seems that he needs to find the space window to Xihan or Nanzhou as soon as possible. Otherwise, Ye Zhong can only consider going there. Dongyun country.
Although the energy crystals on hand were tight, Ye Zhong decided to make a pulse signal tower, which was very important for the fortress. Regarding the energy crystal, if Dongyun really doesn’t plan to sell it, then grab it. Ye Chong thought casually that although he was very familiar with Sumen Xiyehua, he would not be soft-hearted if he really wanted to rob him.
Seven days later, a tall metal spire erected in the fortress, which made the students very curious. The 135-meter-tall pulse signal tower can be seen from very far away. The flashing red signal light above is very eye-catching in the darkness of Darkness.
The pulse signal tower was not made by Ye Zhong alone. In fact, except for the initial design, most of the others were made by young people. All Ye Zhong needed to do was teach them how to use these complex instruments. He took the trouble to teach these young people over and over again. These people are the technical backbone of the future and deserve to be vigorously cultivated.
Making the pulse signal tower took longer than expected, but in Ye Chong's opinion, it was completely worth it.
However, Ye Chong has not been idle these days. He built a large number of enhanced hummingbird aircraft. This aircraft is larger than the Hummingbird and has a longer flight duration. It is equipped with a small holographic scanning system that can scan the terrain and then transmit the information back to the fortress through the communicator.
With these enhanced hummingbirds, the large-scale exploration of Darkness can begin. They are low cost and effortless to make. Exploring Darkness is a long-term activity. The enhanced hummingbird has no ability to protect itself. If it encounters a flying creature like a black-bodied golden pterosaur, it will probably be damaged. But this is not the case for Ye Chong. Just a minor problem. And the biggest advantage of strengthening the hummingbird is that there will be no casualties.
So Ye Zhong made a hundred enhanced hummingbirds in one go, and then released fifty of them. In the fortress. These enhanced hummingbirds can be controlled via pulse towers. Ye Zhong set up a special communications room and assigned a group of students to take charge of it. He believed that with this enhanced hummingbird, Darkness would eventually unveil its mystery in front of him.
In the purple mist, Rui Bing and Sangkan moved forward quickly. Rui Bing's protective light armor is still shiny and clean. There is not a trace of dullness on the golden light armor. Sankan carried Ariyod on his back and followed Rui Bing with an alert look on his face.
These days, the three of them can basically fight their way out.
Mrs. Rui Bing is so strong! The protective light armor is so powerful!
Sankan has to accept defeat these days. He actually didn't take action even once. The red-tailed beast here was completely unable to pose a threat to Mrs. Rui Bing. What impressed him most was that Mrs. Rui Bing's endurance never showed any signs of failure.
Sankan was not afraid of the scene in front of him. Compared with the beast tide that time, this was nothing more than childish.
Five days, they have been in the purple mist for five days. Sankan is very time sensitive and does not require any tools.
The red-tailed beast here is not powerful, to be precise, it is very weak. Something seems to be wrong with the software nest here. But none of the three wanted to examine the issue in detail. Breaking out of this purple mist first is what they need most right now.
In the past few days, countless red-tailed beasts have fallen under the dagger of Mrs. Rui Bing. In the past two days, they probably also knew that the three of them were not easy to mess with, and few red-tailed beasts came over on their own initiative.
This also greatly accelerated their advance.
The purple mist in front of them began to gradually thin, which greatly encouraged the three of them, and they moved faster. Among the three, Ariyode was the most relaxed. He was carried by Sankan. After experiencing the initial fright, he quickly got used to it. Think when you want to think, and sleep when you are tired of thinking.
Well, Sankan’s back is quite wide and comfortable! This student is well received, Ariyod thought happily.
Rui Bing and Sankan were both physically strong people, but after running at high speed for such a long time, Rui Bing still had to fight, and there was still a hint of fatigue in his expression.
Ten days later, they finally crossed the entire purple mist.
Looking at the vast purple mist behind them, Rui Bing and Sankan breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, Ariyod on Sankan's back yawned with great enjoyment.
The three of them took a short rest and then set off again.
The topography has undergone great changes. What we see in front of us is no longer endless plains, but stretches of mountains. The strange thing is that some mountains are bare, while others are lush and green. These mountains delay this intersection, which looks quite strange and very uncoordinated.
Rui Bing and Sankan looked at each other, and they both saw the alertness in each other's eyes. The stranger the place, the easier it is for strange things to appear, and these things are often accompanied by great dangers.
Suddenly, dust was flying from a bare mountain far ahead, and there was a faint sound.
The two looked at each other and decided to go check it out. This distance was only a moment for the two fast people, and Ariyode on Sankan's back yawned and fell asleep again.
When Rui Bing and Sankan approached, they realized that it was a fight between two wild beasts.
But after just two glances, Rui Bing and Sankan, who had not been afraid of crossing the entire purple mist, both changed their faces.