Ice world, winter home.
With the great efforts of Nie Lu and others, the scope of this survivor camp has expanded more than ten times, becoming the largest survivor camp known to date. All the surrounding small camps have spontaneously joined in, gathering together for warmth and keeping the temperature high.
"Hey, Brother Lu, you're back."
"Brother Lu, good morning~"
As Nie Lu walked on the road, survivors one after another greeted him, and Nie Lu responded with a smile.
"Brother Lu, is the Trail Blazer willing to provide maintenance services?" Xiao Hei ran to Nie Lu and asked.
“If there is no longer a supply of suitable parts, many greenhouses will have to stop operating!”
Nie Lu shook his head. "They can't manufacture the mechanical core we have. I asked Dr. Banner and Mr. Norman, and they studied it for a long time but still couldn't figure out the working principle of the mechanical core. Naturally, they don't have parts to replace or repair."
"How could this happen...What about Mr. Tony Stark? Is he not capable of doing this either?!" Xiao Hei looked a little depressed.
If even the Pioneer Alliance, which has the most powerful technology at present, can't solve it, then the problem is really big.
"Can we only exchange it in the main god space? But it's too expensive!"
Nie Lu patted Xiao Hei's shoulder.
"Mr. Stark is fighting with the Cross Church in the Certain Scientific Railgun World, so he doesn't have time to help us now. But don't worry, although the mechanical core cannot be regenerated for the time being, they have provided us with other replacement equipment."
Arriving next to the greenhouse, Nie Lu released the machine in his personal space.
The machine looks simple, a bit like the appearance of the steam engine when it first appeared a century ago.
"What is this thing? What is its use?" Xiao Hei looked at it for a long time, then looked up and asked.
"This is called a heating machine. The Pioneer Alliance helped us contact the Flame Heritage Team. This is the high-tech of the Snow Country over there."
As Nie Lu explained, he took out some necessary starting equipment from the space.
"The Snow Country?"
"Yes, it is said that the most powerful heating machine there can instantly raise the temperature of a continent as big as a country. However, that country is not as cold as ours, so if it is used here, the effect may be a little worse."
As Nie Lu spoke, he stuffed the miniature Ark reactor into the start port of the heater and pressed the switch.
hiss~
A stream of steam gushed out from the heater, and the temperature inside the greenhouse, which covered an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, began to rise rapidly.
Within a few minutes, the ambient temperature here rose from minus thirty degrees to about five or six degrees.
After the temperature increased, the power of the equipment in the greenhouse used to maintain a suitable temperature for plant growth was reduced. The overloaded mechanical cores finally had time to rest, and the time it took for them to break was significantly delayed.
"Alright, with this, the greenhouse problem is temporarily solved. The Ministry of Science and Technology still has dozens of spare mechanical cores. Even if the greenhouse area is expanded by one or two times, it will be enough for a few years."
"After a few years, maybe our world will be able to return to normal. I really want to see the village warm and the flowers blooming here."
Nie Lu said with emotion that this group of people worked so hard just in the hope that the next generation would not have to survive in the ice and snow and would have a childhood in spring.
"This day will come." Xiao Hei looked at Nie Lu and said, "Aren't we getting better and better now? Who could have thought a few months ago that in just a few months, we wouldn't have to eat only broth with sawdust every day."
"Yes, winter will eventually pass." Nie Lu said with emotion, "By the way, Xiao Hei, does the Ministry of Science and Technology have any latest research results? I'll see if there is a market for it."
"Yes, but Brother Lu, let me discuss something with you."
"you say."
"Let me take another heater apart. I really want to understand how it distributes the temperature so evenly. We were standing right next to it and nothing happened."
Nie Lu gave Xiao Hei a cold look.
"Are you daydreaming? Do you know how expensive this machine is? Besides, you might as well figure out the production process of the mechanical core quickly if you have the time."
"If we could make our own mechanical cores, we wouldn't have to fight like this. Look at Umbrella. They can use all kinds of strengthening drugs derived from the T virus for a lifetime."
"I want to, but we can't dismantle the intact mechanical cores. Some broken mechanical cores can't promote technological progress. It's difficult, difficult." Xiao Hei sighed.
The embarrassment of the Ice World lies here. As a world that joined the main god space very early, they still don’t have any specialty that they can show off.
The only relatively black technology at present is the energy tower, which has an incredibly high coal conversion rate. However, most other worlds no longer use coal, especially Marvel Earth, which has begun to fully promote clean energy.
"Okay, stop feeling sorry for yourself. I haven't been back for a long time. How far has the excavation of Tesla City progressed?" Nie Lu asked as he followed Xiao Hei to the Ministry of Science and Technology.
"Progress is slow. It's really impossible for a normal person to clean up the hundreds of meters of ice and snow. There are also power towers left over there. When digging, lightning rods have to be inserted on the side, which makes the efficiency even lower."
Xiao Hei's head hurts whenever he thinks of Tesla City. The temperature there has been at minus 50 degrees Celsius for a long time, and it would be incredibly difficult to start excavating it.
"Well, the Chinese team at the Pioneer side said they could help us with the excavation. They said that within a year at most, they would be able to let us grow vegetables in Tesla City."
"Growing vegetables? Digging a hundred meters of ice to grow vegetables, this is too extravagant."
"This is not a question of whether to grow vegetables or not. This is a question of the teleportation fee we cannot afford. The price of a large-scale inter-world portal for ordinary people is shocking, and it also requires special permissions. If we just rely on people to complete tasks and fight hard, who knows how long it will take to accumulate the money. Your research department should speed up the progress."
"I know, but scientific research is not something that can be achieved by just spending more time. Sometimes it takes just a breath of air to make it happen. If you don't make up for that breath of air, it will be useless even if you work in shifts."
Xiao Hei suddenly stopped talking and looked towards the fourth floor of the Ministry of Science and Technology building.
"Hey, Brother Lu, is there smoke over there? Am I seeing things right..."
Nie Lu followed his gaze and saw thick smoke coming out of the left window on the fourth floor of the Ministry of Science and Technology, as if something was burning.
Woo woo woo~
The fire alarm sounded.
"Fuck! What the hell! Xiao Hei, I'll just have to bear with you for a moment!"
Nie Lu reacted quickly and knocked Xiao Hei to the ground with a punch. He entered combat mode and then used his innate skill of the blessing of the goddess of luck on Xiao Hei.
Suddenly, Nie Lu's luck value soared to 11 points.
Then, Nie Lu waved his hand, took out a dice, placed it in the palm of his right hand, and pointed it at the Ministry of Science and Technology.