My Monster Fuses Everything

Chapter 229: 214: First Come, First Served?

Chapter 229: Chapter 214: First Come, First Served?

Zhu Xiong pondered and said, “Let’s not talk about the Heshan Steel Transfer Center for now, it’s just located outside the North District of the city within the Third Ring area, and this oil depot is only a bit further than that transfer center. Before we took over the North District, it was normal to develop the Qingbei Grain Depot along with it. Is it convenient for the South City encampment to come over now?”

Gan Xinglei suddenly realized and muttered, “They’re quite decisive.”

Whether it’s the oil depot or steel transit center, both hold resources on a scale not inferior to the Qingbei Grain Depot. The difficulty lies not just in the assault, but more so in transportation.

The initial stage of securing the Qingbei Grain Depot, despite being fully armed for transport, was disrupted by numerous monster attacks along the way, and the whole process took several days to complete.

Now, monsters have generally become stronger, significantly increasing the difficulty of escorting supplies, not to mention the complexity of transporting gasoline and steel.

One is exceptionally volatile, and the other excessively heavy; ordinary trucks can’t carry much of either.

Moreover, the North District is almost considered the Tree Domain’s territory. Does South City really expect to come and go freely without embarrassment?

Therefore, after trading the information on the layout of South City’s steel industry, casually throwing in the oil depot that was originally agreed upon for joint development became an easy push with the flow.

In three days of early-to-late labor, towering walls have been erected in this suburban area. Standing ten meters tall, they rise from the land, seamlessly integrated, as solid as a single rock with plenty of interlaced steel reinforcements, their strength immense. Even spiritual energy bombs couldn’t deal any significant damage.

This entire stretch of the wall, three meters wide, extends out almost two kilometers. One side faces the suburban buildings of the North District, and the other side looks out to the wilderness fog beyond the city.

During the three days Zhu Xiong was on guard, he cleared away monsters along the route, which by now has been nearly swept clean.

After discussing, the two directly picked a team of skilled individuals, all riding fully armored Vine Giant Rats, and hurried to the destination.

The sound of hooves echoed in the streets. Occasionally monsters would suddenly burst out, but Gan Xinglei simply raised his hand, and a spiritual energy bullet formed and shot out, shattering the monster.

“Still, your spiritual energy bullets are better, making less noise.”

As they hurried along, neither paid much attention to the slain monsters. Zhu Xiong looked envious.

Gan Xinglei lifted the corner of his mouth, saying, “It’s still not skilled enough. If I increase the power, it will explode just the same.”

“At least it’s quieter than a spiritual energy rifle,” Zhu Xiong murmured. Although the spiritual energy rifles were powerful, they were also loud. They were fine for battles within the city, but for outings like this, especially in uncontrolled areas, they were generally not the first choice, unless the exploration objective was completed or the situation seemed off.

“We can use it during the big clean-up. Right now, production is fast. In a while, most people will be fully equipped, but metal consumption will increase significantly. Bullets are consumables, so the Steel Transit Center must be taken.”

While chatting, the team quickly crossed the streets and soon approached the Shanhe Steel Transshipment Center.

The so-called Shanhe Steel Transshipment Center was located in the North District’s suburbs, near the railway. Bulk metal was transported here via the railway, unloaded nearby, and then dealt in large quantities, distributed to various steel businesses and distributors.

There were a couple of steel trade markets within the entire South City area, along with companies in need of steel as a raw material for fine processing, and numerous mid to large-sized hardware and steel stores, totaling to several hundred.

However, most stores had only a portion of their steel stock on-site, with more kept here. During bulk trading, it would be directly transported from here to reduce transportation costs.

As such, the Steel Transit Center was very large and covered a wide area, with its surroundings extremely open.