Not long after the Stability Gate was built, the trade party to the Eternal Holy Cult returned, and everyone looked like wild men - a nightmare for those who were already accustomed to mechanical transportation, and even more desperate was the absolutely deserted trade route.

That is, this time the volume of trade is not large, and it can barely be done, and if you want to expand the scale of trade in the future, this path is absolutely impossible.

In order to solve the road problem, the trade team and the Black Skeleton Knights negotiated to choose a place close to the mountain range to build a trading stack, and the Storm Base only needed to send supplies to the more accessible trading stack, and the Black Skeleton Knights transported the rest of the way with undead.

As undead creatures that don't need to eat or drink and can move all the time, low-level undead are a pretty good means of transportation. And by reducing the distance traveled by the trade convoy, transportation became less difficult.

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A year has passed in the busy construction, and the time of a year is not long or short, and the storm base, which has lifted the bottleneck of material transportation, has burst out with all its strength for construction, as if returning to the era of "Shenzhen speed", and the entire southern section of Jigokudani has almost become a huge construction site!

First of all, the roads that are comparable to the standard have been built, and then the most built are laboratories and scientific research stations, especially the new Grohill base built around the capital of the king of Grohill, which is a huge base that combines the dual tasks of clearing operations and scientific research and excavation, and has become the third large-scale base of Huaguo in the other world after the storm base and the Trumen base.

In order to reduce the dependence on the earth's materials, the storm base first used the abundant wind resources of the storm corner to set up a large number of wind turbines. Of course, wind power alone will certainly not be able to meet the huge electricity demand of the base, so a nuclear power plant is under construction. When the new nuclear power plant is commissioned, the base will not have to waste a lot of capacity to maintain the fuel consumption of the thermal power plant.

In addition, cement factories, quarries and a small magic crystal mine have been established, but it is a pity that the magic crystal mine is a small mine that has been abandoned by the Grohill people, and the base can only obtain a small amount of magic crystals by using mechanical equipment to dig deeply, so the biggest value of this mine is to produce a large amount of magic sand, a small part of which is the companion of digging magic crystals, and most of them are directly abandoned by the Groshill people around the mine.

Adjacent to the Truman base, a large airport has been built, and the airport has just been put into use, and the second phase of the expansion project has begun.

A satellite launch base next to the airport has also been basically completed, and the design and manufacture of various types of satellites developed for the other world have also entered the final stage, and the final targeted tests are underway, and it is believed that satellites from the earth will fly in the orbit of the otherworldly planet this time next year.

In order to protect the sprawling construction site in southern Jigokudani, Storm Base began building a massive defense of the Otherworldly Maginot Line.

The defense project created three lines of defense from north to south, the first direction was just a crude barbed wire jungle, which did not play much role in the face of high-level undead, but it was very useful to block the sporadic low-level undead from going south.

The second line of defense is not so much a line of defense as a continuous stream of sentry turrets, and these improvised vigilant robots made up of old stockpiled weapons, cheap reconnaissance equipment, and simple AI are enough to eliminate most low- and mid-tier threats.

I have to say that the environment of Hell Valley is too suitable for putting this kind of AI immature robot weapon - hundreds of years of rain have made there almost no normal creatures here, so as long as something that moves, you can prepare to attack, at most, when encountering an aboriginal humanoid target that is difficult to judge, it can be manually operated through the network, and one of the most headaches in intelligent robot weapons is that friend or foe identification is not a problem here at all.

The last line of defense is the orthodox reinforced concrete line of defense. The defense line is centered on several rhombic forts, which are connected by walls, tunnels, trenches, and barbed wire, and the defense line is equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, and a front-line airfield is built in the rear.

After the development of Jigokudani has progressed to a certain extent, the mission area of the exploration force has gradually shifted beyond the Jigokudani, and the base has established several research stations in the area east of the Eastern Mountain Range, and used a valley in the Eastern Mountain Range to build a pass to the east.

After the sky was no longer disturbed by the magic storm, the workload of the exploration team was greatly reduced, and a lot of basic work could be done by drones, all they needed to do was to go to the suspicious areas that the drones had already detected to conduct field investigations.

At the heart of the quest is the Essence Mine, a magical substance that has never been seen on Earth before and has a maddening value that could almost ignite a new technological revolution!

In addition to the construction of Jigokudani, the researchers at the Storm Base have also achieved a lot of results in their research on the Otherworld over the course of a year.

In the Atlas, most things are not much different from those on Earth, and what really makes the base ecstatic to find that the first is magic crystals, and the second is magic.

Magic has sent researchers into a frenzy, but unfortunately, a year is clearly not enough time for them to unravel the mystery of this "virgin (beep) land where science has not yet set foot". Despite the huge investment, the results are superficial, and at most the people in the base will not know what to call after seeing a magic.

Compared to the stagnation of magic research, the research results of magic crystals are extremely gratifying.

Since the development of the super battery, the application technology of magic crystal has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and magic crystal is like a universal additive, which can often bring surprises to everyone in different fields.

In many cases, this kind of surprise is just a surprise and has little practical meaning. But there are other times when it brings a technological revolution in the real right!

Take super batteries, for example.

Even the roughest first-generation super battery in addition to the charging and discharging speed in terms of performance has not lost the hype has not yet been really practical graphene battery (the so-called graphene battery now put into use is actually not a graphene battery in the real sense), and after adding a certain amount of graphene components, the performance of the new generation of super battery has been more advanced than the graphene battery that is still in the laboratory stage.