Chapter 218: A New Era

Ephemeris, November 22, 212.

This day is definitely a memorable day for all Blue Star players.

More than half a year after the group crossing incident, the first deep-sea city completely built and controlled by Blue Star players has finally been completed.

Located in the heart of the 66580 Channel in the northern part of the Eastern Hemisphere, this large gathering place has re-bloomed with a dazzling dawn tearing through the abyss under the eyes of thousands of people with tears in their eyes, heralding the arrival of a new era belonging to the Blue Star player community.

From mid-March to late November, it was more than eight months.

The dictatorship of the Alliance and the ferocity of the alien environment have always been like a boulder pressing on the chests of all Blue Star players, making it difficult to breathe.

And from this moment on, Blue Star players were finally able to break the shackles, take a step of freedom, and no longer be bound by the alliance.

This independent city, a symbol of freedom, was also known as the origin of the New World, attracting global attention as a large gathering place, and was known as the "Far East City"!

Of course

In order to avoid arousing the vigilance and blockade of the alliance, the existence of the Far Eastern City was not disclosed to the outside world for a long time after the reconstruction work was implemented.

The only organizations known about the birth of this new power are the Breakaway Explorers and the Utu-Sirku Industries.

For the sake of long-term interests in the future, both organizations were silent about the existence of the Far Eastern City, providing a lot of valuable time for the accumulation and development of the Chongming fleet in the early stage.

And when the city officially began to operate, Meng Lei did not delay, and immediately began to organize a fleet to start salvage operations at the Blake shipwreck cemetery according to the previous plan.

At the same time, inshore fishing and farming are also on the agenda.

After all, the number of people in today's Far Eastern City is huge, and the demand for food alone is an astronomical amount every day, and it is really difficult to make ends meet by relying on imported food sources to maintain it.

Fortunately, the waters around the Blake Strait are relatively rich, with several natural fishing grounds that are not too rich, as well as plains with abundant seaweed.

Although from the point of view of exports, the benefits are minimal.

But if it is only to meet the internal consumption, it can be called more than enough.

Since then, the Chongming Fleet has relied on the city of the Far East as its base and has taken the shipwreck salvage industry as its main business project, and has begun a two-year period of hidden development.

In the past two years, Meng Lei has been wandering around other shipping lanes in the Eastern Hemisphere, except for occasionally using the function of the golden finger to locate high-quality resources for the shipwreck salvage industry.

On the one hand, it earns a lot of development funds for the fleet through first-class means to maintain the operation and expansion of the base area.

On the other hand, he also personally led the formation of a ruins exploration team, with a stable size of about 200 members, specializing in the exploration and excavation of alien ruins.

With the disclosure of the information that the unearthed products in the ruins can be upgraded to the initial wasteland boat, the alien ruins scattered in the major uncharted seas that have not been controlled by the alliance have gradually become a hidden strategic resource.

The earlier the development is carried out, the greater the profits, which is crucial for future development.

In the past two years, Meng Lei led his team to set foot in nearly 100 waterways around the city in the extreme east, and frantically excavated the relics.

Thanks to Goldfinger's help, all the ruins development process went smoothly, with few serious casualties, and the excavation speed was so alarming that even the Alliance's professional ruins exploration team could not reach it.

During this time, Meng Lei excavated a total of thirteen small ruins, one medium-sized ruins, and with the help of the Separatist Organization Exploration Sect, he deeply developed a large ruin, and obtained countless loot.

At the same time, with the help of various products unearthed in these ruins, Meng Lei successfully upgraded the Guiru by leaps and bounds, and promoted it to the B-level sequence in one fell swoop!

And the shell structure is completely made of relic materials, and the defense ability can be called invincible!

Ordinary thermal weapons, even laser weapons, are very

It's hard to leave too deep a mark on its surface, and the abyssal sea monsters of the level of Rigid Morok and Hammerhead are not a problem.

In terms of safety factor alone, it can be compared to A-class battleships in the conventional sense!

The submarine hull made of alien relic materials can also be immune to the spirit attacks of the Abyssal Banshee to a certain extent, canceling out most of the negative mental effects for the crew.

In addition, a special engine powered by an ancient Alien technology battery can also provide a near-infinite energy supply for the submarine.

In a real sense, the power supply is endless, and there will be no high-risk events such as power overload or reactor meltdown.

With the addition of these two points, the performance and safety factor of the Guixu have far exceeded the current alien society's rating standards for submarines, and have risen to another level.

It can be said that the current Guiru is like a mobile fortress, even if it is buried in a rock formation of thousands of meters by the collapse of the earth's crust, the crew of the submarine can live and enjoy before the food runs out, and there will never be the possibility of suffocation or dehydration.

And all the initial wasteland boats that have been upgraded to the B-rank sequence through the ancient blueprint all have this super performance that is beyond the technological level of human civilization.

Therefore, those undiscovered alien relics will definitely be invaluable strategic resources in the future.

In fact, although the Guixu is the first initial wasteland ship to complete the leapfrog upgrade among the Blue Star player group.

But looking at the world, the Guixu is not the first case, and it is difficult to squeeze into the top 100.

The fact that the Blue Star player's initial wasteland boat is not affected by space tides, can safely navigate the depths of the shallow waterway, and can be upgraded again with the help of the products in the alien ruins, the alliance has also noticed it early on, and then began to buy the initial wasteland boat on a large scale around the world.

Over the past 100 years, the Alliance has explored and excavated thousands of alien relics of various kinds, accumulating a large amount of heritage.

Among them, there are countless ancient artifacts and submarine blueprints.

Before the arrival of the Blue Star players, the Alliance had developed a large number of concept submarines through research and excavation of ancient technology, and secretly put them into practice.

The Supreme Guard Legion of the First Sea, equipped with super-submarines made of relic materials, is above all current regular sequences.

However, due to the overall level of science and technology, and the relatively stable social structure of alien planets, there has not been any large-scale war, so this kind of submarine has not been fully popularized.

With the gradual escalation of the current war situation, the design method of the old version of the concept submarine is simply not too late to quickly put into mass production to cope with the severe war situation.

At this time, the initial wasteland boat, which has a more convenient way to upgrade, has undoubtedly become the most sought-after war resource.

Not only did the alliance openly buy out the Blue Star players, but the Radicals of the Separation Organization and the major private arms companies also entered the market one after another, and the idea was hit on the initial wasteland boat equipped by the Blue Star players.

On the one hand, it is used for war, and on the other hand, it is used for research to deal with the broader market in the future.

As a result, many industries have gradually become diverse.

One of the most representative is the prevalence of shallow sea recycling.

There are quite a few Blue Star players and idle bounty hunters, guided by the path of the Blue Star players when they crossed Yin Shi and during the seven-day trial stage, leaving the current safe channel and turning back, salvaging and recovering those original wasteland boats that had long since sunk, and then repairing them again, and selling them to the Alliance or other major forces at a high price.

The industry is not very risky, but the rewards are amazing.

Although in the process of recovery, it is common to encounter surface ice that has not completely dissolved after the large-scale collapse half a year ago, but after more than half a year, the thickness of the ice in the shallow area is quite limited, and it can be easily broken with an electromagnetic gun.

And the price of each initial reclamation boat was speculated to nearly 300,000 marks at the peak!

You can pick up one casually when you go to sea, and you can make a steady profit without losing money.

In this period suddenly born millionaires, multimillionaires, in the major

It is not uncommon to see it in the waterway.

At the same time, under the temptation of huge interests, the pirate forces born from this have also been rampant all over the world in a short period of time, and the vast majority of emerging pirate groups are still headed by Blue Star players.

This directly led to the chaos in the already war-torn alien ocean, where the chaos escalated again and again, and the battle spread to almost every corner.

However, this was only a phenomenon in the early days when various forces grabbed the market, and it didn't take long for the monetary system of the alien society to stabilize the monetary system of the alien society and avoid the collapse due to the long-term disorder of the market.

The Alliance, for its part, has publicly relaxed restrictions on the behavior of Blue Star players, and has begun to allow the formation of small-scale private armed forces.

Then, through conscription, acquisition, interest exchange and other means, these small-scale private armed forces were pocketed, and it was logical to complete the purchase of large quantities of initial wasteland boats, and quickly upgrade and transform them into the war on the front line.

The Alliance's tactics were not clever, but they were able to temporarily restore calm to the gradually disordered social structure.

Other forces have also begun to imitate the alliance's methods, and have begun to blatantly recruit Blue Star player groups, and even the major pirate groups entrenched in the depths of the shallow area have also smelled the atmosphere of the times and participated in the recruitment of Blue Star players, intending to expand their own power.

From this period onwards, the era of warlord secession began to take shape.

For a time, countless large and small forces were active on the stage.

The daily headlines of major media outlets have shifted from the war between alliances and separatist groups to the rise or fall of new powers and local powers.

At this time, the Chongming fleet, which had been secretly hiding and secretly developing for two years, was finally no longer silent.

In two years, the Chongming fleet completed the initial primitive accumulation.

The thousands of abandoned ships in the Blake Shipwreck Cemetery, although only a tenth of them were salvaged and sold, have earned hundreds of millions of dollars for the fleet!

What Roger said back then was true, this barren land that no one cared about did hide countless treasures.

Just by dismantling the shipwreck and selling resources, in fact, the stable income is only about two million marks per month, and the real value lies in the goods carried in the wreck.

With the support of this industry, the overall appearance of the Far East City has not only been renewed.

Buildings, regional facilities, industrial equipment, etc., have undergone comprehensive iterations, and even details such as interior decks, ventilation ducts, and even air purification systems that block and sanitize fungal spores have undergone large-scale modernization.

In addition, the close-in defense weapon system has also been more perfect, with thousands of large-caliber electromagnetic guns and high-power laser guns standing on the periphery of the city, forming a solid ring fortification.

Even if it encounters a large-scale invasion of the Strange Tide, it will be able to impregnate the City Watch before it runs out of energy!

In this regard alone, Meng Lei and Chen Yu invested hundreds of millions of funds, and most of them were earned by Meng Lei through gambling.

Otherwise, relying only on the income of the shipwreck salvage industry will not be able to support such a huge military investment.

In addition, after more than two years of expansion, the size of the fleet is now several times stronger than it was at the beginning.

Of the thousands of initial reclamation ships that arrived in the Far Eastern City, nearly one-twentieth of them were upgraded to D-class frigates!

More than 200 super submarines with hull structures made of relic materials scattered and patrolled in the dark and dead rock cracks of the 66580 channel, guarding the territory of the sea around the city of the Far East, causing the overall firepower of the Chongming fleet to skyrocket.

In addition, more than 100 submarines have been recovered from shipwreck graveyards and put into service.

Among them, the F-class exploration boats belong to the most common type, accounting for more than half of the overall number, a total of 83 submarines, and the number of submarines of various other classes is uneven, including 37 E-class industrial transport ships, 22 D-class combat frigates, 10 C-class long-distance cruisers, two C-class large multi-functional supply ships, and five B-class cruisers.

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As a result, there are two more A-class battleships that can be called antiques, pioneers of the last century, and have been pulled out of the ruins of thousands of shipwrecks.

After a comprehensive improvement and maintenance, it has been revitalized with excellent performance that is not inferior to the rating of the current era.

After calculation, the number of submarines in today's heavy fleet, which is higher than the F-class sequence, has exceeded 450, close to 500!

This scale is far higher than the number of reserve warships in any medium-sized military base of the Alliance!

And for the Chongming fleet, everything is just getting started.

Although the shipyards in the Far East are not small, with 20 independent converted docks, most of them are used to maintain the operation of the salvage industry, and do not play a role in actual production.

But two years have passed, and Chen Yu, who already has great ambitions, cannot be willing to stop here in the future of the heavy fleet.

As early as more than a year ago, when the shipwreck salvage industry was just on the right track, Chen Yu began to deploy and plan for the comprehensive transformation and expansion of the entire waterway.

In the past two years, the outside world has been turbulent, and the interior of the 66580 channel is also in full swing.

In addition to the Far East City, the main city of the fleet, the two adjacent abandoned outposts in the vicinity have also completed comprehensive restoration and transformation under the leadership of Chen Yu.

These two outposts are medium-sized, and were once important military bases left behind by pioneers during the opening of the 66580 Shipping Channel.

Although most of the equipment was recovered by the Alliance with the abandonment of the waterway, it was almost an empty shell.

However, its building system and regional planning have been completely preserved, and as long as the new equipment is in place, the industrial assembly lines can be reactivated and operated soon.

Chen Yu took a fancy to this point, and he would still expand vigorously in the face of tight funds in the early stage of development.

Now, two years later, the two outposts have been completely renovated and are back in operation.

According to the current progress, with sufficient resources, an average of one top-of-the-line ordinary E-class frigate can be built every day, which is 30 ships a month.

Although this speed cannot be compared to those large private arms companies, it is a huge metamorphosis for the heavy fleet itself.

Since then, the Chongming Fleet has truly achieved independence, no longer needs to rely completely on any organization or force, and has fully achieved self-sufficiency from the people's livelihood to the military.

Of course, submarines of a higher serial level, including shipboard weapons and industrial equipment, have not yet been put into production due to the technological blockade of major arms companies and alliances.

However, Chen Yu has been constantly increasing the recruitment of technical talents in related fields.

Although the Chongming fleet has completely disappeared in the past two years and completely disappeared from the public's field of vision, it has never stopped secretly.

As the main person in charge of the intelligence department, Ning Wen has not been idle in the past two years, personally leading a group of intelligence personnel to secretly operate between the main cities of the major waterways in the surrounding waters, collecting intelligence and recruiting talents for the fleet.

Two years have passed, and a professional scientific research team is gradually perfecting and taking shape.

And the number of members of the fleet has also increased significantly compared to when they left Ciel City two years ago.

Today, there are more than 15,000 members under the command of the Chongming fleet!

Including the city of the Far East, the number of strongholds in its hands has also reached three, with dozens of complete industrial chains and food production chains, and nearly 500 main combat submarines above the F-class sequence!

Compared with two years ago, the overall strength is no longer the same......