Chapter 49 The beast tide comes to an end
“Master, the losses have been calculated.”
Jarvis projected a list on the big screen, clearly listing the base’s losses during this time. Losses suffered during the tide.
Seeing these dense data, Jiang Chen felt very unhappy, but he had to steel himself to look carefully.
The biggest losses came from several earthquakes triggered by the 'Iron Armored Earth Dragon', which damaged many buildings in the base.
The numerous cracks on the city wall alone have reduced the city wall's comprehensive defense capability by nearly 40%.
Fortunately, only some of the severely damaged alloy materials need to be reforged, so repairing them is not difficult.
But the losses in other areas are more serious.
Among the 180 [Boxer] mechas, nearly one-third were damaged, and a dozen were completely scrapped and lost their repair value. Only part of the materials could be dismantled and recycled.
The equipment of several production lines also suffered varying degrees of damage during the earthquake, and many of the equipment need to be repaired or even replaced before they can be put back into use.
The most serious loss came from Warehouse No. 15.
This warehouse stored 5,000 tons of high-energy batteries. A fire broke out during the earthquake, causing all 5,000 tons of batteries to be scrapped, which meant that the base lost almost half of its energy reserves.
Before the power plant was built, these batteries were the only source of energy in the base.
Seeing this news, Jiang Chen was only glad that under Jarvis's plan, he did not put the eggs in one basket. Materials such as batteries that are easy to catch fire were stored separately and were not burned out at once. .
Coupled with other scattered losses, if converted into money, Jiang Chen lost at least one trillion Chinese coins in this battle.
Of course, the actual losses were not that great.
The main framework of the base has been preserved. After restoration, many materials can be mined and processed locally. It only takes some time to get back on track.
After this battle, most of the high-level monsters in the rainforest on the eastern plateau have been wiped out, and the low-level cannon fodder monsters have also suffered heavy losses. It will be impossible to have enough energy to organize them for a long time in the future. The large-scale attack immediately improved the security of the base a lot.
As for the occasional encounter with small-scale disturbances, this is inevitable. You only need to send a small number of troops to protect them, so don't worry too much.
Give Jiang Chen some time to check the data. After waiting for a while, Jarvis continued: "Based on the current supplies, it will take about two and a half months to return to the state before the beast wave. . The main reason is that some resources that we cannot produce ourselves are seriously damaged. If these materials can be imported, it will only take about a week to fully recover.”
As he spoke, Jarvis gave a list of supplies that needed to be purchased.
Mainly materials such as high-energy batteries, chips, and high-precision sensors.
"This quantity is not too much. Five large transport planes can deliver it." Jiang Chen glanced at it and nodded: "Contact Jiangnan for purchasing and ask them to deliver it as soon as possible. By the way. , first build a runway that can allow large transport aircraft to land, Just find an open space outside the base."
After a pause, Jiang Chen continued to ask: "What do you think about the power generation facilities? We can't always rely on batteries to supply energy to the entire base."
“It’s nothing more than thermal power and nuclear power. There are three options: electricity and solar power." Jarvis said: "I suggest choosing thermal power. According to the data, there is a large coal mine that was developed before the Great Nirvana, although it is not of high quality. , but it is completely sufficient for power generation and thermal power generation. Electricity, the technology is simple, the construction cost is low, and the power generation can be adjusted according to our needs. If it is nuclear power or solar power, it requires more energy, and nuclear power materials also need to be imported. "As for the environmental pollution of thermal power generation, Jarvis didn't mention it at all.
In this era when survival is very difficult, no one will consider the so-called environmental issues.
It is entirely too late to start governance after the monsters are eliminated.
Jiang Chen thought for a moment and nodded in approval of Jarvis's proposal.
It stands to reason that nuclear power is the most efficient. All of the existing 52 base cities mainly use nuclear power.
But the current mainstream method on earth is to use deuterium and tritium as fuel and use nuclear fusion to generate electricity.
The former is mainly extracted from the ocean, while the latter almost does not exist in the natural environment of the earth. It can only rely on artificial synthesis, and the output is very small. Other base cities do not have enough themselves, and it is very troublesome to import.
As for the more efficient and technically more difficult helium-3 nuclear fusion, there are related drawings in the system, and Jiang Chen has enough knowledge, but it is still very difficult to realize it in reality. Troublesome.
The most important thing is that with the current scale of the base, it does not require such a huge power generation capacity.
Thermal power generation is not technically difficult. Jiang Chen didn't bother to find any blueprints from the system and directly used the technology readily available on Earth.
"I'll leave the power plant to you. Calculate the priorities yourself and ensure that the power plant can operate after this purchase and before the energy reserve is consumed by half." Jiang Chen directly left the matter to Jia. Weiss.
Jarvis responded immediately: "The sixth priority has been set, and two combat mecha squads and a brigade of SCVs have been deployed to perform related tasks. It is expected to be completed in 21 days."
"How many [boxers] have been accumulated in the factory in Jiangnan Base City?" Jiang Chen asked again.
When he 'moved', Jiang Chen did not move all the production lines in Jiangnan Base City, leaving a [Boxer] production line there.
The production raw materials are provided by the military and the HR alliance to ensure that the supply of materials will not be interrupted.
Through the Internet, Jarvis has complete control over production there.
"115 [Boxers] have been produced, 95 of which need to be delivered to the eight major forces. We can intercept 20 of them." Jarvis asked: "Master, do you want these 20 fighters to be delivered to the eight major forces?" Will A be transferred over?”
“Transfer over, though. It is said that the beast herd in the rain forest has been maimed, but there are still a lot of monsters left. The resource collection team still needs to have enough troops to protect them when operating outside the base." Jiang Chen thought for a while and ordered: "The next step. When the order is delivered, ask them to send an extra transport plane and bring the mecha over."
"Yes, Master." Jarvis wrote down the task, set the priority, and continued: "Master, after the base is repaired, should we continue with the previous plan, mainly to expand combat effectiveness, or should we Need to change resource allocation?”
Jiang Chen hesitated. Yes, he said: "On the premise of ensuring that the production capacity of [Boxer] does not decrease, give priority to expanding the scale of SCVs and transportation vehicles. This plateau is rich in resources and must be developed as soon as possible. There are many plans for the future , all require massive resources to complete. ”
(End of this chapter)