Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 190 Cold Start Phase
The shock that the two chip manufacturing equipment brought to Lei Jie was perhaps no less than when he discovered the 011 fortifications, but unfortunately, the two equipment were not completely intact and could not be disassembled and used immediately.

Since the equipment is kept in a laboratory, the environmental maintenance system is much worse than that of 011, and both devices have various problems to a greater or lesser extent.

It will take a relatively long time to completely repair it.

But the good news is that at least you don’t have to start from scratch.

It is always easier to repair something than to make it from scratch.

Therefore, Lei Jie didn't have much regrets.

After briefly confirming the condition of the equipment, he obediently returned to the cat car and continued on his journey with the main force.

The road back to the 011 fortification was much easier to travel than when Chen Jian's team first went there. Of course, this was not because "when more people walk, a road will be formed", but because, when they were fighting outside the city of Jinling, Fuxi was also constantly clearing the road.

It took Fuxi less than 80 hours to complete the paving of a total of more than 48 kilometers of road, thanks to the ultra-high efficiency of more than twenty all-terrain crawler excavators it controlled.

This thing actually appeared in the era when Chen Jian and others lived, but after twenty years of development, after the outbreak of various technologies such as hydraulics, electronic control, and energy, its size, operating efficiency, and functionality have more than doubled.

Clearing obstacles, excavating, bulldozing and paving were all done in one go. When passing by several excavators that were still working, Chen Jian couldn't help but stop and watch for several minutes.

As expected, no matter what age or environment a man is in, he cannot resist the temptation of an excavator.

And of course, it's not just Chen Jian.

For the people of Yellowstone who had never seen such large-scale machinery, the scene before them was almost a miracle.

They simply couldn't imagine that humans were capable of manufacturing and operating such large machines, and even thought it was some kind of monster they had never seen before.

If it weren't for the fact that Huang Yu's non-stop training had already allowed them to initially develop the instinct to "obey orders", some people might really not have been able to resist firing at those "steel beasts".

The closer they got to the 011 fortification, the more and deeper the shock these people felt.

Flatbed trucks transporting dirt and waste, felling machines harvesting trees like straw, and robots that keep moving.
When they finally entered the 011 fortification through the main passage that had been completely cleared, stepped on the elevator, and felt the extraordinary experience brought by technology, the team was almost boiling with excitement.

It was the first time that Chen Jian saw a group of people crying in unison because of ecstasy.
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First time seeing it in real life.

Such uncontrollable emotions lasted for quite a long time, and some people even knelt down on the spot and kowtowed in the direction of Yellowstone City.

These people are kneeling down to worship their ancestors.

This is essentially a rather simple sentiment.

To be honest, do the people of Yellowstone City really expect their ancestors to bless them in the afterlife?
Will not.

They simply place their emotions for their deceased relatives on the relatively "illusory" concept of "ancestors" in order to seek spiritual comfort.

Compared to the religious fanatics of the Mechanicus, this kind of ancestor worship is much more rational.
So, Chen Jian did not stop them.

Only after the "worship" was completed did he invite everyone to enter the living area of fortification 011 and begin planning and allocating specific residential areas.

After the first phase of the cold start was completed, the large amount of cold start equipment stored in the living area had basically been emptied, and those standardized storage boxes were disassembled by the ant colony robots and rebuilt into habitable compartments.

Of course, the conditions are still a bit simple, but compared to Yellowstone City and other houses in the wasteland, it is no different from heaven.

It took more than ten minutes, and with the assistance of Fuxi, Chen Jian arranged all the more than a hundred people.

He himself was assigned a slightly larger room in the center as a bedroom, with almost no special features.

After putting down the weapons and equipment and taking off the exoskeleton, the ant colony robot automatically transported the exoskeleton to the armory for maintenance, while Chen Jian walked to his office to check the progress of the second phase of the cold start.

The subtitles of the mission instructions were still flashing on the screen in the office. Chen Jian took a look and saw that the steps of "cold start equipment deployment" had been completed, and there were two main tasks currently in progress.

The first is the infrastructure preparation outside the base.

The second is the assembly and debugging of major production equipment.

The former actually doesn’t have too many special parts. It’s nothing more than paving roads, bulldozing, and logging. It hasn’t even reached the step of building walls.

But the latter is relatively more complicated.

According to the logic of the 011 fortification design, or the logic of the Fuxi project design, this shelter must have the ability to quickly rebuild industry from scratch.

So, where to start and which part to start from is very important.

Obviously, the project leader at that time was a thoroughgoing pessimist. He did not believe that the survivors after the nuclear war would still be able to use simple "industrial mother machines" to gradually process the parts they needed and piece together more specialized production equipment.

Therefore, the design plan he proposed was to build a fully functional "industrial mother machine cluster" in a turnkey manner, and directly build a huge intelligent workshop in the huge space of three floors from the 011th to the 6th floor at the bottom of the 8 fortification.

The functions of this workshop are very simple. To put it simply, it is smelting, casting and machining.

However, its functions are quite powerful.

As long as you input the equipment to be manufactured, it will immediately input the raw materials and manufacture it according to the set program.

To put it in more intuitive terms, this is a giant industrial black box.

It can manufacture everything from bullets to high-pressure cylinders needed for the synthetic ammonia industry.

Of course, it's a small one.

The only problem is efficiency.

Since there is no functional adaptation, the time it takes to manufacture a highly complex internal combustion engine is not much different from the time it takes to manufacture a disposable lighter.

It can only solve the urgent problem. If we want to make the industrial system mature, we still need to improve the industrial categories as much as possible.
Chen Jian carefully read the progress of the second main task, and then he found that with the hard work of a large number of ants, the assembly progress of the intelligent workshop has reached more than 40%.

According to estimates, the workshop will be able to complete the assembly and start the first trial run in three days at most.

Its smooth operation also means the completion of the second stage of cold start.

Chen Jian suddenly felt a little excited.

He asked:
"Fuxi, after the smart workshop completes the assembly, does it mean that we can produce anything we want at a relatively low efficiency?"

"Yes."

Fuxi replied:
"But not relatively low efficiency, but 'extremely low' efficiency."

"If you want to manufacture industrial products with complex structures, such as aircraft engines, this intelligent workshop can theoretically accomplish this."

“However, the estimated completion time is 129 years.”

After Fuxi finished speaking, Chen Jian couldn't help but laugh.

"I wouldn't be stupid enough to use a workshop like this to make something so complicated. Suppose I want to cast a 105mm howitzer? How long would it take?"

"It is estimated to take 1440 hours, or 60 days."

"And within these 60 days, the production capacity of the intelligent workshop will reach more than 60%, which will greatly affect the overall efficiency."

"I don't recommend that you produce finished products in this way. The core purpose of this workshop is to produce other industrial kits, such as standardized machine tools and assembly lines, with relatively low efficiency."

“Only in this direction can it achieve maximum efficiency.”

"For example, we can spend a total of 510 days to produce all the equipment needed for the 105 artillery production line. After these equipment are fully assembled, the production time of a 105 artillery can be compressed to less than 20 hours."

"clear."

Chen Jian nodded slowly.

An idea popped into his mind.

If, without considering any other industrial equipment needs, I order Fuxi to rush the 105 gun production line at full speed
does that mean
Two years later, he would have a heavy artillery cluster with more than a hundred guns? ?
hiss.
If this thing really exists, is there anything in this wasteland that can be a match for the Chinese Army?

It is absolutely impossible.

The only problem is that this extreme development path has too much uncertainty. If you are not careful, you may be directly wiped out by others because the pre-casting time is too long.
It seems that it is unrealistic to become fat in one bite.

Just climb up step by step honestly.

Thinking of this, Chen Jian said:
"Mobilize all resources and enter full-power operation."

“Complete the second phase of the cold start as soon as possible.”

“Then, put it into production immediately!”

(End of this chapter)