super carrier

Chapter 18 The Base
An uninhabited island nearly [-] nautical miles south of Nan'ao waters.

It is far away from the main trade routes and ports, so few ships will come to visit this kind of place.

There is a sunken area on the island, surrounded by cliffs on both sides, as long as the ships do not approach the island on purpose, they will not be able to find a cave here at all. Nie Yun and Xinhailang are hiding here at this time.

Nie Yun stood on a coral reef by the shore, holding his forehead and looking at the sprawling Xinhailang in front of him.

That's right, Nie Yun's new car, the Sea Wolf, was gloriously hit the rocks before it could see the light of day for 24 hours.

The mechanical bugs were cleaning up the reef inserted into the belly of the Sea Wolf, repairing the big hole again, and draining the seawater.

"Hey, that's why you can't be too rough in making a ship! What kind of dark night march is going on, look, it really crashed!" Nie Yun looked at the Sea Wolf with a face full of blame for you.

Sea Wolf: "..." (I want to go back and lie down for hundreds of years...)
Boarding the New Sea Wolf, the debris on the surface of the hull has been cleaned up, most of the areas have a new look, and the deck has become radiant.

In one corner, there are piles of waste wood and various garbage collected by the mechanical bugs. This is their raw material warehouse.

Nie Yun nodded in satisfaction. He planned to repair and strengthen the Sea Wolf, and then gradually replace it with mechanical bugs to complete the transformation of mechanical bugs.

After all, although there are a lot of mechanical bugs at present, compared to the gigantic New Sea Wolf, they seem a little insignificant. I'm afraid that even if all the mechanical bugs are filled in, even the keel can't be completely replaced.

At the same time, doing so won't take up too many mechanical bugs to build materials, and can fully release the mechanical bugs' work efficiency.

Mechanical Bug: "..." (Evil capitalist!)
In addition to the non-stop working mechanical bugs on the ship, with Sea Wolf as the center, densely packed mechanical bug spiders are spreading around the reef, cleaning up the reefs on the bottom of the sea, and collecting all available materials on the bottom of the sea.

Since inventing the new exploration method of the mechanical insect spider, Nie Yun discovered that raw materials are no longer the main factor limiting the number of mechanical insects, and the resources on the seabed are far beyond anyone's imagination.

Countless years of human development and ocean-going trade have filled the entire ocean with man-made garbage and waste, but these things are beneficial and cost-effective raw materials for the mechanical bugs.

What restricts the development of the mechanical bugs now is instead the issue of energy.

After all, the mechanical bugs are not professional energy collectors, even if they absorb solar energy, they cannot guarantee 24/[-] uninterrupted operation and self-proliferation, so now, the mechanical bugs can only stop from time to time to recover energy.

Nie Yun was a little depressed, just like a factory owner. Although his factory can produce mouth-watering profits all the time, he can't let the workers work in three shifts. This cruel reality makes him very distressed.

Mechanical bug: "..." (We want bug rights!)

And this is just one of Nie Yun's troubles. In addition to the energy issue, the issue of confidentiality has also been brought to the table.

In view of Nie Yun's firm belief in large size (heavy fog~), the Sea Wolf is bound to get bigger and bigger.

Naturally, there is no need to worry about the state of a small fishing boat before, but if it is nearly [-] meters in size today, it is impossible to not attract attention, besides, there are satellites everywhere in this world.

If the current appearance of the New Sea Wolf is discovered, the headline on the front page of the news the next day will be "Ancient Spanish warship reappears in the world, suspected of being infested by pirates, and many countries are going to exterminate it!"

The secrets on the Sea Wolf are too shocking, Nie Yun must strengthen the secrecy work, he does not want to be caught and sliced.

To solve this problem is actually very simple - just have a base!

As long as there is a secret base, then the mechanical bugs will have a fixed base for their daily work. From guerrilla warfare to positional warfare, the efficiency can be greatly improved.

If you need to come forward, let some mechanical bugs assemble the old version of the Sea Wolf fishing boat to travel, so that you don't have to be timid about many things.

In a word, establishing a base and expanding the mechanical bug population is an unstoppable development trend!It is an inevitable choice for dark and wretched development!

At this time, Nie Yun ordered the mechanical bugs to clean up the surrounding reefs. In addition to clearing the waterway to facilitate the entry and exit of the Sea Wolf, he also wanted to try to establish a secret base here.

"Secret base or something, it sounds very touching!" Nie Yun was a little excited.

Uh, having said all that, are you sure you're not doing it for fun? !
"Gu~" At this moment, Nie Yun's stomach started to growl again.

"Here we go again... Sigh! You work hard, I'm not easy, this is the first time today..." Nie Yun felt helpless.

As the number of mechanical bugs continued to rise, the physical strength he needed to control the mechanical bugs also increased, and the solar energy was already beyond his means.

Fortunately, he just discovered a magical charging method, otherwise, I am afraid that the food crisis will be the biggest problem Nie Yun will face!
He walked to a pile of burning fire, and the dry firewood collected by the mechanical bugs was added to it as fuel. Now the place is surrounded by silver-white mechanical bugs. This is the energy of the mechanical bugs. One of the supplementary places, although the method is a little primitive, it is better than nothing.

Seeing the boss approaching, and the mechanical bugs getting out of the way, Nie Yun stretched out his hand without hesitation, and directly plunged into the burning flames.

A miraculous scene happened. The flame licked Nie Yun's palm, but Nie Yun didn't seem to notice it, and showed a satisfied and comfortable expression. Silver light flowed from the palm of the flame from time to time, transforming all the heat energy, Supplement Nie Yun's physical strength.

This is a new skill discovered by Nie Yun by accident. As for why a human being can use thermal energy to recharge energy, Nie Yun, who has never even studied biology, said that the probability of answering this question for a person at the elementary school level is infinite approaching zero...

"It's really becoming more and more similar to mechanical bugs now. Their son is like Lao Tzu, but I am like my son, and vice versa! I don't know if I drink gasoline, will it have the same effect?" Nie Yun touched Chin thought.

But in the end he still shook his head, and quickly put the idea of ​​completing the "standard self-immolation action" out of his mind.

(End of this chapter)