Chapter 573 Close Combat (IV)

The ground mining station of the Ring Island Alliance.

They can't wait for the lords on the ground to build a mining station before investing manpower to slowly provide resources to the lords on the sky island. They don't have limited demand for resources like the standard mining industry.

Ji Lin only needs to feed three people, while the Ring Island Alliance needs to feed hundreds of alliance members in its own territory. Just thinking about how to balance the interests between them is enough for the management to lose their hair.

As for the people on the ground... The Ring Island Alliance is confident that they will not pose much threat to them.

They sent their 140-meter-long sky ship to operate on the exposed mineral veins on the ground.

"If it weren't for that damn standard mining group, we would have developed the nearby sky island long ago!" A lord who followed the army said, "Why would we have to travel so far to the shadow zone to mine resources on the ground."

As a core member of the management of the Ring Island Alliance, Xu Yan listened to the complaints of the lord who was on a mission, and knew that it was just his complaint.

The Ring Island Alliance is not qualified to fight a decisive battle with Standard Mining. The other party can tolerate the development of Pangu Sky Island only because they are afraid of the large number of land-based fortresses of the Ring Island Alliance and their limited delivery capabilities.

A full-scale war without an end has no meaning for both sides.

In the face of real interests, even blood feuds can be reconciled, and Standard Mining and the Ring Island Alliance only had some "minor frictions" before.

This minor friction has led to the current situation of demarcation and governance.

"Standard Mining..." Xu Yan looked up at the floating island in the sky.

Standard Mining, their former enemy, is now a force with both enemy and friend.

Standard Mining, which has expanded rapidly in a corporate model, has absorbed a large number of sub-humans and signed employment agreements with these sub-human captains. With the help of these sub-humans, they quickly spread their footprints across every sky island.

They do not absorb lords into their management system, but instead give instructions to every lord willing to serve them in the form of tasks.

Even if the other party is the lord of the Ring Island Alliance, or a lord without his own identity.

Standard Mining even has a city of 50,000 people on a large sky island... Above that small city, there is a Yonggu Fortress equipped with a large number of artillery. Xu Yan saw it from a distance and knew that this thing was not something that the current Ring Island Alliance could handle.

They coveted the economic value generated by a city of 50,000 people, but the Yonggu Fortress floating next to the city allowed everyone to sit down and trade with the city in a completely calm manner.

There is nothing that cannot be discussed in trading.

The Ring Island Alliance can even purchase seamless steel pipes from the open market of Standard Mining, which can be used to produce rifles with a little modification. If they have needs, they can also directly purchase real single-shot rifles from Standard Mining.

Explosives are strategic materials. If the Ring Island Alliance wants to purchase them in large quantities, it must exchange them with rare resources produced by Pangu Sky Island.

Standard Mining is still interested in the various resources on Pangu Sky Island controlled by the Ring Island Alliance. Miss Elf is very envious of Pangu Sky Island, which is extremely rich in biological resources, but there is no need to take such extreme measures to obtain resources now.

The specialty of the Ring Island Alliance, the "biocatalyst" produced by Pangu Sky Island, can also be on the list of transactions.

If there are no rare resources, the Ring Island Alliance can also exchange industrial products with its own technology and standard mining.

This harmonious scene once made Xu Yan feel that the scene of the Ring Island Alliance being raided was just his illusion.

"Huh."

A large bat as tall as a person landed on the shoulder of the silver-white mecha. It looked like a big bird landing on a human shoulder on the six-meter-high mecha.

Xu Yan controlled the arm of the mecha and touched the bat's head, and the latter made a hoarse cry of intimacy.

The mecha produced by the Ring Island Alliance has magical neural docking technology, which makes the delay time of each action of the driver less than 0.1s, so that the driver does not need to endure the delay caused by the transmission mechanism of ordinary mecha.

He likes to stay in the mecha and watch his own rock elements in the mine tirelessly mining the ore needed by the Ring Island Alliance.

There is a sense of security wrapped in steel.

Xu Yan

The Island Alliance has successfully mastered the method of improving the physique of organisms without damaging their lives after a large number of "biocatalyst" tests, which allows them to obtain a barely usable biological auxiliary force.

The system's resurrection is not resurrection, but "reset".

It records your time samples and resets you to your original most normal body after each death. Prosthetics, enhancers, injections, even blessings from demons, all the enhanced effects will disappear when resurrected.

They are reset.

Only some special soldiers recognized by the system will maintain their enhancements when resurrected, because the system pushes its recorded samples forward to the time when they existed as "special forces", and also saves their previous samples so that these soldiers can return to their original state.

And this batch of bats is the product of micro-enhancement and adjustment.

The Island Alliance believes that bats using ultrasound can adapt to more diverse battlefield environments than birds using vision, so among various creatures, bats were finally finalized as their auxiliary combat units.

Xu Yan prefers birds, because birds allow him to touch their fur, instead of feeling like touching a big rat like now.

“But it seems that the Standard Mining team is also developing their own armored vehicles…” Xu Yan thought.

I just don’t know how their armored vehicles compare to mine… In the previous battle, the mechas of the Ring Island Alliance were pierced by special steel core armor-piercing bullets at a distance of one thousand meters because their front armor was too weak.

Later, they urgently strengthened and installed inclined additional armor. The technicians told them that theoretically, the front face of the Ring Island Alliance’s mechas should not be pierced by 20mm anti-armor rifles.

If they encounter weapons with larger calibers, they can only pray that the opponent can’t hit them.

(Hit! Penetrate! Defend!)

He didn’t close the open hatch, letting the sun shine on him, and enjoying the afternoon sun peacefully.

Well, it’s still quiet on the ground, and there’s no need to worry about the battle in the sky.