Mobile Shelter

Chapter 32 Determine the Direction.

In fact, Dong Qi initially wanted to choose between the two directions in the southeast.

The reason for this idea is that there are suitable areas for gathering supplies in both directions.

First, let's talk about the route heading east. If you keep going east, although the journey is relatively long, you can reach the port city directly.

At this time of day, there should be no one in the port, whether it's the warehouses storing containers, the docks with a large number of ships, or even the frozen sea.

Going there would not only yield a large amount of metal, but also replenish a large amount of supplies. After all, compared to the production equipment in the factory, ships that can sail at sea have more metal materials in their hulls.

Therefore, when you go to a port city, you will definitely not lack the metal needed for upgrades.

However, although the Hundred Refinement Furnace has been strengthened several times, the volume of both the refining space and the material storage space inside the furnace has been greatly expanded.

The material storage space inside the Hundred Refinement Furnace is adequate. Since the metal can be consumed in time to upgrade the main vehicle, there is no need to worry about running out of space even if a large amount of metal is obtained at once.

However, according to Dong Qi's estimate, although the refining space inside the Hundred Refinement Furnace has been expanded several times, some ships are significantly larger than it. At present, the internal space of the Hundred Refinement Furnace can only process and refine some ships of about 100 tons.

This is still a ship that has just entered the hundred-ton class. The space inside the hundred-refinery furnace cannot yet accommodate ships that are close to a thousand tons in size.

Although once you arrive at the dock, you will surely be able to find sightseeing yachts that can be refined in the hundred-refinement furnace.

However, each upgrade now consumes a lot of metal. If he doesn't get enough metal, Dong Qi will only be able to watch those ships go to waste.

More importantly, the port city is not deserted now. At this time, many people know that there should be a large amount of supplies in the container storage area.

The local government will certainly not overlook this important area and will definitely arrange personnel to guard it.

While the dock may be unguarded, it is too close to the container storage area, and if they make a move, there is a high probability that they will be discovered by others.

Therefore, although the area is rich in metal resources, Dong Qi only has one chance to make a move.

Since there are other options, Dong Qi decided to temporarily abandon this goal.

After eliminating other directions using the process of elimination, only the southern route remains.

Although everyone knows that Pengcheng is located at the junction of multiple provinces and is a major transportation hub.

But precisely because of this, even land prices in suburban areas are much higher than in some county-level cities.

Whether it's express delivery or logistics, they will establish one or two cargo sorting and transfer stations in each province.

These sorting stations typically require a large area.

Therefore, since land prices are high in Pengcheng, we only need to choose a town that is close to Pengcheng and has convenient transportation to build a goods sorting and transfer station.

Although the location might increase fuel costs, it's still much cheaper than the exorbitant land prices.

Moreover, leasing land requires a large upfront payment, while the fuel costs incurred due to detours have little impact on the company's cash flow.

Moreover, while a sorting station like this is just an ordinary industry in Pengcheng, if it is located in a township, it could very well become a pillar industry in that township.

Regardless of the region, the pillar industries within that region will receive the highest level of support.

The southern route that Dong Qi chose was the town where the logistics hub was located.

Firstly, the logistics hub is some distance from the town center, so even if some disturbances occur there, they won't attract the attention of the local government.

Secondly, the material processing center, although a labor-intensive industry, does not produce any materials, so it is not among the enterprises ordered by the imperial court to resume work and production.

Secondly, although there are a large amount of supplies stored there, there are no underground buildings in the logistics park that can be converted into shelters. Most of the buildings in the park are either large, drafty warehouses or simple houses built with corrugated iron sheets.

Therefore, during this cold wave, Dong Qi is certain that absolutely no one will live there. In other words, the logistics park, which contains abundant resources, should be a no-man's land at this time.

Moreover, if in the past, some people would brave the freezing cold to collect supplies in the logistics park, but now that the snow has fallen, even if those people still want to collect supplies in the logistics park, they cannot withstand the corrosive effects of the snow.

Dong Qi's goal was clear: to find all kinds of vehicles.

Apart from a few private cars, the logistics park is mostly filled with various large trucks.

Even the largest trucks can be easily collected into the hundred-refinery furnace for material extraction.

Therefore, although the metal resources there may not be more than those at the port, the margin for error is much higher.

Moreover, near the logistics park, besides car repair shops, there must also be some steel structure companies that build factories, and large quantities of metal can be found in both places.

Having chosen his target, Dong Qi didn't delay any longer. After loading his car with supplies, he headed south.

Although the navigation was completely unusable, Dong Qi's chosen destination was a logistics distribution center, which was not far from the highway exit.

In addition, to make it easier for logistics drivers to be reminded, many obvious signs have been built in the area near the highway exit.

So as long as you get on the highway and make sure you're heading in the right direction, getting to your destination isn't difficult.

The outside world was now covered in gray snow, and the once colorful buildings had completely disappeared. I wonder if being in this environment for a long time would cause snow blindness, just like being in snow for a long time.

Although this snowfall never stopped, it didn't completely cover the roads or create deep snow accumulation like the last blizzard.

When Dong Qi arrived at the highway entrance, there was indeed no one in the toll booth.

When the toll collectors left, they actually raised the barrier, although the barrier was easily bent upon impact and did not have much impact on normal passage.

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PS: To answer some people's questions about my Hundred Refinements system being affected by settings.

The main function of the Hundred Refinement Furnace is to refine materials and improve their quality. In simpler game terms, it is to upgrade ordinary materials to basic materials.

Without a high-grade refining furnace, it is impossible to upgrade primary materials to intermediate materials.

However, those refining devices originally contained intermediate or advanced materials. Therefore, during the refining of primary materials in the Hundred Refinement Furnace, they were broken down because they could not be refined.

Only by upgrading the Hundred Refinement Furnace can ordinary materials be refined into intermediate materials. Although the consumption rate is relatively high, it is a stable way to obtain materials.

I wish everyone a peaceful and joyful New Year, and that everything goes smoothly and as you wish.