Chapter 441 - Chapter 441: 149. Is this an angel?! _6 (1/2)
Chapter 441: 149. Is this an angel?! _6
Translator: 549690339
“Hmm? I suddenly thought of a problem.”
Noland Lee opened his eyes, confusion showing in their depths:
“If this machinery factory requires so much steam in order to breed the aberrations, where does the fuel for the steam boiler room come from?”
Noland Lee closed his eyes once more. Through the combination of ‘Mind View’ and ‘Mind Beacon,’ he achieved a vision leap.
Following the main steam pipeline all the way down to the steam boiler room on the 81st underground layer, Noland Lee found the conveyor belt carrying the fuel, amidst the hum of the running boilers.
“Black fuel, seems like common coal, but why does it shine as if there’s a layer of water on it…?”
Noland muttered to himself, continuing to perform vision leaps.
One after another, mind beacons were deployed along the conveyor belt. Noland performed a total of 22 vision leaps and his magical vision reached the 90th underground layer.
22 vision leaps in a row. That was his current limit.
If he couldn’t see where the conveyor belt carrying fuel started, Noland would have to level up his ‘Mind View.’
Luckily, he discovered the origin of the fuel on time.
“Well~ not bad. I can save the energy points for upgrading ‘Mind View.’ These fuels are indeed not ordinary coal. They are transformed by living alchemists using the bodies of dead aberrations and coal. What a bizarre alchemy array to transform corpses and coal into high heat-value fuel. I have no idea who managed to fathom the alchemy formula for this array.”
In Noland’s magical vision, a stereo array resembling a large blender appeared.
Aberrations who had become bone-thin due to excessive excretions during hibernation were brought to the “blender” above by the conveyor belt in their sleep and thrown into the “blender” filled with coal.
With an indescribable array transformation process, the alchemical coal was “blended” and poured onto the conveyor belt, heading to the steam boiler room.
The living alchemist was not wasteful at all.
First, they squeezed out the aberrations’ excrement and then sent them into the array for transformation into fuel.
Noland felt these operations were familiar…
Upon careful recollection, the operation method of the meat processing factory seemed quite similar to this machinery factory.
It was said that animals like chickens, ducks, and geese in meat processing factories could be slaughtered only a few months after their birth. Many animals had never seen the sky before they met their end. Among them, mass production of foie gras was particularly cruel.
Thinking about these, Noland suddenly understood why there were animal protection organizations in his world before crossing…
Noland halted his ‘Mind View’, and no longer looked at the messy production scene of alchemical fuel.
“Let me think…
“The expanse of this machinery factory is indeed large, but the speed of aberrations’ genesis is not fast. The culture fluid used here doesn’t contain Tatis-produced Life Elixir. The cultivation speed of the aberrations in the culture tanks is extremely slow. Based on my estimation, it takes at least half a month to grow an aberration egg into a standard level-2 aberration.”
This indeed troubled Noland.
A slow cultivation speed means that the production and transportation speed of the culture fluid is extremely low.
His idea of rapidly destroying the whole machinery factory with water charged with Death Energy definitely wouldn’t work. Because once the liquid flow speed decreased, the Death Energy water wouldn’t be able to flow through the entire machinery factory in a short period of time.
As for injecting the Death Energy water into the steam pipeline and using steam to transport it to all corners…
That would be deadly.
Last time, Noland consumed about 500 points of Soul Strength just to barely destroy two-thirds of a machinery factory.
But now, this machinery factory area was at least 10 times larger than that machinery factory, if not more.
It would take at least 5000 points of Soul Strength to destroy two-thirds of it.
Is it worth spending 5000 points of Soul Strength for such an achievement?
It’s not worth it.
Moreover, Noland didn’t have that much Soul Strength…
When he returned to Union City after dealing with the pollution at sea, he had 3177 points of Soul Strength left, just over 3000.
In the past three days, by meditating instead of sleeping, he consumed 242 points of Soul Strength, increasing his ‘Spirit’ by 3 points.
Currently, his ‘Spirit’ was at 23 points, but his Soul Strength had fallen below 3000, down to just over 2900.
How could he possibly destroy the entire machinery factory area with that…
“Ugh… My head hurts… This huge piece of meat is right in front of me, but I can’t take it all, it’s really killing me.”
As he pondered, Noland decided to go back the way he came, planning to return to the underground layer 21 through the vertical shaft to make a long-term plan.
“Let’s do it the old way. I’ll focus on destroying the key pipeline facilities, attracting the enemy’s attention. I’ll hold my ground and kill as many enemies as come. When I’ve killed enough, I’ll go to the warehouse and summon Denise Green to take me and my alchemical weaponry.”