<h4>Chapter 571: Important Intel</h4>


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    Albinia paused. He quickly grasped the significance of the question and replied, "My teacher is Levent. And you are …" If he could figure out how they were rted, his situation might be improved.


    "Levent. As I suspected …" Sha Ya felt relieved.


    She noticed Ye Chong looking at her, and exined, "I know Levent. We worked together before. He likes to put on a green colored string as a bracelet on his wrist, and often shows it off, that''s why I remember it. Looks like his student inherited the quirk."


    Albinia was overjoyed. It was quite fortunate for thedy to know his teacher.


    "What do we do with them?" Sha Ya turned to Ye Chong. Since they were students of a friend, she hoped Ye Chong would not kill them. However, she also knew that Ye Chong was never hesitant in killing. Albinia and Lotesh waited in suspense like it was the Day of Judgment.


    Ye Chong asked, "How did you enter Darkniss?" The question was a curious one. Every country, including Western Frost, Eastern Cloud and Northern Lands had an entrance to Darkniss. Ye Chong had heard of it, but he did not know the details.


    "We started from the Wilkinson Range, then entered the Maze Tunnels through the Snowy Ridge. From there, we entered Darkniss. We went deeper and deeper inside for I don''t know how long, and then we got lost and couldn''t find the entrance anymore," Albinia exined haltingly, looking vexed. It was easy to tell from their tattered clothing that the past few days had not been easy for them.


    Wilkinson Range, Snowy Ridge, Maze Tunels - Ye Chong had not yet heard of these ces, and thus could not quite understand the context. Sha Ya, however, was familiar with them. She exined, "Western Frost has another entrance into Darkniss, different to one in Eastern Cloud. Northern Lands also has its own entrance."


    Ye Chong understood the crux of the matter immediately. "This means that we can enter the other two countries from Darkniss?"


    "Theoretically speaking, yes. However, we don''t know where the other two entrances are. Besides, it''s easy to lose your way in Darkniss. It''s easier to cross the border the usual way, even with the war happening right now. No one has tried to enter another country via Darkniss."


    Sha Ya exined calmly. She was already used to Ye Chong''s obvious questions. She had realized early on that Ye Chong was often oblivious to many things that people thought of asmon knowledge, but familiar with deep and technical knowledge. She found it curious at first, but got used to it eventually.


    Albinia and Lotesh doubtfully stared at Ye Chong. They never imagined that someone would actually ask something like that.


    "What do we do with them?" Sha Ya asked Ye Chong again.


    "Let them stay, and have them join the training. Start at the very beginning."


    Ye Chong''s orders changed the course of life of these two shooters.


    That there were multiple entrances into Darkniss was important intel for Ye Chong. It meant that he would be able to ess Western Frost and Northern Lands if he found their entrances.


    That was the main point for Ye Chong.


    Darkniss was full of natural resources, but it also had two fatal weaknesses. Firstly, Darkniss had no energy crystals. All production works would halt without them. The mechs they built would not be able to run without an energy source. Both Western Frost and Northern Lands sold energy crystals at a very affordable price.


    Secondly, Darkniss did not offer enough food. Ye Chong had brought a lot of food and nutrition pills with him, but they would run out one day. There were five thousand mouths to feed, and nutrition pills were too wasteful to be used for daily meals.


    For now, with the war going on, Sun Sieha would not try to start a fight with Ye Chong. It would not be too difficult for him to enter Eastern Cloud for resupply, especially for these non-military resources. Moreover, Ye Chong''s unique weapons might just earn him another huge sum.


    However, once the war between Eastern Cloud and Western Frost ended, Sun Sieha would definitely start restricting Ye Chong''s ess to these important resources, and perhaps even direct national military force at him. It was hard to tell whether his five thousand strong security detachment was enough to take on the military by then.


    If Ye Chong could find the other two entrances, his situation would be vastly different.


    Ye Chong could head to Western Frost and sell a few pieces of good tech to even out the military strength between the two countries. If Western Frost could start to defend itself using the new tech, it might even be able to ovee Eastern Cloud. The war mighte to a stalemate eventually.


    That was the ideal scenario for Ye Chong. If he could sell some of his weapons to both countries, he would be thergest weapons dealer, hidden from in sight. Ye Chong was not a money grubber, but he needed it to fortify his stronghold. Besides, all the resources required to train his five thousand men also tranted to money.


    Ye Chong could even consider recruiting soldiers from Western Frost to expand his army.


    If that did not work out, he could always head for Northern Lands. That country was also rich in natural resources, and sold food products cheaply. In this scenario, Sun Sieha would find it hard to notice Ye Chong''s presence, and it would buy Ye Chong more time to strengthen his position.


    Ye Chong did not have definite ns in the long term yet. Whether he chose to enter deeper into Darkniss or to other areas, he would first need to have enough power on his side. This power woulde not from Celest or Sha Ya, but his five thousand students. However, these students needed time to develop and mature, and that required a lot of resources.


    Ye Chong had to see to this problem.


    That Albinia and Lotesh could reach this ce by foot meant that the entrance into Western Frost was not too far away. With Celest and its geopositioning system, Ye Chong did not have to worry about losing his way. Anywhere he travelled before would be recorded in the system.


    Nevertheless, that would have to wait.


    For now, Ye Chong faced the issue of the smelting furnace. Compared to the metal istor, the smelting furnace was much easier to build. Ye Chongpleted the machine in no time. He first designed the furnace structure on the photon processor, then sorted the mechanical parts of the furnace. After that, he used the Research Consortium''s high precision processing equipment to build the mechanical parts. Thest part was the assembly.


    The final product was a 15-metre wide smelting furnace. The weaponsmiths were no longer so surprised by his creation. Humans are highly adaptable to new things, after all.


    This was no ordinary furnace. Ye Chong hadbined the smelting furnace with processing machinery. Thus, the machine could directly work on the products of the smelting process.


    After the smelting furnace, Ye Chong needed to build metal strengthening machinery, high precision processing equipment, surface processing equipment …


    When Ye Chong was done building all the machinery, three months had already passed. By now, the warehouse was stocked with new metal blocks every day. All the purified metal pieces were simply stored inside as well.


    Atst, the full set of automated mechanical processing machinery waspleted. This production line was powerful. It was the result of applying all of Ye Chong''s knowledge. There were signs of influence from the Five Gxies, He Yue Gxy and even Gray Valley''s Research Consortium.


    The entire production line was approximately 1.2 kilometres long. All the machines were connected into an actualrge scale production line. Any engineer from the Five Gxies or He Yue Gxy would be astonished by it. Such arge scale production line was usually owned by huge manufacturingpanies only.


    This was more than enough to build gadgets and machines for five thousand soldiers. In fact, it was enough for provide for 50 thousand soldiers.


    Moreover, Ye Chong did not have enough technical experts with him, and he could not possibly spend all his time on the actual manufacturing. Hence, he designed the production to bepletely automated. What Ye Chong needed to do now was simply to key in the desired procedure in the main control photon processor, together with other details like the shape of the mechanical parts to build and so on, and the production line will take care of the manufacturing.


    Today, the production line began working for the first time.


    Ye Chong keyed in the necessary details into the photon processor.


    The metal pieces prepared earlier were moved via a conveyor belt to the mouth of the smelting furnace, and fed vertically into the furnace. After that, all the other machinery began to light up.


    Xi Yan and the other technical crew watched the long production line nervously. The production line hummed and grumbled while the crew watched with anticipation. Ye Chong had spent three months toe up with this massive beast. They were all curious what the beast could do.


    "It''sing out, it''sing out!" One of the young weaponsmiths pointed at the oddly shaped mechanical parts that were churned out and cried out excitedly.


    Ye Chong picked up one of the ck colored parts. It was a diamond-shaped armor for the limb of a mech, coated with ayer of ck paint for protection. The entire mechanical part felt heavy in hand, with an excellent feel to it. Ye Chong tested the hardness of the armor with his fingers, looking satisfied with the oue.


    With this production line, he would soon be able to arm all his students.