Chapter 324 A Complete Overhaul of the Surface Industrial System

As more and more cultivators landed on the moon, the Guanghan Base truly began to resemble the heart of a heavy industry machine that had been completely ignited.

Mine No. 1 operates day and night.

The massive drill bit of the Titan-class drilling rig bit deep into the lunar crust, continuously stripping away dark ilmenite, basalt layers rich in stellar trace elements, and deep lunar soil mixed with helium-3, sending them onto the heavy rock-discharge conveyor belt.

The Taiyi Furnace operates without stopping.

Plasma flames churned inside the blast furnace, melting lunar soil and ore into dark red magma. The Dividing Cauldron Array patterns lit up repeatedly, brutally separating titanium, iron, rare stellar metals, and useless slag.

Standardized, dark silver lunar blanks were squeezed into shape from the bottom of the furnace by a high-pressure array, and then split into two separate paths.

The regular batch will remain at the Guanghan base to expand the living area, greenhouse area, mining area, and the second Taiyi Furnace.

Selected batches were then marked with the highest level of explosion-proof runes and sent back to Earth.

In the past, Earth sent truckloads of steel, spiritual stones, food, and people to the moon.

Now, that path has finally started flowing in the opposite direction.

Although it is still far from being large in scale, its significance has completely changed.

The blood is starting to flow back to the ground from the sky.

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"The eleventh batch of selected lunar rough blanks from the Guanghan Base has been received."

"Liquid helium-3 energy storage boxes, three sets, structurally intact."

"Cathode diluted base solution, twelve vials, stable upon sealing."

"Eight vials of Taiyin stabilizing fluid, temperature lock-in normal."

"Twenty-seven sample array plates are to be sent to the No. 0 experimental area of ​​Zhongyuan Heavy Industry."

Wang Mingyuan stood on the observation platform above the receiving area, watching as metal boxes were loaded onto military railcars below.

The quantity of these items is not exaggerated.

Even if you calculate by weight, it's less than the amount of ordinary ore brought back by a Gonggong-class transport ship in the past.

However, they are the highest-value samples selected by the lunar self-production system.

Each carefully selected lunar blank can be used as the core pressure-bearing layer of a strategic array disk.

Every drop of Helium-3, diluted with polar yang and yin fluids, can become an energy primer for high-level weapons, defensive arrays, and deep-space equipment.

These things are not simply resources.

They are the keys to the transformation of the entire surface industrial system.

"The first batch of prototypes should be sent to Zhongyuan Heavy Industry first," Wang Mingyuan ordered. "The scaled-up trial production of the Wanjian main control array disk cannot be stopped."

"The second batch was sent to the General Administration of Military Industry to verify the new generation of psionic engines and deep-space protective armor."

"The third batch was sent to the Array Court for testing of the dual-base array patterns of Extreme Yang and Taiyin."

"The rest must not be kept privately or transferred internally; they must all be included in the alliance's unified allocation sequence."

The head of the Coordination Agency nodded: "Martial control has been implemented throughout."

Wang Mingyuan watched the military railcars slowly drive away, his voice calm yet extremely heavy.

"Tell all departments that the moon is not anyone's private domain."

"From the moment the first piece of star iron it landed on the ground, it belonged to the entire civilization."

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Zhongyuan Heavy Industry, No. 0 Underground Expansion Area.

After the Wanjian main control scaled-down sample disk was successfully verified, the specifications here were upgraded three levels.

The original single ultra-precise spiritual pressure etching line has been expanded to a total of twelve lines.

Inside the enormous cleanroom, robotic arms resembled a steel forest, with pale blue plasma beams continuously falling onto the dark silver lunar prototype.

This time, they didn't just process that palm-sized sample.

The second batch of selected substrates from the Guanghan base has been cut into standard sample blanks the size of a fist.

Each sample blank must first undergo microscopic lattice testing.

Those that fail to meet the standards will be directly returned to the ordinary industrial sequence.

Only those that pass the test are eligible to enter the magnified verification of the Ten Thousand Swords main control array.

The chief weapons officer of the General Armaments Department stood in front of the control console, his eyes bloodshot, but he never looked away from the screen.

"The first set of ten-fold scaled array disks is now being etched."

"The original high-pressure lattice is preserved, and the surface is locally softened."

"High-pressure control array pattern, shallow engraving complete."

"The multiple unloading loops are now connected."

This time, they weren't as cautious as they had been initially, almost trembling with fear.

The second and third batches of lunar surface materials are already on their way.

Although it remains precious, it is no longer a solitary specimen.

Once the materials can be supplied continuously, the bolder the experiments become.

The deductions that were previously confined to jade slips are now being brought into the experimental stage one by one.

In the past, we dared not carve array patterns, but now we can.

The path that was previously too risky to bear pressure can now be taken.

Materials that used to cause heartache if destroyed are now readily available for continued experimentation.

"Ten-fold scaling test, 360 limited-amplitude sword energy resonance test, prepare to begin."

The weapons officer's voice was a little hoarse.

Wang Mingyuan observed the scene via remote communication and gave no further instructions, only saying, "Don't strive for success on the first try; first, determine the failure boundary."

These words silenced the entire factory for a moment.

Then, almost simultaneously, all the engineers and array masters lowered their heads and continued their work.

They understood the weight of those words.

In the past, Earth's materials were too scarce and too expensive, so many experiments had to be conducted with great care and caution.

It is different now.

They now have the capital to fail.

Any true industrial system grows from repeated controlled failures.

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Military Industry Headquarters, Deep Test Site.

Another batch of lunar substrates was sent to the new exoskeleton testing area.

A heavy armored vehicle, standing three and a half meters tall, stands silently on the pressure platform.

It is not the deep-space engineering armor of the Xuanwu series, but a new generation of heavy combat exoskeleton designed for surface battlefields.

Code name: [Mountain King-II].

In the past, the biggest problem with ground-based heavy exoskeletons was not insufficient power, but rather the lack of a load-bearing frame.

Once too many psionic weapons and array systems are loaded, the exoskeleton's own frame will experience fatigue fractures during high-intensity combat.

However, the arrival of the lunar rough prototype directly made up for this shortcoming.

"The load-bearing ridge uses a 30% lunar star iron composite layer."

"The knee joint spindle is reinforced with lunar titanium steel lattice."

"The spiritual pressure guide channel was activated for the first time using a diluted base solution of extremely positive ion."

The tester looked at the data on the screen, his voice clearly suppressing his excitement.

"Start load testing".

boom!

The platform suddenly jolted.

The psionic core on the back of the [Mountain Lord-II] glowed with a dark red light, and its heavy mechanical feet stepped into the simulated ruins terrain.

Three times the force of gravity.

Five times the force of gravity.

Monster attack simulation.

Sword energy cutting simulation.

High-frequency pressure detonation simulation.

It withstood a series of tests that would have rendered the exoskeleton unusable in the past.

Even after the final wave of impacts ended, the heavy steel body still stood in the center of the platform.

The surface armor is severely damaged.

However, the core pressure-bearing frame did not break.

In the testing hall of the Military Industry Administration, many engineers clenched their fists simultaneously.

This means that the changes brought about by the moon are not just for high-level strategic weapons.

It will fall onto the battlefield.

It landed on the exoskeleton of the hunter in the yellow zone.

It landed on the support frame of the green zone defense line.

It landed on the defensive array of every fortified city.

Little by little, they replaced the Earth's originally fragile and strained war machine with a tougher skeleton.

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This change quickly spread from the most advanced laboratories to the entire surface industrial system.

In the dead of night at Zhongyuan Heavy Industry's factory, new standards for lunar composite materials are being deployed to various production lines.

The Jiangnan Array Court has begun rewriting the underlying specifications of high-level pressure-bearing array patterns.

For the first time, the defensive array of the northern border was replaced with a core plate mixed with trace amounts of star iron powder.

The Flying Sword Repair Plant in the Southern Theater Command has begun experimenting with embedding a lunar lattice support layer inside the sword's spine.

These changes are not dramatic.

Ordinary people may find it difficult to perceive even at first glance.

But every truly knowledgeable weapon refiner, array master, and military engineer is acutely aware of one fact.

The ceiling for materials in Earth's industry has been raised.

In the past, they always compromised repeatedly.

Now, for the first time, they can write bolder parameters on the drawings.

Higher spiritual pressure.

A denser array of patterns.

Heavier armor.

A more sustained flying sword resonance.

The moon didn't send us a finished artifact.

It brings new manufacturing frontiers.

This is more terrifying than the artifact itself.

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Kyoto Joint Control Room.

Several of the latest reports were presented to Wang Mingyuan at the same time.

[Ten-fold scaled-down test of the Wan Jian main control array: passed the initial resonance.]

[Mountain King-II Exoskeleton Pressure Test: Passed.]

[Northern City Defense Array Star Iron Plate Modification: Spiritual Pressure Stability Increased by 32%.]

[Compatibility test of dual-base array patterns for Yang and Yin: Initial success.]

[Physical indicators of the rotating monks stationed on the moon: Meridian resilience and physical stress resistance indicators continue to improve.]

Lin Feng stood to the side, silent for a long time.

"The moon's feedback mechanism is beginning to take a substantial turn."

Wang Mingyuan nodded.

"It's only just begun."

He looked at the constantly flashing double-track link between the Earth and the Moon on the star map.

One is a slow and heavy gravity transport line.

One is an expensive yet fast inter-star teleportation array.

The former transported back large quantities of rough blanks and structural components.

The latter transported back high-value preforms, energy primers, and key samples.

The two lines, one fast and one slow, resemble two giant blood vessels connecting the mother planet and the moon.

In the past, blood flowed only from Earth to the Moon.

Now, it has finally started to cycle.

"Notify the Coordination Bureau," Wang Mingyuan said slowly, "to formally incorporate the Earth-Moon resource recycling system into the Alliance's highest economic lifeline."

"From today onwards, Guanghan Base is neither a mere outpost nor a simple mine."

"It is the second heart of the Earth's industrial system."

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