Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 667

Chapter 667: Chapter 227: The Power of the Times, Even if the World Ends Tomorrow!

Adjacent to Stone Province, Guang Province is only minimally affected by the Petrification Curse along its small border.

This region is mostly hilly, unsuitable for farming, but due to the curse’s characteristics, it has become a resource point for continuous mineral production.

This is where Rainbow Light Shelter City’s base is located.

Hu City.

It happens to be at the junction between the cursed area and the normal zone, possessing both mineral resource advantages and large expanses of arable farmland.

Additionally, its proximity to a tropical climate allows crops to be harvested three or even four times a year. Purely from a geographical perspective, it holds a clear advantage over Happiness City’s base.

Of course, no advantage comes without a cost.

Rainbow Light, rooted in Hu City, cannot escape the typhoons blowing in from the sea each summer. It’s manageable with ordinary typhoons, but when a super typhoon makes direct landfall, the destruction of fields is a minor issue; the real trouble is the severe damage to infrastructure, which requires immense manpower and resources to reconstruct.

Additionally, infection sources coming ashore from the sea emerge endlessly, requiring constant manpower to defend against.

“Rainbow Light’s advantage isn’t just geographical.”

Luokuke seems to be reflecting profoundly, “Their greatest strength is their ability to siphon the population. Even though we are forcibly absorbing a million people with help from the Wanderer this time, our expansion speed still cannot match theirs! Over the years, most shelter cities and settlements migrating from Sea Province have been absorbed by them. Furthermore, Rainbow Light supports these forces by building subsidiary shelter cities at crucial road network nodes, gradually spreading their influence across Guang Province.”

He paused, comparing with Happiness City, and added, “Though Happiness City is a dominant power in Stone Province, we never interfere in the development of other shelter cities; we just act as a leader to maintain regional stability. Rainbow Light is different; they are aiming to establish an organization similar to the ‘Fire Alliance.’”

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“This organization will allocate different industries to various subsidiary shelter cities, making each city specialize in one field and focus on technological breakthroughs. At the same time, it will integrate the entire Guang Province’s economy, resources, industry, and goods, uniting them under a single banner during external negotiations.”

“What’s more impressive is that they’re continually absorbing the population from surrounding provinces, establishing a comprehensive education and training system that can produce workers and technical talent independently. At the current growth rate, not twenty years but within ten years at the most, if nothing unexpected happens, they’ll surely surpass Happiness City in scale, becoming the new dominant power across the four surrounding provinces.”

Building an organization similar to the Fire Alliance? Indeed, it’s an ambitious idea!

While listening, Cheng Ye occasionally nodded without rushing to express his opinion, instead his gaze slowly swept over the Defense Communication map.

As his eyes fell on the words “Dazhang Shelter City,” he paused and asked, “What is the relationship between Dazhang Shelter City and Rainbow Light?”

“It’s one of Rainbow Light’s subsidiary shelter cities, and a fairly central one at that,” Luokuke answered immediately.

“Oh.” Cheng Ye nodded thoughtfully.

The mystery is solved. It turns out that Towns’ worry wasn’t about Double Moon Lake or Dazhang Shelter City themselves, but rather the Rainbow Light Shelter City behind Dazhang?

If everyone is short of Nutrient Paste raw materials, it would make sense for Rainbow Light to reach out to Dazhang, but Rainbow Light clearly has farmland capable of three harvests a year, and therefore isn’t short of food, so logically they shouldn’t be eyeing the output of a small settlement.

Yet they still took the trouble to court, making it worth investigating whether their motive is merely routine external expansion, simply wanting to broaden their influence?

Or have they already set their sights on Happiness City, extending their reach into Stone Province with the aim of laying the groundwork against Happiness City in the future?

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“Is Rainbow Light’s specialty industrial goods?”

“Not just industrial goods, they have a vast array of specialties on offer, from industrial products to everyday items, from agricultural goods to weaponry.”

Luokuke waved his hand, “I won’t mention those that are already well-known; you’ll definitely be able to get official information during your fieldwork operations. Let me talk about a few agricultural products that have risen in popularity over the past two years; every single one is immensely practical.”

He counted on his fingers, “Three-meal Fruit, a special kind of fruit that can substitute three meals’ nutrition. An adult can eat one per day and stay full without hunger, offering much higher nutritional value than ordinary grains, saving the trouble of cooking — it’s the superior substitute for Nutrient Paste.”

“Windrush Herb, a special herbal plant that, when eaten, can greatly accelerate physical recovery with no apparent side effects, except perhaps excessive excitement leading to sleeplessness. Many wilderness wanderers now carry it.”

“Skinsfruit, when consumed, forms a protective membrane on the skin surface. As long as you don’t bathe, it can last for two to three days, perfectly shielding against outdoor infection sources becoming parasitic through contact. It’s simply a blessing for scavengers who frequently deal with infections.”

“…”

After enumerating over ten types, Luokuke finally stopped.

This is the benefit of farming.

Tan Ming extracted all life from plants in Stone Province, though it spawned many rare minerals, utilizing minerals requires high-end technological support.

Currently in the Wasteland, different shelter cities’ technology trees have different focuses; without a complete supply chain, many minerals, even if mined, can’t yield corresponding utilization technology and can only be sold cheaply, as hoarding them won’t increase their value.”

But crops are different; as long as suitable varieties are cultivated and scaled for planting, they can easily penetrate the consumer end, becoming part of residents’ daily choices.