Chapter 639 - 610: Secondary Cross-Dimensional Production

The first Somali ceasefire negotiation went quite smoothly, with both parties agreeing to a full 21-day ceasefire and promising to assist with refugee evacuation.

Honestly, that number was a bit small. After all, deploying ground transport vehicles, ships, and the like all takes time, and it’s even more troublesome to orderly evacuate a large group of panicked refugees. It can only be said that it was time to demonstrate the ability to organize civilians, although these civilians would soon no longer be their citizens.

"I have a question," T’Challa asked at the end of the meeting, "this is a refugee ship, theoretically it shouldn’t run into any accidents... right?"

Lille nodded, "Theoretically, nobody would be interested in them, but we can’t rule out that some maniacs might attack the refugee ship, then use that to our disadvantage—

Usually, such incidents only occur when the refugee ships indeed cause a disadvantage; then they’ll take the opportunity to strike."

"So if I were to escort them, would that increase the value of the ship and lead to... Don’t get me wrong, I’m not afraid, I’m just concerned about their safety."

Lille touched his brow and sighed, "But in reality, there’s more than just refugees on that ship. I plan to load a batch of resources produced in Zhu Ya City onto the refugee ship, including disaster relief food, clothing, medicines, but also, materials that will help with their reconstruction.

Prosthetics, prosthetic equipment, chips... To say that there’s absolutely no value would be inaccurate, because while the probability of attacking the refugee ship isn’t high, it’s not nonexistent. After all, who wouldn’t be tempted by something they could get for free?"

This wouldn’t normally make sense for Rocksen to be interested in: they also have their brain-computer interface technology, although it’s still in the experimental stage. The ones Lille had come across had several issues; there’s no telling how high their failure rate is in private experiments.

Would a wealthy man play the role of a petty thief and attack a ship carrying refugee supplies? He could simply purchase it in the market, after all, anything available in the market can always be bought if one is willing to pay.

However, the truth is: Rocksen is wealthy because of their greed, and greedy people tend to seize every opportunity to make money.

"So the actual plan for the refugee settlement is known only by you and me. Europeans will only know that there’s some stuff for them on the ship, but they won’t know the specific situation.

Safety? I can’t say it’s absolutely safe. What I can say is that no one is absolutely safe right now, and that’s the main risk you have to face."

After Lille finished speaking, Christopher’s face appeared on the screen during the phone conference.

This young man had added an extra memory line to the brain-computer interface at the back of his head and also wore a single-chip analysis monocle, making him look not like someone hiding in the mountains but rather like someone from a secret experimental facility—in a mountain ravine.

"Hello, Prince T’Challa, I will be in charge of your refugee evacuation mission this time. We have already laid the groundwork on-site, but due to limited manpower, we can’t carry out large-scale construction. We are looking forward to the arrival of you and the refugees."

Since this was an internal meeting of the Atlas Group, the two people online were able to perform a simple and rough virtual handshake using their brain-computer interfaces.

After getting them connected, Lille left the meeting to start working on his own tasks.

[Unstable energy outbreak countdown: 14~28 hours]

Perhaps because of Rocksen’s increasingly frequent experiments, Lille found that not only was the relative time flow between the two worlds unstable, but the interval time was also significantly shortened.

They had been in Dog Town for four days, but ten days had passed here; sometimes, the trans-dimensional production lines would stop due to too much time-space fluctuation.

[Little Octopus: Big Brother, I’ve adjusted the production AI according to the new neural implant parameters, we can now proceed with the production of remote prosthetics and the third-generation brain-computer interfaces.]

[Trans-dimensional production technology upgrade]

[Description: Your trans-dimensional co-production system has been upgraded. Improved brain-computer interfaces and neural implants unlock more brain computing power, gathering more data for the co-production AI to adjust and counteract time fluctuations.]

[Trans-dimensional production efficiency improved.]

[Quantum resonance effect enhanced: Your high-end material production projects will be less likely to encounter accidents, further improving the rate of quality products.]

[Current trans-dimensional production level: 1→2 (Use AI to counteract fluctuating time flow rates, please deploy brain-computer interfaces and remote prosthetics with compatible software to complete the upgrade)]

[Current production line:

Advanced Energy Production Line: Graphene Batteries, Bio-Cables, Basic Clean Energy Line (Basic Wind Power, Basic Solar Power)

Advanced Vehicle Production Line: Mackinaw Mammoth and its modified versions

Advanced Weapons Production Line: Electromagnetic Rifles, Half-plasma Electromagnetic Cannon (Fixed, Self-propelled, Large Vehicle-mounted)

Advanced Prosthetics Production Line: First and Second Generation Prosthetic Components, Second Generation Full-body Prosthetic "Ranger", Third Generation Full-body Prosthetic "Prosthetic", Exoskeletons

Advanced Machinery Production Line: Iron Beetle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and its modified versions

Advanced Medical Production Line: Artificial Blood Plasma, Lizard Chlorobilin Immunosuppressant

Advanced Information Technology Production Line: Third Generation Brain-Machine Interface (awaiting deployment), Second Generation Interdimensional Production Collaboration System (coming online)

...]

This was Atlas Group’s most core industrial line, and now they all needed to be upgraded to the next level.

Relative time flow speed was beginning to change, just like the situations in two worlds, and if contact were to be cut off due to some issue, the problem would be grave.

Apart from this, there were also production lines unique to Marvel World, such as the currently world’s only SCFR reactor. This device was not something that Lille was reluctant to set up on the other side, but rather there were not enough suitable conditions allowing him to obtain sufficient nuclear reactor materials there.

For instance, the mining, steel industry, shipbuilding, and so on, which were booming in the African Union—Lille could only collect data on these industries; it was unlikely for them to be carried out synchronously in both worlds.

After receiving feedback from Little Octopus, what remained was to start producing the third generation of brain-machine interfaces on the chip production line, gradually expanding from the most demanding military sector, prioritizing to ensure that weapons could be equipped according to plan for Atlas and the African Union.

At the same time, a small part was to be sent to Latovia, letting Christopher equip more precise neural implants and craft some high-end products with less demand.

Lille sat in his chair, turned off the surrounding displays and visual system aid interfaces, and gazed through the glass of Atlas Group Building at New York—

It was very tranquil here, and with a deluge of technologies being injected, the cityscape had transformed significantly.

The haphazard cables of the past were all replaced with bio-cables, powered by the recently commissioned SCFR nuclear reactor, providing energy for New York’s smart city system:

Green electric buses, brand-new streets, refurbished slum areas, abundant job opportunities and handsome salaries brought about by booming industries, supporting countless families to grow robustly under the sunlight...

Meanwhile, a thousand miles away in Houston, people were displaced by rampant automation, forced to either leave their homeland or accept inequitable indenture contracts to become expendable labor:

Although Rocksen intended to hide the issues brought by their industry, as long as Atlas remained here as an adversary, the truth would never be completely concealed.

The confrontation between the two groups would inevitably erupt one day, but Lille had no way to end this struggle once and for all, like in a minor skirmish where one could take a gun, terminate someone, and be done with it.

Even Tony Stark, who had the chance to become a breakthrough, had now entered complete silence. The man seemed to have disappeared, leaving no trace on the internet, making it impossible to initiate any so-called rescue.

Lille planned to send Frank to investigate after he was back on land, but for the moment, all he could do was to develop silently, although frankly speaking, this kind of development indeed left him somewhat uncertain.

Lille slowly shifted his gaze from the streets of New York to the sky. With a reduced proportion of fossil fuel usage, and using ctOS to plan urban development, the air and sky here had become much clearer.

He was thinking about another matter: so far, this world had not shown those excessively incredible superpowers and magic, but there were still some things considered reasonable that had not been fully displayed yet—

The tech strategic vehicles of the Shield Bureau: Quinjets, Space Airships, and the like.

[Lille: Dr. Tums, how is the development of the vector engine going?]

[Dr. Tums: The progress is promising!]