Chapter 841: Satellite Launch Base

The atmosphere was heavy; only the sound of Chu An's pen scratching remained in the meeting room.

Oppressive, silent.

Facing the foreseeable disaster, everyone felt as if they had stepped into a lightless darkness.

Rubbing the mask in his hand, Lin An's mouth curled into a bitter smile.

He hadn't expected that it was all because too many people had died in his past life, and many survivors fled the cities in panic during the early and middle stages.

As a result, there were still plenty of supplies left in the city, giving him an illusion.

Moreover, after the catastrophe broke out, the major safe zones also found another food source—mutant beasts.

All these factors, he actually overlooked this point subconsciously.

Under the butterfly effect, his past-life memories could hardly provide him much help anymore.

"Let's farm insect-based food and send out squads with full effort to complete missions."

"The base can't possibly support them."

Lin An pondered for a moment, then gave his own idea.

"Like earthworms, cockroaches, and insect-like creatures. Even if contaminated by spiritual energy, they can still be barely edible. Made into protein blocks, they can meet part of the food demand."

"Have everyone go out to complete system tasks; although the rewards are small, little by little they can also make up for some."

Searching his memory, Lin An let out a long breath and recalled a few pieces of information from his past life:

"Toward the East Three Regions direction, there, someone had leaked in the chat channel about spiritual energy crops."

"If we could..."

He lifted his head, and the pen tip stopped.

Chu An gave a slight nod, not refuting his words:

"Pretty much."

"Let me add a few contingency plans."

"Just as you said, the base can't support idlers. Farming, quickly scavenging supplies, and combining with grinding tasks can sustain us for a period."

"But we also need to stop taking in survivors. It's not just a food issue; more importantly, it's the spread of the three major events I just mentioned."

"We'll talk about that later."

"As for the spiritual energy crops, I've also been gathering information, including exchanging some data with the Capital Military Region."

While speaking, Chu An turned a white sheet covered in coordinates toward Lin An:

"The Awakened Ones in the East Mountain War Zone and South River War Zone have both sold special crops on the trading channel."

"One is a wheat-like crop, except the ear portion is black-red."

"After buying a portion, I found the taste bitter, but its caloric and nutritional value extremely high, and it contains a small amount of spiritual energy."

"According to investigation, it should have been cultivated via spiritual energy. Large-scale planting might not fail to solve the food problem."

"We have a spiritual energy tower—this is our advantage!"

"The other is meat. The seller claimed it was a mutant organism, but testing showed it was actually human tissue, structurally similar to HeLa (cancer cells)."

"If we don't consider the subsequent contamination, or psychological factors."

"The second method of cultivating cancer cells as artificial meat, we can also carry out simultaneously."

Lin An blinked slightly; hearing about artificial meat, he didn't react much, but Gao Tian and the others' faces instantly turned pale.

Eating that stuff is actually a roundabout way of eating humans.

Although, as early as the 1990s, many scientific institutions had already conducted experiments.

"Using cancer cells' unlimited proliferation to cultivate meat, the energy consumption won't be small, right?"

"The first kind, the spiritual energy crops you mentioned—can we cultivate them using the purchased seeds?"

His eyes blazing, this wheat-like crop also existed similarly in Lin An's memory, but in his past life he simply wasn't qualified to eat it.

Their gazes met, and Chu An nodded:

"Exactly, cultivating cancer cells can only serve as a supplementary measure."

"From now on, I intend to have the entire Long'an Base launch a large-scale military operation—clear out the nearby zombies and mutants, convert these monsters' corpses into spiritual energy, and store it."

"The key is still the spiritual energy crops."

"Unfortunately, the crops we bought from the trading channel are merely subspecies, unable to be cultivated."

"After contacting the other party, I found that the Awakened Ones possessing this crop are not strong, and their region has been besieged by a massive zombie tide."

"His meaning is also clear. Selling this on the trading channel is to attract capable factions to rescue them."

"What do you mean?"

"No need for many words, Lin An immediately understood Chu An's idea."

"Exactly."

"Lin An, the mother strain in their hands is very important to us. I hope you can make a trip."

"Or rather, only you can..."

Flipping out the middle layer of a stack of reports, Chu An looked at him seriously:

"It's not that there are no forces eyeing them; even the Capital side, after receiving this news, also wanted to send people for rescue."

"According to the data, they are surrounded by two zombie tides, and they are located in a mountain valley. Both directions are suspected to have third-rank mutants lurking."

"Moreover, the outskirts of the valley may also have special events..."

"But what special event, we don't know, after all, they lack even the ability to explore."

Just as his words fell.

One big, one small, AnXia instinctively grabbed Lin An's arm tightly, as if merely eavesdropping while taking a brief rest.

And Mo Ling suddenly lifted his head, showing a slight movement.

Especially after hearing the words 'large corpse tide', both ears almost perked up.

Lin An noticed the small movements of the two 'people'? He could only comfort AnXia.

"So, I probably have to go there?"

He sighed, as if thinking of something, his brows slightly furrowed as he asked further:

"Chu An, I remember that in the reputation shop, there seem to be spiritual energy crops for sale, right? Isn't there anything suitable for large-scale cultivation? I still have over 2000 reputation points.."

While speaking, Chu An shook his head:

Inside the reputation shop, everything is seed stock; I've gone through all the goods once.

Using reputation points to buy these things is too wasteful.

As for your reputation points, I hope you can help me buy some research-type props; you might not have noticed. Some of the technology-side props have extremely high cost-performance!

When he said this, Chu An visibly became excited, as if he had seen an unparalleled beauty.

He took out a packet of glucose from his pocket, gulped it down, and continued speaking:

Besides, I hope you make a trip here, not just to obtain the mother seed.

There are also two points, equally crucial.

He resumed his usual expression:

1, above the Dongshan war zone, there is a satellite launch base; we urgently need to master air-space reconnaissance methods!

Not only local area reconnaissance, but also global military satellites—we must also have them in hand!

From the launch codes to the base coordinates, I have already obtained a copy from the capital; as long as you go, we can secure Asia's second-largest launch site! As for the reason, I'll explain later.

2, you need a large amount of combat power improvement. The Three Provinces around the River are too small! Any opportunities or special sites nearby have almost been fully explored by us.

Go to the Eastern Shan Three Provinces; that place is the most densely populated area of the Huaxia war zone, and likewise the most dangerous zone! Risk and opportunity coexist!

The earlier you reach the Fourth Stage, the better our chances of surviving the catastrophe one year from now!