After inspecting the plantation, Ji Yan took the opportunity to inspect the breeding area. The living areas from floors 11 to 30 of the shelter each have a plantation and a breeding area, with the plantation being larger and the breeding area smaller.
After all, people can live without meat, but not without vegetables! The cost of eating meat and vegetables in the apocalypse is also extremely different.
"Please look, Commander," Suzaku said as he walked, introducing, "Our breeding areas in each living sector are actually only about 40,000 square meters, and they are divided into nine breeding sub-areas."
"Various poultry seedlings have not yet arrived, but in the future, we will use these nine breeding areas to raise nine types of creatures: cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, fish, mice, and cockroaches."
"Each area is equipped with the most advanced industrialized breeding technology, which can fully simulate suitable temperatures and maximize the use of existing resources to cultivate the most suitable meat products."
Ji Yan was immediately surprised by this! He could understand chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. A quick glance showed that these areas were indeed divided. For example, there were industrialized chicken coops and industrialized rabbit cages.
But why raise mice and cockroaches? Can these things be eaten?
"Are you sure you're not mistaken?" Ji Yan frowned and asked, "What's the point of raising mice and cockroaches?"
"Commander, you might not know," Suzaku patiently explained, "These two creatures are an indispensable part of the shelter's self-circulating ecosystem. They can not only digest a large amount of kitchen waste and domestic waste, but they also reproduce extremely quickly, and their breeding cost is very low."
"Most importantly, they are rich in various nutrients required by the human body and can be cheaply processed into various nutritional meals and energy bars, making their breeding very cost-effective."
"Huh?"
Ji Yan's expression immediately became strange! He then remembered that there were indeed various nutritional meals and energy bars in the game. Not everyone in the apocalyptic shelter was entitled to rice, meat, and vegetables.
This was a hierarchical era; capable people ate meat, while those without ability ate nutritional meals. It was a dark, paste-like substance, similar to eight-treasure porridge, which could be consumed after heating.
A small bowl could sustain a person's daily consumption, making it very cheap. As for energy bars, they were a bit more advanced, a solid similar to chocolate, rich in calories and nutrients, making them top-tier supplies for marching, fighting, and surviving the apocalypse.
He hadn't expected them to be made from mouse meat and cockroaches, ground and mixed into a paste. Thinking about this, Ji Yan couldn't help but feel a little nauseous.
However, he did not stop Suzaku's breeding plan. Because he knew that in the apocalypse, feeling disgusted wasn't important; surviving was what truly mattered.
When survival became difficult, nutritional meals and energy bars would be the most delicious of foods. "Very good, quickly purchase a large number of breeding seedlings and replenish them in all major breeding areas," Ji Yan ordered.
"Yes!"
Suzaku quickly agreed. Ji Yan said nothing more. After a tour and inspection, he headed straight to the armory on the eighth floor.
The seventh and eighth floors of the shelter were both part of the armory.
The seventh floor primarily housed production workshops for large machinery such as airplanes, tanks, armored vehicles, and rocket launchers, most of which were damaged and temporarily unusable.
The eighth floor was the production workshop for various small military equipment like automatic rifles, pistols, bulletproof vests, and bullets. The equipment there was not severely damaged, and the repair team was working hard to fix it. Currently, Ji Yan's guard team was unarmed.
Facing the dangerous situation in the early days of the apocalypse, they naturally needed to be equipped with a batch of firearms first.
"How are the repairs going?"
Upon arriving at the eighth floor, Ji Yan found a large number of maintenance personnel busy at work.
Baihu, the head of the repair team, was testing a large lathe.
This area was divided into 20 production workshops, and each workshop had a lot of equipment that needed repair, looking dazzling.
"Reporting, Commander!" Baihu stood at attention and saluted, shouting, "The eighth floor's workshops have a total of 38 various production lines, including 197 machine tools. 43 of them have been repaired and organized, and the remaining equipment is being urgently repaired."
"Currently, two bullet production lines, one shell production line, one automatic rifle production line, and one pistol production line are operating normally."
"However, there aren't many raw materials in stock. If we want to produce on a large scale, we need to procure more raw materials."
The manufacturing of weaponry only required some steel and auxiliary materials.
However, the manufacturing of bullets and shells required a large amount of aluminum powder, magnesium powder, potassium nitrate, and sulfur, otherwise, it would be impossible to produce high-explosive gunpowder with sufficient power. Of course, these were common chemical materials! Adam had already placed a large number of orders.
They just needed to wait a bit longer, and there would be no shortage of raw materials in stock. "Not bad!" Ji Yan nodded in satisfaction and motioned, "Start the pistol production line and produce some samples to test."
"Yes!"
Baihu agreed and quickly got busy!
A long production line soon lit up.
This production line consisted of three small 3D printing machine tools.
The internal instruments and equipment of the three machine tools were precise, equipped with a large number of robotic arms, and could automatically produce after being set up.
The machine tools continuously operated, and the robotic arms constantly rotated, quickly producing precise pistol components. Then, the parts continuously moved forward along the assembly line. During this process, all parts underwent a spray painting process.
At the end of the assembly line, several robotic arms skillfully picked up the components and began assembling them! With a few swift movements, finished pistols were laid out before his eyes.
"That fast?"
Ji Yan gasped, secretly shocked.
In just a few minutes, black baked-enamel pistols, like works of art, were freshly produced.
In front of these sci-fi era machine tools, a pistol, a weapon with no technical complexity, was not much more difficult to produce than a screw.
"Commander, please test the gun!"
"This PHK model pistol is 232 millimeters long, weighs 1.13 kilograms, has a barrel length of 135 millimeters, a magazine capacity of 12 rounds, and an effective range of 120 meters."
Baihu introduced while gesturing for someone to bring a box of bullets. He then loaded the magazine and handed a pistol directly to Ji Yan for inspection.