CHAPTER 549: CHAPTER 447 EXPERIMENTAL PLAN

Although the Lucians came up with various reasons, they ultimately failed to successfully persuade Chen Xin and instead agreed to his modification plan under the threat of him not providing technical support.

The newly established Lucian shelters will adopt Chen Xin’s modified design, with an added growing greenhouse maintained by a geothermal heat pump and the cancellation of individual kitchens for each household, replacing them with a centralized canteen design.

Additionally, in the construction of the shelters, Flame Country’s construction technology will be used to optimize the building structure, transforming originally just interconnected independent basement buildings and core area oligarch shelters into primarily household room living spaces matched with central functional areas.

This naturally increased the overall cost and investment of the reconstruction plan and contradicted the original intentions of the Lucian authorities.

However, with the construction technology support provided by Flame Country, the construction cost itself did not increase too much. Overall, it was only approximately a 15% increase in investment compared to the original Lucian reconstruction plan.

And this 15% cost increase resulted in a 20% increase in the shelter’s capacity, rising from the originally designed five thousand people by the Lucians to six thousand people, with great improvement in living and survival conditions.

Faced with such circumstances, even if the Lucian responsible parties were unwilling, they could only choose Chen Xin’s plan.

After all, with their original plan, whether it was construction investment or labor hours, it was far greater than the current plan’s investment yet still did not achieve as good results as Chen Xin’s plan.

With Chen Xin’s current design, they could completely accommodate the population originally requiring five shelters using just four shelters, thus saving the cost of constructing one shelter.

Between four shelters with a 15% increased construction cost and five shelters with the original construction cost, the Lucians could clearly see which was more cost-effective.

For these reasons, the Lucian authorities agreed to Chen Xin’s design plan.

On the Flame Country side, after Chen Xin conveyed the achieved results back home, the domestic response was very positive.

After all, although Flame Country would provide technical aid to Lucian, these things are certainly not free.

Although some of it was provided under the guise of donations to Lucian, as everyone knows, free is the most expensive.

The items provided by Flame Country are all costs that Lucian now or in the future must pay to repay.

As for repaying, for what needs to be reimbursed now, Lucian has the option to use technology or goods from the Suyia era for debt repayment, and what needs to be reimbursed in the future will likely be minerals and other resources.

Given the current situation, land really doesn’t hold much significance. Otherwise, Chen Xin might have requested the return of the 1.5 million square kilometers of territory occupied by Tsarist Russia, and the reintegration of Uliyasutai into Flame Country, especially the Tangnu Wulanghai region, which was directly seized from Flame Territory by Suyia!

In fact, Flame Country’s high-status officials also had such thoughts, but these areas have now become largely depopulated, into uninhabited zones with severe living conditions, requiring huge investments not to mention significant long-term personnel garrisoning, and they themselves cannot offer much productivity.

Apart from regaining land as a nominal victory, these regions cannot offer the country any substantial benefits and instead require a large consumption of resources.

For such reasons, although Flame Country’s top officials felt regretful, after much consideration, they chose a more practical approach.

Chen Xin did not express any opinion on this matter, simply focusing on his duties.

Indeed, for Chen Xin, if the nation wishes to reclaim these areas, he has the means to make these regions productive and beneficial to the nation, but overall this still requires significant investment.

Based on Flame Country’s current circumstances, even though Chen Xin could utilize system upgrades to create the most advantageous situation, having just undergone the southwest earthquake, Flame Country truly cannot muster the massive investment needed to reclaim these territories.

Nevertheless, Chen Xin drafted a feasibility plan and submitted it for high-level reference.

This plan would leverage Chen Xin’s crafted Mobile Base, relying on the self-sustaining capability of Mobile Base to station these regions and establish a semi-permanent modular base to serve as the foundation for construction and development.

In these areas, although other outputs are scarce, various mineral resources exist to provide substantial industrial raw materials for domestic construction.

This plan, however, still requires considerable investment, and Chen Xin is uncertain whether high-level officials will proceed with it, so after submitting the plan, he did not pursue the matter further.

His main work now still focuses on the Weather Controller.

After two upgrades, this Weather Controller is deemed repaired and ready for use.

Chen Xin is now planning when to initiate this machine for testing.

This is not an easy task, as the machine was originally designed by Suyia to be used alongside specific chemical agents.

Chen Xin has only replaced its components and optimized its structure, but the efficiency and operational principles remain untouched, so theoretically, for Chen Xin to activate and test the machine, it still requires the dispersal of chemical agents to see the effect.

Of course, if it’s merely about turning on the machine to see if it works or to observe any effects upon activation, it’s not as troublesome and only requires powering it on.

During this time, isotopic generators transported from the homeland have been fully assembled, integrated into the base’s circuits, and have begun power generation, solving the power requirement for the Weather Controller’s operation. Thus, the initiation test conditions are essentially in place.

Therefore, Chen Xin is now planning a Weather Controller initiation test.

Although the test result itself may yield little effect, considering Suyia’s design requires specific chemical agents to be effective, Chen Xin still decides to turn on the machine for observation.

Only by activating the machine can relevant experimental data be collected to understand what the machine can accomplish.

And with the data collected, Chen Xin knows where to begin should he choose to continue upgrading and modifying the machine.