After officially taking on the job, Land God visibly became more proactive.
It asked, "Can this man-made land creation technology be promoted elsewhere?"
"If the amount of new land increases, it would not only accommodate more life, but I would also become stronger and regain my former strength."
Zhou Yi shook his head: "It's not yet feasible. The suspended loop is still in the exploratory phase, and although much of the repetitive work has been handed over to workers and factories, the crucial framework, applying the membrane, and reinforcement still need to be completed independently by Wu Yi."
In fact.
Initially, Zhou Yi wanted to use the reinforced concrete from his own era.
Once mature, the technology could be reproduced on a large scale.
However, the simulation test results from the Program Department were not ideal.
Concrete is made of cement, sand, gravel, rebar, additives, and water.
Among these, the sand needs to be river sand or manufactured sand. Jade City was severely lacking and needed to purchase large amounts from outside.
Although there is a river in the Sand Port Region, the local river sand has too much mud, too many impurities, and unreasonable particle gradation, far from meeting the concrete standard.
Furthermore, the rebar must be hot-rolled. The steel refining techniques in Steel Refining City were crude, unable to produce rebar that meets this standard.
Next is water.
Creating concrete requires a large amount of clean freshwater, but in reality, many places locally need water. Large-scale farmland and an ever-increasing population require a lot of clean freshwater; likewise for the Electrolysis Tower, clothing factories, and manufacturing plants which are all big water consumers.
Further water consumption, coupled with occasional scarcity of rainfall, could cause seasonal water difficulties.
Apart from these environmental constraints, the Program Department also made a detailed estimated sheet, simulating the needs and costs for building a cement plant and creating a reinforced concrete suspended loop.
All in all, the cost of creating one piece of concrete suspended layer is 750 times that of a handmade one by Wu Yi.
This report left Zhou Yi with no temper.
So, based on the actual situation, he worked with the Manufacturing Department and the Program Department to come up with a realistic plan.
This plan is the current worker-assisted, Wu Yi-led factory model.
Land creation officially became modular operations.
The first step is for the samurai crabs to dig up a large amount of silt and gravel from the dead sea floor and deliver it to the factory.
The second step, workers use these raw materials to cast molds to create standardized mud tablets, which are then dried and fired to set the shape.
The third step, the mud tablets are delivered to designated spots, using various abandoned Old Humans' high-rise buildings as bases to assemble the suspended layer mud tablet land.
The fourth step, Wu Yi comes in to complete the main framework and overlay the membrane, and perform reinforcement.
This process is simple, any worker can handle it, and it's cost-effective.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to promote externally.
Because the core of creating Floating land is Wu Yi's Sand Control ability.
Currently, no machine can replace this step.
Zhou Yi explained all these causes and effects in one go and added, "To promote it externally, our land expansion technology needs to become more mature with more easily attainable support."
Land God also calmed down: "I hadn't realized it was so complicated... The current results are already very good."
Wu Yi also said, "Over this past year, I've been pondering how to make land expansion bigger. I think we should use land to connect different Dead Sea Zone regions, turning isolated islands into connected continental environments which would make agriculture, trade transportation, and the movement of residents between regions much faster and more convenient."
"I had no clue how to achieve this before."
"Once, when I was chatting with Ni Ge, it talked about a thing, saying the Mud Tree Civilization used mud tablets to build aerial bridges and passages between trees."
Bone Man gesticulated with his bony hands adorned with an expensive watch: "They use mud tablets as tools and building materials, but their methods are different from mine. The mud tablets used by the Mud Tree People contain Light Amber, the higher the content, the better."
Zhou Yi immediately had Yuan Xiao call for Ni Ge.
The sharp-haired Mud Tree Person rushed over, and upon hearing about the mud tablets, he showed a relieved expression, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his large hand: "So it's just this... phew..."
Zhou Yi spoke seriously: "This is important, explain these mud tablets clearly. Can they really maintain stable connections, bridging over high-altitude areas?"
"This is the Cave People's technology."
Ni Ge thought for a moment: "Our naturalists from the Mud Tribe, after extensive testing, found some Mud Tablets left by the Cave People that can be associated with Space Bubbles."
"Space is like a special kind of viscous mud structure, it moves to a certain extent, but it also has powerful forces. The visible spatial passages are called bubbles, and the invisible, directly unusable ones are holes."
"Mud Tablets rely on the power of Space Bubbles and Space Holes."
He continued: "The premise is that there must be a Space Bubble, and based on the Space Bubble, craft a Mud Tablet around it. The Space Bubble is the spatial coordinate, and everything revolves around that."
Zhou Yi frowned: "Don't Space Bubbles absorb the surrounding matter?"
"You are correct. However, only energy can be completely absorbed. Matter will be compressed around the spatial channel, forming high-density agglomerates. Mud Tablets crafted out of Light Amber can connect with them and be filled with the force and matter provided by the Space Bubble."
"But first you have to craft some Light Amber Mud Tablets, imprint specific holes on them, and replicate the 12 types of Mud Tablets from the Cave People."
Ni Ge talked on and on: "According to the diagrams left by the Cave People, these 12 types of Mud Tablets correspond to 12 types of Space Bubbles. By experimenting with these 12 Mud Tablets, we can find out which type is most compatible with the Space Bubble."
"If they are compatible, they will maintain stable adhesion and fixation, and the Cave Energy will complete the connection with the holes on the Mud Tablet."
"After Light Amber Mud Tablets have crafted a foundation that wraps the Space Bubble, they will themselves expand outward and release matter, forming a Space Tree. On this basis, we can then expand further."
"The power provided by space is incredibly stable, and it's hard to destroy. To destroy this matter is akin to destroying the Space Hole that is its source."
The spatial technology of the Cave People was too advanced and unique, it sounded somewhat counterintuitive.
But Zhou Yi's capacity for acceptance had been trained by now.
From Light Imprint Skill to Moon Beasts on the other side of the Space Bubble, to the Mud Tree Civilization, each one is outrageously inconceivable in the era he lived in.
Zhou Yi asked Land God beside him: "What do you think?"
The Concept Life that seemed like a cloud mud person said: "...I don't understand at all."
"It's okay. Let's first go and test it on-site."
Zhou Yi asked Ni Ge: "But do you remember the 12 types of Mud Tablets clearly?"
"Please be assured, that is my area of expertise."
The Mud Tree Person patted his chest and said: "I am an Explorer of the Mud Tribe, and these are the basics that we must firmly remember and skillfully make. Sometimes when we're trapped or blocked by monsters, we have to rely on these Mud Tablets to surround ourselves and wait for rescue."
Immediately, Zhou Yi and his group arrived at the Space Bubble closest to Sand Port, which was also the passage that Breaker Haruk came through.
Ni Ge started crafting Mud Tablets on the spot.
With his pair of large hands, he easily shaped and solidified the sticky Light Amber.
Only then did Zhou Yi see that the Cave People Mud Tablets weren't the mudboards he had imagined - they were very regular mud bricks, approximately one meter in length, width, and height.
These mud bricks were punched with holes, the number of holes on each side varying, looking like some strange oversized dice.
Some of the holes inside were interlinked, while others were completely isolated, presenting a kind of peculiar maze-like pipeline structure.
Zhou Yi activated [Panoramic Reading].
[This material has a special configurational space and can dock with the spatial momentum of a certain dimension, the principle is unclear.]
Not a low evaluation from the Rock Core Clan.
It really is a tool for utilizing spatial energy.
Ni Ge swiftly crafted 12 Mud Tablets and tested them one by one.
The first two were absorbed inside, directly dissolving into the black mud in the Space Bubble.
The third, however, hovered steadily next to the Space Bubble. Strands of black mud extended from within the Space Bubble and automatically docked with the holes in the Mud Tablet, which looked very peculiar.
"It worked, it worked! It's this one, number 3."
Ni Ge said gleefully: "As long as we enclose it with the number 3 Mud Tablet, the matter and energy of this Space Bubble can incubate a Space Tree, allowing for continuous construction outward."
"On the Mud Tree's side, one Space Bubble can at least support the connection of 100 Sky-reaching Trees over there, covering more than 100,000 people. Translated for this more densely populated area, it should be enough to support the scale of several regions."
Zhou Yi's fingers trembled at the news.
The Land Department was still assembling Mud Tablets piece by piece, yet the Cave People had been using Space Bubbles to create artificial land masses many years ago... This civilization's spatial technology seemed already quite mature.
He ordered immediately: "Start making Mud Tablets, incubate the Space Tree!"
"Yes, Chairman!"
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