After offering Sun Quan a couple of words of comfort, Su Mo pushed open the door and walked inside, then reached back and turned the lock behind him.

Zhang Min had never really planned on seven people developing a usable tool, but when it came to the facilities, she had still managed to make everything look the part.

The floor tiles were spotless and tidy, the walls were painted a fine jade white, and together with the soft lighting the whole workroom looked incredibly high-end.

Compared with this, the research rooms of Ai Jianfeng and Lu Kuan in the real wasteland world looked like slum dwellings.

“Miniature development platform. Version 1.0 officially went on sale in the third month of Year Six of the Doomsday Calendar, and over the following two years it was updated into four different branches.”

“The one that has ended up in my hands now has the full name...”

“Miniature Electronic and Mechanical Equipment Integrated Development Platform!”

Leaning over the outside of the cardboard box, Su Mo read the introduction printed on it carefully, and he was extremely satisfied.

In the real world, because resource integration was so efficient and transportation so convenient, very few manufacturers set their sights on full-chain integration.

Take the manufacture of a single machine tool, for example. Several different manufacturers would split the work.

You make the screws, I make the steel plates, he makes the machine tool fittings, and then someone else assembles all of it and sells it.

But at the end of the world, transport was far too difficult, and trades between individuals were constantly obstructed by natural disasters and human calamities.

So tools that integrated the downstream, midstream and upstream into one, the miniature development platforms, came into being.

Take the one in Su Mo’s hands. It could carry out the circuit boards, the casing, the wiring and a whole series of steps that used to be split apart when making electronic tools.

“The degree of integration on this thing is really high.”

“Judging by the design style, it surely wasn’t developed by Lu Kuan?”

He slit the tape binding the carton with a small knife, and once all the outer wrapping was undone, a machine with a silver-white finish appeared before Su Mo’s eyes.

Before unfolding, the machine was only 3 meters by 3 meters by 2.5 meters in size.

But after Su Mo pressed a hidden button as the manual described, the whole machine actually began to transform on its own and slowly unfold.

With the help of the energy machines embedded inside, energy was transmitted along the full chain, unlocking and releasing the parts that had been folded away, one after another.

First the casing base unfolded.

Once spread out, it was a mechanical assembly a full six meters long, five meters wide and three meters high. It looked like a work of art, and every part of it gave off the “fragrance” of machinery.

In only three minutes, half of the room, which had been of considerable size to begin with, was taken up by the machine.

On top of the base, the other components were creaking as they moved too, making Su Mo feel that these nearly forty thousand points had been well spent!

After about an hour of opening and closing, the whole machine finally completed every step of the unlocking and, for the first time, showed itself in full before Su Mo.

“One, two, three... six, seven!”

“Seven machines with different uses in total!”

They say every man has a dream of machinery buried deep in his heart.

Looking at this development platform, refined almost to the maximum, Su Mo was delighted by such a prize. How could he possibly hold back the stirring in his heart? After only a glance around, he lay down over the first instrument, the one with three robotic arms, and started operating it.

“Cutting, welding, ten-level precision machining...”

After testing the performance of these three robotic arms one by one, Su Mo was surprised once again.

An ordinary electrically powered machine has an upper limit on its power, and it also has a limit on heat.

But when powered by energy stones, most of the heat these machines produced flowed back into the energy stone to be used for a second round of charging.

That not only greatly freed up the upper limits of these instruments, it also cut consumption by a large margin, extending the time of a single use several times over.

“It looks like no matter what, I have to get the territory’s research on energy stones on this ruins trip.”

“They can develop energy stones to the extreme without raising their quality. Then once I get back to reality and raise the quality of the energy stone mine several times over...”

“Invincible!”

Eight years had passed, and the wasteland had changed far too much. Technology had advanced by far more than a single level.

But as for a top secret involving the territory’s four giant companies, once Su Mo had made his plan he pushed it to the back of his mind and focused on testing the other workbenches.

Tian Yuan Territory, the northern frontier of the war zone.

Under a somewhat gloomy sky, an unpleasant smell of blood kept drifting over the land.

Scavenging vultures, excited by the smell, swooped down from the high sky and gorged themselves on lumps of black flesh.

From time to time someone passed by, but the vultures were not afraid. Only when a person came close did they scatter, and as soon as the person left, they would land in the same place again and carry on feasting.

“Huh, it’s Commander Feng Long who has come back!”

“Open the gate quickly, Commander Feng is back!”

In front of the checkpoint poured from high-strength concrete, two gate guards shouted, and the heavy solid wood gate, wrapped in copper, began to be raised.

Before long a camouflage-painted off-road vehicle slid silently through the gate and headed straight for the center of the war zone behind the checkpoint.

Quite unlike Hope City, which was filled with an air of peace, this place was stationed with practically the most elite warriors and weapons in all of Tian Yuan Territory.

Looking around, there were basically no buildings taller than three floors inside the war zone, and any that were taller were watchtowers used to look out into the distance.

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