Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 141

Chapter 141: Metals

[Countdown to Blood Rain: 8 Days and 15 Hours]

Grace just finished arranging the last boxes of canned food she just finished preparing, and stepped out of the warehouse.

It had been three days since she had been working continuously in the Infinite Realm, which was equivalent to only three hours of the outside world. In these three days, she had built five more water reservoirs towers before filling them with the fresh and high quality water of the stream within her space.

Right now, there were a total of fifteen water reservoirs standing inside her space, all filled with fresh water while the water level of the stream was also the same as before.

Other than the reservoirs, she also spent some time mining iron from the iron mine that she recently opened in her space. From the very moment she found out that there were mines in her space, she was thrilled. There were iron, carbon, lead, and gold mines located in different areas of the realm.

Unfortunately, there was no fuel mine. Still, the metals that Grace ended up discovering in her space were already good enough. The most important metals were definitely iron and carbon, since mixing the two could produce steel.

The best part about these mines was that they were located inside the Infinte Realm, and thus, were also attached to the system that operated the entire Realm. This meant that unlike the mining process of the outside world, the mining process of the Infinte Realm was like a fun game.

All Grace needed to do was to open a particular mine in the system’s digital screen, choose the option for mining, and the system would start mining on its own. Once it would find an ore, it would immediately display it on the screen.

Grace could see the entire mine area that the system had already mined or would be mining, giving her an idea about what areas gave the most ores. If she wanted, she could also direct the system to mine in a certain area.

Once the ore was found, the system would store the ore in the storage bucket. On average, the system could mine only for 2000 feet every day. If Grace needed to mine further, she needed to spend her hard-earned points, but she was in no hurry.

After the mining, she would use the system to process the mined ores. Though it was a long process and needed her full attention, it was still something she had been enjoying doing.

The processing was done through – crushing, grinding, ore sorting, screening, concentration or benefiction, dewatering, smelting, refining, and finally managing tailings.

And while she didn’t need any physical tools for mining or processing, Grace still decided to buy these machines and equipment because there might be a chance they would need to use them in the outside world.

So, in the past two weeks, she had been taking Davian all over the world to find good companies/factories to buy mining machines and equipment. She got excavators, bulldozers, wheel loaders, haul trucks, drilling machines, crushers, screening machines, scrapers, continuous miners, drills, rock bolters, roof support systems, mine shuttle cars, and some other machines needed.

She also purchased processing equipment – conveyor systems, ball mills and SAG mills, flotation cells, thickeners, filters, cyclones, and smelting furnaces. For specialized mining machines, she got Bucket-wheel excavators, highwall miners, hydraulic mining shovels, underground locomotives, and dredgers.

She also made sure to buy safety and support equipment – ventilation systems, gas detectors, more power generators (even though she had already hoarded a lot of them), water pumps, and personal protective equipments.

Once she was done buying all these tools and equipment, she decided to invest her remaining money in metals that she didn’t have in her space. If she wanted to produce steel, she needed more than just iron and carbon.

She first purchased the machines and tools needed for the production. And then, she purchased metals like – magnesium, chromium, nickel, vanadium, molybdenum, silicon, tungsten, and cobalt.

Other than these metals, she also purchased – aluminum, copper, titanium, silver, zinc, platinum, brass, and tin.

Since these metals weren’t in her original plan and needed special storage, she ended up using about half a million points of hers to create a special storage house to store them safely.

After four months of continous efforts of hoarding all sorts of supplies, she had purchased almost everything. She recently purchased a submarine and some similar things she hadn’t thought about before.

At this point, it was all about collecting more supplies because no matter how much they hoard, it was never going to be enough, and the people suffering the protection of the top three floors of Building K12 was a clear example of it.

Since more and more military was appearing on the roads and around the cities, Grace and her team had stopped going out a lot. They only went out for night raids and that too in places where military hadn’t taken over yet.

The only place outside their building they had been visiting almost daily was the underground military base that was under renovation. There were a lot of things that needed to be taken care of there and someone needed to pay special attention on the installations that were being made. Thus, the daily visits.

That’s why, Grace headed to the base as soon as she walked out of the space and found Davian in his unit. The two of them spent the entire noon looking at the work that had been done in their absence before they decided to return.

Grace wasn’t sure what came over her, but she decided to take a look outside the base right before returning. Just like the Sunspire City, the Hillton City was also covered in thick layers of snow.

She walked around the place, taking in the view, but all she was able to see were the tall trees that were covered in snow.

All of a sudden, she received a notification…!