Chapter 129 Nuclear Weapons and Farming

Li Tianran's thinking at this moment was simple: if the Evolver army represented the future, then nuclear weapons represented the present.

If even the "present" couldn't be safely navigated, what qualifications did they have to discuss the future?

After Li Tianran returned to the farm, he immediately assigned new tasks to everyone.

Because the Crazy Isle port had already been completed, Qin Yiming was assigned to the Crazy Sand Islands to establish a new nuclear weapons manufacturing facility. Lu Chi, on the other hand, was instructed to leave Crazy Isle and search for resilient and lucky survivors in the coastal cities, bringing them back to Crazy Isle for Li Tianran to personally assess and decide whether to transform them into Evolvers.

This was a necessary step for Crazy Isle to grow and become stronger!

With the changing global landscape, the few individuals on the farm were starting to seem insufficient. Li Tianran needed more powerful Evolvers to expand his ranks.

Of course, these later recruits wouldn't have the same status as Qin Yiming and Ding Lu, who had direct access to Li Tianran.

If the farm was likened to a company, then Tang Su, Lu Chi, and the others were like the founding members who started the business with Li Tianran. Now that the company had developed to a certain point, it needed to expand and recruit new employees. Naturally, these new recruits wouldn't receive the same treatment or be on the same level as the veterans.

These newcomers would become subordinates of Lu Chi and the others, becoming Li Tianran's soldiers.

Regarding the requirements for recruiting these individuals, Li Tianran only said one sentence to Lu Chi.

"When I need them to die, they won't say a word of complaint and will immediately turn around and face death!"

Loyalty!

For these people, Li Tianran didn't need them to have monstrously powerful abilities, just absolute loyalty and obedience!

A team with absolute loyalty and obedience, even if their combat power was a little weaker, could be strengthened through training and nourishment. Without these two important qualities, even if these people were strong, they wouldn't even budge when you needed them to charge into battle. What use was such a team?

After receiving Li Tianran's instructions, Lu Chi left without hesitation, setting sail on a small vessel.

Qin Yiming and nearly five hundred Adult-level Berserkers were sent to the Crazy Sand Islands.

Building a nuclear weapons manufacturing base required a lot of resources, but after eliminating the uranium enrichment process, the process and resource consumption were greatly reduced.

Li Tianran's store points had reached 600 million. He spent nearly 200 million to purchase a complete set of high-precision machine tools to manufacture a nuclear warhead.

In reality, this cost could be reduced even further.

Currently, nuclear warheads around the world can be divided into two types based on their detonation method: "gun-type" and "implosion-type." The gun-type has the simplest structure, which, as mentioned before, involves using a small uranium block to collide with a larger uranium block.

This type of nuclear warhead is so simple to manufacture that it doesn't require any equipment. A structure similar to the firecrackers once used in rural areas, using a thick steel pipe and simple mechanical hydraulics, can complete the process.

Assembling in this way might take less than fifty minutes and cost less than 100,000 points to create a low-quality nuclear warhead.

However, the disadvantage of this "gun-type" nuclear warhead is that it has a smaller yield and low utilization of nuclear material. Perhaps only 2 or 3 kg of the 15 kg of enriched uranium will ultimately undergo fission and explosion!

On the other hand, the "implosion-type" nuclear warhead has high requirements for the uniformity, weight consistency, and detonation synchronization of the explosives. It involves evenly distributing small pieces of uranium within the warhead, and then increasing the internal pressure of the warhead by detonating explosives, which lowers the critical mass of the enriched uranium, reducing the 15 kg critical mass to 10 or even 6 or 7 kg.

When the critical mass decreases, the tremendous force causes the uranium blocks distributed within the warhead to gather together. In this way, a large amount of fission can occur in the enriched uranium. The explosive force produced by 6 kg of uranium in an "implosion-type" warhead is stronger than that produced by 15 kg in a "gun-type" warhead!

Li Tianran was going to manufacture the latter, of course.

Because he only had 15 kg of enriched uranium in his possession, which couldn't compare to the major powers, and the electricity required to refine those thousands of tons of uranium ore was temporarily unaffordable for Li Tianran.

Therefore, no matter which angle he looked at it from, he had to choose the second option.

He could earn more points later, but if the enriched uranium was gone, it would be too difficult to obtain it from elsewhere.

It had to be said that points were the primary productive force. After Li Tianran invested a large number of points in the Crazy Sand Islands, a medium-sized weapons manufacturing plant rose from the ground within a single day.

This manufacturing plant didn't have many production lines, because the entire plant was only dedicated to producing one product.

That was a perfect internal combustion missile warhead with no data errors.

As soon as this missile warhead was completed and filled with enriched uranium, it would become a nuclear weapon.

This task seemed simple.

But the European Union spent three years completing it.

Russia spent six years completing it.

The Yanhuang Federation spent seven years completing it.

How much time did Li Tianran give Qin Yiming?

Not three years!

Not even three months!

Thirty days!

It wasn't because Li Tianran was too harsh, putting all the pressure on Qin Yiming, but because the world situation wouldn't give him too much time.

Now that the countries of the world and those Beast Kings were on the verge of madness, having nuclear weapons a day earlier meant having the confidence to gain a foothold in the world a day earlier.

Qin Yiming didn't complain either. After receiving the task, he turned on the overtime mode again…

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"One thousand mu (Chinese unit of measurement, 1 mu ≈ 0.16 acres) of land, upgraded to lv3 Black Soil, upgrade successful, consuming upgrade scroll x1000!"

Li Tianran stood in the planting area, watching a golden light emanate from the land in front of him. The original ordinary soil had turned into higher-grade fertile land.

Upgrading to lv3 Black Soil not only increased the yield, but was also the minimum requirement for planting lv4 crops.

Since deciding to build his own Evolver army, Li Tianran had begun preparing to plant lv4 crops in large quantities, which was his greatest trump card.

Just then, Professor Nan's voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie.

"Boss, I have a major discovery that I think you'll be interested in." Professor Nan's voice was filled with joy, "It's about lv4 crops!"

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

Five minutes later.

Li Tianran stood in Professor Nan's laboratory. In front of them was an ultraviolet cultivation dish, and inside it grew eight lv4 crops.

Actually, to be precise, there were ten, but two of them had already withered.

In the loose soil of the cultivation dish, Li Tianran discovered some crystal-like objects resembling small grains of sand. Some of these crystals were in a semi-melted state, fused with moisture and soil, while others reflected a faint light, making them unusually conspicuous in the black soil.

"I've found a way to increase the survival rate of lv4 crops!" Professor Nan said, word by word, looking at the somewhat puzzled Li Tianran.