"Consumables? What consumables?" the military representative asked instinctively.
"A reagent essential for reverse engineering, with a daily consumption of around forty to fifty thousand tons," explained Song Yarong. "The storage and transportation conditions for this thing are extrely stringent... It can only be made and used on the spot, and the entire Celestial City, or rather, the whole of Shuzhou Territory, only Factory 105 has the capability to produce this reagent."
"In other words," Yang Qi continued, "if sothing happens to Factory 105, the entire reverse engineering... or even the entire ’Pesticide Plan,’ will co to a halt."
"Can’t other factories produce it?" The military representative was sowhat puzzled. "If it’s the raw material for the Reverse Potion, shouldn’t every city-state have the capability to produce it? After all, the Reverse Potion is..."
The military representative hadn’t finished speaking when Song Yarong interrupted him: "You’re right; Celestial City has a total of six production lines for this reagent, but five of them are in Factory 105... This is the border, not like Chunming City, where enterprises producing Reverse Potions abound."
The enterprises Song Yarong was talking about are mostly concentrated in Chunming City and Shen City. So have official backing, so are privately owned, and so are public-private partnerships, with fierce competition among them. Every year new technologies and products erge... Apart from the researchers from the Dubhe Tower and various city institutes participating in the reverse engineering, quite a number of them co from these enterprises.
Chunming City and Shen City, as the first and second largest cities in the Xiazhou Federation, in fact, have less demand for the Reverse Potion. The main purpose of these companies clustering in these cities is to attract more and better research talents.
While Celestial City, being a border city, is not small in scale, its appeal to talent cannot be compared with the forr two. Except for the Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute, there isn’t a single private enterprise in the field of mysterious creature research.
All Reverse Potions needed by Celestial City are produced by ’Celestial Special dicine Technology Co., Ltd.,’ which is controlled by the Celestial City Managent Committee. The Factory 105 producing the reagents is a subsidiary factory of Celestial Special dicine Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ’Tianfu Special dicine’).
This reverse engineering is of significant importance, and Tianfu Special dicine, with technology levels only considered second-rate, can only assist the bigwigs who rushed to Celestial City. Even if all of Tianfu Special dicine’s technical staff disappeared overnight, it wouldn’t affect the progress of the reverse engineering.
But Factory 105 is different.
The production threshold for the reagent nad "FL09" isn’t very high but not very low either... Compared to the already iterated Reverse Potion, the formula for this reagent hasn’t changed in nearly twenty years.
Among all production lines related to the Reverse Potion, the production line for this reagent can definitely be considered the lowest of the low.
Given the tight tifra and that the output of Factory 105 completely ets the demands of this operation, reagent production lines from other city-states were not relocated to Celestial City... But no one expected sothing would go wrong with Factory 105.
Downstream industries might not seem conspicuous, but their level of importance is an indispensable link in the entire industrial chain... Now, gathering reagent production lines from elsewhere is completely out of ti.
"Which unit is the closest to Factory 105?" Yang Qi asked rapidly.
"Let check!" The military representative was quite sharp this ti. "It’s the 1st chanized Infantry Battalion of the 51st Division, stationed in the southern suburbs, less than twenty kiloters from Factory 105."
"Personnel? Equipnt configuration? Experience in combat with mysterious creatures?" Yang Qi asked in rapid succession.
"They have four hundred people, all equipped with Power Exoskeletons, more than thirty tanks and armored vehicles, and sixteen military chas... However, combat experience with mysterious creatures, zero." The military representative showed a pained expression. "The 51st Division is a newly ford army as of last year; despite their top-tier personnel quality and equipnt standards, the only issue is the lack of combat experience."
"Well, here’s their chance for combat training." Yang Qi then turned to the director of the Field Operations Departnt. "Which is the nearest field team to Factory 105? What about Hunter?"
"It’s the 67th Field Team," replied the Field Operations Departnt director imdiately. "Oh yes, Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu, whom Sun Hang specifically asked to pay attention to, are also in this team."
"Besides them, which other Hunter is closest?" Yang Qi asked again. "I need sufficiently experienced, highly skilled Hunters!"
"The ’Red-haired Witch’ is closest; fifteen minutes ago, her patrol route just passed Niutou Temple, less than 8 kiloters from Factory 105!"
"Notify the ’Red-haired Witch’ to imdiately abandon her patrol mission and head to Factory 105!" Yang Qi ordered. "Let the 67th Field Team and the 1st chanized Infantry Battalion of the 51st Division converge and then rush full speed to Factory 105... Also, are there any ssages from the drones?"
The mont Factory 105 lost contact, the command center had already dispatched multiple reconnaissance and communication drones to the site of the incident. These were standard procedures and didn’t require separate commands from Yang Qi.
"The drones checked the communication network of Factory 105... Communication hasn’t been cut off; it’s just that no one has responded to our calls," an agent handed Yang Qi a tablet. "These are photos of the factory taken by two other drones from the air."
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