Chapter 102: Must Survive

Just as Wangcai was stunned by Lei Yaotian’s idea, Lei Yaotian said softly: “That old fellow earlier really thought I was an idiot, not letting them be proper Slaves, but making them ‘citizens’. Actually, I could also tell, if it weren’t for being at a dead end, he wouldn’t have looked us directly in the eye.”

“Young Master, are you talking about that creature from earlier?”

Lei Yaotian nodded.

“So, remember later when you give them the Loyalty Drug injection, you must increase the dose.”

Wangcai saw that his Master was a bit angry, so he acted very boot-licking and said: “Rest assured Young Master, whoever makes you unhappy for a moment, I will make them unhappy for a lifetime!” He matched his words with a face of gritted teeth, which really made Lei Yaotian quite satisfied.

“Alright, alright, I know you are very loyal to me.”

Lei Yaotian smiled and patted Wangcai’s arm.

“By the way, if we want to build a Heavy Warship factory, how much area would we need?” Lei Yaotian wasn’t very clear about these things yet.

Wangcai thought for a moment and replied: “Generally, the size of a single Heavy Warship, with an average width of 10/km (kilometers) and a length of about 120～200/km (kilometers), is the standard. This is the most common size in Dimensional Plane trade. Of course, there might be slight deviations because of the different shapes of the Warships, but mostly there aren’t too many errors.”

This time, it was Lei Yaotian’s turn to be stunned.

“This isn’t a Warship, it’s basically creating a moving city.” Lei Yaotian secretly clicked his tongue.

Actually, it wasn’t strange for Lei Yaotian to think this way. As a Transmigrator, there were no space Warships in Lei Yaotian’s original World. This completely limited his thinking. Plus, with the influence of some cartoons, he inherently thought that Warships shouldn’t be very big.

Even if they were big, they wouldn’t be outrageously big.

But Wangcai was very clear about this. The length and width he mentioned were the most basic sizes for Heavy Warships in all Sci-Fi Realm Worlds.

Because Warships need to be equipped with various weapons and Mecha, as well as combat personnel and pilots. They also need various manual artillery, not all controlled by instruments.

Calculating all of this, it basically requires a lot of combat personnel.

Moreover, those maintenance personnel, logistics personnel, and ground combat personnel for landing operations all need to live on the Warship.

This leads to the volume of a single heavy battleship being extremely massive.

Besides, a Fleet’s configuration, apart from Heavy Warships, also requires various light and medium battleships and frigates, etc…

And when viewed from space, each Warship seems very small, but if you get close to look, you would know how huge these Warships are.

But these things, how could Lei Yaotian possibly understand them? After all, in the era Lei Yaotian came from, the pinnacle was just launching satellites into space.

Seeing Lei Yaotian’s face was somewhat dazed, Wangcai smiled and said: “Young Master, don’t be so surprised. In short, Heavy Warships really are just this big. Consequently, the land area for a Warship Manufacturing Factory would basically be about three times the size of the Warship itself…”

Lei Yaotian came back to his senses and looked at Wangcai. He moved his mouth and said: “Then, based on the area of this Planet, how many Warship Factories can we build?”

Hearing this, Wangcai quickly used his powerful ability to calculate and soon reached a conclusion.

Then he replied: “Building ten thousand Heavy Warship Factories is not a problem. We can hollow out the ground and build Warship Factories underground. We can also hollow out mountains and use the interior of the mountains to build Warship Factories.”

Lei Yaotian let out a long sigh and said: “For one Warship Factory, if work starts simultaneously, how long until there is output?”

“Young Master, Warship manufacturing is delicate work, so it can’t be that fast. So, even at the shortest, it would take three years to produce a Warship.”

Lei Yaotian thought for a moment and said to Wangcai: “Manufacture in batches, group every ten factories together. This way, three years from now, we can produce ten Warships every day. Moreover, we can continue building Warship Factories on all the Planets in this star system. Aim to produce one hundred Warships daily after three years. Only a massive Fleet can ensure we can resist other creatures.”

Wangcai very much agreed with Lei Yaotian’s idea.

In this era of the great Universe, one must possess a sufficiently powerful and large number of Warships to ensure one is not invaded or harassed.

The fate of these suddenly appearing ‘Iktans’ was already enough to make Lei Yaotian vigilant.

“I don’t want to end up like these ‘Iktans’ in the end, being slaughtered and forced into a corner with no way out.”

Lei Yaotian said gloomily.

“Let’s go, let’s go back to the base and see. How are those fellows’ discussions going?”

Lei Yaotian waved his hand and turned to walk towards the base.

Wangcai saw that Lei Yaotian already had an idea in his heart, so he himself began to calculate just how many Credit Points it would require to build everything Lei Yaotian envisioned.

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“Lord Father, does the other party really want us to be his ‘citizens’?”

After Elder Mensa returned among his clansmen, he told them Lei Yaotian’s conditions.

Hearing this condition, the clansmen were all excited.

But there was also a large portion of people who maintained a very suspicious attitude towards this.

In their view, Lei Yaotian definitely could not have come from the edge of the Barren Star Domain, crossing the storm and getting lost here. There must be some ulterior secret involved. So they felt that being his ‘citizens’ was really somewhat dangerous for the future.

Lei Yaotian wasn’t stupid, but these Iktans weren’t stupid either.

Elder Mensa also knew that Lei Yaotian had many secrets, but they couldn’t investigate them deeply. After all, these Iktans had no more backing and were being hunted by creatures across the entire Universe.

“How could that be? That was just an excuse. To put it bluntly, he still wants us to be his Slaves, just phrased more pleasantly. We are not fools, how could I not understand?”

Elder Mensa sighed and then said to the clansmen around him and his son.

“But what use would it be if I didn’t agree? Do you think we have the power to negotiate with the other side?”

Elder Mensa turned his head and glanced around.

Countless Artificial Human Soldiers were currently pointing their guns at them. They truly had no strength to challenge Lei Yaotian now. Moreover, even their own lives at this moment depended on Lei Yaotian’s mood to be preserved.

“Life and death hang on our single thought; it depends on which path everyone chooses to take.” Elder Mensa’s voice was very low. “What I want to say here is, we all still have a sea of blood and deep grudges not yet avenged. So many clansmen died unjustly; did they just die in vain?”

Elder Mensa’s gaze slowly swept over the faces of the clansmen.

The Iktan clansmen, after hearing Elder Mensa’s words, had flashes of anger and hate in their eyes.

Elder Mensa saw everyone’s reaction and nodded secretly to himself.

“So I just want to say one sentence.” Elder Mensa stared seriously and earnestly at the clansmen around him. “Survive!”

The Iktan clansmen around all shuddered physically.

Elder Mensa did not pause and continued speaking: “I think you should all understand, now our Ikto Race might only have us left, for all we know. So we carry on our shoulders everything of those clansmen who died tragically. All this hatred, this blood debt, we must bear it. But if we all die, then who else can avenge those dead clansmen?”

Elder Mensa shook his head. “No one. If we all die, this hatred will disappear from the Universe. And so many of our Iktan clansmen would have died in vain for nothing.”

“Survive. Only by surviving is there any hope for everything. Be respectful to the Master of this place. Offer everything of yourselves. Dignity and freedom, exchange them for his guarantee. I don’t know if he has that kind of power, but we must tie him to our war chariot, assist him, help him grow.”

“If our generation cannot do it, then let the next generation do it. As long as we do not forget this hatred, then one day we will certainly get our revenge.”

The Elder of the Ikto Race used the race’s own language to tell the clansmen his plan.

“Elder, for survival, we can do this. But what about this human makes him worthy of our assistance? We don’t know the extent of his influence, nor do we know how much strength he truly possesses. For one person to confront the entire Universe, I don’t think that’s a realistic thing.”

One of the Iktan clansmen voiced his thoughts.

“I know, I know all of it. So we just need to be clear about it ourselves. Just slowly make contact with the other party. Over time, we can gradually and imperceptibly influence things.” Elder Mensa said.

“Not having strength is not frightening. Not having influence is not frightening either. We can use our minds to help him, slowly build up influence. In short, we must strive generation after generation; one day it will be possible.”

“But Elder, why must you choose this human? If we had a choice, we could choose to rely on other powerful creatures.”

Someone raised a different opinion.

Elder Mensa gave a bitter laugh and said: “Which species do you think would be suitable for us to rely on? You must know that right now, creatures from the entire Universe are hunting us down, seizing our wealth. Can you guarantee that if we go and rely on them, they would definitely accept us and let us live?”

That clansman, after hearing Elder Mensa’s words, fell silent and said no more.

Yes, now they were truly at a dead end. If they really could choose to rely on a civilization, or if there was a civilization willing to take them in, they wouldn’t have fallen to such a state.

“Sigh~~~”

The group of Iktan clansmen all let out a heavy sigh in unison.