The Ninth Floor of the Greenhouse Ruins! The First Perception-Type and Intelligence-Type Awakeners on the Server!

"Our enemies won't wait obediently for winter to end before swaggering up to our trenches."

"They're raiders, and ambushes are what they do best. If they move quickly, their army might reach the northern outskirts of Clear Spring City as soon as this blizzard ends."

"My guess is... early January. It might even be New Year's Day itself."

After reviewing the new Guard recruits, Chu Guang returned to the Guard's Long Lasting Farm outpost with Ding, Wrench, and Vanus.

There was a bunker-style temporary command post here, buried beneath a thick layer of snow, with only a tunnel leading inside.

Among the supplies seized from the raiders last time were a full hundred 100mm shells.

Each shell weighed twenty kilograms, including a three-kilogram warhead filled with a TNT-RDX mixture.

If one of those came down on them, the power would be terrifying.

Although he did not know how many howitzers they had, those shells alone were enough to put Chu Guang on guard.

These raiders would not be easy to deal with!

At present, Vault 404 had managed to unlock RDX production through information gathered by the old hands on the forum and the constant experimentation of thirty life-profession players with relevant chemistry experience, but unfortunately, output remained low.

Developing reliable heavy support firepower before New Year's Day was still far too difficult. They needed to solve more than just the problem of gun barrels. There were plenty of issues, including ballistics, and compared to theoretical knowledge, those required far more experience gained through actual combat.

Rather than hoping to use heavy artillery in the war against the Bone Chewing Tribe, it was more realistic to hope Mosquito's improvised rockets would come through.

Wrench and Ding instinctively exchanged glances, their expressions slightly blank.

What was New Year's Day?

Although Vanus