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The clock tower, bathed in the morning light, was like a torch lit amid the ruins, reducing the mutant slime mold's mother nest to ashes.
This battle had nearly exhausted Vault 404's entire ammunition stockpile.
Not to mention the 7mm rounds, nearly a thousand 20mm armor-piercing, high-explosive, and incendiary shells had been used up, while 88mm mortar rounds had been fired in relentless bombardments without regard for cost.
However, Chu Guang was not too heartbroken over it.
Out with the old, in with the new.
The massive fiscal deficit was certainly troubling, but Vault 404's military-industrial production capacity had also reached unprecedented heights under the stimulation of "virtual silver coins."
At present, with sufficient raw material supplies, daily output of 7mm full-power cartridges could reach a maximum of 200,000 rounds, weighing nearly five tons.
With large numbers of "light cavalry rifles" being issued, No. 81 Steelworks had achieved mass production of 20mm armor-piercing rounds, greatly reducing production costs and labor time.
The two factory directors at No. 81 Steelworks were currently researching mass-production improvements for the more complicated high-explosive and incendiary rounds. Results would likely come soon.
Once war broke out, this would become Vault 404's greatest advantage!
After the campaign ended.
NPCs in protective suits went to the battlefield to recover corpses. Guard duty and clearing out the remaining mutants were handed over to the guards, while the players gradually left the front lines.
Clones needed rest.
Quite a few players had fought through the entire night, relying solely on surging adrenaline to endure the fatigue debuff. Once the excitement faded, many of them started yawning.
The injured players returned to the shelter, while the uninjured ones