Lord of the Stars
Chapter 2023

Lava Island (Part 1)

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Faced with this kind of data, New Wildfire did not need any sophisticated tools. A simple analysis was enough to reveal that the origins of most components were highly scattered, fairly evenly distributed across the Twelve Great Districts. The greatest concentration was among hundreds of production lines in East Asia and South Asia, fitting the Resistance Army's pattern of gathering materials from various sources and modifying cybernetic equipment.

What deserved attention was that three production lines showed abnormally elevated numerical curves, clearly distinct from the rest.

Among those three production lines, one had an especially bizarre geographic location. It was also in East 725 District, not far from the Abandoned Mining Area and still within the Volcanic Zone... yet it lay dozens of kilometers beneath the rock strata.

Only because New Wildfire's database contained geological structural data for a vast surrounding area, and because it could trace clues from the disassembly, assembly, and transfer of the relevant production lines, could it defy common sense and pinpoint the exact location.

At a time like this, even without a systematic understanding of the Outer Earth Resistance Army, Ronan could guess that those unusually concentrated production-line segments were probably something like the Resistance Army's armories and modification-processing centers.

As for the site beneath the rock strata, it was an even more crucial link.

So crucial that much of the equipment carried by important hospital personnel—managers, technicians, and combatants such as the two Ruans, Lao Pi, and Misha—was strongly connected to it.

That was definitely no coincidence.

At roughly forty-five kilometers underground, based on the geothermal gradient of the surrounding region, the temperature had already reached 1200K, a Super High Temperature Zone. Forget ordinary people—even the Resistance Army would not operate there unless it was a matter of life and death with no other

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