Transporting industrial materials had been a major problem since ancient times.
Many places had struck it rich through mining, but others sat on buried treasure they could not sell because of poor transportation.
Now, the zombie outbreak had clogged transportation routes across most of the world. Vast numbers of abandoned vehicles and zombies everywhere made transporting materials extremely difficult!
Before the apocalypse, D City had been nationally renowned for its heavy industry and had no shortage of industrial materials. Getting those materials to Government-controlled factories, however, had become a problem.
After Heavenly Net took over the national command headquarters, its first order was for every region to establish factories for producing melee weapons.
After trying every possible approach without resolving the issue that rendered firearms unusable, the higher-ups began accepting that no solution would be found for a long time.
Melee weapons had become the best option.
The Zombie-Slaying Axe, Liqueur Spring Spear, and Spiral Blade were all basic but effective weapons for killing zombies.
There were also weapons stockpiled before the apocalypse: military crossbows and Military Slingshots, which were a great help in clearing zombies from a distance.
Early in the outbreak, before any Superhumans appeared, the army had mainly relied on those two ranged weapons to clear zombies and retreat to reserve military bases.
Then they had seized the Grain Reserve Bureau, securing their backup food supplies.
Now, more than four months later, the D City Government had cleared the roads between the Grain Reserve Bureau base and two steel plants, allowing trucks to travel normally. Large quantities of raw materials had already been transported back to converted workshops, where new melee weapons were being produced.
That meant the steel and iron Shen Jin needed were readily available.
But... copper and tin stocks were low.
Copper was primarily