Chapter 411: Explosion
Central Siberian Plateau, uninhabited zone.
Amid a blizzard of more than twenty degrees below zero, a convoy of enormous tracked transport vehicles slowly moved through the darkness like a long serpent.
Before long, they rendezvoused with transport vehicles arriving from other locations, automatically formed two lines, and approached a mountain peak.
The steel gates, four or five meters thick, had already opened automatically. The two columns of transport vehicles drove into the heart of the mountain.
There were no lights inside the mountain, but a gigantic blast furnace in the distance continuously poured scorching molten iron downward.
In the fiery glow of its radiated light, a vast space could be seen within the mountain, packed with all manner of machinery operating without pause.
It looked like a factory.
Yet unlike an ordinary factory, this one inside the mountain had not a single human figure in sight. Every machine operated automatically, with no controls, buttons, or other provisions for human operation.
On the eastern side of this vast unmanned factory within the mountain, in an area designated as a raw materials warehouse, the transport vehicles finally reached their destination.
They stopped at their assigned positions one after another. Several mechanical arms then extended from the walls on either side, deftly removed the modular container compartments from the transport vehicles, and refueled and serviced them.
At the same time, two heavy mechanical arms descended from above, lifted the containers, and placed them onto an enormous track more than twenty meters wide. Mechanical arms around the track immediately dismantled the containers and sorted the processed mineral ingots inside, sending them to their respective workshops.
Such tracked transport systems covered the entire factory. Raw materials entered the various standardized parts workshops through them, became all kinds of components, and were then