Powerful! The Multiple Uses of Virtual Reality!

After reciting the oath of departure, the speech was completed.

A new talent ranking and reward system has been announced.

After the Hope was launched.

After the gathering, the villagers quickly dispersed amidst laughter and cheers.

Soon, the crowd on the deck was gone, leaving only a few people standing beside Su Mo.

Chen Shen stepped forward. "Chief, we've completed the tasks you arranged yesterday. The approximate area we've detected is as follows."

A table appeared.

A large map also appeared on the table.

After Su Mo set sail, the villagers of Iron Stone Mountain were not completely trapped on the mountain.

Starting on the fourth day, they built a sturdy and durable raft.

We set off at dawn and returned at night, exploring more than 300 kilometers around the entire depression.

This exploration does not refer to a superficial visit.

Instead, they dive to the bottom of the water and memorize the surrounding terrain and resources.

Even later, when titles were introduced, almost every villager in Iron Stone Mountain advanced their title to the second tier, and more than ten others advanced to the third tier.

It also provided a great deal of assistance to the exploration.

Through various methods, and after yesterday's compilation, a detailed graphic was printed on the large map.

At first glance.

The first thing Su Mo saw was the abundant oil underground.

He had previously glimpsed this oil field using the resource function in the Game Panel.

Now, on this map, Su Mo realized just how terrifying the area of oil was! Almost the entire 200 square kilometers underground was filled with blackish-gray oil.

Based on the extraction efficiency of the Oil Well in the Underground Shelter, this oil is enough to be extracted for more than a decade.

Even if extraction efficiency is increased later, this oil can still meet the energy needs of the depression for several years.

"We must take this oil with us. It is our most precious asset, our only asset when we go to the New Continent. We cannot give it up!"

Picking up his pen, Su Mo slowly circled the map.

The circle, though not perfectly orderly, honestly conceals all the shady resources within it, leaps off the page.

"Two hundred and fifty-six kilometers underground, there is a wild Natural Gas with a volume of approximately 150,000 cubic meters."

"Based on the calculation that one cubic meter of Natural Gas can burn for one and a half hours, this reserve is quite astonishing and has been a great help!"

The Age of Civilization.

A family of four would consume only between four and six hundred kilos of gas per year.

Taking an average of 500, this 150,000 cubic meters of Natural Gas would be enough for 300 households, or 1,200 people, to use for a year.

Even taking into account the costs of extraction, this wild Natural Gas deposit still has the potential value to be taken away.

"A small Coal Mine? Take it!"

"Take away a small piece of high-quality stone!"

"A forest of red pine trees? What a pity! Pine nuts are not only edible but also medicinal, and the trees themselves can be used to make furniture. But these pine trees have been submerged in seawater for so long, their roots are probably already dead. There's nothing we can do!"

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The low-lying area is barren.

This does not mean that the land outside the depression is equally barren.

Just like the principle of reversal when things reach their extreme, there are more than 30 resources of varying sizes on the map within a range of more than 300 kilometers.

After some deliberation, Su Mo took them to nine different places.

These are: petroleum, Coal Mine, Natural Gas, stone, Black Soil, Saltpeter Mine, Sulfur Mine, iron ore, and Copper Mine.

The total area reached 230 square kilometers.

"Director, our initial exploration area is only 50 kilometers. Considering that the exploration range increases by 20 kilometers for each level of the shelter, doesn't this area seem a bit too large?"

Staring at the map drawn by Su Mo.

Chen Shen hesitated for a moment, but Pei Shao, who was next to him, spoke up directly.

230 square kilometers.

If you want to extend your territory's influence, you need to upgrade your shelter to level 9.

This level is an astronomical figure for players in the wasteland now.

It's a number that wouldn't be reached even in six months, or even a year.

"Don't panic, we'll definitely take what we need to take, and besides, who said we only have fifty kilometers left!"

With a subtle smile, Su Mo looked at the people around him who seemed to have just realized something, nodded with a smile, but did not explain.

His current shelter is at level six, and the area he can explore is 150 kilometers.

It's a little short of the number 230, but it's basically within the range for resources.

"Alright, I'm about to initiate the transfer. You all should go and prepare to enter the Virtual Reality for training."

"Oh, right, Qi Qin, Shen Ke, you two stay behind, I have some instructions!"

After putting away the map and greeting the others, Su Mo turned and walked towards the conference room on the second floor.

Despite having news of Chen Shen, the general situation in the New Continent was still completely unknown to everyone.

Su Mo felt somewhat uneasy about this unknown.

So, after some consideration, and looking at the two people sitting down in front of him, Su Mo slowly spoke:

"Qi Qin, Shen Ke, I trust you both to handle things calmly, so I have a task for you to complete."

The two nodded simultaneously, pretending to listen.

"The Sun Chaser is currently located below the Hope, and because the Hope needs to stop midway to accumulate energy for training, it will be in a berthed state for six hours each day."

"We need to find a way to make use of this time; we can't just sit around waiting. At the very least, we need to get more news about the New Continent."

"So, you two take ten people with you later, make sure they have all the weapons and what. Based on the Hope's radar detection, go and negotiate with these people who may have escaped from the New Continent, and try to get as much intelligence as possible!"

Shen Ke nodded. "What if they insist on not telling us, or deliberately spread false information?"

"That's alright. We should try to avoid conflicts if possible. We have plenty of time, and we can ask different people. There's a high probability that we'll find someone willing to communicate!"

Knowing what Shen Ke meant, Su Mo ultimately shook his head.

Even though the world chat is now closed, he secretly sent people to arrest, interrogate, and torture those he encountered.

And no one else will know.

But once something like this happens once, it's likely to happen again.

It is very likely that if this method is used too often, people will lose sight of their bottom line and become increasingly extreme.

Su Mo was not a pedantic person, but in this situation, which was not extremely urgent, he still chose to preserve his bottom line as much as possible.

"Okay, we understand!"

Standing up, looking at Qi Qin, Shen Ke calmly left. Su Mo nodded secretly and returned to the meeting room.

Having subordinates makes things easier.

Lu Yongyi sent almost all of the top talents he had gathered to the Hope.

With these people around, Su Mo could save a lot of effort and use it for other things.

He sat down at the table and took out the map again.

After studying the map for a while and confirming that there were no problems, Su Mo had a sudden thought and looked out the window at the rapidly receding seascape.

A virtual Game Panel unfolds.

Currently, the game has not been updated, and most of the functions are still offline and blacked out.

However, after Su Mo made a mental selection, a new panel popped up.

It was clearly an option for transferring territory.

Just as Chen Shen said.

The functions within this option are not complicated; it's roughly like drawing on a map with a paintbrush—just circle and select.

However, their choice to relocate to the New Continent changed.

The topography of the entire New Continent is not a regular circle, but a quadrilateral with parallel lines at the top and bottom.

The top and bottom sides are long, while the left and right sides are short.

Within this quadrilateral, the area within a 500-kilometer radius is gray, representing areas that cannot be selected.

But later on, the markings on it became quite colorful.

At a mere initial glance, Su Mo saw no fewer than two thousand markings, indicating that over two thousand territories had already taken root in the wasteland.

"Hmm, they're all quite clever. Most of their territories are only 49 kilometers apart, no more, no less."

"My chosen area is 230 kilometers; the only places I can move to are..."

Staring at the map for selecting locations, and noticing the seven places that were flashing with light after selection, Su Mo became interested.

Of these seven locations, the last four are at the two corners of a parallelogram, which are extremely barren and seem unlikely to be rich in resources.

In the first three places.

The first location is in the very center of the continent, a place that virtually no one dares to choose.

Choosing this location makes it easy to be attacked from both sides in the event of war.

The second location is in the lower right of the entire continent.

Most of the things here are small patches of different colors, like patches, and it seems to be a gathering place for relatively weak alien races.

The third location is the right side of the middle area, where large blocks of color are currently clustered together.

On the map, you can't see the specific terrain clearly, but you can still see mountains and rivers.

The area on the right side of the middle is the source of the entire river and the Starting Point of the entire terrain.

According to the principles of Feng Shui, this place must be the richest in resources, and the competition will certainly be the most intense.

How do we choose?

"This is troublesome. Each of the first three dishes is excellent on its own, but putting them together is a challenge!"

Staring at the map, I quickly sketched it on the paper.

Since one person couldn't make up their mind, and considering that Su Deben, a big shot, was still on the Hope, Su Mo chose to pool their wisdom and efforts.

After a while, Su Mo finished making a copy of the entire map of the New Continent.

He stood up and went to the small warehouse on the second deck, which had been converted into Virtual Reality laboratory, and found the robot.

"Lü Kuan, call Uncle Su, I need to talk to him about something."

Lü Kuan nodded. "Okay, wait a minute!"

With a shiver, Lü Kuan disconnected and used bioelectricity to activate Su Deben's brain, establishing a connection.

"Uncle Su, this is the terrain of the New Continent. These are the places we can move to. I've got my eye on three places. Can you give me your advice?"

Three places?

Su Deben picked up the map that Su Mo handed him, a hint of curiosity on his face.

But the next second, just as Su Mo had predicted, Su Deben also showed a hint of hesitation.

"These three locations are all excellent. As for the middle one, given our strength, we don't really need to worry about being attacked from both sides in the early stages. On the contrary, there are many enemies, and they will hinder each other."

"The lower right corner is dominated by smaller races. We can take advantage of our early game to easily overwhelm them and eliminate the surrounding threats in a very short time."

"And this right-wing group, although it seems to be fraught with danger and consists of big players, the bigger they are, the more aware they are of their own capabilities!"

"Why don't you go into Virtual Reality and simulate it? See which side is more advantageous for development?"

Su Mo was taken aback. "Can it really be used like that?"

After understanding the principles of Virtual Reality, Su Mo only used this device as a teaching tool.

But now, hearing Su Deben say this, it's clear that Virtual Reality has other uses! "Haha, you underestimate our Virtual Reality. Although it's a device that deceives the senses, it also has computing power running inside. With that computing power, we can import the current situation from the map and simulate the general situation for calculations."

"Once the simulation is successful, the computing power will automatically give us a priority for our selection. Why don't you give it a try first!"

"Good!"