The topic of the Warship Factory lay completely beyond Lin Beauty's authority—it was an enormous systems engineering project.
The Mecha Factory was also a systems engineering project, but the Warship Factory was more than three to five times as complicated. It did not merely cost more; it also required massive human resources, and construction would take a considerable amount of time.
So she only got a general idea of its scale. Once she learned that it would require at least a thousand square kilometers of land, she told Feng Jun, "Strictly speaking, I'm not qualified to discuss this topic, but based on my experience, Xia Nation probably doesn't have any suitable place to build this factory."
"In other words, you can consider adding more Rain-Praying Arrays in Lakemarta."
Feng Jun was not surprised by her answer. If he scanned at full strength with his Divine Sense now, his radius had already reached ten thousand kilometers. He could be said to know the state of Xia Nation better than most people, and it really was not easy to find such a large area.
Was there truly nowhere at all? Not necessarily. Xia Nation was vast, after all. But considering confidentiality, transport convenience, supporting infrastructure, and various other factors, it really was as she had said—Lakemarta was probably the only option.
Leaving aside everything else, even building a power plant would be more convenient here. Although Lakemarta lacked water, with the Rain-Praying Arrays, an hour or so of rain each day would be enough.
Only then did he recall something else. "Right, I obtained this Warship Factory because I'm contract manufacturing for someone else. That means... I'll have to take away most of the warships produced at the beginning. I can't leave all of them in Xia Nation."
As for the contract