The off-road vehicle moved slowly along the roadway. Aside from this single road, the surrounding area was filled entirely with large mechanical vehicles of many kinds. It was no longer limited to excavators, transport trucks, and bulldozers—there were also forklifts, cranes, and more. Most of the mechanical vehicles from the blueprints Murong Huai had left behind had already been built.
However, Murong Huai still had many doubts. Although Spirit Hall's industrial technology had improved dramatically, producing so many precision industrial products should still have required a major leap forward. How exactly had the Ministry of Works overcome such an enormous technological gap?
After roughly half an incense stick's time, the vehicle passed through the open expanse and arrived before an inner city wall. It stood over ten meters high, with rows of arched gates below—ten in total. At the center stood a heavy red-and-black gate, its surface covered in countless square openings.
"Where is this? Why is there another city wall?" Bibi Dong asked.
Qian Jun immediately explained, "Xili City covers an enormous area and certainly could not have been completed in just a few years. So Mo Heng, the chief overseer of the Ministry of Works, decided to build half of it first, establishing the facilities needed for industrial development.
"Beyond this wall lies the most mysterious and important part of the city. The square openings in the wall are for mounting Soul Tool anti-aircraft cannons. They are similar to machine guns, except one fires bullets while the other fires shells. According to the Ministry of Works, although these Soul Tool anti-aircraft cannons are less powerful than the 'Soul-Rending' cannons on the outermost city gates, their attacks are dense and rapid.
"Jiang Mo and I personally tested them back then. Dozens of anti-aircraft cannons continuously spewed dense barrages of