3 – Solar Umbrella

The Black Rock Town was a town, which had several large mine in its surroundings, next to the Autumn Leaf Town. The Black Rock Town was the wealthiest town of the 38 towns under the Giant Stone City’s administration.

A tall, blue-haired and blue-eyed, hook-nosed man with a cold glimmer in his eyes sat in a luxurious room. The man sneered coldly: “That trash Zhao Jiang wants to borrow 5,000 gold coins from me, with the the Autumn Leaf Town as collateral, to redeem Ms. Sissi? Ha ha, for the sake of a woman, he’ll even sell the estate of his ancestors, what a good-for-nothing!”

The tall westerner was Baron Kirov, the master of the Black Rock Town. He ruled the Black Rock Town with an iron fist. People in the Black Rock Town would shudder in fear upon hearing his name.

“If I’d known that he’s such a waste, then I wouldn’t have taken the risk to invite the black scorpion to assassinate him. I wasted 500 gold coins.” Baron Kirov frowned and muttered doubtfully: “The black scorpion reported that they murdered Zhao Jiang, what’s going on? Did they cheat me?”

After musing for a good while, Baron Kirov raised his head, looked at the man wearing a butler uniform standing beside him, and said: “Gerry, go tell Zhao Jiang that I’ll only lend him 2,500 gold coins at a monthly interest of 4%. The Autumn Leaf Town is only worth 2,500 gold coins. Furthermore, in 2 months’ time, he is to completely repay the loan, principal and interest included.”

Gerry responded respectfully and retired: “Yes! Master!”

Kirov revealed a complacent smile: “In another 2 months, the Autumn Leaf Town will be in my bag! If the Autumn Leaf Town, this valuable piece of land, falls into my hands, it’ll earn me at least 2,000 gold coins per year.”

The Autumn Leaf Town had a lot of land very suitable for farming in its surroundings. Being jointly suppressed by Giant Stone City and Kirov, the Zhao Family was so poverty-stricken that it couldn’t even take out 1,000 gold coins.

If Kirov were to control of the Autumn Leaf Town, and as long as he managed it a bit and moved a large number of people from other places to reclaim the land, then he would be able to make huge profits.

The Autumn Leaf Town.

“Living as a lesser aristocrat in this alien, backwards world isn’t as comfortable as living as an ordinary citizen in modern society!” Yang Feng sighed gloomily as he walked the Autumn Leaf Town’s streets.

In this alien world, there was no television, internet, and beverages. This world was extremely lacking in terms of entertainment.

Breakfast was white bread with potato soup, lunch was also white bread with potato soup, and dinner was white bread with meat broth. Yang Feng had eaten this kind of food for several days and felt that his digestive system was getting sick of it.

However, after seeing the black bread and water that the Autumn Leaf Town’s residents had to constantly ingested over the years, Yang Feng felt that his food was already quite good.

In the Autumn Leaf Town, Yang Feng possessed great authority. He could even abduct women as he pleased. However, in the Autumn Leaf Town, there were only a few dozen young girls. They had pretty mediocre looks. Apart from being youthful and lively, it was difficult to find any good-looking woman.

In fact, with his terrifying influence, he only had to beckon with his finger for the single girls in the town to voluntarily go to his bed. However, he wasn’t interested.

Zhao Jiang had been single because he couldn’t a girl in the Autumn Leaf Town he would fancy.

In short, Yang Feng, who was the head of the Autumn Leaf Town as well as a baron, couldn’t enjoy life as much as an ordinary citizen of modern Earth.

After crossing the Autumn Leaf Town, Yang Feng entered a small house in the badlands to the north.

Yang Feng entered a room and said loudly to 3796: “3796, let’s begin! I can’t wait any longer!”

Lights erupted from 3796 hand and images of various modern-looking buildings and equipment appeared midair.

Yang Feng quickly made his choice: “Energy needs to be put first! Let’s start with 100 solar umbrellas!”

3796 could use energy to synthesize any matter, this required the consumption of a lot of energy. Energy was its life, so to speak. At present, the situation was fairly peaceful, so Yang Feng chose to build energy absorption units.

At the moment, solar umbrellas were the most suitable energy absorption units.

3796 quickly went outside, extended a hand, and released blue light, illuminating a pile of iron ore.

The pile of iron ore quickly decomposed into steel lumps and other substances under the blue light.

Then the steel lumps mixed together with some other materials and formed numerous components, which automatically assembled into an umbrella-like solar umbrella under the blue light.

Once the solar umbrella was formed, a thread extended out of 3796 and pierced into the bottom of the solar umbrella, absorbing the solar umbrella’s energy.

Every half an hour, one more solar umbrella would appear in the badlands.

A day later, 48 solar umbrellas were scattered over the badlands.

Two days later, 96 solar umbrellas appeared in the badlands.

On the third day, there was an additional engineering robot beside 3796. The robot was 3 meters tall, had a cylindrical shape, and had 16 mechanical arms. Each mechanical arm was equipped with different broaches – drill bits, hammer, pliers, electric welder, and other.

On the fourth day, the number of engineering robots increased to 3 and the number of solar umbrellas increased to 200.

On the fifth day, the number of engineering robots increased to 9 and the number of solar umbrellas increased to 300.

On the sixth day, the number of engineering robots increased to 27 and the number of solar umbrellas increased to 400.

On the seventh day, the number of engineering robots increased to 81 and the number of solar umbrellas increased to 500.

On the eighth day, the number of engineering robots increased to 243 and the number of solar umbrellas increased to 600.

On the ninth day, the badlands underwent earth-shaking changes – factories appeared almost out of thin air, bringing along a continuous string of rumbling noises.

On the tenth day, as if flowers sprouting on the badlands, there were 2,000 solar umbrellas madly absorbing energy.

The once covered with stones and impossible to be cultivated badlands, had become an enormous factory complex. The factories littering the enormous factory complex emitted waves of mechanical rumbling noises.

When Yang Feng approached the enormous factory complex, two warriors with long blades, standing in front of the gate of the factory complex, orderly knelt on the ground and said with cold, mechanical voices.

Yang Feng swept the two warriors, who looked almost identical to humans, with a glance and, without saying a word, proceeded towards a factory in the factory complex.

After Yang Feng entered the factory complex, the two warriors with blades stood up practically at the same time, their movements exactly the same.

Yang Feng went straight towards the largest factory and entered inside.

Inside the largest factory, there was a huge metal sphere suspended in the air. A number of mechanical tentacles, serving as different tools, extended from the huge metal sphere and assembled robots from the parts moving above assembly lines.

After walking out of the assembly lines, the many robots immediately left the factory and entered other factories to act as workers, refining various metals and producing components.

3796 came up to Yang Feng and asked:

Yang Feng said: “I came to have a look at the factory’s production status. Report!”

3796 said: