Chapter 457 - 183: Mortal Realm No.1 Missile Reserve Base

Chapter 457: Chapter 183: Mortal Realm No.1 Missile Reserve Base

He didn’t dare to relax for a moment, terrified that a single great battle would deplete the Mortal Realm’s foundations, terrified that a single Ghost Tide would shatter all his dreams.

But now.

He could finally pat his chest and say with confidence that the Mortal Realm had achieved a considerable scale.

"Mortal Realm Mobile Cruise Missile, test detonation successful."

This meant...

As long as he was willing, he could lay down enough High-speed Rail tracks to launch the Mortal Realm’s cruise missiles to any location on the Eternal Night Continent.

This way, he wouldn’t need to build any Mortal Realm Missile Bases out in the wild.

He could build them all within his own main base.

If he needed to bombard an extremely distant region, that would be the time for the Mortal Realm High-speed Rail to deploy. The trains would haul one Mortal Realm Cruise Missile after another to the designated launch area.

Of course.

This method would certainly be slower. It could never achieve a response time of just a few dozen breaths, like the reinforcements for the Yellow Springs Entrance Defense Line. If he were to build Mortal Realm Missile Bases across the various regions of the Eternal Night Continent, he could provide real-time support to each area.

It’s just that...

He felt that if every region of the Eternal Night Continent needed real-time support from the Mortal Realm just to hold the line...

...then the Eternal Night Continent was probably doomed to fall anyway.

The Mortal Realm wasn’t nearly powerful enough to support every single region of the Eternal Night Continent.

If things got to that point...

...he would have to start stockpiling large quantities of seeds, poultry, and the like, and prepare to evacuate the New Continent with the Mortal Realm Members. They could wait and counterattack at a later date, but they would definitely have to abandon the Eternal Night Continent.

So, next up—

The Mortal Realm Members got busy once again.

They began to select a new Missile Reserve Area. Since it was confirmed that the Mortal Realm’s cruise missiles could be moved, they needed to find a larger area to house them.

The Port was no longer suitable.

The area was too small and too conspicuous.

It was also close to Mortal City and Xiyang City, an area slated for key future development by the Mortal Realm. Every inch of land was precious, so using it to store missiles felt a bit wasteful.

In the end.

The location was chosen behind Nameless Mountain, in the large area next to the Ghost Object Processing Plant. This place was vast and sparsely populated. Basically, no Mortal Realm Members ever came near it; only those responsible for processing Ghost Objects would come here on a typical day.

Placing them here was perfect.

"Hoo..."

Chen Fan let out a long breath and rubbed his hands together. He set aside the matter of laying Sky Rails for now, standing on the Flying Ship and looking down at the vast, empty area below.

He looked at the Celestial Pillar structure on the Eternal Night Lord Panel and confirmed its construction.

Soon—

A phantom image of a Celestial Pillar, composed of white lines, quickly appeared. As a large amount of Ghost Stone Liquid gushed out from a nearby Copper Pipe, the image rapidly solidified.

It landed steadily on the ground.

One Max Level Celestial Pillar was complete.

One, two, three... the Celestial Pillars were put into place one after another.

The Mortal Realm Members had been busy for half a day, and one of their tasks was marking points.

They had used a crimson liquid to draw large circles on the ground.

All Chen Fan had to do was build the Celestial Pillars inside these circles.

Something like this.

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That’s right.

The sole purpose of the circles was to ensure the constructed Celestial Pillars would be arranged in an extremely neat formation, even if it added some extra work.

But...

When it came to constructing buildings, Chen Fan had a tiny little bit of an obsessive-compulsive tendency.

For example, the 200 altars inside Nameless Mountain responsible for supplying the Jiangbei Defense Line with Holy Water were also arranged in this same, perfectly neat fashion.

If, on the New Continent, having the Logistics Pavilion measure and mark points was for the sake of conserving the amount of Ghost Fire and maximizing its effective range...

...then having the Logistics Pavilion mark points now was purely due to his personal desires acting up.

Gradually.

The setting sun appeared on the horizon. Chen Fan had been busy all day, and the sky gradually darkened as the Eternal Night was about to descend.

"..."

Chen Fan stood on the Flying Ship Deck, gazing down at the 2,000 perfectly arranged Max Level Celestial Pillars in the area below. With a somewhat dazed expression, he murmured.

"A work of art... a perfect work of art..."

The two thousand Celestial Pillars were arranged with extreme neatness, and on the ground, Earth Gold Lines were laid out, distributed tidily between each pillar.

Arranged at right angles.

There wasn’t a single curve or casually laid line.

It was like how some people insist on perfectly horizontal and vertical plumbing and wiring when renovating a house. Although this method consumed a bit more Earth Gold, the aesthetic result was absolute.

He called it.

"Visual Aesthetic Beauty."

Of course.

The Earth Gold Lines could have been buried underground, which would have been safer and more concealed, but no one came near this place on a normal day, and the Celestial Pillars didn’t require human maintenance.

Two thousand Celestial Pillars stood tall here.

In the darkening twilight, the Earth Gold Lines, shimmering with azure and fish-belly white light, were distributed among them in a uniform, orderly pattern.

Like Van Gogh’s Starry Night, it was captivating, impossible to look away from.

"I’m done for."

Standing on the Flying Ship Deck and looking at this Celestial Pillar Cluster in the twilight, he suddenly realized something: he might not be able to bring himself to use the Celestial Pillars here.

These two thousand Celestial Pillars had cost him 900 million Ghost Stones.

In one year, after the end of next year’s rainy season, they would be fully charged.

It’s just that...

If he were to use a single Celestial Pillar, the perfect arrangement here would be ruined.

The aesthetic would be shattered in an instant.

"Domain Lord."

Zhou Mo’s voice came through the Sound Transmission Talisman: "Should I have the Battle Pavilion members move all the Celestial Pillars from near the Port over to the area behind Nameless Mountain?"

"We can also have them get skilled at transporting the Celestial Pillars. That way, they’ll be faster and more coordinated when moving them in the future."