Chapter 436.2: BIG IS JUSTICE

She gritted her teeth, turned back with a cold face, and her eyes narrowed like crescent moons. "Are you underestimating me?"

Li Changkong laughed helplessly. "I wouldn’t dare!"

Li Shuyue spoke flatly, "Please arrange a hotel for me... Please pick the best hotel here."

"Okay!" Li Changkong immediately took the lead, thinking it was too late to build one immediately. He could only speak brazenly, "I'll contact them right away!"

The most famous hotel in the New Alliance had to be Highway Town Hotel.

However, the reason it was famous was not because the inn itself was comfortable, but because of its liveliness.

Since traveling merchants from all over often stayed there, news there was the freshest. Sometimes even things the administrator did not know, the bartender at the counter would learn about first...

Just as they stood at the entrance...

Looking at the bustling hall, Li Changkong, who was there for the first time, wore an embarrassed expression and quickly said, "How about... I help you apply for a qualification as a dispatched officer from Ideal Corporation? You can stay in the embassy as a diplomatic officer. Even the cement in those houses were shipped directly from Ideal City."

Li Shuyue shook her head. She carried her suitcase and entered Highway Town Hotel. "That’s not compliant. I’ll just stay here."

Li Changkong’s expression became a little odd.

If compliance was to be brought up... It might be better to discuss how she had even come in the first place.

But then again, the Ideal Corporation and the Highest Council had not explicitly forbidden irrelevant people from hitching rides on military aid flights under business pretenses.

Noticing the situation at the inn’s entrance, Elisa, dressed in a server’s uniform, walked up. Looking nervously at the finely dressed lady before her, she cautiously asked, "Hello, miss. Are you... Are you here to look for someone?"

Although she was carrying a suitcase, Elisa instinctively felt that she didn’t look like a person who would stay in their hotel.

"I’m here to look for a place to stay." Li Shuyue glanced at the old man behind the bar, then at Li Changkong beside her with a frown. "Why are they using child labor here?"

"I’m already an adult," Elisa hurriedly explained.

Li Changkong quickly added, "That I can guarantee you. The New Alliance’s laws and enforcement are absolutely the benchmark across the entire River Valley Province!"

Li Shuyue cast a doubtful look at Elisa, but did not make things difficult for the girl, speaking softly, "Could you help me find a quieter room?"

Elisa obediently nodded. "Yup! And please, let me carry your luggage."

Li Shuyue shook her head. "No need, I’ll carry it myself."

...

In the military camp not far from the airport.

Escaping Mole had been wondering what kind of treasure the administrator was bringing him to see.

Finally arriving at their destination, he stared at a vast warehouse.

Stopping at the entrance, Chu Guang looked toward the guard on duty and nodded.

The iron doors quickly opened.

A pitch-black silhouette came into view, and in an instant, his face lit up with excitement and eager desire.

A TANK!

The towering hull and thick frontal armor perfectly embodied the saying... “Big is good.”

Especially that barrel so wide that half his face could fit inside, paired with the 10mm coaxial machine gun mounted to the side, it was the epitome of mechanical beauty and violent aesthetics.

Not like Tank 1, with its five pairs of wheels and undersized gun, but a real tank in every sense of the word!

Well... The barrel might be a bit too thick and long... It looked absurdly oversized.

As if it had gone from one extreme straight to the other.

Looking at this steel monster before them, Chu Guang’s face showed a fatherly smile.

"Tank 2, manufactured at Factory 81. The chassis was widened based on Tank 1. Long Axe Group’s engineers helped improve the turret, Silver Wing Corporate Group improved the power and transmission system, and the gun is a 155mm smoothbore cannon..."

"155mm?!" Escaping Mole’s eyes bulged as he sucked in a breath that tasted of engine oil.

Chu Guang nodded. "Yes. Don’t you think the bigger the caliber, the better?"

"Good! Absolutely amazing!" Escaping Mole nodded eagerly like a chicken pecking on grains, his eyes sparkling.

He agreed with that statement wholeheartedly!

As expected, the Administrator had great vision, great strategy, great wisdom, and great foresight...

It was far beyond any of his so-called good brothers out there!

Chu Guang smiled and continued while gazing at the tank inside the plant, "So far, we’ve produced 30 Tank 2s. We just unloaded them at the railway station. In addition, there are 5 Type-B models, equipped with imported Model 60 Railguns from Ideal City."

"Although the New Alliance’s First Corps also needs armored units, considering your outstanding performance in the last campaign, I plan to prioritize allocating them to you!"

As for armor thickness, durability, or auxiliary components... Chu Guang did not mention a word.

Those things were unnecessary for the tanks of the New Alliance.

AI fire control?

Auxiliary optics?

Extra capacitors?

What was the point of such gadgets?

His loyal little critters were the most powerful technology! The singularity-grade Morphogenetic Field technology was the greatest under the heavens!

Without fully tapping into the potential of carbon-based lifeforms, how else could he put together 30 tanks?

The entire New Alliance had just over 100,000 people, less than a third were industrial workers, and military spending was already sky-high as a share of total output.

30 tanks a month.

That was comparable to Germany’s output after taking Czechoslovakia.

And the New Alliance’s fusion reactors had only been ignited less than two months ago, with industrial subsidies and quantitative easing in place for under a year.

To let more players use reliable equipment while balancing the New Alliance’s growth, Chu Guang felt he was already doing his utmost.

Escaping Mole, however, clearly wasn’t concerned about armor thickness and such. His interest was completely captured by the railgun.

That was normally only used for coastal defense or naval guns in the real world. He’d never heard of one mounted on a tank.

When the administrator finished, he immediately asked the question closest to his heart. "What does Model 60 mean?"

Caliber?

Was 60mm too small?

Seeing his clueless expression, Chu Guang knew what he was thinking, and chuckled lightly, "60 refers to the muzzle energy of 60 megajoules!"

60 megajoules!

Hearing the number, Mole was instantly shocked.

If he remembered correctly, the Americans’ MK45 127mm naval gun only had a muzzle energy of 10 megajoules...

60 megajoules!

Six times the power of a naval gun?!

The railgun was basically a godly artifact!

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Seeing the little player too stunned to speak, Chu Guang went on. "... Anyway, our New Alliance Army Command positions the Type-B model as a tank destroyer."

"Since it’s expensive, we only made 5, mainly todeal with the Conqueror 10 tank’s heavy spaced armor, as well as the rumored Conqueror 11. To prevent penetration from 100mm guns, we reinforced the frontal armor and turret, though mobility is slightly reduced."

Using captured tank wreckage for testing, the Model 60 Railgun could not only penetrate, but even go clean through weak spots in the armor.

Actual battlefield performance would differ, but Chu Guang trusted both his allies’ technology and the players’ fighting spirit! They would not disappoint him!

Holding back his excitement, Escaping Mole looked at Chu Guang and declared with loyal fervor, "Honorable Administrator, I am ready for battle. Just tell me where the enemies of the New Alliance are, and I’ll drive this straight at them and annihilate them all!"

Excellent.

Such spirit!

Chu Guang nodded in approval. "No rush. The New Alliance Army Command will soon assign you your mission."

After he spoke, his smile faded as he pulled out the holographic computer pen gifted by Pai, tapping it to project a map of Sunset Province in the air.

A red circle was marked in the southern part, 150 kilometers from the Twin Peaks of the Tzobar Mountains.

A red arrow stretched 900 kilometers, pointing from Dawn City.