Back in the cave, he equipped each robotic dog with a shovel and began setting their routes and excavation programs.
The cave is quite spacious, but mostly filled with rubble and rocks. After setting up the program, Lin Yue gathered all the rubble into the Storage Space, tidying up the area.
As the sounds of clinking and clanking echoed, Lin Yue saw five robotic dogs heading in different directions and striking rocks, quickly yielding stone materials.
Lin Yue went outside to check the remaining six robotic dogs’ battery levels. After ensuring they were fully charged, he used a pickaxe to carve an upward path towards the surface in the pit.
Then, he assigned tasks to the robotic dogs.
Two robotic dogs were designated for security and patrol around the area, while the remaining four were tasked to transport the stones from the cave to the surface.
Equipped with mechanical arms, they could easily accomplish the task without too much effort.
Setting these programs on the control panel was relatively straightforward, and it felt far superior to the robotic dogs on Earth.
Lin Yue even thought that this technology seemed a bit ahead of its time.
Very soon, as four robotic dogs entered the cave, they used their mechanical arms to transport blocks of stone out. Then they ascended the path Lin Yue had carved earlier, placing the stones neatly together on the surface. Finally, they returned by their original path to continue the next round of work.
Meanwhile, the remaining two robotic dogs were dutifully carrying out their security patrol.
Alright, it looks like there’s no problem now.
Five excavating, four transporting, two on security—this formation is quite perfect.
If more robotic dogs can be produced in the future, it could greatly increase efficiency.
Lin Yue watched the robotic dogs a while longer, then whistled, prompting Bai to emerge swiftly from the cool cave.
"Gawu." Bai knew it was time to get to official business.
"Earlier, there was no clear view of what’s over there from the sky. Let’s fly closer for a better look."
In the air, while the view was good, at night all appeared white, which was glaring to view during the day and even difficult to look directly at.
Moreover, that white area seemed rather large.
"Gawu." Bai gazed eastward, signaling for Lin Yue to mount.
In that direction, it wasn’t just what Lin Yue had mentioned.
Its sensitive sense of smell had already detected familiar scents wafting from there.
As the dragon flew high again, it soon began to spiral down, landing beside a tall forest.
Lin Yue dismounted from Bai’s back and lowered the high-powered sniper scope in his hand.
From this vantage point, it was still unclear what the glaring white area was, but the hundreds of buildings like scattered stars indicated to him that it was a vast Refugee Village formed by overlapping shelters!
Not only that, surrounding the buildings were many people wielding shining metal objects, excavating the white, raised areas that appeared like rocks.
Below them was a massive pit, at least a hundred meters deep and four to five hundred meters in diameter!
Along the pit’s edge was a wall at least four to five meters high.
What he previously viewed as all white was actually the huge "mountaintop" extending from the giant pit upwards to the surface, where even more people continuously chipped away at the "mountain path."
If that’s the case, it would barely matter.
At most, it could be considered that these people are mining in what seems like a quarry.
But on this quarry stood various sizes of towers, towering high atop those walls, and from those shack-like buildings emerged creatures wielding various weapons and covered in green scales, undoubtedly Lizardmen.,
Their numbers considerably exceeded that of the humans over there!
So those mining must be the beggars...
Lin Yue, just watching from above for a brief moment, could confirm that the combined enemies numbered at least two to three thousand!
Whoa, did I stumble upon their nest?
But what exactly are they extracting? White... could it be salt?
What other minerals are white? It surely can’t be marble.
Lin Yue pondered extensively.
Is salt worthy of such large-scale extraction? Likewise, does marble warrant so many people mining it? Moreover, do Lizardmen even need these two resources?
Lin Yue contemplated while opening the system panel, looking at the map of that area, which still only showed a large pit.
He estimated the straight-line distance from his quarry was about ten kilometers.
It’s not far; indeed if they were to create major activity there, it would quickly be noticed.
Lin Yue promptly realized the severity of the situation.
This is a rather large threat!
If by chance this combined army of two to three thousand Lizardmen and beggars were to discover his quarry and the road leading to the Shelter...,
He had previously assumed most Lizardmen and beggars likely didn’t know where his Shelter was, but now this large-scale force merely a few dozen kilometers away confirms that assumption.
If they were aware his Shelter was just tens of kilometers away, their sheer numbers could easily overwhelm him.
So, what should be done with this menace?
Lin Yue immediately thought of a method.
Indeed, he currently possessed a means to obliterate everything within instantly and utterly.
Intercontinental missile launcher vehicles.
That thing can strike targets over 8000 kilometers away, flying at hypersonic speeds, and conduct precise strikes on any object within the area.
Additionally, the warhead is a conventional large-scale destructive missile, equipped with a solid propulsion unit, two-stage or multi-stage booster rockets, an inertial guidance system. Unless the enemy could run ten kilometers in a second, they’d be wiped by it!
But there are drawbacks too.
Not even considering the various problems that explosions entail, using it against mere thousands feels like applying a missile to a mosquito...
You might say those two to three thousand are many, yet they aren’t that many; say they are few, but seeing all those Lizardmen and beggars bustling around, it’s quite daunting.
Another weapon under his sleeve is the Katyusha rocket, with an effective range of 8.5 kilometers. Each rocket has a kill radius of about thirty meters, about 2800 square meters. If 16 rockets were launched, the bombardment area would be roughly 724,000 square meters.
From his naked-eye observation, the quarry’s diameter was likely around four to five hundred meters.
It seems, just right.
Although it’s a one-time use, thinking about it, using one Katyusha rocket launcher vehicle to eliminate two to three thousand Lizardmen and beggars is definitely worth it!