Chapter 654: Chapter 449 Gordon’s Thoughts
After realizing this, Ye Liuyun immediately became excited, after all, if he bought a ship outright, he wouldn’t need to use supplies to offset the cost like when purchasing Platform boat tickets.
Having resolved to buy a ship, Ye Liuyun hurriedly took his leave to look for Yara, since although he had some channels in Kyoto, they were definitely not as extensive as Yara’s.
Besides, although most people were willing to board the Imperial Court-constructed Platforms, there was still a group of people who did not want to live under the Imperial Court’s control, so Dong Tianyu’s suggestion was not without competitors.
Moreover, ships over ten thousand tonnes were limited in number even before the catastrophe, and although the Mechanoid disaster had not ended, no one knew when the flood prophesied would occur, so the sooner preparations were made, the better.
From Ye Liuyun’s expression at the moment, one could discern the thoughts inside his heart, and so Dong Tianyu did not keep him any longer. After a few pleasantries, they saw him to the outside of the door.
The mechanical creatures that emerged in this disaster did not seem like a catastrophe for China, but more like a carnival.
The mechanical creatures that appeared during the disaster might pose a fatal danger to the common folk, but for Martial Artists who had reached the Inner Breath Realm, they could match them in strength in one-on-one combat.
Despite the mechanical creatures appearing to possess strong technology, those that came from the portal basically lacked long-range attack methods. Their combat style was essentially close-ranged and hand-to-hand.
Such enemies were among the easiest to handle for humans.
Hunting Teams usually set out in groups of more than ten, and Mechanoids mostly lacked a hive mind, so the battles were usually many against few. In the vast majority of these encounters, the human side overwhelmingly outnumbered the Mechanoids.
As the Hunting Teams dismantled Mechanoids, they obtained more and more electronic components, and many electronic devices damaged by the electromagnetic pulses began to be repaired one after another.
At this time, China was like the pre-disaster Babayaga, though lacking the capability to produce new parts, they possessed the technology to refurbish old ones. So, as long as sufficient old parts were found, China’s technicians could restart machinery originally disabled by the electromagnetic pulses.
After acquiring enough electronic components, the first thing Kyoto repaired was the power supply equipment. With the nearby power plants back in operation, Kyoto’s recovery pace was about to reach unprecedented speeds.
But just as everyone was rubbing their hands in eagerness to make a grand effort, the Mechanoids that had come through the portal to Blue Star suddenly fell silent and hid behind the portal without stepping foot on Blue Star again.
The appearance of this situation left everyone somewhat at a loss, as they were all prepared to fight a major battle, but the target started to withdraw and no longer appeared, leaving those ready for action somewhat frustrated and upset.
Had it not been for multiple tests indicating that getting close to the portal could cause sudden cardiac arrest, perhaps many individuals would have dared to cross the portal in pursuit of hunting down those Mechanoids.
Although Mechanoids no longer exited from the portal, many Hunting Teams preferred to camp near the portal rather than return to the city and wait.
Perhaps the Mechanoids possessed an utterly calm judgment of the situation, so until the portal disappeared, not a single one ventured through the portal to Blue Star again.
Everyone felt some disappointment about this anticlimactic disaster because, unlike other disasters, the electronic components salvaged from the Mechanoids’ corpses were genuinely beneficial for China.
Dong Tianyu heard about this more than a month later from Gordon.
When Ye Liuyun revealed his plans to Yara, he learned that Yara had already obtained the qualifications to board an aircraft carrier, so compared to Dong Tianyu’s suggested ten-thousand-ton cruise ship, he felt the aircraft carrier was safer during the flood.
However, he did not refuse Ye Liuyun’s request and, upon understanding his intentions, actively helped Ye Liuyun search for a suitable ship.
Still, ships over ten thousand tonnes were not easy to find. Although such ships were basically neglected after the disaster, they quickly became scarce resources once rumors started circulating, and they all had owners.
At this time, finding a suitable target was also very troublesome. Unlike smaller ships, these large vessels required various equipment to start, and after the electromagnetic pulse struck, all large ships were spared no mercy, becoming nothing but seafaring coffins.
The ship Ye Liuyun wanted to purchase definitely couldn’t be one of these seafaring coffins; it had to be a vessel capable of normal navigation at the very least.
After Yara searched hard for a long time, it wasn’t just the repaired giant vessels that were hard to find -- even the unrepaired seafaring coffins had been snapped up.
As Yara came up empty-handed, Ye Liuyun had no choice but to start casting a wide net, visiting everyone he knew.
Ye Liuyun, who had expected to come up empty, unexpectedly found a suitable target at Gordon’s.
According to the information provided by Gordon, that large ship was not only a seafaring coffin but also a vessel that, due to not leaving the inland in time after the last flood, ended up being beached directly on land.
