After taking a few more deep breaths, his emotions started to stabilize . His mood and mental state became much calmer and more at ease . Much of the worry, apprehension, and restlessness in his heart dissipated . He regained his normal equilibrium . He returned to his normal self .

Yeah, he possessed more than a hundred of those nuclear bombs . Why be afraid of other powers taking away what was his? Why be afraid of survivors posing a threat to him? The mania, insanity, and even the mental responses that he had previously displayed actually stemmed from the nervousness that he felt regarding the unclear owners.h.i.+p rights of the items that he possessed .  After all, can you maintain your calmness when you are faced with thousands of tons of gold, innumerable high technology, everything that a planet has to offer…?

One could immediately go crazy from such a thing . However, Chen Jin did not lose his nature . This meant that his heart had become strong enough to withstand sudden emotional turmoils . Now, he had once again stepped out from the mania brought on by the ego trip and recovered his normal equilibrium . This meant that he had ascended to the next level in the psychological realm .

There would not be anything else that could provoke his emotions in such an intense manner ever again .

Then again, could that really be true?

The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) continued to survey the lands . A portion of the formations headed south via the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Mamba Continent on the opposite side of the sea . However, after less than half a day, the 12 UAV formations that were heading south retreated and did a U-turn, leaving the mainland of Black Mamba Continent .

There was no need to penetrate further inland . It was all desert . The mainland of the Black Mamba Continent, an area estimated to be 30,000,000 square kilometers, was almost entirely covered by deserts . It was similar to the surface of Mars . In this kind of environment, even if there were a few black survivors remaining, they were not enough to fear . There was no need to worry about them at all . It was just like finding a few wild beasts that did not const.i.tute any significant threat .

Before the Destructive War erupted, the development of the Black Mamba Mainland was extremely backward . Huge portions of the land were still in the primeval tribal state . Its technological standard was outdated by at least a century in comparison to the more developed countries . It was as if there were two different civilizations on this planet . There was absolutely no need for further exploration .

On the contrary, it was in the Red Empire on the eastern side of the Europa continent where the UAV formations reaped huge rewards . Red Empire, with a territory that stretched beyond 20,000,000 square kilometers, could not be easily destroyed with just a few hundred nuclear bombs . Moreover, the Red Empire had a strong military . The military's technology was highly developed . Even with appropriate preparations, the nuclear bombs that had landed on the grounds of the Empire was only about 300 . All the rest were successfully intercepted .

Only about 70% of a city with a population in the millions was destroyed . All the other cities were basically untouched… Amongst which were many heavy industrial cities . They were all left in their original states .

There were gains to be reaped daily:

He found a steel-making city, a s.h.i.+pyard, an aviation city, a tank manufacturing plant, a city of missiles, an oil industrial city, a city of motors that could be used to manufacture the motors of various airplanes, and a nuclear manufacturing plant that had a factory with a high precision processing unit that could be used to create nuclear bombs of great power . He also found a semiconductor industrial city that used silicon as its primary material . The CPU chips that it manufactured used an advanced five-nanometer processing technology . There were also particle factories and storage particle factories inside the city .

It could be said that within the Red Empire's environment, Chen Jin was able to find a ready-made and complete industrial system . But, it did not possess significant practical value . It was outdated . The industrial systems of the Red Empire were too outdated . It was lagging behind Omi country by at least 50 years . They had not worked out how to use graphene as a semiconductor . There was no large-scale use of artificial intelligence . In addition, the manufacturing equipment in the factories still primarily employed the traditional method of work . There were virtually no capsule factories, no smart a.s.sembly lines, much less a smart industrial core… It was lagging behind the Omi industries by far more than one era .

There were two reasons for this: One was how Omi's high technology was so tightly sealed off . Two was due to Red Empire's very own system . Once the smart a.s.sembly lines and artificial intelligence had been employed on a large scale level, productivity would be raised . But, the unemployment rate would increase across the nation . The burden on its welfare system would increase and the power of the regime would no longer be as stable .

“Overall, Red Empire's level of technology is ahead of Earth's Merica by about 10 to 20 years . In order to resist the technological advantage of Omi, it had an extremely well-developed military industry . There were always huge forces of the military on standby . The stability of the ruling regime was only average, so it had to show its might from time to time in order to hide the fragility of its core . ”

Faced with a technological gap that was more than 50 generations apart, it would pay to have stronger nuclear forces .  Hence, even though he found an entire industrial system in the Red Empire, Chen Jin was not too perturbed . After all, he had way more advanced technology on his hands .

However, he still had to think of a way to transport the high precision equipment that was used to manufacture nuclear weapons back to the Base of Operations . The Base required the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons . This would be more useful than having a troop of a million robots .

The semiconductor industry was also worth considering . He could bring it back to the Base for Alice to a.n.a.lyze and research on it . In addition, the UAV formations had netted huge gains in an area adjacent to a s.p.a.ce-launching site within the south-central area of the Red Empire .

He also found a city of satellites . There was not only a satellite manufacturing plant within the city, but there was also a rocket manufacturing plant . In the satellite manufacturing plant, the robots found more than 80 finished satellites . Of the 80 satellites, there were those used for communication, optics, radars, positioning, etc . In the rocket manufacturing plant, the robots found more than 20 s.p.a.ce rockets of various sizes .

The rewards listed above were about all that the UAV formations could find after spending more than a week surveying the environment of the Red Empire . The gains that were reaped were rather abundant . At the very least, it was equivalent to finding 10 or so Moleiduo Republics . But, were there only these gains to be found in the Red Empire that had a territory of more than 20,000,000 square kilometers?

All of the outdated stuff . Was there no “darlings” that could be shown to others that might elicit a sparkle in their eyes?

That might not be the case .

Land of Fire . It was an island in the Arctic Circle with an area of only 10,000 square kilometers . There was an active volcano on the island and countless hot springs . It was one of the favorite places where the upper echelons of the Red Empire went to for recuperation and vacation . Moreover, there was a huge military base on this island . It was hidden on an iceberg that was millions of years old . As such, it was filled with mystery and secrecy .

The “Permanent Number of Truth” that the upper echelons of the Red Empire had ordered to be secretly constructed was stored right there in this military base . It was convenient for one to flee to anytime . The UAV formations were able to find this island because of the phenomenon of the polar day in the Arctic Circle . The Land of Fire was not difficult to locate in the polar day . Moreover, there had been much interesting news and hearsay in the country of Omi about the upper echelons of the Red Empire . The “Permanent Number of Truth” was one of them . Hence there was already a relevant record in Alice's information storage .

Chen Jin sent a UAV formation to survey the Arctic Circle . Soon after they found the Land of Fire, they reaped another huge reward . There was a huge man-made object placed impressively at the entrance of the mysterious military base on the island . It measured 320 meters long, 68 meters wide, and 20 meters in height . It had a rectangular body much like a matchbox and its outside was covered in a large amount of ice that made it glitter like crystals .

He sent Flight No . 11 over and got the robots to get rid of the layer of ice on the surface of the object . Under the rays of sunlight, its dark and swarthy appearance was revealed .

He found a s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p .