Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 550 - 269: Oasis Battleship Power, Oil War (Part 2)

Those who can work in such an environment are definitely not ordinary humans; at least they have to be late-stage enhanced beings.

Having a Physique four to five times that of an average person is necessary to adapt to the high-intensity work under such harsh conditions.

For Lin Feng, though this high-temperature environment is suffocating, it’s not unbearable as long as he continuously obtains water sources to regulate the balance within his body.

Once he adapted to the high-temperature environment where heat waves surged, Lin Feng leaned out from beside Father Su An to see the appearance at the bottom layer of the battleship.

This is the boiler room of the battleship, also where the furnace providing the battleship’s propulsion is located.

In a massive space about six meters high, twenty meters wide, and forty meters long, there are three giant power furnaces, currently emitting a low growling sound.

Slowly rotating bearings, two of which are connected to the front, and the remaining one meshes with the nearby gears to transmit power to the giant steel wheels below.

Thus, enabling the battleship to move forward.

As for the two leading forward, they respectively deliver power to the front giant wheels and the giant track bottom wheels located beneath the battleship’s midsection.

The three giant engines respectively power the systems of the three parts of the battleship, equivalent to a three-drive system.

This distributed power structure has a considerably robust fault tolerance so that even if one section is destroyed, it won’t directly affect the battleship’s advancement in a short time.

Next to the three engines are the cooling water circulation channels that cool the system down.

The steam pervading the top of the lower layer also floats out from within them.

But this is not Father Su An’s forging ground, as Lin Feng astonishingly discovered that under water cooling circulation, the temperature of the three giant engines surprisingly only reached a few hundred degrees.

To melt and recast Fine Steel Wolf Fang, temperatures above two thousand degrees are required.

Nonetheless, Lin Feng still noted the appearance of these giant engines, while also browsing the introduction plaques pinned to the walls, which detailed the internal structure of the giant engines, facilitating later maintenance and repair.

Father Su An led Lin Feng through the corridor and introduced:

"These are neither oil engines nor diesel engines. After all, fuels like those from the old era have now become extremely precious, and only in the King’s Alliance near the equator is there a stable, large supply."

"The Church also has oil production bases, but unfortunately, they are located precisely at the border between the Holy Spring Sect and the Northern Giant Enterprise Alliance, where fierce battles over these fossil resources break out continually."

"After this affair is over, you can go to the Holy City Diocese ahead, where you might encounter this matter."

"The Diocese will also issue bounties in collaboration with the Hunting Wilderness Guild, inviting Tier Two Hunter Squads to cooperate with the Knight Order and other subordinate forces, engaging in battles with the Giant Enterprise Alliance to seize several key oil fields."

"Although daily energy consumption can be replaced by electricity, oil is indeed the lifeblood of industry. Refined fuel oil is merely a byproduct, with the real utility being processed into various petroleum products, such as plastics, and weapons and equipment."

Lin Feng nodded. Even in this Wasteland Era, the significance of oil to civilization is no less than that of water sources.

The latter represents survival issues, while the former determines the level of development of a power or civilization.

Oil is the lifeblood of industry, and industry is the cornerstone of civilization’s leap.

Without a massive and complete industrial system, it would not be possible to build the gigantic battleship in front of Lin Feng or sustain so many human survivors.

On Old Earth of the old era, the struggle for oil almost ran through the entire point of conflict in modern society, with most wars sparked because of it.

Now, in the Wasteland Era, around the top-tier forces, this contradiction still persists.

Lin Feng vaguely remembered that the main oil-producing regions on Old Earth were near the Middle East, at the junction of West Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Though water was scarce, with deserts stretching everywhere, thanks to the mass extinction of creatures hundreds of millions of years ago, a vast amount of biomass was compressed within the crust by high temperature and high-pressure environments over thousands of years, forming the world’s richest oil mines.

A bore into the ground would directly spew oil, not even needing a nodding donkey for extraction.

The Holy Spring Sect’s dominion covers the 30 to 40-degree north latitude area, with the King’s Alliance region south at 30 to 20-degree north latitude.

Although it exactly matches the main Middle East oil-producing region, the environment there is extremely harsh, with temperatures reportedly at 40 to 50 degrees year-round according to the Leader of the Salvation Army Bai Ye, and Zong Shiyue.

Because it is near the direct solar point of the Scorching Sun, even areas far from the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area receive radiation energy comparable to the environment of Oasis Town today.

Therefore, although the King’s Alliance claims to house hundreds of Tier Three Kings, throughout the dark period of the Old Calendar, it always lay on the edge of the safe zone in the wastelands.

Just like Oasis Town now.

Treated as a place of exile, many criminals and failed coup leaders would be driven here.

Along with some fleeing or defecting personnel forces, gradually, it became the King’s Alliance of today.

Though the environment is extremely harsh there, the countless shallow oil fields in the barren deserts allow for massive oil extraction.

Therefore, the King’s Alliance has long exchanged oil for water with the Holy Spring Sect in trade between oil and water, acquiring this necessity for survival.