Doomsday: I Build a Space Fleet

Chapter 67 Preparing for Negotiation

Platinum, in a horse stance, slowly lowered Lorraine down.

Suddenly, Platinum loosened his grip, a gunshot rang out, and then Lorraine's voice came from inside the warehouse.

"Are you alright?"

"It's alright, you've landed successfully. Wait a moment while I weld open the lock on the inside door."

Lorraine muttered to himself as he cut the door lock with a spray gun.

"I don't know how this guy got in. He just started circling around my feet after hearing the sound of the window breaking."

When the warehouse door opened, Platinum entered and saw a zombie whose face was completely disfigured.

"Commander, next time you enter an unknown, enclosed space, could you please do a more thorough check?"

Platinum began to scold Lorraine when he saw that she was alright.

"I promise this is the last time."

"snort."

Platinum walked past Lorraine, looked at the boxes in the warehouse, and touched them.

"Commander, something's wrong with the goods in this warehouse."

"What's wrong?"

Lorraine pretended to be clueless and asked with a curious expression.

"This box looks a bit like a box containing equipment."

Platinum tapped the box with his finger, producing a dull thud.

"Take a look here and see if there are any markings. When I came down just now, I thought there was a forklift behind me."

Lorraine headed straight for the depths of the warehouse.

"This is a fishing sonar system. Commander?"

"Coming right up."

Lorraine drove a forklift out from deep within the warehouse.

"Isn't this great? It fills the gap in our supply chain perfectly."

Lorraine cheerfully picked up the box and drove it to the truck.

"This has very limited ability to detect submarines."

Platinum was somewhat worried about the sonar's ability to detect potential threats.

"Platinum, we're in the apocalypse, where would we get submarines? In the current situation, the zombie fish swarm poses a greater threat to us."

Lorraine said with a hint of helplessness.

"Too talkative."

Platinum was somewhat embarrassed and angry.

"Alright, alright, I was being nosy. I'll take this box back to the ship first."

During the conversation, Lorraine had already loaded the box containing the sonar equipment into the truck.

He then climbed onto the truck and drove back to the dock.

On the other side, Ouyang Nian and her team discovered a large quantity of canned goods in the warehouse to the west.

"Now we'll have even more food, but there's just too much in this warehouse."

The warehouses at this dock are much larger than those at the industrial zone docks, and the cans here are of better quality and have a longer shelf life.

"Forget it, let Cleveland decide how much to move."

Ouyang Nian closed the door and walked towards the next warehouse.

"Why is this still canned food?"

As soon as Ouyang Nian entered the warehouse, he saw it filled with round, dusty cans.

"Let me see what this is, a shelf-life bread? 15-year shelf life! Goodbye!"

Ouyang Nian put the can of food back in its place, turned around and ran away. She had tasted similar canned food before, and that stuff had a sour and astringent taste.

They also found quite a few good things at Xuan Tie's place.

A warehouse full of robotic pet dogs, a dozen servers, numerous cameras, and an entire warehouse full of iron ore.

Lorraine returned to the vicinity of the flagship's docking location and glanced at the inventory list.

"There's all sorts of mess here."

Lorraine made a complaint, but fortunately there were quite a few things that could be used.

"By the way, Cleveland, send a Rainbow One drone back to the shipyard from time to time to check on things."

【receive. 】

"It would be best to let them figure out the pattern before suddenly changing the time."

[Instructions confirmed. I must say, even your tactical mindset is dirty.]

"What do you mean by 'heart'? I just want to rule out potential dangers. This sonar equipment should be installed in a dry dock, right?"

【Yes. 】

"That settles it then. It's always good to be cautious."

After saying that, Lorraine returned to the warehouse in the south.

Before Lorraine had even come to a complete stop, he saw Platinum beckon him over.

"You're back just in time; there's a whole bunch of exercise equipment here."

'What's there to be happy about?'

Lorraine was a little confused when she saw Platinum's excited expression.

As soon as Lorraine entered the warehouse, she understood why Platinum was so excited.

These sports equipment include a range of lethal weapons such as air pistols, air rifles, and compound bows.

"In a sense, this is an arsenal, or rather, a microweapons arsenal."

"And the ammunition for these things is relatively easy to make."

Platinum's eyes shone brightly.

"Take a few of each type of weapon."

Lorraine felt that having several different types of weapons in the apocalypse was not a bad thing.

Lorraine then helped Platinum place and secure the six air rifles, air pistols, and three composite bows into the shipping container.

"Are the arrows for your big bow difficult to make?"

"Indeed, it requires good stability, not too heavy, high flight speed, and good armor-piercing performance."

"Moreover, it is about the same size as a short spear, and its main function is deterrence, with an extremely high lethality."

Time passed slowly, and the sun moved from the east to the south.

Thanks to the efforts of the three men and six dogs, 80% of the area has been explored.

[Commander, Rainbow One has detected personnel activity inside the shipyard, estimated to be around 200 people.]

"There really is!"

Lorraine was not surprised by the result, but the number was a bit small.

"Cleveland, you decide the time for reconnaissance. Keep looking for them. I don't believe a large shipyard has only this many people left."

[Command received, changing reconnaissance frequency.]

"Also, notify all teams to stop the search and help load the food onto the trucks."

[Received, instruction has been issued.]

"Platinum, let's go back and equip the air rifle and composite bow."

Lorraine planned to use a combination of coercion and enticement to bring these people under his command.

"understood."

In less than an hour, two trucks fully loaded with supplies returned to the cargo ship.

After the cargo ship was loaded, Lorraine and the others returned to the flagship.

"Cleveland, full speed ahead back to the shipyard."

[Received, anchor being pulled. Estimated arrival at destination in 35 minutes.]

When was the last time we conducted reconnaissance?

The reconnaissance drone is expected to return in 8 minutes.

"receive."

Before long, the flagship left the port and began its return journey at full speed.

Lorraine took this opportunity to begin planning the action.

"A shipyard of this size should have no fewer than 1 employees, and with the surrounding factories, the number of survivors should be at least 500."

"They must have had an underground camp, but I don't know how they survived."

"It should be high-yield, easy-to-grow grain crops like potatoes and corn."

A somewhat weak female voice came from behind, and Bai Zhi pushed Ms. Lin Shu into the driver's seat.

"Ouyang Nian! Don't you know your sister needs to rest right now!"

Lorraine glared at Ouyang Nian, then looked at Lin Shu.

"However, our drones did not detect any obvious signs of farming in the surrounding area."