The transition from drowsy to wide awake was instantaneous.
It was late into the night. Although Jiang Yaqing was also busy with her own matters and quite exhausted, she was stubbornly holding on through sheer force of will.
If she could have a soft bed, she might have instantly fallen asleep.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yu had given her a jolt.
He had woken her up completely.
"What did you just ask me for?" Jiang Yaqing placed her small hand by her ear, turned to the side, and with a hint of suspicion in her eyes, she asked again, "I didn't quite catch that. Could you please repeat it?"
"Equipment blueprints. Do you have any?"
Chen Yu was not one to mince words; he repeated his request without hesitation.
"Are you trying to die!" Almost instantly, Jiang Yaqing sprang up as if she had eaten three meals of explosives, shouting curses at the camera. "Chen Yu, I truly didn't expect you to dare repeat that. Equipment blueprints, you actually want equipment blueprints from me? Are you out of your mind?"
They had been in the dungeon for so long, and each had carved out their own niche.
No one was a greenhorn anymore.
Perhaps in the early days of the dungeon, everyone was unaware of the value of equipment blueprints, and some might even have sold them. But now, who would sell equipment blueprints?
Equipment blueprints were the medium for mass-producing equipment.
They were like arms dealers!
Moreover, in all her time in the dungeon, Jiang Yaqing had never seen an equipment blueprint, only design schematics.
"Didn't you ask me to repeat it?" Chen Yu scratched his head and said, "If you don't have any, why are you resorting to personal attacks?"
"Get lost, I don't have any!"
Jiang Yaqing glared and spat out angrily.
"Stop coming to me to mess around."
In Jiang Yaqing's eyes, Chen Yu was deliberately toying with her. Who in the entire dungeon had equipment blueprints? Even if she had them, she wouldn't give them to Chen Yu. She also needed to develop and had her own faction.
Giving all good resources to Chen Yu? Was she his servant or a sycophant?
"If you don't have equipment blueprints, you must have equipment design schematics, right?" Chen Yu grinned and asked, "Do you have any design schematics for bows and arrows, spears, or shields?"
The legion's troop types needed to be diversified. Chen Yu's forces were all sword-based, making the overall legion too one-dimensional.
He needed to enrich his troop types.
The most direct for him were archers and spearmen. Archers could provide ranged physical attacks, while spearmen and shieldbearers working together could better defend against cavalry charges.
He did want to establish a cavalry legion, but the mounts he desired were not horses.
Too inferior!
The dungeon did have livestock and animals similar to the outside world, but the horses in the dungeon were mostly used for transporting supplies and were not suitable as mounts.
Consider this: a Black Iron realm cultivator could already achieve 100 meters in 5 seconds.
A horse was slower than a bare-footed runner.
To establish a cavalry legion, one would need to scout for more elite mounts. Chen Yu, so far, had not found any suitable ones.
Jiang Yaqing, her face clouded with annoyance, suddenly frowned upon hearing Chen Yu's request.
"Are you going to war?"
"Not really. Didn't I tell you before that I acquired another city?" Chen Yu cleared his throat lightly and then explained the situation with his Fengqi City to Jiang Yaqing.
Jiang Yaqing gently propped up her chin, narrowing her eyes.
"I didn't expect your city to have so many problems. Now that you have two cities, and your territories are not contiguous, isn't your resource allocation and personnel deployment very troublesome?"
"It's a bit troublesome, yes," Chen Yu replied softly.
Hurricane City was located on the northwest side of the Tatu Kingdom, bordering the Batu Federation, a border region of the kingdom. The Free Town's geographical location was in the southern part of the Tatu Kingdom's territory. The distance between the two cities was indeed considerable.
Chen Yu had proposed to emulate other cities in the Tatu Kingdom and establish spatial jump stations.
The problem was quite troublesome.
To construct a cross-city jump station like the one in the Tatu Kingdom, one would need at least a fifth-tier or higher space-elemental mage, and also spatial crystals.
Compared to other survivors, Chen Yu was quite knowledgeable, but he had never even seen one.
Reluctantly, the plan was shelved.
Furthermore, the little demon had also stated that spatial jump stations could not facilitate long-distance, large-scale resource transportation. Even if they were built, they would be ineffective for transporting resources.
While the wristband did allow for instant buying and selling.
The little demon had clearly informed Chen Yu that before they arrived in the dungeon, such a phenomenon did not exist within the dungeon. It was highly likely a survival bonus provided by the God Lord to outsiders, but such a bonus could not be sustained for long, even a god could not maintain it indefinitely.
According to her speculation, when the God Lord invited Chen Yu and other outsiders to the dungeon, he must have left some sort of prophecy.
Once the magical energy of the prophecy was depleted, everything would return to its original state.
Chen Yu did not fully understand, but he believed the little demon's words and knew he needed to plan for the future. Therefore, what he needed to do was...
"Aren't you considering tunneling through the middle?"
Before Chen Yu could respond, Jiang Yaqing smiled slightly and said softly.
"Establish resource and personnel transit hubs in the central area to radiate outwards. Only then can your territories truly function."
Chen Yu slowly raised his eyebrows, gazing at Jiang Yaqing, who was smiling in the projection.
It was a perfect match.
He was thinking the same thing: establishing transit hubs. To ensure the smooth operation of the transit hubs, it was necessary to connect the territories, to break through the connection between territories.
"Sister Yaqing is right, that's why I contacted you for some design schematics."
"None!" The moment before she was smiling, Jiang Yaqing's face suddenly tensed. "I don't have enough for myself, and you're asking me for design schematics. Chen Yu, you're someone who has two cities. Millions of people work their lives for you. Your resources are far greater than what my small clan has plundered. Why do you always think about leeching off me?"
"Really none?"
"I genuinely don't have any design schematics. If I had them, I would have already made them for my subordinates. If you need other resources, perhaps I can help you, but don't expect any of this kind of resource." Jiang Yaqing shook her head. Chen Yu's eyes suddenly darted around. "I also need scarce resources, such as attribute fruits or rare heavenly treasures..."
"Get lost!"
Perhaps genuinely angered, Jiang Yaqing directly hung up the video call. Chen Yu shrugged with a wry expression, his gaze fixed on Jiang Yaqing's chat window.
Not simple!
Normally, outsiders in the dungeon would mention direct gifting when talking about resource transportation. However, Jiang Yaqing's consideration went beyond that scope, mentioning the establishment of resource transit hubs. From this, it could be seen that she also knew that convenient methods like resource gifting would not exist in the future.
"A year of training in the dungeon has truly changed her quite a bit."
From the initial feisty little princess to a thoughtful, mature, and trustworthy individual now, Chen Yu had witnessed every stage of Jiang Yaqing's transformation.
Comparing her now to when she first entered the dungeon, it could truly be described as a complete metamorphosis.
Ding—
Suddenly, a crisp notification sound came from the wristband, and then a line of text appeared on Jiang Yaqing's dialogue box before Chen Yu's eyes.
"If you need customized equipment, perhaps you can contact Yu Po."
"He has a batch of goblin craftsmen."