Jiang Ye gazed at the wall through the window, contemplating a solution.
Once the temperature rose, the ice on the wall would surely melt, leaving the structure soft and pliable.
Therefore, the wall needed to be reinforced, at least to withstand the floodwaters.
In addition to reinforcing the wall, the trench would need to be widened and deepened to defend against the beast tide.
With a plan in place, Jiang Ye bustled out and climbed into the excavator's cockpit.
He manipulated the mechanical arm, excavating the trench.
Previously, digging the trench had been done with shovels, a laborious process. Switching to the excavator, his speed increased by dozens of times, and it was far less strenuous.
Jiang Ye spent the entire morning constructing three new trenches on the outer perimeter.
He also drove the excavator to the crashed spaceship, bringing back a large pile of parts.
Most of the parts were useless. He packed them into sacks and sold them at the trading post.
Jiang Ye only kept two types of items: steel rods and steel plates.
The steel rods were mostly broken, with sharp, pointed ends, resembling iron spears.
Jiang Ye directly plunged the steel rods into the trenches, tips facing upwards.
There were many steel rods, filling the three newly dug trenches, placed twenty centimeters apart, densely packed.
From a distance, it looked like a forest of iron spears!
Any animal that dared to jump in would be instantly impaled, bleeding profusely.
Jiang Ye himself found it quite brutal.
The steel plates were used to reinforce the wall.
Outside the original old wall, Jiang Ye built a new wall, one meter high, embedding a large number of steel plates into its structure, making it airtight.
He tested the new wall with a pickaxe and found it to be exceptionally sturdy.
As long as the beast was not exceptionally large, it should not be able to breach this wall. Floods below one meter would also pose no problem.
With the new wall and new trenches completed, he no longer feared beast tides or floods.
As for the plague, Jiang Ye believed that as long as contaminated water did not flow in, there should be no major issues.
Even if he fell ill, he still had antibiotics.
During lunch, Jiang Ye opened the chat channel.
Cao County Citizen: Stocking up! Thirty thousand Azithromycin capsules! Note: thirty thousand, not three thousand!
Cao County Citizen: Two thousand meat cans, they're selling better and better!
Jiang Ye immediately began shipping.
Large piles of small medicine boxes and meat cans were transferred to Cao County Citizen.
The cost of Azithromycin capsules was 3 yuan, sold to Cao County Citizen at 10 yuan, yielding a profit of 7 yuan per capsule.
Thirty thousand Azithromycin capsules brought in a net profit of 210,000 yuan.
Combined with the profit from the meat cans, it reached one million.
In one go, he made 1.21 million yuan!
Cao County Citizen also sent over his share of the sales, amounting to a substantial thirty thousand.
Jiang Ye's personal assets rapidly expanded to 4,495,600 yuan!
He was just a whisker away from the five million yuan needed to buy a fishing boat.
In the afternoon, Jiang Ye did not go mining but continued to busy himself around the base.
He built another ring of earth walls around the warehouse as a precautionary measure.
If the outer walls of the base were breached by floods, these earth walls outside the warehouse would be the last line of defense to ensure the stored food was not submerged.
Jiang Ye also relocated all the bear meat, packing it into sacks and stacking it on the roof of the base.
The warehouse still contained a lot of frozen fruit. As the weather warmed, it would inevitably rot quickly.
Jiang Ye messaged Cao County Citizen, entrusting her with the sale of most of the fruit.
It was better to exchange it for money than to let it rot in the warehouse.
After all, once winter passed, various crops could be planted again.
Even though it was emergency-processed fruit, it still sold at a high price. Most people on this planet hadn't eaten fruit in dozens of days.
There were very few people on the entire planet like Jiang Ye, who hoarded several warehouses full of fruits and vegetables, more than they could possibly consume.
After completing the fruit sale with Cao County Citizen, Jiang Ye opened Isabel's private message again.
Jiang Ye: Teacher Isabel, I have a question for you. Will the rotorcraft, excavator, and ore transport vehicle be damaged if submerged in water?
Courier Isabel: They will be damaged. And this kind of damage cannot be repaired; they are directly scrapped.
Jiang Ye: Understood, thank you. I plan to buy a fishing boat in a couple of days. Will you still be delivering it?
Courier Isabel: That's right, I deliver all the large items.
Jiang Ye: Alright, see you then!
Jiang Ye drove the excavator south. To the south was a small hill, not very high, only about ten meters, but enough to escape the floods.
He used the excavator to dig an airstrip on the hilltop and parked the excavator and ore transport vehicle next to it.
He then walked back to the base and, using the rotorcraft, landed on the slope.
This way, he wouldn't have to worry about the three large items being scrapped.
These three items together were worth 5.8 million yuan. If they were damaged by water, he would be devastated.
Back at the base, Jiang Ye bought three Kaisi assault rifles and a box of ammunition.
He now had a total of five assault rifles and 15 magazines, capable of unleashing a fierce barrage of firepower.
Although the defenses around the base were impregnable, he still needed to have enough firearms.
If a large one came, he would just blast it.
The only thing that bothered Jiang Ye was that magazines couldn't be bought separately; they only came with the guns.
If magazines could be bought individually, he would definitely buy dozens of them, load them all with bullets, and neatly arrange them on the windowsill. Even if a Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared, he could blast it until it defecated all over the place.
In the evening, Jiang Ye cut open a chilled watermelon and ate it.
Cao County Citizen came to restock again, this time with even more vigor than at noon.
Cao County Citizen: Azithromycin capsules, 38,000, meat cans, 34,000, ship quickly!
It took Jiang Ye half an hour to finish shipping.
With this single shipment, he made a net profit of 1,966,000 yuan!
His personal assets surged dramatically to 6,466,000 yuan.
He was making an absolute fortune!
Jiang Ye opened the public chat channel. As expected, everyone was talking about buying things.
And the tone was quite strange.
Kanoshi: Selling Azithromycin capsules! Only 50 yuan each!
Xiao Lan Lan: Don't believe the person above, they're outrageously expensive. I just bought ten capsules from @Cao County Citizen for only 15 yuan each!
Already Socially Dead: That meat can is too greasy, especially the layer of oil on top. Eating it makes me dizzy. Do you guys know about meat cans? Bought from @Cao County Citizen.
Green Vine Cannon King: Are you stupid, upstairs? Heat the can before eating! Who eats the oil directly! Roast the can on a stove, find a chopstick and stir inside. Stir 108 times, and it's perfect to eat!
High-Quality Transgender: Everyone's been buying from Cao County Citizen these past two days! That guy is making a killing!
Siri: Cao County Citizen seems to be a woman. Only she has medicine and meat cans. She might already be the highest level on the entire planet, perhaps level eight or nine.
Jiang Ye couldn't resist and started typing in the chat.
Jiang Ye: That's terrifying, level eight or nine already! Cao County Citizen must be the richest person globally! The cash king of the colony!
He was just joking around, but as soon as he sent the message, he was tagged.
Cao County Citizen: @Jiang Ye, don't spread rumors. I'm very poor; it's all a loss-making business.