After suffering a series of defeats, the Cuban side acutely realized that the group they were facing possessed unimaginable strength in mobile warfare in the wilderness. Even when deploying reconnaissance aircraft for 24-hour surveillance, they couldn’t pinpoint their movements accurately.

Moreover, as the group became increasingly familiar with Cuba’s terrain, the level of threat rose sharply.

Engaging in small and large clashes with players in the complex forest terrain was extremely difficult for Cuban troops.

Small units were unable to catch them, and large units couldn’t defeat them. This bunch of bastards, without heavy loads, were incredibly agile. Air patrols also faced the risk of being locked and shot down by anti-air systems, and judging from previous experiences, the Europeans’ radar wasn’t very reliable.

Their special forces were relentless in raids, infiltration, point-breaking, and guided strikes, making defense nearly impossible. The outposts outside were cleared repeatedly.

Thus, in resignation, they had to opt for strategic withdrawal, preparing to rely on urban defense along the railway and leverage local advantages to assemble troops and resources, preparing for the next wave of offensive.

Only a few platoons were arranged in the field to build perimeter defenses and patrol.

In recent days, both sides were probing each other with artillery fire, with little direct confrontation occurring.

This was undoubtedly good news for Horizon Corporation.

Because it meant that the risk of Pig Bay being bombed in the short term was reduced.

This allowed them to start organizing production.

"Isoethyltriazone is a common ingredient in immune suppressants on the market and can effectively reduce the rejection of neuron signals to prosthetic body parts."

Gloria looked at the pale yellow oily liquid in the test tube she held

"These drug traffickers mix it with addictive substances like desoxyephedrine to create new drugs, specifically sold to those suffering from prosthetic phantom pain... Long-term use makes them prone to anger, irritability, and panic, eventually turning either into a waste or a lunatic."

She sighed inwardly

It seems Lin guessed right. Besides drugs, this place was also a pharmaceutical production base for those medical companies, producing cheap drugs here and then packaging them to sell at high prices worldwide.

Due to Soviet Union’s support, Cuba’s medical system was advanced and even became a renowned health resort in the 2000s.

Now it has become a drug production zone, naturally becoming the perfect choice for those pharmaceutical companies to add addictive substances to their products.

After all, their goal was never to cure any disease but to ensure patients could never leave the drugs they produced, squeezing out the very last cent.

"Should we destroy them all?"

The small teacher following behind Gloria curiously asked

"We’ve captured tons of this stuff from the frontline, all from bad guys."

She felt akin to Lin Zexu, destroying opium at the Tiger Gate, and couldn’t help but puff out her chest.

Unfortunately, the panel values were too low, and no damage could be done even with all her strength.

"No."

Gloria put down the test tube

"Addictive substances will follow normal destruction procedures, but we’ll keep the regular pharmaceutical materials for production."

Players don’t need morphine, fentanyl, or other painkillers, and stimulants are useless.

"Produce? Isn’t it too dangerous here?"

The small teacher, along with many others, felt this move was overly risky. If the enemy attacked, it would easily result in total financial loss.

Cuba is not Tokyo University or the Soviet Union; it lacks vast strategic depth. If the front line retreats, the factory will be directly exposed to enemy artillery.

Even if they don’t retreat, there’s a risk of precision missile strikes, and player and Military Science’s air defense systems aren’t foolproof.

"That’s why you need to work hard."

Gloria vigorously rubbed the small teacher’s head; she liked these straightforward and responsible players.

She looked at the diligently working ’cattle and horses’ and couldn’t help but marvel

"After all, if we don’t do this, just the blood-sucking alone would drain all of the company’s liquidity. We can’t leave everything for Night City to handle."

The engineer corps came here for significant work to accomplish.

Having finished the temporary floating pier outpost, they are now working overtime digging underground.

Ground engineering is indeed easily bombed, so Gloria decided to build the factory underground.

Additionally, to ensure safety, they must dig at least 50 meters deep and use C100 strength concrete to reinforce it multiple times into a permanent fortification, making it secure barring an attack with a super bunker-buster or nuclear bomb.

Ordinary engineering teams can’t really undertake this task, as some places appear to have loose soil on the surface, but digging down just one meter hits rock; the deeper they dig, the higher the costs and difficulty rise, only Red Barrel’s cattle and horses have the relevant excavation equipment. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

This being near the coast, the underground water network is dense, making construction significantly difficult. Lin Miao invested heavily to invite Ye Corporation’s designers for on-site inspection, providing a complete set of blueprints before construction commenced.

In just three days, nearly a million Orokin evaporated.

Filled with anger, Gloria wished she could strangle those Ye Corporation vampires.

"We must hurry to get as many pharmaceutical production lines up and running as possible. Once the war intensifies, many drugs and medical equipment, including inhibitors, will become wartime supplies. Some things can’t be provided even with Military Technology, and those pharmaceutical companies will definitely raise prices, mercilessly draining our funds."