Resources in modern society often provided impoverished areas with the opportunity to take off immediately.
Investments poured in, factories were built, high-rises sprang up from the ground, and consumer spending surged. Driven by such prospects, the mere mention of the word "resources" made most people's eyes widen with excitement, eager to get a piece of the action.
However, this prosperity was merely a spectacle built upon the mighty industrial prowess of modern society.
Take the coal mine at the Black Stone base camp, for example. If the dwarves hadn't made the initial investment and established the mining channels, extracting those two tons of coal from a seam buried over thirty meters underground would have been extremely difficult!
Sitting on the hilltop, Su Mo examined all the resources listed by the game one by one. His initial excitement slowly faded into calm calculation.
