My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely!

by Stayrr

As disaster was about to strike, a group of survivors transmigrated into a desolated world and were challenged to a game of survival. From terrifying acid rains, to endless natural disasters, the heavens burn while the earth scorches, radiation is rampant, and nobody is spared from the dangers of this hellscape. The only way one survives is by building a shelter and slowly upgradin

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Chapter 31: Absorbing The Damaged Cores

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

[Record: Your continuous livestream is longer than fifteen minutes. The random airdrop reward will be issued one day before the next disaster.

After Su Mo heard the notification prompt from the game panel, he decisively entered the settings interface and turned off the livestream.

When he livestreamed, every move he made was monitored by billions of people.

If he was still in the modern age, he might laugh a few times and be happy that he was popular.

However, now that he was in the ruthless and greedy doomsday world, the more he showed, the greater the danger he was in.

After Su Mo sped to the spot on the hill where Scarface died, he thought to himself.

"Mmhmm, these people are going to be really hard to deal with. How troublesome."

It only took a gentle pull on the trigger to kill someone but dealing with those people was going to take some time.

If it was a rainy night, it would have been better because his smell would not waft far. However, if it was a very sunny day, he was going to attract a large number of mutant creatures in a day or two.

If things got worse, there might even be a plague outbreak.

After Su Mo opened up the creation page, he created another stone spear.

As he held the stone spear and endured the disgust, he moved Scarface by his shirt with the spear and breathed a sigh of relief.

In the modern world, he would not be brave enough to kill a chicken. He never expected that he was going to kill five people in the doomsday world.

Although those people were bandits, the moral concepts established within the human's consciousness during the civilized age were still there.

"Hey, what's this?"

After dragging away Scarface's corpse, Su Mo was surprised to find that below the spot where Scarface was lying face down, there was a tortoise shell that emitted a faint light.

"Isn't this what we get when we place our shelters when this whole thing started?"

After Su Mo picked up the tortoise shell, he was pleasantly surprised and began to look at the tortoise shell's properties.

[Damaged safe house core:

The safe house is bound to the player. Once the player chooses to place it on a spot, it will be bound to the ground and cannot be moved.

When the player demolishes his own safe house, it will be damaged and cannot be placed onto another spot until it is repaired.

All items of the player are stored in the core of the safe house after their death.

[Record: Player is detected to have a complete safe house core. Do you wish to absorb it?

"You can actually absorb the core of someone else's safe house?"

When he looked at the property on the game panel, Su Mo quickly walked over to the other three guys.

Sure enough, the guy with the glasses and the guy with the pockmarks also had a damaged safe house core under their faces.

When he got closer to the mouse-face guy, he found a complete safe house core that had not been placed before.

"Great!"

When Su Mo looked at the three damaged and one intact cores in his hands, he laughed out loud.

"A horse doesn't get fat without extra feed and people don't get rich unless they're met with a windfall.

"These people have robbed and killed so many innocent poor people, and now they've fallen under my hands. This is an eye for an eye, I suppose!"

He chucked the four cores into his backpack.

After that, he walked quickly to the side of the acid rain lake and began to dig a hole.

After gaining some things, Su Mo felt a bit lighter even though he was working hard on a dark rainy night. He could not wait to bury the corpses as soon as possible so that he could return to his shelter to absorb and see what happens.

Since it had been overcast and raining for the whole day, the soil on the ground was softer. After half an hour, Su Mo dug out a pit that was two meters wide, two meters long, and one meter deep.

After he dragged all the corpses of the bandits, one by one, into the pit with his stone spear, Su Mo quickly walked over to Huang Biao's body.

Huang Biao, who was still struggling on the ground before, made no more noise and only left a deep handprint on the ground.

After he moved his body with the tip of a spear, sure enough, there was also a damaged safe house core under Huang Biao's body.

"I can't bear to leave your corpse out in the wilderness after your leader came such a long way to send you your equipment. Anyway, be a good person when you reincarnate."

After soaking in acid rain,

Huang Biao's face rotted and did not look like a human anymore. He looked weird and terrifying, just like the zombies in the apocalyptic movies from Amurica.

He did not dare to look at his face up close and just dragged the grass raincoat on Huang Biao's body with the tip of his stone spear.

Step by step, Su Mo dragged the man into the big pit.

After pushing Huang Biao into the pit, Su Mo began to fill up the hole.

Gradually, as the soil covered over and the rainwater binded it, the five people were left inside the pit forever.

After he finished everything and shoved a branch on top to mark the spot, Su Mo went back from where he came from and arrived at the tunnel's entrance.

The tunnel door made out of wooden planks was quite convenient when going out. By the time Su Mo returned, a lot of water had already seeped into the passage.

When Su Mo looked at the tunnel entrance, he made some mental notes.

"If I want to travel a long distance, it would be a good choice to come out from this spot. Perhaps I can upgrade it."

After he called out the Survival System in his mind, the tunnel's property appeared.

[Passageway]

Description: A completed passageway

Upgrade option: Escapeway

Sections: Expansion (5), material (40), strength (200), access door (40)

Introduction: A cunning rabbit has three burrows!

"For the access door… I'll upgrade it into a stone material since I still have a lot of stones."

As he laid down the stones gradually, the access door's survival points requirement began to go down rapidly.

After 20 points, it stopped changing.

"I choose to upgrade the access door."

After spending 20 points, a green light emitted from Su Mo's body. After two or three breaths, the wooden door with a large gap suddenly became the same stone door as his shelter's main entrance. It looked secure and rainwater could no longer seep inside.

After Su Mo picked up a shovel and shoveled up a few scoops of dirt to cover up the stone access door, Su Mo returned to his shelter's main entrance with satisfaction.

He could forget about using the passageway made for raids daily unless he wanted to travel long distances or conduct raids.

'I'll only use it when I need to!'

He would be able to reduce the effects of the attacks during critical moments like today.

As for the problem of exposing his defenses during his livestreams, it was not an immediate worry for now.

After he went back to his main entrance, he looked at the bare stone walls that were excavated from both sides.

Su Mo did not know whether to laugh or cry.

His underground shelter became a normal ground shelter after being dug out by those people after a few hours.

"It's fine. I'll just leave it like that for now and I'll just have to wait until the rain stops to make some renovations."

After he went around it sized up the excavated area, Su Mo yelled toward the shelter,

"Oreo, open the door, I'm back!"

After he said that, he heard the sound of barking and scratching at the door. After a bang, the stone door cracked open.

The cunning Oreo peeked through the crack for a while first before it opened it up.

"What a good and clever little doggie."

Since Su Mo was wearing a raincoat, he could not pet Oreo's head. After motioning Oreo to move further, Su Mo closed the door, stood in the corner of the shelter, and took off his raincoat.

In the raid just now, he made two plans in total.

Plan A was him rushing out through the back door and while those people were unprepared, he would kill them abruptly by surprise.

Plan B was if there was no chance for him to do that, he was going to get Oreo to make some noise at the door so that it would attract them over there, and he was going to use that opportunity to kill them.

It was a pity that those people were a rag-tag group. Their combat abilities were extremely low, and they were not careful at all. That was why they probably did not expect that Su Mo would suddenly come out from behind to attack them.

After taking off his raincoat, Su Mo turned around and sat down on the wooden bench.

He looked at his brightly lit stone base and Oreo running to the table coyly.

Su Mo immediately felt at ease.

No one could have guessed it.

An hour ago, he was just an ordinary person struggling to survive in the wasteland world.

An hour later, he became the knight who took five lives, enforcing justice on behalf of Heaven.

After Su Mo took out the spoils of his fight, he held the tortoise shell with a rag in his left hand and had another rag in his right hand as he began to polish it carefully.

With the rag's polishing, the simple and unsophisticated tortoise shell started to shine like a jade.

After polishing all the cores, Su Mo picked up the damaged tortoise shell that he initially collected and when he called out internally, he selected the game panel's fusion function.

"Let's do the fusion with this damaged core first!"

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Chapter 32: A Huge Gain! A Diesel Generator!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

[Record: Player is detected to have a complete safe house core. Do you wish to absorb it?

When he saw the words jump out, Su Mo concentrated and used his mind to click yes without hesitation.

Suddenly,

The tortoise shell on the hand began to shake violently. To be specific, the tortoise shell produced–

A resonance!

The whole shelter seemed to be moving, with small tremors one after another.

With each passing second…

The frequency of the shelter's vibration seemed to be getting closer and closer to the frequency of the tortoise shell shaking in his hand.

With his naked eye, he could see the tortoise shell begin to crack and melt, one piece at a time. They melted into a blue liquid, falling from Su Mo's palm, and sliding all the way onto the stone floor.

Boom!

The earth began to tremble, and the entire shelter felt as if there was an earthquake taking place inside as it began to sway rapidly.

The next moment, Su Mo looked at the magical scene in front of him and was stunned.

[Record: You have successfully absorbed the damaged safe house core.

[Record: Your shelter area has increased.

[Record: Your current shelter area is 110 square meters.

His originally familiar shelter went through a sudden metamorphosis. It was as if the shelter had eaten too much and grown fatter, with ten square meters appearing out of thin air.

In the extra space, there were a few things neatly arranged.

"Bark bark bark!"

Oreo, who was still lying on the ground and resting, looked like it had seen a ghost as it looked around at the extra space and barked due to the unfamiliar smell.

Su Mo walked quickly toward the extra space and began to look at the things on the ground.

There were around a dozen items.

The first was three shirts with blood stains on them. They were brightly colored and there was even a pink bear mask.

Beside the clothes were two tools. A stone axe and a stone shovel.

Compared with the rich and outspoken Su Mo, the man's equipment looked pitiful. He could not believe where the guy got the confidence to try and raid his shelter.

Fearing that there would be some hidden poison, Su Mo did not dare to use his hands, so he cautiously picked up the clothes with a stone spear and uncovered the items hidden underneath.

There were around a dozen more items as well.

There was some beef jerky that he bought on the market on the first day before. It seemed like a lot and was at least 300g.

There were four boxes of milk, a whole loaf of bread, two corn sausages, old yogurt, and a bottle of unopened Pepsi.

There were also two bottles of mineral water that have been opened but not finished yet.

"I've struck gold! I've struck gold!"

After using the game panel to confirm that items' properties were fine, Su Mo looked incredibly happy.

It was no wonder that those people did not choose to develop their own shelters normally and instead chose to steal from people.

The person who steals would earn more than the person who worked hard.

Just those items would sell for at least a few liters of water if they were listed on the trading market. Even so, they were priceless!

The food currently sold in the market was mostly bread that required a lot of water to be edible and mutant beast meat that was dry and difficult to swallow.

After days of looking through the listings, Su Mo did not find any food item to splurge on the market.

Unexpectedly, those boxes of items actually fell down from heaven for free.

"Since fusing a damaged core can increase ten square meters to my base, I'll fuse all of them!"

After taking out the remaining three damaged cores and selecting them one by one, his safe house began to shake again.

[Record: You have successfully absorbed the damaged safe house core*3.

[Record: Your shelter area has increased.

[Record: Your current shelter area is 140 square meters.

[Record: Your shelter level has been upgraded. Please enter the game panel to check.

After shaking for a while, at the same spot, a total of 40 square meters of space was added into the shelter and the shelter which originally looked empty became quieter and more serene.

There were a lot of things piled on the ground randomly. Just by looking at it, Su Mo felt so happy that he felt like he was going to faint.

At the innermost corner, there was a device that looked similar to his thick color television.

Su Mo was not unfamiliar with the device at all. It was exactly what he wanted from for a long time, what he dreamt about at night–

A generator!

At that moment, Su Mo could not suppress the excitement in his heart. It was as if he had seen his little lover as he walked quickly to the machine.

It was painted sky-blue throughout the entire body.

There were three thick black iron pipes surrounding the main body of the generator which acted as a side frame to protect it against dust.

When he lowered his head and saw the generator's main body, Su Mo's eager heart immediately became cold.

There was a label that said that it was a Siemens Wuxi diesel generator and those people probably got it after killing mutant beasts or from robbing someone.

However, the problem was that a spear had pierced through the generator's fuel tank and there was a large hole, exposing the inside of the fuel tank.

As Su Mo crouched in front of the generator, he began to carefully recall the generator principle he had seen in the miscellaneous books from his university's library.

It was simple for a generator to generate electricity:

In the diesel engine's cylinder, clean air filtered by the air filter is fully mixed with the high-pressure atomized diesel fuel sprayed from the fuel injector. Under the upward squeeze of the piston, the volume is reduced, and the temperature rises rapidly, reaching the ignition point of the diesel fuel.

The diesel fuel is ignited, and the mixed gas burns violently. The volume expands rapidly, pushing the piston down, and is called work done.

Each cylinder performs moves in a certain order and the thrust from the piston becomes the force that rotates the crankshaft by pushing the force through the connecting rod, thereby driving the crankshaft to rotate.

By installing the brushless synchronous power generator coaxially with the crankshaft of the diesel engine, the rotation of the diesel engine will drive the rotor of the generator. By using the principle of electromagnetic induction, the generator will induce an electromotive force and current will be generated to the load of the closed circuit.

After thinking about it, Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the thing that was kaput was not the most important part, the current control device. If that part broke, the generator would have been useless.

Since it was just a hole in the fuel tank that was damaged, he just needed to repair it with a few points!

He stared intently and focused his attention as Su Mo called up the system internally. After that, he looked at the diesel generator.

[Diesel Generator (damaged)]

Efficiency: 300kw (300 kwh at full load)

Fuel consumption: 230 grams per kilowatt hour (82L/h at full load)

Description: A diesel generator produced by Siemens Group in Jiangsu, Wuxi that has never been used. The circuit is functional, but the fuel tank is damaged.

Upgrade option 1: Replace and repair the core components of the generator, enhance the efficiency of the generator's power supply, reduce the power consumption of the generator. Survival points required (1680).

Upgrade option 2: Change the working mode of the generator into a biomass fuel power generator. Survival points required (6500).

Introduction: Am I yours? You're my You Le Mei! No, no, no! I want to be your generator!

"D*mn, that's so expensive. 1680 points? I'll have to save up my points for at least ten days to half a month to upgrade it!"

After he shook his head, he gave up the crazy idea of accumulating his survival points to upgrade the generator.

Su Mo began to ask for another upgrade option internally.

By changing it into single-category small function upgrade options, despite it costing more and not as cost-effective as the overall upgrade in the long run, he had a shortage of survival points, so it was a good way to solve his urgent needs.

"Even though it's going to be more expensive, so be it. As long as I can repair it, I'll be able to develop my base at double the speed."

A burst of light flashed, and the original upgrade options began to change.

[Diesel Generator (damaged)]

Efficiency: 300kw (300 kwh at full load)

Fuel consumption: 230 grams per kilowatt hour (82L/h at full load)

Upgrade: Repair (130), increase volume (50), increase conversion efficiency (300), change material (420), change energy supply mode – biomass (4450)…

"It needs 130 to repair it…"

The price was reasonable and was not too high, but Su Mo was not able to afford that much for now.

Today, he had a total of 153 points. It cost him 20 points to upgrade his raincoat and after using 65 points to upgrade the passageway, he was only left with 68 points.

"We'll have to wait until tomorrow to repair it, then."

After Su Mo calmed down the excitement and anxiety in his heart, he began to gather his supplies and count the spoils of his battle.

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Chapter 33: Shelter Upgrade, Commissioned A Design!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Huang Biao's core clearly had more items compared to the other three.

It almost filled up the ten square-meter expansion.

When Su Mo looked at it, he saw three large bags of biscuits that were around five or six kilograms.

The biscuits were very similar to the biscuits sold in supermarkets. After eating a piece, Su Mo nodded in satisfaction. The taste of the biscuit was similar to normal packed biscuits.

There was a refrigeration function in the storage space. When things were placed inside, it was equivalent to the Schrödinger cat's state, where it only appeared when Su Mo was observing it.

He closed up the bags of biscuits and put them together.

Su Mo saw two big buckets in the corner as well.

After walking toward it to take a closer look, Su Mo was overjoyed.

Everything came in a set. When Huang Biao found the generator, it must have come with the two buckets of 200L diesel fuel as well.

"I thought I was going to make my own biodiesel, but I didn't expect that I'd be so lucky!"

Homemade biodiesel would easily damage the insides of the generator, but if he used the system, he would just need to spend some survival points to repair it.

Even so, if he could get diesel fuel during the earlier, more difficult stages now, he would surely be able to trade diesel fuel in the future!

After spending two hours sorting out the items, he took the unusable items outside and dug a pit. After he buried them, Su Mo opened up the chat channel and randomly looked for a dead person's grey profile picture and started writing out a message record:

"One generator, two hundred liters of diesel fuel.

"6kg of biscuits, 2kg of bread, 2.5L of unopened purified water, 800g of beef jerky, 7 cartons of milk, 3 corn sausages, 1 container of old yogurt, 2 bottles of Pepsi, two packs of Lay's potato chips.

"One opened bag of salt (confirmed to be non-toxic), one small bag of unopened chili oil.

"One rechargeable flashlight (fully charged), one extremely bulky mace, one pair of unworn sneakers (size 43).

"15 units of wood, 19 units of plant fiber, 30 units of stone, 3 units of iron blocks, 1 unit of copper blocks.

"And a map that seems to be for the nearby terrain (important)."

After listing down all his items in one breath, Su Mo just looked at the numbers on the game panel and felt extremely satisfied and happy.

Of course, at a time like that, Su Mo did not hesitate to share his happiness. He took out two corn sausages from his supply pile and took them apart. He took one big bite and threw the other sausage to the side for the drooling husky, Oreo.

"Good doggie. Now that I have you, I hope you can double what I earn in the future!"

Oreo, who was on the side, eating with its mouth full of drool, howled cheerfully.

He had a taste of what it would be like and was going to work hard. Su Mo was in a good mood and called out the game panel to see if he could upgrade his shelter!

After the four damaged safe house cores were absorbed, the upgrade system was triggered.

Before this, there were no levels for the shelter displayed, but currently, an extra level tab was displayed at that moment.

[Personal Shelter]

Level: lv1

Description: Shelter made of stone. Very strong with good security. Possesses a unique effect in isolating moisture and retaining heat.

Space: 140 (4.2m high)

Level of Integrity: 100%

Facilities: Iron stove, bed, large scale vegetable culture medium, psychic energy well water extractor, dining table…

Currently available permissions: Reconstruct the shelter layout and automatically generate partition walls (One-time use, so please adjust carefully)

"I can't believe I can create a partition wall! Now this is a shelter, that's the life I'm talking about!"

As Su Mo looked at the notification prompts on the game panel his eyes sparkled.

The empty shelter was still a big flat floor. The dark corners that no light shone on would be the first things anyone saw when they walked in.

It was fine during the day, but when night time came, it made his blood freeze.

If a person never ate supper, he would never get fat and a horse would never get fat without extra feed.

Just by slaughtering a group of scoundrels, he gained that much. Su Mo could not help but even wanted to start a livestream to attract another wave of hatred so that more gangsters would be attracted to come over to him and deliver his supplies.

"I can only build this level once, so I'll have to plan this carefully."

Su Mo looked at the plan on the panel.

When he thought about it, a box popped up on the interface.

The 3D image of the shelter happened to be in the box at that moment. It had the floors, the stone walls, up, down, left, right, the entire thing.

Su Mo briefly browsed through all the functions, closed the interface, and opened up the chat interface.

After that night's battle, Su Mo had completely cleared up the confusion in his heart about other people outside.

Being in the wasteland, in the big pot of bad, he realized that the more he wanted to stay out of things, the more he was going to fall into the cage.

To completely close oneself and treat the shelter as a lone island in the ocean was the stupidest thing one could do.

After he found out about the truth, he knew what he had to do.

The Huaxia Shelter that he saw in the daytime had an extremely ingenious architectural style and overall construction method. He knew that there must be an expert behind it.

For a professional design work like that, Su Mo decided to contract it out so that he could maximize the use of the space in the shelter.

Finally, there was an opportunity to rebuild it. Su Mo had been very dissatisfied with the existing shelter structure, but he did not know where to start.

The first was the main entrance which was a long staircase.

That kind of staircase was fine during a normal day, but once someone broke through the main entrance and rushed in, both sides would have to have a hand-to-hand combat. There was no safety aspect to it at all and there should be at least two buffer zones or even three!

In the house, there was a 30-square-meter culture medium placed in the center of the base. Besides taking up a lot of space, it might also affect the subsequent development in particular.

In addition to the renovation, Su Mo had another idea.

After the contact he had that night, he realized that if anyone surrounded him from the top, he would have the risk of a surprise attack if he decided to leave since he lived underground.

Once or twice was fine, but if it kept happening, it would be big trouble for him.

Therefore, it was also necessary to build a buffer zone on the ground.

He could not completely give up control of the ground above in the early stage just because he had an underground shelter.

After he decided on his idea, Su Mo clicked onto the private message function and started his first historical call according to the contact information he found on the Huaxia Shelter during the daytime.

The person who answered the call was the same little lady who spoke from the shelter during the day-

Shen Ke!

[Su Mo: Hello, I'm Su Mo from Huaxia and I'd like to make a trade with your shelter. Is that okay?]

Not long after he sent the message,

He got three very anxious replies. Before Su Mo could see what they said, the person on the other side immediately video called him.

After thinking about it, Su Mo did not reject the call.

Since he had shown his face to everyone in the world, there was no need for him to keep anything back at that moment.

The call was connected.

Shen Ke's face appeared on the screen.

"Hello, Su Mo, I'm the person in charge of the 79th Regiment of the 13th Army for disaster resistance. We've agreed to your trading request. What kind of trade are you looking for?"

When Shen Ke looked at Su Mo's face on the screen, she tried her best to suppress the shock she was feeling and tried not to show it.

In her view.

The first thing that caught her eye was his eye-catching generator and the two large buckets of diesel next to it.

Then came the extravagant cola, bread, biscuits, and other daily necessities… In the afterglow, she also saw a corner of the culture medium.

The opulence in his shelter was too much of a shock for Shen Ke after living in the doomsday world.

As for Su Mo's handsome face, he looked even more mysterious with the pile of supplies behind him.

"I'd like to get someone to help me design a structure for my underground shelter. It would be best if I got a blueprint design for it."

When Shen Ke heard what Su Mo said, she nodded hurriedly.

"Our shelter has a well-known former Huaxia designer, Ar. Shen, who's also my little uncle. Is it okay if I ask him to design it for you?"

"Sure, no problem. You guys should know the structure of an underground shelter, right? And according to…"

After Su Mo heard that it was Ar. Shen, he was a little surprised, nodded calmly, and began to talk about his requirements.

On the other side, Shen Ke immediately called her little uncle, Shen Yitian, over so that Su Mo could communicate with him face to face.

After a while, the two started discussing the details.

"Okay, we've understood your requirements. I'll hand the design to you the day after tomorrow at the latest. Don't worry, I'll follow the wartime rules and strictly abide by the confidentiality agreement!"

Shen Yitian was extremely straightforward. After discussing Su Mo's requirements, he once again picked up his grass umbrella from the side of the table and swaggered away. He was a dependable person.

Su Mo had also heard about the professional architect before.

Many supertall skyscrapers in their country, including the 840-meter tower, were designed by him. Therefore, a design for his shelter should be no problem.

After Shen Yitian left, Shen Ke returned to the middle of the screen.

"Ar. Shen didn't give me a quotation. Do you know how much supplies it will cost for a design drawing like that?"

When Su Mo saw that Shen Ke was too shy to bring that up, he said it in a direct manner.

Regarding the quotation, he believed that Shen Ke would never demand an exorbitant price. She did not ask many questions from the beginning, so Su Mo knew that the Huaxia Shelter was sincere.

However, the next moment, Shen Ke's words made Su Mo extremely uneasy.

"Mr. Su Mo, since this is just a design drawing, it doesn't use up any supplies. Therefore, as our first trade and out of the sincerity of Huaxia Shelter, we hope that you can help some people from Huaxia who's facing difficulties.

"Even in the wasteland world, we have to support each other and push on. Of course, as for the scoundrels you met tonight, you have one hundred percent of your independent defense rights and we support you for doing what you did, Mr. Su…"

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Chapter 34: We Want To… Return To Earth Alive!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Su Mo saw Shen Ke's determined eyes and concise military style, he nodded, supposedly agreeing to Shen Ke's conditions.

The next second.

Shen Ke, who looked serious, could not hold back the seriousness of her face anymore and a bright smile appeared on her pretty face.

"The Almighty Su, now that the shelter's trade is over, can I do some private trades with you?"

A smirk appeared on her charming little face.

A look that no one could refuse.

"Go ahead." Su Mo smiled faintly. There was an inexplicable, indifferent, free and easy look on his face.

"I want to trade 1L of psychic energy water with you. The trading items are wires and a mechanical controller for programming the control. Mmhmm, and I'll also add a secret bit of information for you."

"Hmm?"

When Su Mo heard Shen Ke's words, he turned his head and realized that he had exposed the generator behind him in the video call.

Su Mo smiled and shook his head.

It was no wonder that Shen Ke would propose such a deal. That was to meet his development requirements.

"Don't worry, I'll tell my little uncle to design a circuit plan as well when he designs the blueprint for you."

When Shen Ke saw Su Mo's expression, she immediately continued nervously, for fear that Su Mo would reject her the next moment.

One liter of psychic energy water might be extremely precious for others, but they would never know that his precious little thing was producing seven liters a day in his shelter!

The inequality brought about by unknown information always gave him an advantage in trades.

Su Mo slightly smiled and said, "Fine, deal. That's not a problem. As for secret information… How much do you know about the ruins?"

After thinking about it, Su Mo was still really curious about Liangfang Town.

His ruin was different from what everyone else knew about ruins. There was a lot of fantastic loot inside and as long as he could put together a weapon and get through a room, his loot was unimaginable.

When Shen Ke saw that Su Mo agreed, she pulled back the hair that hung in front of her face and after thinking for a moment, she said calmly,

"We also organized a group of people to investigate the ruin. So far, we know quite a bit of information about it, but this isn't worth anything because everyone will find it out sooner or later.

"According to the information we've discovered so far, there are three types of relics.

"The first type is the foggy relics that everyone has mentioned in the chat channel. The places where players go when they enter this kind of relics are strange, but according to the information we have gathered, most of them enter into a prehistoric civilization on earth when they enter this time of relic. However, there is insufficient investigation about it, so I can't say for sure what ancient civilization it is.

"The second type of relic is… well… like the treasure stories in novels that you'd heard of. Us earthlings may not be the first species to be exiled here to participate in this survival game. There are other species that have been here before, so for some people that did not survive through the natural disasters, their shelters that are left here end up becoming a fixed relic.

"For the third type… we suspect that there are other civilizations merging with the wasteland world we are currently in. As to which civilization it is and what their purpose is, we don't have a definite conclusion for now as we have insufficient evidence. We also have insufficient information collected, so we'll just have to wait for technology to make a comeback before we can take a better look at it."

Shen Ke was very detailed and explained the three types of relics that they had discovered so far clearly.

After Su Mo silently recorded all the information again by private messaging a dead person, he nodded and that signaled the completion of the trade.

"Okay, I'll get you your wires and controller later~"

With a pleasantly surprised look on Shen Ke's face, she stood up with a bounce. After the two of them said goodbye to each other, they hung up their video call.

After a while, Shen Ke sent her trade request and after confirming that it was correct, Su Mo uploaded 1100ml of psychic energy water.

He also left a message:

"Thank you for your information and your observation. Please take this 100ml as a private gift for you. Stay alive for everyone!"

A burst of light flashed, and the trade was completed.

In the huge Huaxia Shelter.

In an inconspicuous small house, Shen Ke raised her arms and breathed out. She uploaded all the wires into the trading system in one breath.

"Hehehe. Who said I'm just a girl who can only work as a civil servant?!"

With a silly simpering smile, Shen Ke confirmed the trade and got the psychic energy water.

When she saw the amount that Su Mo traded along with his message, a burst of sadness suddenly came up inexplicably.

A few drops of moving tears suddenly welled in her eyes, wetting her face that had turned yellow and dark because of dehydration.

When she realized she was crying, the first thing the girl did was not wipe away her tears. Instead, she licked her tears greedily with her cracked up, bloody, dry lips.

Then, the bright girl stopped crying, took her umbrella, and rushed out of the house. She shouted,

"Anyone who has a cold can stop worrying tonight because we traded some psychic energy water! Everyone's going to get some before going to bed!"

Wow!

Psychic energy water!

For minor sickness, even medicines were not as effective as the legendary psychic energy water.

In the camp, the people who were still working hard at night looked up with their eyes full of gratitude and joy.

They did not shout!

They did not cheer!

That was because after they entered the shelter from the first day, the rules they received were:

"Save your energy. Don't shout. Don't cry. We don't have enough food and water, but we…

"Will go back to earth alive!"

"Sigh. It seems like I'm a little socially challenged now with no one to talk to. I only have a silly dog.

"Humans really are social animals!

When he looked at a large number of wires on the ground for building circuits, Su Mo felt like going back onto his small bed to just lay there.

The silly Oreo also ran over at that moment, jumped onto the bed, and jumped back.

The black and white dog had a provocative look on its face.

"Silly dog, are you unhappy just because I called you a silly dog? Watch what I can do!"

After it jumped off the bed, the man and the dog began to chase each other in the shelter.

Su Mo's hearty laughter echoed throughout the shelter.

After chasing Oreo for a while, Su Mo panted and helplessly sat on the bench after he watched Oreo still running high spiritedly ahead.

Oreo was still clowning around in the distance and when it saw that Su Mo was not chasing him anymore, it showed its husky teeth and barked happily.

"Don't worry. I'll make sure I stay alive for you, for myself, for my parents and sister!"

Su Mo said as he looked at Oreo firmly.

However, when Su Mo looked at Oreo, he had a rare touch of gentleness.

After resting for a while, he spread out the map that he looted on the table.

Su Mo carefully identified the location of the ruin.

"According to what Shen Ke said, it seems that the place marked on this map should be the place where Huang Biao and the others found the ruin."

Huang Biao and his party's starting point should be twenty kilometers away from the ruins.

"If these three lines are my base, then the ruin should be west to me…

"Three and a half kilometers away!"

The marks on the map were drawn using the most primitive pictographic method.

Thanks to them for finding a paper map to record it down. In addition to that, they marked it quite clearly, too. Otherwise, the average person would not be able to understand such an abstract map.

"The spots marked x should be the bases that they attacked. Hiss. What a bunch of cruel beastmen…"

After looking, Su Mo suddenly realized that the five of them were robbing anyone that they came across.

The red crosses on the map lined up into a straight line and there were as many as 16 in total.

"Maybe they didn't know that a person dropped a damaged safe house core after dying. Even so, it was useless for them even if they knew it because only a placed safe house can absorb these cores.

"When I'm equipped, maybe I can travel West to see if those cores are still there."

Su Mo had a lot of time to think about the acid rain disaster the whole day.

As an ordinary person without any subject knowledge advantage, he could only rely on hard work in the doomsday world.

Not only must he actively inquire about information, but he also had to take the initiative to strengthen himself.

When he looked at the treasure icon on the map, Su Mo curled up the corner of his lips, stood up, and looked to the West.

"Let's see how sacred my journey to the west will be when the time comes in two days."

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Chapter 35: The Beginning of The End of The World! Big Update 1.0!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Today marks the sixth day in the wasteland. Mmhmm… Doomsday calendar, Month 1, Day 6.

"Current shelter members: Su Mo! Oreo!

"The disaster isn't over yet, so it's fine if I lay on my bed and sleep in, right? Hehe~ I mean, I don't have to catch the 7 o'clock bus anymore.

"Oreo's sleeping. Look at its drool. I wonder what delicious food Oreo is dreaming about. What a silly dog.

"Now that I've gotten a lot of supplies for the shelter and I'm about to get electricity, I have to definitely keep going!"

"You can do it, Su Mo!"

After opening his private chat message and recording his empty nester's diary for the sixth day, Su Mo turned off the game panel.

Even if he killed five people in a row last night, he still slept until it was almost eight o'clock.

As he laid on the soft and warm little bed, listening to the thinly scattered and soothing rain dripping outside, Su Mo quietly waited for the disaster to end.

Outside the shelter, the terrifying acid rain that lasted thirty-six hours was about to come to an end.

When it was eight o'clock, the system's calculation notification prompt sounded on time.

[Doomsday calendar Month 1 Day 6]

[An unknown disaster struck, You felt very secure in your safe shelter (survival points 5)]

[You upgraded a set of simple disaster-resistant equipment (survival points 2)]

[When you were out on patrol, you detected a group of malicious people. You had a keen sense of observation (survival points 5)]

[You opened up a second passage for the shelter (survival points 20)]

[You killed five bandits to protect your safety and to defend the ownership of your shelter (survival points 35)]

[You showed your face to a billion people or more. And they now they have a deep impression of the name Su Mo (survival points 200)]

[You seized a lot of supplies and enriched your shelter (survival points 10)]

[You kept your humanity as a human being because you know that you are not a mad beast. You have people you care about, people you want to protect, and… you want to go back to earth alive (survival points 25)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 53 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 365

Remaining survival points: 433

"Phew, that's a lot. A wave of sudden wealth."

When Su Mo saw this total calculation of points, he sat up and his heart was beating frantically and wildly.

Every day, he would only get a hundred something points, like using a pearl of toothpaste to brush his teeth. A sudden wave of windfall of 400 points made Su Mo feel as if he was in a dream.

"Livestreaming in front of a billion people, who remembered my name got me two hundred points…

"So is the system encouraging me to show off more?"

When Su Mo saw what gave him the most points, he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

'Is this real?

'I guess it is!'

Compared with the extremely dangerous life-and-death battle, a livestream brought him such a high income, so it was a no brainer.

"Phew, now that we have enough survival points, we can upgrade the generator today."

He got dressed and got up.

After pouring out today's accumulated psychic energy water into the water tank, Su Mo began to rinse his mouth after scooping up a full bottle of water with a wooden cup.

"Gargle gargle!"

He spat the water to the edge of the vegetable culture medium after rinsing his mouth, scooped up one and a half liters of psychic energy water to water the vegetables, and just like that, his tending work for the day was completed.

The whole time, he did it in a sacred mood.

Su Mo quickly walked to the part where the generator was placed, looked at the damaged fuel tank under the generator, and concentrated his thoughts.

[Diesel Generator (damaged)]

Efficiency: 300kw (300 kwh at full load)

Fuel consumption: 230 grams per kilowatt hour (82L/h at full load)

Upgrade: Repair (130), increase volume (50), increase conversion efficiency (300), change material (420), change energy supply mode – biomass (4450)…

"I choose to repair it!"

Love is a flash of green light! (TN: Song lyrics for Green Light by Stefanie Sun.)

As he said that, a green light emitted from his body contained Su Mo's deep love for the generator.

As he stroked the outer part of the generator, Su Mo's eyes were full of affection.

"Any man would love a wild machine like you!"

Gradually, the generator fuel tank, which had a hole, began to deform slightly under the touch of the green light.

Rows of silver dots appeared next to the fuel tank out of thin air. Under the restraint of the green light, they stuck onto the damaged part of the fuel tank.

The hole that was as big as a fist quickly closed up and the green light disappeared after three to five seconds.

The generator's fuel tank was repaired and looked brand new.

[Diesel Generator (normal)]

Efficiency: 300kw (300 kwh at full load)

Fuel consumption: 230 grams per kilowatt hour (82L/h at full load)

Su Mo laid carefully on the generator and tried to remember every small tip as well as the easiest way to turn it on.

The generator's fuel consumption at full load was extremely terrifying. With the current diesel reserve he had, it would be exhausted in less than three hours on full load.

Originally, Su Mo was worried that he would not be able to control the output power after turning it on.

However, after learning how to operate it, he discovered that diesel generators had a clutch and a throttle.

A complete set of control systems was written completely in the generator program. As long as the power was set manually, the output intensity would be able to be controlled, which was extremely convenient.

After learning how to operate it, Su Mo opened up the fuel tank and began to pour diesel fuel into it.

Boom! Rumble rumble rumble!

When he heard the sound above the fuel tank working, it indicated that the output power was stable and worked. After that, Su Mo quickly turned off the machine and spoke a little excitedly.

"If I get any weapons or devices that require electricity, I'll be able to boldly upgrade them."

The choices he had included electric spears and electric automatic crossbows.

After getting the design drawing and planning for the interior design of his shelter, he would be able to distribute the wires to each room after he get a set of batteries.

If he ever finds a light bulb, he could finally retire his torch at night!

After he sat back on his stool, Su Mo was still not able to calm down for a long time.

For modern humans, electricity has long been an indispensable thing in life. Even if he did not have any electrical equipment yet, as long as there was a generator, his future goal was very clear–

To look for electrical equipment!

To build a super shelter that ran mainly on electricity!

As his mood surged upward, Su Mo held back his excitement. He took out some biscuits, crushed Oreo's portion and soaked it in water. As the scent of the broken biscuits and the fragrance of the psychic energy water mixed together, Oreo, who had been barking at the door, was immediately attracted to the scent. After that, it laid on the ground and licked wildly at its food bowl.

When Su Mo saw how much Oreo was enjoying its food, he got a little appetite as well. He took out a biscuit, poured out a glass of psychic energy water, and finished his breakfast.

Since it was still raining outside, Su Mo decided to use that time to start his daily training and trained Oreo how to work with him as well.

Bit by bit.

When it was almost twelve o'clock, the dark clouds in the sky began to quickly dissipate.

A ray of golden sunlight appeared from the sky and shone onto the ground, illuminating every dark corner.

When it was time, it was as if the system panel had a convulsion and began to broadcast and send the messages to everyone.

[Record: The first disaster has ended. The total number of deaths at the end of this disaster: 145547893 people

[Record: The novice disaster is over. The announcement panel will be officially disabled. Please observe the panel function notification prompts in time.

[Record: The novice period is over. The first version update has started by default…

[Record: Update completed.

[Record: The first Disaster Points have been recorded and they have been issued according to the shelter's disaster-resistant property rankings and disaster-resistant performance.

[Record: Trande system update: Every time there is a trade request, a certain amount of Disaster Resistance Points must be paid as a handling fee based on the weight and property of the item.

[Record: Open secret realm trading: The secret realm is automatically opened one day before each disaster, and channel members of the same area can bring resources when entering the secret realm for trading (trading in the secret realm prohibits fights and is absolutely safe).

[Record: Update on the inventory function mode: The first time payment of 100 Disaster Resistance Points will allow you to redeem one cubic meter of storage space. After that, the point requirement is doubled every time.

[Record: Update on the private message function: Adding a friend for the first time requires 1 point. You may only chat after the addition is successful.

[Record: Update on the creation system. The following weapons are deleted (torches, wooden doors, wooden boxes, grass raincoats…). When creating items, Disaster Points are required and adjusted according to the difficulty of creating the items.

[Record: It was detected that the fatality rate exceeded the prediction. Automatic adjustment of the disaster warning time: Fifteen days.

[Record: It was detected that the fatality rate exceeded the prediction. We will start putting more people in (51, 17). The launch time will be completed before the end of the second disaster.

[Record: All major Regional Channels will be re-integrated. After each disaster, channels with less than 1000 people will be automatically integrated.

After all the notification prompts sounded three times in a row, the game panel was officially opened.

Wow!

In an instant, all the lucky surviving humans flooded the chat channels, blasting the World Channel and Regional Channels!

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Chapter 36: Rule Change. Second Round Of Natural Disaster!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"No way. I can understand why you put a limit on all items, but why apply it to the creation function? Even a wooden spear costs me 1 disaster point, yet you're only giving me 13 points!"

"The end of mankind has come. This damn game sure is up to no good. It's coming up with ways to kill us!"

"Bring down the game's dominance. This world should let the people make their own decisions. Hurrah!"

"You need points to trade now. A handling fee of 3 points will be charged for something weighing 4kg. Why don't they just rob us?"

"Huge reward. My mother has been sent to xx position. Is there anyone in the vicinity? Help me take care of her. She has no points. We can't private message each other!"

"We're dead meat. Without a storage space, my meat will rot in a few days!"

"Looking for someone kind to team up with. My location is probably in XX. Anyone nearby who's interested can just private message me!"

Sitting inside the shelter, which was full of items from the inventory, Su Mo read through the shelters' upgrade announcements with a grimace.

The change was a big step forward in making the somewhat gamified survival world real.

The creation system was canceled, and the torch that burned for 12 hours with one piece of wood and two plant fibers disappeared.

Other creation options such as providing materials to create buggy items were gone, leaving only the necessary tools and weapons, which could only be created by providing points.

"Trading needs points, inventory needs points, creating needs points, private messaging need points… You need points for everything."

Disaster Points were all the update announcements talked about.

Everyone thought that the days where money troubled heroes were gone forever but did not expect it to return in such a ridiculous way.

Opening the system interface and Su Mo saw his points in a bright spot in the lower right corner:

632 points!

"It's a good thing I upgraded the shelter first and got a ranking. The first place gets 400 points. What a steal!"

After surveying the cost of all the items, Su Mo's tensed heart relaxed.

Because he was one step in front of everyone and alone, he got to enjoy all the Disaster Points and was extremely rich in the eyes of others.

Until another further major change, Su Mo could still use the creation system and the trading system.

As for the others… the end of the novice period had forced many people hiding in the shelter to face the harsh reality.

It was time to step outside the shelter and explore the wilderness!

The most lethal part of all these changes for Su Mo was the big cut to the storage space.

The previous storage system did not care about space. No matter how big the item being stored in the inventory was, it was counted as a unit.

For example, it was convenient how he could store the stones and iron resources he had into one inventory tab.

After the change, at least he could not store items as unruly as before, throwing in a few dozen units of resources all at once.

After clicking on the space icon in the inventory, Su Mo had an idea.

"Pay 100 Disaster Points and activate storage space."

As if buying inventory expansion rolls in some underground city game, Su Mo's gaze seemed to silently penetrate the space and came into a small space of one meter in length, width and height.

[Record: Your Disaster Points-100. Your storage system's current volume: 1 cubic meter.

After activating the storage system, the specific method of use remained unchanged.

You only need to focus on an item for one second to absorb the ownerless item.

The absorbed item could also reappear in Su Mo's hand or 50cm from where it needed to be placed within a second.

He switched to the trading channel and tried it out.

Su Mo dismissed the idea of continuing to sell water.

The current trading system calculated their fee by weight, with a starting price of 2 points for the first 3kg and 1 point for each subsequent 1kg.

It meant that the idea of massively hoarding resources through the trading system had been invalidated.

The ultimate goal of the game panel was to promote each regional channel to communicate with each other and have resources they could bring into the trading secret realm.

"Sure enough. This isn't a simple survival game."

"Fortunately, my sister's 16, and my parents are 54, so I don't have to worry about them being sent in during this disaster. Otherwise, with the current exploration progress, I'll have to risk my life."

After observing the chat between World Channel and Regional Channel for a while, the tension in Su Mo's heart came back.

After exiting to the upper right corner of the game panel, a number 15 and a snowflake icon appeared in the area where the disaster was displayed again.

When Su Mo focused on the number of days, a single line of prompt popped up.

[Countdown to the next disaster event outbreak: 15 days]

[Disaster Event: Blizzard (20 degrees below zero for 72 hours)]

"F*ck. 20 degrees below zero. Is this game f*cking out of their mind?"

The black paper and white text on the panel obviously would not change the slightest bit because of Su Mo's anger.

"How can ordinary people survive a sudden blizzard just after acid rain?"

Su Mo suppressed his anger, and his face was flushed.

The first acid rain disaster was a difficult disaster for the underground shelters.

This storm was going to be an extreme test for the on-the-ground shelters.

Explorations, access to food, and above all, the need to keep warm could be daunting challenges for the on-the-ground shelters once the temperature dropped and the weather was cold.

"72 hours…"

Su Mo's teeth were clattering.

Currently, the underground shelter was 140 square feet. Its corresponding temperature would be much lower than other underground shelters.

If he could not find proper heating in half a month, he would probably…

With this in mind, Su Mo impatiently closed the game panel and began to think about how to respond to the disaster fifteen days later.

The disasters in survival games were too frequent.

If it was a disaster every month, Su Mo had the confidence to get back to the electric era with the survival points in less than a year.

However, the second disaster was just 15 days away and had disrupted his development plans.

"I'll go out and collect trash tomorrow. No, today. I must find heating facilities as soon as possible!"

With disaster looming, Su Mo had no intention of waiting for the rain to dry up.

After spending another 200 points and upgrading the storage system to 2 cubic meters, Su Mo began to move the clutter on the floor.

First, he moved all the stones and irons to the innermost corner of the shelter.

Then he used 8 units of wood to make wooden boards to build an ugly storage locker and put all the food and resources into it.

All that was left on the floor was some clutter.

"Huh… Isn't this the shelter's intact core?"

Picking up the glowing turtle armor on the ground, Su Mo touched his forehead.

He had too many things to work on every day. Before he could fuse the core last night, the generator captured his attention.

Now it seemed to be a lucky coincidence.

The shelter was already big enough, and the supplies were not enough to take up all the space. If it continued to expand, the temperature in the shelters was bound to fall further.

He would be forced to suffer in silence by then.

Carefully putting away the turtle armor in the storage system and putting all the clutter to the corner, Su Mo began to prepare what he would take with him to explore the ruins today.

It was urgent to explore the outside world when a natural disaster was around the corner.

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Chapter 37: Ah~ The First Time "Going On A Long Trip"

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The vast wasteland world.

Not only unknown underground ruins but also the nearby landscape was all a blank to Su Mo.

"Bring a bottle of mineral water, a bottle of psychic energy water, fifty crossbow arrows, a Japanese Oak Spear, bring… Erm… the mace too."

"Bring some materials in case I need them."

Su Mo stuffed it with items, piece by piece.

Going out to explore was not a child's game. You had to be fully geared up to treat Doomsday with the highest level of respect.

Having gathered everything, Su Mo opened the shelter's main door.

It happened to be noon.

The sun descended to the world like a god, shining bright.

However, the time was too short, and the rain on the ground had not evaporated. There were potholes and water everywhere.

"I wonder if the mutant beasts have survived in this environment."

Su Mo's expression changed.

His mind began to recall the black dog he had met in the ruins of Liangfang Town.

If the mutants in the wasteland were to turn out that way, it was probably nothing less than the coming extreme cold disaster for mankind.

It was either that the mutant beasts would die like humans when they come in contact with the rain.

Or…

Su Mo hoped it was the former.

After checking out his surroundings to make sure nothing was wrong, Su Mo returned to the shelter, grabbed plant fibers, and began weaving a raincoat for Oreo.

There was a lot of water on the ground. It was lethal upon contact with flesh.

He had to rely on Oreo's detection and warning ability on outdoor explorations.

It did not take long. After putting it in the wardrobe and spending 10 survival points to make the same thing, a brand-new raincoat for dogs left the factory was ready.

Oreo, who had been stuck in the shelter for two days, jumped up and down with joy when it saw its new clothes.

After putting on its raincoat, it ran out of the shelter and began sniffing around.

Seeing that, Su Mo closed the shelter main door. After making sure he had everything, he turned around to go back to the second passage and climbed up it.

The shelter main door's current design was still stupid. It could only be closed and open on the inside, not on the outside.

It was a good thing there was a second passageway. Otherwise, he was finished if someone robbed his house when he was out on a long trip.

Climbing out of the shelter's second passage and opening a stone door covered with a layer of soil, Su Mo reached the back of the hill.

The acid rain lake sparkled in the scorching sun.

After taking a second look at the place where he buried the men last night and making sure there was nothing unusual with it, Su Mo closed the small door, covered it with soil, and went back to the front door.

The underground ruins were three and a half kilometers from the shelter as the crow flies.

They would get there in half an hour if they did not take detours.

"Let's hurry and explore in broad daylight. We have to get back before the sun goes down."

Su Mo trotted forward.

Although there were potholes on the ground, he was quite familiar with the nearby terrain, so it was easy to walk on.

Oreo, who had been 200m away from Su Mo, was in charge of patrol and detecting mutants.

"Woof woof woof!"

After more than 700 meters of walking, Oreo, who had been calm until then, suddenly barked, making Su Mo tense.

"Are there monsters?"

"Woof!"

After getting an affirmative answer from Oreo, Su Mo did not hesitate to activate the first Monster Illustration Handbook scan today.

[One-horned sand wolves *6 were detected 331m away from the player … Danger factor 48. Please be cautious]

[Today's count 2/3]

Su Mo was stunned.

"One-horned sand wolves, and even six of them?"

Opening the Monster Illustration Handbook, Su Mo did a quick scan and immediately understood the animals' nature.

The most common mutant beasts' food sold in the trading market were sand wolves. As animals who live in packs, they were not very effective in fighting.

A normal adult male with one weapon could easily beat two sand wolves.

Sand wolves' rate of return was extremely high. Not only would you get meat, but also sand wolf skin and sand wolf blood. You might even get treasure chests.

Licking his lips, Su Mo calmed himself down and had an idea. He took out his crossbow from his storage bag.

The energetic Oreo immediately showed its professional fighting qualities after running into enemies.

Keeping its head low, sniffing the scent, and moving its ears to listen from time to time. The man and the dog did not move very fast.

Before long, Su Mo, who had minimized the sound of his footsteps, saw the sand wolves lying under a big rock a hundred meters away, trying to hide from the natural disaster.

"Whew… It turns out that these animals also have a natural tendency to seek good and avoid harm."

With the help of his good eyesight, Su Mo saw four sand wolves lying on the ground resting.

The other two sand wolves were looking around warily.

Seeing Su Mo in the distance, the sand wolves froze for a moment and began to howl in panic.

Swoosh!

The crossbow arrow went through its throat and took the life of the sand wolf that was howling!

Quickly winding the crossbow, Su Mo observed the remaining five sand wolves.

After being attacked, the sand wolves all got up and growled in Su Mo's direction.

They tried to be as threatening as possible, bluffing by having so many companions around.

Unfortunately, the sand wolves were aware of the power of acid rain. The water spots on the ground made them afraid of taking the initiative to attack and could only rage helplessly where they stood.

"What a good opportunity."

After he was done winding the crossbow, he took aim, and the crossbow arrow was fired once again, taking away another sand wolf's life.

The four remaining sand wolves began to howl in dismay. One of them even tried to escape, but when his foot touched the damp ground, he retracted his foot as if it had just touched fire.

Su Mo raised his brow when he saw what the sand wolf did.

"I had full view the first time I used the crossbow. The second time, the enemy couldn't move at all. I'm so lucky."

H did not know if he should call the sand wolves smart or stupid.

They had no idea why a distant figure could shoot one arrow after another. With Oreo threatening them at the side, the sand wolves could do nothing but stand there like sitting ducks.

"Die!"

With no effort at all, Su Mo harvested a pack of sand wolves by using only six crossbow arrows.

In the distance, six sand wolves gave him two treasure chests. One of wood and one of iron.

Even without going into the underground ruin, he had gained something from the trip.

He went closer and retrieved all the crossbow arrows stuck on the sand wolves. Then he loaded all the sand wolves into the storage space.

Wagging its head, Oreo came to Su Mo's feet, showing off its exploits.

Su Mo touched Oreo's head and laughed. "The meat is all yours after I have taken care of them when we get back. Don't worry. I won't fight you for them!"

"Woof woof woof!"

Oreo was so excited that it rubbed its head against Su Mo's palm.

[Record: You opened the wooden treasure chest.

[Record: You have gained Fanta soda *1.

[Record: You have gained Master Kong Old Altar Pickled Beef Noodle*1.

As the wooden chest's light faded, a bottle of soda and a cup of instant noodles were left behind.

"Slurp…"

At the sight of the instant noodles on the ground, Su Mo instantly felt the saliva running in his mouth, and his taste buds burst as if he had absorbed instant noodles' rich soup.

With reluctant eyes, he put the two items into the storage space. Su Mo looked forward to the iron treasure chest.

[Record: You opened the iron treasure chest.

[Record: You have gained workbench blueprint *1.

[Record: You have gained a simple clamp *1

[Record: You have gained a beaker *1.

A series of resources popped up with the prompts.

A blue blueprint, a forearm-length iron clamp, and a beaker made of glass appeared on the ground.

"The workbench blueprint has no use for now, but I'll study it first."

After picking up the blueprint and crumpling it up to study it, Su Mo grabbed two more items and threw them into the storage space.

"What a pity. I should have built the ranged weapon sooner if I had known."

"But I'm lucky today. It would've been a headache if these six sand wolves were fast-moving."

Su Mo sighed as he straightened up and set off again.

The confrontation between one man, one dog, and six wolves, including reaping the spoils, took only about ten minutes. With favorable conditions, Su Mo was confident about their journey ahead.

After reembarking on the journey, he compared the map all the way. This time, Su Mo walked two kilometers without finding any sign of mutant beasts.

"Maybe Huang Biao got rid of all the mutant beasts they could handle when they came over. This pack of sand canines was also unlucky. They probably came to this place to take shelter from the rain and were caught alive by me."

Su Mo, who had been tense all the way, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the distance, he could already see the terrain symbol marked on the map.

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Chapter 38: Did Someone Get Here First? First Time Exploring The Ruins!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Stopping down, Su Mo began to look around.

Along the way, Su Mo felt a noticeable fluctuation as he lay flat on his stomach.

"If I'm not mistaken, I'm in a basin."

They were three kilometers away. Looking at the road they came, the distance had become blurry, and the horizon had hidden part of the scenery.

Looking west, he could feel the slope of the terrain rising.

After taking a good look around, Su Mo found the site of the ruins.

"Is… this where the prehistoric ruins are?"

It was a terrain almost identical to the shelter.

There was also a small hill where the underground ruins were located. There was no perfect drainage facility around it because of the terrain, which led to the large pools of water.

Of course, if there were no markings on the map and the existence of the ruins, it would be the perfect place to build a shelter by choosing it as the foundation and adding pipes to clear the water.

"Woof woof woof!"

Oreo retreated from the distance and asked his master for advice.

Because of more than a day of heavy rain, the water near the ruins was so deep that Oreo could not cross it even in his raincoat.

Looking at Oreo's frightened expression, Su Mo said without hesitation.

"We have to figure out this shelter. It's the only known treasure spot near us. Wait here for me. I'll go there alone."

"Woof?"

Oreo wagged its tail, not wanting to be separated from its master.

Bending over and rubbing Oreo's head, Su Mo comforted it.

"Don't worry. Keep watch for your master outside. The acid rain inside is scary. Once you touch it…"

"Hiss! Your fur's gone!"

Oreo, who was still eager to have a try, was immediately shocked by Su Mo. Its eyes showed a feeling of fear, grievance, and reluctance to part with him. It simply stayed squatted in the same place and shook its big tail.

Standing up, Su Mo took a deep breath, pulled out his raincoat from the storage space, and started putting it on.

The flowing raincoat did not hinder regular movements at all. After inspecting to ensure there were no leaks, Su Mo began to wade through the water one step at a time.

It was still about two hundred meters from where the hill was.

The water level was over his feet.

As a precaution, Su Mo decided to walk around the hill to get behind it and try to explore in a direction that was less prone to the water pooling first.

The plain soil had never been solid had become mud under the rain.

Su Mo walked every step with great difficulty.

A small part of his leg would even get stuck sometimes, and he had to spend a lot of effort to pull it out.

Wading through the water, he walked for about twenty minutes only to have gone around a hundred and fifty meters.

As they reached higher terrain, the soil began to harden, and the water gradually disappeared.

However, various footprints on the ground made Su Mo tense.

The footprints looked "fresh" and could be seen clearly in the heavy rain.

There were footprints split into two toes and a bunch of feline footprints.

A few hairs could be seen occasionally in the crevices of the soil.

Crouching on the ground, Su Mo carefully picked up the hair in the cracks and looked at it carefully.

"It does look like feline fur. With this flexibility, it's definitely not a regular animal."

With a restless heart, Su Mo clicked on the game panel and pressed Monster Illustration Handbook for the second time today.

[No mutant beast presence detected within a thousand-meter radius of the player.]

[Today's count 1/3]

"That's strange. In theory, felines should be very territorial. This can't be its territory."

Felines used claw scratches and urine to mark the boundaries of their territory and tell other animals when they passed to avoid accidental meetings and conflicts.

After looking around, Su Mo shook his head. He could not find markings nearby.

"Is this blood?"

Touching the side of the hill, Su Mo found a pool of blood that had seeped into the ground.

He lowered his head and smelled the smell of the ground. Other than the stench of the earth after a rainy day, he could smell a trace of blood.

There was also a lot of hair near the blood.

And…

A place that had been bombarded.

"What's this? Holy shit, was this bombarded by a grenade?"

The further he went to the side of the hill, the more traced of animals there were.

When Su Mo got around to the left, he was shocked to see scorched marks on the ground.

The grass beside the marks was still green, but nothing was growing in the center of the marks.

The area that was bombarded was extremely unusual. According to the diameter of the center of the explosion, it was only about 50cm.

Besides, the land was not blown up, which made no sense for a fixed-point bomb or a hand-thrown grenade.

Su Mo felt had a bad feeling.

He walked quickly back to the middle of the hill and walked to the top of it. As he neared the end, there were more bombardment marks.

Besides, a big dark hole was blasted out at the front.

"Did someone get here first?"

Fetching a flashlight from the storage space and turning it on, Su Mo peered into the hole.

It was more than four meters from the hole to the ground. It was almost the same height as the shelter. The building here gave Su Mo a sense of familiarity.

"Why does it feel so intensely familiar? Is this not a human shelter?"

If this were an RPG game, there would be countless questions marks hanging over Su Mo's head.

'How about getting down there to check it out?'

A bold idea flourished like crazy after popping out of Su Mo's mind.

Everything here was too strange. The inexplicable feline fur, the small bombardments at several points, and the design of structures that mimicked a human shelter all added a sense of mystery to the underground ruins.

After opening the storage space and searching around, Su Mo decided to use the original method of weaving a hemp rope.

It was more than four meters high. It was easy to jump down but difficult to come back up.

Taking out two units of plant fiber and sitting at the hole, Su Mo began to weave the hemp rope.

In less than 20 minutes, Su Mo had woven a rope about three meters long by repeatedly winding strands of tough plant fibers down it.

Taking out two units of iron and putting them on the ground, he tied a section of the hemp rope to the iron, and a simple up and down device was completed.

At this moment, Su Mo was glad that he had joined a DIY craft club in college.

Otherwise, this simple job would have been a little difficult for ordinary people to do.

After putting away everything, Su Mo tried throwing pebbles around. After making sure that there was no mechanism, Su Mo began to explore the ruins for the first time.

He had read a lot about tomb raiding in novels, but it was difficult to actually do it.

Awkwardly biting the flashlight in his mouth, Su Mo grabbed the rope and began to slide down.

The rough touch of the plant fibers greatly increased the friction of the slide. Su Mo had to put a lot of effort into getting a good grip of it in each slide.

When there was only one meter left, Su Mo released and naturally fell to the ground.

After holding his breath for a long time, Su Mo gasped heavily as soon as he recovered.

However, when he lifted his head and looked ahead by the light of his flashlight, he felt a thump in his heart.

One person ()

A skeleton ()

He had just got rid of five hoodlums last night but looking at a skull that had fallen on the ground looking sideways at him.

There was a burst of cool air behind him.

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Chapter 39: A… A Car?

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The skull on the ground did not snort, nor did fire burst from its eye sockets, shouting "How dare you?", rising from the ground and screaming.

"Doth thee dareth dismount and square me?"

It just lay sideways on the ground and looked at him with empty eyes.

He knew in his heart that everyone already knew that the world was very different from what they knew before after transmigrating.

However, it was hard to avoid feeling waves of fear seeing a skeleton scattered on the ground with his own eyes.

After all, humans had a natural fear of the supernatural.

Su Mo's heart was churning quickly as he looked at what was before him.

He moved his steps gently, trying to avoid the skull's line of sight.

Crack!

Su Mo carefully took a step to the left but accidentally stepped on an object on the ground that gave a loud crack.

He looked down and immediately felt his scalp tingling.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man. I didn't mean to disturb you. Sorry!"

After being trampled by Su Mo, a white bone arm had broken in half, opening a gash down the middle.

Su Mo looked around by the light. Not only the arm but the floor was littered with bone fragments.

"I wonder who it is. It's so sad…"

Su Mo smiled wryly at the intact skull lying on the ground as he moved away from the broken bones on his right.

The floor of the ruins seemed to be made out of concrete, and plenty of feline fur could be seen scattered on the ground.

After thinking about it, Su Mo took out the last unused torch from his inventory and chose to light it.

It was scary to use the flashlight in the dark ruins.

It was as if he was raiding a tomb. Almost resembling a horror movie if you added the BGM.

As bright flames appeared over the ruins, Su Mo finally had time to take a good look around.

The house of this ruin was small, and Su Mo could faintly see the things inside from near the main door.

Focusing, Su Mo sadly discovered that, for some reason, the game panel's identification function and the survival system's identification function had been turned off.

It was more like an underground shelter than a ruin.

"Record my shelter as shelter number one and refer this underground ruin as shelter number two for the time being."

Opening his usual private messages, Su Mo found the friends he had added earlier and began to write down what he saw and heard.

Memories could deceive, words could not.

After writing down what he had seen, maybe he could figure out where the loopholes were after getting back to the shelter and analyze it.

Upon reaching the main door, the first exploration description began to appear in the chat box.

"Doomsday calendar Month 1 Day 6, entering shelter number two for the first time."

"Shelter number two is made of iron or steel of unknown materials according to simple touch and sound. The feeling is similar to the alloy doors of the civilization era. The strength is yet to be tested, and there is no trace of leakage."

"The wall is made of unknown materials. According to observation, it's initially suspected to be the product of reinforced concrete or unknown architectural stone. It's extremely strong. Observing from the hole at the top, the thickness of the wall is about 25cm."

"There are mysterious patterns on the floor, with different quantities and shapes. There are no symmetrical patterns for reference or any communication. No specific reference value at present (emphasis, need to investigate)."

"There are dozens of unknown feline fur (picked up), a humanoid skeleton (cannot be determined to be human, to be investigated)."

"There are scattered tables around, overturned utensils on the floor, no paper records, and I can't use the game panel to view the properties. The reason is unknown."

"Combined with previous signs, it is highly likely that it has been explored by an unknown presence (emphasis: explosives, fur), and most of the valuable objects have been removed or destroyed!"

"At the innermost side of the shelter is an abandoned deep well similar to the psychic energy water well. At first smell, it gave off a strange fragrance. Uh, it's a little overwhelming, but it makes you happy after you smelled it."

"I smell it again and think that… It smells like blueberry jam."

"I smell it again and think that… it smells like the spectacular Chinese photinia in spring."

"Su Mo oh Su Mo. How can you let yourself indulge in it? Have you forgotten what you came here for?"

"I smell it again and think that…"

"Cross out the whole paragraph."

"I tried to lift the abandoned well manually but found that the method was wrong, and the device was stuck. The cause is unknown (prioritized investigation!). "

"At the corner of the shelter, there was a straight stairway heading downstairs. There was a small amount of feline fur on the stairs and was stuck on the edge (collect)."

"Fourteen steps down the stairs, and I found the second floor of the shelter (emphasis). Did I find a car from the civilized era?"

Holding a torch and remembering the smell of the abandoned well while taking notes, Su Mo froze.

As Su Mo's focus dissipated, the game panel began to fade into view.

However, none of this caught Su Mo's attention.

Because… on the underground second floor, Su Mo immediately saw the vehicles placed in the middle.

"Isn't… Isn't this the buggy in PUBG?"

Behind the vehicle frame, reinforced with a triangular roll cage, sat an engine smaller than a generator but much more demonstrably detailed.

It had a single seat and even a "luxurious" convertible with ventilation on all sides with no glass restrictions so that the driver could fully feel the touch of nature when driving.

The overall shape was obviously like a buggy except that the tire was flat, and there were several dents on the frame due to external force.

Human civilization?

Su Mo had no idea.

If it had not been ransacked, perhaps the details inside would have led him to the owner's identity.

However…

This mess had destroyed any possibility of finding out the identity. Even around the second floor…

"Hmm? Is that a card word?"

Looking at a pictograph of "car" on the left side of the wall, Su Mo subconsciously looked at the only buggy on the second floor.

Looking to the right, an arrow-shaped indicator pointed right at the buggy car in the center.

The meaning was self-evident.

"Does the owner of the ruin want to send a message with this car?"

Su Mo frowned, trying to think as much as he could about what he had missed when he came down.

From the Liangfang Town in the misty ruins to the underground ruins, it seemed to be traces left by his own kind. Others were playing violent pushing games, while he was the only one solving mental puzzles.

Su Mo had an idea and began to connect and analyze all the details after entering the ruin.

Time passed.

One speculation after another was denied, and all the clues led to one place.

Shaking his head, Su Mo hurried over to the buggy's tank, where he decided to test his hypothesis based on the instructions.

Unfortunately, after opening the lid of the tank to take a look, sure enough, the oil in the tank had already evaporated.

He could use the diesel from the shelter as fuel for the buggy, but there was too little storage space for him to take it with him when he came out.

"I wonder if there's diesel or gasoline in here…"

If the buggy was in good condition and working, he could go anywhere in this world!

Holding the torch, Su Mo was about to carefully squat on the ground to search for a diesel bucket.

However, there was suddenly a great noise outside!

"Woof woof woof~ Awoo!"

"Woof!"

"Woof!"

First came Oreo's signature barking, followed by two very strange, human-like barks.

"Oh no! It's Oreo's warning. There are 'people' outside!"

Su Mo instead put out the torch, took out his well-strung crossbow, and darted off to the first floor.

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Chapter 40: This World Is Too Insane!

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Without the bright flame of the torch or the white light of the flashlight, the entire shelter number two was pitch-black, with only a little light shining through a large hole on the first floor.

Outside, Oreo's barking continued, but the other two barks changed their pitch.

For some reason, Su Mo heard a human emotion from the two barks.

'Are they making fun of it?'

'Or is it contempt?'

Step by step, Su Mo walked steadily on the steps in the dark, the human fear in his eyes fading rapidly, replaced by a touch of beastly calmness.

He focused, and the game panel appeared. He clicked on the illustration handbook's scanning function.

[No mutant beast presence detected within a thousand-meter radius of the player.]

[Today's count 0/3]

He had run out of chances and failed to scan the face of the creatures outside. Su Mo got tenser.

Crouching at the corner between the first and second floors, Su Mo positioned his crossbow on the railing at the stairway and quietly aimed at the hole where he got down from.

"Awoo~ Awoo~"

"Woof~"

Hearing Oreo's panic and aggrieved voice and another barking of contempt outside, Su Mo bit his lip.

"Run, Oreo! Let them in!"

Su Mo silently roared to himself, wishing that Oreo would be wise enough to run away.

If the enemy was alone, Su Mo had the confidence to charge out and confront them.

However, once the number of unknown creatures exceeds 1, humans could only defeat them by relying on their intelligence, which was different from beasts.

Suddenly, Oreo's high-pitched cry rang, followed by two more short cries and then another high-pitched cry.

Su Mo's calm face lit up with joy at the sound.

It was at the shelter that Su Mo taught Oreo its first letter for two days while they could not go outside.

In Morse code, it was the first letter of running, R.

It meant there was a strong enemy outside and detour.

Sure enough, after Oreo finished that note, two joyful barks rang outside.

Su Mo watched along the gaping hole closely.

Two footsteps hit the soil, and the sound of footsteps on the ground had already faintly rung in the hole, and Su Mo could hear it after it reflected off the wall.

"Lighter than my footstep. Not very heavy. My initial suspicion is that it's an animal that can walk upright."

It did not matter if he did not know how to differentiate from the sound. After a while of careful listening, Su Mo was relieved by his comparison.

The footsteps were crisp in the front and back. They were not at all canine mammals and were akin to a human.

The voice was very soft, indicating that they were not heavyweight and did not possess overwhelming strength and speed.

One second…

Two seconds…

As the sound got closer and closer, the two unidentified creatures finally approach the mouth of the cave.

"Woof awoo hiss hiss woof woo woof deet woof chi woof?"

"Woof poof woof bing woof hiss woo woo woof!"

The two pieces of iron and rope obviously attracted the attention of the unknown creature, and a headachingly inexplicable sound came through the opening.

I can't understand them!

Su Mo could only concentrate and carefully analyze the two creatures' moods from the voice.

"Fortunately, the second creature's tone was assured. The first one was a little doubtful, but they got over it after saying something."

Su Mo's heart was hanging in the air, afraid that two monsters would be waiting for him at the mouth of the cave or that more monsters would be called over to use the huge-crowd strategy.

Two stupid dogs… Oh no, two "people" were obviously not very intelligent.

Even the braver one was already hanging on to Su Mo's rope and walked down.

In the bright part of the hole, a black leg covered in fur had appeared in Su Mo's view.

A boot made of an unknown material was wrapped around the foot.

"It's so thin they look like two bamboo monsters. They probably won't be much of a fight!"

Holding the crossbow by the rear handle, Su Mo put his finger on the trigger and stared at the figure that was about to land.

Another small leg dropped, and the figure appeared in a long animal skin dress like a primitive man.

Before Su Mo could continue his observation, the monster suddenly dropped sharply, and its whole body came into view.

"Holy shit!"

Su Mo had a clear view of the monster because of the light in the cave.

The horror in his heart almost drove him to scream.

"Is this… a kobold?"

The monster that slid down had a scaly upper body. The color changed from dark brown on the lower part of the body to black on the upper part.

If not examined carefully, the head looked slightly like an abstract dog head. It had two small pale horns, shining eyes, and a straight rat tail.

Coupled with the monster's sound earlier, Su Mo knew almost instantly that these two monsters were the legendary monsters that everyone was familiar with in games…

Kobold!

"Woof hiss hiss hiss!"

Su Mo forcibly resisted the impulse to shoot. He calmly watched the kobold, who had just slipped down and was shouting for its partner.

One spear was dropped and taken by the kobold, who came down first. Another wooden stick dropped, and the kobold placed it on the ground.

Then a second kobold began to slide down the rope.

They were probably from different breeds. The second kobold's legs were streaked with blood, rising from its ankles to its profile.

The latter kobold seemed to have a more delicate hide skirt, having a subtle aristocratic feeling.

When both got down, kobold number one kicked the miserable skull aside, making way for the aristocratic kobold.

When all was done, the aristocratic kobold patted the dust off itself, picked up its wooden stick, and began to look around.

At the same time, Su Mo looked away and lowered his head gently, allowing the railings of the staircase to block the kobolds' view.

It was not easy to see in the dark from a bright area.

However…

Su Mo dared not gamble it.

"The world is too insane. Do you know what kobolds are?"

Biologists would have been ecstatic, shouting that they had discovered a new intelligent animal.

However, without extensive testing, they could only give a rough rundown of the habits of this new creature.

Fortunately, the two kobolds did not seem to care at all whether there was anyone inside. They just started rummaging around inside shelter number two.

"Should I kill kobold number one or the aristocratic kobold first?"

After a moment's hesitation.

Su Mo decided to kill the kobold with the spear first.

Under these circumstances, he could only take one shot with the crossbow arrow. He would not have time to reload the crossbow.

Therefore, the first monster to get rid of was of course the one that posed the greatest threat.

Of the two, Su Mo chose the kobold number one, who was the easiest to identify and also appeared to be holding a murder weapon.

He looked up and stared at the kobold number one, who was rummaging under the table.

Su Mo's finger was on the trigger.

Slightly moving the angle of the crossbow, Su Mo made each move as slow and as steady as possible, making sure that no sound of metal against metal was heard.

The two "cute kobolds" had no response at all. They were still talking and searching.

They were trying to find something valuable enough.

Swoosh!

A shrill sound suddenly rang in the dark shelter.

Then a splash of blood erupted from kobold number one's neck.

The acid rain-coated crossbow arrow almost killed it right away. Unprotected by skin, it rapidly eroded kobold number one's fragile veins.

The next moment, all you could hear in the shelter was the sound of blood trickling.

After checking thrice and deciding that kobold number one was no longer a threat, Su Mo stepped onto the first floor in two steps instead of three.

He hurled his crossbow hard at the aristocratic kobold to disrupt his line of sight.

He focused and summoned the Japanese Oak Spear before rushing over.

"Hiyah! Hiyah! You darn thing. Watch me puncture you. Ah ah ah ah!"

Su Mo let go of all his power and screamed as hard as he could as he charged forward.

The thunderous cry echoed back and forth through shelter number two like a dull thunder roar, making people's eardrums hurt.

The kobold on the other side was also scared by the noise. It stopped what it was doing and almost fell over.

However, Su Mo was still too slow when he charged forward. The darkness of the shelter and the obstacles at his feet made him afraid to do so without any hesitation.

It also gave the aristocratic kobold a chance to catch its breath.

A flash of fire started to converge in the kobold's hand, and before Su Mo could reach it, it had turned into a small fireball.

"F*ck! What is this?"

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Even if the noble dog-headed person were to take out a hand grenade from his clutches now and shout :

"Fire!"

Su Mo would not be as afraid as he is right now.

Handcrafted nuclear bomb? No! Handcrafted hand grenade?

Fire Style : Fireball Jutsu?

Magic?

The various filmworks, novels, anime, and countless of different cultures Sumo had experienced on Earth still did not allow him to take the magic of this monster in front of him seriously.

Seeing the noble dog-headed person point his staff, Su Mo could not care about anything else and quickly rolled behind a table to try to escape it.

The fireball flew very quickly!

Su Mo felt a spicy and fiery feeling rushing towards him while rolling, he knew his raincoat had a hole from being burnt now, and his ceramic armor was sure to be damaged as well.

Luckily for him, the two pieces of armor protected him enough to absorb the aftershock of the fireball, and it did not harm his skin directly.

The fireball flew straight at the fencing behind him, and split the fencing into two.

Judging from the physical damage it dealt, this fireball did not have a large AoE, but still had single target power, and was not small in terms of firepower.

Without thinking much, after the explosion ended, Su Mo began his second round of movements.

The fighting spirit is greatest at the first attempt, and will slowly diminish the second try and will run out on the third!

Su Mo did not know if the dog-headed person could fire fireballs consecutively, but he knew if this skill had a cooldown, the dog-headed person is dead for sure, if not, he himself would be dead.

Given these choices, why hesitate?

Let's see if I can end you here and now!

Rushing over, using the light, Su Mo could see the dog-headed noble panicking, and even saw him try to reach for a dog-headed wooden spear.

"Huh?"

"This is it? This is it?"

"AH AH AH AH AH AH!"

Su Mo began his second wave of sound attacks coupled with the assault.

The continuous sound made Su Mo's eardrums hurt, and the dog-head person had pain on his face too.

The next minute, the sharp wooden spear pierced into the noble dog-headed person's chest, and the tremendous force almost fully penetrated the dog head person's weak body frame.

By using the strength of his waist, the blood vessels Su Mo's arm raised and the spear slowly lifted the dog-headed person by the energy channeled through the spear.

A huge reversal!

The noble dog-headed person was thrown in a perfect arc, and was smashed on the cold floor by Su Mo, seemingly dead.

He found that the spear was stuck after trying to twist it twice.

Fearing the noble dog-headed person would get up and declare the glory of the dog-headed tribe, then declaring it was his duty to protect it and self-destruct.

Su Mo summoned Huang Biao's mace and went forward two steps, using all his might to give the noble dog-headed person a massage.

"Heavy smash eighty"

"Light smash fourty"

"Eighty!"

"Fourty!"

After countless smashes, till all the muscles on the noble dog-head person have fully relaxed, Su Mo sat down, panting.

A silver light flashed and a platinum colored chest spawned where the noble dog headed person had died.

"Another platinum chest, looks like my effort didn't go to waste,"

From his triceps, biceps, wrist, waist, and thighs, Su Mo felt only aching through his entire body.

But compared to the time he ran into the black dog for the first time in the ruins, it was only a short few minutes before Su Mo felt the pain slowly go away.

"This wasteland is really bizarre, even dog-headed wizards exist, outrageous"."

Sitting on the floor and looking at the broken fencing, Su Mo had some fear that lingered.

This kind of power was unlikely to be blocked by a thin piece of metal sheet, armor would surely not either.

By concentrating his mind and summoning the game interface, before Su Mo could take out the magic potions in his storage, three system messages flooded out.

[Note] : You have successfully defeated the owner of the Ruins ( Dog Headed-Person – Durandal Formordurandis )

[Note] : You are now the new owner of the underground Ruins.

[Note] : You have obtained full access to the underground Ruins.

"Looks like this underground shelter had an owner? How could you tell who came first?"

Touching the back of his head, Su Mo took out the mineral water bottle with magic elixir inside, and gulped down half of it.

As the magic elixir went down into the gut, he could feel the pain from the scalding get less.

Barely being able to support himself to get up, Su Mo focused his concentration again and looked at the surroundings of the second shelter.

This time, it was different, new notifications appeared.

[Note] : You have been recognized as the new owner of the underground Ruins.

[Note] : The element of each item can be identified with disaster points.

Starlight slowly appeared out of the surroundings of the shelter, and hovered above each item, as Su Mo focused, tooltips appeared.

[Note] : Do you want to spend 1 point to identify this item?

"Nonono, no identification, no identification."

Shaking his head, Su Mo closed the game interface and cancelled the identification process.

Everytime identification happened, it would cost him one point, even dishonest merchants were not this evil.

Plus, he still had the survival system's free identification to use.

Focusing again, Su Mo summoned the survival system and looked at the damage outside the door, the one that suffered the most was the large table.

A virtual message appeared midar.

[ Small sized thermal weapon crafting machinery ( Extremely Damaged) ]

Description : A small thermal weapon crafting machine that can be used for casting, forging, welding, stamping, extrusion, laser forming and other functions, computer control, one-time molding, quality assurance, currently lacks laser probes, central control computers, and a large number of circuit boards are currently damaged.

Efficiency : Micro/Tiny/Small : 360s/720s/1440s

First upgrade path: Repair machinery, upgrade strengthening process, change the material of the machinery, and raise efficiency, survival points needed ( 6820 )

Second upgrade path: Repair machinery, change the strengthening process type, upgrade to mid sized thermal weapon crafting machine, improve quality, survival points needed ( 35240 )

Evaluation: If the machine was not good enough, monks would consecrate it. Boy, what you lack is a Buddha's heart!

"This…"

"Mass produced one time stamping thermal weaponry?

Looking at the element of the machinery, Su Mo's database was refreshed!

"Choose your upgrade"

Focusing again, the element on the interface changed suddenly.

[ Small sized thermal weapon crafting machinery ( Extremely Damaged) ]

Efficiency : Micro/Tiny/Small : 360s/720s/1440s

Upgrade : Repair ( 3380 ) , Upgrade ( 960 ) , Efficiency ( 350 ), Quality ( 1210 )…

"This expensive?"

Looking at those scary numbers, Su Mo bit on his tongue and hesitated, he was prepared to pay the price to fix this thing, but the numbers sure made him a bit dizzy.

Looking at the other items around, Su Mo finally realized the gap between the poor and the rich.

[ Oil Well ( Damaged ) ]

[Gate of Level 3 Alloy Refuge ( Failure)]

[Simple induction cooker (Destroyed)]

[Composite lithium battery ( Damaged )]

[Tungsten bulb ( Damaged )]

Countless of things, big and small, every item on the ground seemed to have its use, but all of it was in a state of disrepair.

At this moment, if someone could see Su Mo's eyes in the dark.

They are sure to see the light in them.

"I'm rich, I'm rich!"

Su Mo felt an extremely prosperous feeling for his head, the dopamine secretion took away all his pain.

"Right, there's still that bumper car!"

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Chapter 42: Setting up the Scene, and Returning to Base

Thinking that the bumper car downstairs was not really damaged and could be driven, Su Mo felt a sense of great motivation.

Walking over to where the dog-headed person dropped the chest, Su Mo opened his second platinum chest ever since coming to this world.

The mutated chameleon was hard to handle, but comparing it to this dog-headed person, it was day and night.

Luckily, it was not all for naught.

The light flashed and there were two new notifications.

[Note] : You received Resource Field Guide ( Beginner ) x 1

[Note] : You received Sharp Watermelon Knife x 1

"Huh? A field guide?"

"This is a really good item,"

A weird field guide gave him a sense of security and his first bucket of gold.

Su Mo was weirdly overjoyed and quickly searched his memory storage, and found the hardcover Monster Field Guide that he had bought previously.

Fumbling with the field guide, he turned on the scanning function of the field guide, which made Su Mo realize how to use it.

Just like the Monster Field Guide, the Resource Field Guide can be used to scan resources three times a day.

The book could detect the chosen resource within 1 kilometer radius of the user.

Beginner resources included stone, wood, iron, bronze, other commonly seen resources, even natural gas, sulfur, gold, silver, basalt, saltpeter, petroleum, and some other uncommon resources.

In short, this thing was helpful for resource gathering at this early stage.

Nodding, Su Mo closed the page and took out the giant blade.

Other than its sharpness, the giant blade did not have any elemental power to it, and could only be used as a normal tool.

"This field guide was enough, it can be used three times a day, it's so worth it. "

Using the giant blade , Su Mo effortlessly tore open the chest of the noble dog-headed person and took out the wooden spear.

Even though dog-headed people had the name 'people', other than being bipedal, their body structure was different from humans.

After mutating, the dog-headed people seemingly lost their acute sense of smell and ability to move fast.

What they got back in return was the ability to use magic and tools as weapons.

"No , I only got the rights after killing these two dog-headed people, before I came…they probably had to fight some catlike creature and won before getting their rights!"

"Before they came in, they were digging, was the laser sensor on the machinery brought back by the dog headed people to their encampment?"

There were some clues, including the catlike fur on the floor, and the damage marks on the foothills outside the shelter.

It all pinpointed towards the occurrence of a deadly battle happening here before.

" Oh no! They ran into trouble here and the dog headed-people took over, it's sure that the other side had casualties too, but there's no corpse!"

"Their people might have came here before, if they were to discover that the damned noble dog-headed people were gone, it would spell trouble for me instead!"

Immediately, Su Mo had never felt as smart as he did now.

At the same time, he felt a strong sense of insecurity.

Security -1000 !

"I shouldn't stay here for long, the bumper car had fuel but it's all water down there and unavigateable for the car, it was courting death if I stayed behind and guarded this 'treasure'."

Thinking of this, he gave up on trying to make use of the Bumper Element.

The dog-headed people did not think that this bumper car was a treasure, and did not use it. In their eyes it was probably a huge pile of trash.

Quickly taking out 4 units of wood, he quickly made a wooden bucket using the crafting interface.

Walking over to the noble dog-headed person who was beaten into a 'pulp' , Su Mo put all of his remains into the bucket, and dragged the other dog-headed person over as well and jammed them together into the bucket.

He put the whole bucket into his storage space, and unwillingly looked at the items around as he did not want to leave them behind, finally abandoning the thought of making them his.

After gathering smaller items that can be brought with him, Su Mo came to the hole nad was about to climb up, but saw the bloodstains and thought of something.

"The dog headed people's sense of smell has devolved, and I have ceramic armor that can cover my scent, maybe I can use this to find and hunt back the laser sensor, this can save me a few hundred survival points!"

Gathering the catlike animal's fur from before, Su Mo scattered it all over the floor, and even put some on the bloodstains.

Looking at the 'perfect crime' scene, Su Mo nodded and went to the hole, jumped, and clung onto the straw rope.

After forcing his biceps to put up some strength, Su Mo finally managed to crawl out of the hole of the second shelter, and returned to the foothills.

"Awoo-Awoo-"

Oreo, who was patrolling nearby the retained water, happily let out some howls.

After putting away the metal plates, and straw rape, he hurriedly cleaned up the scene, and put a few furs on the footprints of the dog-headed people.

"The only imperfection now is my own footsteps, but I can't do anything about it, this is as good as it gets."

"If anyone dared to follow…"

"I'm beginning to worry no one would show up, this is my turf, and I'll kill anyone who trespasses!"

Following the road that he came from before, Su Mo was able to quickly return .

After ten minutes, he came back to the place where he put on the raincoat.

"Awoo-woowoowoowoo-"

The poor Oreo came over to Su Mo and howled sadly.

Seeing this, Su Mo giggled.

Oreo's butt originally had a black and white fur tail covering it, but the fur had been burnt away, and the pink tiny butt can be seen now.

The fluffy and giant tail was gone now, the sight of the baldness made people look at it with pity.

After yapping twice, Oreo walked two steps and scratched at the burnt spot, trying to express that the thing made it like that.

"This will teach you, dumb dog, just run when you encounter that kind of monster again."

"But, your brave master has killed those two baddies and avenged you,"

Kneeling down, he took out the remaining magic elixir and fed it to Oreo. Seeing Oreo hop around actively, Su Mo was reviled.

In this dystopia, a man and a dog had each other. Without Oreo's warning, he would probably have had a fireball to cleanse his face.

" I have to quickly upgrade my battle equipment, my battle power is too low, this kind of enemy was too risky to face, I have to ensure my safety next time."

Under the scorching sun, the second shelter was like a beast submerged in water.

At a metal door, Su Mo looked as if he could see through the metal plate and saw the bumper car.

"I'll drive you out soon, just wait, don't go anywhere!"

Su Mo bid farewell to it with unwillingness in his eyes, and started his journey to return to his home base.

This time, the automated weapon would make its debut!

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Chapter 43: Automated Crossbow, Complete!

After killing two mythical creatures that seemed to have walked out of a fantasy world, on the way back to his first shelter, Su Mo could feel the mutated creatures that were once scary were now much cuter.

"Conjuring fireballs…outrageous, if the creatures from fantasy novels are to appear one by one, looks like mankind survival is sure to be threatened,"

The fireball's power was not tremendous.

Still, a person wielding a gatling gun could finish off a few hundred of these creatures if they had cover to defend themselves, as the fireball could never pierce their metal defense.

But, if the other creatures of legend like giant dragons were to appear…

"I sure hope not, if not we're going to become like rats in a tunnel!"

After thinking about the future of mankind, Su Mo felt a sense of despair.

After adjusting his head, he quickly got rid of all of his worries and saw his shelter at the furthest rendering distance, a sense of security came to him.

Silver and gold, nothing beats one's own man cave!

In just six day, Su Mo seemed to have turned this whole world into his territory.

Oreo, who had his tail tucked between his legs, became more energetic too as they drew closer to the shelter.

After checking that there was no sign of unwelcome visitors around the shelter, Su Mo opened the shelter door and barged in as soon as he reached the foothills.

The light quietly reflected through the ventilation into the shelter.

It formed a shining pillar of light.

You could see specks of dust dancing in the pillar of light with your naked eyes.

Even though the greens planted in the base have yet to sprout, the scent of the earth breathed life into the whole base.

"You can destroy my shelter, over my dead body."

The image of those dog-headed scum destroying his shelter made him clench his fist tightly.

Sitting in front of the table, Su Mo took out his crossbow from his inventory and placed it under the sunlight.

In a few more days, he will have enough survival points and the laser sensor to upgrade this automated weapon.

A crossbow that can fire a single bolt is useful for hunting, but can be easily overwhelmed with larger numbers.

Especially when faced with creatures that knew magic.

After focusing, Su Mo inspected the crossbow in the system.

[ Hunting Compound Bow ( Average ) ]

Description : Ranged weapon, slow reload speed, high velocity, has high firepower, an essential for wilderness survival.

Firing speed : 140m/s

Firing distance : 80m ( highest damage distance ) 165 ( effective damage distance ) 330m ( furthest damage distance )

Upgrade path one : Upgrade crossbow material, increase crossbow weight, reduce bowstring tension, survival points needed (180)

Upgrade path two: Upgrade crossbow material, install automatic winding device, change firing mode, install automatic rapid-fire mode, survival points needed (400)

"The second upgrade path needs 400 survival points. After upgrading the generator, I only have 303 points left, let's see if we can sacrifice some stuff to reduce the cost."

After mulling, Su Mo focused and the first upgrade path appeared.

He tossed in some spare parts that he has never heard of before, and Su Mo noticed two big requirements :

500W generator, composite lithium battery or lead-acid battery.

"Damn, this 500W generator is probably 5-6kg, plus a large battery, the crossbow would probably weigh at least 20kg,"

"Plus, metal had an increased effect on the item durability, if one shot quickly, the item would break after just a while of shooting,"

After weighing the benefits, Su Mo found how imbalanced the automated crossbow was with all of its pros.

The 500w generator is sure to create enough firepower, outweighing how fast it would wear down, one could deal at least a whopping 200 physical damage.

At the same time, this kind of firepower output had its own drawbacks, the battery and generator would be placed at the back, and the weight would lean towards the rear, making it hard to aim.

"Whatever, no sense in getting all uptight as it won't solve anything, let's try to solve the problem in front of us first."

After rough estimation, Su Mo opened the trading market and searched for some stuff.

The initiation of a service fee made the trading market pale in comparison to the popularity it had a few days ago, and went from tens of thousands of pages to just a meager 7-8 pages.

Not many were as rich as Su Mo now, he could use his points to pay for shipping.

After going through all the pages, Su Mo could not find what he was looking for and had no choice but to go to the world channel.

[Su Mo : WTB 500W generator, size and weight does not matter, composite lithium battery or lead-acid battery as well. ]

[Su Mo : Actively buying, will pay for logistics, those that want to sell, quickly come trade me! ]

After the first disaster, everyone's daily chat has had two trumpets now.

The first message Su Mo in the world channel sent out did not attract any attention, but the second one made the world channel explode.

"Damn, it's God Su who carried me previously, time to repay this saint, say no more, let's try opening some loot boxes for his sake."

"Congratulations on getting a karambit – battleworn , oh wait, wrong game"

"Generator, lithium batteries…has God Su reached the electrical age already? I'm still using a torch? Oh, nevermind, there goes my torch!

"I have a lithium battery in my phone, do you want it, God Su?"

"Logistics isn't cheap…the rich are really obscene,"

"Our Hua Xi is too great! The foreign Su Mo can't make it, but our Hua Xi Su Mo can!"

Following the passage of time, more and more people swarmed the world channel, all just to comment on Su Mo out of respect.

Seeing the reception, Su Mo happily added a purchase order at the trade channel.

In just a while, with a 800ml magic elixir and 11 disaster points, he bought an old generator that was probably salvaged from an electric car that weighed 12kg.

As for the lithium battery, after screening through, Su Mo spent another 600ml magic elixir and 40 disaster points and bought two different batteries, being :

20Ah, 12.8v ternary lithium battery, used to install on the automated crossbow.

400Ah, 12.8v standard lithium iron phosphate battery, used to generate energy for daily use.

As a 12-volt standard battery, a 400Ah battery can store about five kilowatt-hours of electricity at ordinary times, which is sufficient to power the shelter at this early stage.

After settling the crossbow, generator, and batteries, Su Mo thought it was time he made some changes to his survival points.

[ Hunting Compound Bow ( Average ) ]

Upgrade path one : Upgrade crossbow material, increase crossbow weight, reduce bowstring tension, survival points needed (180)

Upgrade path two: Upgrade crossbow material, install automatic winding device, change firing mode, install automatic rapid-fire mode, survival points needed (220)

"Huh? Having the two main components has reduced the points needed by 180…mayhaps, this kind of upgrade could change the element of the item as well?

Without hesitation, Su Mo upgraded.

A light flashed, and 220 survival points were deducted, a green light spread out, and the three items fused into a watery item that glowed in blue within just a second.

Following the increased frequency of the green light, the watery item condensed and slowly formed into its new shape ( please refer to the current chapter title ).

The 10kg generator vanished, and the giant lithium battery went to god knows where.

A new airbag formed under the original armrest.

The newly created automated crossbow even came with a scope, this made a person really want to try it out.

Seeing the giant killing machine, Su Mo, who was still worried about how to deal with invading dog-headed people, had some green numbers appear on top of his head.

Security 10000!

Chapter 44: A Milestone! Back to the Electric Age

"Good lord, the byproduct of system optimization is sick, don't you think? Humans will have great progress in technology if this can be reverse-engineered to find out ways to optimize the battery and the motor."

As Su Mo put the crossbow on the table, he stared curiously at the upgraded electrical crossbow.

There was no ideal solution for the battery problem before everyone passed through the wasteland.

Major factories were frantically installing electrical cores in batteries and thinking of ways to shorten the time the batteries needed to charge.

However, the amount of charge a battery could hold was proportional to its size and weight. The bigger the amount of charge, the larger its size and the heavier it weighed. No one was making a conscious effort in developing smaller batteries that could hold larger amounts of charge.

Of course, even if technology recovered to its heyday, it would take tens of years before they could figure out how to replicate the shocking result they had seen in the modified system.

For its color palette, the crossbow was crafted in ebony and black.

Its weight had also upgraded from its previous four kg to roughly around nine kg.

It was heavy and elicited feelings of security.

"Thankfully, the system came with a charger. If not, I would have to think of some way to get a USB charger from the trading channel."

Su Mo did not know if he should laugh or cry after he picked up the wire from the ground and took a good look at it.

The 120 Watt fast-charging charger that it had come with was more than enough for a 2W mAh battery.

It was a steal, considering the 220 survival points they had now!

After a careful look at the crossbow's structure, Su Mo had a general idea of how it should be used.

One had to trigger the switch on the electrical device before using it, and it would automatically enable its self-test function after three seconds of steady electrical flow.

By this time, the winder would begin working by automatically pushing a crossbow arrow up from the magazine.

At the same time, the safety valve on the trigger would automatically fall. Now, one could begin shooting as normal.

The way the electric winder worked was simple. It imitated the way a human would wind their crossbow. The motor would provide the force needed to pull the crossbow arrow up from the magazine and achieve its goal of becoming winded.

"Of course, there's no power. Seems like I was given a charger so that I would go charge it!"

Although Su Mo sounded like he was grumbling after he pressed on the trigger twice, he could not suppress the joy creeping onto his face.

They had generators and fuel in the base now. Electricity was something they were not short of.

Once the design for Huaxia Shelter was finalized, they could begin attempting to add a couple of wires and install the broken lightbulbs they had brought back home today to test out.

Puff puff!

When they released the air and connected the starter, the generator began huffing and shaking as the amount of electricity generated shown on the dashboard increased.

"Awoo!"

Oreo, who was flopped on the ground and lamenting the loss of its fluffy tail to the fire, was scared.

It lay on the ground and glared at the television!

"Don't worry, this is a good thing. You must make sure you protect this if anyone enters the base in the future!"

Su Mo comforted Oreo before turning to the storage room and taking out the power strip they had found with the television before.

The light of the indicator on the power strip turned red after getting connected to the generator.

At that moment, Su Mo was so excited that tears glimmered in his eyes.

"What great progress civilization has made! I, Su Mo, never thought that I would one day walk before billions of people and thank the ancestors of the Su family for their blessings."

Not only would achieving electrical energy signal the fulfillment of one's basic needs and entertainment needs but it was also a symbol of capability and a synonym of the word 'safety'.

He hurriedly brought the two power sources over, first connecting the 400 AH lithium iron phosphate battery with its specialized charging cable.

Only a while later did Su Mo connect the electric crossbow to the power source as he had to ensure there was nothing wrong with the supply first.

In the darkened shelter, two red lights flashed and were accompanied by the humming sounds of the generator as they charged.

There had never been a moment this tranquil after his arrival in this post-apocalyptic world.

Su Mo lay in bed with his eyes shut as he listened to the familiar noises before gradually slipping into sleep.

In his dreams, a sudden image appeared before his eyes from the dark.

It was a hot summer day on an evening with no electricity.

Old men were engaged in vicious 'fights' while sitting at chess boards in front of their doorsteps, while children who were enjoying a long-awaited break from homework laughed as they dashed through the alleyway with their toys. The adults had also taken a break from their hectic work to sit under the shade of their doors as they occasionally glanced at their kids and yelled.

"Baby, run slower! Don't… Look, you've fallen!"

There was a fast food restaurant at the roadside that took advantage of this opportunity to push their generator out into the open and cook up dish after dish of fragrant vegetables, attracting customers from the roadside.

A plate of cold vegetables paired with spinach noodles. A mouthful of noodles with garlic and some fragrant, crispy steamed pork that had just the right amount of fat and lean meat…

The wonderful smell of watermelon, and the disgusting smell of drain water…

"Woof woof woof!"

The sound of Oreo barking!

"You b*tch, I had just started dreaming things and you managed to spoil everything before I could even be sentimental. How dare you! (Emoticon.Jpg)"

Su Mo opened his eyes wryly as he gazed at Oreo, who seemed to be facing a huge enemy. The mischievous grin disappeared from his face.

"Is someone here?"

"Woof!"

"F*ck, they came so quickly. They must have a dog's nose!"

When Su Mo noticed that Oreo had begun shaking and its eyes were bloodshot, he immediately jumped over to the generator.

A normal generator needed to be braked slowly before it could be shut down. First, he needed to turn off the circuit breaker and cut off electrical access so that the diesel engine would slow down from its high speed. The ignition switch would then be turned off after the machine had slowed down for three to five minutes. This method helped preserve the machine for longer.

However, there was no time for Su Mo to make any preparations now!

Enemies! They were incoming!

The generator did not show how long it had been working. Su Mo could only make simple calculations by comparing the amount of oil that had been in the machine at the start and end.

One hour and forty-four minutes.

It was the number he got after making some simple calculations. Two-hour charging time might not be enough for a 20 AH crossbow (20 mAh), but it would be enough to fight off an intruder's attack.

He immediately flipped the circuit breaker and turned the ignition switch to the bottom. The booming diesel generator stopped operating.

The noise from the shelter vanished and got replaced by silence. He could even hear his own breathing.

Su Mo hurried over to the stone door and pressed his ear to it, trying his best to catch what was going on outside.

As expected…

Bursts of barking that sounded emotional and different from that of an ordinary canine traveled continuously toward them.

"Damn it, looks like these kobolds are pretty smart if they can manage to find me here. I suppose I'll never find peace if I don't leave them behind today!"

The enemy was right at their door, but it was different from the bandits last time. This time, they did not have the help of a live stream to help spy on the terrain.

However…

Su Mo's gaze landed on a black box placed in the corner of the storage room.

That was…

A giant television he had brought back from the ruins!

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Chapter 45: Long-Distance Monitoring, Dimension Reduction Strike

The television had been taking up space in storage ever since he brought it back from the ruins. It was gathering dust in a corner now that the update had destroyed the storage.

It was finally being put to good use after being transported from place to place.

With a lithium iron phosphate battery, the base could easily meet the needs of the giant television.

Su Mo had an idea after he hurried over to the storage room. He placed it in the storage space and brought it over to the generator.

The giant television was placed squarely beside the battery.

As he steadied his gaze, an illusionary line of words appeared beside the television:

[32-inch color television (Excellent)]

Description: Technological products produced during unknown times were mainly composed of five parts: electric circuits, public access channels, sound channels, color decoding circuits, and color images. Each image on the screen is 25 frames per second, with 625 lines per frame.

Special Ability: When placed in a shelter and connected to electricity, it can monitor up to 1,000 meters of the shelter's surrounding area with the ability to zoom in, zoom out, and switch perspectives.

First Upgrade Option: Modify the television's material. Increase clarity, add sound, and construct your personal theatre. Survival points required (1550).

Second upgrade option: Modify the television's material. Increase clarity, range of use for special ability, and chances to add a second piece of information (limited technology). Survival points required (6250).

Comment: You and I have no privacy in front of this television! (Righteous!)

After ignoring the fact that the television required a massive amount of survival points to upgrade, Su Mo ensured it was not damaged before forcing himself to take deep breaths, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

As he hurriedly connected the television to the source of the battery's power, Su Mo felt himself calm down as a million emotions flowed through him.

When he arrived at the wasteland, all he had wanted to do was be a good person and try his best to survive.

He had reared chickens, played with dogs, planted vegetables, and tried his best to manage a prospering shelter while he waited for his family to arrive so they could all settle down and make a life for themselves in this wasteland.

However, the more he wanted to separate himself from things, the more idiots came to try and destroy his life so that he would die.

"I'm just a normal person, a five-star citizen who received formal education back in my motherland. I still panic when powerful enemies arrive even if I'm pretending to be a decisive main character from those books.

"But you guys… aren't letting me live! The only thing I can do is send you to your deaths!"

Woosh!

The giant television turned on automatically after being connected to power. It seemed that it had not been turned off properly the last time.

Buzz buzz buzz.

There was no signal to receive. Black and white lines flickered across the screen after it powered up.

Su Mo fiddled with the buttons on the bottom for a while before he found the channel for special abilities, AC1 Channel.

After he pressed down on it and switched channels, illusionary waves frantically burst out from the rear chassis of the television, causing even the air to vibrate.

Buzz buzz buzz.

The television began violently shaking. When Su Mo noticed that the television was about to fly into the air, he hurriedly grabbed it to stop it from shaking even more violently.

Su Mo's heart raced as he felt the vibrations coming from the television.

He was terrified that the thing might crack him open by accident!

Thankfully, the vibrations began slowing down around ten seconds later. The frequency of the television's shaking also changed from a raging seven or eight times per second to a peaceful two or three times per second.

The black and white mess of lines also began changing.

A sunset appeared on the screen. Then, it began showing more and more things.

Puddles of acid rain left behind from the storm.

Pieces of shrubs that Su Mo had hacked into pieces.

Also… kobolds that were searching near the shrubs!

"Oh no! This thing doesn't have a remote control and I can't switch perspectives. It's too restrictive."

Su Mo frantically tried to change the scene using the buttons on the bottom, but nothing happened even after a frenzy of button pressing.

"I'll have to go get a remote control from the trading panel now. F*ck, this thing is so unreliable.

"Huh? Trade?"

Su Mo seemed to have suddenly thought of something as he dashed over to the storage space, digging out a flat panel.

Three adaptor wires that were red, yellow, and blue were connected to the back of the panel.

It was a mechanical controller Shen Ke had given him the last time they traded.

"Oh, Shen Ke, Shen Ke. You've been a massive help to me!"

Su Mo held the controller excitedly as he plugged it into an opening on the television. He pressed down on the buttons on the controller as the picture began shifting, and the image began moving.

It felt like he was playing a video game. As long as it was within one kilometer of the shelter, nothing could hide from the television's surveillance.

He moved his vision over to the kobold army and zoomed in.

Su Mo could even see pieces of meat stuck to a Kobold Warrior's teeth…

"One, two, three, four. There are four Kobold Warriors wielding spears…

"The ones with clubs are probably Kobold Mages, and there are only two of them. Looks like Kobold Mages are well-respected among the kobolds."

Each Kobold Mage took two Kobold Warriors with them as they searched the ground carefully.

Judging from the look in their eyes, Su Mo knew his shelter had been exposed.

However, for some unknown reason, these kobolds had not chosen to force an attack on him. Instead, they ran over to the shrubs in search of something.

"Are they crazy?"

Su Mo began putting on his armor after confirming these fools were searching for something.

A massive hole had been burnt into his raincoat. He finished putting on two layers of armor after spending ten survival points to repair it.

Su Mo grabbed his electric crossbow from the floor and adjusted the switch. After loading five crossbow arrows soaked by the acid rain, he held his crossbow and walked toward the second passageway.

Oreo hurriedly followed him.

"Stupid kobolds. They might have evolved to function like humans, but they can't move as quickly as a running adult. They'll die for sure from this distance!"

Su Mo began planning his attack after he opened the shelter's back door and let Oreo out.

The shrubs were on flat ground with nothing to hide behind. It was still light out, which made it pretty much impossible to launch an ambush.

Therefore…

"Oreo, you'll barge in from the side later. Yes, from the left side. Use your barks to attract their attention and run so that they don't get a chance to hit you. Do your best to put distance between you and them so you can create an opening for me to get near them.

"Don't save me if I'm in danger. They run slow, and we can make a detour to hit them. Understand?"

Oreo had a focused expression on its face after noticing the solemn one on Su Mo's face.

"Woof!"

Oreo understood everything and barked softly to indicate that it was ready.

"Alright, get ready to run. You'll go over there first, and I'll be behind you. Remember to distance yourself from them so you don't give them a chance to attack. Be careful of the two holding clubs, they'll fire the same kind of fireballs that burnt you today!"

Oreo did not hesitate after that and immediately scuttled across the ground.

Oreo's black and white body raced across the yellow soil.

The countless puddles did not have time to react before the dog was already miles away from them.

Huskies were medium-sized dogs, which meant they were small, sturdy, and tough. Their excellent capabilities shone through when they put on saddles and began the most primitive work tasks at medium speed over long distances.

Its body's proportions and shape reflected the balance it had in strength, speed, and endurance.

As Su Mo watched Oreo continue dashing even after scuttling for over a hundred meters, he nodded and put his electric crossbow in his storage space. Then, he bent down and began jogging across the hill.

This time, all the kobolds had to stay back!

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Chapter 46: Instant Kill! The Power of Electric Crossbows

The shrubland was not far from the highlands of the shelter.

Su Mo's footwork told him it was roughly the distance of a university track, around 400 meters.

Of course, a distance like this would be enough to kill if he had to engage in battle.

During the times of cold weapons, the cavalry would have to complete the movements of striding, jogging, sprinting, and ending on a dash, but it would also be this far.

If it was any farther, they would lose too many men to crossbow attacks. If it was any nearer, they might not have enough power built up before they were standing face-to-face with their enemy.

The four Kobold Warriors were still lying foolishly on the ground as they searched. The two Kobold Mages had sharper senses, but when they raised their eyes, they were met with a dashing Oreo.

"Woof woof!

"Woof woof ruff!"

Immediately, the Kobold Mages had the Kobold Warriors get into formation as they fixed their alert gazes on the racing Oreo.

"Good! Good job. Just another moment. Don't pay attention to me!"

Oreo executed its mission perfectly and yelled as it ran.

Huskies had amazing stamina, which made them perfect bait in missions like these.

Su Mo bent double and ran across the yellow soil.

The distance grew nearer and nearer.

250 meters…

200 meters…

150 meters…

When he was an estimated 120 meters away from the kobold at the end of the line, Su Mo immediately flattened himself against the ground. At the same time, he retrieved his brand-new, never once used electric crossbow from the storage space.

He flipped the switch.

He waited for it to conduct its three-second self-check.

When the green light lit up, Su Mo immediately placed his eye on the sight and used it to aim at the kobolds who were still admiring Oreo's running.

The first arrow…

Without a doubt, he would aim for a Kobold Warrior!

He lightly pressed down on the arrow retention spring, otherwise known as the electric crossbow's 'safety key'.

The crackling sound of electricity flowed as the 20 AH lithium battery began releasing energy that traveled into the motor.

The motor worked and pulled the winder to its fullest extent. It took less than a second for this whole process to complete.

"Goodbye!"

Su Mo said softly as he pulled the trigger.

There was nothing much to say to a monster. Upon meeting, either he or they would end up dead!

Electric crossbows were not much different from manual ones in terms of power. However, consecutive shots could be made without stopping on an electric crossbow because the motor and winder helped simplify the process of loading arrows.

That was all it took. As a black shadow flitted past, the Kobold Warrior standing on the left side was hit in the head.

The massive force hit the Kobold Warrior on its forehead, causing it to fly a whole half a meter backward before slumping onto the ground.

The remaining kobolds did not have time to panic before another black shadow flitted past them.

A crossbow arrow hit another Kobold Warrior standing on the side in the chest.

This arrow was supposed to hit another Kobold Warrior in the head, but this Kobold Warrior ended up taking its place because it had turned around frantically.

With this buffer, the remaining kobolds frantically huddled and circled the noble Kobold Mages in between them.

"Hah… Do you think you can get away just like that? You must have a death wish if you walked into my trap just like that!"

As Su Mo gazed into the sight, the corner of his mouth curled upward into a smile as he continued pulling the trigger.

The sound of the winder, accompanied by the sound of the wind blowing past the grass, combined to form a symphony of death.

Every arrow took the life of another monster.

Just like a dimension reduction strike, the kobolds holding spears did not even have time to figure out where the attacks were coming from before another one of their companions collapsed.

Within half a minute.

Oreo did not even need to run out for a second time to attract attention when there was only one Kobold Mage still alive out of the kobold army at the shrubs.

"Woof… Woof!"

When the Kobold Warrior saw that all its companions were dead, all of its gung-ho disappeared as it suddenly kneeled on the ground and curled up into a ball with its head flat against the ground.

"Oh."

Su Mo raised an eyebrow in slight surprise as he gazed at the kobold's 'performance'.

Was his magic so powerful that it made a kobold surrender?

At that moment, Su Mo even felt that it had been too easy. He had not even begun putting in effort yet.

"Looks like not even magic can overpower my technological gadget."

Su Mo chuckled as he caressed his electric crossbow and sprawled on the ground to aim.

Amidst these kobolds, perhaps it would be a good choice to let this Kobold Mage get away alive.

However… before that…

Su Mo pressed the winder and opened the magazine to load five crossbow arrows that did not have acid rain on them.

Whizz!

A black shadow flitted toward the kobold that was still curled up on the ground, and it was hit backward by a crossbow arrow.

A jet-black crossbow arrow stuck out from its thin arm.

Fuschia-colored blood flowed as the sounds of the kobold's howling echoed throughout the wildland. There was nothing other than the sounds of the wind to comfort him, and…

Whizz!

Another crossbow arrow!

Two crossbow arrows pinned the kobold on the ground securely. The tail of the arrow was still quivering even after its head had dived into the ground.

Su Mo put his crossbow arrow away and switched to a Japanese Oak Spear as he walked toward the Kobold Mage.

Oreo had been circling the area and stopped when it realized that things had settled. It stopped about 30 meters away from the Kobold Mage and began barking.

"Woof! Awoo awoo awoo awoo!

"Woof?"

Oreo had an excited expression on its face when the Kobold Mage did not answer. It quietly moved ten meters closer before barking again.

"Woof?"

Now that Oreo was sure the Kobold Mage could not attack in retaliation, it geared up its four limbs excitedly as it kicked the Kobold Mage that was pinned to the ground square in the head.

Then, it even used its mouth to take the club the Kobold Mage used to cast magic with.

Oreo was very pleased with how it had taken care of the loser. Su Mo did not know if he should laugh or cry as he walked over.

"The little thing seemed fine on the surface. Who would have expected it to hold such a massive grudge? Makes sense, though. Its fur was all burnt off."

Su Mo smiled and walked relaxedly.

This was because of his capabilities and was also due to the feelings of security the electric crossbow brought to him.

Why would the kobold's fireballs seem scary when he had a weapon that could cause so much destruction from over a hundred meters away?

At most, he would regard it as a grenade one could not toss from a distance away.

The Kobold Mage was a little dazed now that it had been pinned down by crossbow arrows and kicked by Oreo.

It shut its eyes in despair when it saw Su Mo walking over with a spear.

"Woof…"

A low howl came out from its mouth.

At that moment, Su Mo had made a massive impression on him.

That man was like Death himself, possessing the power to destroy them from a hidden corner. How could the weak kobolds defend themselves from such a powerful opponent?

The Kobold Mage even remembered what its father had told it before dying.

"If one day, you meet a powerful human as the legends say, remember to never rush forward. They're incredibly scary!"

Memories flashed in the Kobold Mage's brain…

It looked like they had to pay for their massacre in the village of humans a few days ago, right?

He knew…

These were its last memories before dying.

Then, a clear spring of water was injected into its dry, bleeding throat.

As the water was infused, blood stopped gushing out from the wound on its arm. The burning in its chest also dissipated little by little.

It opened his eyes in curiosity…

"It really is a fist as big as the sun!"

That was what it thought as it 'happily' lost consciousness…

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Chapter 47: A Dumb Fugitive, Small Improvements in Life!

"It seems like something's wrong with this kobold mage. I already pinned it on the floor! Why is it still laughing?"

After taking out some psychic energy water and feeding it to the kobold to maintain its life, the kobold was still grinning stupidly. Vexed, Su Mo punched it on the face, so that the kobold could properly understand its current situation.

"Oreo, do your job. Monitor this guy properly. Keep it from waking up."

Oreo was excited after getting an order.

Its black-and-white face lit up with happiness.

Maybe the task of looking after this kobold who had disfigured it would bring Oreo more joy compared to a sumptuous meal.

"I got three wood boxes and a bronze box after killing five kobolds! They're quite lucrative!"

As time passed, the kobolds that were shot to death had truly died as judged by the game, and they left loot boxes in their wake.

Somehow, the first kobold mage Su Mo had killed did not turn into a silver box, but only a bronze one.

Feeling somewhat disappointed, Su Mo collected all the boxes and opened them.

[Record: You've gained Wahaha Bottled Water 500ml x2

[Record: You've gained Chilli Water 30ml x1

[Record: You've gained Plant-based Oil 5L x1

[Record: You've gained a bag of Chinese prickly ash seeds

[Record: You've gained a skateboard

"Wow, I gained some Plant-based Oil! That's some good stuff."

After putting the other four objects into his storage space, Su Mo took the bottle of oil out.

Under the sunlight, the oil shone pure gold.

"Maybe I can make a stir-fry once my vegetables are harvested. And then I'll make some noodles too…"

"No, I'm going to make a bowl of oil-seared noodles with beef today. Who can resist the temptation?"

At the thought of how tasty the noodles would be, Su Mo felt like he had eaten a sour plum. It was as if his stomach was flooded with acid.

His stomach rumbled, even though he was not hungry in the first place.

In his good mood, Su Mo surveyed the kobolds slumped on the floor, and his eyes lit up with excitement.

Kobolds were really his treasure troves.

He took a shovel out from his storage space, found a corner that was more secluded, and started to dig.

Although there was not much purpose to burying them in such a simple way, burying them could keep the other kobolds from spotting them. This was why Su Mo decided to bury those humanoid monsters.

After the first time, Su Mo found the process easier.

He managed to dig a hole—one that was bigger than the one before—with several strokes.

After carrying the dead kobolds one by one into the hole, Su Mo opened his storage space. There were two wooden buckets that had belonged to the two kobolds from the ruins. He set them inside the hole too and started to bury everything.

Su Mo was like a hardworking farmer who tilled his barren plot of land.

Droplets of sweat trickled down from his forehead and fell into the deep hole, mixing with the soil.

Not only were human lives worthless after the apocalypse, but those monsters also had to abide by one rule: that the strong always devoured the weak.

After Su Mo was done with everything, Su Mo took out the rope he had used during his exploration of the ruins, walked to stand in front of the kobold mage, and started to tie him up.

One, two, three…

The three-meter long rope came around the kobold five times. The kobold was tied up from head to toe.

Su Mo nodded, satisfied.

Oreo, who was beside him, nodded as well.

Under the setting sun, the shadows of one dog and one human were elongated without limits at sight. It was as if they had become the only protagonists in this land.

"I'm so thirsty! Hurts! Why can't I feel my arm?"

Monty's brain was muddled. He struggled to open his eyelids, which felt impossibly heavy, and looked forward.

Its surroundings were dark, but clean.

This was its first impression it had of the place.

Not only did this stone cave not have the stench characteristic of the kobold's castle, but it smelt like a mixture of soil and sunlight.

Monty turned his head with difficulty and looked at the only place that was illuminated by light.

"What's shining there? Why is the light so gentle?"

It was an object that was smaller than a human's fist. In the dark cave, it shone, and illuminated a corner of the cave, and…

Illuminated the man who felt like Death himself.

Monty saw the man pick up a small white bag gingerly from the floor and spoon some white powder out from the bag.

He also scooped some water up and started to do something on top of a plank of wood.

Some time later, the man picked up some whitish strips from the plank, satisfaction on his face, and tossed them into a pot filled with boiling water.

A fragrant aroma wafted from the pot.

"Aha, is he planning to recruit me? I heard that humans attract their fugitives with food and pretty women. It seems like I, Monty, am now going to enjoy this privilege!"

"He cherishes these things dearly, and it looks like he can't bring himself to eat it too. Is he planning to use them to recruit me?"

"Do I eat them directly when the moment comes, or do I feign loyalty and only eat them when he begs me to?"

Monty smiled. He could clearly see how the man would lure him into submission.

However, what did a kobold know about food eaten by humans…

The man poured something out from a small bottle, and with a sizzling sound, a spicy and fragrant aroma filled the cave.

"What divine food would that be?"

The kobold's mouth gaped open, and a long thread of saliva trickled down from the corner of its mouth.

A stimulating smell entered its mouth and traveled to its stomach, and then to its brain.

The kobold felt strangely euphoric, as if its every cell was breathing.

Monty could be sure that he had not seen such delicious food even during his race's annual sacrificial ceremony!

The man was finally done with the preparatory processes. He divided the food inside the pot into two bowls, and poured one bowl into a basin, which was owned by the low-level dog crawling on the floor.

The other bowl was poured into another basin, and Monty was almost unable to control his smile.

It was envious of the low-level dog, for it could enjoy such delicious food, but at the same time…

It was very expectant, for the man who looked like Death would beg it to eat delicious food and recruit it personally to be his general!

However…

"That punch's as huge as a fire ball!"

"Dang it, there's definitely something wrong with this kobold's brain. I've made a fool my fugitive. That was a bad move."

He was just done with making his oil-seared noodles with beef when he saw from the corner of his eyes the stupid grin on the kobold mage's face.

It was grinning, although it was thoroughly tied up and could not move at all…

The kobold looked like it knew nothing. It opened its mouth and chuckled a few times.

That face… Unceremoniously, Su Mo gave it another punch, so that it could finally take a break.

"It'll be nice if I had some garlic and diced green onions!"

As the kobold fainted again, Su Mo clapped his hands happily and returned to his bowl.

The noodles would be doubly fragrant if he had some garlic.

There were some fried chillies, some beef jerky, and some dehydrated vegetables in the bowl, but there was no garlic. The noodles tasted less flavorful because of that.

Feeling regretful, Su Mo dug in.

From the corner of his eye, he could see that Oreo was almost done with its portion. If Su Mo was not finished with his own bowl when Oreo was done, the dog had the habit of acting adorable in a bid to plead for more.

Su Mo quickly wolfed down his food, devouring the noodles and washing them down with a big cup of psychic energy water.

Su Mo was satisfied.

Oreo was too.

The human and the dog slumped on the floor and savored the post-meal haze that was hard to come by.

However, in a dark corner, on the kobold's face that wore an expression of terror, a tear streamed down…

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Chapter 48: Extorting A Confession! The Secret Behind the Magic!

"This diesel engine is good, but it's also quite loud. It'll be troublesome if I turn it on at night."

Su Mo felt his head hurt as he looked at the diesel engine that he was using to charge his batteries.

After repairing a light bulb he had scavenged from Shelter Number Two with two survival points, there was finally a stable source of light in the base.

The automated crossbow was also charging at another head of the engine.

The average engine would burn 210 to 240 grams of diesel when emitting 1 volt of light, but the real amount consumed was 0.3 liters.

After a brief calculation based on the amount of diesel stored at the base and the loss after conversion, it was concluded that 200 liters of diesel could emit almost 600 volts of light.

"It should be enough for now."

Su Mo nodded. He pulled on the free end of the thread that was fastened to the bulb until it was in front of the kobold, and summoned Oreo.

Somehow, Oreo was becoming less and less active. If it was not eating and playing around, it would lie down by the vegetable culture medium and space out, looking at the tiny entrance where light entered the cave.

Its small head was filled with many questions.

"Hmm… I'll wake it up soon, and you'll translate for us. That okay?"

"Bark?" Oreo tilted its head in question, like a human would.

"You'll tell this kobold what I said, and then when it answers you'll tell me what it's saying."

After a simple explanation, Oreo nodded, and a typically evil smirk surfaced on its face, telling Su Mo that it could do this task perfectly.

Ah, you could just tell me that you were going to interrogate it~

Oreo finally got it, Su Mo noticed. Su Mo helped the kobold up onto a stool, shoved a wooden stick beneath the rope tying it up, and forced it into a standing position.

"Hi, wake up!"

Su Mo patted the kobold's face twice. The kobold showed no reaction at all. Su Mo had gone too hard with his punches just now, probably.

Without losing his composure, Su Mo gave Oreo a look, which it immediately understood. It leapt to settle by the kobold's feet, opened its mouth, and sank its teeth on the flesh.

"Ah!"

"Ngh!"

A howl, like that of a wolf, erupted inside the cave. The kobold, which was feigning unconsciousness, almost keeled on the floor due to the sudden burst of pain.

"There's really something wrong with this guy, it seems! Oreo hasn't even bit down and it's already yowling."

Su Mo was more curious about the kobolds as a race as he watched the kobolds' performance.

Why did such a strange race even exist? And they were capable of making nuclear bombs, uh, grenades from scratch as well!

Su Mo smiled subtly as he looked at the anger on the kobold's face.

"Oreo, ask it, is he willing to submit?"

At his command, Oreo started to communicate with the kobold in its own language, a smirk on its face.

"Arf arf!"

"Bark!"

The kobold made a face. Su Mo and Oreo understood it immediately.

Disdain!

The kobold was disdainful at the thought of speaking with Oreo, a race that was lowlier than its own!

"Hmm, you're quite stubborn. Okay, nuff said! I have a complete set of Huaxia torture methods for you to choose from. Come on!"

"So you're insisting on keeping silent?"

The kobold raised its head higher. Su Mo did not hesitate. He stepped forward and punched the kobold in its belly.

Thud~ thrum~

Somehow, Su Mo felt like he had become stronger.

0.1 second after the kobold was punched in the stomach, tears streamed out of its eyes, and it cried out loud.

"Are you willing to submit?"

Getting no reaction, Su Mo landed another punch.

"Awoooooooo!"

After two consecutive punches, the kobold finally understood what it meant to bend down. If it was not tied up, it would probably kneel down and kowtow the next second.

Oreo, who was beside the kobold, raised its chin as well. Although it still had to look up at the kobold, its gaze was increasingly filled with disdain.

"Hmm? You dare glare at me?"

One punch!

Three was better than two, definitely. After this punch, the kobold no longer dared to show its disdain. It whimpered and nodded hurriedly, showing its acceptance of its current situation.

However, Su Mo landed another blow, rather unceremoniously.

"Sorry, I don't like the number three! I like the number four more!"

"Haha!"

Hearing Su Mo's words, Oreo laughed until it was short of breath.

"Oreo, let it know what a f*cking surprise means!"

Su Mo finally felt vindicated at the sight of the kobold's twisted expression of pain.

The kobold looked honest, but it disdained Oreo from the bottom of its heart. Even its gaze was filled with disdain as he looked down at Oreo.

If normal methods did not work, then…

Su Mo chose to show the kobold what he was capable of before sending it to its death!

Luckily, the kobold became much more docile after four punches.

"Ask it why it came here and if it came to find me."

"Bark bark!"

"Bark bark!"

As Oreo and the kobold communicated with difficulty (it was as if one spoke in a dialect while the other in proper English), Su Mo could only wait at their side, covering his forehead with his palm.

Oreo spent five minutes to convey one simple sentence.

"Bark?"

"Did you say that it's not here for me?"

Oreo shook its head. The kobold looked like it was telling the truth.

Su Mo felt his head hurt.

"What did it find in our bushes?"

Su Mo had assumed that the kobold had come following a trace, but it seemed like that was not the case.

"I'm too careful, probably…"

"Maybe the kobolds sent out a few teams to look for something and I happened to encounter one of them."

After some thought, Su Mo decided to wait for Oreo's report on the matter.

Their conversation was longer this time round, lasting about ten minutes. Oreo had barked so much its mouth was dry before it finally acquired some information.

"Bark…"

"Bark!"

Su Mo could not understand what Oreo was saying, and so the dog ran to their pile of stuff and dug out a wooden stick.

It was a tool the kobold had used to do magic!

"Is there something wrong with this stick? But the system can't detect anything about this stick."

Su Mo picked the stick up and looked it through carefully under the light bulb.

Back in Shelter Number Two, he had checked the magic wand the kobolds used to do magic.

Everyone had a secret wish to be a magician, including himself.

Unfortunately, there was nothing special with the stick, and one could not conjure fire balls with it.

After Oreo's reminder, Su Mo examined it carefully again. This time round, he immediately found something out of sorts.

There was a small hole at the head of the stick, and it looked like it was sealed with wood. It did not look like something that had grown naturally.

He raised the stick to his nose and fanned his face with his palm, so that the smell of the stick could reach his nose.

"This smell…"

A familiar memory appeared in his mind.

Su Mo felt the stick all over and managed to find something similar to a button around the middle of the stick.

He pressed down on it gently, and the hole at the tip opened. The smell became thicker.

"Is this… Gunpowder?"

Chapter 49: The First Week Ended With Hope At The Wasteland

Su Mo uncovered the small hole and the smell that was contained within drifted out without control. Su Mo managed to determine its composition almost immediately.

It's gunpowder!

Or to be more accurate – black gunpowder!

Carefully, he poured the black particles out from the wooden stick onto the table. The pungent smell of sulfur filled the place.

"Do the Kobolds need black gunpowder to release the so-called fireball technique?"

Su Mo was surprised to learn of this news.

The Kobold Mage had waved his wooden stick before unleashing his fireball technique at Shelter Number Two.

At that time, So Mo had thought it was a magic spell or the attribute of his wooden stick.

He never imagined that the Kobolds would use science to produce a fireball.

"So… the Kobolds are actually looking for black gunpowder?"

Oreo heard Su Mo muttering to himself. It gave Su Mo a quick nod to acknowledge that his theory was correct.

As Su Mo poured out the gunpowder, the Kobold who was tied up in front of the table appeared to have accepted his fate. He continued chattering noisily.

Su Mo ignored the interaction between Oreo and the Kobold.

He clicked on the game panel, selected the resource scan, and ticked the raw materials for the preparation of black gunpowder under the resource section.

[Record: A tiny sulfur mine has been detected in the southeast direction, at a distance of 465 meters from where the player is now.

[Record: 2/3 times today

"So it's true. They're here today to search for natural sulfur mines."

Su Mo's expression went blank as his thoughts began to drift.

In the modern world, the technology to extract sulfur had been re-invented countless times. The series of steps must be completed for atmospheric and vacuum distillation, catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, and delayed coking processes before the sulfide in the petroleum could be separated to create sulfurized sewage that could be recycled to produce the finalized sulfur.

However, such technology was not available in ancient times. The process of producing sulfur goes as follows.

The first step was to find a way to extract natural sulfur from mines, such as those near the shelter.

The second step was to smelt the pyrite to extract the sulfur.

The Kobolds could assess sulfur mines and discover them. This proved that they had reached the pinnacle of science.

They had, it seemed, found out that by mixing these materials in a certain proportion, enhanced gunpowder could be created. Once catalyzed by spells, the power of the fireball would increase.

"Woof?"

Su Mo was deep in thought when Oreo walked back. He had completed his conversation with the Kobold.

Oreo pointed to the black gunpowder which Su Mo had poured out. He then pointed far away, and finally, he pointed at the Kobold again.

"Are you saying that he's willing to lead us to the Kobold's mine?"

Oreo nodded.

"I've got sulfur mines over here. To prepare gunpowder, sufficient potassium nitrate is required, and that's the main component of saltpeter. Maybe the Kobolds have discovered a large-scale saltpeter mine."

"Should we go…"

Su Mo contemplated this in his heart. To make thermal weapons, black gunpowder was the key material.

Even if the small thermal weapon machine could be repaired, there would still be a shortage of raw materials for ammunition.

The Kobold was still chattering nonstop. Su Mo glanced at him, walked over decisively, and without a word, delivered a Vertigo's Fist to the Kobold.

"We're definitely going. Just obtaining the Kobold's treasure chest will be worth the effort over everything else."

"Moreover… we'll have to explore their lair. Otherwise, they would remain in neighboring areas, and that would be like a ticking time bomb."

After a brief thought, Su Mo made up his mind.

The sky had become dark by this point. After inspecting the surroundings of the shelter, Su Mo walked over.

After double-checking the ropes, Su Mo dragged the Kobold to a corner of the cave. He instructed Oreo to pay extra attention to the Kobold at night and returned to his bed.

It was doomsday. Basically, you could only stay in the shelter when it got dark.

He pulled the light bulb toward him and switched it off. Su Mo gradually fell asleep to the low rumble of the generator.

[Doomsday, 7th of January]

[You repaired a generator. Your civilization technological skill level has improved. (Survival points 10)]

[You discovered an underground ruin. (5)]

[You defeated the enemy when exploring the underground ruin. (Survival points 10)]

[You created your first electric weapon. Your combat skill has improved tremendously. (Survival points 5)]

[You killed five Kobolds effortlessly and obtained a lot. (Survival points 5)]

[You captivated a prisoner for the first time. (Survival points 5)]

[The host's living environment had been scanned. Survival points were evaluated. You obtained 62 survival points today.]

Final total: Survival points 102

Survival points remaining: 175

Not only did the system deliver good news this early morning, but Shen Ke's private message was also blinking on the game panel.

Su Mo sat on his bed. He looked at the Kobold which had been disciplined by Oreo and breathed a sigh of relief.

For the first time, a stranger had spent a night in the shelter, and that stranger was a Kobold.

He could not sleep well the entire night. He was afraid that the Kobold would burn down the shelter during the night.

Su Mo opened Shen Ke's message on the chat panel and read it intently.

[Shen Ke: Su Mo, my uncle has already drawn the design for you. You can use this link to trade. Just take a photo of it when you wake up. Feel free to ask if there's anything you don't understand about the design.]

There was an item for transaction at the bottom of the message which was only visible to the two of them.

After two disaster points were paid out, lights flashed and the design appeared in his inventory.

Su Mo leaned against his bed. He opened the diary which recorded messages for the dead and began writing.

"Today's the 7th day of January on the Doomsday calendar. It's been seven days at the wasteland, it could be considered a week."

"If civilization still exists, it'll be the 29th of December. Two days till New Year's Day!"

"Sigh. This year's Minor Spring Festival will probably fall on my sister's birthday? It looks like she won't be able to celebrate. I wonder if mom and dad will celebrate with her elsewhere…"

Currently, the supplies at the base are sufficient. It will be enough to last Oreo and me for half a month. Unfortunately, we used up a lot of flour yesterday, and the leftover is likely enough for two more meals of noodles. I think that should be kept aside for family members to use when they visit."

"There are almost 20 liters of psychic energy water available, but the express fee is expensive now on the trading system. To open more storage space, we won't be trading points."

"The Kobold that was captured has been very honest. I'm planning to deal with the sulfur mine near the shelter today. I'll try to extract some sulfur. If the Kobold can lead us to the saltpeter mine later on… I'll be able to produce black gunpowder. Safety would then be guaranteed!"

"Oh right, the Vegetable Culture Medium today is still…"

"Wow! The garlic seed had sprouted, and the cabbage too! I see bits of green beneath the soil. Definitely a day to remember!"

Su Mo lifted his head subconsciously and saw a tiny green sprout emerging from the Culture Medium.

The green surprise was like a Godsend. It erased Su Mo's lethargy from waking up early that morning.

Su Mo changed into his clothes and quickly walked over to the Culture Medium. Squatting down, he carefully examined it.

In the place where the garlic seeds were pressed, a tiny green sprout had appeared.

In the cities, very few people grew garlic from seeds. Most people would bury their cloves of garlic in the soil, which grew quickly and required little care.

Therefore, this was also the first time Su Mo saw a garlic seed sprout.

On the other side, the cabbage grew even more impressively. It had a thin green stem, and two little leaves about the size of a fingernail.

It looked like a pocket-sized cabbage, white and tender.

"At this rate, it will be a stubble in less than a month!"

"That's almost half the time saved!"

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Chapter 50: Perfect Blueprint! Eight Facilities!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Green plants were like hope. Thriving! In the culture, in the refuge, and under the sunlight.

They sprout bearing Su Mo's hopes!

The little hints of green were like detergent, washing away the gloom in Su Mo's heart!

"Hope…As long as people have hope, how can I not carry on in this world!" He scooped out a basin of psychic energy water and watered the entire vegetable field meticulously and gently.

Not knowing if he was hallucinating or not, Su Mo felt that the cabbage stalks shone even more like jade and the garlic sprouts glimmered verdant even more like emeralds when touched by the psychic energy water.

He reached the place where they stored food. After thinking for a bit, Su Mo grabbed a small half portion of biscuits.

First, he prepared two portions of biscuits (crumbs). After he and Oreo each finished a portion, Su Mo brought the leftover biscuits to the dying kobold.

The wounds on the arm that had been pierced by two arrows were already showing signs of decay.

Although the psychic energy water from the day before had stopped the bleeding, the dosage was too little, and it was still inflamed.

The haggard and pathetic-looking kobold opened its eyes. When it saw Su Mo, it once again closed its eyes hopelessly and in despair. It looked as if it was surrendering to its fate.

"Don't pretend to be dead! Get up, come drink some water and eat something. You cannot die today!"

He had brought over Oreo's food dish and crushed some biscuits in it. After adding in some psychic energy water, Su Mo then brought the dish in front of the kobold.

When the kobold that had still looked to have surrendered itself to fate smelled the crispy fragrance of the biscuits and the faint sweetness of the psychic energy water, its eyes immediately sprang open from its desire to live.

"Bark bark bark (Oh oh, smells delicious)!"

The smell of the psychic energy water awakened the kobold's desire to live but the food dish on the floor once again trampled on its dignity.

Would he be like Oreo, lapping up his food from the food dish while lying down on the ground?

Or should he keep his dignity as a half-human and die on his feet rather than live on his knees.

However…

Before Su Mo could even test him, the kobold laid down on the ground and devoured the food in the food dish with terrifying speed, practically not even needing a second to think about it.

Oreo's expression at the side was one of personified disgust, a condescending look on his face.

"Bark!"

Not understanding what Oreo said, the kobold ignored its words but his speed in licking the bowl doubled.

After consuming the psychic energy water, the inflamed and pus-filled wounds on the kobold's two arms visibly recovered. At the very least, it was at a stage where it was not rotting any further.

"Looks like a kobold's physique is not as good as I thought it would be. I reckon everyone would start noticing these half-human creatures within a day or two."

Nodding, Su Mo tamped down on the thought of spreading the news about the kobold.

The current situation was still unclear, and the location of the kobold's nest was still unknown as well. If these half-human creatures only existed around the base, it would be very easy for the others to follow the clues and figure out that the shelter was just around the corner.

In such an apocalyptic world, things would be way too dangerous if the location of the base was revealed to others.

He slowly approached the rumbling generator. It had been operating all night and was already heating up a little. The cooling fan next to the metal cover was buzzing.

He glanced at the oil storage. Roughly 2 to 3 liters of the diesel had been used throughout the night since it was on the lowest power.

The 400 mAh lithium iron phosphate battery was already fully charged, and the indicator of the electrical crossbow had turned from red to green as well.

After cutting the generator exactly as required, Su Mo used a storage space and started to pile the clutter into it.

A light flashed and the blueprint Shen Ke sent appeared in his hand.

He brought it to the table, pulled the lightbulb over, and unfolded the blueprint onto the base. Su Mo then looked through it meticulously.

The blueprint was not complicated. It also was unlike those measurement blueprints that could only be understood by those who had either studied or worked in engineering.

There were a total of two papers. One was a birds-eye view of the shelter the Shen Yitian had designed.

And the other one was crammed with the direction and placement of each room along with some smaller details that Su Mo had mentioned.

However…

Engaging his attention, Su Mo focused his eyes on the blueprint and as expected, elements of the blueprint could be clearly visible in front of the system.

[Underground Shelter Blueprint (Detailed)]

Description: An architectural blueprint designed by the high-level architect, Shen Yitian. The design is clever, detailed, and perfectly incorporates the space fully. However, the grade that was supposed to be one of perfection was downgraded due to the architect's perfectionist tendencies of wanting to utilize every inch of space.

First upgrade option: Reconstruct the layout design, formularize the modification of space utilization, significantly improve the adaptability, significantly improve the disaster resilience, required survival points (225)

Second upgrade option: modify the layout design, rectify the flaws in the layout design, preserve the design concept, further adapt the current needs of the shelter, required survival points (45)

Comment: Comply with the design, all you need is a small grenade placed in a suitable location and your shelter will be in ruins in an instant.

"Sure enough, even Shen Yitian can't be 100% perfect, there are indeed many things to consider, after all…"

"In pursuit of space perfection, is what I would call it…

"But what does the system evaluation mean…"

Seated at the table, Su Mo stared at the system evaluation in a daze. He had not been able to respond to what the system was prompting for a long time.

The greater the doomsday, the greater the wasteland, and the more people would overthink. A sense of futility discomforted Su Mo.

He shook his head to get rid of the feeling.

"This world…it seems that only a few people can be trusted. Maybe as time passes and as the disaster worsens, even these people will …."

Su Mo's gaze wandered, and he seemed to have seen a black hand shrouded invisibly over the shelter.

The structure of the shelter that looked unusually sturdy collapsed under a small grenade and became a pool of ruins.

In the ruins, there was Su Mo himself, his sister, his parents…

"I need to speed up the development of the shelter. Thankfully, I should still be ahead of everyone."

The more Su Mo thought about the tragedy that could happen in the future, the tighter his fists clenched.

"This human is scary. His aura is even more frightening than the King of kobolds."

The kobold who had been lying on the side slurping on gooey biscuits was so frightened by the sound of the creaking joints that it stopped their actions. Even the atmosphere dared not make a sound.

He continued to inspect the basic structure of the blueprint. After analyzing the problem as much as possible, Su Mo laid both the blueprints flat.

He shook his head, pushing all the messy thoughts at the back of his head.

"I'll go with the second upgrade option!"

Su Mo said in a low voice.

As soon as he said this, a green light shot out from his body and shone onto the blueprint.

The black handwriting on the white paper seemed to come alive and began jittering and dancing on the paper like a lively ink fairy.

After dancing for a few seconds, the handwriting behaved as the green light constrained it. They started to put together a blueprint that looked the same as before but differed greatly in their details.

Even if Su Mo did not know what had been changed at this moment, the lines of the new blueprint were no doubt much smoother than the previous.

"Looks like the power of the system is not at all comparable to that of a high-level architect like Shen Yitian!"

The light flashed again, and the elements of the new blueprint appeared in front of Su Mo's eyes.

[Underground Shelter Blueprint (Perfect)]

Description: A blueprint that has reached perfection. It contains 8 facilities. Built according to the blueprint, medium-grade antiquake, protection, low-level heating, and high-level expandability can be obtained.

Facilities:

Three-levels shelter passageway

Crop culture room (Backdoor)

Master bedroom, second and third bedroom.

Micro-research center

Storage (Living supplies storage, weapon armament storage, miscellaneous goods storage)

Micro-operation commands center

Energy distribution room

Living room

Comment: "Kobold: if I were the architect, I would make the shelter round."

"Why?"

"So that the scary demon can no longer wedge me into a corner… ()~*"

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Chapter 51: Reconstructing Level One Shelter

"The new design has separated the shelter into eight sections. You get one extra operations center if you compare it against Shen Yitian's design."

"Looks like the system understands me!"

Su Mo had a delighted expression on his face as he carefully gazed at the separated sections on the design plan.

"There might only be one television used for surveillance purposes in the current operations center, but I'll definitely bring in more powerful items in the future. The shelter will be upgraded according to this plan when the time comes for upgrades!"

Su Mo checked things several more times and ensured there was nothing else to add before launching the game panel.

[Personal Shelter]

Level: lvl

Description: A shelter made entirely from stone. Exceptionally robust with good security, and it was unique in that it could keep out the moisture and retain warmth.

Space: 140 (Height 4.2m)

Integrity: 100%

Facilities: iron stove, bed, Large Scale Vegetable Culture Medium, Psychic Energy Well Water Extractor, dining table…

Currently available permissions: reconfigure shelter's current layout, auto-generate partition walls (one time use, please adjust with care)

After selecting the option for reconfiguring the shelter's current layout, the page flickered before it arrived at an interface he had already seen before.

When Su Mo found the points function at the bottom corner, he clicked on it.

Right now, the first function that required payment in reconfiguring the shelter was, of course, to import the design plans.

It did not cost much. Only 15 points.

However, this could be considered a sky-high price by survivors who lived in a group setting.

After Su Mo used 3000 points to upgrade his storage space and another 54 points on random things, he realized he still had 278 points left. It was more than enough to pay for the costs of reconfiguring the shelter.

Upon the deduction of 15 points, light seemed to flow through the designs in his arms before they exploded into pieces in the base.

Then, the plan loaded in the game panel and showed all details regarding the plan and also its additional details.

When Su Mo tried out the preload function and realized he could drag items to their designated spots after planning them, he began utilizing that function.

The first action was to bury the wires in the slates. This task had to be accomplished by using the game panel or the system.

A short while later, Su Mo activated the transform function after all items had been classified and put away properly.

Heart pounding, Su Mo took another long look at the base which was now still flat ground. He did not feel a single ounce of reluctance in him.

New things would not come if the old ones did not part to make way!

A slight tremor reverberated from beneath the ground, making it feel as if a pair of invisible hands were caressing the base.

The kobold still sprawled across the floor looked around its surroundings in panic, seemingly not understanding such a sturdy base would be shaking wildly.

Then, something even more flabbergasting happened.

The stone steps at the shelter's entrance melted into a puddle of crimson liquid before disappearing entirely from the shelter.

Bright sunlight shone into the shelter as the door opened automatically.

At the next moment, the entire shelter began sinking spontaneously and a passageway carved from stone appeared to connect the main door to the shelter.

It would be difficult for the sun to shine in through the stone passageway, but at the same time, the base had also become safer.

Inside the base, the daylit passageway that had originally been smack in the center began moving slowly toward the base's upper right corner.

The vegetable culture medium that had been placed in the center also seemed to have the help of higher entities as it slowly rose and floated over to the light source at the upper right corner.

A partition made from stone rose from the ground and cemented itself in between the roof and the ground of the shelter, slowly becoming sturdier as time passed.

Various bits and bobs also began classifying themselves and floating toward their designated area. Similarly, walls also rose from the ground.

In an instant, the shelter, which had originally been built on flat ground, turned pitch-black.

However, at the same time, radical changes occurred to the shelter's structure after the walls rose.

About 25 square feet of the originally spacious shelter had now been separated to become a living room.

The wooden table and stools that had been created before this was placed in the living room along with the tea set scavenged from the ruins.

With the help of the light, Su Mo felt his way through the dark to the wall at the side of the living room. When he pressed down with his fingers, a bright light shone from the bulb hanging on the living room ceiling, banishing the darkness that had been there before.

The kobold was in a corner of the living room, and Oreo was lying right beside it to keep an eye on it.

Oreo was curious about the massive changes that had occurred, but without Su Mo's orders, the only thing it could do was stay put and pant loudly.

Su Mo took out the flashlight from his storage space and strode toward the other rooms.

He had planned for the area behind the living room to be his bedroom, and it was also the shelter's master bedroom.

Right now, it seemed that although the shelter had seemed huge when it was all flat ground, the planning showed that it was actually pretty cramped.

Su Mo had only given himself enough space to put a bed and bedside table in his bedroom, while the two other bedrooms were only large enough to hold a bed. They would be expanded as deemed necessary in future expansions.

The warehouse was located on the right of the entrance. As you walked in through the doorless frame, you would first see the area where weapons were stored. Further in would be where amenities were stored while random bits and bobs would be stored at the very end.

Not only did his design method of connecting the three save space, but it also saved the trouble of running around searching for things when they were needed.

On the left of the entrance was a miniature operations center and energy center.

A miniature research center spanned across the bedroom and crop breeding room. (Please refer to the chapter for detailed pictures)

It took Su Mo two round trips before he familiarized himself with the base's current structure.

Compared to the previous flatness, this structure made the base seem much smaller at a glance. However, it was much better at retaining warmth within the base.

The efficiency of retaining heat was much higher within a restricted space than the previous flat expanse.

Su Mo got a surprise when he opened the last door in the shelter.

It was a gently sloping tunnel about 10 meters long, just like the one at the back door. Within these ten meters, there was not only a door carved from stone on the very outside, but also another door in the middle.

Combined with the entrance door in the shelter, that made it a design sectioned into three parts.

This structure not only guaranteed they would not have any place to run to if enemies managed to break through the outermost door, but it also meant they could set traps in between these two doors that would destroy the enemy in one fell swoop.

They could even set up shooting ports and fire full blast once the enemy entered.

"If the previous base had a safety level of 5, I'm sure it's upped to a 50 this time!"

Su Mo clicked his tongue in wonder.

The permissions that came along with the shelter's upgrades were amazing as well. The previous shelter had been made from stone slabs but after this upgrade, all the partitions and accessories were made from stone, which made things much more convenient.

With the help of the flashlight, Su Mo managed to find the damaged incandescent light bulb he had brought back from the ruins.

He had fixed one before this and had another three right now. Additionally, these lightbulbs came with a switch, which was pretty handy.

He used six survival points to fix all three lightbulbs.

The first one was installed in his room to make doing things at night easier while the second one was installed above the section for amenities in the warehouse to provide light while searching for things.

Su Mo installed the last one in the miniature research center.

It was where the base's technology tree would take place in the future.

After getting past this disaster, a lot of time would be needed to brainstorm ways in upgrading the base's technology tree.

"That's right. I still have a workbench that I never built. Now I've finally got a place to put it!"

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Chapter 52: Sorry, I Can Do Anything I Want Because I Have A Workbench

Su Mo found the icon for constructing a workbench after he opened the creation page and scrolled to the bottom.

"Huh, why is the color of this workbench sky blue? Is there any difference between the colors?"

Confused, Su Mo looked at the materials required for creation.

[Workbench: wood 0/12, beaker 0/1, simple clamp 0/1, simple work module 0/1, simple experiment module 0/1, simple welder, 0/1, cutting machine 0/1, iron 0/12, glass 0/2, circuit board 0/4, wires 0/2

The materials required a lot of confusing materials. Excluding the simple modules, it seemed there were a large number of materials that should not be on a workbench.

"Among the required materials, I still have some extra wood and iron. Thankfully I saved some up, or else the delivery fees would be crazy seeing how big and heavy these things are."

As Su Mo scratched his chin, which was beginning to show some stubble, he began recalling the materials he still had at the base.

Two units of glass were required, and he still had some extra supplies.

He had only used a little bit of glass the last time he created a light channel. After experimentation, Su Mo found out he had enough to meet the creation requirements.

As for the beaker and clamps, they were items that would be produced alongside the workbench, which meant he did not need to go looking for them.

The only remaining thing was a circuit board. After looking around in the utility room, Su Mo found a damaged circuit board he had scavenged from shelter number two.

It had been an urgent situation then, and he had just picked up any of those he could see that were in slightly better condition.

Either way, he had still managed to pick up five of them.

Su Mo decided to spend eight survival points and select four damaged circuit boards to repair.

There were still a lot of wires left even after paving them in the shelter. He had initially wanted to use them during expansion, but they had turned out to be useful now.

"Now, the only things left include the work module, experiment module, welder, and cutting machine."

Those four items were large. After giving it some thought, Su Mo decided to search for them on the World Channel.

Rather than waiting to try his luck at the secret Regional Channel before disaster struck, he might as well spend a few points on delivery so that he could continue substantiating his combat abilities as quickly as possible.

Now was not the time to wait for discounts.

Once more people found the designs for the workbench, the modules were sure to go up in price.

[Su Mo: Ahem, sorry for the interruption. Please give me the price for a simple work module, experiment module, welder, and cutting machine.]

He had just finished speaking when the previously serene World Channel seemed to explode like an atomic bomb!

To fit every person into the World Channel, the game would functionally omit most information, which also made it much harder for everyone to communicate and converge in the World Channel.

After all, no human mind could read several billion messages as they flashed by at once.

Despite that, Su Mo could still observe the messages in the chatbox flying by in real-time.

"I just got off the plane at the wasteland. I have a PhD and a monthly income worth millions. I would like to ask in advance if the Almighty Su is seeking lab members. I'm very hardworking!"

"Can the person above me shut up? I'll give you a number and you'll get into the car immediately! You have five seconds to develop a spacecraft and travel down to the base."

"I haven't had any milk tea during this autumnal season yet, could I trouble the Almighty Su to gift a young girl a cup of autumnal psychic energy water~ I don't mind any kind~"

"I have a simple work module and am willing to exchange it for 10L of psychic energy water!"

[Su Mo: What outrageous demands. F*ck off if you're here to be a nuisance, don't make me go over and take care of you.]

Su Mo's mindfulness had improved greatly after his week at the wasteland.

He had never dared say such things back on Earth, but they rolled off his tongue here now.

At the same time, Su Mo had decided to become a shameless token dog.

He had the power of the buyer's market on his side during these transactions. There might be a lot of people who had these supplies, but only Su Mo could purchase them and pay for the game's atrocious shipping fee now.

When he began threatening them, the numbers of personal requests and nonsense in the trading market immediately decreased.

He sieved through the items and began listing them in order from cheapest to most expensive.

"D*mn, this person is selling a premium work module for only 300 ml of psychic energy water. Of course I'm getting this."

"A welder that only costs 50ml? Don't think I can call myself a Huaxia person if I don't buy it right now!"

"A premium experiment module and 2kg worth of baguette for only 180ml?"

"Nice. So many people are advancing dauntlessly, they're even braver than Boruto!"

Su Mo was stunned as he saw the trade requests on the trading panel grow more and more ridiculous.

Since when had things become so cheap?

Looks like everyone was ready to give it their all when they could not see the prices other people had set. They would lower their prices as much as possible just for a sip of psychic energy water.

After only spending 940ml psychic energy water and 24 disaster survival points for delivery fees, Su Mo received the following items:

Premium work module*1, premium experiment module*1, simple welder*1, simple cutting machine*1, screws*35.

Invertible, warm light bedroom lamp*1, 3km radius rechargeable walkie-talkie*2, one electric blanket, one roll of transparent tape, and a pair of binoculars with 5x zoom.

2kg worth of baguettes, 1 box of apple juice, one pack of potato chips, and one bag of fried peanuts.

He had merely ladled out a small portion of water to get so many items in return. Su Mo might be a calm person, but he could feel his heart racing too.

"So, this is how wonderful it feels to be a con man… What a pity I wasn't a businessman in my past life, what a waste of my talents!"

When a small portion of the people in the World Chat learned that Su Mo had already entered the electric society, they included electronics that could be rarely found as their add-ons in their offers.

These things were comparably difficult to produce electrical energy from. In other words, it was worth less than scrap metal to people who were experiencing a resource shortage.

However, these were amazing deals to Su Mo!

It was 20 degrees below freezing outside. Wouldn't it be amazing if he could plug in the electric blanket and burrow into his sheets?

As for food, they were either something that would invoke thirst after consumption, or they could act as weapons if they were baguettes.

However, this was not a problem for Su Mo.

After cataloging everything and putting them away, he felt a wondrous feeling of happiness washing over him.

He felt excited as he brought all the items he needed for creation over to one place.

"Feels like I'm exceptionally lucky."

"This is the first time I've seen the design for a workbench, and these people don't even know how much it's worth. That's why I managed to get it so easily."

Su Mo sighed in contentment before he began working.

Without a noise, a workbench roughly the size of a large desk back on Earth appeared in the pitch-black unplaced space.

As he shifted his mind, the heavy bench appeared placed next to a wall in the research center with a boom.

"This…"

The workbench had required such ordinary materials to craft, but it caused Su Mo to be shocked when it appeared.

There had initially only been one beaker, but it had transformed into a set of large glass instruments after being mixed with the workbench's construction materials.

"Distillation… Extraction… Fractionation…"

Refining… Cutting… Welding"

After he had fiddled around with the glass instruments for a while, a strange message was sent to him.

Su Mo shut his eyes and used between three to five seconds to familiarize himself with the ways of using the workbench.

Kneeling on the floor, Su Mo exerted a little strength and easily pulled out a robotic arm about half the length of a human.

A seemingly complicated mess of wires was attached to the robotic arm. After trying to use it a couple of times.

Su Mo returned to the power supply room and cut off the electricity before he lowered his head and connected the workbench's wires to the shelter's main electrical supply.

When he resumed power to the workbench, a humming, buzzing sound rang out.

The heavy workbench began conducting a self-check. After the robotic arm got connected to power, it began shaking before finally securing itself on the side of the workbench.

After bringing a stool to the workbench, Su Mo got an idea and used the system to check the workbench's specific properties.

[Workbench (Excellent)]

Description: When players use this workbench, their productivity goes up by 10%, attention levels go up by 10%, and success rate goes up by 10%

Special Ability: when using the workbench to generate random items, the item level will be automatically adjusted according to the player's crafting level, technique, and the level of the workbench (upgrades will not go above or below the maximum and minimum grades a workbench can achieve)

First upgrade option: upgrade the three base attributes of the workbench to complement the workbench's integrity, lowering the power consumption during usage. Survival points needed (525).

Second upgrade option: upgrade the workbench by one grade, improve the functionality of the workbench and upgrade the quality of its materials. Survival points needed (720).

Third upgrade option: upgrade the option by one level, upgrade the workbench's special ability by one level, increase probability of a second special entry being added to the workbench (on the technology side). Survival points needed (6550).

Comment: Workbench (), handcrafted nuke ()

"Is this reasonable!"

"What a steal!"

Chapter 53: First Build By The Magic Workbench!

"It gave three upgrade options. Seems like the workbench is actually the item in the entire base that has the most potential to be upgraded?"

Thoughts raced through Su Mo's mind as he carefully read through the pros and cons of each upgrade.

"The workbench was initially supposed to be of normal grade, but it went up to an excellent grade after I included two premium add-ons."

"If items created in the game panel are not supposed to have any grade, then items created using the workbench will at least have the workbench's grade included in it. That means it'll be of excellent quality. I wonder if that will add-on any unique abilities…"

"So, if I use the system to upgrade the workbench's properties up to a perfect level, that means that even a randomly created spatula would be of perfect quality!"

As Su Mo realized that, he cheered inwardly and hurriedly retrieved one unit of wood and one unit of iron.

Amidst all the items, it seemed that an iron axe would be the easiest to craft. All you needed to do to create a "passable" iron axe was to saw off a piece of iron and find a way to stick it onto a wooden stick.

Su Mo walked over to the energy center and connected the generator. After ensuring that the output from the generator was steady, he switched the energy source of the shelter over to the generator.

The robotic arm would use up a lot of power during cutting and welding. There was no way a 400 AH lithium-ion battery would be able to withstand it.

After using the monster illustration handbook to scan the surroundings and also doing a round of surveillance using the television to ensure there were no enemies within a 1-kilometer radius, Su Mo heaved a sigh of relief and put his raincoat on before walking up to the workbench.

The workbench seemed to weigh a ton because its body was constructed from both wood and iron. Circling it to walk to its left side, Su Mo pressed down on the workbench's self-testing safety button.

An indicator light began flashing red. Three seconds later, it turned into a shade of green that evoked joy.

The robotic arm secured on the side of the workbench also began its self-test. After several seconds of vibrating, the machine began expanding slowly and provided a space for humans to extend their arms within.

Su Mo sat down and tried placing his right arm inside.

Clamp!

When the robotic arm detected weight, it began closing slowly and snapped shut with a pang. The entirety of Su Mo's left arm was encased beautifully within.

When Su Mo tried moving the arm that had metal attached to it, he marveled at how smooth and strong it was!

The electronics bear the majority of the weight of the robotic arm, which meant his actual arm did not feel weighed down by the robotic arm.

Su Mo gazed at the turbines, welder, and an instrument that seemed to be used for cauterizing on his arm. Then, he raised his arm toward the wall and sighed as he said,

"Sorry, I am Iron Man."

He touched the smooth lines of steel and the variety of instruments on it.

A proud feeling arose in Su Mo as he looked at the power of a human combined with a machine.

"Human bodies are way too fragile. I hope I can make it to the day where I craft armor like Gundam."

The advancement of his personal combat power was definitely going to be in

The future direction of personal combat power is bound to be in the direction of mecha.

And that day would not be too far away in the wasteland!

Su Mo snapped out of his imagination and utilized the convenience of the storage space to bring a unit of iron and wood over to the table.

When he tried using his left hand to press the button on the cutting machine, a whirring sound immediately rang out.

The saw blade wheels on his right hand began spinning slowly. As he pressed the button again and again, the speeds increased more and more, and then returned to its slowest speed after it had revved up to third gear.

After trying it out, Su Mo switched back to the slowest speed and extended the saw blades toward the sheet of iron.

Twang!

Harsh sparks of fire immediately landed on the mask of Su Mo's raincoat, and the light was so bright it made his eyes sting.

It was Su Mo's first time operating a cutting machine like this, and a lack of experience made his eyes sting so badly that tears flowed, making him look like he was crying.

"Shoot, I forgot that people always wear a cover when they cut stuff. Got to go get me some sunglasses."

As Su Mo hurriedly took the robotic arm off and wiped the tears from his eyes, he walked over to the utility room and found the bottle of Cola he had been reluctant to drink before.

He took the bottle of Cola and walked over to Oreo, who was still standing guard at its spot to feed it several sips.

Su Mo finished the rest of the Cola.

After carefully ripping the cola sign off from the bottle, Su Mo found the chopper he had scavenged from the wasteland and went to town on the Cola bottle.

The resistance of plastic could be largely ignored if a sharp blade was used with swift movements.

Su Mo only needed to exert a little strength before he cut the top of the bottle off and split the body of the bottle into two halves.

After carefully using the tip of the knife to carve the shape of a pair of eyes on the bottle, Su Mo picked the bottle up and wrangled with it. He ended up with a pair of freshly crafted sunglasses lens crafted from two Cola bottles.

Grabbing the tape, Su Mo placed the sunglasses lenses over the part of the raincoat where one would look out from. Steadying his gaze, he called out to the system so that the raincoat's properties would appear.

[Strong Raincoat]

Description: one-piece raincoat with strong waterproofing functions, slight protection, and heat-insulating properties.

Upgrade option: material (20), windproof (30), UV-ray proof (10-8), heat insulation (15)…

Introduction: boys also need to wear their raincoat and protect themselves, okay?

"Upgrade protection against UV rays!"

He had just finished speaking when two survival points were deducted. The two sunglasses lens he had pasted on began melting and merging into one with the mask.

Once again, Su Mo put on his coat and sat down at the workbench to continue his unfinished work.

When in front of the upgraded mask, the dazzling light and sparks created by the cutting machine lost their formidable power.

Items crafted using an excellent workbench would have extremely strong bonus attributes.

The brick of iron seemed strong, but when placed before the spinning cutting machine, it was like a brick of tofu as the blades easily sliced through it.

After carefully separating one iron unit into five smaller ones, Su Mo placed four of them on the ground before trying to increase the temperature of the remaining one

A blaze burnt from the welder on his right arm and bathed the block of iron in high temperatures. You could watch as the iron changed colors into a burning red.

A hammer popped out after he hurriedly switched off the welder. Su Mo raised an arm and hammered the burning metal.

With the help of the machinery, Su Mo continued hammering for a full minute before he stopped working.

Now, the iron had begun taking the shape of an axe's blade. Although not as uniform as one created by the system, the quality was considered not bad for a first-timer like him.

"Luckily the tools on this workbench help work on these materials. If not, who knows how long I would have to wait before I could heat up and weld the iron!"

Su Mo pressed on another button to release streams of air and cool down the axe rapidly. After that, he moved the slab of iron to one side and picked up his wood so that he could begin chopping and sanding it using the cutting machine.

In a short while, a smooth axe handle was created.

After attempting to scale down the size of the bottom of the iron so that it would be the same size as the tip of the axe handle, Su Mo placed the wooden handle into the slot on the workbench and used his robotic arm to exert pressure.

A brand-new axe was created!

Then, he turned the cutting machine around and used the edge blade to finish grinding the axe and making it a sharp, usable axe.

"Wasn't that hard to craft an iron axe. Good job me!"

Su Mo took off his robotic arm and opened the slot so that he could take the axe, which still smelt like hot iron, out.

The smooth axe handle was not as intricate as the ones crafted in the game panel, but the length and width of it all suited Su Mo's preferences.

It was his first time crafting an axe, so the two sides were of unequal height, with the left side being slightly taller. However, the blade shone so menacingly that no one would dare doubt its power!

Su Mo concentrated his efforts and summoned the system. When he looked at the properties of the axe he had just created, he was shocked!

[Iron Axe (Excellent)]

Description: an iron axe crafted by conscientious craftsman "Su Mo". High-quality materials were used and upgraded to be of excellent quality for some bizarre reason despite the rough handwork.

Special Abilities: 1. Sharpness 1

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Small chance of causing an explosion when chopping trees (sharpness 3)

Comment: Could this be… Could this be the Falling Sakura Axe? (That's all)

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Chapter 54: Rub Your Hands in Invincibility And Understand The Applause

"There's a double entry?! And I created that double-entry!!!"

Su Mo stared dazedly at the axe in his arms, and he could not stop himself from grabbing an axe he had created in the game panel from his storage space to make comparisons.

The hand-crafted axe looked exceptionally rough compared to the elegant axes created in-game.

However, Su Mo found an oddity after he placed the two axes next to each other.

Although the blade crafted in the game panel looked menacing, it did not look the slightest bit mystical.

Whereas the hand-crafted blade shimmered once in a while and seemed to have the help of gods.

Su Mo retrieved the left-over wood pieces from when he crafted the axe blade and used both axes to chop the wood.

When Su Mo used the axe he had crafted in-game, he could feel a resistant force clearly when he tried chopping down with it. It was only after he increased the strength used that he could make a dent.

However…

The hand-crafted axe made the wood seem like a piece of tofu as it gleamed and chopped off a corner from the slab.

"Holy sh*t… I can probably chop like 50 trees in a day using something like this!"

Unable to suppress the shock he felt, Su Mo cursed out loud, still unable to understand how an axe he had crafted spontaneously held such power.

"Looks like hand-crafted supplies will become man's true love, and the game panel will be getting eliminated!"

"Besides, the most important thing to note in hand-crafting is… it does not require points!"

After experiencing crafting with the workbench, Su Mo grew repulsed at the thought of the game panel, which required you to pay one survival point before you could use it.

The sooner you enter the electric age, the sooner you get a better workbench. The sooner you enhance your handcrafting abilities, the sooner you get better gear.

At the same time, the workbench would help high-level crafters improve their skills immensely.

It was an extremely fair set-up.

There were no messy design plans to refer to in creating legendary weapons. If you wanted good gear, you had to look at the design plans yourself and make sense of them before hand-crafting them.

Su Mo walked over to the bucket and ladled himself a glass of psychic energy water to drink so that he could calm down from his excitement.

"If the excellent quality gear is already so good, imagine how scarily good premium quality gear would be when I create it!"

After getting to know the workbench's usage, Su Mo hurried back to the workbench and immersed himself back in work.

He was going to craft a series of simple tools now so that he could get rid of the normal quality ones he had crafted before in the game panel.

Amidst the tools, Su Mo decided to begin with an iron shovel as it was easier to craft compared to the other tools!

Plang!

When Su Mo put his raincoat on, he seemed to become possessed by a craftsman as he sat down at the workbench and focused on work.

The sparks from the cutting machine flew forth, and an ear-piercing sound rang out as the brick of iron was kneaded and flattened into small, irregular squares.

He paused for a while when he finished cutting.

Su Mo took the irregular squares to the center, where he began heating and hammering them.

With the help of the robotic arm's immense strength, the squares began changing shape and taking the form of the familiar shovel as the arm hammered down on them.

Compared to the last time, Su Mo had become familiar with the actions now and managed to hammer the shovel into a more even thickness.

He put the shovel aside to cool after it was done.

And he took out two units worth of wood. This time, Su Mo used up ten pieces of wood to craft different wood sticks of different lengths so that he could keep them as spares.

After placing a slightly longer wooden stick in the slot, he took the cool shovel and pressed the two together to form a brand-new handcrafted iron shovel.

Su Mo smiled after he summoned the system and read the shovel's properties.

[Shovel (Premium)]

Description: an iron shovel crafted by conscientious craftsman "Su Mo". High-quality materials were used and upgraded to be of excellent quality for some bizarre reason despite the rough handwork.

Special Abilities: 1. Sharpness 1

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Energy Saving 1

Small chance of causing an explosion when excavating dirt (soil resistance lowered greatly (20s))

Comment: your special talent at digging holes and burying people has caused you to be enriched with luck when crafting shovels!

"I'll craft an iron pickaxe and then try digging for the sulfur ores at my door. When the time comes, I'll have an ak47 falling into my lap. Tsk tsk, feels great just thinking about it."

Su Mo forced himself to not get carried away by his excitement and spent another half hour crafting an iron pickaxe.

However, it was just like how the system had introduced things. Unless you were super lucky that day, a workbench of excellent quality would mostly only produce items of excellent quality.

The iron pickaxe was also of excellent quality, and it had not triggered the workbench to produce premium quality products.

After Su Mo finished crafting those three tools, he switched off the power source to the workbench and walked to the energy center to check how much power had been used.

"Hm, not bad, only used about 7 percent of the battery. This level of consumption is still acceptable. Perhaps I can try crafting a high-quality crossbow when I have time…"

Su Mo acted according to instructions and turned off the generator so it could rest. After turning on the battery-powered supply, he returned to the shelter's living room to have a large glass of psychic energy water before he began putting on his gear in preparation.

Oreo hurried over from its corner to signal that it would like to follow along as well.

Su Mo smiled as he lowered to pet Oreo's head and say gently:

"Good boy, stay and watch over this person. I'll just be outside digging up some stones and I won't go too far. I'll be back really soon."

When Oreo heard that Su Mo was not going out to play, it pouted and wagged his hairless tail as it lay back down slowly.

Su Mo did not know if he should laugh or cry as he looked at the expression on Oreo's face, and then at the kobold in the corner, which seemed to have fallen asleep.

Huskies were supposed to be energetic dogs, but Oreo had been acting strangely recently, lying down to rest right after having a meal. He did not know what was going on.

Shaking his head to banish the thoughts to the back of his mind, Su Mo arrived at the command and operations center where he turned on the television to survey what was happening nearby.

Everything was coming back to life after more than a day of constant acid rain downpour.

They might be horrifying, dangerous toxins to humans, but they were precious nectar to plants.

The grass, which had originally been fading yellow, was now a patch of green again.

After zooming into the shrubbery where the kobold army had been buried, he observed carefully and noted that there were no footprints to be found.

After another round of looking, Su Mo spotted two animals that seemed like chickens casually drinking from a puddle of acid rain.

"Huh? What's that? Won't the acid rain corrode them?"

Su Mo stared in shock as he zoomed in and watched two wasteland chickens calmly drinking the water from the puddle of acid rain.

Their feathers were the same shade of muddy yellow as the ground of the wasteland, with a tiny speck of red decorating the top of their heads. Underneath their slightly large wings was their pink, tender meat.

Brown beaks and black eyes.

Besides their claws, which were larger than chickens on Earth, the rest of their body was essentially identical to country hens.

He summoned the game panel and launched the Monster Illustration Handbook, deciding to use his one chance for the day.

[A wild feather chicken is detected 114m away from the player. Danger factor 12. Please be cautious]

[Today's count 2/3]

"Wild feather chicken?"

Su Mo opened the handbook and scrolled down to the properties of wasteland creatures like these.

[Wild Feather Chicken: a wasteland creature that is rare to attack aggressively. Has a strong digestive system that will fend off toxic products below the medium level. Possesses adequate mobility. Upon determination of the nest, it will not change spots easily unless there is a presence of an extremely strong enemy or external factor. Will often build their homes near sources of water.

[Weakness: extremely scared of high-pitched sounds. Will lie paralyzed on the ground after hearing high-pitched sounds

[Danger Count: 12

"Amazing. Are you sure you're not here to deliver me eggs?"

Upon double-checking and confirming that these two wild feather chickens had built their nest near the acid rain lake, Su Mo turned off his television excitedly and walked toward the back door to meet his new neighbors.

"How could my neighbors regard themselves as an outsider? My shelter is warm in the winters and cool in the summers. How could living in the wilderness compare to living here!"

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Chapter 55: Gaining New Neighbors Unexpectedly

Su Mo crouched and hurried through the passageway to the exit, where he pushed the small stone door open and burrowed out.

The two wild feather chickens were pretty brave when they saw their surprise guest Su Mo. All they did was stand still and cluck.

"Hi, nice to meet you. I'm your neighbor, Su Mo!"

Su Mo slowed down his steps and advanced carefully toward the two wild feather chickens.

He moved slowly, and the wild feather chickens did not seem to be reacting aggressively either.

Unless it was absolutely required, Su Mo did not intend to use "enthusiastic" methods to invite his new neighbors to begin a new life in his shelter.

However, Su Mo had ended up underestimating his charm.

When he was only about 30m away from the wild feather chickens, the two chickens began running swiftly, as if they had discovered some sort of treasure.

Their goal was not to run away!

Instead, it was to run towards Su Mo!

The wild feather chicken's large feet gave them the ability to run just as quickly as a teenager. Within three to five seconds, they had arrived at Su Mo's feet.

Two cute chickens sat down next to each other and gazed expectantly at Su Mo!

"Huh? Has my handsomeness crossed communities? (isn't that being a little too self-immersed?)"

Su Mo had a confused expression on his face as he wiped his face.

However, when he took another careful look, he noticed that the two wild feather chickens were not looking at his face. Instead, they were looking at the tiny splotches of water on the shirt inside his raincoat.

"Oh? Was it attracted by the psychic energy water?"

Intrigued, Su Mo retrieved a bottle of psychic energy water from his storage space.

He twisted the bottle cap slightly open.

As the smell of the psychic energy water wafted out, the longing in the two wild feather chickens' eyes grew even more obvious. The pleading look in their eyes was so humane, it hurt to watch.

After giving it some thought, Su Mo retrieved a small piece of wood.

He bent down and poured some of the water from the bottle onto the piece of wood. The two chickens hurried forth and clucked as they drank.

The sweet-tasting psychic energy water caused a blissful smile to appear on the wild feather chicken's faces.

He poured a little more for them to drink.

Whenever he poured more, the two chickens would lower their heads to peck viciously.

After drinking around 100ml, the two wild feather chickens finally raised their heads and signaled that they were done drinking!

"You don't have that large of an appetite, but why are you giving me such weird looks!"

When Su Mo twisted the cap back on and placed the bottle of psychic energy water in his storage space, he turned back to the wild feather chickens and was startled to see that the two chickens had a look in their eyes that showed —

Trust?!

Why was it trust?!

Su Mo tried taking two steps forth, and the chickens also took two steps toward him.

Then, Su Mo tried running a few steps forth. The two chickens also ran up to him.

It was just like how you got a pet in an RPG game. The two wild feather chickens had become programmed to automatically follow him after drinking the psychic energy water.

Su Mo circled past the dune and arrived at the front door.

The two wild feather chickens also arrived at the front door with him!

As if they had set their sights on Su Mo and were not the slightest bit afraid he would bring them harm.

"I thought they wouldn't change their nesting place? Are you sure these aren't bum beetles that forget their way home once they meet someone new?"

Su Mo did not know if he should laugh or cry as he gazed at his two followers.

He circled back and entered the shelter through the back door. When Su Mo walked in, so did the two wild feather chickens.

Oreo immediately raced to the back door while barking loudly once it caught a whiff of a strange scent.

However, an unrestrained look of excitement appeared on the dog's face when it saw the two new additions to their team!

"Oh no, will Oreo hurt these chickens by playing with them!"

The look on Oreo's face was so devilish that Su Mo could not help but recall the times he had seen both small and large dogs toying with chickens in his past life.

As he ruffled Oreo's hair, Su Mo pretended to be checking if it had any fleas on its stomach.

In truth, he used that opportunity to quickly glance at the lower part of Oreo's body…

"Ah… Oreo is a girl. I'm not so worried then I guess…"

"Oh? Oreo is a girl?"

Two thoughts surfaced one after the other in Su Mo's mind.

"No wonder Oreo's been looking so depressed lately. I heard that girls always have those few days every month where they're… especially blue…"

"Yep, that's right!"

Su Mo was in a great mood after finding out the reason behind Oreo's slump and hurriedly shooed Oreo to sit down in a corner so that their new neighbors would not be frightened.

"You, the one with brighter red hair. Hm, by looking at the shape, I'm going to call you Big Spark."

"You, the one with lighter hair. Hm, I'll call you Little Spark."

After he was done naming the two wild feather chickens of different heights and feather colors, Su Mo took out an extra basin and filled it with psychic energy water before placing it in the crop breeding room that currently took up about 50 square feet of the total space.

When the two wild feather chickens saw the basin of psychic energy water, their eyes widened.

Once Su Mo placed it down in a corner, both Big and Little Spark dashed over and settled down, ready to defend their property to the death.

"Huh, have they decided to nest here now? They're so easy to fool."

When Su Mo saw the spark in Oreo's eyes, he grabbed Oreo by the waist and walked out from the breeding room.

"I'm warning you, Oreo. You can play with Big and Little Spark, but you're not allowed to bully them!"

"They are the newest members of our base!"

Oreo seemed to grow shy as Su Mo cradled her in his arms.

This was the first time Su Mo had taken her in his arms, and she buried her head into Su Mo's chest and did not stop wiggling.

Whimpers sounded from her mouth.

"I'm going to assume you've agreed. Take care of the house. I've got to go out and find ways to take care of you financially!"

After Su Mo took Oreo back to the corner where the kobold was lying, he dusted himself off.

If you wanted to survive in the wasteland, you needed both the capabilities to do so as well as a huge amount of luck.

Just like the acid rain puddle the drains had accidentally created. He had initially thought they would hinder his progress of advancing the base.

Yet, it had ended up bringing him those two wild feather chickens.

Now that the shelter, which had previously only been occupied by one human and one dog, had two new additions to it, Su Mo had a different feeling toward the impending disaster.

He felt much more confident!

"There are 13 days left. No need to panic. As long as no monster comes and attacks me, I'm 70 percent sure I can make it through this disaster…"

"But… that's not enough!"

"I have to be the champion of all the shelters worldwide and get even more disaster survival points so that I can ensure I'm still ahead of everyone else on the personal leaderboard."

A determined expression appeared on Su Mo's face as he ruminated to himself.

Pushing open the shelter's front door…

The first time.

Su Mo came to the front passageway after the reconstruction.

Right now, the shelter had not yet evolved to the point where the passageway had the resources to form a barbican. However, slots to fire from had already been left in the design.

Through using the left-over light from upgrading the shelter, the game panel had automatically upgraded the exit passageways to be made from stone as well.

Su Mo felt multiple emotions washing over him as he gazed at the tiny firing holes on the walls.

If he had been working alone without the convenience of gaming upgrades, he would never have been able to construct such a building!

This was the culmination of the works of countless humans from countless civilizations.

The forms of aid survival games brought to single players were more than enough for these lone wolves.

After opening the second door, and then the main door on the very outside, a gust of fresh air raced into the tunnel due to the tunnel effect.

After observing the depth of the passageways, Su Mo managed to determine how much the base had sunk during this reconstruction.

"If the base I'd previously lived in was on crown land, then I must have sunk five meters below the crown land this time!"

"And if you add on the height, the shelter must be ten meters below ground!"

Su Mo used his eyes to guesstimate the numbers before shutting the door and walking toward the shrubbery.

He had a tight schedule and could not afford to lose a single second. It was time to begin excavating the sulfur ores nearby!

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Chapter 56: Today is also a Day for Diligent Mining!

As documented in literature, this type of natural sulfur ore had already been known as 'sulfur' from as early as biblical times after its discovery. In ancient Egyptian and Grecian records, sulfur was used in medicine and fumigation.

Sulfur mining activities during that era were mainly conducted in volcanic areas like Sicily. Up until the 20th century, sulfur deposits could also be found above salt domes. These two areas were the primary sources of sulfur ore.

"Regardless of how one looks at it, this terrain doesn't look like a place where sulfur ore can be found. Is it true that the resource points had been placed at random locations or were there volcanic activities here before the launch?"

Su Mo found bits of the gravel-like sulfur ore after carefully excavating the soil.

For this kind of thing, if one did not have a careful eye or have prior knowledge that there was an ore mine here, one would be hard-pressed to identify that it was sulfur at all and may have only taken them to be colored stones.

Su Mo circled around the location once and used his footsteps to measure the distribution area of the crushed sulfur ore along the terrain. There were traces of its presence within a radius of nearly 100 meters.

After circling the location, he found a small elevated hill devoid of trees. Su Mo took out the good-quality shovel and started digging.

"Good heavens, can this good-quality shovel actually be that much stronger than a normal quality one?"

A stream of light flashed across the iron shovel. It turned out that he had scored a critical hit with that first action. Within 20 seconds, the soil resistance had been greatly reduced.

It was like shoveling tofu, with Su Mo tossing out shovels of dirt effortlessly.

Su Mo examined the soil that he had just dug out. After confirming that it contained crushed sulfur ore inside, he began digging with peace of mind.

Digging was also a form of technical work. If one simply dug downward, there would be a risk of the surrounding structure becoming unstable and collapsing, crushing one to death underneath it.

Su Mo had witnessed someone digging a cellar in his countryside hometown as a kid. Long story short, the surrounding soil structure collapsed even before the hole reached a two-meter depth.

By the time the neighbors realized, this person had been completely buried under the soil; suffocating and dying in that shallow pit.

That was why Su Mo chose the most reliable method of digging out a staircase. It was much safer and sacrificed only a little in terms of efficiency.

Under the bright hot sun, a large pile of dirt emerged, evidence of Su Mo's hard work.

Although building the iron shovel had taken half a day, at this moment, Su Mo felt that it had been well worth it.

The increase in the efficiency of the iron shovel was extremely terrifying. The critical hits, in particular, were unbelievable and their effects could even be stacked on top of each other indefinitely.

This meant that as long as one kept digging, one could keep on triggering this effect.

If there were no other mechanical tools present for excavation work, this iron shovel could easily replace the work of a small excavator.

"There's no sulfide gas spewing out of the ground either, so just how did this sulfur ore mine form?"

After digging to about a meter's depth, the shovel started to meet resistance. Clanging sounds echoed as the shovelhead made contact with the hard ground.

Crouching down, Su Mo brushed the surface of the soil with his hand. He immediately found some earth-yellow sulfur ores.

The surface of sulfur ores was slightly porous, which meant that sulfide gas was being released.

After returning the shovel to the storage space, Su Mo took out the good-quality iron pickaxe.

[Iron pickaxe (Good)]

Description: An iron shovel made by a conscientious craftsman "Su Mo". It was produced with rough workmanship and sturdy materials, but was upgraded to good quality for inexplicable reasons.

Special effect:

Sharpness 1

There is a small probability of critical hits when mining ores. (For ore disintegration with hardness levels below 5)

Comment: It is a shame that it is not the enviable golden pickaxe.

After taking out the mineral water bottle containing psychic energy water and gulping down two mouthfuls to regain his physical strength, Su Mo then picked up the iron pickaxe and struck it against the yellow ore on the surface of the ground.

A soothing, crisp sound reverberated.

The relatively hard yellow sulfur ore suddenly disintegrated into small, scattered pieces of ore.

Su Mo lowered his head and quietly focused to absorb them into the storage space. All the ore slag on the ground was immediately collected into the storage space.

"Oh ho, that's pretty efficient. It seems that I'll be able to get enough with just an hour of mining!"

After eyeballing the amount of sulfur debris he had collected, Su Mo then worked out a draft in his mind.

He triggered the special disintegration effect and was able to harvest about 20kg of sulfur ore with just one critical strike.

In the absence of a large demand for thermal weapon ammunition or gunpowder, having dug a ton of ore was practically more than enough.

The rattling and clanking continued. Time continued to pass, and the sun that had risen from the east slowly began to descend in the west.

As the sun set in the distance, Su Mo had to pause digging and climb out of the pit to look around for signs of mutant beasts every five minutes.

Gradually, the sun reached the end of the horizon.

A flash of the evening sun shone across the vast land, almost as if reflecting a tinge of the sulfur's color.

"Alright, that's enough digging. I've run out of space anyway. I'll just dig for more next time when I run out."

Lifting his head, Su Mo looked at the sky and put a stop to his work.

At this moment, the extra space he had in the two cubic meters of storage space had almost been filled with sulfur ore. Based on the efficiency of the purification process, he would have no shortage of sulfur for a long time.

Su Mo climbed out of the pit and dusted off the dirt from his raincoat. He began refilling the pit with the excavated soil.

Given that sulfur without a root source would dissipate, burying it with soil could also increase the retention duration of the sulfur ore.

The small hill, originally piled up from the excavation, turned into a piece of flat land after the refilling process.

After marking the location, Su Mo turned around and headed back to the shelter.

Compared to the heat outside, the shelter looked more like a shady cellar after being submerged.

Most of the heat was isolated as soon as he entered the tunnel and the temperature rose again after entering the shelter.

"When will the days when I can't take a shower end!"

Su Mo stood in the weapon armament storage and took off his raincoat. He looked at the yellowed tank top with a sad expression etched on his face.

He could not bring himself to do the laundry with psychic energy water; such a wasteful thing, at least for the time being.

The talent of hoarding was something that was buried within the genes of the Huaxia people.

Even if there was currently about 20 liters of psychic energy water stored, Su Mo only dared to wipe his face with a rag that had been sparingly dipped in a little water when washing his face in the morning.

"Hell, billions of Earthlings have been transferred to this world at once, but not a single person was placed near a water source."

"I'll have to wait for the blizzard to come before I can hoard a large amount of plain water."

After smacking his lips and downing the remaining psychic energy water in the mineral water bottle, the burning sensation in his throat subsided greatly.

What a strange survival world.

This was a fact that everyone had discovered lately.

It was as if these mutant creatures had fallen from the sky just like humans and, because there was no water source, a large amount of these creatures had begun to die of thirst in the wilderness.

Excluding the few animals that could drink the acid rain to survive, most mutant creatures could only kill each other and rely on fresh blood to get by.

There was no freshwater source to be found anywhere.

It was as if the setting for water sources in this world were removed, or to put it bluntly, there was no option to include water sources.

Other than opening treasure chests, humans could only resort to scientific methods if they wanted to obtain water. For example: by encasing a plastic bag over a section of leafy shoots so that the foliar transpiration on the leaves would produce condensed water.

Or digging a small pit on relatively wet ground and placing a water collection device in the center of the bottom of the pit, then hanging a plastic film drawn into an arc on the surface of the pit.

Light energy would raise the temperature of the wet soil and air in the pit. The evaporation would then produce water vapor. The water vapor will condense into water droplets when coming into contact with the plastic film and then slide down into the collection device.

Using both of these methods, they could muddle through to obtain enough water to sustain life.

The collection method had also been shared by most people and had gradually become widespread.

However, due to the courier fee, people could not trade away the excess water even if they had it on hand.

"I don't know why, but even if I did make a second water well, the system still cannot upgrade it."

Just like how the raincoat could not be upgraded without putting it into the wardrobe, the same was true for the water well.

After shaking his head and tossing these strange thoughts to the back of his mind, Su Mo began to inspect the rewards he obtained from this trip.

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Chapter 57: Detailed Operation, Purifying Sulfur

Some supplies had already been piled up in the utility storage warehouse, but after Su Mo poured out all the sulfur ores, the warehouse finally looked somewhat full.

A faint stench effused from the surface of the ore.

After examining the powdery yellow substance on the ore, Su Mo lowered his head and picked out a smaller piece, bringing it to the workbench.

The process to purify sulfur ore was extremely simple.

One only needed to heat a sulfur monomer mineral of an acceptable purity in a distillation flask. When the temperature reaches 200 degrees, a filter is used to remove any unmelted impurities to ensure purity.

The remaining substance then resumes heating after filtering. During this heating process, the remaining substance is stirred to continue evaporating and filtering the impurities.

By the time the temperature reaches 400 degrees, the sulfur gas will begin to evaporate. These evaporated sulfur gases are collected and a purer sulfur can be obtained after cooling and solidification.

In ancient times, the reason why a weapon of mass destruction like gunpowder had not been developed sooner was that it had been more difficult to extract pure sulfur.

However, such an extraction would not be a problem at all with the current workbench.

Su Mo went back to the energy room to plug in the generator and electricity supply. He then came up to the workbench and switched on the self-test button.

When the red and green indicator lights had all turned green, the self-test concluded, and Su Mo equipped the robotic arm and began to manipulate the apparatus.

The workbench had already been equipped with a complete purifying tool.

The sulfur ore was first crushed into fine pieces with the robotic arm. The purifying vessel was then pulled over. The crushed sulfur pieces were poured into the vessel till it was about two-thirds full before Su Mo began the required operations.

Purification of this standard could easily be completed with the basic tools from a high school chemistry experiment lab.

The experiment module here had an excellent-quality electric heating nozzle, thus the heating efficiency was higher.

After a short while, the temperature required for the preliminary filtration was reached. After swirling and filtering it through the filter paper, Su Mo began the heating process again.

This time, the filtered impurities had been reduced. Another round of filtration was easily completed.

When the temperature rose to 400 degrees, traces of yellow gas began to waft through the air.

The valve was opened and the yellow gas began to drift along the duct into the condenser tube at the side.

As time passed, more and more yellow crystalline powder began to form before sliding through the condenser tube into a beaker that had been set aside for collection.

The workbench was equipped with experimentally added containers to enhance the efficiency of collection and rate of heating.

After completing the entire process, Su Mo estimated the time taken to have been less than 20 minutes based on the fuel consumption of the diesel generator.

[Sulfur (Good)]

Description: High-purity sulfur crystals distilled by the craftsman "Su Mo". The process was rigorous and followed scientific methodology. Its grade has been upgraded to good quality for inexplicable reasons.

Special ability: Increased combustibility. More powerful when added to certain items.

Seeing that there were about 300 grams of sulfur in the beaker, Su Mo clapped his hands with satisfaction.

Sulfur was a little delicate. It was flammable and had to be stored in a cool environment.

He took out a small wooden cup and, after pouring all the purified sulfur into it, he covered it with a lid.

After scanning the storage area, Su Mo ultimately chose to put it in the secondary bedroom, which was currently unoccupied.

A day of hard work had been fully rewarded.

The huge shelter finally looked more lived-in as well. There was Oreo and the kobold, and even two wild feather chickens called Little Spark and Big Spark.

"Hey, speaking of which, why hadn't the two little things come out?"

He walked over to the crop breeding room curiously and found the figures of Little Spark and Big Spark in the corner.

The two chicks looked exhausted and were leaning on each other for support as they laid obediently on the soil of the culture medium.

A few fresh buds of cabbage had been crushed underneath and were struggling to survive under the weight of two wild feather chickens.

"These little ones are pretty good at picking a place to sleep. They came to sleep under the sun and have almost crushed my vegetables.

Su Mo was a little amused after observing them for a while.

He held onto the red combs atop their heads and laid them on the ground.

"Huh? What's this?"

Su Mo found strips that looked a little like crystals under the spot where the two wild feather chickens had been sleeping.

There were about seven or eight strips strewn evenly around the culture medium.

It drew his attention, and Su Mo summoned the system to examine it.

[Wild Feather Chicken Excrement]

Description: Natural fertilizers discharged by the wasteland creatures, wild feather chickens, after consuming an active water source. It does not have an unpleasant odor, but rather emits a fresh fragrance.

Function: Catalyzes plant growth and plant cell activity. Greatly improves the survival rate of plants.

Comment: Use Jinkela! Twice the potency, half the cost! Use Jinkela for millet and get 1,800 jin per mu!

"What good stuff! I thought they were just two chickens that would lay eggs, but I didn't expect them to supply natural fertilizer as well."

"Though the two little ones looked pretty exhausted after passing these out."

Seeing Little Spark and Big Spark sprawled on the ground, laying there and looking as if they were on the verge of death, Su Mo poked Little Spark curiously.

All he got in response was a weak cluck.

"Maybe they're hungry? Speaking of which, these wasteland creatures are quite strange. Although Oreo looks like a husky dog, she basically eats everything. So what would these wild feather chickens usually eat?"

Su Mo walked inside and saw that the basin still had some psychic energy water remaining. He nodded and strolled toward the spot where the living supplies were stocked.

After a long day of mining, Su Mo decided to make himself a nice dinner and carefully selected some ingredients.

The remaining sand wolves from his previous hunt were piled in the corner of the storage space. The smell of blood assaulted his nostrils upon taking one out.

He had fished out a fattier sand wolf and proceeded to cut up a few large pieces from it. After putting the remainder back, Su Mo headed to the stove.

Sand wolf meat was very lean and tough, so Su Mo chose an unhealthy cooking method—frying!

He cleaned up the blood from the wolf's flesh, then sliced the meat evenly, salted it, and sprinkled over some cracked black pepper. He then massaged the marinade into the meat.

He poured some flour mixture onto the sand wolf meat and then opened up a packet of spicy chips. He rubbed the spicy oil from inside the packet onto the floured meat evenly then covered it.

As the meat marinated, he started up the stove and, after cleaning it, he heated some oil in the wok.

When seventy percent of the oil was heated, he put in the meat.

A sizzling sound crackled when the sand wolf meat came into contact with the vegetable oil. At the same time, the fragrant smell of fat also arose.

When both sides of the sand wolf meat turned golden, Su Mo hurriedly turned off the stove and fished out the fried meat slices.

The vegetable oil in the wok began to cool down once it detached from the heat source.

After the oil had cooled completely, Su Mo brought out the Arowana brand oil barrel and poured most of the oil into it, leaving only a little left.

He took out a catty of biscuits and poured them into the oil, stir-frying them.

The already fragrant and flaky biscuits gave off an unusual fragrance as they sizzled in the oil.

Living in this apocalyptic wasteland, being able to eat such 'unhealthy', greasy food was a blessing not easily obtained.

When he was done preparing his meal, Su Mo turned around and was about to call the few little ones over to take their meals, but was instead surprised to find the two wild feather chickens that had been playing dead to already be sitting in a row nicely in front of the stove.

"Goodness, you three, I see that you're starving~"

Underneath the soft lamplight, Little Spark and Big Spark's eyes sparkled as they stared at the freshly fried, greasy biscuits in Su Mo's hand.

At the side, Oreo's saliva was already dripping on the ground. Holding her food dish in her mouth, her gaze was trained on the dish in Su Mo's hand that contained the fried meat patty.

"Huff huff! Woof awoo!"

Seeing that Su Mo had no intention of letting her eat, Oreo rolled on the ground in panic, feeling very much aggrieved.

"Be good, everyone has a share."

He motioned for Oreo to put down her food dish. Su Mo then poured half of the biscuits at a time and put in two meat patties.

He then scooped out the other half of the biscuits, mashed them into pieces in a bowl, and placed them in front of Little Spark and Big Spark.

A delicious dinner was ready. After Su Mo had given the order, they began eating happily.

The crisp fragrance of the oil and biscuits exploded in their mouths. The sand wolf meat, which was initially very lean, had been tenderized after being fried. It could even make a person swallow their tongue.

After taking a big bite of the biscuits and a mouthful of psychic energy water, Su Mo felt as if there was a rush of energy being channeled through his entire body!

"Huh, I feel like I'm forgetting something. Whatever, I'll think about it after I eat!"

Su Mo shook his head, tossing the weird thoughts to the back of his mind. He then shifted his attention back to the sumptuous dinner~

'I'm going to be full tonight!'

'And then I'll complete that big project I've been thinking about for two days now!'

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Chapter 58: Night in the Wasteland! Exploration Continues!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The night in the wasteland was filled with a different kind of beauty.

Even the world of the wasteland, whose environment was so different from planet earth, had its own sun, moon and stars.

Under the picturesque night sky, it almost seemed unfathomable that, in just ten days, an impending blizzard loomed.

After having his fill, Su Mo put on his equipment, took Oreo, and headed outside the shelter.

With the additional information revealed by the Kobold Mage, a heavier sense of urgency weighed upon Su Mo's heart.

According to the Kobold Mage, the kobolds were also placed into this world at the same time as the humans.

However, it was different from the forced transfer of the humans.

The Kobold race was summoned and descended of their own accord.

Moreover, the most crucial point was that when the kobolds arrived, they already carried over a large quantity of supplies with them; completely sufficient for them to establish themselves in the wasteland.

The two-person squad he encountered in the ruins earlier, as well as the six-person squad after, were scouts sent by the kobolds.

They were responsible for scouting for resources and reporting back to the main group.

Unfortunately, the two teams that were sent in this direction both encountered Su Mo.

Exploring where the kobolds' camp was located, as well as finding out where they were digging for saltpeter, had to be put on the agenda quickly.

Especially since, according to the Kobold Mage's description, the estimated distance between the two locations was about 60 kilometers.

The team walked for almost a day before reaching the vicinity of Su Mo's shelter.

Taking into account a regular human's walking capacity, it was impossible to make a round trip within a day covering that distance.

Therefore…

All hope could only be pinned on the buggy in shelter number two!

With this buggy, not to mention 60 kilometers, even if it was 100 kilometers, Su Mo was confident that he could complete the round trip within the same day.

After closing the door of the shelter, Su Mo turned and left.

The night sky sparkled with stars, adding a touch of radiance to the atmosphere.

"It's so beautiful! But how many humans can enjoy this starry sky?"

Su Mo's hands silently fiddled with the electric crossbow that was emitting a cold light. He lifted it toward the night sky and saw a few stars and a full moon hanging over the horizon.

"Let's explore the ruins tonight. If I can fix the buggy and drive it out, I'll explore the saltpeter mine tomorrow!"

After adjusting the raincoat and ceramic plate armor on his body, Su Mo closed the door and walked forward resolutely.

Oreo also immediately entered its battle state and started to guard the surrounding 100-meter perimeter; a two-person surveillance strategy taught to it by Su Mo.

Night in the wasteland was originally feared by mankind, much like how one would fear a tiger. However, with Su Mo's current combat abilities, the level of threat it posed had been greatly reduced.

With the electric crossbow and Oreo's surveillance skills, unless the wasteland creature had extremely powerful individual strength, it would not make it past the 100-meter mark.

Along the way, the stars continued to glow.

Su Mo's attention was highly focused; walking for 15 minutes before stopping to rest for five minutes to recover strength.

The strong endurance of the husky ensured that Oreo could patrol the area uninterrupted, providing Su Mo with a safe resting environment.

The distance of 3.5 kilometers did not take long to cover.

After walking for almost an hour, Su Mo saw the sprawling shelter number two from a distance.

"It seems that, over time, there will be fewer mutant beasts and the disasters that humans may face will become even more terrifying."

Along the way, he did not encounter even one mutant beast.

Not only was Su Mo not relieved, but rather he became even more worried.

Even the powerful wasteland creatures could not withstand such frequent disasters, and those that could were undoubtedly the strongest among the monsters.

By that time, with fewer wasteland creatures around, mankind would lose the important development path of hunting and obtaining treasure chests to replenish their supplies.

Farming?

Su Mo shook his head.

In about ten days, they would be faced with the extreme weather conditions brought about by a -20 degrees blizzard.

What kind of food crops could survive under such extreme conditions?

Woof!

Oreo tentatively scouted ahead and signaled the absence of any enemies.

Under a day's exposure to the sun, the stagnant water near shelter number two had reduced considerably and even Oreo could wade through while wearing a raincoat.

At the garage door where the buggy was parked, the ground had become dry and hard due to the terrain, making it suitable for driving.

Signaling Oreo to patrol the area, Su Mo once again checked the electric crossbow in his hand to make sure that it was switched on and ready to fire before walking forward cautiously.

Under the radiance of the full moon, the road conditions were clearly visible even without a flashlight.

Last time, it had taken over 20 minutes to traverse the muddy road. Now, it took Su Mo less than five minutes to reach the gap that had been blasted open by the kobold.

From the storage space, he took out the flashlight and switched it on. Su Mo first observed the fabricated crime scene that he had previously left.

At the area near the footprints left by the kobold, Su Mo had deliberately glued on several feline hairs. Even now, there were still two hairs sticking up.

There was no trace of the second set of footprints.

Looking inside the ruins, there were also no differences between the furnishings inside and those in his memory.

Near the black blood spewed out by the kobold on the ground, there were no traces of any other living creatures having passed by.

Pitter-patter.

After Oreo finished patrolling, it came to the pit and looked inside curiously.

"Is there no trace of the enemy?"

Hearing Su Mo's question, Oreo nodded, indicating that nothing had been found around the area.

"Okay, continue to patrol the area. If you see someone, alert me immediately!"

Through the raincoat, he stroked Oreo's head and asked it to guard the surrounding area. Su Mo then took out the hemp rope he had woven in the shelter.

The previous hemp rope had been used to tie up the kobold mage. This one had been specially prepared by Su Mo before he started this trip.

Moreover, this hemp rope was different from the previous one; it was a climbing rope that Su Mo had built using the workbench!

[Hooked Rope (Good)]

Description: A climbing rope woven by the beginner 'Su Mo' consisting of a hook and rope. Has good stability and is an excellent tool for the home and wilderness exploration.

Function: The rope is 4.8m long with resilient characteristics. It will not break unless subjected to weights higher than 300kg.

Evaluation: It seems to be a novice prop based on a certain 'survival at sea' novel.

Su Mo took out a nail and fastened the hook firmly to the ground, giving it a few tugs. After confirming its strength, Su Mo descended the rope to explore.

With this not being his first experience, the downward exploration this time went extremely smoothly.

In just three to five seconds, with the help of the new rope, Su Mo slid onto the floor of shelter number two.

The moment he landed, Su Mo immediately took out his electric crossbow and stood on alert.

"I remember that the angle of this bone should be about 35 degrees. No problem here."

"The nail that I put here specifically has not been stepped on either."

"The footprints on the ground have been covered by a layer of dust. For the time being, no signs of creature activity have been found."

Holding the flashlight in his left hand, Su Mo quickly swept through the traces he left behind. At the same time, the index finger of his right hand hovered over the trigger to ensure that it could be fired at any time.

"Fortunately it's 60 kilometers. Given the kobolds' walking capacity, it would take a lot of effort for them to get here!"

After scanning the area one more time to make sure it was safe, Su Mo placed the crossbow back into the storage space and relaxed.

The head of the miserable old man was still lying quietly on the ground inside, looking silently at Su Mo.

Passing by the dried blood on the ground, Su Mo approached the railing that had been blasted apart by the Kobold Mage.

The railing, which was about 10cm in diameter, had pieces littered haphazardly on the ground; all the way down to the first-floor basement.

"This power… really mighty!"

Picking it up off the ground carefully, Su Mo felt a chill on his back as he looked at it.

The solid iron bar had been blasted into two. If this was to hit a human body, it would be left with a large hole in a matter of seconds.

He shifted away the broken iron bars on the ground with his feet and slowly descended the stairs.

The orange buggy that he had been thinking of reappeared in Su Mo's sight.

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Chapter 59: Fixed! Praise the Machinery!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Praise the machinery!"

Su Mo hurried over to the buggy, caressing the shimmering metallic luster of the roll cage with a bellyful of emotions.

He had not seen this car in nearly two days and it seemed to tug at his heart; its shadow lingering even in his sleep.

In the wasteland, where no paved roads existed, a small car with off-road capabilities such as this was much easier to drive than a sedan.

With fewer mechanical parts and a simpler structure, it was easier to maintain and repair.

He ran his hand over the car; from the front hood to the rear engine. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. Forcing himself to calm down, he focused his attention on the buggy.

A screen of blue light appeared next to it and displayed the properties of the buggy.

[Compact, rear-wheel drive, off-road Desert Racing Car (Good) (Damaged)]

Description: A desert racing car produced by the quasi-intermediate level manufacturer 'Magoo'. Has good off-road ability and a powerful engine. The overall shape is beautiful and the materials used are solid. It is one of the better vehicles for traveling in the wasteland.

Damage: The car has been damaged by external forces and has many dents. The battery is slightly depleted. A few parts of the engine are damaged and require substantial repairs.

Horsepower: 212hp.

Torque: 400 Nm.

Fuel consumption: 14 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers (it will increase or decrease by varying degrees depending on the terrain).

First upgrade option: Repair the car. Enhance its two basic attributes, increase its protection factor, increase the height of the chassis and improve its off-road capabilities. Survival points required (1,750).

Second upgrade option: Reconstruct the car. Change the car's structure, improve the value of its all-round attributes, increase weapon options, improve the navigation system and increase its combat ability. Survival points required (4,800).

Introduction: Please fix it and turn on its radio. You will make a major discovery!

"Huh?"

"It's the first time that the system's evaluation is so formal. Does this racing car really hold some amazing secret?"

Su Mo's gaze focused. With the aid of the flashlight, he located the small black box under the steering wheel of the car.

Next to the play button was a painted black part the size of a fingernail that had been abruptly snapped off.

Usually, no one would have thought this was an issue if not for the prompt.

However, given the system's evaluation and reminder, Su Mo's heart started beating rapidly when he took a second look.

"I definitely can't afford 1,750 points. Even after the disaster this time, I don't think I can save up that much. I can only look at this from another angle."

With a thought, a detailed upgrade option popped out.

[Compact, rear-wheel drive, off-road Desert Racing Car (Good)]

Description: A desert racing car produced by the quasi-intermediate level manufacturer 'Magoo'.

Upgrade option: Repair (410), improve horsepower (200), improve torque (200), reduce fuel consumption (150), install protective glass (270)…

"Alas, even just repairing it requires 410 points, but I only have 159 points now. This is going to be tough."

Survival points were always insufficient when he needed to use them!

After all, time was running short. Otherwise, according to the daily fixed increase, he could probably accumulate this number in another two to three days.

However, now…

"I can only try to put in materials to reduce the cost."

He checked some of the required materials. As this was under the category of an overall repair, the system did not give specific requirements. As such, Su Mo had to try each piece one by one.

The first thing he tried was putting in the iron bars. After putting in three units, the survival points required for repair were reduced by 18 points. After putting in another unit, there was no change.

He put in one unit of wood but there was no change.

He put in 35 screws. 10 units lit up and reduced the cost by 10 points.

One bottle of psychic energy water…

A packet of spicy chips that he had opened but not eaten yet…

A sand wolf that still reeked of blood…

A pink bra… and so on…

Why was this thing still in the storage space? Throw it away!

One item after another in the storage space was taken out and put back in by Su Mo.

Then, when a damaged circuit board was taken out, the repair cost dropped again by 44 points, but there still remained a gap of 189 points.

"This is pretty difficult. If I really can't do it, I can only try my hand at exploring again tomorrow!"

Su Mo frowned as he continued taking out one item after another to try his luck. However, there was still no reduction in cost even after almost everything had been taken out and put aside.

"Huh, what is this?"

Focusing mentally, he controlled a small object in a corner of the storage space and it floated out. Su Mo held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

Suddenly, with a brilliant flash of light, the required survival points actually plummeted by 210 points!

"This is… the good quality rotor that I collected earlier?"

Seeing the sudden drop in the required survival points, Su Mo was surprised and delighted.

He had already forgotten when he had collected this little thing, but that did not affect its usefulness at this moment!

"It seems that the damage in the engine needs to be repaired with the rotor. This is really… lucky!"

After painstakingly sneaking into shelter number two in the middle of the night, this reward was truly satisfying.

Su Mo placed the rotor on the ground with elation and called out the upgrade panel. When he locked on to all the materials required, the survival points requirement was reduced to 128 points.

The current 159 points he had were perfectly adequate!

"Where there's a will, there's a way!"

"I've relied on my own efforts to collect all the materials to repair this buggy and have finally been rewarded this time."

When he thought of the buggy that would gain a new lease on life, Su Mo could hardly contain his excitement and shouted, "System, fix it for me!"

As soon as he said that, the green light that brought joy to people's hearts began to spread, heading toward the body of the car and the materials on the ground.

The small silver-white rotor began to dance on the ground, the circuit board began to melt and the iron bar's color began to change.

The green light was like super radiation, forcibly attaching to several totally unrelated items.

Swish!

Swoosh!

Sounds like tidal waves stirred within the underground garage of shelter number two.

The roll cage that had been originally bent began to emit a creaking noise, as the dents visibly began to disappear and the frame straightened out.

The engine, which had been painted with waterproof paint, slowly began to shake as if a big invisible hand was fiddling with the machinery inside.

As the depleted battery also began to roar softly, it seemed like everything was on track.

After three to five seconds, the green light retracted.

As the sights and sounds disappeared, Su Mo took a look at the repaired buggy that had been restored by the light.

This time, there were no traces of defects from the chassis to the engine. Even the small depressions and bumps on the front hood had disappeared under the system's repair work.

If this had been placed into an automotive 4S service center, it could only be called fresh out of the factory!

After fumbling around for a bit, Su Mo found the location of the fuel tank.

He unscrewed the fuel tank cover and confirmed that there were no residual impurities inside. With a thought, the storage space automatically opened and a barrel of diesel flew out.

After adding half of the original 100kg diesel barrel to the generator previously, there was still about 50kg of diesel left at this time.

He unscrewed the cap of the diesel barrel. Putting some force into his arms, he grabbed the handle of the oil barrel with both hands. Su Mo took several deep breaths, then lifted the barrel and placed it at the opening of the fuel tank.

Glug!

Glug!

The oil in the barrel burst out and flowed into the interior of the fuel tank.

"It seems that my training paid off. My strength has really increased."

Despite using two arms to grab a diesel barrel weighing about 50kg, Su Mo felt only slightly strenuous; unlike previously when he felt that he could not lift it at all.

The veins on his biceps rippled and his blood pumped and surged powerfully, transmitting great strength into both arms.

The fuel tank of the buggy seemed bottomless.

Even after adding all 50kg of the diesel, only slightly over two-thirds of the fuel tank was filled and there was still quite a bit of room before it could be filled up completely.

The buggy's fuel storage capacity completely surpassed that of compact cars and could even be considered on par with some medium-sized cars.

He placed the empty diesel barrel back into the storage space and carefully screwed the fuel tank lid back on.

Su Mo walked to the front of the buggy and clambered inside. After pulling on the mechanical handle to adjust the seat to a comfortable position, Su Mo exclaimed in surprise.

"I wonder where Magoo got the leather seats from. It's really comfortable to sit in."

The unknown leather composition of the racing seats comfortably wrapped around the sides of the driver's bottom, providing excellent support.

The roll cage was firmly fixed around the body and felt very secure.

He flipped the ignition switch on the buggy.

Toot, toot! Puff!

After a dull sound, the engine ignited successfully and began to deliver power to the battery.

Without trying to fiddle with the buggy's controls, Su Mo simply pressed the radio's play button.

He was very curious about the secret that the system had mentioned.

The depleted battery had been charged by the power converted by the engine and transmitted that power to the radio in the front. A buzzing noise sounded temporarily before stabilizing.

The next moment, a clear cough sounded!

"Ahem…"

"Huh, is that a human voice?!"

Despite having guessed Magoo's identity…

At this moment, Su Mo felt a little excited when he heard the coughing from the radio!

This was someone of the same race!

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Chapter 60: The Pioneer! Magoo's Diary

The cough did not get better over time. Instead, it gradually became worse, to the point that Su Mo was worried that the old man in the recording would cough his lungs out before it ended.

Luckily, after ten seconds had passed, the sound of his coughing slowly eased and turned into a low groan. It seemed that he had managed to cough out whatever was bothering him.

"Urm… Can you hear me? Hello? I'm Magoo. Hmm… Okay, let's start recording!"

"Earthling? No! Huaxian?" Su Mo was slightly stunned at the recording's opening line. A shocked look appeared on his usually calm face.

Did he just stumble across a fellow human in this alien world?

Moreover, it was even someone from his home country?

Before Su Mo could continue ruminating on these two questions, the radio buzzed noisily once again with Magoo's voice. "If you're able to activate this transportation tool, it would mean that you are either an Earthling or…of a high civilization. Ho, come to think of it, another being of a high civilization would not even look twice at this pile of rubbish built by me!"

"I guess you must have a lot of questions, but still I'd like to introduce myself first."

"Hello. My hometown is located in the far corner of the galaxy. It is the third planet of the solar system called planet earth."

"My country is Huaxia! My name is Magoo!"

"I'm glad to get to know you in this way. I'm also quite comforted by the fact that someone has come along to inherit my asset and continue down this road!"

Magoo's voice sounded slightly downcast, as if phlegm was stuck in his throat. One could imagine how bad his condition was from the sound of his voice.

"Hello, I'm Su Mo. I'm also a Huaxian from Earth. Glad to meet you."

Su Mo mouthed those words silently after calming himself down.

This was not the first time he had met with something familiar from his hometown.

He had seen objects and structures that were exact replicas of those on Earth previously at Liangfang Town.

He had not expected that the underground ruins near the base were coincidentally left behind by a Huaxian from Earth.

"Today is Day 433 of the Doomsday Calendar, and it marks the 19th disaster I am about to face."

"Oh ho, this is terrible. Can you imagine that, outside this shelter, the high-temperature radiation is measured at 55 degrees? I've almost run out of water and there aren't enough Disaster Points for me to buy any more. It looks like I will end up staying in this world permanently."

"Perhaps we were destined to experience death the moment the expeditionary army arrived in this world in '99. It was just a matter of time!"

"Gah! I can't take this!"

Magoo's voice pitched between highs and lows. There were times when he was calm, and other moments when he seemingly went crazy.

Su Mo was speechless after listening for a while.

If what Magoo said was the truth, that a high-temperature disaster lurked outside those walls, and he did not have the supplies to tide him through, then it was no wonder that his mental state would rapidly deteriorate to this point.

Su Mo himself would never be able to accept death readily, and it seemed to be the case for Magoo as well.

After a while, Magoo finally calmed down from his hysterical episode.

His breathing came in gasps, like the breathy noise of an exhaust fan, and Su Mo could not help but worry that he would keel over and die on the spot the next second.

"If you were able to arrive at my base, it would mean that I'm already dead. Everything in this shelter now belongs to you. You can even combine your core with this shelter and turn it into your future base on one condition, that you do not mind that a useless person had died here once upon a time!"

"I've forcefully shut down the motor-pumped oil well. It would be very difficult if you plan to restart it again. This will depend on your own skills and attainments."

"Oh yeah, look to your front. Counting from the front to the back, I left a diary in a secret compartment under the fourth piece of tile. If…"

"You are able to return to Earth and go home to Huaxia, please help me take it back to my family. Please!"

Magoo began talking faster and faster. He did not even give enough time for Su Mo to process his words, as if something was chasing after Magoo from behind.

Bam…

Chh chh chh chh chh chh chh..

The irregular sound could be heard once again, indicating that Magoo's last words were almost done.

Su Mo did not get up. He pressed down on the radio again and listened to the recording carefully once again. He recorded the entire message into the dead man's private messages before turning off the light and getting up to leave the buggy.

He shone a light and followed the mark on the floor tiles. Su Mo did discover something out of the ordinary under the fourth piece of tile.

A corner of the tile looked vaguely uneven. If one placed the edge of a shovel or an ax under it, the tile could easily be removed from the floor.

Su Mo followed this line of thought and took out an exquisite shovel from the storage space. He placed it snugly under the uneven corner and pushed it in.

Using some force, he pulled the entire tile off the floor, revealing an unsecured iron box underneath the tile.

He placed his metal shovel back into the storage space before focusing; summoning the System to scan the object. After ensuring that it was safe, Su Mo bent down to pick up the iron box.

As expected, the box contained a yellowed diary.

The front page of the diary had a line of words that were neatly written.

Year 99 expeditionary army, Platoon Leader of the 22nd Infantry, Magoo.

He blew off the dust on the diary and returned to the front of the buggy. Su Mo then used the flashlight to begin reading Magoo's diary.

The date on the diary's first page was from many years ago. Su Mo saw the words February 13, 1999.

"Today is February 13, 1999."

"The Alliance of World Security Service detected a signal coming from deep space. The signal was different from that of a star dying naturally. It was a signal that had a pattern."

"Someone silly from the NASA headquarters received the signal and was somehow possessed to respond to the signal before actually reporting it. The reason he gave was that, as a scientific researcher, his instinct and experience told him that the owner of this signal was a friendly one."

"Come to think of it, six hours after responding to the signal, an alarm sounded from the defense platform at low Earth orbit, indicating that an unidentified object had arrived close to Earth through space."

"Everyone initially passed it off as a joke, because it was impossible that something could ever go past the frontline base on Europa. Even if it was the remnants of a launcher in space, it would be destroyed when coming into the twenty-thousand-meter radius of Europa's space.

"However, something happened that day."

At this point, the writing became messy. There was even an entire page torn off from the diary that was missing.

"Today is August 2, 1999. It's also Day 6 of the Doomsday Calendar. The first disaster has taken place."

"A strange game has been guiding everyone's actions, but luckily for us, there's a place for us to convey messages. It's known as the 'World Channel'."

"What a huge snowstorm. I'm lucky to have been wearing thick, cotton-padded clothes when I came here. It's times like these that I'm extremely grateful to my Infantry commander. He had such foresight…"

"Today is March 6, 1999. It's also Day 22 of the Doomsday Calendar. The second disaster is here."

"This damn weather is so strange. The ground is clearly covered with thick snow, but the sun is shining brightly and the temperature is 30 degrees. The snow is starting to melt and many are celebrating the weather turning warm again. All creation is being revived, but something tells me that a disaster might arrive at any time."

"What an insane flood! I'm lucky that I chose to build my shelter on high ground. Even though the flood struck, the water only barely reached inside the shelter. Luckily I moved my supplies up beforehand. I should be able to make it through…"

"Today is September 21, 1999. The earth calendar seems to be something long forgotten. Many of the others only remember that today is Day 199 of the Doomsday Calendar."

"Oh, right, I've created a small-scale thermal weapon device. This is good stuff. I've managed to exchange many supplies using the weapons I've created with it. I'm living a much more comfortable life than others…"

"I've even managed to exchange a bottle of something they call 'Young Cola'. Sigh, what a wonderful feeling it was to drink it in one gulp!"

Today is January 1, 2000. It's also Day 301 of the Doomsday Calendar."

"It's the millennium year. Happy New Year to my beloved Manman. This is the first new year that celebrates crossing the threshold of a century. Your Big Brother Magoo won't be able to return to accompany you. I hope that you have a happy celebration even if you're all by yourself."

"This world is huge, much larger than our Earth. Of course, with it being so large, all of us won't be able to get together to celebrate the new year…"

"Although this is a celebration, I hope that I will be able to continue surviving on this wasteland. I'm also wishing that the remaining 73 million Earthlings will be able to return home one day."

"Today is May 10, 2000… It's also Day 432 of the Doomsday Calendar. The tenth disaster has arrived."

"I'm sorry, Manman. I might not be able to get through this disaster. The temperature out there is still rising continuously. According to this damn game's update, the temperature will rise above 60 degrees and stay that way for 24 hours before it ends. F*ck this damn game. Why doesn't it experience for itself what it feels like to be under 60-degree heat!"

"My water supply is about to reach its end. I'm so thirsty and it feels like I've contracted something. My entire body has been shivering. Would anyone be able to come and save me…"

"Today is…Day 433 of the Doomsday Calendar."

"I've just recorded my last words, hehe."

"Only 2.2 million people are left this time from the billions of people that came over from earth. At least I'm considered to be among the best and I haven't embarrassed my family…"

"I've heard them say that those who have died will have their memories removed. That they will return to our home planet to continue with their lives and forget about everything here."

"Hahahahaha, I'm laughing so hard that my tummy hurts, but I'm so thirsty that I can't produce a single tear."

"It was a great gesture for whoever it was that made up this lie. Unfortunately, he will never know that I would rather use the opportunity to see you once again."

"My mind is beginning to get muddled. I understand that I'm really about to die, but the fear within me lessens as each day passes."

"I think I'm now able to accept the prickly word known as 'death'."

"Although, there's something I haven't quite figured out yet…"

"Tell me, when exactly did I die?"

"When I left you, as a 20-year-old… I was already dead…"

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Chapter 61: Do Not Feel Alone, Friend!

Magoo's writing stopped abruptly after Day 433.

The thin little diary seemed to be of great importance to him.

Once he had finished recording his writings on the dozens of available pages, he continued adding more pages to the diary by sticking together different pieces of paper using tape.

Judging from the paper quality, it was easy to tell that Magoo's quality of life was at its peak between Day 200 and Day 340 of the Doomsday Calendar.

Ever since the disaster on Day 344 began, the development graph of Magoo's shelter seemed to drop gradually, before falling into a steep decline downward.

All 19 disasters were jotted down clearly in the notebook. Su Mo did not find 'Nerve Acid Rain', nor was there any record of 'Blizzard'.

The only things found were the numbers used to measure the disasters.

"Extreme snowfall 72 hours"

"Flood 72 hours"

"Temperature (30 degrees), 72 hours"

"Alien beast stampede, 72 hours"

"Temperature (below 30 degrees, 72 hours"

"Meteorite impact, 30 meteorites"

"Plant disease, 48 hours"

"Temperature (60 degrees), 24 hours"

He briefly wondered if there was a problem with Magoo's recording, and whether it was possible that it was an issue of both games being different versions.

There was no mention of Novice Protection for the disasters in the diary, nor were there any clear descriptors of the disasters.

All he could see from those simple words were the human lives behind those disasters.

Magoo had, more than once, speculated on the reason behind this baptism of disasters that had befallen humankind.

However, he would debunk his previous speculation every time he formulated a new idea.

Whether it was the beginning of an alien war, some prank of a high civilization, to the brain in a jar theory, or even fantastical cultivating deities, Magoo had extended his imagination to all possibilities.

At the end of it all, reality was a harsh mistress; he was unable to hold on and unravel the secrets behind these disasters.

"Magoo's failure stemmed from his widespread planting of re-engineered crops without proper planning to prevent the start of plant disease disaster. This was the biggest mistake he made, and it was from this point onward that his accumulations from before turned into a giant joke. He had no choice but to sell all that he had stored in exchange for survival supplies."

"From the remnants of the mass graves, he successfully used his own methods to survive to the very end. After obtaining the plans and design for the thermal weapon device, he kept a low profile and bided his time. It was only when he had successfully manufactured it that he began to rise to a higher profile."

"He started his business by selling small-scale thermal weapon devices and became somewhat well-known. Unfortunately, he could not maintain his core business. Sigh, what a pity."

Su Mo felt slightly bad for Magoo as he read through the regrets in the diary.

Magoo was considered quite the legend to have been able to be part of the final 1%. However, one could only say that, if a person's luck was waning, he would not be able to last until the very end.

With the motor-pumped oil well in his hands and a superior shelter with two floors, Magoo had lived quite the life as a minor character!

Even so, at that moment, Su Mo did not feel dejected nor lose hope for the future.

Magoo had taken over four hundred days to build and manage the shelter into what it was today, but it had only taken a week for Su Mo to nearly reach the same level as Magoo.

"Besides… I have the System! When I'm at my four hundredth day, my shelter's strength would surpass his by at least a few hundred times!"

"Who knows, I might even have upgraded it into a psychic energy shelter by then!"

After keeping Magoo's diary in his storage space, Su Mo actually felt the gloominess within him disappear and he no longer feared facing the future.

Only weaklings would fear the road ahead. They would be the ones who stopped in their tracks and lived a wretched life in search of survival.

The strong would move forward with courage!

As he groped in search of the gate in front of the cellar, he pulled twice on it to confirm that it had been damaged before summoning the System to examine its properties.

[Level One Alloy Shelter Main Cellar Door (Normal) (Damaged)]

Description: The cellar door was constructed from multiple different alloys. Currently, the hinge is difficult to operate due to the lack of maintenance.

Upgrade Option: Restoration (20), Dismantling (450), Material Upgrade (1100), Electric Altering (750)…

"Looks like it was just left unmaintained. I guess the hinge is stuck, but if all it needs is just 20 points, I can totally afford that!"

Since it only required a few points, Su Mo chose Restoration without hesitation.

Another 20 points were taken off the remaining 31 survival points he had and a green light shot out.

Two deep clanking sounds could be heard.

Once again, Su Mo tried to pull on the hinge next to the cellar door. This time, as expected, the door of the cellar began to rise slowly.

Every time the hinge turned mechanically, the cellar door was able to rise about 10cm.

He turned it again and again until it was raised up to about two-thirds of its total height. Su Mo gave it one last forceful push and the hinge clicked downwards, locking it down between the fasteners.

He waited for two or three minutes to make sure that the alloy door would not suddenly slam shut before finally feeling safe enough to return to the buggy.

"I'm finally about to drive this thing out…"

"I'm afraid everyone on earth could never have imagined that I, Su Mo, used only one week to obtain the greatest weapon to safely roam about in this world."

He sat in the buggy as he stared at the wide-open cellar door.

Su Mo felt the urge to show off and needed to express himself.

He had obtained a vehicle in such a short time, and not being able to tell anybody about it was killing him.

Being unable to return home to show off his success was like parading great-looking clothes in the middle of the night.

He turned on the dead man's direct message and Su Mo sent ten continuous messages of, "I've got a car!!!"

Satisfied, he closed the screen and fastened his safety belt.

He pressed on the start button again to turn on the engine, and two smoky clouds rumbled out from the exhaust pipe.

Vroom vroom vroom vroom!

Without a sound barrier, the sound of the engine's power could easily be heard; pouring in its entirety into Su Mo's eardrums, which rang in rhythm with the noise.

The gear lever for the buggy was located in the center. There were only two gears.

Forward and reverse.

He stepped onto the brakes and clutched the gear lever, which was shaped like a drumstick. He gave the head push and there was a creaking noise. He had successfully engaged the gear!

It was not long before Su Mo's left foot slowly released its pressure on the brakes.

The gradual release of the brakes caused the buggy to shudder. It was only after the brakes were released that the shuddering stopped and it began to move forward.

Right then, it was impossible for Su Mo to tolerate moving at such a slow speed. His right foot immediately stepped on the accelerator and a low roar came from the engine.

The next moment!

The buggy was like an arrow that had just been released from a bow. It shot off with great force from where it had been originally situated.

It took only one second before a dirt-yellow shadow flashed out of the cellar.

The low roar from the engine's horsepower echoed between the confines of heaven and earth!

20…

40…

60…

Su Mo accelerated to a scary 60 yards in just an instant on the battered dirt road.

There was no barrier or window shield, and the booming sound of the wind tore at the mask of the raincoat like a blade, howling loudly.

Oreo, who was standing on high ground, saw the yellow shadow flash by and could no longer control her excitement within, howling like a wolf continuously.

Su Mo drove faster and faster under the moonlight.

The buggy's strong horsepower also brought with it a violent recoil. In addition to the strong, wind-defying howl in the air, one could not help but feel the adrenaline pumping through the veins.

However, Su Mo still recalled that…

Diesel!

There's not much of it left!

After four or five minutes of driving in circles, Su Mo drove the buggy back to the cellar door.

Oreo anxiously paced about at the entrance of the cellar. When she saw Su Mo return, she became more excited than usual and immediately lunged toward the buggy, trying to bite its roll cage fiercely.

It was as if she was interrogating it. 'You're the bad person that took my master away from me!'

Su Mo laughed and immediately rubbed Oreo's doggy head. He only stopped once the little girl's temper had been smoothed over.

"My shelter does not have room for parking yet. Once a disaster strikes, I would still need to park it at shelter number two. That being said, the creation platform at shelter number two can still be put back together before disaster strikes!"

He strode back into the shelter and placed the cellar hinge down, closing the cellar door.

Su Mo returned to the first floor.

He took out a wooden box that had been previously created in the base. Su Mo picked up Magoo's skull with great care and placed any large-sized bones he could find on the ground into the box.

"Big Brother Magoo, thank you for the car. There's not much I'm able to do for you except keep your bones in a safe place. If I'm able to return to Earth alive, I will be sure to bring your diary along with me!"

He bowed three times in gratitude to the wooden box before keeping it in his storage space. He climbed upward using the climbing rope.

He then found the highest point of the hill and took out a shovel. He quickly dug a large hole and placed the box with Magoo's bones into it before starting to bury it.

As he scooped up piles of dirt to cover up the box of bones under the moonlight, Su Mo muttered with feeling, "Do not feel alone, friend! This is the highest point! Enjoy the good view of the starry sky and look upon this great land from the top!"

"A day will come when humankind will take over this wasteland!"

"A day will come when humankind will have our destinies returned into our own hands!"

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Chapter 62: This is A Small Step To Criss-Cross the Wasteland, But…

(Readers are strongly recommended to listen to the vocal section of Hotel California while reading this chapter)

Su Mo lifted his head under the boundless moonlight.

It was as if he saw Magoo's smiling face outlined in the grey skies above; a true man who refused to give up.

May his soul rest in peace.

Holding Magoo's notebook, Su Mo felt the burden that he was carrying grow slightly heavier.

However, it was not the time for mourning.

He could hear Oreo's continuous barks from below; she was obviously curious about the buggy.

Su Mo briefly covered the remaining traces on the ground before descending the hill at a brisk and light pace.

There was a single-seat cabin in the buggy, but Magoo had also added a rear compartment behind the engine, which Su Mo assumed was used to carry a small cargo load.

Oreo was able to fit into that space perfectly.

He sat Oreo down inside and buckled her in.

"Be careful and don't randomly move about. If you fall, you'll become a disabled dog."

After he gave Oreo a warning, he looked at her sitting quietly in place. Su Mo smiled before returning to the front.

He bent down and climbed into the buggy's cabin, buckling up before starting the engine like he usually did.

The buggy's engine ignited and started humming.

Oreo, who was sitting behind it, was clearly frightened by this, but as Su Mo had given her a reminder, she did not make any sudden moves.

After making sure that everything was fine, Su Mo shifted the gear into drive and released the brakes.

The buggy began to move slowly!

"Arf? Woof woof? Woof!"

Oreo looked around curiously, not understanding how she was moving forward despite sitting absolutely still.

The next second, Su Mo stepped on the accelerator, and Oreo was fed with a gust of wind when she opened her mouth, woofing away.

"Arf woooooooooooooooof~"

"Oh yeah!"

Su Mo shouted excitedly as he felt another gust of howling wind blowing past.

The sound waves created by revving the engine were as good as the V8 luxury sports cars on Earth!

The birds that were flying above in the sky were shocked and scattered in all directions.

He moved his hand toward the radio and pressed on the Music button. A song started to play, pulsing like a bass subwoofer through the quiet wasteland:

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair~

Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air~

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light~

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim~

I had to stop for the night~

There she stood in the doorway~

I heard the mission bell~

And I was thinking to myself~

This could be Heaven or this could be Hell~

It was a classic song that Magoo had picked up somewhere. Together with Oreo's woofs, it echoed melodiously through the Wasteland.

Traveling at 40km/h, it wasn't long before he was back in front of the shelter, parked while waiting for a song to finish playing.

"With this speed, I'll have no issues paying a visit to kobold's saltpeter mine tomorrow."

Oreo was still slightly frightened, but seemed to still want to continue the ride, nudging Su Mo as she was being removed from the buggy.

Su Mo had to prepare a garage for the buggy.

That place would be… the gap that Huang Biao and the others had dug into previously.

"Those people were a big help to me. All I have to do is construct a sloped roof, put up some wooden boards, and it can serve as a temporary garage."

Su Mo was all smiles as he took the shovel out and started work on their unfinished project.

The construction progressed quickly with the help of Su Mo's good-quality equipment.

Su Mo easily dug out the slope within ten minutes. At the other end of the slope was the surface of the shelter's stone walls.

Although the temporary garage looked simple and crude, it was sufficient to guard against the mutant beasts.

As for humans, Su Mo thought that there would be no one else who would be as daring as him to cross the wasteland at night.

Even if there were, with Oreo's surveillance abilities and his cache of weapons, it would be akin to those people handing themselves to him on a silver platter.

Back at the base, Su Mo quickly cut out a few wooden boards and took them out; laying them atop the slope and completing the simple garage construction project.

Su Mo then went back to the buggy and, after examining the structure to make sure that there were no problems, he started it up and reversed perfectly into the garage. He then laid down a few wooden boards in front so that it looked like a wooden box had covered up the buggy.

"Great!"

Su Mo brushed off the dust on his shoulders, nodded his head satisfactorily, and went back to his base.

"My progress is way too fast. Just wait till my sister sees this! I'm afraid that she would never expect to have such an impressive brother!"

After drinking a mouthful of psychic energy water and making sure all the shelter doors were locked, Su Mo felt satisfied as he walked over to where the kobold was lying.

"Huh, it seems like someone's hungry~"

He patted its head. Su Mo finally recalled what he had forgotten when he was having dinner.

The wound on the Kobold Mage had not worsened after its treatment with psychic energy water. While it looked like he was dying, it turned out to be only because he was hungry.

Su Mo searched about and took out some biscuits mixed with psychic energy water and placed it in front of the kobold.

The Kobold Mage should be kept alive before he found the location of the saltpeter mine and kobolds' camp.

Su Mo nodded as he looked at the Kobold Mage wolfing down the food, before heading back to the center of the base.

There was no concept of time during the night in the wasteland. Everyone could only use the ancient method of telling the time by looking at the moon.

"It should be around midnight now, perhaps eleven or twelve o'clock. Too bad there's no nightlife in the wasteland."

Su Mo tidied up the yellow-stained clothes on him. He felt slightly disgusted and changed out of them. He then took a small cup of water out and rinsed his mouth at the culture medium.

Little Spark and Big Spark had been preparing for sleep when they caught sight of Su Mo. They lifted their chicken heads in acknowledgement before continuing to sleep after that.

"Life's flourishing. I have a desk lamp and a heating pad. Su Mo's shelter is finally getting better!"

After rinsing his mouth, he went back to the supply storage and retrieved the desk lamp and heating pad that he had traded for in the morning.

In the master bedroom, Su Mo laid the heating pad down, connected the desk lamp to the electricity supply, and finally laid down on his bed.

"Based on this progress speed, perhaps I can create gunpowder in a few days, or maybe even some upgraded explosives."

"By that time…"

Su Mo was excited just thinking about the possible treasures he would get from those kobolds.

"No way, I'm too excited. I won't be able to sleep like this. I should read some chat messages to calm myself down."

The gentle light from the desk lamp filled the room with warmth. One could almost forget that they were in the middle of the wasteland. Instead, this almost seemed like a scene from a home in the rural countryside.

Su Mo focused his mind while changing into a more comfortable resting position.

The virtual game panel popped out immediately.

Tapping on the World Channel, the screen displayed the messages and news items one by one that were slowly flooding the screen.

At this time of day, most people had already used up their trumpet counts, and the rest of them were filtered by the system. This made it easier to keep up with all the messages.

As he was scrolling, he realized that there was news of the Halflings. Su Mo then nodded his head and switched over to the Regional Channel.

Halflings arrived into this world together with humans. Taking the speed of progress into account, many of them should have already encountered this strange creature, yet no one actually described its characteristics; only mentioning the need to be careful of them.

In the days after the first disaster, the number of players in the Regional Channel had been reintegrated. Two days had passed since then, and there were still 982 people left out of the 1000.

18 of them had been unlucky enough to encounter some form of danger, or unlucky circumstance, and died.

As there were no speaking limits in the Regional Channel, there were dozens of them chattering away as if they were in a Telegram group chat.

[Fei Zhi: Bros, I'm hungry. I'm lying on the floor of a wooden house with broken windows. My whole body is shivering. When will this end?"

[Liang Jian: The bro above, you're so much better off than I am. I ate a pack of dried noodle snacks. I had diarrhea at night and it was so bad that I almost died from it."

[Liang Jian: Is there anyone who knows… can we eat what we've excreted? I don't have any grain reserves left…]

[Na Wenxing: Liang Jian, I thought you told us that your shelter was good enough. Why does it sound so bad now? Has it gotten to the point that you have to eat your own sh*t?]

[Liang Jian: Nice one. I bet this shelter will be done for in a few days. Last time, it was mutant beasts going after the humans, and now the humans are going after them instead? How ironic!]

[Liang Jian: I'm toughing it out for now. Once the secret realm trading opens, I'll look for Su God to trade for something.]

[Cai Junfeng: What have you got there?]

[Liang Jian: Heh, it's a secret. If everyone can keep surviving, just do it. We're lucky to have Su God in our channel. I heard that some of the other lousy channels lost half of their members. None of them were good enough to keep everyone's spirits up.]

[Du Fu: I'm here to introduce something. The tree bark of some bushes are edible. I ate some of it today and it tasted fine. If you can't stand the hunger, go and get some. It's better than eating dirt.]

[Emerald: Mr. Su Mo is able to eat his fill right? Sob, sob, sob. I'm so envious of him.]

[LilyHelen: Sigh, I'm going to flee to another shelter for help in the World Channel after I run out of food in two days.]

[Ju Dong: The noob above, don't get phished!]

[LilyHelen: Huh? What's phishing?]

Su Mo looked at the Regional Channel. His name had been mentioned a few times, and he could see the miscommunication caused by differences in Eastern and Western cultures. He smiled helplessly, then turned off the chat panel.

If only they knew that he ate fried meat patties and biscuits with psychic energy water. The big and soft bed that he was sleeping on, covered by gentle lighting from the desk lamp at his bedside; even the kobold he caught had psychic energy water with biscuit paste. Those people would go crazy with envy if they knew.

"All done. I'm going to sleep! Got to get up early tomorrow to explore the camp!"

Su Mo slowly fell asleep while thinking about the things he had to do the next day.

He lifted his hand to switch off the desk lamp, and then the shelter turned quiet.

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Chapter 63: 8th Day in the Wasteland, Equipment Upgraded

(Readers are strongly recommended to listen to the vocal section of Hotel California while reading this chapter)

Su Mo lifted his head under the boundless moonlight.

It was as if he saw Magoo's smiling face outlined in the grey skies above; a true man who refused to give up.

May his soul rest in peace.

Holding Magoo's notebook, Su Mo felt the burden that he was carrying grow slightly heavier.

However, it was not the time for mourning.

He could hear Oreo's continuous barks from below; she was obviously curious about the buggy.

Su Mo briefly covered the remaining traces on the ground before descending the hill at a brisk and light pace.

There was a single-seat cabin in the buggy, but Magoo had also added a rear compartment behind the engine, which Su Mo assumed was used to carry a small cargo load.

Oreo was able to fit into that space perfectly.

He sat Oreo down inside and buckled her in.

"Be careful and don't randomly move about. If you fall, you'll become a disabled dog."

After he gave Oreo a warning, he looked at her sitting quietly in place. Su Mo smiled before returning to the front.

He bent down and climbed into the buggy's cabin, buckling up before starting the engine like he usually did.

The buggy's engine ignited and started humming.

Oreo, who was sitting behind it, was clearly frightened by this, but as Su Mo had given her a reminder, she did not make any sudden moves.

After making sure that everything was fine, Su Mo shifted the gear into drive and released the brakes.

The buggy began to move slowly!

"Arf? Woof woof? Woof!"

Oreo looked around curiously, not understanding how she was moving forward despite sitting absolutely still.

The next second, Su Mo stepped on the accelerator, and Oreo was fed with a gust of wind when she opened her mouth, woofing away.

"Arf woooooooooooooooof~"

"Oh yeah!"

Su Mo shouted excitedly as he felt another gust of howling wind blowing past.

The sound waves created by revving the engine were as good as the V8 luxury sports cars on Earth!

The birds that were flying above in the sky were shocked and scattered in all directions.

He moved his hand toward the radio and pressed on the Music button. A song started to play, pulsing like a bass subwoofer through the quiet wasteland:

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair~

Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air~

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light~

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim~

I had to stop for the night~

There she stood in the doorway~

I heard the mission bell~

And I was thinking to myself~

This could be Heaven or this could be Hell~

It was a classic song that Magoo had picked up somewhere. Together with Oreo's woofs, it echoed melodiously through the Wasteland.

Traveling at 40km/h, it wasn't long before he was back in front of the shelter, parked while waiting for a song to finish playing.

"With this speed, I'll have no issues paying a visit to kobold's saltpeter mine tomorrow."

Oreo was still slightly frightened, but seemed to still want to continue the ride, nudging Su Mo as she was being removed from the buggy.

Su Mo had to prepare a garage for the buggy.

That place would be… the gap that Huang Biao and the others had dug into previously.

"Those people were a big help to me. All I have to do is construct a sloped roof, put up some wooden boards, and it can serve as a temporary garage."

Su Mo was all smiles as he took the shovel out and started work on their unfinished project.

The construction progressed quickly with the help of Su Mo's good-quality equipment.

Su Mo easily dug out the slope within ten minutes. At the other end of the slope was the surface of the shelter's stone walls.

Although the temporary garage looked simple and crude, it was sufficient to guard against the mutant beasts.

As for humans, Su Mo thought that there would be no one else who would be as daring as him to cross the wasteland at night.

Even if there were, with Oreo's surveillance abilities and his cache of weapons, it would be akin to those people handing themselves to him on a silver platter.

Back at the base, Su Mo quickly cut out a few wooden boards and took them out; laying them atop the slope and completing the simple garage construction project.

Su Mo then went back to the buggy and, after examining the structure to make sure that there were no problems, he started it up and reversed perfectly into the garage. He then laid down a few wooden boards in front so that it looked like a wooden box had covered up the buggy.

"Great!"

Su Mo brushed off the dust on his shoulders, nodded his head satisfactorily, and went back to his base.

"My progress is way too fast. Just wait till my sister sees this! I'm afraid that she would never expect to have such an impressive brother!"

After drinking a mouthful of psychic energy water and making sure all the shelter doors were locked, Su Mo felt satisfied as he walked over to where the kobold was lying.

"Huh, it seems like someone's hungry~"

He patted its head. Su Mo finally recalled what he had forgotten when he was having dinner.

The wound on the Kobold Mage had not worsened after its treatment with psychic energy water. While it looked like he was dying, it turned out to be only because he was hungry.

Su Mo searched about and took out some biscuits mixed with psychic energy water and placed it in front of the kobold.

The Kobold Mage should be kept alive before he found the location of the saltpeter mine and kobolds' camp.

Su Mo nodded as he looked at the Kobold Mage wolfing down the food, before heading back to the center of the base.

There was no concept of time during the night in the wasteland. Everyone could only use the ancient method of telling the time by looking at the moon.

"It should be around midnight now, perhaps eleven or twelve o'clock. Too bad there's no nightlife in the wasteland."

Su Mo tidied up the yellow-stained clothes on him. He felt slightly disgusted and changed out of them. He then took a small cup of water out and rinsed his mouth at the culture medium.

Little Spark and Big Spark had been preparing for sleep when they caught sight of Su Mo. They lifted their chicken heads in acknowledgement before continuing to sleep after that.

"Life's flourishing. I have a desk lamp and a heating pad. Su Mo's shelter is finally getting better!"

After rinsing his mouth, he went back to the supply storage and retrieved the desk lamp and heating pad that he had traded for in the morning.

In the master bedroom, Su Mo laid the heating pad down, connected the desk lamp to the electricity supply, and finally laid down on his bed.

"Based on this progress speed, perhaps I can create gunpowder in a few days, or maybe even some upgraded explosives."

"By that time…"

Su Mo was excited just thinking about the possible treasures he would get from those kobolds.

"No way, I'm too excited. I won't be able to sleep like this. I should read some chat messages to calm myself down."

The gentle light from the desk lamp filled the room with warmth. One could almost forget that they were in the middle of the wasteland. Instead, this almost seemed like a scene from a home in the rural countryside.

Su Mo focused his mind while changing into a more comfortable resting position.

The virtual game panel popped out immediately.

Tapping on the World Channel, the screen displayed the messages and news items one by one that were slowly flooding the screen.

At this time of day, most people had already used up their trumpet counts, and the rest of them were filtered by the system. This made it easier to keep up with all the messages.

As he was scrolling, he realized that there was news of the Halflings. Su Mo then nodded his head and switched over to the Regional Channel.

Halflings arrived into this world together with humans. Taking the speed of progress into account, many of them should have already encountered this strange creature, yet no one actually described its characteristics; only mentioning the need to be careful of them.

In the days after the first disaster, the number of players in the Regional Channel had been reintegrated. Two days had passed since then, and there were still 982 people left out of the 1000.

18 of them had been unlucky enough to encounter some form of danger, or unlucky circumstance, and died.

As there were no speaking limits in the Regional Channel, there were dozens of them chattering away as if they were in a Telegram group chat.

[Fei Zhi: Bros, I'm hungry. I'm lying on the floor of a wooden house with broken windows. My whole body is shivering. When will this end?"

[Liang Jian: The bro above, you're so much better off than I am. I ate a pack of dried noodle snacks. I had diarrhea at night and it was so bad that I almost died from it."

[Liang Jian: Is there anyone who knows… can we eat what we've excreted? I don't have any grain reserves left…]

[Na Wenxing: Liang Jian, I thought you told us that your shelter was good enough. Why does it sound so bad now? Has it gotten to the point that you have to eat your own sh*t?]

[Liang Jian: Nice one. I bet this shelter will be done for in a few days. Last time, it was mutant beasts going after the humans, and now the humans are going after them instead? How ironic!]

[Liang Jian: I'm toughing it out for now. Once the secret realm trading opens, I'll look for Su God to trade for something.]

[Cai Junfeng: What have you got there?]

[Liang Jian: Heh, it's a secret. If everyone can keep surviving, just do it. We're lucky to have Su God in our channel. I heard that some of the other lousy channels lost half of their members. None of them were good enough to keep everyone's spirits up.]

[Du Fu: I'm here to introduce something. The tree bark of some bushes are edible. I ate some of it today and it tasted fine. If you can't stand the hunger, go and get some. It's better than eating dirt.]

[Emerald: Mr. Su Mo is able to eat his fill right? Sob, sob, sob. I'm so envious of him.]

[LilyHelen: Sigh, I'm going to flee to another shelter for help in the World Channel after I run out of food in two days.]

[Ju Dong: The noob above, don't get phished!]

[LilyHelen: Huh? What's phishing?]

Su Mo looked at the Regional Channel. His name had been mentioned a few times, and he could see the miscommunication caused by differences in Eastern and Western cultures. He smiled helplessly, then turned off the chat panel.

If only they knew that he ate fried meat patties and biscuits with psychic energy water. The big and soft bed that he was sleeping on, covered by gentle lighting from the desk lamp at his bedside; even the kobold he caught had psychic energy water with biscuit paste. Those people would go crazy with envy if they knew.

"All done. I'm going to sleep! Got to get up early tomorrow to explore the camp!"

Su Mo slowly fell asleep while thinking about the things he had to do the next day.

He lifted his hand to switch off the desk lamp, and then the shelter turned quiet.

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Chapter 64: 8th Day in the Wasteland, Equipment Upgraded

In this chapter the source is duplicated. Please skip to the next chapter to continue reading. Thanks

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 8]

[The vegetables you planted germinated unexpectedly. The story behind it was heartwarming (Survival points 10)]

[You reconstructed the Shelter's design. The Shelter's Disaster Resistance Ability obtained a qualitative upgrade (Survival points 200)]

[You created the Shelter's first high-potential productivity tool—Workbench (Survival points 10)]

[First-time handcrafting a good-quality tool (Survival points 10)]

[First-time handcrafting an excellent-quality tool (Survival points 50)]

[First-time handcrafting a good-quality material (Survival points 10)]

[One new member added to your Shelter. You feel very happy and see hope for the future (Survival points 10)]

[You have obtained the first good-quality vehicle in the Doomsday Wasteland (Survival points 200)]

[Scanning host's survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 88 points gained today.]

Total calculation: 588 points!

Survival points remaining: 599 points!

"Yes! Awesome! My goodness, I earned almost 600 points in one go! Sure enough, going out to explore was the right way to utilize the system!"

When he looked at the system notifications that were sent to him at 8 in the morning, Su Mo was surprised.

Before he slept last night, he was worried that he only had 11 survival points remaining.

Unexpectedly, when morning came, the system gave out so many of them that it completely relieved the pressure of lacking survival points.

Su Mo's mind was raced rapidly as he opened the dead main's personal chat channel, writing down row by row:

"Today's the eighth day in the wasteland! My progress has been relatively fast. Who would have thought that I would become someone who owned a vehicle in Doomsday!"

"Hahahahahah!"

"No way, no way, Su Mo, you should calm down. How can you be so overwhelmed by this small reward given to you? Keep calm!"

"Today's work is to… explore and investigate the location where the kobolds have been mining saltpeter. If there's enough time, it would be best to also locate their campsite."

"(Attention!!!) This might be a tough war. I must not let my guard down."

"Upgrade all the equipment if possible! I have to ensure my own safety!"

"Before the sun sets at 7 o'clock, I have to return to the Shelter. Remember, do not spend the night in the wilderness."

"I am ready!"

Su Mo was feeling satisfied as he switched off the chat channel. Using the strength of his waist, he flipped his body up and landed firmly upright on the bed.

It had only been one week in the wasteland and he could already feel his physical fitness had improved by more than just a single level.

All his work-related illnesses were gone thanks to the infinite supply of psychic energy water and had been instead replaced by a strong physical body!

"I've become much stronger than when I first arrived here!"

He clenched his fist and observed his visibly protruding veins as if it was proof that his blood was flowing rapidly. Su Mo had never felt so strong before.

The physical body was a precious thing.

If a normal person's strength was 5, training a little more by lifting weights would increase it to 6, but for a person to build up strength to 10 would be painful, tough and require immense effort.

On the other hand, the recovery process, whether it was from 2 to 5, or even 6, as long as one had sufficient nutrients and rest, the speed would be incredibly fast.

"Psychic energy water… it's probably the best choice that I've ever made!"

Su Mo stood up and gathered the psychic energy water that he collected yesterday before pouring it into the water tank. He scooped some of it and brought it to the culture medium and started to brush his teeth.

Little Spark and Big Spark had already woken up and clucked away, running around in circles within the base.

Oreo was doing her job. She was curled up in the corner of the living room, her eyes never leaving the Kobold Mage.

It was a different kind of morning at the shelter. It didn't feel as quiet or as lonely anymore, instead giving off somewhat of a happy farmhouse vibe.

"The food stored in the base is kind of bland and lacking in vitamins and nutrients.It won't help if I have to keep eating these in the long run."

After Su Mo finished his morning routine, he went over to the warehouse, rummaging through the pile of survival goods while ruminating on his thoughts.

Fresh vegetables and fruits were a luxury to even him in the wasteland.

Without a regular source of nutrients, people could easily fall sick and contract an illness that even psychic energy water would not be able to cure.

Perhaps a week was fine, but after two or three weeks, if the body did not absorb any nutrients, he was afraid that there would be a whole host of issues that would accompany the bodily stress inflicted, including mental problems such as easily losing one's temper.

"The biscuits have almost run dry as well. It has only been a few days, but I'm tired of it already."

Su Mo bent down and grabbed the remaining packs of biscuits and walked out of the supply room.

It was not hard to obtain fresh vegetables and fresh fruits. All he had to do was to open some treasure chests and one of them would contain those things.

However, as the number of mutant beasts continued to decrease, his target could be only be the—

The kobold pack!

For now though, it was the familiar biscuit paste that was for breakfast. He made four portions, enough for everyone in the base.

Polishing off his breakfast, he then packed the remaining biscuit into a mineral water bottle, tightened the cap and put it back in the storage space. He then strolled toward the workbench.

Since he was going to investigate the kobolds' campsite, he would need to review and upgrade his equipment for the task.

For his ranged weapon, the electric crossbow would still be sufficient for now. No upgrade would be needed at this point.

Taking a look at his melee weapon, the Japanese Oak Spear; ceramic plate armor that would shield him; and heat-insulated raincoat, all three of those were in dire need of an upgrade.

Focusing, he transferred the familiar-looking long spear onto the workbench.

Summoning the system, Su Mo examined it:

[Japanese Oak Spear:

Description: A brand-new wooden spear with an overall fine texture. Has patterns that resemble flying swans. The material is as hard as iron and boasts impressive lethality.

First upgrade option: Upgrade the material to fine iron spear, increase the hardness of the material, increase the flexibility of the material, increase the sharpness of the weapon. Survival points required (55).

Second upgrade option: Upgrade the material to fine iron spear, increase the hardness of the material, adding an electric booster that can significantly improve attacking speed. Survival points required (80).

"Back then, the electric spear upgrade was too expensive for me. Now… it's a piece of cake."

He looked at the price shown in the system with a smile on his face before heading to the supply room to grab some iron.

After putting in three pieces, the cost of the second upgrade option decreased to 65 points.

65 points were deducted after he made up his mind.

"Green, oh, give me that green color! I have more than enough cash today!"

Su Mo looked at the green light proudly, waving his hands as if he was the hardworking one forging the spear.

The clinking sound of two metals colliding with each other echoed in the air.

The Japanese Oak Spear began to tremble, and bits of wood were slowly shaved off from the patterned wooden spear, revealing the beautiful layer of silver under it.

The wooden bits that were shaved off did not disappear. Instead, they gathered together and formed a rectangular device.

The device measured 3cm in height and 12cm in length. Guided along by the green light, it clasped firmly underneath the wooden spear and swirled.

The spearhead also evolved from its grooved wooden material to a matte, silver-black colored iron edge.

As the green light disappeared, a new iron spear laid on the workbench. Su Mo quickly grabbed it and held it in his hands.

[Fine Iron Electric Spear (Good)]

Description: Made from special metals. Has high flexibility and toughness. The spearhead is etched with a blood groove. It boasts impressive lethality and an electric booster has been attached at the end of the spear.

Special ability: Electric booster can slightly increase the attacking speed and damage.

Comment: Yah! Eat this spear!

The wooden spear had been light, weighing in at about 3kg. Given Su Mo's increased strength, it was no longer suitable for him.

After the upgrade, the weight of the Fine Iron Electric Spear increased to 10kg, which worked out perfectly for him.

Su Mo stabbed out a few practice moves before trying out the electric booster button. Indeed…

No electricity!

"The system is stingy, not even sparing me that tiny amount of electricity."

He then connected the charger for the Fine Iron Spear to the electrical supply. Su Mo then placed his well-worn raincoat on the workbench.

Although it was a raincoat, it possessed a variety of functions.

These days, Su Mo had been wearing it all the time, regardless of whether it was while working in the shelter or going out for a hunt.

Even though he was under the hot sun, its excellent heat insulation meant that he would not feel hot. Rather, it could even insulate against the sunlight's UV rays that could possibly harm him.

"I shouldn't neglect my combat abilities either!"

"It's time to upgrade myself with stronger abilities!"

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Chapter 65: Fully Renewed, Abilities Highly Boosted!

[Strong Raincoat]

Description: A raincoat with several upgrades. Has strong rain-proof ability, UV ray resistance and three layers of heat insulation.

First upgrade option: Improve the raincoat's material. Additional heat insulation material that increases comfortability and wind-proof ability. Survival points required (85).

Second upgrade option: Improve the raincoat's material. Additional photometric material that increases invisibility and slightly increases wind-proof and heat insulation ability. Survival points required (120).

"These options…"

"The first one seems to lean toward upgrading its disaster resistance, whereas the second one is perhaps… something like leveling it up to a combat uniform?"

Thump…

Thump…

Su Mo tapped on the surface of the workbench with his fingers, looking at the options that the system gave him in deep thought.

When he was upgrading the raincoat previously, the system gave him the option to upgrade it with an electrical device. This time, however, the electrical device option had been removed, instead being replaced with an invisibility option.

If he just looked at it from the present standpoint, an upgrade in either direction was acceptable and would greatly assist him during his daily routines.

However, if one had to take into account the future direction of the upgrade, then it became a much harder choice.

Of course, the impending disaster was approaching, and being fully prepared for survival was essential. Otherwise, everything else would be meaningless, but if…

Su Mo did not hesitate after he had finally figured it out and said,

"I choose upgrade option… Number two!"

120 points were deducted after he finished his words.

This time, it was not the familiar green light that shone from it. Instead, it was a red light that emitted heat.

The light enveloped the raincoat, and dazzling streaks of glitter and sparks started to appear on the raincoat.

The raincoat transformed under the naked eye; the saggy raincoat material started to improve in texture, and the colors started to disguise themselves, seemingly melding in with the color of the workbench.

"What an awesome ability…"

"The photometric invisibility effects are working even on the workbench."

[Photometric Combat Uniform (Good)]

Description: A combat uniform with outstanding abilities. It is water-proofed, has UV rays resistance, and is slightly wind-proofed, with good heat insulation.

Special abilities: Photometric Invisibility (from certain angles, the special material can bend light and achieve 'Photometric Invisibility'. The special material has a negative refractive index and can transform optical structures.)

Comment: If you could upgrade this, and I mean if, you might be able to open the door to a whole new world!

Su Mo picked up and examined the Photometric Combat Uniform in detail before finding some clues on how it worked.

As long as it was not viewed directly from the front, the Photometric Combat Uniform provided a certain level of photometric invisibility effect, seemingly extending from a 45 degree angle to the rear of the uniform.

It was his first time seeing such an effect. He had not even seen this effect on Earth before.

When Su Mo tried it on himself, he could feel the difference immediately when he moved his arms and legs around.

The previous raincoat fitted perfectly on him, but when moving around vigorously, he still felt his movements slightly restricted.

The upgraded Photometric Combat Uniform was like a thin film that adhered to his skin. It was as if he was wearing a 0.01mm raincoat to battle and its presence could hardly be noticed unless he was focusing on it specifically.

The plastic face shield had also been upgraded to a more advanced softened rubber shell, increasing its breathability and defensive ability to a higher level.

Su Mo figured that he should wear it all the time to get used to it. Finally, he took out the last piece of equipment to be upgraded—ceramic plate armor, and placed it on the workbench to take a good look at it.

[Hunter's Ceramic Plate Armor:

Description: Made from fine materials, has tidy outlines and an impressive defensive ability. The special aroma of Hidden Herb covers up the hunter's body scent.

First upgrade option: Change the armor's look to a half-body light armor. Slight upgrade in armor materials. Retains the ability to cover up scents and increases defensive ability. Survival points required (105).

Second upgrade option: Change the armor's look to a lower-body light armor. Slight upgrade in armor materials. Decreases the weight of armor and increases defensive ability, Survival points required (130).

Third upgrade option: Change the armor's look to a full-body light armor. Slight upgrade in armor materials. Addition of an electrical supporting device and increased defensive ability. Survival points required (180).

Given the three options, Su Mo did not overthink and confirmed his choice of the third upgrade option.

Electrical energy was a productive resource. No matter what type of electrical device it was, it could transform that resource into kinetic energy. Currently, the cheapest and most convenient resource for this was electrical energy.

With the electrical device, he would turn into someone who could perform magic feats in the eyes of people who were clueless about science.

Without the electrical device, even if the armor was upgraded to the extent where it could slice off iron easily, or even became unusually strong and solid, it could still only be considered as a stronger tool for taking hits and defense.

While it was risky to only depend on a person's strength to fight and battle in the Doomsday wasteland, Su Mo knew which was more important to him.

He tried to pour in the materials he had on hand and, after adding in two pieces of iron, the upgrade cost dropped to 165.

He suppressed the impulse to save on survival points and he gritted his teeth as he confirmed the third upgrade option.

The ceramic plate armor that had been through life and death with Su Mo had accomplished its mission.

The next second, under the green light's tremendous power, it melted into a puddle of black liquid.

The green light was like a pair of unseen hands, starting to knead the liquid into shape out of nowhere. The puddle of liquid soon started to form and take shape, aligning itself with the size and shape of Su Mo's body.

The green light disappeared after three to five seconds.

Bang!

The finished armor fell onto the workbench and let out a cry.

A full-body suit of armor, complete with pauldrons, a pair of h and a rather stupid-looking armor helmet.

"Let's forget about the helmet, even if I wear it, I would still die if someone shot me in the head."

Su Mo examined the sophisticated pattern on the helmet and checked to see if the electrical device was situated behind the helmet before putting it back into the equipment warehouse.

Even if he wore the Photometric combat uniform, the huge helmet would stand out. Wearing it was equivalent to running the risk of getting himself caught by enemies.

"The upper and lower body armor pieces seem light enough. Wearing them shouldn't affect my movements."

The light armor weighed around ten kilograms and could offer enough protection while not affecting his movement and dodging speed in battle.

Su Mo nodded as he pondered on the weight of both light armor pieces.

"Looks like the electrical device was hidden in the boots…"

Su Mo followed the light and examined the light armor boots on the workbench.

Two long devices extended from the front to the back of the boots, but he could not find the battery's location, and neither could it be seen from the outside.

Su Mo searched the boots for a while before finally spotting the charging port on the heel of the boots. He also found the activation switch on the toe of the boots.

"While it's inability to automatically danger and activate could be its largest defect of this electrical device, at least the activation mechanism is convenient enough. All I have to do is point and press my toe to the ground to start the device."

He grabbed the boots and left them on the floor to charge from the electrical supply. Su Mo then started to prepare the final piece of the puzzle.

Customized crossbow arrows!

His current crossbow arrows had been created by the game itself and were sufficient to take on normal kobolds, but this time he was heading into enemy territory. There was no guarantee that he would not encounter stronger enemies.

As such, Su Mo was planning to create the crossbow arrows that were completely different from the average crossbow arrow, improving their lethality.

He headed back to the energy distribution room and plugged in the generator to the before switching on the workbench's power button.

He took a piece of iron and placed it on the bench before Su Mo closed his eyes.

After ten minutes, Su Mo opened his eyes and concentrated on the material in front of him.

The robotic arm on the workbench detected his approaching arm and automatically encased it, becoming one with the arm.

Su Mo switched the left-hand arm to its high-speed cutter mode and sliced the iron into ten even, small rectangular pieces that each measured 18cm in length.

The crossbow arrow that the system had created was of average length, about 25cm, and possessed both lethality and speed.

However, the arrows being of uniform length also meant that they had no special attributes to speak of.

This time, Su Mo was thinking outside the box. He altered the length of the shaft and started to modify it with determination.

According to the system's crossbow arrow design, Su Mo's attention was focused on cutting and grinding, making sure that the width of the broadheads and the fletchings were equivalent.

When wearing the robotic arm, the steadiness of the arm allowed Su Mo to ensure that the accurate requirements of the crafting process would be executed perfectly.

Little sparks ignited and scattered around, hitting the stone wall.

Su Mo was extremely focused during the production process, and his efficiency was quite impressive too.

Only 3 minutes were needed to produce a crossbow arrow and it left aside to cool down.

After finishing 10 of them, Su Mo's back was soaked with sweat.

This type of labor intensive activity required high levels of concentration; a slight mistake would lead to the crossbow arrow being wasted and having to be rebuilt from scratch.

It was thanks to the excellent quality level of the workbench, which increased concentration levels, that ten of the crossbow arrows were successfully produced!

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