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 66: Getting Ready, To the Saltpeter Mine

Su Mo stared at the arrow case that contained the ten crossbow arrows. They were neatly aligned, their broadheads facing upward. Even though there was a slight metallic smell lingering in the air, Su Mo paid it no mind.

It was his first time forging something requiring that much precision and the success of the endeavor filled him with a sense of accomplishment.

Su Mo focused mentally again, and the attributes that were displayed by the system panel took his level of satisfaction to the next level, his heart almost bursting with happiness.

[High-Speed Crossbow Arrow (Excellent x 3, Good x 7)]

Description: 'Customized' crossbow arrow made by the quasi-elementary level craftsman 'Su Mo'. Forged using regular methods, but was upgraded to good quality for inexplicable reasons.

Special ability:

Excellent: Super-fast flying, silent.

Good: Super-fast flying

Comment: From beginner to elementary level, such a transformation!

"Yes!"

"I'm already considered a quasi-elementary level manufacturer now. Looks like the effects of the excellent-quality workbench's enhancement cannot not be taken lightly!"

The attributes of the new crossbow arrows certainly did not waste its quality enhancement!

Even though the overall enhancement given by the workbench was only a modest 10%, when it came to actual use, it was of great help in maintaining the craftsman's concentration level.

Ten crossbow arrows—three of them were excellent-quality level and the other seven were good-quality.

Although he had yet to test them out, Su Mo instinctively knew that, from the attributes enhancement, the ones that he created were much better than those made by the system!

Su Mo stood up and adjusted his posture, moving his neck left and right to relieve some of the stiffness.

With a wave of his hand, Su Mo triggered the system and stored the new crossbow arrows into the storage space neatly.

Then he turned his gaze toward the charging ports and stared at the crossbow, long spear and combat boots on the floor.

Strong emotions emerged from the depths of Su Mo's heart.

Armed with these equipment, he would dare to fight against more than ten kobolds!

Even though the kobolds' campsite might be deathly and perilous, he still had to go!

Time passed as he patiently waited for the equipment to be fully charged.

In a blink of an eye, it was already noon. Three of the equipment batteries were fully charged, the indicators flashing green.

Su Mo took out the baguette that he had traded for earlier and put all 2kg of it into the pot to make a bread soup.

He took one-fifth of the soup and poured it into Little Spark and Big Spark's food bowl.

He scooped out another half and poured it into Oreo's food bowl.

Su Mo grabbed the rest of the bread soup after waiting for it to cool and chugged it down in one go.

After filling his stomach and getting enough rest, he was once again back to his best condition, raring to go.

Su Mo came to the weapon armament storage and began to equip himself one by one.

First was light armor.

The light armor was designed like the silver lamellar armor worn during the uprising of the Red Turban Rebellion.

He had to start with the cuirass. Su Mo held the armor with his hands outstretched between the holes, and tucked his head in like when wearing a sweater.

The customized cuirass which was made of special steel that aligned perfectly with the body's curved shape. Also, because it was made with modern methods and materials, the ultra-lightweight armor felt equivalent to wearing a down jacket on a winter's day.

The lower part of the armor were the faulds that hooked onto the upper-body armor, and it had a belt to secure it from falling off.

After he finished wearing the upper and lower parts of the armor, he picked up the pauldrons and wore them on both shoulders and arms, before securing them.

The size of the combat boots was based on Su Mo's feet. They were professionally designed and he could put them on easily. Oddly enough, they felt more comfortable than wearing a conventional pair of sneakers.

It's true that armor boosts one's courage!

Su Mo's body structure tended toward a more lean shape due to his previous lack of exercise but, after he put on his armor, he mysteriously felt stronger.

He could not help but start visualizing a battle between a kobold and himself, outfitted in this armor suit!

He then raised a leg and pressed his toes on the ground, resulting in a clink clank activation sound. Su Mo proceeded by trying to take a few steps forward.

"Huh? Does the effect not apply to walking?"

The electrical boots did not seem to detect his movements, so Su Mo switched to running instead.

The next second, a strong force came streaming out from his heels.

That moment, Su Mo felt as if he was being propelled so far forward that he almost fell over.

"That was really fast! Tell me now, who would be able to withstand this speed!"

Su Mo's happiness was getting obvious as stretched his legs and ran several rounds in circles.

Oreo, who was still licking her food bowl, was dumbstruck; her jaw dropped while looking at Su Mo running around at that speed in the shelter.

The electrical boots did not just boost his running motions.

As the speed went higher, Su Mo tried performing different stunts and they all showed a significant speed boost.

Bang!

He pressed his toes on the ground and ran two more steps before the speed boost effect disappeared.

"What an improvement! If I had been wearing these back at the ruins, the Kobold Mage wouldn't have had the time to launch that fireball!"

Su Mo had already been surprised by the light armor.

He was even more excited about the fine iron electric spear.

However, before that, Su Mo wore the photometric combat uniform over the armor.

As he was wearing armor, the photometric combat uniform had to stretch larger to cover it. Nevertheless, the material had a strong flexibility and extensibility rating.

The perfectly-fitted combat uniform played its part by adhering firmly onto the armor.

He grabbed the fully-charged fine iron electric spear and switched it on.

The fine iron electric spear buzzed momentarily then returned to normal.

He tried his hand at some practice moves, stabbing and sweeping forward, and noticed that there it emitted a secondary force, making the electric spear move even faster.

When he switched it off, the enhancement disappeared.

Su Mo eyed his set of brand new equipment happily, extremely proud of himself.

Stowing away the fine iron electric spear and electric crossbow into the storage space, he walked over to the corner and grabbed the kobold.

The kobold, who was still asleep, awoke in shock. At first, he lifted his head in panic, but upon realizing that it was just Su Mo, he ignored Su Mo and continued his decadent behavior.

It had been two days and Su Mo still did not seem to have the intention to recruit him. The kobold had already discarded his imaginations and began to face reality.

"Woof… woof!"

Oreo was excited seeing Su Mo grab the kobold, as she watched from the side.

"Let's go! Tell him to lead the way. If he lies or leads us in the wrong direction, today will be the last day of his miserable life!"

Su Mo carried the thin and weak kobold in his hands as he moved toward the shelter's entrance.

Since Oreo heard that they were going out for fun, she barked loudly, communicating with the kobold. After confirming the message with him, Oreo barked twice, hinting that she was done communicating.

Once everything was prepared, the shelter's entrance opened and Su Mo closed the door carefully after taking a glance at the facilities within. He moved and passed through the entrance hallway to the outside.

When there was no disaster, the wasteland's sun was always blazing brightly during the day, and yellow sand was scattered all around.

Sometimes, one or two vultures flew across, making grunting noises.

Su Mo threw the kobold to the ground and went back into the other side of the shelter's entrance, placing the door bar at an angle, before turning around and forcefully shutting the shelter doors

A deep sound groaned when Su Mo tried to push against the door. The door bar had been dropped and set, blocking out any potential forces that might come from the outside.

He gave it a few more tries to see if it was possible to open the door from the outside. Failing successfully, Su Mo nodded and walked over to the entrance of the garage.

He lifted the wooden boards that covered the simple and crude garage, revealing the buggy sitting quietly in the spot where Se Mo had left it.

He gave it a once over before climbing inside and starting the engine. He drove the buggy to the entrance of the shelter.

"Woof?"

The kobold lying on the ground was astonished when he saw the buggy, looking at it in disbelief; unable to understand why an iron box would be moving about.

Oreo looked at kobold as if it were a hillbilly. The way she scoffed at it was epic.

"Oreo, please bear with me. You're going to sit with me today!"

Su Mo put the kobold on the rear compartment and buckled him up. He then bent his body, grabbed Oreo in his arms, and returned to the front seat of his buggy.

Oreo was more than willing when she heard what Su Mo said.

Oreo buried her head bashfully into Su Mo's photometric combat uniform, lying on his lap, motionless.

After checking everything once again, he engaged the gear lever and looked back at the shelter, a little unwilling to leave.

"Let's go! Our next destination is the "Kobolds' Saltpeter Mine!"

Su Mo shouted, sweeping away his reluctance to leave, and stepped on the accelerator!

The buggy was like an arrow leaving its bowstring, shooting forward forcefully.

The deep humming noise from the engine resonated alongside the strong winds of sandstorm as he headed west on the deserted wasteland.

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Chapter 67: Initial Exploration! Spectacular Saltpeter Mine!

"Hourly speed 45…"

"Hourly speed 62…"

"Hourly speed 23…"

The journey to the kobold's saltpeter mine collection location was not smooth sailing. They stumbled over rocks throughout the journey, and that made them unable to increase their speed.

Despite having traveled almost forty to fifty minutes, Su Mo had only covered less than thirty kilometers.

The kobold behind him had obviously never seen such a speedy artifact before and spent the entire journey lost in their imagination. No one knew what it was thinking.

When the kobold noticed the car slowing down, it immediately understood and continued pointing out directions.

"Oh, looks like the kobold camp and saltpeter mine are on the Westside."

The car continued going forth in the direction the kobold had pointed in. After traveling for another twenty or so kilometers, it surmounted a high slope that obstructed their view.

When Su Mo noticed the kobold gesturing, he instinctively raised his head to look toward where the kobold's finger was pointing.

His pupils contracted immediately!

On the distant ground was a sheet of ice crystals that looked like silk as it lay atop a mountaintop that stretched for miles.

There were still around ten kilometers left before they arrived at the saltpeter mine. Su Mo could already tell that this area was a massive, natural saltpeter vein.

Without a doubt, it would feel even more eerily stunning when they got nearer and stood below the mineral veins!

"How is this saltpeter mine so massive? How on earth did it form?"

Su Mo had an expression of surprise on his face as he hurriedly got out of his car and retrieved his binocular that had a 5x zoom from his storage space to begin sizing up the saltpeter mine.

With the help of the binoculars, the full view of the saltpeter mine began growing clearer.

No need to feel panic when you have a mine at your disposal.

Gustav II Adolf, who was otherwise known as "the Lion of the North" back in the day, had led the Protestant Alliance to multiple victories against the Catholic armies thanks to the utilization of his firearms and saltpeter mines back in his old home of Sweden.

However, many European countries did not produce saltpeter, which made the source of these ores a big, constant problem.

It was alright during peaceful times, but the minute war broke out, it would be a big problem if their business supply was cut off.

King Charles the First of England had been plagued by the problem of gunpowder while he was at war with opposition forces both at home and abroad.

Thus!

The king of England himself had no choice but to turn his attention to a stinking, filthy place — pit latrines.

To ensure the production of gunpowder, the king had specially appointed officials to dig up the topsoil (which contained nitrites) from the latrines and stables on his territory.

He extracted the nitrates from the soil and even issued an order that forbade any latrines or stables in the country from having stone slabs or wood slabs laid on the ground so that it would not affect the collection of soil.

Cobblers, who were large users of nitrate, lost their source of income.

Every respectable clergy in churches then were bestowed with an honorable task, which was to rally the city folk who attended prayer sessions to come forth and pee collectively. From that moment onwards, peeing was no longer an awkward, filthy thing to do. Instead, they were playing their part to contribute toward the country.

Among these, the church's chairs were particularly valued. One was not allowed to leave and use the restroom halfway through prayers, but nature's call was difficult to ignore. Thus, the church's chairs were so battered and bruised that one could scrape off high-quality saltpeter off of these chairs.

At that time, England folk thought that women's urine contained particularly high amounts of saltpeter.

They even began chanting the slogan "Please contribute your share for your husband fighting on the frontlines."

Yet, now!

Su Mo stared at the giant saltpeter mine in front of him. He could not for the life of him imagine any reason that would cause the birth of such a huge vein.

"If you told me that this massive vein was formed because some monster peed from the sky, I would have believed you!"

"However, the kobolds must view saltpeter mines as something extremely important. I can't believe that there are at least a hundred kobolds who have set up camp here…"

"Huh? That is??"

"Human!!"

With the help of the binoculars, Su Mo could clearly see an upright creature that looked completely different from the kobolds.

Ten kilometers was still too far away. The image created by the binoculars with 5x zoom caused a shadow to cast over Su Mo's heart.

Su Mo returned to the buggy, pulled up Oreo, who was still busy sniffing the ground, relit the fire, and set out again.

This time, he was going to risk traveling another five kilometers forward.

The buggy did not travel quickly, but it managed to arrive at the location Su Mo wanted it to after an estimated 10 minutes had elapsed.

This time, even without using the help of binoculars, Su Mo could clearly see a large expanse of houses that seemed to be built from wood in the distance.

Even more, Su Mo even noticed a house constructed using the base of a Safe House built next to these houses!

After getting out of the car, retrieving the binoculars, and looking at the image formed by the binoculars again.

Su Mo's hands curled into fists!

Dozens of people were hard at work mining on the rolling expanse of mines.

However, these people… were not kobolds!

Instead, they were humans!!!

Kobold Warriors were scattered around the veins. Su Mo counted under his breath to get a rough estimate.

Right now, there were no less than two hundred Kobold Warriors in his line of sight.

And the most terrifying part was that there were at least 50 Kobold Warriors who were sitting and having fun in the middle of the campgrounds!

These were just the ones in his direct line of sight!

He was afraid that after accounting for those he had not seen, there would be more than three hundred kobolds in this particular saltpeter mine camp!

Three hundred kobolds monitoring a dozen people while they mined?

As Su Mo gazed into the binoculars, he came into a realization.

"I thought everyone else nearby the area I was deposited had been taken care of by Huang Biao. Now, it looks like the remaining humans have all been captured to the mines by the kobolds.

"Luckily, my shelter is a full sixty kilometers away from this place. If not, I would have met strange creatures like these on my first two days!"

"No wonder the Huaxia shelter was so secretive about matters concerning foreign civilizations. It's probably because there have been countless humans who have already been enslaved by these monsters. But have their chat channels been restricted? If not, why have I not seen any messages regarding this on the World Channel!"

Su Mo speculated to himself as he made observations.

There were so many kobolds. He looked at the gear he had on. Unless he was given a Gatling gun and a limitless supply of bullets.

Only then could he try attacking the base and saving the humans.

At the very least, with the gear he had on now, it would not be a simple feat to launch an attack on that base.

"Who would have expected this saltpeter mine… to be this tricky…"

"I'm afraid that the number of monsters inside this kobold camp will be larger than the ones I have here!"

"Up to a thousand kobolds!"

Once he thought of the fact he had neighbors as "enthusiastic" as he was by his side, and that they would invite you to go mining at their house once they met you, a line immediately appeared above Su Mo's head:

Sense of security: -10000!

"No, I must go and scout out the situation inside the kobold camp.

Su Mo had a solemn expression on his face as he turned and returned to the buggy. Oreo hurriedly jumped in after him.

"Oreo, let him lead the way. We're going to their camp."

The minute he finished speaking, Oreo began communicating with the kobold.

A minute later, the buggy left a trail of dust behind it as it began traveling toward the direction of the northern side of the saltpeter mine.

The terrain near the saltpeter mine was all steeped and had high slopes. Although the speed could not be picked up, the saltpeter mines and kobold camp were not too far away if the distance was measured using the buggy's speed.

When he heard the kobold signal that they were almost there.

Su Mo parked the buggy underneath the shadows of some shrubbery, dragged the kobold off the seats, and held it in his arms as they walked forth.

After walking for around five or six hundred meters and climbing over another tall hill, Su Mo finally caught sight of the kobold camp.

"This…"

"Can this be called a kobold camp? Perhaps it should be called a… castle! It would be more suitable, right?!"

Su Mo's eyes filled with astonishment as he stood on the hill and looked down at the massive area in front of him.

If the saltpeter mine could be described as one of nature's miracles.

Then the kobold castle in front of him was definitely a sign of unparalleled architectural greatness.

By the looks of it, the diameter of the castle in front of him was more than 500 meters!

There were round towers, narrow windows, semi-circular arches, low domes, and layered door frames. It all looked stunningly beautiful.

In terms of its style, large quantities of columns and domes of various shapes had been used to achieve the aesthetic effect of solidity and heaviness, balance and stability, and saturation of strength.

The narrow windows and the massive space within formed a stark contrast. It caused the castle's interior to be dimly lit and looked as if it had never-ending corridors, giving people an air of mystique.

Four sharp turrets were atop the four corners of the castle. Su Mo used the binoculars and saw that there were kobolds in charge of making patrols inside the tower.

When he looked downwards, besides the mages and warriors, Su Mo's sharp eyes spotted a kobold wearing a long white robe.

"This is the third type of kobold. I wonder what is special about this kobold…"

The kobold's stature could not be considered as upright, but as it stepped up onto the city walls, the four or five Kobold Mages behind it followed it respectfully.

The city walls were not long.

The white-robed kobold did not stop in its footsteps as it spoke.

Soon, they all vanished from the end of the city walls.

However, Su Mo did not have time to continue investigating when one of the small doors on the kobold mansion opened abruptly. A group of kobolds walked out, and it was obvious they were walking toward Su Mo.

"Oh no! Have they seen me?"

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Chapter 68: Villilan, The Beginning of Trust Collapsing

There was only one walled city gate on the castle's front side.

Because these doors were in a pair, they seemed exceptionally thick and heavy to operate. There was another smaller door beside the larger ones for easy access.

The small door was pushed open, and an army of Kobolds walked out.

Different from exploration teams, this team was formed of 12 kobolds, namely six warriors in the front, three mages in the middle, and then another three warriors at the back.

Su Mo used his binoculars to look at the kobolds and determine their motives through the look in their eyes.

They were walking in his direction!

However, the kobold squad was not marching forth at a particularly fast speed. They did not seem to be chasing after something but instead looked like they were going to take care of another matter somewhere else.

"Is this team going to the saltpeter mines?"

He made some guesses, and then looked at how there were around a thousand meters left between them.

Su Mo turned around and summoned his fine iron electronic spear from the storage space. Turning around to look at his captive kobold, Su Mo did not say another word as he deftly raised his spear and brought it down in a stab.

Although this spear did not have any electronic assistance, the amount of strength Su Mo wielded was beginning to get scary. He managed to crack open his captive's skull.

When Su Mo noticed that both red and white substances would spill out and remain on the ground if he pulled out the tip of his spear, Su Mo got an idea and stored the corpse in the burial bucket he had crafted and stored in his storage space.

One had to be ruthless when the time called for it while they were out battling for survival.

Since the kobold's mission had been accomplished, there was no need for any more nonsense. Sending him back to the arms of the kobold's ancestors was the biggest mercy he could show.

"This gang cannot be killed for now. I'll follow them from the back and see what they're up to."

The group was formed from twelve kobolds in total. Perhaps it might have been a problem if he continued hiding in the kobold saltpeter mine camp or keeping a watch on the kobold castle.

However, Su Mo had full confidence that he would be able to destroy all the kobolds in one go once they were in the wild.

After making several more observations, he noticed that the kobold team had not changed the direction they were traveling in even after another five hundred meters.

Su Mo squashed his thoughts and bent double to quickly retreat along the flanks.

Oreo, who was beside Su Mo, immediately understood what he was doing and ran alongside Su Mo in the wilderness.

Both human and dog had nothing to look back on as they came and went without showing even a shadow.

Su Mo sprawled on the grassy field nearby with Oreo and watched coldly as the kobold team walked right past without noticing he was sprawled out there.

The kobold team's formation had become extremely loose during their journey.

Even more, the two Kobold Mages in the center who were closer to the back than they were to the front were whispering to each other. No one knew what they were talking about, but from time to time, they laughed loudly and threw their heads back to howl, a perfect display of happiness.

"Oreo, circle over to the front later and see if any kobolds are waiting to welcome them. If there are, hurry back and tell me. I'll be following them from the back."

Su Mo reached a combat-uniform-clad hand out and patted Oreo's round head as he gave his orders in a low voice.

Oreo, who understood the human language, nodded and growled in a deep voice before dashing toward the front.

Compared to the slow-marching kobolds, Oreo, who used all four limbs to travel, moved astonishingly quickly.

It only took her the time of five or six breaths before she caught up to the kobold team and surpassed them through the sides to appear ahead of them.

"Alright!"

Su Mo stood and hurried over to the tall hill. After ensuring that there was no second team coming from the kobold castle, he jogged to catch up to them.

From the saltpeter mine camp to the kobold castle.

The two places were not too far away if you used a buggy to measure the distance.

However, on foot, it took more than an hour before Su Mo returned to the saltpeter mine camp along with the kobold team.

Some distance away, at an area that spanned less than five hundred meters, was a temporary defense camp that the kobolds had set up.

Several massive, sharpened wooden spikes were placed horizontally at the camp's entrance.

Wooden barbs were stuck onto the fence surrounding the campgrounds in a pattern that would cause a trypophobia attack.

Two scout towers that seemed around ten meters tall were erected on both sides of the camp so that they could be used to scout out the surrounding terrain.

When Su Mo saw the layout, not only did he not feel confused, but a feeling of familiarity appeared within him.

"If I hadn't seen these kobolds, I'm afraid I would have thought this was a shelter camp built by humans."

Su Mo laughed at himself as he took out his binoculars and looked toward the saltpeter mountain mine.

Around two hours had passed since he had first observed these miners and then took a round trip.

However, the humans at the mines were still being forced to work hard and mine under the blazing sun.

Now that they were closing in, Su Mo could even see in greater detail the expression of numbed pain on the miners' faces through his binoculars.

He could see the entirety of the mountain when he stood on the hill and noticed there were more than fifty miners present.

Now, sprawled on the side of the camp, he could only see one side of the mountain.

"Those that I can see clearly in my current line of sight… there are twelve Asians, seventeen blacks, and six whites."

"Huh? Why don't those two need to mine?"

An astonished expression appeared on Su Mo's face as he gazed through his binoculars.

The rest of the people in his line of sight were hard at work mining. Sweat streaked down their faces and washed off the dirt, forming clearly visible marks.

However, amidst these miners were two people holding wooden spears. They walked in and back again; not seeming the slightest bit like a miner.

Su Mo put down his binoculars and rubbed his eyes, which were starting to become sore after an extended period of focus. Once they had adequate rest, Su Mo looked over again.

"One Asian, and one white…"

"These are supervisors?"

Hierarchy existed wherever humans were, even if they had become the kobold's servants. It was natural that two so-called supervisors had come to exist.

Yet, Su Mo's blood boiled when he moved the binoculars the next second.

He could see a man who looked like an islander at the large houses in the center of the camp, sitting in front of the kobolds and laughing as he talked to them.

The three Kobold Mages who had come over from the castle were now sitting in front of the man, gesturing with their hands as they talked about things he could not hear.

"D*mn it! This *sshole has better meals than I do and lives more comfortably than I do. Who knows how many people he must have oppressed to do so!"

Other people were mining and seating.

Yet, the man in the house was sitting in front of a grill and turning it with reckless abandon as he scattered what seemed like seasonings on top of it from time to time.

Even if he could not smell the scent that emaciated from the grill as the spices were scattered atop the meat.

Su Mo could still imagine the scent from his memories back on earth.

The minutes and seconds ticked by.

Su Mo kept staring until the man finished grilling the meat, divided it into portions using a knife, and placed the separate portions into the kobold's bowls. When everyone finished eating, they walked out of the wooden house and conversed in the middle of the camp.

During this process, Su Mo did not feel any emotions, although Oreo seemed slightly agitated.

"D*mn it… I was wondering why that person seemed somewhat familiar."

Finally, he managed to use his binoculars and look at the man in the center of the camp. The one who had betrayed humans and whose face was now synonymous with the word "villain".

At the same time, it triggered a portion of Su Mo's memories.

"If I recall correctly, this *sshole must be named… Kento Maeda."

"I think I've seen this person talk in the World Channel after the first update…"

Bits and pieces of Su Mo's memories began appearing as Su Mo tried his best to locate them.

"That person seemed to have been looking to form a team with a group of kind-hearted people with good morals so that they could take care of each other. Who would have thought that it was your standard example of phishing!"

The wasteland had always been a dangerous place.

And now, the occupation of "villain" had made a sudden appearance.

Suddenly, Su Mo felt that all sorts of malice could be found in the game's chat panel if someone used it with that intention.

Perhaps in the start, the chat channel was a useful tool for everyone to use in communicating.

However, as time passed, it became harder to assess every person who spoke in the chat panel and ponder the goodness or badness of their character, and whether there were any malicious meanings hidden within.

When that happened, a person's credibility would collapse, and everyone would not be familiar with anyone else.

Except for official shelters, all privately-built shelters would be filled with schemes and tricks.

The lone wolves left behind would have to spend their time during Doomsday alone.

"Perhaps the fact that Magoo is unwilling to go looking for friends even after spending 19 disasters alone is a realistic portrayal of the collapse of trust amidst humans.

The more Su Mo thought about it, the more he felt the intent to kill racing in him as he stared at Kento Maeda, who had not even wiped the oil from the corners of his mouth.

This man could not be allowed to remain here!

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Chapter 69: Choice? I Want It All!

The two parties at the center of the camp were still continued on "clumsily".

Because they did not have a professional translator like "Oreo", both Kento and the kobolds could not understand what the other party meant with full accuracy.

They had to resort to using primitive gestures and make the simplest of communications.

As Su Mo looked on, he slowly understood what their conversation meant.

Kento was probably laying out a plan for the kobolds. He used his fingers to mimic a helicopter's rotor and seemed close to putting it on his head and flying into the air.

Yet, the stupid kobolds seemed unable to understand the meaning behind it. They woofed twice anxiously when they realized they did not understand a large amount of the gestures made.

After around half an hour, when even Su Mo had gotten tired of watching, the two parties finally finished communicating.

Kento waved his large hand and hollered several times to a few henchmen. A small car was pushed out from a warehouse some distance away.

"Huh? This is saltpeter that has already been collected?"

The saltpeter was white-colored with streaks of brown in it. Su Mo could tell it had high levels of purity even by looking at it through his binoculars.

Compared to nitrates found in feces and urine, saltpeter like this was an essential resource to compete for back when "munitions" first began setting up business.

The kobolds seemed to treat Kento as an equal.

However, the two henchmen did not seem to be so lucky.

Several kobolds could be seen shouting and yelling at the henchmen even from a distance away, a haughty expression on their faces. Yet, the henchmen could only suffer quietly as they did not dare to show their anger.

"If a human ends up like this, they might as well have lost any shred of dignity they ever had. They're drifting through their days and taking each day as it comes."

After Su Mo calmed down the urge to kill in his heart, he got up slowly and began retreating.

He had a rough idea of how the plot was going to progress.

It was most likely that the kobold team that had arrived just now was here to transport this shipment of mined saltpeter back to the castle.

"Looks like the kobold leader is no idiot too if he knows that the outside camps should not have massive gunpowder killing machines in their camps outside. Doing so would be giving the kobolds here the ability to support their troops, and they would lose what authority they had."

"Shame. What a shame. I'm afraid this group of kobolds is going to ship their saltpeter over to me, Su Mo."

Su Mo barked out a cold laugh. When the distance between them was far enough, he stood up deftly and did not turn to look back as he ran towards the road the kobolds had taken to come here.

Only little children made decisions!

I want everything!

This time, the saltpeter will belong to me, and the kobolds' lives will also belong to me!

"Move it, everyone. If not, I won't be able to save your doggish lives if Lord Doug begins throwing blame around.

As Kento watched the kobold team drive off with a truckful of mined saltpeter, he wiped the sweat off his forehead and spoke to the henchmen by his feet in an arrogant and boastful voice.

When the in-game clan translation function was used, one could easily understand what the other person said as long as they were of the human race.

"Yes, Lord Maeda!" The two henchmen hurriedly stood at attention and bowed a 90-degree bow to Kento.

"Hah.." A satisfied expression appeared on Kento's face when he looked at the two people by him, and he continued speaking.

"Ah, Ying Xiong, I asked you to recruit more people using the game panel. How are you doing? Any progress lately…"

When Ying Xiong, who was standing on the left, heard that, he immediately began shuddering as he braced himself and said:

"Lord Kento, we have phished nearly everyone in the nearby surroundings. Furthermore, many people are already becoming suspicious because those two dogs leaked out information on purpose… We…"

"Idiot!" When Kento heard what Ying Xiong said, a violent look crossed his face as he kicked Ying Xiong in the chest with all his strength.

"How many times have I told you to not call them dogs here but to call them kobold lords instead. Are you a pig? Can't you understand the human language? If there's a next time, I'll make sure you travel to hell and meet those two people from the day before!"

Ying Xiong had been kicked to the ground, and he had an expression of pain as he hurriedly nodded. Bead-sized droplets of sweat rolled from his forehead, but he pursed his lips tightly and did not dare voice out his pain.

When Kento saw the state Ying Xiong was in, he nodded and said to the other person, "Marshall, you'll come with me!"

Then, Kento turned and walked straight toward one of the rooms in the back. The person named Marshall had a numb expression on their face as they followed along.

In the pitch-black room, the only light came from a small window about the size of a human's head.

As he stood in the dark, Marshall could not tell what expression was on Kento's face, who was sitting in front of a table.

A split second later.

"I asked you to make a private collection… Um, how is it going…"

"It's… It's done. I didn't dare hide away too much and only stole small quantities when the mages were asleep. I've almost amassed a kilogram!"

"Alright!" The sound of Kento's almost unhittable excitement rang out from the pitch-black room.

"How about the other task I gave you, to scout out the location of Su Mo's base, going…"

When Marshall heard Kento say that, he sounded almost ready to cry as he said, "Lord Maeda, amidst the many kobolds I purposely sent toward Su Mo's shelter the other day, only two exploration teams remain… More than a day has passed, but there still isn't any message, I'm afraid…"

"Huh?"

"My brothers are too scared to go. Su Mo is a vicious and merciless person who kills people like he's cutting grass. The shelter is so safe. There's nothing we can do even if we go there!"

Kento first had an agonized expression on his face when he heard what Marshall had to say but then he began laughing creepily as if everything was going according to plan.

This laughter sounded extraordinarily ominous. Even though the sun was blazing from the sky, and the weather was scorching, Marshall felt as if he had fallen straight into an ice cellar.

"B*llshit. Did you think I asked you to hide those things so we could look at them? I've already received the news, hahaha, as long as you place it in a suitable place, you won't have to lift a finger before he cracks open the shell which he thinks is so strong."

"When the time comes around, let's not think of the fact he seems made of stone. As long as you do as I say, even if it's made of reinforced concrete and is the so-called best shelter in the world, it will still be a fancy grave…"

"When the time comes and we can go in to get his shelter core…"

"Hahaha, once I get that secret, do you think the kobolds will have any authority to stand and speak loudly to me?"

Kento would not let anyone else call them kobolds, but he did so himself without abandon.

A look of disgust instinctively appeared on Marshall's face when he heard those casual insults, but the expression on his face became serious the very next second.

"That's right, Marshall. How's the mission where I asked you to go scout around in the kobold castle!"

Kento laughed recklessly as he stood up from the table and utilized the light shining in to make his way over to the small bed, sit down, and look out the window.

Kobolds did not understand human language.

Kento had the resources and confidence to believe that no kobolds would overhear and expose them even if they discussed such topics in such recklessness here.

"We've been to the kobold castle thrice but have only managed to get up to the third floor every time. We weren't able to enter the fourth and fifth floors. I suspect that's where they store their gunpowder. Or perhaps… they have some unspeakable secrets hidden there."

When Marshall finished speaking, he respectfully pulled out a piece of rolled-up yellow paper from his coat and handed it over "respectfully".

"Fourth floor… fifth floor… looks like there's a huge secret in this kobold castle too…"

As Kento gazed at the complete distribution of kobolds on the first, second, and third floor as well as the locations where the kobolds stashed their goods in the kobold castle, he nodded and allowed a creepy smile to form on his face as he said:

"Marshall, you're very good. But remember to be smarter the next time you go over and serve the kobolds. Find a opening to look at what is on the fourth and fifth floor. But remember!"

"Before we get Su Mo's secret, we must be careful and meticulous. Don't let anyone catch wind of this!"

"That's right! And make sure to never let these stupid dogs know anything about Su Mo! I'll think of a plan for the two missing exploration teams. You will be my most trusted general when we take over the kobold castle!"

"You and I will establish order in the new world. When the time comes, beauty, wealth, safety…"

"All this will be at your disposal!"

As Kento finished speaking, he turned to face the light and laughed recklessly as he hugged the map to his chest. He seemed to have already begun imagining the wonderful days of the future!

The expressions on Marshall's face changed rapidly in the dark.

From anger to recklessness.

From recklessness to calmness.

Finally, it changed from calm to a cold, imperceptible smile as he clutched his curled fists.

Marshall said in an obedient voice:

"Yes, sir, Lord Maeda. I will not betray your trust!"

"The new world will belong to us!"

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Chapter 70: Eliminate And Destroy All Foreigners!

It was undeniable.

Back during the age of civilization, Huaxia's Gaokao was tortuous.

However, if you attended the Gaokao again after knowing all the answers, that happy feeling of knowing everything was within your control would definitely make someone faint from happiness.

"Are they here?"

"Woff!"

Su Mo sprawled on the elevated portion of a gentle slope and patted Oreo, who was still panting after having run over.

Su Mo could not stop his heart from racing when he saw Oreo nod obediently.

In Su Mo's line of sight, messy grass spread across a patch of scorched yellow soil some 60 meters in front of him. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

However, as he watched the kobolds come closer and closer without changing their route, a smile tugged on the corner of Su Mo's lips.

"Dogs… even if they've evolved into humans, they still adhere to their old habits in some ways…"

The path the kobolds had taken when they arrived and now when they were returning.

If you took a closer look at the footprints, you would notice that these messy footprints were actually traveling across a predetermined pathway.

Even more, after multiple times of travel, the grass here had slowly been trampled to death, and it was slowly evolving to become a "road".

Su Mo had a sudden whim when he hurried over from the saltpeter mine and observed that these animals had not changed their route after so many times!

He hurriedly dug out a trap in the middle of the path where he wanted to ambush them.

The kobolds weighed so little it was almost pitiful, which meant the trap would not collapse if they stepped on it. However, if they walked over it with the cartload of saltpeter, he was a hundred percent sure they would fall.

Then, the kobolds would have to think of a way to pull the car back up.

Of course, as they thought, they would find themselves brainstorming in the underworld.

"Don't change, don't change. Yes, yes, yes. Walk over it just like that. Well done!"

Boom!

As Su Mo muttered quietly, four kobolds were pulling at the front while two other kobolds pushed from the back. They had just walked over the trap when the cart fell into it with a boom.

One of the kobolds who had been pushing from the back used too much strength and ended up falling in as well. It barked out in pain.

"Woof woof hiss hiss!!"

"Woof woof awoo!"

As the Kobold Mage barked loudly, all the Kobold Warriors immediately formed a protective circle around their three most precious Kobold Mages.

All the kobolds looked around them warily.

The Kobold Mage even raised its staff so that it could summon magic at a moment's notice.

However…

A minute passed by…

Three minutes passed by…

FIve minutes passed by!

A gust of wind howled and blew a leaf onto the face of the kobold on the outermost circle.

It seemed that even the wind was mocking them for trying to outsmart the wind.

Half a second later, as if realizing they had been scaring themselves, the kobold team immediately stepped out of their formation and began laughing as they barked.

"Woof~ Woof woof woof!"

While the Kobold Warriors began thinking of ways to pull the mine cart out, the Kobold Mages sat down beneath the shade of some trees.

The kobolds all took turns to work on the large hole, and it became ever so lively as they worked hard.

As gusts of refreshing breezes blew, one Kobold Mage could no longer stand it, walking over to stand there and order everyone around.

Two remaining Kobold mages sat beneath the shrubbery.

The atmosphere was so safe and peaceful that all the kobolds had let down their guard.

The Kobold Mage sitting on the left put down its staff and began chatting listlessly to the other Kobold Mage sitting beside it.

Sadly, after about four or five minutes, it realized that it had been a long time since its companion gave it any reaction. The kobold sitting on the left turned its head around curiously.

Just one minute ago, the kobold in his line of sight had been fine. Now, a black arrow was sticking out from its neck.

Now, a look of terror appeared in the kobold's eyes, and it hurriedly stood up to yell loudly.

However, the next second…

An identical-looking black arrow found its way to the center of its neck. Jet-black colored blood flowed from the hole it made.

"No wonder it's called a premium grade noiseless crossbow. I think not even a sniper would have been able to achieve this effect."

The two Kobold Mages had died without understanding what had happened, and that did not affect his later kills.

After firing the last crossbow arrow, Su Mo switched to using a normal crossbow arrow as he aimed at the last Kobold Mage and gently pulled the trigger…

A flash of blood splattered onto the narrow passage!

The last danger!

Dead!

When all three Kobold Mages had been taken care of, not only did the kobold team lose its commanding masterminds, but it also lost the ability to battle from a distance.

The pitiful Kobold Warriors could do nothing except form a circle and howl nonstop as one by one, they were taken down by Su Mo's arrows.

A twelve-person team.

By the time all the crossbow arrows had been fired, only four kobolds were left.

Now, the kobold team was on the brink of collapse.

Without making a sound, Su Mo made a gesture in the air and five crossbow arrows appeared in his hands. He had loaded them into the magazine the next second.

Three…

Two…

One…

When there was only one left, the Kobold Warrior suddenly imitated the Kobold Mage that had surrendered before as it lay on the ground in submission.

"Surrendered again? Looks like the kobold's urge to battle will disappear when there are too many injuries and deaths?"

As Su Mo sprawled on the ground and confirmed again that there was only one kobold left, he got an idea as he cut off the power to the electric crossbow and put it back into the storage space.

The next second, a fine iron electric spear appeared from thin air. Su Mo held it in his hands.

"Oreo, help me hold down the fort!"

Su Mo growled out as he stood out from the ground.

Now, the kobold lying on the floor spotted Su Mo immediately. At the same time, much of the fear in the kobold's eyes disappeared.

Furthermore, in Su Mo's line of sight.

The Kobold Warrior stood up again and stared unblinkingly at him as it held its spear.

"What's up? Want to continue battling with me? Come, come. Come over and try me!"

Clad in light armor, electric spear in hand, and dressed in combat uniform.

When the two were compared, the Kobold Warrior looked like a primitive man. They were miles apart just in terms of gear.

One step after the other, walking as the demon did.

Su Mo did not stop moving forth. As the distance between them shortened, he could see clearly…

The Kobold Warrior had clutched its spear so tightly that it had become slightly twisted.

Its eyes showed a look of viewing death as a return home!

"Alright! Come over and battle with me!"

When there were less than twenty meters between them, Su Mo yelled loudly and clutched his electric spear in his hands as he charged forth.

The Kobold Warrior immediately followed suit and charged forth when it saw what was happening.

The kobold that looked immeasurably weak turned its thorns into smashes when the two were just about to collide with each other.

Thump!

In the next instant, a low, rumbly noise echoed throughout the air and caused the very air to vibrate.

He took the opportunity to kick his leg out and kick the still confused kobold more than three meters away.

"Amazing. Amazing. You are far from enough if you think you could hit me with this strength!"

An eager look flashed in Su Mo's eyes as he kicked the kobold's spear at his feet over to the kobold, signaling that he wanted another battle.

The Kobold Warrior's dignity was greatly injured when it saw how provoking Su Mo was being. It howled as it climbed back up onto its feet and charged while holding the spear.

The sounds of metal and gold clanging rang through the air.

Su Mo merely defended and did not attack, thinking he could use this opportunity to practice his melee sparring and hacking.

"Top shelf bullet cut!"

"Horse stance side strike!"

"Cross kick whip!"

The Kobold Warrior seemed to have the upper hand as it attacked again and again, but Su Mo managed to defend himself and return the attack every time.

The battle went on for another three to five minutes.

As Su Mo managed to side-dodge the Kobold Warriors, again and again, he changed his spear into a whip and hit the kobold so that it would stumble. As the Kobold Warrior's weapon dropped behind him, it decided to give up and lie down on the ground.

Not battling anymore!

"Huh?"

"That's all? That's all?"

As he felt streams of energy pump through his arms, and then looked at the panting kobold lying on the ground.

Su Mo glanced at Oreo, who was beside him, in surprise.

"Ah? Have I already become this strong?"

A smile appeared on Su Mo's face when he saw the gloomy look on the Kobold Warrior's face.

And he took advantage of the situation to sit beside it.

"Oreo, translate this for him. Tell him I said… We can continue fighting once he's rested. No rush, there's still a lot of time left in today."

When Oreo heard what Su Mo said, she trotted over lazily.

And began barking in a dialect she was fluent in to communicate.

The Kobold Warrior had not expected Su Mo to not hold any martial virtues at all, bringing a translator along with him even when he went out to fight.

When it heard Su Mo's "friendly" request, its entire being froze.

Fear was evident in its eyes as it looked toward Su Mo.

The next second, the kobold which had previously been sprawled on the ground utilized both its arms and feet as it tried to leave the battlefield swiftly.

However…

Thump thump!

The buzzing sound of electricity could be heard intertwined amidst the two thumps.

A black figure flitted by behind the kobold.

The buzzing electric spear seemed to have transformed into a bolt of lightning. When it came back into focus, it had already traveled through the kobold's chest.

"I said I would wait for you to come to battle. Since you wanted to run, I had no choice but to send you down…"

After he pulled out the electric spear, cut off its power supply, and wiped the kobold's blood off the tip of the spear.

Su Mo sighed as he walked back toward the large hole to check the massive loot he had obtained from this battle.

Black-colored blood gushed from the kobolds' chests and spilled onto the grass.

As they died, he seemed to cross the barrier set by their race and understand the sentence echoing through the air;

"Military-style boxing…"

"It's so scary!"

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Chapter 71: Little Reward!

In terms of individual strength, a kobold warrior might not defeat a regular adult armed with a weapon.

Although making the kobold warriors stronger, being humanoid actually instead weakened the lethality of these fighters.

Losing the flexibility of landing on all fours and without the deadly jaw bite, the skinny kobold had neither strength nor speed, and could only take a beating.

Walking to the big pit, the kobold in the pit still waiting to be rescued looked at Su Mo with a dumbfounded expression.

It seemed to be asking, 'Huh? Where's my teammate? Did they sell me out?'

Unfortunately, Su Mo did not give the kobold that had fractured its bones during the fall any time to think. He simply took out his crossbow and shot the kobold's forehead with an arrow.

Puff!

A small team of 12 was wiped out!

The two parties only started fighting about ten minutes ago.

Excluding the close combat with the kobold warrior, Su Mo easily eliminated this small team that had fallen behind with only 11 crossbow arrows.

The gap brought about by equipment and combat ideology could not simply be omitted by the number of people.

After putting away the crossbow and confirming that there were no others nearby, he took out the hook rope and nailed it to the ground. Pulling at the rope, Su Mo jumped into the big pit.

The kobolds might not be able to transport a cartful of saltpeter ore up, but for Su Mo, it was exceptionally easy.

First, he took out the burial bucket from the storage space to free up some space.

Next, he put his hand on the saltpeter mining cart. With a thought, the cartful of saltpeter ore began to disappear slowly, all of it incorporated into the storage space.

In just five or six seconds, all the saltpeter ore in that cart had disappeared.

In exchange, the storage space was full to the brim.

Putting some strength into both arms, Su Mo easily climbed out of the large pit by pulling the rope and began to clean up the battlefield.

First of all, retrieving the crossbow arrows to recycle was a must.

Two pristine-quality crossbow arrows were divine artifacts that he could not do without.

Just the terrifying silent attribute alone could play a surprisingly effective role in winning such ambush battles.

Carefully, he took out the watermelon knife, cut open the throat of the kobold mage, and pulled out two short and sturdy crossbow arrows from the bloody mess.

Seeing the bloodstains on the crossbow arrow, Su Mo frowned as he set it aside to let it drain slowly.

The crossbow arrows on the remaining kobolds were easy to handle. He just needed to stomp on the kobold's body and pull the arrow out with some force.

After picking out one of the crossbow arrows that was slightly deformed and throwing it into the pit, the remaining eight could be reused.

"Not bad. For the price of one crossbow, the gain…"

"Let me see…"

"Three copper chests, one iron chest, and one wooden chest."

"It seems that as my strength continues to improve, or with the passage of time, it has become more difficult to loot silver-quality chests from kobold mages?"

Su Mo shook his head, pondering the reasons as he gathered the chests.

If the former, it was still acceptable.

If the latter, he would suffer. As time went by, the original silver chest had turned into a wooden chest. Who could stand that?

Was this a trick in disguise to force people to kill monsters quickly?

"I'm Ma Huateng… ermm… number one paratrooper Reuben…"

"I'm willing to exchange 10 years of the kobold's life for one lucky star!"

After whispering a few incantations to open the box, Su Mo touched the trashiest wooden box first.

Good things must be left to the end. Everyone understood that!

With a clatter, the wooden chest opened with Su Mo's touch. It turned into a white light before the prompt sounded from the game panel.

[Record: You opened the wooden treasure chest.

[Record: You have gained the bull power strip (5m)*1

"Power strip? Not bad, quite useful."

Seeing the disappearance of the wooden chest and the power strip that fell to the ground, Su Mo touched the back of his head with a trace of satisfaction on his face.

As long as he did not get any plastic items from the wooden treasure chest, it was a win!

Putting the power strip aside, he took the iron chest and continued to open it.

The light flashed and the game prompt sounded.

[Record: Congratulations on opening the iron treasure chest.

[Record: You have gained the Mengshui brand canned assorted fruits in syrup (388g)*1

[Record: You have gained the Mengshui brand canned yellow peaches in syrup (408g)*1

"Holy moly, this is awesome! I opened two large tins of canned fruits at once! I'm rich!"

Seeing the canned fruits that fell to the ground because the storage space was filled, Su Mo quickly picked them up in distress.

The two cans were not small, and he was over the moon to have gotten it from the iron treasure chest.

A sealed canned food was a rare luxury in the doomsday world.

Regardless of its taste and flavor, simply the fact that it could replenish a large amount of vitamins needed by the human body was the best food reward he could get at present!

After looking at the miscellaneous knick-knacks piled up in the storage space, Su Mo could only take out a unit of iron bar with a slight twinge of heartache and put the cans in.

"Two cubic meters of space is still too little. I can't do without the iron bar either. It's really a troublesome choice."

Sitting on the iron bar, Su Mo continued to open the chests. This time, for the three copper treasure chests, Su Mo chose to open them all at once.

[Record: Congratulations on opening the copper treasure chest*3.

[Record: Congratulations, you have gained Wuchang Daohuaxiang Rice (15kg)*1

[Record: Congratulations, you have gained Fuling hot pickled mustard tuber (250g)*3

[Record: Congratulations, you have gained resource duplication coupon (wood level)*3

[Record: Congratulations, you have gained storage space expansion coupon (0.2m, bound)*1

"Resource duplication coupon!"

"Storage space expansion coupon!"

Seeing the prompt on the game panel after the copper treasure chests disappeared, as well as the four pieces of glittering paper as big as a dollar note, Su Mo was unusually surprised.

"As expected, after using 100 disaster points for expansion, it will increase in the future. When it reaches 10 square meters, 102,400 survival points are needed. This means that even if I can get the first disaster points every time, I estimate it will be difficult to accumulate the points after more than a dozen disasters, not to mention others."

"Now, it seems that even ordinary people can get this type of expansion coupon by opening up a treasure chest."

With a long sigh of relief, Su Mo directly crushed the expansion coupon.

Along with the flashing light of the expansion coupon, the dark storage space was silently enlarged by 0.2m, reaching 2.2m.

"As for this resource duplication coupon…"

Picking up the coupon, Su Mo studied the detailed description on it.

Like the levels of a treasure chest, resource duplication coupons were divided into five levels: wood, iron, copper, silver, and gold.

The three resource duplication coupons that he had just obtained from the copper treasure chest could be used to duplicate resources in equal measures.

For example, now that Su Mo had gotten 15kg of rice from the treasure chest, he could spend one duplication coupon and a copy would appear next to it.

However, if it was not a resource item drawn from the treasure chest, or an item that had been unsealed, such as unpacking 15kg of rice and adding another 15kg of rice, the duplication coupon could not be used on it.

After figuring out this rule, Su Mo put away the three duplication coupons with a thought.

"Duplicating food… will be too wasteful. Besides, I have better replicas in my shelter."

Thinking of the many objects in the shelter, Su Mo grinned. Then, he sucked all the items that fell to the ground into the storage space.

He stood up and surveyed the dead kobolds lying around.

Summoning the shovel, Su Mo began to pick up all the kobolds with the shovel and pushed them into the trap pit in the middle.

Although this kind of simple burial could not stop subsequent kobolds from tracking and discovery, it was sufficient for now.

It took about half an hour to bury all the kobolds and clean up the scene.

Su Mo quickened his pace toward the sentry tower of the kobolds.

"Since a team of them has died, let's see if the kobolds will take turns coming after me!"

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Chapter 72: That Su Mo… Has Done It Now!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"The law of the wasteland: be ruthless to yourself and monsters. As for your own people…"

"I'll naturally repay those who treat me well. As for those who treat me badly, or want to harm me, I must retaliate ten or a hundredfold!"

Sprawled on the hillside overgrown with wild grass, Su Mo leisurely recorded Version 2.0 of the post-apocalyptic survival rules on the private message channels of the dead.

At present, there were three main private message channels of the dead. One was used to keep a diary, one to record the rules of survival, and the remaining one to record material acquisition.

"I've tested my strength and shouldn't face any problems fighting three kobold warriors, not to mention my armor. This should give me sufficient margin for error."

"When dealing with things that require a more radical approach, I should perhaps be a little more bold and courageous."

As he muttered, Su Mo once again jotted down two points.

People would inevitably change. Faced with the cruelty and ruthlessness rampant in the doomsday world, even a person of a good conscience and faith would gradually lose their humanity and devolve into an animal just to survive.

Su Mo did not want to become that kind of person—literally.

At the very least, he did not want to lose to Magoo, who persisted over 400 days without losing his original disposition.

Su Mo's competitive nature prompted him to add yet another point to his list of principles for the future.

Next to him, Oreo also enjoyed a long-awaited period of sunbathing. However…

"My little Oreo, what's wrong with you? Are you already sleepy even though we've just come out? This sluggish look of yours…"

Looking at the tightly closed doors of the kobold castle, Su Mo simply turned around, lay down, and rested on Oreo's belly.

Feeling Su Mo's touch, Oreo barked softly, before closing her eyes and continuing to enjoy her sunbathing.

Seeing how sluggish she was, Su Mo would have thought that she was deathly ill if he hadn't been certain that she was fine and hadn't eaten anything funky in the past few hours.

"Alright, you can just sleep for now. There's nothing to do today anyway. We'll just stay on guard here. If they come out, we will accept their delivery package. If not, there's no loss to us either."

Seeing Oreo ignore him, Su Mo had no choice but to turn around and, placing his hands under his head, lay down quietly; gazing at the blue skies of the wasteland.

"It seems like it's been forever since I've had this kind of quiet and leisurely atmosphere!"

"Actually, if not for the constant stream of disasters, living here would be quite interesting. At least…"

"I've become stronger!"

Thinking about it, the corner of Su Mo's curled up into a smile.

A person's confidence and charm were a direct result of their vision and strength.

In his previous life, he mingled around in an office in Mystic City. Although there were no bloody incidents, such as being instigated by the boss or being beaten and framed by colleagues, at least in that life, it was impossible to achieve financial freedom and freedom of thought.

Each day he returned to that small 120-square-foot room in Mystic City and stared at its pale yellow ceiling, Su Mo always thought that if doomsday did arrive one day, he would finally be spared from all these thoughts.

Unfortunately, when a few meteors really did come flying toward planet earth, not only did Su Mo panic, but even those who stood on Earth's upper echelon panicked.

In just three months, one large shelter after another was built on Earth.

The country's machinery that had entered the state of war was also unusually terrifying. Everyone had become a screw or cog that could be transferred at will. Thus, until it was time for the big escape, Su Mo did not even manage to grab a ticket home.

When he heard his parents expressing worry on the phone, Su Mo could only pretend to be confident and comfort them, saying, "Dad, Mom, what are you afraid of? This is just a meteor coming, not an alien invasion. The earth is so large. Surely it can't smash through it, right?"

At this point, his father would always put on the facade of an experienced and knowledgeable person, and reprimand, "A young child like you knows nothing. When I was working in the detonation squad, I attended a class of a great academician. The academician spoke about the relationship between kinetic energy and impact. Stop trying to coax me into being happy. I'm taking good care of your mother and sister. If you can just take care of yourself, your mother and I will be relieved!"

Not surprisingly, Su Mo's mother would interrupt at this point, "Remember to bring more clothes. The shelter has already announced that they will only distribute food and water. They won't bother about your personal belongings!"

Sometimes, even his sister would chime in mischievously, "Brother, don't worry about us anymore. We are the ones worrying about you! You're an old geek. In this situation, we should be prepared to not see each other for more than ten years."

"When that time comes, you can bring a sister-in-law home with you, but don't bring me a nephew. I'm not ready to be an aunt yet."

He thought of the two old people's advice again and again.

Gazing at the skies, Su Mo seemed to see a hint of a playful smile hidden beneath his father's seriousness, and his mother's eyes that always seemed happy but tinged with a hint of worry.

"Dad, Mom, everything will be better."

"Whether it's me, us or the people of Earth, as long as we want to live, there will always be a way."

Licking his parched lips, Su Mo waved at the empty air and took out the biscuit paste he had cooked in the morning, sharing it with Oreo.

Excluding food, the psychic energy water had a fixed daily supply of 7L now.

Although he could not achieve self-sufficiency with food, at the very least, the psychic energy water was in constant supply.

Taking out the psychic energy water, Su Mo drank about 300ml. Turning around, he opened Oreo's mouth and poured the remaining water into it. With a thought, Su Mo retrieved the water bottle.

Turning around, he once again looked at the silent kobold castle. Su Mo got up and inched forward.

The hill he was on was about 500m away from the castle.

By conservative estimates, the surveillance range that the kobolds on the sentry tower could reasonably detect intruders should be about 200-300 meters.

Of course, the possibility that those kobolds may have developed extraordinary vision or other sensory abilities could not be ruled out.

Therefore, Su Mo decided to use the time before the sun had set to test their surveillance range.

Signaling Oreo to stay low, Su Mo crouched down and inched forward.

By estimating the sun's position in the sky, it should be five o'clock in the afternoon.

The night in the wasteland always arrived late and the sun would set on the horizon around half-past seven.

The sun was not as strong at this hour.

Thus, when he was about 400 meters away from the sentry tower, Su Mo finally changed to a commando crawl, dragging himself slowly forward on the ground.

The weight of the iron armor and combat uniform had been unnoticeable while running, but it felt slightly heavy now in his current position.

After covering 100 meters, he reached the 300-meter mark distance from the tower. Su Mo then raised his head and looked up.

At this time, it seemed like the kobold at the southeast corner of the tower was staring in his direction. Still, he was not entirely certain if he had been seen.

"Let's continue going. These kobolds can't run as fast as me anyway, so they won't be able to do anything to me."

Under the armor, Su Mo lightly guffawed and continued to inch forward.

280m…

250m…

230m…

150m!

The angular resolution of the human eye was around 0.0003 radians, and that resolution would be expanded to about 4 cm at about 150 meters.

At such a close distance, and with Su Mo's increasingly better eyesight nowadays, he did not need binoculars to vaguely observe the expression of the kobold in the sentry tower.

"Is it actually snoozing? Was it trying to deceive me into fighting an imaginary battle?"

Summoning a pair of binoculars from the storage space, he positioned it in front of his eyes.

This time, not to mention the expression on the kobold's face, Su Mo could even see if its pupils were large or small or whether the black spots on its lips were distributed to the left or to the right.

The pupils of the kobold in the sentry tower radiated brilliantly, but yet its ciliary muscle was slack. At a single glance, he could tell what it was. It was something countless high school students envied—a secret technique: sleeping with one's eyes wide open!

"This good old kobold is really something!"

After observing for another five or six minutes, he carefully examined the castle for any other loopholes, including the gate specifications and other details.

Su Mo retracted the binoculars and replaced it with a cold electric crossbow.

He pressed the switch button and waited for the crossbow to complete its self-examination cycle.

Su Mo slowly adjusted his posture, moving from a prone position to kneeling on one leg. While doing that, he slowly raised the crossbow and took aim.

Through the scope, he could see that the sentry tower kobold was still unresponsive. The corner of Su Mo's mouth curled up with a smile.

"Good boy, continue sleeping!"

He pulled the trigger!

A black arrow pierced through the air and penetrated the fragile skull of the kobold in an instant.

A one-foot fountain of blood splashed and spurted under the backdrop of the blue sky.

Almost simultaneously…

From the depths of the kobold castle, an alarm bell rang and loud barks could be heard!

The terrifying noise from the huge castle sounded like it came from at least a thousand kobolds!

With so many kobolds, even if he had an automatic rifle, he would not be able to fend them off.

"Run!"

Putting away the crossbow, Su Mo did not bother with a disguise and simply started sprinting away.

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Chapter 73: What Goes Around Comes Around

The death of the sentry tower kobold was akin to a drop of water hitting the surface of a boiling pan of oil; causing an immediate ruckus within the kobold castle.

Woo… woo… woo…

The death triggered the monitoring mechanism and alarm bells blared loudly, reverberating in the wilderness.

Shouts shook the earth!

Thousands of dogs howled and wailed!

The sound of grievances broke through the clouds!

Running through the overgrown wilderness, Su Mo looked back and was even more surprised.

The door in the center of the kobold castle was completely open and his vision was filled as hundreds of kobolds swarmed out of the small door.

They saw Su Mo sprinting away in the distance.

The kobolds clamored loudly, locking onto their target, and began to take long strides as the chase commenced.

"F*ck…"

"Did I stir up the hornets' nest?"

Su Mo exploded with profanities and picked up the pace.

At this moment, he was extremely glad to have upgraded the shoes on his feet.

Bursts of powerful energy spread from toe to heel, increasing the propulsion of each step, making the next step easier and faster.

With each powerful step on the ground, a small pit could be seen left behind one after the other!

Su Mo never thought that he could run so fast!

The kobolds also did not expect Su Mo to run so fast!

Oreo, who was still sleeping on the hillside, was awakened by the roar at this moment and looked up sleepily.

The next moment, Oreo's black and white face displayed a trace of humanlike surprise and bewilderment!

Ahh-woo…

Standing on the hillside, Oreo stretched out the howl.

It was as if she was saying, "D*mn, this brat Su Mo is too savage!"

In Oreo's vision, the two parties were in a race. The frontrunner kobolds were about 400 meters away from Su Mo.

However, the scene became even more exaggerated.

Behind the frontrunner kobolds, there was another group of kobolds more than 50 meters away.

Moreover, a tide of kobolds continued to rush out from the small door, their eyes fixed in Su Mo's direction, and started to chase after him.

"Oreo, you silly dog, run!"

Seeing Oreo still standing on the hillside, appearing majestic and arrogant, Su Mo shouted as he panted from exertion.

The next moment.

The targets pursued by the countless kobold army increased to two!

One human and one dog.

500 kobolds!

At times they stepped into potholes, and at other times they had to use both their hands and feet on the high slopes.

Unlike the kobolds from the exploration team, the kobold warriors from the castle were obviously in better physical shape.

The distance between the two parties constantly decreased.

380m…

350m…

300m!!!

Woof… hah… woof… hah…

The few kobolds leading the group had cruel smiles plastered on their faces.

It seemed that in a minute or two, they would be able to catch up with the nasty intruder in front of them and drag him back to the castle with a stone spear plunged into him, ready to be tortured properly.

However…

Woof? Woof! Woof?

They watched as the intruder suddenly sat on an iron shell.

The next second…

Black smoke erupted from the iron shell and quickly increased the distance between the two parties at a terrifying speed.

Even a kobold in their heyday could only sigh at that speed, not to mention a kobold team that had been chasing a target for over one kilometer.

Seeing the increasing distance between the two parties, the kobold team stopped in their tracks.

A hint of humanlike confusion appeared on their faces.

They looked at each other, not understanding why or how that iron shell could move so fast without being pulled by an animal.

On the high slope, more and more kobolds stood up and watched as the yellow dust storm stirred up by the iron shell got further and further away.

Silence… was the silence of all the kobolds standing on the hillside.

Roar… was the roar of Su Mo and Oreo speeding across the wilderness!

"Woohoo! Hahahaha!"

"Woof! Woof!"

"Fools like you want to catch me? Can't you see how fast Grandpa Su Mo's precious steed is?"

With one foot on the accelerator, Su Mo cheered heartily as the violent gusts of wind hit his face.

It had only taken two to three minutes.

Human beings could harness the power of machinery to perform 'magic' that was unique to humans in front of these so-called 'fantasy' creatures!

Diesel was the blood, the engine was the heart, and the wheels were the legs! The power was the 'wind magic'!

While going downhill, the speed of the bouncing buggy increased to 65 yards per second!

Before the rolling dust realized who had stirred it up, the buggy's swift shadow had already passed it by.

Facing the setting sun that was hanging over the horizon, Su Mo rushed to a safe spot and stopped the car.

In the rear compartment, Oreo was still standing; her hair naturally billowing back under the caress of the wind, looking indescribably sprightly and carefree.

Turning his head, he looked at the kobolds congregated densely on the mountain ridge.

A wave of pride swelled in Su Mo's heart!

Raising his middle finger, Su Mo shouted loudly at all the kobolds looking in his direction, "Dogs, one day, I, your grandpa, will chase you instead!"

"At that time, I'll show you what it means to be a human with a backbone!"

His loud voice vibrated through the air and transmitted into the distance.

It was unknown whether it was because Su Mo had stopped, or if it was because they heard Su Mo's words, but the kobolds on the mountain ridge began to bark.

The momentum was rather like they were telling him, "Come on!"

After a few more glances, Su Mo bent his body, climbed into the buggy, and continued forward without looking back.

It was not until the mountain ridge where the kobolds stood had become as tiny as ants in the distance that Su Mo turned the car around and headed east.

On this trip, he had gathered enough information and his storage space had also been stuffed to the brim.

He had totally attained a bountiful harvest!

Driving the buggy and maintaining a speed of about 40 yards per second, Su Mo successfully returned to shelter number two before the sun went down.

After reaching that point, it would only take another three to five minutes before he arrived at his own shelter.

Oreo also realized that they had returned to their territory and began to whimper softly. As they approached, she became more excited; her voice changing tones several times.

"It's great having such a solid shelter in the doomsday wasteland!"

As he parked the buggy in front of the gate of the shelter and looked at the unusually strong stone wall, Su Mo could not help but feel waves surge through his heart.

So what if it was a castle?

In the face of natural disasters, it was nothing more than an ant!

On the contrary, as the underground shelter got deeper and deeper, it would be much safer than a castle.

"However… it would be better to bring a helmet the next time I go out. All that gravel this buggy kicks up hurts my head."

Sumo smiled and touched the back of his head. When he saw that Oreo's body had also been smashed by the gravel, he shook his head

He could avoid most obstacles while driving on the wasteland.

However, it was inevitable that the buggy, which had a chassis that almost touched the ground, would be uncomfortable without any glass or protective covering.

After placing Oreo down and parking the buggy back in the simple garage, Su Mo arrived at the back door of the base.

"Tomorrow, I'll need to find a way to make a big lock. Otherwise, I would have to enter through the back door every time I enter and exit. It's also pretty dangerous not to lock the backdoor."

Lifting the heavy stone slab and putting Oreo inside the shelter, he looked around again before climbing inside and closing the stone slab.

Cluck, cluck.

Cluck.

Big Spark and Little Spark heard the noise and scampered out quickly, sitting in a row at the spot where they had exited the back door.

After seeing Su Mo appear, they puffed their chests up and circled around him.

"Okay, I'm back. Are you hungry?"

Seeing a few small crystals appearing on the culture medium, Su Mo realized what Big and Little Sparks' behavior meant.

They were here to claim credit, huh?

Stroking Little Spark's head and holding the two little chickens in his arms, Su Mo walked over to the living room and turned on the lights.

The dark shelter suddenly brightened up.

It was like going out to work in the era of planet earth and returning to his room at night.

At this moment, a feeling of incomparable calm and peace of mind washed over him.

"Sulfur, saltpeter and another twelve days to go!"

"Kobold beasts, just you wait!"

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Chapter 74: Refining Saltpeter After Wining And Dining

"Hey, little fellas, stop being so anxious. Let me draw up an inventory of today's harvest, haha…"

He played with Big Spark and Little Spark for a while before placing both chickens on the floor and leaving Oreo to play with them instead.

Su Mo strode toward the storage area and began to throw stuff out.

First out was the huge piece of saltpeter that had filled up the storage space.

The saltpeter minerals were extremely pure and basically did not need further processing. They could be immediately crushed and used. If any warmongers caught sight of these, they would be driven crazy with excitement.

Su Mo looked at the storage area that had already been filled with sulfur and had no choice but to place the saltpeter minerals in the guest bedroom instead.

The smell of the saltpeter was not as pungent as the sulfur, especially since it had been collected from a natural saltpeter mine. Aside from a slightly bitter smell, it was quite hard to identify its other scents.

"These saltpeter minerals weigh about three to five hundred catties. It seems I won't need to make a second trip for them in a while."

Su Mo placed all the saltpeter minerals together in a neat pile and nodded in satisfaction.

The joy of accumulating a large quantity of supplies, much like a squirrel would, was indescribable.

All he needed now was a little charcoal, to mix them up in the right ratios, and he would be able to manufacture gunpowder.

"If it's about food supplies… This large 15kg bag of rice would be able to alleviate that concern!"

"There are also two cans of canned food. If I consume them slowly, I should not have any food problems for a whole month!"

Su Mo took out the survival supplies he had procured and carried the large bag of rice toward the stove.

He had been eating bread soup and biscuit paste over the past few days. While these two items were initially fine for a few meals, the repetitive taste made them rather unappetizing after a while.

Su Mo's stomach began to growl when he looked at the rice and his mouth started to water.

A normal person could probably consume about two liang worth of rice, which meant that one catty of rice would usually be enough for three whole days.

Of course, for someone like Su Mo who was rapidly getting physically stronger, his daily exertions left him in a constant state of hunger. He would have to consume at least 3 to 4 liang worth of rice for him to eat his fill.

"That's strange. Why am I having such good luck? If every bronze treasure chest actually contained enough rice or food for a person to eat for a month, then no one would actually be lacking food during these early stages."

Su Mo used some psychic energy water to wash the rice while mentally analyzing the situation.

If his luck had been slightly better and he had gotten two bags of rice instead, it would easily last two to three months if he rationed it properly.

However, it was quite clear that his situation was an anomaly.

There were far too many who were lacking food, with some even going to the extent of tearing off tree barks and eating dirt to satiate their hunger.

"It's too difficult to judge at this time as there aren't enough samples. It might just be that I have better luck, seeing that I'm able to always get the good stuff."

He tossed this temporarily unsolvable question to the back of his mind and placed the rice into the wok, which was being heated up. Su Mo sat in front of the stove as he silently waited.

It was fine that he did not have an electric rice cooker. Using a wok and cooking the rice traditionally with firewood would make it even more fragrant!

First, he cooked the rice in the wok until the hard core in the center was almost soft. Then he placed a wooden cover right above the water line within the wok. He made sure that the rice was leveled flat on the wooden cover before using another wooden lid to cover up the wok.

It took about ten minutes before Su Mo could smell the increasingly strong fragrance of the cooked rice coming from inside the wok. He could not help but smile.

A bowl of rice would be nothing special in the civilized era on Earth.

If one went to a buffet, you could request for ten, even twenty bowls of rice, and no one would bat an eyelid.

However, during these uncertain times in doomsday wasteland, this smell could easily bring someone to tears, even for Su Mo, who did not flinch when faced with hundreds and thousands of kobolds.

The glutinous and fragrant aroma, that made one's body tighten in anticipation; that made one's scalp tingle, became even stronger as it wafted out together with the steam.

Even Oreo, who was still playing with Big Spark and Little Spark, was overwhelmed by it!

Oreo, who always had a bright, clear look on her face, suddenly went into a daze as she stared intently at the clouds of white steam wafting out from the wok.

The two chickens' senses of smell were poorer but, after a short pause, also smelt the fragrance of the rice.

These poor wasteland creatures had never smelled such delicacy before!

Oreo, Big Spark and Little Spark had probably never experienced 'rice' before in their food vocabulary.

Oreo followed Big Spark and Little Spark's example, and sat in line in front of the wok with bright, expectant eyes, waiting hopefully for Su Mo to throw some food her way.

However, these three little guys had yet to experience the full limits of their senses!

As Su Mo put aside the steaming rice in the wok to cool it down, he poured oil into another wok. After it began heating up, the fragrance of the oil began to join the mix of aromas.

He opened up a packet of Fuling pickled mustard and, the instant he poured all 250g of it into the wok, a full-bodied aroma of sour and sweet, mixed with a tinge of spiciness, came rushing out, completely overpowering the fragrance of the rice.

After three or five seconds, Su Mo picked up the wooden cover from the side and poured all the rice into the wok. He started to stir-fry it.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

When Su Mo's actions went upward, the eyes of the three little guys followed suit!

When Su Mo's actions went downward, the three little guys immediately lowered their heads, sometimes even touching the ground!

From beginning to end, the wok seemed to control the actions of all four of the shelter's inhabitants.

Finally, the rice was covered with every drop of paste from the pickled mustard. Wafting out was a fragrance wonderful enough for others in the apocalypse to die happy after smelling it.

"Done! It's time to eat!"

The moment he announced 'Done', Oreo's two little hind legs immediately began to push off rapidly against the ground, springing toward him on all fours.

With the speed of light, she arrived in front of Su Mo with her food bowl in her mouth.

Big Spark and Little Spark imitated her actions as well as they nodded continuously, hinting at Su Mo to place their share onto the floor. They were guaranteed to finish every last morsel!

Looking at the three, who had greedy looks on their faces, Su Mo did not keep them waiting.

He first gave Oreo three big scoops and later a small scoop for Big Spark and Little Spark. He poured the remainder into his own bowl.

Gulp, gulp. The next moment, only the sound of ravenous eating could be heard in the shelter.

Once in a while, coughing could be heard from someone having eaten too quickly.

A meal that had used close to one catty of rice had been eaten clean by Su Mo alone, along with three to four hundred milliliters of psychic energy water.

The situation did not look remotely like someone trying to survive in the doomsday wasteland.

The only thing that was missing in this image would be the words 'Diary of a Gourmet' plastered onto Su Mo's head!

The remaining burnt rice in the wok was all poured into Oreo's bowl. Su Mo got up and returned to the supplies storage.

This time, it was to take out the canned yellow peach!

He opened the can with ease and picked out a piece of fruit with his chopsticks, placing it in his mouth. The wonderful fragrance of the fruit immediately filled his mouth.

He bit on the yellow peach and the refreshing sourness secreted from within the flesh of the fruit filled his entire mouth with the scent of the yellow peach.

He enjoyed himself while swallowing the piece of fruit and, when he noticed the hopeful eyes of the three little guys, Su Mo once again gave a piece to Oreo while biting half a piece off to be shared with Big Spark and Little Spark. He finished off the other half of the fruit.

He looked at the remaining yellow peach in the can with regret, before turning away and closing the can tightly, placing it back into the supplies storage.

At this current stage, canned food was considered a strategic supply. Eating them could not be considered enjoyment, but instead 'luxury'.

A piece of fruit a day would be enough to supply him with enough vitamins.

These two cans would probably be enough to last him one month without any issues!

At that moment, Su Mo completely understood the feeling of safety that came about when one had enough food stored away.

"Well, today's mission to collect saltpeter can be considered complete. We even surpassed the target!"

After wining and dining, it was time for work. Su Mo did not rest as he immediately moved a small piece of saltpeter onto the workbench.

"Although its level of purity is pretty high, it would be better for me to try refining it if possible. Maybe once it achieves good-quality, the 'ingredient' created using it might become even more powerful!"

He went to the energy distribution room to connect the generator to the electrical supply. He switched on the workbench and, after conducting his own examination, Su Mo put on his 'robotic arm'.

It was simple work to refine the saltpeter. All he needed to do was crush them and place them into water to heat them. After the water boiled, he would begin to filter it carefully.

Su Mo put in some psychic energy water reluctantly and began concocting a solution.

He brought out a wooden basin he had prepared and repeatedly crushed the dirt-white saltpeter minerals with his right hand. Next, he carefully ground them into fine powder.

He brought the resulting salpeter powder to the workbench and slowly poured it using the robotic arm to guide it toward the psychic energy water. He closed up the tube after filling up two-thirds and began to heat it up.

The distillation tube's temperature began to rise quickly as the flames spouted underneath it.

Su Mo kept the temperature under control, keeping it at a steady 80 degrees. He then began to filter any insoluble impurities.

He shook the remaining solution, placing it at the center of his workbench. Su Mo waited patiently for the solution to cool down.

Once the temperature fell to 20 degrees, he began to once again filter any extra substances remaining. Dots of white powder began to crystallize in the beaker.

The next moment, Su Mo quickly summoned the System to examine the saltpeter powder.

He was astonished by what he saw!

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Chapter 75: Exchanging Intel With Magical Saltpeter!

[Saltpeter (Excellent)]

Description: High-purity saltpeter refined by the entry-level craftsman 'Su Mo'. Can be used for a wide range of purposes: to manufacture matches, fireworks, gunpowder, glass, food preservatives and more. For inexplicable reasons, it has had its level upgraded to Excellent.

Special ability:

When used to produce nitric acid (concentration (95%)

When used to produce gunpowder (Energy 50%)

When used to produce explosives (Energy 50%)

Comment: Multipurpose, has a wide range of uses, and is highly effective! How is this not considered a cheat? (Justice!)

The property panel that popped up from the System exceeded the screen display size for the first time as it detailed the special abilities of the saltpeter.

There were more than thirty different uses for it and it had even achieved a certain level of energy upgrade.

However, that was not what had astonished Su Mo the most.

"I had no idea that combining psychic energy water with this stuff could generate so many options."

Su Mo fiddled around with the saltpeter in the beaker with astonishment. He still could not figure out it could possess so many characteristics.

"Although…"

"If it was as incredible as the System described, I think my technology tree's level is about to shoot up rapidly!"

He stared at the saltpeter powder with bright, burning eyes. Su Mo's thoughts had now turned to the motor-pumped oil well in shelter number two.

He had initially planned to combine the refined saltpeter and sulfur with charcoal to manufacture the widely renowned gunpowder, which would bring him closer toward the age of firearms.

Now though, an unexpected word had popped into Su Mo's mind.

"Picric acid!"

The well-known 'dynamite' (TNP) was also known as 'picric acid explosives'.

It was made up of 'Trinitrophenol' and often confused with Nobel's 'safe explosives', 'TNT'.

An Englishman, Peter Woulfe, had created a dye formula in 1771.

He had gone through a process of blending concentrated sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and phenol (this could have been the crude phenol from the refining of coal tar or indigo blue, as the people in that era were unaware of phenol), and he successfully created a yellow crystallized powder with a trace of strong bitterness, therefore giving it the name 'picric acid'.

The people then only used picric acid to dye clothes and to create paints or coating materials.

The dye industry during that time called trinitrophenol 'yellow'. People used picric acid for 100 years to dye clothes, and had never once given any thought about it being possibly explosive in nature.

In 1871, an employee from a dye shop in Paris, France, met with a dilemma. There was a compressed yellow dye can that had been covered in rust, and no matter what he did, he was unable to open the can. The employees then decided to use the most simple, but crude, way to open the can, which was to smash it!

They hired a blacksmith with a huge hammer for 80 francs, who proceeded to smash his hammer down with all of this might!

No one had expected the can to explode with a boom and the entire dye workshop was almost left in ruins, leaving just the brightly-colored survivors groaning on the ground.

After investigations from multiple parties, the idea of an unknown explosive being hidden in the can was dismissed and the core of the issue then focused on the picric acid in the can. People began to realize…

"The yellow dye ignited an explosion from the hammer smash!!!"

This created a great commotion in society. Everyone began to be worried about 'the color yellow'.

However, the French army had, in turn, been inspired by it. This was the best military weapon the heavens had bestowed to them. 'The color yellow' had had its safety and stability proven from years of use and could even be utilized for large-scale manufacturing and preparation.

Following this, French chemist, Eugene Turpin. began to research and develop a way to 'incorporate picric acid' into cartridges and shells, giving it the name 'melinite'.

This was an unfamiliar name to many but, if one were to talk about it, mention should be made to the more familiar 1897 model of the 75mm field artillery, which was also the 'Italian field gun' mentioned by Li Yunlong[1].

Now he had the saltpeter required to manufacture and prepare picric acid, in addition to the sulfuric acid that could be produced from the combined reaction of sulfur and saltpeter. All that was left was to extract toluene from a little petroleum…

"If this is possible, I think that bombs on my technology tree will immediately surpass gunpowder and nitrocellulose, and we will enter the age of TNT!"

Su Mo suddenly became excited at the memory of his father constantly talking about how to create explosives before he had arrived at this place.

No matter how one looked at it, gunpowder was only an ingredient used for launching and manufacturing explosives. It was only capable of two reaction processes, which were detonation and combustion.

Picric acid was different. It had a chemical reaction that, if ignited through a shockwave, would first create an explosion at its eruption point, which would later produce large volumes of high-speed airflow that are highly-heated and highly-pressurized, which would in turn create a shockwave within the explosives.

The highly-pressured shockwave would then create a reaction with the thin layer of explosives nearby, producing large volumes of gas and heat to complete the cycle of explosion, detonation, and shockwave.

If he could accumulate enough picric acid, he could go to the extent of manufacturing enough explosives to fling them into the kobold castle.

With the shockwave detonation, all he needed was one opportunity, and those kobolds would learn the meaning of justice raining from the sky!

"I'll try repairing the motor-pumped oil well tomorrow!"

Su Mo repeatedly stood up and sat down again at his workbench, unable to calm the agitation in his heart.

He poured 500g of the saltpeter powder he had extracted into the wooden container and stored it in his guest bedroom before returning to his workbench.

"I know the formula for extracting TNT, and I've learned how to produce nitric acid and sulfuric acid back in senior high school. It shouldn't pose a problem to me. The crucial part is extracting toluene from petroleum and the process of their mixed reactions in formulating picric acid…"

"Nobel had killed his younger brother in an explosion because of the explosives he created all those years ago. Even though picric acid isn't as difficult to produce as nitroglycerin, it can still cause an explosion when exposed to high temperature, friction or impact. Moreover, it could react and turn into picrate salts when exposed to iron, much like how mercury fulminate would turn into mercury salts, which might result in a dangerous explosion."

"Maybe I can negotiate an exchange for intel on the formula for picric acid… I'll obtain a better and safer way to produce it through the system upgrade!"

Su Mo no longer hesitated after coming to this decision. He summoned the game panel and searched for the contact of the person he was looking for.

He scanned through his list of friends and Su Mo finally set his eyes on the highlighted line with Shen Ke's name.

He focused mentally and turned on the personal message channel.

[Su Mo: Hello, Shen Ke. Do you have time to chat? I want to make a deal!]

Su Mo continued sitting at his workbench, waiting silently after sending out the message.

As expected, Shen Ke's video screen popped up in less than five seconds.

He connected to the video and the screen buzzed for a moment before Shen Ke's attractive, but slightly tired, face appeared.

"Woah, Mr. Su Mo, your shelter has developed really quickly. It does not look like it belongs in the wasteland at all, but looks rather like my old brick home!"

There was bright light.

A clean and tidy partition.

In the screen's background, Big Spark, Little Spark, and Oreo can be seen playing about on the floor.

She looked back at her own situation.

It reflected a rundown wooden house with a self-made smoking torch that she had lit up. It was pitch-black outside her window.

Gusts of wind would blow past occasionally, carrying the black smoke into the room and causing her to cough a little.

"Well, it's nothing too fancy. I just had better luck in being able to achieve something. It's nothing worth mentioning when compared to all of you," Su Mo quickly concluded the small talk by waving Shen Ke off with his hand and getting straight to the topic.

"I'd like to make a deal with you. You know what TNT is, right? It's picric acid. I would think that one of your people would know the formula and manufacturing process for it, am I right?"

"Yes, someone does know. That's not a problem. If there is enough raw materials, we are able to produce it. Do you have any raw materials nearby?" Shen Ke did not think much of it as she revealed the information.

After all, this was not something difficult. Comparing TNT to RDX, or even to thermobaric blast explosives, there was not much difficulty in creating TNT as long as one had the raw materials.

However, what everyone lacked was exactly those raw materials!

In the olden days, Huaxia had not been able to develop this due the difficulty in extracting petroleum.

Materials such as petroleum were not just available everywhere. As a top-level strategic material, it was clear that there was none detected anywhere near Shen Ke's shelter.

"Ahem, well, with regard to the raw materials, I did get them by opening up a treasure chest. I'm actually looking to manufacture some explosives for self-defense purposes since I have some accumulated."

Su Mo maintained a normal expression as he blatantly lied.

There was no reason to explain things in detail. They were just making a deal and it was better to keep things simple.

Shen Ke nodded her head from the opposing screen. "What would you like to make an exchange with? Psychic energy water again?"

"Nope. This time, I'll make the exchange with intel. Intel about alien creatures!" Su Mo waved his hand and smiled confidently.

"About this… I'm afraid I can't make the decision. I'll need to wait for instructions from above," Shen Ke looked like she had been put in a difficult position and hung up the call after Su Mo expressed he was okay with it.

It was not long before a call connected. Two stern-looking, middle-aged men were sitting opposite Su Mo with four stenographers sitting behind them, who were looking anxiously at the screen.

"How are you, Su Mo? We've approved your proposed deal. Please feel free to share the intel on the alien creatures. Regardless of whether we're already aware of the information, we'll provide you with the complete formula and manufacturing process after this."

Su Mo nodded. He was not worried about these people opposite him reneging on their deal. He cut to the chase and carefully told them about the Kobold Warrior, Kobold Mage, and the white-robed kobold whom he had no idea about.

During the process, Su Mo hid some details about the fight. All he shared was how the Kobold Mage cast spells, the Kobold Warrior's combat abilities, and intel on the supplies brought along by the kobolds when they arrived, and so on.

The four stenographers recorded this furiously and Su Mo could tell from the screens that their expressions looked increasingly shocked as he provided more details on his intel.

Even the stern-looking middle-aged man sitting on the left asked for more details quite a few times during the process.

"Alright, Su Mo. Thank you for your contribution to humankind. Your intel has been very useful. This intel will eventually be shared by the Huaxia shelter. I believe you won't object to this?"

"No, no, that's fine…" With that, those people quickly stood up while Shen Ke returned to her seat.

While waiting for the people on the opposite side to finish preparing the picric acid formula and manufacturing, the two of them began their small talk as they chatted.

"By the way, Shen Ke, who was the person sitting on the right side. There's something strange about the guy," Su Mo changed the topic after going through a few random conversation topics. This was something that had been on his mind just now.

The man on the left was swift to conduct business and sat in a proper upright position. The man on the right was initially proper, but it only took him a few minutes before he let himself loose and relaxed in his seat.

"The biggest question I have about him was that, while I was providing intel on the kobolds, he had a shocked look on his face. However, his microexpressions are telling me that he had known about this issue much earlier on…"

"Oh? Are you referring to President Ying? Ying Tianlong is the president of the Civil Self-Rescue Association. Their association is quite large and when they first arrived, over twenty of them were placed together. They are the main people behind our 'Tundra' shelter!" Shen Ke gave a silly laugh as she gave out that information without holding anything back.

"Tundra?"

"Yup! That's the name of our shelter. Of course, the next time we achieve first place in Disaster Resistance rankings, we will continue using Huaxia's name. This designated name can only be used by the number one shelters. Other times, we would refer to ourselves as Tundra…"

"Oh, is that so…" Su Mo immediately changed the topic once he received the information he wanted, and began to chat about their daily lives.

It was not long before Shen Ke's request for the deal popped up.

Su Mo smiled as he looked at the complete record and flowchart of the TNT explosives that was given to him as part of this deal.

A bright light flashed and two pieces of paper filled with words appeared on his workbench!

[1] Li Yunlong was a high-ranking officer in the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the 1930s

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Chapter 76: That Ray of Light That Belonged to "Su Mo"!

"There's a problem. It's a good thing I didn't rush to prepare it based on the method I learnt in high school chemistry class. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know what happened when I get blown up!"

Su Mo looked at the impartially and fluently written picric acid preparation flow chart with lingering fear.

"Great God 404 is f*cking awesome indeed. This thing has got so many twists and turns…"

Next, Su Mo focused mentally to summon the system. A spectral property chart appeared next to the picric acid flowchart.

[TNT Production Process]

Description: This is an explosives manufacturing diagram detailing a clear process flow and rigorous procedures based on modern scientific theories. Follow the flowchart strictly to produce powerful TNT explosives.

Comment: A method of production that even a stupid person can understand. It will work as long as you have hands!

"There's no problem this time. It seems that the system acted up a little earlier?"

Su Mo touched his head and laughed.

If there was any oversight or error in the process of making explosives, the direct consequence would most certainly be fatal and destructive.

"I'll go repair the oil well tomorrow and, in a couple of days…"

"Hehe…"

Su Mo suddenly became excited, thinking about a large number of kobolds being chased out from the kobold castle before getting blown to smithereens with explosives.

He stood up and carefully placed the flowchart in the storage space.

"It seems that psychic energy water can no longer be casually traded from now on. I'll have to make sure it's not being hoarded when I trade, otherwise I might end up supporting my own enemies."

Su Mo gritted his teeth and walked over to the water tank where the psychic energy water was stored and poured out half a basin of psychic energy water.

He took off his underclothes reluctantly, put them in the basin, and started scrubbing.

The clear psychic energy water quickly became visibly murky. So much so that it had completely turned into a brown, earthy color in just a few minutes.

"This is worse than if I hadn't done the laundry for a week on Earth. The sandstorms in this world are too strong!"

Wringing the water out of his clothes and looking at the pets who were staring at him, Su Mo pretended that nothing happened and poured the used water along the edge of the culture medium.

Completely destroying the evidence ()

Watering the culture medium ()

Humans could not drink the murky psychic energy water, but there would not be a problem if it was poured into the culture medium. Everything would be absorbed as it was.

After thinking about it, Su Mo decided to take out tomorrow's share of psychic energy water to wash his outerwear as well so that he could water the vegetables!

He poured out some water again. After brushing his teeth and wiping his face, Su Mo laid comfortably on the small bed.

It had been the eighth day since his arrival on this wasteland from Earth before the meteor disaster.

His excellent adaptability as a human had allowed him to become thoroughly accustomed to the norms and routines in the wasteland; from getting up to work at sunrise and retiring at sunset.

There was currently no stable source of fire and electricity at the Tundra shelter. Ordinary people could only lie in bed after sundown and wait for the next day to come.

Unlike the smokeless torch the system had created before, regular torches were definitely not a good lightning tool at night as they contained animal fat, which would create thick black smoke when burned.

As for more advanced forms of lighting, it was still considered very wasteful to utilize resources on them at this stage.

"Eight days…perhaps it was me advancing too quickly that made others appear slow."

"The development of these other shelters could be considered fast considering they had started from nothing. Hopefully not too many people will die from this disaster!"

Thinking of this, Su Mo seemed to have realized something as his stare seemed to fixate on the stone ceiling.

It was a pity that the magnificence revealed in the simple stone patterns could not provide Su Mo an answer.

Under the warm light from his bedside, the shelter was oddly quiet aside from Big Spark and Little Sparks' occasional clucking.

After a while, Su Mo silently opened the World Channel and typed out a message in the chat box.

[Su Mo: To all survivors, please beware private shelters, entrapment and alien race slavery!]

Just as he was to send the message, Su Mo halted; his hand hovering over the send button. Deleting the message, he closed his eyes and slowly went to sleep.

Society was cruel, which rang even truer in this doomsday wasteland.

Ever since he had seen those humans mining silently at the kobold saltpeter mine, yet not finding or hearing any related news about it on the World Channel…

At that moment, Su Mo was actually unwilling to admit the truth.

In this cruel wasteland, there had to be countless alien race resource points like the kobold saltpeter mine.

Among them, there were bound to be several, dozens, or even hundreds more enslaved humans than those he saw today.

Apart from a small number of people who yearned to return to the official shelters, most humans were actually unwilling to go back.

Although they were enslaved by monsters, at least they did not have to worry about food or drink every day. As long as they had the strength to work, then they could continue working in this doomsday wasteland.

Compared to those who had starved to death in the wilderness, was it not a form of luck?

Should he voice that out?

Su Mo did not know. At least for now, no one could tell him.

The next morning.

Su Mo woke up naturally before eight o'clock and could not continue sleeping.

Su Mo did not have a comfortable sleep.

His guilty conscience had given him repeated nightmares all night long.

In his dreams, Su Mo stood by a cliff, watching people leaping off the cliff one after the other with smiles on their faces.

He watched countless children imitating these people, gradually forgetting that they were not individuals without origins.

As he sat by the bedside, soft sunlight was already streaming into the shelter.

He clenched his fists!

Su Mo opened the World Channel once again and resolutely sent out the words he had held back last night.

It seemed as if a bomb had been thrown into the peaceful World Channel. The players, who had been talking about how to better deal with mutant beasts—suddenly exploded!

"Oh shit, it's Almighty Su, I'll be first in line to kiss your feet. This message, this message is a divine embrace for the early birds!"

"Almighty Su, look at me, Almighty Su. We're both on the same channel, let's get to know one another. I have something good to exchange with you when the secret realm opens!"

"Entrapment? Someone contacted me yesterday asking me to go to his shelter. Damn, fortunately there's a reminder from Almighty Su!"

"Everyone should try to look around for an official shelter nearby. The private ones are not very credible. One of my brothers who went to a private shelter initially wanted to trick me into going as well, but he died the next day!"

"Mind your own business. If someone wants to go, it's their own business. What's it got to do with you, Su Mo?"

"That's right, that's right. Your own shelter is very good, so why don't you let everyone stay there instead of spreading rumors here? Everyone, don't believe it. My shelter is at location XX. As long as you have the strength, I'll welcome you with open arms!"

"I'm afraid Su Mo is a man who's fishing for fame. It was just sheer luck that he got number one previously, so he's now trying to aim higher? I'll see if you'll freeze to your f*cking death in the next blizzard!"

"I am running that entrapment you're talking about. I'm right here. Come beat me up, hehe. I wanna see how far you can extend your hands to stick into our business."

The speed at which the screen was bombarded by comments was getting faster and faster.

At first, there were many people who thanked him for the reminder but, after a few minutes, the whole screen switched to name-calling and verbal abuse.

Especially when they saw that Su Mo did not respond, these people became even more contemptuous as swear words followed one after another.

Most of them painted Su Mo as a villain, encouraging everyone else to condemn him!

Su Mo looked coldly at the unsightly language on the screen and used the last trumpet of the day to voice out again:

[Su Mo: If I see any more private shelters enslaving and betraying humans from today onwards, I, Su Mo, will definitely kill you, no matter if you're good or evil!!!]

"Su Mo, come to my shelter if you have the guts….uh, well said, Almighty Su! I'll pour you some tea the next time you come here!"

"F*cking Su Mo, what are you….ah, f*cking awesome, f*cking awesome! Almighty Su, a great man rarely stoops to acts of pettiness. I was just boasting, it doesn't count, it doesn't count."

"Are you speaking out on the wrong things? I think you're….uh, it turns out that Almighty Su's message is for everyone's good, then it's alright! Whoever is swearing is going against me!"

Su Mo looked at the channel that had still been swearing lively at the last second stop altogether, as if it had been suddenly strangled at the throat.

Some of the loudest and fiercest hive-minded people had also shut their f*cking mouths.

Su Mo closed the World Channel with a sneer.

As humans only live once, what he was asking for was understanding.

"I, Su Mo, can accept any evil that I can't see. If I see it, however, then they must die!"

"There are no rules in doomsday except our own fists!"

"If you cannot comprehend my thoughts, then you'll have to pay for it!"

After Su Mo recorded these three sentences silently from the dead man's private message channel that was responsible for the rules of survival, he dressed up before getting up to brush his teeth and wipe his face.

As a "good person", in some sense, Su Mo could completely forget about the things he could not see.

However, for the evil that he could see, so long as he could be 100% assured of his own safety, that ray of light that belonged to "Su Mo" would eventually cut through the dark nights of doomsday and illuminate the hearts of all the people that were tainted black!

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Chapter 77: Mr. Strike-it-Rich, Your Package is Here!

Ever since the pets had become accustomed to things, they spent their nights lying down together.

Seeing Su Mo getting up so early, Oreo, who was resting in the living room, raised her head in acknowledgment before going back to sleep.

Big Spark and Little Spark were curled into a ball beside Oreo, sleeping relaxedly with their heads on Oreo's soft belly.

After moving around a little, Su Mo wiped his face and rinsed his mouth. He took off his coat and pants, washed them in water, then hung them by the ventilation window to dry under the sun.

Turning his head, Su Mo poured the murky psychic energy water into the culture medium and then went and sat down on the stone bench, topless.

The wasteland was a little chilly in the morning.

However, Su Mo felt rather comfortable sitting in the shelter that was five meters underground.

When it was about eight o'clock, Su Mo shifted his attention toward the system prompt on Day 9.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 9]

[Acquired first weapon with combat abilities exceeding 5 points (Survival points 10)]

[Acquired first armor with combat abilities exceeding 10 points (Survival points 25)]

[Killed a "squad" of kobolds effortlessly (Survival points 10)]

[Melee ability and melee awareness greatly enhanced (Survival points 50)]

[Successfully attracted the hatred of 1862 kobolds for the first time (Survival points 350)]

[First-time handcrafting an Excellent-quality Level Material (Survival points 50)]

[Congratulations, Su Mo!]

[In humanity's trial of "light" and "darkness", you have chosen to stand between light and darkness. You found the path that suits you best and successfully overcome the test of human nature]

[Because you stand in the darkness, you yearn for the light even more (Survival points 1500)]

[Scanning host's survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 90 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 2085

Survival points remaining: 2334

[Detecting that existing survival points are above 1000. The Doomsday Survival System officially enters an update]

[Upgrade update 1.0%…5.0%…20.0%…100%]

[Doomsday Survival System has been updated and activates its second function. Automatically gained one draw function]

[May the host live longer and become stronger in this doomsday world]

Line after line of words flashed before Su Mo's eyes as he looked at each of the enhancements one by one.

After seeing the 1500 survival points bonus, Su Mo clenched his fist; his expression becoming even more determined!

"Phew…2300 points, enough to completely double my capabilities!"

"In a few days, Kento Maeda, the kobolds…"

After tossing the distracting thoughts to the back of his mind, Su Mo focused mentally and summoned the spectral Doomsday Survival System panel.

Su Mo had not opened the panel voluntarily ever since the first system activation.

There had only been one manual upgrade on the panel previously.

Now that the system had been updated, a new function had been added after the upgrade—Creation!

"Hm? Creation? Sounds like a very familiar function…"

"I just don't know what this system has to do with Fengling Yueying!"

Thinking of the most powerful clan in every game on Earth—the Fengling Yueying clan, Su Mo smiled, clicked in, and began checking out the function.

After a while, Su Mo sort of understood the system's new function after trying it out once.

Creation:

As the name suggested, as long as one had enough survival points, one would be able to create anything they had previously seen from their memory.

Of course, even if the object had not been seen before, and was just a figment of one's imagination, it could still be directly realized after inputting the requirements and investing sufficient survival points.

"System, give me a Type 99 main battle tank!"

Su Mo said aloud, as he recalled the Type 99 he had seen in his mind.

As long as he had a tank at this stage, let alone the saltpeter mining campsite, even the kobold castle could be taken down.

[Insufficient survival points. Type 99 main battle tank, survival points required: 1210000]

"Holy shit, it's that expensive?" Touching the back of his head, Su Mo lowered his request and tried asking, "How about a Type 09 Infantry Fighting Vehicle?"

[Insufficient survival points. Type 09 Infantry Fighting Vehicle, survival points required: 990000]

"DF-41?"

[Insufficient survival points. DF-41, survival points required: 120000000]

"Good God, cut the crap. You might as well give me two stuffed beef buns and some flatbread soaked in lamb soup!"

[Sufficient survival points. Stuffed beef buns flatbread soaked in lamb, 145 survival points required. Do you want to create it?]

"No no no, don't create it!" Seeing the prompt that popped up from the system, Su Mo repeatedly denied it and quickly canceled the creation requirement.

"Looks like I can only try and use this creation function when I can earn tens of thousands of survival points every day in the later stages."

Although the creation function was powerful, it would cost him 145 points just for breakfast. It was definitely not a viable option at the moment!

However, in times of crisis, it might be useful for emergencies!

Su Mo stood up and was about to shut down the system when he glanced and saw the number '1' in the lower right corner.

"Right, it seems like the system has given me one chance at a free creation since it was upgraded. I don't know what good stuff I can draw though."

Given that the asking price of creation was too expensive, Su Mo did not have high hopes of actually drawing any expensive items from the prize draw.

Based on the nature of the system, he definitely would not be able to draw anything invincible at this stage.

The screen flickered. When he tapped on the prize draw panel, cards suddenly popped out one after the other.

"Aircraft carrier…"

"Star Demolisher…"

"Water Droplet…"

"Twin vector foil… "

"The Power, Lightsword…"

"Lightning Storm"

"Controlled Nuclear Fusion Power Station"

"Room temperature superconductor material"

There were countless cards with superweapons written on them that Su Mo could never imagine, as well as material resources that were beyond the current technological limits. Each one was depicted vividly on the cards

Flipping over the Star Demolisher card with his mind, Su Mo saw the current probability of it being drawn, this time, behind the card.

"0…"

"You f*cking system, it would be great if you could at least give a '1' behind the countless zeros after the decimal point as a consolation. Do you have to be so realistic?"

He then flipped over a few others and, after seeing that the draw rate of all the high-tech weapons were 0, and that even an ordinary nuclear power plant was 0, Su Mo simply stopped flipping them over and decided to immediately draw.

Countless illusory cards shuffled quickly within Su Mo's mind.

Unlike the previous round of prize draw, Su Mo randomly picked one among the countless cards.

With such low probability rates, whatever he drew could already be considered a profit. Even if he drew flatbread soaked in lamb soup, or cold-skin noodles in pepper soup with Ice Peak soda, that would be delicious too!

After adjusting his mindset, he watched as the illusory card slowly revealed its graceful self.

Su Mo conjured up an illusory hand in his mind. He slowly flipped over the lower-left corner of the card and peeked at it.

"Huh? Concrete pavement?"

Su Mo was very familiar with the portion of the image revealed at the lower-left corner. It was concrete pavement from Earth.

Given his mood, he lifted it up a little more and the image of a black tire slowly revealed itself before Su Mo.

"There's something, there really is something. Oh my f*cking God, you are not playing with me, are you?"

Looking at the tires parked on the concrete pavement on the card, Su Mo stood up excitedly and immediately uncovered the entire card!

On the black-gray card, he could see a truck painted in camouflage, parked nicely on the yellow-lined concrete pavement.

The truck was not unusual, nor was it very big. Although there were five tires on each side, it's size and form did not exceed Su Mo's expectations.

However…

In Su Mo's vision…

There was a combination of letters and numbers that all Huaxians were familiar with.

DF-17!

"Oh shit, you really gave me a Dongfeng ballistic missile truck? Are you not afraid of 404? Dude?"

He stood in the shelter and looked at the image on the card.

Su Mo was shocked. He was thoroughly shocked!

Especially when he saw the details of the ballistic missile truck. Su Mo could feel his legs tremble at this moment. He fell to the ground as though his legs were like jelly.

Waves of dizziness washed over him.

What was this ballistic missile truck? What was this DF-17?

A DF-17 missile glides at the peak of the atmosphere at supersonic speed. It would not follow a parabolic arc trajectory, but would travel in a straight line through the air.

Then, when it reached the target overhead, it would plunge down vertically. Such a superweapon was equivalent to a flying sword in fantasy novels that could take the head of a person from thousands of kilometers away.

While Su Mo was not a fanatical military enthusiast, he had envied watching the Amurican B2 bombers in action more than a decade ago.

Su Mo had not dreamt of so quickly obtaining the supersonic-speed missile that Amurica did not even have.

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Chapter 78: Super Ace, Upgrading The Main Door!

Su Mo could not suppress the wave of dizziness that he got when looking at the design of the camouflage, along with the incomparably large missile.

With a killing machine like this, even if a giant dragon appeared today, it would be struck down in minutes, much less some kobolds.

'I've been a part of so many prize draws on earth and always received a bunch of junk. I never thought that my luck would increase day by day after coming to the wasteland!'

Su Mo, feeling very excited at heart, actually wanted a powerful creature to appear right now so that he could pull out the Dongfeng Missile and aim it at the creature.

As the cards were all completely flipped over, the other cards gradually hid within the item creation system. The prize draw page receded and the system returned to the functional interface.

This time, however, an extra card appeared in the creation function's storage. As Su Mo examined it, the properties appeared alongside it.

[Trial Use: DF-17 Ballistic Missile Truck (Rare)]

[Description: The missile truck carries a tactical waverider hypersonic near-space missile equipped with a hypersonic warhead. It is an all-weather, glide-boosted hypersonic weapon with excellent penetrative power that can accurately strike mid- and short-range targets.]

[Special Ability: Baby Please Turn Back: Using this item will provide the host with 10S of map clarity. Wherever the host has previously set foot can be loaded into the map to manually aim and attack.]

[Missile Speed: Unpowered high-speed flight: 12,359km/hour (Mach 10); Gliding speed from the atmosphere: 24,758km/hour (Mach 20)]

[Operational range: 2800 km]

[Precision: 1.86m]

[Comment: One of the legendary beast River Crab's favorite weapons—please use with caution!]

Glancing at the Trial Use at the top of the card, a message popped out after tapping it mentally.

"So it's just a single-use item. I thought that the missile truck would be left behind for me to use after shooting it," Su Mo grinded his teeth and said unhappily.

Leaving aside the fact that the missile was a great killing machine, even just the missile truck would have been an invincible existence in the current environment.

With the strong force exerted from its 10 tires, just a little tweaking would make it a moving bug-like existence.

"Still, humans shouldn't be too greedy anyway. With this weapon, if there's any 'thing' that dares to provoke me within at least 2500 kilometers, I'll let you know the true meaning of the word 'suffering'!"

The camouflaged ace card brought him great confidence.

'Whether it was a cow ghost or snake god, or even a mythical giant dragon, I'll send over a DF-17 and we'll see!'

With this killing machine, Su Mo instantly felt ten feet taller in this doomsday world!

Forcefully turning off the system interface, Su Mo strived to not think of the creation tab, and his emotions gradually calmed down.

He walked into the supplies room and took out the leftover Dalieba bread that had not been eaten. He sliced off enough pieces to feed a few people and placed them into the wok.

After adding in a few spoonfuls of psychic energy water, he waited for the water temperature to rise while the fire was burning under the wok.

Opening the private message channel he used as a diary, Su Mo sat on the stone bench and started dictating, "Today is the ninth day in the wasteland. Okay, I'll admit I was indeed a little arrogant.

"However! I'm progressing very quickly. Soon enough I'll have TNT, and I've even obtained a super amazing 'killing machine'—hehe, I'll keep that a secret for now.

"It's time to start up the oil well in shelter number two too. I'm very much looking forward to whether the high-quality oil will have any strange abilities. Still, this isn't an issue either. I've already obtained the complete extraction process—I'll just have to put some effort into it.

"Every time I leave the shelter, it's a constant worry that the shelter's backdoor is unlocked. It won't be good if anyone sneaks in. Luckily, I received some 'rewards' today—it's time to upgrade the main door!

"Oh, right… I should also move the good stuff back from shelter number two. Just leaving it there doesn't feel too safe!"

Gloop gloop…

Seeing the water in the wok starting to boil, Su Mo turned off the private message channel and took out today's meal.

It was very simple, but at the same time also very lavish.

Nuts, raisins, and crushed peanuts floated atop the bread soup.

The broth was rich and the taste was luscious.

He brought over Oreo, Big Spark and Little Spark's food bowls. After pouring in a decent amount, he poured the rest into his own bowl and a simple breakfast was completed.

After finishing breakfast, Su Mo went to the weapon armament storage and began to arm himself.

His outerwear had not dried yet, so he could only throw on his raincoat to make do for the moment before putting his armor on.

Opening the shelter's inner door, Su Mo walked along the passageway to reach the outermost main door, his thoughts in constant motion.

[Shelter's Stone Door]

Description: A door made from sturdy stone. After setting the bars in place, it is indestructible and uncommonly safe.

First Upgrade Option: Upgrade the main door material, change the model of the stone main door, add new locks, and increase its safety and practicality. Survival points required (220).

Second Upgrade Option: Change the size of the main door, strengthen the main door material, add vertical apertures to shoot from, and increase malleability and combat ability. Survival points required (240).

"The price isn't expensive, but the shelter door's material is already tough enough. There's no need to spend on improving this aspect."

Shaking his head, Su Mo mentally focused and requested the system to provide different upgrade options.

[Shelter's Stone Door]

Description: A door made from sturdy stone. After setting the bars in place, it is indestructible and uncommonly safe.

Upgrade: Material (180), Model (60), Size (35-600), Independent functions (20-600)… Iron mechanical rotary lock (70)…

"Yes! I want a combination lock like this that can open and lock itself mechanically—it's very practical and won't malfunction easily!"

Su Mo clapped and sighed lightly, his face full of satisfaction.

Considering the doomsday situation, especially for this kind of door, the older the machinery, the higher the practicality.

On the contrary, a lock with fancy bells and whistles like the fingerprint recognition system and regular key locks were not all that reliable.

A mechanical rotary lock like this was far more reliable!

Returning to the storage area, Su Mo started picking up pieces of iron.

Thanks to his previous acquisitions, he currently owned about ten pieces. When piled up together, they looked a little like an iron wall.

He headed back to the main door. After inputting four pieces of iron, the price of the mechanical rotary lock decreased to 35 points and did not change when he added further pieces.

He quietly uttered, "Upgrade."

Green light shone and the iron pieces on the ground floated into the air simultaneously, turning them into pieces of red-hot molten iron.

Illuminated by the green light, the molten iron stuck to the surface of the stone door seamlessly, looking as if it had naturally grown on the stone.

A few seconds later, the green light faded.

A new lock for the shelter door had been successfully created!

"The first password is seven 0s. Uh-huh… I'll change it to 7355600 then. With such a complicated password, even if someone wanted to decipher it manually, it would take them at least half a day."

Even if a locksmith came over, it would be very difficult for them to decipher it within a short period of time.

He set the password and pushed the bolt back in. Su Mo then opened the shelter door and went outside of the shelter.

The wasteland sun had not completely warmed up the early morning air.

Waves of cold billowed with the wind, kicking up sand over the ground.

After checking that there were no abnormalities in the surrounding area, Su Mo cast aside his worries and closed the door, before trying to open and close it.

First, he tried closing it.

As long as the password was correctly input, he could turn the wheel until the bolt was in place. When the wheel could no longer be turned, that meant it was successfully locked.

If the password was messed up, the wheel could not be turned.

When all of the codes were correct, then the wheel could then be turned back to open the bolt.

"Alright! I'm a lot more relieved now. At the very least, I don't have to go through the trouble of entering and exiting through the backdoor!"

Evaluating his own masterpiece, Su Mo tried it another two times to determine that there were no issues before walking along the hills toward the backdoor area.

Su Mo had his own ideas for this backdoor.

He summoned the system and examined the backdoor. At Su Mo's command, five survival points were deducted.

The backdoor that had previously been accessible was now sealed, becoming completely one with the ground without a trace of a seam.

"For this backdoor, if there's a need to use it, it would definitely be when danger arrives. When that time comes, even if I have to spend five more survival points to open it, it would be worth it. I'll leave it sealed on normal occasions and leave it as a hidden ace!"

After opening the front door to return to the shelter, Su Mo started packing up the things he wanted to bring along when he went out.

It was time to harvest a round of the 'wealth' in shelter number two as well!

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Chapter 79: Oil Resource Spot, Repair!

Su Mo headed out to shelter number two. With the buggy's capabilities, the distance between the two shelters could basically be ignored.

After a round of checking, Su Mo placed most of the items into the storage space and brought along some materials that he could use for repair.

"Oreo, I'm going to shelter number two. Do you want to go?"

After Su Mo said this, Oreo—who had been playing with Big Spark and Little Spark—ran over, sitting obediently as her eyeballs glowing with excitement.

"Don't worry. I'll drive!"

"Woof woof aroo—"

Hearing the word 'drive', Oreo's eyes instantly turned starry!

Barking and howling, she was eager to get into the buggy and be taken for a spin.

Su Mo laughed. After checking that his things were all packed up, he picked up Oreo, opened the door, and walked outside.

Seeing Su Mo leave, Big Spark and Little Spark glanced at him resentfully and could only whine as they returned to their territory, waiting quietly for the two of them to return home.

"There's such a big sandstorm today! It seems that a blizzard really will be coming soon!"

The moment the wind started blowing through the plains, it seemed as if there would be no end to it.

While he had been fixing the door earlier, the wind was a gentle breeze. He did not expect that it would turn into a howling north wind in just less than half an hour.

Waves of sandy dirt clumped together and attacked the armor, making scratching noises as they scraped against the armor.

After placing Oreo down and driving the buggy out from the simple garage, Oreo skillfully jumped into the back of the buggy and used her mouth to securely fasten her safety belt.

"Not bad, very safety-conscious!"

Seeing Oreo's appearance, Su Mo smiled as he squeezed into the buggy from the side. With a wave of his hand, he put on the helmet that came with the armor and started the buggy, heading out.

A few minutes later, shelter number two had already appeared before him.

Parking the buggy by the hillside, Su Mo turned and got out of the buggy. He brought Oreo out from the buggy, pulled out his weapon, and started patrolling the area.

It was only after Oreo had done a round of patrolling, and signaled that there were no problems nearby, that Su Mo packed up his weapon and pulled out the Hooked Rope, heading for the hole.

Fiddling with the hook, Su Mo acted like an experienced hunter as he stuck the hook firmly into the ground.

After tugging the rope several times and confirming that there were no issues, Su Mo descended down the rope toward the shelter.

The floor of shelter number two was still as messy as it was previously, with broken glass and pieces of wood littering the ground.

He passed by the broken small thermal weapon creation platform, touching it, before moving toward the motor-pumped oil well and beginning his evaluation of the equipment.

Compared to traditional oil mining equipment, this motor-pumped oil well was obviously much more advanced.

At a glance, one could tell that this model was not one that had been created using regular methods. On the contrary, it seemed much more like an oil well that had been created by using the game system's blueprint.

Pulling the steel cable attached to the oil well a few times, Su Mo gained a preliminary picture of the malfunctioning parts.

When Magoo had halted the operation of the oil well, he had probably used brute strength to damage the gears at the bottom, causing them to malfunction and putting them out of commission.

A repair like this should not be too difficult.

Silently summoning the system for an examination, the properties of the oil well popped out.

[Mini Motor-pumped Oil Well (Good; Broken)]

Description: A scientific motorized pumping well. It has many functional modules such as oil extraction, refinement, purification and separation. Due to the lack of modules loaded during its construction, it currently only has the oil extraction module. Moreover, in the process of forcefully halting it, the motorized pumping well's diesel engine and a small portion of its internal parts were damaged. The air pressure in the oil well is also abnormal.

Effectiveness: 30L/24h

First upgrade option: Repair the motor-pumped oil well, resume normal operations, and add the pollution removal and storage modules. Survival points required (920).

Second upgrade option: Repair the motor-pumped oil well, resume normal operations, add the refining, purification and separation, pollution removal, and storage modules. Survival points required (1580).

Comment: Oh oh oh oh! I offer oil to the motherland!

"So the motor-pumped oil well Magoo received also did not have all the modules loaded. If it only included the oil extraction module, then perhaps it was probably sold as a resource in the secret trading realm?"

Putting his hands on the side of the well, Su Mo stuck his head into the well to look around. It was so deep that he could not see the bottom!

Like the psychic energy water well at the base, this motor-pumped oil well's mode of operation was clearly also not based on conventional wisdom.

On the other hand, while the functions of those strange modules were fairly easy to understand, their operations were probably similar to the workbench in the sense that they could not be judged by common sense!

"Which one should I choose?"

From the moment he saw the description of the oil well, Su Mo had already given up on the idea of repairing it by himself.

It contained only petroleum. By itself, it would not be very useful; requiring a large amount of time and energy, and even requiring a supporting factory before it could be refined into something usable.

Liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, kerosene and diesel could be refined through atmospheric distillation.

Through vacuum distillation, lubricating oil, paraffin wax and alkane pentane with relatively large molecular weights could be refined, as well as aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene and toluene.

Light oil and gaseous olefins, such as ethylene, propylene, butene, and butadiene, could be refined through catalysis and catalytic cracking.

All of these usually required the corresponding technology tree to be activated before proceeding, but now, all it took was a simple module installation to complete this series of troublesome tasks. It was simply too convenient.

After thinking deeply and performing some rough calculations, Su Mo deducted the survival points he needed to prepare a single module before going straight back to the initial interface.

Su Mo took out all the raw materials he could produce and placed them on the floor, then said softly, "I choose the second upgrade option!"

After some odd material deductions, he only used up 1440 survival points, and a strange sky-blue light enveloped the entire oil well.

Su Mo lowered his head and suddenly noticed that the space below his feet seemed to have disappeared and that he seemed to be standing within a dark void.

It was as if he had entered a 3D projection of the area and everything within his vision changed.

Within that dark void, the sky-blue light constructed a grid outline of the motor-pumped oil well that seemed to stretch and lead into the depths of the earth.

The speed of the blue grid's extension was very quick. From Su Mo's angle, it was difficult to spot the bottom at a glance.

300m?

Or was it 500m?

Under Su Mo's observant gaze, the transparent blue grid started turning into many different square modules.

On the flat ground, five storage tanks of the same size appeared. Blue cyclones hovered inside the storage tanks before firmly attaching themselves onto the storage tanks with a snap.

The hole, which had only been about 50cm in diameter, began to slowly expand to a length of 1.5 meters under the ray of blue light.

Rays of the snake-like blue light suddenly extended out from the hole, and like snakes, seemingly bit the ends of the storage tanks, forming a link.

In the blink of an eye, the blue grid that was so deep and had no end in sight started climbing up rapidly.

Within the space of a few breaths, shelter number two was back to how it was originally, as if everything that had taken place just now was an illusion.

"Where exactly did this system come from? This is too…"

"Sci-fi, isn't it…"

Su Mo wiped off the sweat from his brow. He had only looked into the abyss for less than ten seconds, but it had felt like riding a 100-meter tall roller coaster; his emotions racing back and forth as well.

The previously malfunctioning and broken oil well was now brand new.

The edges of the well that were originally made from stone had now all been replaced with sleek, gray-black, iron edges that gave off a metallic luster.

The well that previously only had one oil collection barrel to pull up and let down had now been replaced with five thick rubber pipes.

Tracing each one-meter-long rubber pipe out, they connected to the ends of five storage tanks of only 50*50*50cm that were placed on the ground.

How much could possibly be stored in such small tanks?"

Lowering himself down, Su Mo prepared to open a storage tank to take a look at its size in detail. Before he could do so, a black space similar to the storage space suddenly appeared within his line of sight.

"Huh? The insides of these storage tanks are actually all storage spaces?"

Upon seeing 10 cubic meters marked in the upper right corner, Su Mo was stunned.

Could such small tanks actually contain 10 cubic meters of space? This was even larger than the portable storage space he brought around with him!

After attempting to move two of the tanks, Su Mo realized that they were firmly fixed in place and could only helplessly give up on the idea of bringing one back as his portable storage.

"Seems these modules are indeed extraordinary."

He stood up. After examining the data on the motor-pumped oil well again, Su Mo had a satisfied smile on his face!

[Mini Motor-pumped Oil Well (Good)]

Description: A scientific motorized pumping well. It has many functional modules such as oil extraction, refinement, purification and separation. As of this moment, all functions are normal!

Effectiveness: Crude oil: 100L/24h, diesel: 45L/24h, gasoline: 22L/24h, toluene: 1.5kg/24h… (Only two products can be chosen every 24 hours)

"As expected! After adding the modules to the motor-pumped oil well, I can refine toluene and diesel directly!"

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Chapter 80: Integration Upgrade! The Second Shelter!

Lowering his body, Su Mo attempted to forcefully turn the control wheel located next to the motor-pumped oil well.

When the wheel had reached its maximum rotation, the shaft of the oil well began to tremble.

After some time, the tremors subsided and the oil well gradually returned to its peaceful state.

Gurgling sounds could then be heard from the five gigantic pipes and the hum of the diesel generator added to the cacophony; the sound vibrations were almost headache-inducing.

A simple display screen, about the size of a palm, popped up automatically next to the oil well. It listed all the items that could be produced by the oil well as well as its production efficiency.

All you had to do was select an item, press the 'confirm' button, and the motor-pumped oil well would produce it continuously for the next twenty-four hours!

As a test, Su Mo selected diesel and toluene, the two things that he urgently needed at the moment.

Chug!

When the selection was completed, the display retracted into its original position.

Frantic rumbling sounds began emitting from the pit of the oil well and the diesel generator's movements also created noises that could be heard from the wellhead.

"Oh no, this thing is way too loud. It would be fine if this place was enclosed, but with a hole here, the noise will definitely be detected and attract ill-intentioned people."

Su Mo perched himself on a storage box as he tried several methods to reduce the noise coming from the oil well, including putting a cover over it, but nothing worked.

As he walked over to the door, the sound became weaker, but it was still clearly audible.

After spending a moment in thought, a thought came to his mind.

"It seems I'll just have to…"

"Include shelter number two as part of my territory!"

Thinking that, a gleaming turtle armor appeared in Su Mo's hand. It was the core of an entire safe house which had dropped when the man with glasses had been killed previously.

A damaged safe house core could be directly integrated into the shelter to increase its surface area.

With a complete core, though, you could build a new shelter instantly, either above ground or underground.

"I had originally intended to save this as my trump card, but now seems like the right time to use it!"

Slowly, he rubbed on the top part of the turtle armor. A holographic prompt appeared:

[Record: Player "Su Mo" is detected to be the current owner of this shelter…

[Record: Authority detected and approved!

[Record: Confirm usage of the complete safe house core, recast the ownership of the current shelter, and bind it to the game panel!

The three prompts were displayed one after the other. After confirming that it was all in order, Su Mo gently said, "Yes". The turtle armor began changing colors and melted in his hand.

The melted liquid from the turtle armor trickled to the ground. Gradually, sounds began resonating through the shelter.

Like the caress of flowing water, or gentle waves cascading on the shore.

Like a storm that was tearing through the sky, or a monstrous tidal wave that crashed against the surface of the sea.

With his eyes closed, Su Mo seemed to feel as if he was on a lone boat out at sea.

Below the surface of the sea, sharks circled around the clusters of overgrown reefs.

He opened his eyes and the illusions disappeared.

"What magical sounds! I seem to have heard something similar before…"

Su Mo scratched his head, sat down on the storage tank, and continued to wait.

When he upgraded his buggy previously, these sounds could also be heard from the shelter.

Now, as he set up the integration authority for the shelter's core, the sounds reappeared. They were clearer and louder this time, creating unbelievable effects.

Taking advantage of the period required for the integration of authority, Su Mo closed his eyes once more and returned to his illusion at sea while the sounds caressed him.

Compared to building an instant shelter, the speed of this integration was significantly slower.

After waiting approximately half an hour, during which the sounds had resonated back and forth, the prompt reappeared on the game panel.

[Record: Player "Su Mo" has bound "2" shelters. Please designate the primary and secondary shelters.

[Record: Please designate the sequence carefully. Once completed successfully, no further changes can be made and some functions will differ from before.

"Huh? Primary and secondary shelters?"

What popped out was not the original prompt for the completion of the binding process, but rather a prompt asking him to designate the primary and secondary shelter settings on the game panel.

Su Mo tried skipping this prompt, but the game panel was being sneaky. The option to close it was unavailable.

The prompt was locked on the game panel. It seemed impossible to proceed to the next step before completing it.

After four or five attempts, Su Mo gave up on the idea of finding a bug in the system. He could only follow the game panel's instructions accordingly and make his selection.

"Which shelter should I set as primary? Mine or this one?"

"What are the differences in functionality? Is it possible that the secondary shelter cannot be upgraded? That wouldn't make sense!"

Observing the malfunctioning alloy door, Su Mo sat on the storage tank in deep contemplation.

If it was necessary to designate a primary and secondary shelter, the future development of both shelters had to be considered comprehensively.

In terms of safety, shelter number one was definitely better than shelter number two.

Shelter number one was submerged five meters underground with only one exposed door, making it an ideal underground shelter.

However, shelter number two was different. While it was also an underground shelter, its development path was completely different.

It was just surrounded by a cluster of small hills. Upon exiting the current main door on the second floor, you would only have to walk down a short path downhill before reaching the ground.

Strictly speaking, shelter number two appeared more like an above ground shelter, and could be expanded laterally when the time comes for development.

"I can bring back the thermal weapon machine from shelter number two. I can also take all these little things with me too. The motor-pumped oil well is probably the most valuable thing here. It is definitely something that cannot be relocated and I'll have to rely on it to produce energy in the long run."

"Just one motor-pumped oil well?"

Su Mo stood up as realization dawned.

Staring at the oil well behind him, his mind raced. Without hesitation, he selected shelter number one as the primary shelter.

Given that there was no other advantage to shelter number two other than the motor-pumped oil well, why would he choose it?

With the survival system in place, it would not take long for shelter number one to develop into a stronger and safer shelter than shelter number two.

It was not necessary to give up the fundamentals!

After Su Mo confirmed the selection on the game panel, the glow vanished and the dialogue box disappeared.

A new interface popped up!

[Record: Congratulations! Player "Su Mo" has successfully integrated and bound the second shelter.

[Record: Congratulations! Player "Su Mo" has earned the "Second Level 5 Shelter" achievement and automatically receives a chance to draw a lottery.

[Record: "Transcendent" properties are detected at the secondary shelter and automatically copied over to the primary shelter.

[Record: A large difference in level has been detected between the primary and secondary shelters. The secondary shelter has received a one-time authority reparation adjustment.

[Record: The secondary shelter's level will be permanently locked. There will be no core integration upgrade. Transcendent properties will be permanently locked. The shelter will not receive transcendent blessings and upgrades.

[Record: Player "Su Mo" has been detected to own more than "1" shelter. The game panel will open the prompt automatically.

[Record: A durability prompt will automatically appear if another player damages or destroys the primary and secondary shelters. When the durability drops to 0, the shelter's properties will automatically be removed from the game panel.

Seven prompts flooded the interface, like a tide of water rushing in.

Su Mo began reading the first prompt. By the time he had read the last prompt, his face was plastered with an uncontrollable smile.

This could have been considered to be the right move!

"The chance for one lucky draw has been stored. All prompts have been read."

After those words were delivered, all the prompts vanished and a whole new interface appeared in Su Mo's vision.

While the primary shelter had a soothing green interface, the secondary shelter featured an energetic sky-blue one.

It was not a shade that would hurt your eyes like neon blue, but rather, it looked like seawater flowing across the interface.

The fine lines of water vibrated in response to Su Mo's thoughts.

A small panel popped up and Su Mo was requested to name the shelters.

"They were always called number one and number two, which doesn't sound good. Might as well imitate the Tundra shelter and rename my shelters as well."

"Well, for Shelter Number One… From now on, it will be called the Underground Shelter. It is simple, easy to remember, and accurately describes its characteristics. As for Shelter Number Two…"

Su Mo carefully examined the environment of Shelter Number Two, staring at the background, which had yet to display any properties. Tiny bits of inspiration began to emerge:

"Shelter Number Two will be called… the Deep-sea Shelter."

After Su Mo confirmed the shelter's name, the game interface panel trembled for a short while for some unknown reason, as if it was happy to have its name.

The following second, a panel containing all of its properties appeared. Su Mo was stunned when he read it!

[Deep-sea Shelter (Secondary)]

[Level: Lv 5 (Locked, cannot be upgraded)

[Description: An underground shelter made entirely of cement that possesses a highly rigid architectural structure. The main door of the shelter is made from alloy and is extraordinarily strong. The building has upper and lower floors with excellent functionality.

[Space: 220*2 (Storey height 4.2m)

[Integrity: 89% (Damage has been detected in small areas)

[Facilities: Small thermal weapon machine, level three alloy main door, motor-pumped oil well…

[Transcendent Ability:

Transcendent property: Repels Water (Lv1)

Source: For "unknown" reasons, this shelter has been blessed by the Mermaid Clan of the Deep-sea Fantasy World. It has a marginal ability to protect from water. A water-repelling membrane will be applied automatically in the case of a water attack, creating an isolation bubble that prevents water from entering.

[Available authority: Reparation. Provide 22 damaged shelter cores to transfer any floor of this shelter to the primary shelter with immediate effect. Its surface area will change according to the attributes of the primary shelter, not exceeding the maximum of 220.

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Chapter 81: Repaired, The Deep-sea Shelter

"Transcendent Ability!"

"Repels water!"

"Reparation!"

These three eye-catching terms flashed like beams of light before Su Mo's eyes.

"No wonder there wasn't even a drop of water in this shelter the first time I came, despite that big hole on top!" Su Mo suddenly realized as he recalled his first visit to the Deep-sea Shelter.

Only "unscientific" abilities could have achieved what he saw back then.

"Blessed by the Mermaid Clan… I guess there's still a lot to learn about this world. Perhaps more fantasy creatures will emerge in the future." Su Mo's eyes sparkled as he fiddled with the damaged thermal weapon machine.

The transcendent properties may be locked for now, but they had been copied over to the Underground Shelter.

In other words, the Underground Shelter's transcendent water-repelling ability could still be upgraded!

"If I can keep integrating shelters with such fantasy properties, one day, the Underground Shelter may possess dozens of transcendental abilities! If I can master the blessing skill too…. when the time comes…"

Shaking his head, Su Mo laughed and ceased his train of thought.

He turned to look at the property: Reparation.

"Simply integrating a damaged shelter core can only increase the surface area of a single floor. I wonder how Magoo managed to get two floors."

"With 22 damaged shelter cores, one basement floor of this shelter can be sacrificed to create a second floor for the Underground Shelter. This is indeed a practical function. It's a pity that I'll have to save up 22 cores beforehand. I wonder how long that will take."

"It would be great if there were few people willing to deliver themselves to me. Sigh, it's a pity that the Kobolds have scared away all those fools around this area. I can only being to plan again after I conquer the saltpeter mining site!"

Su Mo smacked his lips. He kind of missed Huang Biao and his party!

He had previously followed the map that Huang Biao had given him, but the shelters that had been marked on the map had already turned into piles of ruin before he arrived.

He wondered who got there before he did.

"Since I already own this shelter, I might as well just repair the hole and the main door!"

Taking large strides, he quickly arrived at the second floor of the shelter.

As Su Mo focused mentally, the properties of the main door naturally appeared.

[Level 3 Alloy Shelter Main Door (Good, Malfunctioning)]

Description: This alloy main door was built using a mixture of three different complex alloy compositions. It can withstand heavy impacts and has extremely stable physical performance. Currently, the hinge to open and close the door is broken and requires repair.

Upgrade options: Repair (45), Upgrade material (1820), Change appearance (450), Installation of a mechanical rotary lock (80)…

Evaluation: Mami mami hong! Open Sesame!

"It's just a broken hinge? Then how do you open this door?"

With questions in his mind, Su Mo grabbed the rope that hung down from the big hole at the top and began climbing up. Following the dirt path, he entered the second floor of the Deep-sea Shelter.

From the inside, the door appeared to be metal but, from the outside, it was totally inconspicuous.

Su Mo tried to scrape some coating off the door with his nails and nodded in satisfaction when he noticed that it did not chip or fall off.

The brown-colored door was hidden between the hills. At first glance, it would have easily gone unnoticed. From the outside, it resembled a typical mountain were it not for the terrain that invited purposeful inspection.

Su Mo groped around the doors on both sides.

As expected, he discovered a spot that could be pressed on the right side's vertical beam.

He pressed hard and a lid popped open, revealing a small combination lock.

"It seems Magoo and I share the same personality. We both prefer combination locks over key locks."

Lowering his body, Su Mo observed the numbering system on the combination lock.

There were a total of eight digits, designed as a dial input.

"8 digits. The password is too obvious!"

With a smile on his face, Su Mo began to rotate the numbering dial.

"1", "9", "9", "9", "0", "2", "1", "3"!

The eight digits were entered one by one. After pressing the mechanical push button next to it, the cover of the combination lock popped out with a bang.

It revealed a hinge plate that could be pulled out automatically from the back.

Su Mo pulled on the rope a few times just to test it, but pulled out the hinge plate instead, which caused him to nearly fall to the ground. He had been caught off guard by his own strength.

"So this is the unlocking method. It's a shame I don't know how the hinge broke, which resulted in the hinge plate losing strength and becoming damaged!"

Su Mo did not hesitate after understanding how it worked. He attempted to input some iron, but found out that the survival points required did not reduce. He decided to simply pay 45 points directly.

The hinge plate on the ground was enveloped by the green light and returned to its place in the gap.

A humming sound could be heard coming from within the alloy door, followed by a burst of violent shaking, before it restored itself to its peaceful state.

Su Mo tried to pull on the hinge plate again and turn it. This time, the alloy door began to move upwards in tandem.

He did not know what these doors had experienced in the past, but now, they could once again serve their purpose!

Under Su Mo's ownership, the second floor of the Deep-sea Shelter was finally able to see the light of day once again!

Su Mo pulled the main door all the way up to its first deadlock position, about half its height. He then applied force, jamming the hinge plate in place.

"This thing really consumes physical energy. I guess Magoo underwent some strange encounters that increased his physical strength. Otherwise, pulling open this door between the first and second floors would have been a big problem!"

As he welcomed the midday sunlight, Su Mo stepped into the Deep-sea Shelter.

The dust in the shelter had not expected to see the sunlight again. They appeared to dance and cheer under the light.

With a wave of his hand, a shovel appeared in Su Mo's hand.

The second floor was not only dusty. Many objects had been destroyed by the Kobolds and were completely unrecognizable.

Especially wood shavings. There were piles and piles of them on the floor.

First, Su Mo went toward the stairs. He picked up all the broken iron rods and placed them in a corner.

Then, he began a serious clean-up of the garbage on the ground.

He organized all the useful items in a corner and pushed the useless ones toward the door with the shovel. He would dig a hole outside later to bury these useless items.

Oreo returned lazily from patrolling the surrounding area and sat down on the hillside. From time to time, she would turn around to look at the hardworking Su Mo.

It was quiet and peaceful.

As the day of the blizzard disaster approached, the temperature in the plains began to cool.

Oreo had originally become unmotivated due to the weather's high temperature, but she was beginning to enjoy the outdoors now as she basked in the sunshine.

By the time Su Mo had cleaned up all the garbage on the first and second floors, it was approximately 12 noon.

After locating a random spot on the hillside, he began digging skilfully with his shovel. With just a few swift motions, a hole that was big enough for the garbage had formed.

He threw the garbage into the hole and covered it up with soil. Imitating Oreo, Su Mo also sat down on the hillside by the second floor of the Deep-sea Shelter.

"Just wondering… Did Magoo choose this terrain because he enjoyed sitting here, looking into the distance?"

Gulp, gulp, gulp. He drank the psychic energy water and Oreo received whatever that was left. As he stared into the distance at the beautiful scenery, Su Mo became slightly emotional.

An endless plain as far as the eye can see.

The weeds, which had previously turned green from the acid rain, were beginning to turn yellow again after being exposed to the sun's rays over the past few days.

The desolate and tragic scene before him seemed to come straight out of science fiction. On the spur of the moment, Su Mo opened the game panel and chose to use the lucky draw chance he had received before.

A gorgeous multi-colored roulette wheel appeared. Under the scorching sun, the wheel glowed brightly, seeming almost solid.

"Hmm. I remember it was five the last time, but now it's six?"

Su Mo took a closer look at it. The roulette wheel was divided into six columns, namely:

Pets, Blueprints, Tools, Weapons, Resources, Transcendent Blessings.

"Transcendent blessings? It appears I have triggered a bonus option by owning a Transcendent Shelter."

Su Mo stretched out his hands and casually gave the roulette wheel a spin, unconcerned with the result.

Even if he did not get anything in return, it mattered not. He felt at ease!

The needle on the roulette wheel began to spin rapidly and gradually came to a halt.

Watching the needle spin past the column for transcendent blessings, Su Mo knew it would either be his luck to obtain it or his fate to lose it. He was not disappointed at all.

Finally, the needle landed on the Resources column and a prompt appeared.

[Record: Congratulations! Player Su Mo has obtained the "Strong, Disaster-Resilient Seed Pack"*1.

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Chapter 82: Preparing For Battle! The Reappearance Of Ruin

"A seed pack? It seems to be an advanced version, not bad!"

In the dark storage space, a fertilizer bag containing about 25kg of seeds suddenly appeared, the quantity was huge!

Su Mo took out the seed, and the properties of the game panel naturally popped out:

["Strong Anti-Disaster" Version of Wheat Seeds]

[Description: Cultivated by distinguished planters who carry natural strengths, these seeds have strong abilities to withstand disasters. They possess a certain degree of resistance to cold, heat, pests, and others.

[Yield: 1050 catties per mu

"Hey, it's quite good. With such strong resistance to disasters, and yields more than 1000 catties per mu, not bad at all!"

Seeing that the properties were so strong, Su Mo quickly put the wheat seeds back to avoid unnecessary damage.

25kg of seeds, if calculated according to the amount of sowing per mu, approximately one and a half mu of wheat could be planted.

When the time comes, 1400 catties of wheat could be grown!

If stone-milled to be made into flour, there would be at least eight or nine hundred catties of flour, which is enough to feed a person for about a year!

After lying in the sun for a while, Su Mo got up and returned to the "skylight" in the shelter.

"Now the remaining task is to fill in this big hole in the ceiling!"

There were steel bars still erected outside the spot where the kobold had fixedly and continuously attacked using firebolts.

Su Mo took out a unit of stone and a unit of iron. Seeing that his survival points had dropped to 25 points, Su Mo frankly invested the survival points to repair the hole completely.

The stone and iron on the ground had turned into liquid and they were attached to the big hole.

Slowly, the steel bars began to stretch, cement concrete appeared out of thin air. The large hole began to patch up and gradually became intact.

"Too bad the materials that Magoo owned weren't much, and the thickness of his slates are not ideal. Too far behind compared to my shelter made of stone. But it would be unrealistic to construct thick and heavy stones like that with just manpower anyway!"

With a chuckle, Su Mo came to the motor-pumped oil well and began to check his gains after a short period of work.

At this time, the diesel fuel had accumulated to about 6.5L. In the square storage space, it seemed as if it had become solid and motionless.

The toluene collected in the other box was about 500g at this moment. It was a colorless, clear liquid. After pondering, Su Mo took out the mineral water bottle from before and transferred the toluene into the bottle.

This amount of toluene was sufficient to make some picric acid. As for the subsequent plan of mass-producing explosive packs, the amount has to be collected slowly.

As for the diesel fuels, Su Mo planned to take out an empty oil barrel from before and transfer them into the barrel.

The buggy's diesel was not enough anymore, the amount of diesel collected was just right for a refill.

Walking out of the shelter gate, Su Mo noticed that Oreo was still lying on the ground napping.

Shaking his head, Su Mo was prepared to go past Oreo to give the buggy a refill. However, when he incidentally turned his head, his expression immediately became serious.

"Oreo, time to get up for work!" Oreo, who was still lying on the ground was startled as well, she got up immediately. Detecting what was in the far distance, she could not help barking a few times.

In Su Mo's field of vision, the originally bright sun that shone in the distance has now been covered by murky dark fog!

The fog-shrouded a piece of land, as if evil spirits were emerging, like a devastating disaster.

Compared to the fog last time, this time the fog seemed to be fused with malice, the color was deeper, and it looked scarier!

To calculate by distance, it happened to be less than one kilometer north of the underground shelter.

Fogs were not unfamiliar to Su Mo.

The ruin he had entered for the first time was through a fog.

"The ruin suddenly appeared at this time, and there is no regular pattern of its appearance at all!" While he was contemplating it, Su Mo came to the front door of the shelter and swiftly pulled the hinge plate to close the door!

After pushing the hinged plate back into it, pressing and closing all the lids in turn, Sumo walked quickly to the buggy.

There were valuables in the ruin!

Moreover, it would be a finished product, something that can be converted into productivity or combat effectiveness as soon as it is taken out.

Compared to the underground ruins of "Magoo", there were obviously more valuable things in the fog ruin.

However, there would be countless dangers in the fog ruin at the same time!

After entering the fog, all the functions of the game panel and the system will be temporarily disabled, losing effectiveness.

There seems to be an independent rule acting in the fog ruin, and even advanced things like the system will be treated as ordinary items in the fog ruin.

The special functions of an item can only be seen after it is taken out to the outside world.

As for the question of whether or not to go, Su Mo did not even think about it.

Danger and rewards coexist in ruins, but compared to rewards, these dangers are nothing at all.

Not to mention…

Looking at the water bottle filled with toluene lying in the storage space, Su Mo's confidence grew high.

Oreo was already sitting in her seat by this time, she had buckled the seat belt with her mouth.

Su Mo put on his helmet and fastened his seat belt as well. With a loud bang, the buggy zoomed off with powerful momentum.

Looking from a bird's eye view of the wilderness, Su Mo was like a fearless warrior, driving the vehicle and charging into the black fog.

Three kilometers…

Two kilometers…

One kilometer…

When the ruins were only 400m away, Su Mo stopped the car and fixed his gaze to look at the scene in the fog.

Unfortunately, just like the last time, the fog was thick and dark. Standing outside of the fog, Su Mo could not see what was inside.

He drove the car around the ruins for a while and found that there was no end in sight. Su Mo decisively returned to the base.

After parking the buggy into the garage, he came to the front door and swiftly flipped the large lock of the roulette. The bolt locked with a click.

After letting Oreo in, Su Mo closed the door and walked quickly to the energy room, and switched the energy supply from the battery to the diesel generator.

He then moved toward the workbench and turned on the self-check switch.

While self-checking, Su Mo took all the raw materials for the preparation of picric acid.

To produce picric acid, phenol disulfonic acid is essential.

Therefore, the use of toluene to make phenol is the key.

Based on the level of Su Mo's lab experiments in high school, he completed a series of steps and obtained a small amount of sulfuric acid and phenol in a short period.

Putting the prepared phenol aside, Su Mo continued to make a large amount of sulfuric acid and nitric acid.

After preparing more sulfuric acid, the phenol was added. The phenol disulfonic acid was easily created.

Su Mo sacredly brought over the nitric acid, treated the phenol disulfonic acid, and then the trinitrocresol, The famous "picric acid" was then produced!

Looking at the bright yellowish powder in front of him, Su Mo rolled his slightly sore shoulders.

The preparation of this set was extremely simple. Combined with the efficiency and focus benefitted by the workbench, Su Mo had completed the production in roughly less than two hours.

The picric acid that looks plain and ordinary could cause a terrifying impact!

The power of black gunpowder was only one-tenth of nitrate-ammonia explosives, and nitrate-ammonia explosives are only one-tenth that of picric acid. This means that 1 catty of picric acid is equivalent to 10 catties of ammonium nitrate and 100 catties of black gunpowder!

Picric acid is more powerful than TNT. In modern explosives, the strength of civilian TNT explosives is between 8-13, and picric acid is around 116!

Although this was just a comparison of "magnitude", the power of explosives is not comparable to that of black gunpowder!

Even if there are no 100 times the power, there is still 80-90 times the power.

The C4 explosive used by special forces in the 21st century is not much more powerful than the picric acid!

After carefully filling all the picric acid in a small wooden cup, Su Mo placed it in an area that was not easily accessible. He then took out an iron block and began to proceed to the final step:

Crossbow arrows that contained picric acid!

If he were to fight the monsters that can move with broken spines in the ruins, using a simple arrow will be of no use. Even if it was hit on its head, this kind of beast can continue to attack without any fear of death.

But if the arrow is filled with picric acid, merely tens of grams of it will explode with terrifying power after being rubbed, shaken, or hit!

Even an iron skin can be blasted and destroyed, let alone a monster!

Su Mo took out a large glass of psychic energy water and drank it. Then he put on his mechanical arm and quickly began to make crossbow arrows.

Used for close combat, the crossbow arrows do not need to be carefully polished. As long as it can be fired stably within 20m, it was an excellent product.

After another half an hour, Su Mo completed the preparation of 10 crossbow arrows.

He carefully filled the grooves of the arrows with picric acid, then glued them with tape and small pieces cut from plastic bottles. The explosive crossbow arrows were complete!

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[Explosive Crossbow Arrow (Good)]

Description: Crossbow arrow created by the rookie-level craftsman "Su Mo". After adding picric acid explosive to the groove of the arrow, an arrow of this kind possesses the ability of small-scale explosion. Due to the material of the arrow shaft and arrow, it cannot be recycled after use. Because of inexplicable reasons, the quality of these crossbow arrows has been upgraded to a 'good' level.

Explosion range: 10m

Explosion speed: 7.35km/s

Explosion power: 105% (TNT equivalent); intensity of 103% (TNT equivalent)

Comment: Shocking! A certain craftsman had developed a close combat arrow! After calculation, he would be within the explosion range!

"10m… I didn't expect that a small amount would cause such an amplified explosion range."

After carefully stashing all the explosive crossbow arrows into the storage space, Su Mo sighed in relief.

Picric acid reacts with metal to form picrate.

Only when it is placed in storage space will it enter a static state. Otherwise, if it is left outside for too long, this thing would explode the moment it is shot out!

Su Mo went to the stove and boiled some hot water. He planned to prepare gnocchi soup to replenish his energy.

Gnocchi soup is filling and easy to make. Although the taste may not be satisfactory, he could not care too much about that right now!

After hastily finishing a simple lunch with Oreo, Su Mo opened the door of the shelter and made certain that the fog ruin had no sign of dissipating.

He plugged in all the battery equipment to charge, the charging indicators lit up as he was watching.

Su Mo returned to his small bed. He drank a sip of the psychic energy water and began to close his eyes and rest.

Performing a high-intensity experiment for three hours continuously was quite a test for physical and mental strength.

Even though he had taken the psychic energy water to replenish his energy, Su Mo still felt a trace of mental fatigue.

In these few days, he was no longer an ignorant person!

Even if the monsters in the ruin have no smell and Oreo cannot detect them, Su Mo was confident that he can easily kill the monsters he encountered last time!

After sleeping for forty to fifty minutes, Su Mo woke up leisurely.

"Ever since I came to the wasteland, my sleep quality has been getting better day by day. I only need such a short rest time after a three-hour continuous high-intensity work, and I am all recharged."

Leaning on the side of the bed, Su Mo sat up slowly. The tiredness and sleepiness in his eyes dissipated with rest.

He picked up the psychic energy water cup that was placed on the bedside table and drank the remaining water. Su Mo came to the water tank where the psychic energy water was stored.

The last time when he entered the ruin, Su Mo did not bring the nether energy water and suffered a pointless loss.

'This time I must bring them!' thought Su Mo.

After filling three full bottles of psychic energy water, Su Mo came to the nurturing base, took off the clothes that were hanging, and began to put them on!

Oreo ran over quickly as well, signaling that she was ready!

"Okay! Today we must go and find out what's inside, it's a tough battle! Are you ready?"

"Woof!" Oreo kicked the ground with her front legs, stood upright, to indicate that she was ready!

Back to the weapon armament storage, Su Mo first helped Oreo to put on the raincoat he made before, and then began to put on an armor himself!

This time, he was going to face the enemy head-on, so Su Mo decided to wear an optical combat suit inside to protect his skin to prevent direct contact from harmful objects.

He wore armor on the outside to block and fight against mutant monsters.

After putting on the equipment, he picked up the charged Fine Iron Electric Spear and tried turning it on and off. Confirming that there was no problem with it, he put it aside.

Su Mo took out five good-quality explosive crossbow arrows, and carefully placed them in the electric crossbow. He turned on the self-check button, confirming that there was no problem with it, Su Mo kept it in the storage space.

The electric spear took less than one second to start, but the electric crossbow took three seconds.

Even a few seconds are taboo in close combat, starting the weapons up in advance and placing them in the storage space could save time. When there is a need to use something, he could just take it out and launch it immediately!

The full preparation of equipment was complete!

Su Mo clenched his fists, feeling his biceps and strong forearms a few times. He resolutely opened the entrance door and walked into the corridor.

He entered the password.

Opened the door.

The ruin in the distance was still shrouded in black fog, looking eerie and terrifying.

Its distance was very close, so Su Mo threw aside the thoughts to drive the buggy. He carried the electric spear and brought Oreo. Step by step, they walked towards the ruin.

On the earthy land, wind and sand were everywhere.

One or two small storms that carried sand had gusted into the black fog and disappeared.

On the lonely land, a person and a dog were firmly moving forward.

If the scene was paired with the background music of interstellar crossing, it would have a rather poignant impression.

The closer the distance, the more depressing the atmosphere the black fog brought.

They had been walking for about 20 meters when the fog quickly dispersed bit by bit. It looked as if it was an invisible mouth, and could not wait to swallow Su Mo into it.

"This is… the wall I dug down?"

Su Mo kept silent, and slowly moved forward for approximately ten meters. This time, the scene inside was generally visible.

The gap in the wall that was dug down the last time seemed to be right in front of his eyes. Looking to the side, it was the spot where he had entered the last time.

"Liangfang Town… here we go again!"

In the World Channel, no one has entered the same ruin twice in a row.

Seeing Liangfang Town's appearance now, Su Mo could not decide whether he should be happy or worried.

How about taking out the Dongfeng Missile and try shooting it inside?

The moment strange thoughts appeared, Su Mo shook his head quickly and threw the dangerous idea behind his head.

It might be thrilling to shoot it in on an impulse, but the search for goods would be ridiculously hard.

After receiving the dispatch of a rare-quality weapon, Liangfang Town might be razed to the ground. Even if there would be some junk to be collected, it is not worth as much of an adventure.

"Enough thinking. I'll just rush in, even if there are two of the same monster from the last time, I'm not bothered by either!"

Lowering his head to pat Oreo, Su Mo stood up decisively and brought Oreo into the huge mouth of the black fog.

In the next moment, the monstrous black fog and clouds had suddenly disappeared, as if nothing had ever appeared.

The lonely yellow sand was barren, they could only continue forward.

[Record: You have entered the ruin.

[Record: The function of the game panel is locked, please exit the ruins to use it.

The game prompt sounded as Su Mo walked in. At the same time, the fog around him began to recede, revealing a larger distance than the previous time.

This time, it was six or seven meters!

As Su Mo walked in, it was still quickly dissipating.

"It's this familiar smell. It's like coke, at the same time, it's also like the smell of rotten meat. No wonder Oreo's sense of smell is greatly weakened."

After sniffing the smell around him a while, Su Mo frowned and walked forward.

The split wall of the small courtyard from before has neither been repaired nor has any traces of movement. A few larger clods of soil were still lying on the ground.

"This is… the footprint of other creatures?"

As his eyesight gets better, Su Mo could observe more and more details.

Inside a broken clod, a three-claw-shaped footprint can be seen.

"This footprint is bigger than my palm. What kind of creature is this?"

Gesturing and comparing to the footprint, Su Mo muttered to himself.

This strange footprint was the size of two palms, it looked absolutely like a huge fella.

But here is the problem.

The fragile clod of soil could bear such a heavy trampling from a creature, without any sign of breaking apart.

Such a big footprint? But light?

Two completely contrasting attributes appeared on the same creature, Su Mo became more vigilant at once.

Su Mo crossed the gap and walked into the yard. The fog cleared away, and his vision suddenly became clear, as if he had returned to his realm.

The three doors that had been violently cracked by Su Mo remained open, and the split iron chains lay crookedly on the ground.

Su Mo walked towards the door and squatted down, took out the flashlight, and hit the light on the ground, observing the traces of dust scattered.

"Fortunately, it seemed that it was the broken wall that attracted other creatures, but there are no traces in the house. It didn't come for money."

"I just don't know if there are any still existing humans in the ruin."

Walking out of the courtyard, a thought came to Su Mo and he summoned the path-creating iron ax.

The gaps were not too far between the rural courtyards. There was another courtyard less than ten meters away from the broken courtyard wall.

Su Mo axed the wall a few times, and he broke an opening more skillfully than last time.

He summoned back the iron ax after and held the fine iron electric spear in his hand. Su Mo cautiously stood at the opening of the wall and looked inside.

"This family looks a little richer than the last one. There are four houses, and it looks like there is also a hut dedicated to farming."

"All the doors are locked, but this kind of lock doesn't bother me."

"It looks like there are no traces of monsters."

After speculating, Su Mo carefully and slowly stepped through the hole and walked in, sticking close to the edge of the wall, until he reached the middle of the courtyard. There was no response at all.

Just as Su Mo let out a sigh of relief, a sudden muffled blow erupted!

Boom!

Visible to the naked eye, a big bulge the size of a human skull appeared on the iron door of the farming hut!

"Oh no! There's something here!"

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Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Heavier blows echoed in the air, the iron gate had begun to visibly reshape, revealing a trace of crack.

Seeing such a huge impact, Su Mo did not hesitate anymore.

He backhandedly took out the electric crossbow and aimed it at the iron door that had not been completely crashed open.

"What the hell is this? Such a strong force, plus it can create such great impact in a short time!"

Beside him, Oreo was already baring her teeth. But the enemy was in the dark, she did not dare to dash forward to find out the situation.

Moo!

A low moo vibrated in the air and the sound transmitted into Su Mo's eardrum.

In the next second, one last impact had made the iron gate burst open, turning into small pieces of iron, scattering around like snowflakes.

Whoosh!

Without seeing what the hell was coming out of it, Su Mo pulled the trigger without a word.

Like a hummingbird, the explosive crossbow arrow that contained picric acid soared toward the swelling bulge.

Boom!

Hitting the unknown creature, there was a louder explosion than before, and dust from the ground was blown by the detonation wave, scattering and levitating around the room.

The dazzling fire instantly brightened the inside of the farming hut, and a shadowed figure rushed out from the fire.

It was targeting Su Mo who stood next to the soil wall!

At this moment, Su Mo finally saw the monster clearly with the help of light that ignited the room.

It was a creature that looked similar to a cattle from the earth. At the side of the weird creature's ears, there were two broken horns.

Blood was splattering out from the horns, but that did not affect its lethality in the least.

Facing the monster that was aiming at him, Su Mo shot another arrow. At the same time, he turned his back and did a forward somersault to a distance.

The crossbow arrow made direct contact with the bizarre cattle. The impact created while somersaulting was so huge that Su Mo did not bother to care about the situation behind him.

The impact of the detonation was like a pair of invisible big hands that hurled him forward.

Falling to the ground, Su Mo immediately turned and looked around, and his scalp instantly felt numb.

This arrow might have fatally hit the head of the monster. Before this, the horns on the head were already broken. This time, half of its head had been blown out by the explosive crossbow.

Its brain pulp was like black magma, rolling and dripping along the half of its head that was blown away.

The four legs of the strange cattle were like pillars, its limbs were still embedded in the soil, motionless even with its skull blown out.

Looking at this gory scene, Su Mo was filled with nausea.

But this view of the bizarre cattle did not affect Su Mo's speed at pulling the trigger.

Another explosive crossbow arrow was shot. This time, under the scope, the arrow got into the remaining half of the monster's head.

Another explosion wave emerged, and Su Mo quickly averted his eyes. After the explosion, he looked back.

The explosion of the picric acid blew up the entire head of the peculiar creature, and it was evidently impossible for it to survive.

"What a ferocious thing. If I met this beast the last time, I'm afraid I wouldn't return alive."

Startled, Su Mo had once again taken out three explosive crossbow arrows and stuffed them into the electric crossbow.

The fire caused by the explosion of picric acid was still viciously burning in the room.

Black smoke gushed out from the broken door and to the sky, looking like a smoke signal.

"We must search quickly, otherwise these houses will be burned down when the fire spreads!"

Standing up, Su Mo put the crossbow back into the storage space and walked quickly to the nearest room.

He took out the ax and smashed the seemingly "safe" wooden door a few times. Kicking the broken wooden door open, and the sight attracted Su Mo's eyes.

"It's… a TV again?"

Compared to the TV with a big butt in the shelter, this TV was higher-end.

At a glance, it was a new LCD TV.

Although the table near the window was not huge, there were obvious traces of items being moved or taken, and there were many small objects on the table covered with dust.

Compared to the previous house, the bedding of this one was better, and there was no trace of mold.

"Sure enough, the degree of risks and gains are proportional!"

Su Mo could not control the smile on his face, and began to collect the spoils.

He carefully removed the wall-mounted TV that was hanging on the wall by carefully unfastening the screws at the back. Su Mo unloaded it and put it on the table.

Su Mo collected the bedding from the bed and spread it out, then he gathered all the items on the table into the bedding.

Holding up the bedding in one hand and the TV in the other, Su Mo walked out the door boldly and put everything on the ground.

There were three more rooms, and the fire was getting fiercer.

There was no time to delay. Just as Su Mo axed the second wooden door open and was about to enter, Oreo's anxious barks sounded.

Instinctively, Su Mo summoned the iron spear at once and held it in his hand. He looked in Oreo's direction.

At a glance, Su Mo's heart suddenly became cold…

A lion?

Or a Tibetan mastiff?

Fuzzy fur was like a wreath shrouding the neck of the creature. If it was not for its hideous and terrifying face, it would look like a blooming sunflower.

"Hey dude, if I said I just came to take… came to put out the fire, would you believe it?"

Without batting an eyelid, Su Mo stepped back twice and quietly approached the soil wall.

The large monster stood at the broken gap and looked at Su Mo quietly.

Unlike the monsters who have lost their intellect, this monster seemed to have retained a trace of sanity. It was tilting its head and scrutinizing Su Mo.

Oreo had jumped onto the wall cleverly, a little faster than Su Mo's movements, and had been barking at the monster.

"You… are… human… are you… here… to bring me along with you?"

Su Mo, who was already standing under the dirt wall, suddenly heard the voice of the monster. It gave him goosebumps instantly.

The voice was as harsh as the sounds of metal scraping. Especially the stuttering at the beginning, it was like the ravings of a hungry hell ghost.

"Yes, I'm here to pick you up, let's go together!"

Su Mo tried to respond, but at the same time, he did not relax his vigilance. He was ready to escape at any time.

Even if he was told that the monster had driven here today, Su Mo would not be surprised, let alone if it spoke.

Since entering this ruin, there had been a sense of strangeness everywhere.

Illogical attributes, a black dog that could fight back even with a broken spine, a strange cattle that did not perceive pain, and a Tibetan mastiff that looked like it was in the cosplay of a dark Simba.

After hearing Su Mo's words, the Tibetan mastiff seemed to stop and went into thinking. It looked at Su Mo carefully, contemplating.

However…

In the next second, the intuitiveness in the Tibetan mastiff's eyes gradually became lesser, and traces of violence seemed to gush out like water.

"All of you… abandoned… all should die!!!"

"Damn all of you!!!"

After it finished speaking, the Tibetan mastiff completely lost all rationale and charged inside along the gap, targeting Su Mo!

"Oreo, run! Retreat! Don't turn back!"

The next moment, Su Mo immediately retracted the fine iron electric spear in his hand, jumped onto the earth wall, climbing up as he yelled.

With the aid of acceleration from the electric shoes, this wall was not a problem at all. Su Mo climbed up with two stomps.

He turned around and looked.

The LCD TV placed in the middle of the courtyard had been smashed by the Tibetan mastiff, and there were glass shards everywhere.

"Crap, my TV, damn you!"

No time to be distressed about it at that moment, Su Mo climbed down the wall and had no choice but to quickly dart inside.

"The distance between us must be pulled away, otherwise my arrows are useless at all, as to close combatting… who would have fought this thing before!"

Impulsively, Su Mo could not care what would happen next.

He stomped on another wall twice, then he landed on the wall of the next courtyard.

The Tibetan mastiff behind him was already catching up like an arrow from a bowstring. It was close. Before Su Mo even climbed up the wall, it slammed its head against the wall.

However, this seemingly fragile soil wall was not knocked down. Instead, the Tibetan mastiff was bounced back.

"Huh?"

"Woof?"

Mounted on the top of the wall, Su Mo watched in surprise as the Tibetan mastiff was bounced to the ground by the seemingly unsolid wall. It fell into a squat.

Without waiting for Su Mo to react, the Tibetan mastiff attacked once more, but it bounced away again.

This time Su Mo saw it.

An invisible layer of light covered the surface of the wall. When the Tibetan mastiff struck it, the light film quickly hardened and turned into an illuminated wall.

On the wall, there were two neat lines of words written on it:

"Zheng Xuefeng, take good care of your dog. My baby is still small, don't scare him…"

"Okay, okay, I'll leash it well next time!"

Every time the Tibetan mastiff hit the wall, the two neat and graceful lines of Chinese words would glow, blocking the creature out from the wall.

It seemed to know that there was nothing it could do about Su Mo, the Tibetan mastiff had stopped moving. Its eyes shone with savage fierceness, it crouched on the ground and stopped advancing!

"Well, you old thing, I've manipulated an upsurge of bugs, think I'm afraid of you?"

Seeing the Tibetan mastiff's defeated look, Su Mo who was mounting on the wall roared with laughter. He pulled out the electric crossbow from the storage space.

Along the wall, Su Mo moved forward carefully, trying to get as far as possible from the Tibetan mastiff.

Regrettably, the beast was very clever as well. It kept a four-meter distance between Su Mo constantly.

When Su Mo moved, the Tibetan mastiff followed suit.

The scope to shoot the explosive crossbow was not achieved.

"All right all right, you think you're probing a loophole with me?"

Su Mo ejected the five explosive crossbow arrows and replaced them with five ordinary arrows produced by the game panel. He then raised the crossbow and shot.

Whoosh!

An all-iron arrow was discharged!

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Even though it was not a high-speed crossbow arrow, the initial velocity of an ordinary crossbow arrow would be exaggerated as well in such a short distance.

Below him, the Tibetan mastiff was suddenly "stung" by the arrow, an incessant howl sounded at once.

"Too bad that the beast has a fast reaction, otherwise it could have shot its eyes…"

The monstrous Tibetan mastiff turned its dog-like head the moment the arrow arrived, causing it to pierce its body instead.

He quickly pressed the trigger of the crossbow to continue shooting. Aiming at the Tibetan mastiff, Su Mo shot another arrow.

This time, the crossbow arrow hit the Tibetan mastiff's face firmly and caused a stream of black blood to spill.

The Tibetan mastiff howled in pain. "Human, you…deserve to…die!"

Learned its lesson after being shot by two arrows, the Tibetan mastiff sprinted back quickly and stood in the corner of a wall far away. Upon glancing at Su Mo, it disappeared.

The fog began to block the line of sight. In the thick fog in the distance, Su Mo could not see where the Tibetan mastiff was. Resigned, he could only replace the crossbow arrows with the explosive crossbow arrows again.

"The previous yard is definitely out of the picture. I'm sure that the beast is still guarding outside, I will be attacked if I go out there. So troublesome!"

Stradling on the wall, Su Mo looked at the new courtyard.

Compared to the "luxurious" yard just now, this yard was not a lot.

There were four houses and a chicken coop. The chickens inside were missing, leaving the fence alone on the ground.

Gesturing Oreo to get down and investigate the situation, Su Mo continued to straddle the wall, holding the electric crossbow in one hand and aimed at the courtyard below.

Using his free hand, he touched the material of the soil wall and broke a small piece of earth. After some thought, Su Mo came to a conclusion.

"It seems that the walls of the courtyard are for protection. If the walls are damaged, monsters could break in!"

The two courtyards from before had broken earth walls, the monsters had begun to attack madly after.

The Tibetan Mastiff could attack because it came through the breached wall.

If this soil wall was not damaged, the Tibetan mastiff could not break in.

"What a magical power, if only this ability can be blessed on me!" Seeing Oreo's signal that there was no problem, Su Mo sighed a little and jumped off the wall.

There were no monster attacks as he stepped into the intact and undamaged courtyard, Su Mo felt a trace of unreality.

Especially after opening the outermost door "enthusiastically", this feeling was even stronger.

What caught his eye was the three enormous bags of undamaged flour piled in the corner, the colorful packaging on it showed that they were made by a big factory.

"Tian Xi province… Xiang Ping city… Hua Lian County Grain Workshop."

"A bag weighs 25kg, which is 50 catties…"

"Hmm, where is Tian Xi province, how come I've never heard of it?" Su Mo could understand every word printed in these neat and orderly characters, but he could not make sense of these words when they were combined.

There was a Jiang Xi province in Hua Xia, Su Mo had visited the capital city of Nan Chang before during his time on earth. He tasted the three-cup chicken that was unique in the region.

As for Tian Xi province, it was unheard of.

"It seems that my previous guess was wrong. This is definitely not the earth where I am from. Could this be a parallel world?"

Su Mo muttered to himself as he carried a flour bag against his shoulder.

Fifty catties of flour were not heavy, but easier to move with the convenience of the storage space. The bags were piled in the middle of the courtyard in a flash.

Going back in the house, Su Mo looked toward the table.

Several seasoning bottles were knocked over on the table, the vinegar was completely drained, but there was no problem with the salt. It was crystal white.

The chili oil had already solidified on the table, so it ought to be unusable.

Flipping through the area, Su Mo found another bunch of condiments in a cardboard box under the table.

"Good man, this family is a glutton, the seasonings are all well prepared. It's a bargain for me though." Laughed Su Mo.

Three bags of 250g fine salt were enough for one person to eat for more than a year without any problems.

Two bags of 500g coarse salt, seemed to be used for kimchi marination.

A bag of Liu Shouze Spicy Twelve Spices, 60g.

A bag of Mama Le Chicken Essence, 40g.

Two bottles of unopened oyster sauce, 200ml each, a bottle of unopened soy sauce, 300ml, and a bottle of sesame oil, 40ml.

All the seasonings were sealed intact, and the seasonings contained had hardly volatilized. As Su Mo picked up the box, the bottles tinkled and produced a crisp sound.

Putting the box in the middle of the courtyard, Su Mo went back to the house and took another glance. In for a penny in for a pound, the chopping board from the table, including the kitchen knife, rolling pin, noodle presser, cooking ladle, cooking spatula, several stainless-steel bowls, a large water tank, a few plates, a large bowl, and two iron pots for cooking were all swept away by Su Mo.

The kitchen that was at first full suddenly became empty under Su Mo's looting.

After giving it a thought, Su Mo stood on the table and took off the light bulb in the kitchen, and lifted the table to the middle of the courtyard.

As a trash collector, all items had to be collected without wasting the chance to.

If he left anything behind, in retrospect it would be a huge loss.

In a happy mood, Su Mo opened the second door to the treasure house!

"Huh, this should be the side bedroom, but too bad this family wasn't willing to install a TV here, and the quality of the bedding is not good!"

Looking at the bedding that was severely molded in front of him and thought about the brand-new bedding that he had just given up on, Su Mo suddenly felt crushed.

Fortunately, after rummaging for a while, Su Mo found some sundries near the table pocket of the cabinet placed in front of the window.

A pair of scissors, a nail clipper, a small mirror, four unwritten notebooks, and three gel pens.

A small desk lamp that could be recharged with a USB, and a used phone that looked old.

Pushing down the back cover of the old phone, Su Mo picked up the battery to take a look, then he placed it back.

"The battery is still okay, the quality of the old device is solid, maybe it will still be usable when we get out of here!"

Su Mo smiled and pulled out a table pocket with a single force, and loaded all the usable sundries into it. He stood on the table, did the same thing as he did in the kitchen, and removed the light bulb. He moved everything to the courtyard.

"It's a pity, this family looked to be in a good family condition, but there aren't many good things in it. Seems like they don't live here often."

The things in the two rooms were piled on the ground. Compared to the first time he came in this ruin, this was considered more rewarding.

But the thought about the LCD TV that was destroyed by the Tibetan mastiff, Su Mo gnashed his teeth in rage.

Looking at the last two unexplored houses, Su Mo stepped into the house on the side, leaving the main house in the middle for final exploration later.

"This family is really poor, no wonder there is no mutant creature guarding it!" Sighed Su Mo.

After swatting the dust lifted by the violent banging of the door, Su Mo probed his head to survey the layout inside.

The entire bedding showed signs of mold just as the room before. The table was turned over in a mess. Some cosmetics were uncovered and exposed to the air had already dried up.

After rummaging the table, Su Mo removed the light bulb from the ceiling disappointedly, and then he took away a bunch of miscellanies that were temporarily useless and placed them in the center of the yard.

"Only the last house left, please give me some hope!"

With a sincere wish, Su Mo raised his hands and slammed the ax down, slashing it on the door lock.

Squeak!

The wooden door could not bear the tremendous force brought by the ax and it broke into pieces immediately. He took a few steps back and kept the ax. Su Mo used all his strength to strike the door of the room with a kick.

Half of the wooden door was kicked open under the force, and the other side of the wooden door with the lock was quivering in the air.

The dust was flying all over the place by the influx of airflow.

Covering his mouth and nose, Su Mo stood at the door and waited. When the moldy smell from the inside had escaped and the dust had calmed down, he stepped into the room.

"Holy cow… is this an air conditioner???"

Upon entering the door, Su Mo saw the cabinet air conditioner in the corner.

There was still a brand logo, "Tian Er Air Conditioning" faintly visible on it.

As soon as he turned his head, Su Mo almost fainted with happiness.

Every cloud indeed has a silver lining!

On the right side of the room, there was a TV set in front of the bed. Nothing less, it was the same LCD TV as the TV that was trampled by the Tibetan mastiff!

The LCD TV was at least 40 inches, much larger than the previous one!

Walking to the side of the TV in wide steps, Su Mo stroked the LCD screen fondly.

The TV with the big butt from last time was a great help. This kind of higher-end TV definitely could provide more functions.

Su Mo removed the plug wire, and unscrewed the screws that secured the TV. He removed the whole large screen from the wall.

Giving a slight force to pick up the TV, Su Mo piled it in the middle of the courtyard.

The originally poor gains were now boosted!

"This air conditioner will also be taken away!"

Su Mo turned back to the main house, and with an effort, he grabbed the eaves of the roof and climbed up to stand on the roof tiles.

The external unit of the air conditioner was installed on the eaves of the roof, and it was firmly fixed.

Su Mo tried to twist the fixed screws and iron bars. Without a specific screwdriver, this thing was too sturdy.

After consideration, Su Mo simply took out the iron ax and chopped off all the iron bars. He kept the external unit into the storage space and jumped off the roof.

After patting off the dust on his body he turned back to the main house. Su Mo carried the air conditioner on his back and placed it in the middle of the land.

Going around three or four times making sure that all the things from the village were taken, Su Mo began to contemplate on how to pack all these things together.

It would be impossible to move these out directly.

He could only follow Feng Mengyue's footsteps by holding on to these items and patiently wait for the end of the time, automatically exiting the ruin.

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Chapter 86: Double Excellence, Great Rewards!

"How do I get so many things out?"

Looking at the objects and gadgets around him, Su Mo found the situation both tricky and joyous.

At the moment, there was only less than one square meter of space left in the storage space. It was already strenuous to hoard an air conditioner unit and a TV.

Therefore, he must put everything in one space, so that the ruin will deem that this space belongs to him. This way, all items can be safely taken out.

"That's right!"

"I can connect a few sheets to form a net bag, and put everything in!"

As soon as he said it, Su Mo stood up and went ahead with the idea. He took out the moldy sheets from several rooms, put them on the ground, and began to knot them.

The square sheets gradually became a huge flat surface.

The connected sheets were spread out on the ground, Su Mo gathered all the objects inside and lifted the four corners together, and turned this into a big bag.

After tying the bag and letting the excess air flow out of it, Su Mo simply sat on it and waited patiently for the time to end.

"If it weren't for this Tibetan mastiff, I could have taken out a lot of things this time. What a pity. Next time when I'm well prepared, I'll show the animal my true abilities."

At the thought of the Tibetan mastiff still squatting outside, Su Mo's teeth grinded with anger. However, beside him, Oreo was relaxed and easy-going.

She laid on the packed bag and fell asleep peacefully, seemingly not worried about enemies breaking in at all.

Su Mo tried to pass the time by opening the game panel to look at the chatbox.

Unfortunately, the game panel was completely locked and all functions were greyed out, and there was no response at all.

Su Mo tried to call the system again, he looked around but there was no signal at all.

"Where the hell is this place, even the mighty power of the system can be shielded, it's really weird!"

"But the strangest thing is… there wasn't even one book!"

He explored two different places and the rooms were searched for more than one hand's count. A lot of other miscellaneous items were found, but books were never seen.

Not even children's enlightenment books or elementary school textbooks were seen anywhere.

As if they had disappeared out of thin air.

Shaking his head, Su Mo kept these doubts in his heart and began to quietly wait for the time to end.

The house next to them was still on fire, thick black smoke flowing up the sky.

Because of the distance, the fire would not reach them for the time being, so Su Mo did not mind too much.

The venture into ruin this time was counted as rewarding. Apart from being pathetically chased by the Tibetan mastiff, Su Mo was very satisfied with both the objects and the large devices.

Taking advantage of the spare time, Su Mo began to plan the development of the base in his mind.

Not too short nor too long, two hours had passed in a trance even before any plans were made.

When Su Mo focused back into sight, he was surprised to find that he had returned to the wasteland.

The soft sunlight fell from the horizon, a gust of cool breeze blew and got into the air holes of his combat uniform. Su Mo could not help but shiver from the cold.

"It's so cold, it was about fifteen degrees when I went to the ruin, why does it feel like it had dropped to only five or six degrees!"

Su Mo lifted his head and looked at the position of the sun.

"Well, the time difference this time is even more exaggerated than the last time. I'd reckon that it is already past six o'clock in the morning."

It was around 6 o'clock in the afternoon when he entered the ruin, and it was already 6 o'clock when he came out.

Calculated in proportion to the time, this time it took two hours to enter the ruins, and the outside world had passed twelve hours.

Six times the time difference!

"However…"

Seeing all the things covered by the sheets under his butt were teleported out, the corners of Su Mo's lips curved.

Su Mo untied the knot of the bedsheets, and forcibly resisted himself from looking at the properties of these items. After beckoning Oreo to guard him, they hurried back to the base.

It did not matter when, the outside world of the wasteland was always full of danger.

Su Mo did not want to experience a scene where a Tibetan mastiff smashes a TV again!

Reaching back to the door of the ruin, he walked around the low hill making sure that no one was following them nearby. Su Mo quickly entered the password code on the door lock and opened the heavy stone door.

Su Mo stepped into the shelter. As soon as he entered the door, both Big Spark and Little Spark rushed up excitedly and flew into Su Mo's arms.

"Little fellas, you two must be starving. After I move the things back here I'll cook for us!"

Looking at the two of them lying on their front weakly, Su Mo comforted the tearful Big Spark and Little Spark immediately.

Then he turned around and went to the warehouse. After vacating all the objects in the storage space, Su Mo returned to the basement and drove the buggy out.

With the ability of the storage space to move objects, it took just four rounds to move all the items brought out from the ruins back here.

The pitch-black TV was placed on the floor of the living room, and the sparkly white air conditioner had a shimmering light. Even the old-aged machines seemed to have a second spring, shining as bright as jade.

After he closed the door and sat down in the living room, Su Mo could no longer resist the commotion in his heart. He called the system and fixed his eyes on these big gadgets.

[42-inch LCD TV (Excellent)]

[Description: A technological product produced in an unknown era, made using a substance between solid and liquid, possesses organic compounds with regular molecular arrangements. When heated it presents itself to a transparent liquid state, and crystallines particles to a turbid solid state after cooling.

[Special Ability:

Replay: After turning it on, set the lens angle within 100m of the TV to capture a snippet of a complete shot.

Error correction: When watching a recorded video, set to error correction, the mistakes will be indicated, and a solution plan will be given (Excellence: 15%)

Comment: There is always someone to learn from!

"Good lad, the function of this item may be more practical than the big butt TV."

Touching the LCD panel, Su Mo was filled with excitement!

These two functions might not seem to be as apparent as those of the big butt TV, but Su Mo realized its advantage on the spot!

Error correction!

This feature was simply astonishing!

When creating tools on the workbench, due to the lack of tutorials, most of the time Su Mo can only craft them according to his instinct and the influence of culture on the earth.

To be able to make a good-leveled item, was also the foundation given by a good quality workbench. That was why Su Mo could produce 'good' graded qualities.

This time it was different!

With the replay and error correction functions of the TV, Su Mo could spend time observing the errors and deficiencies of the object after the production.

It may not have a big effect at the beginning, but as time goes by, the higher the benefit this item would bring!

"Getting this treasure is like obtaining a good teacher and helpful friend, so happy!" Taking out a rag, Su Mo carefully wiped off all the dust on the TV, he cleaned the dusty places in detail.

Looking at its panel that was close to a mint condition, Su Mo let out a long sigh of relief and moved on to look at the air conditioner with anticipation.

[Tian Er Three-Horse "Combative" Inverter Air Conditioner (Excellent)]

[Description: The air conditioner could use artificial means to adjust and control the temperature, humidity, flow rate, and other parameters of the surrounding air in the building or structure. Main parts including the refrigeration main engine, water pump, fan, and piping system. Its tail end device is responsible for utilizing both heat and cold transmitted to process the condition of air. It generates air parameters of the target environment to meet certain requirements.

[Special Ability:

Full power: Increase the power consumption in exchange for more powerful heating/cooling/dehumidification/air in exchange. The greater the power consumption, the higher the probability of damage.

Combat-All-Weather external unit: Tian Er air conditioner has a "combative" external unit. The harsher the environment, the more it can stimulate the fighting spirit of the external unit and produce special effects. Please experience the specific effects personally.

Comment: Shocking! A country purchased a large number of Tian Er air conditioners. The reason is that its power after overclocking is comparable to a small bomb!

"Hiss~~"

"Items from the ruin are extraordinary. Without the air conditioner, the probability of withstanding the disaster was 70%, but now…"

"It's 99%!!!"

Exhaling a long breath, the look in Su Mo's eyes changed while viewing the external unit of the air conditioner!

The working principle of air-conditioning heating is very simple.

First, the gas freon is pressurized by the compressor to become a high-temperature and high-pressure gas. Then it enters the heat exchanger, condenses, and liquefy to release heat to become a liquid. At the same time, this increases the heat of the indoor air, to achieve the purpose of increasing the indoor temperature.

The liquid freon is decompressed by the throttling device, enters the heat exchanger of the external unit, evaporates and gasifies to absorb heat, and becomes a gas.

At the same time, it absorbs the heat of outdoor air, and the transformed gas freon enters the compressor again to start the next cycle.

It is a simple heating principle that makes the air conditioner not easy to use in a harsh environment.

But now… After having special abilities, Su Mo was looking forward to the effectiveness of the combative external machine when the blizzard comes!

"Such great rewards, if I can kill the Tibetan mastiff next time in the huge town of Liangfang, I'm afraid I will be getting rich!"

Thinking of the town in the archway, Su Mo's heart jumped involuntarily.

This kind of technological weapon with magical power was simply terrifying.

As for the final old machine with special abilities, Su Mo was looking forward to it even more now!

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Chapter 87: A Day In The Sky, A Year On The Ground

[Ginoa Mobile Phone (Good)]

[Description: The Ginoa mobile phone has a simple appearance. It is small and eye-catching, easy to hold, comfortable to use, and durable. After smartphones entered the market, it gradually lost its competitive edge and turned into a novelty within the field of old devices.

[Special Ability:

Signal search: Within 50 kilometers of the signal source, it automatically searches and displays information by species type. Currently stored species information: (Human, Kobold)]

[Comment: Even though grandparents may not know how to properly use a mobile phone, once they pick it up, it's always you that they're looking for!]

"It's a very useful function to search for other shelter camps." After evaluating it, Su Mo placed the phone next to the power strip and started charging the old-fashioned phone with a USB charging cable.

He tried to check the other items that he brought back but, unfortunately, he could not find other items with special abilities.

"Woof! Woooo!"

"Cuckoo~Cuckoo"

On the other side, Oreo spotted Big Spark and Little Spark, who were looking sluggish in the crop culture room, and called out anxiously.

Stepping into the crop culture room, Su Mo noticed that Big Spark and Little Spark were lying on the ground, and he glanced at the water basin.

"Huh, didn't I fill these up with water before I left? How are they already empty?"

"Hmm? The tomatoes have sprouted too! But why do these shoots seem to be as off-color as Big Spark and Little Spark?"

Seeing a large number of young shoots growing on the culture medium, Su Mo hurried over to the psychic energy water tank and poured out a few scoops of water. He first refilled some water for Big Spark and Little Spark before watering the culture medium.

The psychic energy water emitted a soft blue color. When it entered the culture medium, it was as if it had become nectar, the yellowing buds turning a fresh green at a rate visible to the naked eye.

After settling everything and confirming that there were no issues, Su Mo returned to the psychic energy water well to collect the accumulated water from yesterday.

But when he collected the water, Su Mo's expression changed drastically.

The barrel that could store 15 liters of water was now full. Even shaking it a little, caused some water to fall into the well.

15L of water stored overnight?

"Damn it, the flow of time in the ruins may not be six times or even a night. It was more than a day."

"Today is probably the 11th or even the 12th day of the Doomsday calendar!"

"The growth of the plants on the culture medium, the state of Big Spark and Little Spark. Damn it, I didn't expect the time difference of the ruins this time could be so terrible!"

Filling the water into the tank, Su Mo sat on the stone bench and focused, summoning the system.

Dong dong!

The illusory timer popped out. When Su Mo checked the panel where today's survival points should have been displayed, there were three more messages.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 10]

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 11]

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 12]

"The time has not passed eight o'clock. If that's the case, I'm afraid that the current date is the 13th day of the Doomsday calendar!"

"The time difference from my venture into the ruins exceeded forty times the normal rate. I spent just two hours in the ruins and over 80 hours have passed outside!!!"

Su Mo turned off the system and opened the chat channel.

He went straight to the Regional Channel and looked at the number of people still alive at this time, which was 812 people.

Before entering the ruins yesterday, Su Mo clearly remembered that there were 890 people on the Regional Channel.

70 people had died overnight?

Shaking his head, Su Mo tried asking on the Regional Channel:

[Su Mo: Does anyone remember what today's date is on the Earth calendar?]

After he finished the sentence, the Regional Channel that was at first silent suddenly began to get lively.

[Liang Jian: Oh, the Almighty Su was probably too busy and forgot about this. Today is January 4th on the Earth calendar. 10 more days and it will be Chinese New Year!]

[Cai Junfeng: Liang Jian, don't talk nonsense. The 15th is the new year, and there are 11 days left. It's been 13 days since we arrived at the wasteland. I'm already used to using the time here.]

[Liang Jian: Bullshit, Almighty Su must be a northerner like us. We northerners celebrate the new year on the 14th of the twelfth lunar month!]

Seeing that the chat channel had started arguing about when the new year was celebrated, Su Mo silently closed the chat panel.

"Surprisingly, 80 hours passed. That's a lot longer than the 7 hours previously."

"Is it because I destroyed stuff in the ruins, or because I took too many things at once?"

Sitting on the bench, Su Mo thought about what he had done in the ruins.

If he took into account the "useless" information given by Feng Mengyue before, in addition to the information gathered from the ruins during this period, no one had ever encountered such a terrifying difference in the flow of time.

Of course, none of the people who spoke about the ruins on the World Channel dared to unscrupulously walk into the ruins or carelessly destroy them.

Su Mo swapped to the "friends" panel and started to look for someone who might have more information.

His eyes scanned the list and, among all his friends, Su Mo's sight locked onto two people.

Li Xiufeng and Chen Pingan.

The former battled with monsters and found the culture medium, whereas the latter was an expert who got their hands on the Monster Illustration Handbook at the beginning and provided materials for the crossbow.

The combat skills of these two people should be up to scratch, and they likely would not have missed out on any chances to enter the ruins.

[Su Mo: Do you have any information on entering the ruins? Let's discuss.]

Su Mo sent the same message to the both of them simultaneously. Seeing no immediate response in the private message channel, Su Mo could only wait patiently.

"There must be people out there like me, who were daring enough to go out and explore, just that they haven't shared any information. It would be troublesome if the time difference is calculated according to the degree of damage to the ruins!"

Su Mo thought about the courtyard in the ruins that had still been burning when he left and suddenly felt his scalp go numb.

If it was really measured in the terms of destruction, then if Su Mo actually did fire the Dongfeng Missile and collected the remains inside, then things would have likely changed even more drastically.

Perhaps time would have fast-forwarded four or five hundred days on the Doomsday calendar.

If that happened, while he might accumulate quite a lot of survival points according to his current progress, any benefits he had gained from the early stages would be wiped out.

Even worse, in one or two hundred days, the shelter might have been destroyed by disasters. Even the survival points given by the daily survival environment assessment would disappear in that case.

"Tsk, impulsiveness is of the devil. Although I managed to get a lot of good things this time, time is quickly running out!"

"There are only eight days left before the blizzard disaster arrives!" As Su Mo calculated the time silently in his heart, the feeling of tension arose again.

The problem of the kobold castle had not been resolved. The humans in the saltpeter camp were still enslaved, and there was no sign of any humans in any nearby locations.

Also… regarding the upgrade of the evacuation shelter, the solution to the damaged safe house core had not yet been found.

"Eight days…"

"No more sleep! I will collect toluene and diesel from the Deep-sea Shelter later and try to make a large number of picric acid bombs. I have to quickly clear out the threat of the kobold camp, and…"

"Find a shelter nearby where humans gather!"

Thinking of this, Su Mo's anxiety calmed down a little and he silently read the system prompts to assess his gains over the past three days.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 10]

[You posses the first high-quality, sustainable development resource – Motor-pumped Oil Well (Survival points 100)]

[You have prepared a weapon with a lethality rate of over 100 (Survival points 100)]

[You possess a second shelter and improved its safety (Survival points 200)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 122 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 522

Survival points remaining: 1346

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 11]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 122 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival point 122

Survival points remaining: 1468

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 12]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 122 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival point 122

Survival points remaining: 1590

"The total survival points have returned to 1500 points again. It's too bad. If I could have spent the time outside exploring for those three days, this number would have been higher, but I guess you can't be too greedy…"

Glancing at the various items in the living room, the LCD TV, and the air conditioner, Su Mo sighed with mixed feelings and prepared to cook.

After obtaining three bags of flour, the pressure of survival had suddenly eased a lot. Su Mo started preparing the familiar and filling gnocchi soup. He was still cooking when…

Ding dong…

The sound of a private message rang…

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Chapter 88: Take Refuge In The Ruins, The Mystery Of Time!

Hearing the message notification, Su Mo took the lid and covered the steaming pot.

He sat on the stone bench. As the game panel came into view, he saw that out of the two he had reached out to, it was Li Xiufeng who had replied first.

[Li Xiufeng: How many times has the Almighty Su entered the ruins? I only went in twice. I didn't take much and things were pretty terrible.]

[Su Mo: I've also entered twice. Let's exchange some information? How much do you know about it?]

As both of them wanted to exchange information, they naturally would not hide anything from each other.

After some polite remarks and conversation were passed around, Li Xiufeng started a video call and Su Mo did not hesitate to pick up.

In the camera, Li Xiufeng's scarred face appeared within the video frame.

In terms of looks, Brother Feng Zi's face could easily stop a child from crying. If one added a smirk to that face then… Su Mo would feel panicked as well.

Behind him, Su Mo could see a small wooden house, and a fence that had been constructed to fully enclose the perimeter of the house.

Due to the distance, Su Mo could not clearly see the weapons on the fence, but his attention was drawn to the sharp points of the weapons that had been smeared red by blood.

'Brother Feng Zi is very strong as well! At least much better than ordinary people!'

Su Mo was momentarily stunned. However, he did not expect that Brother Feng Zi on the other side of the camera would be even more shocked!

'F*ck…I thought my progress was already fast enough. I didn't expect that Su Mo's shelter even has a large air conditioner and an LCD TV installed already.'

'Plus he's cooking with a pot on the ground? Is this still f*cking someone trying to survive in the apocalyptic wasteland?"

'This Su Mo's combat abilities are not weak either. My spidey senses can feel his terrifying strength even just by looking at him…'

Invisible to the camera, Brother Feng Zi was having goosebumps; the hair all over his body standing erect, like a spider's natural reaction to encountering a powerful enemy.

Both of them were observing each other silently. After a few seconds, Su Mo gave a slight cough, interrupting the awkward silence.

"Ahem, this… Brother Feng Zi, may I take the liberty to ask, where were the ruins that you entered located?"

Hearing Su Mo's words, Brother Feng Zi, who was still spaced out on camera, suddenly recovered from his surprise before quickly replying, "No, no, don't call me that. It's beyond my means for you to call me brother. Almighty Su, you can call me Little Feng."

Touching his head, Brother Feng Zi looked embarrassed. "Actually, I went in twice. When I went in the first time, I didn't manage to do much exploration and was withdrawn from the ruin when the time was up. When I went in the second time, there were some gains."

When Brother Feng Zi stopped talking, Su Mo immediately understood. "I've also entered the ruins twice. However, I did manage to take some things out the first time. When I entered the second time though, I encountered a lot of twists and turns, and it's difficult to explain in words…"

"Did you also encounter a time difference?" Before Su Mo could continue speaking, Brother Feng Zi directly spoke the words that Su Mo was dying to hear.

"Could it be that you too…" Su Mo's voice trailed off, and both of them laughed.

Across the screen, there was no way to threaten each other and, because they were both experts who were growing faster than the others in the wasteland, they communicated with each other with a touch of friendship. After a while, they figured out the common points.

"According to what you've mentioned, do you mean to say that the more we destroy the original state of things, or the more we items take, the greater the difference there is in the flow of time in the ruins?" Su Mo pointed out. Brother Feng Zi on the other side nodded in agreement.

"Yes, if I'm not wrong, I think it can be understood as: the greater the change caused by our activities in the ruins, the more it interferes with the flow of time, resulting in a time difference of several times or even tenfold… "

"In that case, before encountering an unavoidable disaster, it's possible for us to enter ruins and cause some damage to… avoid the disaster!" Su Mo's voice ended abruptly, shock evident on both their faces as they discovered this truth.

If the flow of time in the ruins worked in line with their analysis, as long as the degree of damage was properly measured, the flow of time could be controlled so that disasters could be safely passed through.

Of course, although such an operation would guarantee their safety, there would also be intangible losses.

For example, he would have to forget about airdrop reward for live broadcasting. Also, he could not control whether the shelter would encounter any threats or dangers during the disaster.

Still this paled in comparison to staying alive. If you encountered an unavoidable disaster, you could hide in the ruins!

"Almighty Su, listening to your words is better than reading for ten years. Hahaha," Brother Feng Zi laughed, and the scars on his face widened as he smiled, looking very much like a horrifying centipede!

Looking at Brother Feng Zi in the video frame, compared to the "prosperous beauty" of the "little fresh meats", Su Mo felt that people with features like Brother Feng Zi might live longer in the doomsday world.

"Likewise. If there's any information to exchange in the future, feel free to just mention it. Helping each other will help everyone stay alive and live well in the doomsday world." After making polite remarks, the two decisively hung up the video call.

"Too bad… If only I knew whether or not Li Xiufeng had good character. It wouldn't be too bad to have someone like him as a neighbor or teammate in the doomsday world!" Su Mo shook his head regretfully. Seeing that there was no news from Chen Pingan, Su Mo stood up, turned off the game panel, and continued cooking.

In the environment of the wasteland, the stronger the person, the more they would pay attention to their reputation.

Between people of the same level, or even among people who were stronger, everyone attached importance to the word 'Trust'!

On the contrary, it was those little-known "small potatoes" who were vicious. They would smile and laugh with you on the surface, but internally they would probably already be thinking about how to kill you in secret!

"Oreo, come over and eat! Bring along Big Spark and Little Spark!" Su Mo yelled. Seeing that the gnocchi soup in the pot was boiling away, he extinguished the firewood.

Within a few seconds, the weakened Big Spark and Little Spark were picked up by Oreo and placed in front of the stove.

"Starved for three days… You should have gone to the supplies storage and eaten some grain." Su Mo took out a bowl he got from the ruins and filled it with gnocchi soup. Su Mo patted both Big Spark and Little Spark's heads gently and placed the bowl in front of the little ones.

Smelling the scent of food, Big Spark and Little Spark finally became livelier. Ignoring the fact that the gnocchi soup was still steaming hot, they began to gobble up the food.

Su Mo divided the remaining large pot of gnocchi into two portions, placing one portion into Oreo's bowl and pouring the remainder into a clean bowl.

He took out the Fuling pickled mustard and poured a little onto his gnocchi soup, letting its fragrance seep out into the surrounding air.

Su Mo and the three little ones enjoyed the meal peacefully and comfortably.

After finishing the meal, it was 8 o'clock, and the harvest of survival points on Day 13 arrived.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 13]

[While you were exploring the ruins, you killed a powerful enemy with the same combat power as you (Survival points 50)]

[You gained great rewards from the ruins, which greatly enriched your personal possessions (Survival points 25)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 202 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 277

Survival points remaining: 1792

"Wow, I only brought back an air conditioner and an LCD TV, and it went up as much as 80 points, which is equivalent to an extra 500 points a week!" Looking at the number prompted by the system, Su Mo was overjoyed.

Compared with the survival points that were given for completing tasks each day, it was cumulative points that increased regularly like this that were the top priority.

It may seem that 200 points would be inferior to some major items at the moment, but as the base developed, in maybe one or two hundred days, the daily fixed income of survival points would grow to be hundreds of points, or perhaps even thousands!

Before taking off his equipment, Su Mo took Oreo out again and drove the buggy to the Deep-sea Shelter.

After three days of accumulating diesel and toluene, it was time to extract a ton of them!

Following the familiar tire tracks on the ground, Su Mo drove to the Deep-sea Shelter.

After releasing Oreo to patrol the surroundings, Su Mo drove the buggy to the hillside and stopped.

"In the future, I could perhaps figure out how to construct an underground tunnel so that I can safely and directly head to the Deep-sea shelter to collect the oil resources." Thinking about this, Su Mo remained alert while walking to the front.

No matter whether it was in the early, middle or late stages, the oil well was an important resource point. Its importance would only continue to increase as he continued to upgrade it and increase its output.

At that time, he would have to think of a way to safeguard this vital resource point!

After watching Oreo signal that there was no danger, Su Mo retracted the crossbow and walked over to the door of the second floor and opened it.

Standing at the door, Su Mo waited for the musty air inside to clear off before going straight inside and walking to the oil well.

Focusing his thoughts, the data display panel popped out.

Diesel, 153L!

Toluene, 5.1kg!

Chapter 89: Enhanced Strength, The Incredible TV!

"One hundred and fifty liters of diesel and 5 kilograms of toluene, the upgraded oil well really is powerful!"

"Speaking of which, if Magoo had this many accessory modules and resources, he could have lived an extra one or two hundred days!"

Seeing the stunning harvest, Su Mo could not help but click his tongue.

Five kilograms of toluene, based on the previous manufacturing efficiency, could at least produce a few dozen kilograms of picric acid bombs.

A famous type of dynamite, these could break apart mountains and open new frontiers.

If one could locate the main pillars of the Kobold Castle and detonate these explosives together, the seemingly indestructible castle would be turned into a pile of ruins in seconds.

"Hahaha, what am I thinking, I'm not an architecture student." Su Mo shook his head, smiling broadly from the joys of the plentiful harvest.

"What can bring more happiness than farming and watching your supplies increase?" Waving his hand, an oil barrel appeared. He tapped on the diesel in the storage tank of the motor-pumped oil well again, and started transferring it by focusing his will.

At the moment, only 6.5L was left in the barrel from the previous harvest.

Gurgle! Gurgle!

Diesel appeared from thin air and poured out rapidly into the oil barrel.

The 100L capacity barrel was filled up in an instant, and the transfer process halted according to Su Mo's will.

Placing the oil barrel into the storage space, Su Mo stepped out through the door and walked toward the buggy. He opened the buggy's fuel tank.

After the past few days of traveling around, there was only 20L of diesel left in the buggy. Given its huge fuel tank, that was basically akin to hitting the bottom.

With a wave of his hand, the oil barrel appeared on the ground. Su Mo unscrewed the lid of the oil barrel and tried to grab it, his arms surging with energy.

As he applied more strength, the veins in his arms bulged and even the blood vessels on his forearm became visible.

"Up!"

With both feet grounded, Su Mo used the strength of his waist as a pivot, his face flushed with exertion.

Although his body felt a little shaky and unstable, after his center of gravity stabilized, he was able to grasp the handles of the barrel with both hands and, using his full strength, the oil barrel was slowly lifted off the ground.

The oil barrel that weighed more than one hundred and sixty catties had been completely lifted by Su Mo!

He aligned the mouth of the barrel with the fuel tank opening. Tilting it slightly, the pale yellow diesel slowly emerged from the tank and flowed into the buggy's fuel tank.

Receiving this strong "blood" injection, the buggy almost seemed happy as well, making creaking sounds.

Su Mo waited until the buggy's fuel tank was full before putting down the oil barrel and looking at it. There was originally a 100L of diesel in the barrel, but only about 40L remained now.

"Good lord, my strength has definitely increased now. I can lift things weighing more than one hundred and sixty catties. There's definitely something other than the psychic energy water at work here!" Putting down the oil barrel, Su Mo saw that the flow of blood around his arm was a lot thicker than normal.

Raising his arm, Su Mo looked up and down curiously, unable to figure out the reason for the enhanced strength.

"Does it mean that, in the ruins…killing monsters provides a strength bonus? Or is it instead related to the faster flow of time increasing my strength?"

The effect of the psychic energy water was limited. At the very least Oreo, who had been drinking it every day, had no obvious changes.

On the contrary, after entering and leaving the ruins twice, Su Mo could feel a significant enhancement of power.

"I'll have to figure out a way to measure the limits of my strength, and then compare it periodically. This way, the next time I exit the ruins, I will know what caused this!"

Lifting the oil barrel once again, Su Mo placed it back into the storage space. He turned back and closed the second-floor door of the Deep-sea Shelter.

As the date of the blizzard disaster approached, the temperature outside continued to drop.

It was almost ten o'clock in the morning and Su Mo could see frost forming after exhaling his breath.

"Oreo, let's go. Stop playing!"

On the contrary, for Huskies, the coldness liberated their nature. Oreo became far more active in the cold.

Hearing Su Mo's words, Oreo, who was still running happily in the wilderness, hurried back, bouncing along all the way.

Su Mo sat on the driver's seat of the buggy and waited until Oreo got in as well. After she had fastened her own seat belt, Su Mo stepped on the accelerator and they zoomed off.

Now that there was fuel in his possession, Su Mo felt more secure.

Back at the base, Su Mo opened the fuel tank of the diesel generator and poured in all the remaining diesel.

He turned on the generator and connected the electrical supply of the shelter to the generator.

Su Mo came to the living room and connected the new LCD TV to the plug point.

He removed the mechanical controller from the old TV and installed it on the LCD TV, then flipped the switch!

Pop!

A soft noise echoed in the shelter before the screen of the LCD TV automatically lit up. Three options appeared on the screen.

Recording and review, image error correction, and normal mode.

Su Mo tried the normal mode first. Selecting it, he saw that it was just like the LCD TV on Earth, just that there was no signal connected to the display screen.

Returning to the previous option panel, he selected on recording and review. With a snap, Su Mo's face appeared on the screen.

"Hey, could this thing be used as a mirror as well?"

Su Mo waved his hand curiously, and the Su Mo in the picture also waved back.

Examining the TV, Su Mo failed to find anything that resembled a "camera". When Su Mo tried to adjust the angle, the screen display began to move.

It went through the thick stone wall and stretched out to the outside world. Like the old TV, the LCD TV also had a monitoring function, though the monitoring function on this TV only had a 100m range.

Pulling back the camera view, Su Mo aimed the camera at the crop culture room. After Big Spark and Little Spark had eaten, they had regained their spirits and were playing hide and seek in the vegetable culture medium.

Oreo was laying on the ground, scratching her head. She scratched at the yellow grass stains on her body.

Su Mo tried to press the recording button below, just like how one would record a video on a mobile phone. The following appeared:

Pause, 0.01/infinity, stop.

Once the recording started, the camera angle could not be switched. It could only be rotated around within a limited range.

Su Mo went around from front to back, and then from left to right, recording the video. After about a minute of recording, Su Mo had figured out how to operate the recording function.

He went back to the option panel and selected the image error correction this time.

The previously recorded video appeared in the column, and Su Mo tapped on it curiously.

Playing the video, the screen began to move. Sitting in front of the screen, Su Mo was shocked, his mouth expanding into an O shape!

"Damn… this function is too crazy!!!"

"O"

"RE"

"O!!"

Su Mo called out loudly. Oreo tilted her head and walked over at a brisk pace. She lay down in front of Su Mo.

The next second, Oreo also noticed that she had appeared on the screen. She howled curiously, not knowing what was going on.

Playing the video again, Su Mo picked up Oreo and started to ruffle around her fur at a strange angle using his hands.

"Woof~ Woof~ Wooo~"

Along with the strength and speed of Su Mo's hand, a strange feeling overcame her. Oreo, who was being held in Su Mo's arms, groaned comfortably.

A bunch of weeds and plants that had gotten mixed up in Oreo's fur began to fall to the ground due to Su Mo's movements.

Fur that had been knotted and tangled also started to become smooth.

Strands of tangled fur fell off Oreo's body, twirling aimlessly in the air, before finally falling to the ground.

Smoothing the fur without professional techniques and equipment would have normally been a very painful thing.

This time, however, Oreo's eyes were unfocused as she enjoyed the treatment. Drooling, her tongue was drooping and she looked as if she was about to faint from how comfortable it felt.

"All right, all right! There is no water to bathe you yet, but we will have enough water when it snows!"

Su Mo ruffled her fur for a while, then he placed Oreo aside and cleaned up the mixture of fur and weeds on the ground.

Looking at the two, fist-sized, miscellaneous clumps of fur, Su Mo became absentminded for a while.

"The first step is to, after making a claw shape with your hands, vigorously run your fingers through the fur from top to bottom until the grass falls off. The second step…"

The screen of the LCD TV was still playing tirelessly over and over again, displaying detailed text explanations and arrow pointers on the screen.

Su Mo turned his head to look at Oreo, who was slumped on the ground, and looked back at the directions displayed on the screen.

Su Mo's eyes gradually lit up!

"With such a good thing, I'll never have to worry about improving my production levels and quality!!!"

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"Good quality! I relied on my own ability to create a good quality product!"

Picking up the iron axe, Su Mo carefully looked at every mark hammered on it. After examining it from top to bottom three times, Su Mo still felt very happy.

"I've finally achieved entry-level status. This is without question a great improvement!"

Su Mo took out a piece of wood and lightly swung down with the axe. With a clang, the wood split apart.

It was like slicing through water, without any major resistance during the whole process.

Compared to a "productive" tool like this, even a chainsaw would not have the same level of efficiency, much less an axe produced on Earth's assembly line.

"Sure enough, other species may have physical or supernatural advantages, but humans…"

"Human beings have always had the advantage of a brain full of wisdom and imagination, and a pair of hands to produce well-made tools!"

"Who cares about some fireball technique! Technology is the strongest weapon!"

Su Mo placed the iron axe aside and returned to the living room.

As expected, a new video had appeared on the TV and, using his recent forging process as the basis, it was now showing an even more standard method of forging an axe.

After reading it through swiftly, Su Mo gave up the idea of continuing to study and attempt it.

As humans, one should not be too greedy for meritorious work.

The previous knowledge had not been fully integrated yet, and rushing to learn new techniques would be too hasty. If his foundation was unstable, it would be difficult to make proper progress in the end.

Returning to the initial screen, Su Mo sat on the stone bench. He closed his eyes and refreshed his mind before starting a new recording.

This time, what he needed to create were not tools, but… picric acid!

"Although the picric acid that was made in a hurry last time was upgraded to a "good" quality because of the workbench, there were no additional attributes. Perhaps there was a problem with my steps and preparation methods."

"Even so, it was still quite powerful. However, what I need now is more stability, I must find a good way to safely detonate it!"

Looking at the picric acid manufacturing flow chart that he obtained from the trade with Tundra Shelter, Su Mo frowned and thought about how to make bombs.

The reason picric acids were eliminated were because they detonated very easily; a slight touch would cause it to explode.

Whenever it received a violent impact, the picric acid would explode immediately. Not to mention that it had no armor-piercing ability whatsoever.

Moreover, if you put too much of this thing in, then you would end up within the explosion radius of your own bomb. Too little, and it would lose its lethality.

Of course, the best solution was definitely to make landmines, and then lure the enemies over to trigger the explosions and kill the enemy.

"It's too bad that, if I want to make landmines, my crafting ability alone is insufficient, and the raw materials I have are not good enough!"

"It seems that only the most primitive explosive packs can be used to deal with the current situation!"

After he figured out his plan, there was only one task left—prepare a large amount of picric acid raw materials!

Just like what was required in many games, one needed to prepare their weapons and ammunition before fighting monsters. Sitting in front of the workbench, Su Mo patiently completed each step.

From the preparation of sulfuric acid and nitric acid, to phenol disulfonic acid!

Su Mo watched every step from the tutorial on the TV screen repeatedly, trying to achieve the best results with all his might!

Finally, the prepared nitric acid was introduced into the phenol disulfonic acid. After the nitration reaction was completed, fresh picric acid was produced!

This time, Su Mo looked at his production again, finally showing a satisfied look.

[Picric Acid Explosive, Trinitrocresol (Good)]

[Description: A strong explosive made by the entry-level craftsman "Su Mo". Hardly soluble in carbon tetrachloride, slightly soluble in carbon disulfide, soluble in hot water, ethanol and ether, and easily soluble in organic solvents such as acetone and benzene. The preparation method strictly followed scientific methods and has thus achieved a "good" level.]

[Properties: Melting point: 121.8C, Boiling point: 300C (Explosion)]

[Special ability:

Stability: The process of preparation was scientific and reasonable, which increased the stability of the explosive. (It will never explode below 300 degrees)]

[Comment: Ignite it well, and everyone will be happy! Ignite it poorly, and the whole village gets to feast at your funeral!]

"Although exploding at 300 degrees will make the explosive crossbow arrows a thing of the past, it has become more suitable for making explosive packs!"

Looking at a full kilogram of picric acids in front of him, Su Mo gently filled a small basin with all the picric acid crystals.

During the next half-day, sitting at the workbench, Su Mo tirelessly repeated this dull process endlessly.

Every time Su Mo wanted to give up, he would turn and look at the growing pile of yellow crystals in the corner, ramping up his excitement once again!

Five kilograms of toluene, plus all the saltpeter he had robbed previously, managed to produce a total of 30 kilograms of picric acid.

After conversion, it was a full 60 catties of explosives!

With these proportions, Su Mo intended to make 3 packs of 10-catty, 5 packs of 3-catty, and 15 packs of 1-catty explosive packs.

The former was intended to destroy enemy buildings, and the latter was to be used as a weapon in fixed locations!

Explosives like these were often tied up to look like quilts in movies.

These kinds of explosive packs were called propellants. They used bulk powdered explosives, spread between cloth and paper, wrapped up like a package, and then tied in the corners with rope.

Su Mo cut up the moldy sheets he previously used to load things into pieces and tore off the pages from the notebooks he obtained from the ruins.

The picric acids were added proportionately, before being wrapped in a cloth and fastened with scotch tape, to complete each simple picric acid explosive pack.

In between the explosive packs, Su Mo added in some gunpowder to ignite the explosives.

Now, everything was ready. The only thing left was the fuze to initiate the explosion!

There are many types of fuzes, including impact fuzes, proximity fuzes, combination fuzes, time fuzes, command fuzes, and many others.

"Hehe, the manufacturing process of the fuze is very complicated, and there are a lot of things needed, but…"

"I have the system!"

As soon as he thought of the system, Su Mo immediately felt refreshed. He laughed before focusing mentally to summon the system interface.

Tapping on the creation interface, Su Mo whispered, "System, create the simplest impact fuze; the cheapest one."

[Detected creation requirements. Retrieved landmine impact fuze. 90 survival points required.]

"Landmine impact fuze? What?" Seeing the system prompt, Su Mo curiously tapped on the card for the landmine impact fuze.

There was a line of neatly written text description on the card:

The oldest landmine impact fuze. Its ignition is powered by the gravity of the falling rock. The trigger mechanism consists of an iron needle, a rotating steel (iron) wheel, a falling rock, flint, and a pulling rope.

When setting up, tie the two ends of the rope to the falling stone and the steel (iron) wheel respectively, then set up the rope as a trip rope, and place the falling rock in a high position.

When a person or animal trips on the rope, the falling rock falls from a height. When it falls, it drives the steel (iron) wheel to rotate, rubbing it against the flint and igniting the gunpowder fuze, which in turn ignites the charge of the mine through the fuze.

"From the year 1560? Is this an impact fuze from the 16th century?" Su Mo smacked his lips while thinking about it, then he decided to give up on this ancient trigger device.

Although this kind of device was cheap, it had very low practicality. There was only 60% written down in the column of its trigger success rate, which was extremely unstable.

"Retrieve the cheapest impact fuze from the 19th century"

[Detected creation requirements. Retrieved mechanical pressure fuze. 99 survival points required.]

"Okay! This will do!"

Hearing that the price of the mechanical pressure fuzes was not as high as a bowl of lamb stew and two steamed buns, Su Mo's eyes flashed brightly. He did not hesitate to exchange his points for 5 mechanical pressure fuzes.

495 survival points were deducted. Then a green light shone out and began to flash on the workbench in front of Su Mo!

Almost similar to 3D printing, a green frame structure gradually began to take shape. After three to five seconds, five disc-shaped devices had been formed.

From his perspective, Su Mo could see the generation process of each component inside clearly, as well as the principles and method of triggering.

Unfortunately, before Su Mo could examine it in detail and memorize them, the five completed discs fell onto the workbench with a muffled bang.

Su Mo opened the card of the mechanical trigger fuze and, after reading it for a while, memorized the method of using it.

Regarding this sort of impact fuze, as long as the safety mechanism had been removed, and it was placed on the explosive pack, any person who stepped on it would trigger the detonator below, thereby detonating the picric acid explosive pack.

At that time, all the enemies that were chasing would taste the power of "scientific" magic!

A catty of explosives is not enough? Then I'll give you ten catties!

Any kind of fireball technique, or any kind of mass numerical advantage, would become a joke under the "dreadful firepower" of the Chinese people.

"System, how many survival points are needed for a 10-minute time fuze!"

[Detected creation requirements. The time fuze is found (length 10 minutes) and the survival points required are 20 points.]

"So cheap?"

Flipping the introduction card, Su Mo was surprised to find that the time fuze only needed 2 points a minute. For every minute it extended, the demand would increase by 2 points.

After thinking about it, Su Mo spent generously and exchanged 3 sticks of 10 minutes, 5 sticks of 5 minutes, and 15 sticks of 3 minutes.

He spent a total of 200 survival points.

What appeared this time was a very simple object, looking just like a string. It just needed to be ignited and it would slowly start to burn. When the time was up, it would ignite the gunpowder in the middle of the explosive pack…

Boom!

Turning his head and looking at the darkening sky outside, Su Mo mouthed the word, "boom"!

"It won't take long…"

"Early tomorrow morning, I'll let the kobolds know what art truly is!"

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Chapter 91: Second Week On The Wasteland, Drastic Changes On The Camp

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 14]

[You have obtained a piece of information that is important to you (Survival points 5)]

[You have comprehended basic forging skills for the first time and opened a new chapter on the road of forging (Survival points 200)]

[You have comprehended basic experimentation skills for the first time and opened a new chapter on the road of the experiments (Survival points 200)]

[You have created a powerful weapon for the first time, but it is not completed yet (Survival points 50)]

[Milestone:Your electricity consumption exceeds 100 units (Survival points 100)]

[Milestone: Your diesel consumption exceeds 100L (Survival points 100)]

[Milestone: Successfully lived to the end of the second week of the doomsday wasteland (Survival points 20)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 202 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 877

Survival points remaining: 1974

"You little fellas are clingy. When I have time, I will make a nest for you!"

Sitting up on the bedside, Su Mo stroked both Big Spark and Little Spark who were lying on the bed while checking the survival points from today's system evaluation.

Su Mo had spent almost 700 points yesterday, and did not expect his remaining points to increase by 900 points. Not only did it not decrease, but he accumulated more survival points instead.

"The temperature is dropping so fast. It feels like the temperature of the shelter now is about five or six degrees!"

Unfolding the quilt, a cold wind gushed in, taking away the little heat that was left from the previous night.

Big Spark and Small Spark had been grumbling all night because of the cold, so Su Mo had simply hugged both the little ones to sleep on the bed.

The second disaster was not going to be as easy as surviving the novice disaster of acid rain.

The continuous low temperatures and the snowstorm of minus 20 degrees for 72 hours was just the most "delicious" part of the disaster "dish".

However, the biggest threat to mankind in the wasteland was the gradual decrease in temperature at the beginning stages.

For a week, the temperature had dropped to eight or nine degrees below zero every night. Underground shelters could still store heat due to the terrain but, for some wooden shelters above ground, where the cold wind blew in at night, it would be difficult to endure.

The cold restricted search and exploration activities, and the already scarce supplies would be even harder to collect.

When the blizzard came, they would have to survive for more than 72 hours on those supplies and would even have to endure a further ten more days for the snow to melt.

"It's an absolute survival test. In this case, if humans want to survive, they can only hold on to each other to keep warm…"

Su Mo rinsed his mouth while watching everyone's comments on the World Chat channel.

Almost everyone was in a bad situation. Even some large shelters that seemed to have two or three hundred people were having a hard time at the moment.

The surrounding trees had already been hewed endlessly. If more wood was needed, they would have to travel out farther.

These people did not have a hundred disaster resistance points to increase their storage space extravagantly. After cutting the wood, they would still have to carry them back.

When you calculated things in that manner, and compared the loss of a large amount of physical strength with the price of food, some activities were not even worthwhile doing at all.

"Glub glub~" After spitting out all the mouthwash to the side of the culture medium, Su Mo remained in thought as he closed the chat panel.

"Transactions still have to be made."

"These people have a lot of good things in their hands. It seems that I have to accumulate some food, and then find a way to exchange it for something valuable."

Looking at the place where the food was stored, Su Mo's heart came alive.

As long as these explosive packs worked well today, he would be able to turn the Kobold's camp upside down.

By that time, the piles of treasure chests would definitely contain a lot of food. If he brought that food in exchange for materials that were in short supply, then both sides would get what they desire, and he would reap a bloody profit!

Thinking of this, Su Mo became excited, and immediately took out two bowls of flour and cooked a pot of noodles.

If one did not want to be hungry while working outside, then one had to have oil in their stomach.

Su Mo poured the hot mustard on the bowl of noodles and scattered some hot oil over it, throwing in some dehydrated vegetables. The taste was really solid!

After eating a bowl of noodles, he drank a large cup of psychic energy water and had another two cans of yellow peaches.

Sitting on the stone bench, Su Mo felt that there were more prospects for his future life.

When he first came to the wasteland, Su Mo only dared to think about surviving another day.

At present, Su Mo not only wanted to live, but he also wanted to live well! To live with hope!

"When this disaster is over, I should also get in contact with the shelter next to me. It isn't a good thing for me to remain closed up!"

After greeting Oreo, who had some good food and drink, they were ready to set off.

Standing in the storage room, Su Mo took all the sundries out, and placed the explosive packs made last night into the storage space based on their different weight categories.

Three bottles of psychic energy water, two bowls of oil-sprinkled noodles, binoculars, lighters, helmets…

After checking all the supplies and putting on his equipment, Su Mo used the old TV to detect if there was any danger in the vicinity. Picking up Oreo, Su Mo strode over to open the door and walked out.

He entered the passcode and the bolt retracted.

As soon as he opened the door, he was immediately greeted by the biting cold wind, causing Su Mo to shiver all over.

"It's so cold. It's probably about zero degrees outside now, right?"

They walked out the door and there were gusts of wind and sand everywhere. On the weeds on the ground, they could even see the frost condensing.

"Woof~ whoop~ woooo~"

Oreo was not afraid of the cold and became abnormally excited. She was standing on the small hill, howling toward the distance!

Su Mo opened the basement door and fired up the engine. After the engine had warmed up, Su Mo got in and drove out.

"Oreo, let's go. Stop howling, I am the only man in a ten-mile radius, so don't think too much about it!" said Su Mo.

Su Mo watched Oreo as she ran over obediently to sit in the back seat and fasten her seatbelt. Su Mo smiled and released the brakes.

Slowly, the wheels began to roll forward and, as Su Mo stepped on the accelerator, it sprinted forward like an arrow released from the bow.

Although Magoo's desert race buggy was a bit similar in appearance to conventional buggies, its other attributes were far better.

Even the chassis of this car was much higher than that of conventional buggies.

Magoo also evaluated the full range of requirements for traveling through the wilderness terrain, and had finally built such a powerful off-road desert buggy.

When driving through the wastelands in such poor road conditions, a good chassis would isolate most of the resulting vibrations.

After driving for about fifty kilometers, Su Mo stopped at the usual place and prepared to climb the high slope to monitor the surroundings.

However, when the sounds from the buggy's engine subsided, Su Mo heard some noise coming from the front.

Climbing carefully, Su Mo got up the high slope in a few smooth motions. He took out his binoculars and looked at the Kobold saltpeter mining camp.

He was surprised at the scene before him.

It had only been four or five days, but the size of the saltpeter mining camp had increased more than twofold!

This doubling did not mean that just the number of houses in the camp had increased, but also that the fortifications used for combat defense had doubled.

There used to be two towers, but now it has been increased to six!

Two on the side and four on the front!

Right in front of the camp, there were sharp weapons used to restrain cavalry in ancient times on the earth—cheval de frise!

Within three meters of the camp, there were also densely scattered wooden barbed spikes that made Su Mo's scalp numb when he looked at it.

Barbed spikes like these, Su Mo did not doubt their power.

If someone rushed up, there would only be one outcome. That person would be skewered on it like a "kebab".

Expanding his field of vision, Su Mo could not help but let out a shocked gasp.

"Gosh, what kind of monster is this…"

On a few of the barbed spikes, Su Mo saw a few "kebabs" whose bodies had not yet been removed.

The blood was still dripping, accompanied by the mangled flesh, from the barbed spikes as if a tragic battle had taken place here not long ago.

Several kobold warriors were holding spears, walking through the barbed spikes, and from time to time they used their spears to give a few extra stabs to one or two monsters.

On every guard tower, Su Mo saw six kobold mages in groups, standing guard and looking down.

After putting down the binoculars and taking a break, Su Mo focused again and looked at the monster that was stringed up.

"This creature also seems to be a half-human creature. It seems to be the cat-like creature I came across previously? Is it from the cat or the lion species?"

All the monsters had their backs turned in his direction, so Su Mo could not clearly identify their features from this distance.

As Su Mo adjusted the binoculars and looked even further to the rear, he was surprised to find that the kobold camp had three…

Catapults!

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"Good gracious. Kento Maeda, this bastard, developed this kind of weapon for the kobolds. It's no wonder the opponent can't get in."

Sweeping his vision across the ground, Su Mo saw a lot of broken boulder fragments. Besides the fragments, the ground had also been stained blood red, looking extremely terrifying.

The catapults were huge.

Beside them, there were dozens of human beings hurriedly conducting maintenance nearby. Some were carrying some big stones and placing them aside.

In the center of the camp, he could vaguely make out the figures of Kento Maeda and the kobolds, and…

Several treasure chests had been opened, but had yet to disappear!

"No wonder this scoundrel developed so quickly. It turns out that this wage earner sought refuge from the kobolds by helping them to deal with an unspecified species. Perhaps there is no reward when a kobold kills an enemy, but if a human kills one, there would definitely be treasure chest rewards."

"The bug in the system was caught by this person! No, the kobolds gain from this as well and their strength will become even stronger!"

"Damn the scumbag!"

Lying on the hillside, Su Mo licked his flakings lips, a murderous intent growing inside his heart.

The better Maeda's development was, the worse it was going to be for his neighbors.

"I really can't prolong this anymore. If this guy gets lucky with a treasure chest and finds a gun, my only long-range advantage will be gone. By the time that comes, I'll have no choice but to submit to them!"

Su Mo stood up and slid down the hillside.

The distance was still too far, and Su Mo did not know the layout of the camp very well. Unless he could capture those catapults and launch all the explosive packs in, it would be an idiotic dream to attack directly.

However, Su Mo did not lose confidence.

Since the two sides were at war, there was no need for him to take personal risks. Perhaps to reverse the war, all he had to do was…

Just pour oil onto the fire!

Su Mo's gaze grew sharper and his mind quickly turned.

He continued to drive along the crummy road slowly, at the speed of 20 yards per second. He kept on driving for 20 to 30 kilometers.

Su Mo stopped along the sides around the hillside, got out of the buggy from time to time, and moved according to the traces on the ground.

"Oreo, do you sense them yet?" He held out a fistful of golden hair to Oreo's nose.

After sniffing it, Oreo barked twice and barked toward the front-right direction.

"This direction…"

The currently unknown species of creatures were located to the south of the saltpeter mining camp. The kobold castle was in the north, and this middle camp was coincidentally a buffer point for both sides.

Reaching the plains, the buggy traveled at high speed. After about twenty or thirty minutes, at the end of his line of sight, the nest of these unknown species of creatures appeared.

Su Mo parked the buggy in a recessed terrain and hid it carefully, before quickly ascending to higher ground to observe the surroundings with the binoculars.

Not far from him, about two kilometers away, the sparsely-grouped monsters sat on the ground, seemingly demoralized because of the defeat.

Su Mo took out the binoculars and saw them clearly this time.

"It turns out to be the lion people…"

In the camp, smoke from the cooking rose wafted the houses and hung inconspicuously in the distant sky.

On the whole, the lion people's clan was more like a small, well-organized village.

Compared to the castle of the kobolds that looked like the nouveau riche, the lion people looked a lot poorer.

The wooden houses were neatly scattered across the wasteland. At the edge of the wooden houses there were huge logs neatly stacked in place.

There were a large number of these giant logs, each with a diameter of more than eighty centimeters, that were placed in three directions surrounding the village, leaving only the front accessible for people to pass through.

"One, two… thirty…"

Su Mo tried to estimate the number of lion people in the village.

Their numbers seemed to be far inferior to that of the kobolds. In such a large camp, if you roughly counted them, there were not more than a thousand of them.

Especially in the center of the clan, where there was a large group of wounded soldiers seated at this time.

Including the wounded soldiers and the intact warriors, plus the other lion people from the clans, it was doubtful that there were even five hundred warriors in fighting shape.

On the contrary, the kobolds had around one or two thousand of them in the castle. The difference in the levels of strength on both sides was obvious.

"Are the lion people crazy? They are overestimating their abilities. Are they planning to attack other people's castles with just the flesh and bones on their bodies?"

After scanning through the lion people's slack defense, Su Mo clicked his tongue, not knowing how to evaluate the lion people's unexpectedly shoddy operation.

If one knew how to use fireballs, one could knock down this saltpeter mining camp, and that would be understandable.

But the problem now was…

What advantages did the lion people, who could only use the wind magic, have in order to win this battle? Was there a conflict because of the differing races?

Su Mo could not figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.

Su Mo put down the binoculars, and checked once again that there were no problems with the equipment on his body. He then slowly moved forward.

As the giant logs were blocking the line of sight, and the lion people did not have a surveillance structure like the watchtower, Su Mo managed to reach a distance of one kilometer away from the lion people's camp after carefully avoiding their line of sight.

If he continued to move forward, Su Mo had to worry about being discovered by them.

"The lion people's camp seems to have more loopholes than the kobold's camp…" Laying on the ground and thinking of the dozens of kilograms of explosives in the storage space, Su Mo quickly thought about the pros and cons.

With the current amount of explosives he had, it may be too difficult to beat the kobolds, but they were enough to blow up these lions!

Even if all the lion people could not be killed, relying on the chaos the explosions would cause, Su Mo was confident that he could successfully disrupt their positions.

The rewards at the end of it would be gratifying!

"On the other hand…With these lion people around, they could balance out and resist the currently powerful kobolds. Otherwise, I would have to face Kento Maeda straight on…"

"Let's see if I can form an alliance with these lion people for a while. At the very least, I have to figure out a way to disrupt the development speed of the Kobolds."

Lowering his head, Su Mo moved forward quickly.

After walking forward about five hundred meters, Su Mo stopped and continued to observe the situation.

This time, Su Mo could see more!

In the center of the lion people's camp, there were approximately a hundred wounded soldiers and over two hundred soldiers in good condition.

Looking around, Su Mo located the only elder lion creature wearing a robe among all the lions, and…

"There are human captives caught by these damn lions!"

"I knew it… after coming to the wasteland, all foreign races are enemies. These beasts!"

On the side of the camp, dozens of human beings were tied onto a huge wood.

Observing with the binoculars, Su Mo felt frigid and infuriated.

The men were tied to the wood, the flesh in the key areas of their body had already gone missing, and the blood shed had already stained the wood behind them and the earth under their feet.

Su Mo could not see the expressions on their faces from this distance, but his imagination filled in the gaps; he could only fathom the pain of being skinned alive while being tied up!

As for the pots of meat that were brought out to feed the wounded and the soldiers at this time, Su Mo dared not think about where that meat had come from!

"Damn it! The human race is inherently slow in development. Only once we amassed a large number of basic tools would it be possible for us to contend with these supernatural races!"

"In this race for the survival of all creatures, humans were already on the backfoot from the beginning!"

Kobolds were beasts, but Su Mo had at least seen humans working with them. As for these lions… they should all die!!!

Relieving the urge to blow up the lion people's camp to the sky, Su Mo continued to look around coldly…

The features of the male and female lion people were very distinguishable.

The ones with a mane wreathed around their necks were males, and the bare ones were lionesses.

As for the elder lion person, Su Mo watched for a while…

"Well, it seems this is the leader of this lion camp, and it looks like it is a female!"

The Lioness stood in the center of the circle, surrounded by wounded soldiers and warriors, seemingly shouting to boost morale.

As the meat was served, the Lioness raised her staff, and all the lion people cheered for a while and began to eat.

It was originally a harmonious scene but, in Su Mo's eyes, it was like hell on earth.

This group of uncivilized beasts treated all other races as food. Even if these creatures had evolved a human body and some slight intelligence, they were still beasts!

"Wait… Intelligence?"

Looking at the Lioness who was still speaking in the center, a bold idea came to Su Mo!

"The lion people have lost the battle with the kobolds. They are also aware that humans helped the kobolds to defend their camp. If I also show a certain degree of strength and will to help them, would it be possible to…"

"Expel the wolves by steering the tigers! And let the whole situation re-enter a balanced state!"

The situation suddenly became more complicated, and Su Mo's mind raced with various thoughts.

Compared to the danger of going out, with these two timebombs located near his shelter, one should instead be careful of the attacks of these beasts when one sleeps at night.

How could he allow an enemy to sleep so soundly beside his nest?

If he could create conflict between the lion people and the kobolds, it would be Su Mo, who was weak in comparison, who could profit from the chaos.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this strategy would work!

Su Mo stood up and patted off the dirt from his body. He signaled Oreo to wait where she was and not to move from her spot. Su Mo then turned on the electric switch on his boots and walked forward tentatively.

After he approached the three-hundred meter mark, the lion people on the opposite side noticed Su Mo's existence and began to yowl.

In the distance, Su Mo held aloft the leftover moldy sheets from yesterday in his hands. He waved over his head, indicating a friendly demeanor.

The lion people from the opposite side understood it as well. They did not attack rashly, but bellowed threateningly, beckoning Su Mo to not continue moving forward.

Tentatively closing the distance to one hundred meters, he confirmed that the lion people had no long-range attack abilities or the tendencies to attack. Su Mo felt relieved and stopped moving forward.

Separated by a hundred meters on both sides, Su Mo waved the floral bedsheet in his hand, while the lion people raised their spears and roared, forming a strange balance.

There were more than two hundred healthy warriors in the camp, but no one dared to rush out hastily.

Seeing this scene, Su Mo was overjoyed.

"It was a correct gamble. This group of lion people possess intelligence, just like the kobolds. I can try to communicate with them!"

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Chapter 93: Charge! Lion Clan's Bomb!

The lion people in the distance saw Su Mo stop and seemed to realize something.

In Su Mo's vision, all the lion people turned their heads almost at the same time toward the Lioness standing in the center of the camp.

The eyes of the elder Lioness lacked some of the feral ferocity of a beast, instead having traces of more humanlike wisdom.

Looking at Su Mo, who was still waving the sheets, the elder lion nodded and said something unknown to the other lion people around her. Suddenly, a fierce roar rang out.

However, the elder was no doubt the leader!

Her prestige gave her power over the group. Within a few minutes, Su Mo saw her wielding her staff, and a magical small whirlwind appeared on her feet.

Striding out of the village, the elder Lioness moved extremely fast, though Su Mo's eyes could roughly estimate the speed.

'If I turn on the electric power for assistance, my speed can reach around 100 meters every ten seconds, whereas the speed of this lioness is slightly below mine. This can still be done!'

The distance between the both of them continued to decrease, Su Mo had also dropped the sheets he had been holding, placing it back into the storage space with a wave of his hand.

Su Mo could see that, after he performed that act, the Lioness's eyes were a little alarmed, but there was also a trace of delight.

After the distance between the two of them closed to 15 meters, coincidentally, Su Mo took a step back while the Lioness stopped her running pace.

"Awooo~ Aw~"

"Hello!" Fearing that the other party would not understand, Su Mo made a friendly handshake gesture. The Lioness stepped two steps back in alarm.

'Huh, am I so scary?'

Looking at the Lioness's reaction, Su Mo touched his head embarrassedly.

However, Su Mo did not know that in the eyes of the Lioness, whether it was his armor or combat uniform, they were symbols of strength.

The more sophisticated the equipment, the stronger the combat ability it implied.

Similarly, this was the reason why the lion clan had not hunted him for meat as usual, but were instead willing to come over and negotiate!

Having just met with defeat, their clan could no longer withstand a second traumatic experience.

In their eyes, Su Mo… could only be a friend, not an enemy!

"Awoo, awo"

"I'm here to help you, I'm not in the same group with them."

After some attempts at conversing, Su Mo experienced the difficulty of communicating between races.

Thankfully, when he was lying on the ground and spying on the kobolds, he had observed the communication gestures between Maeda Kento and the kobolds for half an hour; knowledge which came in handy at this time.

After a period of both parties stumbling over communication, Su Mo finally made the Lioness understand the purpose of his trip this time.

At the moment, although the Lioness's eyes were still guarded, they held a little more joy in them.

The reason why the lion clan could not beat their enemies; they knew the reason too well…

Help from a human!

Whether it was the barbed spikes, cheval de frise, catapults, or the camp layout… these were the embodiment of human "wisdom".

Now that Su Mo indicated his desire to help the lion clan, it was like sending charcoal in the midst of winter. The Lioness was about to tear up.

After confirming that there were no issues with the communication between the two parties, Su Mo gestured for Oreo to come over. She cautiously ran over from behind.

This time, the Lioness, who had already let down her guard, suddenly swung her staff and withdrew without looking back.

The lion people in the village started behaving as if they were facing an enemy, taking a battle-ready position, and preparing to rush out for a big battle.

"Oreo, tell them your identity and tell them that I'm here to talk about forming an alliance!" Seeing the situation worsen, Su Mo hurriedly shouted.

Oreo, who ran behind him, nodded immediately and howled to the sky.

"Awoo~oo~"

The energetic howl was mixed in with Oreo's kind intentions and the escaping Lioness slowed her pace and turned her head around curiously.

"Awoo, wooo, woof, awoo~" Oreo barked in a proficient dialect, with her tongue flicking as she communicated quickly.

The Lioness from the other side had not thought that Oreo was an ordinary little translator. She turned around curiously, "Aw aw?"

"Awoo! Woo!"

Su Mo could not join in the conversation between the two, so he could only stand aside and watch on helplessly.

Approximately four or five minutes later, the Lioness seemed to have received some important news and, with joy on her face, she shouted to the back.

The lion people standing on the hillside, who were initially alert, were stunned for two seconds before cheering in jubilation!

Watching the enthusiastic Lioness walk over, once again reaching the fifteen-meter mark, Su Mo saw Oreo nodding to her from the side.

Although Oreo's affirmation had been obtained, Su Mo still felt a strong sense of insecurity as he watched the alien race approach.

Clenching his fist, he forcibly restrained the urge to summon the electric spear.

Looking at the lioness who was walking toward him, Su Mo stretched out his hand in a handshake. The Lioness was taken aback, before putting her little furry hand in.

In the sunlight, Su Mo's face showed a slight smile.

Unfortunately, the Lioness did not notice the coldness and trace of murderous intent in Su Mo's eyes.

Su Mo had obtained false friendship from the lion clan, and the two sides temporarily reached an alliance. What came next went very smoothly.

With Oreo's help, Su Mo the conversation the Lioness went back and forth, one sentence at a time, interspersed with Oreo's translations.

The scenario where the both of them struggled to understand each other had passed.

Language has always been the biggest barrier in communicating between the different races.

Compared with the alliance between Kento Maeda and the kobolds, Su Mo believed that the alliance between the lion people and him would be much stronger!

"Oreo, tell them that I have a weapon that can help them successfully enter the kobold camp on the other side, but…"

"Why are you looking at me, translate the "but" part to them…"

Hearing Su Mo's words, Oreo rolled her eyes and started translating.

Listening to the first half of the sentence, the Lioness showed uncontrollable joy on her face, especially when she heard the middle part of the sentence, she could not help but howl in excitement.

Then when she heard Oreo's "but", the Lioness immediately showed a "confused" expression.

"The biggest reason I'm going to help you deal with the kobolds is that the group of humans there have offended me. The kobolds are relatives of Oreo. If I help you deal with them, my conscience is uneasy."

"Especially when I dream at night, when I think of Oreo on this wasteland, with fewer brothers and sisters, that she'll be all alone in the future, not even being able to find a mate. When I think about those thoughts, my heart aches!!"

At this point, Su Mo's direction changed.

"So, if you want to deal with them…"

"You have to add money!"

This time, Oreo understood what Su Mo meant and a humanlike smirk appeared on her dog face, and she began to translate.

The Lioness on the opposite side was taken aback for a while, and when she understood what Su Mo meant, she nodded immediately!

Turning her head, the Lioness yelled twice in the direction of the camp. After hearing the order, the lion warriors hesitated for a while before quickly retreating.

After a while, a large object was lifted out.

Even looking at it from a distance, Su Mo was going to go foolish with glee!

Six lion warriors, each responsible for holding one spot, laboriously lifted out a machine attached with propeller blades.

Su Mo was not unfamiliar with it at all. It was the power source that could be used on yachts or ships.

An outboard motor!

This thing was not small, especially considering the thick propeller blades, which would increase its weight significantly.

"The lion people look very poor, but they possess such valuables?"

"What do they use this thing for anyway? Do they want to start this thing up and turn people to death using the propeller blades?"

Ha hoo, ha hoo!

It was difficult for the lion people who were not too powerful to move the object. They moved it to about 20 meters between the two parties. Following the order of the Lioness, the six of them put down the object and returned.

Clapping her hands, the Lioness looked at Su Mo with triumphant eyes.

Obtaining this valuable item, Su Mo did not deliberately make things difficult for them as well. He went straight to the spot where the outboard motor was located and collected it into the storage space with a wave of his hand.

At this time, in the storage space, other than the weapons and the two bowls of oil-spattered noodles with water, the only items left inside were the explosion packs stacked together.

Su Mo slightly adjusted the positions of the items, and the outboard motor was placed in the storage space.

Seeing Su Mo's gesture, the Lioness's smile became wider. She was getting more satisfied with this powerful "ally"!

"Oreo, tell her that I am very satisfied with this object, so now I can show her the power of our weapons!"

After Oreo relayed the communication, the Lioness's head nodded repeatedly. Su Mo's heart was heavy when he took out a catty of explosives from the storage space and removed the tape on it. After separating half the amount, he took out the two-minute lead wire.

Su Mo quickly inserted the fuze into the gunpowder, then dug a hole in a spot, and placed the explosive pack down.

"Wait a minute, tell her to retreat quickly after this is ignited. This thing here is very powerful. It will be deadly if we are slow to retreat!" Giving a solemn reminder and watching the Lioness's nervous expression, Su Mo lowered his body, took out the lighter, and lit up the wire.

Crackle, crackle.

After the time fuze was ignited, it started to burn in small segments.

Su Mo shouted, and the three of them quickly retreated.

On the way back, Su Mo suddenly felt lighter on his feet. When he looked down, he was surprised to find two small whirlwinds had appeared on his feet.

Like a special effect, the small whirlwind hovered over his ankles, assisting with Su Mo's running motion.

"Is this magic…what an amazing power!" Turning his head, and seeing the Lioness's face full of kind intentions, Su Mo's heart was slightly moved.

This kind of power comes and goes without a trace.

Compared to the kobold's fireball technique, this kind of wind technique was even more astonishing.

"Boom!"

Before Su Mo could continue to feel the wind magic on his feet, a huge impact surged from behind them, knocking them all down at once.

Countless shards of gravel exploded into the sky, pelting everyone's heads like rain.

The Lioness did not expect such great power. When she turned her head around, she was in complete shock.

At the spot where the picric acid bomb was placed, yellow clouds rose and dispersed into the sky.

In the same spot, a deep pit with a diameter of about two or three meters had appeared instantly, and there was still a large amount of bomb smoke drifting out from the pit.

"Aw… aw… awoooo?"

She fell, sitting down on the ground. There was an undisguisable sense of panic and shock present within the eyes of the Lioness.

This kind of terrifying power was akin to heaven's punishment in her eyes. It was not inferior to the huge boulders dropped from the sky by the catapults.

In fact, this was even more powerful!

"Oreo, tell her that the artifact I want to give to them is four to five times more terrifying than this but, if they want to use the power of this thing, they will need a fearless warrior!"

Receiving Su Mo's instructions, Oreo began to relay his words. As if to ensure its accuracy, Oreo spoke very slowly and worded each phrase strictly this time.

Su Mo could feel that Oreo had emphasized the pronunciation of the words "four to five times" and "fearless warrior".

Given such a clear explanation, the Lioness was not a fool either. She understood immediately, showing a serious expression on her face.

Standing up, the Lioness took the initiative to stretch out her hand, and the two shook hands to express kind intentions.

The next moment, raising her head, the Lioness roared into the sky, and the lion clan warriors who were still paralyzed on the ground all stood up and began to gather.

The three of them walked back in the direction of the camp and arrived in front of the warriors that had already assembled themselves.

"Such a tough and tenacious bunch. Compared to the kobolds, the fighting spirit of these defeated lion people is too terrifying. They can still gather morale after being beaten and defeated."

Seeing the neat troop formation before him, Su Mo clicked his tongue silently.

At the same time, he raised his estimation of the Lioness in front of him slightly higher than before.

Following that, Su Mo did not speak further, but quietly watched as the lion clan began to move.

In the end, a lion warrior who looked stronger than the others came forth, picking up his spear and roaring to the skies.

At the same time, the Lioness glanced over and nodded in his direction.

"It's him? It's not surprising though, only such a strong warrior will be able to exert the full power of the explosives!"

Seeing the lion warrior approaching, Su Mo instructed Oreo to ask for a piece of rope from the lion people's camp. While he was doing that, he took out three of the 3-catty explosive packs from the storage space and, together with the remaining half a catty that had been left from before, and tied it around with tape.

Su Mo held the rope and motioned for the warrior to open his hands. He tied the explosive pack firmly to the warrior's hands, took out a two-minute lead wire, and inserted it into the pack.

The lead wire was placed along the lion warrior's leather clothing, running all the way up to the neck.

"Oreo, tell him that as long as he rushes to the entrance of the camp and lights this thread, he can bring all those kobolds in the defenses to hell together!"

Solemnly patting the lion warrior on the shoulder, Su Mo gave him a look of respect.

Brother, I respect you as a brave person!

The glory of his clan drove the lion warrior to raise his head and howl to the sky, not being afraid of death at all.

After thinking about it, Su Mo took out his lighter and solemnly handed it over to the lion warrior. He taught him how to use it.

This time, with the help of an incredible weapon, the morale of the lion clan was unprecedentedly terrifying. The team of three to four hundred lion people sallied forth in a mighty manner.

Surrounded by the troop of lion people, Su Mo and the others walked in the direction of the kobolds' camp.

Along the way, the Lioness enchanted everyone with the wind spell, marching quickly toward the camp.

It was dozens of kilometers of road, but this group of lion people only took less than two hours to arrive at the nearest hillside.

"Aw! Aaw!" The Lioness yelled uneasily and, after receiving Su Mo's repeated affirmation, she roared!

Hundreds of the injured warriors rushed forward, and three hundred intact lion warriors took cover quietly.

Among the crowd of wounded soldiers, the lion warrior carrying the explosive pack lowered his head, remaining completely inconspicuous.

When the lion clan charged, even if he could have been faster, he still stuck with the crowd with patience.

"You can do it, Moore!"

The lion warrior secretly cheered himself on in his heart and, at the same time, he estimated the remaining distance. He took out the lighter and pressed it, and the ensuing flame from the lighter ignited the fuze that had been firmly grasped in his hand.

Crackle, crackle.

The lead wire began to burn down his neck, igniting his fur along the way, and leaving burn marks on his skin.

However, this pain was not enough to extinguish the fighting spirit of the lion warrior named "Moore".

Hunched over, he looked at the remaining distance of less than 100 meters. Around him, more and more wounded lion warriors were being blown into mangled pieces of flesh by the kobold mages on the guard tower. Moore's eyes flashed with tears, but he gritted his teeth and rushed forward, breaking out from the crowd.

This time, the kobolds realized the anomaly that was this lion warrior as well.

Strong muscles, strong thighs, smooth mane, and…that tough animal face!

"The lion clan, charge!"

"The lion clan will never die!"

"The lion clan, all glory is with us!"

Moore yelled three times in a row. In the eyes of the kobolds and the humans behind them, Moore dashed forward like a fool.

Everyone was looking at Moore's trajectory, and they did not seem to understand how he was going to rush in with the tall walls and doors barring his path.

The next moment, as he closed the distance, Moore pulled off the animal skin clothing on his body and threw it aside, revealing the bright explosive pack underneath.

The explosive pack covered by floral sheets and tape looked ridiculous.

The kobold mages standing behind the door and guard towers started laughing!

Kento Maeda, who was supervising the battle from the rear, heard the laughter. He turned around curiously and looked towards the gateway.

"Oh no, it's an explosive, get down quickly!"

Seeing the familiar explosive pack and the ferociousness on Moore's face, Kento Maeda felt his scalp almost explode. While yelling, he crawled back down quickly.

The kobolds, who were preparing for a battle at the gates and towers, were at a loss watching all the humans quickly flee toward the back and lying prone on the ground. Their faces were etched with a look of bewilderment!

However…

Boom!

A huge sun rose slowly from the entrance of the camp and even Su Mo, who was 500 meters away, was terrified by the huge impact!

The little yellow mushroom cloud rose from the ground and gradually dissipated into the air.

The ground was blown up, ejecting rocks and gravel chaotically, and the air was filled with smoke and dust.

After the field of vision became a little clearer, everyone fixed their eyes forward and found that…

The gates of the camp that the kobolds prided themselves on had disappeared. Replacing it was a large pit with a diameter of over ten meters.

All four frontal guard towers had disappeared along with any kobolds near the gates.

In the entire camp, there were only a few dozen kobolds left standing behind…

"Aawaawawwaawaaw!" The Lioness stood up and yelled, and the three hundred lion warriors launched a charge.

After a meaningful glance at Su Mo, the Lioness quickly followed suit.

Lying in the trenches, Su Mo silently took out the old mobile phone from the storage space.

Looking at the new lion people who appeared below the humans and kobolds on the search list, Su Mo gave an inexplicable smile.

Lowering his body, Su Mo hurtled swiftly along the trench.

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Chapter 94: Those Who Are Not Of Our Kin Are Sure To Be Of A Different Heart

The lion clan's wind spell at his feet had not yet worn off. Although the whirlwind was not as strong as before, it was still functioning while Su Mo ran.

Assisted by both electrical and magical means, Su Mo's movement speed was abnormally fast.

Standing on a high slope, he finally glanced toward the camp below that had been turned into a messy battlefield. Seeing that the humans had already fled, Su Mo resolutely turned his head and left the scene.

War is cruel!

Especially ethnic conflicts!

Su Mo was not sure whether, after getting rid of these kobolds, the lion clan would change targets and focus on him, the person who "sent charcoal in the winter".

"Those who are not our kin are sure to be of a different persuasion. Compared to the lion people, I am alone and am but a single person. Excluding the explosive packs… if we were to talk about fighting this type of enemy, who is unafraid of death, I alone am not their match at this time…"

"I can only seek victory in the chaos. It is only when the situation has become a mess that I will have the opportunity to reap some benefits!"

The more unfamiliar species and potential enemies there were, the more insecurity Su Mo felt in his heart.

The lion clan that seemingly collaborated with him was simply the case of two parties coincidentally being able to benefit each other in this situation. If the lion clan found out the secrets of the explosives, then there would be no way for Su Mo to retaliate.

Ordinary people would take a knife and approach a group of gangsters to negotiate terms. Su Mo would naturally not do such a stupid thing.

"There are at least thousands of powerful figures in the kobold castle. The lion clan seemed to be presumptuous this time, but in fact they did not win the battle. They only captured the first outpost. When the kobolds return to retaliate, that would be when the lion clan's real nightmare begins."

"I need to take advantage of this time…"

While running, Su Mo operated the phone in his hand.

Like Hua Xia's old phones, the interface of the "Ginoa" phone was rather similar.

With just a few attempts, Su Mo had found the place to switch on the network settings.

Excluding the three networks of Yi Xin, Dian Tong and Lian Dong, he could freely select from the remaining networks in the interface.

At this time, the network symbolizing the lion people flashed, and a miniaturized version of the lion people's avatar appeared behind it.

Without hesitation, Su Mo switched on the network. After three to five seconds of waiting, the main interface of the phone began to change.

"What a great thing, the map within fifty kilometers is visible to me just like that!"

Slowing down, Su Mo carefully looked at the small dots in the middle of the screen.

The signs symbolizing the small green dot were at the bottom, and the signs symbolizing the big and small red dots were at the top and bottom.

The big dot represented the lion people who had charged into battle just now. When he tried to turn at an angle, Su Mo could immediately determine the position of the remaining lion people.

Coincidentally it happened to be along the southeast of the camp, about 50 kilometers away from here.

"It seems that the lion people left some clansmen to guard the camps just now, but this is fine. At least I've confirmed their location."

Going back along the way that he had passed through with the lion people, Su Mo drank two mouthfuls of psychic energy water to restore his strength. He then continued on his way, taking Oreo with him.

At this time, the lion clan's camps were empty, so it was a good time to steal.

Regarding a species that could judge when to advance or retreat, and could regain their morale even after suffering a severe defeat, Su Mo was even more worried about the lion people than the kobolds.

Once the lion clan gets rid of the kobolds, with the ability to come and go like the wind and being unafraid of death, they would be headache-inducing neighbors more than anything else.

As his steps no longer were burdened by the wounded lion warriors, Su Mo managed to return to the village in just over an hour.

Lying prone on the ground, Su Mo slowly moved his body forward and inched closer to the rear of the lion clan's camp.

Generally speaking, most people would find the defense to be weaker at the rear than the front, and the lion clan was no exception to this rule.

After half an hour, Su Mo had moved behind a giant log at the rear of the village; this position already being exceedingly close to the interior of the lion people's camp.

Through the gaps between the giant logs, Su Mo could even see individuals of the lion clan playing and frolicking about in the village.

"I can't wait any longer. I'll have to quickly blow up this place and run away after taking all the loot!!"

After checking that there were no strong opponents in the lion people's camp, Su Mo simply took out a ten-catty explosive pack and began to install the fuze on it.

This time, Su Mo chose the ten-minute lead wire to ensure his safety.

However, just when he completed installing the fuze and was about to instruct Oreo where to place it, a strong gust of wind began to rage.

"Damn… what is this?"

Raising his head, Su Mo was shocked to find that, in the center of the lion clan's camp, a hole had suddenly cracked open five meters above the ground.

From this cracked opening, raging gusts of wind blew forth.

When all the lion people waiting in the camp saw the opening, they immediately began to cheer.

"A space crack? It's outrageous, can this thing just casually appear like this?"

The Earth's scientists have explored the endless field of wormholes without ever deriving a data model. Now that this thing had suddenly appeared in front of him, Su Mo suddenly felt his scientific worldview collapse a little.

"If there were scientists researching this around here, I am afraid they would have gone crazy at this point!"

Su Mo muttered to himself, staring at the growing crack without averting his eyes.

The crack was originally five meters, but gradually expanded to about seven meters. As the cracks expanded, it began to slowly make contact with the ground of the wasteland.

All the lion people formed a large circle, staring at the crack in the middle while holding their hands together. They were cheering and turning in circles.

In Su Mo's line of sight, the ten-meter high crack stopped expanding when its edge landed on the ground.

Gradually, the crack rippled, and a furry hand stretched out from it.

Following the extension of the hand, nine lion people came out from the crack carrying a huge log, upon which there was still meat that was not completely dried hanging from it.

Seeing this scene, all the lion people went into an uproar!

The scene soon became uncontrollably chaotic, and the enthusiastic lion people from the camp greeted them, some replacing the roles of the lion people who were carrying things, and others taking off the meat from the huge log and putting it aside.

Teams of lion people carried things out in an orderly manner. It was only when eleven teams of lion people, which was 99 lion people in total, had walked out of it, that the space crack quickly collapsed and shrank.

The raging wind on the plains began to subside and, under the gaze of all the expectant lion people…

A wooden sculpture fell out of the crack in the space, exuding an emerald light…

"Treasure! This is a treasure!"

Lowering his head and glancing at the restless Oreo, Su Mo suddenly felt murderous intent and his eyes focused on the wooden sculpture in the hand of the lion man at the center.

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Chapter 95: Boom! Lion God Sculpture Acquired!

There was no person in charge in the lion clan's camp. After the sculpture fell out, there was chaos in the camp.

All the lion people were kneeling and worshiping as if they had seen their ancestors, and the sound of kowtowing resonated endlessly.

Taking out the binoculars, Su Mo looked at the lion warrior who was holding the wooden sculpture.

In his hand, the wooden sculpture still exuded a bright emerald light. The mystical traits of this sculpture could even be seen in broad daylight.

The wood sculpture was modeled after a lionman and almost seemed lifelike when examined from top to bottom.

Its robe had been engraved with lines that radiated a different kind of beauty. It was a pity that there were no facial features on the head of the wooden sculpture.

The lion's face was blank.

At first glance, it looked mind-boggling. However, it was this very faceless lion sculpture that had all the surrounding lion people worshiping it.

The ceremony continued.

The lion sculpture was passed around quickly from left to right. Every person who got their hands on the wooden sculpture seemed abnormally surprised and would kowtow repeatedly.

Su Mo waited patiently until it was passed to the last person. After passing it to the powerful lion man in the center, the ceremony ended.

The lion people that were gathered together suddenly dispersed.

Under the leadership of the previous lion man, everyone began to walk in an orderly manner to their original positions.

"Good good, keep coming in my direction, come on!"

Looking through the gap between the giant logs, Su Mo watched as the lion warrior walked toward the back of the camp. Su Mo's heartbeat sped up uncontrollably.

There was no strict discipline enforced, so the lion warrior did not know what to do with the wooden sculpture. He thus opened the door of the big house at the rear of the camp and walked into it.

After three to five seconds, the lion warrior walked out again, without a trace of the wooden sculpture on his person.

"An opportunity! I have to obtain this thing before the Lioness comes back. Otherwise, once I set off the bomb, the object might be blown up!"

Seeing the lion warrior gradually walk away, Su Mo could not withhold his inner restlessness any longer and waved his hand through the air.

A shovel with a simple shape, but full of power and beauty, appeared in Su Mo's hands.

It was the only excellent-quality shovel that had been produced by Su Mo among all his other tools.

Su Mo moved to the rear of the big house and looked at the giant logs piled up behind it.Su Mo started digging savagely at the ground in front of the logs!

The shovel had the advanced characteristics of sharpness, labor-saving and resistance reduction after a critical hit. Su Mo dug vigorously.

Under the giant log, a deep pit that could fit half a person through was gradually forming.

As he dug into the deep pit frantically, Su Mo sweated buckets, his every shovel motion applied enough strength to displace large amounts of dirt and mud.

Using the last bit of space in the storage space, Su Mo filled the excavated soil and threw it aside by focusing his will.

In less than ten minutes, Su Mo had forcibly dug out a passage under the giant log that led directly to the back of the house.

"It's great that this house is so close to the giant logs while also coincidentally blocking the line of sight of others, creating this natural opportunity for me!"

Digging through, he saw that there were no lion people on either side and could no longer restrain the joy in his heart. He tilted his body and looked into the back of the house.

"Oreo, is there anyone?" Su Mo said softly.

Seeing that Oreo shook her head cautiously, Su Mo took two deep breaths and took out the iron axe he had made previously from the storage space.

This was the iron axe that witnessed Su Mo's formal achievement of becoming an entry-level craftsman.

The axe's critical hits could cause wood to instantly break apart. After doing a few slow swinging actions, the axe suddenly sunk into the wood, and a piece of wood was carved out.

Fearing that too much damage would cause the house to collapse, Su Mo cautiously cut out a passage.

Peering through the passage, he could see the internal furnishings of the structure.

The outside of the wooden house looked unattractive, but the inside was quite luxurious.

On the right side of the room hung the heads of various species. In the middle, Su Mo even saw several human heads.

"Even children! Damn these alien monsters!"

Seeing the children's skulls on the upper right wall, Su Mo's hands tightened dangerously.

Like the kobolds, these lion people were not creatures with good intentions. They cooperated only because they were frightened and awed by Su Mo's strength.

Under the skull trophies was a wooden bed covered with some thatch. There was no quilt, only some scattered thatch.

In front of the wooden bed, there was a huge wooden table with scattered pieces of parchment on it.

In the middle of the wooden house, there was also a small table, in front of which was some bloody meat and a few cups of an unknown liquid.

"I don't see the wooden sculpture, but it should have been placed on the middle table by the lion warrior."

Because of his angle of view, Su Mo could not see too much. He signaled Oreo to be on alert. He got down and slid into the room with both hands.

[Record: Player Su Mo has entered the core shelter of the species "Lion People". You have the following three options to choose from.

[Record: First, choose to destroy the lion clan's shelter, obtain the core of the damaged safe house, and steal a little of the lion people's divinity.

[Record: Second, steal the lion-man sculpture and give up on destroying the shelter. If you are noticed, you will be hunted by the lion clan forever.

[Record: Third, kill the owner of the lion clan's shelter. Replace the core of the complete safe house, integrate the lion clan's shelter, and obtain the Extraordinary Lion Men Shelter.

The abrupt game panel prompt sounded when Su Mo climbed into the wooden house.

Su Mo, who was still crawling on the ground, was taken aback by the sound.

Focusing silently, the game panel appeared. Looking at the three choices, Su Mo did not hesitate to turn off the panel and stood in the room to look around.

The previous lion-man wood sculpture was placed on the small table in the middle.

Su Mo crouched down and avoided the window. He slowly moved closer and began to focus on the attributes of the lion-man sculpture.

[Lion God (Excellent, Sculpture of Sacrifice)]

[Description: After the lion people won an ethnic battle between one of the more than 300 races, they received a second chance to open the portal. In the selection process, the elder of the lion clan chose to sacrifice 300 people in exchange for the Lion God Sculpture of their ancestor—to obtain combat, life, disaster resistance and comprehensive gains. It is currently in a sacrificial state and has not yet been activated for use.]

[Special abilities:

Sacrifice: After possessing the sculpture, for every 100 foreign enemies sacrificed, a fixed amount of the lion people's divinity will be obtained.

Strength: After the sculpture is activated, every point of divinity consumed, will increase the strength attribute of the owner (for 24 hours).

Stormy Wind Shelter: A shelter with the Lion God sculpture will always receive level 1 blessing of the Extraordinary Lion God.]

[Comment: The convergence of different worlds! Enjoy the magic!]

"Three attributes, and the lion god's blessing. It turns out that the supernatural characteristics of Magoo's shelter were obtained in this way!" Looking at the three attributes, Su Mo exclaimed, unable to help himself.

This strange sculpture of a lion god did not disappoint.

Among the three attributes, other than the first one, the remaining two were extremely useful.

To think that the shelter would soon have a second blessing, Su Mo could not restrain his excitement any longer. He grasped the wooden sculpture and put it into the storage space.

As for the prompt on the game panel about being discovered and hunted down by the lion clan, Su Mo did not even pay it any mind.

As long as it was a foreign race, they would always be considered to be an enemy, unless he had the absolute strength to suppress them.

"According to the description of the system, it seems that the battle of lion people is indeed different from that of humans. As long as humans defeat foreign species, they have a chance to get treasure chest rewards. However, foreign races can open the cracks and summon reinforcements from their clan if they achieve victory in their ethnic conflict."

"The superiority of either party in this conflict is still unknown. However, if I don't get rid of both the lion people and the kobolds, when their numbers increase, it will be a disaster for me in the long run!"

Walking over to the table, Su Mo took down all the parchments and looked at the strange writings and drawings on them. Then he simply stuffed them all into the remaining gaps in the storage space.

After flipping through the cabinet under the table and the cardboard box under the bed, Su Mo once again saw something that had made him green with envy before this…

The Lioness's staff!

"The kobolds use gunpowder to increase the power of their fireballs. I wonder how the lion clan's staff is used."

Focusing mentally, Su Mo tried to summon the system to check its attributes, but like the kobold staff, it yielded no response.

Sheepishly, Su Mo just held it in his arms and squatted down.

All the valuable items in the entire Lion Men's Shelter had been obtained, and probably the only valuable thing left was probably the house itself.

Focusing his will, Su Mo summoned a 1-catty explosive pack into his hand. After placing it in the center of the room, he pulled out a 2-minute lead wire.

Pulling the lead wire, Su Mo quickly backed away, until he got out of the wooden house and the hole under the giant log. He only felt relieved after he got out.

He summoned the system mentally and spent 5 survival points to create a lighter and ignited the lead wire.

Crackle, crackle.

The fuze began to burn rapidly, like a death waltz, gradually leading into the wooden house through the hole under the giant log.

"Dong dong." Su Mo switched on the boost of his electric boots.

Carrying Oreo, Su Mo quickly ran back without bothering to conceal himself.

Under the wilderness, a light breeze was blowing and, as the two-minute timer elapsed, the lion people's shelter suddenly turned into a fiery blaze.

[Record: Congratulations to the player "Su Mo" for destroying the core shelter of the species "Lion People", gaining 500 disaster points.]

[Record: Congratulations to the player "Su Mo" for destroying the core shelter of the species "Lion People", gaining the lion men's divinity*1.]

Su Mo felt the shockwave caused by the explosions behind him. Hearing the prompts from the game panel, Su Mo could not hide his excitement any longer and let out an exhilarated laugh.

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