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 96: Equal Treatment, Linked Chain Explosion

Under the howling winds of the wasteland, the skies full of yellow sand declared war on every creature that walked the wasteland.

Turning his head, Su Mo stood on high ground, his eyes drifting to the chaotic camp of the lion people this time.

The sudden explosion of the base's core shelter threw the otherwise well-organized lion people's camp into pandemonium!

A catty of picric acid explosives was not powerful enough to raze the shelter to the ground.

However, for picric acid, the explosion was secondary. The subsequent violent combustion and the toxic smoke emitted were the primary deadly weapons.

"My fellow countrymen, one day, I, Su Mo, will avenge your grievances! I won't spare any of these lion people!"

Looking at the panicked lion people standing in front of the shelter, as well as the humans in varying, miserable states of deaths on the gigantic logs, the agitation in Su Mo's heart finally calmed down a lot.

The picric acid explosives, made with the saltpeter that had been purified by the psychic energy water, were obviously unusually powerful and terrifying.

Several lion people rushed recklessly into the fire, trying to rescue the Lion God sculpture that had just been placed inside.

However, after inhaling large mouthfuls of the yellow gas…

Thud!

They collapsed and scattered to the ground like vegetables.

Seeing this, Su Mo, who was observing with binoculars, could not help but let out a laugh.

"In a battle, you can't even trust others of the same race, much less cooperate with others from an outside race that don't even speak the same language! Unless I wait until the day my strength can completely overwhelm them…"

"Otherwise, if I want to maintain balance, I can't wipe out the lion people so quickly. I still need them to help me contain the kobolds. When I have manufactured hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of picric acid explosives…"

Turning his attention away from the chaos behind him, Su Mo readjusted his focus and circled around in the direction of the buggy.

He had made huge profits from this trip.

He should have enough resources to tide through the blizzard disaster!

"It's a pity that people can't spend their entire lives in a cave."

Looking at the 'lively' atmosphere in the camp of the lion people, Su Mo now had new expectations for the future.

Subsequently, he wanted to build a real shelter that integrated features from both above and below the ground but, to create such a safe house that was protected from natural disasters, he would require more resources.

"It's too little. If I can't even save up the resourcesI find in the early stages, I'm afraid it will only get more difficult in the middle and late stages!"

Before he could find a way to solve the food supply problem, he could not get rid of these monsters all at once. Otherwise, he would fall into the predicament of having no supplies.

As for the matter of breaking into the kobold's saltpeter mining camp, it had prevented Kento Maeda from developing properly.

After adjusting the balance between the kobolds and the lion people, he incidentally obtained the most important Lion God statue from the lion people's shelter.

His power had greatly increased!

"I, Su Mo, have always been a fair and just person. Since the camp of the lion people has suffered heavy damage, the kobolds also cannot be exempted!"

Thinking about it, after Oreo sat down, Su Mo deliberately took a different route toward the kobold's camp, traveling in an arc.

"In a hurry."

"Why is life always like this?"

"Is this my ideal?"

"To spend my life like this."

Humming a happy song, Su Mo even found the yellow soil on the road interesting. Thinking of the outboard motor and Lion God statue in the storage space, he saw the mutated creatures that occasionally fled from fright due to the passing buggy, but did not bother to pursue them.

"The kobolds and lion people are my treasures too!"

While driving with one hand, Su Mo leisurely took out his vintage mobile phone and began to adjust his objectives.

Between kobolds and humans, after thinking about it, Su Mo selected humans.

Sure enough, in the western direction, at the edge of the map, a relatively large red dot immediately appeared, clearly indicating signs of a human gathering site.

Several smaller red dots were also sparsely spread out on the map.

"Holy sh*t, did the phone's power usage increase with the wider distribution of humans?"

Seeing the 64% power indicator in the upper right corner drop to 42% in the blink of an eye, Su Mo was so shocked that he quickly switched off the search for human signals and set it to kobolds instead.

On the map, in the north, a huge blood-red dot was indicated. Without thinking, he already knew that it was the kobold castle.

The grounds outside the castle were clean, with only a few dots scattered around here and there.

"I guess it has been cleaned up by the lion people?"

Su Mo surveyed the direction of the kobold's saltpeter mining camp, but the map did not display anything.

Switching to the lion people's signal, a long ribbon-like strip appeared on the map.

The long strip was extremely scattered. At the front of the group, a dozen small dots could be seen going extremely fast, rushing in the direction of the lion people's camp.

Snap!

The vintage machine ran out of power and automatically shut down!

"Alas, those shared charging station companies should really come to the wasteland to expand the market. I didn't expect to face phone charging issues here!"

Putting the phone back into the storage space dejectedly, Su Mo stepped on the accelerator in the direction of the kobold castle.

Oreo, who was behind him, felt the increase in speed and couldn't help but howl, excitement clearly expressed on the dog's face.

This was a husky that loved riding in a buggy!

Similarly, after Su Mo stopped the buggy, Oreo's face was full of dismay, her expression seeming to urge Su Mo to go another round.

"Okay, that's enough. We need to get to work. When we head home, I'll bring you for two more laps!"

After stroking Oreo's furry head and taking off the seat belt, he placed Oreo down and drove the buggy into the bushes.

The kobold castle was already in sight.

It seemed that the kobold castle had not received the news of the loss of the saltpeter mining camp. It was still quiet and peaceful at this time.

The kobolds on the four sentry towers wore heavy animal skin robes, lazily basking in the sun.

If he had not witnessed the saltpeter mining camp being blown into smithereens by his picric acid explosives, Su Mo would have even thought that the kobolds on both sides were not of the same race.

After waiting a long while, there were finally some odd movements around the castle. Su Mo had almost been bored to death lying there on the high ground.

A small group of about a dozen humans sneaked around the potholes and ran toward the castle, shouting as they ran.

They were carrying a stretcher in their hands with a kobold mage that looked dead to the world.

The kobolds on the sentry tower were the first to spot the human squad and began to bark.

The small door next to the enormous castle gate opened and a small group of kobolds rushed out. Seeing the kobold on the stretcher, they howled sadly.

Then the human squad was invited in and calm was restored to the castle.

"Kento Maeda… This old dog is really lucky to survive. I wonder how the other humans are doing."

Su Mo felt a surge of cold intent as he silently fondled the electric crossbow that was emitting a cold light, placing it next to him.

"It's not impossible to make use of foreign powers, but Kento Maeda obviously took the wrong path and proactively chose to become a servant in this relationship."

"If I follow his example and become a partner of the lion people, even if we are equal at the beginning, as I help the lion people win more and more battles, the number of lion people will increase. Sooner or later, the balance will be broken!"

From the moment these people entered the kobold castle, in Su Mo's mind, they were no longer a part of humanity.

Apart from the fact that the heads on their shoulders were not dog heads, the rest was no different from a kobold.

"Hehe, if you want to get your saltpeter mining camp back, you have to ask for my permission first!"

Standing up, Su Mo grabbed his weapon. He called out for Oreo and quickly ran toward the direction where the kobolds headed out of the city.

After a while, seeing the dense and neat footprints on the ground, Su Mo stopped in his tracks and began to plan his attack.

There was a certain method and technique to the placement of landmines.

If placed too close to the front, not many people would be blown up and it would instead alert the enemy.

If placed in a remote corner, there was a risk that the enemy would not pass through there and it would not detonate.

"What did dad always say… Landmines should be installed in places where people won't pass by. One should combine landmines with other methods to force the enemy to step on them and increase their effectiveness."

While reminiscing, Su Mo hatched a plan to place them according to the terrain.

So Mo had made up his mind about the landmines and decided to use a 10-catty explosive pack. He would also put three at once to inflict maximum damage.

The best position…

After looking at the terrain, Su Mo had a layout in his mind.

Linked chain explosion!

To inflict maximum damage, the 30 catties of explosives had to be placed in a location where the kobolds would normally not pass through.

However, this place should not be too remote either. He had to ensure that after the kobold team scattered, they would definitely step on it.

The damage of the landmine used to disrupt the formation should also not be too exaggerated, and the kobolds should not sustain a great loss at the beginning. Otherwise, this group of fools would most likely rush back along the way they came.

One meter…

Five meters…

Twenty meters…

After walking 30 meters to a position near the footprints of the kobolds, Su Mo placed down the 30 catties of explosives and set down the mechanical detonator.

Pulling open the safety valve, Su Mo cautiously and quickly left the bomb site.

When he came to the footsteps, he walked along the front for a hundred meters. Su Mo then started to dig a hole in the middle of the road and put down the second explosive pack.

Not much power, only one catty!

Pulling open the safety valve again, and after hearing a bang, Su Mo hastily covered his footprints on the ground and walked away quickly.

This time, Su Mo did not stop until he walked two kilometers away.

After looking at the nearby terrain and finding a high slope, Su Mo climbed up with his hands and feet. He took out his binoculars and began to survey the area.

After losing focus, Su Mo could hardly figure out where the two mines were buried exactly, only having a vague indication of their direction.

Gazing in the direction of the kobold castle and seeing the tightly-closed gates, Su Mo could only wait patiently while pinning his hopes on lady luck.

"You have to come out. The lion people have already killed your people. Can you sit still?"

"The lion people have betrayed you. The kobolds must stand up and fight!"

"The saltpeter mining camp is so important. You must take it back and revive the glory of the kobolds!"

Oreo lay lazily on the side. Listening to Su Mo's muttering, the dog's face could not help but express a trace of humanlike helplessness.

"My silly master, when can I grow up to share your worries?"

"It's a joy to go for a ride…"

"Tomorrow, we eat…"

Before Oreo's reverie continued, the ground suddenly began to vibrate.

Without waiting for Oreo to turn around, Su Mo said a little excitedly, while lying on the side, "Here it comes!"

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Chapter 97: Great Harvest, Upgrading the Transportation Vehicle

Rumble!

Sizzle!

Along with a loud noise, the gates of the kobold castle began to slowly open. Compared to the last chase, it opened much wider this time.

It even reached the point of being fully opened.

From the gates of the kobold castle, a team of well-equipped kobold warriors walked out.

Each team was a group of six—five warriors and a mage.

"One team, two teams, three teams…twelve teams…twenty teams…forty teams…sixty teams."

Sprawled on the high ground, Su Mo counted silently. As the numbers got higher and higher, Su Mo's heartbeat sped up.

Pulling out some psychic energy water, he trembled as he brought it to his mouth to drink.

He saw a robed kobold stepping out in front to brief the brigade. After it had done so, the kobold team began to advance, and Su Mo punched the sandy ground next to him.

"Great! This is the momentum we want. Go forward obediently and eat the 'dessert' I've prepared for you…"

There were no humans in this team, only well-equipped kobolds.

Moreover, in terms of momentum and formation, compared to the kobolds in the saltpeter mining camp, this 360-person brigade was definitely not inferior to the lion people's brigade.

With high morale and well-practiced advance and retreat formations, Su Mo could not help but worry that, after the kobolds encountered the first explosion, the brigade would not fall into disorder like he hoped.

"Lion God, you have to bless me at this time and let these kobolds step on the landmines! I'm avenging the lion people!"

The closer the brigade got to the location where the mines were placed, the more nervous Su Mo became.

Once he took down a team of more than 300 kobolds, the treasure chests he received would no longer be counted using single or double digits—it would be 100 or 200 chests by then!

Su Mo dared not even imagine what good things he could get from so many treasure chests!

The pace of the kobolds was steady, the murderous aura in their eyes overflowing, as they moved forward resolutely.

Following the road that had been tread upon before, the marching distance of the kobold brigade exceeded 500 meters without changing directions. They were destined to embark on a path of no return.

Taking one step after another, the kobold in the forefront suddenly felt that he had stepped on something, and moved his foot around curiously.

Boom!

Whoosh!

With a loud blast, more than 30 kobolds in the front row were instantly swallowed by the blaze. The highly toxic picric acid smoke rose from the ground, turning into a yellow cloud, and soaring off into the open sky.

In an instant, the kobold team that was still in neat formation immediately became confused.

The strict formation discipline that Su Mo had worried about did not appear at all. The panic caused by this kind of bomb flooded every kobold's weak heart for a while.

With the first kobold mage taking the lead to flee, the remaining kobolds would naturally not resist.

As they did not know where the enemy was, the kobolds could only instinctively run to the side.

On the left were the cascading high and low slopes while on the right lay the flat land overgrown with weeds.

The instinct of creatures compelled them to run to the right.

When he saw that everything was going as planned, Su Mo put down the binoculars in his hands, pressed down on Oreo's curious dog head, and plugged Oreo's ears.

Within three seconds, a yellow cloud that was four or five times larger than the one that had exploded at the entrance of the kobold mining camp rose from the ground.

A mushroom cloud with a diameter of more than five meters formed in the sky!

The loud rumbling sound was akin to the god of thunder's anger. In the wilderness, it shook everyone until their scalps went numb.

Under the force of 30 catties of picric acid explosives, blocks of soil were blasted to a height of forty or fifty meters before falling like rain.

Lying on the ground, even if it was two kilometers away, Su Mo could feel the earth beneath him tremble like a miniature earthquake.

"This is the time!"

After he snapped the electric shoes on his feet and signaled Oreo to stay put, Su Mo ran as fast as he could. On some of the lower slopes, he even just jumped down.

Amid all the stumbling, Su Mo arrived at the scene of the explosion before anyone dared to venture forth from the kobold castle.

The yellow flames seemed to be born from hell, spontaneously igniting the ground without firewood.

The corpses of the kobolds were blown to pieces and a stinking stench of blood permeated directly into his nasal cavity.

Wisps of yellow smoke were like gangrene on the bones, absorbing the final life embers of the kobolds that were not completely dead yet.

"Gosh, is the power of 30 catties so terrifying?"

Seeing the bloody battlefield in front of him, a wave of nausea washed over Su Mo and he could not help but want to throw up.

If not for the countless treasure chests lying beyond the smoke, Su Mo would have definitely fled the scene immediately!

After taking four or five seconds to calm down, he looked at the yellow smoke still dissipating around the hardest-hit areas. Su Mo hurriedly summoned the system and looked at the combat uniform on his body.

"65 points to upgrade to an anti-toxic property? Upgrade!"

Su Mo's words were without any hesitation, and soon a green light flashed and covered the mask.

Three to five seconds later, the green light retracted. When he breathed again, the bloody stench and yellow smoke could no longer pass through the mask.

"One…two…five…"

As soon as he entered the dense smoke, Su Mo took a look around and saw no less than twenty bronze treasure chests lying around, while wooden treasure chests were everywhere.

"Goodness gracious, I've struck it rich this time!"

Opening the storage space, Su Mo subconsciously wanted to put the treasure chests in, but the storage space was already full to the brim with the outboard motor.

Some of the gaps could not fit a big treasure chest!

Open it?

Lying on the ground, Su Mo chose to open a bronze treasure chest. With a thud, a 20kg bag of flour jumped out of the bronze treasure chest and fell to the ground.

"Yikes, this is even bigger than the treasure chest. What a nuisance!"

Looking at the bag of flour on the ground, Su Mo's scalp went numb. He quickly clicked into the game panel and looked at the 500 disaster points that were fresh out of the oven. With a grimace, he spent 400 points to upgrade one cubic meter of space.

After the points were deducted, another cubic meter of space abruptly appeared within the previous storage space.

Using his will, he collected the bag of flour and tossed it into the storage space, before running frantically in the direction of the buggy.

Under such circumstances, it was absolutely unrealistic for him to collect these treasure chests by relying solely on the storage space. In that case, the only way was to upgrade the buggy!

The location where the buggy was parked was not far away, just two kilometers in the direction of the explosion.

Running all the way, Su Mo reached the buggy in less than five minutes, panting for breath after the physical exertion.

As he focused mentally, the properties of the buggy popped out.

[Compact, Rear-wheel drive, Off-road, Desert Racing Car (Good)]

Description: A desert racing car produced by the quasi-intermediate level manufacturer 'Magoo'. Has good off-road ability and a powerful engine. The overall shape is beautiful and the materials used are solid. It is one of the better vehicles for traveling in the wasteland.

[Horsepower: 212hp]

[Torque: 400Nm]

[Fuel consumption: 14 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers (it will increase or decrease by varying degrees according to the terrain)]

[First upgrade option: Combat vehicle direction: Modify vehicle shape, upgrade all vehicle materials, enhance the degree of the vehicle's protection, open up the weapons panel, increase the horsepower and torque of the vehicle, and increase its crash resistance. Survival points required (2,095).]

[Second upgrade option: Transportation direction: Modify vehicle shape, rebuild the entire structure, upgrade all vehicle materials, replace the off-road tires, increase storage space, and increase the horsepower and torque of the vehicle. Survival points required (1,890).]

Looking at the two upgrade options, Su Mo almost did not even think about it before directly choosing the second upgrade option, enhancing the vehicle in the transportation direction.

Spending such a large number of survival points for the first time, Su Mo's heart was bleeding.

However, as soon as he thought of the hundreds of treasure chests that had just dropped, he resolutely chose to spend them.

Survival points were meant to be spent. As long as the upgrade was in the right direction, there was absolutely no such thing as waste!

The blue light began to radiate from Su Mo's body toward the buggy in the bushes and enveloped the entire vehicle at once.

Like the previous upgrade of the motor-pumped oil well, the magical feeling reappeared.

Between heaven and earth, all color faded. The ground beneath his feet began to turn into nothingness and the surrounding environment also faded away, leaving only Su Mo, the buggy, and the blue light reconstructing it.

The light did not operate on the buggy. Instead, with a flash, it kneaded the buggy like blue play-doh.

Then, as if 3D printing, the grid began the reconstruction within the light.

The blue play-doh began to fill the light grid. When it was half-filled, more play-doh appeared from the void and added to it.

Sizzle!

There was a sound akin to electric welding. Soon, the modified vehicle fell to the ground with bang.

Looking at the exaggerated vehicle shape as well as camouflage paint, Su Mo temporarily stifled his shock. He immediately sat in the car and looked at the storage space behind.

"Nice, I was correct! This modified vehicle is equipped with modules and already has five cubic meters of storage space!"

"Adding one cubic meter of my own storage space, that's six cubic meters! Enough to hold nearly a hundred treasure chests!"

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Chapter 98: Hundreds Of Treasure Chests! The Birth Of Earth Tiger!

Su Mo did not have time to properly inspect the newly upgraded buggy. After stepping onto the lower bars on the side skirting of the buggy and climbing into it, he quickly turned the key to start the engine.

Clack!

Vroom vroom vroom vroom vroom!

The fierce boom of the exhaust could be heard continuously as if roaring in tandem with a powerful engine of the new transportation vehicle.

The upgraded gear lever retained its basic operating system, adding only an additional low gear for uphill driving beside the drive and reverse gear functions.

He was not in the mood to try out the new low gear, so Su Mo immediately shifted into drive and stepped on the accelerator. The transportation vehicle seemed to crouch slightly like a mighty beast, before being propelled forward with a boom.

"Such power! After installing a miniature anti-collision barrier and a windshield, it's now a true transportation vehicle. This is what I'd call a beast!"

The weeds on the road did not stop Su Mo at all as he drove through the low bushes. The tires, which were as tall as half a person, provided an extra boost to the car's off-road abilities, which was like giving wings to an already formidable tiger.

The road that had taken Su Mo five minutes to traverse in a mad dash, now only took less than a minute as Su Mo drove in a manner where he basically just crashed through everything in front of him.

Su Mo drove until he reached a spot without the yellow lights and quickly jumped out of the car.

He went to the back and opened the trunk. He focused his will and stored the outboard motor and other miscellaneous supplies into it and began to quickly head to further locations to collect more items after making sure that the storage space had been emptied out.

He looked toward the horizon and saw treasure chests shining brightly, emitting a strange glow throughout the fog.

"I'll prioritize the high-level treasure chests!"

Su Mo looked at the colorful treasure chests at his feet and made the decision as his steps hastened.

Su Mo ignored the wooden and iron treasure chests as he ran along the path. He picked up the bronze treasure chests first.

"One, two… Seven… Ten!"

Su Mo had picked up ten bronze treasure chests, which were supposed to be rare, in less than one minute.

Su Mo was like a happy butterfly as he circled around where the explosion had been, flitting about in dance at the side of the hole that he had made with an explosion.

After one round of circling it, the storage space, which was three cubic meters, was now filled to the brim with treasure chests.

Each treasure chest was around 50cm in length, 30cm in width, and 25cm in height. It took up a space of 37,500 cubic centimeters.

Three cubic meters was equal to three million cubic centimeters, which meant that 80 treasure chests could fit into it.

"I've gotten forty-five bronze treasure chests and thirty-five iron treasure chests!"

"After placing all these treasure chests into the trunk of the car, I can still collect around seventy treasure chests. This is such a payoff!"

Su Mo made a mad dash toward the trunk of the car with this thought in mind. He began to move all the treasure chests into the trunk.

The outboard motor, miscellaneous supplies, and a bag of flour took up a little more than two cubic meters worth of space. After transferring 70 treasure chests into the trunk, even the vacant seats in the car were completely filled up.

At the same time, the storage space on the game panel indicated it had emptied out.

Su Mo was not picky this time when walking back on the path. He took whatever there was. The iron treasure chest looked good, and even the wooden treasure chest was not too bad.

Once the storage space was filled to the brim, he would throw out the wooden treasure chests in exchange for the iron treasure chests that he spotted on the ground.

Coming back to and fro would only take another five minutes, but Su Mo no longer picked here and there when he saw the city gates open from far off. He immediately opened any treasure chest he found.

"Canned apricot? That's good stuff. Unfortunately, I can't bring it with me!"

"A bag of eggplant seeds?"

"A sickle for cutting grass?"

"A figurine of Maid Noelle [TN: A character from Genshin Impact]?"

"A masturbation sex toy? What the hell is this? I'm throwing it away!"

He opened the treasure chests on the ground with total indifference, discovering more and more useful stuff. As he threw the ones that were unwanted to the ground, Su Mo felt a sense of pity for the items even though he had gained over a hundred treasure chests.

After opening more than half of the treasure chests that he was not able to take with him at the last minute, Su Mo returned to his car and took out the remaining explosives. He stacked them without hesitation at a spot without fire near the hole created by the explosion.

He took out a lead wire that would take ten minutes to ignite and stuck it onto the explosives. Su Mo crouched over and lit it up.

The lead wire spurted as it burned away, sounding like the low howl of death. Section after section of yellow flame-retardant sections burned through and the 10-minute countdown began.

He climbed into the car and took one last look at the storage space. Su Mo no longer lingered as he shifted the car into low gear and stepped onto the accelerator, speeding up the hill.

The chassis of the car slowly rose as he sped up, the powerful engine continuously turning the wheels of the car.

Su Mo immediately drove through smaller bumps, mowing through all obstacles along the way, and quickly returned to the place where he had previously hidden.

"Oreo, where are you? Get into the car and let's go!"

Su Mo quickly got out of the car and shouted with all his might when he saw Oreo was missing from where she was supposed to be.

Suddenly, a black and white figure sprang out from within the bushes and lunged into Su Mo's arms!

Oreo looked puzzled at the transformed buggy, which was now bigger. Su Mo did not bother to explain as he placed Oreo in the back seat.

He turned back and entered the driver's seat and, this time, Su Mo did not drive up the hill. He went in the direction of the flatlands and drove off without looking back.

When Su Mo heard the booming explosion behind him four or five minutes later, his tensed body finally relaxed as he drove toward higher ground.

Su Mo got out of the car and took out the pair of binoculars. He watched the yellow clouds emerging from the explosion and heard vague sounds of screaming. He was finally more relaxed from all the nervousness he had felt before this.

"This time, I've finally inflicted heavy wounds on the kobolds. Next, either the kobold or lion people need to initiate a war if they want to recoup their losses. Only by winning a war for their clan through a crazed war can they open the portal to make up for the losses."

"Although, I can be considered to have stepped on the toes of the lion people and the kobolds, but it's alright. I'm only one person. They would need to consider if it's worth it to come after me!"

He stared toward the far off distance before once again lowering his head to think about the tracks he had made during the journey.

Unlike the buggy, this upgraded transportation vehicle created clear tire impressions on the ground.

It was apparent on the little bumps, which had been flattened significantly when the car ran over them. Even the plants and stems had indented marks from the tires.

"This is good stuff. This transportation vehicle I acquired for almost 2000 points is indeed extraordinary!"

Su Mo clicked his tongue and turned around to size up his upgraded transportation vehicle for the very first time.

The car was covered in a colorful splash of white, gray and yellow paint. It also had a few steel railings affixed to it, making it look exceptionally solid.

Compared to before, the chassis of this transportation vehicle had been raised even further. On closer inspection, Su Mo tried to measure it and was astonished to discover that this new transportation vehicle had a chassis height that was above the level of a person's thigh. It was 50cm off the ground.

Such a useful car would have been considered a diesel-consuming titan on Earth. If the shock absorber were not of sufficient quality, it would be akin to sitting on a boat. Every movement would be shaky and induce giddiness.

However, on the dirt road of this doomsday wasteland, it was a steel beast that everyone envied.

He moved along the car's body and walked to the very front. Su Mo was surprised to see Oreo standing against the hood of the car as she kept on nuzzling the transportation vehicle's windshield.

The new transportation vehicle's hood was not thin and long like the buggy. Oreo could not even stand properly against it.

At its core, it was still a rear-wheel drive car, as its entire weight and engine was situated at the back of the car. This guaranteed powerful acceleration and mobility.

While this transportation vehicle could not possibly be used for collisions, when it came to rapid transportation, it was better-equipped for spotting road conditions upfront and making better judgment calls on the situation.

As for the tires, the car did not use HT or MT tires. Instead, all-terrain tires were chosen, which are also known as AT tires.

The design of AT tires was much more compatible than normal tires for the road. Even though they were noisier, their durability and its traction on non-paved roads were much greater than HT tires, and they worked well on both cross-country and normal roads.

"This is so much better than the buggy. I guess it will be a long time before I make any changes and upgrade it. How about if I gave it a name…"

Cars were known to be a man's second wife on Earth.

Su Mo had never understood this before, but now, as he moved around the car, Su Mo became increasingly delighted.

"This color, this power, and there's even an uphill function… I'll call you…"

"Earth Tiger!"

It was a domineering name, fit for a chassis that was half a meter high. This was a name befitting a transportation vehicle that existed on this wasteland!

Su Mo began to take note of the interior while he sat in the car.

The outside of the entire car was made out of steel and was not at all fancy. The interior was just as Su Mo expected.

The interior had sacrificed comfort completely, except for the leather cover on the main seat that had been brought over from the buggy.

There was only an iron plate placed where the passenger's seat should have been and nothing else.

As for the rear area, the seats were all gone and stuffed with the treasure chests that were glowing vaguely. They looked very tempting as they sparkled.

"Seems like the System knows me well. The upgrade this time has gotten rid of whatever that needed to be removed. There aren't any signs of any electronic equipment either!"

Su Mo did not know whether to laugh or cry as he touched the fully mechanical central control panel.

Besides the radio that had been used previously, all the high-technology equipment that had been used on Earth were now gone.

There was no computer in the car, nor was there any electrical power for its use. The car operated purely on machinery. At the same time, this gave a sense of 'rage' to this beast while driving it!

He took some time figuring out how to use the transportation vehicle and found a button on the simple central control panel with a gas tank drawn on it.

He gently pressed the button.

Boom!

The car seemingly exploded with noise. Su Mo got off and walked to the right side of the car. As expected, he saw an iron plate slightly propped up under a colorful portion of the car.

"Gosh, this fuel tank is not small. It's at least over a hundred liters!"

Su Mo focused mentally and the transportation vehicle's property panel appeared in front of his eyes.

[Earth Tiger (Small-scale Modified Desert Racing Car) (Good)]

[Description: Upgraded from a regular Rear-wheel drive, Off-road, Desert Racing Car. It has a solid shell structure, powerful engine, and a fixed amount of storage space. Possesses extremely strong off-road capabilities, with a specially heightened chassis, and broad and thick off-road AT tires. They are guaranteed to last for over hundreds of kilometers even after the tires puncture. It is a good transportation vehicle for traveling on the wasteland.]

[Horsepower: 280hp]

[Torque: 425Nm]

[Fuel Consumption: 19 Liters of diesel per hundred kilometers (It will increase of decrease according to the terrain, as well as power and gear being used)]

[Comment: A great improvement! The steel railings have increased the protection level significantly!!]

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Chapter 99: War Of The Clans, Covering All Tracks

"It uses only 19 liters of diesel every hundred kilometers. That's not a big problem. I would have been worried if I didn't have the oil well, but since I do, I can fully exhibit the car's power without caring about the higher fuel consumption!"

He closed the cover of the fuel tank. Suddenly, Su Mo felt quite heroic.

"The oil well is good stuff. Once I have the opportunity to collect enough cores, I will conduct the reparation for the oil well. Otherwise, if I leave it at the Deep-sea Shelter and it is destroyed or taken over by the enemy, it would be a terrible loss!"

He observed the large patch of bushes burning in the distance, as the fire crackled bright and high in the sky. Su Mo fell into deep thought.

His previous plan was to create a passageway between both locations. If the primary shelter was in danger, then he would be able to make his escape through the passageway.

This would prevent him from putting all his eggs in one basket. If anything happened to that basket, all the eggs would end up broken.

By making those arrangements, even if the primary shelter was destroyed and the psychic energy water well was gone, he could still rely on the motor-pumped oil well to stand on his two feet and wait for the opportunity to rise up once more.

However, from the looks of things, concentrating all his energy to develop a single shelter as a base was the current correct path.

Dividing up his energy and survival points between two shelters might result in him not being strong enough overall if a huge enough disaster occurred later. That would be a huge embarrassment.

"With so many treasure chests and the items I found inside them, I definitely have enough to exchange them for things I need in the secret realm!"

He called Oreo, who was still licking the car's windshield, to get into the car. Su Mo then started the engine and drove in the direction that was the complete opposite of the Underground Shelter.

With such obvious tire tracks, the kobolds would be sure to track him down should he return directly to the base.

That was why, the best direction to head to was…

The lion clan!

"If I had been born during the warring era, I would probably have been an expert in manipulation and schemes!"

Su Mo could not help but laugh out loud at the thought of the lion clan while looking at the Lion God sculpture sitting quietly in the storage space of the trunk.

Su Mo had even thought about how enraged the kobolds would be, having experienced such devastating explosions, as they gave chase by following the tire tracks. He thought about what expressions would color their faces when they ended up finding the lion people's base camp in the middle of the road instead.

A boorish fellow would choose to go head-to-head.

A smarter person would make use of a greater strength or power, but…

Only someone who had seen through people, and considered all the benefits and drawbacks at the end of the world, could be like Su Mo now; gathering whatever that could be gathered, and destroying whatever that should be destroyed.

"All alien races who come to this disaster-filled world on their own accord must have something they need here. Unfortunately, there's a language barrier and no one can tell what it is that they truly need or what their intentions are!"

"All we can do is take things one step at a time!"

Su Mo had no idea of what the situation was like for others, and could only make judgments based on his own surroundings.

There were only a handful of magical creatures allowed, unlike the humans that had arrived in droves.

That was why, if these creatures wanted to develop further and strengthen themselves to achieve whatever goal they had in mind when coming to this world, the only way was to…

Continuously defeat the other clans in war!

This was the basic difference between humans and the magical clans when looking from the perspective of obtaining benefits. If humans wanted to develop in the vast wasteland, they had to try their best to hunt down these creatures and obtain treasure chests.

However, these rules could also be similarly used by other clans. Humans were considered a clan and, if the magical creatures were able to slay three hundred humans, they could also summon a portal.

This has resulted in a mutually antagonistic situation; where if humans met magical creatures, they would want to kill the creatures to obtain treasure chests, whereas the creatures would also want to kill the humans to open the portal and strengthen their clans.

Both parties could only benefit by using or destroying the other party. With the wasteland constantly causing death and disasters as well, it was only natural that there was no way both parties would ever honestly work together.

At the end of it all, there was only war!

"I will need to stay low for a while after this. It would be very dangerous to keep causing so much trouble frequently before I've even managed to find out more about my opponents!"

It was not Su Mo's style to hide within a solid shelter while passively waiting for the different dangers to come knocking at his door.

He would always take the initiative when attacking, while also ensuring that his shelter was a safe retreat route and the final stronghold when danger came knocking. When it was time to be thrifty, then he would save to the extreme, but when the time came for one to spend, then he would spend without hesitation.

It was only then that he would be able to obtain maximum survival points through his personal abilities and keep up with shelters that had more people, and finally establish his own advantage in this doomsday world.

Su Mo's thoughts had drifted far off while traveling on the way to the lion clan.

Without realizing it, the Earth Tiger, which was now equipped with windshields and a heightened chassis, had sped up faster and faster on the flatlands.

It maintained an average speed of fifty or sixty yards per second. The lion people's base camp began to appear on the horizon within an hour.

Su Mo pulled the car over and removed his seatbelt. He took out the binoculars from the trunk space and popped his head out to observe the distant lion clan.

The core shelter that had been blown up by the picric acid bomb had now turned into a pile of ruins.

Beside the parts of the house that were still standing, the surrounding has been burnt bald. No matter how one looked at it, it did not look like a house.

A darkened group of lion people stood surrounding the front of the core shelter that had been burnt and left half in ruins. They seemed to be conducting some sort of ritual.

"The lion people have retained their effective strength. The kobolds won't be able to do a thing if they rely on their speed to escape… though they would probably end up losing this village."

He returned to his seat and fastened his safety belt. Su Mo blatantly started his car and drove straight toward the lion people's village.

When he noticed that the lion people did not react when he was within three hundred meters range, Su Mo pressed on his horn twice in slight amusement.

Honk!

Honk!

The long honk of the horn interrupted the process of the lion people's prayer in front of the core shelter. Hundreds of pairs of eyes immediately turned in his direction, staring at Su Mo in the car.

"Hello, how are all of you doing?"

He waved and, from such a close distance, Su Mo was able to see the shock and rage on the Lioness's face.

"Oreo, tell them that we will one day deal with them for killing humans without restraint. This was just an appetizer."

"Oh, right, tell them that you're the vanguard general of the kobolds, and that I'm a human working together with the kobolds!"

Oreo, who was sitting in the passenger's seat, immediately revealed a naughty smile on her doggy face after hearing Su Mo's words, as if they had just pulled off a successful scheme.

She stretched out her head and barked out loud toward the lion people from the window. Her tone was filled with disdain and ridicule.

It was a bark imbued with 'vigor' similar to when the Kobold Mage had ridiculed Oreo as a third-class clan member; a sense of superiority which Oreo now displayed!

After hearing Oreo's dialect, Su Mo could feel the murderous intent almost overflowing out of the lion people's village without even looking at them.

"Good job, that's a pretty decent amount of hate you've brought out of them. There's no need to rush. We'll just let the bullets fly about for a few seconds!"

Su Mo was not at all anxious as he watched the lion warriors rushing out of the village. He pressed his foot down on the accelerator while his hand rested on the car's window pane, quietly enjoying the evening breeze.

Su Mo could see the Lioness at the center of the charge. She looked like she was in a crazed state as she sped toward him with wind magic.

It was quite an amazing sight to see hundreds of lion people charge forward. Unfortunately, he did not have a camera. Otherwise, Su Mo would have liked to record this historical moment.

It was only when the first of the lion people had reached the hundred-meter mark that Su Mo's right foot pressed down hard. The roar of the exhaust pipe could be heard roaring into the wilderness.

The next second, a cloud of black smoke appeared and the car's tires spun rapidly.

The AT tires had strong traction as it aided the car's increase in speed. Su Mo stared at the side-view of the lion people's charge and clenched both hands tightly on the steering wheel as he accelerated forward in a straight line.

When all the lion people saw Su Mo move, they had no choice but to chase after him behind the car.

Su Mo maintained the Earth Tiger's speed within a range where the lion people were able to follow, but not catch up.

He waited until the lion people behind him had covered three hundred and fifty meters of tire tracks before reaching his hand out of the car to wave goodbye. Then he pressed down hard on the accelerator pedal.

40…60…80!

The Earth Tiger sped up faster and faster, and the lion people could only helplessly cease their pursuit. They watched on with raging eyes as the car sped far away into the distance.

The Lioness, who had been squeezed to the very back of the group, walked out to the very front now that the entire group had stopped.

As she watched the car slowly vanish from her sight, for some reason, she felt that she had never experienced this level of helplessness when facing the kobolds. She paused for a moment before waving her hand, and the lion people began to return to their village.

The large stretch of land was only left with marks of the lion people's feet, with no trace of the tire tracks to be found at all.

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Chapter 100: Return, the Omen of Second Disaster!

Su Mo circled the lion people's campsite and kept driving until the sun set on the horizon before pulling over the car.

Observing his surroundings, Su Mo was not sure how far he had driven out.

The sky was already getting dark, so Su Mo tentatively turned on the car's headlights. Oreo, who had been sitting quietly in the passenger seat, was suddenly energized when she saw two beams of light that lit up abruptly at the front.

It was the case of a little dog's head having big doubts.

"Ah-woo!"

Without the restraint of a seatbelt on the passenger seat, Oreo's head had almost glued itself to the windscreen. She was barking as she stared at the beams of light that dispersed into the distance.

"Hahaha, it's your first time riding a luxury car, so you're not used to it yet!"

Before this, Oreo would always sit upright in the buggy, maintaining her self-satisfied posture against the howling winds.

After entering the new car, Oreo had sat quietly on the passenger seat, seemingly unable to understand why the wild winds that used to match her self-satisfied posture had disappeared.

"In the future, I'll modify a special seat for you on the sunroof. Then you can stick your head out and face the winds head-on."

After figuring out the directions, Su Mo shifted his car into gear and hit the road again.

The small stones on the gravel-filled ground knocked against the car doors, making a rattling sound.

The more intense the sound was, the more refreshed Su Mo felt.

When he used to drive the buggy previously, just one long-distance trip would leave his body full of grey marks that were caused by the tiny rocks that had struck him. There would sometimes even be bruises.

It was all better now. Even the dirt would not be blown into the car at all as long as the car windows were shut, much less the tiny rocks.

Adjusting his directions along the way, Su Mo drove until the moon crept over the horizon. It was not until the moon had risen to the middle of the sky that Su Mo finally sensed a trace of familiarity in the area.

He had not taken this road from the north back before because he had always been traveling back and forth between east and west.

Oreo was the first to call out from the passenger seat when the distant lights hit the almost dried up acid rain lake.

Su Mo was also excited when he saw that small but familiar hill.

He rolled down the car window and breathed in the scent of "safety" and the feeling of coming home suddenly welled up in him.

"Indeed, I'm not the kind of person who can constantly dance on a knife's edge. I'm better off guarding and developing my shelter. Planning things slowly is the way to go!"

Su Mo was already starving by the time he had circled the hill to patrol the surroundings for any dangers.

The Earth Tiger could not fit into the small basement from before at all.

Su Mo parked directly in front of the main entrance and took the two bowls of oil-splattered noodles from the trunk into the storage space. He then got out of the car and started turning the combination lock to open the main door.

Thump!

The sound of the heavy bolt retracting was melodious to his ears. After pushing the door open and letting Oreo in, Su Mo glanced at the Earth Tiger and closed the door.

"I'll park the Earth Tiger in the Deep-sea Shelter tomorrow, otherwise it'll be troublesome when the kobolds or lion people find me."

Without the safehouse cores required to build a new shelter module, it would be a bit difficult to build a complete basement near the shelter at the moment, so it had to be done slowly.

Oreo had already jumped up to turn on the lights in the shelter as they walked down the corridor and entered the inner section of the shelter.

Big Spark and Little Spark also came out, clucking and circling around the shelter.

"Hey, come have your meal, Oreo!" Su Mo was too lazy to make dinner this late at night, so he just took out the warm, oily noodles and poured them into Oreo's food bowl.

He took out a handful of rice and placed it into Big Spark and Little Spark's bowls. After pouring in psychic energy water for all three pets, Su Mo took out his own share and began to eat.

The storage space's ability to maintain freshness was not omnipotent. It could not guarantee the same level of freshness between when the items were first put in and when they were taken out.

However, it still took a much longer time for them to go bad compared to when the food had been left outside.

Although the oily noodles were a little cold now, the noodles still had a refreshing taste and were not clumped together.

Su Mo finished his dinner with loud slurps. Seeing that his pets were still eating, he stood up and continued working.

First, he moved all the treasure chests from the storage space into the shelter. Su Mo then opened the main door and began to play the role of a porter.

Seeing the storage space in the trunk gradually emptying out, and the number of treasure chests in the base gradually increasing, Su Mo's pace became faster and faster.

After he moved out the last treasure chest and shut the main door, Su Mo then turned off the lights in the shelter.

The light within the shelter did not turn into darkness…

Instead, the shelter shone brighter under the glow of hundreds of treasure chests.

The piled-up treasure chests were enough to cover a wall and were currently emitting all sorts of different colored lights. Under Su Mo's gaze. the lights brightened and dimmed continuously, as if they were breathing.

The bright blue light from the bronze chests, the thick and heavy black light from the iron chests, and the faint yellow light from the wooden chests all complemented one another.

Lying on the ground and resting his head on Oreo's soft belly, Su Mo emptied his thoughts.

At this moment, as he was looking at the wall of treasure chests, a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction surged over him like rising tides.

Lying in front of this wall, Su Mo could only think about how the happiness of the rich was actually just so simple and unadorned!

"All these treasure chests and their contents would have been enough to provide for shelters that can house hundreds of people completely. Now though, these all belong to me!"

Picking up the cup of psychic energy water next to him, Su Mo savored it slowly and gradually became "intoxicated".

Big Spark and Little Spark, who had finished eating, returned to the crop culture room to lie down, before clucking and fluttering about curiously.

The two chickens could not calm down either after seeing the whole wall shining!

They curiously came to Oreo's side and imitated Su Mo, laying down and resting on either side of him.

One human and three pets laid down just like that, staring fixedly at the wall in a daze.

Su Mo's snoring could gradually be heard after a while.

Oreo cooperated and did not move her body. She looked at Su Mo, who was lying on her, with a tender gaze.

Big Spark and Little Spark tucked their feathers in and stayed quietly by Su Mo's side.

The wall of treasure chests twinkled, slowly emitting their own light that gradually matched the rhythm of Su Mo's breathing.

The atmosphere was sleepy and drowsy in the peaceful shelter.

Without any disturbances, Su Mo could forget all the worries he had on his mind and sleep soundly, despite lying on the hard stone floor.

It was as if he was back on Earth, back in his house eating his mother's home-cooked feast and drinking his father's wine at the dining table.

He listened to his younger sister's constant chatter over the dining table, and his parents were laughing while reprimanding them from time to time.

In this apocalyptic wasteland…

Su Mo felt at ease.

Even the taut tension of his body, and the mental fatigue and strain that had accumulated over the past few days, was slowly dissipating as he slept.

By the time Su Mo opened his eyes again, it was already six or seven o'clock the next morning.

A little cold wind was blowing in gently from the crop culture room. The wall of treasure chests, along with the sunlight that was shining down upon it, made the shelter seem unusually bright.

Su Mo lowered his head and was surprised to see Big Spark and Little Spark spreading their wings, covering his body tightly like eagles.

Little Spark was covering his chest and stomach, while Big Spark was covering his thighs and calves.

The two chickens, who usually clucked in the cold at night, were motionless today. They laid on his body obediently, basking securely in the heat from Su Mo's body.

"Bark~ bark~ Awooo~"

After sensing that Su Mo was awake, Oreo, who was underneath him, lifted her head and licked Su Mo's face affectionately.

Su Mo slowly stood up and placed the chickens aside. He caressed Oreo's head gently.

At this moment, Su Mo silently raised Oreo, Big Spark and Little Spark's importance to the level of his family.

It was also at this moment that Su Mo suddenly realized that he no longer felt as lonely anymore.

"I'm such a lucky man. There are people who love and care for me even in such an apocalyptic wasteland. Oh no, it's a dog and two chickens!"

He chuckled and stretched himself out. Su Mo went to the micro-operations command center and switched on the TV to check the surrounding situation.

Without needing to even step foot out of the shelter, he could observe everything within a kilometer of it. It was really too convenient and safe.

After a single vibration, the image began to emerge.

"Good God, wasn't the blizzard only supposed to come in a few days? Why is it already snowing?"

Looking at the hoarfrost that had surfaced on the ground and the snowflakes that were falling gradually from the sky, Su Mo felt his heart pulsate abnormally.

At the same time, a previously overlooked message suddenly appeared within Su Mo's mind.

"Could it be that…the disaster is actually just the blizzard, and the temperature mentioned at the end of the message refers to the temperature when the blizzard approaches. As for the cold temperatures and snowfall preceding the blizzard, would they actually show up this early and keep increasing in intensity until the disaster strikes?"

After connecting to the mechanical controller, Su Mo moved the camera angle up and down. Indeed, the ground was covered with hoarfrost and the acid rain lake that was almost dried up had also started to freeze.

There were no signs of life within a kilometer.

"With the weather the way it is, the survival challenge has already begun from this moment on. It's not just the three days of blizzard that everyone has to face!"

"In eight days, those who have not accumulated sufficient survival supplies will face death. This is an indirect method of forcing the different races to fight each other to the death!"

Shaking his head, Su Mo turned off the TV immediately and put on his combat uniform. He went to the end of the passageway to open the main door.

Hiss~

The whirring north wind blew, carrying in the snowflakes that were flitting around. Fortunately, the combat uniform had a slight wind breaking effect, so Su Mo, who was wearing a sweater, was able to withstand the cold.

He walked over to the Earth Tiger. The car's windows were currently covered in a layer of frost. Su Mo reached out to knock off the frost, before taking out the key and sitting down in the driver's seat.

Even without air conditioning, the temperature in the car was already colder than it was outside. Su Mo was already cold and trembling before the engine could warm up.

"It's no longer suitable to go out for combat expeditions in this kind of weather. Luckily, I've managed to find myself harvest before the big drop in temperature. Otherwise, even with my encouragement, the lion people may not have gone out to raid the kobold's mining camp."

Su Mo did not know how much power the car battery possessed after the upgrade, so he waited for the engine to warm up before charging it. After making sure that the battery was not empty, Su Mo turned off the engine and quickly got out of the car. He closed the door and returned to the "warmth" of the shelter.

"I'll hide the car in the Deep-sea Shelter after I'm done eating. I won't be heading out these days. It's far too cold!"

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Chapter 101: Winter is Approaching, Humans Counterattack!

There were no more piercing cold winds blowing through in the passageway after the outermost stone door had been closed, which blocked the flow of cold wind from outside.

Su Mo kept walking and, after closing the second door, he could clearly feel the temperature rise in the shelter.

It was not until he walked to the main door and opened it that a wave of warmth greeted him.

Compared to the minus seven or eight degrees outside at this time, the four or five degrees in the shelter was practically a kind of enjoyment.

Glancing at the pets who were still asleep, Su Mo walked toward the bottom of the ventilation duct in the crop culture room and peered upwards for a while.

A whirring cold wind was blowing down from the ventilation duct. The temperature in the crop culture room was obviously lower than the other rooms, even lower than that of the living room.

Although the temperature had dropped significantly, the plants in the culture medium showed no signs of frostbite.

"This vegetable culture medium is simply a sacred treasure. Even sunlight can be steadily absorbed and the internal humidity and temperature is fixed even in this weather, ensuring each seedling the best growing environment…"

Su Mo tutted in amazement as he touched the tomato seedlings that had now grown more than a dozen large leaves as well as the bok choy seedlings that covered the large area.

Based on this growth rate, and with the nourishment from Big Spark and Little Spark, the bok choy in the culture medium no longer needed to be cultivated. Adequate sunlight and nutrition were sufficient for their growth.

"In ten or so days, I should be able to harvest some bok choy and taste them. The garlic on the other hand will probably take more than 20 days."

After fiddling with the garlic sprouts that had been squished aside by the bok choy, and tearing off some bok choy leaves that were particularly "obstructive" and "unpleasant to look at", Su Mo took them out of the crop culture room cheerfully.

Currently, the bok choy in the middle had not grown and the outer leaves had not matured either. They would give off a different flavor after chopping them up and stir-frying them in oil for a while.

The north wind mingled with snow and whirred endlessly outside. but Su Mo still felt very free even though he could not head out, so he went to the supplies storage to look for rice to steam.

"Well, at the moment, there's no room for the treasure chests if I opened them so I'll just leave them aside first. I'll open them all at once when the trading system opens, or when I have more room to store them!"

Su Mo admired the wall of treasure chests while sitting comfortably on the stone bench.

There was basically no shortage of urgently needed supplies in the base at the moment, so there was no need to open the chests to take out the contents right away. It would be a real waste if he opened something fresh and had no place to store it.

The opening of the trading system was only a few days away. He would open them in large quantities when the trading system was made possible.

Furthermore, this naturally luminous wall could also be used as lighting at night.

While the rice was steaming in the pot, Su Mo picked up a cup of water to rinse his mouth and wipe his face. After scooping out some more water and pouring it onto the culture, the rice was done steaming.

Su Mo moved the pot of steamed rice aside. He then heated the pan with a little oil and stir-fried the chopped bok choy leaves. After adding a little seasoning, a plate of delicious green, stir-fried, vegetables was freshly served.

Even in this weather, the aroma of food, coupled with the heat and warmth from the steaming pot, had Su Mo feeling so great that he could simply take off in flight.

Su Mo woke up the three pets. He stirred the rice into the stir-fried vegetables and tossed it a few times. After separating the portions for the three pets, Su Mo poured the rest into his own bowl.

Su Mo ate the simple breakfast with extreme satisfaction.

It was his first meal with fresh vegetables after coming to this wasteland. The taste had a 200% boost in flavor for being natural. It was so delicious that it made one drool.

Su Mo washed the dishes after the meal, not wanting to stay even a single second longer in the living room in this weather. He then moved a few of the luminous wooden boxes directly into the bedroom and plugged in the heating pad.

Big Spark and Little Spark fluttered over in search of the heat. They laid quietly on the two corners of the small bed, feeling the warmth of the heating pad underneath. As they got comfortable, their eyes narrowed into tiny slits.

Seeing that no one was going to play with her, Oreo also ran over and jumped up and down the bed, making a mess.

"Relax, we're going out later today. It's too cold now, and you'll freeze your head off if you go out!"

Oreo shook her head in disdain upon hearing the word cold. She walked valiantly and spiritedly toward the crop culture room and then back arrogantly, indicating that she was not afraid of the cold at all.

Su Mo was delighted upon seeing her tsundere-ish appearance.

He got up and forcibly held Oreo in his arms. Su Mo then lifted the blanket and laid under the covers.

"Hush, how comfortable. There's no hot water to soak my feet in this weather, so it's really comfortable to have a blanket to warm my feet!"

A husky's ability to withstand the cold made Oreo become more active in this weather. Humans, on the other hand, had stiff hands and feet in this kind of weather, which made it inconvenient to move around, so outdoor activities required a lot of calories.

Lying in bed, Su Mo decided to look at the chat channel before the system's eight o'clock harvest.

He focused mentally and a blue display screen appeared at the center of his field of vision.

After clicking on the World Channel, a ripple flashed by and streams of messages began to scroll quickly across the screen.

As Su Mo's gaze focused, the scrolling began to slow down and gradually reached an acceptable speed for human eyes before finally coming to a halt.

"Good God, it's freezing! Is there any good brother at the basin? I've become a legend by choosing the high mountains. I'm so cold!"

"I'm at the basin. The falling snow has turned into rain. Heh, I have collected half a bucket of water from morning till now. I tried boiling it and it's drinkable!"

"The water problem has now been solved, but do you guys have enough wood at your place? I wore a sweater when I came and it was so cold!"

"I'll plan as I go. If I can't bear the cold, I'll collect more plant fibers and pile myself in the middle and not go out."

"This damn weather is going to last for more than ten days. Besides, the snow won't be gone immediately after the disaster. If you don't get more supplies now, don't tell me that you'll only head out after the snow?"

"Yeah, that makes sense. Too bad it's a waste of food to go out and work now. We've almost killed all the mutant creatures around us."

"Eh? I heard that thousands of people from three shelters joined forces to fight over two hundred Centaurs a few days ago, and they won the battle. Who knows how many supplies you can get from over two hundred Centaurs! How envious!"

"What's there to be envious of? Do you know how many people died? More than 500 people! It was five of us against one Centaur, and we almost didn't win. This group of beasts are really amazing…"

The chat channel seemed to remember personal preferences as more and more messages were browsed through.

A prompt would deliberately pop up when players exhibited certain browsing tendencies, asking if they would like to block similar messages from popping out.

For example, there were still some people crying about their poverty on the World Channel. Some of them were even living as beggars, begging others to give them some food or supplies.

Who knew what kind of thoughts these people had.

They clearly had hands and feet, but did not go out to look for a way to survive. Instead, they crouched within their shelters doing some useless work and tried to trick random and kind-hearted players to hand out alms.

Su Mo made an expression of slight disgust when he was looking through those messages. Suddenly, a prompt popped out. After tapping yes mentally, the begging messages instantly disappeared, all of them blocked from the game panel.

As for the advertising messages that remained, Su Mo looked at them one by one with great interest.

"Death Fire Sea Shelter is recruiting senior 2D players. We're looking for male players that have a high body fat percentage of at least 22%, who can endure hardship and are unafraid of exhaustion. Once recruited, we guarantee a daily supply of at least 300g of food and 200ml of clean water. Preferential treatment. Anyone who is near XX location and wants to join, please contact me quickly!"

"Faisal Society is recruiting combat-conscious players. No requirements for height and physique, as long as your combat abilities are passable. After joining the shelter, we will guarantee half a catty of food per day, which contains at least 100g of meat. We're located at XX. Those within 200 miles please take a look."

"Tac Sanctuary is recruiting players with life skills. As long as you have the skills to produce a large amount of basic items, you can come join us. We have enough players with combat abilities to ensure your safety and also plenty of food for you to get through this cold winter. As long as you're willing to work for long hours. we await your arrival at XX location!"

"Flying Tiger Shelter is currently located at XX. We have spotted an army of about 150 Taurens nearby. Are there any large-sized shelters in this location that can cooperate with us to attack them? When the time comes, the spoils will be distributed according to contributions. If we take them down, we'll have enough supplies for the winter!"

The advertisements posted by each shelter were very interesting. Su Mo looked at them for a while and suddenly realized that Faisal Society was one of the three shelters that had earlier been talked about by the solo players in the World Channel.

The other two shelters that worked with them suffered heavy losses after the battle with the Centaurs. One of the shelters even had less than 40 people left.

The three shelters were then merged into one. The treasure chests emerged and meat harvested from more than two hundred Centaurs would be more than enough for them to survive this cold winter.

"More and more magical races are targeting humans but, at the same time, some powerful shelters can turn the tides and devour the small races that have not yet fully developed in power. Sure enough, the only way to survive in the wasteland is to continue killing."

After scrolling through several times, Su Mo suddenly had a clear understanding of the current situation of humans.

Given that the western shelters only recruited elites, they could rely on their combat strength to attack when they encountered these magical races in the early stages. They eradicated these races before they could develop.

The eastern shelters, on the contrary, were overly cautious when facing these magical races due to their subpar strength and leadership, which was further hampered by their ineffective subordinates. They were far behind the West and the current situation was precarious.

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Chapter 102: The Delicious "Lion Idol"

"If the snowstorm keeps going like this, it seems that it'll be really hard for the large shelters in the east to survive! They can't afford to have a large war between races—they rely on chopping trees and hunting mutant creatures. How can they possibly hold on?"

Lying in bed, he observed that the people crying pretty much all had Huaxian names, and Su Mo's head started hurting involuntarily.

The game's delivery was very inconsistent.

In some places, there could be dozens of people put together in one go based on their familial relationships.

In some other places, they would be completely alone, just like Su Mo.

"It's lucky that my Su family was handed down solely to me. Moreover, being in the big city these few years, there haven't been many familiar relatives to drag me down. Otherwise… it'd be really difficult!"

In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, Su Mo could not guarantee that he could stay calm—or cold-blooded, so to speak—if he saw his relatives calling for help.

After seeing the Huaxian siblings' situation, Su Mo could only watch and not contribute.

The strength of a single person was not worth mentioning in front of hundreds of millions of people. Even Huaxia's infrastructure could not give birth to a complete supply chain system in ten short days.

Moreover, after the addition of all those limitations to the trading system, if one wanted a mutually beneficial trade, then one could only wait for when the secret trading realm opened.

As such, under the present circumstances, one could only trade valuable resources after the secret trading realm opened, otherwise…

"Other than war, the only option is still war. One would only be able to survive by taking the lives of others for the sake of their own. Otherwise, they can only wait for death when disaster comes."

In just a little over ten short days, there had already been several shelters that shared their experience of warring against other races.

After absorbing the experiences shared by the other shelters, Su Mo opened the private message channel he used as his diary and quietly recorded down two lines.

"After this disaster is over, I have to think of a way to quickly take down the lion and kobold clans. I can't just sit here and watch them continue developing.

"At the moment, I've detected a small human shelter 110 kilometers west of the base. When needed, I can get into contact (identity exposure issue)!"

After recording this down, Su Mo turned and tapped open the Regional Channel.

Previously, when he exited the ruins, there were 812 people in the Regional Channel. After two days, this number had not changed too much. There were still 799 people.

A few of the more active ones like Liang Jian were still active currently in the Regional Channel.

Furthermore, because of today's weather, there were quite a few people on the Regional Channel. Everyone was speaking freely there, discussing how they could protect themselves from the disaster effectively.

[Zhao Zhiyong: You know, this darn snow? Either you snow harder, or you don't snow at all. It's already freezing cold with just this little snow, and nobody can go out to do anything either. All it's doing is making people anxious.]

[Liang Jian: I've previously even thought about building an igloo for warmth. It seems I can't do it with this snow.]

[Sun Xian: For those of you who chose to build above-ground wooden shelters, you can do what I do—pry open the planks in the middle of the house, dig a hole, hide in it, and cover the top with weeds. Hear me out. Aside from being a little damp, it's actually quite warm. Before the blizzard comes, I plan to make this hole deeper with a few planks. When the blizzard arrives, I'll lie inside for three days straight!]

[Emma Devon: It's been two days since Mr. Su Mo last sent a message. It couldn't be that something has happened, could it? Lone wolf players like us can only head to the secret trading realm when it opens to look for Mr. Su Mo and trade for some food supplies to get through this winter!]

[Cai Junfeng: Hey, you foreign devil! How could something happen to the Almighty Su? You can sit back and relax—he'll be here even if you're gone.]

[Na Wenxing: Exactly. I'm not even asking to trade for anything amazing, All I ask is to be able to enter to trade some food with the big guys. I'm really near the end of the road here.]

Compared to the World Channel, there was a lot less hostility in the Regional Channel. Everyone was harmoniously discussing how to survive in this wasteland.

Of course, among these casual chat messages, not even three messages could be sent before a topic related to Su Mo would be brought up, and then another heated discussion would ensue.

"After the natural disaster eliminated the first wave of people, the remaining humans all have the basic ability to survive in the wasteland. At least before the secret trading realm opens, there probably wouldn't be too big a change to this number. Hopefully, I can have a good round of trades when it happens!"

Seeing that many people were saying that they had good things to trade, Su Mo's attention was piqued as well, and he sent a message in the Regional Channel.

[Su Mo: I have plenty of food and tools. If you want to trade, you can bring your valuable items to barter when the secret trading realm opens!]

Wow!

The Regional Channel, which had been slowly refreshing, instantly exploded after Su Mo sent out his message!

Countless lurkers stepped forward one after another, saying things like how they had many valuable items in their hands, and were only looking to trade them for some food.

There were also quite a few people asking if they could join his shelter—even if they had to slave away, they only asked to be able to eat and survive down the road.

After looking at it for a while, Su Mo did not send another message and silently exited the Regional Channel.

He only wanted to give these people the confidence to persevere. He did not have to say anything excessive; he believed that these people could survive if they kept their faith.

The time had gradually reached eight o'clock by the time he finished looking through the chat channels.

The system's notification alert would never be late. As if hearing Su Mo's silent words, it popped out soundlessly.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 15]

[You woke early in the morning and ate a satisfying meal. Your vigor was completely replenished (Survival points 5)]

[You detected the location of an enemy camp and took the appropriate countermeasures (Survival points 5)]

[You achieved "surface level" cooperation with another race for the first time (Survival points 50)]

[You snuck into the lion clan's camp, obtained rare items, and destroyed their core shelter (Survival points 200)]

[You ambushed the attacking kobolds and achieved a kill count of more than 200 in a single encounter (Survival points 500)]

[You upgraded your transportation vehicle and named it "Earth Tiger" in the doomsday world. It will become your unstoppable weapon in the wasteland (Survival points 200)]

[You received many treasure chests. Your collection is rich. (Survival points 30)]

[Milestone: The total number of creatures from other races that you have killed has reached 200 (Survival points 100)]

[Milestone: The total number of creatures from other races that you have killed has reached 300 (Survival points 200)]

[Milestone: The total number of creatures from other races that you have killed in a single encounter has reached 200 (Survival points 200)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 191 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 1781

Survival points remaining: 1800

"Huh, how did the survival environment's survival points decrease instead?"

Seeing his survival points go from two digits back to four digits, Su Mo was pleasantly surprised.

However, among all these additions, Su Mo still keenly noticed the decrease in the fixed input of survival points at the bottom.

The survival points at the top could be obtained through daily activities and actions, and were irregular survival points.

It was very likely that if a disaster came, and he could not go out for more than ten days, such gains would be reduced to zero.

It was the last category of points, based on the survival environment evaluation, that would be the most important channel for gaining survival points in the future.

"Could it be that the system has determined that my current survival environment has worsened? It's not as comfortable as it was before?"

Lying on the warm bed, Su Mo reached a hand out to feel the temperature in the shelter, and his guess became more certain.

As the temperature outside dropped more and more, even though the shelter was underground, the temperature still hovered between zero to three or four degrees.

Wearing thin sneakers, if he sat in the living room, his feet would be frozen stiff sooner or later. They would be numb even if he stepped on the ground.

As for the above-ground shelters—such as wooden houses—in other places, the temperature definitely would have dropped to below zero at the moment, and the survival environment might be even worse.

After looking over today's survival points income again, Su Mo affirmed his deduction.

"Oh, right. How could I have forgotten about the Lion God sculpture I brought back yesterday!" Su Mo rubbed his head and abruptly thought of the sweet item that was still in his storage space.

With a single thought, the Lion God sculpture that was repeatedly worshipped by the lion people appeared suddenly in Su Mo's hands.

The Lion God sculpture still emitted its green light. Around the face that had no facial details, it should have had a stiff ring of fur, but somehow this piece of wood had been carved in a mystical way. The slivers of wood felt like real fur when he touched them. It was shocking.

"Woof! Aroooo."

"Coo coo coo coo coo coo."

As Su Mo sat up and studied the Lion God sculpture closely, the three little ones beside him had already been so startled by its "there-but-not-there pressure".

Especially Oreo. She stared at the Lion God sculpture, eyes burning and emitting bursts of sharp light.

Big Spark and Little Spark kept cooing, their chicken heads bobbing back and forth.

Su Mo was not at all unfamiliar with this behavior from the three little ones. It was undoubtedly their performance when they spied a delicacy.

"Huh? You all want to eat this Lion God sculpture? No way, he's made of wood!"

Before Su Mo could even finish speaking, Oreo nodded fervently beside him, eyes full of desire and saliva dripping from her doggy mouth.

"Silly girl, this thing can't be eaten thoughtlessly. Let me examine it first."

Pressing Oreo's doggy head, as well as Big Spark and Little Spark, down, Su Mo reluctantly spent a few Disaster Points.

It was his first time using the game panel's appraisal function. It was different from the system appraisal. This time, the information that popped up was more detailed and complete.

The game panel even thoughtfully attached the usage method as well as… the resale price!

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Chapter 103: Broken! The Second Transcendent Ability!

[Lion Clan Inherited Sacrificial Offering Wooden Idol (Good)]

[Description: The wooden sculpture that the high priest "Kemuma", of the lion clan's Temple of Supreme Legacy, personally prayed to instill the "Lion God's" divine power into. Because of the material, the sculpture could not carry a trace of the "Lion God's" divine power, so it could only hide the face of the deity to ensure that the sculpture would not break.]

[Limitations: Only the prayers of the lion clan can awaken the divine power in the sacrificial offering wooden idol. Other races need to abandon their racial identity and join the lion clan of their own volition under the witness of the sacrificial offering idol before they can use it.]

[Functions:

[Divine Power – Absorption: Hold a ritual to sacrifice more than 100 creatures from other races in a single encounter to absorb the life force of the creatures and transform them into a little bit of the lion clan's divinity (unofficial)]

[Divine Power – Empowerment: Utilize a little of the divinity stored in the idol to temporarily increase the strength of the user for a duration of 24h]

[Divine Power – Blessing: Breaking the idol at the shelter core will permanently add a Level 1 blessing of the Lion God]

[Evolutionary Food: The wooden statue that stores the power of the Lion God gives off a deadly attraction to wasteland creatures that cannot be ignored. If the divine sculpture is swallowed, there is a certain probability that the wasteland creature can absorb the divinity, have its strength and physique enhanced, and have a certain chance of using the divine powers to awaken the strength hidden within its bloodline (Probability: 0.00000001%)]

[Resale price: High (300 Disaster Points)]

"Will you resell it?"

By the time Su Mo had finished slowly reading through the functions, the game panel's resale notification popped out eagerly, as if it desperately needed this.

"I choose 'No'!" Su Mo shook his head without hesitation. The thought turned into action, and he gently tapped the 'No' option.

A light shone and the options disappeared. Only the property panel was left hanging beside the statue.

"It's only 300 disaster points. Since I already have the workbench, it doesn't make much sense. I need 800 points to upgrade the storage space again. These 300 points are just a drop in the ocean. It'd be better to use the idol to increase the shelter's Disaster Resistance."

Su Mo saw the problem with the choices for the idol very clearly.

However, at the same time, the usage methods that popped out of the game panel made Su Mo's head ache.

If he wanted to use this transcendent idol's functions—such as Absorption or Empowerment—he had to abandon his human status first and join the lion clan before he could use it.

Moreover, he had to get the sacrificial offering to be the witness; meaning that he had to join the lion clan under the Lioness's watchful gaze.

Su Mo did not even want to think about it and immediately ruled out such harsh conditions.

Su Mo had previously played a blatant trick on the lion clan and led the kobolds on a wild goose chase toward the lion clan's territory. By the time the kobolds found it, even if the lion clan had tried to explain that it was not them, the kobolds would not have believed them either, but what could be done about that?

A blatant trick was called a blatant trick exactly because it was a blatant scheme, but there was nothing one could do about it!

When the kobolds, who had suffered a heavy loss, fought the lion clan, whose strength could not be compared to theirs, they would have had to fight with all their might and destroy the lion clan in order to recoup their losses.

The lion clan would naturally not sit around waiting for death, so there was bound to have been a fierce battle between the two!

When that time came, the lion clan, already in a precarious situation, would only gradually dwindle way in exile and before becoming extinct.

Joining the lion clan now would be equivalent to joining the… in 1949.

"It seems like the only function left for this statue is…"

Su Mo smiled and raised his head to glance at the three burning gazes beside him, before looking at the statue in his hands, and then…

Without a second thought, he twisted off the wooden statue's head.

Suddenly, a few rays of green light gushed from the neck of the twisted lion sculpture into the shelter.

The gap was only about four centimeters wide in diameter, but as more and more green light was emitted, the previous light did not disappear.

Slowly, the green light became more and more saturated and, when it was about to solidify into physical white light, an illusory lion person appeared in the shelter.

The lion person's gaze was a little blank as it looked soullessly at the shelter facilities surrounding it. Then it evaluated Su Mo, who was sitting on the bed, and…

The three little ones who were almost drooling…

As the lion person uttered a string of incomprehensible incantations that sounded like whispers, but also like praises, blue dots spilled out from the lion person's body and fell on the shelter's floor, ceiling, walls…

As the spell progressed, Su Mo suddenly noticed that there was a glimmer of spirit on the originally sluggish lion person's face, and there also seemed to be divine light in its eyes.

The lion person's spell incantation became faster and faster. It felt like the Great Compassion Mantra, which made those listening to it feel as though their heads were splitting!

The solid light slowly began changing shape…

In the next second, the lion person shattered with a crash. The thick blue torrent of light began to wash over the entire shelter, and complex runes were engraved onto the shelter walls.

Even special effects could not have produced something as shocking as this miraculous scene right now!

A few seconds later, as the blue light vanished, the runes gradually hid themselves as well, and the whole shelter turned peaceful again.

Su Mo looked around. The shelter seemed to have gotten a little something, and yet also seemed to not have changed at all.

A melodious prompt sounded in the shelter as the visions faded.

[Record: Congratulations to the player "Su Mo" on achieving Level 1 of the Lion Clan's Blessing on his primary shelter—Underground Shelter.

[Record: For more information, please activate the game panel to examine the shelter's properties.

Two prompts sounded one after the other, proving that the miraculous scene from just now was not fake and had actually happened!

The idol, that originally emitted light, had now lost all of it and had become a dead object that attracted the three little ones.

He broke off the idol's two arms and threw one each to Big Spark and Little Spark.

He passed the rest of the object over to Oreo.

Whoosh!

Big Spark and Little Spark pecked at the arms like crazy while Oreo swallowed it whole without even stopping to chew.

Then…

Big Spark and Little Spark's bodies visibly started growing, and their originally dull chicken wings also started emitting flashes of green light.

Only when their sizes had increased by about a third did it stop.

"Woof… woo!" Seeing the two's changes, Su Mo was surprised, and Oreo also stared wide-eyed at the sight.

Turning his head to observe the unchanged Oreo, Su Mo was stunned too.

"Huh, you haven't changed even a little bit. The two of them changed after eating just a little bit; how could you not have changed even an inch!

"Hurry, change for me!"

Su Mo ruffled Oreo's doggy head. Seeing Oreo's ferocious expression, Su Mo laughed out loud.

"The probability of transformation from the idol was too low. Big Spark and Little Spark did not awaken any bloodline either. As for Oreo… there was no reaction at all.

"It seems like the idol's level was too low and could not trigger the bloodline in Oreo's body!"

After thinking about it, Su Mo did not worry about having or not having it. It was without a doubt a blessing if it was awakened, but it was just as fine if it had not awakened either. The day for awakening would come when he got his hands on higher-level idols in the future.

"Now, let's see just what the lion clan's blessing is. It's my first time using this kind of magical creation—I really am a little curious."

Gathering his thoughts, Su Mo summoned the game panel and tapped straight into Underground Shelter's properties.

[Underground Shelter (Primary)]

[Level: lv1]

[Description: A shelter made from stone. Abnormally sturdy, it has good safety and is remarkably effective at insulating against dampness and keeping warm.]

[Space: 140 (4.2m high)]

[Level of Integrity: 100%]

[Facilities: Iron stove, bed, Large Scale Vegetable Culture Medium, Psychic Energy Well Water Extractor, dining table…]

[Transcendent abilities:

[Transcendent property: Repels water (lv 1) – growth potential (half a star)

[Transcendent origin: Obtained from being shared by the secondary shelter—Deep-sea Shelter. Having received the blessing of the Mermaid Clan, it has a weak ability to repel water. When encountering a water hazard that is not beyond certain limits, it will automatically isolate the water from the outside from getting into the shelter with a waterproof film.]

[Transcendent property: Wind (lv 1) – growth potential (one and a half stars)

[Transcendent origin: Obtained from the Lion Clan Inherited Sacrificial Offering Wooden Idol's blessing. It has a weak ability to control wind. The player can adjust the "wind" in the shelter as the player wishes, and regulate the "wind". Please find out the method and details of usage by yourself.]

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Chapter 104: Controlling and Confronting Wind Magic!

"Wind?"

As Su Mo looked at the description on the shelter's property panel in surprise, he opened his hand curiously and shouted at the ceiling of the shelter.

"Wind, listen to my orders and blow at Oreo's dog head!!!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Ruff ruff ruff~"

"Woof~ Awooooo~"

Oreo, who was sitting at the edge of the bed, rolled her eyes and barked a couple of times as if Su Mo was giving it a headache. She did not seem to understand why Su Mo was jumping and dancing around like a shaman as he made those whooshing noises.

"Er, I'm just livening up the atmosphere! Don't look at me like that!"

When Su Mo saw Big Spark and Little Spark looking at him weirdly as well, he quickly cleared his throat and changed his tone.

"Ahem. Today's wind is so noisy, we should stand up against it!"

After gaining a windfall of survival points and inheriting the blessing of the Lion God, Su Mo decided to turn off the heating pad, put on his shoes, and get out of bed.

Without the heat source, he treaded slow steps toward the living room before a cold gust of wind blew toward him. The wind was so cold that it made Su Mo sneeze again and again.

"It would be great if all the cold wind flowed slowly!"

After rubbing his palms, Su Mo muttered to himself.

Yet…

The next second, the wind that was rushing back and forth in the shelter seemed to have received the instructions and its flow slowed down immediately.

Su Mo, who was trembling from the cold, felt a hint of warmth, as if the shelter immediately warmed up after the wind stopped.

"So is this how I control the wind?"

Su Mo curiously stretched out his hand and fanned his hand toward his face in the air.

Initially, when he fanned his hands, it would make a gentle breeze, but since he could control the wind now, it reduced the wind flow rate significantly.

When it hit Su Mo's face, it was a little ticklish and almost unnoticeable.

"Nice! This ability is way too good! If only…"

"If only the wind could blow at a faster speed!"

As soon as he said that, it was as if the eye of a tornado appeared in the living room of the shelter.

This time, Su Mo did not have to make the whooshing noise anymore.

Visually, the wind in the base seemed to have sped up, as if a big fan was fanning it, blowing the wind back and forth.

"Stop, stop, stop! It would be great if the wind speed would return to normal!"

Su Mo, who was cold all over from the wind, hurriedly called out to stop the flow of wind.

The strong wind that formed from the extraordinary power was a six or seven on the Beaufort scale. Not to mention that it had appeared out of thin air. It was magical and unusual.

It was terrifying! A mere four or five seconds of wind made the Underground Shelter's temperature at least one degree celsius colder!

"What a magical supernatural power. Although I can't touch or control it, this gives me a really familiar feeling… It's like…

"Using… voice-controlled smart home equipment."

When Su Mo realized that, he did not know whether to laugh or cry.

The ability to control the wind was as if a huge central air conditioner had been installed in the base, in which the blower could be turned on or off with voice control.

As for the person controlling it, apart from voice control, it was not like the extraordinary powers of wind-controlling like in the movies.

"Sigh, since I'm only at level one for this ability, I can't be too greedy. Maybe if I shear more wool off the lion people, I'll be able to level it up in the future!"

Su Mo was delighted when he thought about how the lion people might be running around at that moment, chased by the kobolds.

After that, he walked until he was under the ventilation duct, and looked up at the duct where air was slowly flowing downward from. Su Mo tried asking.

"It would be nice if there was a little more wind coming out of the ventilation duct!"

As soon as he said that, Su Mo's words were like a bamboo pole that stabbed a hornet's nest.

The air that had originally been flowing slowly inside, seemed to have heard the call and rushed in frantically straight down toward the shelter through the slender duct.

Since the wind speed was too fast, it made even a whining noise that sounded similar to the cry of a ghost.

The air flow was way stronger when compared to a kitchen hood. The wind rushed in through the duct and, standing under the vent, Su Mo felt as if he was in an ice cellar.

The moisture that was mixed in with the cold wind spread across the room and hit him in the face.

Su Mo, who was initially a little sleepy, immediately looked like he was wide awake now!

"It would be great if there was no wind coming in from the ventilation duct!"

Just like before, the violent wind that was flowing in suddenly stopped, as if the barrier glass had been closed, with no wind leaking in.

The magical control experience made Su Mo extremely playful.

After trying to control it in a few other different ways for over an hour, Su Mo finally figured out how to use this wind control ability.

The current function was very simple. Su Mo opened up his private message channel diary and started to record it down.

"Distance limitation: The wind control ability can only be used in the shelter at present. It can be extended to the back of the main door at most and has no effect after exiting it."

"Wind speed: The current maximum wind speed is about 12-13 meters per second, which is probably between six or seven on the Beaufort scale. It's not realistic to use it as a method to hurt or kill someone and the minimum wind speed cannot be calculated for now…"

"How to use it: By saying it would be great if the wind speed could be XX!"

"Things I could use it for: Kitchen hood (I can specify and control the direction of airflow, as well as increase or decrease the airflow within a particular location), hair dryer, air conditioner, ventilation fan, clothes dryer, blower, vacuum cleaner…"

"The practical value of it is currently subject to long-term observation and use, so it's temporarily unknown!"

Su Mo patted his hands. After he did his best to record down all the tests he had done as thoroughly and detailed as possible, Su Mo turned off the game panel and a thought popped up in his head.

Overall, this extraordinary ability was very useful in the weather they were experiencing.

Especially after the wind speed was reduced, the temperature in the shelter increased significantly.

As for the other functions, he still needed to slowly discover them by experimenting in order to find the best way to use this ability in the future.

After moving his body around for a while to warm himself up, Su Mo went to the armament storage room, took off the combat uniform that he was wearing, and placed it on the work table.

"The system can't directly upgrade the clothes and shoes that I'm wearing. If I want to stay warm, I can only upgrade this combat uniform!"

It was too cold. If he were to go out with his sweater, sweatpants, and walking shoes, the subzero temperatures would have him frozen in less than ten minutes.

If he met with danger then, even if he upgraded it at that time, an already stiff body would not have much combat effectiveness. Thus, it was better to upgrade and transform it beforehand.

As he focused his mind, the property panel of the combat uniform appeared in front of Su Mo.

[Photometric combat uniform (Good)]

[Description: A combat uniform with outstanding abilities. Waterproof, anti-viral, protects against ultraviolet and infrared rays, and has slight wind and heat insulation.]

[Special ability: Photometric invisibility (from certain angles, the super material with negative refraction index, combined with the structure of transformation optics specially designed based on the material, can bend light and achieve the photometric invisibility effect.)]

[First upgrade option: Combat direction: Improves combat uniform material. High-strength nylon material will be weaved in, making it cut-resistant. Comfort will be improved and material density increased, enhancing wind resistance. Survival points required (420).]

[Second upgrade option: Concealment direction: Improves combat uniform material and material density, greatly enhancing wind resistance. Added waterproof coating blocks water molecules from seeping in to keep the uniform dry. Extra pockets added, which increases storage space. Survival points required (1800).]

[Third upgrade option: Adaptable all-terrain direction: Improved combat uniform material. Comprehensive upgrade and transformation of fabric weaving of the combat uniform. A more advanced textile technology is utilized that slightly improves wearer experience, and moderately improves wind and waterproof properties. Added electric (heating/cooling) device. Survival points required (740).]

"Sure enough, the more times I upgrade an item, the better the upgrade options I receive. It's very likely that there will be four or five options in the future. And just like how I upgraded the buggy last time, there's also a comprehensive upgrade. The system really is getting smarter!"

He brushed off a layer of dust from the combat uniform and wished for a small breeze to blow the dust into a corner. As Su Mo looked at the three options given by the system, he fell into deep thought.

He knew that he would definitely not pick the first option, as it was not necessary to add a combat option to the combat uniform.

For close combat, it would be best to avoid it at all costs in the early stage if possible. During the middle and later stages, it would likely be even more important to not get into close combat.

After all, close combat meant having more exposure and risk. Facing an enemy hidden in the dark would carry the risk of death if one was not careful enough.

As for the second and third options…

The specific difference was that the second option focused more on functionality.

According to the system's previous prompts, Su Mo knew that he did not have to think about it any longer. The added storage space had to be the same as the storage space in Earth Tiger, which allowed him to store items by focusing mentally.

Although the storage space might not be as much as the space in Earth Tiger, getting one or two cubic meters would clearly be advantageous.

The third option would strengthen his adaptability.

When Su Mo thought about the electric heating device, he started to get greedy.

In this kind of weather, having heated clothes with just a flip of a button would mean that a life could be saved at a critical moment!

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Chapter 105: Breaking Through the Upper Bound! Excellent Quality!

"Which one should I choose? Storage space or electrical heating?" After looking at the remaining survival points he had and realizing that he had enough points for either upgrade option, Su Mo had a clearer picture of his available options.

"My current storage space is three cubic meters, and I have five cubic meters in Earth Tiger. If it weren't for my many treasure chests from before, I would've had enough space. Notwithstanding that, having a heating element is something I must have now, so I shouldn't need to even think about it!"

After trying to input some items that he had in the base into the upgrade panel, Su Mo made his decision and immediately spoke clearly and loudly when the number of survival points needed stopped reducing.

"I choose the third upgrade option!"

As soon as he said that, green light slowly overflowed from his body and turned into a pair of dexterous hands.

Almost instantly, the combat uniform, that had been originally neatly and carefully woven, was taken apart, forming green silk threads that were floating in the air.

The green light that had turned into a pair of hands began to circle around in the air.

It was as if the silk threads were like soldiers, moving in accordance with the orders of the hands.

"This looks magical! This upgrade feels far more realistic than making something out of thin air!"

The upgrade process this time was extremely slow.

As Su Mo sat at his workbench, he quietly watched as the combat uniform slowly formed under the weaving motions.

This new method of weaving completely toppled over the methods of textile weaving used during his time on Earth. It was as if a door to a whole new world had been opened for a modern human's learning capability.

"It's the perfect method of weaving textiles. By ensuring that every silk thread is weaved into the most suitable position, the entire thing, when combined, allows every silk thread to be interconnected with each other…"

"This kind of weaving method feels as if a soul has been given to the clothes!"

As the green hands shook, the silk thread on the collar shook and the silk thread at the very bottom also followed suit.

The combat uniform appeared to have become a living thing itself and no longer seemed like a boring inanimate object.

Su Mo watched the entire process until it came to an end. Even though the green hands were no longer shaking, the combat uniform was still moving by itself with no help from the wind, as if exuding its own joy.

After three to five seconds, the green hands retracted and the new all-terrain adaptable photometric combat uniform was completed!

The green light slowly retracted into Su Mo's body and the brand-new combat uniform floating in the air lost its source of power as it fell onto the workbench with a snap, making a light noise.

Immediately, Su Mo picked up the combat uniform and examined the surface material of the combat uniform curiously.

"There's no trace of the weaving at all. It looks like something formed naturally or, in other words, it almost seems as if it's grown out of the ground."

As Su Mo touched the neatly and carefully made combat uniform for the first time, Su Mo did not check its property panel immediately, but chose to instead pick it up and try it out.

The new combat uniform was not light in terms of its weight. After inspecting it, Su Mo found a palm-sized device on the waist area.

He pinched open the collar to take a look inside and it turned out to be a simple heating device.

The principle of the device was very simple. It had a built-in battery, a small fan, and an efficient and safe heating element.

After the power supply is turned on, the wearer would adjust the gear based on their needs. For example, when selecting the heating option on the gear, the heating element and the fan will be switched on, circulating warm air within the interior of the clothes and increasing the body temperature rapidly.

It was a type of technology that was inexpensive and commonly used on Earth. For example, the small sun heater used the same working principle.

It was just that no one was crazy enough to implement the technology into the inside of a piece of clothing. Su Mo did not know how the system adjusted the working mechanism to ensure that it was safe to use either.

"After putting it on, it feels about two kilograms heavier than before. The current combat uniform is about six and a half catties. It's not that heavy if I don't have my armor on!"

After putting it on, Su Mo smacked his lips and tried to make exaggerated movements for a while.

The new combat uniform was still the same as before. Not only did it not have any feeling of restraint, it also gave him peace of mind.

After he tried to move quickly a few more times, the temperature in the combat uniform rose rapidly.

He tightened up the collar and sat on the stone bench. It took more than ten minutes before Su Mo felt the clothes he was wearing slowly cool down.

"The heat retention is also very good. At least it's much better than my sweater. Besides that, the kind of warmth inside isn't the stuffy kind, as my body still feels very dry and comfortable!"

After taking off the combat uniform, Su Mo looked for a charging cable and connected it to the power strip before he started looking at the combat uniform's property panel.

[All-terrain photometric combat uniform (Excellent)]

[Description: An all-terrain combat uniform that can adapt to harsh low and high-temperature environments. Its excellent features include being moderately waterproof, moderately anti-viral, has slight protection from ultraviolet and infrared rays, as well as moderate wind and slight heat insulation. The new weaving method allows it to have some extra special abilities, which effects are more obvious in certain environments.]

[Special abilities:

Photometric invisibility: From certain angles, its super material with negative refraction index, combined with the structure of transformation optics specially designed based on the material, can bend light and achieve the photometric invisibility effect.

Terrain adaptability: After encountering harsh terrain or weather, it will automatically adapt to a certain extent according to the current terrain and environment, and the corresponding characteristics of the clothes will also be slightly improved.]

[Comment: This time, you stand in a harsh environment and you're not sure if you should fear the King of Hell or the Jade Emperor!]

"Excellent quality!"

"The system upgraded it into an excellent-quality armor!"

As Su Mo looked at the excellent-quality label for the combat uniform, and the two special abilities it provided, he was surprised and shocked!

It seems that there's a big difference between good-quality and excellent-quality items. Having obtained such items from the ruins previously, Su Mo had developed a profound appreciation for those kinds of items since then.

There was a world of difference between excellent-quality and good-quality items.

A good-quality item meant that one of its properties were better than the rest. Usually, most people could see what their sole advantage was.

However, an excellent-quality item was different. An item with excellent-quality meant that there was an all-round improvement of the item. At first glance, there would not be just one point that seemed extraordinary, but rather, every part was equally good.

Even though he had spent 1800 survival points to upgrade the buggy into the Earth Tiger, it still did not break through the shackles of good-quality to excellent-quality.

Now, Su Mo only needed to spend 700 something points to upgrade an item to excellent-quality. This feeling was as if he had won a grand prize, and it lingered in his heart.

"It must be the magical weaving method that changed the quality of the combat uniform. It seems that there are still many things I don't know about item quality."

"I can't wait to find out what lies ahead. Perfect-quality, rare-quality, or even epic-quality equipment… All the way to legendary-quality. I wonder how powerful they'll be!"

When he thought about how powerful an excellent-quality item was and imagined the dozens of properties that might come with a legendary-quality equipment, Su Mo felt himself go dizzy.

When the time comes, having power of that caliber might make humans as powerful as the gods.

"I just need to continue working hard. With the current pace of my development, I know I'll reach that level someday!"

"When that time comes… Forget about the lion people in this world. I'll just break into their world and kill their horsesh*t Lion God and get all the blessings for my shelter!"

Su Mo chuckled to himself before putting away all the unrealistic fantasies in his heart, and began to sort out the things he had to take with him when going out later.

There were not many tasks for this day. In Su Mo's itinerary, he intended to park and hide Earth Tiger in the Deep-sea Shelter.

If there was nothing urgent, he was not going to go out.

As for dealing with the upcoming snowstorm disaster, it was basically not a problem for him after he obtained his air conditioner and heating pad.

However, the fewer survival points that were given by the system evaluation to him today reminded Su Mo of something.

"The system is changing and is urging me to not only survive, but to also live better and improve my quality of life. Only in that way would I be rewarded with more survival points."

"That's why… I really need to renovate my underground base or build some structures above-ground."

In order to increase his daily fixed rewards, Su Mo looked at the resources in his reserves and decided to think creatively. He knew he had to start upgrading some things.

While his equipment was charging, Su Mo returned to the living room and started his training. He trained using the good old training methods that his father taught him and ended up sweating all over.

Not only were the simple military martial arts exercises effective against enemies, but the more precise the movements were, the greater their strengthening effect.

Su Mo alternated between some push-ups and jumping burpees. After slowing down the wind speed in the shelter, even after Su Mo's body heat dissipated, the shelter did not feel cold at all. Instead, there was a sense of comfort.

After a full hour of training, Su Mo stopped.

He sat on the stone bench and directly scooped up half a scoop of psychic energy water from the water tank and drank it down. His physical strength quickly recovered.

"Two days have passed and my strength hasn't changed significantly. It seems that it must be related to the ruins…"

Without a device to measure his strength, Su Mo could only use the most primitive method.

He judged his strength by the weight he could carry. When he tested his strength just now, Su Mo felt that he reached his limit at one hundred and eighty catties of iron blocks.

"The limit of the amount of weight I can lift is 90 kilograms, which is still a long way off from the strongmen and boxers on earth but, compared to the time before I came over, I've come a long way!"

After Su Mo touched the bulging muscles on his arms, he smiled in satisfaction before taking off his sweater and holding it in his hands.

The violent wind blew past noisily like a hair dryer. After less than a minute, the sweater was already fresh and nice when Su Mo put it back on.

The all-terrain combat uniform's battery being charged by the side did not look big, but the battery capacity was shocking. Even after three full hours of charging, it was still not yet fully charged.

The other electric equipment had already had their indicators flashing green.

After Su Mo looked at the color of the sky and judged the time, he did not wait any longer. He unplugged the equipment and began to put them on one by one, preparing to go out!

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Chapter 106: Survival Begins as the Snow gets Heavier!

"Mmhmm, I'll put my armor in the storage space for the time being. I'll only wear it when I need it. It's much too bulky to wear armor in this kind of weather!"

He reached out to fiddle with the heavy plate armor momentarily. After hesitating for a bit, Su Mo finally chose to only wear the combat uniform.

It was freezing cold, so most creatures would hide themselves. Therefore, there was really no need to put on his armor.

He went to his command room and turned on the TV to observe the surroundings for a while. After confirming that there were no creatures within a one kilometer radius, Su Mo switched it off and shouted toward the inside of his shelter.

"Oreo, I'm ready. Do you want to go out? We're heading to the Deep-sea Shelter!"

As soon as he said that, Oreo, who was still in the bedroom playing with Big Spark and Little Spark, scrambled out.

That speed… Su Mo was amazed when he saw it!

"Woof! Woof! Awoo!"

Oreo opened her mouth wide and barked loudly a few times to indicate that she was ready.

When Su Mo saw what Oreo was like, he smiled, opened the door, and walked out.

As soon as he entered the passageway, he could clearly feel the temperature drop. The feeling was even more obvious when he passed through the second entrance.

"That's weird. It's daytime. Why does it feel even colder than last night…"

Before opening the door, Su Mo turned on the electric heating switch on his waist. As he gently pushed down, the heating device started whirring.

A little more than ten seconds later, Su Mo almost moaned comfortably when the first gust of hot air filled up his combat uniform.

"7355600…"

After Su Mo keyed in the combination lock's password on the stone door, there was a clatter and, as the bolt made a crisp sound, he began to open the door slowly.

Suddenly, a gap appeared along the door.

A gust of wind mixed with snow burst out from the crack, rushing into the deepest part of the passageway.

The more the door was opened, the louder the howling wind got.

The agile Oreo lowered her head, hurriedly drilled through the open gap, and rushed out.

After Su Mo opened the door wide enough for him to pass through, he hurriedly stepped out, closed the door quickly, and pushed the bolt back in.

Su Mo turned his head and looked into the distance…

Compared to the image he saw on the TV, using his own eyes to see the world that had turned into ice and snow was even more shocking.

The vast plains had been fully covered by a thick layer of snow.

As he looked around, everything was white. Even the withered yellow weeds from before had also been crushed beneath the weight of the snow at this moment.

Su Mo reached out his hand and tried to catch one or two snowflakes, and was shocked to find that they were large snowflakes!

"That's fast! It's only been an hour or two. I can't believe that the snow has gotten so much heavier. Could it be that because it's after eight o'clock, it technically counts as the seventh day?"

Su Mo looked up at the sky. It was a pity that snowflakes were falling everywhere from the sky and dark clouds covered the sun, making it difficult for him to even catch a glimpse of sunlight.

It had not been snowing for long either. It started in the early hours of the morning till now, but there was already a thick layer of snow on the ground.

There is an old saying that goes: one does not feel the cold when it snows, but feels the cold when the snow melts.

With the constant warmth coming from within his combat uniform, Su Mo did not feel that cold.

After Su Mo walked to the Earth Tiger, he stretched out his hand and brushed off a layer of snow from the front windshield.

"Good thing I upgraded the buggy. Otherwise, I would've frozen into a popsicle if I drove an open air buggy in this weather!"

The Earth Tiger was a purely mechanical device which was even equipped with wipers. However, in that kind of weather, Su Mo could only clear off the frost on his windshield by hand.

After clearing the snow off the window and opening the car door, Su Mo went inside and started the engine to heat up the car.

"Hey, where's Oreo?"

When Su Mo saw that Oreo did not fly into the car as usual, he got out curiously and looked around.

On the hill atop the shelter, Su Mo saw Oreo standing with an aloof expression, raising her head and staring into the distance.

From his point of view, he could only see Oreo's back.

"Good dog, you look so handsome! Did you become wiser?"

When Su Mo saw the harmonious and beautiful scene between the sky and the ground, his image of Oreo instantly became better.

It even gave off a sense of illusion!

It was as if, between the sky and the ground, Oreo had power over the ice and snow.

The heavy snow was a disaster for other creatures, but for Oreo, it was as if it had been made just for her!

"Enough, Oreo. Let's go!"

Su Mo cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled up the hill.

After hearing Su Mo's call, Oreo turned her head swiftly and ran down the hill as she howled.

For some reason, the moment Oreo turned around, Su Mo seemed to see a vague white snowflake imprint on Oreo's head.

"Hey, what's that? Am I imagining things?"

After Oreo ran toward him, Su Mo lowered his body and curiously examined Oreo's dog's head.

It was a pity that the snowflake imprint that appeared unexpectedly was no longer there. It felt like he was just seeing things.

"It was probably a reflection or something. It seems that the snowy sky affects your sight as well!"

After he shook his head, he put Oreo into the passenger seat before fastening his own seat belt. After waiting three to five seconds, Su Mo slowly shifted the gear into drive.

He stepped on the accelerator and Earth Tiger slowly moved forward.

The snowy road was slippery. Although Earth Tiger had all-terrain tires, Su Mo did not dare to drive too fast. He kept it at a speed of about 20 yards per second and moved forward slowly.

It was snowing outside and there were no buildings or obstacles, so he drove the car leisurely on the plains.

Su Mo would normally have wanted to drive a few rounds to feel the charm of the wasteland, had it not been for the lack of air conditioning in the car.

"Oreo, I think you've recovered your intelligence after being in the snow. You look so elegant."

After he turned his head, Su Mo looked at the dignified-looking Oreo in the passenger seat curiously.

There were still bits of snow sticking on top of her soft black and white fur that had not melted, and glittered under the light.

Besides that, there was also a sense of elegance and wisdom within her little dark eyes.

Su Mo did not recognize that dog as Oreo based on her usual playfulness on normal days.

After Oreo heard what Su Mo said, she whimpered and pricked up her ears, as if she had heard something.

"Hmm? Is there something wrong?"

When Su Mo saw how Oreo acted, he instantly became alert as well.

However, Oreo just shook her head and continued to look as if she was listening to something.

At that moment, Su Mo, who still thought that the open fields were unpredictable, immediately shifted his gaze forward, squeezing the steering wheel and focusing on the road ahead.

The distance between the two shelters was not very far. Even though he drove at only 20 yards per second, the Deep-sea Shelter on top of the small hill appeared in front of their field of vision within a few minutes.

Without getting out of the car, Su Mo cautiously circled around the area and tried to enter from behind the Deep-sea Shelter.

It was not until Oreo shook her head in affirmation that Su Mo unfastened his seat belt and opened the door to get out of the car.

Along the way, the tire tracks on the ground were slowly covered by the heavy snowfall.

He pulled out his electric crossbow, turned it on, and waited for the self-check to beep for three to five seconds before cautiously walking forward.

Compared with the Underground Shelter, the Deep-sea Shelter had already accumulated a thick layer of snow on the door of the second floor because of its topography.

He walked up to it and could even hear the puffing sounds of snowflakes being squeezed to the side.

He pressed the mechanism next to the main entrance on the second floor and, after entering the passcode, the hinge plate popped up. He put his weapon away and Su Mo used his strength to open the door.

After not going there for two days, the Deep-sea Shelter still looked the same.

As he opened the door, he could hear the rumbling of the motor-pumped oil well.

After observing the layout of the shelter for a while, as well as the traces of dust, Su Mo calmed down.

When he walked over to the oil well, Su Mo focused mentally and his consciousness sank into the storage space of the motorized well.

Diesel, 103L!

Toluene, 4.2kg!

"Since I won't be taking Earth Tiger out for the next few days, I can save up some diesel as reserves and it would be a good idea to use it for power generation instead."

Before taking out the oil barrel,Su Mo took out a small container and filled it with the toluene after filling up the oil barrel with diesel.

After putting the two items into the storage space, Su Mo walked downstairs.

In the dim Deep-sea Shelter, there was no light. After taking out his flashlight, Su Mo felt around for the hinge plate to the first floor and opened up the cellar door completely.

A breeze mixed with snow floated into the cellar and a magical scene happened.

After reaching the dividing line of the door to the outside, there seemed to be an invisible film that blocked the entry of the snowflakes. Only a little breeze blew in, blowing on Su Mo's face.

Su Mo tried stretching out his hand and caught some of the snowflakes. When he brought them inside, the film did not respond at all.

"What a magical ability! It's a pity that I can't enjoy this enchantment in the Underground Shelter's passageway!"

After Su Mo stepped out of the cellar door on the first floor, he walked to the back of the hill and effortlessly parked the Earth Tiger into the cellar.

As he looked at Earth Tiger sitting in the center, he patted his hands in satisfaction and lowered the cellar door again.

Even though the snow had not gotten that bad yet, it was already starting to get difficult for Earth Tiger to continue roaming around the wasteland arrogantly.

He knew that he had to wait until the disaster was over and until all the ice and snow melted. Before then, Earth Tiger would have to stay here, so he would not be able to travel long distances for a while.

After walking back up to the second floor, Su Mo went out through the door after he repeatedly made sure that the oil well was operating normally, and that there were no problems with the other things.

After he turned the mechanical wheel for a bit and was about to close the door, Oreo, who had been laying low on the top floor, suddenly rushed down and barked softly.

"Is there danger?"

Chapter 107: T-minus Seven Days and a Visit from the Deliverymen!

After Oreo heard what Su Mo said, she shook her head and proceeded to make a very humanlike difficult expression.

When Su Mo saw how she was acting, he could not figure out what was wrong.

As he looked toward the distance covered by the boundless snow, there were no signs of any living creatures that could be seen.

Su Mo did not choose to hide. After closing the main door and pushing in the hinge plate, he strode vigorously onto the Deep-sea Shelter's hill.

As he stood there, his field of vision became wider.

Since he was wearing his combat uniform, Su Mo did not feel the cold when he was lying on the ground. On the contrary, it felt as if he was in an air-conditioned room.

After taking out the binoculars from the storage space, the first direction Su Mo looked toward was the Underground Shelter.

"Hmm… I don't seem to see anything out of the ordinary."

As for his tire tracks leading toward the Deep-sea Shelter, it had all already been covered by a layer of snow.

Anyone who did not know what was going on would not recognize the imprints made by the tires as tire marks from one to two hundred meters away.

Farther away, one could only see a vast expanse of whiteness because of the limited amount of light. Except for the howling wind, there was only dead silence between the sky and the ground.

After he turned around, Su Mo opened up Oreo's status panel while looking at her.

[Pet name: Oreo]

[Status: Growth stage (Personality has been fixed)]

[Creature Description: A gentle creature of the wasteland. As a mutant husky originating from many different bloodlines, it will become stronger as it grows.]

[Ability 1: High-speed movement. Its muscle structure ensures a certain explosive ability. Once the ability is activated, its speed is doubled for 30 seconds with a cooldown time of 5 minutes.]

[Ability 2: Sixth sense. Its biological structure makes its perception extremely powerful. Once the ability is activated, it can predict incoming danger within a short period of time with a cooldown time of 1 day.]

[Ability 3: ???]

In the skill column at the bottom of the panel, its sixth sense ability was cooling down.

However, Su Mo was not focused on the sixth sense ability at that moment.

As Su Mo had not opened Oreo's status panel for a long time, he was surprised to find that, not only had Oreo's status changed from the juvenile stage to the growth stage, but there was also a new skill under the two initial basic skills.

"What do the three question marks mean? Do I need to try it or do I need to unlock it?"

After Su Mo patted the majestic-looking Oreo, who was standing amidst the wind and snow, a trace of joy appeared in his heart.

As Su Mo's strength improved, Oreo had also gradually transitioned to the role of a scout and translator from being his combat partner.

Su Mo could always feel that Oreo always wanted to help out every time he found himself in danger, but that she was helpless to do so.

At that moment, seeing the additional skills in Oreo's status panel gave Su Mo more hope for Oreo's future combat effectiveness.

After Su Mo turned around to make sure and realized that there was nothing unusual, he decided to just lay down in the snow.

The snowflakes falling from the sky naturally fell on his mask as well, but the temperature of the mask quickly melted it into water and it slowly dripped down both sides of the mask.

"It's probably been more than ten years since I've seen a snowy scene such as this."

Su Mo carefully recalled the days when he lived in Mystic City. It seemed that after the snowy season in 2008, there were hardly any carefree snowflakes anymore in the hustling and bustling city.

At that moment, he lay on the ground with no one around to disturb him, while Oreo stood on high ground and looked out carefully.

Su Mo suddenly felt that, for some reason, on such a simple day like this, things looked quite beautiful!

Since there was nothing going on, Su Mo decided to open up his diary private message channel and started to calculate and compare his consumption over the past few days with the latest record of his inventory, before examining the remaining resources he had in his base.

"First of all, my iron blocks. I go through them quite quickly and now there's only 22 units left. If I continue using them at this rate, I'll need to refill them soon…

"For wood… I still have 15 units. I don't have to worry about wood for now. If I can trade some, I will, but if I can't, I can still drive out to chop them down myself. Since I still have five cubic meters in my storage space and Earth Tiger, I can chop down a dozen units and bring them all back in one go…

"For food, I have an unopened can of yellow peaches, a half-eaten can of yellow peaches, 11kg of rice, and a lot of flour. Currently, I have 150 catties which are unopened, and 11 catties which are opened, which adds up to about 80kg of flour.

"I still have one 250g pack of Fuling brand hot mustard, 400g of beef jerky, 5 cartons of UHT milk, a box of pickled vegetable flavored instant noodles, a bottle of Pepsi, a bottle of Fanta soda, two packs of Lay's potato chips, one box of red apples, and one pack of drunken peanuts…

"For my seasonings, I have more than enough. I have a little more than one kilogram of salt, which is the most important out of them all. Additionally, I have several bags of chili oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and light soy sauce…

"For my treasure chests, I currently have 45 bronze treasure chests, 64 iron treasure chests, and 41 wooden treasure chests, which totals up to 150 treasure chests.

"For my other materials, I have 6 units of plant fibers, 2 units of copper blocks, 80kg of sulfur ore, and I've used up my saltpeter ore…

"For my design blueprints, so far, I still have the blueprint for the energy-powered bicycle."

After he quickly recorded down his current inventory, Su Mo used his mental focus control to create three blank rows so that all the records were on top. He then began to record down the trades he would need to make after entering the secret realm.

"There is no trace of iron ore near the shelter. Since it's a necessity, I must purchase large amounts of it when I enter the secret realm this time. It would be best if I could buy hundreds or thousands of units, so that I'll always have enough."

"If steel is available, I can also try to gather some of it. When the time comes, I'll mix it with concrete to make building materials so that I can upgrade my shelter to have the same reinforced concrete structure as the Deep-sea Shelter."

"For food, I don't need to worry about it for now. Based on the growth of the culture medium, I should have no worries about eating and drinking for now if I'm to continue living by myself."

"However, if I do encounter food that can be stored for long periods, I can also trade them for some perishable food items and treat them as part of my food reserves."

"Salt too! I need to continue storing that up. There's no salt-producing land near the shelter and there's no seawater nearby either to get salt by boiling. Since this item is still cheap in the early stages, it would be best to collect enough supply for several years or even up to twenty years. By then, my shelter would've been nicely developed!"

"Design blueprints! This will be the main thing that I want to trade for when I enter the secret realm. This type of item is very precious and, as long as I can make the various magical modules to match them, I'll be able to restore technological productivity and directly create a production line for that item, ensuring that my shelter will continue to be the leading shelter!"

"So, all kinds of advanced modules! I'll take whatever that can be installed as long as someone sells it, since it'll be better for future productivity. It will be a good investment."

It had been a long time since he took stock of his items and requirements. With that in mind, Su Mo felt as if he could almost touch the future development trend of technology.

The technology on Earth relied on large energy power stations, from which the energy was then transmitted to various places, forming the foundation of modern production lines; that was no longer feasible here.

Aside from that, the most important factor in play—time—did not allow for it either!

At the very least, that kind of production line was not resistant enough in the face of the doomsday's frequent natural disasters. Even an ordinary earthquake would last up to ten days. If it lasted for more than hundreds of days, then all his efforts would have turned into dust.

Therefore, in order to set up a robust production line in a hundred days, he had to rely on the various design blueprints produced by the game.

After using the design blueprints to construct the corresponding factory, he was going to continue to add modules to improve its production efficiency.

Starting from the simplest power generation facility, once humans could survive the worst periods, they would be able to successfully enter the era of electricity.

When that time came, technology would begin to kick off and all kinds of factories would begin to rise up.

In less than a hundred days, the development rate would make it so that the magical beasts, such as kobolds and lion people, would no longer be a threat to humans. In the end, they would slowly be drowned out by artillery and guns.

As for whether humans could survive until then…

"Magoo left too little information. I don't know if any shelters successfully formed a complete production line that was self-sufficient by their day forty and onwards…"

Su Mo pulled out Magoo's diary from the corner of his storage space. Under the snowy sky, he shielded it with one hand and slowly flipped through it with his other hand.

In the era when Magoo came to that world, keeping a diary was a very popular and fashionable habit. Unfortunately, Magoo did not seem to be very literate as he made many corrections and spelling errors.

Every sentence seemed as if it held other meanings, and all Su Mo could do was read the diary over and over again.

Sadly, after reading the diary again, Su Mo could only reach one conclusion.

People with high EQ were straightforward.

People with low EQ talked about all sorts of nonsense.

"After Magoo's super snowfall was over, there was immediately a flood that flooded his base. At least this point gives me a good reference point, so I should start preparing to waterproof my shelter early on. Otherwise, I would certainly get flooded based on my shelter's depth!"

After Su Mo put the diary back, he pulled out a simple map that he had drawn by hand based on his exploration of the terrain over the past few days.

The map was much more detailed than the pictographic map drawn by Huang Biao and his group from before.

Not only did Su Mo draw the Underground Shelter as the center, but he also marked out the topography and the large landmark locations within eighty kilometers.

According to the estimation of the current terrain, about ten kilometers east of the Underground Shelter should be the location of his territory's core.

"If possible, I'd better find something to raise the terrain around my base, so that if a flood were to come, at least I can guarantee my daily travel!"

After taking out a pen, Su Mo neatly and carefully drew a large circle on the map, temporarily figuring out his development plan around the shelter.

However, before Su Mo could draw it out in proper detail, Oreo, who had been vigilant, finally discovered something and barked softly twice.

After putting back everything into the storage space, Su Mo quickly prepared himself for combat and his binoculars appeared out of thin air in a flash.

As Su Mo held up his binoculars, he looked at the direction where Oreo was facing.

In the snowy scene through his lens, a group of sneaky-looking people suddenly appeared.

"One… Two… Four…"

As Su Mo looked into the horizon through his lens, the small group of people slowly got closer and he could finally faintly see who the intruders were.

"Six of them? They look like humans."

"Hey, aren't those people Kento Maeda's henchmen from before? Why have they come here?"

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Chapter 108: Continue Raising the Stakes and the Secret of the Disasters!

At the edge of the horizon, under the assault of the wind and snow, the six of them moved forward slowly, finding it difficult every step of the way.

The weather was very cold.

Literally.

When Su Mo tried pulling down his mask, he felt a cold wave as his face was exposed to the outside temperature and the wind came flooding in. It made him shiver and he had goosebumps instantly on his skin.

Without thick clothes, the frigid wind would quickly cool down the body heat of anyone walking in the wilderness in that kind of weather, causing their body temperature to get lower and lower.

When he thought about it, he realized that those people had walked hundreds of miles to get here without any supplies and in this harsh wasteland environment.

In an instant, a sense of admiration rose in Su Mo's heart!

"Yo, I can't believe I'm receiving delivery packages on such a cold day! Dedication's one way to put it!"

After Su Mo put on his mask and licked off the snowflakes that stuck onto his lips, his murderous intentions surfaced.

Whether it was to develop the base or to sacrifice the first floor of the Deep-sea Shelter to the Underground Shelter, there was an urgent need for safehouse cores.

However, collecting them meant that he had to kill his own kind, other human beings, who had also come over from Earth!

Su Mo was not evil enough to kill civilians or weak humans but, at the same time, he also did not think it was worthwhile to do so!

As for the villains and henchmen, Su Mo did not feel the same way about them!

"Oreo, are you sensing danger from that group of people?"

As Oreo's head lowered, the man and dog laid on the high slope, observing the six of them slowly walking over from a distance.

When Oreo heard what Su Mo said, there was a trace of doubt in her eyes before she slowly shook her head.

It seemed that those people coming from afar were not the threatening enemies that Oreo sensed with her sixth sense.

"No?"

When Su Mo saw Oreo's movements, he thought to himself.

"It seems that these six people are just a side dish in this big show. I'm sure the main entree is still hiding in the back!"

Initially, that small team did not seem like a threat to Su Mo either. After receiving Oreo's confirmation, Su Mo nodded and calmed down.

The instinct of hunters was to wait for their prey.

The six of them were moving very slowly, walking heavily through the snow but, as time passed, it became clear where they were heading.

Impressively, it was the Underground Shelter!

As Su Mo laid above the high slope, which was less than three hundred meters from them, he coldly watched the group of people walking slowly.

As they got closer to him, the image in his binoculars became clearer.

The two people who were leading the team wore small padded jackets that they got from god knows where and several pairs of pants.

Such unfitting clothes naturally made them look a little bloated.

However, compared to the four people behind, the two looked better equipped.

Even the short man who stood to the left, behind the guy with the yellow quilted jacket on the left, was wearing a thin autumn coat with a rough plant fiber cover wrapped around him.

With every cold breeze that blew past, the short man could not help but shiver and sneeze again and again.

Slowly, as the group of people walked past the Deep-sea Shelter, Su Mo could clearly see the delight on the faces of the first two men.

At the same time, they said something that Su Mo could not hear and the entire group suddenly went faster.

Various weapons also began to appear in the yellow quilted jacket guy's hand.

When he looked closely, Su Mo immediately became furious.

Su Mo was no stranger to the weapon that he took out. It was the wooden spear that Su Mo used to kill a chameleon more than ten days ago.

With a total of four wooden spears, a shovel and a steel sword, the six of them looked threatening. Along with their outfits, they gave off a thug and gangster-like feel.

When Su Mo saw their shoddy equipment, coupled with their scattered formation, he almost could not resist the urge to catch up to them and annihilate them.

"Even if there were ten or twenty deliverymen like these, it would be no problem for me, let alone six!"

Currently, in his storage space, he had seven crossbow arrow shots that were filled with picric acid explosives. He just had to aim at the spot where those people were standing and slightly pull the trigger…

The huge impact from the detonation would turn those people into dust in an instant.

"But… I think I'd better wait and see what the big fish is…"

As he stared at the six of them gradually speeding up and disappearing from the end of his field of vision, Su Mo adjusted himself into a more comfortable posture and continued to wait on his stomach.

As for whether those people were going to break into the Underground Shelter or not, Su Mo was absolutely not concerned.

First of all, compared to when Huang Biao and his group attacked, the Underground Shelter had sunk a further five meters underground.

Secondly, since the thick stone walls sank in, the weakest spot was now at least five or six meters thick, not to mention the passageway's eight or nine meter-thick stone wall. Surely, one could only imagine how solid the whole thing was.

Thirdly, with the mobility brought about by the Earth Tiger, as well as the system's shelter durability prompt, Su Mo could always return immediately as soon as he detected an abnormality.

Based on these three considerations, Su Mo was extremely unconcerned about that group of henchmen.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring my old phone that was still charging when I came out. Otherwise, I would've been able to use my phone to check if there were other humans nearby!"

Since Su Mo came over just to park his car, he did not think that he would meet these deliverymen so, at that moment, he could only continue to wait on his stomach.

While waiting, Su Mo opened up the property panel of the shelter. As he stared at its durability, he also vigilantly watched the tracks where the group of henchmen came from.

Sure enough, within half an hour, another group of people appeared from the same path!

After waiting for a long time, Su Mo's body started to go numb. He quickly patted off the snow on his body and turned on the heating switch on his waist to heat up his body.

The warm air from the heating element and fan was very effective.

In less than ten seconds, his slightly stiff legs quickly loosened up and, soon, he was raring to go all out at any moment.

Su Mo took out his binoculars and quickly adjusted his lens to focus on the hurried figures.

"Very good! Great!"

Even though he could not see their faces well, Su Mo roughly counted the number of people in that group and was overjoyed.

The distance between the two teams was about five kilometers. Compared to the tattered-looking people in the previous team, the next team was obviously much better equipped.

"They have a total of eight people and seem to be well-equipped. Everyone's wearing big quilted jackets. I wonder if they found it themselves or if they stole it from other people!"

The previous group with the six people stumbled along as they walked, but this group was different.

They were very clever and followed the footsteps of the group of six just now. They traveled along the route really quickly and were able to avoid all the obstacles along the way.

With their speed, this group would be able to catch up with the previous group in less than ten minutes.

"Hey, I've seen them before too. Aren't they… that group of supervisors?"

Compared with the previous tattered-looking group, this team was made up of a few supervisors that Su Mo had specifically observed when he was sizing up the camp.

He met them at a familiar place again.

With those familiar expressions again.

The two people in the front row sized up Deep-sea Shelter's hill and immediately looked overjoyed, as they began to take out their weapons.

"They have spears, swords, and even a DIY crossbow… Good thing I'm going to wait for them to fight and stop each other first. Otherwise, I'd have to face a group of outlaws who are bigger and stronger than even me in a few days…"

In the cold weather, Su Mo was so hot that he was sweating all over as he laid on the snow.

Even though just looking through the binoculars passively, he was obviously capable of firing his crossbows as well. Still, Su Mo was very thankful that he did not go all out in the ruins previously.

Otherwise, by the time he came out, that group from the kobolds' camp might have already developed long-range weapons.

"Oreo, are you sensing danger from them?" Su Mo asked in a low voice after patting Oreo's two cute little ears.

However…Oreo thought for a while and still shook her head.

"It's not them??? Sh*t… Are you telling me that there are more people at the back?"

When Su Mo saw Oreo still shaking her head, he was taken aback.

Counting the six people from before, plus the eight people now, there were already fourteen of them. If there were more people behind, then it really did not make any sense.

"Is Kento Maeda at the back?"

When Su Mo saw that the durability was still 100% on the game panel, Su Mo suppressed the uneasiness he felt and continued to wait on his stomach.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

Even though it might feel great to catch them from behind and kill that group of people, he might miss out on the big fish that was going to come later.

Naturally, Su Mo chose to wait!

Time passed quickly, and the thick dark clouds above the sky blocked the scorching sun from shining down its light.

The snowflakes were getting bigger and bigger, and the gentle breeze gradually became more intense.

There were no buildings or towering trees to withstand the raging storm.

Even though the blizzard had yet to arrive, Su Mo's heart gradually became cold.

This kind of weather was going to continue for seven days before the final "feast" arrived.

If the wind and snow in other places were as heavy as it was near his shelter, then he was afraid… that humanity's survival was at stake.

"This doesn't seem right. Before this group of people came, the wind and snow around my place wasn't that bad yet. It seems that as more people arrive, the heavier the wind and snow gets."

Su Mo, who was lying on the ground in bored contemplation, suddenly caught on to a blind spot that he had overlooked before.

Su Mo pulled out the hand-drawn map from his storage space and spread it out over the snow, he looked at it intently.

Using the distance between the Underground Shelter and the Deep-sea Shelter as the radius, he drew a circle.

Within the circle that had a seven-kilometer diameter, when Su Mo was alone…

Although there was some wind, it was just a small breeze.

Although there was snow, it was just some light snow.

As a result, once the fourteen people entered the seven-kilometer circle, the wind and snow suddenly became much heavier.

Even though the change was not very obvious, Su Mo, who had been lying on top of the hill and watching everything, was sharp enough to notice the difference!

There was indeed a change, and not a small one at that!

"It can't be… If there are more people around the shelter, the worse the disaster gets. I'm afraid that…"

"I get it now. That's why Magoo never joined a team. It's most likely that they realized this exact problem that time around too, so…"

Su Mo slapped himself in the head and had goosebumps instantly appear all over his body.

After he found Magoo's diary from before, Su Mo quickly flipped through it, and in the entry for the 142th day of his diary, a seemingly nonsensical sentence to himself caught Su Mo's attention.

"Manman, even though I'm doing really well, it's too bad that there are too few beasts refreshing near my shelter!"

"I'm not having fun! I'm not having fun at all!"

As for the diary entry before that day, Su Mo lightly flipped the page to the front and to his surprise, the entry wrote the details of the disaster:

Mutant beast riot!

Chapter 109: Exchange of Information and Finally the Oriole!

"The mutant beast riot that Magoo encountered was not that bad because he was alone. That's why he said something about not having enough fun."

"But if that's the deduction from the current situation, I'm afraid that the large shelters will encounter a large number of monsters that grow exponentially!"

When Su Mo noticed that the wind and snow had wet a corner of Magoo's diary, he quickly put it back into his storage space.

The hypothesis was that, the more people there were around, the greater the extent of the disaster.

Even though there were only fifteen people including Su Mo for now, the extent of which the wind and snow increased could clearly be felt.

For the big shelters with dozens or hundreds of people, he was afraid that their environment was even worse.

When Su Mo opened up the World Channel, as expected, in the chat channel, Su Mo read the discussions of a small group of people, which further confirmed his suspicions.

"The snow at my place is really strange. It just keeps getting heavier. At first, I was happy because I finally didn't have to worry about water anymore, but if it continues snowing like it did last night, I don't think we can even leave tomorrow!"

"Not for me. It's not that heavy at my place, but one strange thing is that, when I went out with my bro to collect wood, guess what happened when I came back? I found that the snow near my shelter was not as heavy as the snow that I encountered when I was outside."

"It's still okay for us. Even though the snow is quite heavy on our side, our leader came over just now and got a bunch of people to build an igloo. I hope the snow doesn't stop. Otherwise, all the work we did in this weather would've been in vain."

No one noticed that, as the number of people changed, it gradually affected the degree of the disaster, and only a small number of people felt that there was something off.

"No, I must verify this information first as it will seriously affect the future development of my shelter!"

If his speculation was right, shelters with tens of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of people would be in jeopardy.

When that time came, having many people gathering together would probably mean that they would have to face a disaster that was many times worse.

Even an ordinary level one earthquake would develop into a level nine or even ten because of the number of people!

After opening up the private message channel and taking a look, Su Mo found Shen Ke's name.

This time, Su Mo chose to give her a call.

Beep beep beep beep~

The urgent ringing sounded in his ear and before Su Mo could lament about the magic of the game panel, Shen Ke had picked up the call on the other side of the phone.

"Hey, it's Almighty Su! What's up?" Although Shen Ke deliberately raised the tone of her voice to sound cheerful, Su Mo still caught on to the tiredness in her voice.

"Hey, just wondering if your Tundra Shelter's okay today."

"We're doing fine! It's just that the snow is a little heavy, but everyone's so enthusiastic now. Everyone's talking about boiling snow to get water for drinking. For the past few days, everyone's not had much water to drink, so seeing the snow, they were very excited."

When she mentioned that, Su Mo could finally feel a trace of Shen Ke's joy, as if they had met with rain after a long drought. Everyone seemed to think that the snow was God's mercy for mankind.

However, it was also completely understandable. After all, the exception to this case was Su Mo, who had access to a stable daily source of drinking water, while water was scarce for others who lived in large shelters.

Since everyone was suddenly living in abundance, it was natural that everyone would be very happy and joyful, and perhaps even ignore the fatal problem of disasters varying in severity.

"About that… I have a hypothesis. Can you guys verify it for me? According to my hypothesis, the intensity of wind and snow, or even the disaster, seems to vary with the number of people. I feel like it has something to do with the number of people in an area that makes the wind and snow heavier when there are more people, and vice versa…"

When Shen Ke heard what Su Mo said, she was silent for a moment.

Immediately, Su Mo could hear the thick sound of feet moving through the snow through the phone call.

After about half a minute, by the time the person picked up the phone again, it was a thick male voice on the line.

"Hello Su Mo. I was in charge of negotiating a deal with you last time. Do you still remember me?"

Su Mo could recognize the voice. It was the man who brought the stenographers over last time when Shen Ke could not make up her mind.

Su Mo did not hide anything. He told them about how there were a few people entering the range of his shelter and that he noticed that the wind and snow became heavier. The whole thing turned into an informant relaying information, in addition to analysing the conclusion with people he knew.

Telling nine truths and one lie naturally did not make the story sound off!

After talking for a bit, the man at the other side of the phone quickly left to verify the authenticity of the information while Shen Ke picked up the phone again and began to chatter about her daily trifles.

Since there was nothing going on, Su Mo was happy to have someone to talk to as well.

The two talked on various topics, from the snowy scenery in the north and south to the differences between the winter habits of the northerners and southerners. Then they talked about everything about hot pot and other dishes. They talked so much that Su Mo started to feel hungry, when suddenly, a few tiny dots finally appeared at the end of the horizon.

"Hold on, Shen Ke. If you guys manage to verify the information I asked about, remember to just send me a message. I have something I need to deal with on my side now."

"Hmm? Oh, okay!"

Su Mo quickly hung up the phone. He moved and shifted from side to side because his body was starting to get a little stiff from lying down too long. After that, he picked up his binoculars again.

This time, Su Mo recognized the creatures again.

They were…

Kobolds!

They were a group of kobolds that added up to at least eighteen of them!

In the group, there were already eight Kobold Mages. Even if Su Mo faced them head-on, it would have been difficult to deal with them if he did not use the crossbow.

Not to mention the fourteen randomly-equipped henchmen who were at the Underground Shelter at that moment.

"It's like watching an annual emotional drama. First, there's six of them, then eight more came along, and now eighteen kobolds behind."

"Is my Underground Shelter now becoming a glowing underground treasure chest? Is that why all of them are attracted to this place?"

Under his mask, Su Mo's face turned cold and his gaze revealed a hard-to-conceal killing intent.

Su Mo still had some emotions when killing human beings, but for beasts like kobolds, he would kill them without mercy whenever he encountered them!

Compared to the lion people, Su Mo felt that kobolds were much more dangerous.

Not because they discovered the great killing weapon that was gunpowder, or because they came over with large amounts of supplies, or even because they built a magnificent castle from scratch in a few days!

Rather, it was… their intelligence!

Kobolds were much smarter than the lion people, both in terms of their defense and offense. All in all, there were many little details about them that confirmed that.

"Since they're here, I'll make sure that they'll never leave! I'll make all of them stay here permanently!"

As he pulled out his crossbow, Su Mo's hand tightly gripped the crossbow and removed the ordinary crossbow arrows bolts in the crossbow.

There was a flash of light.

Five simple, crude, and funny-looking, picric acid explosive crossbow arrows appeared in Su Mo's hand.

One by one, Su Mo carefully loaded them up into the crossbow.

"Oreo, are you sensing that the danger is coming from these kobolds?" Su Mo calmly asked, as he pressed the self-check button and listened to the sound of the motor doing its job.

The next second, Oreo nodded before shaking her head again.

As Oreo turned to the far side, she raised her head and laid back down, signaling Su Mo to keep on waiting.

"Hmm? There are still others?"

"If eighteen kobolds aren't the ultimate source of danger, I have to say, this big show is starting to get really exciting!"

Under his mask, Su Mo did not know whether to laugh or cry.

Originally, he thought that it was just a group of people with a death wish, but he did not expect that it would turn out to be so intense. Obviously, Su Mo could easily guess how this love story would play out.

The path that had not been covered by the wind and snow was once again tread upon by the kobolds.

The dense footprints had become a guiding light of sorts.

The kobold team hardly hesitated. When they passed the Deep-sea Shelter's hill, they instantly split into two teams and traveled along the sides.

Su Mo, who was lying on the high slope with only his eyes visible, saw everything clearly.

"What a bad show. If I was in the shelter, I'd be watching the television and it would've been something else."

Three groups had passed by, clearly with different intentions.

Each group thought that they were the oriole at the back, but alas…

When two more people appeared at the edge of his line of sight, Su Mo knew…

This time, he was the only oriole left!

Oreo, who was still lying on the ground, could no longer resist and began to bark softly.

Beneath the wind and snow, it was clear who Oreo was pointing out. Obviously, the last two people were the biggest threats!

Compared to the previous fourteen people, as well as the eighteen kobolds, the two people at the back had equipment that far exceeded the level of being well-equipped!

After he waited until the two people were around three hundred meters away from him, Su Mo finally got a better look at their faces amidst the wind and snow that was getting worse.

The one on the left wore luxurious combat uniform he got from god knows where as well as shiny new military boots. When the guy turned around, Su Mo also saw that he was wearing a pair of warm-looking thermal pants underneath.

When the pair turned around, Su Mo immediately recognized the man. Amazingly, it was the long-awaited Kento Maeda!

The Deep-sea Shelter's landmark and the footprints on the ground did not surprise Kento Maeda. Instead, he smiled at the big man next to him and said something to him.

The big man on the right went along with him and two black objects appeared in his hands when he raised his hand into thin air.

"They have guns?!… No wonder Oreo sensed that those two are the biggest threats!"

Looking through his binoculars, Su Mo could not clearly see what kind of guns they were wielding, but he could also vaguely distinguish from the shape that they were two handguns.

The two men skillfully removed their cartridge clips and put them back in. Kento Maeda even picked up the handgun and pretended to aim it at a distance.

When he did that, it made the big man beside him laugh out loud.

They looked like they got along and the two of them checked their equipment once more before they moved past quickly.

"It looks like this long-awaited show is finally going to start!"

On the hill, Su Mo, who was almost covered with snow, slowly stood up after watching the two figures walk away.

With a slight shake, the snow fell off, revealing the all-terrain photometric combat uniform underneath it.

From a certain angle, the snowflakes falling from the sky made Su Mo's figure look even more mysterious.

After turning on the heating switch at his waist and waiting for every part of his body to regain agility, Su Mo slid down the hill in a half-crouch.

Behind him, Oreo also followed him as she laid on her belly, slowly sliding down the slope.

One man and one dog slowly followed behind Kento Maeda.

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Chapter 110: You Thought that You were at the Top of the Food Chain, but in Fact…

"Boss… The weather here's so cold. Why do I feel as if the wind and snow has gotten heavier since we came?"

The short man wearing the autumn coat and wrapped in plant fiber coverings sneezed while complaining.

Since they were not familiar with the terrain around the shelter, the group stumbled as they walked, often slipping due to the holes and snow on the ground.

After the man in the yellow quilted jacket, who the other man called boss, heard what he said, he looked up at the sky and at the others, who turned timid because of what the short man said. Immediately, he finger-flicked the short man on the forehead.

"Isn't it normal for the wind and snow to get heavier and lighter? Did you think that it was going to stay in that range just for you? Did you think that you're a Huaxia Thunder God or Lightning Goddess?"

"Boss… Our Huaxia Thunder God or Lightning Goddess doesn't have anything related to snow…" A big-headed man, who had cut his pants open and put the two trouser legs over his arms, answered the question.

There was no doubt that, after saying that, his big forehead also received an identical finger-flick.

"It's because all of you are afraid of Su Mo, right? I urge you guys to think it over because all of us are just humans. It's not like he knows magic, so why the hell are you guys so nervous about him?"

"If all of you follow my orders when the time comes, and we blow his shelter up, we'll have meat to eat and soup to drink when we get inside, my dear brothers!"

"So if anyone's getting cold feet right now, I may still think of you as my brother, but my steel sword may not!"

Marshall, who was wearing the yellow quilted jacket, viciously spat out a mouthful of spittle on his steel sword. His eyes looked at the several people around him and there was an indescribable fierceness on his face.

After being frightened by him, the remaining five men immediately bucked up and focused on continuing to move forward.

The weather was cold, but their hearts grew even colder.

As for blowing up Su Mo's shelter, the team members were not the only ones who felt unsure. Even Marshall was in a mess.

Everyone knew that Su Mo was a cold-blooded devil who killed without batting an eyelid. With just a wave of his hand, he could kill a fellow human, especially the five of them, without even pausing.

Trying to attack such a big shot with the equipment in their hands would mean that they were sending themselves to their own death.

Even though Su Mo himself was not aware about it, people had already been talking about his fierce reputation.

"Please don't be at home, please don't be at home, please don't be at home!" Marshall kept repeating those words to himself silently and, when he looked at the Underground Shelter hill that could be seen in the distance, his legs were shaking a little.

When the six of them were fifty meters away from the Underground Shelter in a line, the first person felt his legs and stomach grow weak as he fell onto the ground. When he did that, the others also tensed up and all of them fell onto the snow.

Marshall, who was holding a steel sword, wiped his forehead and realized that there were rows of sweat at that moment, even though it was such cold weather.

The Underground Shelter's main stone entrance was like a giant beast that swallowed humans. It laid there on the ground, as if a black fog would come rushing out from it. Everyone who saw it felt their hearts grow timid.

"What are you afraid of? I received reliable information that Su Mo isn't in his shelter today, so all of you, charge on!"

With a guilty conscience, Marshall shouted and gripped the steel sword tightly in his hand as he pretended to walk up toward it casually.

The five of them behind him looked at each other and were at a loss.

After a while, when they saw Marshall walking up to the shelter's stone wall and nothing happening, all of them got up excitedly and one, who was afraid that he would lag behind, even rushed forward.

"Big Head, Baboon, you two go to the back to find Su Mo's backdoor. Simmons, you watch his front door for me!"

"Gibson, look for his ventilation duct. Monkey, go from the left side and I'll go from the right side. Look for the spot that I told you about earlier!"

After confirming that Su Mo was really not in the shelter, Marshall got excited and stood in front of the Underground Shelter as he ordered loudly and passionately.

Under his command, six of them began to go to their own positions and quickly moved.

Unfortunately, not a moment later, the two who were tasked to look for a nearby point as well as the two responsible to look for the backdoor were dumbfounded!

"B-Boss, it seems that this shelter's different from what we saw on the livestream previously."

"Boss, the backdoor seems to be gone."

When Marshall heard what his men said, he was also a bit confused. He shook his head and went to the back and seemed to take out a map, comparing it to the ground in front of him.

"It should be right. This is the place." After looking at the points marked on the map, as well as the proportional estimation of the distance according to the markers, Marshall panicked.

"Boss, his shelter doesn't seem to match how we thought it would be. We can't find the point that you talked about." Monkey also came up to them.

As they stood in the middle of the wind and snow, the six men that dressed like gangster refugees looked at each other.

In the end, everyone turned their eyes to Marshall again and their gazes made him feel uncomfortable all over.

"Su Mo is just a guy. He's just like us. He has two hands and two feet. He's just a little luckier than the rest of us. If he's standing in front of me right now, I'd chop him up with my sword! Let's just see if he dares to come and meet his doom!"

"Why are you guys staring at me? Start digging! I refuse to believe that such a big exit would disappear just like that!"

As everyone stared at him, Marshall irritably took out five shovels from the storage space and threw them to the ground.

A fierce light flashed across his eyes, seeming to imply that any of them who did not start digging would get a taste of his sword.

When the five of them saw how fierce Marshall was, they had no choice but to timidly pick up the shovel and walk toward their arranged positions.

Snowflakes fell and the wind got stronger. The six of them stood at their planned locations, digging and sweating through the roof!

Unfortunately, the six people did not know that, on the ground next to the acid rain lake, there was a group of people who had the same idea as them, quietly watching them…

"Say, Brother Chao, Marshall's group went out before dawn during the night to travel hundreds of miles. What do you think they're up to?!"

"Zhang Ren, don't tell me you're afraid that Brother Chao's playing us. If it wasn't for Kento Maeda giving him the task to monitor Marshall, Marshall would've gotten all of the spoils while we were kept in the dark."

"True, but I'm sure that old dog, Kento Maeda, didn't expect us to sneak over. Let's see who's the oriole now!"

As he stepped on the previously made footprints on the ground, the man who was called Brother Chao, did not respond and had a smile on his face as he listened to his two underlings bragging.

He looked at the two of them behind him so that they would admire him even more. At the same time, Brother Chao seemed to grow a few inches taller.

Being woken up in the middle of the night had been a very unpleasant thing, but after learning that Marshall had sneaked out of the kobold castle with his men, they were not in the mood to sleep any longer!

In cold weather like this, even though the kobold castle was extremely stinky, it was still the safest place based on the risk of danger from the outside.

'Go out?'

'If there was nothing to gain, Marshall wouldn't have left so early! He must have gotten some clues or found something good to have for himself!'

With that thought in mind, the eight of them also followed them out of the city gates and hurried behind as they followed their footprints.

As they followed the trail, before they knew it, they had been walking for hundreds of miles. They traveled from when it was dark to dawn in that kind of weather and rested at least a dozen times on the road before persisting and reaching this place.

"Brothers, it looks like Marshall's destination is just ahead. Their footprints clearly show it!"

After walking another kilometer and a half, Brother Chao saw the scattered footprints on the ground and pulled out several large pieces of white cloth in a single motion!

After everyone received a white cloth, they immediately spaced themselves out five meters apart and scattered away according to their previous discussion.

The group that wore bright-colored clothes covered their bodies with the white cloth and went under the snow. With the wind and snow shielding them, they were immediately concealed.

Even though it was quite a distance away, it did not take them too long and the eight of them finally reached the Underground Shelter as they followed the footprints.

At that moment, even Brother Chao was shaken!

Not because of anything, but because he realized where they were!

"Crap, isn't this Almighty Su's shelter? Have we been near him all this time? How did Marshall find this place?"

"Trying a sneak attack on the Almighty Su? Does Marshall have a death wish?"

All eight of them gathered together were shocked, and their faces clearly showed it.

Even Brother Chao's face was red and his heart was beating wildly in that cold weather!

That was Su Mo's shelter!

Su Mo had been established as the model person who inspired others to do their best to live in every Huaxian's eyes.

Especially according to the people in various channels, who guessed that if anyone were to join Su Mo's shelter, they could easily survive not just that winter, but two or three winters!

"All of you, calm down. If Marshall and his ragtag group were brave enough to attack Su Mo's shelter, it must be because they had gotten some reliable information. Most likely, Su Mo isn't in the shelter right now or he's been involved in some kind of accident!"

Brother Chao's words made sense and the other seven of them nodded their heads, clearly following his lead.

"After all, Su Mo is a fellow Huaxian. If he lives, we'll beg him and find a way to join him in his shelter. If he's dead, we can't let Marshall's group inherit Su Mo's legacy!"

"Now, let's split up and find our way toward the nearby points. Also, remember, we must not let them find out that we're here!"

After they heard what Brother Chao said, the remaining seven people nodded their heads in succession with unspeakable frenzied excitement evident in their eyes.

When Brother Chao made a gesture, everyone spread out again and headed toward their positions around the Underground Shelter.

From God's point of view in the sky, these people formed a pocket-like shape, surrounding the hardworking group of six on the hill.

The wind was still blowing.

The snow was still falling.

You stood on the bridge as you watched the scenery.

The people on the bridge who came for the scenery watched you.

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Chapter 111: Curtains Up! Take The Stage, Everybody!

"Leader Harper, those humans up ahead are our targets. Why can't we just catch up to them and finish them off sooner?"

A large group of kobolds trudged along in the snow.

Compared to the worn-out troop of fourteen men in front, who had been traveling for a long distance, this group of eighteen kobolds was still doing fairly well.

"We were ordered to monitor them and find out what they are up to, not to kill them!"

"I'm warning you once more, Kulun. Never ever question your leader's orders again! Remember, I have the right to hand you over to the Council!"

At Harper's words, Kulun flinched and feigned obedience.

Within the kobold community, the distinction between social classes was very clear.

Kobold warriors were manual laborers, the lowest in the hierarchy. They were expected to be blindly obedient. Rude and defiant acts like obtrusion and aggression were strictly forbidden.

For the kobolds, who were slightly able-minded but nowhere near the levels of human intelligence, chains of command such as these were very effective.

Under the leadership of kobold mages, the small squads of kobolds were sent out to complete missions assigned to them.

Kobold mages were undoubtedly divided into different classes too, so every time they were sent out to battle, a squad's task delegation would be left to the leader and assistant leader.

Leaders held full authority over their squad members, but the execution of any punishments was left to the Council.

"Human flesh doesn't taste good, but their blood's surprisingly delectable. Just wait till we capture their females. We'll get them to breed daily so we can suck their blood dry!"

Baring his teeth, the words that came out of the kobold beside Harper would have had all the humans trembling in fear.

On the other hand, all the kobolds were nodding their heads in agreement—no one spoke up about how cruel it sounded.

The cold did not affect their bloodlust.

Similarly, the strong wind did not erase the remnants of the messy footprints in the snow.

Following Harper's commands, the kobolds split themselves into two groups, creating a larger pocket that surrounded everyone that arrived before them.

"That's odd, why is Kento Maeda so relaxed? It's almost like he's out for a casual stroll?"

Guided by the footprints on familiar ground, Su Mo easily avoided the holes and obstacles in the snow.

With the help of his binoculars, Su Mo was able to constantly adjust his position even though he was far behind Kento Maeda and the big man.

As for Oreo…

Su Mo looked down and burst out in laughter.

There was a layer of snow "armor" formed on top of Oreo's black and white fur, and it looked as if she had transformed into her best buddy from the Sled Three Silly[1]—the Samoyed.

Were it not for Oreo's dapper-looking face, it would be hard for even Su Mo, in such weather, to be 20 to 30 meters away and still see where Oreo was going.

Seeing how Kento Maeda was just on a leisurely stroll and seemed to be waiting for something, Su Mo lazily loitered behind at a distance.

It was about three and a half kilometers between the Deep-sea Shelter and Underground Shelter.

Su Mo followed the two of them and walked for an hour before finally entering one-kilometer radius of the shelter.

When Kento Maeda and the big man sat down, Su Mo followed suit.

The heavy snow and lack of sunlight gave Su Mo the absolute home ground advantage.

Su Mo focused mentally, and when he saw the abundance of food in his storage space, not only was he not in a hurry, he even took the time to observe the size of the footprints on the ground.

The kobolds' footprints were very obvious on the snowy ground. Su Mo tried to roughly estimate their measurements, with each one coming up to about the size of his palm.

The human footprints looked a lot larger in comparison; even the smallest one was more or less a size 40.

"It's a pity. Given the combat ability of the human body, if one could just safely get into close combat range, then these kobolds wouldn't even stand a chance."

"Setting the kobold mages aside, an adult human could easily take on one or two of these kobold warriors!"

Kobolds had scrawny lower limbs and small feet. These characteristics made them biologically inferior to humans when it came to physical ability.

The grip of the human foot, the strong thigh muscles, the explosive calf muscles, and the strength and flexibility that come from our joints and bones…

If the two species were to get into a no-weapon fistfight, the kobold warriors would have been easily knocked out.

As for upper body strength, it goes without saying that, since the largest a kobold could grow to was only about 50kg, no one with a smidgen of courage in them would ever find themselves cowering in fear.

"Alas, there are still people scrambling to betray humankind and becoming lackeys for trash creatures like these. What are they even after…?"

Shaking his head ruefully, Su Mo's eyes were filled with emotion.

There would never be a lack of the astonishing species called the 'pioneers', regardless of time or age, current times included.

Marshall, the supervisors, and even the kobolds were still oblivious to Kento Maeda's plans, as they played the role of obedient laborers.

Oreo watchfully laid down beside Su Mo after she was done with her surveillance rounds.

Su Mo looked at how adorable Oreo was and, as he raised his hand subconsciously to pet Oreo, an explosion blasted out in the distance.

Boom!

Boom boom!

One after the other, two muted blasts were heard.

It may not have sounded as terrifying as the thirty catties of picric acid explosives he had ignited before, but it was still alarming when heard on the otherwise serene plains.

Even the snowstorm seemed to have paused for a few seconds after the explosions.

From afar, right above the Underground Shelter, billows of thick smoke were swept up by the wind and were dispersing into the distance.

Before Su Mo could respond, he realized that he could hear faintly discernible screams and blasts that seemed to be coming from near the shelter!

Su Mo subconsciously reached out and summoned the game panel and nervously looked at the shelter's property panel.

On the durability column…

The Underground Shelter did not disappoint, as the numbers still remained at a solid…

95%!

"Sh*t, what a scare! I really thought that these people had brought down the Underground Shelter with that explosion!"

The green bar displaying ninety-five percent had never looked so lovely. Su Mo let out the breath that he so nervously held, his entire demeanor relaxing.

'Now, since these people have failed to access the underground shelter, there's only one ending in store for them…'

Through his binoculars, Su Mo saw Kento Maeda and the big man shoot up from where they were seated, and got up as well, patting the snow off his pants, and following behind them at a distance.

That huge blast was like a signal flare that had been ignited right above the Underground Shelter.

Groups of people heard it and were quickly on the move. Before Marshall's party could examine if the blast had exposed the shelter's weak point, they made a shocking discovery!

Where there was once a stretch of snowy ground, there were now eight other human beings.

Furthermore, these people were not strangers to Marshall. They were his colleagues—fellow supervisors back at the saltpeter mine.

"D*mn it, Chao Gai, are you looking to die? How dare you conspire against me?"

Gunpowder smoke lingered in the air. Setting off gunpowder was not the same as detonating a stick of dynamite—there were no shockwaves, only flames. No one could take a clear look at the crater.

Marshall thought that he had breached a gap. Chao Gai, too, thought Marshall had breached a gap.

No other words were exchanged. The two parties immediately started attacking each other!

With a steel sword in his hand, Marshall skilfully rolled across the snow, dodging a crossbow attack from the side.

The same roll that protected him brought him instantly closer to the man with the crossbow.

Marshall's eye flashed with malice as he angled his steel sword toward the crossbow wielder and plunged it in without further thought. Sword in, sword out.

A violent spurt of blood followed the trail of the razor-sharp sword. Along with it, the only deterrent weapon—a self-made crossbow—dropped to the ground.

On the other hand, Chao Gai's party meant business too.

Before Marshall could assess the situation, his party of five, other than Big Head who was still fighting for his life, the other four had been cleaved beyond recognition as they laid twitching on the ground.

Suffocating gunpowder smoke continued to fill the air. Gunpowder that had not finished burning reignited, releasing even more smoke that completely covered the entire area.

Smoke continued to emit from the crater formed by the blast. At a glance, it really looked like the explosion had created a gaping hole in the shelter.

"Hang on, Big Head. I'm coming for you!"

Marshall let out a shriek, his words brimmed with brotherly loyalty, but the motions of his hands told another story.

Marshall continued to shout as he scooped up the fallen crossbow and ran toward the distance without turning back.

No thoughts whatsoever were given to his "brother" who was surrounded by attackers.

"Curse you, Marsha—"

Big Head smoldered with anger.

Before he could finish his sentence, a fireball shot out from an unseen direction and collided with the gleefully escaping Marshall. With a whoosh, half of his body was gone.

Those who caught a whiff of the acrid combination of blood and burnt flesh nearly threw up in disgust.

Chao Gai's actively hacking party of seven surveyed the surroundings warily.

Eight kobold mages materialized within their line of sight as ten kobold warriors marched forward valiantly.

The kobold mages waved their staffs around, expressions of loathing and disdain evident in their eyes, while the kobold warriors gloated scornfully.

Even with Big Head, who was barely alive in the middle of the party of seven, it would be eighteen against eight. and the difference in numbers was enough to make the kobolds go wild.

As the encirclement grew tighter, the seven men at the center felt an immense amount of pressure over their heads.

The seven men kept retreating until they found themselves huddled together, backs against each other, to their dismay. There was no way out!

"What do we do, Brother Chao? Do we fight? Do we f*ck these b*stards?"

It was now or never.

The seven of them were not fools. They knew that the kobolds were after "Su Mo's treasures" in the crater too.

They had to fight. Only one side would survive!

[1] A term coined by the Chinese for the Alaskan Malamute, Siberian Husky and Samoyed. Sled because they are sled dogs, and Three Silly because these species aren't very obedient. Among them, the Alaskan Malamute is Big Silly due to its size being the largest of the three, and it being naive and cute. The Husky is Second Silly, due to all the inexplicably silly things it would do at random. The Samoyed is the Third Silly, because it's the smallest amongst the three and it looks like it's always smiling.

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Chapter 112: Excuse Me, Are You Looking For Me?

On the small hill, only two minutes had passed since the gunpowder exploded and till the kobolds surrounded the humans.

Looking at how nervous the seven men were, the kobolds wore malice on their faces as they steadily approached the humans.

Twenty steps…

Fifteen steps…

As the kobolds drew closer, the party of seven, who had their backs against each other, could almost see the gleam on the kobold warriors' spears, the staves clutched by the kobold mages, as well as…

Their fingers moving to cast spells.

"We can't wait any longer. If we don't go forth and fight these b*stards now, we're gonna end up dead anyway!"

Even though those fearless words poured out of Zhang Ren's mouth, the quivering steel sword in his hands and his ashen face gave away his bluff.

After he spoke out, contrary to what he imagined, his companions did not remain silent, but roared out at the top of their lungs with fiery fighting spirit.

"F*ck! Why the f*ck not! I was already f*cking done with living the moment I arrived here! If I hadn't been worried that my mother would miss her sorry excuse of a son when she eventually arrives, I would've gone and chopped these b*stards up the first moment I met them!"

"Well said! We humans would never bow to haughty and pompous b*stards like them!"

"I'm so done with this dumb life! Being a traitor to my people, my fellow human beings, what a f*cking inhumane thing I did!"

"I reckon it's better to die here at Su Mo's shelter, so no one else can get their hands on my shelter core even after I die. At least it would be like dying and returning to my Huaxia roots!"

"It's a shame we couldn't live to see the day that our firearms obliterate these b*stards for good!"

"So what if we have half our heads blown off? We'll be brave men again in 18 years!"

These men had not expected to see unyielding bravery from their comrades after being suppressed for so long.

Rumors would become truth if they were repeated enough, and as different people continued to chime in, these men gradually began to lose their fear of death, awakening their innate primal and ferocious nature.

When the kobolds got closer, about ten steps away, Chao Gai unleashed a cry. The men wielded their steel swords and charged forward heroically.

This caught the kobolds by surprise. They were stunned, not expecting the humans they had surrounded to fight back.

These seven men took advantage of their enemies' stunned state. During those few brief seconds, three kobold mages that were unable to complete their magic casting in time had their heads slashed from their shoulders, falling to the ground immediately.

The other men did not hold back. Strength surged from their lower backs as they swung their swords, and four spear-wielding kobold warriors were beheaded!

In a blink of an eye, the difference in numbers had been greatly reduced. It was eleven to seven now!

The narrowed difference caused fierce hope to surge in the seven men. An intense fight broke out.

Fireballs from the kobolds flew everywhere, while the steel swords of the seven men showed no mercy.

The kobold mages' fireballs were not as scary up close. Once one grew familiar with the magic casting movements, the fireballs were really easy to dodge!

It was do-or-die, and the seven men fought like their lives depended on it. The remaining eleven kobolds were no match for the barbarous, vicious humans.

Without the kobold mages' long-range attacks, the kobolds lost their advantage and it became a lopsided battle soon after. All eighteen kobolds were annihilated at the cost of just five human lives.

The survivors, Chao Gai and Zhang Ren, looked at the treasure chests that had materialized on the ground while gasping for air. Both were exhausted from overexertion after the adrenaline had worn off.

"We survived, Brother Chao! We don't have to die! Hahaha!"

Zhang Ren guffawed uncontrollably as he gazed upon the blood-tainted snowy ground, high from the euphoria of having survived a calamity.

A delirious Chao Gai knelt beside him. Just as he was about to turn and speak to Zhang Ren, he heard a loud crack.

Right before his eyes, a splatter of blood and a chrysanthemum-shaped hole appeared on Zhang Ren's forehead while he was still laughing.

Zhang Ren collapsed to the ground immediately from the impact.

Chao Gai could still see the smile that still hung on Zhang Ren's face, a stark contrast to the violent, painful spasms as the man died. Terrified, he crawled and tumbled frantically as he attempted to escape, and wailed at the top of his lungs, "Su Mo, we're the good guys. We're here to seek asylum! Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'll do anything!"

"We're Huaxians, we're brothers, don't kill me! I'll work hard! I can work 24 hours a day for you! I don't wanna die! Don't kill me!"

At that very moment, Chao Gai was begging for mercy; a dying man's last struggle. The leader's demeanor he once had was long gone.

Before he could make it further than two steps, fatigue overcame Chao Gai as he tried to push his overexerted body to escape. He fell to the ground once again and closed his eyes in anguish.

The gunshot sound he expected to hear did not materialize. Instead, he heard the bizarre sound of applause.

Clap clap clap…

Chao Gai, who was still crawling on the floor after the applause, turned his head and was stunned.

"Kento Maeda? It's you?"

In Chao Gai's eyes, Kento Maeda's wrinkly old face bloomed like a chrysanthemum as he walked towards him. Kento Maeda was still clapping.

The big man was beside Kento Maeda, the weapon in his hand still held in the same position as when it killed Zhang Ren.

"Mr. Chao Gai, why can't it be me?" Looking at the still-smoking crater, Kento Maeda patted the big man on the shoulder and cackled hysterically.

It was the kind of evil laugh that sent chills down another's spine. Paired with his expressions, he looked exactly like a smugly flourishing villain in the stories.

"Did you know why I ordered you to keep an eye on Marshall?"

"Can you also guess how these kobolds knew where you were?" Kento Maeda was still clapping.

Chao Gai felt as if each of the claps clapped directly against his chest. It made him uneasy.

"You old dog… You planned this from the start. Do you want it all? Can you chew all that you've bitten off?" Chao Gai laughed bitterly as he instantaneously understood Kento Maeda's plot.

"Hahahaha! You Huaxians are so dumb, and this includes your supposedly 'Almighty Su'. In this stupid doomsday world, you can't trust anyone but yourself. Everybody is an enemy. Oh well, too bad he didn't understand such a simple concept even with all the treasures he had."

"C'mon, take a guess. He's still not out after such a long time. What shape do you think he is in right now beneath all that rubble?"

Chao Gai turned around and looked at where Kento Maeda was pointing at.

Lo and behold, what was once a huge crater had now collapsed.

He could not see how much the shelter had collapsed due to the haze from the smoke, but after he heard what Kento Maeda said, Chao Gai could almost imagine how the rest of the story would play out.

"You can stop hoping for someone to save you, Mr. Chao Gai. Hope you're no longer so naive in your next life, alright?"

Once he was done talking, Kento Maeda shot the big man a meaningful look, who got the message right away. Pulling the trigger, he shot Chao Gai.

Bright red blood oozed from Chao Gai's head as he fell to the ground begrudgingly, and died with an unsettled grievance!

Right after that, both Kento Maeda and the big man each took three steps back, putting some distance between them.

The big man pointed his gun nervously at Kento Maeda, who was also had his gun out, but was pointing it emotionlessly at the ground.

"Mr. Mitsuchi, what is it that you're doing? Let's split all the riches and glory from this 'treasure cove' between ourselves and rule this new world together, okay?" Kento Maeda snickered sinisterly as he looked at the big man with a slight sneer.

He truly lived up to his character as a despicable villain. He had seen how guarded the big man was, yet he threw his arms wide open, signaling that he meant no harm.

At this point, Mitsuchi, who was still guarded, seemed to believe Kento Maeda's lies.

However, after a moment's reflection, Mitsuchi's eyes were colored with malice. He pressed his finger against the trigger and jerked it against Kento Maeda's forehead.

Unfortunately, a loud crack was heard after the trigger was pulled.

The crack he heard had not come from the gun in his hands, but instead from the one in Kento Maeda's hand.

A hole could be seen in Mitsuchi's chest, where a bullet had gone straight through, hitting him directly in the heart.

Kento Maeda watched as Mitsuchi fell on his knees unwillingly, his hands still weakly pulling on the trigger, but the only sounds that greeted him were the hollow clicks of the firing pin.

"I'm guessing you must be wondering, how did the gun you repeatedly checked before leaving the castle malfunction now…?"

"Too bad, too bad, Mr. Mitsuchi. You know what? In this day and age, if you're not up to date with the current state of things, you're out!"

Kenta Maeda sounded indescribably wistful. But, if anyone could have seen his face, that image of wistfulness would immediately transform into gloating!

Mitsuchi's face was filled with pain as Kento Maeda droned on.

"In this post-apocalyptic world, don't trust anyone. Not family, not brothers. There is such thing as eternal friendship, only eternal profit."

"Too bad, you don't understand!"

With that, Kento Maeda cruelly held his pistol up and shot Mitsuchi in the head.

This shot blew Mitsuchi's head off, and blood splattered everywhere.

Looking around, Kento Maeda nodded with satisfaction as he took in the corpse-filled view of the snowy ground. Then, he made his way toward the exposed crater.

The gunpowder smoke from the explosion was already starting to disperse.

"Where are you, my darling Su Mo?"

"Allow me, Kento Maeda, to take your place in this world please, to take over your adventure as well~"

Kento Maeda was like a black butterfly, his strides were graceful and nimble as if dancing fleetingly among the flowers.

Yet…

What greeted him at the site of the explosion was not what he had imagined it to be—collapsed stone walls, rubble everywhere.

Under that mud-covered outer layer, an opening had appeared from the explosion. However, that opening was merely half a meter wide.

Through the outer layer, it could be seen clearly that the inner layer was still intact, without any signs of collapsing at all.

"This…"

Before he could finish his sentence, a black shadow flitted past him before ruthlessly piercing through the back of his hand.

Kento Maeda lost his grip from the immense pain. The gun he had held tightly in his hand fell to the ground.

At the same time, a voice rang faintly beside him.

"Excuse me… Are you looking for me?"

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Chapter 113: Slaps Are Served! How Gratifying!

"Excuse me… are you… looking… for… me…?"

A monotonous, emotionless voice that seemed to emerge from the pits of hell asked.

Kento Maeda swore that he had never been so terrified before in his life, not even when watching the infamous Japanese horror thrillers.

Whoosh!

Without waiting for his reply, a whistling sound pierced through the air once more.

Another black arrow has found its home as it bit into Kento Maeda's other hand vengefully.

Fresh blood, torn flesh…

Agony, spasms…

Fingers were said to be directly connected to the heart. The agony of having arrows right through his palms had Kento Maeda howling uncontrollably with pain.

He bent down abruptly, trying to reach for the gun he had dropped at his feet!

Before he could succeed, a silhouette flashed by and kicked him squarely on his chest.

The impact of the blow knocked Kento Maeda over and sent him flying backward, his feet leaving a trail in the accumulated snow.

The gun that was supposed to be at his feet ended up in the crater because he was kicking around wildly.

"Ahh!! My hands!!"

The temporary numbing effect of adrenaline had worn off. The arrows had pierced deeper into his palms upon his fall. Kento Maeda wailed in pain.

Alas, before he could look down to assess his wounds, a force yanked him up hard from behind his neck and lifted him easily.

"As a human being, you devoted your life to another race and oppressed your own kind. This is called treachery!"

Slap!

"You came to this god-forsaken land, disregarded human lives and abused your people. This is called being inhumane!"

Slap!

"You conspired against your friends and family, and threw your morals away for personal gain. This is called being shameless!"

Slap!

Three crisp, open-handed slaps were served right across Kento Maeda's despicable face.

These slaps were so powerful Kento Maeda saw golden, shimmery stars. His entire world was spinning.

Before he could utter another word, another rousing slap struck him across his cheek so powerfully a few bloodstained teeth flew out of his mouth.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. The agony on his hands, the burning sensation on his face, and the dizziness overtook him. Kento Maeda collapsed.

He was greeted by bone-piercing coldness. Eyes closed, Kento Maeda's blurry consciousness suddenly became clear as he realized –

He was pushed aggressively against the snowy ground.

Whoever that was clamping him down at the back of his neck showed no mercy.

That same force on his nape pushed his head down firmly and proceeded to knead his face forcibly into the ground.

His already swollen face was scraped hard against wilted grass and sharp stones, making it more painful than it already was.

"Let me die… I beg of you… Let me die!"

To be manhandled like a little chicken with an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, Kento Maeda lost the will to resist and fight back.

All he wanted was this "devil" to end this torture now, once and for all.

He was immediately flipped over, and a face slowly became clearer before his eyes.

"It's you… Su Mo!!"

Kento Maeda's face warped in shock and horror like he had seen a ghost.

"It's me. What is it? You're shocked, you don't understand, you don't know why my shelter didn't collapse, you also don't know why I'm here?"

"And I thought you knew everything."

Su Mo sneered and whipped another hearty slap across Kento Maeda's wrinkled face – the side that still had teeth in it.

The fortified strength behind the slap that was laced with fury almost gave Kento Maeda a whiplash.

Su Mo's eyes seethed with rage as he watched the old dog pass out. Without hesitating, he reached into his storage space for some psychic energy water.

He twisted the bottle open and emptied half of it into Kento Maeda's bloodied mouth.

The healing effect of the water was instantaneous. Compared to the previous time when he woke up with his face in the snow, it only took a few short seconds this time for Kento Maeda to regain consciousness and open his eyes.

"C'mon, tell me, what else do you know?"

Slap!

"Now, you devoted your life to the kobolds, brought humans back to become dogs for them, what have you gained?"

Slap!

"Here, for conspiring against me, you old dog. Do you seriously have no idea what I'm capable of?"

Slap!

One slap after another mercilessly resounded against Kento Maeda's face. Every time he passed out, Su Mo would use psychic energy water to wake him up.

The third time Kento Maeda was forcefully awakened, he quickly exclaimed, "It's Ying Xiong… Ying Xiong was the one who told me that, as long as I buried explosives here, it would break open your shelter and we would've been able to help ourselves to your treasures!"

Desperation filled Kento Maeda's face. He was so afraid that he would get another round of slaps if he were to speak slowly.

Nonetheless, all he received in response was another slap.

"Did I ask you to speak? Since when is it your turn to talk, you sorry-excuse-for-a-human b*stard?"

Su Mo could smell the gradually thickening smell of putrid blood from all around him, even through the mask of his photometric combat uniform.

Broken human limbs, gruesome kobold remains, the entire hill where the Underground Shelter was felt like Shura's battlefield*!

Su Mo had witnessed the dramatic situation from a distance, and even he had not anticipated how complicated things were behind the scenes.

This time around, Kento Maeda was only slightly dazed after being slapped.

Then, instead of pleading for forgiveness, he began to mutter.

"S—Su Mo, I've always thought that… In this doomsday world, I was the wolf, devouring everyone I see. I wanted a piece of everyone I met."

"But… I met a calculative mastermind like you. I, K—Kento Maeda, didn't lose in vain!"

As he spoke, he tried to pull his barely recognizable face into a grimace.

Su Mo was puzzled after hearing what Kento Maeda had to say about him, and that pause gave Kento Maeda a chance to continue talking.

"You… On purpose… You leaked your shelter's blueprint on purpose. You left this weak point on it so that you could finish off… All of us… Your neighbors. What a huge booby trap. We were all blinded by greed and didn't realize!"

"I'm so angry. Why didn't I see through your tricks!"

"I'm guessing that you were the one that helped the lion people bomb the camp, right? You were also the one who ambushed the kobolds midway, right?"

"You were also the one that almost annihilated the entire lion clan, right?"

As Kento Maeda gradually increased his talking speed, his line of thoughts became "clearer" too. Held up by Su Mo's hands, he looked like a dead dog. He continued his monologue.

"I regret, I regret covering up for you when you first attacked the kobolds. The second time you robbed the kobold team, I sent the pursuing kobolds another way. The third time, I knew that wasn't your camp, but I led them to attack the lion people anyway!"

"These three times, if only I had done it right, the one standing here today would most definitely NOT be you! Hah hah hah!"

Kento Maeda laughed bitterly as though he had discovered the "truth". Blood flowed freely from the corner of his mouth. He was so angry he was vomiting blood.

"I'm not. I didn't. That's not true."

Su Mo refused to take responsibility for something he did not do, and he did not understand a single word that came out of Kento Maeda's mouth. Su Mo denied it three times!

Oreo came running over from the sidelines. She heard what Kento Maeda had to say. After looking at Su Mo's confused face, she was flabbergasted!

Her face twitched. Right there and then, she woofed aggressively. She was laughing so hard tears were running down her black and white face.

She found a considerably clean place on the ground and rolled over erratically to relieve her urge to laugh hysterically.

Kento Maeda naturally recognized that Oreo was not an ordinary dog after he had been mocked by her. He did not mind. He spat out a large mouthful of blood and went on.

"You're so evil, Su Mo. How many people in the World Channel did you trick with your performance? How many will continue to fall for your lies?"

"Even if I die I would neve—"

As Kento Maeda got more and more out of hand, Su Mo did not hesitate. He slapped Kento Maeda once more to help him come to his senses.

"I say, old man, are you for real?"

"Did you really think that you'd figured everything out?"

Kento Maeda wanted to defend himself after hearing what Su Mo said, but what Su Mo said next stopped him dead in his tracks.

"There IS a weak point in the shelter. Unfortunately, I found out by chance and got it fixed by chance too! Heh heh!"

"Oh yeah, an hour before you guys came, I was harvesting some bok choy in the shelter. I also fried some rice, and had just finished eating."

"Would you believe the coincidence? Right when I went out the door, you guys arrived, so I didn't have a choice. I followed right behind you but, out of the blue, you guys started killing each other."

"After all that, you acted like you were in a musical—jumping here and there, and so I was confused. What is going on with you?"

"Oh, right." Su Mo slapped his palm against his forehead, as though he had been reminded of something.

"Luckily you covered up for me that first time with the kobolds, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to create the explosives that bombed your camp later and, naturally, I wouldn't have been able to bomb the kobolds either, and you guys really might've won!"

"Thank you, Kento Maeda!"

"Thanks for covering my tracks, for diverting unwanted attention from me and, that reminds me, thanks a lot for sending me things! I'll use them wisely to continue thriving. Don't you worry about me!"

Before Su Mo could finish, his hands suddenly felt lighter. He took a closer look and realized that Kento Maeda was intensely vomiting big mouthfuls of blood.

Blood was spraying everywhere like a broken tap. Su Mo had literally aggravated Kento Maeda…

To his death!

TN:

Shura's battlefield: According to Buddhist cosmology, Shura (or Ashura) often warred with the Gods out of envy toward each other, so the site of their battle would look like the aftermath of destruction—dead bodies, blood rivers and destroyed land everywhere.

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Chapter 114: Lives Out, Lights Out—When Nothing Really Matters Anymore

"Eh? Was Kento's mental fortitude actually really weak? Did he just die from anger?"

Su Mo, who was still telling the "truth", took a glance at how miserable Kento Maeda looked at that moment and scratched his head. He could not comprehend why Kento Maeda was so mad.

Compared with being bombed to death or being hacked to death…

Being aggrieved to death like Kento Maeda was considerably unique and very distinctive!

Su Mo pulled out a steel sword from the ground and gave Kento Maeda's chest a few stabs just in case, before he throwing the body aside like trash.

"Traitors" like these—without even considering the human factor—were thought to be of a lower class than even the kobolds.

It disgusted Su Mo so much that he did not even want to touch him.

"Sure enough, the number of people did affect the intensity of the blizzard. It was obvious that the snowstorm has receded quite a bit after all these people died…"

He held out his hand and caught a falling snowflake.

Su Mo could clearly see that the size and the density of the snowflake had shrunk greatly. It was not as big nor as thick as the ones before.

He turned around, no longer studying the correlation between the blizzard and the number of survivors.

Staring at the blood-tainted plains before him, Su Mo felt a little desolate as he looked for survivors.

After one round of checking, as much as Su Mo did not want to believe in the conclusion of "total annihilation", facts still trumped feelings.

To be injured in weather like this, it would only take a minute or two without medical attention for the cold to corrode the injured one's will to live.

Should the injured succumb to the cold and lose consciousness, it would mean that they would never regain consciousness again.

Now that Kento Maeda had been taken care of, the enmity Su Mo felt towards the seven Huaxians—though they may have been lapdogs when helping Kento Maeda oppress other humans in their role as supervisors—had greatly decreased.

Lives out meant lights out, whatever that mattered then no longer mattered as much now that they were gone.

Excluding the likes of Kento Maeda, Marshall, and those that really deserved to die, the other people technically did not do anything fundamentally wrong.

They merely did it to survive, to strive toward a life better than others, and that drove them to shut out their conscience.

"Forget about it. Since you were all Huaxians, I, Su Mo, shall give you a proper Huaxian burial today. May you rest in peace on this deserted land."

With a thought, a shiny, simple-looking, excellent-quality shovel appeared in Su Mo's hands.

He sauntered along the slope toward the bottom of the hill. This time, Su Mo walked on for a very long time.

After walking for a whopping three hundred meters, Su Mo picked out a spot that had a lot of weeds and started digging with his shovel.

Too many had died on that hill, humans and kobolds alike, so it took Su Mo more than an hour to finally finished digging out the pit.

One meter deep and eight meters wide.

He walked back and started transporting the dead bodies.

The kobolds' bodies went in first.

Two bronzer treasure chests, two iron treasure chests, and three wooden treasure chests materialized in exchange for the deaths of eighteen kobolds this time. It was a much lower rate than before.

In the process of transportation, Su Mo cynically stripped Kento Maeda naked, and casually took his safehouse core from beneath him.

Then, he went ahead and stuffed Kento Maeda's naked corpse at the very bottom of the pit, brought the kobolds' bodies over, and stuck three of them face-to-face, directly on top of Kento Maeda.

Next, he stacked the kobolds' bodies layer by layer on top of each other until Kento Maeda's body was fully covered, then he laid them flat.

"Even after you die, I want you to stare at your dog-headed daddy and ponder closely on why you'd decided to be a lapdog!"

Su Mo looked at Kento Maeda's awful state, patted the dirt off his hands, and exhaled, releasing all the pent-up negativity that had been accumulated from before.

He could not see the "traitors" in other places, and he also did not want to see them.

Surely, if Kento Maeda dared to show up and challenge humankind's bottom line, as a kind, passionate, and brave youth of this new age, Su Mo naturally would not allow him to continue with his revolting regime for the sake of the people around him.

Su Mo made his way slowly to the top of the hill.

He chose to not continue this abusive act towards the rest of the deceased, including Marshall.

There were large patches of blood on their clothing and, even after cleaning them, Su Mo would not have felt comfortable wearing them.

Su Mo only removed and set aside the cotton-padded jackets that were still in substantially acceptable conditions.

After making sure that there were no more valuables on the deceased, Su Mo collected all their safehouse cores and stored them into his storage space. Then he started transporting the dead bodies.

This was a huge project and he could only take it slowly.

After all the bodies had been piled into the pit, and after cleaning up the blood-stained ground on top of the hill, it was already five in the evening.

Su Mo did not sweat after following the Kento Maeda the entire journey, even to his grave. However, after this unintended workout, Su Mo was drenched beneath his combat uniform.

'My man, you gotta think of a way to kill people somewhere else.'

'Or the surroundings of my shelter would just turn into a cemetery!'

Inches after inches of mud fell, gradually filling the pit and burying everything within it.

Su Mo pulled down his mask, took out some psychic energy water, gargled his mouth, and spit into the pit. Then, he shoveled in the last bit of mud.

The end.

This was the shelter's second large-scale battle after the one with Huang Biao's party of five.

16 humans lives were lost!

18 kobold lives were killed!

34 lives in total!

After some consideration, Su Mo made up his mind and took out a unit of wood, chopping it into planks and shaving one of them carefully with his axe.

He paused for exactly three seconds. With the plank on his left hand and the axe on his right, he began to carve words onto that wooden plank.

"Friends and family mourn for good people that were gone too soon"

"All of the existence will joyfully celebrate when bad people drop dead!"

"The heavens see everything!"

When he was done, he stuck the plank into the ground of the newly-filled grave and kept all his tools.

Su Mo gave this burial site two final glances before reeling in his sentimental feeling and walking back to his shelter without turning back.

Snow was still falling. Occasionally, some snowflakes would fall on the plank and the burial site.

Eventually, other than Su Mo, no one else would know about this complicated, drama-like, war series that happened in this very area.

Oreo, who had been lying quietly and vigilantly on the ground, ran toward Su Mo affectionately and whimpered like a child after seeing that he was finally done.

"Okay, okay. I know that you're hungry. I'll feed you something yummy today!"

Su Mo was famished after hustling till five in the evening. He was drenched with sweat all over.

But…

When he looked at the pile of safehouse cores he had collected and stored in his storage space…

Su Mo smiled.

Oreo, who was in Su Mo's arms, smiled as well.

He turned the combination lock on the door, unlocked the door, stepped into the passageway, and pushed a lever to randomize the passcode combination.

Immediately, a sense of security filled him.

A fortified shelter in this doomsday world was the definition of security.

Behind closed doors, to Su Mo, as long as he was inside his shelter, it did not matter if it was flooding or burning outside. He would barely be affected.

"There's no way you could've bombed my shelter open with your homemade gunpowder. Dream on!"

Su Mo's confidence grew as he walked along the stone passageway.

He could not help but chuckle at the thought of how a group of people tried to bomb his shelter using gunpowder today.

Su Mo stood before the residential door and gave Oreo a hard shake, to shake off all the snow, before releasing her into the house.

He went on to remove his combat uniform right there at the residential passageway.

His sweatshirt and pants came off too. Su Mo was only clad with undergarments as he walked into the interior of the shelter.

With a wave of his hand, the wind picked up some speed.

The sweatshirt and pants he held in his hands danced around vigorously and, in less than a minute, it was already crisp and fresh. Then Su Mo put them on again.

"I really should've kidnapped Kento Maeda in here and put up a grand performance with my magic for that old dog. It really does get a little lonely in here!"

After controlling the wind to remove the moisture from his photometric combat uniform, Su Mo connected his equipment to their respective charging ports.

The photometric combat uniform had perfectly proven its usefulness after the newest all-terrain upgrade.

It would continue to be the greatest "magical item" in the next ten days of snowfall!

Big Spark and Little Spark, frightened by the loud sonic boom from the blast, saw Su Mo and came sprinting toward him.

They may not have been the same as before, but loud noises were still their ultimate weakness, and that seemed to not have changed.

The two chickens circled Su Mo as they were clucking passionately, as if complaining about the fright they had to endure today.

Oreo came over and joined in the fun. She whimpered continuously, though no one knew what she and the chickens were saying to each other.

"Okay, okay, I'll cook now. Stop disturbing me!" Su Mo patted the chickens on their heads and took long strides to the supplies storage to retrieve some food.

Today's battle had been really long and, Su Mo, who had been working up till this moment, was famished.

He eagerly took out the 400g of beef jerky that he was saving up in his storage and, after much consideration, he painstakingly plucked off another two "troublesome" bok choy leaves!

Su Mo poured out slightly more than a catty of rice and, within half an hour, the smell of beef fried rice wafted out from the pot as he removed the lid.

He distributed the rice into Big Spark, Little Spark, and Oreo's bowls. Su Mo was already salivating endlessly from the hunger.

After a tornado-style inhalation of food, Su Mo did not even leave behind the burnt scraps of rice at the bottom of the pan, licking it all clean.

Su Mo gulped down a huge mouthful of psychic energy water.

He could not help but laugh when he saw the shiny, gleaming treasure boxes on the wall. Then Su Mo smiled and focused mentally on the things in his "storage space"…

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Chapter 115: What A Fortune! Core Explosion!

"I have to say, I think what I've harvested today will bring about an explosion of growth to my shelter!"

Su Mo was in a familiar space.

He laid down as usual.

Oreo offered her body as usual to support his head.

Big Spark and Little Spark zoomed through the room toward him, looking for a comfortable position before lying down beside him.

Looking at the gleaming treasure chests and the pile of safehouse cores in his storage space, Su Mo was smiling from ear to ear.

As a fellow lone wolf, Magoo showed a good example of how difficult it was to develop the shelter.

The Deep-sea shelter had been developing for nearly 400 days, but the walls were still barely a meter thick.

Although it may have been upgraded to concrete, the Deep-sea shelter's overall security was still no match for the Underground Shelter.

In terms of facilities, other than the few larger machines, Su Mo could not even find a decent bed there.

Entertainment was totally out of the question.

In comparison, the Underground Shelter was now protected by a nearly eight-meter-thick stone wall, had two televisions, a cozy little bed, and even had air-conditioning facilities!

"If Kento Maeda and the rest had not been so eager to die by my hands, my development pace would probably be much slower, but now…"

With a thought, Su Mo brought out all the safehouse cores from his storage space and piled them on the floor.

It was difficult for one's eyes to peel away from the pile of rustic, colorful cores once they had appeared.

[Record: Player has been detected to possess complete safehouse cores. Option to assimilate available. Proceed?

The prompt on the game panel may have been slightly delayed, but it eventually appeared.

Su Mo tapped "no" on the prompt, sat up, and started examining the pile of safehouse cores in front of him.

Sixteen humans totaled up to three complete safehouse cores and thirteen incomplete ones.

"Hmmm, that's weird. Why are there shelter cores that can be directly assimilated, while some others are sealed?"

He separated the complete and incomplete safehouse cores into separate piles and picked up the biggest, most expensive-looking core.

This turtle armor may be incomplete, but it was at least two times bigger than the rest of them and had more intricate carvings on its surface.

When Su Mo held this particular turtle armor in his hands, it felt as if invisible strings connected it to the rest of the turtle armors.

This was an odd feeling. Since everyone had the same things, why did it feel like this one had an obviously higher status?

"It was as if this turtle armor was in charge of the rest?"

This odd hypothesis gave Su Mo a headache.

There were no prompts from the game panel regarding this. It was up to Su Mo to explore these things that did not seem to abide by scientific reasoning.

Running his hand over the carved designs on the turtle armor, Su Mo summoned the game panel and tried choosing the option to assimilate.

However, a prompt quickly appeared:

[Record: The shelter associated with the selected incomplete core is still intact. Assimilation request denied.

[Record: Player can first examine the items in the core. When the associated shelter is destroyed, the player will receive ownership of the items once the assimilation process is completed.

"There it is. Even though I've finished these people off and taken their safehouse cores, as long as their shelters are still standing, I can't assimilate them just yet."

"Looks like a trip to the saltpeter mining camp is required then. I gotta figure out how to destroy Kento Maeda's shelter."

"I can also look for Ying Xiong while I'm there then. How can people that scheme against me not pay some interest for what they've done to me?"

As Su Mo remembered the accomplice's name he had forced out of Kento Maeda before he died, Su Mo was reminded of the president of Tundra Shelter, Ying Tianlong.

Su Mo had a vague idea of what was going on.

The first time he went to Huaxia Shelter for blueprints, someone from Ying Tianlong's Self-Rescue Association must have been involved with Shen Yitian's designing process.

What came next should be that Ying Xiong found out where Su Mo's shelter was and, in his communication with Ying Tianlong, information was exchanged.

Unfortunately, Ying Xiong was an idiot who believed in Kento Maeda's lies, so the news got out.

Su Mo had no idea how many people were involved in this entire process. It would be hard to pinpoint due to the distance between the two locations.

If Shen Yitian was involved in this too, then this would mean a whole lot of other things.

"Don't panic. It's already late now, and to travel far in this kinda weather is basically asking for trouble. I'll go to the saltpeter mining camp first thing in the morning tomorrow!"

"I don't think they'll run, since their shelters are are all there anyway. Where else can they go?"

Suppressing the intent to kill these "incompetents", Su Mo chugged a big mouthful of water to calm himself down.

After a while, Su Mo chucked these messy thoughts to the back of his mind and started examining the items that came with Kento Maeda's core.

Before he looked, he had not cared, but as he stared at the expensive collection of items that were inside the core, Su Mo could not believe his eyes.

It was not the size or the price of the core and its items that stunned him.

On the contrary…

There was a heaping pile of safehouse cores in the storage space of the initial core!

Nearly 30 incomplete safehouse cores were thrown together in a pile, like a mountain of trash, right at the corner of the storage space.

There were also seven complete safehouse cores at a different part of the storage space.

All these accumulated cores were sufficient to instantly build a mini military base.

"Sh*t, who knows how many people this old dog killed to be able to collect such a large amount of cores? Well, I shouldn't be too surprised. From the looks of it, he probably planned to rob me of my 'treasures' and use these cores to build another haven?"

"Too bad, it's too bad that all of these ended up in my hands!"

Nuzzling the turtle armor, Su Mo's foul mood at being targeted in someone else's scheme faded significantly. The hard edges on his face softened.

All he needed to do was to head to the saltpeter mining camp and burn it all down!

Now Su Mo finally had more than enough cores to transfer the oil well in the Deep-sea shelter and to build a garage!

"Let's see, Kento Maeda's storage space should be about one and a half cubic meters. There's quite a lot of resources in there too!"

"A bottle of mineral water, five catties of hardtack, two catties of beef, a bottle of soju, two boxes of flu medicine, a bottle of anti-inflammatory medicine, a bag of rice…"

Kento Maeda did not have as large a storage space as Su Mo, but he definitely used up every inch of it efficiently.

All the emergency supplies in the core were mostly unopened and locked up in a corner.

Kento Maeda's thought process was crystal clear. Things that were in his storage space generally did not take up a lot of space, but were extremely useful in event of emergencies.

Items like hardtack and medicine supply would have been just enough to get him through most of the emergencies that could happen in this doomsday world!

"Instead of excessively hoarding supplies just to survive like Kento Maeda, I prefer to do things my way. I'm thankful that I can plant vegetables in my shelter, and that will give me an endless supply of fresh goods!"

"I also have a natural anti-inflammatory item—the psychic energy water—at my disposal, and that has saved me the trouble of exchanging my resources for medicine in case I fall sick."

"So these are all reasons why I progressed so fast!"

It had always been Su Mo's strength to be self-analytical and self-aware when analyzing someone else's supplies and figuring out how things worked in this doomsday wasteland.

Once the location of the main shelter was confirmed, it would have meant that moving around was "temporarily" not an option. As such, he would have to maximize his advantages to cover for the shortfall of not being able to explore the world freely.

"When I'm strong enough, I can still figure out how to expand my exploration area, so that I can dig up more underground treasures to fortify my survival capabilities! Well, at least that's one of the reasons I have to explore further."

"More than that, I'd like to find out more about the people that had been transported to this world earlier, learn about how they fared and how they handled the disasters that were happening and, most importantly, dig out the truth behind why we were sent to this world."

Before he forgot, Su Mo quickly opened up the game panel, clicked on his private message channel diary, and jotted down all the possible directions of growth for his shelter.

After every battle, he would harvest different rewards and gain different perspectives.

The act of putting all the new perspectives into words allowed him to revisit it, dwell on it, and glean new understandings from it when he was free. It was an essential skill for lone wolves like him to survive the doomsday wasteland.

At the same time, Kento Maeda's reserves reminded Su Mo of something.

"Even if safehouse cores aren't allowed to be sold through the trading channel, other affluent alliances would most probably have similar reserves. If we ever meet each other, I can choose to exchange them with the resources I have, and it would expedite the speed of my shelters' development."

"Food supply may not be a problem right now, but I should probably still stock up on them, especially food items with long shelf life, just in case if I ever encounter a calamity too unbearable for me."

Closing the diary, Su Mo continued to take stock of the items that were there.

Excluding the cores and the food supplies, the rest of the items were Kento Maeda's personal belongings.

A hardcover notebook with a ballpen, and a rainbow feather of unknown origin.

A seemingly sharp knife that still had blood on it.

A shovel, two unused system-made torches, and a battered metal axe.

A half-filled ammunition box. Su Mo roughly counted 14 bullets remaining.

Two unidentified maps, one large and one small. It was hard for Su Mo to tell where they led to since he was not able to take them out for a closer look.

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Chapter 116: Snowy Day, Thermal Weapon, K-1 Automatic Pistol!

"He didn't have a lot, but everything he owned were essentials. Compared to the likes of Huang Biao, Kento Maeda was a very qualified enemy!"

Su Mo placed Kento Maeda's core down and casually waved his hands, accessing his storage space.

In the corner laid two black, polished pistols.

"I got too accustomed to Kento Maeda's storage space. Now that I'm in mine, it suddenly feels like it has grown a lot bigger!"

Su Mo was a little wistful as he grabbed the pistols with his mind and brought them out.

The two pistols looked exactly the same. They were probably acquired from the same source.

"These guns looked strange, but had a familiar air around them. They were probably produced in batches and obtained from treasure chests, I think?"

Switching the guns' safety on, Su Mo held the left gun in his hands and carefully examined it.

Kento Maeda and the big man's guns did not exist on Earth.

Judging from appearances, the gun reminded him of the Makarov pistol back on Earth. It was more famously known as the colonel's pistol.

It was sleek-looking and not very bulky.

The odd part was that Makarov pistols were known as compact self-defense pistols that carried 8-rounds of 9mm cartridges per magazine.

This gun had a slimmer barrel. From its side profile, it was clear that this gun was more powerful and naturally streamlined to be more aesthetically pleasing to the Huaxians.

Su Mo pushed the magazine catch down with some force, and the magazine popped out.

This belonged to Kento Maeda. It had a 12-round magazine. After he shot the big man, there were still several rounds left.

The other one, the big man's pistol, had an empty magazine. No bullets left.

Su Mo unloaded a cartridge. Lit up by the shining treasure chests, a brass 9mm cartridge gleamed alluringly.

He unloaded another cartridge and held one in each hand and begun to feel around for its polish marks.

Moments later, relief washed over Su Mo.

Both cartridges' detonating caps had exactly the same curvature and were pointed in the same direction. The patterns on the shell were flawless and, when examined under light, were perfectly symmetrical.

"Looks like these guns and bullets really came from the treasure chest. No machine or assembly line could produce absolutely perfect specimens like these, so they should be products of the system."

Guns were not too scary, especially in the desolate doomsday wasteland. To some extent, they were actually not as useful as his electric crossbow.

Compact pistols like these were often better used as a short-range intimidation tool.

It was certainly not a mid-range killing machine.

In the technology tree of firearms, only the later inventions of the automatic rifle, machine gun, and sniper rifle truly showcased the nightmarish capabilities of firearms.

Focusing mentally on the gun in his hand, a holographic property panel emerged:

[K-1 Automatic Pistol]

[Description: A weapon optimized for close-quarters combat within 20m. It is perfect for self-defense, having minimal recoil and formidable firepower.]

[Data:

Caliber: 9x18mm PM/PMM

Magazine Capacity: 8rounds/12rounds

Muzzle Velocity: 315 or 430 m/s

Effective Range: 75m

Rifling: 4, Right-handed]

[Comment: It was reported that gangsters used this gun extensively against militia forces, but it could not harm soldiers equipped with bulletproof vests.]

"So they really changed up the outer look, but did nothing to how much damage it can cause?"

When Su Mo looked at the K-1 automatic pistol, and how similar its data was to the Makarov pistol, especially when it came to its combat parameters, he did not know whether to laugh or to cry.

The biggest difference between that legendary gun and K-1 was that the K-1 had a slightly improved range due to its longer barrel.

When it came to its capabilities, if someone were to take a shot with this gun from 50m away, even if it hit its intended target, as long as the target survived without critical injuries, the gun would have lost its intimidation factor.

Su Mo loaded the magazine, took out a plank of wood, turned the safety off and, without putting in much effort to aim, pulled the trigger.

Boom!

The blast sent a frightened Oreo sprawling onto the floor and triggered Big Spark and Little Spark into a clucking frenzy.

Even though the pistol did not make a high-pitched sound, since it reverberated within such an enclosed space, it was still pretty jarring.

Su Mo turned the safety back on, picking up the plank to examine the bullet hole.

"Mmm, not too bad. It's been a while since I've practiced my shooting, but the gun shooting foundation my Papa gave me's still here!"

Su Mo was far better at shooting with guns than with crossbows.

It was not only because he was an army fanatic, but rather mostly because Papa Su led by example and would not stop nagging with a model gun in his hand, which greatly influenced Su Mo.

After Su Mo grew up, he would spend a good portion of his nearly twenty thousand yuan monthly income at the shooting range to release stress whenever he had time.

Now that he was here in the doomsday wasteland, even if it was not the Beretta M92FS he was familiar with, Su Mo's great foundation ensured that as long as he was in range, he could shoot at whatever target he wanted and still hit the bullseye.

"Pistols should only be an intimidation tool since my crossbow's better in every aspect by comparison."

"I'm just hoping that, once I've saved up enough survival points to fix the thermal weapon machine, I'll be able to make something that's actually useful, unlike these impressive-looking but useless things!"

Su Mo was in no condition to properly maintain the two guns.

He could only return them to the storage space to reduce the natural wear-and-tear effect caused by long-term storage.

After some tests, Su Mo was able to assimilate three complete cores and received access to the supplies within.

Other than Kento Maeda's incomplete core, Su Mo was also able to assimilate 7 out of the 12 incomplete cores. The other 5 required him to first destroy their associated shelters.

"The first calamity was too severe for these people! Only three of them managed to activate a mere cubic meter of storage space!"

The first activation required 100 disaster resistance points. Su Mo was not sure about the others, but according to the cores he had at hand, he could roughly gauge how difficult it was to obtain 100 points.

During the acid rain disaster, most of the damage was absorbed. As long as players could collect enough supplies and had their shelters survive, 100 points would be basically gifted to them.

Sadly, most people were really bad at adapting, or just had really bad luck to be stuck below 100 points, unable to move forward.

"People who survive the following disaster should have enough points to activate their first cubic meter of storage space."

The only other two cores that had storage spaces bound to them could not be opened either. Su Mo did not find anything that was valuable anyway; all he saw were some broken tools and basic food and water supplies.

In one of the cores, Su Mo was pleasantly surprised to find three brand new cotton-padded jackets and two thick cotton pants—unlike the bloodied ones that were stripped off from the corpses before.

On the top right corner of the jacket, a very faint brand name could still be seen—a logo of TheSouthFace.

After recognizing the design, Su Mo was astonished and realized that these clothes were exactly the same as the guns; likely something that would have been obtained from the treasure chests.

Adding these to the previously stripped six pairs, despite the color, they felt like school uniforms; organized and tidy.

"Now that I have these three brand new ones, I won't have to wash the ones that have bloodstains on them. I should sell them off when I have the opportunity to exchange for some supplies, no matter the amount."

In a corner of the storage space, the blood-stained cotton-padded jackets were tied up nicely with a string.

Initially, Su Mo planned to wash off the bloodstains so that he could have a change of clothes, but since there were new ones, he did not have to live frugally anymore.

He gathered up his spoils of war, categorized them accordingly, and had a long stretch before putting on his combat uniform.

"All done! Now it's time to collect snow to be used as regular usable water to clean up, wash clothes, or take a shower!"

Since being transported into this world, he had not taken a shower in half a month. If he had not been so busy and occupied every single day, Su Mo would have greatly despised himself.

Oreo, who was sprawled on the floor, saw Su Mo get dressed and thought he was going out to play, so she excitedly abandoned the chickens and scampered over to join Su Mo while barking excitedly.

"It's the middle of the night, where else can we play? I'm bathing you after I've collected water!"

Oreo heard what Su Mo said and turned around so quickly and ran away, pretending to not hear him. While she was on her way back, she lost her footing and slipped.

That tickled the chickens so much that they started clucking as well.

"Oreo is behaving more and more like a human. She actually knows the meaning of being bashful! Looks like there are more wonderful things waiting for me to explore and discover on this deserted piece of land!"

Su Mo shook his head, trying to shake off the bizarre thoughts that had suddenly appeared in his mind. He hastily turned on the television to check on his surroundings.

The Elementary-level Monster Illustration Handbook also scanned the surroundings daily, but did not find anything.

However, mythical creatures like the kobolds and lion people would not appear on the scan.

The habit of first scanning his surroundings with the television needed to be maintained.

"Mmm, the terrain my shelter is located in isn't the best. It's on low-lying ground, so I don't think many creatures would like it here. It's been so long and only a chameleon showed up!"

The skies were getting darker, but the television had an unknown skill that ensured that everything was displayed in perfect lighting.

After one round of surveillance without finding anything, Su Mo turned off the television, reassured, and walked out of the residential door.

Turning the combination lock, the bolt was returned to its original place with a click. The door slowly opened and the biting cold began to seep in.

It was nighttime again. The numbers on the thermometer were rapidly decreasing.

Su Mo removed his mask momentarily to have a brief experience of the weather. Now the inside of the passageway was at least -10 degrees; nearly the same temperature as the impending blizzard disaster.

"Thankfully the wind becomes weaker at night. By the looks of things, it should stop by midnight, and that's good news for people with shelters above-ground!"

The snowflakes would slowly fall to the ground without wind.

Under the baptism of moonlight, there was a white hue cast over the world. It looked like a drawing, peaceful, serene, and beautiful.

If there was no pressure to survive, he would build a hostel at such a beautiful place, charging a few thousand yuan per night, and he reckoned that people would be flocking over with wads of cash in their hands, wanting to stay over!

"It's stunning! If my sister were here, she'd be able to build snowmen and play with the snow in such weather!"

Su Mo thought of the times when his sister would pester him about the snow, building a snowman, and things like this. He smiled as he made his way to the top of the hill to take in the surroundings.

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Chapter 117: Bath Time! New Goal!

A few hours ago on the hillside, the snow that had been stained red with blood had been cleaned and buried by Su Mo in a pit.

Currently, there were no extra stone resources in the base to repair the gap in the outer layer that had been blasted open. Su Mo could only temporarily leave it as it was.

Three hours had passed, and another thin layer of snow had fallen over the hillside. It was like silver gauze, lightly covering the land.

Within a radius of seven miles, Su Mo was alone.

The snowflakes had become gradually smaller but, after a day's accumulation, there were still layers of thick snow piled up in the distance.

Since the large amount of factory pollution from the civilized era was not present, nor were the overwhelming fumes from car exhausts, Su Mo was astonished when he picked up a handful of snow.

"This is as white as flour. Under the light, it is even whiter than flour. With this level of purity, you could probably eat it directly!"

Gradually, some snowflakes were crushed in Su Mo's palm. Looking at the melted snow that had turned into water, Su Mo took out a large water tank and began to fill it up with confidence.

This water tank had been brought out of the ruins and was not small in size. It was usually placed in the supplies storage to store food that was not easy to preserve.

However, it was just perfect if used to hold snow water in his current situation.

Searching every corner, Su Mo only took the purest snow on the top. When snowflakes with mud underneath turned up, he would move over to another spot.

It took Su Mo half an hour to collect a full tank of water.

Su Mo kept the water tank back into the storage space and took out a big bucket to once again continue collecting water.

After being thrifty with water for so many days, to suddenly have an inexhaustible source of water, Su Mo had every intention of using it all at once tonight.

After collecting a sufficient amount, Su Mo stepped back to the shelter and closed the main door.

Standing at the entrance, Su Mo shook the snow off his body. After taking off his clothes, the three little ones were already waiting at the door to greet him.

There was enough water for more than one person and Su Mo intended to give all three of them a bath treatment.

"It seems that there is not much wood left. Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, I'll find the opportunity to chop some wood and replenish my supply!"

Checking the leftover wood supply in the storage room, Su Mo wrote down the task of collecting wood in the diary's daily to-do list.

Wood was everywhere on the plains. Even without considering environmental conservation factors, they were simply inexhaustible.

After selecting some wood and placing them beside the workbench, Su Mo turned back to the energy distribution room and turned on the diesel generator for electricity supply.

Everything was ready. Putting the robotic arm on, Su Mo started to make the simplest and most practical thing—

Bath barrels!

It was not difficult for Su Mo to make this item. He just had to flatten the wooden boards, polish them, and nail them together.

The only key point to pay attention to was to avoid splinters on the inside surface of the wood. At the same time, he had to ensure proper sealing between the wooden boards to prevent water seepage.

It took approximately ten minutes to make four bath barrels; one large, one small, and two mini-sized. At the same time, a property panel that surprised Su Mo also popped out.

[Bath barrel (Good)]

[Description: Bath barrels made with passion by the entry-level craftsman "Su Mo". The story behind its construction is heartwarming.]

[Special ability: Heat Preservation (the rate at which temperature of the water decreases in the bath barrel will be slowed to a certain extent)]

[Comment: Please get rid of your bad habit of peeing in the shower!]

"On the workbench, even the bath barrels created can be equipped with special abilities. I look forward to the legendary bath barrels of the future!"

Humming, Su Mo pretended not to see the subsequent comment and moved back over to the living room with the bath barrel "righteously".

Su Mo took out the tank and bucket containing the snow water and started to boil the water with firewood.

The ability to control the wind was equivalent to having a natural flame fanner. The flames under the iron stove flared, making pleasant crackling sounds.

Boiling water over one stove was not satisfying enough, so Su Mo set up a second and operated them simultaneously.

Su Mo poured the first pot of hot water into the rest of the snow water. After a while, all the snow water melted.

This process was repeated again and again. Sometimes he controlled the wind to fan the flames, sometimes controlling it to remove the smoke in the room, and sometimes poured the water aside to keep it warm; the process kept Su Mo very busy.

The steaming heat covered the interior of the shelter, and his body temperature was rapidly rising as well.

"I have to prepare another tank of snow water for the next use!"

Taking advantage of the long process of boiling water, Su Mo went out again. Running back and forth, he finally collected another jar before the water had completely boiled.

Soon the bath barrels were filled full of comfortable hot water. After putting the bucket of boiling hot water on the side into the storage space, Su Mo eyes suddenly sparkled in anticipation.

At this moment, Su Mo guaranteed that this was the shortest time he had ever taken to undress in his life, without exception.

He had only not taken a bath for half a month but, standing in front of the hot bath barrel at this time, even if he were to receive another pistol, he would not be as happy as he was now!

Su Mo took off his sweater and jeans completely and kicked off the travel shoes on his feet. After testing the water temperature with his hands, Su Mo stepped directly into the barrel.

"Hiss~~~~"

The impact of the hot water made the shackles on his body shatter in an instant, and a refreshing feeling washed over the depths of his soul that almost made Su Mo faint in comfort.

This feeling was a kind of joy that could never be experienced through a shower.

In the water, Su Mo felt as if he had become a merman; closing his eyes, it felt as if he was swimming through the sea.

The hair follicles that had been clogged up over the past few days, under the subtle beckoning of the hot water, opened their mouths one after another, soaking in the refreshment.

Within a few seconds, Su Mo's fair body was tinged with a hint of red.

"Oreo, go in quickly, otherwise the water will be cold in a while!"

Seeing Su Mo enjoying himself so much, Oreo, Big Spark, and Little Spark, who were lying next to the bath barrel, had been staring mesmerized.

However, as they watched the steam from the heat rise from the water, the three of them were cowered, not daring to take the first brave step.

Compared to the size of Big Spark and Little Spark, Oreo was very large. Even after hearing Su Mo's urging at this time, she still felt extremely shy.

Oreo walked tepidly to the small barrel and tested the temperature of the water with her front paw.

"Woo~"

For the three little ones, Su Mo did not make the water too hot; it was a very comfortable temperature.

This time, Oreo lowered her defenses and jumped into the barrel before howling comfortably.

Big Spark and Little Spark on the side also laid in their mini-sized barrels, soaking in the special bath barrels made for them by Su Mo.

Suddenly, there were only comfortable moans echoing throughout the shelter.

The creatures of the wasteland could not be deemed similar to the creatures on Earth. The creatures here, whether it was Oreo, Big Spark, or Little Spark, all had a basic level of intelligence.

If one were to use age as a basis, Oreo should have an intelligence level equivalent to humans between fifteen to eighteen years of age.

Big Spark and Little Spark also had intelligence levels equivalent to humans between the ages of eight and ten. However, the level of intelligence did not mean that they could understand language, emotions, and communication like humans.

Even so, Su Mo was surprised to find that the mental state of the three little ones was rapidly evolving as time passed.

It was especially obvious in the cases of Big Spark and Little Spark, where their growth could be seen from the innocent beginnings, when they first came to the shelter, to the clarity and agility reflected in their eyes now.

"It would be nice if Big Spark and Little Spark could transform into phoenixes in the future. Then I'd be able to bask in their light and warmth!"

Regarding the two chickens that created crystal fertilizer instead of laying eggs, Su Mo had also begun to take the matter lightly these days.

On the wasteland, and after sharing feelings of camaraderie, Su Mo no longer intended to treat the two of them as food.

More often than not, in Su Mo's heart, Big Spark and Little Spark had become irreplaceable partners in the apocalypse!

With these partners and the sense of attachment between them, Su Mo would feel at ease whenever he returned to the shelter!

"It's great! My current strength is growing rapidly, and it won't be long enough before I'm strong enough to take care of my family."

"The only shortcoming of the shelter now is that I haven't accumulated enough food and do not have sufficient sustainable food sources."

"It is very possible that I'll spend a lifetime in this world, and I have to maintain a diverse supply of food!"

In the initial stages of Su Mo's time in the doomsday wasteland, water was scarce and he had experienced the difficult period of living hand to mouth; not having enough supplies for subsequent days.

Life had made great progress since then!

There was a steady stream of psychic energy water every day for daily drinking, and there was a motor-pumped oil well that continuously produced sustainable development resources.

He had an electric crossbow that could take off people's heads from a hundred meters away, and there was a pistol that was invincible within fifty meters.

At least in the aspects of self-protection, Su Mo already had enough "capital" to speak for himself in the doomsday wasteland!

Lying in the hot water of the bath barrel, Su Mo's thoughts drifted farther. Some persistent thoughts that he had when he just arrived at the wasteland also slowly dissipated as he soaked in the hot water.

"According to the current development trend, the cycles of disaster in the future will gradually get longer. In Magoo's diary, it took a month and a half from the snow till the next disaster, which was 45 days of development."

"Judging from the current situation, it should not be much different after this blizzard disaster either. Otherwise, no one except for people like me who owns the system would be able to survive!"

From the first disaster to the present, time was very tight.

In just half a month, even with these mysterious modular technologies, mankind did not have enough time to even develop the basics.

Only after successfully overcoming this disaster would there be a little more time to complete the first round of development.

Of course, the disaster this time was also the toughest survival test.

It would be very likely that half of the humans would die during this disaster.

"For my specific situation, I will have to take time to locate the human gathering site, over 100 kilometers away from the shelter, before being able to make any accurate judgments on the situation."

"If it is an enemy or a bad person, then I won't hesitate to destroy them. If it is a normal shelter, perhaps a deal can be established, or I might even be able to employ them on a part-time basis as well!"

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Chapter 118: The Secret Of Variables, Super Core!

Hot water not only helps the body's blood to circulate quickly, but also secretes dopamine to make you happy and speeds up your thought processes.

Soaking in the bucket, Su Mo's thinking became clearer.

At present, there were some enemies who could directly threaten him near the shelter. Besides Kento Maeda, there were the kobolds, people in the saltpeter mining camp, and the lion people.

According to the information revealed by Kento Maeda in his final few words, Su Mo knew that the lion people's situation was not optimistic.

At the very least, they had been unable to guard their camp. Chased by angry kobolds, their camp was probably razed to the ground.

The kobolds could also be considered weakened at this time as well and, because of the disaster, they would not be able to flourish again within such a short period of time.

"I'm gonna get rid of those bastards in the saltpeter mining camp tomorrow morning. I'll collect some saltpeter along the way and create a large amount of picric acid explosives to solve the major problem that is the kobolds as soon as possible."

With such a significant enemy by his side, Su Mo could not leave them to continue developing.

As long as there were enough picric acid explosives prepared, even if the main pillar could not be located, he would be able to demolish the kobold castle within a few breaths of time.

When that time came, then there would be no enemies and Su Mo could farm with peace of mind and slowly develop in the doomsday world.

Using the advantages of psychic energy water and the motor-pumped oil well, he would be able to trade for a lot of items and resources, upgrade his shelters, and stay ahead of the disasters.

"After sacrificing the second floor of the Deep-sea Shelter later, the Underground Shelter will also gain a second floor. At that time, the first floor must be increased to 220 cubic meters to ensure maximum benefit."

"Should the space layout in this shelter be changed again?"

Looking at the already familiar structure of the shelter, Su Mo pondered on whether he wanted to change the internal structure of the shelter.

He would have to attempt some designs to know whether it would become easier to use or not.

These days, living in the bedroom, Su Mo had discovered some loopholes in the previous design.

First of all, the energy distribution room was too close to the master bedroom. Once the diesel generator was turned on, the loud noises would make him unable to sleep well at night.

Secondly, the backdoor used for escape was placed in the crop culture room. If an enemy broke in, since the weapons storage was near the door, the distance required to escape would be too long. He would undoubtedly be turned into mincemeat if that happens.

There was also no buffer against the enemy. When upgrading the shelter to 220 cubic meters, he had to consider creating a number of buffers to ensure internal security.

As for the smaller details, there wasn't a simple weapon cabinet in the bedroom, no kitchen in the shelter, and no bathroom. These defects had to be considered and addressed during the renovation this time.

Su Mo did not major in architecture as a student and he had no relevant experience. As to whether to save himself the trouble and reserve this project for another day, Su Mo ruled out this dangerous idea from the beginning.

"I hope that someone can take out a perfect design drawing and show it to my face. Tell me, is this it? Is it?"

With his hands folded, Su Mo looked at the wall of treasure chests "religiously", thinking about it.

Such professional work had to be done by the hands of professional people!

"With so many cores, I can find a way to build a garage for parking, cold storage for preserving food, and connect them directly with the game panel. It can also save me the cost of re-upgrading materials and survival points!"

Regarding the urgently-needed modules for the shelter, Su Mo could only put them on hold for a while before he successfully opened Kento Maeda's safehouse core.

Only when the shelters of these gangsters were burned down by fire tomorrow could he make proper plans.

After half an hour, Oreo had almost fainted comfortably in the bath.

Su Mo saw Oreo's head drooping over the edge of the bath barrel, her tongue hanging weakly and her eyes blurred; she was in heaven.

Big Spark and Little Spark had also been soaked thoroughly, lying comfortably in the barrel.

"If I had been able to craft this on Earth, I would be able to make a lot of money by selling this kind of pure and naturally insulated barrel."

There was no need to add extra hot water to maintain the temperature. At first, Su Mo had still thought to look through the World Chat channel a few times to collect some information.

As time passed though, he simply laid in the tub and slept.

He did not take a long nap. It only lasted about half an hour but, after sleeping, the tiredness from the day had dissipated significantly.

Were it not for the notification of an incoming private message, perhaps Su Mo would have slept until the water turned cold.

"Whose private message is it this late at night!"

In a daze, Su Mo opened his eyes and summoned the game panel.

Looking at Shen Ke's message on the private message channel while adding half a bucket of hot water, Su Mo suddenly became energetic.

[Shen Ke: Hello, Almighty Su, your information came in timely today. We have also found out the cause of the disaster through some clues.]

[Shen Ke: First of all, about the issue of the "number of people". After a series of urgent and thorough tests, we found that it should not have much to do with the number of people. The number of people does not affect the extent of the disaster. Of course, there were only seven shelters participating in this test, so this was the statistical result based on their sample data.]

[Shen Ke: However, during this process, we did discover that there was a "variable" that could affect the degree of disaster. When this variable increases, the scale of the disaster expands and, vice versa, when it decreases, the scale of the disaster decreases as well.]

After the three messages, Shen Ke surprisingly did not say what this variable was, but instead left Su Mo in suspense.

After thinking about it, Su Mo tentatively asked.

[Su Mo: The number of safehouse cores?]

As soon as the message was sent, Shen Ke's message on the other side was sent simultaneously.

The speed was very fast, as if she had already typed it out in the chat box and was waiting to send it.

[Shen Ke: As expected of Almighty Su, you guessed it! From a macro perspective, although there will be countless shelters in every place, there will always be a distinction between high and low-level shelters. Advanced shelters will suppress low-level shelters and form a subordinate relationship. In this case, whenever low-level shelters that did not belong to the advanced player were added, or if the person carrying the safehouse core of the shelter enters the area, it would cause a corresponding change in the scale of the disaster.]

She seemed to be afraid that her words were not straightforward enough and therefore directly sent a video call invite. Su Mo did not think much about it. In line with his previous habit, he directly connected to the video.

After a harsh buzzing sound of the signal connecting, images began to pass through clearly.

When Shen Ke raised her head to look at the picture, a blush suddenly appeared on her face.

In the video, Su Mo laid lazily on the edge of the bath barrel, the steaming heat gathered along the edge of the bath barrel looked as if a strange force had bound the heat, causing it to converge back into the bath barrel.

His body that has been repaired and strengthened by the psychic energy water was fair and clean, with sharp features and contours.

Su Mo's broad shoulders were paired with strong, but not exaggerated, chest muscles, looming in the mist. His messy hair that had not been trimmed for over ten days, and the young face with stubble growing on his face made Su Mo look very refined; especially since he sported a nonchalant expression, as if free from worries.

In the doomsday world, he looked like a true warrior gentleman of Huaxia.

"Huh?" Seeing Su Mo's momentarily stunned expression, Shen Ke laughed, her crescent-like eyes looking extremely charming.

"Ahem, let's just talk about business. I've understood what you've just said, but how are the large shelters planning to deal with this problem?" Su Mo frowned, ruffled his hair, and coughed twice.

Regarding what Shen Ke had just said, Su Mo immediately thought of more issues.

At the same time, given the contents of Kento Maeda's and the big man's safehouse cores, he would be able to verify his thoughts and Shen Ke's conclusion.

On the other side of the screen, Shen Ke lifted her leg and put her chin on her knee. She looked at the notebook in front of her and began to say, "Yes, now that we know about this problem, the shelter has indeed encountered a fair bit of trouble."

"There are two main types of cores. The first type is the one that had never been placed yet, which is the complete safehouse core. This type is very easy to handle. A person who possesses the advanced core could bring one's core and place it down on their behalf. By default, the shelter would become the second shelter of the advanced core's owner. No matter how many shelters are built this way, it would not affect the degree of disaster, nor would it affect all the functions of the player's game panel!"

"All functions?" Su Mo glanced at the functions on the top of his game panel, implying something.

"Yes, including the chat function, storage space, the process of creation, and other series of panel functions, the person who placed it down on behalf of others will not have any viewing permissions."

"This is the second problem I want to talk about. 80% of the people who join our Tundra Shelter have already placed down the core of their shelters. After leaving or destroying the shelters, the safehouse cores that remain on their bodies are incomplete and damaged."

"In other words, as long as they are within the scope of the advanced core shelter, they will add on to the degree of disaster. The higher the number, the greater the disaster, which is the "variable" mentioned by Almighty Su!"

To express things clearly and straightforwardly, Shen Ke said the three paragraphs in one breath. After speaking, she took a big breath.

Seeing Su Mo in the screen fall into deep thought, Shen Ke did not interrupt, but quietly looked at Su Mo in the camera, blinking her big eyes.

"There must be a solution, and I would guess that you have already found it!" After understanding the meaning of Shen Ke's words, Su Mo asked straightaway.

"Yes, we found the solution!" replied Shen Ke.

"What's your price?"

Hearing Su Mo's words, Shen Ke shook her head and continued, "This is an instruction from the head, and he said that as long as you are willing to share information with us in the future, our information will similarly be open to you. We will exchange information with each other without covering up the information! "

She seemed to be afraid of Su Mo's rejection of this kind of favor, so Shen Ke continued to speak cleverly, "In fact, this solution is not sufficiently mature enough either; the protests against it in the shelter are very loud. The reason being is that, if you want to avoid the catastrophic effect of this variable, you need those people to mark their damaged cores with the mark of an advanced core."

"However, after marking, if the advanced core's owner wants to view the subsidiary core, he does not need to get the other's consent and can view it directly through his core's operations."

"For people in the doomsday, this is equivalent to handing over their rights to privacy. Even if our reputation guarantees that we will not steal it, many people below do not agree with it."

"All the panel functions can be arbitrarily adjusted and viewed?" Su Mo asked.

"Yes, all. Including chat panels and storage space. the complete core owner can even take the items in the damaged core owner's storage space without the consent of the latter."

Hearing what Shen Ke said, Su Mo did not continue to ask, but instead asked a seemingly basic question from Shen Ke's perspective, "Could it be that the core can still be summoned out? Doesn't it stay put once you've placed it down, and only explodes and appears after death?"

"Huh? No, if you want to get to the physical core, you'll need to be in your shelter but, if you place an illusionary mark on your core, as long as you summon the core with your mind within a 50-kilometer radius of the shelter, you'll be able to see your core!"

Su Mo had to admit that this exchange of information had been very rewarding. After receiving this news, he no longer had any doubts, and the two of them exchanged a few words before hanging up the video call.

"One can see the core of their shelter by summoning the core with their mind?"

Looking at Kento Maeda's safehouse core in the storage space, Su Mo suddenly became curious about his core.

The next second, Su Mo silently summoned it with his mind.

In his field of vision, a "turtle armor" larger than a human head suddenly appeared and fell as it transformed into a tangible item.

Boom!

Dust was scattered by the turtle armor and danced in the air!

"Damn… This is my core?"

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Chapter 119: Alternative Upgrades, Blessings Of Reversion!

An ordinary safehouse core would be smaller than the palm of a hand. It would look pretty tiny and very cute, sort of like a key pendant.

Kento Maeda's safehouse core was somewhat palm-sized and looked a bit like a mature turtle in a fish tank.

However, when Su Mo looked at the core of the Underground Shelter that had fallen from the air at this moment, his mouth could not help but drop open.

"Damn, I didn't know that my safehouse core could be so awesome!"

Although the cracks on the turtle armor lying on the ground had not been reduced, with a body that was already about 50cm long, it looked quite mighty.

Especially since, from the cracks in the turtle armor, several rays of light burst out like special effects from time to time.

Su Mo could see the lights very clearly.

Those a little weaker were sky blue. As the light gushed out, Su Mo could vaguely hear waves of the sea and, at the same time, a mysterious and abnormal sound dispersed.

Those a little stronger were cyan. The cyan was different from the normal green; there was an ocher pigment mixed into it, like a tornado destroying the parking lot, raging everywhere on the back of the turtle, and forcing the sky blue to flee everywhere.

"These two lights should be the two extraordinary blessings that the shelter possesses now."

"The lion people's blessing does not look very friendly though, chasing the mermaid's blessing everywhere…"

Su Mo tried to retract the core silently. In the blink of an eye, the giant turtle armor that was lying on the ground suddenly turned into a transparent phantom, and then gradually disappeared into the shelter.

This disappearance of the core caused a bold idea to surge into Su Mo's heart without reason.

At this time, Su Mo, who was still in the bath barrel relaxing, could not sit still anymore. He stepped out of the barrel and summoned some wind to dry off the moisture from his body.

Putting on his clothes, Su Mo silently summoned the core again, and the giant turtle armor fell heavily onto the same spot once again.

"If the safehouse core is a real object, and the extraordinary blessings above can be seen, then logically my upgrade system could…"

When he focused mentally on the giant turtle armor, as expected, an illusory attribute interface popped up.

[Description: A sacred artifact with two extraordinary powers. One can derive a series of incredible functions with the help of the sacred artifact. There seems to be a close connection between the sacred artifact and the host. Recommended upgrade priority: High.]

[Water: Mermaid's Water: It is a branch blessing of the "Water" family, and is blessed by ordinary mermaids with low strength. Has good upgrade potential.]

[Upgrade direction 1: Increase the level of blessing, enhance the ability of the blessing, and expand the scope of the blessing. Survival points required (480)]

[Upgrade direction 2: Improve the quality of the blessing, transform it into the mermaid sacrificial blessing, and increase blessing potential. Survival points required (2200)]

[Wind: Lion's Wind: It is a branch blessing of the "Wind" family inherited from the shattered wooden Lion God Sculpture. Has good upgrade potential.]

[Upgrade direction 1: Increase the level of blessing, enhance the ability of the blessing, and expand the scope of the blessing. Survival points required (800)]

[Upgrade direction 2: Improve the quality of the blessing, transform it into the lion sacrificial blessing, slightly increase blessing attributes, and increase blessing potential. Survival points required (3100)]

[Comment: An extremely magical item, please take good care of it, otherwise, disasters are imminent!]

"It can be upgraded, and it can be upgraded this way…"

Su Mo looked at the prompts raised on the attribute panel in shock, and at the two upgrade directions that were given.

The first upgrade direction was equivalent to strengthening the attribute ability, which is equivalent to upgrading the blessing from lv1 to lv2, with some bonus upgrades.

However, the second upgrade direction was especially remarkable. It could directly change the quality of the blessing, even reaching the level of "transformation", which was terrifying!

"So, as long as I have enough survival points, I can even obtain the most advanced and wind attributes by transformation?"

Stroking along the cracks the giant turtle armor, he felt the light of two extraordinary powers slipping between the fingers of his hand. Were it not for the survival points currently being insufficient for the second upgrade, Su Mo wanted to boldly try the upgrade to see its effects.

Retracting the core silently, Su Mo watched the giant turtle armor slowly disappear. The future now held a new goal for Su Mo.

To earn more survival points!

This was a bigger goal than collecting items!

As long as there were enough survival points, he could keep the shelter firmly out of the grasp of other people. Even if Jesus came, he would not be able to keep it!

"I want to maintain the number of daily activities I have currently. I won't just stay and hide away in the shelter. This way I'll be able to speed up the collection of survival points."

Su Mo opened the private message channel that held his doomsday records, and he solemnly recorded this statement down.

Su Mo turned back to use the storage space and placed the bath barrels in the corner. He fished out Big Spark and Little Spark, as well as the sleeping Oreo.

The power of "wind" began to surge and, within a minute, there was no trace of water on the three small bodies. It was truly useful other than having the disadvantage of not being able to blow hot air.

Clean, white and chubby.

Oreo's once dusty fur had become incomparably pure. Black was black, white was white, without any variegated color.

On the wings of Big Spark and Little Spark, there were a few traces of red stains. As the wings shook, they looked unusually gorgeous.

After soothing the three to sleep, and checking again that there was no danger near the shelter, Su Mo returned to the small bed as well, looking forward to tomorrow's arrival.

Compared to the anxiety that he had when he first arrived in the Doomsday world, he now felt that the development of the current shelter was finally on the right track.

Every day, countless tasks were waiting for Su Mo to accomplish.

Su Mo laid on the bed, plugged in the heated pad, and adjusted it to a low level. The resistance wire began to heat up slowly, heating the soft bed.

The relaxation brought about by the bath was comparable to an expensive massage, relaxing both his mind and body.

It did not take long for Su Mo's breathing to gradually calm down.

His vision drifted off out of the bedroom…

The world outside the shelter would not stop advancing just because Su Mo was asleep.

Time too, would not slow down because of sleep.

In the face of the harsh snow, even a large shelter with hundreds of people had to face a mammoth problem:

Energy source!

In the world on Earth, very few ordinary people would think about energy issues.

If there was no electricity, then electricity would return if the bill was paid. If there was no water, then water would also be available after the bill was paid.

When one was hungry, they could order takeaway. When one was thirsty, buying a drink would do.

When the car was out of gas, one could find a gas station and fill it up in a few minutes.

In a fast-paced society, who would carefully think about where their electricity came from, or where the water came from, or where petroleum diesel came from?

This time, after arriving at the wasteland, whether it was leaders or civilians, the issues surrounding energy sources were at the forefront for everyone.

In the cold wind of minus ten degrees at night, each piece of wood could only supply a minimal amount of heat and, at the same time, it would deplete the already limited reserves left.

There were two or three hundred people in a large shelter. If ten people were in a room, ten units of firewood would be needed for warmth for one night.

While it might seem that one person only needed one unit, but if one looked at the consumption of the whole shelter, it became very overwhelming.

A shelter for three hundred people consumed three hundred units of wood in one night.

If one could not make up for the consumption of these three hundred units in the daytime, the shelter's inventory would be reduced.

Once the inventory could not match the consumption, it would enter a vicious cycle.

Cold at night, and without energy during the day; more food would be consumed, and fewer resources would be harvested. As it becomes colder at night, people would start to freeze to death.

This vision was playing out across the wasteland. The number of wooden houses was declining, instead being replaced by simple nests.

In the cold winter, more and more people had given up living in wooden houses.

Instead, they chose to listen to the tutorials on the World Chat channel and set up a simple nest for warmth.

All the people who were still alive hugged each other tightly throughout the cold night, relying on each others' body heat to keep warm.

At the same time, there were quite a few people who had completely fallen asleep on this night—

Who slept quietly and were gone silently.

Other than the shelter that stood quietly in the wasteland, proving that they have once been in this world, there were no other traces remaining.

If one could see things from God's perspective, they would be surprised to find that:

In some places, the wind and waves were calm, and even the snow had stopped, but in other places, the wind raged and the blizzard intensified.

Over the plains, the sign of the Tundra Refuge swayed back and forth in the cold wind.

Behind the sign, the fire in the innermost large room flickered.

"Yongyi, hurry up and make a decision. If such winds and snow continue for another day, it will be an unbearable loss for us!"

After hearing the words of the person beside him, the man who was addressed as Yongyi had a troubled expression. He looked as if he was deep in thought, but then he sighed and said nothing.

Seeing his expression, the man beside him became even more anxious, "If you don't make a decision today, we will have to grind through yet another day. In this kind of weather, do you know how much material loss we will have to endure in a day?"

"What's more, if we continue down this road, when the day comes where we can't bear the consequences of the disaster, what kind of losses will we have to bear?"

"Lu Yongyi, we will continue to suffer from the chaos if this goes on. If you don't make a decision, I'll do it!"

The man slapped the table, speaking the personal truth he felt. This immediately awakened Lu Yongyi.

However, Lu Yongyi sighed immediately, "Qiu Xinghuo, have you forgotten our previous slogan when recruiting personnel? Absolute democracy and absolute freedom. Now if we were to do this, then our previous reputation and credit, who would believe it?"

Reputation took a long time to accumulate, but would only take a moment to be ruined.

Qiu Xinghuo understood this truth but, at this moment, seeing the state of his old friend, he was also depressed.

The collection of safehouse cores by one person; it was a theory that was simple to say but difficult to handle.

Once someone else's mark was imprinted, every word and deed, and even storage space, would be monitored by others.

In the current situation, it was pure pressure!

It was considered okay for the civilians. As long as they could survive, they would not care about being monitored. In the civilized era of Earth, it was not new anyway; privacy was often stolen by major apps.

The problem lay with the groups of people who were relatively strong. As long as these people were unwilling, they would never be able to keep them in line!

"Ying Tianlong…"

"If it doesn't work, I am willing to be this sinner for everyone to keep on living!" Seeing his old friend stuck in a quandary over the decision, Qiu Xinghuo's face became certain, as if he had made an important decision.

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Chapter 120: Sixteenth Day! The Last Obstacle!

The moon set and the sun rose.

A little bit of sunlight came from the crop culture room. Coupled with the lights from the glimmering wall of treasure chests, it illuminated most of the shelter.

Sitting at the bedside, Su Mo quietly awaited the arrival of eight o'clock prompt.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 16]

[You laid down in front of the wall of treasure chests you harvested. You have slept very securely, your whole body has become relaxed (Survival points 10)]

[Your shelter has received the mystical blessing of the Lion God. Obtained the power of the wind (Survival points 50)]

[You have the obtained your first excellent-quality armor. In the cold winter, your chance of survival has increased (Survival points 60)]

[Your pet Oreo spotted a potential threat and you avoided a potential wave of danger (Survival points 10)]

[You have detected four waves of enemies in succession and formulated thorough countermeasures (Survival points 30)]

[You killed an enemy and completed your declaration on the doomsday wasteland. At the same time, you feel that your intentions were well understood (Survival points 500)]

[You have harvested an incomplete batch of supplies. Some harvesting remains to be completed (Survival points 30)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 232 survival points gained today.]

Total calculation: Survival points 922

Survival points remaining: 1982

"This harvest isn't too bad. Given how much time I spent relaxing yesterday, I didn't expect to receive this many survival points!"

After seeing the huge sum of 500 points given after killing Kento Maeda, and the daily fixed survival points restored to 232 points, Su Mo nodded in satisfaction.

There was no specific rule when it came to obtaining survival points. Sometimes it would suddenly increase by several hundred points just because of a small incident.

At other times, when Su Mo thought that a few hundred points would be added for an event, the system would only award a few dozen points, which was confusing.

"According to the current bonus, I feel that the more comfortable and relaxed I am in handling an incident, the more points are given by the system. It's an ideal style for me!"

After looking at the system panel once more, Su Mo turned off the heating pad, got dressed, and got out of bed.

Compared with the temperature of the shelter from yesterday's snowfall, the temperature today had risen a lot to about 5 degrees.

Su Mo went to the commands center and turned on the TV, before beginning his routine investigation of the shelter's surrounding situation.

"Hey, it doesn't seem to be snowing anymore?"

The picture on the TV was abnormally calm. When he turned on the camera, the snowflakes had stopped falling, the breeze had stopped blowing, and the ground was quiet.

After checking that there was no problem nearby, Su Mo simply put on his combat uniform, opened the door, and walked out.

Compared with yesterday's squall of wind and snow, the weather today was finally much better.

Over the horizon, even the sun had came out to release its rays of light.

Even though the temperature brought by sunlight was like a lamp in a refrigerator, Su Mo still felt a touch of warmth in his heart.

"This is more like it. If it kept snowing seven days before the disaster, who would be able to stand it!"

Taking off his mask, a could wind blew in.

Although it was still a bit cold, it was much better than yesterday's biting chill.

Su Mo walked over to the hill and looked around the vicinity of the shelter. After moving his body around for a while, Su Mo returned to the shelter again.

This kind of weather was suitable for traveling, and it was also suitable for…

Revenge!

The saltpeter mining camp was the lifeblood of kobolds. If they wanted to increase the power of their fireball technique, the camp was an indispensable resource point.

After a day, even if they were slow, the kobolds would have regained the mining camp already, or even resumed resource production.

"The previous bomb completely blew up the defensive layout of the saltpeter mining camp. Without the help of Kento Maeda, even if the kobolds had stockpiled resources, it would not be possible to rebuild a similar level of defense in the short span of a single day."

"This would be the moment when the defense of the saltpeter mining camp is empty."

While taking out some flour to make breakfast, Su Mo looked at the description of the camp that was saved in the private message channel.

Although there were currently reserves of sulfur and toluene, the saltpeter, an important item for making picric acid explosives, had all been used up.

Attacking the camp with bombs was the first option to be excluded from consideration by Su Mo.

Set a fire? Dig a tunnel? Diversion tactics?

After thinking about it, without revisiting the current defensive layout of the saltpeter mining camp, Su Mo couldn't think of a solution, so he simply let it be.

Su Mo came to the crop culture room and saw that the leaves of the Chinese cabbage on the side of the culture medium were about to be bald, so Su Mo had to hold his tongue and walked back to the cooking pot.

"I have eaten noodles for so many days. I should just make some unleavened pancakes today, and take this stuff along with me to work."

The unleavened pancake was also a favorite delicacy of the people from Shan Xi.

When one was hungry at night and did not want to eat rice or noodles, one could go straight out to the barbecue stall beside the ancient city wall.

This dish was served with a handful of beef and lamb skewers that were grilled to be crispy and tender, as well as tendon and kidney skewers. Of course, all these were combined with the essential unleavened pancake.

Spread out the pancakes and sandwich the meat skewers between them. Press down on the pancake fiercely and watch as the oil from the skewered meet seeped into the pancakes, creating the fragrant aroma of tongue-biting spicy fresh meat.

After a bite, the mouth would be full of pancakes and meat. The more you chew, the more the aroma exploded and, finally, top it off with a flagon of beer. The taste was… simply beautiful.

Even though there was no meat nor skewers on hand today, Su Mo drooled as he smelled the browning unleavened pancakes in the pot.

The novel smell also attracted Oreo, Big Spark, and Little Spark's attention.

With the help of their wings, Big Spark and Little Spark could flutter up and take glances at the good food in the pot.

Oreo was spinning around anxiously. Without Su Mo's permission, she dared not climb onto the stove to check out the delicious food in the pot.

"Wait. Before I say you can eat, don't be hasty!"

Smelling the scent of the pancakes in the pot, Su Mo paused and brushed over a layer of vegetable oil to make the scent more intense.

Such heavy-tasting pancakes could not meet the healthy living standards of low sugar, salt, and oil in the civilized era.

But in the doomsday world, it could be considered first-class "fine" food.

Su Mo had been roasting two pots of pancakes. After making enough to last for three or four days, he put them into the storage space, and stopped the fire.

At this time, the pancakes in the first pan had just cooled down.

Su Mo put several pancakes into three small food bowls and returned to the supplies storage. He took out the long-preserved bag of drunkard peanuts.

The peanuts were salty and spicy, as well as very soft and glutinous.

For this meal, Su Mo ate half a catty of them and finally put the glutton in his stomach to sleep.

"Oh dear, my appetite has been getting bigger and bigger. If this goes on, this amount of food won't be sufficient for me!"

After finishing washing the stove and the food bowls of the little ones, sitting on the stool, Su Mo's thoughts drifted off.

On Earth, who would have thought that such a simple and plain food item could be eaten as much as a catty at a time without getting tired of it.

When the food in his stomach digested a little, and he did not feel as bloated, Su Mo started to get up and prepare the items he was going to bring with him on this trip out.

First of all, he certainly could not follow Maeda's people's footsteps and walk to the saltpeter mining camp on foot.

"Should I create anti-skid chains for the vehicle myself, or directly upgrade it through the system to have the the ability to drive through the snow!"

After looking at the limited remaining resource materials in the base, as well as the survival points that had been restored to nearly 2000 points, Su Mo decided to go for the system upgrade.

As for the things to bring on the journey, there wasn't a need to prepare much.

Two pistols, a crossbow, a spear, armor, combat uniform, other weapons, and equipment.

Pancakes, a few large bottles of psychic energy water, and the food packed for traveling was all prepared.

Finally, Su Mo brought along a few units of common resource materials in case of an emergency.

"Oreo, let's go! We're going out for work!"

Putting on the armor over the combat uniform, he pressed and tested all the electric switches to confirm that there was no problem. Then Su Mo opened the entrance door and went out.

Due to the sense of security brought about by the full-body equipment, even if he opened the door of the shelter and stepped right out, Su Mo felt confident.

Hot air gushed out from the main door of the Underground Shelter. When the cold air in the surroundings and the surging hot air from the main door mixed, they produced a white mist.

While Su Mo was closing the door, the hyperactive Oreo wandered around outside the Underground Shelter.

After confirming that there was no problem, a person and a dog steadily headed toward the Deep-sea Shelter.

Su Mo had traveled and forth several times on this section of the road, and he could easily find the position with his eyes closed.

Within half an hour, the Deep-sea Shelter lay in front of them.

The footprints of the people from yesterday were still faintly visible. Standing around the footprints, Su Mo looked at the top of the Deep-sea Shelter and then sighed slightly.

"Although the old dog Kento Maeda was a beast, he was right. Information is truly the most important thing in the wasteland."

"Because of my active pursuit and attack, there was a sufficient information gap between the two of us. Had I still been cautiously hiding in the base, they might have won!"

After he walked over to the Deep-sea shelter and pulled the hinge plate, Su Mo successfully ignited the engine and drove the Earth Tiger out.

After closing the door of the basement and the door on the second floor, Su Mo sat in Earth Tiger and tried to accelerate to a speed of 20 yards per second. As expected, if he turned the steering wheel just a little, the next second, he would feel the car oversteering.

The Earth Tiger, as a standard rear-drive vehicle, could easily skid in the snow. If it had an ESP (Electronic Stability Programme) to adjust and reduce the output torque of the engine to brake the wheels and prevent the car from skidding and drifting, it would be great.

However, given its current purely mechanical structure, it had to be completely controlled by the driver. If it was driven a little faster, when turning to avoid obstacles and to change directions, it would likely immediately flip over.

"Without an electronic control unit, many intelligent controls and functions cannot be achieved. It seems that I can only use the dumbest method to prevent skidding!"

Su Mo summoned the system and, as Earth Tiger's property panel appeared, he looked and found the options for snow chains underneath.

Regarding this tool, although it would damage the tire, if the tire was repaired using the system, there should not be any issues.

After spending 45 points to install it, a green light flashed and the four wheels of the Earth Tiger were covered with anti-skid chains.

This time Su Mo got in the car and tried to accelerate again. As long as he stayed below the speed of 40 yards per second, the car was a lot more stable!

"Everything is ready! After burning down the camp today, no one will be able to hinder my development!"

Looking in the direction of the Underground Shelter from a distance, Su Mo felt pride surface in his heart. After charting the directions to the saltpeter mining camp, he stepped on the accelerator and the Earth Tiger sprinted off vigorously.

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