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 151: A Way Out! Laser Tool Finally Obtained!

"Hahahahaha"

"The roc rises with the howling wind, soaring ninety thousand miles high!"

Holding the rudimentary hang glider in his hands, Su Mo constantly adjusted the angle of his grip to ensure that he could get the maximum turning speed, instead of rushing straight into the fire.

In the eyes of all the kobolds behind him, Su Mo flew away as if he had put on wings.

Bark!

Bark bark bark!

After the first kobold took the lead and barked, all the kobolds on the wall immediately joined in together.

Unpowered hang gliding was the closest a human could get to mimicking bird flight, and it was also a sport that allowed people to have a bird's eye view of the earth's landscape.

Rise with the wind, dance with the wind!

At this moment, Su Mo was extremely grateful that he had a surplus in survival points that enabled him to create this magical thing!

Just like how a paper airplane would descend gradually, an unpowered hang glider would do the same unless it caught an updraft.

Speaking of updrafts, the most typical one is hot air.

With the aid of the hot air current from the fire field, Su Mo flew higher and faster. He even surpassed the hundred-meter mark, constantly rising frantically.

Unpowered hang gliding did not have high requirements for physical fitness and stamina. Normal preliminary training could generally be completed in about seven days.

After more than ten days of practice, under good conditions, some students could fly with the dynamic airflow for minutes at a time.

This kind of exercise was not dangerous. Although it was only under the leadership of a coach, Su Mo had tried it a few times.

However, at this time, the strong physical coordination ability brought about was "self-taught."

"It turns out the reason why so many people pursued extreme sports was to experience this kind of near-death thrill. It truly is a wonderful feeling."

The fire was burning and, by controlling the center of gravity of his grip, Su Mo processed his thoughts while constantly adjusting his gliding angle.

As for the woman in black behind him, she did not make a sound at this time; she had completely fainted from the shock.

"This woman, she did not faint when shocked by the stun baton, but instead she fainted when we flew through the air…"

The louder the kobolds behind him barked, the more excited Su Mo felt.

In the eyes of all kobolds, flying through the air, Su Mo seemed to have gained an astonishing "magic power" that they desired!

"I'm only flying using a hang glider right now. When I build a plane in the future, hehe… I'll have air supremacy, and at least 90% of my enemies will only be able to look at me!"

After crossing the fire field, the updraft became much weaker. Su Mo tried to adjust the pole to raise the head of the glider, increasing the angle of attack, and the speed gradually decreased.

Of course, the speed of the hang glider could not be reduced indefinitely.

When the angle of attack increased by a large extent, and the airfoil formed a sharp angle with the incoming flow, the air would no longer flow neatly along the airfoil and then separate to form a vortex. At this time, the lift would suddenly drop, the drag coefficient would increase, and the glider would inevitably stall.

Watching the ground getting closer and closer, Su Mo carefully began to slowly tilt his center of gravity, relying on the airflow to control the speed.

After the speed had dropped to an acceptable level, Su Mo suddenly pulled on the pole and aimed at a bush tree, and the hang glider slammed into it.

As the hang glider's speed had not dropped sufficiently, this physical landing method resulted in the front of the entire hang glider being directly embedded in the bushes.

The effect of force was mutual for both the tree and the glider, and a huge impact force was transmitted along the structure of the glider.

Su Mo, who was holding the hang glider pole, was inevitably the one to endure the impact, and he reflexively released the pole, leaving him hanging awkwardly on the tree.

"Damn, sure enough, it hurts. It's not advisable to simply show off and act cool!"

With the cold wind still blowing, Su Mo took off his mask and looked at the ground below with a grateful expression. He laughed out loud.

Taking out a bottle of psychic energy water and drinking it, the effects of the impact on his body gradually alleviated and he felt much better.

At the same time, the woman in black behind him was "knocked" awake.

"It… it hurts… I… Am I dead?"

Su Mo heard the bewildered voice behind him. Since they were now in a safe place, Su Mo's tension was relieved. He did not mind the question and said while grinning, "Yes ma'am, we are dead. This is hell, Heibai Wuchang just came to ask for your name, but you gave a fake name so they don't want us anymore!"

"Huh?"

Knowing that "Carolla" behind him was startled and vexed, Su Mo laughed loudly.

"We can be regarded as people who have shared an experience of adversity together. Are you still not planning to tell me your name?"

Hanging on the crooked neck tree, Su Mo asked while resting and adjusting.

Regarding the identity of the woman, Su Mo had guessed that there was a high probability that she was someone he had never met before from the west shelter.

"I… Zhong Qingshu…"

Being tied behind by Su Mo, her body was still numb from the electric shock. Now having undergone the impact of the crash as well, Zhong Qingshu's voice was trembling, and she no longer had the agility and cunning from before.

"Little thief, you were bold enough to try and steal things from the castle alone. Do you realize that, without me, you would be dead today?"

"Thank…thank you."

Since the danger had passed, Su Mo was no longer anxious. The two people hung on the tree and chatted.

Su Mo had not seen a living person for a long time. Feeling the body that was emitting warmth through the armor behind, Su Mo's heart was agitated.

"Are you from the shelter in the west?"

"Yes…" Zhong Qingshu's voice stuttered intermittently as the effects of the electric shock had yet to wear off.

After thinking about it, Su Mo took out a bottle of psychic energy water that he had not drunk from the storage space. He stretched out his hand and haphazardly placed it in front of her mouth.

"Can you open your mouth?" Hearing Su Mo's words, Zhong Qingshu finally reacted and began to drink sips of the psychic energy water.

After drinking about 100ml, Zhong Qingshu's voice no longer trembled and regained a semblance of normality.

"Let me down, I will give you what you want!"

Finally hearing the magic words, Su Mo's expression was joyful. He quickly grabbed the tree branch, pressed it down, and the two fell to the ground.

He took out the saber from his storage space and cut the hemp rope on his body loose. Seeing Zhong Qingshu sitting on the ground in a daze, Su Mo was not anxious and began to inspect his injuries.

Psychic energy water could only heal certain wounds, and it was not very effective when treating external injuries.

Despite the protection of armor, this kind of abrupt impact caused pain all over Su Mo's body and back.

However, compared to these, looking at the laser tool in Zhong Qingshu's hand, all the adventures tonight suddenly…

Became worth it!

Su Mo took the laser tool and activated the system to check its name. After confirming that there was no problem, he put it in the storage space, relieved.

At the same time, after examining the severely damaged hang glider perched on the tree, Su Mo carefully climbed up and brought down the intact components.

"Hey, Zhong… Zhong Qingshu. I'm leaving, you're on your own!"

Su Mo had been excited to see a living person, but thinking back to the scene where Zhong Qingshu slaughtered the kobolds mercilessly, he still shuddered.

Do not mess with me and I will not mess with you.

Regarding the pile of food in Zhong Qingshu's core, Su Mo did not have the slightest desire to kill others for supplies.

"Wait…I can spend money, no, I will hire you with supplies. Can you send me back?" Zhong Qingshu quickly shouted from behind. She was still sitting on the ground dumbfounded when she saw Su Mo leaving unhesitantly.

Unfortunately, Su Mo's figure did not stop moving even for a moment, and he simply walked away without a trace of sentiment.

"Hey, don't leave me alone!" Zhong Qingshu shouted after touching her swollen thigh. Her waist still hurt, although the bleeding had been stopped.

It was a pity that Su Mo's pace was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from her sight.

Under the night sky of the wasteland, the distant fire was still burning.

However, these sporadic sparks did not bring any warmth at all. Instead, thick smoke was blown by the east wind, and she choked until she coughed again and again.

She sat on the ground and waited until the tingling sensation disappeared. Zhong Qingshu began to slowly climb up. She grabbed a strip of the hang glider's sail that fell on the ground and sat on it.

There was no torch and no medical supplies. Zhong Qingshu turned over the food and supplies one by one, and then she angrily threw them aside.

"Food, food, why don't you starve to death! I would have brought some medical supplies if I knew!"

Looking at the corn cobs rolling all over the floor, Zhong Qingshu pulled on the mask and breathed heavily. She reluctantly repacked all the food bit by bit.

She summoned the azure blue game panel and, after fiddling with it for a while, she turned it off again.

Leaning on the tree, Zhong Qingshu was silently thinking, staring in the direction Su Mo had left.

"Su Mo seems to be very strong; stronger than what Chen Shen mentioned. Such people can only become friends and not enemies!"

"He has guns and is good at close combat. Why have I never heard of this person before on Earth? Is it possible that there really are so-called "families of ancient martial arts"?"

Holding her head, Zhong Qingshu quietly thought about what she had seen and heard.

When she was tied behind Su Mo, it gave her the opportunity to observe the battle and, at the same time, she unearthed more details.

In Chen Shen's description, that "Lu Bu" battled randomly and relied on brute force to beat the kobolds.

When she thought about Su Mo's very polished technique today, it was hard to imagine that these two people were the same person.

"Is there a Lu Bu around here? Wow, why are there so many amazing people!"

"Is Lu Bu better, or is Su Mo better, or…"

While thinking, Zhong Qingshu hammered the ground angrily with a hint of shame on her face. At the same time, her action reopened her wounds, resulting in another round of pain.

It was a very cold day and, after experiencing a life-and-death crisis with the other party, her heart was still beating rapidly. Zhong Qingshu had to close her eyes to rest her mind and wait for a rescue party.

Unfortunately, before she could recover and wait for her companions to rescue her, she was suddenly "woken up" by the sudden sound of a horn.

On Earth, seeing a high beam flashing before your eyes would have been extremely annoying but, in the wasteland, it brought great surprise instead.

Three to five seconds later, when the car steadily ground to a halt, a thick voice came out through the window.

"Get in the car, you owe me two lives now!"

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Chapter 152: Leave, Steel Torrent Begins!

In the night, Earth Tiger drove steadily on its way to the west shelter.

Compared to the plains surrounding the Underground Shelter, the terrain became flatter and more fertile as they traveled westward.

There were weeds as high as the height of one's knee. Even under the heavy snow, they still managed to push their shoots up.

"I can only bring you within 5 kilometers of the shelter, and then you will have to contact someone to come and rescue you…"

"In such a big shelter, the others still idled, relying on a girl to come out to search for supplies…"

Focused on driving, Su Mo saw Oreo lying on Zhong Qingshu's lap happily. Su Mo twitched his mouth disdainfully.

Regarding the shelter in the west, after chatting with Zhong Qingshu for a bit, Su Mo already found out some things.

If what Zhong Qingshu said was true, then this shelter had great cooperation value.

First of all, the people who constructed the upper-level rights of the shelter were four prison guards; and they were not recruited via the civil servant pathway, but were transferred from the army!

They all came from the army and, as soon as they met on the wasteland, they immediately developed kinship and quickly formed an initial combat unit.

Relying on simple weapons and plausible martial art techniques, after the three most difficult days in the initial period, some people gradually joined this small gathering place of four people.

Five, eight, then fifteen…

Suddenly arriving in an unfamiliar environment, most human beings adopted the herd mentality; especially when most of the shelters in the west were Chinese, the level of cohesion was even higher.

The cruelty of the wasteland caused more and more people to flee here, and they quickly built up a small shelter with more than 70 people.

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Of course, thanks to the initial organizational structure and constructing rights of the shelter, the four prison guards still currently had sufficient voice and jurisdiction in the shelter, despite no longer being as powerful as the shelter's main fighting force.

Forming a team and hunting around the shelter, they maintained the consumption and expenditure of the shelter at an acceptable level.

Even before the lion people's shelter was breached, relying on hunting kobolds who were alone, the shelter had collected a small reserve of resources.

Before the disaster, the reserves and consumption had reached a delicate balance.

However, this balance was completely broken after Chen Shen and his group joined, resulting in the additional burden and consumption of more than a dozen people. Despite that, it was impossible not to let them join in.

This was the call to mobilize everyone in the shelter to go out to find supplies to survive the cold winter.

"No, Uncle Song is stressed. I just wanted to help him and didn't expect to cause trouble again."

As humans who lived under the protection of a peaceful era and, even after coming to the wasteland, joined an orderly shelter; naturally, such human beings would not be like those portrayed in some zombie movies; acting like ordinary people in the morning, but turning into killer psychopaths when the sun set.

At least when observing Zhong Qingshu, Su Mo could still feel traces of that peaceful era.

"Your strength is not bad, but… are you still in training?"

"Are you from the families of ancient martial…"

In the small Earth Tiger, the two spoke at the same time, and then laughed in an instant.

"There are no families of ancient martial arts. You have read too many novels! I'm just an ordinary person who just learned a little bit of the basics from training."

"What a coincidence, it's the same with me! Zhong Qingshu, a second-year graduate student from the National University of Defense Technology, reporting!"

Seeing Zhong Qingshu's non-standard salute next to him, Su Mo forcibly suppressed a smile so as not to expose her lies, and bypassed the topic.

"Does your shelter lack food?"

"Yes… but with the supplies I brought back today, everyone should have no problem surviving this winter at least."

Most of the two square meters of storage space were filled with food, which was substantial for a shelter for 70 or 80 people.

People who went out to work could eat a little more and those who stayed in their rooms could eat a little less. Everyone could have a frugal meal, and surviving for three days would not be a problem.

"By the way, did you see a turtle armor in the treasure room…its size should be about…"

"The size of my steering wheel." Su Mo tried to make an approximate gesture. Seeing the smile on Zhong Qingshu's face, Su Mo's face went dark.

"It is the core of a safehouse. It is damaged and looks valuable at first sight. I have an urgent need of it and I'm willing to exchange it for food with you."

Hearing those words, Zhong Qingshu shook her head and said seriously, "I didn't see it. If it was there, I would give it to you. When I went in, I took the outermost thing, and then you came in. Maybe it is in the materials room, but there is no way for us to go back."

Hearing what Zhong Qingshu said, Su Mo fell into deep thought.

If she did not take it, Su Mo could guarantee that Magoo's safehouse core was not there on the ground when he was scanned through the treasure room.

'Where did the core go? Is it possible that Magoo's safehouse core was not dropped at all?'

As if echoing Su Mo's deep thoughts, the car fell silent again.

Except for Oreo's comfortable hums from time to time, and the puffing sound of Earth Tiger running across the snow, there was only silence between the heaven and earth.

Su Mo drove along the fifty-kilometer stretch extremely smoothly.

When he reached the estimated drop-off location, he stepped on the brakes and Earth Tiger ground to a halt.

"We're almost there. I won't send you any further. Have your people come out and pick you up. We'll see each other again if there's any luck!"

Su Mo politely made a polite hand gesture and flicked open the lock of the car door.

"Thank you…" Zhong Qingshu was naturally not a person who was clueless about courtesy. With a sweet smile, she touched Oreo's head, opened the side door, and stepped out.

Bam…

The heavy door slammed shut, and Su Mo pressed the door lock down. Watching Oreo's reluctant expression on the car window, Su Mo pretended to be hum angrily, "Oh, you stupid dog, you forgot about your dad the moment you met someone else. You're already been bought over by someone so quickly!"

Su Mo made two double headlight flashes to signal goodbye and laboriously steered the vehicle around, stepped on the accelerator, and drove Earth Tiger back.

However, after hearing Su Mo's chiding voice, Oreo shook her head and, at the same time, stretched out her tongue to lick the remaining scent on the seat.

"Hey, you mean she also had the smell of a "divine artifact" on her body?"

This time, Oreo nodded, her eyes full of desire.

"Don't, don't, don't. Next time when I find one, I'll give it to you. It's not good to grab someone else's!"

Ruffling Oreo's head, he watched the rising sun over the horizon and the fading figure in the rearview mirror.

Su Mo had no psychological burdens.

He had rescued Zhong Qingshu for the laser tool.

As for why he had sent her back; it was because Su Mo could not bear to see his own kind die like this in the ice and snow.

However, killing people for goods, for an unknown "divine artifact", would make him an enemy of the nearby shelter. Su Mo knew that much.

"I hope that Zhong Qingshu can become my pawn to express my goodwill so that it will become more convenient for me when it comes to cooperative transactions or requesting manpower to help build my shelter!"

Facing the rising sun from the east, Earth Tiger's speed finally picked up.

On the way, Su Mo parked Earth Tiger on high ground. He sat in the front of the car and admired the morning sun while eating the instant noodles that he cooked before going out at night.

With the convenience of the storage space, although the instant noodles were not hot, they were still warm!

Seeing Oreo eating happily next to him on the ground, Su Mo also had an appetite. He gulped down and finished the bowl of noodles, and drank all the soup.

"Another day full of hope!"

Su Mo kept the noodle bowl away and laid on the front of Earth Tiger. Although his body was hurting all over, Su Mo endured watching the whole sunrise.

For more than half a month, living such a busy and "fulfilling" life, Su Mo found a different…

Meaning to life!

To survive all the disasters!

To conquer this land and rebuild a homeland!

To build a shelter of dozens, no, hundreds of people; build a super shelter for humans!

After recording all three statements in his diary, Su Mo quietly added another one: Find a girlfriend as soon as possible!

"Hehe, when my strength is sufficiently strong and I am qualified to recruit members, then I will expand laterally and build a human underground city!"

"However…"

Su Mo took out the laser tool that had not been warmed up and pointed it at the sunrise. He looked at the multiple rays of sunlight scattered by the laser tool. Su Mo could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart.

"The construction of guns and ammunition has finally begun!"

It would take 3380 points to repair the small thermal weapon laser manufacturing machine, which was a huge expense. If he were to solely rely on daily savings, it would take at least ten and a half months.

That alone meant that Su Mo would have to save every penny for it.

However, looking at the prompt that popped up from the system panel, it was clearly stated that the laser tool could reduce the repair costs by about 2,600 survival points. Su Mo nodded in satisfaction.

Yesterday, his survival points were restored to 2304 points. After deducting the 750 points for the upgraded design blueprint, there were 1554 points left.

It's a pity that it took 1000 points to create the hang glider and now, at this time, he only had 554 survival points left.

780 points were required to repair the thermal weapon laser manufacturing machine; he still lacked two hundred points more.

However, given such a small gap, once eight o'clock arrived, his new survival points would be credited into his account and, at that time, he would have sufficient points required to repair the machine!

"Oreo, stop playing! Let's go home!" Su Mo yelled to Oreo, who was still playing in the snow in the distance. Returning to the driver's seat, Su Mo's spirit was refreshed!

From today onward, he no longer needed to use spears to deal with monsters, or use swords to fight!

The "steel torrent" belonging to mankind would finally begin to release its own "bloody" light on the wasteland!

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Chapter 153: Weapon Machine Restoration, Thermal Weapon Manufacturing

Under the golden sunlight, Earth Tiger slowly drove along and into the plains…

Looking at the Deep-sea Shelter buried in the dirt outside the car window, Su Mo shook his head regretfully and continued to drive forward.

After last night's light snow and the large drop in temperature, judging from the morning sun, today was another day full of "hope".

Although it was around seven o'clock in the morning, the temperature was rapidly picking up at an unusual rate.

At night, it was still ten degrees below zero. At six o'clock in the morning, the temperature reached ten degrees above zero again, and it was still increasing to fifteen or sixteen degrees at this moment.

In this kind of weather, the ice that did not freeze over yesterday would continue to melt together with the snow below.

The consequences of such frequent fluctuations were not clear to Su Mo, but he could hazard a guess.

"All shelters are currently working hard for the three-day supplies for this disaster, but in this situation…"

"I am afraid that even after a week post-disaster, it would not be easy for humans to go outdoors!"

As far as the naked eye could see, there were large swathes of icicles. In this kind of weather, not many could survive in the wasteland.

If human beings wanted to get supplies, they would be forced to find and fight the alien races in order to secure hope from the battle between races.

"The so-called survival game is to kill all competitors and survive to the end?"

While he could not really figure out the deep meaning behind the game, looking at the Underground Shelter's hill that appeared in the distance, Su Mo felt happy.

Every time he went out, there were gains, which is undoubtedly the best consolation for having taken that "risk".

Although it was as Oreo predicted, there were injuries all over his body, but compared to the development and upgrade of the shelter, this was nothing!

"One day, I will make the surrounding basin rich and make this a treasured land that all humans dream of!"

Looking at the barrenness of the basin and thinking about the fertile lands of the shelter in the west, Su Mo did not lose heart, but was full of energy.

Entering the password and pulling on the winch, Su Mo opened the garage gate of the Underground Shelter and parked Earth Tiger safely inside.

Glancing at the rising sun, Su Mo slowly wound down the winch and closed the gate, completely shutting out the light!

Rushing into the kobolds' castle In the middle of the night; how many survival points could be gained from that, Su Mo did not know. What he did know was that this core alone was worth it and would make him a lot of money!

Taking off his outer armor and combat uniform, Su Mo grinned and slowly took off his sweater, revealing the muscular body underneath.

From the neck down to the calf, there were big bruises every few centimeters, accompanied by a large number of smaller wounds that had stopped bleeding.

Looking down at his inner thighs, it had turned a thick purple-black color, which looked extremely permeating.

The injuries on the entirety of his body, the congestion, and the tearing of the fascia caused by the damage to the capillaries, surpassed the magical abilities of the psychic energy water, which had limited effect on his wounds at this time.

To recover, he could only rely on time to "heal" these terrible wounds.

"Give me some strength, system. I've been working so hard, if there are not enough survival points, how can I soothe my wounds!"

Su Mo fetched some psychic energy water and applied it to the wounds to accelerate the recovery of the injuries as he walked over to the lower floor while limping.

The small thermal weapon machine was temporarily placed on the third floor of the shelter, together with the workbench; one horizontally and the other vertically.

Su Mo tried to put the hard-won laser tool into the vacant groove on the top of the machine and found that it fit perfectly. Sitting on the bench, Su Mo quietly waited for the arrival of eight o'clock.

Every morning, there would be a baptism of system announcements, and today was no exception.

Time passed in minutes and seconds and, at eight o'clock, the system's prompt notification arrived as scheduled.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 18]

[Your shelter has been upgraded "again" and, at the same time, its safety has also been greatly improved (Survival points 100)]

[Your shelter plan is more complete than before, and its comfort level has been greatly improved (Survival points 50)]

[You found an abnormal scenario near the shelter and, after some hesitation, you chose to take the initiative (Survival points 30)]

[You effortlessly entered the core shelter of the hostile kobold race and obtained important information (Survival points 50)]

[You successfully killed dozens of kobolds, and your reputation has spread among the kobolds (Survival points 500)]

[You have attracted the hatred of 1625 kobolds at once, and their hatred level has reached the highest level (Survival points 500)]

[You perfectly escaped from the clutches of death and successfully survived on the apocalyptic wasteland (Survival points 100)]

[You received goodwill from the opposite sex (Survival points 10)]

[Milestone: Unpowered flight (without mechanical power, a single flight journey of over 5km) (Survival points 100)]

[Milestone: Quick kill (Achieve five kills in one second in a single instance where the number of enemies exceeds 30) (Survival points 50)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 308 survival points gained today.]

…

Total calculation: Survival points 1798

Survival points remaining: 2352

"Great! I knew that, since it was such a dangerous situation, the survival points reward would naturally be substantial as well."

Looking at the survival points given by the system, Su Mo was pleasantly surprised. Supporting his body with one hand on the table, he stood up and walked over to the thermal weapon machine.

He had more than two thousand survival points again and, so long as he splurged it on the shelter, it would continue developing rapidly.

However, his main focus now was undoubtedly…

The small thermal weapon machine!

Standing in front of the dilapidated, unrecognizable machine, Su Mo focused his thoughts and looked for the upgrade method.

[Small thermal weapon laser manufacturing machine (Extremely Damaged)]

[Description: A small thermal weapon laser manufacturing machine with a variety of functions such as cutting, casting, forging, welding, stamping, extrusion, laser forming, computer control, one-time molding, and quality assurance. Currently lacks a laser tool, central control computer, and has sustained significant damage to the circuit board.]

[Upgrade directions: Restoration (3380-2600), Upgrade (960), Efficiency (350), Material (1210)…]

The overall upgrade price was too high but, this time, the system was very considerate and did not give the overall upgrade method, but instead listed it separately.

Su Mo looked for whatever materials he still had in the warehouse and input all the items that could be added, and the reduction amount increased again, reaching 2900 points.

"I choose to restore it!"

When he saw that other items could no longer reduce the cost, Su Mo focused mentally and selected the restoration upgrade direction!

The shining green light once again scattered from his body, covering the large pool of objects at his feet and, at the same time, the laser tool was picked up and hovered in the air.

As the green light covered the iron surface of the broken machine, more and more rust fell off, merging into the green light, and increasing its momentum.

Gradually, the "true" face of the machine had finally begun to take shape under the restoration process!

The machine was not large, only about the size of two workbenches, and its entire structure was black-gray, exuding a cold light.

After being polished by the system, the parts were now shiny silver, as if they had come out of the factory brand new.

"It's done!"

Seeing the green light retract, Su Mo could no longer contain the excitement in his heart. After connecting the machine's circuit to the power socket, a small computer similar to the selection screen of the machine popped out.

Compared with the workbench, the small computer was better, and its functions also confirmed this.

"The central control computer is damaged. Even with the restoration of the system, the designs of the firearms made by Magoo cannot be retrieved. It is a pity."

Although Su Mo was mentally prepared for this before the restoration, when he saw the empty design section displayed on the small computer, he was still a little disappointed.

However, the disappointment was immediately wiped out after he automatically imported the design blueprints from the treasure chests.

As long as there was a weapon design blueprint, every series of the corresponding 5.56 bullet design blueprint specifications could be manufactured.

In other words, if the firearms required two different specifications, M193 and M855, as long as the weapon required it, and it had obtained the original design blueprint, it could be directly manufactured.

"Not bad. A single bullet design blueprint can solve all the subsequent adaptation problems. This is truly a praiseworthy function!"

Nodding his head, Su Mo looked at the manufacturing specifications of the M-1 rifle again.

During Earth's era, manufacturing a gun required a lot of technology. Unless one had access to the equipment in a military factory, it was difficult for ordinary people to buy a suitable "seamless" steel pipe.

Ordinary steel could not be used to make a gun barrel because it had to withstand the pressure generated by thousands of repeated gunpowder explosions. It would be subjected to the friction of the bullet and, at the same time, it had to withstand the ablation of the propellant. It was not something an ordinary steel pipe could withstand.

Therefore, it had to have a degree of hardness but, if it was too hard, the steel would be brittle and easily break. Therefore, in addition to hardness, there also had to be toughness, which is what we call yield strength.

On the thermal weapon laser manufacturing machine, the steps to manufacture guns had been greatly reduced. Only certain amounts of steel, iron, and copper could be used to produce ordinary quality guns which could guarantee at least thousands of stable shots.

On top of that, to improve the quality of firearms, one had to either choose to upgrade the level of the machine or invest in high-quality materials such as high-end engineering plastics.

After seeing that the Type-80 machine gun also needed these materials, Su Mo could only calm his restless heart.

"There is no iron or copper in the shelter, so it seems like I am stuck at a bottleneck. I must find a way to source those materials quickly, otherwise, I will end up having to trade a lot of materials for them, which is not cost-effective!"

After calculating in his mind, Su Mo quickly sorted out the current resource dilemma faced by the shelter.

The three most important basic resources in the wasteland: oil, iron, and copper.

At present, he had obtained one. As long as Su Mo got his hands on the next two, he could switch from bicycles to high-speed trains, and would no longer need to risk being controlled by others.

"Why don't I try to use all the duplication coupons on the resource card? All at once?"

As soon as this crazy idea appeared, Su Mo's heart jumped suddenly, looking at the cards floating in the storage space.

The next moment, all the cards that had been opened from the treasure chests all bounced out of the storage space and began to float in the air.

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Chapter 154: Five Consecutive Card Activations, A Splash Of Resources

"Previously, I copied a resource card with a duplication coupon. Now there are two remaining, and another one was drawn out of a wooden treasure chest, which brings the total to three!"

"The cards drawn were a random resource generation card, a designated resource modification card, and a resource recovery card, a total of three!"

Looking at the cards floating in front of him, he set aside the cards with known attributes and began to focus on two new types of cards.

[Designated resource modification card (Level 1: Modeling): Select a resource that has been detected in the resource panel and carry out the modification according to the specified direction.]

[Resource Recovery Card (Level 1): Select a resource that has been detected in the resource panel and restore it. The current ratio is 10%.]

"Huh? Modeling modification? What is that? Am I turning into a stylist?"

Su Mo specifically clicked on the modification card. After looking at the detailed attributes for a while, Su Mo finally understood how to use this "weird" card.

There were many types of modification cards, with some directly modifying resource attributes, such as transforming barren land into a fertile plain.

Or transforming a soil mountain into an iron mountain or a mountain of gold.

Of course, these modified resources must be first unlocked from the random resource card, and wild resource points were not included in the resource panel, so they could not be used.

"It's troublesome. I thought that the things that were drawn from the resource card were all good things. Looking at it this way, there are still risks.."

By looking at the modification card, Su Mo now had a certain understanding of the random resource card.

According to the modification card, the random resources that could be unlocked were not limited to useful resources.

For example, the first-level resource card created the geothermal resource node, which was one of the best resource nodes. The common first-level resources were mostly barren land or a small forest, and this kind of resource could straightaway be placed on the original land!

Of course, the more advanced cards would produce better things, and the lowest-level first-level cards had a higher chance of producing junk resources.

"What should I do? Should I gamble on this? I could get some of these urgently needed supplies…"

Sitting in front of the workbench, Su Mo was deep in thought, staring at the card floating in the air, he quickly judged the pros and cons of the card.

From the iron treasure chest, such a card could be drawn out. According to the previous result of geothermal resources, it was indeed a good thing.

However, now everything made sense!

Cards were not so precious. On the contrary, when there were a large number of luxurious supplies near the shelter, it would be terrible if those were transformed into rubbish because of the cards.

Random generation…

Random modification…

"What am I afraid of! The area around my basin is poor and white anyway. There are no mountains, no water, and the land is so barren. Isn't it better if I just take a chance on it?"

After he slapped the table and thought through the risks and benefits, Su Mo did not hesitate any longer and immediately chose to maximize the number of cards.

Three of the duplication coupons flashed and automatically approached each other, and the random duplication coupons gradually disappeared and transformed into a set of new cards.

In addition to the original cards, there were now a total of five random resource generation cards!

Five cards lined up in the air and were fished out in one hand. Picking up all the cards, Su Mo clicked on the five "create" options simultaneously.

If ten consecutive draws from the treasure chests could unlock good things, Su Mo took a gamble by activating all five cards at once!

The resource panel automatically popped up, and the cards were like meteors, breaking straight into the topographic map before disappearing.

Holding anxiously onto the table beside him, Su Mo waited quietly.

The same loud noise as last time echoed in the shelter's surroundings. This time, it was going to be even more terrifying and violent!

After the remodeling of the shelter, this was the first time they had experienced the tremors, like a magnitude of a level six or seven earthquake that reshaped the ground.

Even if there was no way to observe the surroundings outside, feeling the vibrations and tremors, Su Mo could imagine the spectacular scene that was no doubt happening outside.

It was as if a god was angry. After five minutes, the surface was still squeezing and being reconstructed.

The loud noise and harsh friction affected the output of the electric lights in the Underground Shelter, causing the electrical supply to become extremely unstable.

Su Mo firmly grasped the workbench to prevent himself from being caught off balance. He breathed heavily, calming the fear of the unknown in his heart.

"Since there is a strong magnetic force outside, maybe something good is being randomly generated!"

Seeing the lights flickering on and off above his head, Su Mo became excited at the thought of the possible reasons behind the strong magnetism.

Reaching out to turn off the light, Su Mo quietly waited for the end of the transformation in the dark.

The five cards were released together, and the movements they brought about were extremely terrifying. It was possible to feel the tremors from dozens of kilometers away.

Regarding any enemies that might be attracted, Su Mo had no fear.

This was also one of the biggest benefits he possessed after cleaning up the area around the shelter.

In this basin, Su Mo was the man standing at the top of the food chain. If the others dared to come in, they would have to pay an unbearable price!

While waiting quietly, he felt the movements of the surface gradually decrease. After four or five minutes, all the dust settled.

The resource panel opened on its own. This time, Su Mo saw five extra small dots on it, which were very obvious compared to the previous time.

"After the shelter was upgraded to Level 2, the resource generation range doubled again, increasing directly to fifteen kilometers. It's good to have it this way, as it would avoid all the resources crowding together."

After observing the topographical map, Su Mo began to check the attributes of the newly-appeared resources one by one, starting from the first grey dot.

[Land Resource (Black Soil Land) – Level 1]

[Resource Status: Complete, undeveloped, in an exuberant state]

[Mining value: One star (Maximum: One star)]

[Special Ability: None]

[Mining difficulty: Very low]

[Remaining reserves: 3000 cubic meters/5m]

"Black soil land? Not bad, 3,000 cubic meters is about five acres in size! The 5m stated should refer to the thickness of the soil."

Black soil is a unique treasure given to mankind by nature. It is a kind of soil with excellent properties and high fertility value. It was very suitable for plant growth, and the most fertile soil on Earth.

Compared to the geothermal resources that could not be developed, for the time being, such resources were much more reliable. As long as the snow season passed, he could try to study how to grow plants here, and the soil's fertility meant that it could quickly be transformed into a productive asset.

It was a pity that this spot was about four kilometers away from the shelter, and was not convenient to take care of currently.

With the good luck of the first round in hand, Su Mo looked forward to the next four even more, so he simply clicked to view them together.

[Mineral Resource (Iron Ore Mine) – Level 1]

[Tree Resource (Larch) – Level 1]

[Water Resource (Lake) – Level 1]

[Food Resource (Carp) – Level 1]

"Damn… is this for real?"

Seeing the prompts pop up, Su Mo was stunned as he sat on the workbench.

A person's luck would not be good forever, nor would it be bad forever.

Before activating the cards this time, Su Mo thought that he would at least receive some junk resources. He even mentally prepared himself for the worst-case scenario where all five of them were junk resources.

However, when the good luck that he desired came calling, looking at the messages on the screen in front of him, Su Mo was still surprised!

"I received an iron ore mine!!!"

Thinking of the strong magnetism just now and connecting it to the iron ore resource node that had been generated now, Su Mo could not hold back his excitement anymore and rushed directly out.

This iron mine was not far from the location of the shelter, located just two kilometers north.

Su Mo wanted to see, wanted to witness this miracle called "creation", with his own two eyes.

Putting on the combat uniform, Su Mo's two steps turned into three steps as he opened the garage gate of the shelter. Then he walked along the mountain.

In the distance, toward the north, a small hill that had never existed before appeared before his eyes, emitting an indescribable metallic light.

This was a mine made of pure iron!

[Mineral Resources (Iron Ore Mine) – Level 1]

[Mineral State: Complete, no mining commenced yet, in an exuberant state]

[Mining value: Two stars (Maximum: Two stars)]

[Special Ability – Hard State: The purity of resources produced from the mineral vein has been improved to a certain extent]

[Mining difficulty: Low-High]

[Remaining reserves: 3 million tons]

"A full three million tons of iron ore. That is to say, even if there I don't have any advanced mining equipment, I won't have to worry about the lack of iron ore and, because of its improved purity, it may even save me some effort during the refining process!"

Looking at the prompts on the game panel excitedly, Su Mo returned to the basement and drove Earth Tiger to the bottom of the mine.

This was a fresh iron ore mine. Su Mo was not clear on how much equipment could be built with so much ore, but at least the shelter had taken a huge step toward a better structure, other than just stone.

Su Mo was already familiar with the terrain near the Underground Shelter, but when Earth Tiger arrived at this huge mineral vein, a feeling of shock still overwhelmed Su Mo's heart.

Large tracts of iron ore, like stone bumps, were distributed on the ground.

Besides that, from the process of creation and ground reshaping, there were already dozens of visible broken ore pieces scattered across the ground.

He tried to pick up a piece and summoned the game panel. Sure enough, a new attribute appeared.

[Iron Ore (Good)]

[Description: Higher purity compared to ordinary iron ore. When creating equipment, it can improve the success rate and quality of items.]

"No wonder it was listed in the resource panel as a low to high mining difficulty range. It turns out that most of the iron ores are buried underground!"

After observing the topographical map, Su Mo had a smile etched on the corners of his mouth.

Subsequently, a card appeared in Su Mo's hand.

It was the first-level resource modification card that could change the shape of the resource!

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Chapter 155: Recovery, Harvesting Carp

The distribution of the iron ore mine was akin to the stars scattered in the sky, very much embodying the saying: "One piece here, one piece there".

There were many such scattered-distribution mineral mines in Huaxia on Earth, and most of them had been discovered and marked, but not developed.

There was no other reason behind this; it was precisely because such mineral mines were difficult to develop and mine that any investment and profits generated would not be directly proportional to the effort spent.

Looking at the resource modeling modification card in front of him though, a kind of implicit understanding connected these unrelated things.

"It seems that the game's items aren't useless at all. So long as I find the correct method and direction of its use, maybe…"

"A magical change can be born."

Su Mo drove Earth Tiger out a hundred meters away before opening the resource panel and gently input the modification card, and a new way of using resources revealed itself.

There was a sudden blackout and, when Su Mo reopened his eyes, he seemed to have arrived at an empty void of darkness.

The entire space was empty; there was only one table. A small pile of black materials and a large clump of gray materials had been placed on the table.

Su Mo reached out and kneaded them; the feeling of touching the two substances felt a bit like plasticine.

At the same time, the substances corresponded exactly to the distribution of iron ore under the surface.

The gray ones were stones, and the black ones were iron ore.

"If I want to mine them, it must all be above the ground. Should I just maintain the distribution and move all of them above the ground?"

Su Mo tried to manipulate the substances for a while, and found that the game did not allow all the ores to be simply scattered above the ground, he could only pinch out an iron hill according to his previous assumptions.

When it came to the plasticine that he liked to play with in childhood, it did not take much effort for Su Mo to mold it into a hill. After a few minutes, the basic shape of the mine was easily completed.

Next, Su Mo began to refine the mine again.

Along the mine's structure, he used his nails to carve out a spiral indentation that coiled upwards, leading to the top of the platform on the hill.

This way, he could mine directly from top to bottom, and he could also build a base here. If there was a flood-like disaster-like, he could straightaway head to the hill, which would be extremely convenient.

"Unfortunately…I can't modify it anymore. Otherwise, I would want to make a triangular hill out…"

Seeing that his plan fell through, the plasticine in front of him blurred and, after the terrain was automatically generated, Su Mo had no choice but to give up the idea of sculpting.

To dig out all the broken ores and merge them to create a channel up the hill was already the limit of the first-level resource card.

After repeatedly confirming that the game panel would automatically process the terrain a second time, Su Mo tapped the "confirm" button.

His view went dark again and he returned to Earth Tiger.

Before Su Mo could contemplate why the transformation had yet to start, the mine had quietly spawned.

"Wow…this technology is awesome!"

Getting out of the car and looking at the forty-meter-high mine, Su Mo was impressed and amazed.

Although the total mass of the mine was as much as three million tons, it was still not worth mentioning in front of a giant structure like this hill.

A hill of a hundred meters, even if they were stones, a million tons of them could easily be moved.

Observing the creation of a forty-meter-high hill of ore, Su Mo was extremely satisfied.

He stepped onto the hill passage he created. It felt different to step on the hard rock under his feet.

Especially when he climbed further up and his field of vision continued getting wider and wider; this feeling became even stronger!

Su Mo kept walking up until he came to the top platform on the hill. Looking down from here, he could already feel the charm of the entire surrounding basin.

The thick fog in the distance had not dissipated yet and, under the scattered rays of sunlight, it looked extremely mysterious.

As for the hill of the Underground Shelter, it looked much more pleasing from this height.

"Now there is finally a hill for the basin. Now only water is left…"

"Hey, it seems like a lake is appearing!"

Su Mo had been surprised by the iron ore mine, so he had not had time to check the information about the lake and carp.

Standing on the high platform at this moment, he tapped on the resource panel and began to examine it carefully.

[Water Resource (Lake) – Level 1]

[Resource Status: Complete, no collection commenced yet, in an exuberant state]

[Mining value: One star (Maximum: One star)]

[Mining difficulty: None]

[Remaining reserves: 40 mu]

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[Food Resource (Carp) – Level 1]

[Resource Status: Complete, no fishing commenced yet, in an exuberant state]

[Mining value: One and a half stars (Maximum: One and a half stars)]

[Mining difficulty: Low]

[Remaining Reserves: 500 (Adult population: The number of males and females is divided equally)]

"500 carps, not bad, not bad at all. Doesn't matter if the carp tastes bad, or if there are many bones, but they are living things after all!"

If he calculated that each fish weight about a catty and a half, it meant that there were 750 catties of carp in the lake waiting for Su Mo to catch.

Before he went out, the area around the shelter had still been barren.

In such a short time, the mine had risen from the ground, the black soil land had covered the ground, and even the lake and carps had appeared.

Su Mo walked down the mine and drove Earth Tiger over to the lake.

This lake was not too close to the shelter; being twelve kilometers away.

The large lake covered an area of 40 mu, and the water was extremely clear; he could even see a few carps swimming leisurely through the water.

Also, the lake generated by the game panel was not simple.

In the process of formation, the corresponding environment and microorganisms were produced in the lake at the same time. There were large groups of algae floating on the surface of the water, creating a viable ecosystem for the carps to thrive.

"It's a pity though. It would be nice if this lake was near the Underground Shelter. Then I would be surrounded by mountains and rivers!"

Even though his mouth seemed to utter complaints, Su Mo's eyes and attention were completely focused on the three carps by the water.

The breeding period of carps was in spring. The current situation was not suitable for carp breeding.

Therefore, in Su Mo's plan, at least two to three hundred carps must be caught and sold in exchange for more abundant resources.

As for the remaining carps, they could only depend on their fate to survive this winter disaster to live another day.

If they could not survive, when the weather improved for the better in the future, Su Mo planned to think of a way to buy and try to breed them.

"It doesn't matter if there is no fishing tool, hehe!"

With a big laugh, regardless of the pain racking his body, Su Mo jumped directly into the water and grabbed two big carps that had not had time to react.

The carps that had just been released were very energetic, even if they were caught by Su Mo's immense strength, they still wriggled frantically, trying to escape.

Facing the ground, Su Mo then threw the carps onto dry land. With both hands supporting his body on the water's edge, he climbed out.

"The fate of the two carps has been decided; stewed carp soup and braised carp!"

Thinking of the graceful taste of fish soup, Su Mo almost drooled. He punched each carp in the head and threw them onto the front seat of Earth Tiger.

At this moment, the trip back to the shelter seemed extremely long.

Although he had just finished eating instant noodles along the way, the spirit of gluttony in his stomach had yet to be satiated, and his stomach was protesting.

After Su Mo parked Earth Tiger inside, grabbed the two carps, and quickly returned to the second floor. He kept one of them in the freezer and took the other to the kitchen. Su Mo then directly began to prepare the carp.

Since he was injured, this carp soup would naturally be a great tonic but, unlike crucian carp soup, stewed carp soup took a lot of thought to cook.

After the regular innards and guts were removed, a little vegetable oil was poured out. Su Mo started to fry the chopped fish segments until they were golden on both sides and set them aside.

He then went to the crop culture room and removed two garlic sprouts with his aching muscles. Su Mo poured a pot of psychic energy water into the pot, and waited until the water temperature rose. Then he threw fish segments into the pot.

Fish soup emphasizes freshness!

With the addition of psychic energy water, Su Mo did not have to add any other condiments except for some garlic sprouts to increase the fragrance.

As time passed by, the tantalizing scent gradually began to waft along the edges of the pot, instantly attracting Oreo, Big Spark, and Little Spark.

"My goodness, your noses are sharp! However, when it comes to fish, Oreo can't eat too much!"

Without minding Oreo's pitiful expression, Su Mo looked at the already milky white fish soup. After adding a bit of salt to taste, Su Mo quickly took it out.

With just a sniff, the alluring fragrance would make one faint.

Milky white, rich, sweet, and delicious. After dividing up the portions for the little ones, Su Mo simply sat beside the pot and gobbled up the remaining fish soup.

The browned, deep-fried, and delicious fish meat was very tender inside. The mellow taste and sweetness of the psychic energy water penetrated its flesh, causing it to melt in the mouth. The fragrance made one want to bite their tongue.

The most important thing was that, with the catalyzing effect of the psychic energy water, both the large bones in the middle and the small bones inside the fish flesh had integrated with the fish flesh and turned extremely soft. He could eat the entire fish.

Halfway through the meal, after feeling that the temperature of the soup had cooled, Su Mo simply lifted the pot directly and began to drink the soup with his mouth plastered to the edge of the pot.

Gurgle, gurgle.

The stomach of the strengthened human was like a bottomless pit. Without any seasoning added to enhance the flavor, the mellow taste of the fish soup was even more evident. In one breath, Su Mo directly drank all of the remaining fish soup.

"Phew… such a filling fish soup. It's so satisfying!"

Sitting on the ground, and disregarding his image, Su Mo looked at Big Spark, Little Spark, and Oreo's satisfied expressions, and a burst of sleepiness gradually crept up on him.

He had gone out for a life-and-death struggle at two or three in the morning, and the entire trip was nerve-racking and fraught with danger. After eating and drinking, he suddenly felt the protests of pain coming from his body.

Su Mo simply dropped the uncleaned pot and stove and went straight back to his small bed to lie down.

Injured muscles and bones mend in a hundred days. Despite the effect of the psychic energy water, the pain from the violent tearing of the tendons and muscle tissues still made Su Mo sleep extremely poorly.

He slept in a daze until his whole body finally became comfortable. When he opened his eyes, it was already seven o'clock in the evening.

This time, he slept for nearly twelve hours. It was also the first time Su Mo had rested for so long in the daytime after he came to the wasteland.

Shaking his sleepy head, Su Mo sat up and drank a large gulp of psychic energy water to refresh his body. Feeling that the pain of his body had worsened compared to earlier, he could only rest on the bedside helplessly.

"Soon, the secret trading realm will be opened, and the airdrops will be launched. There are still 730 people on the Regional Channel. I must seize this opportunity to make some good deals!"

"Before this, the only valuable thing in the shelter I could trade was food. Now it seems that I can make some more tools to sell!"

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Chapter 156: 第一百五十六章 清点物资，制作工具

With the blizzard disaster approaching, and the abundance of water resources in the current environment and weather, the most valuable resources aside from unique items would be food and supplies!

Su Mo did not know whether the game would regroup the 1000 people in the regional channel before the transaction. However, as the date approached, more and more people in the regional channel were boasting that they were in possession of good things and were in urgent need of a transaction.

Billions of people had been simultaneously transported into the doomsday world. Given this large population, as long as certain large shelters' owners were in Su Mo's regional channel, that would mean that those shelters were also within his vicinity.

There was a high probability of these shelteStocktaking, Making Toolsrs, or the people in them, having good things!

"While these 300 carps can be traded, they don't have a lot of meat on their bones. Still, they can be turned into hot fish soup with a little water, so it should be okay to trade them for something similarly priced."

"Adding my previous stash of 120kg of flour with the 450kg I gained from opening the treasure chests, I now have 570kg of flour in total."

"In the case of rice, I don't have too much stored up and, even if I trade rice, it isn't as filling as high-gluten flour and cannot be sold at a high price. So I'll just save it for my own consumption!"

After counting the food and supplies, Su Mo decided to take out 300kg of flour to make a flatbread to trade. With a little labor, he could earn some profit on top of the original value of the flour.

As for the carps, he would make a fishing net tomorrow, find a way to get them out, and store them away in the storage space of Earth Tiger.

After running some calculations, Su Mo felt that if he did not add on other trading items, the things that he could exchange for would be very limited.

"I'm currently injured, so I can't risk going out to explore. Fortunately, the resource card has created the iron hill, so I can mine some iron ore to make tools and sell them!"

"At the same time, I can also practice forging and increase my skill level."

Even though he could not go out, Su Mo remained very optimistic.

After he got rid of the surrounding enemies, there were no immediate threats in his vicinity. It was probably the first time since he arrived at the wasteland that he could so freely relax and enjoy life.

It was late at night and, after sleeping for the entire day, he felt pain all over his body and didn't have much of an appetite. After making a simple gnocchi soup, Su Mo began to deal with the iron ores he had picked up during the day.

The remaining wood reserves in the shelter were already very scarce. After counting, he only had three units of wood left.

Fortunately though, the wood resource that was generated earlier that day contained hundreds of trees. Although its location was nine kilometers away from the shelter, this did not pose much of a problem given Earth Tiger's transportation ability and storage space.

Going back to the energy distribution room, Su Mo filled the generator with oil, and turned on the power supply. He returned to the workbench and began to concentrate on processing materials.

The advantage of the robotic arm was that, even if he was injured, it could ensure that Su Mo's movements and operations remained within an accurate and stable range.

"If it is processed by the system, I only need to put in the iron ore and the system will complete it. If I process it myself, I'll have to personally extract it, which is a lot of trouble."

Regarding the extraction process, Su Mo was completely devoted. He used the LCD TV's function to constantly observe and correct the errors in his processing.

By the time Su Mo processed all the broken ore he had picked up during the day, it was already two o'clock in the morning.

After cleaning himself, Su Mo fell asleep again while staring at the smooth stone ceiling; his shoulders and arms feeling slightly stiff from the long hours of work.

If he did not need to step foot outside into the apocalyptic world, life remained simple and unpretentious.

A long sleep ensured sufficient energy. After lying down this time, Su Mo had another "long" and "extensive" dream.

The brain would adjust according to the person's mental state. If one lived precariously every day, or if one was overly tired, lying down would often result in a dead sleep. Only when one opened their eyes would they be "grateful" that they were still alive.

Dreaming was a form of extravagance in the apocalyptic world and, of course, it was also something that only strong players could enjoy.

"You can have hearty dreams." That would probably be the slogan of a powerful shelter in the future, and also the environment that everyone dreamt of.

"Infantry vehicles…tanks…aircraft carriers…bombers."

Whispering amidst his dream, Su Mo imagined that he had arrived at a large warehouse full of military equipment.

From left to right, various powerful technological weapons were on display. As if playing a game, Su Mo himself could climb up the fighter plane and pilot it into the sky.

Although the experience was not so friendly when landing, that part of his imagination was automatically filtered out during his sleep.

As for the world outside… countless shelters were taking advantage of these last two days to make their final efforts.

Some shelters instigated the people below them to carry out their final pre-war mobilization against the other mythical races nearby their shelters, looking to fight a deadly battle.

Some shelters were studying how to use infrastructure or other equipment to survive this winter safely, and also how to use the advantages of the surrounding terrain to achieve the best temperature conditions.

Of course, most shelters were still single-person shelters.

These large and small wooden houses were distributed all around the wasteland, and inside lived human beings trembling in the wind and cold.

The cold winter cut off all possibilities for travel and they missed the chance to rally together for warmth a week before the blizzard. They would have to survive through the next disaster alone.

Fortunately, the morning's warmth came on time. As soon as six o'clock arrived, the temperature began to rapidly rise to ten degrees above zero, making it feel like spring had returned.

"Woof! Woof!"

Oreo rushed over early in the morning and began to jump around the shelter, restless.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Su Mo woke up leisurely and looked at the hyperactive Oreo with a touch of relief on his face.

"A lot of people probably keep pets for this therapeutic reason~"

He touched the bruise on his chest and, finding that the injuries all over his body were recovering quickly, Su Mo was extremely surprised.

After a day of restraint and rest, the blood-purple bruise from yesterday had faded into deep purple. Although it still looked terrifying, it was at least much better than before.

As for some of the smaller wounds, pale pink scars had formed.

"At this rate of recovery, my injuries won't hinder my movements at all in another three to five days!"

Su Mo slowly got up and felt that the pain from the tear on his inner thigh had been alleviated significantly. Su Mo stood up peacefully and began to cook the other carp.

Compared to the clear stewed carp soup, the braised carp didn't taste too bad either, especially when served with rice. Su Mo's appetite was aroused, and half of the carp was consumed in no time.

Fresh fish contained high amounts of protein. Su Mo was not sure if it was a psychological effect, but even the injury seemed to have recovered somewhat after eating.

"Oreo, let's go out to chop some wood!"

Su Mo called out to Oreo, who was still munching on fish with Big Spark and Little Spark. He quickly put on his combat uniform.

Now that there was a steady stream of diesel oil produced daily by the motor-pumped oil well, the consumption of the generators and Earth Tiger was completely within an acceptable range.

Su Mo poured in some diesel to fill up Earth Tiger's fuel tank.

Winding the winch to open the garage gate, Su Mo looked at the good weather outside and stretched his body in satisfaction.

No matter what would happen in the future, this kind of weather always made people happy.

Su Mo got into Earth Tiger and closed the garage gate behind him. Stepping on the accelerator and adjusting his direction, Earth Tiger rushed out with a roar.

Larch is a kind of tree from the Pinaceae family. They can reach heights of up to 35 meters, though they normally average between 15-25 in height, and are considered to be medium-large trees.

Their wood is heavy and solid, with high compression and bending strength, and is resistant to decay. It is an excellent material for electric poles, bridges, support pillars, buildings, and others.

At the same time, tannins could be extracted from its bark and resin from its trunk. It is the perfect hardy tree.

Despite his mental preparations, Su Mo was shocked when he saw the dense forest in the distance.

The tall, dense forest contrasted heavily with its surroundings, seeming amazingly out of place.

Su Mo stopped the car and, estimating the height of the forest with his eyes, he found that the shortest larch was over ten meters high, and the tallest was over twenty meters high.

A single tree could generate hundreds of units of wood, let alone this dense forest.

"I thought this was the most useless of the resources generated, but I didn't expect it to be even more practical than the black earth soil…"

Before arriving at the larch forest just now, he had passed by the black soil land along the way and had inspected it.

However, the result was unfortunate. Although the black soil was fertile, as far as the current ecological environment was concerned, there were no fast-growing plants. If he was unlucky during the next disaster, it was very likely that there would be no harvest.

On the contrary, this larch forest offered him immediate and direct benefits.

He drove Earth Tiger to a safe location. After instructing Oreo to stand guard, he took out his axe, and simply began cutting down the trees.

The wood of larch had a hardness rating that surpassed the special ability of the axe, so he could not trigger the ability.

Even so, with the help of the sharp iron axe, and psychic energy water to restore strength, Su Mo succeeded in cutting down the four of the outermost larch trees in less than three hours.

As for the work of dividing the trees into block units, Su Mo waved his hand and assigned it to the game panel straightaway.

Four larches would result in a total of 300 units of wood, and would cost 15 points as a handling fee.

"I have wood and iron blocks now, so the next step is to make a lot of tools and wait for the secret trading realm to open to exchange these tools for resources!"

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Chapter 157: Crazy Production, The Arrival Of The Penultimate Day

Three hundred units of wood, relying on the transportation ability and storage capacity of Earth Tiger and storage space, took four trips to transport.

Most of the wood was stacked up in the garage space by Su Mo, which immediately "filled up" the room.

At the same time, a system prompt appeared while Su Mo idled.

"Well, I rested for a day yesterday and didn't do anything. Only 301 points were added, bringing my new total up to 1873 points."

Su Mo took a mental note of the survival points he had, but temporarily did not have anything that required spending.

After undergoing the experience of raiding the kobold castle, he knew it was necessary to keep some survival points on hand for emergency usage!

The current development of the shelter had also reached a plateau.

Whether it was to develop the science and technology tree or to promote the development of the base, the biggest bottleneck could not be avoided—material reserves!

If there was no corresponding materials or underlying technology, it was completely impossible to develop things like artificial intelligence and nuclear reactors.

At the very least, there had to be an automated control system for the shelter's defenses, and at least a computer to manage it.

Though, to create a computer… after looking at the price stated in the system, Su Mo dispelled this dangerous idea again.

The technology in a computer was not too magnificent or complex; parts such as processor chips, graphics cards, hard drives, these were all cheap and readily available on Earth where the production line was fully established. A high-spec computer could have been built for only a few thousand yuan.

However, without the basic underlying technology, if he wanted to make a computer using only the creation function, more than 100,000 survival points were required!

"It seems that the difficulty and cost of using the creation function are not without reason; there is still a certain basis behind it."

"There is a high probability that it depends on my current level of technology and living standards. If I can develop a computer manufacturing assembly line, the price would probably drop!"

Sitting down to rest and compose himself, Su Mo picked up the three basic subject-matter books that he had obtained and looked through them.

Compared with textbooks from university, the books from the game panel were extremely thick. The book on architecture alone had 800 pages.

The book covered basic to entry-level knowledge. After reading it for a while, Su Mo suddenly felt dizzy.

"Recruiting technical talents would probably be the way to go. Otherwise, if I rely solely on my own learning capabilities, I am afraid that it would take a few lifetimes to master this basic knowledge."

Putting down the book, Su Mo suddenly understood himself clearly!

The direction of a leader!

Technical posts could be left vacant first. Once he met people with the corresponding talents, he could directly recruit them and provide them with food and shelter. This would be far more productive than him trying to learn the subject himself.

"Oh, and once again, population is the primary driver of development. I don't know how the protagonists in those novels can live alone so capably in the apocalyptic world. What kind of technology can be used without the proper expertise?"

Thinking about how those protagonists could easily create nano armor with their bare hands, and miraculously research genetic technology alone, Su Mo felt helpless when he looked at the wood chips that were still scattered in front of him.

"You have super technology, and I have a workbench. I'll show you what miracles could be produced through hard work!"

After cutting ten units of wood, Su Mo returned to the workbench and began to study the production methods of making tools quickly while maintaining quality.

The production of an iron axe was not subject to raw materials alone, but also included some miscellaneous factors.

At his current speed, it would take about 8-10 minutes to make a simple iron axe.

At the same time, a longer duration also represented heightened energy consumption and labor costs.

"At present, everyone has to face the first wave of the blizzard disaster. Therefore, the sales of stone spears and stone shovels would not be very good. A stone axe that can cut wood quickly and a stone pickaxe for ore mining should be received well."

After determining the types of items to be made and the production methods, Su Mo began to practice producing them in batches.

What is a sense of accomplishment?

Perhaps it was the reduction of the production time of iron axes; that broke through from eight minutes to seven minutes, then to six minutes, and began to enter the five-minute mark.

Perhaps it was the improvement in quality, with excellent-quality iron axes occasionally emerging among good-quality iron axes as he got better at the crafting process.

Most likely of all, it was watching more and more tools pile up in the corner, like a hamster accumulating food; the pleasure of a good harvest.

Su Mo was immersed in producing the tools. Compared with the lengthy time it took to explore the outdoors, time in the shelter seemed to pass at a faster pace.

He had been working from nine o'clock in the morning and, except for a brief respite in the middle, he had worked without stopping until six o'clock in the evening. It was then his stomach grumbled in protests, and he stopped working.

Nine full hours, excluding the one hour of rest in the middle. In almost eight hours, Su Mo produced a total of:

50 iron axes and 32 iron pickaxes!

Among them were 9 excellent-quality iron axes and 3 excellent-quality iron pickaxes.

"My production speed is getting faster and faster. There is one more day left. I hope that tomorrow I can make more tools, then I will be able to exchange them for more resources."

Feeling the stiffness and pain on his neck, Su Mo stood up and moved around quickly.

Boring production and crazy farming; these processes could be described as "painful but happy".

The secret trading realm would open once before each disaster and, as time passed and everyone had built a workbench, it would be difficult to make a huge profit from selling tools.

Su Mo hastily made some dinner and, before going to bed, relying on his current high work efficiency, made another 30 iron axes.

This time, even when he went back to bed and laid down, the pain in his whole body was like an indicator, warning him that his body had reached its limit.

After a day of intensive work, by the time Su Mo opened his eyes again, it was already nine o'clock the next day.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 20]

…

Total calculation: Survival points 322

Survival points remaining: 2195

"My survival points have finally returned to the 2000 mark, but time is getting tighter! Tomorrow…is the last day before the disaster strikes!"

The air on the third floor was regularly circulated by the lion clan's wind ability, maintaining its refreshing feel.

Sitting on the bed, Su Mo felt a burst of tension even though he was fully prepared and confident about weathering the blizzard.

After the disaster struck this time, when the next new players arrived, it would probably be his sister's turn.

Su Mo looked forward to it but, at the same time, was worried that he was not strong enough to protect his family.

As usual, before getting up, Su Mo opened the World Channel and began to check everyone's last "hurrah" before the disaster.

The azure blue panel popped up automatically, densely lined with countless words.

"The penultimate day. Brothers, is everything ready? It's already raining here… Sh*t!"

"The rain here has become very heavy. It's horrible."

"Huh? Is that so? It's still sunny here. I'm wondering if I should go out today to chop up some wood!"

"There is too little food. We have killed all the mutant creatures within 50 kilometers of the shelter and everyone still can't get enough to eat."

"If you don't have enough to eat, then go fight monsters. There are so many mythical races that, as long as you destroy a stronghold, you'll be able to spend this winter happily."

"Do you think everyone can go and fight? The Flying Tiger Shelter called up three nearby shelters to fight the taurens together, but what was the result? One hundred and fifty taurens won with their small numbers, and the humans of two of the shelters were all wiped out. The heads and bodies of the people from Flying Tiger Shelter are still hanging in front of the door of the other party."

"The main thing is that these idiots gave their heads to the taurens. Now they have 600 clan members. Who can beat them?"

"That's it? That's it? I just love it when a warrior kills a tauren with just an attack!"

"The fighting power of the Huaxia people is weak. With so many burdens, a team of 1,000 people rebelled after 50 people died. How would you be able to beat others with this kind of fighting spirit?"

"The one above, shut up! If you were in their shoes you wouldn't say this. Weren't there two hundred bandits in the team? Didn't they also run away?"

Seeing that the World Channel was quarreling again because of this issue, Su Mo could only quit the World Channel with a headache.

"The Flying Tiger Shelter was wiped out by the taurens!"

He remembered seeing this shelter recruiting members to conquer the mythical race of taurens on the World Channel a few days ago, Su Mo thought that this shelter might be able to succeed. He did not expect that they would be eliminated so easily.

"Fortunately, although the kobolds are also a mythical race, compared to the taurens, they are not as powerful as a single unit. This is a blessing in misfortune."

After a pause, Su Mo turned on the regional channel and browsed.

Compared to the World Channel, it was much more harmonious here, and more and more people were chatting on the channel during the last two days before the disaster.

[Sun Xian: It's broken, the construction of the Kang bed-stove has completely failed. The masters on the World Channel are all liars. Don't follow the tutorial they provided!]

[Liang Jian: Weren't you very happy yesterday? All prepared to build a Kang bed-stove, and it failed in only a day?]

[Na Wenxing: Hehe, stop quarreling you two. Tomorrow is a good day, so shouldn't we celebrate today?]

[Cai Junfeng: Wenxing, you are not being genuine. We are lone wolves who hunt for supplies alone, while your entire shelter's hope is in your hands. Just wait for us big brothers to beat you up tomorrow!]

[Emma Devon: Isn't it prohibited to fight in the shelter?]

[Zhao Zhiyong: How can matters between men be described as "fighting"? How vulgar!]

As he entered the channel, he saw that the atmosphere of the regional channel had become strange. Su Mo hurriedly coughed and began to type out a message in the chatbox.

Since everyone was ready for tomorrow's trading, Su Mo naturally had to create a notice to attract more good things to exchange.

[Su Mo: Ahem, for tomorrow's material exchange, I currently sell the following: fresh carp, good or even excellent quality tools, and hearty anti-hunger pancakes. I welcome all friends with rare materials in hand to come in for an exchange. Especially technology-oriented materials, no visitors will be refused.]

After sending this message and watching the regional channel that started to heat up again, Su Mo turned off the regional channel and got up slowly with a free and easy laugh.

"The world's number one… I hope the airdrop tomorrow will give me some surprises!"

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Chapter 158: Condition Restored, Fishing And Pancakes

After a day of rest, his body recovered significantly and took a big step toward regaining normalcy.

In the absence of modern medical equipment and medication, Su Mo was very satisfied with his recovery speed.

The laundry he washed and hung yesterday had become dried off, gently shaking as the wind in the shelter circulated.

Changing into a set of fresh clothes, Su Mo could not help but feel better.

"It seems that I was born to work hard. I thought I could recuperate in the shelter, but I didn't expect myself to end up so busy!"

Outside the basin, there was no torrential rain like in other places, and there was no scorching sun either.

The rain was lightly falling, like an illusory fog, and the temperature remained within a very comfortable range.

Just like boiling a frog in warm water, as the disaster approached, this kind of daily temperature in the day was more suited to human survival and habitation, which in turn gave many people a blind optimism toward the impending disaster.

Opening the garage gate to release the accumulated scent of fresh wood, he returned inside the shelter. After having breakfast, Su Mo began to prepare his fishing tools.

Although the small lake was not very large, it was still 40 mu large and five meters deep, and occupied a substantial area.

The carps in the lake were sparsely distributed, so the efficiency of regular fishing or entering the lake to catch fish would be too low, and would not be cost effective.

After considering a few options, Su Mo still ended up deciding to produce a fishing net.

Fishing nets were divided into gill nets, trawling nets (trawl nets), purse nets, dip nets, and cast nets.

The net threads had to have good impact resistance, wear resistance, mesh size stability and flexibility, and appropriate tensile strength.

Naturally, this kind of material was not available in the shelter, so he had to rely on the system for the material conversion.

Sitting in front of the workbench and taking out the plant fibers, Su Mo began to use the knotting method to weave it seriously. Although this method had problems, such as loose nodules and uneven mesh structure, it was indeed the best solution he had at present.

It took half an hour to complete the preliminary work of crafting the fishing net.

Compared with other things that were not recognized by the system, the speed at which the system recognized the fishing net could be considered fast. At the same time, this change indicated the strong manual dexterity of Su Mo.

[Knotted fishing net (Semi-finished product)]

[Description: Fishing net crafted by the entry-level craftsman "Su Mo" from plant fibers. Can only be worn and cannot be used.]

[First upgrade direction: Change the material. Upgrades the net to synthetic fiber material, improving the flexibility of the fishing net to a certain extent, and at the same time increasing the harvest and the probability of catching fish. Survival points required (125)]

[Second upgrade direction: Change the material. Upgrades the net to high-grade nylon and installs an electric device that automatically attracts fish into the net. Survival points required (280)]

[Comment: Wear it, and there is a certain probability of attracting the attention of the same sex and giving a good impression.]

"It's been a long time since I saw such a price that is so pro-people. Thousands of survival points were always needed at every turn, so the sudden appearance of one or two hundred points requirement is kind indeed."

The two upgrade directions of the fishing net were not expensive, especially the first upgrade direction that only required 125 points, which was really cheap.

However, in terms of the choice, Su Mo did not even think twice about things and chose the second upgrade direction.

Without a boat, if he wanted to cast the net to fish in the lake, he could definitely do it, but it would be a colossal waste of time!

If this was ten days before the disaster, Su Mo might consider upgrading the handmade fishing net and slowly salvaging it.

However, the time saved could be used to create more tools for sale, and god knows how much he could earn from the trading!

A green light flashed, and the colorful material of the fishing net began to change, gradually transforming into light-gray nylon material.

At the same time, a small electric sonic device was added to the center of the fishing net. By relying on this small object, it could attract the carps to gather.

He connected the fishing net to the power supply to charge. Taking advantage of the wait time, Su Mo began to craft tools again, until the light rain outside stopped and the sun rose to the center.

For the first round of tool sales, 100 stone pickaxes and 100 stone axes were Su Mo's target. Now only the last 20 iron axes and 40 iron pickaxes were left.

Putting down the tool he was working on, he picked up the charged fishing net, and drove Earth Tiger over to the lake.

After the snow was moistened by the light rain and the several days of exposure to the sun, the snow surface had finally turned into solid ice. Had it not been for the snow chains on Earth Tiger, it would have started to slip out of control as soon as it was driven out.

"I hope that tomorrow's secret trading realm will not be too far away, otherwise even trading itself would be a problem!"

The current trading rules of the secret realm had not been announced yet, but if the current weather was anything to go by, the last day should still be sunny, which was good news.

The twelve-kilometer journey was fleeting and, when Su Mo arrived at the lake, the carps inside were still swimming leisurely. It seemed that Su Mo, the uninvited guest, had not been discovered yet.

Taking out the fishing net from the storage space and looking at the carps scattered underneath, Su Mo smiled and pressed the switch of the small device at the center.

After a crackle of slightly harsh sounds, it gradually began to tone down. When Su Mo thought that the device had failed to initiate, a magical scene happened.

At the lake shore, where there had not been many carps gathered, there was a sudden frenzy, as if the carps had been inexplicably drawn to something.

There were even a few carps that followed the sound and rushed directly onto the shore, flying and rolling about in the snow, trying to advance to the position where the sound was being made.

Taking advantage of this good opportunity, Su Mo quickly backed up two steps and used his waist strength to cast the fishing net out.

The net instantly became heavy laden…

When he tugged at it, Su Mo found that it was difficult for him to pull up the fishing net underneath when it was loaded with fish. Earth Tiger's moment had arrived.

Su Mo tied one end of the fishing net onto the bumper and started to reverse Earth Tiger away from the lake. The carps that were still struggling stubbornly could only be caught and be pulled out of the lake.

After roughly counting them, Su Mo was surprised to find that there were already a hundred carps in the net, jumping about.

The smallest one was one and a half catties, and the largest one was about three catties.

"My goodness, it seems that this sonic device is a piece of black technology. I don't know if similar technology exists for fishing devices on Earth."

Su Mo was amazed by the magic of the system's black technology. After the fishing net was untied and all the fish were removed from the net, he began the second round of fishing again.

After repeating the cycle the second time, the total number of fish caught was approximately two hundred fifty of fishes, and the total weight had exceeded his previous estimate.

"Carps don't taste good, but they are more resistant to cold than other fishes. I hope that they can survive past this winter."

By now, the first batch of carps had died from being out of the water for so long and had been put into the storage space of Earth Tiger. The fishing task was then completed ahead of schedule after he waited for the second batch of carps to perish.

Now the only thing left was the pancakes.

Su Mo drove Earth Tiger back to the shelter. Smelling the heavy fishy smell on his body, Su Mo simply soaked the combat uniform in snow water, closed the gate, and decided not to go out anymore!

He went to the living supplies storage and moved all the bags of flour to the kitchen. Su Mo then began to study how to make pancakes in batches.

First of all, he had a choice between flour with yeast or without. For this matter, Su Mo did not hesitate, immediately choosing to make unleavened pancakes.

It was not because Su Mo felt that it would be time-wasting or that he was being lazy with yeast, nor was it because the calories of yeasted flour were about the same as unleavened flour.

Instead…

Compared to unleavened flour, leavened flour had most of the starch inside converted to sugar, which was easier to digest after eating. As it was faster to digest, people would naturally feel hungry sooner.

Unleavened flour is not easy to digest and is rich in starch. A small piece would provide enough calories and be sufficient for a person to consume over half a day.

As long as one could stay inactive and keep the body warm, with a large serving of unleavened pancake and a potato, one could "comfortably" survive this cold winter.

After adding water, mixing the flour, and cooking them in the pot, Su Mo used the wind to blow away the smoke.

Sitting in front of the pot, the thick golden pancakes were stacked on the chopping board one by one by Su Mo. The three little ones were staring at the sight.

During the cooking process, Su Mo did not cut corners at all. Apart from replacing the water for the pancakes with precipitated snow water, he was not stingy with other condiments such as vegetable oil and five-spice powder and salt, which were added as much as needed.

As it was the first time he was selling items in the secret realm, he had to pay attention to honesty and reputation. There had been countless cases on Earth that proved:

In the early stage, even if it was at a loss, it was necessary to find a way to create a brand. As long as word-of-mouth was passed around, even if there was a bit of a setback afterward, most people would not care.

In the apocalyptic wasteland, word of mouth and reputation was the same!

Only when everyone would trade with him could he expand the shelter as much as possible and collect better things. At this point, after baking a hundred pancakes, Su Mo still maintained his "conscience"!

It was not tiring making pancakes. They had plenty of wood, and the three little ones were warm. Oreo laid down comfortably with Big Spark and Little Spark and slept at the side.

Occasionally, when the smell and fragrance of the freshly baked pancakes bloomed, the saliva that kept flowing out of the three small mouths betrayed them.

Without the need to go out and with nothing to do, Su Mo simply took out the programming textbook and sat at the stove, reading.

Other aspects of the base could be handed over to others, only the automated control system for the shelter's defenses, this vital system could not be passed to others.

Su Mo was not clear on whether the system could identify and upgrade the automated control system. However, it was necessary to take precautions and prepare things in advance.

Once he entered the secret realm, he could search for clues regarding a computer, and then the automated control system could be put on the agenda immediately. The defense level of the shelter would rise again at that point. Even some self-written code could be entered into the Earth Tiger's system.

"public static void main (String]args)"

"System.out.println(hello world!)"

Sitting in front of the stove with nothing but spare time, Su Mo became interested in the emerging discipline of programming. He began to earnestly recite the codes aloud.

The pancakes in the pot gradually took shape…

Everything was on the right track. He only needed to wait until tomorrow to enter the secret realm, and the technology tree that had stagnated in the shelter would receive a splash of inspiration!

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Chapter 159: The Last Day, Opening of the Secret Realm!

Kneading all 300kg of flour to make pancakes did not take much energy, but it was time-consuming.

He worked all the way from morning till afternoon, rushing to complete them before evening, before finally managing to fry all of the pancakes.

With not enough space on the chopping board to place them, Su Mo simply made a large food cabinet out of some wood and placed it in the kitchen to keep the finished pancakes.

The heavy scent of bread permeated the air in the shelter's three stories. Looking at the final batch of hot pancakes, Su Mo's appetite was aroused even though he had already eaten.

"Oreo, Big Spark and Little Spark, you've all already finished your share for today. No stealing some at night!"

Seeing Su Mo's gaze sweep over, Oreo raised her doggy head nonchalantly, looking cute and dumb.

At this point, out of all the items he had prepared for trading, there were only sixty pieces of iron left that he had not yet used up.

Frying the pancakes was not a task that used up a lot of energy so, sitting at the workbench, Su Mo quickly entered a state of full concentration.

When he first started out, his movements were clunky and clumsy, but now, the moment he sat down, there was a hint of a "master's" aura around him.

He did not just rely on what he learned from correcting errors on the LCD TV, but also put in his heart and soul into crafting each tool by hand.

Anything worth doing should be done well.

This was Su Mo's motto in life, especially when it came to something that was important to him.

Of course, effort would always be accompanied by rewards, and the quality of the tools he crafted from the remaining sixty pieces of iron increased as he became more and more skilled.

Towards the end, the last four to five pieces were able to be crafted into excellent quality tools with different properties.

As long as a human held such a tool, they could instantly double or even triple their productivity!

The increase in productivity would ensure that the human race would be able to completely equal the development rate of the mythical races, until the release of firearm technology would thoroughly break the balance.

"Now more and more people in the World Channel are getting their hands on guns. This proves that creating firearms isn't a difficult thing."

"What's difficult is… large-scale ammunition production!"

After two consecutive days of high-intensity work producing tools, Su Mo was able to spare some thought toward considering some of the problems during some unimportant processes towards the end.

Having gone through the large-scale production of the iron axes and pickaxes, the limitations of handcrafting tools became that much more obvious.

Based on this rate of efficiency, even Su Mo took over eight hours every day in order to create these tools.

Leaving out the usage of energy and raw materials and speaking on the factor of quantity alone, at best, him being able to sell up to a thousand tools during a disaster would already be his peak performance.

However, how many humans are currently on the wasteland?

It was at least four billion people!

Being able to sell a few thousand tools in three disasters might seem like a lot but, in reality, it was much too insignificant when the denominator was a hundred million people.

Under the same circumstances, firearms were like that as well.

In just over ten days, some people had already created all sorts of firearms using tools and their own crafting skills. There were even a few handcrafted AK-47s still on sale in the market.

Unfortunately, these firearms that seemed so powerful were not a hot purchase at all. Even long knives were selling better than firearms.

The reason was that there was no ammunition and maintenance support available.

The stability of these handcrafted firearms was poor, and there was a lack of ammunition too. Other than being able to deter other people, buying it would be a stupid decision in the eyes of the others.

"I'm afraid Magoo must have encountered this dilemma at that time. Towards the end, the ones who could afford guns had already established their own firearm and ammunition production lines.

"Those who couldn't afford guns were either eliminated straightaway as the intensity of the disasters increased, or they found other methods and tools to replace firearms."

As he thought carefully about his future development route, the last iron pickaxe was completed with some clattering and beating.

200 iron tools: 100 iron axes, and 100 iron pickaxes took him over 20 hours of work to produce.

Among that, 22 of the iron axes and 14 of the iron pickaxes were of excellent quality. They emitted a faint glow that was completely different from that of the good-quality tools.

Seeing the fruits of his efforts, he finally felt a trace of comfort after the exhaustion he had suffered over the past few days.

In the future, as times progressed, this primitive method of tool creation would definitely be phased out, and more handcrafted "unique" tools would dominate the market.

Only by having a mass production assembly line would one be able to completely monopolize the consumer market from top to bottom.

"So if I wanted to select technology tree options, I should prioritize energy and automation?"

Opening the game panel's diary for recording supplies, Su Mo kept considering and reconsidering before finally deciding to enter the two into the diary.

This approach was indeed a little extreme and was full of uncertainty toward the future.

Putting most of his survival points into the development of these two technology trees would inevitably reduce the amount that he could spend on combat abilities and other areas.

He would be quite hindered if he were to face a strong opponent like this.

"Forget about it, I'm not going to think anymore. In the early days while my combat abilities are still on the backburner, I'll create a monopoly through my development speed. I'll rely on these to take the lead and expand my advantage. If things proceed like this, I might be able to stay a few steps ahead of everyone else."

If he could not figure it out, then he would rather not think about it at all. After entering all his thoughts into the diary, Su Mo simply stood up and left the workbench.

Lighting up the wood beneath the stove, he heated up two large buckets of water and, on the second last night before the next doomsday disaster, Su Mo once again took a soothing, hot bath before drifting off to sleep in his bed.

No matter how much the humans on the wasteland opposed the arrival of this day, time would not stop for anyone's will.

After midnight, the format of the timer on the game panel changed, turning into a 24-hour countdown.

On this night, some people went wild, some people were surprised, and some people were in despair.

However, in general, most people were still excited about the upcoming opening of the secret trading realm, as they spent their last "calm" night riddled with anxiety.

There was no cold wind and no snowfall. Were it not for the blood-red countdown, no one would have thought that a disaster would be imminent on this starless, moonlit night.

By the time the first ray of sun fell, countless humans on the wasteland woke up early and took the initiative to wait outside their shelters, waiting for the opening of the secret realm.

Even Su Mo was no exception.

Around 5am, before the sky lit up, Su Mo had already awoken to the sound of the old phone's alarm.

After washing up and having a simple breakfast, Su Mo sat outside the garage gate as he waited for the arrival of the secret realm.

The last few times, he had entered secret realms, which were ruins, he had entered ones that had already been formed, so he had never seen for himself how secret realms were formed.

This time, he got up early in order to witness this "miraculous" moment.

The clock was still moving forward without stopping. He waited until 7, and then 8. When the system's prompt sounded and faded away, the secret realm had still not appeared.

He observed the chatbox as he looked around the outside world. Just as Su Mo was checking back and forth between them, the vigilant Oreo started barking at the side.

The mysterious scene had appeared!

Over the horizon, a golden light that looked exactly like the light that had burst forth while relocating the shelter suddenly appeared.

The golden light looked like it brought with it an unparalleled power, seemingly slow, but in fact fast.

At the same time, a prompt sounded in all of the players' ears.

[Record: It has been detected that the time of disaster has arrived. The secret trading realm will soon be opening. All players should prepare themselves.

[Record: The rules of the secret realm have already been sent to the notice board on all players' game panels. Please check it out yourselves!

Just like all the other players, after listening to the system's prompt, Su Mo immediately opened the game panel to check, without any hesitation.

The new notice was very unique. It floated directly above the game panel, making it extremely eye-catching.

He tried tapping it, and a wavy, flashing, green curtain of light popped out.

[Disaster Benefit – Secret Trading Realm (Wood Grade)]

[1. This time's disaster benefit is wood grade. Trigger method unknown. All players should try to trigger it and fight for more benefits for the "human" clan.]

[2. Any force or violence in the secret trading realm is forbidden. Any forced buying or selling is prohibited. Any behavior forcing others against their will is prohibited. The game does not discriminate between players. Once noticed, the player will be automatically sent into the secret judgment realm. The rules violated will be verified, and the player will be obliterated.]

[3. Entry time based on a 24-hour system: 09:00 to 15:00, a total of 6 hours. There is no limit to the number of entries during the period that the secret realm is open. Unlimited entries and exits are permitted.]

[4. Do not damage the goods of others in the secret trading realm. Once discovered, the method to deal with this will be according to item no. 2]

[5. The jurisdiction of the secret trading realm in each region will be issued by the game. The owner of these rights will be the one possessing the highest comprehensive strength in the secret realm.]

[6. The above rules do not represent the entirety of the rules of the secret realm. Do not act recklessly. All rights to interpretation are held by the game.]

The six scattered secret trading realm announcements had basically already clarified all of the rules.

Aside from item no. 2 "Obliteration" looking a little scary, the other items were all for the protection of the wasteland humans.

"No entry limits, a set time, and the freedom to buy and sell is protected. It seems that this really is a benefit to humans!"

With a slight sigh, Su Mo noticed a glowing mark at the bottom.

"Manage?

"Does this mean I'm the strongest in my regional channel now?"

Even if he was 100% confident in his own abilities, seeing the confirmation of the game, Su More still could not help but feel a sliver of happiness.

Focusing his thoughts, when his phantom fingers tapped on the 'manage' button, and everything suddenly turned dark before him.

A foreign yet familiar world gradually appeared…

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Chapter 160: "Super" Big Pancakes! See You, Family!

"This is… Earth?"

Standing at the center of the Earth and staring at the world rapidly evolving around him, Su Mo was shocked.

From a white, barren wasteland, to being suddenly surrounded by a vast ocean. Before Su Mo could react, dinosaurs appeared!

Then, there was an asteroid that destroyed the world, enough to kill all the creatures from the Great Ice Age…

Then humans appeared!

Although everything evolved very quickly, when humans appeared and quickly took over the world, Su Mo still felt his eyes grow moist.

The times were still evolving very quickly. The Spring and Autumn period… Battle of Muye…The Three Kingdoms… Legends of the Sui and Tang Dynasties… The Great Tang Dynasty…

Standing between these periods as an outsider, more and more actual scenes that only existed in history books started to appear before Su Mo's eyes.

The moment when the first chimney rose from the ground, when the first car drove down the road, and when the first electric light lit up…

As technology kept improving, the peak of civilization also came to an end.

"Wait! Stop!"

At a certain moment, Su Mo spotted something familiar in his surroundings. He could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart and shouted.

Unexpectedly, the evolution did actually stop and the image slowly began to solidify, no longer changing.

In a city full of tall buildings, even in the daytime, the neon lights on the streets still shone. A neat row of signboards were arranged uniformly, and the wind chimes hanging at the doors made pleasant sounds.

But this was not what Su Mo focused on!

Turning his head, he stared at a family home where figures started coming alive and was so excited that he could not help himself anymore.

"Dad, Mom, Sis!"

It was only one step from the street into the home to meet his loved ones whom he had not seen in ages, but this one step…

Was so close yet so far, as far apart as night and day.

Inside the home was the Garden of Eden that did not belong to Su Mo; outside was his wasteland world!

"So the first place has this kind of benefit. What a pity—next time, I should control the secret realm's evolution to discover someplace more thrilling."

Watching the figures in the yard gradually fade away, after Su Mo's father and mother carried his little sister away, the background was fixed in place.

Though Su Mo was complaining, the smile that would not fade from his face said everything.

The first place had the right to return to the inner world and evolve the trading place.

In Su Mo's heart, Earth was his home. This little family home filled with his childhood happiness was the place that stored Su Mo's "soul".

At the same time, for a brief period, it also let Su Mo see the loved ones he never stopped thinking about and relief washed over him.

In other words, this long street was going to be the trading spot this time!

With a thought, after seeing the confirmation notification that came out of the game panel, Su Mo silently picked 'confirm'. Everything went dark, and he returned to the wasteland world.

Currently, a golden gate was opened 15 meters outside the shelter's garage, emitting an alluring light.

Through the light, Su Mo could still see the newly-formed street inside.

[Record: The secret trading realm in channel number "001" has been opened, and the remaining time it is left open is 05:53 hours!

[Record: You can enter the secret trading realm to barter now!

Seeing the notifications from the game panel, Su Mo did not rush to enter. On the contrary, he opened the World Channel to observe the current market trends.

"F*ck, which motherf*cker chose this Konohagakure. I bow to you. Get the f*ck out, you two-dimensional fatso!" [T/N: The village from Naruto.]

"Speaking of which, this place looks a little familiar. Looks a little like SSNI… Not saying anymore, I'll charge in now!"

"That's not it. The big guys should've arranged something a bit sunnier. If you pile up a bunch of graves, and I happily push my little cart in, it'll scare me."

"This wave, this motherf*cking wave—I might as well be directly in the atmosphere! Who's so capable that they arranged this outer space luxury shopping experience. They made me all happy."

"Incredible. I never got to go abroad on Earth in my last lifetime. I never thought that I would be able to experience going abroad in this one."

Not seeing everyone complaining about the prices as he expected and instead complaining all over the World Channel about the secret trading realm's world choice, Su Mo was happy looking at it.

Not every channel's strongest player were special forces on Earth or survival experts. There were also lucky people who somehow managed to become the channel's number one by some miracle and obtained a transformation opportunity.

Of course, places like Konohagakure, Mondstadt, Summoner's Rift, CrossFire's Transport Ship, Titan, and others that only existed in movies and games had all been realized.

He opened the Regional Channel. There was nobody complaining in his channel, just a large number of people who were already refreshing their screens and welcoming everyone inside. These people were all looking forward to the items Su Mo brought in for trading.

Everyone was excited for it. The words "Su Mo" that used to occur every few sentences had evolved into having to say "Su Mo" to feel comfortable.

He was not anxious to go in. Like everyone else who would be pushing their own little cart, Su Mo was not an exception. Quickly returning in front of the workbench, he used some wood to make a simple cart.

This was the benefit given to everyone in the secret trading realm. Placed on the transportation tool, the weight of everything would become 0. After entering the secret realm together, the transportation tool would naturally carry a storage space 10 times as many square meters as the opened space, providing convenience for everyone to trade.

"I guess these people are all waiting for my pancakes, so I'll bring some over to sell."

After piling all the golden pancakes emitting their bready fragrance onto the cart and carrying the rest in the storage space, Su Mo watched the gate close behind him, tidied his clothes, and stepped into the space.

Instantly, the world turned upside down and the sky lost its color. A peaceful and quiet street reappeared in front of Su Mo.

With the crowds of people squeezed on the streets, it really had the feeling of a bustling metropolis in the civilized era.

Someone called out, "The Almighty Su is here!"

The shouts on the street all combined into one, and a few hundred gazes all looked over at the same time.

At the first instant, everyone's gazes focused first on Su Mo's face, then automatically traveled to the pancakes piled on top of his pushcart.

At this moment, everyone's gazes froze!

The golden pancakes and their toasted surfaces seemed to exude a limitless allure.

Even if it was inside the secret realm, everyone's foul odor had spread everywhere. The corners of all of these people's mouths involuntarily started secreting saliva.

"Almighty… Almighty Su, how much are you selling the pancakes for?"

After the first person asked about the price, the voices of everyone on the streets turned into a cacophony. Everybody's gazes burned. Su Mo 100% believed that, were it not for the game's threat of obliteration, these people who were lustful for food would definitely make a mad grab for them at the first opportunity.

"Ahem…"

Before Su Mo could speak, there was another sudden change in the streets.

The narrow streets began to widen visibly and instantly became a vast space comparable to an eight-lane highway.

At the same time, on both sides of the street, small shops began to rise from the ground. Each player's name was written on the shops.

His vision blurred, and before Su Mo could react, he was already standing in the little shop the game arranged.

Others clearly noticed this change as well, but they did not care. They opened the doors to find the shop that had Su Mo's sign hung in it and rushed straight in.

Not even a minute later, Su Mo stuck his head out the window and helplessly noticed…

Except for the queue outside his shop that was a hundred meters long, the entrances to the other shops were completely empty.

The shop doors could only be opened by the owners themselves, and at the same time, behind the shop doors, the door of light to enter the ruins was automatically opened, allowing players to easily retrieve materials and return.

"Ahem, everyone, quiet down. There are many pancakes, no need to get anxious. Next, I'll announce the trading price…"

Looking at the queue situation that was already a little out of control, a blast of noise that shook the sky resounded, instantly calming the crazy crowd.

Pushing and pushing while queuing up was, strictly speaking, also considered as using violence. Now, recalling obliteration, everyone became a bit more honest.

Seizing this opportunity, Su Mo hurriedly announced the pancakes' trading price!

"Unleavened pancakes! The ingredients are good, and it's filling. Everyone who participates in the secret realm trading can get a piece for free!"

He took out a pancake and cut it evenly into 20 portions. Based on the 708 people on the regional channel, Su Mo cut up 35 pancakes and began to distribute them.

A pancake weighed about half a catty. After cutting it into 20 portions, not much was actually distributed to everyone.

However, this one gesture made the people in the front who heard it burst into tears, their faces full of gratitude as they bowed again and again.

Taking the pitiably small pancakes, some people chose to swallow them in a few bites while others hid them in their clothes pockets like they were extraordinarily precious.

The streets that had originally been very noisy became completely quiet after the last pancake was divided and distributed.

No one pushed, and no one yelled. Everyone stared at Su Mo, gazes burning as they looked forward to the details of the next trade.

Even those who did not eat the pancake earlier, just by placing it at their noses and taking a whiff of it, they could sense how solid this pancake's ingredients were.

Starch, grease, seasoning!

This one calorie bomb of a pancake was equal to getting a "Danshu Tiequan" for the next three days! [T/N: A fictional item from Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels, that prevents death.]

"Ahem. The pancakes can be purchased individually or in halves. Next, I'll announce the items I'd like to purchase."

"First up are perfect-quality blueprints and up…"

Before Su Mo could finish speaking, suddenly three people excitedly shouted and rushed over with their shining blueprints in hand!

"I have it!"

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Chapter 161: Shocking! Rare Design Blueprints!

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Su Mo had never seen a design blueprint that was higher than perfect quality before.

However, upon seeing the blueprints emitting a mysterious glow in the three people's hands, Su Mo was stunned!

What?

Since when did design blueprints of this quality become as common as cabbages that three people could have it at once?

Before Su Mo could continue speaking, the person closest to him had already dashed over. He stood by the little store window and stared at the pancakes inside, his face full of emotion.

"Almighty Su, I've got a perfect-quality design blueprint. Look, I don't know how much it's worth, but you can just give me a good estimate!"

After speaking, the man was not even wary of the fact that Su Mo might just take the design blueprint and run off as he simply handed it in, placing it on the table by the window.

Sitting at the table, Su Mo forcefully suppressed the emotions in his heart as he watched the blueprint drift in. He forced himself to control his expression and started to assess the design blueprint on his table to see what mystery it held.

[Explosives Design Blueprint (Perfect)]

[Description: This design blueprint can be used directly, or can be input into a machine tool for production. The better the materials, the better the explosives produced. The highest level limit: Perfect]

[Limitation: Level 2 shelter and above]

[Resale price: 50 Disaster Points]

"Alright! I'll take this perfect design blueprint." Sitting inside the shop, Su Mo picked up the fine iron electric spear beside him and smacked it hard on the table, causing a loud bang.

The man outside was also taken aback, but although his mind wanted to retreat in fear, his body was very honest. He remained standing by the window, eyes still unwaveringly fixed on the pancakes piled into a small mountain.

"For this design blueprint, I can give you 3 pancakes, as well as… Hang on."

After saying this, Su Mo put the design blueprint down on the table and turned around. He walked out of the ruins, opened the storage space of the Earth Tiger, and took out the preserved carp.

Quickly returning to the secret trading realm, he sat at the table and pulled out three large pancakes along with a two-and-a-half catty carp. He slammed it down onto the table and pushed it forward.

"F*ck me… A carp!"

"He traded a rubbish design blueprint for three pancakes and a fish. What a steal!"

"This old boy Dong Yi is much too lucky. This design blueprint was what he found in a random wasteland treasure chest. Why don't I have this kind of luck?"

Seeing the "three large sums" as well as the carp that Su Mo had laid out, Dong Yi was also a little confused.

However, in the next second, when he saw Su Mo smile and nod, he instantly grabbed the pancakes and carp ecstatically as he moved backward, eyes vigilant.

Still, although the people around him were envious, under the deterrence of the rules, nobody dared to risk it all to try and snatch it.

"Two, no, one pancake for a weapon. Don't come if you're not in the ranks, first come first served."

Just after he returned to the little shop and was assured of his safety, Dong Yi was also very clever and started a reselling business, managing to attract a few nearby people to go over and ask about the price.

"Almighty Su, I have a perfect quality design blueprint here too!"

The one trading this time was a girl whose face was covered in soot. She timidly passed the blueprint inside, eyes staring closely at Su Mo's expression.

Without changing his expression, Su Mo lowered his head and swept his gaze over the blueprint. Its properties popped out in the next moment.

[K2-Portable Anti-tank Rocket Launcher (Perfect)]

[Description: The Portable Anti-tank Rocket Launcher, commonly known as "RPG", is a portable anti-tank weapon that primarily fires armor-piercing warheads. The design blueprint includes a complete launcher design and also contains three different rocket missile specifications for production. It is one of the must-have legendary items for traveling or staying at home.]

[Limitation 1: Needs to be input into the corresponding machine tool before it can be used. It cannot be directly added to the creation function.]

[Limitation 2: Level 3 shelter and above]

[Resale price: 80 Disaster Points]

"Rocket missiles? RPG?" Seeing the blueprint before him, Su Mo's face did not show it, but there was a stormy sea raging in his heart.

It really was the case of someone giving him a pillow when he felt sleepy. (T/N: A saying that means that everything is going smoothly)

After repairing the machine tool, he had lost all of Magoo's design blueprints, but now he had gained two blueprints that could be directly input into it, largely expanding the machine tool's creation scope.

Especially equipment as convenient and powerful as the RPG. It was a legendary item of the early days. As long as he could produce a few dozen of them, never mind thousands of kobolds, even if there were ten thousand of them, Su Mo would not be afraid at all!

"I accept! I'll accept yours as well! However, there are many limitations, so the price won't be too high!"

Although he really wanted to accept it immediately, Su Mo decided to keep the price down and save his reserves for purchasing other things later on.

Hearing Su Mo say this, the girl was still willing and simply said, "As long as you accept it, Almighty Su, no matter what price you offer, I'll sell it!"

Nodding his head, for this blueprint, Su Mo flawlessly bought it with the same price of three large pancakes and a three-catty carp.

Upon seeing a price that was even higher than the previous design blueprint, the girl, who had thought Su Mo would drive a very hard bargain, smiled broadly, the corners of her mouth upturned as she carried all these supplies and swiftly fled into her own little shop.

Having consecutively collected two perfect-quality blueprints, Su Mo was extremely pleased. After putting them into the storage space with unusual importance, his gaze turned to the silent, golden-haired and blue-eyed boy standing at the window.

"Mr. Su Mo, you're the most powerful in the wasteland. You're the savior of mankind, and you have the strongest shelter in history. You are a bright light, shining through the darkness of my heart… You are…"

The blond boy's face was nervous. After a full half-minute of gushing starstruck praise, he saw Su Mo's eyebrows furrow and hastily said, "I have a rare-quality design blueprint; I hope that I can sell it for a good price!"

Having said this, the blond boy immediately handed his design blueprint over, staring openly at the supplies inside and not knowing what to say.

"If it's rare, it's rare. Why so mysteri… F*ck me! Rare!"

Just a moment ago, Su Mo's thoughts had still been wandering as he considered the spectacular scene of dozens of RPGs shooting at the kobold castle.

The next second, upon hearing the word 'rare', Su Mo could not react initially until he saw the property panel pop out. He was utterly shocked!

Rare? What a notion!

Even though the shelter had developed to its current extent, there was only the glass on the ventilation duct that was a rare item.

Later on, rare items seemed to have become extinct, becoming even more difficult to find.

Now, suddenly seeing a rare design blueprint before his eyes, no matter how well Su Mo controlled his expression, he still revealed a trace of shock!

Eagerly, Su Mo picked up the design blueprint and carefully evaluated it.

[Mini Destroyer Blueprint (Rare)]

[Description: The destroyer is a multi-purpose warship. Equipped with a variety of weapons such as anti-air, anti-submarine, and naval combat weapons, not only can it undertake the function of defense against aerial assaults, but it can also take on multiple missions such as medium to long-distance journeys and maritime rescues.]

[Creation: After using the design blueprint, players can obtain a memory transmission and automatically deepen their understanding of the destroyer creation process in their nighttime slumber. At the same time, they will get the opportunity to learn basic mechanical, warship, and weapon knowledge.]

[Limitation 1: If the technology and materials are insufficient, the corresponding vessel can be made by imitating the warship blueprint. If the imitation exceeds 50%, a bonus special ability property can be obtained. If the imitation exceeds 70%, bonus kits containing three, five, or seven parts, can be obtained. If the imitation exceeds 90%, it can be treated as a warship structure.]

[Limitation 2: Level 4 shelter and above]

[Limitation 3: Requires 1000 Disaster Points to use]

[Limitation 4: Consumes one disaster count upon use]

[Resale price: 500 Disaster Points]

"Ss… A destroyer! Heavens, can someone even make something like this?"

Looking at the image of the destroyer on the blueprint, Su Mo thought of the Type-42 destroyer—also known as the "Sheffield" destroyer—for some reason.

This type of destroyer had powerful firepower and was the representative medium-sized guided-missile destroyer. As long as such a ship traveled the sea, it was unbeatable!

"Basic mechanical, warship, and weapon knowledge are included too. I have to buy this blueprint!"

After seeing this basic knowledge, Su Mo did not even think twice and decided to adopt the strategy of obtaining this design blueprint no matter what the cost.

Knowledge was the most important thing in the middle to later stages!

In Su Mo's eyes, this design blueprint, even if it was a finished destroyer, was far inferior to this basic knowledge before it could be created.

As long as he could grasp this knowledge even vaguely, in the wasteland, Su Mo could use this "profound" knowledge that far surpassed regular people's and extend his lead ahead of these people.

Having settled on this idea, Su Mo did not observe any longer. He cleared his throat and slowly said, "This design blueprint… It needs 1000 points, a level 4 shelter, one more upgrade, and it has too many limitations…"

"Also, this destroyer, in the current absence of an assembly line, the materials required must be an astronomical figure. I'm afraid that it won't be possible to complete it before I die."

"However, this isn't the biggest reason. Most importantly, there's no sea right now. Where can I go with this!"

Upon pointing out the most awkward issue now and seeing the embarrassment on the golden-haired boy's face, the corners of Su Mo's mouth pulled into a smile.

In a trade, using poor information to good use could form this "perspective altering" effect.

Before everyone knew there would be a flood in the future, forming a sea, any idea involving a ship was worthless in everyone's eyes.

This was also part of the reason why Su Mo had patiently not announced the news of the disaster!

It was all to collect this steal of a deal at this moment!

"Mr. Su Mo, I know that this design blueprint has too many limitations, so I want to sell it based on its worth of 500 Disaster Points. What do you think?"

Hearing this man's words, Su Mo glanced at him meaningfully.

Compared to the locals' honesty, foreigners appeared craftier. In this absolute seller's market, he still had the courage to bargain.

"Oh? What do you want to trade it for?"

"For this design blueprint, I want to trade a small amount of food, and the rest can be traded for tools and weapons that have special abilities!"

Hearing this man's words, Su Mo—who had been sitting in the little shop—nodded. He turned and walked into the small entrance at the back to retrieve the supplies.

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Chapter 162: Acquisition of Materials, Crazy Supplies

Restraining the expression on his face until he walked out of the small entrance and, after making sure that the people inside would not hear him, Su Mo could no longer maintain his expression and laughed unscrupulously.

"Hahahahaha!!!"

A few pancakes, and a few iron axes and pickaxes, could be exchanged for a rare-level design blueprint. This trade may not be a loss for the other party, but for Su Mo it was definitely…

A bloody bargain!

"My goodness, a few units of iron plus a few units of wood, one or two catties of flour, and two fishes can be traded for a rare-level design blueprint. This feels…"

"More refreshing than opening treasure chests! Damn!"

At this moment, Su Mo finally felt the joy of being a capitalist. It was a useless item in the eyes of ordinary people, but its potential could be maximized to 100% or even 200% in the hands of Su Mo.

"Good lord, with such a rare design blueprint, I can't be too stingy. I should just use three excellent-quality axes and three excellent-quality pickaxes for it!"

Su Mo tapped on the tools piled in the corner and put them in the storage space, and walked back into the secret trading realm.

The people who had already started a commotion suddenly fell silent after seeing Su Mo re-enter the space.

Everyone's eyes were full of eagerness, looking forward to what magical tools that Su Mo would present next.

"Ahem, for this design blueprint, I'll use six excellent-quality tools, five pancakes, and two fishes to exchange with you. How about it?"

He placed six tools on the table in a row, along with five pancakes and two fish. Su Mo watched the blond man quietly, his tone indifferent.

At first, it seemed that two of them would engage in some wrangling but, unexpectedly, after seeing the attributes of the tools, the blond man's expression changed drastically. Then he hurriedly put the tools into his pushcart, before nodding frantically and carefully leaving the crowd behind.

It was only after the man returned to his little shop, that he dared to take out all the tools and examine them one by one.

After examining them, the man could no longer hold back the ecstasy on his face, and could not help laughing out loud in his shop.

"Buddy, what are you laughing at, what good things do you have? Show us the attributes and let everyone have a look."

"Yeah, holding an axe in your arms and smiling. People who don't know might think that you were bought over by Almighty Su."

"Hey, you dog, what are you talking about? You think someone like Almighty Su needs to ask for help?"

Seeing more and more curious people gathered outside the shop, the blond man did not hide it anymore and directly took out an axe to disclose the attributes.

[Iron Axe (Excellent)]

[Description: This iron axe is made by the beginner craftsman "Su Mo". It has solid materials and professional production techniques, and has thus achieved excellent-quality. It is a sharp tool for logging and confronting enemies.]

[Special Ability:

Sharpness 5There is a certain chance of triggering the special energy saving bonus effect when performing chopping or slashing motion (energy saving -50%, trigger rate: 70%)When felling trees with a hardness rating not higher than 7, a critical hit is probable (instantaneous breakage)]

"Wow! This axe has three special abilities. Isn't that ridiculous?"

"You just need to have hands to just fell trees with this axe, isn't that so? Give me one, and I will chop fifty units of lumber a day for you."

"It was handcrafted by Almighty Su, so it's awesome. Is Almighty Su's signature on it?"

"Dude, do you wanna resell it? I will take an axe!"

The attributes of the iron axe did not disappoint the crowd. For a while, everyone's enthusiasm for getting the axe became higher and higher.

However, the blond man just stubbornly shook his head. He even picked up all his supplies, decisively passed through the small entrance, and went straight back!

This dumbfounded the still-excited audience. Before they came back to their senses, Su Mo, who had processed the three design blueprints, was sitting in front of the shop again and began the second round of acquisitions.

"Are there any more design blueprints? Anything with good-quality or higher will do!"

When his voice ended, there were quite a few people who came out. There were a total of six people.

After collecting all the design drawings, Su Mo looked them through and shook his head regrettably.

Since he had seen perfect and rare design blueprints, these good-quality and excellent-quality designs no longer had the same "sweet" taste and had become ordinary in his eyes.

Among the six design blueprints, five were good-quality, and only one was excellent-quality. They were:

[9mm bullet design blueprint, [Surgical forceps design blueprint, [Concrete design blueprint, [Paper manufacturing design blueprint, [Running shoes design blueprint, and [Lifeboat design blueprint (Excellent)]

Most of these people were unwilling to sell precious design blueprints. Most of the design blueprints collected were those designs that no one could use at present.

After nodding, Su Mo took all the orders and bought them all at the price of a pancake and a fish for good-quality blueprints, and two pancakes and a fish for the excellent-quality blueprint.

After receiving these things, he looked at the hundreds of people who were still standing outside in anticipation. After clearing his throat, Su Mo yelled again.

"I'm looking for any valuable electrical appliances or circuit boards, whether they are broken or intact, whatever grade they are!"

Among the things to collect on this trip, the most important thing was of course the design blueprints. Following that were all kinds of electronic products and appliances.

Whether it was damaged or intact, as long as it could be repaired with survival points, it could promote the development of the science and technology tree.

"I have it! Almighty Su, I have a rice cooker!"

"I have an electric razor. It works, but the battery is dead."

"…"

Speaking of electrical appliances, the dispirited crowd outside suddenly became lively, and dozens of people stood up with a variety of electronic products.

Regarding these messy, useful, or useless electronic products, Su Mo accepted all of them.

There were ordinary little things that were not very useful, there were also broken generators that surprised Su Mo, and even a computer monitor, which was intact.

After arranging for resources that would satisfy both parties according to the price, the transactions were completed.

After this round of trading, for the rest of the time, Su Mo started purchasing basic materials; the most important of which was the purchase of copper ores.

At present, an iron ore mine had been generated near the shelter, and his demand for iron had been greatly reduced. However, a copper ore mine was nowhere to be found yet.

Fortunately, among the seven hundred people on this trip, several of them were in shelters near the copper mines. After completing the deals, Su Mo investigated the background of these shelters and, at the same time, he also paid a price that was considered "lavish" in the other parties' eyes.

Among other basic resources, he had received a lot of cerium and praseodymium, which was an unexpected gain.

"Are there any materials for sale? Wood, iron ore, copper ore, rare earth resources, steel…"

"Hurry up if there is anything for sale! It's the final hour!"

When they first heard he was collecting ordinary resources, some people simply ran back out to cut down trees or mine ores. Hundreds of people went in and out of the secret trading realm.

Sitting in his shop, Su Mo recorded each purchase of materials, and counted out the corresponding payment, and handed them out.

Among the basic materials, 1850 units of copper had been acquired so far, which was the most important material. There would be no shortage of copper for a long period.

He obtained even more iron ore, acquiring 3200 units. As the most common resource in the wasteland, 50 units of iron could be exchanged for a piece of pancake and 30 units of iron could be exchanged for a fish.

On the other hand, there was not much wood for the winter. He only obtained 200 units, but it was better than nothing.

There was also a lot of steel; 80 units, and 50 units of lead. Humans could not make these things from the wasteland for the time being. They could only be obtained by opening the treasure chests, which is why they were expensive.

The purchase price of all materials was the price given by Su Mo after referring to the current highest price on the World Channel, after which he increased those prices by 30-50%.

When the transactions were about to end, looking at the remaining supplies, Su Mo was stunned to find that among all the supplies, the best seller was not the pancakes, nor the fish.

On the contrary, those tools to improve productivity, all two hundred pieces, had been traded with the crowd.

"The iron pickaxes were the best-selling tool, and the sales of iron axes were pretty much equivalent. As expected, everyone still holds hope for the future!"

There was only one person in charge of the stall, so Su Mo was extremely busy, constantly keeping track of accounts and getting supplies.

Fortunately, in the last half an hour, everyone had completed their transactions and completed the last wave of stockpiling before the end.

Most people had been busy trading for four to five hours, they were already tired and paralyzed in the secret realm.

Everyone did not choose to leave the secret realm and return to their shelter. Instead, they laid on the main road without caring for their image, looking at the familiar scene nearby, each with different expressions and actions.

Some people were very emotional and talked about the ideals of the apocalyptic world with the people around them. Some people just laid in their shops and slept for a while.

Of course, most people were lying on the ground, looking at the neon signs along the wide road, and falling into deep contemplation.

Once the final ten minutes arrived, the game issued a warning to leave, and these people reluctantly got up and returned to the shelter through the small entrances behind their shops.

"The final balance of the pancakes…32 catties, which is 64 pieces…"

"The remaining carps…28"

"The tools were all sold out and the remaining materials can be stored for my own consumption or for a transaction with the west side shelter…"

Without any tools, Su Mo needed to keep accounts while storing supplies back and forth. At the same time, he made adjustments based on the prices of others on the World Channel and ensured that the supplies were without any problems when dispatched.

To make the brand "Su Mo", it took five hours, but it felt longer than five days!

"Huh, it's finally over. I can finally return and count my earnings!"

Touching his head, he saw that the game panel had begun the countdown for the final minute. After bringing the remaining items and checking that there was nothing left behind, Su Mo turned around and satisfactorily ended his trip into the secret trading realm.

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Chapter 163: Build A Gun, Establish The Firearm Technology Tree!

After the six-hour trading period, it was three o'clock in the afternoon when Su Mo stepped out of the door of light. The golden light behind him shattered twenty or thirty seconds later.

The light gradually turned into a spot of light, fell to the ground, and melted into the drifting snow.

Except for the shelter and the mountain of materials piled up at this time, the peaceful scene in the basin had once again been restored.

3200 units of iron were divided into two layers and densely covered the surroundings of the Underground Shelter, covering an area that spanned three or four acres.

It was the same for the blocks of copper, which lay neatly on the ground on the left side of the Underground Shelter.

Given the current space within the Underground Shelter, these materials could not be stored even if the shelter doubled in size several times. They could only be temporarily piled outside.

"It's great, in the basin, no one else can detect that I have this many materials, so I don't need to fear them being stolen even if I store them outside."

Su Mo casually walked on the blocks of iron. With Oreo standing guard, he was not afraid of people coming to steal the resources near the shelter.

Even if there were any attempts, these people's small and poor storage space alone could not take many at a time, so he was not worried at all.

After using the storage space to move all the steel blocks into the garage, Su Mo picked up five units of copper blocks and nervously went to the second floor to turn on the generator.

After days of adventures, traveling around and even risking his life, he had finally profited from the exchange of supplies.

His effort had transformed into strength on the final day!

Looking at the small thermal weapon laser manufacturing machine that had already begun its self-inspection process, Su Mo was excited.

Operating a laser manufacturing machine was not difficult. After adding the magical modular technology, the manufacturing process had been greatly simplified.

He only needed to select the weapon option, put in the required materials, and pass the machine's inspection process, then all he needed to do was wait for the finished product to be produced by the foolproof operations of the machine.

"Modular technology is indeed a great thing. It's a pity that I did not acquire a modular machine component this time around."

"But even if there was one, these people may not sell them unless they were on the verge of dying."

Su Mo shook his head and put away his greedy thoughts. Seeing that the green light had lit up after the self-inspection process, he lightly tapped on the M-1 rifle option, and the list of required materials popped out.

Three units of steel, two units of iron, one unit of copper, one unit of wood, two units of water, and…

Ten degrees of electricity!

The laser manufacturing machine had its own battery module that needed to be charged with a higher amount of power than the manufacturing value before it could start operating.

This was a requirement to prevent the possibility of a sudden power failure causing a manufacturing failure to occur, or causing damage to the machine itself.

Seeing that the fast charging process had started at the bottom right, Su Mo was not impatient. He quietly sat in front of the machine and waited.

The creation of firearms involved some seemingly simple, but very complex, specifications. For example, rifling is a very simple but very important part of the process.

Rifling refers to the cross-sectional grooves on the internal surface of a gun's barrel.

Rifling can be said to be the soul of the barrel. The function of the rifling is to give the bullet the ability to rotate so that it can maintain its established direction after being fired from the barrel.

Although there were records of the usage of rifling dating back to the 15th century, it was not popularized until the 19th century due to the difficulty of the manufacturing process.

Without the relevant knowledge and resources, Su Mo could only hope that the laser manufacturing machine would be capable enough not to make any mistakes!

After half an hour had passed, the charging process was completed. Looking at the manufacturing button that popped up on the side of the machine, Su Mo profoundly and gently put all the materials into the storage module of the machine, which measured only one cubic meter, and pressed the manufacturing button with both his hands to start the process of building firearms for the first time!

Squeak! Squeak!

The harsh sound was accompanied by a slight jittery burst from the machine as the button was pressed.

The terrifying high-pitched cutting sound not only frightened Su Mo, but even Big Spark and Little Spark on the second floor cooed in fright.

The laser tool above began to slowly rotate under the guidance of the machine.

Before Su Mo could take a good look at how the machine made weapons, an iron cover suddenly rose from both sides of the machine.

Driven by the electric motor, the cover began to slowly form a sphere, leaving only a few holes for heat dissipation, and completely covering the entire machine.

Then, a dazzling burst of light erupted from the heat dissipation holes of the cover, lighting up the research center with an unusual brightness.

The high temperature caused by laser cutting began to seep out of the heat dissipation holes.

Gradually, as the temperature got higher and higher, Su Mo simply summoned the lion clan's wind ability to start dissipating the heat of the big iron ball.

This cycle repeated itself over five minutes, before the light rays started to diminish.

Puff!

As the water vapor erupted, the cover began to slowly descend, revealing the contents inside.

At this time, in the place where the finished product lay, there was already a newly-produced gun, which seemingly shone brightly and looked very aggressive.

Scrutinizing the ends of the gun starting from the tip of the gun, Su Mo carefully looked over the body of the gun. Faced with this momentous harvest, Su Mo remained calm.

The green indicator light lit up again, indicating that Su Mo could pick up the gun, as the temperature of the M-1 rifle had dropped and reached a stable temperature.

Picking up the gun, Su Mo felt its weight.

"It's not too heavy. The weight of an empty gun is about five catties. After refilling the bullets, it should be between six and six and a half catties."

Removing the magazine, Su Mo looked at its capacity.

The bullet caliber size of the magazine was 5.56 x 45mm. It used a STANAG magazine similar to that on Earth, with a standard capacity of 40 rounds of shooting.

"Without considering the different name and pattern design of this gun, it was essentially a pirated M4A1 rifle."

Stroking the intricate patterns on the body of the gun, Su Mo was not sure how powerful it was, so he could only attempt to start up the machine again to create ammunition.

The M-1 rifle used M193 rifle bullets, which was a conventional 45mm caliber bullet. This small-caliber rifle was able to produce a lethal force that belied its smaller size.

The M193 bullet does not have a steel core. Instead, the bullet is filled with soft lead, and the copper coating on the outside of the bullet is very thin, resulting in the entire bullet becoming very soft.

When impacting the target, the warhead will quickly deform and shatter into smaller bullet fragments, causing additional wounds and penetration around in the initial wound, which in turn would cause serious bleeding.

However, the technology tree of firearms was not as simple as just making firearms.

The biggest problem facing all human beings in the wasteland was the preparation of ammunition.

Even if the current Underground Shelter was full of materials, to create suitable bullets, a new technology tree was needed…

Smokeless gunpowder!

The rate at which gunpowder burned was slow, and its low pressure also resulted in a reduction in the speed at which a bullet was ejected from the chamber.

To achieve sufficient range and effectiveness, simple physics meant that the bullet required a larger mass and caliber.

Therefore, rifle bullets of more than ten millimeters or even 20 millimeters abounded during the era of gunpowder.

To achieve better results, in the late gunpowder era, compressed gunpowder was loaded to increase the chamber pressure, which could also provide a speed close to that of smokeless gunpowder.

Smokeless gunpowder would burn faster, and had higher pressure and temperature, which in turn resulted in faster speed. It also reduced the caliber and quality of the ammunition required, reduced the logistical burden, and ushered in countless design changes, while also making bullets fly faster and with straighter trajectories.

A straighter trajectory would reduce the effect and error margin when shooting from a distance.

For example, when firing at an exposed head in trench warfare combat, the usual distance required for accurate shots was about 300m. A small difference of a few meters from this ideal distance would likely result in a high or low impact shot.

The straighter trajectory would also reduce the trajectory height error caused by the distance, making it easier to hit the target.

"The preparation method of smokeless gunpowder in the TV series Hanyang Zao was a bit exaggerated, but there are other places to refer to…"

Placing the M-1 rifle on the workbench, Su Mo began to think carefully about how to manufacture smokeless gunpowder in batches.

If the development of the ammunition technology tree was not promoted, no matter how awesome the guns he would use in the future might be, it would be useless if he did not have the bullets for them.

"The production process of nitrocellulose, or guncotton, is not troublesome, but finding a suitable cotton is a problem. After that, I'd only need to soak the guncotton with ethanol and ether, and dry it to get smokeless gunpowder."

"Ethanol and ether are not difficult to prepare. Ethylene can be extracted from petroleum, and ethylene can be used as a raw material for ethanol. Ethylene can be hydrolyzed to obtain ethanol, and ethanol can be catalyzed by the catalytic reaction to obtain ether."

Taking out a piece of paper, Su Mo recalled as much chemistry knowledge as possible, including from TV series, and put them together. He completed the specious idea of making smokeless gunpowder.

A light flashed and, after a systematic identification, it was confirmed that there was no problem with this design blueprint at all, and that the concept behind it was correct.

"So, the last hurdle is the cotton? The quality of cotton is very important in making the right guncotton!"

In the Hanyang Zao TV series, Xu Jianyin once presided over the research and development of sulfuric acid in Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, which solved the problem of relying on the import of sulfuric acid at that time.

It was Zhang Zhidong who had taken a fancy to his outstanding talents, so he poached him to Hanyang Steel and Pharmaceutical Factory to be responsible for the production of ammunition.

One of the main raw materials for making gunpowder was cotton. In his research, Xu Jianyin found that there was a big difference between domestic cotton and foreign cotton.

Therefore, the temperature, humidity, time, pressure, liquid concentration, etc, would change during the domestic trial production. Perhaps this was the main reason for the failure of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

To quickly find a suitable production method for China, Xu Jianyin "hand-grinded" the mortar and studied it himself.

It took only half a year before they finally produced a sample of smokeless gunpowder.

After testing, the effect of the sample was completely comparable to the imported smokeless gunpowder.

This also showed that, as long as you had the right cotton, you could make quality smokeless gunpowder in a very short time.

"System, how many survival points are needed to create a pound of cotton used to make guncotton?"

Without hurrying to buy it on the market, Su Mo opened the system panel and clicked on the creation interface. He first recorded down the requirements of the system.

The price was not low, but not high either.

65 survival points could be exchanged for a catty of cotton used to make guncotton, 300 points could be exchanged for a catty of manufactured gunpowder, and 520 points could be exchanged for a catty of developed smokeless gunpowder.

A bullet needed to be filled with about 2g of gunpowder. A catty of gunpowder could fill 260 bullets. After conversion, this exchange rate for gunpowder meant that the cost of a bullet was close to 2 survival points, which would be a terrible loss!

"No, since I will definitely use bullets in the future, I must have a suitable assembly line for ammunition. I will simply buy the cotton and practice the production process myself!"

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Chapter 164: Airdrop Delivered, Impending Disaster

The Type-80 machine gun had a rate of fire of about 700 rounds per minute, not to mention the rate of fire of the M-1 automatic rifle

If each bullet cost 2 points, then it would cost 1400 survival points per minute. Who could afford such an expense?

"To build my great steel torrent, I must ensure that I have enough ammunition. Otherwise, everything is but empty talk."

"Smokeless gunpowder must be acquired."

On the path to making guns and ammunition, Su Mo had taken 99 steps on this road, with only the last step remaining. Even if he could not get through, he decided that he would have to go hard and, even if he could not push, he would have to push hard.

Adhering to the tradition of the older generation of scientists in China, Su Mo has full confidence in adhering to this aspect.

However, before that…

"Airdrop, airdrop, when will it arrive?"

Su Mo walked out of the garage door and looked at the cloudless, tranquil, sky. Not even the shadow of the airdrop could be seen.

The reward that Su Mo would receive for achieving world's first made him very curious, and he could hardly wait to see what kind of good things the game would put in.

Seeming to hear Su Mo's groan, the game panel popped out by itself, and a beep cordially sounded.

[Record: The remaining time before the airdrop arrival is 02:13:45.

"Huh, it will take two hours to arrive?"

Looking at the game prompts and confirming that the remaining time was decreasing, Su Mo was reassured and began to calculate the cost of buying cotton.

65 survival points would net him 500g of cotton and, through a series of manufacturing processes, about 350g of smokeless gunpowder could be produced from that amount.

After calculating the amount needed to load a bullet, each bullet was worth about 0.3 survival points, notwithstanding other labor and material costs.

Given the rate of fire of the Type-80 machine gun, it would end up costing 260 survival points per minute!

"Expensive! It's still too expensive! In the future, I must have a suitable sustainable supply of cotton to reduce my losses. Otherwise, if this continues, I don't need to think about guns. Every battle will cost thousands of survival points."

As he was not on Earth, he was unable to accumulate the requisite materials. Even if he wanted to search for them, he could only explore the ruins.

A thing that could be easily solved on Earth became arduous when brought over to the wasteland. It was necessary to build a series of assembly lines from scratch to overcome the issue.

"In the end, it boils down once more to a population problem. The more people there are, the more resources can be collected. At the same time, it can speed up the development of shelters and provide stronger disaster resistance."

Despite figuring out the source of the problem, Su Mo was unresigned as he looked at the garage space where Oreo was still playing with Big Spark and Little Spark. He could only open the trading channel and try to search for cotton.

Like wood, cotton was also a material in short supply during this winter period, and was sold at a high price.

Su Mo could not figure out what kind of cotton could make guncotton so, for the time being, so he used 65 survival points to create a catty first, and would choose according to the cotton he had on hand.

This time, the goal was much clearer.

He spent the equivalent price of 10 pancakes and 10 disaster points in exchange for 20 kilograms of cotton.

After deducting the wastage, the supply of cotton could produce about 3000 rounds of bullets, which was enough for the shelter for the time being, so there was no need to worry about ammunition.

Seeing that the airdrop timer was still slowly approaching, Su Mo did not waste time. He first walked over to the oil well and replaced the toluene selection with ethylene.

Producing nitric acid and sulfuric acid was already a familiar process, so it was naturally completed without a hitch.

It did not take much effort, and Su Mo completed the manufacturing of guncotton in one hour. After carefully retracting and putting away the wet guncotton into the storage space, seeing that there was still more time, Su Mo simply continued to prepare picric acid.

The benefits of having continuously produced tools over the past two days were evident. When making picric acid, Su Mo could feel that his speed had increased significantly.

Especially while waiting for the reaction to take place, he could allocate energy toward subsequent preparations. This was enough to show that his production level had significantly improved.

Su Mo did not intend to retain all the saltpeter. Except for the amount of sulfuric acid and nitric acid used to catalyze the guncotton, everything else was used to prepare picric acid in preparation for conquering the kobold castle.

As Su Mo became absorbed in the crafting process, he could not really feel the passage of time. Before he realized it, the system prompt for the airdrop's arrival popped out, and Su Mo stood up and walked out of the garage gate, waiting quietly.

As soon as the clock ticked over, the airdrop reward for world's first arrived as scheduled.

The delivery method was not via a cargo aircraft as Su Mo's imagined, but rather a more "advanced" express delivery method that had been seen several times.

The golden light delivery.

The brilliant light flashed across the sky and, when passing the Underground Shelter, it stopped and a box about one cubic meter in size appeared within Su Mo's field of vision.

Seeming to have verified Su Mo's identity, the cloud of golden light trembled and spat out a smaller cloud, which dragged the box along and carried it down.

When the light cloud was about five meters away above the ground, it stopped and disappeared in the same way as the secret realm entrance; it turned into a light spot and shattered.

Without the support of the light cloud, the box was slammed to the ground in front of Su Mo's eyes.

"This method is a bit like magnetic levitation, but it is at a much higher level than the practical theory put forward by humans!"

Watching as the cloud of golden light above his head left, Su Mo did not wait and quickly ran to the fallen airdrop box.

The box looked small and it did not seem like it would contain precious items.

However, after seeing the magic card technology, Su Mo did not show any contempt and carefully picked up the box and walked into the garage.

Closing the garage gate and stone door one after the other, he walked into his own little world, before beginning the unboxing process.

The box labeled all over with No. 1 prints was extremely eye-catching and, under the illumination of the shelter's lights, they reflected a variety of luxurious colors.

He gently unfastened the iron buckle on the box. As Su Mo opened the box, it burst out with the same light as a silver treasure chest. Three items flew out automatically and began to hover in front of Su Mo's eyes.

A black card, a red kit, and an item that looked like a compass.

"It is the card technology!"

Sweeping the box aside, he grabbed the three objects in his hands and sat on the soft fabric sofa. Su Mo began to look at them one by one.

At first glance, the black card shocked Su Mo tremendously!

The attributes of the game panel were displayed for Su Mo to examine.

[Small, single-arm excavator (Good)]

[Description: A small diesel backhoe excavator, produced using heavy machinery, with trench-end excavation, trench-side excavation, straight-line excavation, curved excavation, angled excavation, ultra-deep trench excavation, and trench slope excavation.]

[Total machine weight: 13,500kg]

[Bucket capacity:0.50-0.65(m3)]

[Rated power (kW): 72.7/2, 200]

[Moving speed (high/low – km/h): 5.5/3.5]

[Climbing ability: 70%/35]

[Limitation: The card is currently locked. Countdown to unlock: 78 hours]

[Usage instructions: Use in an open area to summon the vehicle on the card to the location. Once it arrives, it cannot be retracted. Please choose carefully.]

"Good lord! How is the reward for world's first so awesome?"

Looking at the introduction of the card in a daze, Su Mo rubbed his eyes and found that the wording had not changed. There was no restriction that he could only use it once. He was shocked!

Excavators represented the mechanization level of a country, represented the progress of the machinery industry, and also represented the reduction in human labor requirements.

With its huge bucket, the productivity increase brought about by the excavator alone would be enough to replace dozens of people working at the same time.

Especially when considering architectural endeavors, it had a unique advantage.

"Fortunately, because of Huang Biao, I chose to broadcast live at that time. Otherwise, I would have missed out on this airdrop reward."

Misfortune also came with blessings, and blessings came with misfortune. Through the reward of the world's first, Su Mo instantly decided:

He would also broadcast live the next time as well!

He put the excavator card into the storage space, picked up the red kit, and began to examine it.

[Points Kit (Reward for ranking first – Bound)]

[Description: Open to receive 1000 disaster points directly]

The ordinary item introduction could not conceal the shock brought about by the four-digit number. Without any hesitation, Su Mo directly chose to open the kit, and 1000 points were instantly credited to him.

By the time he reached out for the final item that looked like a compass, Su Mo's mentality had calmed down and showed no trace of anxiety at all.

With the excavator and the bonus disaster points in hand, the airdrop rewards this time could be said to greatly improve the mechanical level of the shelter.

As for the compass, whether it was good or bad, it was not so important anymore.

[Pointer (Rare)]

[Description: Press the button above the pointer and silently think of something you want to find. The vague location of the object or subject would be indicated.]

[Limitation 1: The accuracy of the indicated location increases with the depth or degree of bond the object or subject has with the user (Common bonds: blood relation, friends, pets…)]

[Limitation 2: Number of uses: 3/3]

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Chapter 165: The Real "Blizzard"!

"Pointer?"

Looking at this rare-level item curiously, Su Mo tried pressing the button on the top, while silently sketching an outline of his sister's image in his heart.

After meeting his family in the secret realm, it did not take much effort. The information slot on the pointer filled up and began to emit light, forming a phantom image of Su Mo's sister.

Were it not for the fact that the shadow did not light up or speak, Su Mo would have thought that the real person had appeared!

He pressed the button again, and the pointer started to spin frantically. As time passed, the pointer's spinning slowly came to a halt. Su Mo waited and watched with great anticipation in his heart.

Unfortunately, the moment the pointer was about to stop, the information slot suddenly began to fizzle off rapidly.

In less than a second, the purple information slot became empty, and the pointer could only spin around aimlessly. At the same time, a game prompt sounded in his ear.

[Record: Failed to use the pointer.

[Record: Reason for failure: Unknown (Number of uses not deducted)

"Sure enough, all the people who have not been let into the wasteland are either too far away from the humans in the wasteland, or not in the same space entirely."

"Though it may also be that the level of the pointer is not high enough. The information slot just now…"

Su Mo regretfully pressed the pointer again to search for the location of his parents. After the failure prompts once again popped out, Su Mo could only temporarily put the rare item away.

At this point, all the transactions were completed and the airdrop reward had been received. Finally, the moment when the baptism of the disaster was upon them.

Su Mo returned to the garage again and opened the gate. He watched the moon above his head emit an evil red light again after the sunset.

Facing the disaster this time, Su Mo had no fear at all!

However, the last time before the disaster came, the game detected a 99% probability of passing the disaster and distributed a lottery chance.

This time there was no prompt.

From this alone, Su Mo vaguely felt that the disaster was not as simple as he imagined.

"Even my shelter may not be able to survive this disaster. It seems that this blizzard may be a bit different from my expectations…"

Squeezing the flashlight, Su Mo checked that there was no problem with the placement of the iron and copper blocks. Before 8pm arrived, Su Mo returned to the shelter and began to install the final anti-disaster devices.

Air conditioner!

The electricity in the shelter had reached its limit. If there was an increase in electrical consumption, it would consume the diesel reserves to generate electricity. To save electricity before this, the air conditioner could only be placed in the corner like a piece of furniture.

Now, for safety's sake, Su Mo chose to install the air conditioner.

Su Mo opted to fix the external unit of the air conditioner outside the garage gate.

This way the external unit could easily be installed when in use and brought back in at other times, to avoid damage to the fragile external unit.

Regarding the ventilation duct, Su Mo invited the mighty system to construct it, utilizing some of the space reserved for the water pipeline. With that, the air conditioner was successfully connected to the shelter.

After some contemplation, Su Mo chose to place the air conditioner in the center of the third floor.

"It seems that even air conditioning can't bring my shelter's survival rate over 99%. My goodness, it seems quite scary!"

Su Mo tried to turn on and off the air conditioner and, after confirming that there were no problems, he sat on the fabric sofa and prepared a simple dinner.

The disaster was at the forefront of his thoughts and, even though he was in a sturdy shelter, Su Mo did not have the liberty to enjoy himself at this time.

Natural disasters were different from the invasion of foreign mythical races. Under the mighty power of nature, an individual's strength would be miniscule in comparison.

Even powerful guns could not help one withstand an impending disaster.

Oreo had also stopped playing around, and laid lazily in the wooden nest that Su Mo made for her when making tools. Su Mo wondered what she was thinking about.

Su Mo adjusted the time of the big clock he bought from the secret trading realm, which was hung in the middle of the living room on the third floor, ticking away.

Time passed by gradually, and soon it was 11:50pm.

After thinking about it, Su Mo put on his combat uniform, and cautiously opened the garage gate, walking over to the top of the hill which covered the Underground Shelter.

The drop in temperature had not yet commenced, and the red moon was still glowing weirdly. As the light spilled through the large black clouds, the entire basin had been stained blood red, creating a strange and terrifying scene.

There was no record of such a scene even in Magoo's diary.

The unknown would always be a source of great horror.

Looking into the dark depths in the distance, Su Mo simply sat down and waited patiently for the arrival of midnight.

In the World Channel, as well as the regional channel, more and more people were hiding in the disaster relief facilities that they had prepared, watching the outside world cautiously.

Given the previous warning, there were a lot fewer obtuse people this time.

No one thought that this was a prank. Regarding the impending blizzard, only a strong man like Su Mo dared to observe the situation from outside.

23:58…

23:58:30…

23:59…

Time was constantly marched forward; there was no time difference on the wide wasteland. No matter where you were, there seemed to be an invisible pressure that gradually pressed down as the appointed time approached.

Finally, when the old phone in his hands started to ring, reminding him that 12 o'clock was approaching, Su Mo took off his mask; he felt a gentle breeze on his face suddenly rising amidst the calm basin.

At the same time, the dark clouds in the sky no longer brewed, and a few snowflakes drifted down with the breeze.

Reaching out his hand, Su Mo caught a trace of falling snow.

The snowflake was not big, even smaller than the snowfall from seven days ago, but before the snowflake in Su Mo's hand could melt due to body temperature…

The second snowflake fell, and this snowflake was more than twice as big!

The alarm of the old phone rang again, heralding the arrival of 12:01am.

As if the alarm sounded the horn of the disaster, the sparse snowflakes suddenly turned scary.

The wind also quickly picked up; from a level 3 breeze to a level 6 strong wind.

The snow in the sky was carried by the strong wind and began to rage across the basin, engulfing all living things that were still on the ground.

"Could it be that the blizzard…"

"The temperature is not the only highlight, and heavy snow is not the only point to be concerned about, but also this…"

"Wind!"

Standing on the hillside, Su Mo spat out the wind with difficulty. Feeling that the wind had once again increased in intensity, Su Mo's expression turned dark and he walked straight down the hillside.

Blizzard was a vague term on Earth, even abroad.

As long as the weather was below -5C with heavy precipitation, and accompanied by strong currents of cold air, and when water vapor turns into snow and falls, it would be called a blizzard by the weather station.

Most of the time, a blizzard only required a wind speed of 56 kilometers per hour and a temperature drop to below -5C to be termed a "disaster".

One of the largest blizzards on Earth in modern times hit the beautiful state of Buffalo and its surrounding areas in late July 1977.

Buffalo is located in the snow belt east of the Great Lakes in the beautiful country. During most winters, a few feet of snow was commonplace.

However, the blizzard in 1977 was worse, where the wind speed peaked at 113km before subsiding.

Shortly before being transported to the wasteland, the blizzard that had ravaged the beautiful state of Texas only had a wind speed of 40km per hour and a low temperature of -22C.

However, if the so-called blizzard storm on the game panel was calculated according to the standards of Earth…

The wind speed would reach 120km per hour!

Only this wind speed could be called a "storm", and only this kind of disaster could be called "disastrous"!

Try to imagine sitting in a car driving forward at 120 kilometers per hour, and then sticking your head out of the window; experiencing the feeling of the wind pushing harshly against your head out like a pair of big hands.

Now it seemed that the wind speed outside would achieve this speed…

"The disaster is unprecedented. No wonder my shelter did not meet the 99% assessment mark by the game panel on surviving this blizzard!"

By the time he closed the alloy gate, the wind speed had already risen to level 8, and was well on the way to reaching level 9.

At level 8, tree branches would be broken, and people would almost be unable to walk amidst the wind. Level 9 would cause thatched houses to be destroyed, and the roof tiles of bungalows and chimneys would be blown off. Level 10 wind speed was rare, but would cause damage to housing structures and smaller trees would be blown over.

If the wind speed reached Level 11, large trees would be uprooted and buildings would collapse.

Silently recalling the song taught by the teacher during junior high school geography class, and feeling the rustle of the gale on the alloy door, Su Mo felt even more worried.

In this kind of weather, if it was a game-generated wooden house, it would be okay, as its foundation would be set very deep. It would be difficult for the storm to blow it away, the worst part of the disaster would be the decrease in temperature.

However, if it was a self-built wooden house…

Thinking about the various videos that depicted wooden houses being directly blown into the air, Su Mo's heart trembled. He immediately opened the stone door and returned to the third floor of the shelter, which was still warm.

He opened the World Channel. At this time, the number of comments had been updated after 12 o'clock. In addition to the ongoing conversation between people, the secret of the disaster had been discovered.

The speed of comments was out of control!

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Chapter 166: Amidst Wind And Snow! Oreo's Awakening

"Damn, this snow is too heavy. It's only been a few minutes and the snow on the ground has already accumulated by two centimeters!"

"I will be buried alive by this snow in just one day, let alone three days!"

"My house has just been blown away by the strong wind, and now I can only nest in a hole in the ground. What should I do?"

"Those who can, prioritize avoiding the disaster by hiding underground. Try not to go outdoors. Do not open doors and windows. Please remember to ventilate the room for heating!"

"According to Professor Wang's prediction earlier, the storm will reach its peak in 30 minutes. At present, it is estimated that the most difficult period will last at least six hours based on the prevailing conditions!"

"After passing these six hours, you'll be okay. If you don't, you can only die!"

"Mind-numbing, it turns out that when disaster strikes, there will be mythical races emerging as well. I just watched a nest of bear people come out near me!"

"Help me…Help me…"

As these anxious words peppered throughout the World Channel, Su Mo's perspective seemed to have broken through the distance barrier and arrived at the sky above the wasteland.

The crazy wind was still accelerating, without regard for these people who were struggling to survive.

It was also at this moment that Su Mo finally understood why the acid rain was called a "novice disaster".

In the face of this terrifying blizzard, even if the human race's desire to survive was strong, and there were no variables, at least half of the people would fall this winter.

"I hope that the storm will stop during the day, otherwise the human race will be destroyed!"

Looking over and over again at the description of the heavy blizzard disaster in Magoo's notes, Su Mo could only feel anxious inside.

Although the blizzard disaster in Magoo's era was violent, it was confined to just snow and a sharp drop in temperature; the terrifying wind that caused the current dire situation was not present.

"The disaster attributes are completely different. Just what is the purpose of this game?"

The north wind that blew through the ventilation ducts made ghostly, wolf-like, howling sounds that even Su Mo could hear from the third floor.

Flustered, Su Mo was kept completely awake, so he simply returned to the workbench to continue preparing picric acid and guncotton.

As time passed, the temperature in the shelter gradually dropped lower and lower.

As it approached the negative degree territory, Su Mo checked and found that it was four o'clock in the morning. He halted his work and turned on the electric blanket to go to bed.

The outside world was rife with wind and snow, and the small bed in the shelter felt unusually warm.

After lying in bed, Su Mo, who had been tired after the day's activities, began to relax and fell into a deep sleep.

For a sturdy underground shelter like his, the effects of the violent storm raging outside were limited.

The iron and copper blocks outside weighed heavily on the ground due to their density and quantity, which also provided some cover against the violent wind.

Other places, however, were not so lucky.

Although the wooden house created by the game had a deep foundation, it did not mean that the storm had no way to affect the wooden house.

The cold wind would flow through the gaps between the wooden boards, quickly taking away the warmth in the wooden house.

Even for a shelter comprising hundreds of thousands of people, this magnitude of disaster was incomparable. Numerous self-built houses were torn from the ground and directly blown away by the storm.

Some people were even blown away with those houses because they could not avoid the gale.

In the face of this blizzard disaster, without shelter, the human body would be ravaged and frozen in less than 10 minutes, and a life would be lost!

Of course, the lives of the mythical races would not be easy as well.

After descending upon this land, even the powerful mythical races could only try to survive within their own territories, trembling while they watched the blizzard.

As for a race like the lion clan that had lost its core shelter, things would be even worse!

Most of the lion people were directly exposed to the blizzard, and the lighter ones would be directly blown away to dance with the wind, losing contact with the larger group.

Even though the Lioness Priestess waved her staff again and again to control the "wind", this "magic power" was fleeting and feeble when faced with the blizzard disaster.

Death was never far away and, at this moment, it lingered around everyone.

…

"Coo… Coooo"

"Coocoocoocoocoo!"

When the cooing sounds of Big Spark and Little Spark sounded like a big bell, Su Mo opened his visibly tired eyes.

For two consecutive days, because he went to bed late, not only did he not regain his vitality but, every time Su Mo woke up, he felt a sense of exhaustion as if he had been battling for three days and three nights.

"What's wrong…"

His words trailed off, and Su Mo woke up with a start, feeling the long-lost feeling of coldness and hypoxia!

There seemed to be two different worlds separating the inside and outside of the electric blanket. Even as he exhaled, he could see his breath condense in the air.

Even if they were lying at the edges of the bed, Big Spark and Little Spark still could not stop cooing.

Su Mo tried to stretch out his arm toward the cup of psychic energy water by the bedside, but was surprised to find that the psychic energy water in the cup had been frozen into hard ice.

"Damn, the temperature in the shelter should already be around seven or eight degrees below zero. It's too cold!"

Sitting up, Su Mo got dressed and, when his feet touched the ground, he could not help but tremble.

A sweater and thin sweatpants could not prevent the unwanted cold from entering the body.

After putting on the combat uniform hanging in the gym equipment room and turning on the electric heating switch, Su Mo finally warmed up.

"Huh, Oreo, what's wrong with you?"

When he got dressed, he went to the second floor to check on the ventilation ducts seeing that he felt a lack of oxygen in the air. Then Su Mo saw Oreo lying in the corner.

Oreo, who was always lively in the past, seemed very sluggish at the moment, with a gleam of light radiating all over her body.

Su Mo tried to walk over to hug Oreo but, even through the combat uniform, Su Mo felt the biting cold.

At the same time, there was a "snowflake-like" symbol on Oreo's forehead, which flashed like it was breathing.

"Oreo, Oreo!"

Shaking her a few times and finding that Oreo was still unconscious, Su Mo quickly opened Oreo's status panel.

[Pet name: Oreo]

[Status: Growth period (personality has been fixed)]

[Creature description: A gentle wasteland creature. A variant Husky that inherited multiple bloodlines, it will become stronger as it grows.]

[Ability 1: Moves at high speed. Its muscle structure guarantees a certain explosive power. After the ability is stimulated, its speed doubles within 30 seconds, with a cooldown time of 5 minutes.]

[Ability 2: Sixth sense. The biological structure gives it an acute sense of perception. After stimulating the ability, it can briefly predict incoming danger, with a cooldown time of 1 day.]

[Ability 3: Ice? Snow? (???)]

[Current State: Awakening]

"Huh? Oreo has entered an awakening state, and the third ability has some text displayed already?"

Su Mo did not check Oreo's panel often. This immediately gave Su Mo a surprise.

Even the fragments of the lion clan's sculpture and the rat people's feather had failed to awaken Oreo. He did not expect such a coincidence to occur after the blizzard arrived.

"She moved here from her nest, so Oreo must have felt the need for cold weather to undergo her awakening."

"With that said, Oreo's cold body should be in the midst of awakening now!"

After finding out the reason, Su Mo's anxiety eased a little, and he hugged Oreo and carried her over the gate of the garage. After putting her down, Somo opened the alloy gate!

Whoosh!

Swish!

As soon as the gate was raised, the snow that had piled up outside the gate poured in, blown into the garage along with the cold wind.

Feeling this coldness, the snowflake symbol on Oreo's head flashed even faster, and its brightness increased further.

He kept on working the winch until the gate was completely open. Holding Oreo, Su Mo walked out of the garage and arrived at the snowy world outside.

Compared with the violent gale at night, the wind speed at this time had already dropped, but the wind speed was still around level 7.

The height of the accumulated snow in the basin had already exceeded 1m at this time, and did not show any sign of stopping as they continued to stack up.

Due to the wind, the snow had been compacted. Stepping on it, aside from the slippery feeling, it felt as if he was walking on the ground.

Su Mo first came to the place where the iron and copper blocks were stored near the shelter.

The heavy snow had completely covered the materials, making it impossible to tell that there were thousands of basic materials buried here.

At the end of the horizon, Su Mo saw two wild wolves.

It was a pity that the wild wolves immediately fled with their tails between their legs when they saw him. They gradually disappeared into the distance.

"Sure enough, the temperature, snow and wind are all stimulating the blood in Oreo's body!"

When it came to the outside world, the snowflake sign that was still flashing at first began to react like a mobile phone that had emerged from an elevator. The light was no longer blinking, instead giving off a constant glow.

At the same time, the terrifying low temperature of Oreo's body gradually faded and slowly rose to a normal temperature.

In this kind of weather, Su Mo simply started to measure and inspect the situation near the shelter on his feet before the storm would return once again.

Compared with the previously desolate basin, this disaster not only brought wind and snow, but also brought with it a number of paw prints on the ground.

"So in the event of a disaster, other mutant creatures will be released simultaneously. This may become the hope of mankind in the wasteland."

Looking at the panicked mountain hare in the distance, Su Mo pretended to chase after it, taking two steps before stopping.

He opened the monster illustration handbook that had not been used in a long time. After scanning, the prompt sound was the same as when it was opened.

Within one kilometer of the shelter, there were seven kinds of mutant creatures.

There were 6 snow rabbits!

"Today I'm in a good mood, so I'll let you go. Be careful in the future!"

There was no shortage of food in the shelter at present, and Su Mo had also decided to forgo hunting to make preparations for the development of an ecosystem in the basin.

Any creature that could survive the disaster may become the next member of the shelter, or be bred to provide a sustainable source of food for the future.

"Huh? It seems a bit weird. This time there wasn't a prompt for me to enter the disaster list? Is there someone even better?"

Walking up the hillside, and looking at the iron and stone hill towering in the distance in the blizzard, Su Mo suddenly remembered this important question!

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Chapter 167: New Rules, The Revelry Of Lone Wolves

Previously, the game panel directly prompted him after waking up that he had secured first place and of the live broadcast. This time though, the panel did not prompt him for anything.

Carrying doubts in his mind, Su Mo focused mentally and opened the game panel.

Sure enough, under the chat function, in addition to the World Channel and the regional channel, the previous disaster resistance channel had reappeared.

He clicked into the Disaster Resistance Channel.

This time, the capacity of the live broadcast room had doubled compared with the last time, and there were a total of 20 live broadcast rooms listed on it.

"Oh, none of the top ten shelters from last time were ranked in the top twenty and, looking at these names, it seems that they are all lone wolves!"

The live broadcast last time was eligible for all team shelters. Apart from Su Mo, the shelter that had the least people had seven people!

In contrast, these titles looked more like the revelry of lone wolves.

"The Number One Shelter in History, Master of Survival – An Abstract Lone Wolf Survival Guide with Basket"

"Click into my live broadcast room to avoid disasters with me. You are the best today as well buddies!"

"Don't simply try to dig a hole, kid. Listen to uncle, everything on the Internet is ethereal. You can't grasp it, child!"

"Shattering the myth. Speculating on the future development of shelters after the disaster and the downfall of Su Mo's shelter!"

"Su Mo's downfall, is it inevitable or accidental? Click into my live broadcast room and let's analyze it together!"

"Multi-person shelter (), single-person shelter (). Only lone wolves can survive in the apocalyptic wasteland!"

…

In the introduction section detailing the number of people on the homepage, except for a shelter that had six people, most of the other shelters were kept between three to five people.

As for single-person shelters, he had not seen any yet.

Aside from that, in these live broadcast rooms, he did not know who had brought it up, but several of them put the words "Su Mo" in the title to catch the audience's attention.

After trying to click into the live broadcast room of "Shattering the myth", his vision turned black, and he once again came to the familiar third-person perspective view.

Controlling the angle of view, Su Mo observed the terrain around this shelter.

The vast mountains!

The undulating mountains were like giant beasts, their towering peaks sturdily blocking the wind and covering the lower areas from receiving the full brunt of the perils of the blizzard.

At the same time, snow also fell along the mountain peaks and piled up on the valley paths connecting the mountains.

Different from the Underground Shelter in the basin, the place where this live broadcast room was located did not adopt the conventional shelter method, but chose to dig a hole in the mountain.

The location of this mountain was not high, and it happened to be in the center of the mountains. At the edge of the viewfinder screen, a striking number was displayed:

11!

As Su Mo switched to the anchor point of view, before he could listen to what the person was saying, the live broadcast room became lively.

"Oh? Let's welcome the previous first place holder, big boss Su Mo, into my live broadcast room!"

"Did you just wake up or just finished resisting the disaster? Burn more fire, it's such a cold day. As the hope for Huaxia, don't fall away~"

Looking ahead, the cynical and skeptical voice of a young man with yellow hair echoed as he stared into the game panel, full of provocation.

"Hm?"

After summoning the game panel next to him, Su Mo was surprised to find that the top of the live broadcast room was marked brightly with the words:

[Welcoming the No. 1 ranked player of the first disaster resistance, Su Mo, into the live broadcast room!]

"It turns out that it can still be played like this. It is a bit like the announcement of the emperor entering the live broadcast room on the platforms on Earth!"

He simply shook his head. Su Mo was not annoyed. He patiently watched the yellow-haired dude in the video continue to be arrogant and watched the arguments in the room.

As the first ranked person previously, even after the passing of time, Su Mo could be regarded as popular. At this time, there were many "keyboard warriors" who stood up for Su Mo and argued.

Unfortunately, this yellow-haired dude was also a scheming dog. As long as he saw someone who stood up for Su Mo, they would be muted on the spot.

"Oh Almighty Su, your fans are too powerful, if only your shelter were just as strong!"

Exasperatedly spreading his hands and looking at the yellow-haired dude's provocative expression, Su Mo deeply remembered his face and left the live broadcast room.

After reading the comments on the screen, Su Mo had a preliminary understanding of the judging criteria this time.

Different from the previous judgment criteria, which was based on the degree of disaster resistance of the shelter, this time it was judged solely based on the overall temperature in the shelter.

Whoever's shelter had the highest temperature, multiplied by the shelter's development coefficient, they would be ranked first.

Naturally, the reason why large-scale shelters were not on the list was obvious.

'Because there were too many shelters, even if the temperature of one room was 10 degrees, if there was another room that was below 0 degrees, the shelter would not be placed on the list.

"If the coefficient is a positive number, then the coefficient would only be meaningful when the temperature is above zero."

"When the temperature is zero or below zero, the calculated disaster resistance index would be a negative number, so naturally it would not be on the list."

This set of rules was very simple to calculate, and it was also a form of balance between the game and all shelters.

It aimed to tell everyone that it was not only large groups that would survive to the final days. Three or five people could also survive and flourish.

Otherwise, if the disaster resistance strength of the shelter were to be calculated according to the same rules every time, then large shelters would be ranked first every time because of the number of people and the advantages they held. Naturally, other lone wolves and small shelters would not be able to get on the list their entire lives or enjoy the airdrop rewards.

"A very reasonable setting. Unfortunately, why do these people think that this is my downfall?"

He clicked into all the live broadcast rooms where the word "Su Mo" was hung one by one. After appreciating these people's fancy stamp on one's foot, Su Mo was not annoyed either. He sat on the top of the mountain happily, waiting for the completion of Oreo's awakening.

This time the selection was more standard than the last time. It was not that, if the temperature of the shelter was raised, then that player would be ranked first.

For example, although the real-time temperature of the three-person shelter currently ranked first was only 14 degrees, it firmly suppressed the second ranked real-time temperature of 18 degrees.

The reason was that the selection of the game also integrated the authenticity of the temperature.

When the temperature reached above 0 degrees, ranks were fixed only if the temperature could be maintained for an hour, which would then be set as that shelter's temperature.

After reaching the current minimum standard of 6 degrees, the shelter could be on the top twenty list.

Then, when the current temperature of the shelter exceeded its previous historical temperature, if it could keep this temperature for an hour, the temperature score set would be refreshed.

This rule restrained those who thought of just adding firewood and relying on the instantaneous heat generated to surpass others on the ranking.

"Let the situation continue to develop for a while. These people can be arrogant for a while longer. I'm not worried…"

Feeling that his body was a little cold and stiff, Su Mo pressed the heating switch at his waist again, stimulating the hot air to warm his body.

During these three days, Oreo's safety was his first priority.

As long as Oreo could smoothly awaken the bloodline, even if he had to sit outside all day, Su Mo would be willing!

Time gradually passed, and the heavy snow had already buried half of Su Mo's body. Lying in the snow and watching the live broadcast rooms, Su Mo was relaxed.

There were a few bold mutant mountain hares. After running away at first, they now gradually ran over and stayed near Su Mo, running around and playing.

Mountain hares were generally independent creatures, except when they were in heat.

They would hide in simple holes built under shrubs in the basin, which they covered with dried leaves and branches from fallen trees, as well as their own shed fur.

These animals would emerge early in the morning, at dusk, and at night. Their nests were not fixed, so there was a saying that "a crafty rabbit has three burrows".

The monster illustration handbook had also clearly stated that this animal was not aggressive at all. As for Su Mo, he did not intend to chase these neighbors away, so he grabbed a very playful one and put it on his hand, ruffling its fur.

"Unfortunately, rabbits are not suitable for breeding and their IQs are relatively low. If they're held captive in the shelter they will just become extra mouths to feed. Let them live in the basin to enrich the ecosystem."

When caught by Su Mo, the mountain hare was startled, but as he spent more time caressing it, it eventually laid down and enjoyed Su Mo's touch.

Seeing that scene, the other mountain hares also rushed over, making a whining sound and begging Su Mo to pet them.

The mutated wasteland creatures abandoned most of the original habits of Earth's creatures and were extremely amiable when they found that humans were friendly.

After petting them for a while, Su Mo searched for the remaining plant fibers in the storage space and took out some to share with these little guys. When watching the mountain hares happily running away with the plant fibers, Su Mo's mood improved.

Each round of disaster heralded not only the bell of death, but also the horn of new life.

With the advent of disasters, the game would create a large number of wasteland creatures to enrich the barren wasteland world.

If an ecosystem with sufficient resilience to disasters could be built, it might become possible to realize the concept of a "small world" through the cultivation of a variety of wasteland creatures.

"Why am I thinking so far ahead? Let's wait until I find more information regarding the previous disasters!"

Magoo's information had brought about much convenience, and Su Mo was also curious about humankind's outcome from the previous iteration.

He opened the friends' panel and found a friend whose profile picture had been crossed out. Su Mo then created the fourth account for documentation.

"This account will be used to jot down some of my plans for the future!"

After writing this sentence, taking advantage of his free time, Su Mo began to think about his plans after the disaster.

According to Magoo's diary, there was a period of restoration and respite after the blizzard, so Su Mo decided to take the initiative to explore the outside world.

He must at least explore the 300 kilometers surrounding the Underground Shelter!

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Chapter 168: Trending Globally, Completion Of Bullets!

The wind was still blowing and the snow was still falling. Sitting idly, Su Mo could finally take the time to check out and observe things he had forgotten because of his rushed lifestyle over the past weeks.

For example, in the storage space, there were three sets of brand new cotton clothes.

Another example, the snowflakes, clouds in the sky, as well as the strong wind, did not interfere with each other, forming a very strange climate cycle.

Of course, there were also the thoughts brought about by examining the other lone wolf shelters.

All the current "lone wolves", including the number one shelter, were also built atop the terrain.

More and more people were choosing to abandon the houses created by the game panel and build their own shelters instead.

"Apart from chatting and trading secrets, most people have begun to figure out how to break free from the confines of the game panel."

"This was also the right approach, because if human beings placed their entire hopes on the game panel, then they would always be stuck at its mercy!"

Abandoning the shelter built by the game panel did not only mean the loss of the "upgrade", "transcendent blessings", "extensibility"… and other in-game functions.

Some modular technologies that may be useful in the future would also be constrained. This would seriously affect the speed of development.

This was the reason why even large shelters had to maintain a few game houses.

The first update had removed the production system and added many restrictions, including the paid use of manufacturing.

Payment restrictions were introduced to private messaging chat.

It was precisely because of this update that most people lost their confidence in the game panel and chose to try to break away from the game's control.

After all, if one day the upgraded shelters were recovered by the game panel, would it not mean direct death?

Even if Su Mo did not think much about this, in the mouth of some "conspiracy theorists", it had evolved to become more and more exaggerated.

"Games, systems, individuals, races…"

Carefully relating the connection between these nouns, Su Mo tried to think about the points that might be involved. This lasted until midday when his stomach grumbled, reminding Su Mo that he had been sitting out there for a long time.

The "storm" during daytime was not strong, which also gave all the creatures living on this land a chance to breathe.

Seeing that Oreo was still asleep in his arms, Su Mo simply walked down the hill. He returned to the workbench, took out a few wooden boards, and built a small nest large enough to house Oreo and placed it at the entrance of the garage.

Big Spark and Little Spark cooed and followed Su Mo around. Seeing Oreo lying motionless on the ground, both of them trotted over anxiously, and laid down next to Oreo, and squealed.

"It's okay. You two take care of Oreo. Just call me if anything happens!"

The temperature on the first floor of the shelter was already terrifyingly low, especially since the garage gate was open, allowing the cold wind to come in. Even though he had the combat uniform, Su Mo was still shivering from the cold.

It was not until he returned to the second floor that he took out the new cotton-padded clothes and trousers. Su Mo put on the clothes, and turned on the electric switch at his waist, immediately feeling much more comfortable.

Oreo needed the cold so, sitting in the shelter, Su Mo did not turn on the air conditioner's heating function. He could only sit in front of the workbench and forcefully concentrate on studying the technology tree to develop weapons and ammunition.

The nitrocellulose made in the storage space, also known as guncotton, was extremely safe.

After nearly a day of collection, the ethylene in the motor-pumped oil well was taken out, and Su Mo began to figure out a way to make the last two important items:

Ethanol and ether!

The production of ethanol was developed based on winemaking.

People had been fermenting grain to make wine since ancient times. In the 12th century, when wine was distilled, it was the first time that alcohol was separated from the wine.

Before the 20th century, fermentation was the only industrial production method for ethanol.

Then around 1930, the Union Carbide Corporation established the first industrial plant to produce ethanol using ethylene, a byproduct of thermal cracking of petroleum as the raw material, absorbed by sulfuric acid and then hydrolyzed.

This famous ethylene indirect hydration method was convenient and simple and had significant advantages. Once it appeared, it quickly became the best method for preparing ethanol.

There was a large amount of high-purity sulfuric acid in the shelter, and it was too snowy to go out anyway. With this being the case, after eating some pancakes to regain his strength, Su Mo began to concentrate on preparing it.

It did not take long for a large amount of ethanol to be prepared.

As for the production of ether, it was even simpler. According to the reaction formula, to prepare ether, one only needed to break the O-H bond and the C-O bond to complete the process.

With the large number of historical experiments and research projects undertaken by humanity's predecessors, the biggest difficulty in creating smokeless gunpowder lay in finding the appropriate "cotton".

As for the diphenylamine used to prepare the stabilizer, it only made up a small percentage of the final product.

After researching and discovering that its price in the system was not expensive, he spent 20 survival points and bought an amount sufficient to prepare 20000 bullets.

"Tabletting…cutting…drying…hardening…"

Step by step, Su Mo did everything patiently and completely followed the scientific preparation methodology. By the time evening came, all the guncotton had finally been made!

The smokeless gunpowder was cut into strips and neatly arranged on the workbench. No matter from which angle it was viewed from, it portrayed a different kind of beauty.

After working for many days, Su Mo's hands had become a little rough.

Especially when touching smokeless gunpowder, this friction felt more intense.

"Smokeless gunpowder! Something that had not been researched for centuries, yet I only took one day from the beginning to the end!"

Standing on the shoulders of giants and looking at the world around him, at this moment, Su Mo was very grateful for the knowledge he has received consciously or unconsciously from the civilized era.

Be it a novel, or a Zhihu answer, or even a marketing account with a lot of useless information.

These information streams formed a huge knowledge bank that contained the wisdom of modern humans. After coming to the apocalyptic wasteland, it could be quickly transformed into a form of "strength"!

With modular technology, there was no need to wait for all smokeless gunpowder to dry and harden.

3000 rounds of bullets required 18 blocks of copper and 2 blocks of lead.

There was a large number of copper blocks in the base, which were all meant to be used to prepare the ammunition, so Su Mo did not feel reluctant at all. He picked up and carried the requisite number of copper blocks and placed them next to the laser manufacturing machine.

After putting all the smokeless gunpowder, and copper and lead blocks, into the storage space of the laser manufacturing machine, Su Mo nervously clicked on the button to begin the preparation of ammunition.

The current stored power of the machine was 50kWh. After a day of charging, it had reached its peak value once again.

It took 23kWh to prepare 3000 rounds of bullets. There was not too much preparation work. When the green light lit up, Su Mo carefully used both hands to press on the manufacturing button, and the familiar round iron cover emerged again!

Clank, clank, clank…

There were bursts of abnormal noises and, at the same time, the chain inside the machine began to rotate.

Within two minutes, the harvest time finally came when a circular incision the size of a fist appeared on the iron cover!

Boom!

Clang!

A brass-colored bullet was spat out by the machine, flying into the adjacent steel collection bucket in front of the machine, and making a "delicious" crisp sound.

Then, as if corn kernels had entered a popcorn machine, more and more bullets were spat out, piling into the bucket. They were automatically arranged into a neat shape by the steel belt inside.

Sitting in front of the machine's collection bucket, Su Mo propped his head up and quietly watched the neat 5.56mm bullets inside. The happiness in his heart surged as each bullet was collected one after another.

Poor people relied on tactics, while the rich relied on firepower!

With 3000 rounds of bullets, Su Mo was confident in stopping thousands of cavalry, let alone the kobolds, lion people, or even the taurens who were given the title of "fierce tigers" by everyone.

Technology would give an individual a level of strength that would terrify these foreign mythical races.

Although he did not know which human traitor would be the first to reveal the human-technology weapons to the mythical races, at this moment, Su Mo believed…

That he had walked ahead of everyone in the world!

"These groups of buffoons! How can the honor of world's first be secured by these nobodies?"

While waiting, he opened the live broadcast channel again and looked at the titles of the live broadcast rooms above. Su Mo grinned and chuckled.

In the afternoon, of the 20 live broadcast rooms, six of the live broadcast rooms had the word "Su Mo" hanging in them and had various mocking titles attached to them.

In the evening, this number had intensified. Fourteen of these live broadcast rooms had changed their names to increase their popularity ratings and viewership.

Compared with the large-scale shelters, these newly-listed lone wolves were like upstarts who had suddenly won the lottery, trying their best to get the most attention within the shortest time.

"Fame is like poison covered with honey. If you accidentally eat it, you would only poison yourself!"

Su Mo shook his head. Just as he was about to close the channel, he saw that the live broadcast room ranked fourth seemed a bit familiar.

"Feng Mengyue? Why is this name so familiar?"

After browsing through his private message panel, Su Mo finally remembered that when he first came to this wasteland, both of them had made a deal.

The rare-quality glass had been bought from Feng Mengyue.

Seeing an old acquaintance, Su Mo did not think much about it. Seeing that the room's title was "The Only Game Shelter", he clicked into it with great interest.

As the only game shelter in the top 20, Feng Mengyue's live broadcast room naturally caught the attention of many people.

Also, in the attribute panel in the upper right corner, there were 23 people in her shelter. With most of the live broadcast rooms featuring 3 to 6 people, it definitely stood out.

"It's a neat house, with windbreakers on all sides. No wonder the average temperature is 9 degrees!"

The angle of view changed, showing the six neatly arranged houses on the ground and the hole in the middle. Su Mo nodded, affirming the strength of his old acquaintance.

The construction of the windbreaker wall took no effort. It was mixed with mud and weeds, and various large stones were buried in the ground. The gaps in the wall were smeared with mud. Overall, the windbreaker wall looked very strong and resistant.

The angle of view changed again, arriving at the house in the periphery, where Su Mo finally saw Feng Mengyue's face for the first time.

"It's a bit weird, it feels like there is a big gap between the actual person and the photo!"

Feng Mengyue's photo was the kind that seemed very heroic at first glance, but the woman sitting in the house had the gentle vibe of a Jiangnan woman.

"I have seen a lot of comments mentioning Su Mo. About this, I believe that strength is strength, and ranking is ranking. To have lived in the wasteland for a long time and accumulated abundant supplies; that alone is already a symbol of strength. Don't be misled by those streamers!"

No matter which live broadcast room he was in, everyone would never get tired of the word "Su Mo". After watching for a while, Su Mo shook his head helplessly and exited the live broadcast room.

"Materials, I have; weapons, I also have them; as for the temperature…"

"Sorry, I have that too!"

Watching the last bullet bounce into the collection bucket and be arranged neatly by the steel belt, Su Mo looked at the air conditioner and smiled.

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Chapter 169: Upsurge Of Temperature, Rising To Rank One

Rows upon rows of bullets were arranged in the collection bucket. Su Mo took one out and, under the light, he could see the serial number on the bullet.

SM-5.56-2058.

This was the mark that the laser manufacturing machine automatically added when manufacturing bullets, and it was also a symbol of the "strength" of automation.

If anyone got their hands on this bullet, they would know immediately by observing the serial number that it was not obtained from a treasure chest, but manufactured by a machine.

The neat bullets were engraved with steel patterns according to the arrangement of the numbers.

Su Mo removed 40 bullets and took out the M-1 automatic rifle from the storage space, which had been manufactured but had not been loaded with bullets yet.

It was his first time loading an automatic rifle. Using his experience in loading pistols, Su Mo quickly completed loading the magazine.

Click!

The magazine was pushed into the rifle.

With the rifle on his shoulder, Su Mo, who was surging with pride, stepped forward to the garage gate on the first floor. After looking around, he found a wild wolf staring at Big Spark and Little Spark from a distance.

This kind of wild wolf was clearly described in the monster illustration handbook. They had strengthened cold resistance and a heightened sense of smell. They were the natural enemy of herbivores and had a natural fear of medium and large enemies.

Looking at the location where the four wild wolves were hiding, Su Mo warmed up his body that was covered by a cotton jacket and picked up the automatic rifle.

The most important thing for novices when shooting from a standing posture was relaxation.

Everyone had their own preferred shooting posture, which would differ according to the situation.

In actual combat, it would not be like the scenes in movies or TV series where everyone had the exact same posture when holding a gun. In real situations and actual combat, except for strictly trained honor guards, all kinds of strange shooting postures would appear.

For example, in Su Mo's current posture, he cradled the heel of the gun between his shoulder joint to fix it in place and ensure that it would not shake.

The next second, as the wild wolf in the distance came into view again, his quick reflexes and growing physical fitness made Su Mo instinctively raise the gun and turn off the safety.

The heel of the gun was wedged between his body and shoulder, and his cheeks were pressed closely against the gun; eyes aligned with the muzzle of the gun. Aiming at the still bewildered wolf, Su Mo quickly pulled the trigger.

Tat tat tat!

Using the rifle for the first time was undoubtedly more terrifying compared with using a pistol; the recoil was incomparable. The three simultaneous shots pushed the gun back and caused pain in Su Mo's shoulder, and he also had temporary tinnitus in his ears.

The rumbling sound was like a heavy blow to the head. Su Mo, who had not yet acclimatized to this feeling, almost fell to the ground.

"My goodness, the scenes in the TV series are all a lie. The recoil of the rifle is quite scary."

While looking at the wolf lying on the ground in the distance, Su Mo rubbed his aching shoulder and walked over.

He used his shoulders to resist the recoil effect and did not take the initiative to push back and continue firing, resulting in highly accurate shots.

The leading wolf among the four wild wolves had been pierced by three bullets. The 5.56mm lead bullet immediately burst into the wild wolf's body with great power.

Striking red blood spewed from the wolf's body that dyed the surrounding snow red.

Su Mo looked around for a moment before turning the wolf over, carefully examining the spot where the bullet landed.

Of the three bullets, only one accurately hit the wolf's abdomen.

This bullet formed a big trumpet-shaped hole at the point of impact.

"Sss… such terrifying damage! As long as the accuracy is guaranteed, a single bullet would be enough to take the life of an enemy!"

Looking at the wound, Su Mo was surprised.

During the period when bullets were being rapidly developed, the military deliberately enhanced the deformability factor of bullets.

For example, they used lead, which easily deformed, to cast the core of the bullets, and then coated it with a thin layer of copper, which would ensure that the bullet's flight trajectory remained accurate. After hitting the human body, the copper coating and lead core would instantly deform.

It was like putting a mass of mud on the wall, which instantly increased its surface area. All the kinetic energy of the bullet would be poured into the human body, increasing its lethal force.

Even if an unimportant body part was hit, this type of production method made the damage caused by the resulting bullet cavity, from the impact, sufficiently deadly.

Using his previous experience as the basis, this time, Su Mo practiced on the remaining three wild wolves, using up all the remaining bullets.

Of the three shooting modes, firing a single shot was the most stable and suitable for long-range shooting, continuous instantaneous firing was suited to close combat and suppression, and the three-burst shot was suitable for dealing with fast-moving targets.

"Rather than single shots, I would use a crossbow for sneak attacks or assassinations. The automatic mode is the best and gets your blood boiling, though the price of these bullets are still very expensive."

Smacking his lips, Su Mo put the automatic rifle back into the storage space and looked at the few wild wolves lying on the ground. He did not consider taking them back, so he found a low-lying spot, and threw them straight down; their flesh and blood would be used to fertilize the land.

It seemed that as more time passed on the wasteland, the lower the rate of treasure chests emerging was, especially from these ordinary mutant creatures. Hunting these four wild wolves did not yield even a single treasure chest.

"Kobolds, after this winter is over, we can finally end our grievances!"

Back in front of the base, looking at Oreo who was still in a coma in her nest, Su Mo felt the wind gradually pick up as darkness set over the land. He looked toward the direction of the kobold castle, his eyes full of killing intent.

With guns and ammunition, it was only a matter of time before he got rid of the kobolds.

Su Mo resisted the idea of attacking during the disaster, despite the allure of the thousands of kobolds in the castle and the treasure chests they represented..

He waited approximately another two hours and, when he felt the wind speed reach level 9, he picked up Oreo and carried her back into the garage.

Fortunately, the time he spent waiting that day was not in vain. At least when he touched her head, Oreo was already showing signs of awakening.

Moving Oreo's nest back to the first floor, Su Mo opened her mouth and poured some crumbled pancakes and psychic energy water. Su Mo safely closed the stone door and returned to the second floor of the shelter.

"It seems that Oreo's awakening will take another day to complete. Fortunately, nothing has happened recently, otherwise I wouldn't be able to take care of her if I had to go out!"

It had been a cold day, and Big Spark and Little Spark were looking weak. They drank some psychic energy water and went off to lay motionlessly on the sofa.

Looking at the two of them, Su Mo was not too worried. He went over to the energy distribution room to adjust the power supply.

The increase in power was accompanied by even louder noises from the generators.

The machine was still working at this time, importing the design blueprints for the explosives and RPG. There were no raw materials for the time being for the RPG and it could not be built. However, the simplest explosives could still be produced in batches.

Excellent-quality explosives would be both powerful and stable at the same time, not to mention much neater than handmade ones.

Su Mo waited until the picric acid produced during the daytime was assembled, generating 30 neat bags of explosives, then he stopped his busy schedule.

Back in the living room, and lying on the soft sofa, he felt his body had begun to lose heat after taking off the combat uniform. Su Mo's eyes turned to the external unit of the air conditioner… and the electromagnetic cooking equipment he bought!

In the secret trading realm, he had acquired two induction cookers, which were still intact.

"Oh, these people are all impatient. That's it?"

At night, when the storm picked up, the temperature in the No. 1 shelter in the disaster resistance live broadcast room had reached 7 degrees.

The remaining live broadcast rooms kept their temperatures between 3-5 degrees, and the temperature in the remaining live broadcast room was only a pitiful 1 degree.

Were it not for the one hour refresh period to record the temperature readings, these people might end up off the list before long.

Standing up, Su Mo first used the abundant wood in the shelter to create a TV cabinet in the living room according to the furniture style given in the previous design blueprint, and then moved the LCD TV over.

After thinking about it, he made another set of dining table stools along the way and placed them in the middle.

After many days of manufacturing, Su Mo's production speed was very quick. In addition, there was no need for polishing and design considerations. In just half an hour, the empty living room was furnished.

After carefully cleaning the electromagnetic cooker and confirming that there was no problem, Su Mo drew out half a bucket of psychic energy water and set it aside.

The tomatoes in the culture medium were not ripe yet, but the harvest period for the Chinese cabbage was about right.

He took three Chinese cabbages and three heads of garlic, and placed them in the ingredient box he carried in his arms. Su Mo then walked over to the freezer.

The beef, mutton, and fish meat received from the treasure chests were frozen in the freezer and still very fresh when taken out.

Putting the meat into the ingredient box as well, Su Mo picked out another pound of mangoes and a pound of apples with it.

He picked up the remaining dried noodles and the three bottles of Wanglaoji tea drinks and placed the ingredient box in front of the dining table on the third floor. Su Mo then came to the air conditioner.

In such terrible weather, Su Mo was a little worried when he turned on the air conditioner for the first time but, when he thought about the attributes of the external unit, he decisively turned on the switch.

Woo~ woo~

He adjusted the mode to heating with a temperature of 24 degrees, and the power rating of 2400W was selected. The air conditioner began to rumble slowly, making a harsh whining sound.

The slender air-conditioning duct that was connected to the external unit started to operate, and a burst of fiery red light suddenly passed down from the duct and connected to the main unit.

[Record: Your equipment has gained a new attribute (temporary). Please check it.

This red light was very peculiar and, even though there was no LED light on the surface of the body, it continued to emit light.

When Su Mo ran his hand over the main unit, an illusory attribute panel popped out.

[All-weather "combat" external unit (Currently working)]

[Description: The Tian Er Air Conditioner has a "combative" external unit. The harsher the environment, the more it stimulates the fighting spirit of the external unit and creates special effects. Please check the specific effects out personally.]

[Function:

[Storm (Temporary): The external unit felt the presence of a life-threatening storm, which stimulated a little fighting spirit and created the perseverance effect.]

[Low temperature (Temporary): The external unit heeded the main unit's call, and created the rapid heating effect.]

[Special Ability:

[Perseverance: Without external interference, it will never be damaged by the storm.]

[Rapid heating: When the set temperature is lower than 24 degrees, it will temporarily operate at 300% power. The power consumption will increase by 300% accordingly.]

"My goodness, this is an air conditioner? It's more like a combat tool!"

According to the current 2400W energy consumption of the air conditioner, as long as the heating was turned on, the consumption would reach 7200W in an instant.

Such a terrifying power consumption, it was simply a luxury and a waste to use on an air conditioner.

After trying to adjust the power consumption down to 1000W, Su Mo turned on the heating function again, and the power consumption soared to 3000W in an instant and, at the same time, a hot wind began to blow forth.

-7…

-3…

-1…

2!

In just two to three minutes, the overall temperature in the shelter directly rose to 2 degrees, and it was still rising.

This feeling was more obvious when he was on the third floor of the Underground Shelter. The temporary hot wind gave off a feeling as if summer had returned.

He tried to open the disaster resistance live broadcast page and, as expected, a prompt appeared:

[Record: Congratulations to the player Su Mo. It has been detected that your shelter is currently the world's No. 1 in disaster resistance. Would you like to disclose the ranking data and activate the live broadcast of the shelter's disaster resistance?

[Record: Please note that turning on the live broadcast will not broadcast the interior of the shelter. It will open a surround-style live broadcast over the shelter, and only allow other players to observe the buildings on the ground!

[Record: If the time accumulated on the list is more than 12 hours, or the number of viewers reaches 5 hundred million, and if you have successfully survived the disaster, you would receive a random survival airdrop *1.

[Record: Would you like to start the live broadcast?

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Chapter 170: Mukbang, One Billion Views!

The prompt notification of the game panel popped out. With a temperature reading of only 3 degrees celsius, he had exceeded the other shelter's 7 degrees celsius reading that was previously placed first. Su Mo just clicked "cancel" without a care.

"After using the stone door to isolate a layer, the game still calculates the temperature, which is smart."

"I'm already ranked first with a reading of only 3 degrees. Some people will inevitably have some things to say about it. I will show them today!"

Sitting on the sofa and enjoying the hot wind, Su Mo was in a good mood as he watched the "clowns" start their revelry on the disaster resistance channel.

No wonder these lone wolves stepped on him so much to win over the audience. The reason was that, this time, the airdrop reward distribution method had changed.

In the first acid rain disaster, as long as they were on a live broadcast for 15 minutes, they could get an airdrop reward.

This time, two conditions were added. Either be on the list for twelve hours, or be watched by 500 million people at the same time.

For these lone wolves who accidentally made the list, reaching twelve hours was almost an impossible task, so they could only rely on the number of people to find an easier way to get the airdrop rewards.

To reach 500 million people, someone has already given a wealth code:

"Su Mo!"

As long as they put the word "Su Mo" and added in some experience or knowledge sharing, it was possible to reach 500 million viewers if they were lucky.

Once this news was released, these people who were able to make the list were excited.

As for the first person who spread the news and initiated this trend, Su Mo did not want to pursue the matter as it was unnecessary.

Reputation was achieved by strength, not through little tricks.

These people who stole airdrop rewards with little tricks might think that they were being smart, but they would fall behind inevitably.

The Internet would remember and, similarly, chat channels would too.

As long as Su Mo's reputation continued to increase, the people who had attacked him would be like clowns, ridiculous and pathetic.

"I'll wait… there's no hurry. If I release it now, based on this temperature reading, how can it have a shocking effect?"

The heating efficiency of the three-kilowatt air conditioner was amazing. In just half an hour, the temperature on the second and third floors of the shelter had risen to 14 degrees.

Su Mo opened the stone door and went over to the garage for a stroll. After finding that the garage was still cold, Su Mo closed the door and returned to the third floor in relief.

Oreo needed a cold environment to awaken. Luckily, with these heavy stone doors and stone walls, they could isolate the heat source and keep the garage cold.

It was freezing outside. It was about eight o'clock in the evening and almost everyone had returned to their shelter, awaiting the judgment of the natural disaster at night.

In the warm three-story shelter with bright electric lights, Su Mo sat at the dining table and began to prepare dinner.

His knife sliced the frozen beef, mutton, and fish meat into thin slices that lay neatly on a white plate, exuding an alluring fragrance.

There were three whole plates of crystal-clear meat sliced thinly like the wings of a cicada, which were paired with the eye-catching green vegetables next to it. This dinner was not something unfamiliar to everyone in the civilized era, it was…

"Hotpot!"

The water had been quietly heated by the induction cooker, and started to boil slowly.

Su Mo moved the pot aside and replaced it with another pot, continuing heating the pot. When smoke erupted out of the pot, Su Mo waved his hand and a bag of hotpot seasoning appeared from the storage space.

The cleaned garlic cloves glowed as white as jade and, using his knife, were then minced finely by Su Mo.

He took out a small bag of seaweed strips, and a few dry slices of ginger and dried chilies, as well as the Lao Gan Ma chili sauce that had been opened before.

Along the side of the pot, Su Mo carefully poured in some vegetable oil. When the oil began to crackle, he immediately added these ingredients in and started to stir fry them.

"Hiss!"

The aroma of bean paste mixed with minced garlic, old ginger, and dried chilies was simply intoxicating. Especially after eating only dried pancakes the entire day. Even if none of the other ingredients had yet to be added in, Su Mo could already imagine how delicious the dishes would taste.

He squeezed out half a packet of the hotpot seasoning and added it into the pot. The smell became stronger and stronger, and the twitching sensation in his stomach became stronger. Su Mo did not wait any longer, pouring in the hot water from the other pot.

Spicy and delicious, the savory smell of spicy seasoning and the fresh and sweet scent of psychic energy water simply exploded out, which almost made Su Mo bite his own tongue.

This fine product had the spiciness of Sichuan hotpot, the sweet and sour scent of Hainanese vinegar hotpot, and the delicious fragrance of coconut chicken.

So many flavors were mixed together. However, not only did the flavors not clash, each layer of flavor accentuated the other.

Su Mo put out the seaweed strips, dried noodles, beef, mutton, fish, Chinese cabbage, mangoes, apples, pancakes, and the Jia Duo Bao drink.

After waiting until the average temperature in the shelter reached 24 degrees, Su Mo simply took off his clothes; shirtless but with his pants on. He sat at the dining table and opened the game panel.

He went straight to the disaster resistance channel and saw that the temperature reading of the first place shelter had dropped to 4 degrees. Su Mo then clicked on the live broadcast function without a worry in the world.

With his previous live broadcast experience, Su Mo was familiar with the setup of the live broadcast, and set the angle of view very efficiently.

The option for viewers to look around within fifty kilometers must be closed.

To watch the shelter from the above was fine, but turning the angle of view would not be allowed. The viewers could only be fixed in one position and watch from a distance.

The second viewing perspective was the interior of the shelter, fixed in front of the dining table so that the many good things in front of him could be seen.

For the title, after thinking for a while, Su Mo typed out some words that were not so arrogant:

"The Daily Life of a Glutton."

After confirming that there were no problems, Su Mo tapped the OK button. After hearing the familiar piercing sound, he suddenly jumped into the first place among the live broadcast rooms.

In addition, listed on his live broadcast room were two extremely shocking numbers: a temperature reading of 24 degrees, and the shelter population number of…

One person!

Su Mo clicked into his live broadcast room and switched to the anchor point of view. He began to study these live broadcast functions for the first time.

The last time he used the function was on a murderous rainy night, so Su Mo, who was in a nervous mood then, had not taken the time to try the other live broadcast functions. Now he was in a warm shelter and had his spear and guns by his side. Naturally, his mentality had changed dramatically.

However…

Before Su Mo could take any action, the heat in the live broadcast room began to boil over, much like the hot pot in front of him.

Boom!

Boom boom!

Waves of people poured in like a tide and, in the blink of an eye, the number of viewers rose rapidly at a blinding speed.

Only the first minute from the start of the broadcast had elapsed, and the number of people in the live broadcast room had already reached 500 million people. The airdrop reward task had been completed and the reward would be received!

The number was still increasing, rapidly rising at a rate of 100 million per minute.

The comments screen that was already moving too fast in the beginning had turned into running water, with comments streaming in endlessly. If he had not paused the screen to read, Su Mo would not know what these people were talking about at all.

"Damn, 24 degrees? And sitting shirtless in the live broadcast room and preparing to eat hotpot?"

"Is this a person? Is this a person? Is this a person? Is this a person? Is this a person?"

"If you don't understand, just ask. Which old dog said that Su Mo is going to fall today? The one-person shelter with 24 degrees. This is insanely outrageous!"

"Damn… Beef, mutton, and fresh mango… damn, damn, damn, damn!"

Entering the live broadcast room, whether it was the high-level leaders in charge of the life and death of thousands, down to the lone wolves in the single-person shelters, no matter what the audience's background was, they were all stunned by the shock brought about by the Underground Shelter at this time!

What was the concept behind achieving a temperature reading of twenty-four degrees?

At this time, a storm was blowing at minus 20 degrees outside, but the Underground Shelter felt like summer, and it was even so warm that Su Mo was shirtless.

The other live broadcast rooms were all under the guise of teachings, guides and other pretenses, but Su Mo…

Mukbang???

Seeing more and more people pouring in, Su Mo no longer had to prolong the wait. He looked at the hotpot that had already started to boil in front of him and put in the first piece of meat.

The cut was so thin that it cooked quickly. It only took about ten seconds. When he saw that the meat had changed color, Su Mo used the chopsticks and put the meat in the prepared dipping sauce, and then put it in his mouth.

The smooth feeling of beef and the taste of the dipping sauce; its fragrance made Su Mo close his eyes before the live broadcast.

Then he put in another slice of mutton, and another slice of fish. The electromagnetic cooker, the boiling hotpot soup, and the super close-up shot…

All this gave everyone who was watching the live show an immersive experience.

Even if they could not smell it, seeing Su Mo eating happily, these people could imagine the taste of hotpot and swallowed their saliva involuntarily.

World Channel…

"Have you guys noticed? Su Mo has already reached rank one of the live broadcast rooms. Damn it!"

"It's so cold. My house is still leaking and he is shirtless eating hotpot!"

"If there are any warriors who will form a group to take refuge from Almighty Su during the next disaster, count me in!"

"Damn, his live broadcast room has 900 million people, and this is only after a few minutes. Isn't this unbelievable?"

"Big news! Just received the news, Su Mo's underground shelter already has three floors!"

"What? Three floors? Is this guy still human?"

"This… the underground shelter is developing faster than the above-ground shelters? Could he possibly be using some sort of loophole or cheat? This rascal!"

Compared to the live broadcast room, the audience in the World Channel was more shocked. Everyone quickly moved between topics, starting from the 24 degree temperature reading, to the hotpot and then to the number of floors of Su Mo's underground shelter.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Even for large-scale shelters, a two-story building had yet to be built at this time, and most people were still living in nests.

Except for Su Mo, no human being had broken through the limit of the number of floors for the time being.

At the same time, more and more people started to send private messages to Su Mo to exchange items.

More and more people were tempted by the hotpot, and they could not help but want to trade in their good things.

"My hotpot is really popular!"

Sitting in the shelter, and watching more and more transaction applications appear in the trading channel, Su Mo could not help but sigh.

Perhaps this is the charm of food!

Ten slices of boiled beef, sandwiched between cabbage leaves about half the size of a palm, were easily exchanged for a 7.62mm bullet design blueprint to meet the ammunition requirements of the Type-80 machine gun.

Two mouthfuls of hot boiled fish slices were exchanged for a design blueprint of an energy-saving light bulb. Without including the courier fee, it was simply a huge profit.

Here and there, Su Mo ate and traded. When he was full, more than 12 types of design blueprints were lying in the storage space. Although they were just some ordinary good-quality blueprints, it was still gratifying.

At this moment, compared to the previous heated discussion among the people, the meaning of the word "Su Mo" became deeper and more terrifying at the same time.

There were more and more queries asking for teaching on the comments screen. After eating enough, since Su Mo was idle and had nothing to do, he imparted some knowledge that was currently considered "rare".

"For players who still live in the game shelter, my advice here is not to escape from it too quickly. It is best to evacuate purposefully according to the situation of the next disaster. You will fall into pieces if you panic."

"Of course, if you can join a group, it is better to find a large group as soon as possible. Fighting alone will not only test your luck, but more so your strength."

"The shelter of the game can be upgraded. After the upgrade, you can have more magical functions. I'm sure everyone must already know this."

"However, when you defeat the foreign mythical races and obtain their core, there is a certain probability that you can obtain their "divine power", and attach it to the game shelter. They come with some incredible powers, which is the biggest reason I recommend everyone to stay for now."

Sitting in front of the live broadcast room and thinking for a while, Su Mo did not hide any news about the battle between races as well. While communicating on the comments screen, he deliberately or sometimes unintentionally collected information revealed by these people on the comments screen.

This meal lasted from eight to ten o'clock, before it stopped.

[Record: The cumulative number of people who watched your live broadcast has exceeded 1.5 billion. Your airdrop reward has been upgraded to the iron level. Please keep up the good work.]

Looking at the prompt from the game panel, Su Mo nodded in satisfaction and closed the live broadcast.

On this windy and snowy day, the fact that 1.5 billion people viewed the same live broadcast room was an extremely terrifying, phenomenon-level, trend.

As for the rest of the people, they were struggling on the lines of life and death. How would they be able to leisurely enter the live broadcast room to watch others enjoy eating and chat?

5 billion human beings had started out in this doomsday wasteland. Currently, there are only 4.1 billion people left. The remaining 900 million had been permanently disconnected from the rest of the world.

Checking the collected information, Su Mo frowned.

"The situation is not optimistic but, fortunately, at least some people have gathered together in groups. At least it is still possible for them to pass this second disaster!"

Nearly one-quarter of humans had found a large force to join. Relying on the accumulations during this period, although life was very tough, they could at least survive before the disaster level was raised again.

The remaining three quarters were in miserable situations, and most of them were already struggling with life and death!

However, the disaster…

Still had 48 hours left!

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Chapter 171: The Blessing Of Ice And Snow, Level Up Complete

"The snow is still accumulating. After this, I'm afraid the next disaster will most likely be a flood!"

There was no shortage of visionary experts among humankind here and, at the same time, many people had found fragments depicting the future in the ruins.

The last blizzard disaster recorded in Magoo's diary, which lasted only 48 hours, caused a flood disaster capable of destroying humankind.

One could only imagine the aftermath of the 72 hours of horrible snowfall this time around!

"Flood… With the basin surrounding my shelter, I have to quickly transform the terrain, otherwise it will turn into a big lake when that happens!"

At this moment, Su Mo once again felt the limitations of the surrounding terrain.

In the early stages when he had no access to mechanical equipment, it was very difficult to significantly alter the terrain of such a large basin just by relying on manual labor.

Honestly, even with the help of the excavator, Su Mo had no confidence in transforming the surroundings into highlands before the next disaster occured.

Therefore…

"Either I migrate temporarily and wait for the flood to pass, or I start building dams!"

Picking up a pen, Su Mo drew a large circle on the area surrounding the shelter on the topographic map.

This circle covered a diameter of four kilometers around the Underground Shelter, and the workload involved and construction cost of the dam, according to this outline, would no doubt be an extremely terrifying amount.

Even if he worked all day at it, and solely focused on the construction of the dam, it would take at least 20 days to complete.

Only when the dam had been built to a sufficient height would it be possible for it to withstand the terrible flood disaster.

"It's difficult for me to give up on the Underground Shelter and build a separate shelter like everyone else, so this idea has to be abandoned!"

"If I temporarily migrate, although I will survive, before the flood subsides, my growth and development rate will be ground to a halt and I won't be able to do anything for dozens of days."

"To directly resist the disaster…"

Sitting at the table, Su Mo's gaze was faint. He began to consider the pros and cons of several strategies.

After the flood, low altitude terrains such as basins would form the embryonic form of seas and oceans, flooding with water and transforming into deep bodies of water.

Therefore, the migration of all humankind would be triggered by this disaster.

Everyone would need to move to high ground, or even build boats to become nomads and drifters to survive.

"I have to confirm whether the surrounding terrain is above sea level otherwise, even if I have a dam, I won't be able to resist the disaster!"

Storing away the design drawings and putting on the cotton-padded jacket and trousers again, Su Mo walked over to the front door of the first floor to check on Oreo's awakening progress.

Her breathing was steady and her body was soft, and her temperature did not fluctuate between extreme heat and extreme cold.

Other than the fact that she would not wake up, even after Su Mo tried shaking her awake, Oreo's condition was identical to that of sleeping.

After repeatedly confirming that there were no problems, Su Mo returned to the third floor with peace of mind and, along the way, set the temperature to 18 degrees; a temperature suitable for sleeping.

With the air conditioner on, in addition to other miscellaneous electrical equipment, the battery capacity alone would not be enough, so the generator would have to be kept running.

Fortunately, a large 300-kilowatt generator set could maintain stable power output under stable conditions.

After checking to confirm that there were no problems with the circuit, Su Mo sat on the small bed and his anxious heart finally calmed down a bit.

The more he knew, the more he feared the future.

This worry was made even worse since he knew that the next disaster would only be a matter of time.

"I must hasten my preparations. If there are no surprises, my younger sister will arrive during the next arrival phase. If I only rely on probability and chance, the risks are too great."

The people arriving this time would be between 17-51 years old, and his younger sister was 16 years old. According to the current casualty rate, there was a high chance that the next batch of humans would arrive to replace the lost lives.

Su Mo took out the previously acquired rare-quality mini destroyer blueprint and, after repeated inspections, Su Mo reluctantly stored it away.

When the flood came, he had to have a boat if he wanted to travel and explore.

However, the design of the destroyer was too complex. Although the points Su Mo currently possessed were enough, before the shelter was upgraded to level 4, the design could not be used. There was nothing he could do about this except remain anxious.

"I have to think of something, I must find a way to resolve the next disaster as soon as possible!"

Planning for the future, Su Mo laid on the bed and fell asleep after drinking a large glass of psychic energy water to help with his sleep.

Under the cover of the wind and snow, no trace of creature or human activity could be found; the wasteland remained silent except for the howling wind and snow.

Even when it came to the bear people with strong physiques, who were normally unafraid of the severe cold, they could only shrink and hide in their territory under such extreme weather conditions.

Time was passing minute by minute…

The strong wind in the night became more and more terrifying. As midnight approached, the wind reached its peak speed, and it was not until 3 am that it began to subside.

Under the storm, all of humankind suffered.

Millions of people were once again frozen to death in the middle of the night. Faced with such a devastating natural disaster, even Su Mo had no way to change the outcome.

It seemed that enough people had died, or it was time for the let-in.

At ten past three, water-like air bubbles suddenly appeared above the clouds.

Not only were some animals wrapped within the air bubbles, but also strange-shaped foreign races and humans.

Within the bubbles, the eyes of all these creatures were closed shut, as if they had entered a deep sleep, and even the storm hardly affected these bubbles.

As they descended closer and closer to the ground, the bubbles' film-like surface transformed, and a 30-minute countdown timer appeared.

Thirty minutes passed in a flash and, when the time came, these creatures gradually woke up and began to look at the surrounding terrain in horror.

Compared with these creatures, the human beings who had been transported here previously were luckier, as they had at least 20 days to develop!

These new arrivals were thrown into this "hellish" situation to survive!

…

"Su Chan, grab my hand. Don't give up!"

Ding ding ding ding~

Bewildered, Su Mo was awakened from his nightmare by the slightly harsh sound of the old phone's alarm. There was cold sweat dripping all over his body.

"Hoo, hoo…"

Su Mo took deep breaths as he sat up on the bedside and looked at the wet sheets with lingering fear. He reached out for the cup of psychic energy water on the bedside and gulped it down. His mood began to calm down.

While he slept, for some unknown reason, Su Mo suddenly dreamt that his sister had suddenly arrived during the flood disaster. When he steered the boat over to find her sister, he watched as the whirlpool swept her away.

This feeling of losing a loved one was an uncomfortable experience. Even after sitting still for a long time, waves of palpitations continued to echo through his heart.

"Strange, this feeling is inexplicable. Could this be a premonition?"

After opening the game panel and checking for prompts, Su Mo took out the pointer and searched again for the location of his family.

After three failed searches, he wiped the sweat from his brow and put on his clothes. Su Mo turned over and got out of bed.

With the air-conditioning heating function active, the temperature in the shelter was maintained between 16-18 degrees; a very comfortable temperature after he had put on clothes.

On the ranking, besides Su Mo's 17-degree temperature reading, the temperature reading of the second ranked shelter had returned to 12 degrees, but the difference in points between the two made it impossible for the second ranked shelter to even imagine catching up.

Putting on his combat uniform, he opened the heavy stone door and walked up the passageway to the first floor.

"Huh, Oreo, you're awake?!"

Lying in the nest, Oreo was weak but, after seeing Su Mo, she still managed to open her eyes.

"Woof…"

The deep cry was accompanied by Oreo's movement. When he got closer, Su Mo was surprised to find that Oreo was already covered with blood.

Even part of her fur had been dyed blood red, and the strong smell of blood rushed into his nostrils.

Without hesitating, Su Mo quickly took out all the psychic energy water in the storage space as well as the pancakes. He first fed Oreo with psychic energy water and then began to crumble the soft pancake to feed her.

"Thank goodness! It's because of the cracked skin and not because of an injury."

While feeding her, he stroked the site of the bleeding on Oreo's body and realized that it was only because the skin had been squeezed and cracked. Su Mo felt relieved.

Focusing mentally, Su Mo summoned Oreo's attribute panel, which automatically popped up and appeared in front of Su Mo.

[Pet Name: Oreo]

[Status: Growth period (personality has been fixed)]

[Creature Description: Gentle wasteland creature. As a variant Husky that inherited a variety of bloodlines, it will become stronger and stronger as it grows.]

[Ability 1: High-speed movement. Its muscle structure guarantees a certain explosive power. After the ability is stimulated, its speed doubles within 30 seconds, with a cooldown time of 5 minutes.]

[Ability 2: Sixth sense. Its biological structure gives it an acute sense of perception. After stimulating the ability, it can briefly predict incoming danger, with a cooldown time of 1 day.]

[Ability 3: The blessing of ice and snow (attributes unknown)]

[Current Status: Successfully awakened the Ice and Snow Bloodline (Bloodline Awakening Progress: 9%)]

"The awakening was successful!"

Looking at the data displayed on the panel, Su Mo stroked Oreo's head with great surprise, feeling extremely happy.

Although he did not know what Oreo's third ability was, as long as she survived safely, Su Mo would be satisfied!

Licking the droplets of psychic energy water, Oreo's state was visibly restored. After drinking a bottle of it, she could even get up and bite the pancake herself.

"Okay, eat more. There's more of it if it's not enough!"

Seeing Oreo regain her appetite, Su Mo smiled even more and began to slowly turn the winch and open the garage gate.

After the heavy blizzard overnight, the snow accumulated on the ground was even more terrifying than before. This time, it was piled up in front of the garage gate like a high wall.

The thickness of the snow was at least one cubic meter and, because the ice and snow had melted a few days ago, there was a solid layer of ice below. The snow on the top was hard, almost like rock.

Su Mo took out the iron pickaxe, which triggered a critical hit after a single strike, causing the snow to break apart and crumble into the basement.

Su Mo, who could not evade it, was directly buried underneath the pile of snow. Fortunately, there was the lion clan's wind ability at hand, and he managed to finally crawl out after much effort.

After summoning the wind to blow out all the snow, Su Mo came to the high slope again and cleared the snow over the ventilation duct.

"In the next two days, the accumulated snow will probably exceed two meters. It may even reach three meters. If that were to occur, I'm afraid a sea would directly form once all the snow melts!"

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Chapter 172: Urgent! Blood Bond Released!

The average density of snow is 0.2-0.25 g/cm3, and the weight of one cubic meter of snow is about 200kg.

If one were to calculate the total accumulated snowfall in the wasteland, this data would have some terrifying ramifications.

Seeing that there was initially no moisture on the ground to evaporate, it was a mystery as to how the snow formed and accumulated.

Su Mo took out several pancakes and hurriedly took a few bites. Before the wind picked up, he had to shovel and clear out the accumulated snow at the main entrance of the shelter.

Faced with such a blizzard disaster, living creatures all around were dealt a devastating blow.

The mountain hares from yesterday were nowhere to be seen. Given the blizzard's intensity, it was unknown where they were hiding or blown off to.

Su Mo, who was still adamant about building an ecosystem in the basin, could only temporarily suppress his plans in his heart.

With the help of the shovel, digging through the snow was not much more difficult than digging through the ground, and there was no need to worry about a collapse either.

In about two hours or so, Su Mo completed shoveling all five meters of snow in front of the main entrance to the side, clearing out a large open space.

The scorched yellow ground below seemed to have gradually taken on a hint of black under the nourishment of the snow, and the fertility of the land had been significantly improved.

"This snow not only brings despair, but also hope. The snow isn't polluted, and it is rich in nutrients. If humans can survive this disaster, there will be good times ahead!"

The basin's initially barren ground had been improved tremendously.

Once the disaster was over and there were suitable seeds, humans could use the period of respite to obtain an initial harvest and hopefully survive subsequent disasters.

Earth Tiger could not be driven out, and several of the resource points in the distance temporarily could not be detected. Su Mo could only walk over to the iron ore hill and climb up to take a look.

The basin was quiet and snowy white everywhere. In this kind of weather, if he was not protected by the combat uniform, it would not take long for him to suffer from snow blindness.

"I wonder how the carps are doing. It would be a shame if they died!"

Feeling the wind picking up again, Su Mo descended the iron ore hill with difficulty and began to patrol the Underground Shelter's surroundings for signs of other biological activities.

On the snow-covered ground, only the footprints of small mutant creatures could be seen in the basin. After patrolling the area, there was no trace of the presence of any foreign mythical race.

The basin seemed to be cursed.

Except for Su Mo and Magoo's shelters, even the nearest shelter on Huang Biao's map was more than ten kilometers away.

Along the way, there was dead silence everywhere. After walking for about 20 minutes, Su Mo couldn't shake that uncomfortable feeling he was experiencing. His face changed and he returned quickly.

"It's strange, why are these palpitations getting stronger and stronger!"

Feeling his heart race, Su Mo quickly walked back into the garage and shut the gate, sitting on the ground to rest.

Over the days he had been in the wasteland, he had never experienced this phenomenon, and his panicked muscles were trembling.

Just today alone, within the span of a few hours, the feeling had appeared twice in a row!

"Oreo, can your sixth sense still be activated? Help me check if there is any danger today!"

Touching Oreo who was resting on the ground, Su Mo asked anxiously with unsettled eyes.

A gentleman would not stand under an unsteady wall.

This feeling would not appear for no reason. After coming to this magical wasteland, Su Mo gained more knowledge after finding out about Oreo's sixth sense.

This feeling seemed like the sixth sense of the human body, and Su Mo could vaguely sense that something terrible was about to happen.

Hearing Su Mo's words, Oreo raised her head and started pricking her ears to listen to her surroundings.

After a while, Oreo shook her head tiredly and laid down on the ground to rest.

"There is no danger? Am I worrying too much?"

Taking off his combat uniform, Su Mo walked into the warm shelter together with Oreo. He sat on the sofa for a while and, after half an hour of relaxation, the feeling subsided significantly.

At the same time, eight o'clock arrived quietly along with the system's punctual prompt notification of his daily harvest.

[Doomsday Calendar Month 1, Day 22]

[Faced with this disaster, everyone has suffered. You shared significant disaster-related knowledge to over one billion people (Survival points 300)]

[You successfully left your name in the memories of over two billion people (Survival points 200)]

[You successfully attracted the "envy" of over 500 million people and, at the same time received the "admiration" of over 500 million people (Survival points 1000)]

[You successfully created the first highly-destructive weapon (Survival points 200)]

[The environmental ecosystem around your Underground Shelter has improved (Survival points 30)]

[Your partner "Oreo" has awakened, increasing the overall combat ability of the shelter (Survival points 200)]

[You have deservingly won the honor of world's first for the "Blizzard" disaster resistance (Survival point 500)]

[Your sixth sense is extremely keen and has discovered something unusual (Survival point 50)]

[Scanning host survival environment. Survival points evaluation in progress. 329 survival points gained today.]

…

Total calculation: Survival points 2809

Survival points remaining: 6014

"Sure enough, after Oreo's awakening, a part of the sixth sense ability was linked to me, causing my sixth sense to become more sensitive."

Having not gone out for several days, Su Mo had not spent a lot of money. Not to mention his achievements in the secret trading realm and the results of yesterday's live broadcast session, the high survival points were only to be expected.

Of course, the accumulation of more than 6,000 survival points was not enough to make Su Mo happy. On the contrary, looking at the entries listed by the system, Su Mo became more worried.

If a terrible, life-threatening disaster occured, these 6000 survival points were but a drop in the ocean, and unlikely to change the final outcome.

"I shouldn't panic. I still have the Dongfeng missile. If something directly threatens my life, I can use the Dongfeng missile to neutralize the threat!"

Switching to the creation interface of the system to look at the colorful camouflaged missile truck, he felt the heart palpitations that were plaguing him subside a little.

He cooked some porridge and served it with pancakes and pickles. After hastily finishing his breakfast, Su Mo returned to the workbench and continued to work.

"If the enemy is very close, releasing the Dongfeng missile would be tantamount to a "suicide bomb attack."

A large amount of picric acid and general explosives, as well as guns, were the best means to resist the enemy.

Su Mo then bought some cotton, turned it into guncotton, and mixed the solution into smokeless gunpowder. While it was solidifying, Su Mo continued to make picric acid.

With the error correction function of the LCD TV, Su Mo became more familiar and proficient in preparing and processing these things. Even if he multitasked, he could ensure that no problems would occur.

After all the sulfur was used up, Su Mo dug through the layer of snow under the wind and snow, and collected enough sulfur ores from the mine to continue production.

Without the assistance of machines, he could only rely on manual labor.

Constantly drinking psychic energy water to restore his physical strength, Su Mo continued his work until 5 pm. The number of explosives stacked in the storage space and the safety warehouse had exceeded 100!

Looking at the packets of dynamite that were neatly stacked, Su Mo focused mentally, and the property panel popped out.

[Explosives (Excellent)]

[Description: A small package of explosives manufactured by machine equipment. Due to the good quality of its raw materials, it received a small degree of attribute enhancement after being manufactured.]

[Explosion Radius: 25m]

[Special Ability:

[Steadiness: It will not be triggered by external forces before detonation.]

[Power: Its explosive power and range, whether buried or used as a projectile, will increase by 25%]

[All-weather: The material construction of the explosives packaging guarantees its stability. No matter what kind of extreme weather it is, it receives a 25% increase in its chance to detonate.]

"With so many explosives, even if all the kobolds attacked together, there is enough for each of them!"

Su Mo closed the door of the safety warehouse. Taking advantage of the time, he returned to the smokeless powder that had been solidified and cut. He placed it into the laser manufacturing machine, and began to prepare bullets.

This time, out of a total of 5000 rounds of ammunition, Su Mo chose to prepare 3000 rounds of 7.62mm bullets for machine guns, 1500 rounds of 5.56mm bullets for rifles, and 500 rounds of 9mm bullets for pistols.

At the same time, Su Mo also built two machine guns and five rifles to ensure that his firepower would not be limited by the number of firearms he possessed.

"To fight a war is to burn money. As long as victory is guaranteed, no matter what the price is, it is worth it!"

All the diesel reserves were used for power generation, running the laser manufacturing machine as well as the air-conditioner's heating function.

All the collected saltpeter had been used after this round of production.

At this moment, the weapons and ammunition reserves in the shelter had reached their peak. Any enemy who stepped into the shelter's defensive circle would suffer a terrifying counterattack from Su Mo.

"Any creature who dares to step into my territory will be killed without mercy!"

He sat on the stool in front of the laser manufacturing machine and watched as the bullets jumped out. The heart palpitations continued to get stronger, but Su Mo was filled with fighting spirit instead of trepidation.

If he could not run away nor avoid what was coming, then he could only fight!

Even if all the survival points were to be spent in this battle, Su Mo would not hesitate.

As the machine continued to operate, despite his tiredness, Su Mo did not idle. While waiting, he continued to open the chat channels to collect information.

It was a pity that no one in the World Channel seemed to share the same feeling and experience he was undergoing. On the contrary, most people were talking about the New Year.

"So today is already the Minor Spring Festival! Time flies so quickly!"

The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month was the minor spring festival, and the Su family would always go out to celebrate.

Not only because it was his sister Su Chan's birthday, but also to commemorate the day that Su Father went out to sea to raise his family.

"It turns out that there are still so many people having fun despite the hardship. It's true that there are only a few days left until New Year's Eve, though I don't know if everyone can make it to that day!"

Laughing freely, at this moment, Su Mo suddenly understood the reason why everyone in the World Channel was so free and easy.

Faced with such a terrible disaster, no one could guarantee that they could live safely until the next day and could only relish each passing moment.

Even Su Mo was consumed by a sense of imminent crisis and the fear of not being able to see tomorrow, much less the others.

After reading through the chat for a while, the festive atmosphere did somewhat dilute the tension he felt in his heart.

After all the bullets were neatly lined up, and two Type-80 machine guns and five automatic rifles were built, Su Mo stood up and settled dinner.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the storm intensified.

After moving all the weapons to the gym equipment room, Su Mo loaded the guns; the explosive packs were also neatly placed in a spot where they could be quickly loaded into the storage space. Su Mo clutched his chest and returned to the small bed. He closed his eyes and rested.

Oreo, Big Spark and Little Spark, whose conditions had mostly recovered, laid quietly beside the bed. The shelter was calm and full of tension at the same time.

Time passed by gradually.

Just as he was beginning to feel sleepy, the clock in the living room suddenly buzzed and made Su Mo's heart twinge…

Midnight had finally arrived!

"Woof, woof!"

Before Su Mo could move, Oreo stood up and her whole body convulsed as if she had seen something horrific!

At the same time, the prompt that Su Mo had always thought about, but was terrified of, echoed out…

[Record: Your blood relation "Su Chan" has arrived, and she is within 100km of the current shelter.

[Reminder: Wishing you a happy game!

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Chapter 173: Dashing On A Snowy Night, The Authority Of The Husky!

"Happy my ass, damn it!"

Listening to the game panel's notification prompt, Su Mo was almost not even thinking rationally as he turned over and got up. He put on his clothes and ran out immediately.

"This sh*tty game! Didn't you say that this time was the turn of those who were 17 years old? My sister is 16 years old and you let her in. F*ck!"

Su Mo took out the pointer and quickly outlined his sister's image mentally while venting his inner anger by cursing.

She had long hair, a ponytail, usually wore a dark blue school uniform, had a shallow dimple when she smiled, and loved to eat cake…

Seeing that the information slot had filled up by two-thirds as he recollected his memories, Su Mo hastily continued to input more information into the pointer.

His sister was currently 16 years old, and her birthday was the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.

The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month?

Birthday?

"F*ck! She's 17 after midnight? What is the basis of this rule?"

Thinking back to her birthday and seeing the information slot being filled up, Su Mo finally understood the source of his heart palpitations during the day.

Midnight was when the blizzard was at its strongest, and anyone caught outside would have their body temperature drop to an unimaginable number.

In this kind of weather, if one did not have thick clothes and some sort of shelter, they would likely not last even five minutes.

While the pointer's arrow was spinning around, Su Mo quickly entered the friend panel, found Su Chan's avatar, and clicked "add".

A few points were deducted but, the next second Su Mo could not help but roar again, "Adding a friend still requires points, and I can't f*cking pay for her? Why would I want this kind of garbage game!"

"I want to file a complaint! I want to file a report! I'm not playing anymore! Damn you!"

The green game panel looked disgusting to Su Mo at this moment.

In order not to see and not to be bothered, Su Mo simply closed the game panel and quickly filled the storage space with supplies.

In the three-cubic-meter space, he cleared out all the miscellaneous items, leaving nothing inside.

All five loaded rifles were brought, and the two machine guns with ammunition belts were placed into the storage space.

Sixty explosives, all the bullets, ten bottles filled with psychic energy water, as well as the pancakes, were brought along.

Before Su Mo completely transferred them into the storage space, the pointer's arrow finally stopped moving, revealing a precise direction and number.

Just by looking at it, Su Mo felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

Seventy-three kilometers northwest.

According to his rough calculations, this location may not even be two kilometers away from kobold castle.

It may even be right next to the kobold castle.

Unstoppable heart palpitations appeared again with the frantic pulsing of his right eyelid. Su Mo increased his stride, biting down on his lip as he rushed directly to the garage gate.

At this moment, the winch withstood a strong force that it had never before felt, and was almost instantly turned to its maximum rotation.

Whew!

Whoosh!

The violent storm, accompanied by the snow in the sky, rushed into the garage like a rain of bullets.

After only taking two steps, Su Mo's heart went cold.

In this kind of weather, it would take at least six hours for him to get to the kobold castle by walking!

Cursed once again in his native dialect while watching the storm outside, Su Mo covered his head and went back to Earth Tiger. He slammed the car door and slammed his foot on the accelerator pedal and rushed out.

Whether or not this would work, he would still have to try!

If the car was gone, he could rebuild it. If his sister was gone, she would be gone forever!

"Kobolds, god damn it! This time I must kill you all!" Suppressing his anger, Earth Tiger rushed forward into the ice and snow.

Almost half standing, as soon as Su Mo got out of the garage gate, a violent wind blew. Coupled with the icy snow, it overturned the car.

Fortunately, he was wearing a seat belt. Otherwise, if the car rolled over, he would be either maimed or dead.

Su Mo tried to climb out of the car. Watching Earth Tiger roll over to the ground, Sumo, like a madman, directly summoned all his strength and stubbornly pushed the car against the storm, trying to turn it upright.

However, before the force of such a natural disaster and storm, human strength was insignificant.

Before Su Mo could fight for long, another gust of wind arrived. On the smooth snow surface, Earth Tiger, like a big toy, was blown away and tumbled into the distance.

"God damn it, come back!"

Stubbornly tugging at the rear end of the Earth Tiger with his hands, Su Mo tried to keep Earth Tiger on the ground.

However, how could human strength conquer the sky? After being led along for forty to fifty meters, Su Mo released his hands and watched Earth Tiger continue to be blown away and laid helplessly on the ground.

In such weather conditions, a vehicle would not be able to travel.

The only glimmer of hope was if Earth Tiger could be upgraded into a snowmobile or a tracked-wheel vehicle. However, after opening the upgrade panel for a quick look, Su Mo was stunned!

It would take tens of thousands of points to upgrade it into a snowmobile. Even if it was an all-terrain tracked vehicle, it had to be equipped with a front drive system. The drive wheels, road wheel, the inducer, and the supporting wheels would form a flexible chainring. Even the cheapest one required 6700 points!

"Only 700 points away!"

"Is it God's will?"

There wasn't a trace of light amidst this dark snowy night, and the direction of the arrow on the pointer was still stubbornly pointing in the direction of the kobold castle.

Watching the number change from 73 to 74, Su Mo's eyes went dark and, at the same time, there was another hope in his heart.

"My sister is not dead, she was likely captured by the kobolds! As long as I don't die, I will reach there and be able to rescue her!"

Seeing the unchanged direction on the pointer, and the number that suddenly disappeared, Su Mo stood up and forcefully walked forward step by step against the storm.

Every second of the way, Su Mo was gritting his teeth and fighting against the terrible force of the wind and snow.

Every time he fell, Su Mo would support himself off the ground with both his hands and get up with gritted teeth.

In the face of this natural disaster, Su Mo's status as world's first seemed extremely insignificant.

"Persevere, Su Mo, you can do it! You must do it!"

Seeing the snowy slope of the Deep-sea Shelter appeared in his sight, Su Mo's vision suddenly went black as he accidentally slipped to the ground.

His physical strength was draining quickly.

The cold was taking his body heat away quickly.

Even the heating function of the combat uniform was not enough to withstand the terrifying cold caused by the violent weather conditions.

"System, give me tools to create things that can travel fast in this kind of weather, even if all my points are spent, I want to get there quickly."

Summoning the system and looking at the options provided by the system, even with 6000 survival points, Su Mo could only shake his head in despair and tremble.

Sled? With this wind and weather, how could he move forward?

Sled bikes… The cheapest one cost 8000 survival points! He was short of 2000 points!

Oreo?

Um?

Just as Su Mo was lying on the ground glancing at the options provided by the system, a furry dog's face appeared in front of Su Mo.

At the same time, Oreo held two very familiar things in her mouth.

"This is… the hemp rope and a skateboard?"

The slender hemp rope had been pulled out of the snow, and the orange skateboard was stuck in Oreo's mouth, though it was inevitable that some of her saliva had dripped onto it.

"You mean you can take me there?"

Seeing Oreo nodding, Su Mo turned over and sat up with a surprised look on his face.

After midnight, he did not know what Oreo had seen to have kept twitching on the ground. Eager to leave, Su Mo had not cared about Oreo fooling around in the shelter.

Seeing Oreo's appearance at this time, Su Mo quickly fixed his eyes on the skateboard, and its property panel appeared:

[Skateboard]

[Description: An ordinary skateboard without any special features]

[First upgrade direction: Snowboard. With better binding angles, smoothness, and material composition. Can carry two people, and has a scientific locking mechanism designed to ensure that users will not be affected by its speed and fall from the skateboard too quickly. Survival points required (440)]

[Second upgrade direction: Hoverboard. Uses air pressure and gliding technology to control airflow and generate lift. Greatly enhances the material of the skateboard, and greatly improves the quality of the skateboard. Survival points required (8859)]

[Comment: Who wouldn't want a green magic skateboard?]

Seeing the two upgrade directions provided by the system, he did not hesitate and selected the first option and quickly tied the end of hemp rope into a knot and put it around Oreo's neck.

With the completion of Oreo's awakening during her growth period, her body size was now similar to that of an adult husky on Earth.

Strong muscles, along with sufficient psychic energy water supplies. With these, they would be able to fully manage a long-distance journey in this kind of weather.

"Oreo, thank you!"

Touching Oreo's head and watching her sassy appearance, Su Mo stood on the snowboard and tied the other end of the hemp rope around his waist.

Skateboarding could be described as the pioneer of extreme sports. Many extreme sports were derived from skateboarding.

Standing on the skateboard for the first time, even Su Mo could not help squeezing tightly on the rope between his hands, praying for God's blessing.

Unfortunately, before Su Mo prayed to Buddha, Oreo raised her head to the sky and let out a stern howl for the first time.

"Awoo!"

Beneath the snowy night, the storm was still raging. Su Mo saw the snowflake imprint on Oreo's head suddenly light up.

As if it was gathering the power between heaven and earth, the snowflakes were not falling on Oreo, but instead were magically sucked into Oreo.

Half a meter… one meter!

Two meters!

Oreo's body shape was like an inflated balloon as she continued to absorb the snowflakes. In the blink of an eye, she had transformed from a length of about 80cm to a giant wolf that was three meters long!

Her strong thigh muscles, and the giant dog's head that was nearly the size of a whole person, made it no secret as to how much terrifying power she would erupt with!

"Oreo…"

Standing at the back, even Su Mo's palms became sweaty as he watched Oreo.

However, the next second, Oreo turned around to reveal her iconic sassy expression. Su Mo laughed and the fear of the unknown in his heart was wiped out!

The universe was uncertain and the sky was endless. Oreo's power was enough to rush through the stormy barrier and challenge the workings of fate!

Tightening the rope around his body again, Su Mo lowered his body and held the pointer in one hand. Facing the unknown, Su Mo shouted, "Go! Our destination is the kobold castle!"

As his voice trailed off, Oreo turned her head, her eyes firm as her two sturdy thighs pushed directly against the snow, as they set off.

On the dark snowy field, a person and a dog seemed to have transformed into a black and white bolt of lightning, galloping at a speed no less than 60 kilometers per hour!

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Chapter 174: Calling For Help On The Eve Of The Battle!

After getting bigger, Oreo had become an outstanding barrier against the wind, especially given the advantages brought on by her graceful, streamlined animal physique…

Even the storm could not affect Oreo's speed in the slightest. On the contrary, Oreo seemed to be able to ride with the fierce east wind to increase her pace even further, almost soaring as she took giant strides.

Hiding behind Oreo, Su Mo's body was half-bent as he tried his best to remain within the slipstream that Oreo had created and maintain his balance.

It was his first time snowboarding. Even if his two legs were stiff, Su Mo could only strengthen his resolve and do his best to hold on.

If he were to directly face the oncoming air resistance with his own physical body, while travelling at a speed of up to sixty kilometers per hour, it goes without saying that, if they hit an obstacle, there would be no other end for his fragile human body other than a bloody and gruesome death.

"Oreo, I'm counting on you!"

The blessing of the ice and snow allowed Oreo to possess an unreasonable amount of physical fitness in this terrible weather, which also served as their final lifeline.

With Oreo pulling him over yet another tall slope, Su Mo's heart was filled with emotion as he watched the scenery around him become more and more familiar, but he did not dare make a sound lest he affect Oreo's running and concentration.

At this point, the saltpeter mine had already been buried under the heavy snow, with only a small part of its tall slope revealed and exposed to the sky.

Calling for Oreo to stop, Su Mo took out the pointer. After confirming the direction, he pointed forward and the man and dog went forth once again.

The direction that his little sister was located remained unchanged, pointing directly toward the direction of the kobold castle. Based on his estimation of the distance, it just so happened to be within one kilometer of the kobold castle.

His heart was filled with anxiety but, luckily, Oreo's speed today was even a little faster than Earth Tiger's.

By the time they reached the area that was first indicated by the pointer, Su Mo could see the brightly lit kobold castle in the distance.

Not far off from that was some sunken ground.

"We're indeed family after all. As expected, Sis also chose the underground shelter option!"

The location of the shelter was right before his eyes and, seeing that it was so close that even the kobolds on the tower might notice, Su Mo swiftly unfastened the snowboard on his feet as well as the ropes on his body before quickly running over.

In the distance, the doors of the underground shelter opened and closed, as if there was someone inside who was observing the situation on the outside from time to time.

Unfortunately, before Su Mo could even get excited, he saw the wooden door of the underground shelter opening and closing wildly in the direction of the blasts of wind, as if it was an automatic door.

Furthermore, there were two neat rows of footprints in front of the door. They were the kobold footprints!

"F*ck, speak of the devil…"

After so many days, Su Mo had not resorted to swearing even when he lacked food and clothing but, at this moment, he completely lost all restraint. What remained were feelings full of—

Anger!

With a hint of trepidation, Su Mo took quick strides and dashed straight into the underground shelter.

Sure enough, he saw plenty of evenly distributed snow in the shelter along with some footprints that had not melted.

"The footprints of the kobolds. There are probably three of them, and they're probably kobold warriors!

"The wooden walls and floor of the shelter are still intact, and there are no traces of a fight."

He laid down on the ground. Taking off his mask, Su Mo cautiously sniffed the area around the footprints.

"There's no fresh blood on the ground, and no smell of blood either. It's highly likely that after encountering the kobolds, Sis immediately chose not to resist and was quietly kidnapped."

Taking out the pointer, he tried to reset the input, but the same prompt abruptly appeared from the pointer, announcing that it could only be used again in 24 hours.

As Su Mo turned around, the arrow was still stubbornly pointing toward the direction of the kobold castle, only without the distance indicator.

"Sis is definitely in the kobold castle, but I just don't know what kind of condition she's in right now!"

Observing the weather and the fact that there were still kobolds patrolling the castle, Su Mo's gaze turned distant. He summoned the game panel straightaway.

At this point, even if it was a blizzard, there was only one way left if he wanted to save her.

Fight his way in!

Only by making the kobolds panic would he have the ability to attack the castle and save her.

As for the candidates for the rescue mission, there was basically no question in his mind. Su Mo saw Zhong Qingshu's image in his list of friends, as well as the trace of heroism in her delicate features.

As they were already good friends, Su Mo immediately made the call.

Listening to the beeping of the dial tone and standing in his little sister's shelter, Su Mo's heart started to calm down.

"There was no fight, which means that Sis fully understood the current situation. There's no shortage of food in the kobold castle, and there's a high chance that they won't just kill people for food.

"Given our previous experience cooperating, I'll be able to fight my way in as long as it's before daybreak. It's not an issue."

"Now, all I need is a team. A team good enough to storm our way in, no matter the cost!"

Su Mo's gaze conveyed waves of killing intent. At this moment, even if he had to use the Underground Shelter as a token of exchange, Su Mo would not hesitate to do so.

Let alone using supplies to hire a team in order to storm the kobold castle.

It was already about one o'clock in the morning. Under the blizzard's assault, the shelter in the west was probably also fighting against the disaster. However, only a few seconds later, Zhong Qingshu answered the phone.

"I need your help. I'll owe you, I'll owe you my life!"

"What help?"

"Enter the kobold castle and save my sister!"

After a short silence, he heard Zhong Qingshu's affirmative reply, and Su Mo was overjoyed. After saying that he would go look for them, he hung up the phone.

In this kind of weather, even Su Mo thought that they would be lucky to escape with their lives if they attacked the kobold castle.

In the eyes of other people, there were likely to be no survivors.

However, at this exact moment, retreat was no longer an option. Only by entering the castle as soon as possible could he ensure his little sister's survival.

"Oreo, can you hold on?!"

He fed Oreo an entire bottle of psychic energy water and saw Oreo nod without any hesitation. Once again, Su Mo jumped on his snowboard and secured the hemp rope around him.

They knew the road to the shelter in the west as he had already driven Earth Tiger there before. There were very few obstacles, and it was even within the great plains. Oreo clearly remembered the way there.

On this snowy day, the man and the dog dashed off once again for another long distance journey, heading toward the shelter in the west.

This 50-kilometer road was much easier to travel on compared to the basin. With no obstacles on the great plains, Oreo's speed increased to another level.

They reached the terrifying speed of eighty kilometers per hour.

Even if he was driving Earth Tiger, Su Mo would not have the confidence to maintain this speed for long periods.

However, Oreo was different. As if sensing Su Mo's anxiety, Oreo continued speeding up all the way till she reached a speed of 90 kilometers per hour before maintaining this cruising speed.

Not even twenty minutes later, Su Mo saw the shelter clearly for the first time.

While it had similar simple earthen walls to resist the brunt of the storm, unlike Feng Mengyue's shelter, this shelter was dug about one meter deep into the ground. The foundation of it was very deep, with only its roof considered above-ground.

At the same time, by the camp's simple entrance, Su Mo saw the three torches that stood in front of the shelter, looking as if they could be extinguished by the wind at any given moment.

Beneath the light of the torches, he could see people he had previously rescued; Chen Shen's men, along with Zhong Qingshu, as well as…

The pregnant woman who had been holding her child back then.

There were more than twenty people standing in front of the shelter's camp under the storm. Seeing Oreo dashing over at high speed, an expression of fear was etched all over their faces.

A giant, three-meter long, wolf was something that had never been seen or heard of even on Earth.

Zhong Qingshu had thought that Su Mo would be driving Earth Tiger over. Seeing Oreo instead, she could not help but take half a step back.

The pair of wild beast and human streaking across the plains made for an extremely impactful image.

When Oreo got closer to them, Su Mo prepared to undo the constraints on his feet in order to go over and invite this group of people to join the team by offering them some benefits.

To his surprise, the group of people came forward first.

"Hurry up, Almighty Su, saving a life is the priority!"

"Brother Su, you saved my life. It's my duty to help you deal with the kobolds!"

"Brother Su Mo, you don't have to say anything. We all know that you're a good person. When we came to the wasteland, what we wanted was to work together, so just give us weapons and we'll definitely lead the way!"

Each and every one of the refugees was sincere. Their faces were thin and, under the cold night sky, they were wearing the shabby cotton jackets that Su Mo had given them previously, their faces full of emotion.

In particular, there was a farmer in his forties who was holding a stone axe with a passionate expression on his face. It was as if he had every intention of attacking the kobold castle fearlessly armed solely with that axe.

Looking at this bunch of people, Su Mo stood on his snowboard as his eyes started to moisten underneath his mask. His emotions were pouring out in waves.

Disasters were ruthless, but there was kindness in humanity.

He had not expected that the seeds he had planted in the past would come to bear fruit in this way.

"Let's go, Su Mo. Saving a life is the priority!"

After seeing that Oreo was not making any movements, Zhong Qingshu walked over as well and patted Su Mo on the shoulder, signaling him to hurry and set off. Every second counted when saving lives.

Despite the tumultuous storm, seeing the morale and fighting spirit on the plain faces of so many refugees, Su Mo could not help but feel a surge of emotion. He let out a loud shout.

"Brothers, Zhong Qingshu and I will head over first, then I'll get Oreo to come back and pick up the rest of you. We'll wait till everyone is in place before we take action!"

"As for weapons!"

After speaking, Su Mo looked at the people who believed so much in him and decided not to hide anything. He simply pulled out the four rifles and one machine gun that he had on him and placed them on the ground. Disregarding their shocked expressions, he raised his voice and said, "We have weapons and ammunition. Follow me today, and no matter who kills the kobolds later on, I won't take any of the treasure chests they drop!"

"Furthermore, we have explosives. Today, we'll let them know what human wrath and fury is like!"

As his words fell, some hope was suddenly mixed into what was originally just hot-blooded bravado, and the atmosphere became even more explosive.

All of the refugees were standing on their feet now, including the women. They looked at the rifles on the ground and started to examine them, their eyes full of curiosity.

The Huaxian youths were never lacking in courage and confidence, following Chen Shen's lead, they picked up the rifles and the machine gun.

The entrance to the shelter's camp suddenly burst forth with unprecedented cheer and spirit.

Instructing Zhong Qingshu to stand behind him on the snowboard, he tied the hemp rope to his body properly. Oreo's two legs kicked against the ground and, suddenly, they were dashing wildly into the distance.

Rushing across the plains during such a disaster, Su Mo experienced absolute hope for the future for the first time.

It was just like what the youths in the May Fourth Movement stated: (T/N: a Chinese anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on 4 May 1919)

No one can control the future, but I can, because youths are the future!

No one can be forever young, but I can, because youthful hearts will remain forever young!

Youth was not about believing in fate; youth was about believing in yourself! It was not about believing in success, rather, it was about believing that you would not be defeated.

This was what youth should be like, and this was what youth had always been like.

In front of the shelter, a group of "young" people gathered. From this moment on, the prototype of a team that was destined to be engraved into the history of the wasteland was…

Born!

Chapter 175: Heartless Cannon, Clearing The Fog

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Hold onto me tightly and don't fall off."

Instructing Zhong Qingshu to hold onto his waist tightly, the two of them bent their bodies at the same time. Staying within Oreo's slipstream, they glided swiftly over the snowy ground.

Witnessing a husky's terrifying endurance, and the fact that Oreo had earned the blessing of ice and snow, Su Mo rejoiced over the fact that the first pet he received was a husky and not some other creature.

Only a husky would be able display such frightening power amidst a blizzard, a silver lining in the face of a terrible disaster.

"Later... we'll storm the front. You take some people and think of a way to use our previous method to tunnel through and save her!"

"My little sister's name is Su Chan.. I… I'm counting on you!"

Buffeted by the fierce winds, Su Mo opened his mouth with difficulty to communicate with Zhong Qingshu behind him.

Feeling Zhong Qingshu nod firmly, the panic in Su Mo's heart lessened. At the same time, he started multitasking, thinking of how to fight his way into the kobold castle.

Using conventional weapons to attack directly was obviously not quite possible.

Even with firearms, it would be extremely difficult to break through the kobold castle's thick stone walls, not to mention that there was a huge disparity in the number of people on each of their sides.

'The only advantage I have are my explosives. I have 60 packs of explosives. Using these, I must force them out to have a decisive battle!'

There were more than a thousand kobolds, maybe even 2000.

With so many in the castle, if Su Mo did not have to consider his sister's situation, he would have sent the Dongfeng Missile straight into the center to baptize the castle in the flames of destruction.

Currently, however…

'What do I have that can get my explosives into the castle and force them out to battle!'

Gripping the rope tightly and staring at the kobold castle he was rapidly approaching, Su Mo quickly thought about all the weapons he saw, intentionally or unintentionally, during the civilized era.

From ancient scaling ladders, trebuchets, and siege engines, to modern howitzers and bombers; all weapons designed for siege followed the same concept:

To bypass the towering city walls and attack the enemies inside!

'I don't know where Sis is locked up, so if I want to make them come out, I have to make them feel fear.'

'At the very least, they have to feel that, if they don't come out of the castle, their shelter will collapse!'

Although the kobolds did not know that his little sister was in their hands and could be used as a hostage, because he did not want to harm those that should not be harmed, Su Mo decided to focus on safety.

At this time, the weapons he could choose from became clear at once.

"RPG, the field artillery gun…"

Su Mo flipped through these items in the creation interface one after another, but seeing the thousands—even up to ten thousand—survival points listed in the requirements, Su Mo's head started hurting a little.

He wanted the kobolds to come out and fight, but he could not just blow up their castle. These weapons were either too powerful, or they were not powerful enough to serve as a deterrent.

'What item can launch my explosives over castle walls or damage their walls directly?'

If he eliminated all modern war weapons, if he wanted to throw explosive packs over, the only ones left were trebuchets or...

"The Heartless Cannon!" (T/N: 没良心炮 méi liángxīn pào; another name for 飞雷炮, Fēi léi pào, which is a variation of the Livens Projector.)

Su Mo, who had seen Feng Xiaogang's 'Assembly' program back on planet Earth, was not unfamiliar with this kind of weapon.

During the War of Liberation, the People's Liberation Army had very few options in terms of artillery. In a situation where they were disadvantaged from a weapons and equipment standpoint, the officers and soldiers created a frightening weapon—using gasoline cans as barrels, they made an explosives launcher.

After filling up the propellant, the explosives would be bundled into a disc shape and placed in the barrel. Then the propellant could be ignited, and a ten-kilogram pack of?explosives could be launched a distance of 150 to 200 meters.

The caliber of this weapon was absolutely shocking—the caliber was as large as the barrel's thickness!

With the powerful explosions produced by the large amounts of explosives, bunkers, people and horses would be blown up wherever it landed.

Many enemies who were in the vicinity of the explosion would often not have any visible wounds on their bodies, but they bled profusely internally and were shaken to death by the pulsing waves of the explosion. Hence, it was called the 'heartless cannon'.

In this environment, this kind of weapon embodied the two characteristics of 'deterrence' and 'bomb' nicely.

If the kobolds did not come out, they would have to endure the threat of their shelter collapsing from the bombardment. If they came out, then the required conditions for Zhong Qingshu to enter the shelter and save his sister could be met.

The plan worked!

Seeing that the kobold castle was already in front of him, Su Mo tugged at the rope excitedly and signaled for Oreo to stop.

"Oreo, go bring the rest over! I'm relying on you!"

He produced a bottle of psychic energy water to feed Oreo.?Seeing the slight exhaustion on the dog's face, Su Mo's face was tender as he unhurriedly patted her huge doggy head.

"Aroo! Woo!"

After drinking the psychic energy water, Oreo's fur—that had lost its luster—started shining with a little bit of light again. Her size, which had shrunk tens of centimeters in length, recovered once again.

Su Mo nodded. Seeing Oreo's obedient appearance, Su Mo held back the moist sensation in his eyes and used the hemp rope to tie the snowboard onto Oreo with a knot.

Su Mo patted Oreo's back. After watching Oreo disappear into the distance, Su Mo turned his head, and his expression turned cold.

Nobody was born a leader, and nobody was born as a war god.

Growth was not something that could be achieved or created at a moment's notice. Everyone would only see the greatness of a leader and the strength of a war god fighting against a hundred enemies, but very few, or sometimes even no one at all, could see how much was paid in exchange for the "growth" that they exhibited!

Despite being a regular person from the era of Earth, having gone through the initial stages of panic and spent many days between life and death in the wasteland, Su Mo could now swiftly control and regulate his emotions.

Seeing Su Chan's profile still lit up in his friends' panel, Su Mo released two heavy breaths and began to get a feel of the situation on his left while studying how to create the Heartless Cannon.

Zhong Qingshu beside him did not remain idle either. Taking advantage of the snowy night, she quickly scurried around the right side, starting to investigate the kobolds' defenses as well as where Su Chan might be.

Being able to contact each other through the game panel was more convenient than a walkie-talkie. The two cooperated well, and it took only ten minutes to complete the initial investigation of the castle, after which Oreo returned again.

"It's late at night. The kobolds are probably asleep inside the castle. Your sister should be safe for now."

Su Mo laid on the ground as he looked at the image reflected through the binoculars. Hearing Zhong Qingshu's uncertain words, Su Mo nodded, and the anxiety in his heart was somewhat assuaged.

"I have a plan. I'm not sure if it will work, but this method is indeed the most convenient and optimal given the current circumstances. We must find your little sister's location quickly!"

After Zhong Qingshu said this, she produced a piece of paper that had a complete map of the kobold castle outlined on it.

"Just say it!" Hearing Zhong Qingshu's words, Su Mo nodded without hesitation, signaling for her to spit it out.

"Don't you have the number one ranked shelter in the world right now? I know you people in the ranks can start a live broadcast and stream everything within 50 kilometers. If the system confirms that this is within 50 kilometers of your shelter, through the live broadcast's perspective, perhaps we can see the kobold castle's internal structure!"

Having said this, Zhong Qingshu even highlighted a few important points on the map, hinting that as long as they could observe these locations, they might be able to find Su Chan!

"That's right! How could I have forgotten this advantage of mine—as long as I'm within 50 kilometers of my shelter, I can use the live broadcast!"

Three average people could come up with a better plan than Zhuge Liang if they put their heads together.

Having suddenly been reminded by Zhong Qingshu, Su Mo looked at the kobold castle. This method of utilizing the game panel's live broadcast function was not something he would have thought of.

During disasters, who would go out tens of kilometers to fight their enemy?

In the two disasters, there were dozens of people in the ranks, including Su Mo himself, and nobody had done something like that.

"If I want the system to recognize that this is within 50 kilometers of my shelter, I'll need my shelter, and this…"

"You just need a complete shelter core!"

After Zhong Qingshu reminded Su Mo of this loophole, Su Mo's thoughts became clear.

A complete shelter core was the same as the cards. As long as it was placed into the storage space, it could be carried around and not take up space.

Seeing that he still had eight complete cores, Su Mo became determined and summoned forth one of them to create his shelter.

"I choose to build… an above-ground shelter!"

As the temporary command room for this battle, for the first time, Su Mo chose to create an above-ground shelter.

The safehouse core in his hand shook after hearing his instructions and flew straight into the dirt beneath Su Mo's feet like a seed.

From there, it formed a wooden, somewhat rundown, hut on the ground.

Walking into the house, Su Mo did pay any heed to his survival points at all and used up 350 survival points to create a simple lighting setup.

The setup was very simple—a lithium battery connected to a light bulb—but after turning on the power, a bright light burst forth.

"Game, start the live broadcast. For the first perspective, restrict the upper part of the shelter and disallow movement. Everyone can join.

"For the second perspective, allow movement within 50 kilometers. No other players are allowed to watch this perspective!"

After quickly setting up the live broadcast's limitations and seeing the 'start live' button light up at the bottom, Su Mo eagerly stood up, opened the wooden hut's door, and walked out.

Under the blizzard, the originally dark world suddenly turned bright after the live broadcast was turned on.

Thanks to the host's authority, at this moment, it was as if Su Mo had opened a third perspective and his vision left his body behind, floating up into the air.

300 meters…

200 meters…

100 meters…

As his view approached the kobold castle, seeing that these naive kobolds did not sense anything at all, Su Mo was overjoyed. He threw himself into it and started investigating Su Chan's whereabouts.

However, Su Mo—who was very urgently exploring the kobold castle—did not know that this live broadcast at 3 at night blew up the moment it started!

Boom!

Wow!

This live broadcast room that appeared at three in the morning without a name and only with the number '1' attracted the attention of a small group of people but, after seeing that it was Su Mo's live broadcast room as well as its content, these people went crazy.

"F*ck me, Hurry up and watch Su Mo's live broadcast in the disaster resistance channel's live broadcast. What the f*ck is he doing at night?"

"F*ck, where is this castle from? It's too abnormal, isn't it? Could it be the base of an foreign mythical race?"

"What's Su Mo doing? Why can he livestream there? What does he want to do? He's going to fight in this weather?"

"Heavens, there's a negative 20-degree blizzard outside, yet Su Mo dares to go out?"

"I know this race—it's the kobolds. There's a small tribe near our shelter. These thieves are especially savage and can release fireballs. They're ten times better to have around than the Taurens, but what the f*ck is this? There are so many kobolds near Almighty Su's shelter? And a castle?"

"凸(艹皿艹), what the hell?"1

Su Mo wanted to broadcast the act of attacking an foreign race's shelter live?

Once the news began to spread wildly on the World Channel and Regional Channel...

At this moment, countless people who had already laid down and changed shifts were called up by their companions to watch this unprecedented, supreme broadcast.

Some people guessed that Su Mo was trying to take advantage of the stormy weather to see if he could eke out a small reward.

Some people guessed that such a magnificent castle could not be beaten at all with just human strength and that Su Mo just came to observe it.

There were also a few people who had already become heated "Su Fans" who were frantically posting messages in the comments that he was going to become the first person in the world to individually challenge the invincible foreign race to establish humankind's prestige.

In the middle of the night, this live broadcast became a carnival for all humankind!

Until the first person came up and revealed the reason!

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Chapter 176: The Whole World Is Shocked! We'll Rely On This!

"This is the kobold castle near our shelter that houses more than 2000 kobolds!"

"Almighty Su is going to the kobold castle to save someone—his little sister. Stop making such wild guesses!"

Nobody knew which person from shelter in the west inadvertently leaked the information but, at that moment, the live broadcast room blew up even more.

"Save someone? F*ck me, I love it, I love it! Almighty Su will slice up a thousand kobolds in a fit of rage and rescue his sister. Don't say anything more. My head is already starting to come up with the plot for an overbearing CEO!"

"As expected of our number one player from Huaxia. He's tender-hearted and righteous—only someone like this can be called an 'idol'!"

"If he's fighting foreign races, I'll motherf*cking donate supplies to Almighty Su. Almighty Su, I have wood, iron, and copper here. As long as you're fighting foreign races, we're brothers!"

"Someone finally sounded the horn for our earthlings' counterattack. Awesome!"

Pretty much all the Huaxians were shocked upon hearing that their idol was going to attack such a scary castle for his little sister!

A tide of countless praises and exclamations flooded the comments. At the same time, there were countless people shouting about donating materials and supplies.

Also, there were people who were not optimistic about this battle where the disparity in power between the two sides was so great.

"Su Mo should calm down a little. As long as one is able to take things safely and steadily, they can surely rise up again if they put in the effort. With your speed of development, as long as you have another ten or so days, I believe that defeating this group of kobolds won't be an issue, but now, for your sister… Youngsters are too impulsive."

"Ten thousand people are writing this with their blood (1/10000)—Almighty Su, don't act impulsively; you're our idol! Don't do foolish things like this. Figuring out a way to survive in this doomsday wasteland is the right way!"

"The risk of a direct attack is too great. Why don't you try to negotiate first and agree on an exchange with the kobolds?"

"In doomsday, you can only trust yourself. Acting so impulsively for a sister, I don't agree with Su Mo doing this. It'd be too much of a shame if his own life was lost."

"To risk his own life in order to save someone else, not knowing if it'll even succeed, is too dangerous. I'd still support not saving anyone. It's better to grow further and wait for the chance for revenge later on!"

A battle late at night. Before things had even started, there were already countless people spontaneously entering Su Mo's perspective and expressing their opinions.

From their excitement at the start to the gradual calm after, more and more people understood the kobolds' characteristics…

They also started to believe that it would be hard for Su Mo to achieve victory and successfully save a person in this battle with the disparity in strength between the two sides.

…

"Not on the first floor. All of them are regular kobold warriors. All corners have been checked.

"Not on the second floor. This floor is also the kobolds' residence. Most of the kobolds are gathered in the front. The rooms in the back are all empty."

Not knowing that the live broadcast room had been so shaken up, Su Mo remained calm. He used the broadcast perspective to slowly look through every corner of the castle in detail.

Zhong Qingshu sat beside him on the floor, using a red pen to outline the map directly.

After checking through everywhere that people could be hidden, then climbing up to the third floor and finding nothing, Su Mo's fists slowly tightened.

The lower three floors were the kobolds' residence areas. The upper two floors were the kobolds' core areas. As he was in a rush last time, Su Mo could not clearly see just what was on these two floors either.

However, when the live broadcast perspective moved to the fourth floor, two places that shone with a golden light abruptly appeared in his vision.

"The castle's fourth floor. In the room right opposite the supplies room we went to last time, there's a layer of golden light blocking my vision. Upon trying to use the live broadcast perspective to enter, it failed!

"The castle's fourth floor. There's another room diagonal to the supplies room that can't be entered. The probability is extremely high!"

A thin layer of golden light hovered over these two rooms' doors, but this golden light was like a canyon, blocking the live broadcast perspective's vision.

Without stopping, upon seeing that Zhong Qingshu had finished recording this, Su Mo's vision once again hopped up to the fifth floor. This time, there were even more locations covered with golden light.

Moreover, in the large room in the center, Su Mo could even see a picture slowly appearing above the golden light.

"This is… the kobolds' ancestor?"

Within the pale golden light, as Su Mo examined it, an illusory portrait quite similar to a kobold mage, but with majesty, flashed.

The perspective pulled closer. Just as Su Mo was preparing to investigate and observe exactly what was so sacred about the golden picture, the room door opened…

A kobold dressed in white robes walked out slowly, its vision centered right at where Su Mo was looking.

Across the void, the two seemed to be looking at each other.

Immediately after that, with a wave of the staff in the white-robed kobold's hands, Su Mo's vision went dark. When it was clear again, it had gone back out outside the castle.

This time, the entire castle was covered in the pale gold light, and he was unable to break in again.

"F*ck me… What creature is this?"

While he had been initially startled, Su Mo had seen and evaluated the white-robed kobold's full appearance clearly.

This was completely different from the ignorant expressions of kobold warriors and mages. The white-robed kobold's eyes were full of "wisdom" that did not fit with what was common knowledge!

Moreover, before he left, Su Mo seemed to have seen the white-robed kobold's eyes reveal a trace of…

Caution!

"Their fifth floor was also shrouded with golden light. My little sister's location could very possibly be on the fourth or fifth floor…

"If you can enter… you must be careful of a kobold in white robes. He could have extraordinary power beyond our imagination!"

Slowly spitting out this news, Su Mo was not only unafraid of the unknown threat before him, but he was abnormally excited.

"The white-robed kobold isn't strong. He probably noticed I was spying on him just now, but he didn't do anything to me and only blocked me out.

"This means that his strength is still within an acceptable range for us, even if he is possibly… a little strong!"

Su Chan's profile was still lit up, meaning that there was no danger.

Having investigated her possible locations, Su Mo was even more confident about the next step.

"Alright. I'll go to the back first and be on standby. When you guys in the front create a chance, I'll wait for the opportunity to enter!"

Upon finishing the investigation, Zhong Qingshu kept the map and got up determinedly. She packed up the weapons and equipment she had with her, a trace of solemnity in her eyes.

"This time… I'm counting on you. Take it as me owing you a life!"

Seeing to have sensed the heaviness of Su Mo's promise, Zhong Qingshu's face showed no movement or emotion. She nodded, then quickly vanished from his vision under the night sky.

Ruthless people did not say much.

This style was definitely not something an ordinary National University of Defense Technology graduate student could pull off, but Su Mo could not care about such things now. After watching Zhong Qingshu leave, he quickly laid prone on the floor and studied the creation of the Heartless Cannon.

The composition of the Heartless Cannon was divided into four parts, which were the launch tube, propellant, divider, and explosive.

The function of the launch tube was to provide a simple guiding mechanism for the explosive. This was exactly the same function as the barrel of a mortar.

The creation of the barrel is easy. Opening the trading market, Su Mo purchased 15 units of iron and spent 12 Disaster Points, using the game's creation panel, to create 8 iron barrels with large calibers.

After using an axe to gently chisel through the back of the iron barrel, eight simple but abnormally sturdy barrels were created.

The function of the propellant was to provide the propelling force for the explosives. This was exactly the same as the basic and additional propellants of a mortar shell.

As he had a smokeless gunpowder production line, Su Mo simply took out two catties of guncotton and used 120 survival points to turn it into smokeless gunpowder.

The function of the divider was to separate the propellant from the explosives to avoid premature combustion from occurring.

The divider was a circular wooden board the same size as the inner diameter of the launch tube—below it was the propellant, and above it was the explosive.

After the propellant was lit, it would directly push the divider up, which would in turn push the explosives out of the barrel.

In actual use, wet soil could also be used to replace the wooden boards to divide the propellant and explosives; where a thick layer of wet soil was placed where the divider should be and would then be compacted to seal the propellant. Its effects were similar to the wooden divider.

The principle was very simple, but the launch was different from what was shown in movies. The cannon barrel had to be buried under the ground so that the ground could be used to resist the recoil.

However, on a snowy day like today, he could save the effort on the cumbersome digging process.

"Everything's ready. Next, I just have to wait until everyone's here, move the cannon barrels over, and then we can start the fight!"

Squeezing his fists till they turned purple, Su Mo once again entered the live broadcast perspective view and started looking for traces of Chen Shen and his party within the 50-kilometer radius.

It would have been fine if he had not looked but, after this glance, Su Mo was instantly thrilled.

After Su Mo came over the first time, Chen Shen and his party did not remain idle either. They mimicked Su Mo's equipment from earlier and created more than ten rough snowboarding equipment at their shelter.

Moreover, these equipment devices were firmly connected by the time Oreo went back the second time. As long as the first person could keep steady, the people at the back would also remain steady within the slipstream.

This was the exact current image playing out in Su Mo's vision. At a distance about ten kilometers away from Su Mo, Oreo was running in front at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. The people at the back seemed to be playing the snake game, each one holding on to the person in front of them and linked tightly together as they slid swiftly over the snowy ground.

Because of the tailwind, not only did these people not show any nervousness, instead, each of them was curiously evaluating the scenery as it quickly passed by around them.

Especially Chen Shen—he even carried a huge Type-80 machine gun on his back, his face full of excitement!

"Good! Very good! After the disaster this time, I can probably start attempting to build my team."

Having this group of refugees who trusted him and worked hard, Su Mo finally made up his mind on forming a team.

He had to establish a team—he must!

As long as he could maintain the number one shelter position and receive the rewards, supporting ten or twenty people was definitely not an issue!

The principle of strength in numbers was already displayed very clearly at this moment.

Fighting alone could develop exceptional individual capabilities and prowess but, under the current circumstances, it was obviously not enough.

Hence, if he wanted to develop the technology tree, he had to find a way to organize departments and teams to perform different duties. Only then could they move forward together.

Lying prone on the ground, he watched the party get rapidly closer while monitoring the movements on the kobold castle's walls. Ten minutes later, Chen Shen and his party finally arrived!

Seeing Su Mo lying on the ground in the distance, as well as the shining "war room" behind him, the party was unusually moved but imitated a scene from television dramas as they quietly hunched their bodies and rushed over to Su Mo's side.

"Brother Su, how are we going to attack? Are we going to rush up straightforwardly? We don't know how to use these guns, so we'll need Almighty Su to instruct us a bit."

The 11 people who followed along were the Huaxians who had been rescued last time. A bunch of simple refugees, their faces were awkward as they scratched their heads in embarrassment.

Seeing this group of "adorable" people, Su Mo shook his head. He stood up with pride on his face and patted the iron bucket beside him.

"No need to rush up. With me here today, nobody will die.

"We…

"Will be relying on this!"

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Chapter 177: Two Billion People, The First Shot Of A Race War!

"This iron barrel? What is this?"

Everyone would recognize guns when they saw one, from pistols to rifles, even machine guns, heavy machine guns, and rocket launchers. People were not unfamiliar with these things.

However, at this time, these simple refugees were stunned as they watched Su Mo put his hand on the oil barrel.

Not everyone had seen a TV series or movie featuring the "heartless cannon", so not everyone recognized this famous launcher.

Among all the people, a few young people reacted the quickest.

These several people glanced at each other, with surprise in their eyes, and said in unison, "Is this the heartless cannon from the movies?"

"This can directly hurl our explosives into the kobold castle?"

As Su Mo took out one neatly assembled pack of explosives after another, and with the explanation of those several young people, everyone gradually understood what the huge iron barrel was and what a "heartless cannon" was.

A middle-aged man in his forties mentioned that his grandfather had used such a weapon in that era, and that he still vaguely remembered how his grandpa explained how to use such a barrel to fire explosives.

Eight barrels and sixty packs of explosives were enough to fire seven rounds.

With such power, even if the kobolds were timid tortoises, they would be driven out in a panic to fight a decisive battle.

"Everyone stay quiet, eat first, and tell me your names along the way, so that it's easier for me to assign tasks later."

Looking at the disheveled refugees, Su Mo took out all the pancakes from his storage space and distributed them.

It was late, around four in the morning, and the storm had begun to subside from level 11 to around level 7.

The crispy aroma of the pancakes began to spread in the wind, reaching the noses of every refugee, leaving everyone hooked by the tantalizing scent of the food.

"Hello Big Brother Su, my name is Chen Yi…"

"Hello Big Brother Su, my name is Chen Zhi…"

Looking at the big pancakes in Su Mo's hand, everyone straightened their chests while receiving their pancakes. Everyone bowed deeply and reported their name along the way.

Among the eleven people, six had the surname Chen. They were all from the same family, and all of them were high-achieving students who had gone to universities.

The remaining five people were also men. Except for Chen Shen's uncle, Chen Chun, the others were all elderly uncles.

"Hello Almighty Su, I am Wang Guan. You can directly tell me what you need." There was no problem with a few young people calling him Big Brother Su, but the remaining middle-aged people, such as Wang Guan, were embarrassed to call Su Mo big brother. They could only address him by Su Shen.

Su Mo handed the pancake to Wang Guan. Seeing everyone devouring the pancakes, Su Mo nodded and began to speak loudly, "All the young people pay attention to my example. In a moment, Chen Shen, Chen Yi, Chen Zhi, Chen Suan, Chen Wei, and Chen Xian will be armed with guns and stand guard over the surroundings. Notify me if you see any kobolds!"

After that, Su Mo took out a rifle and a Type-80 machine gun from the storage space and demonstrated how to unlock the safety and how to shoot in front of everyone.

They were all educated young people and no strangers to guns.

After learning how to shoot and use the guns, everyone was excited and forgot about eating pancakes. Holding their rifles in their hands, they were amazed.

Especially Chen Shen, who placed the machine gun on the ground, facing the kobold castle in the distance. He began to practice quickly according to the gun stances and postures mentioned by Su Mo.

Including the guns manufactured this time, if you included the previous inventory, there were a total of two pistols, six rifles, and two machine guns.

Both pistols were given to Zhong Qingshu just now, the rifles were divided among five people, and the machine gun was given to one. At present, there was a rifle and a machine gun in Su Mo's hands.

Su Mo moved all the ammunition boxes out of the storage space and waved his hand as he watched everyone recover their strength after eating the pancakes.

During the night, a group of twelve people moved silently under the cover of the blizzard toward the kobold castle.

The darkness, blizzard and cold were the best form of protection the kobolds had against night attacks.

When they were less than two hundred meters away from the Kobold castle, they saw Su Mo squat down, and the team immediately stopped in their tracks and started to perform the tasks they had been assigned to before.

The increased manpower made things easier. Before the people behind could drag the iron barrel over, the big hole on the ground where the iron barrel would be placed had already been dug out.

"Sure enough, in the apocalyptic world, strength is respected. Without law and without rules, whoever has the biggest fist is the boss."

Seeing the people busying about hurriedly as he stood among the crowd, Su Mo's expression remained aloof as he sank into deep thought.

In civilized society, all people were equal in terms of human rights, subject to the restraint of many elements such as morality, law, and humanity.

However, in the apocalyptic world…

Even if Su Mo did not say or do anything, these people would be afraid of the reputation he had accumulated in the early stages.

"The environment determines what people become and how they behave. Two months ago, I was just a small clerk, but now… the tide has turned!"

While directing the group to bury the iron barrel in a suitable location, Su Mo took out the automatic rifle and felt the dense patterns on the gun with his hand.

This day had been planned within Su Mo's previous schedule.

However, because of the sudden arrival of his sister…

The day of the final battle with the kobolds was brought forward. It was finally…here!

After today, kobold castle would no longer exist on this wasteland!

"Chen Shen, start the loading process. Remember the procedure and follow the steps!"

The powerful yellow explosives had been distributed to each group. Seeing that Chen Shen was clever, Su Mo directly appointed him as the team leader and he was responsible for conveying Su Mo's orders.

Seeing the busy people behind him, Su Mo took a deep breath and slowly crouched down and inched forward.

"I have to win this battle. Sis…wait for me!"

Su Mo took out the pointer in his arms and he saw the arrow pointing right in the direction of the kobold castle, as if staring at the shivering kobold warriors on the sentry tower.

Su Mo adjusted the snow on the ground and silently laid down, slowly unlocking the safety on the rifle. He aimed at the kobold warrior who was still looking around aimlessly, the murderous intent in his eyes gushing out!

…

On the other hand, while Su Mo was preparing to shoot, the live audience watching from the sky had reached an astronomical number!

2.2 billion people!

What concept was this?

Of the human beings who were still alive after being transported here from Earth, half of them were watching this battle in the middle of the night, in the midst of this disaster!

The chat channels that could be accessed by hundreds of people like the Regional Channel moved rapidly, not to mention the two billion people in the disaster resistance channel at the moment.

Every second, the barrage of comments flowed down like magma, carrying unparalleled momentum.

As long as they did not choose to pause the messages on the comments screen, no one could actually see or read anything effectively.

Seeming to feel the heat in the live broadcast room get out of hand, for the first time, the game panel began to intervene by introducing chat restrictions in the disaster resistance channel.

3 minute timeouts!

Smart filtering!

When the shocked billions of players messaged frantically, suddenly, a prompt appeared. The prompt notified everyone that they could only send out a message every three minutes.

At the same time, the crazy comments screen also slowed down and the same intelligent filtering function as the World Channel was implemented.

At this point, many people finally had a chance to communicate. At first, they discussed it with each other.

"F*ck, Almighty Su is going to attack this castle. The flying thunder cannon, no, the heartless cannon has been prepared as well?"

"No way, Su Mo's team only adds up to approximately ten people. How can they fight this battle? What can they do if the other party doesn't come out?"

"Doesn't a heartless cannon require explosives? Why doesn't he just think of a way to gather all the explosives in one place to collapse the castle walls?"

"Awesome! Although the angle of view can't be moved, hurry up and zoom in to see what Almighty Su is doing!"

"Ss, an automatic rifle… is this going to completely kick off the war between humankind and other foreign races!"

"Technology versus magic. 6666! Let the western foreign devils see how vulnerable their monsters are."

Comments flew in one after the other. Even with the implementations of chat restrictions, the enthusiasm of these people was not diminished.

On the contrary, more people found like-minded people through the smart filtering function, and the chat started heating up again.

The discussions ranged from the disparity between the two sides' combat strength to the seemingly sophisticated weapons that Su Mo's team had, before progressing to the kobold mages' magical power and the far-reaching influence of winning or losing this battle.

Until…

The bullet pierced the air and burst forth with a sharp buzzing sound!

A thumping sound following the sound of the bullet!

The moment the gun was fired, on the nearest sentry tower, the kobold warrior suddenly fell and hit the snow. It seemed that he would not survive.

At the same time, just like his first shot with the crossbow previously, the kobold castle echoed with sharp whining noises.

All of a sudden, the kobolds who were initially asleep awoke one after the other and started making howling noises.

The sound was so loud that even the snow began to shake and tremble.

Even if he was lying on the ground one to two hundred meters away, Su Mo could feel the tremors.

He fired off another shot at the kobold on the other side of the sentry tower, before picking up his rifle and returning to his previous position.

"Why? Afraid?"

Of all the people present, only Su Mo was standing relaxedly, not exhibiting any signs of tension at all…

It was the first time the others heard so many kobolds howling. Even Chen Shen, who was not afraid of the sky and the earth, was shaking constantly on the ground at this time, quivering.

Although everyone had seen blood during their time at saltpeter mining camp, their mentality had not changed after all. It was the few older people who were "forced" to remain extremely calm at this time. Looking closely though, their entire body was tensed up.

"No, I'm not afraid! I am excited! Yes, I am excited!"

Touching the sweat dripping from his head, Chen Shen yelled out; he hugged the machine gun while crouching on the ground, staring straight ahead.

Seeing everyone in this state, Su Mo shook his head and stared at the sturdy gate of the kobold castle.

"In this weather, they would not dare to come out in the face of unknown threats!"

The inferiority complex rooted in the genes of the kobold race caused more and more kobolds to act just as Su Mo expected.

These beasts ran up the city wall one after another, looking around in panic, trying to find Su Mo and his party, who were hiding in the darkness.

Unfortunately, standing in the dark and looking toward the light was easy, but standing in the light and looking toward the dark would be a fruitless endeavor.

Hundreds of kobolds howled, and thousands of them turned manic!

This scene not only shocked the people lying on the ground, but also made all the audience in the live broadcast room tremble.

"Da… Damn! How are there so many of them? Is mankind destined to perish?"

"It's horrible! There are so many kobolds, how can you fight them? How can you get in? Even if one person fights ten of them, there is no way it would work!"

"Look at their mages, all holding staves. F*ck, aren't these the kobolds from the DD world?"

"There are more than a thousand kobolds? Amen, this world is terrible!"

As more and more kobolds stood atop the city wall, it rapidly became crowded and blocked, like sparks igniting a keg of gunpowder.

The entire disaster resistance channel, together with major regional channels and the World Channel, were all erupting!

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Chapter 178: Heartless Cannon! Blow Them Up!

Even when they received the news that there were thousands of kobolds in this castle, most people thought that those were just imaginary numbers and paid it no mind.

After all, the strongest mythical race currently known to humankind in the wasteland were the taurens.

There were only 700 of them.

Now they suddenly discovered a clan whose number and strength completely exceeded the taurens, leaving everyone shocked!

At the same time, an inexplicable sense of fear surged alongside the shock.

If there were so many kobolds that suddenly emerged, did it mean that there were a lot of other powerful races that had yet to be discovered by humans, or that the humans who discovered them were already dead?

"What is the future of humankind?"

After the first few such viewpoints appeared, immediately, the joy of watching the live broadcast was no longer there, and everyone in the chat channel panicked.

No one wanted to die, especially those who were in a group. They dared not think about the heavy topic of "death".

Looking at Su Mo's figure on screen, for the first time, the mentality of those who were watching changed.

Their perspectives shifted from simply watching a show, not caring for the outcome, to thinking about the dangers and safety of Su Mo's group, a connection that arose from their "common destiny" was manifested for the first time in the apocalyptic world.

If one of their kind was prosperous, then everyone would be prosperous; if one was doomed, then everyone would be doomed.

Su Mo, as humanity's strongest, if he fell during tonight's live broadcast, it would be a "violent" blow to all humankind!

In a partially-collapsed house somewhere in the wasteland, a mother and daughter were huddled together in a nest. They were trembling in the cold, and were so hungry that they had to clutch their stomachs in agony.

Even so, their faint but extremely firm cheering sounds slowly floated out in the wind!

In a big pit, five or six older children hugged each other for warmth, trembling. As each gust of wind blew, they came closer and closer to death…

Although their voices were extremely shaky, the words "hang in there" could be distinguished.

In a large-scale shelter that had been destroyed by a foreign mythical race, the faint sound of cheering could also be heard.

In a dim but warm shelter, among the crowd of people, a girl was feeling very touched, but observing the strangers around her with caution, she tried her best to blend in and not stand out.

Amidst the unanimous cheering sounds, the girl clenched her clothes tightly. If there was a lip reading expert there, they would be able to distinguish the words that were being mouthed…

Big brother, hang in there!

After the first shot was fired, the war would not stop…

Even among the people who were initially not optimistic, there were only two words left in their hearts at this time…

Come on!

Everyone was cheering for Su Mo, who was fighting against another race under such harsh weather conditions. Everyone was worried about the first turning point in the fate of the human community on the wasteland.

Su Mo was stunned and dazed when he heard the excited voice of Chen Shen.

"Big brother Su, many, many people are cheering for us…"

Lying on the ground, without Su Mo's instructions, everyone quietly watched the kobold castle in the distance restlessly.

After the initial panic, with Su Mo leading them, the small team that had been put together began to gain cohesion as time passed.

If the flags do not fall, then the morale shall not fall!

If the generals do not die, then the brave men shall not fall!

Standing in the center of the venue, Su Mo's figure rose infinitely in everyone's eyes.

On one side was the kobold castle, and on the other side was Su Mo, who was the representative of thousands of humans.

There was an extremely disparate contrast between the number of people on both sides. The scene left a strong visual impact and, as Su Mo's gestures changed, everyone on the ground suddenly became excited.

"Brothers!"

"It's time for the flames of humankind to burn!"

Turning his head and looking at the iron barrels that had been rooted into the ground, Su Mo took out sixty cheap lead wires he had exchanged from the system and put them on the ground.

"Everyone, connect the lead wires to the rear end of the propellant, and turn the barrel northward. The downward inclination angle is 180, and the upward inclination angle is 220. Then fall back 15 meters!"

Using a lead wire to ignite the heartless cannon was the correct and also the safest way to operate it.

At Su Mo's order, everyone moved quickly. Through the subjective lens of the viewers, the team looked no worse than those who had received training before!

Three minutes later, when the last lead wire was connected, Su Mo looked at the bustling kobold castle in the distance and yelled, "What shit kobolds? What garbage magic? In the eyes of the human race…"

"Technology is magic and bombs are the truth!"

"Everyone, light the fire, aim them at a crowded place, and blow them all up!"

Crackle, crackle, crackle!

The eight lead wires were all ignited at the same time, making a unique fizzing sound.

It was like a fire snake. In the blink of an eye, the burning wire reached the heartless cannon and, immediately, before everyone could react…

Boom! Boom! Boom!

…

Suddenly, eight sounds that shook the world echoed loudly and, under the stormy night sky, the explosives flew straight toward the kobold castle like an arrow released from a bowstring.

'So cool, a beautiful parabola…'

While Su Mo was thinking such thoughts, suddenly…

It became bright!

Eight picric acid explosives hit the walls of the kobold castle, suddenly bursting forth with a light bright enough to light up the sky for a whole three seconds!

Snowflakes!

Storm!

Flame!

Followed by… the howling of the kobolds!

The surroundings rumbled and the intense light pierced Su Mo's eyes, but he still continued staring at the outer wall of the castle where the smoke was about to dissipate.

There was a strong wind blowing and, when the outer wall reappeared in front of everyone again, the small team and the major chat channels suddenly cheered.

"It exploded, it exploded, it really exploded!"

A large hole was visible, alongside the charred corpses of the kobolds, and yellow liquid dripped off the walls.

This round of bombing was not enough to cause the kobold castle to collapse but, at this moment, the arrogant barking sounds from the kobolds were gone.

"Everyone prepare for the second round!"

After quickly communicating with Zhong Qingshu, Su Mo kept going and commanded everyone to ignite the second round of lead wires.

Taking advantage of the situation, before the kobolds could react, the team bombarded the city wall another three times, showcasing the power of the heartless cannon.

Four rounds of the bombardment occurred in just three minutes.

Before the fifth round began, the kobolds could no longer sit still in their seemingly "sturdy" castle to avoid the assault.

The thick wooden door that was riddled with holes was quickly pushed open by two small teams of kobolds. From the gap, the red-eyed mad dogs finally rushed out.

"Bombardment team, continue to prepare the explosives. Gun team, wait until they're 100 meters away, and then fire at will!"

Su Mo replaced his rifle while looking at the kobolds who were rushing out. He took out the Type-80 machine gun from the storage space, and licked his bloody cracked lips excitedly.

The kobold castle was finally messed up, and Zhong Qingshu's opportunity arrived!

Despite the darkness, countless kobolds found their positions after several rounds of shells had been fired.

As they rushed out of the castle gates, they saw that Su Mo and his party had not reacted yet. Many kobolds ran wildly across the snow, hoping to tear everyone up.

Two hundred and forty meters.

Two hundred meters.

One hundred and fifty meters!

As the distance closed, after seeing Zhong Qingshu's "OK" message in the chatbox, Su Mo released the machine gun's safety, raised his head, and shouted,

"Linear array shooting formation. Fire at will and kill them all!"

The group, who had been waiting for Su Mo's command on the ground for a long time, pulled their triggers in unison.

Tat tat tat…

Da da da da da da!

The unique sounds of the automatic rifle and the Type-80 machine gun suddenly echoed, playing the bloody melody of death amidst the snowy night.

The fiery red muzzle flames constantly flashed, spewing out bloodthirsty bullets with extremely terrifying power.

The kobolds who had defied the "fear of death" were stupefied after being hit by the barrage of firepower for the first time!

Compared to the firing rate of a rifle, a general-purpose machine gun had a firing rate of 800 rounds per minute, which was akin to a bone-eating wind, licking the flesh off the kobolds crazily.

"Wow!"

"Ahhhhh"

The kobolds who had just rushed out were stunned by the scene before them.

In the distance, the scene was like a fiery snake attacking countless kobolds. They were riddled with bullets into a sieve, with blood spurting from every part of their bodies.

The pure white snow, under the bloody baptism, was stained an eerie black and red color.

Daring to rush forward?

Still daring to fight?

When the first kobold mage tried to release a fireball, it was hit by a bullet as soon as he shot it, causing a large explosion…

The kobold castle had been bombarded!

The kobolds in front wanted to flee madly, but the kobolds at the back were still at a loss. They were encouraged by their captains, continuing to charge forward.

Trampling, roaring, gunfire, and a hail of bullets…

More and more kobolds fell amidst such a chaotic scene and, even as bullets continued to fly, a more terrifying melee battle broke out within the kobold castle.

In order to return to the castle, the mages frantically used fireballs, trying to forcibly clear a path.

At this time, the clueless kobold squad panicked even more, and the chaos continued to intensify.

"Su Mo, I'm on the second floor. Continue to create some chaos! Create an opportunity for me!"

Hearing Zhong Qingshu's voice, without thinking about it further, Su Mo got to his feet and ran directly to the barrel to adjust the angle and direction of the iron barrel.

"The angle is 175, the direction is northwest. Everyone, aim at the door and blast it through!"

After five rounds of explosives, the remaining balance at this time was enough for another two rounds of bombardment.

When eight packs of explosives flew toward the castle gates one after the other, the world finally turned quiet.

The kobolds behind could finally step on the corpses of their kind and rush out to admire the hellish battleground outside the castle.

Similarly, when looking at these kobolds and the few broken iron barrels on the ground, Su Mo stopped waiting.

"Everyone, carry the packs of explosives and walk forward to the position fifty meters outside the castle to cover my charge!"

"Our target is to wipe out the kobolds!"

After several rounds of bombardment, boxes of different colors were already lying on the ground.

The people who at first thought it would be a dangerous fight, looked at the scene in front of them and wiped their eyes with disbelief.

"We won?"

"We already won?"

Not only were the team members shocked, but the two billion people who were watching the entire battle on the live broadcast were also shocked!

"Almighty Su is going to win! Humans have won this battle!"

"It's so cool! Explosions and big blasts, the kobolds must have been blown up silly."

"What kind of lousy magic is that? Our explosives are just that good. Like I said, what are you guys afraid of, just wait till our weapons are created…"

Under the fierce assault of these weapons, the kobolds were like pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, unable to muster even the slightest resistance.

Before the steel hailstorm started again, Su Mo's footsteps were ceaseless. In an instant, under the cover of the people behind him, he successfully rushed into the kobold castle.

Seeing Su Mo enter the castle, everyone under the outer wall relaxed and began to rest on the ground.

However, in a blind spot, a kobold in a white robe appeared silently on the five-story city wall.

The white robe kobold was expressionless. Aside from the distinctive robe on its body, in terms of its body shape and appearance, it looked no different from other kobolds.

However, the next action taken by such an ordinary kobold made Chen Shen, who had been watching the comments screen in the live broadcast room in amazement, stand up abruptly.

"This is bad. Get away!"

As he raised his head, Chen Shen would always remember this scene.

Above the kobold castle, a fireball the size of a basketball court fluttered through the air.

The blue fireball did not look all that scary, and even had a touch of beauty about it.

At the center of the fireball, there was a giant image of a foreign dragon swimming in it comfortably.

Every time the dragon swam, the fireball expanded by one point.

Before everyone could run away, under the control of the white-robed kobold, the fireball arrived directly at the position of the iron barrels outside the city wall!

Boom!

The scorching sun was rising, and the huge impact caused half of the kobold castle to collapse.

At the same time, everyone who had not had time to run far was also pushed out by this impact!

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Chapter 179: Eve Of Extermination, A Giant God Descended!

"Zhong Qingshu, which floor are you on? Have you seen my sister?"

The turmoil inside the castle continued. After the bombardment of the castle, the leaders on the upper floors were lost. All the kobolds on the lower floors seemed frantic, running around in the castle like headless chickens.

Even one of the usually calm kobold mages dropped its staff at this time, panicking, and wanted to escape through the small side door.

As soon as he entered the door, Su Mo ran into a kobold squad, but the squad did not realize that Su Mo had already rushed in. They still seemed to have received an order and swarmed to a single location.

"Something's wrong! Be careful!"

Hearing Zhong Qingshu's flustered voice in his ears, before Su Mo could react, a shockwave capable of overturning the earth exploded in the distance.

Even under the bombardment of the explosives previously, the castle remained unusually strong. However, this time, it was split into two by the impact.

From the center of the castle, the ground broke apart, and the castle that had no foundation in the first place began to collapse crazily from top to bottom.

The huge pillar that supported the upper layers of the castle was also collapsing, and the floor was as vulnerable as a piece of paper.

Unguarded, a piece of flying rock slammed into Su Mo's back fiercely and sent him flying away like a sharp arrow.

"This is…"

Su Mo fell to the ground, and the sharp pain behind him made his consciousness a little fuzzy.

Forcibly recollecting himself, Su Mo took out the psychic energy water out of the storage space to drink. Su Mo quickly switched to the live broadcast perspective to observe what was happening outside.

The screen flashed, and the broadcast host's perspective automatically emerged. Amidst the gray and black, Su Mo's expression was full of shock.

Part of the barrels' position had completely disappeared at this time, and even the upper layer of snow had disappeared.

It was replaced by a huge bottomless pit, with the diameter of the pit being seventy or eighty meters long, which was extremely terrifying.

In the pit, there were still little wisps of blue flame present. It was akin to a punishment from hell, and everyone who saw it could feel the terrifying power behind it!

However, it was not this that shocked Su Mo, but…

It was the owner who released this huge fireball, and its purpose.

"The range of the fireball also encompassed your castle. Isn't this akin to killing the enemy by self-destructing?"

He did not know what materials the castle was constructed with, and what principles were used in the process but, at this time, while half of the building was rapidly crumbling, the other interior half still stood abnormally strong.

Through the void, Su Mo once again saw the white-robed kobold standing at the top of the castle, and the traces of black powder that had just been used…

Seemingly sensing Su Mo's gaze, the white-robed kobold looked over again, its mouth pulled up in a sneer and mocking gaze, continuing to wave the staff in its hand.

This time the fireball was much more normal-looking; other than there being an illusory blue silk thread floating inside, there was not much difference between it and those casted by ordinary mages.

In addition, the white-robed kobold's target was neither the team that was blown up outside the castle, or Su Mo who was still on the first floor, or even Zhong Qingshu who had already rushed to the fourth floor either.

Its target turned out to be…

The remaining kobolds!

"Be careful, the one in the white robe is crazy! He is bombarding his own people like a madman!"

Such a weird scene did not make Su Mo feel relaxed, but the palpitations that had previously disappeared resurfaced instead.

What was the white-robed kobold doing?

Why was it doing this?

Team after team of kobolds were assembled by the captain and then killed by the white-robed kobold above them with a fireball.

In less than a minute, these swooping fireballs caused higher casualties than bombardment of explosives and hailstorm of bullets.

The kobolds who had previously been escaping frantically, seemed to have received some kind of summons, and voluntarily gathered together to be devoured by the burning fireballs.

"Is this to prevent me from obtaining the treasure chests? Or is there some other ulterior motive?"

Feeling the rapid beating of his heart, and watching groups of kobolds dying, Su Mo yelled and pushed the debris off his body. He quickly rushed up the stairs that had not collapsed yet.

Treasure chests? Unimportant!

Kobolds? Even more insignificant!

The purpose of this trip was to rescue Su Chan. Even if the kobolds died, they would not have the slightest impact on this vast wasteland.

His back was hurting and the combat uniform was damaged. While climbing the stairs, Su Mo quickly spent 40 points to repair the uniform.

Concealed by the rising dust, a green light flashed momentarily in the dark. When Su Mo appeared in sight again, his uniform was intact again.

"Zhong Qingshu, how are you? Are you okay?"

As Su Mo called, an intermittent voice replied, "Your …sister, not in the castle…"

"Quick! Hurry up and stop the white-robed kobold from continuing to slaughter the kobolds. Hurry up! Otherwise, we will all die!"

After finishing speaking, Zhong Qingshu's voice dropped off again and turned into static.

At the same time, in his field of vision, two rooms covered by the golden light on the fourth floor were shattered. Zhong Qingshu's body shot out from the room and hit the snow in the distance. It was unknown whether she was dead or alive.

Su Chan was not in the castle?

What did Zhong Qingshu see?

What was the white-robed kobold doing?

These three questions shrouded Su Mo's heart like a pair of black hands covering the sky.

Su Mo looked toward the white-robed kobold who was still slaughtering the kobold squads from the fifth floor. After thinking about it, Su Mo's pace did not slow down, but sped up instead.

It seemed that something had gone terribly wrong.

After receiving Zhong Qingshu's reminder, he temporarily let go of his worries about his sister. After taking a look and seeing Su Chan's avatar still lit up, Su Mo quickly rushed up to the fourth floor, picked up his rifle, and shot at the white-robed kobold.

Unfortunately, when the bullet hit the white-robed kobold, a faint golden light suddenly arose, blocking the bullet.

At the same time, when the white-robed kobold noticed Su Mo's figure, its movements did not slow down. Instead, it increased the speed of casting fireballs to destroy the remaining kobolds.

"My goodness, it's addicted to killing his own kind!"

Seeing that a single bullet failed to penetrate the white-robed kobold's wall of light, Su Mo did not hesitate and went straight to the fifth floor.

There were not many kobolds left down below. After being on the receiving end of attacks from both sides, they were already on the verge of extinction.

While Su Mo was climbing the stairs, the white-robed kobold released two more fireballs, ending the lives of all the kobolds except itself. After that, it seemed to have run out of energy and became weakened.

Three hours ago, this was a high-class castle brimming with bright lights and unusual warmth. It was the best shelter in everyone's mind.

Three hours later, it had turned into hell on earth with corpses littering the ground, stumps and shreds of body parts everywhere, and a scarlet river flowing with the blood of the kobolds.

As for the two instigators who caused all this, by the time Su Mo reached the fifth floor, he could no longer stop the launch of the final fireball.

In Su Mo's vision, the white-robed kobold sat down paralyzed and, at the same time, a relaxed smile was etched onto its mouth.

"The strongest of mankind! You are here! Hahahaha!"

"I welcome you to witness the arrival of the great Dog God, and witness the great Boswell worship and summon the Dog God!"

The white-robed kobold spat out these words to Su Mo upon his arrival on the fifth floor with a triumphant expression.

It was as if, in this battle, all the people who died down below were humans instead.

"I'm here now. Do you want to repeat yourself? Say that you won again, that you are great, and I made a mistake?"

"By the way, do you want to add on another sentence? Perhaps that my actions are stupid and that only you truly understand everything?"

"You also want to say that the Dog God can control this land after arriving, right?"

Seeing the appearance of the white-robed kobold, Su Mo tried to delay for time and quickly scanned the fifth floor, checking whether there were captured human beings.

In the half-broken castle, there were only three rooms, as well as the huge viewing platform, remaining.

At this time, the exhausted white-robed kobold could not maintain the golden light film, and Su Mo tried to use the broadcast host's perspective to observe the surroundings.

Sure enough, Su Chan was not in the castle.

After taking out the pointer, the arrow was still stubbornly pointed north, not exhibiting any sign of change.

"Hahaha, your human forces, wanting to win the spoils of defeating us, the heavenly dog clan, is simply wishful thinking."

"In this battle, not only did you not gain anything, but you also lost a few mages among your race! I guess you must regret everything now."

The white-robed kobold's tone was very relaxed as it pointed toward the place where the oil barrels were buried in the distance with the staff in its hand.

In its eyes, Su Mo saw the pride and, in its tone, Su Mo heard the happiness.

"What mages are you blabbering on about? Where is my sister? Bastard!"

Su Mo took out the fine iron electric spear, stomped on the ground, and instantly reached the white-robed kobold. He thrust the spear into its thigh.

"Ah!"

"Ahhhhhhh!"

The spear instantaneously punctured the white-robed kobold's thigh, and a trace of extreme pain was displayed on Boswell's distorted face.

Compared to other kobolds, the white-robed kobold was not strong. It was just that he could speak, release big fireballs, and last a little longer…

He was still a weak being.

"What sister, you are all going to die, ahhhhhhhh!"

"Despicable intruder, ah!"

Seeing that the kobold, who was still unrepentant even though he was being oppressed, Su Mo drew out his spear and thrust it on the other thigh again.

"Hahahaha, kill, kill, kill me!"

"Together we will witness the arrival of the Heavenly Dog God!"

Both the legs of the white-robed kobold were marked with large holes, from which black blood gushed out of the wounds.

The intense pain did not stop Boswell from speaking. On the contrary, he became even crazier.

Seeing the crazy expression on the white-robed kobold's face, Su Mo was startled.

There was such a warrior who was not afraid of death?

Without waiting for Su Mo to continue his execution, from beneath the half-collapsed castle, a golden magic circle, similar to those seen in movies and TV series, suddenly arose.

At the same time, all the kobold corpses were sucked in by the magic circle in an instant, and the blood-stained snow on the ground was no exception.

The greedy magic circle was like a visitor from hell, sucking in the flesh and blood of creatures.

After the last trace of kobold flesh and blood disappeared, the magic circle began to burst forth with a violent light and shattered into pieces.

"Dog God, the Heavenly Dog God is coming!"

"Atonement, the last redemption belongs to our Heavenly Dog clan! No one can steal it, hahahaha!"

"I, Boswell, am about to ascend into the kingdom of the Heavenly Dog God. I will be immortal and eternal!"

The large amount of blood loss caused the white-robed kobold's consciousness to become blurred but, as the magic circle shattered, the two large holes pierced by Su Mo stopped bleeding and began to recover rapidly.

The golden lights began to rush into the air spontaneously. These golden lights were just like that time the secret trading realm opened, directly breaking through the thick clouds, halting the strong wind, and driving away the snowflakes.

A shallow rift slowly split open in mid-air, before beginning to expand rapidly.

It was daybreak…

It was not the sun that was coming out but, in the crack, an illusory dog's head exuding golden light poked its way out, occupying half of the sky like a giant god, looking down at the ground from a distance!

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Chapter 180: The Growing Terror, Fermentation Of Desperation

Boom!

Along with the appearance of the giant god in the sky, Boswell, the white-robed kobold on the ground, knelt on the ground with an expression of indescribable piousness.

A little golden light lingered in the sky, and even the blizzard came to a halt under the influence of this power.

The wind disappeared, the snow disappeared, and there was silence between heaven and earth. Only the rift continued to expand, producing a rumbling sound.

It was such a heaven defying scene that, even an asteroid crashing into the Earth, or the Buddha Kingdom and the palm of the Buddha descending in the Journey to the West novel, could not compare to!

Standing on the ground, and looking up at the dog's head that had almost entirely filled up the vast starry sky, the hair on Su Mo's scalp stood up tingling.

His heart palpitations returned once again accompanied by the rhythmic beating sounds of the heart.

"So… this was the scene that Oreo saw?"

Even if the giant god was just a phantom image currently, the sense of the unknown mystery and oppression was enough to make Su Mo's breathing stop.

At the same time, the live audience watching in the sky were stunned by this scene, the viewer count reaching an unprecedented 3 billion people.

"This…what the hell is this?"

"F*ck, go out and look at the sky outside your shelter! I can see this giant god here."

"Is this a height that humans can reach? Is this the type of enemies we will be facing in the future?"

"Everyone is going to die, and humankind is going to die. Us coming here was not to survive, but rather to die!!"

"Kobolds have their ancestors, but what do we humans have? We have nothing! We can only wait to die!"

"Ahhhh, mom, I want to go home! I don't wanna play anymore!"

"There is a kobold god, but why is there no Hongjun, why is there no Sanqing, and why is there no Buddha? Why do we humans have to wait to die like ants?"

Speaking solely of individual strength, in the eyes of most human beings, even the powerful taurens would not be a problem at all as long as firearms were created.

Even if it were an unknown race, it would not be difficult for humans to occupy this continent with the aid of firearms.

The difficulty was in finding a way to survive the early stages under the threat of the various natural disasters.

However, now…

Those who were able to go outside and stand in the blizzard looked at the huge kobold phantom in the sky and went silent.

Fear was brewing.

Desperation was fermenting.

This kind of enemy was not something they had the confidence to go up against, even during the heyday of humankind on Earth, much less now when they were ordinary humans equipped with stone spears and stone axes.

"We…we still have Almighty Su. He can do it…"

After a certain steadfast person made such a remark on the disaster resistance channel. Surprisingly, no one refuted it this time, and no one ridiculed it.

Everyone just looked at the kobold phantom in the sky, trying to imagine standing under this phantom; that kind of terrifying oppressive feeling.

Suffocation… filled anyone who was watching the live broadcast.

Especially as the phantom in the sky continued to expand, the feeling of oppression it brought about got even stronger, and some people who did not have strong willpower broke down on the spot, crying loudly.

They could not see hope.

That was despair!

They could not find a future.

That was death!

Under the half-collapsed castle, everyone in the team who suffered the initial blast impact began to gradually wake up under this terrifying pressure.

However, when they raised their heads and saw this scene, the young people were still okay, but the older uncles fainted once again.

"Brother Shen, this…what the hell is this?"

Who could imagine that, when they woke up, the entire sky would be covered by a huge kobold phantom? Also, who could imagine running away from this phantom to escape?

Chen Shen, whose name was called, saw this scene as well, but he did not reply. He just stared at the sky; staring at the top of the castle.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

Faced with this kind of monstrosity, even this group of young people who had received countless years of education, felt their understanding of the world start to collapse.

Humans could fight against powerful creatures.

However, with this monster…

No one could see where the dawn would rise from.

Chen Shen was still silent as he stared at the top. Following his gaze, the other people also cast their gazes in the same direction, and suddenly noticed the one standing on the fifth floor of the castle under the light of the giant god…

A human shadow!

"The strongest of mankind, are you scared? Are you afraid? Hahahaha, the invincible ancestor has come, and the door to redemption is about to open."

"I want to thank you, thank you for helping us meet the conditions of the summoning. Wahahahaha!"

The giant god in the sky was still forming, and white-robed Boswell had begun to dance before the great god, dancing and waving on the viewing platform on the fifth floor of the castle.

However, before it could continue its ridicule, suddenly, three big slaps attacked its face.

Slap!

Slap!

Slap!

With all his strength, Su Mo slapped the kobold's face fiercely, and four sharp dog teeth flew out instantly.

Sitting on the ground, Boswell looked dumbfounded, as if not understanding why Su Mo would dare to make a move in this situation.

"You're not afwaid of the answestor's pumishment?"

Slap!

"You…"

Slap!

Grasping the fur on the kobold's head, with all his strength, Su Mo slapped the kobold's face again and again, until blood came flowing forth.

"What kind of shit ancestor god is this? I'm goddamn asking you…"

"Where is my sister?"

Gritting his teeth to resist the pressure of the giant god still forming in the sky, Su Mo asked every word fiercely.

Being grabbed in Su Mo's hand, Boswell finally understood the meaning of the word "unreasonable". With his teeth broken, he could only vaguely mumble.

"The ancestor god… the ancestor god will not let any blasphemer go!"

Different from the despicable nature of the lower-level kobolds, the white-robed kobold seemed to hold very deep beliefs. Even though his face had been slapped numerous times by Su Mo, he still looked at the sky piously.

Su Mo slapped him twice again and threw the white-robed kobold to the ground. He took off his mask and, since the land had been cleansed of flesh and blood, took two deep breaths of fresh air.

Five o'clock, it was early in the morning, the time just before dawn.

The giant god in the sky grew even further, becoming more tangible as time progressed.

At the same time, more and more light converged on the neck of the giant Dog God, gradually transforming into a diamond-shaped gem in the center.

The originally off-white gemstone gradually turned into a striking yellow as the light continued gathering.

Sitting on the wall of the castle, Su Mo stared into the eyes of the giant phantom, silently waiting for it to transform.

Such a scene, in the eyes of others, was like waiting for death. It made some people who were still a little expectant instantly lose their final hope.

"Such a giant god… how could it be possible to use guns and cannons to fight against…"

"A rifle, no, even a heavy machine gun, is not worth mentioning in front of a giant with such height."

"The hope of mankind…is going to fall like this?"

"Now what I want to know is, after this giant kills Su Mo, will he do anything to us? I…I don't want to die."

"Su Mo is the one to blame. He provoked such a terrifying monster. Were it not for him, we wouldn't die!"

"Blame my ass, why don't you blame the game instead for sending you here? I should moth*rf*cking give you a knife to kill yourself!"

"Stop arguing, stop arguing! Let's try to negotiate with the giant god. As long as we can save the hope of mankind, there will be a future ahead!"

Despite the three-minute restriction in the comments screen, there was still an inevitably frantic quarrel.

It was as if the end of the world was approaching, everyone had put aside their usual pretenses of being kind, and some shelters had even begun to riot.

Even in a few large shelters, it was inevitable that some people would go crazy.

Only official shelters managed to maintain some semblance of order when facing a great terror such as this.

However, these shelters were not totally peaceful either. Countless people entered and exited the shelters rapidly, and countless pieces of information gathered on paper were passed on one by one.

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