Raw materials are readily available in the warehouse, and the power supply comes with a variable adapter, which can be powered by a generator or inserted into a fusion battery with a standard interface.
Like the black box that Lucius got from the manager's office of shelter 117, the black boxes here also have their own batteries, and the remaining power is 98% and 99%.
Helium III is a stable isotope with a very long half-life, and the loss caused by natural decay is almost negligible under normal use. Basically, as long as the battery itself is not damaged due to improper operation or other reasons, the energy storage will be much longer than conventional chemical batteries.
Lucius ordered Mike to send all the materials he needed through the VM, and by the way, he also called Dr. Tom, the chief prospector of shelter 404 and the head of the scientific expedition team.
As soon as he entered the door, Tom's eyeballs almost fell out.
"Black box?! And there are two! Where did you get it?"
S-rank relic!
There were two at the same time!
Just the day before yesterday, Lucius got a black box. Unexpectedly, within three days, he got two more.
It has been five or six years since Tom became a prospector after graduating from the archaeological site of the pre-war civilization, and this is the first time he has seen such an exaggerated situation!
Seeing this guy's ignorant expression, Lucius rolled his eyes, and threw the manual he had just picked up into his hand.
"I picked it up, can you see if it will be used?"
Tom chuckled.
"A fool can use this thing... By the way, have you checked the fuel in the reactor? How much is left?"
"There are quite a few surprises, about 40%."
What is the concept of 40%? Lucius is not very clear. If it is a mobile phone, he must have suffered from charging obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it is said that 1% of the energy of a controllable fusion reactor can be used for a long time?
I don't know how much energy the clone synthesis consumes.
But no matter what he said, the reactor was finally in his hands now, and the stone hanging in Lucius's heart was finally let go.
Hearing Lucius's words, Tom was obviously relieved.
"40%? That's good... don't worry about it in a short time!"
With no worries, Tom began to operate the two black boxes.
In the stuffing port like a drawer, input the materials in order according to the instructions, and then close the drawer. It's okay to do it out of order, but it can be slightly faster if you do.
The signal light is on, indicating that the material is qualified.
Then turn on the power and press the start button.
All the process is done, very easy.
It's as simple as a religious ritual.
Looking at the numbers jumping on the screen, Lucius touched his chin and said.
"The remaining production time is 59min27s... how long have you been waiting?"
Next to it is a smaller black box that produces VMs. The production speed is faster, and a product can be produced in only ten minutes.
Assuming that the supply of raw materials is continuous, theoretically 144 pieces of VM can be produced in one day.
This thing is a good thing.
A VM with a processor, imaging device, and laser mapping functions can not only be used as a "Vital sign monitor" itself, but can also be used to modify it into something else.
For example, robots with laser mapping and automatic pathfinding functions.
Another example is a simple computer and so on.
Combined with the "Neural connection device" produced by the black box left by Dr. Principle in shelter 117, as long as the materials are sufficient, the transformation speed of the players may directly increase by 10 percentage points!
Intellect players will usher in a real spring!
It can be said to be very useful.
Tom: "I heard that the working principle of the black box is to powderize the material first, and then print out the parts of each component in sequence according to the spatial sequence according to the preset synthesis route, so as to generate the product as a whole... Compared to the assembly line mode, it will definitely take a little longer.”
Lucius: "Equivalent to building wheels and engines at the same time?"
Tom affirmed.
"It can be understood in this way!"
Lucius nodded thoughtfully, expressing his understanding.
This thing is like a 3D printer.
However, its function is much stronger than that of a 3D printer. It can not only print out the shape of the device, but also print out the "Performance" of the material and the microstructure and macrostructure of the device, and complete the printing process. Automatic assembly.
This has gone far beyond the concept of "Printing".
It's more like a reconstruction of "Atoms in pm-scale space"!
Sumeria, who was standing aside, scratched the back of her head, she couldn't talk about such a troublesome topic at all.
She can repair machines with a wrench, or use a simple workbench to process parts. After all, the slums of Boulder City are built next to the industrial area. The people there have two ways out, either to work in the assembly line or workshop until death, or to become a mercenary with the weapons produced by the factory and exchange their lives for money.
And she just happened to go both ways.
After thinking about it, Sumeria felt that if she didn't say a word, wouldn't she look useless, so after holding back for a while, she reluctantly interjected.
"This machine sounds strange and easy to use... Can we take it apart and have a look?"
Hearing this sentence, Lucius didn't react, but Tom who was next to him was startled like a dog whose tail had been stepped on, and said quickly.
"You must not do this!"
Sumeria scratched the back of her head and asked, "Why? Logically speaking, shouldn't this kind of thing be a good research material?"
Hearing this layman's speech, Tom shook his head and said.
"It is a common sense that the more technology-intensive a product is, the more difficult it is to reverse. To find a grain of gold from a pile of sand, you only need to sieve it out. But if you stand on a sand dune and classify each grain of sand Recycling, it's almost impossible to do ... unless you have more advanced tools and methods."
"The black box of the Ark Project, whether it is the production method or the technical principle, represents the highest level of Renlian's manufacturing industry. It does not have any requirements for the performance of the material and the education level of the operator—or even the intelligence level. Even monkeys in zoos can use it."
"This kind of wishing machine can be said to be the technical crystallization of pre-war civilization. Unless it is a civilization that is far superior to ours in terms of production methods and basic science, no one can disassemble what is needed from this complex and cumbersome equipment. "
Sumeria muttered.
"I just asked casually, and didn't say that it was really going to be dismantled... But this thing is so difficult to service, if it breaks, how should I fix it?"
"If it can't be repaired, it will be broken if it breaks," Tom shook his head and said, "In the college, the broken black box will usually be sent to the museum. Maybe someone will be able to analyze it in a few hundred years... But at least it's impossible now. We would rather study the products produced by the black box, at least it will be much less difficult.”
Tom's answer answered part of Lucius's question.
It seems that even the academy does not have the ability to disassemble the technology in the black box, at most it is only the product of researching the black box.
Taking a last look at the timer on the screen, Lucius said.
"It seems that there is still a little time for the answer to be revealed... Let's check the buffer room next door."
Tom was stunned.
"Buffer room? Isn't this the B3 floor?"
Lucius nodded.
"That's right, shelter 404 doesn't have only one door. I even suspect that the door on the B3 floor is the real entrance."
From the perspective of space, the gate on the B3 floor is obviously wider than the gate on the B1 floor, and it connects the warehouse and the planting area.
This shows what?
It means that this shelter is likely to be built from the B3 floor, and then extend up and down at the same time!
Of course, this is just Lucius's speculation. If there are other more exaggerated exits found in the lower floors, then he didn't say anything.
Every time when Lucius thought that he had fully understood the plan of the shelter and the first-generation manager, the shelter under his feet always brought him unexpected surprises.
Lucius even suspected that the designer of this shelter might be a gamer.
...
Everything outside the gate on the B3 floor is unknown, and no one can say what will happen.
If the situation is optimistic, it may be an easter egg left by the first generation of managers.
If it is not optimistic, it may also be a nest of mutant mice or cockroaches.
Just in case, Lucius brought the power armor from the maintenance room on the B1 floor, and along with the nitrogen-powered hammer and Gauss rifle, he also took two sickle assault rifles, a bulletproof vest and a Backpack stuffed with 7mm bullets.
The body armor is for Boss Sumeria.
Back in the maintenance room on the B3 floor, Lucius threw a sickle assault rifle and a police body armor into Sumeria's hand.
"You shouldn't need me to teach you how to use it."
Putting the body armor on, Sumeria tied her long red hair into a ponytail and picked up the rifle leaning against the wall.
"Are you kidding? I'm..."
"The mercenary who added a human leg to the crawler's lunch?"
Seeing Sumeria with a murderous look on his face, Lucius quickly closed his mask, coughed and walked in front.
"Follow me."
Popo rolled the pulley gruntingly and followed behind Lucius.
Seeing that he had no weapons, Tom quickly chased after him and asked.
"What about me? Give me a weapon too! In case of an accident, I can fight!"
Lucius thought for a while, and threw the Silver Snake revolver hanging on the power armor to him.
"Remember to give me back."
"Only six bullets?!"
"I'll give you some more if needed."
The gate on the console was pulled down, and Lucius pressed the red button.
The alarm bell in the maintenance room rang three times.
The thigh-thick door bolts were retracted one by one, and the gear-shaped alloy door slowly rolled to one side, revealing the dark tunnel.
A cold and dry breath rushed over.
Lucius turned on the searchlight on his shoulder, and walked forward with the "Sickle" assault rifle in his hand.
There was a creaking sound when the soles of the feet stepped on the ground. The dust here was very thick, and no one had been here for a long time.
The light in the passage is very dim, which can be described as being invisible.
Fortunately, the power armor has lighting equipment, and the other two also carried flashlights.
With the light from his shoulder, Lucius could see a steel rail laid on the ground and a few construction tools scattered around.
"There is no such tunnel on the map," Tom confirmed with a glance at the map through the VM, and then said, "Our south direction is directly facing Metro Line 12 in Spring City, and the straight-line distance is about 4 kilometers! The elevated highway out of the city overlaps, facing the outside of Spring City."
Line 12 runs through the north and south of Spring City, and Tundra Street Subway Station is one of the stations on Line 12.
Lucius raised his index finger, tapped on the side of the helmet, and opened the map on the eyepiece.
The orange-yellow window is projected on the tactical eyepiece.
The nearest subway station is located near Beit Street, about 800 meters away.
Lucius had been there before, but he didn't go in. He just took a look outside, and the inside was completely occupied by the nibblers.
Eighty percent have other difficult things to deal with.
"What if it goes north?"
Tom nodded slightly, and dragged the map.
"North... We are at the northernmost point of Spring City, and further north is outside Spring City. There is no subway line marked on the map."
The tunnel runs north-south, and the exit of the shelter is located on the side of the tunnel. After passing through the iron gate, there are roads to go south and north.
"Let's go to the north to have a look first."
After speaking, Lucius took the initiative to walk in front and led the team to the north.
After advancing about 800 meters, the tunnel came to an abrupt end, and an alloy wall stopped everyone in front of them.
"There seems to be no way ahead," Sumeria, who was shining forward with a flashlight, turned to look at Lucius, and asked, "Do you want to go back?"
Lucius stared at the wall for a while, then walked to the side of the wall and found something like a distribution box.
Pulling off the cover, he saw a handle and a circular port.
What's interesting is that the circular interface just matches the small cold fusion battery.
With a slight movement in Lucius's heart, he took out a cold fusion battery with 11% remaining energy from his pocket, and inserted it into the interface.
Then, he pulled down the handle next to it.
A slight electric sound sounded, accompanied by a tooth-piercing friction sound, and then there was a slight tremor under everyone's feet.
It was like an earthquake!
"What's the situation?!"
Tom looked around in a little panic, and took two steps back.
Sumeria was quite calm. He glanced at the ceiling vigilantly, and then looked forward, her eyes widened slightly.
"It's the wall! It's sinking!"
Popo slipped to Lucius's calf, and said nervously, "Master, this place is so dangerous, why don't we retreat first?"
"No hurry, just wait!"
Lucius stared at the wall in front of him.
I saw it sinking slowly, and after shaking for a while, finally revealed the tunnel behind it.
Only then did everyone realize that the wall was actually hundreds of meters wide!
It's like a whole section of a raised tunnel!
"Unbelievable..." Tom took two steps forward with a shocked expression on his face.
Such a thick concrete structure.
At least tens of thousands of tons, right?
Counting the mechanical structure and the load-bearing structure below, it is equivalent to burying an aircraft carrier underground!
The analogy may not be appropriate, but the meaning makes no difference.
Lucius also had a surprised expression on his face.
The mechanism itself is nothing complicated.
Surprisingly though, it still starts up and runs without a hitch after more than 200 years!
Just when the two were in a daze, hoarse roars and running sounds came from the front of the tunnel.
Hearing the sound, Sumeria was startled, and immediately raised the assault rifle in his hand, and neatly flipped the safety off with his index finger.
"Nibblers! Ahead of us!"
Before she finished speaking, she had already pulled the trigger in her hand, killing the nearest two with three rounds.
"It seems that the movement just now has attracted a lot."
Turn on the auxiliary aiming mode of the tactical eyepiece, raise the sickle assault rifle to aim at Lucius, and sweep over with a shuttle. The heads of the few nibblers closest to him instantly exploded, and they fell to the ground and died on the spot!
At this moment, a dangerous omen suddenly struck.
"Damn it, it's the crawler—" Sumeria's face showed a trace of panic, and the memory of fear resurfaced in his heart.
But in the next moment, the crawler's head was blown to pieces.
"Don't panic, I'm here."
Swinging the Gauss rifle on his back, Lucius regained his grip on the sickle assault rifle, skillfully switched back to automatic fire, and swept the few nibblers who rushed up to the ground.
A piece of broken branches and arms on the ground.
A rotten stench permeated the passage.
Tom, who was hiding behind, heaved a sigh of relief, and lowered the muzzle of the raised gun.
Looking at the nibblers on the ground, as well as the black spots and slime mold on the wall in the distance, his Adam's apple moved with difficulty.
"I have a hunch...there may be quite a few alien species ahead!"
"You don't need a premonition, as long as you have eyes, you can see it." After a pause, Lucius continued, "Let's let the 'players' explore the area ahead."
As he spoke, Lucius put away his rifle, tapped his helmet twice with his index finger, brought up the visualization window, and started editing skillfully.
[ Task: Clean up the B3 floor exit ]
[ Type: Hunting, Exploration, Attack ]
[ Explanation: The passage outside the entrance and exit of the B3 floor is occupied by slime mold variants, we have to take it back from the hands of those beasts! ]
[ Release Target: hunters, scavengers, soldiers, and players whose level is higher than LV5]
[ Reward: For each nibbler killed, reward 1 silver coin and 2 contributions.
Every time a martyrdom is killed, 1 silver coin and 1 contribution will be rewarded.
For each crawler killed, reward 20 silver coins and 20 contributions.
Every time a tyrant is killed...
....]
——
[ Task: Explore the passage on the B3 floor. ]
——
[ Task: Investigate the source of slime mold contamination in the B3 layer passage. ]
...
A total of 5 missions have been updated on the mission channel, and players who meet the "Release object" conditions can receive them freely.
This should be a good leveling point.
Even if there are 10,000 nibblers, it is only 10,000 silver coins.
Even with 500 more crawlers, it's just another 10,000 silver coins.
In this way, players not only gain experience, but also improve their proficiency in shooting, archery, throwing, and fighting skills, and they can also earn money.
Simply perfect!
If you can get your hands on an Active Matter Extractor, one can be deployed here.
The extraction efficiency of the gnawers is average, 10 can be refined to 1 unit. However, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and the accumulation of a small amount is a big deal. It is better than letting the corpses of those alien species rot and stink in the tunnel, becoming a breeding ground for germs.
And what I need to pay is just some values that can be adjusted at any time.
Thinking of this, the corners of Lucius's mouth could not help but curl into a smile.
Because the benefits belong to the players.
Even if the players win this wave twice!
Looking at Lucius in admiration, Tom couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Your 'players' are too easy to use."
It is simply a model of hard work.
He had never seen such a hardworking shelter resident!
Lucius made a joke.
"It seems that you have gradually grasped the essence of this game."
Tom froze when he heard a word he didn't understand.
"Game?"
"Combined with the contextual translation, it means cutting leeks."
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Raw materials are readily available in the warehouse, and the power supply comes with a variable adapter, which can be powered by a generator or inserted into a fusion battery with a standard interface.
Like the black box that Lucius got from the manager's office of shelter 117, the black boxes here also have their own batteries, and the remaining power is 98% and 99%.
Helium III is a stable isotope with a very long half-life, and the loss caused by natural decay is almost negligible under normal use. Basically, as long as the battery itself is not damaged due to improper operation or other reasons, the energy storage will be much longer than conventional chemical batteries.
Lucius ordered Mike to send all the materials he needed through the VM, and by the way, he also called Dr. Tom, the chief prospector of shelter 404 and the head of the scientific expedition team.
As soon as he entered the door, Tom's eyeballs almost fell out.
"Black box?! And there are two! Where did you get it?"
S-rank relic!
There were two at the same time!
Just the day before yesterday, Lucius got a black box. Unexpectedly, within three days, he got two more.
It has been five or six years since Tom became a prospector after graduating from the archaeological site of the pre-war civilization, and this is the first time he has seen such an exaggerated situation!
Seeing this guy's ignorant expression, Lucius rolled his eyes, and threw the manual he had just picked up into his hand.
"I picked it up, can you see if it will be used?"
Tom chuckled.
"A fool can use this thing... By the way, have you checked the fuel in the reactor? How much is left?"
"There are quite a few surprises, about 40%."
What is the concept of 40%? Lucius is not very clear. If it is a mobile phone, he must have suffered from charging obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it is said that 1% of the energy of a controllable fusion reactor can be used for a long time?
I don't know how much energy the clone synthesis consumes.
But no matter what he said, the reactor was finally in his hands now, and the stone hanging in Lucius's heart was finally let go.
Hearing Lucius's words, Tom was obviously relieved.
"40%? That's good... don't worry about it in a short time!"
With no worries, Tom began to operate the two black boxes.
In the stuffing port like a drawer, input the materials in order according to the instructions, and then close the drawer. It's okay to do it out of order, but it can be slightly faster if you do.
The signal light is on, indicating that the material is qualified.
Then turn on the power and press the start button.
All the process is done, very easy.
It's as simple as a religious ritual.
Looking at the numbers jumping on the screen, Lucius touched his chin and said.
"The remaining production time is 59min27s... how long have you been waiting?"
Next to it is a smaller black box that produces VMs. The production speed is faster, and a product can be produced in only ten minutes.
Assuming that the supply of raw materials is continuous, theoretically 144 pieces of VM can be produced in one day.
This thing is a good thing.
A VM with a processor, imaging device, and laser mapping functions can not only be used as a "Vital sign monitor" itself, but can also be used to modify it into something else.
For example, robots with laser mapping and automatic pathfinding functions.
Another example is a simple computer and so on.
Combined with the "Neural connection device" produced by the black box left by Dr. Principle in shelter 117, as long as the materials are sufficient, the transformation speed of the players may directly increase by 10 percentage points!
Intellect players will usher in a real spring!
It can be said to be very useful.
Tom: "I heard that the working principle of the black box is to powderize the material first, and then print out the parts of each component in sequence according to the spatial sequence according to the preset synthesis route, so as to generate the product as a whole... Compared to the assembly line mode, it will definitely take a little longer.”
Lucius: "Equivalent to building wheels and engines at the same time?"
Tom affirmed.
"It can be understood in this way!"
Lucius nodded thoughtfully, expressing his understanding.
This thing is like a 3D printer.
However, its function is much stronger than that of a 3D printer. It can not only print out the shape of the device, but also print out the "Performance" of the material and the microstructure and macrostructure of the device, and complete the printing process. Automatic assembly.
This has gone far beyond the concept of "Printing".
It's more like a reconstruction of "Atoms in pm-scale space"!
Sumeria, who was standing aside, scratched the back of her head, she couldn't talk about such a troublesome topic at all.
She can repair machines with a wrench, or use a simple workbench to process parts. After all, the slums of Boulder City are built next to the industrial area. The people there have two ways out, either to work in the assembly line or workshop until death, or to become a mercenary with the weapons produced by the factory and exchange their lives for money.
And she just happened to go both ways.
After thinking about it, Sumeria felt that if she didn't say a word, wouldn't she look useless, so after holding back for a while, she reluctantly interjected.
"This machine sounds strange and easy to use... Can we take it apart and have a look?"
Hearing this sentence, Lucius didn't react, but Tom who was next to him was startled like a dog whose tail had been stepped on, and said quickly.
"You must not do this!"
Sumeria scratched the back of her head and asked, "Why? Logically speaking, shouldn't this kind of thing be a good research material?"
Hearing this layman's speech, Tom shook his head and said.
"It is a common sense that the more technology-intensive a product is, the more difficult it is to reverse. To find a grain of gold from a pile of sand, you only need to sieve it out. But if you stand on a sand dune and classify each grain of sand Recycling, it's almost impossible to do ... unless you have more advanced tools and methods."
"The black box of the Ark Project, whether it is the production method or the technical principle, represents the highest level of Renlian's manufacturing industry. It does not have any requirements for the performance of the material and the education level of the operator—or even the intelligence level. Even monkeys in zoos can use it."
"This kind of wishing machine can be said to be the technical crystallization of pre-war civilization. Unless it is a civilization that is far superior to ours in terms of production methods and basic science, no one can disassemble what is needed from this complex and cumbersome equipment. "
Sumeria muttered.
"I just asked casually, and didn't say that it was really going to be dismantled... But this thing is so difficult to service, if it breaks, how should I fix it?"
"If it can't be repaired, it will be broken if it breaks," Tom shook his head and said, "In the college, the broken black box will usually be sent to the museum. Maybe someone will be able to analyze it in a few hundred years... But at least it's impossible now. We would rather study the products produced by the black box, at least it will be much less difficult.”
Tom's answer answered part of Lucius's question.
It seems that even the academy does not have the ability to disassemble the technology in the black box, at most it is only the product of researching the black box.
Taking a last look at the timer on the screen, Lucius said.
"It seems that there is still a little time for the answer to be revealed... Let's check the buffer room next door."
Tom was stunned.
"Buffer room? Isn't this the B3 floor?"
Lucius nodded.
"That's right, shelter 404 doesn't have only one door. I even suspect that the door on the B3 floor is the real entrance."
From the perspective of space, the gate on the B3 floor is obviously wider than the gate on the B1 floor, and it connects the warehouse and the planting area.
This shows what?
It means that this shelter is likely to be built from the B3 floor, and then extend up and down at the same time!
Of course, this is just Lucius's speculation. If there are other more exaggerated exits found in the lower floors, then he didn't say anything.
Every time when Lucius thought that he had fully understood the plan of the shelter and the first-generation manager, the shelter under his feet always brought him unexpected surprises.
Lucius even suspected that the designer of this shelter might be a gamer.
...
Everything outside the gate on the B3 floor is unknown, and no one can say what will happen.
If the situation is optimistic, it may be an easter egg left by the first generation of managers.
If it is not optimistic, it may also be a nest of mutant mice or cockroaches.
Just in case, Lucius brought the power armor from the maintenance room on the B1 floor, and along with the nitrogen-powered hammer and Gauss rifle, he also took two sickle assault rifles, a bulletproof vest and a Backpack stuffed with 7mm bullets.
The body armor is for Boss Sumeria.
Back in the maintenance room on the B3 floor, Lucius threw a sickle assault rifle and a police body armor into Sumeria's hand.
"You shouldn't need me to teach you how to use it."
Putting the body armor on, Sumeria tied her long red hair into a ponytail and picked up the rifle leaning against the wall.
"Are you kidding? I'm..."
"The mercenary who added a human leg to the crawler's lunch?"
Seeing Sumeria with a murderous look on his face, Lucius quickly closed his mask, coughed and walked in front.
"Follow me."
Popo rolled the pulley gruntingly and followed behind Lucius.
Seeing that he had no weapons, Tom quickly chased after him and asked.
"What about me? Give me a weapon too! In case of an accident, I can fight!"
Lucius thought for a while, and threw the Silver Snake revolver hanging on the power armor to him.
"Remember to give me back."
"Only six bullets?!"
"I'll give you some more if needed."
The gate on the console was pulled down, and Lucius pressed the red button.
The alarm bell in the maintenance room rang three times.
The thigh-thick door bolts were retracted one by one, and the gear-shaped alloy door slowly rolled to one side, revealing the dark tunnel.
A cold and dry breath rushed over.
Lucius turned on the searchlight on his shoulder, and walked forward with the "Sickle" assault rifle in his hand.
There was a creaking sound when the soles of the feet stepped on the ground. The dust here was very thick, and no one had been here for a long time.
The light in the passage is very dim, which can be described as being invisible.
Fortunately, the power armor has lighting equipment, and the other two also carried flashlights.
With the light from his shoulder, Lucius could see a steel rail laid on the ground and a few construction tools scattered around.
"There is no such tunnel on the map," Tom confirmed with a glance at the map through the VM, and then said, "Our south direction is directly facing Metro Line 12 in Spring City, and the straight-line distance is about 4 kilometers! The elevated highway out of the city overlaps, facing the outside of Spring City."
Line 12 runs through the north and south of Spring City, and Tundra Street Subway Station is one of the stations on Line 12.
Lucius raised his index finger, tapped on the side of the helmet, and opened the map on the eyepiece.
The orange-yellow window is projected on the tactical eyepiece.
The nearest subway station is located near Beit Street, about 800 meters away.
Lucius had been there before, but he didn't go in. He just took a look outside, and the inside was completely occupied by the nibblers.
Eighty percent have other difficult things to deal with.
"What if it goes north?"
Tom nodded slightly, and dragged the map.
"North... We are at the northernmost point of Spring City, and further north is outside Spring City. There is no subway line marked on the map."
The tunnel runs north-south, and the exit of the shelter is located on the side of the tunnel. After passing through the iron gate, there are roads to go south and north.
"Let's go to the north to have a look first."
After speaking, Lucius took the initiative to walk in front and led the team to the north.
After advancing about 800 meters, the tunnel came to an abrupt end, and an alloy wall stopped everyone in front of them.
"There seems to be no way ahead," Sumeria, who was shining forward with a flashlight, turned to look at Lucius, and asked, "Do you want to go back?"
Lucius stared at the wall for a while, then walked to the side of the wall and found something like a distribution box.
Pulling off the cover, he saw a handle and a circular port.
What's interesting is that the circular interface just matches the small cold fusion battery.
With a slight movement in Lucius's heart, he took out a cold fusion battery with 11% remaining energy from his pocket, and inserted it into the interface.
Then, he pulled down the handle next to it.
A slight electric sound sounded, accompanied by a tooth-piercing friction sound, and then there was a slight tremor under everyone's feet.
It was like an earthquake!
"What's the situation?!"
Tom looked around in a little panic, and took two steps back.
Sumeria was quite calm. He glanced at the ceiling vigilantly, and then looked forward, her eyes widened slightly.
"It's the wall! It's sinking!"
Popo slipped to Lucius's calf, and said nervously, "Master, this place is so dangerous, why don't we retreat first?"
"No hurry, just wait!"
Lucius stared at the wall in front of him.
I saw it sinking slowly, and after shaking for a while, finally revealed the tunnel behind it.
Only then did everyone realize that the wall was actually hundreds of meters wide!
It's like a whole section of a raised tunnel!
"Unbelievable..." Tom took two steps forward with a shocked expression on his face.
Such a thick concrete structure.
At least tens of thousands of tons, right?
Counting the mechanical structure and the load-bearing structure below, it is equivalent to burying an aircraft carrier underground!
The analogy may not be appropriate, but the meaning makes no difference.
Lucius also had a surprised expression on his face.
The mechanism itself is nothing complicated.
Surprisingly though, it still starts up and runs without a hitch after more than 200 years!
Just when the two were in a daze, hoarse roars and running sounds came from the front of the tunnel.
Hearing the sound, Sumeria was startled, and immediately raised the assault rifle in his hand, and neatly flipped the safety off with his index finger.
"Nibblers! Ahead of us!"
Before she finished speaking, she had already pulled the trigger in her hand, killing the nearest two with three rounds.
"It seems that the movement just now has attracted a lot."
Turn on the auxiliary aiming mode of the tactical eyepiece, raise the sickle assault rifle to aim at Lucius, and sweep over with a shuttle. The heads of the few nibblers closest to him instantly exploded, and they fell to the ground and died on the spot!
At this moment, a dangerous omen suddenly struck.
"Damn it, it's the crawler—" Sumeria's face showed a trace of panic, and the memory of fear resurfaced in his heart.
But in the next moment, the crawler's head was blown to pieces.
"Don't panic, I'm here."
Swinging the Gauss rifle on his back, Lucius regained his grip on the sickle assault rifle, skillfully switched back to automatic fire, and swept the few nibblers who rushed up to the ground.
A piece of broken branches and arms on the ground.
A rotten stench permeated the passage.
Tom, who was hiding behind, heaved a sigh of relief, and lowered the muzzle of the raised gun.
Looking at the nibblers on the ground, as well as the black spots and slime mold on the wall in the distance, his Adam's apple moved with difficulty.
"I have a hunch...there may be quite a few alien species ahead!"
"You don't need a premonition, as long as you have eyes, you can see it." After a pause, Lucius continued, "Let's let the 'players' explore the area ahead."
As he spoke, Lucius put away his rifle, tapped his helmet twice with his index finger, brought up the visualization window, and started editing skillfully.
[ Task: Clean up the B3 floor exit ]
[ Type: Hunting, Exploration, Attack ]
[ Explanation: The passage outside the entrance and exit of the B3 floor is occupied by slime mold variants, we have to take it back from the hands of those beasts! ]
[ Release Target: hunters, scavengers, soldiers, and players whose level is higher than LV5]
[ Reward: For each nibbler killed, reward 1 silver coin and 2 contributions.
Every time a martyrdom is killed, 1 silver coin and 1 contribution will be rewarded.
For each crawler killed, reward 20 silver coins and 20 contributions.
Every time a tyrant is killed...
....]
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[ Task: Explore the passage on the B3 floor. ]
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[ Task: Investigate the source of slime mold contamination in the B3 layer passage. ]
...
A total of 5 missions have been updated on the mission channel, and players who meet the "Release object" conditions can receive them freely.
This should be a good leveling point.
Even if there are 10,000 nibblers, it is only 10,000 silver coins.
Even with 500 more crawlers, it's just another 10,000 silver coins.
In this way, players not only gain experience, but also improve their proficiency in shooting, archery, throwing, and fighting skills, and they can also earn money.
Simply perfect!
If you can get your hands on an Active Matter Extractor, one can be deployed here.
The extraction efficiency of the gnawers is average, 10 can be refined to 1 unit. However, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and the accumulation of a small amount is a big deal. It is better than letting the corpses of those alien species rot and stink in the tunnel, becoming a breeding ground for germs.
And what I need to pay is just some values that can be adjusted at any time.
Thinking of this, the corners of Lucius's mouth could not help but curl into a smile.
Because the benefits belong to the players.
Even if the players win this wave twice!
Looking at Lucius in admiration, Tom couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Your 'players' are too easy to use."
It is simply a model of hard work.
He had never seen such a hardworking shelter resident!
Lucius made a joke.
"It seems that you have gradually grasped the essence of this game."
Tom froze when he heard a word he didn't understand.
"Game?"
"Combined with the contextual translation, it means cutting leeks."
Tom: "...?"
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