Chapter 119 Shelter under the Department Store

  Chapter 119 Shelter under the Department Store

  The next day.

  East bank of Linghu Lake.

  ”Ready!”

  A loud and sharp voice echoed at the edge of the woods.

  ”Waste Al!”

  The fuse was lit.

  The large iron pipe fixed on the wooden pier exploded with a flash of fire and white smoke. The shell turned into a black shadow, drew a beautiful parabola in the air, and slammed heavily into the lake hundreds of meters away. After

  a while of waiting, a column of water rushed up to the sky, and the water splashed down. The muffled sound like spring thunder rolled along the lake with waves.

  ”Fuck!”

  ”Who the hell is setting off a cannon there!”

  ”Damn mosquito!”

  ”All my fish are scared away!”

  The fishermen who were bragging and farting with their fishing rods on the lakeshore shouted and cursed, but the mosquitoes above their heads who were excited could not hear them.

  Since solving the preparation of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, his small workshop has been able to produce a small amount of nitroglycerin, and adding a little plant fiber can get nitrocellulose. Then use a mixed solution of ethanol and ether to dissolve and gelatinize it to get a very useful colloid gunpowder.

  Although the drying process for solidifying the particles has not yet been unlocked, it is much stronger than the original black powder!

  This shot has at least 30 kilograms – maybe 50 kilograms of black powder!

  ”Hahahahaha, nice! I finally succeeded!”

  Mosquito excitedly swung his fist, but his fist hit the tree trunk. It didn’t hurt, but he almost broke his fist. It’s a

  pity that there is too little white sugar in the warehouse. It’s too expensive to eat. Otherwise, he can use white sugar and potash fertilizer to make something more awesome.

  One shot is not enough.

  Mosquito used fire tongs to take out the hot shell, then loaded another one into it, adjusted it back to the previous angle and ignited the fuse.

  There was another loud bang.

  This time the shell flew farther than the last time, flying a full hundred meters forward.

  The explosion echoed on the lake.

  The nomads who were coming to the lakeside to get water were frightened by the thunderous sound, and stood there staring at the water column splashing on the lake.

  ”What, what is that?”

  ”Big gun?!”

  ”Yes, it should be called a cannon… I’ve seen it in those larger survivor bases. They use those cannons to deal with large alien species.”

  ”This power is too strong, no wonder they can hunt cracked claw crabs!”

  Unlike the shocked and admired nomads, the fishermen finally couldn’t help their anger this time, and they all came over from the lake with their fishing rods.

  ”Fuck!”

  ”Can you go somewhere else when you fire the cannon?”

  ”You scared away all my fish!”

  ”That’s right! The fish in this game are so damn hard to catch, and now it’s even harder to catch them!”

  Seeing the fishermen led by [Stop Bullshitting] coming towards him aggressively, Mosquito hurriedly pushed his small cannon cart and ran away.

  …

  On the other side.

  The department store not far to the south of the abandoned tire factory.

  Five players were fighting fiercely with the aliens wandering around on the B2 floor of the underground parking lot.

  The radiation source was behind the door next to the freight elevator in the B1 area of ​​the underground parking lot. This was their Nth time to brush this dungeon.

  After repeated pulling, attracting monsters, charging and focusing fire, the Niu Ma team gradually cleared the gnawers led out by Irena, and successfully used the traps set in advance to trap the “dungeon boss” hidden inside – the creeper.

  Cooperating with his teammates, Fang Chang opened the Dawn and shot with a fully charged shot, piercing the skull of the creeper with one arrow, successfully killing it.

  Ye Shi, who was leaning against the concrete pillar, let out a long breath, threw away the already curled hatchet in his hand, raised his arm to wipe the sweat, and cursed.

  ”Fuck! Finally, I’ve cleared the level! The dungeons of this game should not be refreshed after they are cleared, right? Don’t let another group come out later.”

  Lao Bai and Kuangfeng glared at him together.

  ”Don’t be such a jinx!”

  ”Shut up.”

  Ye Shi shrank his neck, shut his mouth and stopped talking.

  ”It shouldn’t spawn anymore. If it spawns a few more times, we’ll probably go bankrupt.” Fang Chang walked into the creeper, pulled out the arrow stuck in its forehead, took a look and threw it away.

  It was obviously useless.

  ”Are you sure there won’t be any other monsters down there?” Irena walked out from the side with a subtle expression, holding the wall with her right hand.

  Ye Shi smiled at him and said, “Brother, don’t be afraid. It’s been cleared.”

  Kuangfeng gave him a thumbs up and said, “Wait for your news.”

  Irena: “Fuck! Aren’t you afraid?”

  Lao Bai said as a matter of course, “What’s there to be afraid of? It’s not a horror game.”

  Irena: “…”

  That makes sense.

  He didn’t know how to refute it.

  After lingering at the door for a while, Irena finally went in with a crowbar and explosives for breaking the door.

  It was a corridor that was neither wide nor narrow. It was probably a spare warehouse before the war.

  The stench was suffocating, the ground was full of the body fluids of gnawers and creepers, and unknown fungi grew in the corners.

  Even mutant cockroaches would retreat in this terrible environment.

  Although the last crawler had been lured out and killed by himself, Irena was still panicking.

  The atmosphere here was too weird.

  He couldn’t help but think of the horror games he had played.

  This is a fun game for leisure and retirement? !

  Damn!

  Fortunately, what he was worried about did not happen.

  With the light from the VM and the scanned map, Irena walked to the end of the passage smoothly.

  There was a rusty alloy door, and a corpse in a chemical protective suit was lying at the door, but only bones were left of the corpse.

  There were no signs of biting or tearing on the protective suit. It seemed that he should have died before the gnawers occupied this place, and at least decades earlier.

  ”The radiation index is getting higher and higher… It seems that the source of radiation is behind this door.”

  The guy lying on the ground should be the owner of this small shelter. In the backpack thrown aside, there are some canned food, puffed food packaging bags, and rotten debris and mushrooms that are unrecognizable – these should be the supplies he searched from outside.

  But for some reason, he died at the door of his own house.

  ”Brother, don’t blame me.”

  Although Irena was reluctant, she still bit the bullet and took off the relatively intact protective suit from the frame and put it on herself.

  The air filtration system is broken.

  But it doesn’t matter.

  He only needs to block part of the gamma rays, and the rest depends on the resistance and recovery bonus provided by the physical attribute. It shouldn’t be a big problem to hold on!

  Irena installed the explosives at the door and lit the fuse and ran to the exit of the passage.

  ”Boom!”

  The thick smoke of the explosion filled the entire passage in an instant. After waiting for the smoke to dissipate, Irena returned to the door again.

  The alloy door was still motionless, but the concrete wall next to it was blown up to reveal the steel structure inside.

  ”Wow… it’s pretty solid.”

  After a lot of effort, Irena finally used the crowbar in her hand to clear the concrete debris from the damaged part of the wall, then reached in with the crowbar and her arm to pick open the bolt-type door locks one by one.

  Fortunately, there were no more protective structures.

  With a creaking sound, the heavy alloy door panel finally opened, and the turbid air with a stale smell came to her face.

  Irena held her breath after entering the room, turned off the VM screen that was emitting a faint light, and lit the portable lamp she brought earlier.

  The flames flickered in a trance, gradually becoming clearer, illuminating the nearby space.

  All signs indicate that this is indeed a small shelter.

  At least it used to be.

  The area of ​​the shelter is not large, and compared with Shelter 404, it can even be said to be quite pocket-sized.

  However, unlike the large-scale shelter facilities with official backgrounds like Shelter 404, the layout of this small shelter is quite compact.

  Not to mention the buffer room with two airlocks and pressurization function, there is not even a design of the entrance here.

  Behind the open alloy door, there were rows of shelves covered with moss. He

  walked into the shelter with a lamp in hand.

  Irena carefully observed the shelves and found that there were long lamps in series above the glassware on the shelves.

  ”Could it be… soilless cultivation?”

  This should be the planting area, probably used to produce crops such as vegetables and staple food, and to improve the air environment in the shelter.

  However, after so many years, the water in the culture tank has long dried up, leaving only a layer of dead moss and a few pieces of dried debris and curled plant fibers.

  He couldn’t even tell what was planted here before.

  After confirming the radiation index on the VM, Irena continued to move forward with the lamp in hand.

  Behind the planting area, there were rows of real shelves.

  It was the things displayed on these shelves that made him open his eyes wide.

  Copper ingots, steel ingots, aluminum ingots, lead… and a large number of metals that he couldn’t accurately identify with his experience in scavenging were neatly placed on them.

  In addition, there are a lot of non-metallic materials such as glass fiber, graphite powder, rubber products, hydraulic oil, lubricants, adhesives, etc.

  There are even some liquid or powder chemicals of unknown composition!

  Moreover, these materials, unlike the garbage scattered in the ruins, may have been treated with antioxidants and are well preserved, at least they look usable.

  In addition to these materials for making tools, Irena also found some unfinished tools and parts on the last row of shelves, as well as five golden ingots and ten silver ingots!

  When he saw this, his eyes couldn’t help but stare straight.

  ”Fuck…”

  I’m rich!

  It can be seen that the owner of this shelter should be a local tyrant, and it is very likely that he is the owner of this department store, or at least a major shareholder!

  And this guy’s sense of crisis and hands-on ability are not ordinary.

  Next to the back of the container is a DIY workbench.

  In addition to basic tools such as screwdrivers and wrenches, it is also connected to guide rails, guide plates, mold balancing devices and hydraulic overload devices. Various replaceable tools and processing modules are hung next to the workbench.

  The entire workbench uses almost no advanced electronic technology. Even if it encounters an EMP, its functions will not be affected at all.

  And it is almost easy to maintain!

  Even if the power is off, you can use hand cranks instead of motors to drive some processing modules on the workbench!

  Compared with those advanced tools that will be useless outside of civilized society, these “primitive tools” that are durable and have a long shelf life can give people a sense of security.

  Seeing this thing, Irena had a feeling.

  This workbench is much better than the one owned by the owner of the weapons store!

  ”I’m rich, I’m rich… Let’s work first.”

  Irena did not stay here for too long. Looking for the radiation source, Irena continued to move forward and passed through the door behind the workbench.

  Behind the door should be the living area.

  According to the rising radiation index on the VM, the radiation source should be inside.

  Stepping into the living area cautiously, Irena saw the hibernation capsule placed against the wall facing the door.

  The door of the hibernation capsule was open, and it seemed that it had been broken for a long time.

  Judging from the open hatch and the scattered parts and tools nearby, someone must have tried to repair it but failed, and it is likely that this caused a serious electrical accident, which eventually caused the shelter to lose power, the ventilation facilities to stop working, and eventually suffocated the people inside.

  Irena found a single bed nearby, with two skeletons lying flat on the sheets.

  Judging from the shape and size of the bones, both of them should be adult women, but their specific ages are unknown.

  Combined with the remains found at the door and the only incubator in the room, Irena arranged and combined at least four possibilities in her mind about the question of “who is the owner of the shelter.”

  However, no matter which one it is, it doesn’t matter.

  For a player who is eager to complete the dungeon, the story of the dead is insignificant.

  After a careful search, Irena soon found the radiation source that made his VM beep on a generator-like facility.

  It was a pitch-black cylinder inserted into a circular groove.

  According to the story background of “Wasteland OL”, this thing is probably some kind of civilian fusion battery?

  Or, the “fuel rod” of a cold fusion generator?

  Anyway, no matter what it is in the setting, it is obviously broken, leaving only a damaged shell and radioactive residues that have nowhere to go.

  In fact, strictly speaking, nuclear fusion should be clean because the product is helium.

  However, the cleanliness here is not absolutely harmless. It is just that compared with the nuclear waste produced by nuclear fission, which has “radioactive residues for hundreds of thousands of years”, the nuclear waste produced by controlled fusion is not so difficult to deal with. After all,

  any material that has been irradiated by high-energy neutron rays for a long time may produce “induced radioactivity”. It’s just that the radiation dose of this kind of nuclear waste will be much smaller, and the harm is usually “hundred-year level”, and it may be gone after a few centuries.

  To put it more bluntly, as long as you don’t hold the “damaged nuclear battery” directly in your hand, there will generally be no big problems. In

  this regard, “Wasteland OL” is still relatively restored.

  Just like now.

  Irena had just held the battery in her hand for a short while when she felt like she was going to die…

  ”No kidding, I think I can still be saved.”

  After taking the radioactive source out and throwing it away, Irena, who was bleeding from her nose, said seriously.

  Kuangfeng glanced at him and shook his head.

  ”It’s hopeless.”

  With such a nosebleed, he could still stand and talk, only in the game.

  In reality, he would have been lying on the ground unconscious.

  ”Did you hear that? The physics teacher said you were hopeless,” Ye Shi smiled and patted his shoulder, winking and said, “Don’t struggle, brother, while you can still walk a few steps, go back and make up for yourself. We will search the dungeon for you, don’t worry, your share will not be less!”

  Irena said with a bitter face.

  ”I just want to ask, can recycling corpses reduce the resurrection CD?”

  Fang Chang also said with a smile.

  ”How is that possible? Didn’t you read the official website’s setting? The resurrection CD is not a death penalty. But you are lucky, at least the VM is not broken, otherwise you will have to buy it again. By the way, if you are worried that you can’t make it to the base, you can leave the VM with us, so that you don’t die halfway through the journey, and you don’t have to pick up the body and VM, which will be a big trouble.”

  Irena: “Fuck! You are not concerned about me, but VM! Is there no warmth in this cold world?”

  Ye Shi rolled his eyes.

  ”Isn’t it just worrying that you will spend money in vain? Isn’t it called caring about you-”

  ”Okay, stop talking,” Lao Bai coughed and interrupted Ye Shi’s beeping, then looked at Irena and said comfortingly, “We can give you 5% more of the revenue from the dungeon, which should be able to compensate for your losses in the past three days. Next time there is an opportunity for cooperation, we will call you again, what do you think?” 5%

  is not a small amount. After all, the dungeon was discovered by the Niu Ma team, and the output was basically done by several of them, and a lot of ammunition and supplies were consumed.

  As a passerby who got on the bus halfway, the share that belonged to Irena in the agreement was only 10%, and an extra 5% was already quite generous.

  Lao Bai’s words finally made Irena feel that there was still a little warmth left in this cold world.

  With a tragic look on her face, she wiped the blood from her nose, took off her VM, and handed it to Lao Bai solemnly.

  ”Tell Xiaoyu for me, just say…”

  She had only said half of her words when she fell to the ground with a thump.

  Ye Shi couldn’t help but laugh like a pig.

  Kuangfeng turned his head to the side, his shoulders shaking.

  Looking at the pool of blood on his sleeve, Lao Bai was frowning, and finally sighed.

  ”I’ll get him outside to the caravan first.”

  ”Let’s drag him back together later.”

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  (End of this chapter)