Chapter 304: Moving the Base!
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Somethin was not right!”
Zhao Yu suddenly realized that it’s been several years since the apocalypse in this world, but he had never heard of the existence of aliens.
He had gone over the recent years’ memories several times and hadn’t found any instance of aliens running rampant.
“Unless, the aliens were just created!”
“These facehuggers in the chemical plant were also newly produced and transported here!”
“The purpose… was it for experimentation?!”
If it was an experiment, there should be monitoring equipment.
After circling around the perimeter wall, he indeed found a concealed camera.
“d.a.m.n it, they have surveillance!”
Zhao Yu realized that it was still operational.
He quickly called someone over to remove the surveillance equipment.
Zhao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
The device stored data locally, and the content hadn’t been taken by anyone yet.
Currently, with the rampant nuclear radiation damaging wireless signals, it inadvertently resolved a potential issue for him.
“Someone come!”
Zhao Yu called over some soldiers and instructed them to search the vicinity and locate all the surveillance equipment.
About half an hour later, six sets of surveillance devices were placed before Zhao Yu, all with local storage.
Unfortunately, without a computer, they couldn’t access the content, or they’d know when these devices were installed.
“We can’t stay here!”
After collecting the surveillance devices nearby, Zhao Yu swiftly sent people back to the places they had been before, especially the building containing the facehuggers, to search for its monitoring equipment.
As he suspected, just in that single building, they found over twenty surveillance devices of various types.
“These facehuggers are indeed sent out for experimentation by some large organization…”
“That means they’ll probably come back to retrieve the content from these surveillance devices…”
Zhao Yu looked up at the sky, aware that satellites existed in this world.
Even though they couldn’t communicate with the ground, they could certainly be controlled from s.p.a.ce to monitor the situation on Earth.
“I can only hope they have set up multiple experiment sites and haven’t focused on this location yet…”
Zhao Yu made up his mind. Once this mission was completed, he would immediately pack up the base and relocate elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the hunting party that had gone out returned, bringing back the bodies of seven wolves.
The wolf skins were peeled off and thrown into the recycling furnace of the Munitions Factory. This provided enough leather for exchanging daggers.
[Do you want to spend 5000 grams of iron and 500 grams of leather to create 10 daggers, Black Sun Military Stab?]
“Yes!
The time it took to make daggers was still alright, one per minute.
Ten minutes pa.s.sed. Zhao Yu did not even bother checking if the dagger was working. He opened the control panel again.
[Handgun unlocked]
[Create 10 pistols and unlock rifle options.]
Like the dagger, there are multiple styles within the category of handguns: revolvers, semi-automatics, and fully automatics.
Each style has different bullet capacity, power, range, and firing rate, allowing selection based on individual needs.
The cheapest to exchange is the revolver, the semi-automatic is moderately priced, and the most expensive is the fully automatic. It can fire continuously and would more accurately be termed a submachine gun. It’s larger and longer than a regular handgun.
[Revolver: Requirement: 10 grams of silver, 100 grams of tin, 1000 grams of iron.]
[Do you wish to spend 100 grams of silver, 1000 grams of tin, and 10000 grams of iron to make 10 revolvers?!]
Yes!”
This time, the production time for a single handgun increased to 5 minutes, and 10 handguns took 50 minutes.
The prolonged wait allowed Zhao Yu to gradually calm down.
“They probably won’t come anytime soon…”
His urgency stemmed from the perception that the opposing force was much stronger than him.
After all, they were able to install surveillance, and had managed to transport the facehuggers from an unknown distance for experimentation.
This indicated that the opposing force was formidable, at the very least having the capability to deploy helicopters, and possibly even having fighter jet escorts.
Zhao Yu also understood that panicking would not help. Handling the immediate concerns was the priority.
He took a deep breath and exited the Munitions Factory, directing his men to sequentially send the various bodies into the recycling furnace.
First to be sent were the four immobilized soldiers.
As he had expected, unlike with soldier 001, the internal chips in the brains were all destroyed and couldn’t be reused.
Then, the pile of facehuggers ‘corpses was sent into the recycling furnace. It was actually displayed as [Special Flesh].
” Special flesh?!”
Zhao Yu was startled for a moment, and he ordered his men to throw in the 4 small aliens as well. The number of Special Flesh immediately increased.
” What’s special flesh?!”
[Essential materials used to create special troops]
” Special troops?!”
“Could it be possible to create an alien that I can control?”
Unfortunately, he was still far from the point where he could exchange for special troops, so there was no way to know exactly what kind of soldiers he could create using the special flesh.
For the next while, Zhao Yu contemplated where to relocate the base.
The place he was most familiar with was the previous photovoltaic electronics factory.
There was ample open s.p.a.ce there, and the mutants had just been cleared out, making it an ideal location.
Once the facehuggers inside this chemical factory were dealt with, the only remaining threat would be the neighboring refuge.
Only the people from that refuge knew he was here, and there were at least eight hundred of them, well-armed.
They was staying deep underground, originally built to evade nuclear attacks. With his current strength, it would be challenging to breach.
After much contemplation, Zhao Yu couldn’t come up with a perfect solution.
After 50 minutes pa.s.sed by, Zhao Yu hurriedly made his way to the Munitions Factory.
[Rifle unlocked]
[Create 10 rifles, unlock machine guns]
Glancing at the list of rifles, there was a wide variety: standard rifles, cavalry rifles, a.s.sault rifles, sniper, and flamethrowers.
When Zhao Yu saw the flamethrower, “I knew this thing existed!”
However, upon checking the materials required to make a flamethrower, Zhao Yu was speechless.
While standard materials like copper, iron, and silver were available, there was a specific chemical element called butane that was lacking.
“This thing can only be produced once the chemical plant is operational, right?”
Zhao Yu had no choice but to temporarily abandon the idea of getting flamethrowers.
He initially planned to obtain several flamethrowers to burn down the entire chemical factory. But now, it seemed that the soldiers would have to clear it out little by little.
Zhao Yu headed to the training camp.
He had lost four soldiers in the recent conflict, leaving him with only 16 men. He needed to replenish his numbers.
After the series of exchanges he had made, the resources Zhao Yu had on hand were significantly reduced.
[Technology Points: 5]
[Gold: 618 grams]
[Silver: 1622 grams]
[Copper: 8235 grams]
[Iron: 17423 grams]
[Snare: 12122 grams]
[Cloth: 81693 grams]
[Normal Flesh: 511 kg]
[Special Flesh: 78 kg]
“I only have enough Technology Points to exchange for five soldiers!”
Zhao Yu had no choice but to exchange for five soldiers.
The number of soldiers under his command increased from 16 to 21.
“I can hold off on exchanging for guns for now. With 20 rifles, I just need to supplement with one more rifle…”
“I should exchange for some bullets…”
When he found the bullets corresponding to each type of firearm, he was headache again.
No matter the type of bullet, some used bra.s.s casings and some used steel. However, the propellant was always a chemical element.
“Double-base nitrocellulose… Nitroguanidine… Sulfur… Saltpeter…”
Zhao Yu realized that he lacked the propellants required for any of the bullets!
He picked up the ten revolvers he had exchanged earlier, only to find that none of them were loaded.
He couldn’t help but curse, “d.a.m.n, why give me a gun without bullets?!”
Zhao Yu felt helpless. The base couldn’t magically produce these items. Many things required raw materials.
“What should I do?!”
He gathered his soldiers to check the ammunition. They only had about a hundred rounds left, which was far from enough.
Inside the chemical plant, similar to the building he had previously inspected, there were at least ten more buildings. Worst case scenario, all the chemical buildings housed facehuggers. Best case, only two buildings had them.
Zhao Yu called over a soldier and instructed, “Go to the nearby shelter and borrow some bullets. If they don’t want to lend, try to barter with food…”
“Go now!
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After waiting another forty minutes and with some natural growth in tech points, Zhao Yu exchanged another soldier.
Meanwhile, the soldier who went to the shelter returned.
“Report, they said they are also short on bullets and won’t lend.”
“What about trading?”
“They refused. Bullets are too scarce for them.”
Zhao Yu afraid that he couldn’t complete the mission.
If he delayed any longer, he might be in danger.
“Put a sign at the entrance. Like ‘Danger, Do Not Enter’ and draw a skull on it.”
“Yes!”
After these measures were taken, Zhao Yu approached the base. Following instructions, he sequentially collected the Munitions Factory, Training Camp, and energy station.
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This is the system’s power…”
Watching the three buildings vanish, Zhao Yu realized that the system was powerful.
This kind of technology was previously discussed with Uncle Da. With their current Level 3 base, if they max out the quantum tech tree, they could achieve this.
Zhao Yu went to the base’s entrance and chose the transformation mode.
The next moment, the mini-base transformed into a base vehicle, about four to five meters long.
Before he build the three extra buildings, he could even completely retract the mini-base.
But with those extra three buildings, if he fully retracted the base, those buildings would disappear and need to be rebuilt once again.
Transforming into a base vehicle meant he could later deploy those three buildings again.
Zhao Yu climbed into the base vehicle, finding it operable but with only two seats.
He called over a soldier to drive, while he himself sat in the pa.s.senger seat.
After a final look at this place, he ordered everyone to move out, heading towards the photovoltaic electronics factory..