Lords of the Heavens

Chapter 211 Underground Cave
At that moment, Li Wei was very tempted, and he wanted to go down and take a look.

But what if the underground of this town is the source of the radiation mutation that caused the mutated rat king?
Should we wait until the end of the month, when the base sends out new players to form a team and go down together?

Li Wei didn't make a decision yet. Instead, he continued to move various building materials from the distant ruins. He worked all day to block all the entrances and exits on the first floor with concrete blocks, leaving not a single door.

Since Li Wei is currently the only person in the entire scavenging camp, he can't carry out any large-scale projects, and guarding and patrolling are major problems. So, it's best to block it off as soon as possible to solve the problem once and for all.

Preventing the door on the second floor from being damaged would be a real pain in the ass.

We'll reopen it next month when there are more people and more demand.

"Now that the food crisis and housing have been resolved, the next urgent issue is firewood. Whether it's for making bricks or charcoal, a lot of firewood is needed. It will be indispensable for winter heating or construction in the future."

"So in the next few days, I need to take care of three things."

"The first is the handcart. Liang Yuzhi has collected enough salvaged parts and even disassembled a wheel assembly. In fact, this is equivalent to solving the most critical part of the handcart."

"The second thing is that I have to push a wheelbarrow to chop wood and, while spring is still here, plant trees around the ruined town."

"As for the third thing, we need to find some time to set up the brick kiln and fire some pottery jars."

"Finally, we will explore the town's underground space in an orderly and safe manner."

Li Wei's plan was very sound. He went to the third floor first, where Liang Yuzhi's small warehouse used to be. However, before he could find the wheel assembly, the crow with the injured wing rushed out from the gap, cawing and pecking fiercely at his hand. It was quite aggressive.

Li Wei grabbed its neck, even wanting to strangle it, but in the end he quickly switched to the Tracker title, wanting to test it out.

As a result, when he put on the Tracker title, the crow that was struggling frantically suddenly quieted down. Its eyes seemed to have sensed something, and Li Wei also seemed to sense some kind of emotion in the crow at the same time.
Not sure, but it seems like a lot of fun.

But Li Wei quickly switched to the Tracker title in the third second.

For those three seconds, he felt a slight dizziness, which quickly subsided but still gave him a scare.

"Get lost!"

Li Wei put the crow down and let it fend for itself. Surprisingly, it didn't run away. Instead, it hopped and skipped after him, seemingly trying to do something.

However, Li Wei was too busy to pay attention to it and continued searching. Sure enough, he found a wheel assembly of moderate size behind a pile of salvaged car parts. Two wooden wheels had been replaced on it, and rubber tire tops were tied to the tops of the wheels and nailed in place.

While it certainly can't compare to pneumatic tires, it's still much better than wooden wheels.

Li Wei added some parts and the overall frame, and a two-wheeled handcart was thus created.

The biggest contributor was Liang Yuzhi, so much so that when Li Wei donated the handcart to his family as a fixed asset, Liang Yuzhi even received a standard gold coin as a reward…

I imagine this second aunt would be so grateful she'd burst into tears after receiving the gold coins.

Haha!

Li Wei was in a good mood, and even took the crow for a ride on the handcart. It was quite nice, fast, and lightweight, but only suitable for paved roads.

It's worth mentioning that this crow has become addicted to taking it for a drive. Hmm, this is what freedom feels like! This is what flying feels like?

With a handcart, the rest is easy.

Because this handcart can easily support a weight of 1,000 kilograms.

Every morning, Li Wei would set off with his crow-like boots to cut down trees in the forest twenty miles away. He could make two round trips a day, bringing back two logs and a considerable amount of firewood. After drying, this would become high-quality firewood.

In addition to cutting down trees, he would also cut some relatively healthy branches from the forest and bring them back in the evening to plant them in suitable places outside the town by sticking them on stakes.

In just a few days, he planted a full five hundred trees.

The survival rate is as high as 98%.

During the day, they cut down trees, and at night, they would take the time to build a brick kiln behind the scavenger camp building. The bricks were readily available; they found them in the ruins.

The adhesive soil was readily available, dug out of a pit; the only problem was that the water had to be fetched from two kilometers away.

But it didn't matter. Little by little, it would add up. They repaired one kiln a day, and when there were still two days left until the end of the month, the brick kiln was basically completed. It just needed to dry in the shade before they could be fired to make pottery jars.

It was at this time that Li Wei decided to start exploring the town's underground space. He first pushed a total of twenty logs to the town's central park, which was the lair of the Four-Star Rat King and also the area with the largest greenery in the town. Well, it must be about ten acres. Look at the town's planning.

Even though more than a decade has passed since the disaster, and even though some places have collapsed and are unrecognizable, some things can still be seen, such as the collapsed square and stone paths, as well as some sculptures that are unrecognizable.

However, the wild grass here is really lush, and the grass is full of small flowers, which seem to be some kind of berries. In another two or three months, they will be ready to be picked and eaten. There are also many insects in the grass, and some small birds will occasionally visit.

Li Wei made his way to the cave of the four-star rat king. The air was thick with a stench as soon as he approached, but the cave was truly enormous, given the rat king's size. Li Wei carried the logs over one by one, just in case—just in case it collapsed, right?

"Ah-Dai, you stay here, eat some bugs, and don't follow us."

Li Wei said something to the raven and then disappeared into the huge cave. The raven followed him, hopping and skipping along. Of course, it wouldn't be a raven if it didn't follow.

Li Wei wouldn't try to persuade him twice. Come if you want, it's up to you. He doesn't care if you die.

It was morning outside, the sun was shining brightly, and there was plenty of light, so even when you first entered the cave and went dozens of meters deep, it didn't feel dark.

Li Wei looked around, holding a heavy wooden sword. Since the previous battle, he felt that he needed to improve his close combat skills. After all, close combat was unavoidable when dealing with unexpected events and tough enemies.

Moreover, close combat makes it easier to quickly identify the enemy's vital weaknesses.

For ranged attacks, what's the point of switching to the Tracker title? The maximum radius is only fifty meters, and only the Bloodthirsty Spear can make do with that.

But this powerful weapon is also the king of physical explosiveness. After a full-force throw, Li Wei is left with several seconds of cooldown time. If he is paired with the title of Tracker, wow!

Therefore, he also has to keep up with the times.

It can be equipped and switched in a second, and at the same time, the heavy wooden sword can accurately lock on, ensuring a fatal blow.

"Pullingleng!"

The crow suddenly flew up and landed on Li Wei's shoulder. The wound on its wing had healed a lot, but it didn't seem to intend to run away.

Li Wei glanced at it, then slowed his pace and moved forward slowly. It was getting darker and darker ahead, and even with his eyesight, he would soon be unable to see anything.

Fortunately, this was never a problem.

Take out a homemade torch, add some rat grease to it, light it, and the problem is solved.

As he walked, Li Wei calculated the location and kept an eye on the cave's sturdiness, but it turned out he was worrying for nothing.

After walking forward for about two hundred meters, you enter a slightly larger sewer.

The stench was even stronger here, but the air wasn't stuffy; in fact, you could feel that there was good ventilation.

Li Wei walked out in the direction of the ventilation, and wow, he walked straight out of the huge sinkhole on the west side of the town.

So he turned back, locked onto the direction, and headed straight for the area beneath the building to the north. He had a gut feeling that the problem lay there.

We still took the sewers, straight and simple, nothing too complicated, after all, the town is only so big.

Halfway there, the torches went out, but at that moment a faint glow appeared all around. It wasn't from magic mushrooms or glowing mushrooms, but from rat holes that had been dug through the basements of some buildings and connected to the sewers.

And so, a faint glimmer of light appeared, and that was enough for Li Wei.

But then he saw several scattered, not-so-complete, skeletons. They were human, and they had died here, probably in the early stages of the disaster. They were the direct cause of the building's basement entrance being sealed off.

As Li Wei thought this, a strange sense of dread crept into her heart.

This isn't right. He hadn't felt this way along the way, so the truth is just ahead.

As he continued forward, the feeling gradually intensified. At this moment, Li Weizhen really wanted to switch to the Tracker title immediately, but he held back, knowing that prematurely depleting physical and mental energy was a major taboo.

So he changed his title to Rat Exterminator.

He didn't know if it was just his imagination, but after changing to this title, he suddenly felt much more comfortable.

"quack!"

The crow on my shoulder suddenly cawed, and the next moment it fluttered forward, wobbling as if it had discovered something.
Li Wei hurried to catch up, only to find that they had reached the end. Further ahead was a hole that could only accommodate a three- or four-year-old child.

The hole leads to the building's basement.

More than a decade ago, the Rat King created panic and disaster right here.
Before Li Wei could figure it out, the crow had already flown into the hole.

Damn it?

Why does it feel like I'm the one leading you on a treasure hunt?
The thought had barely crossed his mind when a sense of danger washed over him. The next second, Li Wei took two steps back, and from the hole, the crow flew out, its eyes turning blood red, and its aura becoming terrifying, like a violent out-of-control creature.

But how familiar this scene is! Isn't this just Blood Raven?

What did it find in that basement?
First came the Rat King, now comes the Blood Raven—a path to certain death!
(End of this chapter)