Mobile Shelter

Chapter 164 High Temperatures Arrive

The bad news is that, perhaps someone was hiding in the supply warehouse and was discovered by the mutants, as the warehouse still bears the marks of a fierce battle.

Most of the shelves storing supplies in the warehouse have collapsed, and most of the supplies are scattered on the ground.

The outer packaging of some of the supplies was damaged, rendering them unusable for long-term storage.

Pioneers always have to put in a lot of effort to explore new frontiers, but once they succeed, their gains often exceed the imagination of all those who follow.

Dong Qi had not expected that there would be so many supplies stored in this shelter.

Fortunately, my car wasn't too big, so I was able to drive it directly into the warehouse.

After collecting all the valuable materials, Dong Qi then gave them a rough inspection.

The supplies collected this time were found to be sufficient to sustain 100 people for two to three years.

Just when Dong Qi felt that he could still reap many more rewards because of this harvest, he could not have imagined that most of the native creatures of Blue Star had already entered a state of great migration.

The several safe zones established by the original will of Blue Star before it fell into slumber are like carrots falling in front of a donkey, making all intelligent beings on Blue Star unable to resist rushing to the safe zone closest to them.

While Dong Qi was still collecting metal materials in the industrial park, Peng Qi had already left the survival base established in the suburbs of Kyoto with the official convoy.

Although no one knows whether they will actually make it to the so-called safe zone alive, the vast majority of the residents live in the large survivor base.

Even knowing about the existence of safe zones, a large number of people are unwilling to leave and embark on the migration journey.

Especially the survivor base in the suburbs of Kyoto, although it was built later than the one in the Northwest.

However, since Kyoto is the core area of ​​the Great Xia Dynasty, its construction speed, material reserves, the overall quality of personnel and defense facilities far surpass the planning of the Great Northwest.

Therefore, even though they knew of the existence of the safe zone, most of the people who settled here were quite certain that this survivor base on the outskirts of Beijing was not a safe zone designated by the origin of Earth.

However, the defensive capabilities of this survivor base are absolutely no less than those of the survival base established in the safe zone.

In addition, both high-ranking officials of the imperial court and government offices in the capital remained in this base.

Therefore, even though the residents who settled in this settlement knew about the existence of the safe zone, only a few of them had the idea of ​​leaving and embarking on a migration journey.

However, they were unaware that the appearance of the visitors from another world and the expansion of Earth itself had caused disturbances in Earth's electromagnetic field, rendering the long-distance communication equipment, which was previously barely usable, useless once again.

Kyoto was once again cut off from other major cities in Great Xia. Although the think tank formed by the imperial court after the disaster had predicted this situation in advance and had formulated a response plan, the situation remained unchanged.

However, if contact cannot be established for an extended period, the consequences are obvious to everyone.

And most importantly, although the vast majority of ordinary people are optimistic about the future living conditions of the base in the suburbs of Beijing.

But they were well aware that Kyoto's past prosperity was not due to its unique geographical location or the special resources it had in the surrounding area.

Rather, it is because this is the capital of the Great Xia Dynasty that it enjoys such prosperity due to the nationwide supply of goods.

However, at this point, the supply of goods from across the country was lost. Although the supplies stored up at this time could last for a while, after a long time, without the subsidies from other cities, Kyoto would eventually return to normalcy.

Once that time comes, the situation in the outskirts of Beijing will not be much better than that in survivor bases in other cities.

Only some important members of the imperial court made the decisive choice to leave this survival base.

And just in case, or to reduce the attraction to monsters, so many convoys were split up and left separately.

Peng Qi, who had already considered retreating before going to the port city, naturally did not choose to stay at the base in Kyoto this time.

Instead, upon learning that the imperial court was organizing an official migration caravan, they had already begun to pull strings to try and join it.

Because of this, Peng Qi was able to join the officially formed team without any setbacks, becoming a first-level researcher.

Although there were academicians in the team with higher status than him, those older academicians were actually just relying on their experience to coordinate the work, while Peng Qi was the highest-ranking person in charge of the front-line on-site work.

Therefore, after the convoy left the base in the outskirts of Beijing, Peng Qi was like a mouse that had fallen into a rice jar. Even when the convoy was migrating, he did not forget to stay near the large war machine.

He wanted to use his special abilities to analyze and dissect this large-scale weapon of war.

Peng Qi's behavior was seen by others as a research-oriented attitude, where he wanted to study and research the subject so that he could find the problem and fix it as soon as possible if it occurred in the future.

Unbeknownst to anyone, after a period of research, Peng Qi has confirmed that the large war machine in the convoy has lost its remote control and remote locking capabilities due to the current special circumstances.

Now, Peng Qi only needs to quietly reset the program, and the ownership and control of this big guy in the team can be transferred to him without anyone noticing.

While Peng Qi was quietly working to change his permissions, Shao Kai, who had gone to the Northwest ahead of time, was living a life that many people envied.

He took the train early during a safe period and arrived here comfortably. Not long after, he used his family connections to directly obtain a junior management position.

Although the official rank of this position is not very high, it is a unit that wields real power.

Their main job is to guard the weapons storage warehouse. Although they are just warehouse managers on the surface, even if the items stored in the warehouse are important, they do not have much power under normal circumstances.

However, the warehouse he manages stores firearms and weapons, so although he is just a small warehouse manager, he commands more than 300 fully armed warehouse guards.

It was precisely because of this that when the original will of Blue Star pulled the visitors from another world into Blue Star and caused an anomaly, Shao Kai decisively arranged for the guards to protect and seal the warehouse.

As the saying goes, those who live near mountains live off the mountains, and those who live near water live off the water. How could someone who can become friends with Peng Qi be someone who doesn't know how to adapt?

Therefore, Shao Kai, along with some of his confidants, used their connections to find a relatively remote warehouse to store some firearms and weapons separately.

Anyone with a brain knows the difference between having a gun and not using it, and not having a gun to use.

However, what happened next was far beyond Shao Kai's imagination.

The area he was in did not present the worst-case scenario he had imagined; instead, it was designated as a safe zone where he would not be disturbed by monsters.

Some people may not have been born in Rome, but they are able to settle in Rome at the most opportune time and at the lowest cost.

And later, due to some special events, the weapons and equipment they had secretly hidden, along with the reported losses, became their private property.

In the short term, even though Shao Kai is still an ordinary person, he has surpassed most awakened individuals in every aspect except for not gaining superpowers and becoming an awakened one.

What delighted Shao Kai even more was that as long as enough mutants were killed or the secret realms created by those alien visitors were destroyed, and enough Origin Values ​​were accumulated, even ordinary people could successfully awaken their superpowers and become Awakeners with the help of Origin Values.

In an instant, Shao Kai truly became a winner in life.

While collecting materials in the industrial park, Dong Qi encountered several more mutants. However, in the subsequent battles, Dong Qi realized that instead of sending mechanical guards to consume ammunition and kill those mutants, it was better to use them.

He didn't forget to drive his own vehicle directly into close combat, relying on the three mechanical claws at the end of the robotic arm. Although the claws are not sharpened, their biting ability is very strong.

As long as you catch a mutant, you can crush its body directly.

Coupled with the formidable defense of its own vehicle, it is fearless even when attacked by mutants at close range.

Therefore, from then on, Dong Qi stopped sending mechanical wolves into battle and instead left only a few drones for high-altitude reconnaissance and surveillance.

Two days have passed, and Dong Qi has, as originally planned, sent almost all the metal materials that could be collected in the entire industrial park into the hundred-refinery furnace.

However, simply using the materials from the industrial park will only upgrade the vehicle frame to a higher level.

Fortunately, there were still quite a few materials left, and after several practical battles, Dong Qi gradually became familiar with the other functions of his natal vehicle.

So, using the remaining materials, I also slightly upgraded the levels of other items on my main vehicle.

My personal item type: Lightly modified vehicles.

Grade: Treasure-grade vehicle body frame: Enhancement level LV28

Power System: Enhancement Level 10

Electrical equipment:

Composite Radar: LV10

Oxygen generating equipment: LV10

Thunder Dragon Electromagnetic Cannon: LV10

Intelligent Hub: LV10

Robotic arms (six): LV10

Laser Cannon (Cluster Type): LV1 (Removed, not installed)

Laser Cannon (Scattering Type): LV1 (Removed, not installed)

Signal communication base station: LV1 (removed and not installed)

Stealth and shielding device: LV1 (removed, not installed)

Other equipment:

Hundred Refinement Furnace LV10

Universal Furnace LV10

Mechanical Guards:

Swarm of multi-functional drones (20 units): LV10

Mechanical Wolves (Basic Model) (5): LV10

Two mechanical wolves equipped with heavy machine guns, one mechanical wolf equipped with a sniper cannon, and two mechanical wolves equipped with automatic rifles.

Farm space:

Land: 9 plots of LV1 land, 1 plot of LV10 land; Well Water: LV10 (100 liters per day)

Warehouse: LV10 (10,000 cubic meters)

House: LV11

Number of times the thought has manifested: 4 times; Original energy: 21162

After upgrading all installed equipment to level 10, Dong Qi also received some additional Origin Value as a reward.

Including the Origin Value gained from killing Naxi mutants in the industrial park, Dong Qi's total Origin Value has exceeded 20,000.

However, to exchange for the items needed for the next promotion, one needs 100,000 Origin Points.

Even so, faced with this enormous number, Dong Qi did not fret as much as he had in the past.

After all, with a clear channel for obtaining Origin Values, it wasn't difficult for Dong Qi to acquire more Origin Values.

Instead of planting grains on the ten mounds of earth in the farm space, Dong Qi chose to plant various perennial fruit trees.

This way, you only need to plant once and you can harvest multiple times.

After such a long period of testing, Dong Qi finally confirmed that although LV1 land and LV10 land are the same size and the crops grow and mature at the same time, there is a significant difference in yield and quality.

But thinking about it the other way around makes sense; if there were no difference, no one would be willing to spend experience to upgrade their farm land.

However, in the past, Dong Qi could have purchased large quantities of crops by spending some money and sent them to the farm space to decompose and gain experience in batches.

But at this time, not to mention crops, even the few remaining plants in the wild have all mutated.

Dong Qi had tried before, but only seaweed could be sent into the farm space and decomposed to gain experience points.

Other types of plants, when sent to the farm space to decompose, will only produce a pile of useless waste, and most importantly, they will pollute the farm space after decomposition.

This was the first time Dong Qi had ever seen a situation where experience points could be deducted after dismantling an item.

However, based on this, Dong Qi was able to roughly confirm that the farm space could only gain growth experience by decomposing edible crops.

If you decompose those plants that are contaminated or have problems, you may end up losing experience points.

Dong Qi was initially lamenting that, after the onslaught of snow and torrential rain, there were hardly any normal plants left on Earth.

Without the bug that allowed players to gain a lot of farm experience from seaweed, upgrading the farm will now only be possible by gradually planting crops on the farm land and waiting for the right time.

But after Dong Qi actually entered the secret realm, he realized that the secret realm was actually created by those remnants of other worlds, based on the environment they were most familiar with, by consuming their source value.

In that case, as long as Dong Qi frequently enters the secret realm in the future, he will eventually be able to enter the secret realm with a large number of plants.

When that time comes, obtaining a large amount of normal plant upgrade farm space will be a simple and easy thing.

Just as Dong Qi finished collecting the metal materials and was preparing to head to the highway exit, he was unaware, sitting in the constant-temperature driver's seat, that the outside temperature was gradually rising.

Perhaps because the torrential rain caused many organisms to mutate, no one noticed that the outdoor temperature was gradually rising after the rain stopped.

Under normal circumstances, clouds drifting in the sky actually have the ability to absorb heat and regulate temperature.

However, because of those tiny alien creatures, the Earth's crust was stirred up to boil the seawater in order to combat the glacial climate created by Earth.

This caused most of the seawater to evaporate and turn into water vapor, which then floated into the air. The water vapor carrying the tiny organisms of the opposite sex then merged with the clouds that were originally floating in the air and made up of water vapor.

Subsequently, regardless of whether the water vapor that rose into the air later or the clouds that were originally composed of water vapor, they all turned into rain during the downpour.

Without the clouds made of water vapor to block the sunlight, the earth is exposed to the scorching sun, and the outdoor temperature is gradually rising.

Under normal circumstances, when a rainstorm occurs, it carries water vapor from the atmosphere to form raindrops, which then fall to the ground.

However, after the rain falls to the ground, it will remain on the ground and form puddles. When the outdoor temperature rises, it will turn into water vapor and float into the high sky, turning into clouds and blocking the sunlight again.

But this cycle was directly broken after the alien micro-life merged with the rain.

The rain, carrying tiny alien life forms, didn't stay on the ground after landing; instead, it seeped directly into the earth.

And with the sudden expansion of Earth, the original normal cycle was immediately broken.

Under normal circumstances, oceans cover 70% of the planet's surface, but this sudden expansion of Earth has only expanded the resources that were already on the ground.

Even groundwater hidden deep underground has seen a corresponding increase.

But the water vapor carrying tiny alien life forms, floating in mid-air, showed no increase whatsoever.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. The expansion of the body caused by Blue Star's forced advancement was originally intended to counter the invasion of alien creatures.

Therefore, when expanding, it is impossible to expend resources to feed the other party.

Therefore, due to a series of coincidences, the surface of Earth is temporarily in a state of water shortage.

Without the obstruction and regulation of clouds, the outdoor temperature gradually begins to rise under direct sunlight.

At first, no one paid much attention to this situation, since it was springtime and outdoor temperatures were gradually rising, which was considered normal by everyone.

In addition, Earth was entering a period of great glaciation, so the rate of temperature increase was very slow under these circumstances.

Even if the temperature rises slowly, others will eventually notice the abnormality.

When Dong Qi arrived at the highway entrance as agreed, he did not see the marks left by the convoy as promised.

Since he was alone, Dong Qi stayed at the highway exit to stop and rest.

Looking around at the asphalt-paved ground, it seemed that the mutated insects would not be able to break through the soil, so Dong Qi, who did not want to sit for long, got out of the car to stretch his muscles.

As soon as he got out of the car, Dong Qi noticed that the outdoor temperature was a bit abnormal.

Based on past experience, the outside temperature at this time will fluctuate at most around 20 degrees Celsius.

But as soon as he got out of the car, Dong Qi felt that the outside temperature was almost thirty degrees Celsius.

Although this temperature is within the comfortable living range for normal people, in this special period, even the slightest difference will arouse Dong Qi's vigilance.