Mobile Shelter

Upon hearing this, Dong Qi, a seasoned reader, instantly understood the situation.

There's no need to guess; isn't this the classic BOSS territory from the novel?

The Nurarihyon has taken over the entire central square of the city lake, so other mutants dare not approach this area because they are afraid of the Nurarihyon.

At this point, Dong Qi had already dealt with the Slippery Ghost, so now was the best time to leave.

"Among the survivors of this underground space, are there any awakened individuals with special abilities?"

Upon hearing Dong Qi's question, Zhang Peng answered without hesitation, "Of course there are. I know of at least six people."

Dong Qi never expected that among the more than two hundred survivors in the underground space, there were actually six Awakened Ones.

However, after a little thought, Dong Qi understood why the proportion of awakened individuals here was so high; it would be difficult for ordinary people without superpowers to have survived to this day.

If nothing unexpected happens, in each of the four survivor gathering areas that Dong Qi detected through radar, there is at least one Awakened being present.

After learning that the other heat sources detected in the underground space were survivors, Dong Qi was now considering whether to notify and contact those survivors.

Although there were at least six Awakened among the survivors, to be honest, having too many Awakened in a convoy is not a good thing.

Especially since these awakened individuals don't have vehicles yet, bringing them back to the convoy will inevitably cause some trouble.

As the old saying goes, if you rashly intervene in someone else's life, you will inevitably bear the consequences of their actions.

Since those people are living well here, Dong Qi has no intention of going to the trouble of contacting them.

However, since the four people in front of him had taken the initiative to find him, Dong Qi was not a selfish person. Since they wanted to leave with him, Dong Qi did not mind giving them a ride.

"Since you want to leave here, get in the car. I'll take you back to the convoy first, and once you're inside, Captain Lu will take care of you."

After Dong Qi finished speaking, he opened the side door of his car. After Zhang Peng and the others hesitated for a moment when they saw the side door of their car open, they went straight into the car.

After they got into the car, they found that only Dong Qi was sitting in the driver's seat, and there was no one else in the car.

When the four realized there was only one person in the car, they simply glanced at each other and made no other unnecessary movements.

Zhang Peng and his group's underhanded tactics were impossible for Dong Qi to hide.

After all, this car is Dong Qi's most prized possession. While it may be difficult to extend our perception to the outside world, the internal situation is certainly completely under Dong Qi's control.

No longer wanting to venture deeper into the underground space to search for other survivors, Dong Qi, without any precautions, directly recalled the simulated scout into the mechanical space.

Zhang Peng and the others watched as Dong Qi turned the car around to leave, and asked with some confusion, "Aren't there still two people outside who haven't gotten in the car yet? Aren't you going to wait for them to get in and leave together?"

Upon hearing Zhang Peng's question, Dong Qi replied casually, "Those two have other vehicles. This vehicle of mine came here to haul supplies. Haven't all the seats in the back compartment been removed?"

"Now that you've looted and emptied this place, there's nothing more for me to do. As for those two, they'll naturally leave in another vehicle."

After hearing Dong Qi's answer, Zhang Peng and the others were surprised that, perhaps because they had spent so much time together, they could communicate with each other just by looking at each other.

Dong Qi ignored the little tricks the four people behind him were making and simply drove them out of the underground space.

After dropping them off on the ground, Dong Qi said, "Get out of the car now and walk straight ahead in this direction. You'll see the members of the Chengfeng team in no time."

Just a heads-up, the Wind Chaser team I'm in, while not a slave-based team, doesn't distribute supplies equally; whoever gets the supplies keeps them.

"Since supplies are relatively plentiful here, I suggest you gather some supplies before heading to the convoy. Having supplies makes a world of difference in your treatment within the convoy."

Upon hearing Dong Qi's words, before Zhang Peng could even speak, Li Tie rashly blurted out, "Can't you just go all the way and take us directly to the convoy's camp?"

"Since your carriage has so much space, it's just sitting empty anyway. Perhaps you could help us collect supplies; after all, with this vehicle, we can take even more supplies with us."

Upon hearing Li Tie's words, Dong Qi did not answer immediately, but instead scanned the other three with a calm gaze.

After hearing Li Tie's words, the other three also felt that Li Tie was being a bit too demanding. However, since there were more of them, some would play the good cop and some the bad cop, so that they could secure more benefits.

Now that Li Tie had taken the initiative to play the good cop, they wanted to see how Dong Qi would respond.

Dong Qi's reaction was completely unexpected by the three of them.

Dong Qi did not directly argue with Li Tie or try to reason with him. Instead, he sighed with some disappointment and then said quietly, "I finally showed some kindness, but I didn't expect to be slapped in the face so quickly."

The saying "kill the saintly one first in the apocalypse" was indeed true; I shouldn't have been so impulsive as to act like that saint.

Those who have survived to this day are all intelligent people. After hearing Dong Qi say this, Zhang Peng and the others immediately realized what he meant.

The men who were originally sitting in the back of the car suddenly produced daggers from somewhere and rushed forward without regard for anything else, wanting to attack Dong Qi directly.

If the Hundred Refinement Furnace cannot collect sentient beings or objects outside the vehicle, then Dong Qi can easily send any sentient being or object that has already entered the vehicle into the Hundred Refinement Furnace, regardless of whether it has a will or not.

After all, the Hundred Refinement Furnace has become one with the Natal Vehicle. Entering the Natal Vehicle is essentially the same as being sent into the Hundred Refinement Furnace.

Seeing the four people disappear before they even got close, Dong Qi could only sigh helplessly.

After all, Dong Qi had only intended to do a good deed and help the other party out of convenience, but he did not expect it to backfire.

However, this incident didn't affect him much; it's all in the past now. But with this experience, the little bit of kindness he showed before is unlikely to reappear in the future.

Dong Qi wanted to vent his anger by destroying several passages in the underground space, but after calming down, he realized he shouldn't take his anger out on others and gave up the idea.

Since he couldn't find what he wanted in the underground space, Dong Qi couldn't waste his time there.

Since the original idea was wrong, the only way to collect supplies is the simplest and most common method.

Fortunately, the damaged drones have now been fully restored to normal, although the repair process consumed a lot of basic metal alloys.

In terms of cost alone, repairing those drones is not as cheap as buying brand new ones. But unlike before, it's now difficult to buy the desired number of drones even if you pay a lot of money.

Therefore, the mechanical space repair function is very important to Dong Qi now.

After releasing all the drones, Dong Qi only needed to wait for them to scan and obtain a detailed map of the entire city.

But during this process, Dong Qi didn't just stand still and wait. Since there were quite a few buildings around the city center square, Dong Qi decided to take advantage of the situation and see if he could find any surprises along the way.

The mechanical wolves and simulated scouts that have been repaired have all been dispatched. Since the most cumbersome method of searching one by one is being used, the more mechanical units sent out for reconnaissance, the better.

In any case, both mechanical wolves and simulated scouts possess firearms, which are more than enough to save their lives when facing ordinary mutants.

When facing those powerful mutants, whether they have firearms or not is not very useful.

Dong Qi carefully avoided the large Buddha statue that was still in place and changed direction to search for supplies in nearby shops.

Whether it was due to the sudden outbreak of mutants or not, the tables and chairs in the shops and rooms around the city center square were all overturned and leaning, clearly traces left behind when they fled in panic.

However, although the situation in the front business area was not good, the kitchen and the warehouse for storing supplies were still well stored.

Unfortunately, because no corresponding storage plan was made in advance, most of the supplies that Dong Qi found could no longer be used.

However, Dong Qi could simply throw it into the farm's garbage dump to turn it into fertilizer, which could be considered waste utilization.

However, the supplies that Dong Qi wanted most could not be found.

At this moment, Dong Qi is more interested in obtaining a large amount of metal than survival supplies.

In abandoned cities, there are only a handful of places where you can obtain large quantities of metal.

One is the construction site where materials are brought in. Needless to say, this place definitely contains a lot of various types of building materials.

However, the faster a city modernizes, the fewer such construction sites there are, so whether or not you can find a similar site depends entirely on luck.

The second place where you can obtain a large amount of materials is, needless to say, the garbage recycling station, which is the place where waste is collected.

However, only by going to the garbage recycling stations on the outskirts of the city can one obtain a large amount of supplies, while the small garbage recycling points in the city can actually store very little.

In addition, there is another place in the apocalypse with a large amount of metal materials, but this place is easily overlooked by others.

That's the bank's headquarters vault.

This place not only stores a large amount of gold, but also has a very sturdy warehouse.

The bank's vault is not made of reinforced concrete, but is actually cast in one piece using alloy.

The kind of plot in movies and TV shows where people dig tunnels to enter a vault is simply impossible in reality.

Because the vault not only has alloy walls, but also the floor and ceiling are made of alloy.

Simply put, a vault is actually a large, fully enclosed metal box.

Therefore, as long as Dong Qi finds the location of the vault, he can simply dismantle it. No matter how much precious metal is stored in the vault, Dong Qi can still reap considerable rewards from the metal alloy obtained by dismantling the vault.

After deploying forty drones, with the intelligent hub in place, the images captured by those drones will be quickly pieced together into a real-world map of the entire city.

Of course, the drones also encountered attacks from some powerful mutants while filming city street scenes.

Some drones were lucky enough to evade the sudden attacks, while others were destroyed by those attacks.

Fortunately, Dong Qi deployed a full complement of drones this time, and after suffering damage to more than half of them, they managed to barely record the city's real-world map.

Next, Dong Qi easily found the location of the bank's headquarters, as if using a pre-disaster smart navigation system.

Leaving aside the smaller banks, Dong Qi could collect a considerable amount of metal alloys simply by dismantling the vaults of the eight major banks.

The amount of basic alloys obtained from refining the metal obtained from dismantling the vault is definitely greater than the amount of basic alloys obtained from refining the metal scrap obtained from the recycling station.

Dong Qi's idea was correct, but when he actually entered the head office, he still encountered something that frustrated him.

That is, the passage to the vault is relatively narrow, allowing only one person to pass through, or to be pulled by a tray, which is also possible.

However, the smaller car in the outside world still cannot directly pass through this only road leading to the vault.

Faced with this situation, Dong Qi had no choice but to use the only remaining method: to directly expand the passageway with a robotic arm.

In short: dig.

Anyway, after dismantling the metal walls around the vault, Dong Qi will basically never come to this place again.

Therefore, the building hazards caused by widening the passage have no impact on Dong Qi.

Therefore, in the next step of exploring and expanding channels, Dong Qi is only pursuing efficiency.

When the car arrived at the vault door, the passageway behind the car, without any support, was still collapsing.

For Dong Qi, although the collapsed construction debris has blocked the newly dug passage, once he is ready to leave, he only needs to put the construction debris into the warehouse, and the passage will be cleared again immediately.

Dong Qi looked at the heavy metal door in front of him. If an ordinary person were to face this door, unless they had the corresponding unlocking methods, it would be impossible to open this door in less than three to five days.

Of course, the metal door, which provides strong protection for ordinary people, is just a lump of metal material in front of Dong Qi's natal car.

The laser beam from the laser tower pierced through the more than one-meter-thick metal door in just two seconds.

Then, in less than a minute, not only the metal door, but the entire metal wall was laser-cut into small metal blocks.

As the chariot drew closer, the scattered metal pieces on the ground quickly disappeared, and were all collected into the chariot's furnace.

Upon entering the vault, Dong Qi stared at the mountain of paper money. Although he knew that the paper money had lost its original value, he was still stunned for a while when he saw so much of it.

After regaining his senses, although the paper money had lost its value, Dong Qi still put it directly into the farm's warehouse.

After collecting all the paper money, Dong Qi finally noticed the precious metals piled up in the vault.

Before entering the vault, Dong Qi thought that the only precious metals stored there were gold, silver, and platinum.

But once Dong Qi entered the vault, he discovered that the vault contained not only common gold and silver, but also some rare metals that were even more valuable than gold.

However, the quantity of those precious metals was relatively small, and for Dong Qi, they were of little use other than being kept as a keepsake.

Dong Qi then swiftly emptied the vault, sending the useful items to the Agricultural Finance Stock Warehouse and throwing the useless ones into the Dao Hundred Refinement Furnace.

After emptying all the items from the vault, Dong Qi began using the laser tower to cut through the metal walls of the vault.

When Dong Qi left the vault, only bare walls remained.

Using city maps created by drones, Dong Qi quickly visited the vaults of other head offices.

Although the collected metal materials were not numerous, they were all high-quality alloys, and there would not be much loss during the refining process into basic metal alloys.

After looting the bank's vault, Dong Qi still didn't choose to visit the supermarkets in the city. Instead, he went directly from the city center to a garbage recycling station located on the outskirts of the city.

Because the garbage recycling stations occupy a large area and are very obvious when photographed from the air, Dong Qi quickly determined the specific locations of several garbage recycling stations.

Although these recycling stations are all located on the outskirts of the city, there are not many mutants around.

However, not many survivors needed the items in the recycling stations, so when Dong Qi entered those recycling stations, he actually collected quite a lot of metal materials.

More importantly, because the garbage recycling station was located in the suburbs, Dong Qi also discovered demolition sites, parking lots, and material warehouses and transfer areas around it, as well as areas with large amounts of metal materials.

Therefore, with the help of so many metal materials scavenged in the city, Dong Qi finally collected all the remaining metal materials needed to upgrade his vehicle.

After confirming that the metal materials met the upgrade requirements, Dong Qi did not hesitate and directly upgraded the vehicle frame to level 40.

When Dong Qi turned his attention to the primordial energy, he discovered that the primordial energy reserve on the screen had unknowingly reached more than 900,000, although it was only just beginning to emerge.

But if nothing unexpected happens, they only need to participate in one secret realm destruction operation, and they don't even need to be the one to deliver the final blow, and they should be able to gather a million units of primal energy.