Translator: SumTLMan

“What?! You’re going to Lindong Shelter?! It’s far too dangerous!”

Ever since Tang Yu decided on taking a trip to Lindong Shelter, Chen Haiping has been very anxious.

It’s no wonder. The shelter has just gotten into trouble with Lindong Shelter. Now their leader is going to deliver himself to their doorsteps. No matter what angle he looks at this situation, it looks as if Tang Yu was rushing to his death.

Tang Yu waved his hand and said: “Take it easy, don’t get too excited… Lin Wei doesn’t know about me. Even if he finds out that Han Jing went missing in the shelter in the future. At best, all he can do is target us. By that time, I will have already gone to Lindong Shelter and joined the vast number of inconspicuous survivors going in and out of the shelter.”

“Furthermore, Lindong Shelter is the only large-scale shelter in Lincheng. This place has more information and resources. Only when I get there, can we have a chance of knowing how far Lin Wei’s forces reach. We can’t just allow the other party to wantonly investigate us while we only sit and wait idly by, right?”

“Let me go.”

Roger has always been a man of few words.

Its true Roger is reliable, but neither Roger nor Elaine are from this world. Even if the contract instils a lot of common sense of the world. It’s impossible to compare with someone with more than twenty years of experience living on this planet. If they go and investigate the information in Lindong, they will only get half the results with twice the effort.

If only they were just going to Lindong and probing for information, it wouldn’t hurt to send Roger to take on this task.

However, Tang Yu didn’t just want to go to Lindong to learn about Lin Wei’s forces. This was just incidental. What he truly wanted was to learn more about the changes happening in the outside world through Lindong.

At the beginning of the doomsday, when there was still communication. Tang Yu was able to gather some information from all over the country. But since ma.s.s communication was cut off, his information gathering has been completely blocked. This is without mentioning the growing threat of the demonized beasts at that time. Since even survival has become a difficult problem, ordinary people no longer cared about any other news.

But it’s different now.

He has the power to protect himself. But if he wants to further develop, he can’t do so behind closed doors or by working behind the scenes. Even if he does have the system.

Since the system is his advantage, Tang Yu will naturally make good use of it. This isn’t a bird-brained idea. Although he wants to be independent and self-reliant. Why can’t he use the system as an external plug-in?

But he can’t rely solely on the system for everything.

From people such as Han Jing, Tang Yu has learned that scientists in Lindong have made many important discoveries. This was done through studying the new things which have appeared after the doomsday.

This is the difference between a large and small-scale shelter.

These places are the collection of humanity’s wisdom.

Taking the system as the foundation and combining it with logical thinking and science from humans will be the direction for future development in his territory.

What’s more…

Tang Yu’s thoughts drifted further away into the distance…

If Lindong is a large-scale shelter, perhaps they may have collected information from all over the country. In Lindong Shelter, he should be able to investigate the whereabouts of his parents.

This personal task is impossible to hand over to others. Only by personally drawing the information from the ma.s.s clutter of information can he find the key information he wants.

As for safety…

Chen Haiping’s worry isn’t unreasonable. But after all, Chen Haiping is an outsider. He only knows the tip of the iceberg about his territory or what cards he has up his sleeve.

This is why he feels so worried.

On his journey to Lindong, Tang Yu will naturally not be alone. He must bring along personal bodyguards. Not only that, but he also needs a few more days to prepare all kinds of items and equipment for the journey.

Even if he were to face the worst-case scenario, he will still be able to escape safely escape with what he will prepare.

…………

Time flies by…

In a blink of an eye, a few days have pa.s.sed.

In this past few days, the territory has been developing according to plan in a stable and orderly fashion.

The team led by Roger and Elaine has searched all of the surrounding villages and towns. Not only have they found many useful things, but they have also found some struggling survivors hiding in some of the neighbouring areas.

There is no doubt these survivors were brought back to the territory.

Besides, some survival teams who could barely operate in the wilds had pa.s.sed through the area. Perhaps they learned about the shelter from other survivors or from other sources but they have begun joining the shelter.

This was all happening in quick succession. Now the entire shelter has close to one hundred survivors.

Over this past couple of days, Tang Yu has also stepped up his surveillance of the territory.

After catching the four-member team. Two days later, another team was caught trying to sneak into the territory.

Tang Yu was relieved that the teams sent weren’t working together.

After catching these two teams, no more teams were discovered.

His guess is that the area near the shelter may have become a forbidden zone for the investigators. Or they may have found some other way of gathering clues. Elaine and Roger also occasionally discovered some strange movements from the survivors who have gone outside the shelter.

This was probably one of the investigation teams.

“It’s regrettable that I still lack the most critical items to start heading to Lindong.”

With this item, Tang Yu can guarantee that no matter what kind of danger he faces, he can safely escape.

The town return scroll.

This is a very common item in the early stages of the game. It’s possible this item may appear in the first-level market and the price of purchasing one isn’t too much. Also… This item is a time saver time in the game because it cuts down the travel distance in half. If found in reality, this is a proper life-saving artefact.

He’s been waiting for the market’s daily refresh opportunity to see if it has appeared.

However, when he happens to need it the most, it never appeared.

Tang Yu refreshes today’s market inventory.

In the next second, he stared wide-eyed as a smile crept on his face.

Although he didn’t see the town return scroll. But with this item placed in reality, it’s also considered an artefact.

Backpack (10 Cells)

The backpack in the game is nothing more than an expansion of the backpack tab and this expansion was still considered a small addition to the total s.p.a.ce.

But the reality is different. The backpack looks like an ordinary backpack, maybe a little smaller, but there’s another separate s.p.a.ce inside.

The ten-cell backpack has a total of ten s.p.a.ces, each of which is one cubic meter. Together, they all add to a full ten cubic meters of s.p.a.ce. This makes it one of the necessary artefacts for personal travel, protection against fire and highway robbery.

Tang Yu didn’t hesitate to buy the three backpacks on the market. As a result, the source crystal in his inventory begins bottoming out as the items are being transferred.

In the past few days, he has built the market, upgraded the Lord’s Castle, built the city wall and bought blueprints along with the backpacks from the market.

The shelter’s daily income is only about one or two hundred units of source crystal, which is actually quite a lot. But this is far less than Tang Yu’s consumption. Looking at the source crystal in his inventory, he tearfully saw it was almost completely exhausted.

More importantly, there are only a few system buildings available.

The Great Lord Tang mourns over this.

Looking at the s.p.a.ce backpack in his hands, his eyes suddenly brightened up as thought of a new income source.

…………

In the clear sky, the weather is like a steaming stove. The scorching sun is baking the broken earth as the smell of sweat seems to fill the air.

Avoiding the sweaty labourers at work, Tang Yu sneaks out of the shelter with his two puppet guards…

His target today was directed at the source crystal mine several kilometres away.

He has long coveted this source crystal mine. But he suffers from not being able to fully exploit it. There are many demonized beasts in the mountain forest. Having gone there to try and mine it, before he had a chance of finding the source crystal mine location, he was hara.s.sed by the surrounding demonized beasts. Under such circ.u.mstances, it was really too whimsical to believe he could begin mining the source crystal mine in peace.

Well, under normal circ.u.mstances, other survivors trying to mine the source crystal ore will naturally fail.

However, if he were to blast the rubble, Tang Yu still thinks this is a feasible way to mine. He just wants to directly take the ore containing the source crystal and load it into the s.p.a.ce backpack.

From the side of the resort, a mountain road goes all the way around the surrounding mountains behind.

Tang Yu meandered his way along the mountain road.

On one side is the steep mountain cliff, and on the other side is a cliff facing a stream. Most of the shelter’s water supply after the doomsday comes from this stream. Fortunately, the stream before the doomsday hasn’t been particularly polluted—at least the stream hasn’t changed into any particular colours such as red or yellow.

No. 1 and No. 2 accompanied Tang Yu like personal bodyguards as he leisurely strolled and took a look around.

This mountain road wasn’t wide, only having a two-lane road going in both directions.

At first glance, nearly half of the road was covered in weeds.

These weeds grew crazily out of the mud next to the cement pavement. Some have even grown to a height of one or two meters, and others have grown from in between the gaps in the cement pavement. This tenacious vitality has left the whole road cracked and fragmented. If some survivors haven’t already gone outside after the doomsday, they may find…

How strange the world has become?