Chapter 192: Thousands Of Miles, Mysterious Map
“Huh…huh…”
“The brother in front, slow down, this is my first time piloting a Gundam. I am still unskilled. Wait for me!”
“Ah! d.a.m.n it! My Gundam!”
With an exclamation, Su Mo sat up directly on the bed, his forehead was sweating profusely. The sheets under him were also wet.
Touching the sweat on his head, Su Mo leaned on the bed’s backrestand picked up the cup of psychic energy water next to him. He slowly took a sip of water, calming his mood.
In his dream, he was a super-soldier piloting a Gundam across the universe and fighting the so-called “G.o.ds”.
However, as soon as he took over, he had to fight, and no one taught him how to. Before Su Mo familiarized himself, he could only watch as the enemy’s attack arrived and ended him.
He picked up the old phone and turned on the standby b.u.t.ton. Looking at the time displayed on it, Su Mo rubbed his already puffy eyes in amazement.
He returned to the shelter at noon yesterday and simulated six training sessions. After eating, Su Mo, who was so sleepy that his scalp went numb, fell into a super deep sleep almost immediately.
This sleep was long enough to be called “lengthy”!
The time on the old phone showed that it was already nine o’clock in the morning of the following day!
After calculating, Su Mo realized that he had slept for nineteen hours!
The pancakes from before were all piled up on the ground. With food provided, Big Spark, Little Spark, and Oreo did not disrupt his sleep, and they played quietly on the second floor of the base.
Propped up on the bed, Su Mo got dressed and got up.
The most difficult period had pa.s.sed and, even if the air conditioner was not turned on, the temperature reading in the shelter was around seven or eight degrees because of the scorching sun.
He put on a cotton-padded jacket, which was suitable and comfortable in such an environment.
After sitting and resting for around half an hour in the living room, he was only left with a slight headache and an empty stomach from the long period of sleep.
“It seems that I’ll have to keep an eye on my condition the next time I enter the training ground. At that moment, I did not feel anything because of the excitement, but the deprivation of vitality afterward is too serious!”
The psychic energy water and the Mountain and Sea Painting Scroll card could treat physical trauma, but could not do the same for mental and spiritual exhaustion.
When a large quant.i.ty of memory floods into the brain, and it cannot fully process the information, it blocks and limits the effectiveness of certain brain functions until the brain digests all these memories and transfers them into long-term memory storage, alleviating the mental strain and exhaustion.
“Today’s task is…”
“To find a way to construct a cold storage area for in the shelter, clear the snow covering the five mu of Black Soil Land, turn over the soil, and take some time to mine and collect some saltpeter ores!”
The saltpeter ores in the shelter had all been used up. After the previous night’s battle, the ammunition reserves for all the bullet calibers were below 1000 except for the 5.56mm. The 7.62mm bullets had all been used up, and the replenishment of his ammunition reserves was urgently needed.
Su Mo planned to drive his excavator over to the saltpeter mine to commence work.
“Do things by yourself, and get enough food and clothing!”
Su Mo picked up the pancake on the ground and took two bites. After that, just as he was about to select the items to load in the storage s.p.a.ce, he saw the pointer in the corner of the storage s.p.a.ce.
“Oh right, 24 hours have pa.s.sed, I can check the little sis’s location!”
The sudden surprise swept away Su Mo’s exhaustion.
He quickly took out the pointer, silently recollecting various information and data on Su Chan, and watching as the green progress bar in the information slot slowly filled up. Su Mo stared at the arrow that was spinning around with antic.i.p.ation.
Since this was not the first time he searched, Su Mo was already familiar with the process.
The first step was to determine the direction. About this, the pointer did not dawdle and quickly gave him the direction!
“It’s a coincidence that the Tundra Shelter and the kobold castle are in the same direction, and so closely aligned too!”
The direction indicated by the arrow was still northwest but, under the pointer, a number marked with distance was slowly appeared as well.
300 kilometers!
500 kilometers!
1000 kilometers!
2000 kilometers!
…
As the distance indicated got farther and farther away, Su Mo’s expression became extremely bitter!
The traffic environment on the wasteland was no better than the civilized era!
On Earth, even if it is tens of thousands of kilometers or even 100,000 kilometers away, Su Mo was confident that he could reach it quickly by relying on the developed transportation network.
However… Things were different in the wasteland!
After surpa.s.sing two thousand kilometers, the required distance would take additional time, and even had to be doubled or even tripled according to certain conditions.
Including the complicated terrain, the impa.s.sable mountains, and locations where vehicles would have difficulties navigating, all of these stood in his way of wanting to quickly reach the location of his sister.
“If there is a horrible flood that encompa.s.ses the entire wasteland, maybe I can use a boat and quickly travel to the vicinity of the Tundra Shelter!”
In Magoo’s diary, there was a flood after the blizzard.
If there were no mistakes, according to the amount of snowfall this time, it was likely that the disaster after the welfare disaster would be a flood.
Su Mo calmed down the commotion brewing in his heart as the distance number indicated on the pointer gradually began to stabilize.
After three to five seconds, the number fluctuated rapidly within a general range, before finally freezing at…
12872 kilometers!
Thousands of miles away in the truest sense!
“Twelve thousand kilometers!”
What was this concept of distance? Huaxia’s landma.s.s spanned 5,500 kilometers from north to south, and 10,000 kilometers was almost equivalent to traveling from south to north, and then back again.
If one set the capital as the center, this distance could even cover half the Earth.
“It’s too far away. If I just rely on ordinary transportation methods in the wasteland, I would need to travel for 24 hours a day without sleep, and the journey would last for 20 to 30 days!”
“Not to mention that this distance only considered straight-line distance. After including the twists and turns, I am afraid it will become even more difficult.”
Su Mo clenched his fist tightly and looked at the green number on the pointer. Su Mo was feeling distressed in his heart, and he could not help but feel a little vexed.
He must go no matter what.
However, the way to get there was the main difficulty at present.
Before Su Mo could continue to dwell on the subject, his gaze dropped on a pile of miscellaneous items on the ground. As the pointer flashed, some items on the ground also flashed.
“Huh, what is that?”
The light on the pointer seemed to be invisibly connected to an object on the ground, and the connection became more obvious as Su Mo watched.
Crouching down, Su Mo cleared away the pile of miscellaneous items curiously. After rummaging around for a while, he caught the thing that was linked to the pointer.
“This is…”
“Kento Maeda’s map??”
The two maps were previously obtained from Maeda’s storage s.p.a.ce.
The small one was a structural drawing of the kobold castle. It was very useful when he used it to invade the castle for the first time.
As for the larger map, when Su Mo looked at it for the first time, he noticed that the complicated patterns recorded on it were unusual.
However, after he looked through it for a while and still did not understand the markings, Su Mo could only put it away in the storage s.p.a.ce.
At this time, under the attractive force of the pointer, the green light began to blur quickly and pa.s.sed through the invisible connection onto the map.
Gradually, the complicated patterns began to become clear, and a direction and location suddenly appeared in the upper right corner of the map!
“This… seems to be a treasure map? Or is there an important secret buried there?”
The location on the map was roughly in the same direction as the Tundra Shelter, but a little closer at 9400 kilometers away.
On the map, the gaps in the complicated patterns emerged along with the respective numbers, filling up the map. It gradually transformed into a readable map.
Aside from that, there were two rows of Huaxia characters marked on the lower right corner of the map.
“A Huaxian??”
“No! The person who drew this map should be the same as Magoo, a Chinese from the parallel world who partic.i.p.ated in the game!”
The familiar text, map labeling method, and markings on the map, stunned and shocked Su Mo.
Huaxians liked to bring their belongings with them after death in their “tombs”.
This practice had been pa.s.sed down since ancient times and had been preserved until modern times.
Closely examining the map and the tiny words imprinted, Su Mo began to identify every word…
“The 1999 Expeditionary Army… the 13th Army… Commander Su Deben… was ordered to perform a secret mission…”
“Eye of Supervision… The satellite base has been completed… The mission has been completed…”
“The base has been invaded and I have activated all the defense systems. The enemy is unknown, the enemy is unknown! I repeat! The enemy is unknown!”
“The enemy is too strong, I have activated the self-destruction mechanism and prepared the escape capsule. The enemy has been destroyed, but we have countless dead and wounded!”
“This map outlines the structure of the bloodline base map… To any Chinese who has obtained this map, please turn over the map to the nearest expeditionary shelter for the hope of mankind!”
“Fight!”
After the markings reached this point, they were suddenly interrupted, and the handwriting that followed was no longer legible. There was something like smudged ink blocking the font below.
“Is this an encryption method?”
The marked fonts on the map were extremely gorgeous and beautiful, and each stroke of the Chinese characters was filled with magnificence.
In these annotations, even if Su Mo could not see the person who had written this with his own eyes, he could vaguely infer the fierceness of the war based on the text.
With a thought, the system automatically jumped out and. as expected, the attributes of the map popped out.
[Mysterious map ???]
[Description: A map recording an abandoned satellite base. The source is unknown and the security level is unknown. Please act wisely when choosing to explore.]
[Upgrade: Decipher the encrypted text (200)]
[Comment: There may be a major secret contained in the abandoned base!]