Apocalypse: My Apartment Has Traits

Chapter 157: Chapter 139: Building the Safehouse (4K Merged)

(PS: This Chapter contains many illustrations, please be mindful of data usage!)

“I’m really looking forward to Xu Zhong’s expression now.”

Su Lin felt that his second uncle suddenly developed a sense of humor since just now.

“Me too,” he replied.

Uncle and nephew exchanged a glance and couldn’t help but laugh.

It was estimated that, at this moment, Xu Zhong might not even have all the trap materials prepared yet.

“Let it be then,” Su Qi said in great spirits. “With these thirty Giant Beast-Hunting Bees you have, our village is secure. Haha, when your grandfather comes out, he will definitely be shocked.”

The continuous surprises put Su Qi in an excellent mood, and he couldn’t wait any longer to go home and see if the old man had come out.

After seeing off his second uncle, Su Lin checked the time, and it was nearly ten o’clock; he too should start setting up the traps at home.

He paid special attention to a north-south orientation when remodeling the safe house.

Although adopting the concept of a quadrangle courtyard, the main body of the safe house was situated in the eastern and western wing rooms’ position, but actually, his house was located in the northernmost main position, with the gate facing south.

The trap courtyards on the east and west sides were located in the east and west directions respectively.

Su Lin first found two curtains to cover the outer doors of the east and west courtyards, blocking the view, then paced in the courtyard, carefully planning the trap layout scheme.

A total of sixteen trap positions!

This unprecedented sense of abundance even made him somewhat regret not having taken it to the fifth-level safe house directly during the upgrade last night, implementing the anticipated layout scheme.

Excluding the space occupied by the beehive, fifteen spaces were still left for arrangements.

According to the courtyard layout, each of the three courtyards could accommodate five traps.

Long before considering the courtyard layout, Su Lin had already thought of the two trap positions in the main courtyard:

He planned to install two floor ejectors in the center of the main courtyard, with nozzles aimed towards the doors of the eastern and western courtyards.

The floor ejectors have a narrow yet ultra-long attack range, enough to penetrate the inner and outer doors of the left and right courtyards directly from the main courtyard!

On this line, whether the Shadow Beast is in the main courtyard or the outer courtyard, it will be subjected to fierce attacks.

He deliberately designed the inner doors to be narrow, precisely to complement this penetrative attack.

Among the traps he currently had, the floor ejector was undoubtedly the most powerful.

However, since it couldn’t be enhanced by the King of the Garbage Can for its range, its placement needs to be calculated precisely and even require specially constructed favorable terrain for it.

Excluding the floor ejector, the main attack traps in order of power were:

The swinging wooden hammer enhanced tenfold;

The automatic crossbow;

The enhanced arrow wall;

The enhanced earth spike;

Among them, the automatic crossbow, which is specifically targeted at boss-level Shadow Beasts, has never been installed yet was already phased out by the Giant Beast-Hunting Bees.

Additionally, he had four control type traps:

The impact wall;

The slime floor;

The ejection floor;

And a newly acquired but not yet installed trap – the spike wall.

This was one of the traps recommended by Old Que’er when he first crossed over.

Before, due to limited trap positions, Su Lin had to forgo some choices.

Now, with the promotion to a level 4 safe house and the ample space brought by the rule rewards, he could realize many ideas.

Su Lin first came to the east courtyard.

The curtains blocked the external view, and using the keen perception after unlocking the skin lock, he confidently disabled the trap’s daily disguise mode.

When the safe house was upgraded, the house title deed would stow away the original traps, and after renovations were completed, they could be redeployed at selected spots without reconstruction.

As his first step, Su Lin placed the impact wall he used to anxiously guard as the last line of defense on the south wall of the courtyard.

A single impact wall, which had undergone tenfold enhancement, covered only half of the wall.

Thus, he built a second impact wall, completely covering the entire south wall.

Enhanced by the keywords, the impact wall not only split into multiple smaller areas and triggered more flexibly, but was also fully covered with rows of coldly gleaming metal square cones.

This impact wall, filled with sharp spikes and towering menacingly, made one’s heart race with terror just at the sight, fearing it might suddenly lash out and smash someone into mince!

Next, he placed the only spike floor he had in the north side near the outer door.

The metal floor teeming with holes instantly occupied nearly half of the courtyard.

Additionally, he placed a slime floor next to the spike floor.

The dark viscous liquid juxtaposed with the sharp spikes created a contending stance in the east courtyard.

One courtyard with five trap positions, thus four were used.

The last trap, Su Lin installed an arrow wall on the inner wall near the safe house side, covering most of the wall surface, leaving only a slight margin around the edges.

The attack range of the arrow wall was enough to cover most areas within the courtyard.

Thus, the five traps in the east courtyard were completed.

It seemed to have only five, but actually with the floor ejectors in the main courtyard, there were a full six traps causing damage!

The floor ejector placed at the entrance of the main courtyard was precisely facing the outer door of the trap courtyard, covering the entire line of attack range.

Shadow Beast entering from the east courtyard outer door would first bear the brunt of the long-range flame jet from the floor ejector.

If not dead, it would then face the overwhelming impact of the entire south wall’s impact wall.

Survivors, even if not dead, would be hit into the range of the spike floor, continuously taking piercing damage.

Simultaneously exposed to continuous shooting from the arrow wall.

Shadow Beast advancing further would step onto the slime floor, greatly reducing speed and continuing to suffer from arrow wall strikes.

Upon reaching near the inner door, they would again encounter the dual attack of the impact wall and floor ejector.