Chapter 106 - 105: Building the Broadcast Room

Chapter 106: Chapter 105: Building the Broadcast Room

After a round of upgrades, the sub-base’s status was as follows.

Shelter: Sub-base No. 2

Used Space: 7

[Water Purification Station (White)]

[Power Supply Room (White)]

[Maintenance Room (White)]

[Dormitory (Green)]

[Shelter Entrance (Green)]

[Robot Storage Room (Green)]

[Warehouse (White)]

Unused Space: 2

Food Reserves: 33/100

Freshwater Reserves: 33/100

Power Reserves: 100/100

Medical Supplies: 3/100

Construction Robots: 4/4

Bioroids: 3/3

Advanced Bioroids: 0/1

Normal Humans: 0/3

Shelter Members: 0/4

Administrator: No. 1

Looking at the two remaining usable spaces, Ye Yun began to consider which two structures to build.

Soon, his gaze fell upon one of the available structures.

[Broadcast Room]

[Construction Requirements]:

[Intact Radio (White)] [0/1]

[Power: 20 points] [20/20]

[Construction Robots: 1] [1/1]

[Upkeep Requirements]:

[Bioroids/Normal Humans: 1]

[Power: 0.1 points/hour]

The function of the Broadcast Room was to transmit a signal from the shelter, with a chance of attracting nearby survivors to join.

Previously, Ye Yun wouldn’t have cared much about this function.

After all, with the brothers Xisuo and Simon available to take on recruitment commissions, he could easily find suitable new members in October Town.

When Ye Yun saw that Sub-base No. 2 had a full three vacancies for normal humans, he had, in fact, contacted Xisuo immediately.

However, the reply he received was that they were temporarily unable to go to October Town.

The reason was quite simple. The recent shelter exploration organized by the Academy had recruited helpers from October Town and the surrounding areas.

Initially, Hawkins from the Academy had made a fine promise: besides 10 Silver Coins, the Academy personnel would only take the blueprints, and all resources found in the shelter would be divided equally among the Mercenaries.

Of course, most of the Mercenaries weren’t risking their lives for just 10 Silver Coins. While 10 Silver Coins wasn’t a small amount, it wasn’t enough to make them take such a risk.

The vast majority of them had their eyes on the supplies and equipment inside the shelter.

In fact, the Academy people hadn’t lied. After taking the hard drives, they left immediately and truly didn’t fight over the resources and equipment that belonged to the Mercenaries.

It should have been a joyous outcome for everyone, but the Mercenaries soon discovered something was wrong.

Because inside the shelter, defense robots were still diligently performing their duties.

With the strength of these Mercenaries, it was simply impossible to break through the robots’ defensive line.

By the time they realized something was wrong, there were less than 12 hours left until the shelter’s self-destruct sequence activated.

That wasn’t even enough time for them to return to October Town, let alone find enough people to act within those 12 hours.

In the end, after suffering casualties of over two-thirds of their number, the Mercenaries only managed to retrieve some insignificant resources and equipment.

As a result, Xisuo and Simon, who had left first, became the target of public criticism.

This was because many people had seen Hawkins personally hand over two sets of portable exoskeletons to the two brothers.

After all, the two brothers had come out of the entire exploration unscathed and had also received the greatest reward. How could that not make others jealous?

This forced them to go into hiding for a while, to prevent those hot-headed guys from doing something reckless.

Of course, they didn’t need to hide for too long—just long enough for the storm to blow over.

After all, everyone knew they had exoskeletons and were also ability users. Their strength was not something an ordinary mercenary could afford to provoke.

They were just jealous of the brothers’ gains, not truly insane.

When they had strength in numbers, they could act high and mighty, but once most of the crowd dispersed, they wouldn’t dare provoke Xisuo and Simon without sufficient strength themselves.

Without the two brothers’ help, if he wanted to recruit people from October Town, Ye Yun would have to send Bena or Zhou Mei in person.

The journey from here to October Town took at least a day and a half, making a round trip three days long.

Moreover, Ye Yun didn’t want Bena and Zhou Mei to leave the shelter.

The two of them were the shelter’s main combat force. If they left, the shelter’s defenses would fall to a dangerously low level.

Although he had the assessment system and could predict danger in advance, it was always the unexpected that one feared. If some accident were to happen at the shelter while he had sent people out to recruit, the loss would far outweigh the gain.

To him, time itself was an extremely precious resource.

Therefore, this facility before him became extremely important.

Following Ye Yun’s command, the construction robots working in Sub-base No. 2 immediately sprang into action.

The construction of the Broadcast Room didn’t require many materials, and the process was quick.

An hour later, the construction robots stopped their work, and a brand-new structure appeared in Sub-base No. 2.

Ye Yun clicked the icon to check the Broadcast Room’s status.

[Broadcast Room (White)] [Inactive]

[Effectiveness: When activated, broadcasts once per hour. 1% chance for a survivor to appear at the Shelter Entrance.]

[Upkeep Requirements]:

[Bioroid/Normal Human/Engineering Robot: 1] [0/1]

[Power: 0.1 points/hour]

[Note: The effectiveness of this building is related to Charisma. The higher the Charisma value, the higher the appearance probability.]

Reading the building’s description, Ye Yun raised an eyebrow.

’A 1% chance per hour... does that mean there’s roughly a one-in-five chance of a survivor appearing each day?’

’That appearance rate isn’t very high. If my luck is bad, one might not even show up in five or six days.’

’This is way too slow.’

Without hesitation, Ye Yun immediately ordered a construction robot to upgrade the [Broadcast Room (White)].

Two hours later, seeing the effectiveness increase from the original 1% to 2%, Ye Yun nodded.

Although the current rate was still barely satisfactory, it was better than the original 1%.

At this rate, if his luck was good, he could find a new member every two days or so.

He assigned No. 6, the robot that had just finished the upgrade, to work in the Broadcast Room on a 24-hour shift.

Ye Yun’s gaze fell upon the building list once more.

Soon, he had an idea for the last remaining building slot.

[Blueprint Research Lab]

[Construction Requirements]:

[Supercomputer (Green)] [0/1]

[Maintenance Robot: 1] [0/1]

[Power: 20 points] [20/20]

[Construction Robots: 1] [1/1]

[Upkeep Requirements]:

[Bioroid/Normal Human: 1]

[Power: 1 point/hour]

Actually, Ye Yun had wanted to get this building up and running for a long time, but there had been no spare space in the shelter, so it had been delayed until now.

Ye Yun opened the exchange and quickly found the item needed to construct the building.

[Supercomputer (Green)]

[Description: A supercomputer manufactured before the Great Cataclysm. It seems it can be used for scientific research.]