Chapter 108 - 107: Demolish and Rebuild

Chapter 108: Chapter 107: Demolish and Rebuild

However, after successfully establishing the second shelter, the three buildings seemed to have become redundant.

Even if the Exchange ran out of all food cubes, water cubes, and even power cubes, he could simply have the second shelter produce enough resources and teleport them to the main shelter.

This meant he could tear down these three buildings entirely, freeing up the construction space for more essential training rooms.

Granted, demolishing buildings returned no resources, meaning the initial investment would be a total loss.

Any other manager would have agonized over the wasted resources and hesitated.

After all, upgrading a shelter building from White to Green required about 1.5 Blue Components.

For the vast majority of managers, this was a huge amount of resources.

The reward for hunting a typical large mutated creature was only two Blue Components.

As for exploring, with average luck, a day’s haul would only be two to five Green Components.

Fortunately, however, Ye Yun was not like most managers.

A dozen or so Green Components might be a lot to others, but to him, it was just a drop in the bucket.

The 35 laser guns he had previously listed on the Exchange had all sold by morning.

As a result, the number of Blue Components in his warehouse had skyrocketed from a dozen or so to 462.

So, the cost of this demolition and reconstruction project was truly nothing to him.

Ye Yun immediately had the construction bots stop their current tasks and begin demolishing the buildings in the main shelter.

Demolition was faster than construction and upgrading. Only twenty minutes passed.

The spots where the Water Purification Station, Power Room, and Food Workshop once stood were now completely bare, as if no buildings had ever been there at all.

Ye Yun opened the construction list and quickly selected the four training rooms he urgently needed.

[Weight Room]: Trains Strength

[Gymnastics Room]: Trains Speed

[Fitness Center]: Trains Endurance

[Shooting Range]: Trains Perception

As for the Study, which could increase a normal person’s Intelligence, he would have to build it later.

After all, the Intelligence attribute wasn’t particularly useful for exploration and combat at the moment.

The other four attributes, however, were crucial for exploring the outside world.

After all, much of the better equipment, with good stats and effects, had attribute requirements.

They might require Strength, Endurance, Agility, or Perception—and sometimes, all of them.

If your corresponding attributes weren’t high enough, you couldn’t equip the gear.

Just like Zhou Mei right now.

Her current attributes were:

Strength: 5

Perception: 6

Endurance: 4

Charisma: 4

Intelligence: 4

Agility: 8

Luck: 3

Her Perception was indeed quite good, but her Strength and Endurance were on the low side, which meant there was a lot of equipment she couldn’t use.

Ye Yun had to search the Exchange for a long time before he found a Blue rifle for her that required 7 Agility, 6 Perception, and 5 Strength. Otherwise, she would have been stuck miserably fighting with a Green weapon.

***

Meanwhile, as the demolition and reconstruction project at the main base was in full swing...

Bena, Zhou Mei, and the others had already ridden their motorcycles to the vicinity of the target location.

Because the coordinate range was so large this time, Bena had everyone dismount before they got too close.

The place where they parked was a small, abandoned community.

It was about the same size as the abandoned community where they had encountered the python, but this one had clearly been the site of a rather intense battle many years ago.

The exteriors of many villas bore the marks of explosions, and the damage was severe.

But it was precisely for this reason that Bena chose it.

A godforsaken place like this was obviously picked clean. Not even the most down-on-their-luck scavengers would bother with it, which made it a safe place to temporarily stash their modified motorcycles.

Bena carefully found a relatively inconspicuous house within the abandoned community.

He chose it because he sensed a rather large basement beneath the house.

Bena carefully pried open the basement door, which had been sealed for who knows how many years.

A thick, musty smell wafted out, and Bena couldn’t help but frown.

He waved away the dust in front of him, then motioned for the others to turn on their flashlights and start heading down the rickety stairs.

The basement was even larger than Bena had expected. It had clearly been used for some kind of supply storage in the past.

Although most of the supplies had rotted away, some of their remaining outlines were still visible.

Bena and his team didn’t linger. They quickly swept the area, and after confirming it was safe, they designated it as their temporary hiding spot.

They pushed their motorcycles into the basement and carefully concealed the entrance.

With the camouflage for their modified motorcycles taken care of, Bena’s group of five cautiously left the community and began to scout the target location.

The sky was a hazy gray, with a thick layer of clouds obscuring the sun, casting an oppressive atmosphere over the entire world.

Occasionally, a biting cold wind would blow past, kicking up dust and debris from the ground with a rustling sound.

After leaving the small community, they immediately followed a dry riverbed.

The riverbed, which had been dry for who knows how many years, had complex terrain on both banks, providing them with excellent cover.

As long as no one was too close, it was basically impossible to spot the five of them walking in the riverbed from the outside.

Number 2, who had activated their perception enhancement, took the lead, while Zhou Mei, whose perception was also relatively high, brought up the rear.

Thanks to the concealment offered by the riverbed, the team made good time.

As they moved quickly through the riverbed, the group remained vigilant, watching for any potential abnormalities in their surroundings.

They knew that every mission in the wasteland was filled with unknowns and dangers, where even the slightest oversight could have fatal consequences.

After advancing for about an hour, the riverbed, which had been a full two meters deep, suddenly split into three separate channels.

As the riverbed diverged, its depth dwindled to only half a meter.

A height of half a meter was obviously not enough to hide them, but fortunately, they were already close to the shelter’s potential location.

The five of them climbed out of the riverbed, and Bena quickly found a nearby vantage point.

It was a solitary four-story building by the roadside, which from its appearance seemed to be a highway motel left over from before the Cataclysm.

The five of them immediately moved into the motel.

This motel had clearly been looted countless times.

The motel was empty, with only some worthless trash left behind.

Bena spoke in a low voice:

"Number 2 and I will go to the roof to check for any suspicious targets nearby. The rest of you, search the motel and see if you can find any useful clues."