Countdown: Seven Days Left-A Courier Pays a Visit! (First Update)

Upon hearing Su Mo's words, Oreo shook his head, then made a rather human-like, awkward expression.

Looking at him like this, Su Mo was unsure what exactly was wrong.

At the far end of the vast snowfield, there was no sign of any living creatures.

Su Mo did not choose to hide. After the door closed and the hinges were pushed in, he nimbly strode up the hill in the Deep Sea Shelter.

Standing here, the view is much wider.

Because of his Combat Suit, even though Su Mo was lying on the ground, he didn't feel cold at all. Instead, he felt like he was sitting in an air-conditioned room.

Taking out the telescope from his Storage Space, Su Mo first looked in the direction of the Underground Shelter.

"Hmm, nothing unusual was found?"

The path we came from has been covered by a layer of snow in the short time we've just been there.

If you were to look at the tire tracks a couple hundred meters away without knowing the location, it would be almost impossible to tell that they were tire tracks.

Further away, due to the lighting, all that could be seen was a vast expanse of white, and apart from the howling wind, the world was utterly silent.

Turning his head, Su Mo this time opened Oreo's control panel while looking at Oreo.

Pet Name: Oreo

[Status]: Growth stage (personality already fixed) [Beast Description]: A gentle wasteland creature, a variant of the husky that has inherited multiple bloodlines, its strength will increase as it grows.

[Ability 1]: High-speed movement. Its muscle structure ensures a certain explosive power. After the ability is activated, the speed doubles within 30 seconds. Cooldown time is 5 minutes.

[Ability 2]: Sixth Sense. Its biological structure makes its perception extremely powerful. After activation, it can briefly predict the dangers to come. Cooldown time: 1 day.

[Ability 3]:???

At the bottom of the panel, in the skill bar, Sixth Sense is now clearly on cooldown.

However, Su Mo's attention was not focused on his Sixth Sense at this moment.

Having not opened Oreo's panel for a long time, Su Mo was surprised to find that Oreo's status had not only changed from the juvenile stage to the growth stage, but also that it had gained a new skill under its two basic skills.

"What do the three question marks mean? Does it mean I need to try, or do I need to unlock it?"

Su Mo touched the Oreo standing majestically in the wind and snow, and felt a touch of joy in his heart.

As his strength increased, Oreo gradually transformed from a combat partner into a scout and translator.

Su Mo was keenly aware of Oreo's desire to help during battles, yet his reluctance to do so.

Seeing the new skills added to Oreo's status bar, Su Mo had even higher expectations for Oreo's future combat power.

After looking around for a while and finding nothing unusual, Su Mo simply lay down in the snow.

Snowflakes drifted naturally onto the mask, and as the mask warmed up, they melted quickly into Snow Water that dripped slowly down both sides.

"I haven't seen a snow scene like this in over ten years, have I?"

Su Mo carefully recalled his days in Mo Du over the years. It seemed that ever since that snow in 2008, it had become difficult to see any leisurely snowflakes in this fast-paced city.

Lying on the ground with no one around to disturb him, Oreo stood on a high place and carefully listened to investigate.

For some inexplicable reason, Su Mo suddenly felt that this kind of simple life was actually quite beautiful!

Taking advantage of the free time, Su Mo opened his diary and began to calculate the remaining resources at the base by comparing the earliest inventory records with the consumption records of recent days. "First is Iron Block. These are being consumed quite quickly; there are already 22 units left. At the current rate of consumption, we urgently need to replenish them."

"Timber. There are still 15 units left. No rush. We can exchange them if we can. If not, we can drive out and mine further away. Anyway, we have Storage Space and the Earth Tiger's five cubic meters, so we can cut down dozens of units at once."

"As for food, there's an unopened can of yellow peaches, a can of yellow peaches that's half-eaten, 11kg of rice, and quite a lot of flour. We currently have a full 150 jin (75 catties) of unopened flour, and another 11 jin (5 catties) of opened flour, which is about 80kg of flour."

"There's a 250g pack of Fuling Pickled Mustard Tuber, 400g of beef jerky, 5 boxes of pure milk, a box of pickled cabbage flavored instant noodles, a bottle of Pepsi, a bottle of Fanta Soda, two bags of Lay's potato chips, a box of red apples, and a bag of peanuts."

"There are a lot of seasonings, the most important one being over a kilogram of salt, along with several bags of chili oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and light soy sauce."

"As for treasure chests, there are currently 45 Copper Treasure Chest, 64 Iron Treasure Chest, and 41 Wooden Treasure Chest, for a total of 150 chests."

"As for other materials, we have 6 units of plant fiber, 2 units of copper ingots, 80 kg of Sulfur Mine, and we've run out of Saltpeter Mine."

"Design drawing: There is still a design drawing of an Energy Bicycle."

After hastily recording the existing resources, Su Mo used his mind to press three spacebars, flicking the records up, and then began recording the trading needs after entering the secret realm. "There are no traces of iron ore near the shelter. As an essential resource, I must buy and stockpile a large quantity when entering the Trading Realm this time, preferably several hundred or even a thousand units, so as not to be in dire straits later."

"If we have steel, we can try to collect it and then combine it with concrete to make building materials, completely upgrading the shelter to Reinforced Concrete structure like the Deep Sea Shelter."

"As for food, there's no need to worry. Based on the growth level of the Culture Medium, I certainly won't have to worry about food and water if I'm the only one here."

"However, if we come across food supplies that can be stored for a long time, we can exchange them with some perishable foods as reserve provisions."

"Salt! We need to keep collecting it. There are no salt-producing areas near the shelter, and we can't boil seawater to make salt. This stuff is cheap in the early stages, so it would be best to collect enough to last for several years or even more than ten years. By then, the shelter will definitely be able to develop!"

"Design blueprints! The main exchange item for this trip into the secret realm. This thing is very precious. As long as we can create it and combine it with various magical modules, we can immediately restore technological productivity, directly establish a product line, and keep the shelter ahead of everyone else."

"All kinds of advanced modules! I don't care what they're installed on, I'll buy them as long as someone's selling them. In the end, they'll all be converted into productivity, so nothing will go to waste."

Having not considered resources and needs for a long time, Su Mo, after a moment's thought, vaguely grasped the future trends of technological development.

The old method of building large-scale power plants and then transmitting energy to production lines in various places to establish basic production lines is no longer feasible.

Moreover, the most crucial timeframe doesn't allow it! At the very least, under frequent natural disasters, this production line's disaster resistance is too poor; a simple earthquake could turn dozens or even hundreds of days' worth of effort into Chengfei.

Therefore, to set up a robust production line within 100 days, it is necessary to rely on the various blueprints produced by the game.

After building the corresponding factory using the design drawings, continue to add modules to improve production efficiency.

Starting with the simplest power generation facilities, once humanity survives this worst period, we will successfully enter the electric age.

At that time, technology will begin to explode, and all kinds of factories will spring up.

Within a few dozen days, fantastical creatures such as kobolds and lion-men will no longer be a match for humans, and their only fate will be to be slowly overwhelmed by cannons and muskets.

As for whether the human collective can survive until then, "The information left by Ma Gu is too scarce. We don't even know if, after more than four hundred days, they had established a complete production line in their shelter, capable of self-sufficiency."

Su Mo pulled out Ma Gu's diary from a corner of the room. Under the snowy sky, Su Mo held it with one hand while slowly flipping through the pages with the other.

In the era that Ma Gu traveled to, keeping a diary was a very popular and fashionable habit. Unfortunately, Ma Gu's literacy level was probably not very high, as there were many corrections and typos.

Su Mo would mutter and savor every sentence in the record that might contain other meanings.

Unfortunately, after flipping through the diary again, Su Mo could only come to one conclusion: High EQ: speaks bluntly; Low EQ: is full of meaningless nonsense. "After the last super snowfall in Ma Gu, there was a flood immediately, and it even submerged his base. This is a good reference point. I must start preparing for waterproofing as soon as possible, otherwise, given the depth of my base, it will definitely be flooded!"

Putting his notebook away, Su Mo pulled out a simple hand-drawn map he had created based on his exploration of the terrain over the past few days.

This map is much more detailed than the pictographic map drawn by Huang Biao and his group before.

Su Mo not only drew large landmarks within an 80-kilometer radius of the Underground Shelter, but also marked the terrain.

Based on the current terrain, it is estimated that about ten kilometers east of the Underground Shelter is the core of this small basin.

"If possible, it would be best to find something to raise the terrain next to my base, so that even if there is a flood, we can still ensure daily travel!"

Taking out a pen, Su Mo neatly drew a large circle on the map, temporarily setting the development plan for the area around the shelter.

However, before Su Mo could continue to draw meticulously according to the proportions, Oreo, who had been on guard, finally noticed the situation and barked twice.

After putting everything back into his Storage Space, Su Mo quickly entered battle mode, and the telescope appeared in his hand in a flash.

Su Mo picked up the telescope and looked in the direction Oreo was looking.

In the snowy scene, a group of tiny, furtive dots suddenly appeared.

"One, two... four."

As the team's camera zoomed in from the horizon, Su Mo finally managed to make out the "enemy's" tracks:

Six? And they seem to be human?

"Hey, isn't this that lackey who used to follow Maeda Kento? What's he doing here?"