Sacrifice, the Amazing Floating Power (Third Update)
It looks close, but it's a long way to get there. This was a thought that suddenly came to Su Mo as he headed to the Deep Sea Shelter.
From a distance, watching the hill of the Underground Shelter grow smaller and smaller, suppressing the unease in his heart, Su Mo simply quickened his pace again, turning into a jog.
"After this sacrifice, the Deep Sea Shelter is completely useless. Even the door on the first floor requires the winch to be opened from inside, which is a bit of a waste!"
Thinking of this, Su Mo suddenly felt a bit troubled.
While it's true that concentrating all things and resources in one shelter is feasible, simply abandoning this level 5 shelter is incredibly wasteful.
Many people still live in the worst wooden houses, drafty and leaky, while they leave their large, single-story Reinforced Concrete apartments unused.
Waste is shameful!
"We can't just sit idle; we have to find a way to make use of all the resources."
As he jogged, Su Mo pondered to himself.
Having walked this road so many times, and with the Earth Tiger Car still etched on the ground, and with Oreo leading the way, Su Mo, multitasking, began to study how to make use of the waste.
The most scarce things in the current post-apocalyptic world are definitely food and water.
Regarding the food issue, we can continue to research indoor cultivation at the base.
In the early stages, when Su Mo was all alone, this didn't require much effort. The food from those treasure chests alone was enough to last for half a year, even if you ate as much as you wanted.
"There's no electricity in the Deep Sea Shelter. Even if I wanted to do indoor gardening, I couldn't do it without Fluorescent Lamp to supplement the light, so growing food is definitely out of the question."
After silently crossing that off in his mind, Su Mo began to study the possibility of storing drinking water.
The base currently has seven liters of Psionic Water per day, which is more than enough for daily drinking needs, and only 500 Survival Points are needed to further expand production.
However, there are too many secrets surrounding the Psionic Water. Before figuring out what makes it special, Su Mo decided to avoid selling it if possible.
In the Trading Market, with the availability of Snow Water, the market price of Psionic Water is showing a trend of polarization.
In the hands of some "wealthy" people who have successfully hunted down alien races and have plenty of good stuff, the price of Psionic Water is not considered expensive.
In comparison, Psionic Water instantly heal injuries. In the early stages when medicines are scarce, a few sips of Psionic Water might be enough to save a life at a critical moment.
This is precisely why these people flock to it, constantly driving up the Psionic Water.
However, for those in lower-tier markets, who are still struggling to make ends meet, the price of Psionic Water is beyond their reach.
Moreover, they not only cannot afford Psionic Water, but they are also unwilling to buy it.
With the heavy snowfall, ordinary water resources have become worthless.
Snowflakes are everywhere; if you spend a little time collecting them, boiling them, and letting the impurities settle, you can store them in large quantities.
Water resources will no longer be able to serve as a "currency of exchange" until at least the next water crisis arrives.
"That's right!"
"We could try to modify the Deep Sea Shelter; with the Mermaid's Blessing, no evil spirits from the outside world can get in."
"In the early stages, it can serve as a backup reservoir, storing some clean snow. Once it melts and becomes clean water, it can be used to replenish regular water supply!"
"And we can also try to build a large water tank in the Underground Shelter, take this opportunity to collect more water, build a purifier, and connect it to a water line, which is equivalent to having running water in the base!"
With a sudden thought, Su Mo stopped, took out the paper containing the design of the refuge, found the blank space at the top, and neatly wrote down the words "reservoir".
Water is a basic necessity for the human body, and it is also essential for daily life.
Later, taking advantage of the developmental period between each disaster, large quantities of short-growing vegetables and grains were cultivated and planted on the ground, which also required a large amount of drinking water reserves for irrigation.
Whether looking at the present or the future, having a large reservoir is always beneficial.
As for the extra consumption and the need for Shelter Core, Su Mo smiled when he looked at the remaining 8 complete Shelter Core still lying in the Storage Space.
What was originally needed most was a complete core to expand other modules, but unexpectedly, what is now most needed is a damaged core.
"So, the Underground Shelter would need to be constructed with two separate modules: one for storing water and the other for serving as a food Cold Storage."
The area is calculated based on the undamaged core.
The newly built stone modular room is a single-story building with a length of 10 meters and a width of 10 meters, which means it occupies 100 square meters.
Adding the 4.2-meter ceiling height, the usable space of one module is 420 cubic meters.
The density of water is one gram per cubic centimeter, so one kilogram of water is 1000 cubic centimeters. Based on this calculation, a 100-cubic-meter reservoir can store a full 420 tons of Snow Water.
Of course, this is just an estimated amount based on the data. After deducting the area occupied by the water storage tank and adding miscellaneous items, it is at least around 350 tons.
The two shelters together hold a total of 800 tons, enough to last for a long time without worrying about water.
With his mind opened up, while Su Mo was still considering details such as the pressure of the reservoir, the Deep Sea Shelter had already appeared in the distance at the edge of his sight.
Once upon a time, Su Mo envied Ma Gu's two-story shelter.
But now, thinking that the Underground Shelter would soon become a three-story structure, Su Mo couldn't help but get excited.
After climbing the familiar hillside and taking one last lingering look at the nearby buildings, Su Mo did not hesitate and decisively pulled out the winch to start the gate.
"Ma Gu, I'll use your second floor for now. It's just a waste to leave it here anyway!"
The reason why human civilization has been able to survive on this wasteland is because there are countless people like "Ma Gu" who are willing to leave their relics to future generations.
Touching the rising gate, Su Mo's gaze fell upon the spot above the hill where Ma Gu's corpse was buried, and he spoke softly.
After repeating this three times, Su Mo bowed deeply once more towards the site of the corpse to express his gratitude.
With this Level 3 Alloy Gate moved over to serve as the garage door, Su Mo is at least completely at ease with security.
Go down the stairs to the first floor and open the door to the perfectly positioned ground tiger.
As Su Mo moved the nitrates back and forth, the Saltpeter Mine stored in the Earth Tiger's Storage Space gradually disappeared, and were replaced by piles of them on the second floor of the Deep Sea Shelter!
Back on the first floor, Su Mo carefully checked for any oversights.
Su Mo found a way to dismantle and carry away everything that could be taken away, including broken tables and iron railings, and placed them all on the second floor.
If the floorboards hadn't been firmly fixed in place, Su Mo would have even considered taking all of these intricately patterned floorboards down and back with him.
Standing at the top of the stairs, after looking around to make sure there was nothing to take, Su Mo clapped his hands and returned to the second floor.
With a thought, the attribute interface of the Deep Sea Shelter slowly appeared before my eyes.
Drag straight to the bottom, concentrate, and mentally tap with your finger. The sacrifice function at the bottom of the Deep Sea Shelter will be activated instantly.
In an instant, the previously azure attribute panel was enveloped in a raging crimson.
The once clear water ripples now appeared eerie, as if fresh blood was constantly flowing within them.
[Record]: Player "Su Mo" selects to sacrifice the first floor of the Deep Sea Shelter (Secondary) to the Underground Shelter. [Record]: Please select the sacrifice floor. [Record]: Please select additional floors to boost the sound. Accompanied by this sound, a 3D map similar to the resource function appears. On this map, the left side shows the second floor structure of the Deep Sea Shelter.
On the right is the two-story structure of the Underground Shelter.
After attempting to use mental focus to drag the second floor of the Deep Sea Shelter to the top of the Underground Shelter, another prompt appeared: [Record]: Sacrifice the second floor of the Deep Sea Shelter (Secondary) to the first floor of the Underground Shelter (Main)? [Record]: Please choose carefully, and the player must exit the selected floor!
"I was hoping to experience the time-space teleportation feature on the Game Panel, but it looks like I'll miss out on that."
After realizing that the game had seen through his inner thoughts, Su Mo shrugged, stepped out of the second-floor door, stood at the foot of the hill, and silently confirmed it in his mind.
The next second, a small breeze began to blow outside the Deep Sea Shelter.
Before Su Mo could even realize where the breeze was coming from, an extremely exaggerated scene unfolded!
In the distant sky, a Golden Light radiated with unparalleled power, stirring up snowflakes along its path and forming a long tail.
The light was fast; although Su Mo was watching its trajectory intently, by the time Su Mo blinked, the Golden Light had already drifted to the side of the Deep Sea Shelter.
The next second, without encountering any obstacles, the sturdy Reinforced Concrete structure was as fragile as paper, easily sliced into two halves by the beam of light.
During the cutting process, although there was no sound, the impact of the snowstorm from the tail fin still knocked Su Mo to the ground.
Meanwhile, after losing contact with the ground below, the second floor of the Underground Shelter did not collapse directly. Instead, a soft light carried the second floor up and gradually separated it from the first floor by one meter.
With the spatial separation, the entire second floor was bathed in a light golden hue, making it an eye-catching work of art against the sky.
Falling to the ground, Su Mo stared wide-eyed at the utterly illogical scene before him.
I thought that after choosing to sacrifice, the second floor would disappear as if I were to travel through time and be directly attached to the Underground Shelter.
But now, as the second floor was lifted up by the gale and suspended in mid-air, slowly flying towards the Underground Shelter, Su Mo was shocked!
"Wow, looks like this game is going for Black Technology stuff! But it's not an anti-gravity engine, is it?"
"Could it be that this light turned the second layer into a room-temperature superconductor, generating buoyancy through magnetic levitation?"