Maeda's Diary, the Sky Ablaze!

Even the previous heavy snowfall hadn't gathered as many dark clouds as today the day before.

Without a weather forecast or the ability to predict blizzards, Su Mo sensed something was wrong based on instinct.

Fortunately, today is another sunny day, and some of the snow on the ground has already begun to melt into water. If the temperature drops tomorrow, it will turn into solid icicles.

By then, even a well-equipped player like Su Mo would find it extremely difficult to go out, let alone others.

"Hopefully the snowfall will come later, otherwise this is truly a nightmare!"

Putting aside his worries, Su Mo drove the Earth Tiger onto the high platform and lay down to inspect its undercarriage.

With this design, Su Mo can clearly see the collision marks from previous trips from below.

"We need to thoroughly work on the chassis tomorrow, and it would be best to reinforce it completely. Otherwise, after a few trips in the wasteland, the car will be totaled!"

Climbing up the low pit, I beckoned the three children into the passageway, turned off the outside lights, and closed the heavy stone door. The world became quiet again.

Every day's busyness is for this moment of ever-flowing sense of security.

Two Big and Little Spark, wandered around the passageway curiously, occasionally making cooing noises, as if they had discovered New Continent.

Although Oreo was also very curious, he still insisted on walking behind Su Mo and obediently guarding him.

"Alright, alright, now that we're home, stop being so defensive and relax!"

Su Mo bent down, picked up Oreo, and strode inside.

After the base was upgraded, this was the first time the three little ones had returned home from outside, so they were naturally very curious.

The completely transformed base features a three-story design, various partitions, and bright overhead lights.

All of this is a powerful visual shock to the wasteland creatures.

After putting down the Oreo, Su Mo opened the freezer where the food had been frozen and cut out two pounds of beef.

"Wasteland, January 17th, auspicious day! Today we completely redesigned the interior of the vault. Celebration meal: Beef Dumplings!"

"Let's splurge a little and celebrate by picking two heads of garlic!"

Su Mo was pleased to record this chapter in his diary and came to the Breeding Room with a "perfect" excuse.

Find the two garlic sprouts that are growing best and are the greenest, Su Mo carefully reaches down and pulls them up by the roots.

The time was too short. Despite the acceleration provided by the Culture Medium, the garlic cloves at the bottom were still about one-third smaller than normal, and the cloves were very tender.

But for Su Mo at this moment, that was enough! Smelling the earthy aroma of the new garlic and garlic sprouts, as well as the fresh smell of vegetables, Su Mo's mouth watered, and he hurriedly returned to the stove.

Quickly knead and roll out the dough, chop the beef, add various seasonings to marinate, and also chop two garlic sprouts into small pieces and add them to the dumpling filling.

While boiling water, Su Mo was also making dumplings. With these two tasks running simultaneously, Su Mo's hands moved at lightning speed.

The firewood didn't boil water very quickly. When the water in the pot was boiling, Su Mo looked at the dumplings on the cutting board and put them in with a sense of accomplishment. At the same time, he poured some Vegetable Oil oil into the pot next to him and started to prepare chili Chili Powder.

Smelling the scorching, Chili Powder aroma of chili peppers, and then inhaling the sweet fragrance of dumplings Psionic Water.

Su Mo forcibly suppressed his inner desires and began to prepare the dipping sauce.

Cut a pound of beef into thin slices, wrap a pound of the beef in dumplings, add chili Chili Powder, vinegar, a little soy sauce, and sugar.

Pick up a tumbling dumpling with chopsticks, dip it into the dipping sauce, and the contrasting flavors are absolutely amazing! Put it in your mouth, savor the taste, Su Mo gently bite open the dumpling skin. The next moment, the juice and the dipping sauce explode in your mouth, sending you straight to the clouds of happiness.

"Ah, delicious!"

Seeing that the three little ones were already flirting with "going berserk", Su Mo took out all the dumplings, distributed them one by one, sat in front of the stove, and ate dumplings one by one with a clove of garlic. He was having a great time.

Eating meat without garlic diminishes its flavor by half.

At this moment, the dumplings are eaten with garlic, mixed with large slices of beef, and dipped in sauce. The taste and feeling are simply divine.

Spicy dipping sauce, chewy beef, delicious dumplings, and bright electric lights overhead.

In the shelter, Su Mo felt as if he had returned to the civilized world, sitting at home during the Lunar New Year, happily eating dumplings with his family and watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Listening to Yue Yunpeng's crosstalk on stage, criticizing the flawed magic tricks, and the ever-present "Unforgettable Tonight," I thought, "Only three more days left!"

Seeing the three little ones eating with their heads down and mouths watering, Su Mo shook his head, his previous excitement vanishing instantly.

Gazing at the shape of the dumplings and pondering the symbolism of Chinese dumplings, Su Mo felt a lump in his throat.

"I wonder how my parents are doing, whether my sister has eaten enough, and there are only four or five days left until the Little New Year. Sigh."

These days, Su Mo has been forcing himself to keep busy in order to forget the current predicament of his parents and sister, whose fates are unknown.

Even though the delicious dumplings were still releasing their flavors, Su Mo was somewhat disinterested and had lost his appetite.

After quickly finishing dinner, washing the pots and pans, I took out the Gao Fu brand shampoo and conditioner set that I had opened that morning and finished washing up.

Even though there was an electric light to continue working, Su Mo chose to return to his small bed, turn on the lamp, and lie quietly.

Oreo seemed to sense that Su Mo was in a bad mood, so he obediently ran over, lay down by the bed, and stayed quietly.

Humans possess emotions, which are beautiful, yet equally heavy.

Su Mo was not a person who was easily discouraged or depressed, but at this moment, in this safe haven, before the approaching blizzard, all he wanted was to rest.

"They'll come! Mom and Dad! My sister! They'll all come!"

Looking at the ceiling, Su Mo's gaze seemed to pierce through the walls and reach the cloud-shrouded sky above.

A frigid wind has begun to sweep across the wasteland, and Great Cooling, completely different from the warmth of the daytime, is finally coming! There are only three days left; after midnight, the day of disaster will arrive.

At that time, the three-day blizzard will become a swift blade to slaughter all humans in the wasteland.

Sitting on the bed, feeling down, Su Mo lost his usual desire to browse the World Channel and turned to examine Maeda Kento's belongings from his Storage Space.

During the day, the reverse feathers solved the ventilation problem in the shelter. Maeda Kento was like a selfless sun; even after his death, he continued to radiate light and "warm" others.

At this point, only three things remained of value out of everything else.

A hard-cover notebook containing a diary entry.

Two maps, one large and one small, whose contents are unclear.

Setting the map aside, Su Mo sat up and, with the help of the bedside lamp, began to examine this unique "diary."

In civilized times, who would keep a diary? But in the wasteland, everyone seems to have developed this habit as if by unspoken agreement.

Like Ma Gu, Maeda Kento also chose to write by hand in his notebook, and his handwriting was extremely neat.

With the translation of the Game Panel, when reading this diary, the complicated Japanese text was directly translated into Chinese and displayed in front of Su Mo.

The diary begins on the fifth day, but before that, Maeda Kento diligently filled in the entries from the previous days as well as some important information.

As he carefully perused the text, the information conveyed seemed to transport Su Mo to a godlike perspective.

Maeda Kento was the owner of a boxing gym in Japan, where he recruited some hooligans to teach boxing.

He usually enjoys bullying men and women, committing crimes, and relying on the protection of his boxers, he manages to do quite well in a small area.

The neon lights aren't big, but the gap between the rich and poor is quite large. Those who are doing well get better and better, while those who are doing poorly naturally get worse and worse.

From the very beginning, Maeda Kento repeatedly wrote down the phrase "If you're quick at one step, you'll be quick at every step" in his notebook.

From managing to control a bunch of hooligans in a boxing gym to being able to navigate the wasteland and rally a group of people to get things done, Maeda Kento also possesses a slight protagonist template.

After reviewing the diary entries from the past few days, Su Mo concluded that the reason Maeda Kento was able to connect with the kobolds was because of his powerful fists.

The kobold race that was born numbered a pitiful fifty, far weaker than the ratmen and lionmen next to them.

In this environment, Maeda Kento astutely discovered the immense potential of fireball magic! He ultimately chose to join the weakest faction, bringing the technological invention of gunpowder into the world of the kobolds.

Sulfur is near the ratmen's camp.

At night, at great risk, Maeda Kento's drug. It was this risky act that made the drug-headed man gradually believe him!

With a frenzy of gunpowder production and invasions, and despite the initial shortage of kobolds, Maeda Kento led his kobolds to slaughter no fewer than fifty humans deployed nearby, finally fulfilling the first summoning condition.

In an instant, the kobold tribe, which originally numbered fifty, expanded to 100, giving them the strength to rival the 400 ratmen.

In a single battle, the kobolds, having lost only nine warriors, triumphed over the odds and gained a super summoning opportunity, summoning a full 2,000 people at once! What does that mean? As Maeda Kento repeatedly expressed his shock at the arrival of the alien race in his diary, Su Mo seemed to have arrived at the grand summoning ceremony, watching one kobold after another emerge.

"So the castle was summoned too! I knew it was impossible for such a towering building to be completed in such a short time!"

"Hmm? Maeda Kento is actually instructing Marshall to steal the structure of the Kobold Castle. Could there be something good inside the castle?!"

Upon seeing what Maeda Kento had written in his diary on the seventh day, summarizing the day's gains and losses, Su Mo, with some speculation, took out two maps.

One of the larger maps, judging from its crooked, straight lines, was clearly a hand-drawn map! "Good heavens, these guys have figured out the entire structure and layout of the kobold castle!"

The map was extremely detailed, and even though some parts were not clearly described due to Marshall's limited abilities, Su Mo could still clearly see the structure of the castle.

Furthermore, on the right side of the fourth floor, Su Mo also saw a place marked in red, with three large characters clearly written on it:

"Treasure Room!"

"This place is interesting. It's probably where the kobolds stored the treasures they plundered from outside. If that's the case, it's highly likely that the laser head of the Thermal Weapon machine tool is inside, and the Shelter Core that disappeared beneath Ma Gu might have been taken back with it!"

Upon discovering clues to the two missing items, Su Mo was immediately excited. He retrieved the diary and the other map and began to carefully study the weak points in the Kobold Castle's defenses.

Compared to castles designed by humans, the Kobold Castle is not structurally complex, and it has many blind spots that are weak points.

"Unfortunately, getting into the castle is as difficult as ascending to heaven. Unless all the kobolds are lured away from the mountain, or most of the kobolds leave the castle, there will probably be no chance of getting in!"

After looking at it for a while, Su Mo suppressed the idea of barging in and felt a little sleepy. He put away the map, lay down on the small bed, turned off the lamp, and fell asleep peacefully.

Seeing that Su Mo had recovered, Oreo felt relieved and went back outside to lie down with Big and Big and Little Spark.

However, this sleep was destined not to last until dawn!

While Su Mo was still half asleep in the middle of the night, Oreo's frantic barking suddenly echoed throughout the shelter, instantly waking Su Mo.

"Enemies?"

Oreo shook his head, but his expression betrayed an uncontrollable frenzy, as if something important was happening.

With a quick leap and a brisk stride, Su Mo swiftly switched on the lights, taking three steps in two to reach the Command Room, where he plugged in the large-screen TV to begin watching.

Upon seeing this, Su Mo was stunned! The sky outside seemed to be ablaze; what was originally the pitch-black night was now half-reflected in fiery red! It was as if a great fire was burning the heavens!