Record: Your continuous livestream has exceeded fifteen minutes. The random airdrop reward will be issued one day before the next disaster arrives.
Hearing the notification from the Game Panel, Su Mo decisively entered the management interface and chose to turn off the livestream.
During the livestream, every move was watched by billions of people.
If this had been the civilized era, he might have laughed out loud, happy that he had become famous.
But in this apocalypse where people were eaten without even leaving bones behind, the more he revealed, the greater the danger.
Su Mo quickly walked to the place on the hill where Scarface had died and looked around.
"Mm, these people are really troublesome to deal with. What a pain."
Killing someone only required gently pulling the trigger, but dealing with the bodies took considerable effort.
The rainy night was convenient. The smell could not travel very far. If the bodies were left beneath the blazing sun, however, they would probably attract a large number of Mutated Creatures within a day or two.
It might even trigger an epidemic.
Opening the crafting page, Su Mo made another Stone Spear.
Holding the Stone Spear, he suppressed his nausea and hooked its tip into Scarface's clothes. Then Su Mo took a breather.
In the civilized era, he had been afraid to even kill a chicken. He had never expected that, just after arriving in the apocalypse, he would already have taken five lives.
Although these people had been bandits, the moral values established during the civilized era still restrained human nature to some extent.
"Huh? What's this?"
After dragging Scarface's body aside, Su Mo was surprised to discover a Tortoise Shell giving off a faint glow where Scarface had been lying.
"Isn't this the shelter that was supposed to be placed at the beginning?"
Picking up the Tortoise Shell, Su Mo was overjoyed and immediately began examining its attributes.
Damaged Shelter Core: The shelter is bound to the player. Once the player chooses to place it, it will be bound to the ground and cannot be moved. When the player dismantles their own shelter, it will automatically be returned in damaged form. It cannot be placed until it has been repaired. After the player dies, all items will be stored inside the Shelter Core.
Record: A complete Shelter Core has been detected in the player's possession. Absorb it?
"Can someone else's Shelter Core actually be absorbed?"
Looking at the attributes on the Game Panel, Su Mo hurried over to the other three men.
Sure enough, there was also a damaged Shelter Core beneath Glasses Man and Pockmarked Face.
When he reached Rat-Faced Man, he found an intact Shelter Core that had never been placed before.
"Excellent!"
Looking at the three damaged cores and one intact core in his hands, Su Mo burst into laughter.
"A horse doesn't grow fat without night fodder, and a man doesn't grow rich without unexpected wealth."
"These people robbed and killed so many innocent victims. Now that they've fallen into my hands, this is simply getting what they deserved!"
He tossed all four cores into his backpack.
Su Mo hurried to the edge of Acid Rain Lake and began digging a pit.
After gaining such a harvest, even working with his head down in the pitch-black rainy night felt easier. He wished he could dispose of the bodies immediately and return to the shelter to absorb and inspect the cores.
A day of rain had softened the soil considerably. After working for less than half an hour, Su Mo had dug a pit two meters wide, two meters long, and one meter deep.
He turned around and used the Stone Spear to push the bandits' bodies into the pit one by one. Then, with light steps, Su Mo returned to Huang Biao.
Huang Biao, who had still been struggling on the ground earlier, had already fallen silent, leaving behind only a deep handprint in the dirt.
Su Mo prodded him with the spear tip. Sure enough, there was also a damaged Shelter Core beneath Huang Biao.
"Since you came all this way to deliver equipment to me, I can't bear to leave your corpse exposed in the wilderness. Be a good person in your next life."
The Acid Rain had soaked him.
Huang Biao's face had long since been corroded beyond recognition. It looked grotesque and terrifying, as unnerving as a zombie from an American apocalypse movie.
Not daring to look too closely, Su Mo used the tip of the Stone Spear to prod the Grass Raincoat on Huang Biao's body.
Step by step, Su Mo dragged the body to the edge of the pit.
After pushing Huang Biao in and arranging him properly, Su Mo began filling in the pit.
Gradually, as the soil covered them and the rainwater packed it together, all five men were left in that pit forever.
After finishing everything, Su Mo planted a branch as a marker. Then, following the path he had taken, he returned to the entrance of the underground passage.
The wooden passage door had been convenient enough when he came out. Now that Su Mo was returning, however, a considerable amount of water had seeped into the passage.
Studying the passage entrance, Su Mo formed a rough plan.
"If I'm going far away, coming out from here would be a good option. I can upgrade it."
He silently recited "Survival System," and the passage's attributes appeared.
Access Passage Description: An access passage that has already been excavated Upgrade paths: Safety Passage Branches: Expansion (20), Material (40), Strength (200), Passage Door (40) Introduction: Even a crafty rabbit has three burrows!
"Passage Door. Upgrading it to stone should be enough. I still have plenty of stone materials here."
As the stone materials were gradually placed, the Survival Points required for the passage door began to drop rapidly.
The change continued until the requirement reached 20 points, then stopped.
"Choose Passage Door upgrade."
After spending 20 points, green light burst from Su Mo's body. Within two or three breaths, the wooden door, which had previously been full of gaps, instantly transformed into a stone door like the front of the shelter. It fit tightly, making it nearly impossible for rainwater to seep inside.
Su Mo used a shovel to cover the stone passage door with soil, then returned to the front entrance of the shelter, completely satisfied.
This passage was meant for surprise attacks. Aside from using it when traveling far away or launching an ambush, he should forget about it as much as possible.
It was best treated as a trump card! At a critical moment, it could produce an effect no less astonishing than a Dimensional Reduction Strike, just as it had today.
As for the shelter's defenses being exposed in the livestream, there was no need to worry about that immediately.
When he returned to the entrance, Su Mo looked at the bare stone walls on both sides, which had been dug away.
Su Mo could only laugh and cry at the sight.
A perfectly good underground shelter had been dug at for several hours by these people and turned into a surface shelter.
"This is fine too. I won't fill it in for now. I can remodel it after the rain stops."
After walking around and examining the excavated areas, Su Mo shouted toward the shelter, "Oreo, open the door. I'm back!"
As soon as his voice fell, he heard frantic scratching from inside. With a clang, the stone door opened a crack.
The cunning Oreo first examined him through the gap before moving aside.
"You little rascal, you're quite clever, aren't you?"
Still wearing his raincoat and unable to pat Oreo's head, Su Mo gestured for Oreo to stand farther away. He then closed the entrance and stood in the corner of the shelter to take off his raincoat.
Su Mo had made two plans for the ambush earlier.
Plan A: He would launch a surprise attack from the rear entrance, catching them off guard and killing them before they could react.
Plan B: If there truly was no opportunity, Oreo would make some noise at the door to draw someone over and create a chance to kill.
Unfortunately, these people were nothing but a disorganized mob. Their combat ability was extremely poor, and they were barely vigilant. They had never imagined that Su Mo would suddenly emerge from behind and ambush them.
After taking off his raincoat, Su Mo turned and sat down on the wooden stool.
Looking at the stone base lit by bright flames and Oreo, who had run to the table to beg for attention, Su Mo suddenly felt at ease.
No one could have imagined it.
One hour ago, he had still been an ordinary person who had crossed into this wasteland world and was struggling to survive.
One hour later, he had already become a great hero who had taken five lives while acting on behalf of Heaven.
Taking out his spoils, Su Mo held the Tortoise Shell in his left hand, cushioned by a scrap of cloth, while using another scrap in his right hand to carefully wipe it.
The ancient-looking Tortoise Shell grew more and more lustrous and jade-like beneath the cloth.
After wiping all the cores, Su Mo picked up the first damaged Tortoise Shell he had obtained. His heart stirred, triggering the fusion function on the Game Panel.
"Then I'll start by fusing this damaged core!"
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