Absorbing the Damaged Core

[Record]: Your continuous live broadcast time has exceeded fifteen minutes. A random airdrop reward will be issued one day before the next disaster arrives.

Hearing the game panel's prompt, Su Mo decisively entered the management interface and chose to turn off the live broadcast.

Under the live broadcast, every move would be monitored by billions of people.

If it were in a civilized era, he might laugh a few times, happy that he was popular.

But in this dog-eat-dog apocalypse, the more he exposed, the more dangerous it would be.

Quickly walking to the hill where Scarface died, Su Mo sized it up.

"Well, these people are really hard to deal with, troublesome..."

Killing only requires a light pull of the trigger, but dealing with these people takes a lot of thought.

In the rainy night, it's fine; the smell won't travel far. But if it were exposed to the sun, I'm afraid it would attract a large number of Mutated Creatures in a day or two.

It might even cause an epidemic.

Opening the crafting page, Su Mo re-crafted a Stone Spear.

Holding the Stone Spear and suppressing his nausea, Su Mo hung the spear tip on Scarface's clothes and breathed a sigh of relief.

In the civilized era, he was afraid of even killing a chicken. He never thought that he would end five lives just after coming to the apocalypse.

Although these people were bandits, the moral concepts established in the civilized era still slightly restrained human nature.

"Huh, what is this?"

After dragging Scarface's body away, Su Mo was surprised to find a tortoise shell emitting a faint light in the spot where Scarface had been lying.

"Isn't this the Shelter I was going to place at the beginning?"

Picking up the tortoise shell, Su Mo was pleasantly surprised and began to examine the tortoise shell's 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 destroys their own Shelter, it will automatically return to a damaged state and cannot be placed until it is repaired.

After the player dies, all items are stored within the Shelter Core.

[Record]: Detecting that the player has a complete Shelter Core, absorb it?

"I can actually absorb other people's Shelter Cores?"

Looking at the game panel's attributes, Su Mo quickly walked to the other three people.

Sure enough, there was also a damaged Shelter Core under Glasses and Pockmarked Face.

Near Rat-Faced Man, he even found a complete Shelter Core that had not been placed yet.

"Great!"

Looking at the three damaged and one intact Core in his hand, Su Mo laughed repeatedly.

"As the saying goes, a horse doesn't get fat without night grass, and a man doesn't get rich without ill-gotten gains."

"These people robbed and killed so many innocent people. Now that they've fallen into my hands, it's a karmic retribution!"

He threw the four Cores into his backpack.

Quickly walking to the Acid Rain Lake, Su Mo began to dig a pit.

With the harvest, even working in the dark rainy night, Su Mo felt a lot lighter. He couldn't wait to finish dealing with these people's bodies and return to the Shelter to absorb and check.

A day of rain had softened the soil a lot. After half an hour, Su Mo dug a pit two meters wide, two meters long, and one meter deep.

Turning around and using the Stone Spear to pick up the corpses of these bandits one by one into the pit, Su Mo returned to Huang Biao with light steps.

Huang Biao, who had been struggling on the ground before, had left a deep handprint on the ground but was now silent.

He poked him with the spear tip, and sure enough, there was also a damaged Shelter Core under Huang Biao.

"Seeing as you came all this way to deliver equipment, I can't bear to let you be exposed in the wilderness. Be a good person in your next life."

Soaked in Acid Rain.

Huang Biao's face had long been corroded beyond recognition, looking strange and terrifying, like a zombie from an American doomsday movie.

Not daring to examine it closely, Su Mo used the tip of the Stone Spear to poke at the Grass Raincoat on Huang Biao's body.

Step by step, Su Mo dragged the man to the edge of the large pit.

After pushing Huang Biao in and placing him properly, Su Mo began to fill the pit.

Gradually, as the soil covered them and the rain cemented it together, the five people were permanently left in this pit.

After completing all of this, he stuck a tree branch in the ground as a marker, and following the route he had taken, Su Mo returned to the entrance of the tunnel.

The tunnel door made of Wooden Boards was quite convenient to exit from, but now that Su Mo was returning, quite a bit of water had seeped into the passage.

Examining the tunnel entrance, Su Mo had a plan in mind:

"If I need to go on a long journey, coming out from here would be a good choice. I can upgrade it."

Mentally calling out to the Survival System, the tunnel's attributes appeared.

[Access Passage]

Description: An already opened Access Passage. Upgrade directions: Safety Passage. Branches: Expand (20), Material (40), Strength (200), Passage Door (40).

Introduction: A wily rabbit has three burrows!

"Passage Door... upgrading it to Stone should be fine, since I have plenty of stone materials here."

As the stone materials were gradually placed, the Survival Points required for the Passage Door began to decrease rapidly.

It stopped changing when it reached 20 points.

"Choose to upgrade the Passage Door."

Spending 20 points, a green light radiated from Su Mo's body. In the space of two or three breaths, the Wooden Door, which originally had large gaps, instantly transformed into a Stone Door identical to the one at the front of the Shelter. It looked airtight, making it difficult for rainwater to seep in.

Picking up the shovel, he shoveled some soil and covered the Stone Passage Door. Su Mo returned to the front entrance of the Shelter, satisfied.

This passage, meant for surprise attacks, would be forgotten as much as possible, except when going on long journeys or launching surprise attacks.

It was best used as a trump card! At critical moments, it could have a charm no less than a dimensionality reduction strike, just like today.

As for the issue of exposing his defenses on the live broadcast, there was no need to worry about that immediately.

Returning to the main door, he looked at the stone walls on both sides that had been dug bare.

Su Mo couldn't help but laugh.

What was originally a well-made underground Shelter had been turned into an above-ground Shelter by these people digging for several hours.

"It's fine this way. I won't fill it in for now. I'll just wait for the rain to stop and remodel it."

After taking a turn and examining the dug-out areas, Su Mo shouted towards the Shelter, "Oreo, open the door, I'm back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a frantic scratching at the door from inside, followed by a loud bang as the Stone Door was opened a crack.

The cunning Oreo first peered through the crack in the door before stepping aside.

"You little guy, you're really quite clever."

Wearing a Raincoat, he couldn't pat Oreo's head. After signaling Oreo to stand back, Su Mo closed the door and stood in the corner of the Shelter to take off the Raincoat.

For the surprise attack just now, he had formulated two plans in total.

Plan A: He would launch a surprise attack from the back door, catching these people off guard and killing them unexpectedly.

Plan B: If there was really no opportunity, he would have Oreo make some noise at the door to attract people over, creating an opportunity to kill them.

Unfortunately, these people were just a rabble, with extremely low combat power and not much vigilance. They never expected Su Mo to suddenly emerge from behind and launch a surprise attack.

After taking off the Raincoat, Su Mo turned around and sat down on the Wooden Stool.

Looking at the Stone Base, which was flickering with bright firelight, and Oreo, who had run to the table to act cute, Su Mo felt a sense of peace.

No one would have thought.

Just an hour ago, he was still an ordinary person who had transmigrated to this wasteland world, struggling to survive.

An hour later, he was already a great hero who had taken five lives and was acting on behalf of Heaven.

Taking out the spoils of war, Su Mo held the tortoise shell with a cloth in his left hand, and picked up another piece of cloth in his right hand to carefully wipe it.

The quaintly shaped tortoise shell became increasingly jade-like as the cloth brushed over it.

After wiping all the cores, Su Mo picked up the damaged tortoise shell he had initially obtained. With a thought, he triggered the game panel's fusion function.

"Then let's start by fusing this damaged core!"

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