Green plants were like hope, thriving in the culture medium, in the shelter, and beneath the sunlight!
Carrying Su Mo's hopes, they had sprouted! Those little patches of green were like cleanser, washing away the gloom weighing on Su Mo's heart!
"Hope. As long as a person has hope, how could I possibly fail to endure this apocalypse?" He scooped out a basin of Psionic Water and carefully, gently watered all the vegetable plots.
Under the caress of the Psionic Water, perhaps it was only an illusion, but Su Mo felt that the cabbages' stalks seemed to glitter like jade, while the garlic sprouts were even greener and more lustrous than emeralds.
He went to where the food was stored and, after thinking for a moment, took out a little more than half a serving of biscuits.
First, he made two portions of biscuit mush. After finishing one portion each with Oreo, Su Mo took the remaining biscuits and went to the dog-headed man, who was already on the verge of death.
The wounds on the arms pierced by two crossbow bolts now showed signs of rotting.
Although yesterday's Psionic Water had stopped the bleeding, the dose had been too small, and the wounds had still begun to fester.
The haggard, pitiful dog-headed man opened his eyes. When he saw Su Mo, he closed them again in despair and resignation, looking as though he had accepted his fate.
"Stop pretending to be dead! Get up, drink some water, and eat something. You can't die today!"
Su Mo took Oreo's food bowl, crushed the biscuits into it, and poured in a small portion of Psionic Water. Then he carried it over to the dog-headed man.
The dog-headed man had still looked resigned, but after smelling the crisp fragrance of the biscuits and the faint sweetness of the Psionic Water,
his will to survive made him open his eyes.
"Woof, woof, whine, woof! (Whimper, it smells so good!)"
The taste of the Psionic Water awakened the dog-headed man's will to survive, but the food bowl on the ground trampled on his dignity.
Should he lie on the ground like Oreo and lick the bowl clean?
Or should he preserve his half-human dignity, choosing to die standing rather than live on his knees?
Before Su Mo could test him, however, the dog-headed man moved with frightening speed. Without even a second to think, he sprawled in front of the bowl and wolfed down the food.
Oreo, who was nearby, put on an anthropomorphic look of disdain, his whole face radiating contempt.
"Woof!"
No one knew what Oreo had said, but the dog-headed man ignored him completely and licked the bowl even faster.
After the Psionic Water entered his stomach, the inflamed, swollen wounds on the dog-headed man's arms visibly improved. At the very least, they stopped deteriorating further.
"Looks like the dog-headed men's constitution isn't as good as I imagined. In another day or two, everyone should discover these half-human creatures."
Su Mo nodded and suppressed the thought of spreading news about the dog-headed man.
The situation was still unclear, and he had yet to determine where the dog-headed men's nest was. If they were only near the base, it would be easy for people to follow the clues and figure out that the shelter was nearby.
In the apocalypse, letting people learn the base's location would be far too dangerous! He walked slowly to the rumbling generator. After working all night, the generator had grown somewhat hot, and the cooling fan beside its metal cover whirred loudly.
He checked the fuel level. Since he had been running it at the lowest power, it had used roughly two or three liters of diesel overnight.
The 400-amp-hour Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery was fully charged, and the indicator on the Electric Crossbow had changed from red to green.
After strictly following the required procedure to shut down the Diesel Generator, Su Mo began using Storage Space to pile all the miscellaneous goods in the middle of the area.
With a flash of light, the blueprint Shen Ke had sent appeared in his hand.
He brought it to the table, pulled over the lightbulb, and spread the entire blueprint out across the base before studying it carefully.
The blueprint was not complicated, nor was it the kind of dimensional drawing that only people who had studied or worked in engineering could understand.
There were two sheets in all. One was an overhead view of the shelter designed by Shen Yitian.
The other showed the orientation and arrangement of every room in dense detail, along with some of the small details Su Mo had suggested.
After focusing his attention, Su Mo stared at the blueprint. Sure enough, its attributes were completely revealed before the system.
Underground Shelter Design Blueprint (Excellent) Description: An architectural blueprint designed by the quasi-advanced architect Shen Yitian. Its design was ingenious, making perfect use of every inch of space. It should have reached the Perfect grade, but because the designer pursued the ultimate use of space too obsessively, it had fallen by one grade. Upgrade Direction One: Reconstruct the blueprint and modify the space allocation through formulas, greatly increasing practicality and disaster resistance. Requires Survival Points (225). Upgrade Direction Two: Modify the blueprint to make up for its flaws while retaining its design philosophy, making it better suited to the shelter's current needs. Requires Survival Points (45). Evaluation: If you follow its design, all it takes is a small grenade placed in the right spot for your shelter to turn into ruins in an instant.
"Sure enough, even Shen Yitian can't achieve one hundred percent perfection. After all, there really are too many things to consider."
"If the goal is to pursue the ultimate use of space, then this is exactly what I want..."
"But what does the system's evaluation mean?"
Sitting before the table, Su Mo stared blankly at the system's evaluation, unable to understand for a long time what exactly the system was hinting at.
The more apocalyptic and desolate the world became, the more people would think. An inexplicable feeling made Su Mo extremely uneasy.
He shook his head and pushed that feeling aside.
"This world... it seems only a small number of people can be trusted. Perhaps as time passes and the disasters worsen, even those people will..."
His gaze drifted. Su Mo seemed to see a black hand silently descending over the shelter.
The shelter, which looked exceptionally sturdy, collapsed under a tiny grenade, its structure crumbling into a heap of ruins.
In the ruins were Su Mo himself, his younger sister, and his parents.
"I have to speed up the shelter's development. Fortunately, I should still be ahead of everyone else."
The more he imagined the tragedies that might occur in the future, the tighter Su Mo clenched his fists.
"This human is terrifying. His aura is even more fearsome than that of our dog-headed king."
The cracking sound of knuckles frightened the dog-headed man, who had been crouching nearby and sucking down biscuit mush. He immediately stopped moving and did not dare even breathe loudly.
After carefully examining the blueprint's basic structure once more and analyzing where the problems might lie, Su Mo laid the two blueprints flat together.
He shook his head and cast all his chaotic thoughts to the back of his mind.
"I choose Upgrade Direction Two!"
Su Mo spoke in a low voice.
As soon as his voice fell, green light radiated from his body and shone onto the blueprints.
The black handwriting on the white paper seemed to come alive. It began to leap and dance across the pages like lively ink sprites.
After dancing for three to five seconds, the green light restrained it, and the handwriting settled down. It began combining itself on the paper into a blueprint that looked the same as before, yet was completely different upon closer inspection.
Even though Su Mo did not understand exactly what had changed, the lines on the new blueprint were undeniably much smoother than before.
"Looks like the system's power truly isn't something an advanced architect like Shen Yitian can compare with!"
With a flash of brilliance, the new blueprint's attributes appeared before Su Mo.
Underground Shelter Design Blueprint (Perfect) Description: A blueprint that has reached the Perfect grade. It contains eight facilities. Building according to the blueprint will provide moderate earthquake resistance, moderate protection, low-grade insulation, and high-grade expandability. Facilities: 1. Three-Stage Shelter Access Channel 2. Crop Cultivation Room (Rear Door) 3. Master Bedroom, Secondary Bedroom, Tertiary Bedroom 4. Micro Research Center 5. Warehouse (Daily Supplies Warehouse, Weapon Equipment Warehouse, Miscellaneous Goods Warehouse) 6. Micro Command and Combat Center 7. Energy Distribution Room 8. Living Room Evaluation: "Dog-headed man: If I became an architect, I'd turn the shelter into a circle." "Why?" "That way, this terrifying demon king could never trap me in a corner again. (￣▽￣)~*"
Author's flopped diary: Brothers who have read this far, please give me some votes and bookmarks! Sanjin's butt has already been blown up by several people behind him. Please lend me a hand, everyone, and try not to let me die quite so miserably! (Crying)! As a newcomer with a new book, I can't compete with the great authors. I beg all you esteemed readers to give me strength!
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