The Live-in Son-in-Law

The Barren Desert is distinctly different from the other five deserts.

If other deserts are just names, then the Barren Desert is a desert in its truest sense, with yellow sand stretching to the horizon and often not a single oasis in sight for hundreds of miles.

More importantly, the radiation concentration here is the highest of all deserts.

Ordinary life forms simply cannot survive in it.

On a lookout tower in a desert town, the sheriff, wearing a hooded hood and completely covered up except for his eyes, stared into the distance.

A large caravan is on its way.

A glint of greed flashed in his eyes, but when they saw the thick holsters on these men's waists, they quickly calmed down. Coupled with the memory of a certain legend, they shuddered and hurriedly called out to open the door.

The strange caravan came in.

Many people are discussing it.

Why have so many people come to this godforsaken place lately?

How did those warlords in the Land of Fire release the people?

In a privately owned gasoline hotel, a slender figure arranged a convoy of cars, stood at the door, lifted her veil to reveal a seductive face, scanned the area with three pairs of electronic eyes, gave a charming smile to the money-grubbing men outside, and went inside.

"Who are these people? How come they're so rich?"

"They booked four hotels outright? Are they a survey team from the Mechanical City?"

"Don't mess with them. Remember those guys who came looking for trouble a few days ago? They hung them on the wall and left them hanging to death."

As soon as I entered, I saw the young woman lying on the table like a dead dog, her belly exposed, one of her short legs dangling weakly, a straw in her mouth, and an iron bucket filled with cold water at the other end of the straw.

"It's so hot, so hot! I'm going to die! Daisy, come back!" the young woman said weakly.

"Hmm, you've been here for almost half a month, how come you still haven't settled in?"

"How could I possibly adapt? This is a real desert! I feel like I'll die of heatstroke here sooner or later."

Daisy shook her head, picked up the young woman, and headed to find Boss Du.

However, the sizzling sound of barbecue suddenly rang out.

Huang Yuanli's eyes widened suddenly. She quickly crawled out of the other person's arms, tears welling in her eyes. "Daisy, are you trying to scald me to death?!"

On the other person's waist, there was a ring of red marks and some burn marks.

Daisy stared in astonishment at her modified arm, only to find that her mechanical body had been tanned to the same color as a sizzling squid plate, and quickly apologized.

"Sorry, sorry, I think I've used up all my heat-resistant coating. I'll get liquid cooling done first, and then I'll go see Mr. Du later."

Daisy hurried out the door and found a girl with mohawk hair in another petrol bar that had been booked.

The girl was surrounded by several mechanical hunters, who grinned and greeted Daisy as she approached.

"Manager, you've come to cool things down too."

"In this sweltering heat, my modified arm burst open after only ten minutes."

"You actually lasted ten minutes, that's amazing. I got stuck in five minutes."

Daisy shook her head helplessly. "Alright, the most arduous site selection work is over. You will be transferred to Base Two, which is somewhere between a barren desert and a green desert. The environment there is much better than here. Just bear with it a little longer."

"By the way, Captain Sun Hong's team was attacked by ancient robots on the ancient battlefield, did you know that, sir?"

Daisy was taken aback. "When did this happen?"

"It happened yesterday. Apparently, they were attacked while transporting radiation-generating panels. The people were fine, but a few mechanical beasts died."

"Ancient robots? How many of them are there? What are their sizes and firepower?"

"Uh, I'm not sure, but it probably isn't very strong. After all, it's just an old relic from the civilized era. It's good enough if it's even usable."

"Who knows? Maybe it's a treasure left behind by aliens. I should have gone with them; I might have made a fortune."

"Come on, so many years have passed. If it were really an alien robot, would we even have a chance? We would have been poached by those gold diggers long ago."

Gold diggers are essentially an upgraded version of scavengers; they roam ancient battlefields and survive by excavating the ruins of those battlefields.

Businesses and factories pay a good amount for items unearthed from ancient battlefields, so they live much better lives than ordinary scavengers.

After a bit of rambling, it was soon Daisy's turn. Sitting in front of her, Haley Wilder looked down and inspected the parts, then said in surprise, "Several bio-parts are burnt out, Supervisor. What were you doing?"

"I went to investigate something and got into a fight with those old geneticists. Can it be fixed?"

"I'm afraid I can't fix this. We'll have to wait for the old man to come," Holly said with some difficulty.

Holly Wilder, the daughter of the elder Wilder, is already an excellent prosthetic repairwoman at a young age.

Ever since she witnessed someone's skill, she was amazed and begged to come over. Although the senior engineer didn't take her as an apprentice, he didn't hold back in teaching her the skills. Now she can be considered half a prosthetic doctor.

The reason they are called "senior engineer old man" is because in their hometown, "old man" has another meaning as "master".

"Fine, let me cool down first."

Helly stuck out her tongue sheepishly, connected a 'mechanical body condenser', turned it on, and Daisy put her arm inside. A burst of freezing white mist 'hissed' out.

It's not that prosthetics are completely devoid of feeling. In fact, with proper adjustments, whether mechanical or biological, they are virtually indistinguishable from the hands and feet of a normal person.

However, the human body has a threshold for pain, and in order to make combat easier, mechanical hunters will choose to adjust the sensitivity to the lowest level.

So after freezing, Daisy's biggest feeling was that her arms were more "smooth".

After spraying the condensate into the mechanical body, Heri opened the other party's skin and applied a high-temperature sun protection treatment to the mechanical parts, which is simply to apply a layer of sunscreen.

Looking at the dense network of mechanical pipes, Hery said with some envy, "When will I be able to create a mechanical body of this caliber?"

"That will take a long time," Daisy laughed.

In her view, the hunting modification that could break through the limits of mechanical hunters was simply a miracle, something that ordinary people could not learn.

After cooling down her arms and thighs, Daisy refused further cooling measures from Hurley.

To be honest, she wasn't entirely confident in the young girl's cooking skills.

"Let's have a drink sometime. My Spider Hunter template isn't just for combat, you know."

After saying goodbye to Hurley, Hurley finally found Du Zhaodi, the factory's wealthy woman whose skin had long been tanned to a wheat color and looked much healthier.

"You're back," Director Du said without looking up.

"Um."

Daisy walked to the desk and picked up an industrial design drawing of a "processing plant." There was a thick stack of such designs on the desk.

Sometimes, Daisy admired this person's energy and ability. If she were a mechanical hunter, she might become the strongest female hunter in history.

However, being a mechanical hunter would be a waste of their talents.

There is no such thing as an oasis in terms of area.

However, logistical support, manpower, and infrastructure dictate that an oasis will generally not be very large. If it can reach the size of a small town and have a radiating area equivalent to a county, that would be considered quite good.

But in Daisy's plan, their oasis would cover nearly a third of the barren desert.

Base 1 is located near the ancient battlefield, Base 2 is located near the blue desert, and Base 3 is where site selection has begun.

These three bases form three corners, and everything within the triangle can be considered part of the 'Cable Oasis' sphere of influence.

The area includes a radiation power plant, a water plant, a nutritional paste processing plant, a machinery repair shop, a prosthetic body manufacturing plant, a network of oil pipelines and pure water pipelines, and a planned reactivation of the ancient subway system.

This person intends to transform this barren desert into another 'factory system'.

She's a real strong woman.

Daisy licked her lips, picked up a photo frame, and saw it was a picture of Director Du and a man. The man had his arm around her shoulder, and Director Du was smiling shyly.

This is completely different from his decisive and efficient work style.

It's so nice to be kept by a rich woman.

Daisy sighed inwardly, then snatched the picture frame from her hand.

"How's the investigation going?" Director Du asked. Aside from her career, the only thing that could make her so concerned was a certain young man.

"Yes, I found out. I even got into a fight with them."

Daisy laughed, "It's better than I imagined."

The radiation in the barren desert far exceeds that in other radiation zones, which has resulted in the indigenous people living here being stronger than those in other places.

If the level cap for natives in other deserts is 10.

Therefore, the level cap for the natives here is 20.

All the notable warlord forces in the desert were located in this area.

The Land of Fire, in particular, could be considered the stronghold of native warlords.

The mastermind behind the near-death experience of the senior engineer in the Great Rift Valley was one of the indigenous warlords.

The god of radiation and gunpowder!

Just from the name, you can tell they're incredibly arrogant.

However, Director Du nodded expressionlessly and said, "Perfect timing. Our cash flow is almost depleted, so these people can serve as free labor."

Just as the senior engineer was prepared to treat the players as free labor, Director Du was also prepared to treat the warlords' subordinates as free labor.

Building a machine system requires astronomical amounts of resources.

Director Du not only staked all the profits from the beast tide, but also the profits from the 'energy annihilation agent' over the next three years.

Of course, all of this was worthwhile, because through his connections, Director Du managed to acquire three combat robot production lines from the "factory".

If all goes well, within a year, the senior engineer will have three ever-growing mechanical legions.

What does it mean to bring prosperity to a family? This is what it means to bring prosperity to a family!

"I've already sent people to monitor them. We'll make our move as soon as the boss returns," Daisy hesitated for a moment, then said, "But when I came back, I heard some news. It seems that the boss has suddenly become the son-in-law of the security forces."