Titanium Magnesium Chicken

[Charging complete, Nano Base energy replenishment at 1%, reaching 1.49%.]

A piece of radiation energy boosted the base's energy by 1%. What a significant boost!

After all, crafting a Level 1 player clone only consumes 0.06% of the energy, decomposing a Raider costs 0.01% energy, and identifying 10 items uses only 0.01% energy.

The previous energy source found by Thin Dog allowed him to last until now with half his energy remaining. Now, with another piece of radiation energy, the Calamity Base can temporarily say goodbye to its energy crisis, allowing it to safely produce clones and let the players freely decompose loot.

In reality, decomposing loot consumes a considerable amount of energy. With more players, it becomes a significant burden on the base, but Cheng Shaofeng, after much consideration, decided not to make the players bear the energy costs.

After all, only by decomposing loot can they rapidly improve their strength. If he restricted their improvement, their speed in finding energy would also slow down, and the base's development would be hindered. It would be counterproductive.

The energy consumed here can be obtained through the players' daily quests.

The piece they just handed in completed all three of their quests.

Seeing Cheng Shaofeng's slight smile, Demonic Fox nodded slightly, as if understanding something.

'The Lord seems to really like energy. If I want to increase his favorability, perhaps gifting him energy separately would be a good idea.'

Lin Tang continued to show off.

"Lord, how many Electronic Components do you think this bag of materials I have is worth? Is it enough for the three of us to complete our daily quests?"

Cheng Shaofeng was about to leave but turned back upon hearing this.

"You guys found Electronic Components too?"

After having Zero scan them, he arrived at a number: 3.2 portions of Electronic Components.

"Excellent! That's exactly enough to combine into 3 portions of Electronic Components! Soldiers, your three daily quests for 'Collecting Electronic Components' are complete."

[Daily Quest "Collecting Electronic Components" completed]

[Received: 100 Merit Points, 10 Iron Coin]

The smartwatches of the three men vibrated simultaneously.

The group looked at the Iron Coins in their hands with delighted expressions.

"We've saved up our first bit of gold!"

"If we clear out our daily quests today, we can get another 20 Iron Coins."

Cheng Shaofeng looked at the long-haired chicken tied to their small cart and asked, "Are you going to hand in this prey to the base as today's quest?"

Lin Tang replied, "Let's skip this one. We still need its feathers to make arrow fletching. We plan to find a spot at our base to raise it."

Cheng Shaofeng had memories of this type of mutated creature. It was from when his previous self was in Salt Well Town, and Old Master Yu, Wang Qian's father, had told him about it.

"Yes, this type of chicken is indeed very prolific with its feathers, and its aggression towards humans is extremely low. It's a rare mutated creature in the Wasteland. It's said that people who encounter this chicken are very lucky, as its appearance is often linked to good fortune. Besides luck, the materials it naturally possesses are also very useful. If you pluck its feathers, they will gradually dry within a day. Once completely dry, their hardness can rival titanium magnesium alloy, which is why we call it Titanium Magnesium Chicken."

"Also, you can see the feathers on its head are pink. If you smell them, they have a certain hallucinogenic effect, much like how wealthy people in Kaleidoscope City smoke Ganja. That's why it's also called Ganja Chicken."

"You're really lucky to have caught a Titanium Magnesium Chicken. Feeding it some Beans will ensure you have hard feathers every day."

The three men: "..."

"Wow, such a well-reasoned explanation, I can't refute it. But I vaguely feel like the designer is a bit of a troll."

"Hmph! Sentinel, you're showing your true colors, aren't you?"

"Are you guys eating my brother's chicken eggs?! You designers of Apocalypse OL, don't you dare eat them!"

"Forget it, forget it. At least we know this chicken's feathers are precious. Let's go see how Xiao Xiao's bow is coming along."

As the three walked over, Xiao Xiao had already hung the finished Rabbit Sinew Bowstring and Bamboo Bow Body on a crooked neck tree to dry.

She was there, shaving wooden shafts one by one, which looked like the shafts of arrows.

Lin Tang said, "Xiao Xiao, let me show you my Chicken!"

Thin Dog's gaze swept over. "Did you just mispronounce something? Isn't that a chicken? What 'Chicken'?"

Lin Tang said softly, "But if I replace 'Chicken' with 'chicken', it sounds like a pervert."

Thin Dog: (°ー°〃)

Lin Tang coughed. "Ahem! Don't mind the details. It's this Chicken, called Titanium Magnesium Chicken..."

Xiao Xiao chuckled.

"What a fun name. And if the feathers are as hard as the Lord says, combined with the softness of the fur, they'll be perfect for arrow fletching! It's a shame, though... we haven't found any metal yet, so we can't make arrowheads."

Thin Dog took a piece of Scrap Iron from their cart and placed it at Xiao Xiao's feet.

"Xiao Xiao, this is what we captured from the Raider camp. Can you see if this can be used for arrowheads?"

Xiao Xiao squatted down to examine it. "Not bad! The density of this iron material is quite good. We can build a furnace to melt it down and then cast a batch of arrowheads. It's a big project, but I like it."

She hadn't done anything this challenging in a long time. Everything had to be started from scratch.

She had to build a stable high-temperature furnace and a blast device herself, which gave her a novel experience.

"It's a pity... this game doesn't allow video recording, otherwise, my 'Modern Weaponry from Scratch' series would be out."

After a moment of reflection, Xiao Xiao got busy with her work.

The Demonic Fox placed the jade given by the hunter onto the [Attribute Conversion Tower]. After a moment, the appraisal was complete.

[A Cool Jade]

[Quest Item]

[Perhaps it has something to do with certain energy bodies.]

"No attributes? This makes things interesting." The Demonic Fox put the jade into his pocket, keeping it safe.

Next, the Thin Dog and the other two worked together to carry the six Raider corpses onto the [Loot Generator].

They began the decomposition process.

Six streaks of red mist emerged from the machine.

Before long, the conveyor belt delivered the loot.

Three [Health Potions], two vials of [Boiling Blood], one common top, two common trousers, two pieces of Rune Bone, one bone necklace, and two rings.

The two pieces of Rune Bone were currently useless; they only increased mana regeneration speed and provided some damage bonuses, which weren't as good as wielding a spear with two hands. They only needed one person to hold the previous spear to keep the [Armor Piercing Aura] active. These two pieces could only be temporarily stored in their warehouse.

Both rings increased life regeneration speed. One also increased radiation resistance by 15%, while the other increased physical resistance by 5%. The Thin Dog took the ring that increased physical resistance, and the remaining one was given to Lin Tang, who had been eagerly awaiting equipment.

"After several decompositions like this, it seems that [Boiling Blood] is a common drop from Raiders for embedding. It's best to just use them directly; they add a percentage of physical damage and 18 points of Attack Capability, significantly boosting combat power."

The two rings, along with the two vials of [Boiling Blood], became two equipped items.

The Thin Dog's Attack Capability increased by another 18 points. Combined with the buffs from the other ring and the necklace, his Attack Capability reached a whopping 154 points!

That was 54 more Attack Capability than his base stats.

If it weren't for the limit of two rings and one necklace that each person could wear at most, the Thin Dog would have loved to stack rings on every finger and wear a necklace around his neck.

The life regeneration and Attack Capability buffs from these three pieces of equipment made the Thin Dog far stronger than when he was unequipped.

"I feel like I can crit all the time now."

And he wasn't easily killed either.

The Demonic Fox reminded him, "While fast life regeneration is good, you'll need to carry more food from now on. Otherwise, your energy will be depleted quickly, and your health bar won't be able to recover."

Without energy intake, they couldn't maintain high life regeneration rates. They had already conducted experiments.

The three plain white shirts only increased armor, but they were much better than the ragged clothes they were currently wearing. Each of them put one on.

They also each received a [Health Potion].

After distributing the loot, their combat power had once again slightly increased.

"We've found energy. What should we do now? How about we go hunting? We only got one Titanium Magnesium Chicken today, and our daily hunting quests for the five of us are still unfinished."

The Demonic Fox brought his hand to his mouth.

"Hunting isn't urgent. I've been thinking about something..."

The other two looked at the Demonic Fox expectantly.

"Clearly, the Raiders were mobilized on a large scale today, but we weren't their target. We don't need to worry about where they went, but... there shouldn't be many people left in the Raider camp, right? Why don't we... sneak into Raider Camp 1 as well?"

The Thin Dog and Lin Tang reacted with surprised joy.

"Great! It's always good to hear your ideas, Demonic Fox!"

As they set off, the Thin Dog suddenly remembered something.

"Oh right, do you guys remember what I told you about the abnormality in the dungeon? The lord even asked me to save someone who didn't exist. I suspect... there's a hidden quest in there."

"That sounds plausible. Let's go take a look."

Lin Tang nodded in agreement.

I went out to handle some matters in the evening and only managed to write one chapter. I'm out of energy, so I'll update the next chapter in the afternoon.