Upgrade the Brewing Apparatus

After that, Li Qinwu bought some more bottles and yeast from Reno, then planned to carry the Filtration Fermentation Distiller back.

But he had brought too much stuff and could not carry it easily, so Reno gave him a cart to push.

Afterward, Li Qinwu went to the boutique next door and bought more than ten sets of work clothes and boots, ten bottles of vegetable oil, and a ten-gram bag of sugar, spending over 1,200. Then he headed for the Hideout.

With so much stuff on his cart this time, he naturally attracted a whole pack of rats.

Li Qinwu figured he needed to find a few underlings to do errands for him. Otherwise, with all these dead rats watching him alone, it was annoying as hell.

Besides, he could not be expected to lug everything back himself every time. That was way too undignified.

As he thought about it, he had already reached the outskirts far from the safe zone and entered a metal passageway.

The hundred-odd rats behind him could no longer hold themselves back. They all pulled out knives and steel pipes, and some of the better-equipped rats even had homemade guns!

Li Qinwu's figure, pushing the cart, slowly disappeared into the dark passageway. The hundred-odd rats immediately swarmed after him!

But just as they burst forward, a poison gas grenade landed at their feet, spewing out thick toxic smoke.

The rats instantly fell into chaos, coughing violently and shoving each other. Some even started fighting one another. By the end, they seemed to have forgotten what they were there for and began hacking each other to death.

Li Qinwu naturally could not be bothered with that crap. He tied a flashlight to the front of the cart for illumination and strolled all the way back to the Hideout.

He opened the door, closed it, and took a deep breath of the moldy air. What a cozy home~~

He sorted everything into place and began upgrading the Hideout. He ran a line from Energy lv1 to the Water Purifier, connected the Filtration Fermentation Distiller, then hooked up a pile of water pipes. The Water Purifier lv1 upgraded to Water Purifier lv2, unlocking brewing functions.

Brewing: input potatoes or other grains ×5 kilograms, sugar ×10 grams, yeast ×1. After 12 hours, output one bottle of Moonshine, approximately 500 ml.

Li Qinwu washed a few potatoes from the batch he had acquired last time, fed them along with the yeast and sugar into the Brewing Apparatus, and started production. Then he went to the Emperor Shrine, lit an incense candle, inserted a bottle of cooking oil, started production there as well, and began training.

Same as usual: shuttle runs and carrying heavy loads for physical conditioning. He trained continuously for over three hours, drenching himself in sweat.

He felt tired enough to eat a cow, but when he opened the system, none of his attributes had increased.

That was normal too. Even if someone trained like mad for an entire day in reality, their strength would not increase by much. This was the kind of thing that required slow, steady effort.

But in the looter-shooter extraction pioneer Escape from Tarkov, there was a Hideout upgrade option called the gym. PMCs could do a dumbbell bench press inside and watch their strength shoot up. Once he upgraded his own Hideout, maybe his attributes could shoot up too.

After training, Li Qinwu tidied up, ate some food, and lay down to sleep.

He slept until the world felt upside down. When he got up, twelve hours had already passed. The air was filled with the scent of alcohol, and the Brewing Apparatus had produced one bottle of Moonshine.

Holding the Moonshine, Li Qinwu wanted to open it for a taste. But suddenly, his gaze shifted to the Emperor Shrine. The incense candle there had burned out, and it had produced one bottle of Holy Oil.

Wait... could Moonshine be made "holy"?

He walked over to the Emperor Shrine, took out the Holy Oil and put it away, lit a fresh incense candle, and inserted one bottle of Moonshine. The system showed that production had begun, with a production time of 24 hours.

"It really works!"

He was extremely curious about what effect the Holy Wine produced after 24 hours would have. Would one sip let him see the old God-Emperor himself?

After arranging the production, Li Qinwu began considering heading out to do some missions.

Water Supply Lake. Was that not convenient? He needed to make a trip there for Reno's mission, and he also needed to make a trip there for Second Lieutenant Rudosen's mission.

One was to retrieve an item, and the other was to scout and investigate. He could do both at once.

However, there was supposedly an extremely vicious Chaos Wizard around Water Supply Lake. That thing had wiped out two PDF infantry battalions. Its Psychic Power was incredibly strong—far too brutal!

Psychic Power could be understood simply as magic, an extremely dangerous kind of magic.

Psykers drew their power from the Warp, which was the demons' home. When a Psyker cast a spell, it was like going to the demons' well to steal water.

If a demon happened to notice and catch them, then they would be thoroughly filled into the shape of a demon.

Psykers could also be roughly divided into good and bad. Psykers who sided with the Imperium of Man and were employed by the Imperium could be considered good Psykers. Those corrupted by Chaos were Chaos Wizards instead—super bad!

Li Qinwu had yet to encounter a Psyker, and this one might even be a super-bad Chaos Wizard. He was a little intimidated.

But he could not just skip the mission. He had to go, though he needed to carefully consider what to bring.

As everyone knew, Old Li's dog life was worthless. Even a junk gun was worth more than his life. Since that was the case, why not go in naked and take a look? What exactly was going on? He would find out after dying once!

He put on that tattered set of clothes and shoes, grabbed a dagger, took three Holy Biscuits and four bottles of high-energy drinks, then happily entered the map.