Afterward, Li Qinwu bought some more bottles and yeast starter 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.
After that, 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 before heading toward the Hideout.
With so much stuff on his cart this time, he naturally attracted a whole swarm of rats.
Li Qinwu figured he needed to find a few underlings to handle things for him. Otherwise, with all these dead rats watching him alone, it was irritating as hell.
Besides, he could not be hauling everything he bought back by himself every time. That was way too undignified.
By the time he finished thinking about it, he had 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 drew their 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 tunnel, and the hundred-odd rats immediately swarmed forward!
But just as they sprang into action, a gas grenade landed at their feet, spewing out a massive cloud of poisonous smoke.
The rats instantly descended into chaos, coughing violently and shoving one another. Some even started fighting each other. Before long, they seemed to have forgotten what they were there for and began hacking one another to death.
Naturally, Li Qinwu could not be bothered with their crap. He tied his flashlight to the front of the cart for illumination and casually made his way back to the Hideout.
He opened the door, shut it, and took a deep breath of the moldy air. What a cozy home~~
He sorted and arranged everything, then began upgrading the Hideout. He ran wiring from Energy lv1 to the Water Purifier, connected the Filtration Fermentation Distiller, linked up a pile of water pipes, and upgraded the Water Purifier from lv1 to lv2, unlocking its brewing function.
Brewing: input potatoes or other grains × 5 kilograms, sugar × 10 grams, yeast × 1. After 12 hours, output one bottle of Moonshine, approximately 500 milliliters.
Li Qinwu washed several potatoes from the batch he had acquired previously, 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 to begin production, and started training.
Same old routine: shuttle runs and carrying heavy objects for endurance training. He trained continuously for over three hours until he was drenched 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. Even if someone trained like crazy for an entire day in reality, their strength would not increase by much. This was a gradual process.
But in Search-Fight-Extract pioneer Escape from Tarkov, there was a gym upgrade option for the Hideout. PMCs could do a single dumbbell chest press inside and their strength would shoot up. Once he upgraded his Hideout, maybe his attributes could rise like crazy too.
After training, Li Qinwu tidied up, ate some food, and lay down to sleep.
He slept until he had no idea what time it was. When he woke up, twelve hours had passed, and the air was filled with the aroma of alcohol. The Brewing Apparatus had produced a bottle of Moonshine.
Li Qinwu held the Moonshine in his hand and wanted to open it for a taste, but then his gaze suddenly shifted to the Emperor Shrine. The incense candle there had already 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 new incense candle, and inserted a bottle of Moonshine. The system showed that production had begun, with a production time of 24 hours.
"It really works!"
He eagerly anticipated what effect the Holy Wine produced after 24 hours would have. Would one sip let him see the God-Emperor himself?
After arranging the production, Li Qinwu began considering going out to do missions.
Water Supply Lake. Wasn't this perfect? He needed to make a trip there for Reno's mission, and he also needed to go there for Lieutenant Rudosen's mission.
One required retrieving an item, while the other required scouting and investigating. He could do both together.
However, Water Supply Lake supposedly had an extremely vicious Chaos Wizard. That guy had wiped out two PDF infantry battalions. His Psychic Power was incredibly strong—far too dangerous!
Psychic Power could be understood simply as magic, a very dangerous kind of magic.
Psykers drew their power from the Warp, which was also the Daemons' home. When a Psyker cast a spell, it was like going to steal water from the well in a Daemon's house.
If the Daemons noticed and caught you, then you would be thoroughly filled into the shape of a Daemon.
Psykers could also be roughly divided into good and bad. Those aligned with the Imperium of Man and employed by the Imperium could be considered good Psykers. Those corrupted by Chaos were Chaos Wizards—super evil!
Li Qinwu had not encountered a Psyker before, much less a super-evil Chaos Wizard, so he was a little intimidated.
But the missions had to be done. He could only go, though he needed to think carefully about what to bring.
As everyone knew, Old Li's worthless life was not worth as much as a lousy gun. In that case, why not make a knife run and see what was going on? If he died, he would find out!
He put on that tattered set of clothes and shoes, grabbed a dagger, took three Holy Biscuits and four bottles of High-Energy Drink, and happily deployed into the raid.
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