Escape Route, Defense System-Flamethrower

Yesterday's haul had been substantial. Those twenty 100L barrels of fuel alone were worth a fortune—precious supplies even scarcer than cigarettes, comparable to firearms and ammunition. And no one had a stable way to obtain them.

Of course, he could not rule out the possibility that other players had access to such resources but were hoarding them for personal use rather than listing them.

Just like him, he would not easily put these twenty barrels of fuel up for sale either.

Two thousand liters of fuel sounded like a lot, but it was not much at all.

The Hideout would inevitably require large amounts of electricity later on. Even if he acquired vehicles in the future, fuel consumption would be no small amount.

It would be easy to sell it now, but trying to get it again later would be as difficult as reaching the heavens.

Besides the fuel, the biggest haul was twenty-five bundles of homemade explosives, each fitted with a mechanical timer.

[Homemade Timed Explosive]

Quality: Common

Weight: 2KG

Status: Extremely Stable

Timer: 1–30 minutes

Destruction/Lethal Radius: 0–3 meters

Severe/Critical Injury Radius: 3–10 meters

Damage/Effect Radius: 10–30 meters

Yu Yuan carefully placed the twenty-five timed explosives into a storage box. After sealing it, he set it in a corner of the passage far from the fuel barrels.

They were good things, but the danger they posed had increased exponentially as well. Unpleasant thoughts kept flashing through Yu Yuan's mind, though the explosives' stability allowed him to relax a little.

After handling the two most valuable and dangerous categories of supplies, what remained were the firearms, ammunition, and equipment seized from Burning Fortress.

They were also what Yu Yuan needed most urgently right now.

Unlike the equipment from the Black Shield Police Department, Burning Fortress's gear was almost entirely AK-series weapons: two AK74s, one AK-74U, one AKM, and finally an AK-12.

There was quite a bit of ammunition too. There were several hundred rounds each of 7.62×39mm and 5.45×39mm ammunition, enough for Yu Yuan to use for a while.

The rest were the throwing weapons Yu Yuan had deliberately kept: eight F1 lemons, five Stun Grenades, and three sticks of explosives fitted with detonator caps.

They temporarily made up for Yu Yuan's weakness in throwing weapons.

Of the equipment carried by Burning Fortress's Flame Riders, Yu Yuan had only brought back a pair of military binoculars. He truly could not carry any more at the time; Taotao Cave had been stuffed full, and bringing all this back had already taken enormous effort.

Yet he had brought back the most valuable spoils of all: the Flame Priest's full set of equipment and items.

Yu Yuan had not forgotten that when he started devouring the Flame Priest, he had heard more than one mechanical notification.

Anything that triggered a notification was unquestionably high-value material.

Filled with excitement, Yu Yuan dumped everything from the Oxford backpack onto the floor. The instant the items spilled out, a series of notifications sounded beside his ears.

They sounded like the most wonderful music in the world.

[Ding... High-value materials discovered!]

[A special Hideout facility construction path has been discovered. Add this path to the Hideout Facility Management Log?]

[Ding... High-value materials discovered!]

[A special Hideout facility construction path has been discovered. Add this path to the Hideout Facility Management Log?]

[Ding... High-value materials discovered!]

[A Hideout facility Optimization Path has been discovered. Add this Optimization Path to the Security and wall construction lists?]

[Ding... High-value materials discovered!]

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[Rare-grade equipment discovered—Flame Priest Robe (Damaged)]

The curve of Yu Yuan's lips nearly reached his eyes. There were actually three Hideout construction blueprints, and two of them were special construction paths the Hideout did not even have. He immediately added them all to the Hideout Facility Management Log.

As the blueprints vanished, two new construction path lists and two Optimization Paths appeared in the Hideout Facility Management Log.

[Ding... Defensive facility construction path detected. Hideout Defense System Management Log unlocked.]

Within the [Survival] interface, in addition to the [Hideout Facility Management Log] and [Hideout Resource Management Log] pages, there was now another page called [Hideout Defense System Management Log].

Yu Yuan eagerly examined the two newly appeared facilities.

—[Escape Route] (Special)

Quality: Unknown

Description: This is a magical construction blueprint that can build a special Escape Route connecting the Hideout to Safehouses, making emergency escape or safe relocation more convenient. It can connect to up to three Safehouses, but it seems that the necessary conditions for constructing this facility are still missing.

Construction Requirements: Escape Key ×1, Safe House ×1–3, Locked Door ×1

—[Defense—Flamethrower]

Quality: Rare

Description: Within 100 meters of the Hideout, up to twenty Flamethrower units can be built to protect the Hideout's safety. Please note that this facility will scorch the surrounding area when activated. Leave a safe distance from the Hideout during construction and make adequate protective preparations.

Construction Requirements (per unit):

Required Materials: Fuel 10L, High-Pressure Gas Cylinder ×1, Pressure Relief Valve ×1, Steel ×1, Spring ×1, 9V Battery ×2, Resistance Wire ×1, Metal Water Pipe ×1, Metal Nozzle ×1.

Supplementary Materials: Rubber Gasket ×2, Metal Pin ×1

"This... this..."

Yu Yuan no longer knew what to say.

It was truly too powerful!

The Escape Route gave him an incredible sense of security. Because if he ever truly needed to use this facility, the Hideout might already be in an extremely dangerous situation. Having a chance to escape was always a good thing.

As for the construction requirements, aside from the locked door, Yu Yuan had no clue where to find either of the other two.

But the construction path had already been added. At the very least, he now had a direction and a goal to search for.

As for [Defense—Flamethrower], it confirmed one of Yu Yuan's previous suspicions about the Hideout.

What exactly was the defense level?

He had already built quite a few Hideout facilities. Its safety level, comfort level, sanitation level, and energy level had all increased, but only the defense level had remained at 0.

He had previously kept wondering whether he needed to raise the [Wall] level first. Now he had his answer.

And the defensive facilities could actually be built around the Hideout. Yu Yuan was overjoyed.

What he feared most was that after the Beginner Protection Period ended, other players might invade, discover the Hideout, and destroy it directly.

Now that problem had been solved.

These were Flamethrowers!

Their construction range was also within 100 meters around the Hideout, giving Yu Yuan plenty of room to work with.

Do not forget that Yu Yuan's Hideout was built within the air-raid shelter level's passages. As long as he designed the flamethrowers' positions cleverly enough, those passages could become a blazing killing ground where invaders could neither escape nor leave.

In an instant, no fewer than five locations suitable for building Flamethrowers appeared in Yu Yuan's mind.

"This blueprint came at the perfect time! There are still more than twenty days before player invasions begin—enough time for me to turn the air-raid shelter level into a deadly inferno."

A trace of ruthlessness and coldness flashed through his eyes.

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