Chapter 159: Chapter 139: Building the Safehouse (4K rge)_3
"Sister Yiyi!" Su Tongxi’s face imdiately turned crimson with embarrassnt.
Such a charr!
Su Lin took a deep breath.
He had to admit that, compared to the obedient and gentle yet overly shy Su Tongxi, Song Yiyi’s playful and skillful personality indeed brought him many unexpected "surprises."
It’s just...
"Alright, alright." Su Lin playfully pinched her flexible waist, supporting her long legs as he set her down, "We’ve seen enough of the chanisms, co down quickly to eat. The chanism arrangent is done for now, but the Martial Arts Training Room and vegetable garden haven’t been built yet, doors and walls, construction platform also need upgrades. Other matters... we’ll discuss later."
"Oh."
Upon hearing Su Lin was going to take care of official matters, Song Yiyi dutifully stood properly.
The three of them returned indoors for lunch.
Su Tongxi tidied up the dishes, walked over to Su Lin and whispered:
"Brother Kirin, leave the rooftop vegetable garden to , you can handle other things."
Building is different from chanisms; as long as the hoowner selects the location and grants the tenant permission, construction can begin simultaneously.
Song Yiyi imdiately raised her slender arm high, eagerly volunteering:
"Then I’ll take care of the Martial Arts Training Room!"
After upgrading to a Level 4 Safe House, the main structure of the Su Family’s building, excluding the yard, was over 140 square ters, with four floors.
The second floor housed Su Tongxi’s and Song Yiyi’s individual rooms, the entire third floor was Su Lin’s spacious bedroom, while the fourth floor was reserved as the Martial Arts Training Room.
Su Lin nodded:
"Alright, I’ll leave it to you."
Regarding permissions, he upheld the philosophy of "Don’t use those you doubt, and trust those you use," granting the two won full operational permissions.
Although this "all" only seed pertinent to tenants.
The three began to work together, collaboratively building their ho.
Upgrading the ho’s construction required a substantial amount of Shadow Core.
Within the Level 4 Safe House, the construction platform and disassemble platform couldn’t be upgraded further; only the door and walls could be upgraded.
The required amount of Shadow Core for upgrades was extrely large.
From level three to four, each item required as many as 100,000 Shadow Core.
And for the safe house itself to level up to five, it required a million!
Su Lin quickly calculated in his mind.
According to Second Uncle Su Qi’s information, the beast waves at the Level 4 Safe House had 300 Shadow Beasts in the first wave, increasing by 200 per wave thereafter.
By the sixth and final wave, the beast group would reach a terrifying scale of 1,300!
As it was a dual-route attack, each route had 650 Shadow Beasts.
This ant the total number of Shadow Beasts attacking nightly would be 4,800!
Additionally, each wave would definitely have a Boss Level Shadow Beast.
The shadow core from the Boss Level was equivalent to 1,000 ordinary Shadow Cores.
If they could eliminate them all, theoretically, they could harvest 10,800 Shadow Core every night!
Even so, even without considering upgrades to doors and walls, it would still take more than ninety days just to upgrade from a Level 4 Safe House to Level 5!
"That’s not right!"
Su Lin suddenly realized a problem:
"It takes more than ninety days to upgrade from level four to five, so what about five to six, six to seven, or even higher? How do those county-level, city-level camp safe houses reach such high levels within rely three years?
"The governnt reached the city level just two years after the apocalypse began, surely their safe houses have reached level twenty-odd? Reaching over twenty levels in two years?! How did they achieve that?"
The only explanation he could think of was the Shadow Stone left by Ni Yan.
But did the governnt already know the Shadow Stone’s role less than a year after the apocalypse descended?
Su Lin recalled the house title deed’s introduction to the Shadow Stone, describing it as a mineral companion to the Shadow Monunt at the center of the wilderness.
Previously, he hadn’t delved into it due to lack of power and knowledge.
Now with a broader perspective, he found it peculiar.
His eyebrows furrowed, unintentionally murmuring:
"Why does it seem... the official and the current city-level camps are developing ’too smoothly’? How could they, in the early apocalyptic stages, when even the Qi and Blood cultivation systems were not yet perfected, delve into the wild center, explore the mysterious Shadow Monunt, obtain the Shadow Stone, and thus continually upgrade their safe houses?"
Wilderness center, Shadow Monunt...
For himself and his companions, surviving in a village-level camp already felt extrely challenging.
Yet those at advanced camps seed capable of venturing into that dangerous core area, even during the early scarcity and fragile power system...
"These advanced camp people... sothing feels amiss..." The doubts in Su Lin’s heart quietly erged.
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(PS: December 15, 2025, 05:11:34... I’m burnt out. This Chapter of over 4,600 words is nearly all setting, extrely hard to write, but leaving it unwritten doesn’t seem right either. Been staring at the outline, aligning settings with logic while pondering how to weave the world view and foreshadowing, tangled with writing for eight or nine hours... Usually, I write each Chapter twice, first a draft, then optimized for style and wording. Now I really don’t care to optimize... Exhausted and sleepy.)
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