This ti, the air drop reward landed directly on the open ground next to his Shelter. The spot chosen was quite perfect.
Lin Yue was very satisfied with this.
He fed Bai so lamb chops and poured it a bit of Lei Bi. This little guy had been flying nonstop in battle just now and worked quite hard. How could he not reward it?
Back inside the walls of the Shelter, Lin Yue didn’t imdiately pick up the air drop. Instead, he simply tidied up the yard a bit.
The sun was hot, and its high temperatures dried the top layer of soil soaked by acid rain. The stone wall that Lin Yue had only quickly tidied up earlier remained in the yard, quite ssy.
Untidiness wouldn’t do.
Lin Yue felt that, even though he wasn’t compulsive or a neat freak, he still preferred his Shelter to be more orderly and pleasing.
"Honestly, this job is frustrating," he murmured as he stored the stone walls into the Storage Space, then used them to repair the first layer of the wall.
While this task was indeed tedious, it was crucial for the defense of his Shelter.
Though this advanced large Shelter was much more spacious than before, many things, including defense facilities, hadn’t been upgraded to match.
The stone wall stands three ters high, which is not considered short by past Shelter designs. However, the roof height of this large Shelter is about four ters or more. Since Lin Yue plans to add more layers for expansion, this wall height indeed poses a problem as it makes the Shelter stand out too much overall.
"Seems like I need to redesign it; otherwise, it’s just not a match."
After embedding all the stone walls into the surrounding wall, a few remained. Lin Yue pushed them to the side of the stone wall.
[You have obtained a Thick Wall Design Blueprint!]
After stacking two stone walls against one side of the wall, Lin Yue suddenly heard the system notification. The two stone walls then fused with the original, becoming significantly thicker.
"A thickened version, huh? Not bad."
Although Lin Yue thought this way, he didn’t imdiately transform the existing walls to all be thickened; the consumption of stone was indeed an issue.
After storing away the temporarily constructed drainage channels and reinstalling them along the bottom of the first wall, the yard looked much cleaner and tidier.
"Better keep at it. The Ox-Carrier Serpent Dragon disrupted my schedule. I should have finished harvesting the crops by now and have been able to make a round to the Underground Ruins or the Secret Realm. Now everything’s delayed."
Seeing the idle machine dog in the yard, Lin Yue walked over.
He originally wanted to use it for sothing, but the gigantic creature was just too massive and impervious to bullets, making the machine dog superfluous.
But that doesn’t an this guy is useless.
Lin Yue designed a route around the first and second wall periters. The machine dog obediently went out.
As the machine dog completed a lap, Lin Yue realized that the uneven ground didn’t seem to bother it, except for so highly uneven terrain. There was generally no problem.
"It seems to be doing fine for now. Next ti, I’ll equip it with an M19 when going out and let it patrol." Lin Yue set a new route for the machine dog, sending it outside the second wall to patrol the outskirts of the Shelter, then turned his attention to Greenhouse No. 1.
The daily tasks must be handled regularly.
Harvesting vegetables was one of them.
Most of the previous vegetables had been exchanged for various needed materials. He even proposed a trade with Xing Lingfeng for a regular supply of gasoline in exchange for his vegetables.
Xing Lingfeng seed quite willing, allowing Lin Yue to quickly dispose of the excess vegetables.
"Keeping vegetables fresh is quite an issue... I can’t keep them all in the Storage Space indefinitely." Lin Yue felt he should consider addressing this problem.
Muttering to himself, Lin Yue lifted the flap of Greenhouse No. 1.
"Squeak squeak!" Little white figures popped out from several spots inside the shed, and he realized that the wooden crate on the ground was filled to the brim with various vegetables and fruits!
Did these little guys finish harvesting while he and Bai were out fighting?
Lin Yue looked at the wooden crate that, although a bit ssy, contained intact fruits and vegetables. Glancing down at the Little Ice Lizards, all seemingly asking for credit, he realized he had acquired a bunch of fully automated vegetable harvesters!
"Great job, everyone!" Lin Yue took out two roasted lamb racks, deciding to reward these little guys properly.
"Squeak squeak!" Enthused by the reward, the little guys began devouring the food happily.
[You have obtained 10kg of Chinese cabbage, 9kg of chives, 11kg of strawberries, 70 onions, 140 cucumbers, 25kg of cherry tomatoes, 16kg of runner beans]
Wow, the haul is even bigger.
Walking over to store 11 waterlons that the Little Ice Lizards couldn’t harvest into the Storage Space, Lin Yue quickly opened the system panel.
"Hey, are you there? Didn’t we agree on a long-term collaboration? I sold you alloy before, rember? We need vegetables; what do you want in return? Let’s negotiate!"
Lin Yue glanced at the ssage, recognizing it was from Fei Yue, who had exchanged a considerable amount of alloy with him previously. It seed like it had been a while since their last trade.
"Received the alloy last ti, right? We just returned from the Secret Realm with so good stuff and want to exchange for so vegetables and fruits. Also, congratulations on defeating the gigantic creature, you were amazing!"
This was Xia Feihong, whose background was a Refugee Village. Previously, it housed around sixty people, if he rembered correctly?
"Lin Yue, we want vegetables and fruits; na what you need and we can discuss."
Concise and straightforward as always, that’s Xing Lingfeng.
There were other private ssages from people that Lin Yue didn’t bother checking for now.
After adding Fei Yue and Xia Feihong, Lin Yue thought it necessary to first deal with the excess vegetables.
He did have a refrigerator, but it was a freezer type that would freeze anything placed inside. Although Bai’s icy mist indeed lowered the temperature significantly, fresh vegetables are always best.
"Hey boss, thanks for accepting the friend request. We have so chanical parts here. We don’t need them; see if you’re interested in trading?" Below Fei Yue’s ssage was a listed inventory of supplies, several of which Lin Yue wanted.
"Lin Yue, are these to your liking? We still want to trade for vegetables. Oh, and I heard there are waterlons?"
Lin Yue raised an eyebrow; Xia Feihong’s items were quite appealing!
Besides gasoline, Xia Feihong also had various tal parts and alloys.
Good stuff indeed.
Seems like the vegetables aren’t enough.
Can wine and whiskey do the job?
A stable trading network seems to be forming.
Scrolling through the ssages, Lin Yue walked to the back of the Shelter.
Once securing the system-rewarded air drop supplies, he could start the unboxing phase!
After opening a few treasure chests, if there were any high-tech equipnt blueprints inside, the necessary parts could likely be found from the offered inventories of these three individuals.
But when he packed up the parachute and split open the wooden crate with a Fire Axe, the contents inside puzzled him. Yet, when he picked it up for closer inspection, he couldn’t help but feel astonished!
"What, is it really this thing? Wait, isn’t this..."
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