Chapter 258 - Spaceship, Sky Maker No. 1
Chapter 258: Spaceship, Sky Maker No. 1
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Thump…
Poof…
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
“What’s that smell…”
“F*ck, did someone light a fire in the shelter?”
A cold shiver raced down Su Mo’s spine as he smelled the lingering scent of smoke in the bedroom, hearing what sounded like clanging sounds caused by stirring movements.
Su Mo, who had been fast asleep all this while, woke up instantly.
A split second later, Su Mo jumped up without thinking after realizing that the smell was indeed from firewood and quickly bolted toward the source of the smell.
A fire underground was different from one above-ground. If it blazed out of control and reached the explosives on the third floor… then an unimaginable “tragedy” would take place!
As Su Mo ran outside, thoughts flashed through his mind as he recalled the things he did yesterday before he went to bed.
Did he forget to turn off the fire after steaming the fruits?
Did the wood pile tip over into the fire?
Or was there an enemy attack?
He quickly searched his memories and, as he approached the source of the fire, Su Mo slowed his pace, and a touch of surprise emerged on his face.
Yesterday, the stove had been moved to the first floor to steam fruits. However, before going to bed, Su Mo did not bother moving it back to the third floor and had simply left it on the first floor.
At this moment, standing in front of the familiar stove, Moore was currently frying vegetables. He turned around to look at the flustered-looking Su Mo standing in front of the stone door. He revealed a row of white teeth and started laughing.
“You’re awake, Master. Moore will soon finish cooking. Get ready to eat!”
The water in the pot on the left was boiling, and within the boiling water was a pot full of noodles.
These were the extra noodles Su Mo had from when he last made noodles. He had kept it aside in the end because he could not finish it.
In the pot on the right, Moore used the “limited” supplies currently available in the shelter to boil a pot of strange-looking broth.
Although the color was off, taking on a strangely colorful appearance, not meeting the food aesthetics of Huaxians…
It was surprisingly delicious!
“Moore, who told you that you were allowed to start a fire and cook? Aren’t you afraid that you will set our house on fire?!”
Su Mo put on a stern expression and lectured Moore while waving his hand out of habit to summon the wind of the lion clan to blow away the heavy smoke.
On ordinary days, Su Mo would control the wind to blow away the heavy smoke at regular intervals.
He had not expected Moore to use the stove to cook, which caused this misunderstanding.
On the other hand, in the midst of Su Mo’s stern lecturing, Moore knew that his good intentions were not very helpful and could only look over pitifully with a pleading expression in his eyes, begging Su Mo not to be mad.
“Alright, alright. I will only allow it once. Do not cook on your own without my permission next time!”
“You’re the best, Master. I will not start the fire by myself ever again!”
When Su Mo heard Moore talking about starting a fire, he then turned to look at Oreo as she laid on the ground, looking like she had nothing to do with any of this. Su Mo held his forehead helplessly.
Fine!
Moore was being taken advantage of without even knowing it.
Despite the lecturing and rules, Moore had inherited the lightning bear clan’s culinary skills and had actually cooked up a pretty tasty broth.
A novice that could achieve such standards on his first try could already be considered a culinary talent.
After eating two big bowls of noodles and leaving Moore to do the dishes, Su Mo opened the alloy gate and welcomed the fresh air before walking outside.
The previous rainfall had taken away the dry heat that scorched the wasteland.
Another thing that had been taken away alongside it was the dust in the air.
Under the nourishing rain, most of the ice and snow had melted and had seeped into the ground. Bright green grass stood tall on the ground, seemingly thriving.
The source energy fruit trees did not wither, but instead grew a little taller because there were now no fruits to draw nutrients from it.
Looking further into the distance, the sun had risen, and it was estimated to be about 8:30am now.
“It’s a pity that, when the ocean comes, the saltwater will completely destroy the ecological environment of this land; even after the ocean recedes, the land will no longer be suitable for planting anymore.”
“Looks like my Black Soil Land will have to be sacrificed as well!”
Upon walking out of the shelter’s gate and strolling along his usual patrol route, Su Mo walked back, feeling tremendously relieved.
Compared to being cautious when everything first began, Su Mo had grown to be less sensitive to the dangers out in the world following his prolonged experience in the wasteland as well as his better fitness levels.
Unless there were hordes of foreign races attacking, no single or group of mutant creatures could be a match for Su Mo today.
Moreover, given that there were several detection mechanisms, Su Mo could tell at a glance whether there were any creatures approaching.
“I wonder how Chen Shen is executing my orders today. Everything should be relocated by today and the construction should begin immediately!”
Before Su Mo fell asleep last night, he had used the friends list panel to inform Chen Shen of several things.
Unlike previous relocations, although not all the food was salvaged, they were able to journey with much lighter loads with the help of the game’s storage space.
The straight line distance from Candlelight Shelter to the Underground Shelter was precisely 103 kilometers.
Together with the help of the excavator and combine harvester, moving ordinary people here within a day was not an issue at all.
As for the remaining supplies, certain guards would be left behind to stand guard as Earth Tiger would be used to send people back in batches to move all the remaining supplies over.
This would not take a lot of time. There were no traffic police in the wasteland. Under normal circumstances, only six people could travel in Earth Tiger at one time.
However, by towing several self-made vehicles at the back, and with everybody squeezed in together, it would not be a problem to transport twenty people at a time.
Coupled with the original five cubic meters of storage space, each round trip would be able to transport up to twenty-five cubic meters of goods at a time.
About seven round trips could be made in a day, which meant that it would take roughly five to six days before all the supplies were fully transferred.
In the friends list panel, Chen Shen did not have any questions.
When Su Mo was done with the instructions, Chen Shen went through his plans one by one.
These plans were very comprehensive, so even though Su Mo wanted to nitpick, no potential problems could be found.
“Chen Shen is now completely in charge of the Candlelight Shelter, eh? That’s good in a way, as it makes it much easier for me to manage them in the future.”
Delegating authority and responsibility required absolute strength and confidence.
Given the current state of mind and abilities of the refugees, Su Mo was confident that the general trend of things would stay the same for the time being.
Su Mo instructed Moore to drive a fully-fueled Earth Tiger over to the Candlelight Shelter to grab supplies.
After reminding Moore of a few things to take note of and watching him leave, Su Mo began “bustling” about.
There was a lot to be done after the welfare disaster!
There was now a clear shipbuilding goal.
After turning on the generator, powering up the furnace, and watching the materials begin to make steel plates, Su Mo went outside the shelter and pulled out the tools that he had set aside from the lucky draw…
The Accessory Item Adaptation Coupon!
This was something he obtained from the epic-level treasure chest along with Mind Ring.
Moreover, it was of high grade. A rare-quality item that was of the same grade as the Mini Destroyer blueprint design.
As for its attributes, when using the coupon, he could simply specify a blueprint design and one would be able to derive a blueprint design of the same origin.
“Building an 80-meter long warship isn’t anything like stacking blocks and playing with Lego, putting steel plates together, and being done with it just like that!”
“Without the matching technology or other equipment to assist with this process, I’m afraid a novice like me might not be able to build it at all!”
After using the Mini Destroyer blueprint design, the game will automatically transmit the relevant mechanical, warship, and weapons knowledge in one’s night-time slumber.
Although Su Mo woke up with a start last night, he did absorb enough relevant knowledge during his night-time slumber.
In terms of general construction, the warship had a simplified design process, in that he only needed to follow the design of individual parts and perform the installation.
On top of that, the knowledge in the memory transmission did mention something even more convenient…
Shipbuilding Assistant!
The title sounded ridiculous and fancy, but its actual role was similar to that of a large 3D printer.
One needed to only build an eighty-meter cube structure, pile all the materials within it, provide it with enough energy or points, and the Shipbuilding Assistant would be able to move promptly on its own without any assistance.
Such a blast!
“I only have one coupon. Whether I can get this blueprint or not is all down to luck!”
“It doesn’t matter though, even if I can’t get it, I can still build it using a large number of survival points, it’s just that the cost will be way higher that way!”
Su Mo held the coupon and gazed at the sun hanging high in the sky, and then at Oreo as she laid lazily beside him.
Su Mo took a deep breath and crushed the card coupon in his hand. After silently specifying the target to be the Mini Destroyer blueprint, a stream of light flashed and the card coupon began to take effect.
In the empty space before his eyes, a white dot of light began to converge…
From top to bottom, a blueprint design of the same origin emerged.
What first took form was the shape of the blueprint. Unlike what he saw in his night-time slumber, this blueprint looked like a big factory at first glance, not at all posh.
Looking down at the image, he saw countless scaffoldings attached to a peculiar-looking “massive” ship that was fixed in place at the center of all the scaffolding.
“Sigh, looks like I didn’t get a Shipbuilding Assistant this time, but this isn’t too bad either. Perhaps this blueprint design has something to do with shipbuilding as well.”
Su Mo was not discouraged by the fact that he did not manage to obtain the Shipbuilding Assistant that he wanted. He simply considered it as a chance to accumulate more luck to boost his chances for the next lucky draw.
As it continued to manifest, the derivation of the blueprint started slowing down.
It was still early and the furnace was still going, so Su Mo was in no rush and waited patiently for the blueprint to finish manifesting.
After about ten minutes or so, just when Su Mo’s mind had drifted elsewhere, the blueprint finally broke free from the restraints of the white light with a snap and floated in the air.
“Let’s see… This is a… modular miniature…”
“Shipyard???”
“Holy crap, that’s good stuff too!”
After examining the characters at the bottom of the blueprint design and spotting the word “shipyard”, Su Mo was delighted and grabbed the blueprint design to examine it.
The Shipbuilding Assistant might be awesome and much more powerful than an ordinary shipyard…
However, with the word “modular” attached to the shipyard, this was bound to be different. It would most likely derive a series of strange features and functions too.
There was a flash of light and, by paying a few Disaster Points, the completed blueprint’s attributes popped out.
[Sky Maker No.1—Miniature Modular Shipyard (Rare)]
[Description: During the first year of the rise of modular technology, more and more industries began to favor its adoption, and the shipbuilding industry was no exception. The era progressed from human and animal power, followed by mechanical power, printing machines, and eventually to modular technology. Similarly, this line of development has witnessed the ups and downs of the shipbuilding industry and the continuous development of ship models.]
[Specific function: This type of shipyard focuses on building short and medium-distance navigation spaceships, and has a unique cost-to-performance ratio advantage over other miniature spaceships constructed elsewhere.]
[Module: Power module, import module, material input module, automatic building module, inspection module, detailing module, human access control module, wind tunnel test module, vacuum experiment module…]
[First limitation: Requires the power module, import module and automatic building module before manufacturing (Criteria not met)]
[Second limitation: Requires 500 disaster points to learn (Criteria met)]
[Third limitation: Requires 500 units of iron, 250 units of copper, and 200 units of aluminum (Criteria not met)]
[Fourth limitation: In order to use it to build a ship, a ship blueprint is required (Criteria met)]
“This is outrageous!”
“How can you call a spaceship a ship?”
“Also…”
“I’ve opened up a shipyard that can build spaceships??”
Staring at the attributes of the blueprint design in his hand, Su Mo was completely dumbfounded this time!