Chapter 41、Lin Yue's Night of Wild Abandon: Yi Bai's Grand Spending Spree

Yi Bai heaved a sigh, yet he also grasped the nation's intention.

Evidently, the country had unearthed the setting of [Replicated War], and they chanced to possess a profound understanding of the actual combat prowess of the maniacs in the prior battle.

It could be asserted that the F-rank difficulty battle was scarcely a challenge for the country.

Even though the F-rank rewards were as paltry as the legs of a mosquito, it was still far superior to idling away and waiting listlessly for 20 days.

What if, by amassing more battle victories, an additional reward of [Industrial System Restoration] were bestowed?

The industrial system, this very entity, directly impinged upon the military's logistical capabilities.

Not to mention other aspects, even if merely a third of the industrial capacity under the nation's dominion was recuperated, there would be a modicum of confidence when confronting future apocalypse wars.

After all: When in doubt, unleash a bombardment!

The country's stance was straightforward: There was no necessity for respite. Engaging in an F-rank war was tantamount to taking a break!

Persist in fighting, amass as many rewards as conceivable, and foster a snowballing advantage!

"The country is toiling so arduously. It seems I can't afford to be overly indolent either."

Yi Bai inhaled deeply and clenched his fist, "I'm going to transform into a consummate homebody! Earnestly while away the leisure hours!"

This sounded somewhat preposterous, but it was an inescapable verity.

Yi Bai's path to augmentation was to lie low and bide his time, perpetually frittering away the moments in tedium.

Within the chat channel, there still lingered a sense of shock and disputation regarding the country's maneuvers, yet Yi Bai remained relatively impassive.

Waging war to sustain the war, a rather orthodox stratagem.

Just as Yi Bai was on the verge of reclining and resuming his slumber, endeavoring to continue killing time, suddenly an information prompt materialized before him anew.

"Why are there such a profusion of messages each day?"

"Will you even permit one to sleep or not... Damn it! Whose shelter has Lin Yue raided and obliterated!"

Yi Bai's eyes dilated, fixating intently on the information prompt in his line of sight.

[Your talent unit has clashed with another shelter and emerged victorious.]

[Since you are not present on the scene, it is automatically decreed that your principal talent will make the shelter occupation determination.]

[Your talent "Lin Yue" has opted to demolish the current shelter, and you have inherited the residual survival points of the current shelter "358 points".]

[Item inheritance adjudication in progress... Inheritance unsuccessful! You did not inherit the reserve items of the current shelter.]

The sequence of information confronting Yi Bai signified that Lin Yue had sprung into action!

These soldiers had genuinely unearthed a suitable target and presented Yi Bai with a pleasant little astonishment!

Lying supine at home and doing naught, directly procuring over three hundred survival points!

"This is indubitably more lucrative than the dispatch tasks. The combined yield of the three dispatch tasks amounts to a mere 30 points per day. The destruction of a single shelter, in contrast, bequeaths over 300 points."

Yi Bai sighed and was also tinged with a smidgen of curiosity, "Where precisely is the shelter that Lin Yue and her cohorts demolished? What was the state of affairs there?"

"Regrettably, there is an absence of long-range communication means. I can only await their return to fathom what transpired."

Yi Bai shook his head, lamenting his inability to partake in person.

Nonetheless, it was par for the course for the shelter to lack such amenities given its nascent stage.

"Retire to bed. Tomorrow, I shall confer with Jiang Xiaoci regarding the expenditure of these three hundred plus points."

Yi Bai sprawled on the bed. In a semi-conscious state, he espied something 闪烁 in front of him once more.

Yi Bai opened his eyes and was dumbfounded.

[Warning! Your talent is engaged in a battle with a shelter in the wild.]

[Your talent "Lin Yue" has chosen to destroy the current shelter, and you have inherited the remaining survival points of the current shelter "563 points".]

[Item inheritance determination in progress... Inheritance successful! You have obtained the storage items of the current shelter "D-rank - Magic Bread Tree", "E-rank - Butterfly Shirt".]

"Ah?"

Yi Bai was instantly jolted wide awake. How on earth did an additional 500 points materialize?

"What are Lin Yue and the others up to? Storming a bandit's lair?"

Yi Bai was confounded. He estimated that the interval between these two information prompts was approximately 30 minutes?

This intimated that Lin Yue had almost ceaselessly razed two shelters, and perhaps these two shelters were in close proximity, much like the residential building where Yi Bai resided.

"If that be the case, will a new raid prompt message surface in the next 30 minutes?"

Yi Bai had no intention of resuming his slumber and waited with bated breath.

He counted the time in silence.

After 30 minutes.

[Your talent "Lin Yue" has chosen to destroy the current shelter.]

[You have inherited the remaining survival points of the current shelter "100 points".]

[Item inheritance determination in progress... Inheritance successful! The current shelter has no items.]

Sure enough!

Another one was demolished!

Yi Bai drew a deep breath, "It's corroborated! She is truly ransacking criminal gangs!"

This must be a cluster of shelters within a residential building, thereby enabling Lin Yue to continuously obliterate shelters.

Throughout the entire night, Yi Bai was unable to succumb to sleep.

For whenever a hint of drowsiness encroached upon him, a new prompt message would manifest in front of him, indicating that Lin Yue had razed a new shelter.

Such prompts persisted until daybreak and then gradually tapered off.

"They have been engaged in slaughter throughout the night!"

Yi Bai opened the shelter interface and glanced at his survival points.

Prior to Lin Yue's departure, he was left with a meager 86 survival points.

After Lin Yue had battled throughout the night outdoors, Yi Bai now boasted 4,788 survival points!

Accumulating over four thousand survival points in a single night!

This efficiency was exponentially faster than that of the dispatch tasks!

"Damn it, it's truly a colossal windfall!"

Yi Bai was so exhilarated that he nearly rolled his eyes heavenward. The grin on the corner of his mouth was impossible to suppress.

He now empathized with Li Ge's euphoric state of mind during his harvest. Lin Yue must have pillaged an entire residential building!

Even if the majority of the thugs in this building had no survival points, the destruction of a level 0 shelter still guaranteed a 100-point survival point reward.

Even if this residential building was an antiquated model, it encompassed at least twenty or thirty households. The guaranteed points amounted to two or three thousand survival points!

When combined with the survival points amassed by some of the thugs, it did indeed aggregate to over four or five thousand.

"Sir, are you still awake?"

A soft murmur emanated from beside Yi Bai. He swiveled his head and beheld that Jiang Xiaoci had awakened from her slumber and was regarding him with sleepy eyes.

Her ebony tresses were slightly disheveled. There was an alluring charm in her languor, capable of making one's heart palpitate.

"Can't sleep. Lin Yue and the others have accomplished a remarkable feat."

Yi Bai shook his head. The excitement coursing through his veins had yet to subside, "Over four thousand points! They procured over four thousand points for me in a single night!"

"Quick, Xiaoci. You said how should we expend such a copious amount of points? Do you have any sagacious suggestions?"

Yi Bai was bereft of any trace of sleepiness. He was now solely intent on luxuriating in the act of spending the points.

It couldn't be like Li Ge and those thugs who were slain by Lin Yue and the others. They perished, and their points remained unspent!

Truly lamentable.

"So many points. It appears that Lin Yue and the others are truly proficient."

Jiang Xiaoci smiled tenderly. She propped herself up on her jade-like arms and leaned her head languidly on Yi Bai's shoulder.

"With such a profusion of points, truth be told, I'm at a loss as to how to allocate them. I don't comprehensively understand the apocalypse game that sir alluded to."

"But considering our present circumstances and sir's safety concerns, we ought to concentrate on fortifying the building in which we abide."

"Based on the concept that sir is the nucleus of the shelter, constructing a potent shelter nearly on a par with a bunker is our desideratum."

"And to fulfill this... From my humble perspective, perhaps it lies in high-tech means."

Jiang Xiaoci toyed with Yi Bai's fingers and suddenly interjected, "Sir, I recollect that the room where Li Ya has been ensconced is a research room, right?"

"Ah, yes! Precisely!"

Yi Bai's heart skipped a beat. Was this woman flirting with him?

But it didn't seem so. Her motions were entirely nonchalant. She was earnestly deliberating on the query she had raised.

Jiang Xiaoci tilted her petite head, "Then let's capitalize on the research room. Didn't sir always bemoan the power system restoration quandary?"

"We can, while satisfying the fundamental living requisites of the shelter, augment the shelter's armed installations to the fullest extent possible."

"In the place where I formerly resided, there were invariably a plethora of defense mechanisms such as machine guns and gun turrets. I believe that if our shelter were equipped with these, the safety factor would be substantially enhanced."

"Of course, we not only have to confront the threat posed by humans but also take into account the potential menace of natural disasters."

Jiang Xiaoci's analysis was remarkably thorough, and the crux was exceedingly straightforward.

Excluding all the extraneous factors, the most crucial element within the shelter was Yi Bai himself.

Absent Yi Bai, everything would be in vain.

To safeguard Yi Bai effectively, the shelter's defense measures were of the essence.

"Very well, I'll peruse the technology tree now."

Yi Bai opened the technology tree and leafed through the multitudinous research projects.

Since Jiang Xiaoci was unable to perceive this information, Yi Bai recited the information content aloud and then heeded Jiang Xiaoci's analysis and counsel.

Following the communication and deliberation between the two, Yi Bai ultimately selected several technology projects.

[Basic Power System]: Consumes 1,000 points, obtains a small-scale power generation facility and corresponding construction technology. After construction, the shelter can possess a normal power consumption level for human residents and can supply the power needs of 10 shelter rooms (excluding special types of rooms).

[Independent Water Resource System]: Consumes 1,000 points, obtains a small-scale pumping and storage pool (automatically filled every day). After construction, it can provide the daily water needs of up to 50 residents in the shelter; the water intake points of the water system can be dispersed throughout the shelter and extend outward.

These two projects were the technology initiatives that Yi Bai had long yearned to acquire.

Once activated, there would be ready-made magical artifacts at his disposal, enabling the shelter to attain water and power self-sufficiency.

When combined with Yi Bai's original water purifier, freezer, and greenhouse room, with the mutual reinforcement of their respective effects, the living quality standard of the shelter could be directly restored to the normal level prior to the apocalypse!

Nevertheless, these two items were exorbitantly expensive. It would take an ordinary individual an extended period to afford them.

"Two thousand points have been expended. Let's examine the defense facilities for the remainder."

Yi Bai adjusted the classification of the technology tree, and the data information before him underwent a rapid transformation, presenting a dense array of shelter defense and weapon technology projects.

[Basic Defense Module of the Shelter's Main Structure]: Consumes 1,500 points, endows the outer periphery of the main module where the shelter is situated with a "Multi-level Sealing Door System (Biometric Recognition)", an iron fence (four meters high, fully enclosed), an electric shock net fence (a subsidiary module of the fence), 24-hour fully intelligent cameras (at least 12); and comprehensively fortifies the main structure of the shelter, rendering it highly resistant to cold, heat, explosion, and earthquake (it is requisite to ensure that there is no other shelter within one hundred meters of the main structure of the shelter).

[Automatic Sentry System]: Consumes 1,000 points, promptly installs at least 20 [Automatic Machine Guns (300 rounds of bullets)] inside and outside the shelter. It can automatically identify friends and foes and can enter the warning mode and manual control mode; each automatic machine gun is initially furnished with 1,000 rounds of bullets and requires timely replenishment of spare bullets.

...

With the addition of two more sets of defense facilities, it was officially declared that Yi Bai, who had just acquired over four thousand points, was left with a mere 374 points.

Yi Bai emitted a contented sigh.

"The sensation of spending is truly magnificent!"