Chaos Arises

When most people were gathering supplies, they didn't think of using cloth rags with better water absorption, so now they could only use the inferior plant fibers as a substitute. Touching a handful of rags from the corner of the cabinet and counting them, Liam felt reassured.

It should be enough!

Lighting a torch, Liam cautiously approached the stone gate to check where the water was seeping in. After observing for a while, Liam was relieved.

The leak was at the bottom right edge of the stone gate.

Perhaps due to the uneven terrain, the shelter was actually slightly tilted, with the left side higher than the right. This directly caused the acid rain to seep in through the lower gap on the right side.

And because of the unevenness, the left side hadn't leaked yet, otherwise, it would be troublesome if both sides were seeping water.

"If that's the case, it's not too serious..."

Staring at the leak where water was slowly seeping in, a bold idea came to Liam's mind.

"If this acid rain can be collected, wouldn't it be equivalent to a poison, a very strong one at that..."

While others were trying to figure out how to survive the disaster, Liam, in his luxurious shelter, had an active mind.

The more he thought about it, the more Liam felt it was feasible, and he said excitedly, "Since this acid rain doesn't corrode anything other than the human body, I might as well just make a guide rail and use a water tank to collect the leaking acid rain!"

No sooner said than done, Liam spread out the rags and carefully placed them on the area where water had accumulated. Seeing the water on the ground quickly absorbed by the dry rags, Liam's heart relaxed.

The anxious Oreo, who had been watching from the side, seemed to sense that the danger was disappearing, and his expression of baring his teeth softened.

While waiting for the water to be absorbed, Liam began to check the survival points he had earned yesterday.

[Apocalypse Calendar January 5th]

[You safely spent the first night of the disaster without being harmed by it (Survival Points +5)]

[Through your unremitting training, your combat effectiveness has slightly increased (Survival Points +2)]

[You have built the first small-scale building facility belonging to the shelter - Drainage Channels (Survival Points +30)]

[Your base has undergone earth-shaking changes, leaping from the Wooden Age to the Stone Age (Survival Points +50)]

[You have obtained your first ranged weapon, which has greatly increased your combat effectiveness (Survival Points +10)]

[Your ranged shooting ability has improved (Survival Points +2)]

[Scanning the host's survival environment, evaluating survival points, you have earned 52 survival points today.]

Final Settlement: Survival Points +151

Remaining Survival Points: 153

153 survival points!

Seeing the final statistics, Liam was pleasantly surprised.

Yesterday, upgrading the shelter had basically used up all his survival points, leaving him with only 2 points and a sharp drop in his sense of security.

Unexpectedly, thanks to the drainage system and the stone shelter, his survival points had recovered to 153.

"Now I'm not afraid of the disaster suddenly intensifying!"

Compared to the shelter itself, the recovery of survival points undoubtedly provided a greater sense of security.

Sitting on the stone chair, looking at the stable shelter, a sense of security washed over him, and then his stomach began to growl in protest.

"You must be hungry too~"

Touching his stomach, Liam laughed. Oreo, who was beside him, also understood that it was time to eat, and his pacing seemed as if he were about to fly with joy.

Taking out the M-energy water that had been stored overnight and confirming that the water quality was fine using the survival system, Liam poured all the water into the wooden bucket and stored it.

Using a wooden basin, he poured about 1L of M-energy water from the bucket into the earthen pot and started a fire to cook.

It was the same bread soup as before, with a rich broth, slightly white in color, and an unforgettable taste.

While others were desperately trying to survive the disaster, being able to drink such a hot soup in an underground shelter was truly comfortable.

After eating, drinking, and washing the dishes, the rags had absorbed all but a little of the acid rain on the floor.

Carefully poking the rags to the side with a wooden stick, Liam used a torch to dry and evaporate the last bit of moisture.

"It seems like it's only a slight leak, this much accumulated in one night."

After observing the gap in the door, Liam had a clearer understanding of the shelter's current disaster resistance capabilities.

Although the acid rain was terrifying, it was classified as a newbie disaster in the survival game.

This meant that as long as everyone used their brains and was careful, it wouldn't be difficult to survive the first disaster.

The facts also proved that those who were able to survive basically relied on their own methods and had no problem lasting for a day.

After conveniently moving the water tank to the bottom of the steps using the storage space, Liam began to make the guide rail for collecting acid rain.

Using two units of iron to create an iron plate with raised edges, Liam then took out two units of plant fiber to make hemp ropes and used wooden boxes to fix the iron plate in place.

All the rainwater seeping in through the gap in the door would flow down the stone steps, eventually falling onto the iron plate and sliding all the way into the water tank.

At the current rate, collecting about 1L of rainwater before the end of the disaster shouldn't be a problem.

After completing all this disaster preparedness work and watering the vegetable patch, Liam sat down on the chair and continued to gather information.

Unable to go out, almost everyone was gathered in the chat channels.

Skipping the overwhelming world channel, Liam clicked into the heavily-hit regional channel.

The once lively regional channel was now sparse, with most of the messages exchanging trivial matters.

"Sigh, when will these hard days end?"

"The situation here is okay, I chose a high ground, so it's not bad, it seems there's no problem surviving this disaster, but next time..."

"Little Liu, who was next to my base before, has lost contact since yesterday, I don't know what happened."

"I heard that some people on the wasteland have abandoned their shelters and are roaming around, relying on robbing others. Be careful when you're dealing with the disaster, don't let these beasts attack you."

"Yeah, in these lawless times, I don't know how many lives will be lost."

"If they dare to come, I'm not a pushover either, I'll make them pay the price. Besides, these people must have robbed a lot of supplies, maybe I can make a fortune from them."

"Don't joke about that, they come in groups of several people, you're just one person, you can't fight them all!"

After lurking and observing for a while, Liam silently quit the regional channel.

He had long anticipated that some people would abandon their shelters, choose to wander, and rely on attacking their fellow humans to gather supplies.

He just didn't expect this kind of moral depravity to come so quickly.

"It seems that in the future, not only do I have to be careful of mutated monsters, but also of these wasteland wanderers."

Silently adding a new rule to his survival principles, Liam began to examine the newly appeared function.

Now, below the chat function, in addition to the world channel and the regional channel, there was indeed a new disaster channel.

Clicking into the disaster channel, it was a bit like the live broadcast rooms in the civilized era, with ten video live broadcast windows evenly arranged on one page, from one to ten.

Even the titles of the live broadcast rooms were different.

"The Universe's Number One Shelter, No Need to Send Gifts, Come In and Be My Friend"

"Today's Live Broadcast: Acid Rain Disaster, the Host Will Personally Explain the Design Specifications of the Shelter"

"Huaxia Shelter, Recruiting Strong Members, Recruiting Members with Any Professional Skills, Taking in Nearby Disaster Victims, Providing Food and Accommodation"

"Top Ideas, Looking at Future Disaster Trends from an Offensive and Defensive Perspective"

"Lone Wolf Survival Guide"

"Zeus Shelter, Recruiting Strong Members, Requirements...."

Among the top ten shelters currently with live broadcast permissions, only four were domestic, ranking third, fifth, sixth, and ninth.

The other six were foreign.

Seeing this number, Liam was slightly surprised.

In his estimation, it would be very good if there were two domestic shelters in the top ten, but he didn't expect there to be four now.

After all, in terms of hands-on ability and combat ability, foreign countries were sparsely populated and had more opportunities for training.

Domestically, it was relatively safe, so naturally, many people didn't have the chance to experience real-world practice in the wild.