Left front paw, left hind paw, right hind paw, heart...
In just one minute.
The Blood Plague Crocodile was hit by over a dozen rounds of artillery fire, its entire body engulfed in yellow flames, with thick white smoke billowing out!
In an instant.
A strong, acrid smell of burning filled the entire battlefield! Under such relentless assault, even the Blood Plague Crocodile could no longer maintain its composure. It roared furiously, abandoning the Blood Plague Nest, and fled with its tail between its legs toward the nearby sea!
Seeing this, Xu Zhengyang's face lit up with excitement.
Realizing that the mechanical army he had built could easily crush a medium-sized Blood Plague Nest, Xu Zhengyang's confidence soared! Without wasting any more time, he immediately commanded his mechanical army to charge toward the Blood Plague Nest!...
Ten minutes later.
After Xu Zhengyang had completely cleared out the Blood Plague Nest and retrieved the Psychic Crystal inside.
He promptly recalled his entire mechanical army back into the Dimensional Space Pocket and piloted the Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha in its FPV drone form back to his shelter.
*As soon as Xu Zhengyang returned to the shelter and placed the Psychic Crystal from the Dimensional Space Pocket on the ground.
A series of red system messages appeared before his eyes: [Special Challenge Quest: Psychic Obelisk (Completed)]
[Reward Obtained: Forced Contract Card]
With the system prompt, a black metal card appeared in Xu Zhengyang's hand.
[Forced Contract Card]
[Effect: Upon use, you can forcibly claim a Cosmic Artifact for your own use]
(Warning: The ritual to claim a Cosmic Artifact using the Forced Contract Card requires six uninterrupted hours.
If the ritual is interrupted in any way, the contract will inevitably fail!
Please ensure you are in a safe environment before using this card!)
After reading the detailed properties of the Forced Contract Card, Xu Zhengyang immediately deployed his entire mechanical army, stationing them at various corners of the shelter.
Then.
Xu Zhengyang issued an order to Da Bai, "Activate all of the shelter's defense facilities. For the next six hours, absolutely no one is allowed to approach the shelter!"
"Understood, Master."
Da Bai acknowledged and immediately began deploying the shelter's defense systems, faithfully executing Xu Zhengyang's command!
Xu Zhengyang nodded in satisfaction.
He then entered an empty room, retrieved the Psychic Obelisk from the Dimensional Space Pocket, and immediately used the Forced Contract Card on it! As the card transformed into a stream of light, connecting Xu Zhengyang and the Psychic Obelisk.
"Whoosh!"
The Psychic Obelisk suddenly erupted with a brilliant azure light, enveloping Xu Zhengyang within it!
...
Under the azure glow.
Xu Zhengyang felt like a mosquito trapped in amber, completely losing his sense of time.
In the next moment.
Xu Zhengyang's vision blurred, and the Psychic Obelisk returned to normal. He could now see its detailed properties: [Cosmic Artifact: Psychic Obelisk]
[Skills]
(Psychic Mark: You can apply a psychic mark to any item under your control)
(Psychic Resonance Channel: When the Psychic Obelisk is placed in the Shelter Control Center.
You can instantly communicate with all units within a straight-line distance of 300,000 kilometers that possess psychic markers.
After seeing the attributes of the Psychic Obelisk, Xu Zhengyang's breathing became rapid! Three hundred thousand kilometers! This is roughly the distance light can travel in one second! Previously, Xu Zhengyang had dreamed of a giant mechanical celestial body that imprisoned a star as its power source.
The reason it could manipulate its massive body without any hindrance was because it possessed information transmission speed equal to the speed of light!
Now, Xu Zhengyang had also gained a similar ability through the Psychic Obelisk.
He took a big step forward, getting closer to becoming the existence he had dreamed of! At this moment.
A series of system subtitles suddenly appeared before Xu Zhengyang's eyes, indicating that his previous main quest had also been completed:
[Main Quest: Expand Production (Completed)]
[Reward: Intermediate Stamina Awakening Injection]
...
[Intermediate Stamina Awakening Injection]
[Effect: After use, increases your stamina to 40 points and grants a corresponding Awakening Skill]
Seeing the Intermediate Stamina Awakening Injection appear in his hand out of thin air, Xu Zhengyang didn't hesitate and immediately injected it into his arm.
[You used [Intermediate Stamina Awakening Injection]]
[Your Stamina attribute has increased to 40 points]
[You have awakened the skill: [Active Cells]]
As the system prompt appeared, Xu Zhengyang looked down at his attribute panel to check the details of the Active Cells skill:
[Active Cells: In a satiated state, your life force and mental strength recovery rates increase by 100%]
After reviewing the attributes of the new Active Cells skill.
Xu Zhengyang nodded and said, "It seems I need to stock up on high-calorie food in my Dimensional Space Pocket."
Next.
Xu Zhengyang opened his quest list to check the latest main quest:
[Main Quest: Ammo Reserves (In Progress)]
[Caliber is justice, firepower is truth!
In the apocalypse, only sufficient firepower can give you a sense of security!]
[Quest Objective: Expand your ammo production workshop, requiring a daily output of no less than 10,000 rounds, and the ability to produce at least ten types of special ammunition]
[Quest Reward: Spacetime Teleportation Platform]
After seeing the new main quest, Xu Zhengyang nodded thoughtfully and said, "Need to produce at least ten types of special ammunition?"
There are many classifications of ammunition.
In addition to the most common kinetic bullets of various calibers, there are also armor-piercing rounds, high-explosive anti-tank rounds, incendiary rounds, flare rounds, white phosphorus rounds, thermobaric rounds, and a series of other special ammunition.
These ammunition types have different functions.
In specific situations, they can produce unexpected miraculous effects!
For example, the white phosphorus rounds Xu Zhengyang had just used.
Just one or two hundred rounds were enough to repel a Blood Plague crocodile that was over forty meters long! If he could fully equip his mechanical army with white phosphorus rounds of various calibers…
Just thinking about this scene.
Xu Zhengyang trembled with excitement! He immediately said to Da Bai, "Create an expansion plan for the ammo production workshop to increase daily output to no less than 10,000 rounds.
And ensure it can produce at least ten types of special ammunition."
"Understood, Master."
Da Bai spoke as he sent the expansion plan for the production workshop to Xu Zhengyang's smart contact lens.
At the same time, he said, "The renovation of the production workshop isn't difficult. With the current productivity of the shelter, it can be fully completed in at most two days.
However, the various raw materials needed for ammunition production are severely lacking.
Our reserves of raw materials for making smokeless powder are down to the last 16%, and we also lack the materials needed to produce various types of special ammunition."
Thank you to Anhui's Brother Qiang for the reward, thank you, Boss! The Boss is generous!
These two chapters are to make up for yesterday's. There will be t
wo more chapters later. I'll send them together once I finish writing, but it will probably be very late, so I suggest reading them tomorrow.
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