Shawn tossed the cigarette butt under his foot and ground it twice.
He waved away the remaining smoke, roughly summarizing what Milton had just said in his mind.
First, Milton was a man whose heart was with the Han, even though he was the Governor's man. However, he eventually had a change of heart and resolutely decided to join the Prison to expose the Governor's evil deeds.
Second, Milton had never been to the Prison, nor did he have any wilderness survival experience. He traveled south but got lost in the forest.
Third, Milton wandered in the woods 70 kilometers away for a long time. If Michonne hadn't gone out to Search, he would have already died.
Fourth, after waking up and learning that he had been saved, and also knowing that the Governor had died and Woodbury had been completely destroyed, Milton joined the Prison.
After listening to Milton's story, Shawn couldn't help but chuckle.
"Wait, are you saying you originally wanted to inform us of the Governor's attack, but you somehow missed the entire process??"
Milton looked even more embarrassed, pushing up his eyeglasses.
"The former was my original plan, the latter is reality's cruel blow to me."
But Shawn felt strange again.
"Your relationship with the Governor should be good, right? He conscripted Community residents as militiamen, but he didn't make you join them. Why would you want to join the Prison?"
Milton didn't speak, just lowered his head.
"He is no longer my friend."
It was a while before Milton said this, and Shawn could even imagine the scenes flashing through Milton's mind just now.
Milton was already disappointed in the Governor.
Just looking at Milton, a thought suddenly flashed in Shawn's mind, and he slightly raised his eyes.
"You go back first. I'll come find you again soon."
Leaving that sentence, Shawn rushed back to his office on the third floor of the Administrative Building.
Beth was not here at this time. Perhaps she was with Hershel, or perhaps she was talking to Maggie about her worries, or perhaps she was following the army to kill approaching Walkers.
Beth had not forgotten what Shawn had said back then.
Thanks to this, she didn't want to just be a pretty vase. She needed to keep up with Shawn's pace, just like most people at the Quarry Camp back then.
Shawn pushed open the office door, not entering the Warden's office, but turning his gaze to the Deputy Warden's office.
At this moment, the Deputy Warden's office was filled with module units wrapped in silver-white casings.
—These were artificial intelligence units brought back from the Centers for Disease Control ruins.
Shawn walked forward, wanting to reach out and touch it, but then pulled his hand back, hesitatingly walking around the module twice.
But in the end, he settled directly in front of the artificial intelligence module, placing one hand on it.
"Repair."
As Shawn spoke, a white light flashed, and the artificial intelligence module, whose casing was originally somewhat deformed, was completely renewed.
At the same time, a progress bar appeared in front of Shawn—3000 / 3000
But Shawn knew that this was no different from repairing a fire truck normally.
Although the outer casing could be repaired, the core internal parts, such as batteries, engines, and so on, still needed to be disassembled and replaced with new parts.
Looking at the artificial intelligence module, whose basic parts were now brand new, Shawn gently tapped the casing twice with his palm.
Finally, he moved his finger away from the module unit.
Yes, after seeing Milton, the researcher, Shawn suddenly thought of a better way to utilize the artificial intelligence module.
That is 'disassembly - reassembly'.
However, for Shawn, this 'disassembly' was somewhat different.
The seven days to die system now had a 'Search' function, which meant that Shawn could completely obtain a complete artificial intelligence core through disassembly.
The module unit was just an external physical manifestation, but through 'Search', Shawn could transform it into a system item, more akin to a 'concept' existing.
The reason Shawn hadn't made up his mind was naturally because of the first 'Perception Sequence' in the stat panel.
Do you remember?
Below the 'Perception Sequence' was a skill called 'Lucky Looter'.
And this skill… could increase Shawn's 'Search stage'.
Lucky Looter
In other words, if he could max it out, the level of all items Shawn searched for would increase.
Did this mean that as long as Shawn raised this level to max, and then used 'Search' on the artificial intelligence module?
At that time, Shawn would be able to obtain an artificial intelligence without any loss, or even a more advanced one?
Thinking of this, Shawn exhaled slowly, moving his hand away from the module unit.
"To Search the module unit, I need to first add points to Lucky Looter, and Lucky Looter requires raising my basic Perception attribute to at least Lv7 before it can be maxed out."
"This also means that I need to acquire a large amount of experience points in the future to level up and gain skill points."
"I need to kill a large number of Walkers, but there's more than just my survivor Camp, and the horde might not necessarily migrate towards me."
"So, in the end, only… remained."
Shawn thought of the Blood Moon, which was less than a month away.
The fourth wave of Blood Moon Walker horde would arrive. Based on the Blood Moon's 'four times experience points for a limited time' and 'exponentially increasing number of Mutated Corpses'.
This time, at least 200 Mutated Corpses would attack, meaning 240,000 experience points were waiting for Shawn to harvest.
The key issue was that Shawn alone would find it difficult to resist this number of Mutated Corpse hordes.
So, what method could he use to maximize his gain from the experience points brought by this Blood Moon?
After much thought, Shawn came up with two points.
'Firearms' and 'Traps'.
Shawn had brought back several armored vehicles and tanks, and perhaps he could find a way to get some cannon shells.
Thanks to the large number of magazines he had searched for in the University of South Carolina Library and the State Library back then.
Explosives Depot was already Lv30, and Shawn could mass-produce gunpowder and bombs through mining.
With War Preparedness at Lv20, Shawn could now manufacture Quality 4 AK47 machine guns.
Then there were 'Traps'.
Electric Trap had been upgraded from Lv5 all the way to Lv33.
At Lv25, it unlocked three types of traps: Electric Barrier, Blade Trap, and Dart Trap.
Shawn could even find an opportunity to visit the Georgia State Library and conduct another large-scale Search.
Before the Blood Moon arrived, he would try to raise the magazine levels as much as possible, so he would have more means to deal with the Mutated Corpse horde by then.
It seemed that as Shawn's level approached Lv70, his subordinates grew more numerous, and his resource acquisition speed became faster and faster.
Even though each Blood Moon doubled in intensity, the losses it caused Shawn were less and less compared to the beginning.
During the third Blood Moon, Shawn hadn't even had enough fun killing before the Blood Moon disappeared.
Therefore, Shawn even believed that once he gradually started adding points to the unlocked skill sequences, he would officially bring the Prison back into the technological era.
By then, as long as preparations were made before the Blood Moon arrived, the Blood Moon would no longer even be a problem.
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