Chapter 174.2: Relocation of the Steel Factory, New Gathering Point

Just as the rookie players were wielding axes and sticks and cleaning up the mutant mice and cockroaches in the abandoned tire factory while screaming excitedly, Spring Water Commander, who had changed into his new gear, was clearing the abandoned school located in the city area near the north of Longevity Town.

The school was not very large, and it was probably a community college before the war.

Last time, he and a fellow player of the perception type found an abandoned military camp in the area, as well as traces of the survivors from before.

Intuition told him that something good could be found.

The sound of gunshots rang out one after another, breaking the silence.

Breaking into the abandoned school building, two of his teammates, with their automatic weapons, continued to harvest Crunchers who were wandering in the hall on the first floor.

Using his gun to take out the three Crunchers that rushed up to him, Battlefield Cheerleader shouted excitedly towards the teammates next to him.

"Hahaha, brother, it's not me showing off, this Sickle is so awesome!"

As expected of a

CF

cheat weapon!

This thudding sound was much more enjoyable than the sound of an iron-barreled rifle!

"Nice! 1 more kill!" With the flame bursting out from the muzzle, Darkest shouted excitedly with a red face, "BOOM! Headshot!"

Compared with the Sickle assault rifle, the 5mm revolver he used before was simply just a water gun!

At this moment, the Spring Water Commander wearing the exoskeleton was also carrying a crowbar in hand.

Seeing that his teammates were wasting bullets on Crunchers, he couldn't help cursing. "For fuck’s sake, you should save the damn ammunition, one bullet cos a silver coin, you know!"

He originally planned to buy an LD-47 to play with, but he gave all the money in his pocket to Mosquito.

Fortunately, Mosquito finally became reliable for once. He really didn't lie and he actually got him a set of armor that was exactly the same as that of the administrator.

The suspended armor basically protected all the vital points of his body. Without affecting the mobility, the original set of mining exoskeleton was directly upgraded to the armor of heavy infantry.

It would be perfect if he had a hammer!

Sadly, he didn't even have a copper coin at the moment; he even had to ask his good brother to buy him dinner the night before.

If he failed to get anything he would have to go hungry for sure.

Battlefield Cheerleader grunted, "Don't panic, you made money to spend it, not keep it!"

Darkest said with a smile, “That's right! In the game, if you don't spend money lavishly, what's the difference between you and a salted fish?"

"Brother, I don’t seem to have much bullets left, can you spare me a little bit?" Battlefield Cheerleader asked.

"Uh, you should’ve said it earlier, I'm almost out of bullets as well." Darkest mumbled softly.

Battlefield Cheerleader couldn’t help but yell, "Damn it! Why don't you save some."

"Do you even have the audacity to say this?!"

Spring Water Commander was struck speechless. "..."

Having said that, after going deep into the building, the two people that were having fun shooting eventually stopped.

After all, 30 silver coins per magazine was still a lot of money. So Battlefield Cheerleader had bayonets inserted under the barrel, and Darkest took out the axe hanging from his waist.

While it was okay to mess around from time to time, they had to be cautious when the time came.

In narrow terrain where melee weapons could be used, it was better to use melee as much as possible.

Going through the hall and entering the hallway, the three clearly felt that the atmosphere was a little strange.

Darkest frowned. "This should be a laboratory building."

Battlefield Cheerleader couldn’t help but ask, “How do you know?”

"I don't know, it just feels like one," Darkest grunted softly.

Spring Water Commander was struck speechless again. "..."

"Alright, alright, I’ll quit messing around," Darkest frowned, his eyes glancing around alertly, "I feel something is approaching us."

Although he was only LV4, and he had only 10 points of perception, which was still a bit weaker than the old players, it was still not a problem for him to perceive danger.

Not daring to take it lightly, Spring Water Commander switched the crowbar from his right hand to his left, and then his right hand took out the pistol from his waist.

However, almost at the same time, a shrill roar suddenly came from above the half-collapsed ceiling ahead.

The three of them were startled, and they raised their guns quickly, only to see a Creeper sticking its head out of the back of the collapsed ceiling, and running towards the three of them with a roar.

"Shit! Creeper..." Spring Water Commander standing in the front row bore the brunt of it, and was hit by the rushing Creeper.

It happened so suddenly, so much so that they didn't react in time.

Thanks to the cuirass attached to the exoskeleton, Spring Water Commander who was hit by the Creeper only felt his internal organs were tumbling, but he wasn’t seriously hurt.

The pistol was knocked away, Spring Water Commander and Creeper tumbled back five or six meters together, and firmly hit the wall behind them.

Seeing that the Creeper was going to bite him, Spring Water Commander almost instinctively raised the crowbar to block the bloody mouth, and pressed his hands forward desperately.

"

Roar

!" The dirt stained teeth were right in front of him!

Spring Water Commander could even smell the terrible breath emanating from its mouth.

"Fuck!" The steel pipe was gradually bent. Dodging the dropping saliva, Spring Water Commander cursed. He increased the output power of the exoskeleton as much as he could before pushing out with his right hand which had clenched into a fist aimed directly at the monster’s head.

"Die!"

"Motherfucker!"

The moment their voices rang through the air, there was a loud bang.

As the copper shell as thick as a fist was ejected from the side of the arm, a steel nail as thick as a thumb was shot out from the front of his arm, and pierced through Creeper's head ruthlessly.

Black blood splashed everywhere.

Creeper, whose head was penetrated, struggled for a while, and finally fell heavily beside Spring Water Commander.

The two people who came to help, and Spring Water Commander himself, who was pressed on the ground by the Creeper were all taken aback by the power.

"Holy shit, what kind of equipment is this?!"

After wiping the blood on his face, Spring Water Commander spat out the blood in his mouth and said. "I don't know... Mosquito said that this thing is called the Nail Gun. He also said that if I wanted to, I could call it Steel Nail 1.0."

Its principle seemed to be the compression ignition of nitrocellulose. It could push the steel nails in the nail gun in the left arm of the exoskeleton out and shoot at a target. According to Mosquito, it could penetrate a 20mm steel plate at close range.

Coincidentally, it was the thickness of the steel plates welded into his exoskeleton.

"This is so cool..." Darkest looked envious and picked up the hot bullet case on the ground, "Why not use an electric drive? Don't you have a battery in this exoskeleton?"

Spring Water Commander shook his head in confusion. "Mosquito said that it is more powerful this way."

Indeed.

Explosive propulsion was much more powerful than electric motors. The only disadvantage was that if he wanted to shoot a second time, he had to recharge it, and it could not continue to output like a pile driver.

However, it didn’t seem necessary.

Half of the Creeper's head had been blown off...

Battlefield Cheerleader reached out and pulled Spring Water Commander up from the ground.

"Dude, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, it's just that my stomach hurts from being hit." Shaking his head, Spring Water Commander picked up the pistol that had fallen from the ground, and continued to explore with his two teammates.

The dead Creeper seemed to be the last boss.

The monsters they encountered later were dull-headed Crunchers, and they were easily dealt with by them without any effort at all.

Next to a laboratory, they found an entrance to a basement.

The basement door was open, and the dark passageway gave everyone the creeps.

Spring Water Commander swallowed and said nervously, "Do we want to go down and have a look?"

His question was pointless.

Since they had already gotten so far, they couldn’t just leave empty-handed.

If there was an entrance to a labyrinth below, or some hidden testing facility, they would be able to find many valuable treasures.

But the question was...

Who was going to go down first?

Darkest looked at the rest and eventually said, "I always feel that there is something bad in it... So Spring Water Commander, I'll leave it to you."

Spring Water Commander’s eyes widened in shock. "Screw you! You said that there is something bad down there, and you’re asking me to go first?!"

"No shit? You have the greatest stamina and you’re the tankiest. If you don’t carry the team, who can carry us?” Darkest grumbled.

Spring Water Commander argued, “Is this a problem with my stamina or strength?!”

Seeing that his teammates became more and more unreliable, Battlefield Cheerleader sighed, and stood out bravely. "I'll do it."

Spring Water Commander looked at him with excitement, placing his right hand on his shoulder. "Nice! You can do it! We are counting on you!"

Darkest also put his hand on his shoulder and encouraged him. "Go brother, we are waiting for your news on the official website!"

"???"

Luckily, Darkest's intuition was wrong. There were no deadly radiation, traps, or dangerous monsters lurking in the passage leading to the basement.

It was also a shame that the end of the passage was also not a relic of a pre-war civilization, the entrance to the underground labyrinth, nor a mysterious experimental institution.

Fortunately, they didn’t leave empty handed.

There were ten low temperature hibernation pods neatly arranged in the spacious basement. The hatch was open, and judging from the ash falling on it, it should have been opened for a long time.

The battery had been removed, perhaps by scavengers who had come here before, or by those who had woken up from the hibernation pods.

Fortunately, although the battery was removed, the electrical equipment behind the hibernation pods was intact. There wasn’t a single scratch on them!

According to the purchase price from the warehouse of the outpost, an disassembled abandoned hibernation pod could be sold for at least 50 silver coins, and even up to 100 silver coins!

There were 10 of them!

The three held their breath in unison. In particular, Spring Water Commander, whose pocket was cleaner than his face, clenched his fists excitedly.

Fuck yeah!

I’m no longer broke now!

Battlefield Cheerleader looked at everyone and asked, "There is only one question now, how do we move all these back to base?"

Spring Water Commander said excitedly, "This is easy, we can rent a truck and drive it outside the city. I’ve asked about the price before. Every 1 kilometer costs 10 silver coins."

It was about 20 kilometers back to Linghu Wetland Park, and it was easy to earn back the fee for renting the truck through scavenging.

"By the way... This mark looks very familiar." Standing next to a desk, Darkest held a metal box he found from a drawer and said with uncertainty.

The box was pitch black and it was made of unknown material. It was impossible to tell what it was used for, and there was no mechanism or button to open it.

The back of the box was printed with an indented circular logo.

"Let me see."

Walking to the side of Darkest, Spring Water took the black box from his hand and stared at the logo for some time.

The logo was a small dot on the outside of a big circle, a bit like the earth and the moon, or a hydrogen atom.

Hmm, indeed, it looks very familiar...

I feel like I've seen it somewhere before.

Spring Water Commander frowned.

The next second, Battlefield Commander standing next to them suddenly interjected, "I've seen this before! It’s stated somewhere on the official website!"

Spring Water Commander suddenly came back to his senses and blurted, "The Academy?!"

The three who reacted were stunned for a moment.

Holy mother of god...

Did we just trigger the main plot?!