This time, Zhang Qin Feng returned to his General Store via the garage door. The moment it was opened, two beautiful Rhinos are parked nicely with its ammunition by the side.
If he has to look for a thing to complain, perhaps he could only say something about the emptiness of this garage. Although minutes later, he noticed something out of the ordinary.
Near the door back to the store, has a makeshift weapon shelf assembled. 5 assembled Leishen P-14s is placed on the rack, all come with 2 fully loaded mags.
Once he's done appreciating the arrangement, Zhang Qin Feng walked through the door. But the surprise did not end here. The shelves that were used to hold the goods he's selling is not extended. There was even a button to control which compartment to stays at a certain height.
And a matte black fridge for drinks is plugged on the wall by the side of his bed. But inside is not drinks. There were 4 holding racks in total, enough to fit 30 ampoules each.
The workshop is not left aside from this upgrade. It was extended slightly in size, and two pieces of machinery are attached to this room.
His first machine grabs all available SCV Culture into a two-layer tank. And the production of Gene Enhancer and Recovery Serum will keep going as long the ingredient to manufacture the ampoule is available.
As for the Tinkerer's Workbench, it is now combined with the Printer and its companion stations. The device that replaces all its menu named this piece of technology as,
[Olympus Peak]
From the device, choice of manufacturing any items are now right on a tap of his finger. Although he can still manually inspect the process, Olympus Peak replaced the requirement to monitor, arrange, and prepares things before things can be made.
But the Main Server is still nowhere to be found.
Although he knows that everything he has is provided by this Server, which is his cheat system, he's clueless for its reason to not showing itself before him.
With everything now automated, there's nothing much for him to do except activating the dimensional travel.
"Weird. Where's the generator?" Zhang Qin Feng searched around for the generator, but it is missing!
"Device, where's the generator?" Zhang Qin Feng tapped on the search option.
"Toot!"
[The Dimensional Generator has been upgraded. The Mother-Key can now be used to activates the generator remotely]
[Note: 1-hour time limit for every Red Meteorite Core used during the travel. Can be shortened or extended remotely]
"What? That's means I can choose to make this travel longer or shorter by a tap on this device?" Zhang Qin Feng smirks. What an unusual upgrade happened to his General Store!
Without wasting any more of his time, Zhang Qin Feng tapped on the travel button and made his way to the apocalypse.
...
The apocalypse is in a mess once again.
Although there's no gunshots or explosion outside once he arrived, the alert situation given by the people does not make him feel relaxed. Zhang Qin Feng walked outside of his General Store with 3 Luna II device in hand.
The previous device that Dan Bao gave him also absorbed and assimilated into this Mother-Key. By tapping on its options button, Zhang Qin Feng gets in touch with Dan Mi.
"Update me," Zhang Qin Feng said.
"Xicheng Base sends people over to attack our base. There are 2 teams, around 55 people laying suppression fire on us. Their munitions include Leishen Rifles, Daschund Automatic Machine Guns, and some homemade sidearms."
"So far, we see no heavy weaponry like Walpurgis Darts or Target Seeking Rockets." Dan Mi's thorough report gave Zhang Qin Feng an idea of how well his enemy equipped.
But after hearing Dan Mi's second sentence, their main motive to attack them is exposed.
Perhaps, yesterday's exploration by the two units alarmed them and forced them to take action today. Those from Xicheng Base has no idea about why 2 units suddenly explore and clear their surroundings, while Azure Wind Gang has no idea why they are here.
"Dan Mi," Zhang Qin Feng suddenly came up with a good idea.
"Yes, boss," Dan Mi replied.
"What do you guys usually do if you win the gunfight?" Zhang Qin Feng asked. Up till now, he still lacks on-field experience about what to do if something like this happened.
"We'll put a depleted Uranium choke on them. Those following orders will be given Anti-Radiation Medicine weekly. If they dare to fight against us after labeled as a slave, we're free to kill or sell them as food to other gangs."
"Or, we can put a ransom on their heads. Because only living people worth credits. Their leader will make the decision to pay or not. This trick is profitable but not that easy to be done." Dan Mi gave Zhang Qin Feng two kinds of options.
"Oh? Why is it not easy to be done?" it puzzled Zhang Qin Feng. If that's a ransom, how can it be hard to accomplish?
"The two teams over here are likely the bottom of their hierarchy. If we're using them as ransom, I think Xicheng Base will ignore it. Plus, if these people have families inside the base, then its directly a license to enslave them without explanation."
"I would say putting a depleted Uranium Choke is the best idea," Dan Mi explained to Zhang Qin Feng why the ransom option is impossible.
"But I don't see any slave from Blood Wolf Gang. What's the reason?" Zhang Qin Feng continues to ask.
Since the apocalypse is not a peaceful place to be, how come the Blood Wolf Gang has not even a single slave? They're not weak!
"Well... Money problem."
"We're unwilling to bear the cost of making Protein Bars for them, so we rather sell them out cheaply or just use them to exchange whatever equipment they got for their teammates." Dan Mi explained the reason they don't have one.
"That's quite a simple reason." Zhang Qin Feng added.
"Well... What should we do?" Dan Mi sound embarrassed as he listened to Zhang Qin Feng's remark.
"Well, we need somebody to work anyway, and the Protein Bar Maker is literally idle over there. Capture as much as you can and finish it in 1 hour. Can you make it?" Zhang Qin Feng gave his reason for capturing those people and asked Dan Mi if he can accomplish this task.
"We can do it. Please wait for our good news." Dan Mi replied.
"Good. There are 2 Rhinos, ammunition, and 5 Leishen Rifle, take them over there to speed up the process." Zhang Qin Feng laughed as he finished his last sentence.
"Roger that, boss!!!" that sentence made Dan Mi leads a team personally to collect all the supplies. And with the addition of 2 Rhinos and 5 brand new rifles, the soldiers from Xicheng Base got captured within 30 minutes.
But out of the 55 people, 14 people have fallen due to fatal shots, falling debris, and other causes. Only 1 unlucky guy got blasted into pieces by the fired High Caliber Railgun.
"Zhang Qin Feng is quite happy with Dan Mi and the other fighter's performance. If they can continue presenting him with these kinds of results, it won't be hard for him to reach the top tier gang's position.
The 40 people are quickly fitted with a black radiation choke before they're assigned in the base cleaning debris.
As for Zhang Qin Feng, he's not interested in watching how these people get tortured because they're not listening to the order.
Because today is the day two convoys from his Scraps Exchange Company is making their way outside Zone 15 to trade!