It has been a long time since he got to this floor. The sight of debris and rubble filling up every passage is still the same since then.
He has been suspicious at that time so he is not going here. Now with his enhanced senses, he became sure of it.
"There are something in here."
He can hear the sound of something crunching beyond the obstacles, and his narrowed at it. To be prepared, he takes the burn rifle on the dimensional storage and prep it up as he pointed at that direction.
"Okay. Convert the obstacle."
["Affirmative"]
With his confirmation, the whole debris blocking the path on his front shined in a bluish color. Then it slowly vanishes into wisps.
*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Then, a hoarse animalistic scream resounded as a small lobster-like monster with many teeth rushes at him. It's two pincers primed and ready.
It is pretty small, the same size as a big lobster, but he didn't feel troubled at that. He only flinches for a bit and takes a step back because of the sudden surprise, but he managed to snap himself out of his stupor and quickly aim at the monster.
With a pull of the trigger, the burning bullet accurately hits the lobster-like monster. It easily burns up and let out an aroma of burnt flesh as it screams in agony.
While that is happening, he heard another set of screams behind that monster. Looking beyond the darkness, he can see a swarm of them charging at him.
"Fuck!"
He quickly pulls the trigger and let out a series of shots on the little critters. They let out a squeal as their insides burned out when the bullets pierces through their shells.
Though there are a lot of them and are as fast as a mice. He can see it already. They are going to reach him.
"Shit!" He took a step back and take another weapon.
With swift movements, he managed to change weapon into the flamethrower. Then he pulls the trigger and let out a spray of fire on the ground.
The flames easily spreads and burns the monsters rushing at him.
After a few minutes, he stops. The only thing remaining are the fires and the burning corpses of those little creatures.
"Damn! That was scary!"
He takes a cautious look around as he takes a step forward again. While doing it, he let the automatic conversion of both of his system to do their work as he makes cautious movements.
He makes sure to install laser turrets and wall turrets before leaving the stairs and going forward. The path forward is filled with a lot of blockage and debris.
He converted these into DP as he goes forward. Everytime he takes out an obstacle, many of these little critters are appearing and charging at him.
He uses the flamethrower to deal with them as quickly as possible then go forward once again.
He repeated doing that while taking care of the obstacles.
The whole day passed with him just doing that.
~~o~~
"Ah.... this whole place is busted."
He half expected it, but seeing it makes him certain of it.
The whole third floor is just a bunch of debris full of these little monsters. Along with it, he encounters some small wiggling locusts that have a lot of circular teeth. It is scary so he didn't want to think about it too much.
There is nothing special on the third floor. There is no hidden rooms, or some sort of intelligent monster. Nothing. It's just a destroyed floor full of creepy crawlies.
"Goddamn. What a waste of effort." He whined. "I'll just do it tomorrow. This is giving me the creeps!"
With that decision, he made a laser turret and wall turrets on the ceilings. Then he upgraded the floor so it turns into the Old Floor. After doing all of that, he finally leaves this floor while feeling letdown.
~~o~~
The evening has come and he is just chilling on his bed and looking at his phone. He have been writing his other objectives in there while crossing one of it.
"Conquering the Third Floor... done!" He said while feeling dissatisfied.
There is nothing special on the third floor. So it is a real letdown. If there is something special, he would have become excited.
He stands up and moves to his storage to take something. Inside are five water bottles.
Some days ago, he have thought of this neat trick to create more identical things. He have seen that his upgrade fixes a broken thing and turn it whole again. So he thought of cutting the bottle in half and upgrading the two separately.
It works, which gives him another idea how to use his powers.
He didn't want to waste much of his upgrades. His upgrade is very useful, and he thinks it might be useful on emergencies, so he is always stocking up at least 30 just in case.
As he got one of the water bottles, he also take a box of ham & cheese pizza with a lot of additional toppings before going back to his bed.
While eating, he has been thinking about his experience.
"Hah... I wanted to meet someone." He muttered unconsciously.
It will be almost two months since he wakes up on this place. He have cooped up on this building and recently, he have been going outside and getting a bit farther as days passed.
Of course he goes back before evening comes.
He have created more defensive installments outside the building. There are many automatic artilleries, missile launchers, heat rays, cold rays, etc.
These defenses were erected on two hundred meters in perimeter. So all sides are covered.
Since the time he goes out and moves around, he haven't seen any people yet. There are some creatures beyond the wasteland, but those creates aren't getting near. It seems like they are scared of getting obliterated by his defenses.
He didn't want to go beyond the wasteland and go inside the remaining greenery. He wanted to prepare a bit more. So he decided to deal with the remaining floorof this building.
The third floor has been mostly explored. He thinks there are no more fourth floor here.
He knows because when he looks at this building on the outside, he saw how utterly wrecked it is. It can be considered as the rooftop then.
In fact, when he upgraded the exterior of this building, only the ones up to the third floor have been upgraded to normal. There are no more on the fourth story of this building.
So he is sure there is no more fourth floor here. He is just going to finish exploring the third floor, then he will prepare himself to explore the vicinity of the wasteland to see what's within.
He really wanted to have a contact with people. Just living alone is getting to him now. His self monologuing is becoming more frequent, and he notices it so he is becoming concerned for himself.
"Tomorrow, I'll finish exploring the third floor! After that, it'll be looking for any people!"
He vowed to himself as he finished eating his pizzas.