I can upgrade the shelter
Chapter 44: Returning to the Shelter (Seeking recommendations, seeking collection)

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Returning to the Shelter (Seeking recommendations, seeking collection)

While the Ten-mile Slope Sword God is indeed a development approach, it’s somewhat overly cautious. Although it is an apocalypse now, it hasn’t reached the point depicted in various films where social order completely collapses, nations cease to exist, everyone struggles to survive, the dark side of human nature is magnified infinitely, and everyone has cast aside kindness, ready to do anything to survive.

Now, there will indeed be some sordid incidents happening, and some of the dirt previously hidden beneath the surface will become more direct, but basic social order still exists.

Without major changes, the structure of the city has essentially formed, and the subsequent process is just about fine-tuning and stabilizing the situation.

Given that the overall social environment remains relatively stable, a small shelter like Chen Xin’s, which is far from the city center, will not face significant danger as long as it isn’t discovered and targeted.

In this situation, Chen Xin, with the relationship he has with Uncle Ding, can adopt a bolder development model, allowing himself to develop quickly by exchanging vegetables for resources.

This could very well be the last autumn before the real winter arrives. If enough resources are not secured during this relatively mild weather to develop the shelter, it will be as challenging as climbing to the sky to collect and transport supplies once the temperature truly drops to minus several tens of degrees, akin to temperatures inside the polar circle.

Moreover, as the temperature continues to drop, more problems will undoubtedly be exposed.

Chen Xin is not someone who sees human nature as overly dark, nor does he harbor the greatest malice to speculate about others.

However, the ugliness of human nature is an objective reality. No matter how much one believes in the beauty of humanity, it cannot be denied that some people indeed harbor darkness.

Especially in such apocalyptic scenarios, inherently dark-toned, the dark side of human nature and the grotesque side of humanity find soil to flourish, growing ever stronger as the survival environment worsens.

This is an inevitability of human nature and an unavoidable issue in the apocalypse.

Hence the ancient saying "In chaotic times, heavy penalties are necessary," as in such perilous environments, where people strive to survive, they are capable of anything.

Only by demonstrating an unwavering resolve and tough measures can one suppress those with ulterior motives or panic-stricken people to maintain a fragile order.

Currently, we are in a buffer period before the real crisis hits. Thanks to the ample preparations made by the country early on, combined with temperatures not yet falling below freezing, the survival environment is not too harsh, so order is relatively stable, and various contradictions and issues have not fully emerged.

But as the temperature continues to drop, especially when it plunges below freezing and approaches polar temperatures, resources stored by various shelters will be significantly depleted, and various survival problems will arise, like bubbles in a bottle of soda.

By then, the environment will be much harsher, and without means of self-preservation, small shelters like those of Chen Xin and Mo Qingyan, without assistance, will have a hard time surviving.

Whether it’s energy or food, they will become increasingly difficult to obtain as the environment worsens, posing a desperate situation for small shelters lacking output.

This point was already recognized by both Chen Yu and Mo Qingyan in their previous discussions.

If not for the system, Chen Xin might still worry about this issue, but with the system now, these problems can no longer trouble him.

As long as sufficient materials are obtained during this time, the shelter is further upgraded, the greenhouse can produce enough food, and the power system is upgraded to a self-sufficient energy system...

Chen Xin believes that with these, he will definitely be able to survive well in this apocalypse.

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Without any traffic lights on the way, they quickly returned to Chen Xin’s shelter. After Chen Xin opened the gate, Mo Qingyan was the first to drive the car into Chen Xin’s shelter.

With the help of Mo Qingyan and Ding Ning, they lifted the large freezer from the small truck they came in and placed it into the storage room. Only then did Chen Xin express his gratitude to the two, "Thanks, Dragon-lady, Little Ding. You really helped me a lot. I couldn’t have gotten this thing back by myself."

"You’re welcome for the ingredients!" Mo Qingyan and Ding Ning didn’t mind Chen Xin’s gratitude, and after smiling, they began to assess Chen Xin’s shelter.

Though Chen Xin’s shelter, from the outside, clearly couldn’t match Mo Qingyan’s, which had been professionally decorated since its construction, Mo Qingyan and Ding Ning still keenly noticed that Chen Xin’s shelter was a lot warmer than theirs and that the air wasn’t stuffy at all.

"Your shelter is not bad! Although it’s buried in the mountain, the air isn’t stuffy at all! You must have spent quite an amount on the ventilation system?" Mo Qingyan asked Chen Xin about his upgraded ventilation system.

"I bought everything at once, an all-in-one container house. To make things easier, I opted for the best of everything." Chen Xin glossed over this question, as he couldn’t explain the system’s upgrades.

However, this issue didn’t trouble him for long, as the system directly displayed information that items upgraded by the system would be innately accompanied by a concept of informational indistinctness. People seeing these items would instinctively find them reasonable, without finding them abrupt or strange.

This was initially designed by the advanced civilization that created the Survival System, to avoid detection by native inhabitants when playing survival games on primitive planets and thus prevent interference with primitive civilizations. But for Chen Xin, it saved him a lot of explanation, allowing him to confidently use upgraded items.

This also gave Chen Xin a new idea: perhaps, in the future, even if he took out large toys like Power Armor and Mecha, which only appeared in sci-fi works, no one would find it strange?

Once this thought emerged, it became unstoppable, prompting Chen Xin to eagerly imagine himself piloting those mechas he admired in science fiction in the future.

"Did you install heaters here? Why does it feel a lot warmer than ours?" As Chen Xin was envisioning what kind of mecha he might pilot in the future, Ding Ning curiously asked why Chen Xin’s shelter was so much warmer, "If we ever can’t stay in the city, maybe we could really move to your place!"

"Hehe, I wouldn’t dare to abduct Uncle Ding’s precious daughter, he’d definitely break my legs." Hearing Ding Ning’s words, Chen Xin humorously shrugged his shoulders.