Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 547 - 271: Product_3

Chapter 547: Chapter 271: Product_3

Under the blazing sun, the top floor was definitely not habitable. The second floor wasn’t much better, and so the cool, shaded cement floor of the first-floor corridor became the best place to cool down.

After seeing the merchant, having stretched lunch, and returning from the sawmill base with Starlight, Lin Wu sprawled out on the first floor and didn’t want to go up any further. Maya built a medical room for Starlight and then upgraded the girls’ dormitory to four beds with another upgrade.

Despite its gloomy interior, there was hardly any conversation among the girls at the Doomsday Fortress, and not much gossip. Maya settled Starlight and went to her dormitory, grabbed half a novel, and started to read. Soon dripping with sweat, she took her pillow down to the first floor, leaning in front of Lin Wu to read.

Dashuang went to the sentry post, which provided shade and a brisk sea breeze, making it another good spot to cool off. Dashuang hadn’t experienced intense sieges, and seeing that the base was nearing a four-star threat level, she felt somewhat apprehensive. But since everyone else seemed indifferent, she didn’t ask and, when she had time, stood guard at the sentry post, helping reduce the base’s threat value a bit.

Cotton had nowhere else to go, sitting in the sentry post and staring off into the distance, lost in thought.

Starlight found this situation a bit hard to adjust to. At the sawmill, she would bump into chattering girls as soon as she stepped out the door, and they would gather in the dorms to chat whenever they were free. This might relate to the leadership’s personality; the Doomsday Fortress didn’t bother each other, while the sawmill preferred the hustle and bustle, complaining about the weather, discussing magazines, and playing with elastic bands together.

"Hey!"

Lin Wu opened his eyes and asked, "What?"

Maya: "Don’t you think Wai is pitiful?" Wai, serving as a pillow, hadn’t moved at all, maintaining a spread-eagled position because its owner felt its belly was softer.

Lin Wu closed his eyes: "It’s not my fault it has no parents."

Maya said, "Rest for another hour; in the afternoon, let’s visit the sewers. They left some fish caught in the weir for us."

Lin Wu sat up straight, and Maya called Wai over to her.

Lin Wu asked, "How many books have you collected?" He knew Maya wanted a library, and building one required 15 classics.

Maya stroked Wai lying on her lap without looking up and said, "Zero."

"Let me check." Lin Wu deployed a drone, and after a few minutes said, "There’s a Number Zero Bookstore in the residential area, at the corner of a crossroads. Position J4."

Maya took out her hand-drawn map from her backpack and sat down next to Lin Wu: "Here?"

Lin Wu observed for a while, comparing it to the map: "E5, it’s E5, no mistake."

As mentioned before, the residential area was like a go board, and the handmade map was similarly drawn, with the letters ABCD on one horizontal side and numbers 1234 on the vertical side. E5 wasn’t the center of the residential area, but it also wasn’t far from the edge.

Lin Wu said, "Didn’t you say you liked airplanes last time?"

"The airplane at Shuixi Middle School?"

Lin Wu showed his personal computer: "Do you think there’s a possibility that we could take control of drones or combat robots for our own use by hacking into them?"

After thinking for a while, Maya said, "I don’t rule out the possibility, but first we have to capture them. Capturing a drone is very difficult; we might consider capturing a combat robot first." Combat robots resembled miniature tanks; they used tracked chassis, with a rotating turret on top that could fire 7.62 bullets. On either side of the turret, there were pair of scanner-like ’eyes’ for identifying friend or foe.

Maya said, "Prerequisite: They must leave the flat areas near the runways. Otherwise, we would be signing our own death warrants. Only by luring them away from flat areas and into pits, restricting their mobility, and depleting their fuel or power can we capture one."

Lin Wu: "Dig a pit." If there’s no pit, we’ll have to dig one ourselves.