Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 57 - 56 The Ring of the Fortress

Chapter 57: Chapter 56 The Ring of the Fortress

After returning, everyone continued to scavenge. Inside the container, Lin Wu found something good in two boxes. These two boxes were placed inside cabinets at the center of the command post, filled with heaps of tubular bombs. He counted carefully, each box contained as many as ten pieces.

Maya looked at the bombs and said, "It seems we can start preparing to deal with the Blood Plague in Building No. 2." Once the door of the container was closed, soft conversations wouldn’t wake the zombies.

Lin Wu surveyed the container command post where everything searchable had been searched, "How come there’s not even a single gun?"

Shana said, "There are guns."

"Where?"

"Not here," Shana replied. "On the zombies."

After the supplies were mostly moved out, Maya had everyone climb onto the containers and light torches. Lin Wu was responsible for waking the slumbering zombies, and the zombies from seven containers swarmed out, forming a long queue in the narrow passage. Little Knife, with sharp eyes, said, "There’s one over here."

Lin Wu followed Little Knife’s pointing finger and carefully observed the female soldier zombie without seeing the so-called firearm. After waiting for a while, the target zombie raised both hands towards the people observing from above the container, and this movement pulled on her clothes, revealing a gun holster fastened to her waist belt.

Maya commanded, "Snow Egg, Horse Soul, separate it. Lin Wu, take it down."

Snow Egg jumped down, and due to the limited space, she couldn’t sweep around; she could only swing her hammer to block the zombie. Operating a blunt weapon like Horse Soul’s was fairly straightforward: just lift it and slam down. When the target zombie attacked Snow Egg, Lin Wu jumped down behind it and executed the zombie. Lin Wu felt for the zombie’s gun holster and found a revolver. Taking the revolver, he said, "Let’s go." The three of them climbed back up on the container by grabbing its edges.

The Female Demon Revolver used .357 Magnum bullets. Its advantages were great power, no jamming or breaking. The drawbacks were that it had somewhat high recoil, it was loud, and the magazine capacity was only six rounds. Without any skills to hasten the process, reloading ammunition took 5 seconds, which was only slightly faster than a shotgun.

Overall, it was a pistol with average performance.

Maya instructed, "Lin Wu draws the zombies, everyone else meets outside the iron door."

Shortly after Lin Wu exited through the small iron door, Maya began arranging tasks, "Shana and I will stay behind, the rest of you transport this batch of supplies back to the base. Lin Wu will stay at the base for treatment and to handle any infection; you’ll drive back to pick us up." There was still a pile of supplies by the roadside next to the small iron door, mainly monitors, computer towers, and other electronics that could be dismantled for numerous electronic components.

...

As the car drove away, Maya gestured for Shana to sit by the road barrier while she sat next to Shana and began to ask, "Shana, what do you think about working with Lin Wu for a day?"

Shana looked at Maya and said, "I have no thoughts about him, nor about the others, but I do have some about you."

"What do you mean?" Maya asked.

"The base’s construction is not bad. If I’m not mistaken, you’re the one who took over the power station," Shana stated.

Maya asked further, "So?"

Shana said, "Your points must be very high. What I don’t understand is why Stone is the leader instead of you."

Maya understood and replied, "You’re competing for The Ring of the Fortress."

Shana countered, "Don’t you want to get The Ring of the Fortress?"

In the first phase of the Homeland Project, Fortress Company signed a business contract with the Blue Star officials and dispatched transport ships and robots to establish a large city on Earth. Both the interstellar transport ships and robots were the property of Fortress Company, and only those holding The Ring of the Fortress could possibly control the Earth Fortress system. It could be said that the person holding The Ring of the Fortress would wield the main power over Earth. Even with Dawn limiting Fortress Company’s actions, it was difficult to stop the Earth Fortress from becoming the Titan among enterprises in the solar system.

In short, the holder of The Ring of the Fortress will become the most powerful person on Earth.

The Blue Star Fortress Company had entrusted Dawn with the task of selecting the owner of The Ring of the Fortress. There were only two rules. The first rule: candidates must be part of the top 5% elite. The second rule: the candidate who earns the highest score in the Homeland game will become the owner of The Ring of the Fortress.

The rules for The Ring of the Fortress were posted on the Elite Club’s website the day before migration. However, the membership of the Elite Club is not limited to 5%, after all, there are many successful people among the 95%. For most of the 95%, they did not care about this matter, because it belonged to the internal affairs of the Fortress Company, after all, whether robots or fleets, they were assets of the Fortress Company, and it was their right to entrust their assets to whomever they wished. As long as Dawn was there, even the wealthy Fortress Company could not do evil.

The social system of Blue Star was similar to a driver’s license system. The rich could drive luxury cars with their license, while the poor could only drive cheap cars. This was an inevitable social disparity between the rich and the poor; however, both luxury cars and ordinary cars were protected by Dawn. But whether rich or poor, their driving license only had 12 points, and these points would not change according to your wealth or status. Money could buy a life of luxury and pleasure, but not evil deeds. This was also one of the basic principles of Dawn’s operation: relative fairness.

Maya extended her hand, "Welcome to the competition."

Shana hesitated slightly but still shook hands with Maya, "Your score must be higher than mine now, aren’t you afraid that I will kill you?"

Maya replied, "Not worried, because no one knows how Dawn calculates scores. Two years have passed, and now it’s just the beginning. Besides, I don’t think you are a despicable person."

Shana countered, "What kind of person am I?"

Maya replied, "A proud person."

Shana made a ’tch’ sound noncommittally and said, "I’ll have you know, if that idiot hadn’t killed me, my score wouldn’t be lower than yours."

Maya asked, "Who?"

Shana with a tone of sorrow: "Who else but Lin Wu?"

That night when I first met him, I could see the killing intent in his eyes. I was very submissive. When he pointed his shotgun at me, I immediately turned off the engine and stopped the car. After getting out of the car, I immediately made it clear that I had medical skills, and I humiliated myself by using bodily contact to show I was fond of him, but that idiot didn’t hesitate to make a move anyway.

Lin Wu: Just say if it was fast or not?

Recalling the event, Maya realized with a start, "The girl who stole the car? You’re the owner of Eagle Sand?"

"..." Shana rested her forehead in one hand; the past was unbearable to look back on.

Maya asked warily, "Are you seeking revenge?"

Shana ’tched’ again, "Revenge? I don’t care about killing in revenge, but I won’t kill my comrades."

Maya nodded, "You wouldn’t be able to defeat him anyway."

Murder is heartless. Shana changed the subject, "If I’m not mistaken, this Sentry Card here is the Newcomer’s Land of Fortune; we could organize everyone to come here and farm handguns when we have time."

Maya said, "No need, one person is enough."

"Oh? Who?"

"Little Knife."

Search the lightnovelworld.cc website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.