Chapter 56: Upgrading the Storage Room
Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Upgrading the Storage Room
Ye Yun’s eyes lit up when he saw the upgrade notification.
’He’d actually forgotten about such an important function.’
Besides constantly expanding the shelter’s space to increase building capacity, he could also upgrade existing structures.
Based on his experience upgrading the Shelter Entrance, upgrading a building was much faster than expanding space.
Generally speaking, expansion was time-consuming, while upgrades were resource-intensive.
Ye Yun tapped on the final upgrade option.
A long list of upgrade requirements appeared before him.
[Sturdy Iron Plate (Green)] x5 [1/5]
[Damaged Copper Wire (Green)] x5 [1/5]
[Intact Glass (Green)] x5 [0/5]
[Rusted Screw (White)] x50 [50/50]
[Damaged Battery Coil (White)] x50 [45/50]
[Mechanical Rust Remover (White)] x50 [32/50]
It was the same total: 15 green components and 150 white components.
Back then, he’d had to grit his teeth to afford these resources. Now, a single construction robot could earn them all back in a day.
Ye Yun couldn’t help but marvel inwardly, ’This world is developing so quickly.’
An hour later, the upgrade to the Robot Storage Room was finally complete.
[Robot Storage Room (Green)]
[Robot Capacity: +2]
[Upgradable]
Ye Yun immediately opened the system interface.
Space Used: 9
Available Space: 0 [+}
Food Reserves: 52/100 [+}
Freshwater Reserves: 52/100 [+}
Power Reserves: 400/400 [+}
Medicine: 2/100 [+}
Construction Robots: 4/5
Advanced Androids: 1/1
Androids: 3/3
Normal Humans: 2/3
Shelter Members: 6
Excellent. The maximum number of construction robots had jumped from the original three to five.
Ye Yun tapped on the upgrade option again. He glanced at the required materials, then silently closed the menu.
’He had originally been thinking of upgrading the Robot Storage Room directly to blue-grade.’
However, the components required for this next upgrade had skyrocketed.
If 30 green components were nothing much, the three gleaming blue components were well beyond his current means.
Clearly, it would be impossible to upgrade the Robot Storage Room any further in the short term.
After closing the list, a question suddenly occurred to Ye Yun.
The initial upgrades and expansions for a shelter were relatively easy. Although they required a fair amount of resources, an ordinary manager could still gather them with enough effort.
However, the resources required for subsequent shelter upgrades were ridiculously high.
This meant that relying solely on scavenging to sustain later-stage shelter upgrades was practically impossible.
And someone like him, who had a cheat and could produce items for a high profit, was probably one of a kind.
Without obtaining perfect blueprints, the chances of other managers profiting by selling finished items were slim.
After all, the failure rate was a given.
Low-grade white items didn’t require many resources, so failure wasn’t a big deal.
But green items required two to four green components to craft. Success was cause for celebration, but failure meant a severe loss.
In that case, the picture became clear.
Scavenging was just a basic, necessary first step. After acquiring a certain amount of resources that way, it was essential to increase the shelter’s overall combat power as quickly as possible.
After increasing their combat power, they could kill mutated creatures or other enemies, like the incredibly vicious invaders Bena had mentioned multiple times.
The rewards from killing these powerful enemies would inevitably be better than what could be scavenged.
His two recent kills of large mutated creatures proved it: fighting boss-like enemies yielded substantial rewards.
A haul of dozens of white components, 20 to 30 green components, and one blue component would probably take more than ten days of scavenging to find, and that’s only with very good luck.
Of course, compared to the low risk of scavenging, the risk of killing large mutated creatures was much higher.
If not for his good luck this time, No. 1 might not have made it back. And even with that luck, more than half of its body had been smashed to pieces.
Ye Yun stroked his chin. ’Looks like I still need to further increase the team’s combat power.’
However, the androids’ stats were still a bit too low, even after being upgraded. They couldn’t equip the better green-grade gear at all.
The android population was already at its cap. Even though he had two more wrecks on hand, he couldn’t expand the android team any further.
For now, all he could do was wait for news from the two brothers, Xisuo and Simon. He hoped they would bring back a satisfactory answer.
Bringing back someone with special abilities would be best, of course. If not, settling for someone like Bena would also be acceptable.
Ye Yun watched the construction robots that were still diligently expanding the space. The next building he constructed would have to be one that could increase the android capacity.
Although androids were pathetically weak at first, as long as they could be continuously upgraded, their potential was enormous.
Even if their individual combat strength was lacking, he could completely make up for it with numbers.
Besides, androids had another huge advantage: provided he had enough resources, they could be replaced almost immediately after being destroyed.
When needed, the androids could be used as decoys or cannon fodder to preserve the team’s core combat strength.
If the battlefield was right outside the shelter, he could even replace them as they were lost.
After all, he now had four construction robots on hand, and their production speed was no joke.
Of course, this tactic was still in the theoretical stage.
Ye Yun couldn’t afford to fight such a war of attrition just yet.
He wouldn’t mind losing one or two androids, but if he lost too many, his resources would run short. After all, even the wealthy have their limits.
Although he couldn’t upgrade the storage room any further, he could build a new construction robot.
A glance at the warehouse confirmed he was out of construction robot wreckage. Ye Yun immediately opened the public chat room.
[WTB one [Severely Damaged Construction Robot (Green)], price is 9 green components. PM me directly to trade if you have one.]
Ye Yun had thought it would be like before, where he’d have to wait a long time to buy one, and the seller would probably try to raise the price at the last minute.
But the moment he sent the message, several people added him as a friend. After he accepted their requests, he immediately received a trade offer.
After completing that trade, Ye Yun received several more trade offers one after another.
This situation was completely different from before.
’Last time, he’d tried to buy one for ages without any luck. How could so many people be willing to sell one all of a sudden?’
Ye Yun didn’t even have to guess. He knew it was because quite a few other shelter managers had, like him, already visited the abandoned shelter coordinates given as a system reward.