Apocalypse: My Apartment Has Traits - Chapter 65 - 59: Following the Trend to Upgrade
Chapter 65: Chapter 59: Following the Trend to Upgrade
The Level 3 Safe House has added two special structures: a cellar and a forge.
The cellar is essentially a cold storage facility, with a highly practical food preservation function.
Su Lin’s future hunts will yield beast meat that cannot all be sold.
With meat prices high and the village unable to consume much, he will inevitably need the cellar to store the surplus.
More importantly, the cellar of the safe house is imbued with rules that enhance preservation capabilities:
As long as the safe house remains standing, the meat stored within can stay fresh indefinitely, and the loss of active factors will be greatly slowed.
As for the forge, as its name suggests, it is used for crafting cold weapons.
Though the construction platform can make swords and blades, it is limited to ordinary goods.
The forge is different; it can utilize the rare materials from mutant beasts, merging them with special metals to craft higher-quality weapons.
Su Lin has begun practicing with knives, but the long saber in his hand is still an ordinary product from the construction platform.
“If I can hunt a boss-level mutant beast in the future, I must drag its carcass back for disassembly and crafting,” he planned in his heart.
Zhao Yaxin, meticulous as always, had already prepared the construction materials for both the cellar and forge.
Su Lin carried the house title deed, chose positions inside the house, and began constructing.
The cellar naturally had to be built underground.
Now, his safe house has two courtyards:
The front yard is designed as a killing field for resisting beast tides;
The rear is a small backyard, tightly enclosed by three-meter-high walls, forming a private space.
The entrance to the cellar was set underground in the backyard.
The forge was placed indoors, adjacent to the backyard, covering an area of thirty square meters.
Once these two structures were built, Su Lin turned to arrange mechanisms in the front yard.
The Level 3 Safe House increased by three mechanism slots compared to Level 2, allowing for a total of eight mechanisms now.
He needed to carefully plan this meat grinding field.
The short corridor is the first threshold of defense and must be utilized.
Su Lin first thought of placing the earth spike there.
He also considered saving money to buy the floor ejector he first saw at the market.
According to the stall owner at the time, that mechanism is best suited for such narrow paths.
All it takes is installing one on the ground inside the door, and with a spray, it opens a path.
Just like the little fire dragon from a certain ark!
Just uncertain if the blueprint is still available now…
Confirming that no one was spying, Su Lin installed the earth spike enhanced tenfold by the “King of the Garbage Can” at the entrance of the short corridor, forming an inverted V shape, with the broader side facing outward.
Fortunately, the flexible shaping of the mechanism area enhanced by the King of the Garbage Can allowed the earth spike to perfectly fit into the narrow space.
To avoid drawing attention, after placing it, he cautiously camouflaged this earth spike separately.
In the yard, the previously purchased slime floor was finally put to use.
This mechanism, the same model as that in Grandpa’s house, was set up as the first checkpoint in the yard, used to slow the charging speed of Shadow Beasts, thereby buying other mechanisms time to reload.
The King of the Garbage Can enhanced it tenfold!
The slime coverage area skyrocketed, and the stickiness increased dramatically.
Behind the slime floor, Su Lin placed a second enhanced earth spike as the second checkpoint.
Following closely is the third checkpoint, the ejection floor, placed at the doorfront.
Its function is to catapult any Shadow Beast that manages to get close, making them “enjoy” the previous mechanisms again.
Also enhanced tenfold! Ejection force surged, coverage area expanded, and sectional ejection became possible.
Thus, the floor mechanisms were fully deployed.
Next, Su Lin installed two arrow walls asymmetrically on the yard’s flank walls.
Finally, on the wall next to the door, he built an impact wall as the last line of defense.
Eight mechanism slots, seven used.
The last mechanism slot was reserved for the ceiling mechanism that only the Level 3 Safe House could utilize—”Swinging Wooden Hammer.”
Constructing the ceiling mechanism required suspended support.
Su Lin summoned the house title deed, erected four giant pillars around the short corridor, each requiring three people to embrace, supporting a thick ceiling ten meters high.
Immediately after, under the ceiling, he vertically constructed a swinging wooden hammer aimed directly at the doorway.
As construction light circulated, the wooden hammer made from low-grade materials was enhanced ten times by word strength!
The original spherical wooden hammer instantly morphed into a fearsome giant wooden pile with a diameter of two meters, covered in gleaming iron spikes and iron bars.
The wooden pile faced the short corridor at the courtyard entrance, exuding a murderous aura!
Awesome!
Truly awesome!
Although there were still many empty spaces, and even outside the yard, more could be installed, the mechanism slots were exhausted, and there’s no way around it.
Examining the newly arranged courtyard full of hidden dangers, Su Lin felt an unprecedented sense of achievement and security surge within him!
With these mechanisms, he estimated he wouldn’t even need to move much.
However, the upgraded courtyard was too conspicuous, and though nobody was outside at the moment, Su Lin opted to be cautious and concealed all the mechanisms.
The courtyard instantly returned to a spacious tranquility.
“Upgrades completed, now it’s time to put them to the test tonight!”
Su Lin was extremely satisfied with his creation, even starting to look forward to the beast tide after nightfall.
I want to see rivers of blood!
…
News of Su Lin upgrading the Level 3 Safe House and modifying the courtyard spread across the village like wildfire.
By evening, two returning search teams came by to check it out.
At this moment, the area outside Su Lin’s gate was bustling once again.
Liu Jun and Zheng Weimin, the second team captain and vice-captain, were amidst the crowd.
The two stared at the courtyard that defied their understanding, mouths agape in shock.
“A…A safe house…can actually have a courtyard?!” Liu Jun exclaimed in disbelief.
Zheng Weimin paused for a moment and managed to squeeze out three dry words: “Good idea.”
“Duh! You need to say that?” Liu Jun rolled his eyes and smacked his lips in amazement:
“Is this really the idea of that kid Su Lin? Young people really have flexible minds! A safe house can actually accommodate a courtyard? Using it to trap and kill Shadow Beasts, such a simple idea, how has no one thought of it before?”
Zheng Weimin fell silent.
Liu Jun rolled his eyes at him again, saying: “Mute.”
Zheng Weimin was speechless; is it a crime to be bad at speaking?
Liu Jun rubbed the stubble on his chin, regrettably saying:
“It’s a pity my house upgrading to Level 4 is too dangerous, or else I’d definitely want a courtyard like this.”
As soon as he finished speaking, many around had a gleam in their eyes.
Zhang Chenxin from next door heard it, and suddenly felt an impulse, rushing home immediately.
Last time, he kept mocking Zhao Zhu for bringing meat to Su Lin, calling it a stupid move, but later it proved Zhao Zhu was right, and he was wrong.
This led Zhang Chenxin to be secretly ridiculed by neighbors, who thought he was shallow-minded, lucky that Zhao Zhu didn’t listen to him.
Zhang Chenxin was naturally upset and frustrated by this.
Yet, he didn’t hold a grudge against Su Lin; instead, his perception of Su Lin drastically changed.
Especially after a series of events, he more and more felt that Su Lin actually had skills, just spoiled by his parents previously.
“Even Old Liu praised the idea of Su Lin’s courtyard. If I copy his setup, plus my three Flesh Lock Martial Artists, upgrading to Level 3 should be no problem!”
Seeing his actions, many others were itching to move.
The design of this courtyard was clear and straightforward.
Using the walls to limit the Shadow Beast’s impact area, effectively utilizing mechanisms, concentrating firepower to slaughter!
Its safety was evidently far superior to passively facing enemies in open terrain.
Many in the village, who had been hesitant to upgrade their safe houses due to fear of the beast tide risks, witnessed Su Lin’s highly replicable plan and were instantly inspired, each running home in a hurry before dusk fell.
Soon, many safe houses in the village were enveloped in the light of upgrading.
Such large-scale changes naturally caught Zhong Wubin’s attention.
This short squad leader personally came to inspect Su Lin’s “masterpiece.”
After a brief shock, a strong delight erupted in his eyes:
“So the safe house can sacrifice some area to build a courtyard! Haha! Once I break through as a First-Transformed Martial Artist, I’ll have confidence to upgrade to Level 6.”
Just as he finished self-talking, Su Can’s light words drifted from behind:
“Squad Leader Zhong, how come you’re so free to come ’observe and learn’ at my grandson’s door?”
Zhong Wubin turned around, seeing Su Can walking with hands behind his back, accompanied by Su Qi staring at him emotionlessly.
Zhong Wubin laughed heartily:
“Old Su, didn’t your grandson do a great service for the village? Who would’ve thought a safe house can build a courtyard outside! Once I heard many in the village upgraded their safe houses because of this, I hurried over to see. Seeing it, hey, your grandson is indeed a genius, even I benefited a lot!”
After speaking, he moved to leave, brushing past the Su family father and son.
Just as they brushed past, a lowered voice drifted into the Su family father and son’s ears:
“Old Su, with your grandson’s inspiration, once I break through First Transformation and accumulate some foundation, I’ll have confidence even with Level 6 Safe House. By then, the whole village can rise with me. Why not agree to cooperate with Black Scale Village?”
Su Can narrowed his tiger-like eyes, a cold smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Su Qi’s tone was calm, but his voice clearly reached Zhong Wubin’s ears:
“Squad Leader Zhong, don’t you know… Zhou Song from Black Scale Village is already dead?”
Zhong Wubin’s steps came to an abrupt halt.
Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com
