Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 013: The Springs

The outer wall was already built solidly and thickly, with a height that was almost the same as the surrounding trees, five meters. The reason why was only this limited, was because to avoid being discovered by passers-by. Even this wall was built in the back row of thick and dark trees, so the wall was not too conspicuous.

As for the Supervisory Tower, it had not been built, not only because of the lack of Coins, but it was also too high. For the time being, the strength under Fan Chen was nonexistent, there were only family members, so there was no way anyone would want to guard the Watchtower. Even if they wanted to guard the Watchtower, Fan Chen was not ruthless and there was no way he would let those women keep an eye on day and night.

Then after the construction of the wall was completed, Fan Chen single-handedly dug the ground under the wall and connected the underground passageway to the gutter beside the road. Sure will spend a lot of effort, but he used a tool purchased at the price of ¥5000 to dig it.

The reason for making this is to take advantage of the Springs he got, then use Inkas Huron APC to open the road from the excavation to the cliff with a slope of 45°.

The road opened by the Inkas Huron APC forms a shallow river, because the front is in pairs of simple dredgers. The trees that were blocking were uprooted and stored for resources.

This was the plan of the floor plan Fan Chen had made that would at least be completely appropriate when a Level 03 or Level 04 Refuge.

For the time being, the Main Headquarters area is still 10,000 square meters, but it will not take long to fit the plan.

Until noon, Fan Chen rested under the cliff. He was alone here, for the others were packing things to put in each other's homes.

Fan Chen took the mineral water from inside the ice box beside him. He felt a coolness and calmness just by drinking mineral water, perhaps this was because he had previously struggled to live on his way out of the Wind Protection City.

"Sister Fan Chen."

Fan Chen glanced at the source of the voice and saw Jia Fefei approaching with the lunchbox he was carrying.

Jia Fefei was a young girl of Fan Xiaoyu's age. Her hair was tied in two on the side, wearing round glasses and there were slight spots on her cheeks. Her lips were red in color, and from her appearance carried a good personality.

But, Fan Chen knew that this was Jia Fefei's outer appearance. She had heard the story from Fan Xiaoyu that Jia Fefei was very beautiful, but deliberately looked like this because of the bad past in junior high school.

He did not care what the past was, and just as Fan Xiaoyu was about to tell him further, Fan Chen asked him to stop.

Jia Fefei sat down beside Fan Chen and said, "Auntie asked me to come to bring you this."

Fan Chen received three stacks of lunch boxes with both hands. "How's it going there? Is it okay? By the way, you left the Wind Protection City, left all your friends there, and since you joined the run, maybe the Fan Family will be after you. Aren't you a problem?"

Jia Fefei was speechless with his head bowed. He was quite depressed in the crowd of questions like this, for two questions did not matter, but the last one...

Jia Fefei took a deep breath, then replied, "The houses there are very good, everyone is packed, and even though it is just a simple house, but it is very comfortable. As for the Wind Protection City, I didn't want to leave at first, but after Mother found out that Aunt Mingyue had requested, she immediately agreed to leave the city. While in the car, I was desperate, and felt that it was the last moment to see the sunlight."

"But, since it's out of the Wind Protection City, even if it gives up, I know for a fact that my life is no different from that of a prisoner, even worse than that of a slave."

Hearing that, Fan Chen stopped his hand that was bribing the rice. Slaves, although on the surface were forbidden and would be punished, but in fact just after the world was attacked by Mutant Beasts, many upper powers suppressed the lower people and made them slaves.

Jia Fefei shook his head, then stood up. "I've been delivering meals, now I'm back." He leaned over, then turned around and left his place.

Fan Chen looked at Jia Fefei who disappeared inside the forest at a glance, then he went back to eating.

Up to several hours, Fan Chen had already finished resting. He carefully climbed the cliff by holding on to the roots of the plants as well as the small trees growing on the cliff.

It takes a great effort to climb to the top of a cliff as high as 50 meters.

Fan Chen stood at his peak, the ground there was a little uneven. He continued to step all the way to the end, and was roughly the width of the ground at the top about 20 meters. When it was at the end, he saw the other side of the cliff was quite steep, or it could be said that there was no corner, really like a natural wall.

"If our headquarters is already expanding, I can use the other side of the cliff for the industrial area."

Fan Chen chuckled softly while shaking his head, he thought too much when all of those things were still very long. Even the headquarters he made was still nothing, and here he was thinking of establishing an industrial area.

After everything was done, he took out the Springs from the Inventory.

Fan Chen looked at the palm-sized blue crystal. He felt a chill in his hand as he grasped it, and the crystal emitted a calming blue radiance.

He threw the Water Eye Crystal inside the hole, then an interface screen suddenly appeared in front of him.

[System Instructions: Using a Tear Crystal?]

Fan Chen nodded his head, and with a thought, he used the Spring Crystal.

Suddenly the Water Eye Crystal emitted a brighter radiance until Fan Chen closed his eyes, and the next second he felt a splash of water hitting his hands and face.

Fan Chen opened his eyes, he saw the Water Eye Crystal continuously spewing out extremely swift water and in a flash it had already filled the small well he had made.

The water flows following a small trench, flowing down the cliff slope. The flow of water was extremely swift, and at least it had a width of eight meters.

Fan Chen smiled in satisfaction when he saw the rushing water flow. With this, the problem of water source can be solved, now it is just a matter of food and Coin©.

"We are in the wild, there should be many Mutant Beasts ..."

Fan Chen turned around and went towards the other side of the cliff. He took out binoculars to observe if there were Mutant Beasts in the forest below.

"Meet!"

Fan Chen looked at the wolf herd that was running out of the forest towards the road. He followed the direction of the wolf pack, opposite it was a stretch of tall grass, with weeds as high as around the waist of an adult.

"What's there— Uh?!"

Faintly Fan Chen saw there was a pipe the size of a coconut tree moving under the weeds. When he arranged the binoculars in order to capture a further view, he finally saw the true shape of the one he thought was the pipe.

It was an Anaconda, and judging from fangs as big as an arm, the day was mutating. The patterns of the scales look sturdy and difficult to penetrate.

"Did this pack of wolves want to kill Anaconda?"

Fan Chen continued to observe, and when pulling out a view that could be considered binoculars to a distance away. He caught there was another movement from the north where it was the opposite direction to Anaconda.

Boom up!

Suddenly the ground exploded with smoke as if it was burning.

Fan Chen focused his attention there, and looked at the earth rat with sharp claws. The earth rat had a bear-like body size, and its claws were like metal.

"Damn it! This place is dangerous, but full of Coin©! If I kill them all, the improvement of the Refuge could be faster than planned."

Fan Chen raised the corner of his lips, forming a smile. He took out the DX-5 Ravager, knelt down and pointed his muzzle. He prepared, waiting for three beasts from three different directions to fight each other, then he would take advantage by killing him from afar.

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