Free Web NovelChapter 19: Chapter 19: Upgrading the Shelter Entrance
The shelter currently has 7 building slots.
However, the main entrance and the three buildings to its left already occupied four of those slots. Afterward, he built a water purification station and a food workshop.
So, in reality, the entire shelter only had one building slot left.
Ye Yun opened the building list and began examining the options one by one.
The vast majority of buildings on the list were grayed out, clearly indicating they couldn’t be built.
[Unlocked when Bionic/Normal Human/Engineering Robot count is greater than 4]
[Unlocked when Bionic/Normal Human/Engineering Robot count is greater than 5]
Clearly, the main reason he couldn’t unlock new buildings was that the shelter’s population was too low. He needed more people to develop the shelter’s other structures.
For now, he didn’t know how to increase the population. He figured it wasn’t a problem he could solve quickly.
The only buildings he could construct at the moment were the Maintenance Room, Medical Bay, Science Lab, and Broadcast Room.
Ye Yun clicked on the descriptions for these four buildings one by one.
[Maintenance Room]
[Construction Requirements]:
[Maintenance Robot: 1] [0/1]
[Power: 20 points] [20/20]
[Construction Robot: 1] [1/1]
[Upkeep Requirements]:
[Maintenance Robot: 1]
[Power: 0.1 points/hour]
[Build immediately?]
[Yes/No]
[Confirm Building Placement]
An idea occurred to Ye Yun as he looked at the building’s construction requirements.
’If I’m not mistaken, the Maintenance Room must be for repairing the bionics.’
’But I obviously can’t build this anytime soon. I don’t even know where to find a maintenance robot.’
He then looked at the other three buildings.
[Medical Bay]
[Construction Requirements]:
[Medical Robot: 1] [0/1]
[Power: 20 points] [20/20]
[Construction Robot: 1] [1/1]
[Upkeep Requirements]:
[Medical Robot: 1] [0/1]
[Power: 0.1 points/hour]
...
[Science Lab]
[Construction Requirements]:
[Bionic/Normal Human/Engineering Robot: 1] [1/1]
[Power: 20 points] [20/20]
[Construction Robot: 1] [1/1]
[Upkeep Requirements]:
[Maintenance Robot: 1]
[Power: 0.1 points/hour]
...
[Broadcast Room]
[Construction Requirements]:
[Intact Radio (White)] [0/1]
[Maintenance Robot: 1] [0/1]
[Power: 20 points] [20/20]
[Construction Robot: 1] [1/1]
[Upkeep Requirements]:
[Maintenance Robot: 1]
[Power: 0.1 points/hour]
...
Aside from the Science Lab, Ye Yun couldn’t meet the construction requirements for any of the other buildings anytime soon.
"Intact Radio (White)," "Medical Robot: 1," and "Maintenance Robot: 1" were all things he’d never seen before, and he had no idea how to get them.
’Just from the name, the Science Lab is probably for research. It likely won’t have much of an effect in the short term.’
Since he couldn’t construct any new buildings, Ye Yun didn’t dwell on it.
He walked over to the Shelter Entrance.
Information about the Shelter Entrance immediately appeared in his view.
[Shelter Entrance (White)]
[Defense Power: 10]
[Durability: 10000/10000] [Repairable]
[Upgradable]
’To be honest, the Defense Power on this Shelter Entrance is way too low.’
’After all, a decent piece of white-grade armor on the market can provide four to five points of Defense Power, but this door’s Defense Power is a measly 10 points. It’s more for show than for actual use.’
Ye Yun clicked on the last option: [Upgradable].
A long upgrade list appeared in his view.
[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]
The corner of Ye Yun’s mouth twitched as he looked at the requirements on the upgrade list.
’Holy cow,’ he thought. ’Just the basic components require 15 green parts and 150 white parts. And based on my experience, a perfect upgrade would probably take 20 green parts and 200 white parts.’
’I do have enough materials in my warehouse to upgrade the door, but I’m not sure I can guarantee a 100% perfect upgrade.’
Opening the Exchange, Ye Yun bought all the necessary parts.
[Evaluation Type: Building Upgrade]
[Evaluating upgrade risk...]
[Building for this upgrade: Shelter Entrance (White)]
[Evaluation: 100% chance of Green-grade upgrade. Risk: 0%]
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When Ye Yun saw the final evaluation, he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. He rubbed them and looked at the evaluation system again.
Ye Yun only had to think for a moment before he understood why.
’It seems that when upgrading a white-grade building to green-grade, the success rate is 100%. As long as you have all the parts, a perfect upgrade is guaranteed.’
Without a second thought, Ye Yun hit "Confirm."
The two construction robots, which had been producing [Damaged BB Gun (White)], immediately stopped what they were doing. They flew quickly to the Shelter Entrance and started hammering away. Piece by piece, the white and green parts began to merge into the Shelter Entrance.
An hour later, the Shelter Entrance’s upgrade was finally complete.
[Shelter Entrance (Green)]
[Defense Power: 100]
[Durability: 100000/100000] [Repairable]
[Upgradable]
’Excellent. The Defense Power went straight to 100, and the durability increased from 10,000 to 100,000. It’s a qualitative leap in every respect.’
Ye Yun immediately opened his three private chat rooms and posted the stats of the newly upgraded Shelter Entrance.
Ye Yun:
[[Shelter Entrance (Green)]] Everyone, if you have enough resources, you can go ahead and upgrade your Shelter Entrance. The stats on the upgraded Shelter Entrance are excellent. It can most likely withstand an attack from the mutant cockroaches.
Chat Room:
"Holy crap, Boss is on another level!"
"I actually noticed the Shelter Entrance was upgradable a while ago, but the resource cost is insane. 15 green parts and 150 white parts! Plus, there’s probably a chance of failure, just like with crafting."
"I’m drooling just looking at that 100 Defense Power."
"Brother Ye, is the upgrade really necessary? The gear on the bionics we send out usually only has three or four Defense Power, and they hardly take any damage. The Shelter Entrance already has a full 10 points. There’s probably no need to upgrade it, right?"
"Brother Ye, even if we wanted to, we don’t have enough materials!"
Ye Yun slapped his forehead. In his excitement, he’d forgotten that he had several, or even dozens, of times more resources than the average person. freewebnovel.cσ๓
’Even though I’ve helped them out and given them pointers, making them a little better off than the average person, they can’t possibly compare to my stockpile. That reminder was a waste of time.’
Ye Yun:
"If you don’t have enough resources, then you can’t help it. Just wait and upgrade later when you’ve gathered enough."
