297: Chapter 297 Unlocks New Resources! Tier 2 Civilization Technology Tank!
Early morning, the snow mist covered the entire world like a moldy filter.
However, in Lin Yuan's room, the atmosphere was exceptionally warm... or rather, somewhat comical.
When Ji Wushuang woke up, she found one of her legs grandly resting on Lin Yuan's stomach.
She was wrapped around him like an octopus.
Even worse, there was a trace of crystalline liquid at the corner of her mouth.
It was following gravity, slowly dripping onto Lin Yuan's expensive silk pajamas.
"Slurpβ"
Ji Wushuang subconsciously sucked in her saliva.
Then she abruptly opened her eyes, meeting a pair of deep, amused eyes.
"Awake?"
Lin Yuan's voice held the hoarseness typical of just waking up. "Dreaming of gnawing on pig trotters?"
Ji Wushuang's face turned bright red instantly.
She retracted her leg and hand at light speed, shrinking her entire body under the quilt.
Only a pair of eyes were exposed, and she retorted in a muffled voice:
"Didn't... didn't gnaw on pig trotters! I dreamed... dreamed I was eating a feast!"
"Mm, I can tell."
Lin Yuan pointed to the stain on his chest. "Try to be more elegant when eating next time."
Ji Wushuang wished she could bury herself in the mattress.
In front of outsiders, she was a majestic Valkyrie; how did she become a drooling idiot in front of Lin Yuan?
This must be because the feng shui of the bed is bad!
"Since you're awake, get up."
Lin Yuan lifted the quilt, revealing his toned upper body.
Ji Wushuang's eyes went straight instantly, and she swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
She silently gave a thumbs-up to the dream she just had; it really was a feast, no issues there.
"Hissβ"
Just as she wanted to sit up.
A wave of soreness hit her instantly, making her gasp and fall back onto the bed.
"What? Can't handle it?" Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow, his tone teasing.
"Who... who said that!"
Ji Wushuang gritted her teeth and stubbornly propped up her body.
"I'm fine!"
Looking at her stubborn appearance like a dead duck with a stiff beak.
Lin Yuan couldn't help but smile and reached out to ruffle her messy hair.
"Alright, don't push yourself. Put on your clothes first, I'll take you to see something."
...
At this moment, on Lin Yuan's retina.
Rows of golden system prompts were flashing with charming light.
γ Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully having a deep exchange with the Valkyrie Ji Wushuang! γ
γ Affinity reached Level 2! γ
γ Congratulations to the Host for unlocking: Level 2 Civilization Β· Flame Burst Technology Tank! γ
γ Item Name: Level 2 Civilization Β· Flame Burst Technology Tank γ
γ Characteristics: Micro-fusion reactor (unlimited endurance) γ
γ Weapon System:
1. Main Cannon: 300mm caliber plasma fission cannon.
2. Secondary Cannon: Twin high-energy laser rapid-fire cannons.
3. Defense: A-rank energy force field shield (can withstand Superpower attacks below S-rank, immune to physical armor-piercing shells). γ
Special Abilities:
1. Hovering Movement: Ignores terrain, can move at high speed on water, swamps, and snow.
2. Flame Overload: Instantly bursts reactor energy, increasing main cannon power by 300%, cooldown 1 hour. γ
γ Production Speed: 1 unit/second γ
γ Current Inventory: 28,800 units, 28,801 units... γ
Watching that string of data, Lin Yuan's breathing stopped for a moment.
One unit per second!
What kind of concept is this?
That's 86,400 units a day!
As long as he has a month, he can fill the entire Earth with tanks!
And this isn't that kind of tin coffin.
This is future technology equipped with micro-fusion reactors and energy shields!
In this early Apocalypse where people are still stuck in cold weapons and primary Superpower confrontations, this is dimensional reduction warfare.
Lin Yuan's mouth curled up wildly.
This Ji Wushuang is simply a super lucky star!
...
Ten minutes later.
On the open space behind the base.
It was already covered by that layer of foul-smelling snow mist, with visibility less than fifty meters.
Ji Wushuang's walking posture was a bit strange.
Like a duck that just learned to walk, limping.
"Husband, what exactly are you showing me?"
Ji Wushuang sniffed, waved away the mist in front of her with disgust; referring to Lin Yuan as husband came out easily after being conquered.
"In this damn weather, besides that awful smell, you can't see anything."
"Look over there." Lin Yuan pointed to the center of the clearing.
Ji Wushuang looked in the direction of his finger and only saw a vast expanse of snow.
"There's nothing here? Do you want me to look at the snow?"
Ji Wushuang scratched her head.
"Although it's quite romantic, this smell really ruins the scenery..."
Before she finished speaking.
Humβ!
A low hum suddenly came from the air.
Following that, a silver-white light appeared out of thin air, piercing through the dim mist.
The light dissipated.
A behemoth was quietly hovering half a meter above the ground.
Streamlined silver-white armor, without a single trace of welding.
It seemed naturally formed.
That ridiculously thick cannon barrel emitted a faint red glow.
Like the single eye of a sleeping giant beast.
The anti-gravity device under the chassis spat out a blue shimmer, blowing a circular pit in the snow on the ground.
"Holy... holy crap?!"
Ji Wushuang's greatsword fell to the ground with a "clatter", almost hitting her own foot.
She opened her mouth wide, her jaw almost dislocated.
"This... what is this? Transformers? Gundam? Or an alien flying saucer?"
She didn't care about her leg pain and rushed over in two or three steps.
Her trembling hand wanted to touch the silver-white armor, but she didn't dare to touch it, for fear of breaking it.
"This is too cool! It's ten thousand times cooler than my modified off-road vehicle!"
Ji Wushuang circled the tank.
There were more stars in her eyes than in the sky.
"Is this for me?"
She suddenly turned back to look at Lin Yuan, her eyes full of expectation.
"What are you thinking."
Lin Yuan walked over and tapped her head. "This is for the base. However..."
He paused, looking at Ji Wushuang's instantly fallen little face, and laughed:
"As the captain of the Fire Team, you can have the command and naming rights for the first unit."
"Really?!"
Ji Wushuang was instantly resurrected and jumped three meters high on the spot.
"Long live husband! I've decided! Let's call it... 'Wushuang Great Overlord No. 1'!"
Ji Wushuang excitedly stepped forward and kissed Lin Yuan fiercely.
Lin Yuan: "..."
Is this you unleashing your elementary school level aesthetics to the extreme?
"Change it."
Lin Yuan ruthlessly rejected it. "Too tacky."
"Then... Flame Sprayer Big Baby?"
"Rejected."
"'Red-Braised Zombie Machine'?"
"Are you hungry?"
"Then you tell me what to call it!" Ji Wushuang pouted, looking aggrieved.
Lin Yuan stroked the cold armor.
Feeling the terrifying energy contained within, he calmly spat out two words:
"Flame Burst."
"Flame Burst?"
Ji Wushuang muttered it twice, and her eyes lit up.
"It definitely sounds more cultured than mine! Okay, let's call it Flame Burst!"
Just then.
A burst of hurried footsteps came.
"Lin Yuan! What happened here? Strong energy fluctuations were detected just now!"
Su Yuyan rushed over with Chen Hanyue and Chu Yanran.
They originally thought it was an enemy attack, but when they arrived at the scene, all three were stunned.
In the foul-smelling snow mist.
That sci-fi hovering tank looked like a miracle that had traveled from the future.
"This..."
Su Yuyan pushed up her glasses.
Her usually calm face showed unhidden shock. "This is... a tank?"
"If the textbooks didn't lie to me, tanks should be tracked."
Chen Hanyue narrowed her eyes, her gaze scanning the behemoth in front of her sharply.
"But this thing... hovering? Fusion reaction? This is not scientific!"
Ji Wushuang saw the shocked expressions of the women.
Suddenly she felt her waist wasn't sore and her legs didn't hurt, and she puffed out her chest.
She stood proudly next to the tank, striking a car model pose.
"Heh heh, never seen it before, right? This was specially made by my husband to reward me!"
"Husband?"
Chu Yanran looked at Ji Wushuang suspiciously, her gaze lingering on her somewhat awkward standing posture for a second.
Then she showed a sudden realization, "we both understand" smile.
Ji Wushuang's pretty face turned bright red instantly!
Oh my god!
Only now did she realize that she had been affectionately calling Lin Yuan husband all the way.
She hadn't noticed it at all, instead feeling it was only natural.
But anyway, she had already been... by Lin Yuan.
Ji Wushuang felt it was no big deal!
"Alright."
Lin Yuan interrupted the conversation of the group of women.
"This thing is called the Flame Burst Technology Tank, and it will be our base's main land combat weapon from now on."
He looked at Su Yuyan:
"Yuyan, you are responsible for forming the armored unit. The drivers don't need a very high Superpower level, but their reaction speed must be fast."
"Yes!"
Su Yuyan immediately entered work mode. "Approximately how many units?"
Lin Yuan held up one finger.
"One hundred units?"
Su Yuyan was pleasantly surprised. "That's enough to form a reinforced company!"
Lin Yuan shook his head.
"One thousand units?"
Chen Hanyue gasped. "Master, did you rob an alien's armory?"
Lin Yuan still shook his head.
He pointed to the tank and said calmly:
"This kind of thing, I currently have 28,800 units in my inventory."
Silence.
Dead silence.
Only the hissing sound of snow mist falling to the ground.
The four women looked like they had been petrified, staring blankly at Lin Yuan, as if looking at a monster.
More than twenty thousand units?
This is no longer an armory; this is moving the entire industrial civilization's assembly line into your brain, right?!
Where on earth did Lin Yuan get such heaven-defying things?
And in such heaven-defying quantities??
"Gulp."
Ji Wushuang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, breaking the silence.
"Hus... Brother Lin, are you saying I can drive this thing and go ram those salty fish in the sea to death?"
Lin Yuan glanced at Ji Wushuang.
"Not just ram them to death."
Lin Yuan opened the tank's hatch, signaling her to go in. "You can also roast them."
Ji Wushuang rubbed her hands excitedly and climbed into the cockpit using her hands and feet.
The interior of the cockpit was extremely spacious.
Full of a sense of the future.
The holographic projection screen lit up instantly, and various data streams flashed before her eyes.
"This... how do you drive this? I only know how to drive a manual transmission van!"
Ji Wushuang looked at the pile of complex buttons and was dumbfounded.
"Fool-proof operation."
Lin Yuan's voice came through the vehicle's intercom.
"Put on the helmet, mental control. You want it to hit where, it will hit where."
Ji Wushuang followed instructions and put on the helmet full of a sense of technology.
The next second, her vision changed.
The tank seemed to have become a part of her body.
360-degree dead-angle-free vision, clear data analysis, she could even feel the terrifying heat gathering in the cannon barrel.
This feeling was like she had become a steel giant.
"This is too magical!"
Ji Wushuang was so excited she wanted to scream. She tried to have a thought.
Humβ
The tank's muzzle turned instantly, aiming at a boulder a hundred meters away.
"Boom!"
There was no deafening explosion, only a dull hum.
A blue-white beam of light instantly pierced the air and accurately hit the boulder.
That boulder, which was two stories high.
Even the process of shattering was saved; it was instantly vaporized at high temperature, leaving only a pool of scalding magma on the ground.
"..."
The whole scene was silent again.
Su Yuyan's notebook fell into the snow.
Chen Hanyue's mouth was slightly open, unable to close for a long time.
This power... is a tank?
This is a mobile nuclear missile silo, right?!
The strike of an S-rank Ability User is nothing more than this!
And Lin Yuan has tens of thousands of these things?
"I have a premonition."
Chu Yanran muttered to herself, "Everyone else in this world is going to be unlucky."
"No."
Su Yuyan picked up her notebook and patted the snow off it.
Her eyes flashed with fanatical light. "It's those sea beasts that are going to be unlucky."
Ji Wushuang climbed out of the tank, her face flushed with excitement.
"Husband! I announce! From today on, this tank is my first wife! You are the second wife! Ah, phew! You are the first husband!"
Lin Yuan couldn't be bothered to care about her inconsistent logic.
He looked at the pool of magma and nodded with satisfaction.
The power was even greater than expected.
"Yuyan."
"Here!"
"Notify everyone, select two thousand smart survivors, as long as their hands and feet are coordinated. Start intensive training this afternoon."
Just then, an untimely voice sounded weakly.
"That... Lin Yuan..."
Ji Wushuang clawed at the tank hatch, looking conflicted.
"What's wrong?"
"Does this thing... have a toilet?"
Ji Wushuang's face was red. "I was too excited just now, I think... I need to pee a little."
Lin Yuan: "..."
The women: "..."
Chu Yanran rolled her eyes and turned to leave: "Don't tell others I know her."
Chen Hanyue sighed: "Seconded."
Su Yuyan held back a laugh: "I'll go arrange the personnel selection."
Lin Yuan took a deep breath, looking at this woman who had just given him a huge surprise and instantly made him speechless.
"Get down."
"Oh..."
"Hold it."
"Ah?!"
"This is a punishment."
Lin Yuan turned around expressionlessly. "Punishing you for that 'second wife' comment just now."
Ji Wushuang looked at Lin Yuan's back with tears in her eyes.
She looked at the domineering tank underneath her again.
"Woooo... First wife, you are the only one good to me... But this tin is too cold, I want to pee even more, what should I do..."
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