93: The Death of the Chief of the Cloud Sky Base

Putting aside the matter of poisons and bugs for now, Tang Ping clicked on the Shelter and used all two hundred shelter fragments to upgrade it.

[Shelter ID: 0000000003 Owner: Tang Ping (Not fully bound) Level: 3 (100/1000) Area: 120 square meters Style: Two-story small villa (Image) Feature: SSS-rank mini-games Current Games: plants vs. zombies, Planting Oranges, Magical Girl, Five Poisons Nest]

It's a Level Three Shelter now. It still needs nine hundred shelter fragments and a level four Shelter blueprint to reach level four.

The Shelter requires more and more shelter fragments as it levels up; upgrading to a level five shelter even requires ten thousand!

This is also why many Shelters, even after a hundred years of inheritance, haven't upgraded to Level Five or level six.

After all, it's virtually impossible to gather so many shelter fragments just by searching treasure chests; at most, one can gather enough for a level four Shelter.

However, a level four Shelter can already be passed down to descendants.

This is also why, a hundred years later, most of the extraordinary Shelter families are level four families.

"There are still four bottles of infected serum left, which can gather another 200 shelter fragments," Tang Ping mused. The earlier it was, the easier it was to gather shelter fragments. Did he have anything else on him that could be used to trade for shelter fragments?

Tang Ping's gaze fell on the Spirit Sealing Crystal Barrel in the living room.

"How could I forget this thing? This is a healing holy item!" Tang Ping immediately got up and left the Shelter.

He decided to leave the Shelter and go outside to find some containers to bottle the King Worm's pupa fluid into small bottles for sale, trading them for shelter fragments.

However, before leaving, he needed to open the treasure chests obtained from the dungeon.

He obtained twenty-five treasure chests from the Worm Lair and thirty-eight treasure chests from the group of people he killed.

He obtained 70 a-rank experience stones, 10 s-rank experience stones, and 50 experience stones of other levels.

Additionally, there was a very valuable item.

The Shelter Planting Room Scroll can directly add a 100-square-meter underground planting room to the Shelter.

In the planting room, one can normally plant wheat, corn, vegetables, and fruits, all with intelligent planting; one doesn't even need to sow seeds themselves, just hand the seeds over to the planting room's robot.

Tang Ping had indeed opened seeds from the treasure chests, such as bagged fruit and vegetable seeds, as well as wheat and corn seeds.

These were just ordinary items, but Tang Ping hadn't thrown any away; he had hoarded them all, and now was the perfect time to use them.

He found these seeds and went to the planting room.

This was his first time seeing the Shelter's planting room with his own eyes—a highly technological planting space with very high space utilization.

"Respected master, I am the planting room robot, Farmer. How may I assist you, master?" A robot dressed as a farmer appeared at the side of the entrance.

Aside from looking like it was made of some metal, the robot's appearance was virtually indistinguishable from a human's.

"Plant all these seeds," Tang Ping casually handed all the various seeds he was carrying to Farmer.

"Yes, master," Farmer replied, taking the seeds.

Tang Ping looked around the planting room. Although this planting room wasn't large, the things it could grow were more than enough to sustain him.

This was a solution to the food problem, as upgrading to Level Five to get a manor would require ten thousand shelter fragments, and he didn't know how long it would take to save up for that.

Leaving the planting room, Tang Ping organized all the food, water, and other resources obtained from the various treasure chests, then headed out to look for some small bottles.

The easiest to find, of course, were beer bottles; he could basically find them by searching any restaurant or supermarket.

"It's the tenth day of the Doomsday Game."

Tang Ping looked up at the sun. The sun had been scorching hot these past few days, and even though there was a hurricane, it only brought hot air.

Even the sand felt somewhat hot when it scraped against his skin.

His gaze fell forward, and Tang Ping headed into Xi County.

After the Treasure Dungeon ended, the people inside randomly appeared in the surroundings, so there wasn't a large crowd gathered around Tang Ping.

As he approached Xi County, Tang Ping heard the sounds of fighting.

With the keen hearing brought by his high physique, he discerned who the people were from behind the sandstorm.

"Wang Haitao! Did your group kill our Great Leader and Second Leader?!"

"Hmph, I said it wasn't me who killed them, and it wasn't me who killed them."

"Besides you, who else here has the strength to kill our Yuntian Base's Great Leader and Second Leader?!"

"That's right! It must be you! And to think you're a teacher! You couldn't save us, and you killed our leaders. Do you want to see thousands of people in our base die at the hands of the Infected before you're happy?!"

"Isn't it just taking a piece of your scrap paper? Because of a single piece of paper, you cruelly want to destroy our entire Yuntian Base! Kill these thousands of old and young!"

"You must take responsibility for us!"

"Right! Right! You must take responsibility for us!"

A young man from Taohai Base flushed red: "You're talking nonsense! I've always been by our leader's side. The death of your leaders was definitely not caused by our leader!"

A man from Yuntian Base sneered: "You're from Taohai Base, of course you can say whatever you want. Do you think we'll believe you?"

Someone shouted from behind.

"Right! We won't believe it! You must take responsibility for us! You must be fully responsible for our safety!"

"You killed our leaders! You hypocritical phony!"

"A political teacher, my ass! I bet he's a gang member! Otherwise, how could he be so ruthless!"

"If you ask me, you must take us to Taohai Base, or else don't even think about leaving!"

"That's right! Escort all of us to Taohai Base!"

A girl from Taohai Base clenched her fists: "You, you're being unreasonable! It's clearly your own leaders who were weak and died in the dungeon; what does that have to do with us?!"

"Don't even think about it; it's impossible for us to let you people into our Taohai Base!"

"Exactly! You thieves, your own leaders died, and you want to blame us? No way!"

"I'm telling you, don't even think about entering our Taohai Base!"

"Right, never mind that your leaders weren't killed by us; even if they were, so what! You're weak and want to blame us. Instead of shouting here, why don't you look for your own reasons!"

Wang Haizhi's eyes gradually grew cold: "Are you sure you want to stop us?"

"So what if we stop you? What, you political teacher, do you want to kill people? Is that how you teach?!"

"We're not leaving. If you don't compensate us for our leaders today, you must take us back to your base!"

"Go ahead and kill me if you dare! Anyway, I'm just a worthless life. Without leaders, we'll be torn apart by those powerful Infected sooner or later. We're going to die eventually anyway!"

A hundred meters away from the group, Tang Ping understood what had happened and his heart stirred: "The Yuntian Base's Great Leader also died?"