62: Chapter 62 Ray Cannon Fully Charged, Three Fires! Four Cabbage Leaves Swap for Blueprint Library

Lu Chen was woken up by a steady low-frequency hum.

The hum was extremely stable, accompanied by a dull sense of pulsation.

He opened his eyes and glanced at the wall clock on the left side of the dashboard.

Six hours had passed.

Under the low-frequency vibration of the Black Rock City-State's main engine running continuously, he had slept a full night's sleep.

Since transmigrating to the Blue Star wasteland, it was his most peaceful sleep.

Lu Chen sat up straight and stretched his stiff neck.

First thing, check the holographic panel.

A light blue light screen unfolded before his eyes, his gaze locking onto a line of status information at the bottom of the Armament and Weaponry branch.

[High-Temperature Thermal Melting Cutting Ray Cannon: Charging complete.]

[Current power storage: 100%.]

[Available shots: 3.]

Lu Chen stared at that number, the tense muscles on his face relaxing.

Six hours ago, it was just a decoration that couldn't fire a single shot.

Now, three full-power shots were on standby.

Three Ray Cannon shots, plus the Heavy Machine Gun on the roof, the Fragment Grenade Arrays on both sides, the Harpoon Cannon, the Repeating Crossbow, and the Four-Corner Spray Guns.

The Polaris had transformed from a Lv.2 Camper into a steel hound with a mouthful of fangs.

He closed the holographic panel.

"City Lord, the cabbage is ready to be picked."

Lin Wan's voice came from the cultivation area, her tone raised high.

"The third harvest?"

"Yes, exactly seventy-two hours, not a second off."

Lu Chen stood up and walked to the cultivation area.

The cabbage in the cultivation box was growing beautifully, its leaves emerald green and full, with a moist luster on the edges.

Under the illumination of the ultraviolet lamp, that green was vibrantly fresh.

Around the thick stalk at the root, complete leaves had grown for the third time.

The veins of every leaf were clearly visible, the patterns stretched out, with no signs of disease.

The genetic advantage of the Grade A Constant Temperature seed vault was displayed to its fullest at this moment.

"Pick them."

"Should I leave the roots?"

"Leave them to grow the fourth harvest."

"Understood."

Lin Wan gently picked the mature cabbage leaves one by one, stacking them in a clean iron tray.

There were twelve leaves in total, each the size of an adult's palm, with thick flesh and extremely high water content.

Lu Chen picked up a leaf and looked at it against the ultraviolet lamp; the leaf's transparency was uniform, and the quality was impeccable.

"This harvest is better than the previous two. Did you adjust the ratio of the nutrient substrate?"

"I did." Lin Wan squatted next to the cultivation box, her hands covered in grayish-brown powder. "After the second harvest, I fine-tuned the phosphorus-potassium ratio. The leaves' water content and taste will be better."

"Not bad."

Lu Chen divided the cabbage leaves into two portions.

He kept a large portion of eight leaves and put a small portion of four leaves into a clean tin lunch box.

"Give these four leaves to your brother."

Lin Wan's eyes widened.

"To my brother?"

"Yes, contact him with the communicator and have someone come to the docking area to collect them."

"City Lord, why..."

"He gave seven blueprints and three pieces of intelligence; I can't keep owing him favors." Lu Chen closed the lunch box lid and handed it to Lin Wan. "Four cabbage leaves aren't worth much, but in the wasteland, green itself is a currency."

Lin Wan took the lunch box, the corners of her eyes curving up.

She picked up the communicator and tuned it to Lin Xiao's private frequency.

"Brother, are you there?"

The communicator crackled for two seconds, then Lin Xiao's characteristic loud voice came through.

"Xiao Wan! What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"Nothing's wrong. The City Lord asked me to send you something."

"What thing?"

"Cabbage."

There was silence on the other end for three seconds.

"Cabbage? Fresh?"

"Just picked, the third harvest, exactly seventy-two hours."

The other end of the communicator was silent for another three seconds.

A burst of laughter so loud it made the communicator shake came through.

"Hahahaha! Brother Lu Chen! You're a real one!"

After laughing, Lin Xiao shouted again.

"Tell him for me, just for these four cabbage leaves, he can flip through the Black Rock City-State's blueprint library whenever he wants from now on!"

"I'll send someone to get it!"

The communication cut off.

Five minutes later, a City-State orderly in a gray uniform appeared at the docking area, took the lunch box from Lin Wan, and jogged away into the elevator.

Lin Wan returned to the vehicle and locked the door again.

"City Lord, my brother is thrilled."

"As long as he's happy." Lu Chen sat back in the driver's seat and put the remaining eight cabbage leaves into the fresh-keeping compartment of the cold storage. "Trading four cabbage leaves for the right to use a blueprint library, this isn't a bad deal."

Lin Wan thought about it and agreed with the logic.

Lu Chen took a sip of water from his thermos, his gaze falling on the neatly stacked frozen beast meat bricks in the cold storage.

"Lin Wan."

"In."

"Stew the remaining eight cabbage leaves in a pot tonight."

"What meat should I use?"

"Snow Bear meat, season it with Sichuan peppercorns and coarse salt, don't put too much."

"Alright." Lin Wan responded, rubbed her hands together, and ran to the cold storage to pick out the meat.

Lu Chen leaned back against the seat and looked through the porthole at the ceiling of the docking area.

Those crisscrossing steel beams were still making faint metallic stress sounds, and the Black Rock City-State was traveling across the ice field at a speed of twelve kilometers per hour.

According to Lin Xiao, it would take three days at the fastest and four days at the slowest to reach the Rustwind Wasteland.

A journey of three to four days.

The Ray Cannon was fully charged.

Ammunition had been replenished.

Intelligence had been thoroughly analyzed.

There were only two things to do.

Wait for the radiation mark to dissipate.

After reaching the Rustwind Wasteland, find a new source of Truth Points.

The balance of two hundred and fifty Truth Points was a drop in the bucket for the Lv.2 stage.

He still had ten nodes to light up, and just a rough calculation based on the known incremental pattern showed that the total requirement was an astronomical figure.

The low-level Mutant Beasts and low-grade coal crystals of the Pale Shoals could no longer satisfy the Truth Tech Tree.

If the Rustwind Wasteland was indeed as resource-rich as Lin Xiao said, the mid-level and above Mutant Beasts and higher-quality coal crystal veins there were what he needed.

Lu Chen turned the radio knob to the Snow Shard Gang's encrypted frequency.

The crackling sound was still empty.

No new signals.

But silence itself was a signal.

Before the storm arrives, it is always abnormally quiet.