Mobile Shelter

Chapter 20: The Frenzied Consumption of Enhancement

As for material storage space, there are many limitations, making it even more difficult to exploit bugs.

Therefore, the space inside the hundred-refinement furnace can only temporarily store the materials needed for vehicle upgrades.

Because the gas station is near the market, most of the vehicles that come to refuel are various trucks, so the tanker trucks that stop here to refuel are also large tanker trucks.

Fortunately, the fuel stored in the tanker truck had not been consumed much at this time, so even if Dong Qi refined all the gold in the truck, he could still refill the fuel tank directly.

More than 20 tons of gold were refined to yield only 26 grams of refined gold. Adding the small amount of refined gold in the material space of the Hundred Refinement Furnace, the total yield was less than 30 grams.

This weight is far from enough for overall reinforcement, let alone individual reinforcement.

Fortunately, the materials needed for this stage of the game don't require high-end materials like refined gold.

Now that we have obtained the Hundred Refinement Furnace, our next major objective in collecting materials is to target the metal smelting company.

The metal smelting company's warehouse should contain a considerable amount of metal that has already undergone preliminary smelting. Using these metals for refining, the final amount of material obtained should be higher than that obtained by refining ordinary metals.

However, Pengcheng does not have large-scale metal smelting plants, but it does have a number of metal processing plants. While a single plant may not have a large stockpile of metal materials, the combined stockpile of so many plants should contain a considerable amount of metal.

At this time, only two or three days had passed since Dong Tianyu left the underground shelter, and most people were still hiding in the underground shelter and had not come out.

Normally, the government would send out patrol officers to maintain order and stabilize the external situation.

However, due to the EMP impact, the communication system was interrupted, and for a short time the government could only rely on manpower to contact the various underground shelters.

That's why it's necessary for police officers and sheriffs to stay in the underground shelter to maintain stability, and that's why they let guinea pigs like Dong Qi voluntarily go out to test the natural conditions outside.

Taking advantage of the paralysis of the external surveillance system, Dong Qi emptied the warehouses of several metal processing plants and, after refining, obtained two cubic meters of ordinary metal alloy.

Two cubic units of metal alloy may not seem like much, but in reality, these two cubic units of metal alloy weigh as much as thirty-eight tons.

Although the metal in the metal processing plant's warehouse has undergone preliminary refining and further refining in the hundred-refinement furnace, the ratio is not as exaggerated as that of refining gold into refined gold, which is one ton to one gram, but it is still only about one ton to one hundred grams.

It is conceivable that the two cubic meters of metal alloy stored in the material space of the Hundred Refinement Furnace at this time had directly emptied the warehouses of several metal processing plants.

Just as Dong Qi had emptied the warehouses of several metal processing plants in the North City Industrial Park and was preparing to move to the East City Industrial Park.

The government has determined that the external environment is safe and has directly arranged for residents to leave the underground shelter and return to their homes.

After seeing many people on the street, Dong Qi realized that his good days of buying things for free were over, and he needed to behave himself from today onwards.

I was busy refining materials the other day, so I didn't have time to upgrade my favorite car.

Unlike some protagonists in novels who, despite having already obtained the qualification to enhance, insist on suppressing their level and only remember that they still have the qualification to enhance and become stronger after being beaten half to death by the enemy.

My specialty: light passenger vehicle.

Level: Magical Artifact

Body frame: Reinforcement level LV4

Power System: Enhancement Level 4

Electrical equipment: Enhancement level LV0

Other equipment: LV3 Refining Furnace

Manifestation of ideas

Number of occurrences: 2

Unknown special energy value: 10.1

(Each manifestation consumes a minimum of 100 energy points, with no maximum limit.)

Reserve materials: 28.3 grams of refined gold, 1 tons of metal alloys

Despite the low enhancement level, it still consumed 37 tons of refined metal.

The initial LV1 enhancement used a ton of metal alloy, and the metal alloy required to enhance to the next level would double.

LV1-1 tons.

LV2-2 tons.

LV3-4 tons.

LV4-8 tons.

Dong Qi hadn't expected that just a few reinforcements would require so much metal alloy.

Based on this level of enhancement consumption, Dong Qi really doubted whether cultivators in the cultivation world who practiced the Treasure Forging Technique could actually obtain so many materials.

Actually, the reason why so many materials are consumed each time is because Dong Qi is greedy. Most of the cultivators in the cultivation world who practice the Treasure Forging Technique have relatively small weapons as their natal items.

Even full suits of armor or special artifacts generally do not weigh more than 100 pounds.

Dong Qi chose a light passenger vehicle as his natal object, which weighs three to four tons even without a chassis, so it's normal that it requires a lot of metal alloy for reinforcement.

Furthermore, in the cultivation world, suitable materials can be found at each stage of cultivation, so although cultivating the Treasure Forging Technique is relatively expensive, it is not as difficult as Dong Qi's.

However, there are also advantages to consuming more resources. If Dong Qi's natal weapon could only withstand small-caliber firearms, then after this enhancement, it can withstand not only ordinary firearms, but even sniper cannons with smaller apertures without taking damage.

The repeated upgrades to the power system meant that what looked like ordinary tires actually offered comparable defensive capabilities to the vehicle body, making them even more durable than tank tracks.

The upgrade to the Hundred Refinement Furnace slightly improved the refining efficiency and also slightly increased the volume of the two spaces inside the furnace.

The hundred-refinement furnace, integrated into the car of the person's destiny, is only displayed as an ornament in front of the car window.

However, this ornament is as if it were welded to the platform and cannot be moved.

No one could have imagined that the small ornament in front of the car window requires tons of metal alloy to upgrade each time.

Logically speaking, since the vehicle upgrade consumed more than 30 tons of metal alloy, the vehicle itself should have become extremely heavy.

However, at this time, the weight of Dong Qi's vehicle was not much different from that of an ordinary vehicle.

When most people had become accustomed to cashless payments, the sudden EMP attack damaged most electronic devices, instantly destroying the original convenient payment system.

More importantly, the vast majority of people's savings were originally held in banks, but the EMP's impact caused the electronic devices that recorded everyone's savings to be damaged.

This resulted in the vast majority of their wealth vanishing instantly.

Some people who still have those old-fashioned passbooks are okay, as they have proof of the amount of money they once had. But most people use bank cards, and the damage to electronic devices has rendered all the cards in everyone's hands useless.