Apocalypse: Hero of Potato Fields-Chapter 370 - 356: Forty Thousand Survivors

Shelter.

Early in the morning, a girl quietly slipped into Lin Yi’s house, took off her robe, and snuggled into his bed.

After a while, Lin Yi suddenly opened his eyes, lifted the blanket, and saw the girl’s charming smile.

He nodded his head and snuggled back under the blanket.

"You sleep more alertly now than before."

After Chen Youyou did what she wanted, she climbed out from under the blanket and said.

Chen Youyou’s visit to the boss was earlier than usual this time, but they still missed breakfast.

"Looks like the two of you stayed together last night," Annie said when she saw them coming out of the house.

"Mind your own business," Orianna said, sipping her coffee. She noticed Annie’s comment, which made Rein a little unhappy.

"Boss, all the loot has been opened, and I made a list for you. Aren’t I amazing?"

Annie said excitedly, very pleased with her performance.

She was eager to brag about her achievements, but the boss was late for breakfast!

"Oh, there are hundreds of thousands of them... well done!"

Lin Yi had originally expected Annie and her subordinates to take several days to open all the loot.

Unexpectedly, they had checked everything already and made a list!

"Hehe," Annie beamed. She loved this kind of praise.

"Sylvie, you don’t look well."

"We’ve been working a lot, not getting enough sleep... need more manpower..." Sylvie replied with difficulty.

In the past few days, she had only slept two hours each night, working non-stop except for eating and toilet breaks.

"Understood... We just got some Weapon Craftsman Skill Books, Annie, how many skills did you get?"

"You mean Weapon Craftsman Skill Books?"

"Yes."

"We only got a few."

"Today I will recruit some new Weapon Craftsmen from the Hanover refugees. I’m sure there are two of them who are Weapon Craftsmen.

"Solomon, while the front is still calm, start recruiting more soldiers, as many as possible."

"Understood," Solomon replied.

"One more thing, Manny, the lab has completed the analysis of the Lightning Skills. Talk to the Americans, make a deal."

"Okay."

Then, Lin Yi had a conversation with Orianna and Natasha about how the shelter’s population had just increased by over 40,000 people, so they must open more fields, build more residential buildings, infrastructure, and so forth.

However, it turned out that these two girls were already prepared.

As long as the boss approved their plan, they could start working after lunch.

One of them was responsible for expanding the fields, and the other for city construction.

The professor also brought some good news.

He had studied the soldiers who turned into zombies, and along with other doctors, healers, saviors, and all those with healing skills, they observed the process of these soldiers returning to human form.

They recorded, analyzed, scanned, and processed everything with precision equipment.

The professor also managed to get 200 people who had just turned into zombies from Hanover!

Their "Recovery" vaccine was scarce, only 75 doses, so it would be foolish to waste these vaccines on strangers, so they intended to try other methods to cure these people.

Lin Yi was also invited to visit the mushroom tree farm grown by the doctors and the professor, but he didn’t have time at the moment.

After breakfast, the first thing Lin Yi did was go to the lab.

By now, the analysis of the Lightning Skills had been completed.

He didn’t follow the plan to analyze "Archer" skills next but decided to let the lab analyze an AK-15 rifle firearm instead.

Analyzing this gun would take exactly four days.

Subsequently, Lin Yi went to the beacon location to observe the situation of the Sea of Space-Time.

Lin Yi watched the shark-stingray happily devour the zombies swimming toward the Wandering Island from all directions of the Sea of Space-Time.

After chatting with Siri for a while and scanning the Sea of Space-Time and the vampire’s Ark, Lin Yi left the beacon area and teleported to his laptop.

[Subject: Received Survivors]

41,889 survivors have agreed to your terms and entered the shelter.

Your shelter has gained 418,890 Experience Points.

[Subject: Upgrade]

Congratulations! Your shelter has reached Level 18.

Note: The shop’s product level has been upgraded to Level 20, and your upgrade reward has been confiscated.

"Only the shop’s update. Oh right, the shop... I have to go check it out!"

Lin Yi didn’t have much time.

He still had to construct a city.

So he quickly browsed through the new products in the shop, but there were just too many items.

He started by looking at items that could be upgraded.

The first thing he did was spend 450,000 Coins to upgrade the Space-Time Teleporter.

Now the range for teleporting people and objects on Earth has increased to 600 meters.

Moreover, the Teleporter is now more powerful, so if he wanted, he could even teleport a ship.

After upgrading the Teleporter, he spent 576,000 Coins to upgrade the beacon.

Unfortunately, he didn’t get a new camera, but he did get something he had been dreaming of for a while.

[Space-Time Outpost, Level 1]

This is a special device sold only in the Shelter Shop. If the home planet of the shelter is destroyed, the device will cease to operate.

No matter how far the distance, the outpost can establish a stable connection with the shelter.

Note: This device is only effective in the Sea of Space-Time.

After installation, the outpost generates a 150-meter radius area where teleportation can occur.

Upgrade to Level 2 cost: 2.5 million Coins

Purchase cost: 500,000 Coins

Lin Yi immediately bought this cube-shaped device, but as soon as he held it, all the excitement disappeared...

"Damn it! This thing can only teleport items! What if I upgrade it?

... The teleportation range increases to 300 meters, and now I can teleport people! But if I..."

Lin Yi focused on the cube and confirmed upgrading it to Level 3.

million Survivor Coins disappeared from the shelter account, and the cube began to glow, patterns changing.

"Ha! Now bodies can be sucked underground, and the teleportation range has reached 600 meters. But it cost me 8 million in the end..."

[Teleportation Platform]

This is a special device sold only in the shelter store. It allows you to teleport from one platform to another.

Purchase cost: 100,000 Coins

"Finally got it! If I had known about this earlier, I would have upgraded the shelter to Level 20 long ago!

I need to test it, then distribute it to various branches..."

There are many new items for sale, but Lin Yi only found another useful thing.

An advanced material converter.

It’s just like a regular material converter, but priced at 500,000 Coins, designed for industrial use.

Natasha appeared then, reporting that they are ready to expand the residential and industrial areas.

The first thing Lin Yi did was check the new areas in the planning application.

The residential area has spacious courtyards, two new larger entertainment areas, eight cafeterias, several town squares, and a small park.

Most apartment buildings have ten floors.

They are basically the same as previous Soviet-style buildings but twice as tall.

There are also many apartments for singles.

Preliminary surveys show about half of the newcomers are singles.

Finally, they built sixty ten-story buildings and eighty collective apartment buildings.

They are not really collective apartment buildings, just ordinary buildings with one-bedroom apartments, but people started calling them "collective apartment buildings."

The new residential areas and infrastructure eventually cost 3 million Coins.

Lin Yi confirmed the construction project, and refugees from Hanover stared in amazement as a grove of green plants was sucked underground.

Then buildings, roads, streetlights, and bus stops sprang up like mushrooms after rain from underground.

New shelter members were invited to witness their new boss’s "Strong Power" in person, which worked well, and they were truly amazed.

The changes in the industrial area were not as obvious, but it still expanded to nearly three times its original size.

Many manufacturing facilities were expanded, and some were newly built, with the metallurgy area six times larger than before.

As soon as the residential area was completed, Orianna and the boss began to work on the fields.

Orianna was focused on maximizing production, and with the help of some agricultural committee-like institution, she devised a new plan.

According to Orianna, the shelter is now almost able to feed half the world’s population.

They built a road between the fields, added a new area for farm workers to rest, warehouses for storing agricultural equipment, and some other facilities urgently needed by Orianna’s farm workers.

All fields have been transformed.

The plan is to sow in such a way that crops can be harvested in equal amounts every day.

The chaos initially caused by Lin Yi is gone, where one day a thousand tons of potatoes were harvested, then two hundred tons the next day, and then one day with no potato harvest at all...

Every suggestion Orianna proposed had a good reason.

She discussed everything with Chen Youyou and Immanuel beforehand.

They determined what the shelter and people on Earth needed and listed the most popular items.

She also took geographic factors into account, including the fact that Lin Yi might eventually return to Asia, so she suggested planting rice.

In fact, they’ve already started trial planting of rice, but the quantity is far from meeting the shelter’s demand.

They eventually increased the potato field area by 300 acres, producing about 40,000 tons of crops daily.

This figure includes vegetables, with vegetable-growing areas occupying another 300 acres, and types have increased.

Immanuel has already ordered branches to buy as many seeds, seedlings, and saplings as possible.

Unfortunately, wild mutant vegetables cannot take root in the shelter, so they are not sold in stores either.

The professor researched many different samples, confirming they have certain similarities with mushroom trees.

These mutant plants absorb zombie virus from the soil to grow, but their fruit contains lethal doses of the virus.

In other words, anyone who eats wild vegetables on Earth will die on the spot.

After all, the virus not only causes infertility but also accelerates human aging.

That’s why many survivors look older than their actual age, and women begin to lose their beauty.

Next, they expanded the wheat fields to 500 acres, with a daily production of 2,000 tons.

The corn fields were expanded to 600 acres, using corn to produce more fuel for Tilian.

The vineyard was expanded to 120 acres, and the orchard to 150 acres.

There are now ten orchards and over a dozen mushroom farms, and they plan to expand the silkworm farm.

The rice planting area reached a record 1,200 acres, with a daily production of 5,000 tons.

Other crops include buckwheat, legumes, barley, oats, and some other things Lin Yi doesn’t care much about.

Next is the livestock industry.

The rabbit pen area increased to 50 acres since rabbit meat is popular both in the shelter and on Earth.

The spider farm expanded to 15 acres, the Xidi farm expanded to 25 acres, and the sheep farm expanded to 10 acres.

The poultry farm was expanded tenfold.

It’s hard to say exactly how big it is now, but it has six production facilities and can produce 400 tons of meat daily.

All these expansions cost 20 million Coins.