Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Chapter 125: Ritual Circle, Spiritual Essence, Electronics Shop

Southern District, a residential building.

This place had clearly experienced an intense battle, with half of the floors collapsed, leaving only the structure below the third floor barely intact.

The streets around the residential building, the walls, were covered in bullet holes, craters, and vehicles on the roadside that had been caught in the crossfire.

Given the terrible environment and the precarious state of the residential building, anyone with a sane mind wouldn't hide here.

They wouldn't even go near it.

But... today, this place welcomed a guest.

Yu Yuan pushed open the heavily rusted iron door and slipped into the residential building.

Compared to the battle-damaged streets outside, the interior of the residential building was somewhat better.

But only marginally.

Yu Yuan didn't care about these conditions. He scanned the surroundings and quickly found the staircase leading to the basement.He descended deep underground along the stairway passage.

Enhanced by both the [Neighborhood Rat] and [Neighborhood Shadow] titles, Yu Yuan's eyes now possessed the ability to see in darkness.

In the dark environment, his vision turned grayscale, as clear as if he were wearing night vision goggles.

This novel visual effect made Yu Yuan quite delighted, and he kept examining his surroundings, full of freshness.

Just like that, Yu Yuan passed through a half-collapsed wall and stepped over scattered bricks and stones, stopping before a locked door.

"Right, this is the place!"

Yu Yuan felt the treasure-hunting intuition in his mind, confirming this was the location he was looking for.

Just moments ago, he had been preparing to complete the last major task of the night—exploring the supply room left by the Blood Ravens.

But as he passed by here, he suddenly triggered the [Neighborhood Rat]'s treasure-hunting intuition, alerting him that there was unclaimed supplies here.

Yu Yuan immediately changed direction to come explore.

With the Rare-tier [Lock Picking] skill, the lock before him was easily cracked.

As he opened the door and prepared to enter, a foul stench assaulted his nostrils.

Seeing the scene inside, Yu Yuan's stepping foot paused mid-air before slowly coming down.

A face mask was already on his face.

Yu Yuan had imagined all possible scenarios for the supplies in this room, but he never expected it to be like this.

A ritual!

This was actually a ritual circle that occupied the entire room.

Inside the ritual circle on the ground was a blood-red hexagram magic array, along with some incomprehensible symbols.

At various node positions within the ritual circle, several supplies were scattered.

There were gold jewelry, statues, crystals...

Surrounding the magic array were three human skeletons!

In the center of the ritual circle stood a waist-high wooden platform, on which rested an alloy box the size of a book.

In the corner of the room, two skeletons wearing identical clothing were piled together, their weapons stabbed into each other's bodies.

Clearly, this was a site where a sacrificial ritual had been taking place, though it was unknown why they turned on each other, resulting in all of them dying here.

Yu Yuan wasn't interested in the reason for the infighting; he was only interested in the supplies.

After entering the room, the treasure-hunting intuition in his mind was stronger than ever before, far surpassing the intensity when he discovered the Nizi Water Arrow Turtle and Green-haired Seaweed.

Yu Yuan's gaze fell upon the alloy box in the center of the ritual circle—this was the source triggering his treasure-hunting intuition.

Yu Yuan approached the box and opened it. Inside was only a test tube.

The test tube contained a fluorescent, semi-transparent substance resembling paste. He picked up the test tube.

[Ding... High-value supplies discovered!]

Detailed information about the item also appeared on the virtual light screen. Yu Yuan's hand holding the test tube trembled slightly.

[Spirituality Concentrate]

Quality: Unknown

Introduction: This is an extremely precious, extremely rare spiritual aggregation substance with quite miraculous effects.

That's it?

An introduction so brief it couldn't be any simpler.

Yu Yuan looked at the small amount of fluorescent liquid before him, occupying at most a quarter of the test tube's capacity.

"So this is Spirituality Concentrate."

Spirituality Concentrate was one of the optimization materials for the Level 3 Workbench's optimization path—the Rare Item Workshop.

Yu Yuan never expected it to appear before him under such circumstances.

And clearly, the [Spirituality Concentrate] before him contained more than just 5ml.

Target exceeded.

After securely closing the alloy box and storing it in the Rabbit Ring, Yu Yuan also collected the other supplies on the ground.

Among them was White Crystal.

White Crystal was an important material for crafting the [Spirit Collector].

Now he had everything directly.

After gathering all the supplies, Yu Yuan's gaze turned to the ritual circle pattern on the ground and the two corpses in the corner.

He initially thought these two corpses were members of the Aurora Animal Assistance Association.

But he didn't see the 'Black Sun' pattern on them, which left Yu Yuan unable to make a judgment.

"Forget it, let's leave this place first!"

Just as Yu Yuan was preparing to leave, he suddenly remembered that the [Regional Event—Mysterious Religious Ritual] seemed to involve understanding religious ritual processes and secrets.

Although he wasn't sure if this ritual had any connection to the Aurora Animal Assistance Association.

After thinking for a moment, Yu Yuan finally decided to preserve this pattern.

He took out his phone from the ring and started snapping pictures of the ritual circle on the ground.

In less than a minute, he had captured all the details of the ritual pattern clearly.

After confirming he hadn't missed any items, he finally left the room.

After leaving the building via the same route, he continued heading toward the Blood Ravens' supply room.

Following the information provided by Harris, Yu Yuan quickly found the supply room hidden by the Blood Ravens.

Using the key found on Harris's body, he opened the door and saw the situation inside.

Whoa!

There really were quite a lot of supplies.

Although not as extensive as the supplies in Fries's safe house, they were comparable to those in Luo Mei's safe house (excluding the clothes).

Yu Yuan checked the supplies. There wasn't too much food, but the variety was rich, and there were quite a few firearms and ammunition, even over a dozen throwing weapons.

Yu Yuan guessed the weapons were probably provided by Loris.

There was another room inside, filled with many electronic resources. Some were electronic components, while others were electronic instruments. There were daily items like game consoles, computers, phones, walkie-talkies, as well as office equipment like printers, multimedia TVs, and photocopiers.

The variety coverage was extremely comprehensive and extensive.

For a moment, Yu Yuan thought he had walked into a repair warehouse of a digital city.

And indeed, there was a repair table and repair tools in the room, clearly indicating someone frequently repaired these electronic products here.

On the repair table was also a pile of books and blueprints related to mechanical and electronic repair.

Yu Yuan entered the room and crouched down.

Looking at the surveillance cameras, temperature sensors, full-spectrum lighting lamps before him, and the oscilloscope, multimeter on the repair table.

Only one thought flashed through his mind.

"This trip was worth it! The 'Blood Ravens' died well!"