Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Chapter 129: Spiritual Collector, Optimizing the Curious Item Workshop

With just minutes remaining before the three-hour time limit for the motel main guest room expired.

Yu Yuan pushed open the door and stepped out.

In less than three hours, he had completely collected all of Raven's fresh blood and conducted a thorough examination of its entire body.

As expected, he found a chip control device inside its skull - this was the primary method the Aurora Animal Assistance Association used to control mutated creatures. Ning Zhe had mentioned this in intelligence reports, and the chip controller contained a signal transmitter.

This was precisely why Yu Yuan hadn't returned to the shelter immediately.

Fortunately, he had previously experienced the Iron Anchor Shipping Company's electronic tracker incident, which made him pay special attention to this matter.

Now that the hidden danger was eliminated and the fresh spiritual creature blood was collected, Yu Yuan naturally wouldn't stay any longer.

He mounted Mie Mie and hurried back toward the shelter.

He didn't know how long the definition of "fresh spiritual creature blood" lasted.

So he had to complete the crafting process with these blood samples as quickly as possible.Returning to the shelter, Yu Yuan immediately opened the shelter's Facility Management Log - Workbench page.

He selected to craft the "Spirit Collector."

— Level 3 Workbench, 100ml of fresh spiritual creature blood, 100g of spiritual creature droppings, 2 CPUs, 1 portable electronic instrument, 3 white crystals (purity 99.5% or higher).

All crafting conditions were met.

Yu Yuan also took out a pre-prepared smartwatch and designated it as the vessel for the spirit collector.

As crafting began.

All related items disappeared, and a 30-minute countdown appeared on the virtual light screen.

Only at this moment did Yu Yuan's tense heart finally relax slightly - this was his first attempt.

On the workbench, a pile of electronic instruments appeared - all surveillance components he had crafted during the day.

"Construction materials are all ready, the surveillance network control console can begin too!"

As he confirmed the construction of the "Defense—Surveillance Network Control Console."

A miniature terrain map centered on Yu Yuan Shelter appeared on the virtual light screen, but this time with a radius extending to 300 meters.

Within this radius, Yu Yuan could set up no more than 50 surveillance cameras for comprehensive monitoring coverage.

Yu Yuan had already carefully studied this during the day.

Naturally, he quickly took action. As he continuously zoomed in and out on the miniature map and clicked to confirm, surveillance points appeared all around Yu Yuan Shelter.

In the sewers, in the civil defense shelter level, on the ground, on the streets, at building corner tops, on utility poles...

In the sky, underground, inside buildings, outside houses...

A hemispherical network composed of surveillance completely covered the 300-meter radius around Yu Yuan Shelter.

As Yu Yuan confirmed construction.

All construction materials disappeared, replaced by a construction progress bar advancing on the virtual light screen.

"Two hours! Not bad!" Yu Yuan looked at the green light screen appearing on the shelter walls, full of anticipation.

That was where the surveillance monitor would be located.

Soon, the spirit collector was completed, and the smartwatch reappeared on the workbench.

The watch's appearance had dramatically changed, looking highly technological. After operating it, Yu Yuan reached a conclusion.

This spirit collector didn't affect the watch's original functions, it just added a spirit collection feature.

Rather than saying he crafted a "Spirit Collector," it was more accurate to say he modified the watch to have "Spirit Collection" functionality.

Now, Yu Yuan had no more concerns. He removed his positioning watch and used it as the vessel to begin the spirit collector modification.

Thirty minutes passed quickly, and Yu Yuan removed the positioning watch. Similar to the previous smartwatch, it looked highly technological.

He didn't immediately check the watch's functions, but instead opened the virtual light screen to access the workbench's optimization path - Rare Item Workshop.

Yu Yuan had met all optimization conditions: kill 1 spiritual creature, obtain 1 complete spiritual creature body, and 5ml of spirituality concentrate.

He immediately began optimization.

Optimization time: 8 hours.

Only then did he lower his head to look at the positioning watch.

After several minutes of operation, confirming that the positioning watch's scanning and virtual map functions were unaffected, Yu Yuan finally truly relaxed.

There was no other way - the positioning watch was too important to him, making it impossible not to feel nervous.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly.

He also figured out the spirit collector's effect. Essentially, when spiritual creatures die, large amounts of pure spirituality dissipate and vanish within an extremely short time.

The spirit collector was an instrument that gathered this dissipated pure spirituality, though it had distance limitations - it could only absorb dissipated pure spirituality within 100 meters.

The positioning watch had a spirit collection progress bar. When the bar filled completely, it would condense one spirit crystal.

One spirit crystal equaled 1 unit of pure spirituality.

The function of pure spirituality was simple - it was the key item for crafting or upgrading rare artifacts.

And the place for crafting and upgrading rare artifacts was - the Rare Item Workshop.

Yu Yuan looked calmly at the Rare Item Workshop still undergoing optimization and upgrade.

He had long suspected that the Rare Item Workshop was related to crafting rare artifacts.

A hint of regret flashed through his mind.

If only he had possessed this spirit collector when he killed Raven earlier.

But...

If he hadn't killed Raven, he couldn't have obtained the "fresh spiritual creature blood" either.

However, Yu Yuan secretly formed an idea.

"In the future, I absolutely cannot waste any opportunity to kill spiritual creatures. Hmm~ even opportunities where others kill spiritual creatures shouldn't be missed either."

"Speaking of which..."

He glanced at the increasingly crowded shelter.

"The shelter is getting smaller and smaller!"

Yu Yuan decided that the next time he drew a Luxury Card, he would choose to expand the shelter area no matter what.

Previously, conditions weren't mature, but now they were sufficient.

After these past few days of sales, the batch of clothes he found from Luo Mei were almost completely traded.

Aside from the dozen or so pieces Yu Yuan specifically kept for himself, about twenty-something pieces remained. That pile of clothing had earned him over a hundred thousand survival points.

Although he had to significantly reduce prices for clearance sales in the later days, Yu Yuan was quite satisfied.

Now his survival points, accumulated through continuously listing various supplies during this period, had reached over two hundred thousand.

Heaven have mercy.

Before entering the wasteland world, his savings had never exceeded one hundred thousand.

Now, having been here for less than a month, he not only had a house and vehicle, but also over two hundred thousand in savings.

He suddenly understood why so many veteran players chose to settle down here.

For no other reason than this one principle.

The bolder your ambitions, the greater your yields become!

As long as you dare to seize opportunities and fight boldly, the entire world becomes your wealth!