novelraw Chapter 18: Obtaining blueprints again and being attacked
Chapter 18: Obtaining blueprints again and being attacked
Looking at the opened safe and hearing the system prompt in his ear, an ultimate sense of satisfaction flooded Yu Yuan's mind.
"Turns out locks also have grade classifications. So ordinary security doors are Ordinary level, this kind of safe is Excellent level, and there should be Rare level or even higher grade locks later."
"It seems the Lock Picking skill has more potential than I imagined."
As his thoughts flowed, his gaze turned to the safe.
The first things that caught his eye were the gold bars.
The safe was divided into two levels.
The lower level contained three gold bars, two bundles of cash, a Glock 17 (with holster), and a box of 20 rounds of 9×19mm FMJ ammunition.
The upper level held two blueprints and a folder.
Yu Yuan eagerly picked up the Glock 17, unable to suppress the fondness in his eyes.
As Glock's most classic model, he was naturally familiar with it.The magazine was a standard 17-round magazine, already fully loaded.
The gun's maintenance condition was quite good, far superior to the severely worn M1911A1 he currently had.
After chambering a round, he inserted it into the holster and fastened it at his waist.
His gaze then turned to the blueprints and documents, filled with anticipation.
Sure enough, the moment he touched those blueprints and documents, the system prompt sounded in his ear.
[Ding... High-value supplies discovered!]
[New optimization path for shelter facilities discovered. Add this optimization path to — Water Collector construction list?]
[Ding... High-value supplies discovered!]
[New optimization path for shelter facilities discovered. Add this optimization path to — Bathroom, Security, and Walls construction list?]
"Two rare blueprints, four optimization paths!"
Yu Yuan's eyes widened, and he quickly brought the blueprints closer for inspection.
[Water Service Center's Proposal for Renovation Suggestions on Urban Residential Sewage Prevention and Seepage]
Quality: Excellent
Introduction: Can optimize the shelter's sewage treatment path, adding waterproofing, anti-seepage, and sewage recycling paths for bathrooms, security, and walls.
Function: Shelter gains Excellent level waterproofing and reverse osmosis effects, shelter water consumption -20%
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[Feasibility Proposal on Seawater Desalination Optimization for Household Water Use]
Quality: Excellent
Introduction: Can optimize the shelter's water collector path, adding a seawater desalination route.
Function: Seawater desalination rate can reach 45%, and obtain special resources — sea salt, pure sea salt.
Although they were only two Excellent level blueprints, Yu Yuan was quite satisfied with their optimization effects.
Especially the second blueprint — desalinating seawater could actually yield sea salt resources.
While salt wasn't scarce for Yu Yuan, and many people were already selling various salt resources on Taotao Hole — well salt, lake salt, rock salt, etc.
Some were even selling sea salt, but this represented a new resource acquisition channel, and no one would complain about having more.
As the two blueprints disappeared, the optimization paths were successfully added.
Yu Yuan's gaze fell on the final document. When he clearly saw the text on it, his heart skipped a beat, and the joy he had just felt turned slightly solemn.
[Investigation Report on Abnormal Creatures in Sewers]
Quality: Bronze
In recent days, sewer maintenance workers in District 10 have repeatedly reported sightings of abnormal giant creatures. Through investigation and tracking, large creature activity traces were indeed found. Based on identification and comparison of hair samples left at the scene, the creature is suspected to be rodent-like, but no individual specimen has been captured.
Subsequently, our company's sewage inspection personnel tested the sewage in areas where the abnormal creatures were active, detecting trace components of hormonal catalytic agents, suspected to be related to the creature's abnormalities.
Through joint investigation by our company and the East District Police Headquarters, it was confirmed that this hormonal catalytic agent is a drug of unknown composition that was poured into the sewage pipes, causing mutations in the sewer rats.
The capture of the giant rats is ongoing. The East District Police Headquarters has also tracked the sewage dumping to a room based on detection traces and conducted a forced entry arrest on charges of endangering public safety.
The room had long been abandoned. Traces of some religious ceremony being held were found in the room, and the bathtub tested positive for concentrated hormonal catalytic agent components, consistent with those detected in the sewage, confirming this room as the original source of the agent.
Deputy Director Hogg of the Police Headquarters stated that he will continue to supervise the case and resolutely prevent incidents that endanger public safety.
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Sewers, rats, mutations...
"Combining these words gives me a strangely familiar feeling?"
Suddenly, Yu Yuan slapped his forehead and grinned.
"Holy crap, there won't be four turtles too, will there!"
He quickly read the investigation report carefully again, then breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon his brow furrowed.
He didn't care about the rest, but the question was whether they eventually caught that rat or not — that was the issue.
If it was called a giant rat even before the wasteland arrived, then its size must have been at least one meter.
Such a rat appearing before him...
Just thinking about it was creepy, especially when imagining the long whiskers, four incisors with yellow enamel, and the swinging, bald, thick, long tail.
Immediately, all his body hair stood on end, his scalp began to tingle, and he couldn't help but shiver.
He'd rather face scavengers than confront such an utterly repulsive creature that disgusted both mind and body.
Below the document were the sewer locations where the mutated rats were found, and the location of the room where the religious ceremony had been held.
The Positioning Watch immediately scanned them.
Five red dots immediately appeared on the virtual map.
One red dot was in a residential building in District 9, while the other four red dots were all within the sewer range of District 10.
Yu Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The direction to District 7 where he came from was exactly opposite to District 10.
"I hope I don't encounter that thing!"
Checking the time, it was nearly 12:30 PM — he had spent too much time unlocking the safe.
Now he needed to return to the shelter as quickly as possible.
He packed all the important supplies into his backpack, filled the safe with the remaining unimportant items, and relocked it.
The metal door of the Director's Office was also locked again, marking the end of Yu Yuan's exploration of the Water Service Center.
He had to return to the shelter quickly.
"I'm still short on some shelter construction materials, I need to find more tonight..."
While still pondering his next moves, he had already left the Water Service Center and arrived near the sewer manhole cover, but his steps paused slightly, then his body swiftly dodged to the side.
He discovered that the thread he had previously placed in the manhole cover gap — was gone!
Whoosh—
Just as he dodged, an arrow flew past his head.
Immediately afterward, two figures holding homemade sledgehammers and spears rushed out from a nearby corner, charging toward Yu Yuan.
Whoosh—
Another arrow was fired during this time, but Yu Yuan had already ducked behind a trash can, avoiding it.
Seeing that the two people behind him were already less than five meters away, a fierce glint flashed in Yu Yuan's eyes.
He pulled out his M1911A1 pistol and aimed behind him.
"Shit, he's got a gun—" The attacker's eyes showed fear, but before he could finish speaking.
Bang bang bang bang bang—