novelraw Chapter 68: Rare Optimization Path—Running Generator Room
Chapter 68: Rare Optimization Path—Running Generator Room
Chapter 68 Rare-tier Optimization Path — Treadmill Generator Room
[Generator Level 2 — Treadmill Generator Room]
Quality: Rare
Belongs to Path: Generator Level 2
Function: Energy +8, Max Power Output 6 kWh/hour, Max Storage 100 kWh
Room Area: 8 square meters
Number of Treadmills: 3
Construction Requirements: [Generator] Level 2, Electric Vehicle Battery Pack ×1, Vehicle Charger ×3, Motor Controller ×3, Motor ×3, Drum Roller ×3, Treadbelt ×3, Control Board ×3, Console ×3, Hydraulic Rod ×6, Fuse ×6, Wire ×20, Steel ×30, Insulation Tape ×5
Construction Time: 3 hours
————————Yu Yuan looked at the optimization path that had just been added to the [Generator].
"Rare quality optimization path... I didn't expect to have something like this in my backpack."
This was his second time seeing a rare-tier shelter facility optimization path. The previous one had been a [Ventilation] Level 3 optimization path, so he naturally understood how valuable a rare-tier path was.
Upgrading the generator facility was exactly his next plan.
Most of the shelter's subsequent facilities rely on electricity to operate, including a Level 3 Kitchen, Level 2 Water Collector, Level 4 Bathroom, and so on. It was an unavoidable issue.
The [Generator Level 2 — Treadmill Generator Room] arrived at exactly the right moment. What Yu Yuan valued most was the storage capacity — a maximum storage of 100 kWh!
A 100 kWh storage could already let him do many things. A normal Level 2 generator's storage was only about 10 kWh.
It was an almost irresistible temptation for him.
Right now the Level 1 generator's storage was only 1.08 kWh, barely enough to power the [Lighting] facility.
But before that he still needed to upgrade the generator to Level 2.
"Electric vehicle battery packs can be found wherever electric cars exist; then the vehicle chargers and motor controllers can be acquired together. Motors and treadbelts are easy to find too — they’re treadmill parts, most gyms and star-rated hotels have them..." Yu Yuan frowned in thought and opened the virtual map to search.
His gaze swept across a building in District 14, and he paused for a moment. Then his eyes brightened, an idea forming.
After choosing the next location to search for construction materials, he looked at the small drawing scroll in front of him.
The scroll had been found in Mahada’s backpack; it was the only thing of some value in the whole pack — the rest were jewelry and precious items.
Yu Yuan guessed the scroll had likely been taken from inside the motel, though that was only speculation.
Because the rare generator room had been discovered inside this scroll; besides that, there was another sheet — or rather, a half-sheet of a blueprint.
He stared at the mysterious symbols and lines on the half-blueprint, frowning.
He flipped it over and inspected it several times but got no useful information; only a gut feeling that the blueprint was not simple.
Having thought it through without results, he put the half-sheet back into the scroll and stored it carefully.
If something could sit alongside a rare-tier blueprint, it certainly would not be ordinary. There was no information now; perhaps it had to do with the blueprint being only half there.
If he could find the other half in the future, maybe there would be a breakthrough.
Of course, that might only be a fanciful hope of his.
Something is better than nothing!
After digesting all the loot, Yu Yuan felt a little drowsy.
Testing the Escape Key had taken a lot of time; it was already the morning of Day 10 in the wasteland, 9:00 a.m.
He mustered his energy and went to the dilapidated newspaper rack, planning to check for anything worth noting before resting.
As expected, there were still only two Pebble-tier news items today, but their contents made the corner of Yu Yuan’s mouth twitch upward.
[Neighborhood News Section]
Quality: Pebble
Danger Level: Medium
Exclusive report: Deputy Warden Baku of the Thug Prison returned to the Thug Prison from the northern wasteland at 1:12 a.m. today.
He was not satisfied with the results of his negotiations with the Burning Fortress. Although he promptly handed a standby subject to "Black Lung" Victor to demonstrate the Thug Prison and Burning Fortress's sincerity and to express condolences for the death of Flame Priest Hualuo,
and he also openly voiced his suspicion of the Black Shield Police Department, Victor did not fully accept his explanation.
The murder of Flame Priest Hualuo has already stirred the Flame Knights' resentment toward the Thug Prison, and no trace of the Black Shield Police Department was found at the scene, so Baku’s words could not be verified.
Therefore he must find a way to produce evidence that the Black Shield Police Department was the mastermind behind the attack on Flame Priest Hualuo.
What he did not know was that after Baku left, Victor notified the Flame Knights hidden in Green Forest City to, while tracking the Rat, also verify the situation regarding the Black Shield Police Department.
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[Neighborhood News Section]
Quality: Pebble
Danger Level: Low
In the early hours last night, a horrifying extinction incident occurred at the Green Forest Light supermarket in District 10.
The wasteland plunderer organization — the Blood-Hand Gang — was attacked. The two sides engaged in intense firefights for a full minute, with ferocious firepower and multiple high-explosive charges used for targeted detonations.
In the end the Blood-Hand Gang was completely wiped out.
The killer was brutally ruthless, efficient, and most importantly, extremely cautious beyond the ordinary.
The battle drew the attention of many factions including the Burning Fortress, the Thug Prison, and the Black Shield Police Department.
The Burning Fortress found a Black Shield Police Department armband stained with blood at the scene and sent the armband back to the Burning Fortress.
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"I didn't expect the Thug Prison to still have an organ transplant subject, and that it would let them clear things up with the Burning Fortress... The armband I left at the supermarket was found by the Burning Fortress..."
Yu Yuan read the newspaper and replayed the two operations and the reactions of the three thug factions.
He concluded that, because the Thug Prison reacted quickly and decisively and because of the armband found this time, the two factions would most likely point all accusations at the Black Shield Police Department. Although this differed from his earlier expectation of mutual suspicion and chaotic three-way fighting among the factions, it was not all for nothing.
Yu Yuan still felt that, after the killing of Flame Priest Hualuo, the rift between the Thug Prison and the Burning Fortress had been sown — especially among the lower- and mid-level thugs — and these divisions would not be easily healed.
This was evident from the attitude of those Flame Knights in the news toward the Thug Prison.
Even if the Burning Fortress leader again cooperated with the Thug Prison, the ones carrying out orders would ultimately be those Flame Knights; as long as suspicion and rifts remained among them,
the final outcome would be hard to predict.
Yu Yuan recorded all his thoughts, closed the virtual light screen, and lay on the single bed.
He stretched tiredly and felt a little disappointed that the rack had not refreshed with any extra intelligence items today. He’d have to check again later.
"Hopefully next time I can draw a Bronze-quality [Luxury Card], then I could build the Starry Sky Observatory... and the generator... and Nightingale... and the Giant Mutant Rat..."
With plans and thoughts for the shelter’s future swirling in his mind, Yu Yuan, exhausted from a night of running around, finally fell into a deep sleep...