Chapter 4

"City X is just ahead."

Mingzhu was the first to jump off Xiaowu's broad back and looked at the distance.

According to the instructions on the Marauder's Map, there is still a distance of about 200 meters.

The newly built base in City X was converted from a gymnasium originally located in the suburbs.

When City X was being built, the intention was to turn the suburban gymnasium into a landmark building in City X, and there was an idea to expand the city's area with the gymnasium as the center.

However, the stadium was built not long ago and the surrounding residential buildings had just been built when the apocalypse broke out and the stadium was abandoned before it could be put into use.

Now, converting it into a base to provide protection for the survivors is a good choice. However, in terms of scale, it can only be considered a small base.

It would be good if it could accommodate tens of thousands of people. If there are more, we can only find a way to expand it.

"I have to go collect something, so I won't accompany you into the base."

Mingzhu said goodbye to Jiang Lijun and his family of five. He had no intention of entering any human base. After all, the system he was bound to was a base system, not the strongest warrior system.

What to do about infrastructure?

According to Mingzhu's understanding, the first step is to find a suitable place and start building it from scratch. As long as it is infrastructure, start from the low level.

"Host, your choice is right. We're in the infrastructure business, so we need to be extremely rigorous in the early stages. We can't stay in crowded places. If we need help, we can build a hotel and recruit people through the hotel function."

[184, I find you a little dishonest.]

Mingzhu teased 184 in his heart, but didn't take it seriously. Facing the reluctance of Jiang Lijun's family of five, Mingzhu was able to give a reason.

"I'm not suited to living in a base built by someone else."

The key point is the base built by others!

If it were Mingzhu's own base, there would be absolutely no problem.

"Then... let's say goodbye."

Jiang Lijun felt a little sad, but he also understood Mingzhu's choice. In fact, if they didn't have children with them, they would probably choose to find a place to live alone.

"Goodbye."

Mingzhu did not try to stop them. He watched Jiang Lijun and his family of five get back on Xiaowu's back and head towards the base. Then he turned around and headed towards the building materials market, which was also located in the suburbs of City X but in the completely opposite direction.

"Host, I suggest you take a good look at the 'Construction Panel'." 184, who looks like a fat and cute cat, reminded Mingzhu to understand the construction panel first.

Don't think that 184 will cry when thinking of its own incompleteness. But the remaining Chinese style architectural system is still divided into quite detailed parts.

First, the construction functions are divided into five detailed options: production, residence, function, safety and special.

Oh, under the construction panel, there is a separate panel, which is the material and resource recycling panel.

First of all, as mentioned above, there are three levels of housing. The lowest level houses are straw huts and thatched houses, the middle level houses are bamboo houses, wooden houses, and stone houses, and the highest level is the courtyard house, which can be freely assembled and requires the purchase of blank blueprints.

Then production, as the name suggests, provides the 'food' in 'food, clothing, housing and transportation'.

Since the overall style is Chinese, the production category has a very Chinese style. According to 184choking, if it were a Western European style, the production category would have a "hops farm" dedicated to beer production.

Mingzhu obediently began to carefully check the production categories in the construction panel.

Currently, only the beginner level is open. It is divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.

Primary production: farmland, salt pans, poultry houses and thatched gardens.

Intermediate production: Fish ponds, vegetable gardens, orchards, kudzu gardens, flax gardens...

Advanced production: silkworm farms, tea gardens, pig farms, and what Mingzhu personally thinks is the most important multi-ecological grassland farm, which can selectively breed five edible animals: sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys, and deer.

As for the functional categories, generally speaking, they are buildings for leisure and entertainment. Examples include study halls, academies, granaries, dog and cat kennels, teahouses, restaurants, theaters, and so on...

The most important building is the hotel.

There are several types of hotel drawings alone, the simplest of which is a simple inn built mainly with thatch.

However, Mingzhu didn't know where to find thatch, so he could only pass the simple inn, so the only option left was "Cool Hotel No. 01" whose main material was wood.

"There is also the Cool Hotel No. 02, whose main materials are bamboo strips, stones and a small amount of wood." Mingzhu thought and subconsciously used his light computer watch to search the bamboo forest.

As expected, there was a bamboo forest not far from where Mingzhu first appeared. The area was not large, but it was probably enough to build Qingliang Hotel No. 02.

"I always feel like something is wrong." Mingzhu fell into thought.

"Hmm?" 184 looked at Mingzhu blankly. "What's the problem? Host, you can't assume something is wrong with the system just because it's incomplete."

Mingzhu: “…”

"It's so tiring to talk to you," Mingzhu sighed, explaining as he walked. "I noticed there are no architectural drawings for the slaughterhouse or restaurant on the function panel. Can I build them myself?"

"Host, you didn't look at the 'special panel'."

Hearing this, Mingzhu turned his attention back to security and special panels. As the name suggests, 'security panels' can be used to construct anything related to security.

Security panels: Medical, Fire, Armament, and Defense.

Special panels: environmental optimization, various mineral resources, transportation, commercial streets...

Mingzhu focused his attention entirely on the armaments section of the security panel. As expected, it was related to the production of weapons and armor.

Unexpectedly, the weapons in the end actually included postmodern weapons such as cannons and tanks.

Mingzhu began to doubt his life, and after a while he couldn't help but ask a soul-searching question.

"So, 184, your incompleteness lies in the lack of other architectural styles, so you can only perfect the existing 'Chinese style'?"

184 opened his cat eyes wide, indicating that he didn't quite understand the meaning of Mingzhu's words.

"Host, you must not have learned history well." At this point, 184 nodded seriously.

"Host, don't you know that even steam cruise ships appeared in 'Mythical Three Kingdoms', and an old woman with two guns appeared in 'Cyber ​​Ming Dynasty', who fought against all the heroes and could fly into the sky and hide in the ground? How can you doubt that Chinese-style architecture will not have weapons like 'cannons and tanks' in the later stages..."

Mingzhu: “…”

This time Mingzhu was really silent, he didn't know how to start.

What the hell is the mythical Three Kingdoms, what the hell is the cyber Ming Dynasty, hey, whose unofficial history are you watching, where there is also an old lady with two guns who fights against heroes alone and can fly into the sky and hide in the ground, emmm, it is even more outrageous than the anti-Japanese war dramas he watched before.

Mingzhu rubbed his solar plexus, decisively skipped the problem, and didn't dwell on it. Let it be. Anyway, no matter what, even if it was incomplete, in the doomsday world, 184 was the biggest reliance for building the doomsday fortress.

If it's unreliable, then it's unreliable. Anyway, Mingzhu knew in his previous life that 184 was not reliable at all, let alone now.

Soon, Mingzhu arrived at the building materials market.

It was a mess everywhere, with zombies wandering around inside but not coming out because of the iron fence.

The breath of living people was too fresh. As soon as the candles appeared, the zombies trapped in the building materials market smelled the scent and swarmed in. They were stopped by the iron fence and were squeezed like canned sardines, smelling like canned herrings.

Mingzhu held his breath unconsciously, put away the pistol in his hand, took out a thunder and fire bomb, and threw it into the building materials market.

The aim was extremely good, and it landed right in the center of the "sardine can". It exploded in just a few seconds, not only was the "sardine can" blown to pieces, but even the iron fence that the "sardine can" was squeezed into was blown to pieces and scattered everywhere.

"Back then, the host relied on lightning and fire bombs to rush into the hive and kill the Zerg." 184 exclaimed in admiration, "Now the host kills zombies in the same way. It's really great."

"Your compliment is quite insincere."

Mingzhu began to collect the spoils.

Scrap steel*23...

Scrap iron*11...

Scrap steel bars*20...

Waste broken glass*33...

Stone*31...

Wood*15...

Wood board*102...

Contaminated drinking water*3...

Moldy steamed buns*4...

Abandoned iron block*11000

Soon, Mingzhu took over the entrance and several shops near the entrance.

Unexpectedly, there was a huge pile of garbage, and the amount of iron was staggering. There were no electrical wires or lights, so Mingzhu must have found the building materials market had already been raided. Perhaps the zombies Mingzhu had blasted to pieces were the ones locked up after the raiders left.

Mingzhu continued collecting, and soon the building materials market was completely "decomposed", obtaining some building materials and some garbage...

"Okay, time to find a place to build a base." Mingzhu muttered, then turned to 184. "I still think the place where I woke up is pretty good."

"What's so good about it?" 184's eyes widened in disbelief. "Host, how come your pursuits have become so lowly now? That place is surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side. How can it be considered a good place?"

Mingzhu: "Is it not good to have mountains and water?"

184: "Not good."

"You don't get to say that. I want my opinion." Mingzhu said with a smile, "I scanned the area where I appeared. There's a very flat area not far away where we can cultivate farmland."

"The water source is polluted, and there are mutated river fish in it."

"I know. I think the water source can be purified!"

"Not yet!" 184 replied seriously, "You have to wait until the system reaches the highest level to unlock the potion that can evolve water!"

Mingzhu fell into thought.

After a moment, Mingzhu said, "Then according to 184, where is the appropriate location?"

"Host, please follow Tong."

184 immediately stood up, wagging his tail and walking towards Mingzhu. He turned three times, meowed three times, and then started to lead the way.

Mingzhu picked up the pistol again and followed 184. After walking for about an hour, 184 stopped panting.

"I can't do it anymore. I'm so tired. Host, please take out your off-road motorcycle."

Mingzhu: “…”

He just knew it!

No surprise really!

Mingzhu rolled his eyes wildly, but finally gave 184 face and took out the light-speed motorcycle that used light energy.

"Tell me the exact location."

184 quickly ran to the handle and squatted down.

"Host, just keep going forward." 184 said uncertainly, "My perception tells me that there must be a suitable place for us to build a base ahead."

Mingzhu: “…”