Chapter 96 Reappearance of Civilization

The Celestial Chosen Base has been officially abolished and is temporarily taken over by the White Spring City Base.

All superhumans who commit crimes are not killed in Baiquan City, but sent to research institutes for live research.

At this point, Jiang Huarong faced two choices: one was to peacefully merge the bases and establish the Jinning City base, and the other was to launch another siege of Baiquan City and then merge the two bases.

Jiang Huarong chose the first option with tears in her eyes.

The White Spring City base not only has official forces, but also many players, who can't afford to fight them.

With the base expanding to other cities, the first major change is the update of side quests, with ten new quests added at once, and quest locations now available in both cities.

However, the most eye-catching is the tenth side mission: establish a transit base in a coastal city and explore the power of the ocean.

At this point, the players' attention was focused on the coastal cities.

Finally, Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing got their wish and, together with the base troops and many players, embarked on the road to Jijiang City.

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When they found the base in the Fuhai District, it had already been destroyed by marine life. There were even several level-six mutated fish nearby when they arrived.

"Wow! What a huge fish!" one player exclaimed.

Several pairs of eyes in the unit were fixed on Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing. They were of high rank and knew that the two had killed a level 6 mutated fish here and even gave a piece of meat to the research institute for free.

The mutated fish's size is so shocking that even if it's not level six, its size alone would require a lot of ammunition.

Several mutated fish must have arrived long ago; they're heading towards the sea, not even glancing at the arriving team.

"They should be on shore by now, let's take them down in one fell swoop!" the officer in charge of the troops ordered. "Pay attention to defense, spread out in formation."

Before coming to Jijiang City, Rong Yi and his team had explained the situation of the mutated fish in detail, and the troops had conducted drills in advance.

The players were all eager to capture a mutated fish, send it to the base, and research it to earn points for their contributions.

Normally, they would use a rocket launcher to bombard from a distance; more aggressively, they would tear their clothes apart and jump onto the fish's body to fight hand-to-hand.

Rong Yi originally wanted to snipe again, but seeing more and more players on the mutated fish, he silently put away his gun.

After dealing with the mutated fish, I checked the situation at the Fuhai District base. Most of the city walls were destroyed, not to mention the houses inside; it was fortunate if only ruins remained.

"We searched the area thoroughly, and everything was moved away cleanly. There were no remaining bones or remains. Our initial guess is that the people here had already evacuated before the large-scale attack by marine life," the military officer said.

Rong Yi nodded, "That's right, they were organizing it when we left, saying we were going to Siwan County."

"Let's move closer to the sea first, and then retreat if things don't look good."

Xu Ziqiang walked up to them without them noticing. "Wouldn't it be too dangerous to go to the beach now? How could someone that big get here?" He was a little worried.

The officer said decisively, "It's alright, you don't have to go."

Pei Yin objected, "Go ahead, maybe we can find shrimp and crabs. Last time, I only got to eat seafood because Rong Yi and the others brought out a batch."

Speaking of seafood, after Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing obtained partial management rights of the base, they gave them a lot of seafood free of charge, which they ate for free at the base canteen that day.

"Want to buy seafood? Let's go together."

Players who were not far from them immediately expressed their willingness to go to the beach with them.

The mutated fish they had killed earlier were divided up by the troops. The level six mutated creatures were already close to the third tier, and it was a luxury for them to eat them.

One of the main goals for players entering a dungeon is to collect resources.

A kilometer from the shore, they saw a gigantic, almost boundless creature floating on the sea, silently staring at them.

Rong Yi shuddered at the stare, but thankfully the creature couldn't make it ashore.

They scooped up some shrimp, crabs, and sea snails and left, not daring to go any closer.

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Half a year later.

With the completion of the coastal transit base, the three cities of Baiquan, Jinning, and Jijiang have joined forces and invested a lot of resources to establish a firm foothold here.

A tsunami strikes the coast every month. Last month, the worst one occurred when a giant ocean creature flipped over in the nearshore waters, creating a wave nearly 100 meters high that crashed onto the shore. Fortunately, a group of metal and earth elementalists assisted the water elementalists in successfully repelling it.

After enduring the onslaught of the waves, everyone belatedly realized how much seafood had been swept ashore by the waves.

With the one-year term coming to an end, Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing stepped down from the transit base a few days ago. Since they began working on the construction of this base, they had worked together to kill an eighth-level mutated octopus, two seventh-level mutated fish, sixty-two sixth-level mutated fish, and countless fifth-level creatures.

Rong Yi's strength has now reached the upper level of the second tier, while Wei Yanqing is almost at the lower level of the third tier.

Today, Rong Yi stayed by himself, wanting to try to advance the progress of the adventure system's hibernation release.

Aside from keeping the level 8 and two level 7 crystal cores, the rest were all fed to Gray.

In the past six months, its progress has increased from 0.01% to 0.95%, just a little bit away from 1%.

Knowing that the dungeon was about to end, Rong Yi tried giving a level 7 crystal core, and the progress jumped to 0.97%.

There's a chance.

If another level 7 crystal core is given, the number distorts slightly and slowly jumps to 0.98%.

Seeing this, Rong Yi remained calm. The higher the progress went, the more energy was required.

We've finally arrived at this level eight crystal core.

The mutated octopus was the most difficult creature for her to deal with in this dungeon. After the battle, it took Wei Yanqing several minutes to restore her sanity.

The crystal nucleus, the size of an olive, gradually lost its color, and its energy was absorbed by the gray text like a rainbow.

[Progress reached 1%, congratulations on unlocking one of the basic functions of the adventure system: storage slot]

Rong Yi: "?"

He started screaming in his mind, "I gave you so many crystal cores, and all you give me is a storage slot? Don't I have any storage items?"

Please do not compare the adventure system's storage function with those trash items; there is absolutely no comparison. Please check your own storage compartments.

Rong Yi pursed his lips. The interface, which originally belonged to the dungeon system, now had an option added after the gray text in the corner: Storage Slot.

I opened the storage compartment and took a look.

Rong Yi's pursed lips immediately relaxed, and he silently thought to himself, "I admit I spoke a little too loudly just now."

The storage compartment is divided into two sections. One is a time-freezing area specifically for non-living entities, while the other is completely dark, causing any living entity that enters to fall asleep and cease all bodily functions, representing another level of stillness.

Most importantly, its area is boundless, making it far superior to storage items purchased with points.

No wonder the gray text is so arrogant; it has the right to be.

"Um... will they notice if we store things here?"

Asking this question is an insult to me. No, you still have one conversation left.

It was said that they could have three conversations a week, but Rong Yi was so busy that he couldn't even remember the word "gray".

Over the course of more than half a year, there were only three inquiries. As for the adventure system itself, Gray Text did not provide any relevant information. Its knowledge of the dungeons was even more limited than Rong Yi's, so it was naturally easier to be forgotten.

(End of this chapter)