Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

When Yu Yuan prepared to take on the Mechanical Scrapyard Planet.

Fairy Tale Park World — as one of the few Civilization Ladder worlds tagged with Peace, Sightseeing, and Safety.

It had long ago become an offline gathering spot for many Bronze Rank veteran players.

After all, fighting and harm were strictly prohibited here, and it offered decent food and sightseeing.

Buy an entrance ticket and you could be teleported right in.

A pretty good place to relax and recuperate.

It was also one of the must-visit locations for offline trades between players.

At this moment, inside the Gulu Coffee Shop, in a quiet corner.

A small gathering about Yu Yuan had already begun.

A tall bear-man covered in thick white fur said in a gruff voice.

“Bullshit, Wūrūlū! It’s only minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius, right? As if none of us can handle that. Your Ice Bear clan might have an edge in cold, but my Antifreeze Protein Carrier Injection works just as well.”

“This Yu Yuan shelter, I’ll take care of it.”

The speaker was clearly alchemically modified; obvious modification marks marred his body, and his chest at the heart position had been turned into a transparent bio-pump, bubbling faintly green inside.

“No, are you really that sure Yu Yuan will let you walk all over him? If he can survive in that environment, he must have something to rely on!”

The bear-man Wūrūlū and the alchemy-modified player turned to look at the speaker.

The speaker appeared human at first glance, but a closer look revealed his gear was full of high-tech elements.

Not like Z007’s pieced-together wasteland mechanical look.

There was a strong sense of technological disparity.

“Ladiz, what do you mean?” Wūrūlū’s low voice sounded.

Ladiz flicked his thick, long hair.

A hint of disdain crossed his face.

“You two, whether by racial talent or alchemical tech, are ultimately solo fighters.

City environments are inherently complicated. The other side knows the terrain better than you. The moment you enter, Yu Yuan will probably open his trap and surround you.”

“You’re not seriously treating him like some newly promoted Bronze player, are you? Don’t forget he’s a real leaderboard player!”

At Ladiz’s words, Wūrūlū and the others’ expressions stiffened slightly.

Seeing their reactions, Ladiz showed a satisfied smile.

“Although we all have ways to resist extreme cold for short periods, this kind of uncertain fight is safer if we send someone to probe first.”

“Moon Shadow’s Breath’s ship blueprint is tempting, but who can guarantee the other side has no trump card?”

“A guy who joined the game less than three months ago, climbed to Bronze Rank, and stormed the leaderboard — you think he doesn’t understand his situation?”

As soon as Ladiz finished, another player showed agreement.

“Ladiz makes sense. Let others probe first. From what I know, we’re not the only ones taking Moon Shadow’s bounty. Others might invade; we can wait and see how that goes.”

“Fine. We’re not the only ones interested in Yu Yuan. Other factions and challengers could be eyeing him too.”

“In short, let’s watch his battles after his immunity ends and then decide!”

They exchanged looks and all nodded slightly.

Soon, the group dispersed.

But Ladiz and one other person met up at another location.

“You think they’ll listen to what you said?”

Ladiz scoffed.

“Others I don’t know, but Naz probably didn’t take our words to heart. Fine, let him probe Yu Yuan.”

The other person’s eyebrows lifted.

“You’re that confident in Yu Yuan? Naz’s rank isn’t high, but his alchemical-tech civilization is solid, otherwise Moon Shadow’s Breath wouldn’t have chosen him.”

“Aren’t you worried he’ll just kill Yu Yuan outright?”

Ladiz extended a finger, twirling it gently, and enunciated each syllable:

“Absolutely…im…pos…si…ble!”

“Oh?”

Ladiz only wore a mysterious smile, offering no explanation.

“Moon Shadow’s Breath isn’t some nouveau riche. That epic three-star warship blueprint isn’t easy to grab. Also, I have a feeling the current price isn’t the highest bounty yet. We might wait a bit longer…”

Seeing Ladiz’s confident look, the other shrugged helplessly, as if to say, “I’ll humor you.”

“All right, I’ll wait and see then!”

Hum—

Four drones hummed up into the air.

They began environmental reconnaissance.

Inside the command armored vehicle, the drone recon feed flashed quickly across the screen.

Alpha squinted slightly at the images on the screen.

Mechanical garbage, nothing but mechanical garbage.

This world had no trees, no rivers.

No green grass or blue skies.

Only endless piles of mechanical junk and a gray, murky sky.

Oppression, despair, abandonment — that was the prevailing mood of this world.

“How do people survive in this world?”

At the rear of the command vehicle.

Inside the M-Type Source Core Mechanical Titan’s cockpit.

From the moment teleportation completed, the resource detection radar had been beeping.

“Leader…” a slightly excited voice rang out.

“According to the radar, within a ten-kilometer radius it’s all metal-type resources, with a high proportion of rare metals. Also, three locations show energy fluctuations — suspected mechanical units still operating, not fully scrapped.”

The Mechanical Titan pilot reported quickly.

Yu Yuan only nodded slightly.

Because this was exactly what he had expected.

He only realized his earlier estimates about this world had been too conservative.

Watching the distant ‘mountains’ formed by stacks of mechanical debris, Yu Yuan murmured in a voice only he could hear:

“If I can have the Mechanical Titan devour and convert all this mechanical garbage, how many blueprints could I analyze? I’d be wealthy.”

When the M-Type Source Core Mechanical Titan consumes resources, there’s a small probability of parsing corresponding blueprints.

For the Mechanical Titan, this world was practically paradise.

Of course Yu Yuan had not forgotten the trip’s main objective — the Z007 Shelter.

In fact, Yu Yuan had already located the shelter.

On the virtual map before him, a winding route appeared, the destination pointing to a coordinate point 1,232 meters away.

At that moment, Alpha’s voice sounded inside the cockpit.

“Everyone be alert. Enemy contact detected at the ten o’clock direction. Prepare for combat…”

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