CHAPTER 285: CHAPTER 285: ENCOUNTER WITH THE PLUNDERING GROUP

Inside the shelter.

Lin Yi begins reinforcing the steel walls.

These walls are designed to be 10 meters high, making them difficult to climb. They are sturdier than the previous versions.

Each side of the shelter spans six thousand meters, with the total defensible area amounting to nearly 6000 acres.

He used up 7800 tons of steel, which is a massive consumption of the precious steel reserves.

Each meter length of the wall also costs 15 coins, totaling 975,000 coins.

Next comes the concrete wall, the main defense facility of the shelter.

Its height remains the same as before, 20 meters, but its width has increased to 5 meters, with four layers built inside for accommodating personnel and various equipment.

Shooting holes have been opened on the walls, allowing soldiers to fire at the enemies while under cover.

Inside the wall, he installed platforms for mortars and cannons. The shelter currently doesn’t have actual cannons, but Lin Yi believes they will eventually have them.

This time the walls are not straight but serrated, with a triangular protrusion every 100 meters.

This shape should more effectively resist the "living ladder" formed by the zombies.

The moat in front of the walls remains the same, but it has been filled using water transported by tankers from Lille’s river.

As soon as Solomon reported that all people and materials had been moved from the old walls, Lin Yi pressed the crucial button.

The old walls silently sunk underground, and the new walls rose immediately in their place.

Trucks filled with soldiers are already heading towards the new walls.

The new walls are several times larger than the old ones, so he had to recruit the Children of the Sun to help guard them.

The shelter suddenly urgently needs more manpower.

If faced with a large-scale attack, the current manpower and weapons in the shelter are utterly insufficient for self-defense.

Fortunately, Lin Yi’s teleportation ability can instantly transport soldiers to any required location.

Thus, they don’t need to worry about attacks from the rear and can focus on defending a protective zone.

However, as the saying goes, prevention is better than cure; the shelter needs to find ways to recruit more and more people.

The new walls cost 1.5 million coins.

He also built roads along the wall and the border.

The large tract of land next to the walls has already been cleared and paved to serve as a temporary military base in the event of an attack.

These areas are spaced half a kilometer apart and are connected by roads, electrical lines, and water pipes.

The expansion plan was confirmed the previous day, so the patrol routes were also designed in advance.

There are a total of eight patrol routes, two for each basic direction.

The shelter has four large gates, and patrol teams depart from each gate, heading in different directions, reaching the corners and then returning.

The roads are wide enough that several tanks can travel on them simultaneously without collision.

He also installed streetlamp posts along the border.

He wanted to install cameras on top, but currently, there isn’t enough equipment and personnel to monitor all the cameras.

He thought perhaps artificial intelligence could handle it, but the shelter currently doesn’t have artificial intelligence experts.

After the walls were built, he expanded the residential area.

It’s time for the Children of the Sun to move out of their earthen houses and into decent apartment buildings.

He constructed 70 "Brezhnev-style buildings" and 30 large apartment buildings for the Children of the Sun, along with a new community center and six dining halls.

The rooftops of all buildings are designed to be used for sunbathing or recreational gatherings.

This upgrade cost 1.1 million coins, leaving the shelter with around 15 million coins.

And not long ago, he had more than 20 million coins...

Chen Youyou and Natasha will handle the remaining expansion tasks, such as the military base, entertainment zone, and industrial area, and optimize the fields by moving them to the agricultural zone, etc.

Lin Yi plans to build a public transportation system and roads for the castle staff and soldiers so they can drive private vehicles.

This will require the construction of multi-level parking lots, but he doesn’t mind delegating these projects to others...

He must soon head to Berlin!

Back on Earth.

Lin Yi transformed his motorcycle and hit the road.

His first destination is Cologne, Germany.

According to the Americans, there is a large survivor camp there, but they haven’t been able to establish contact with it.

Cologne is approximately 100 kilometers away in a straight line, but the route there is winding and full of obstacles.

As Lin Yi gets closer, he encounters more zombies.

Melanie says over the radio, "Boss! There’s a group of zombies up ahead, they’re heading along the road."

"Oh, why do I see nothing?"

"We’ve lifted the camera to a hundred meters in the air, you can see everything now... there are ten thousand zombies."

"Hmm..."

Lin Yi contacts Solomon and quickly plans a Steel Fortress.

He has long wanted to turn the remaining eight thousand Children of the Sun into Professionals.

The soldiers activated the bait, and all zombies within half a kilometer radius, including the large group, began running straight into Death God’s arms.

Apart from the Children of the Sun, he also summoned the little Elves.

Children of the Sun with Second Level Long Spears roared in anger upon seeing the enemies approaching.

The moment they had been waiting for had finally arrived—their first battle!

warriors celebrated unabashedly, drenched in the enemy’s blood.

But soon after, problems arose.

Some Children of the Sun charged directly at the next enemy after killing their first, while others just stood there, waiting to collect rewards.

The former was knocked on the head and sent back to the shelter, while the latter was dragged to the back of the team. When they came to their senses, they too were knocked on the head.

Only about one-third of the Children of the Sun, after killing the enemy, consciously returned to the back of the team.

This ’torment’ continues.

The next group mainly consists of Sun women, all of whom are muscular and furious.

A female warrior killed her zombie and obtained a bone spear. She didn’t pull out the first long spear from the zombie’s eye but stabbed the new spear into the zombie’s belly.

Only after she gutted the zombie like filleting a fish did she feel satisfied... She also made a sound that sounded like two hyenas during mating season...

Two hours passed like this.

All Children of the Sun became professionals.

The shelter staff needed to evaluate them and list their skills and rewards.

After collecting all the loot and bodies, Lin Yi continued on his way.

On the next part of the journey, he encountered a roadblock guarded by plunderers.

These plunderers were fully armed, with young girls tied to the wall of the roadblock.

At first, Lin Yi mistook them for zombies, but upon closer look, they were actually alive, though extremely thin and had been injured.

The plunderer squad consisted of twenty professionals, all prepared behind a low wall built with metal plates, tables, doors, and other materials.

They had four machine guns, five second-level bows, and many assault rifles; normally, these would be enough to wreak havoc.

"Boss, do you want me to call Solomon?"

"No need, I can handle it." The boss said lazily and pulled out his laser rifle.

The people behind the wall shouted something, but Lin Yi didn’t understand because he didn’t want to listen at all.

A few seconds later, Melanie transmitted a smartphone to him with a bird’s eye view of the roadblock, showing all the plunderers and their positions.

Before he could closely examine the image on the phone, the marauders opened fire on him.

The shield of the "Dagger" motorcycle automatically activated, bullets couldn’t hit him, but... the machine gun firing and the archers’ skills quickly depleted the shield’s power.

Lin Yi activated the "Combat Reflex" skill, instantly aiming and shooting without recoil.

After five shots, the plunderers were silenced.

A few seconds later, Lin Yi heard threatening voices and the terrified screams of the women.

Apparently, they were scared out of their wits!

Switching the "Dagger" to flight mode, Lin Yi flew directly above the roadblock, which immediately provoked concentrated machine-gun fire from the plunderers.

The shield could still hold, but he didn’t need much time...

The air was filled with screams and cries.

Lin Yi intended to leave a few marauders alive, but they were too excessive.

One of them also possessed "Combat Reflexes" and dodged Lin Yi’s laser beams with terrifying speed.

He had no choice but to fire more than thirty laser beams at once, directly piercing through the man’s head.

"Siri! I have some fresh professional corpses here. Do you want to absorb some skills?"

Lin Yi said, landing the "Dagger" amidst the plunderer’s defenses.

Now, the marauders were either dead or half-dead.

"Boss... I’m not a monster. I don’t like eating intelligent species. I do this just to breed stronger offspring..."

"Sorry, I didn’t mean it... Should I send the bodies to you or throw them in the pit?"

"...Send them to me, thank you!"

"Alright..."

With a wave of his hand, Solomon appeared with a group of warriors.

The soldiers checked the marauders, tied them up, and sent them to the now heavily guarded hospital.

The dead bodies had all useful items stripped and were transported to Siri.

The warriors took all the guns and ammunition from the plunderers—six machine guns, eleven assault rifles, and a box of hand grenades.

The ammunition wasn’t much, as the plunderers’ base was nearby, and reinforcements were already on the way.

Some people untied the girls’ ropes and provided first aid to them.

There were twelve girls in total.

Lin Yi didn’t have time to deal with them now; the marauders’ reinforcement was approaching.

"Solomon, see if they’re willing to sign the shelter’s contract. If not, give them some food and send them to Cologne."

Lin Yi said, waving his hand and offering all the girls a standard contract.

"Also... you guard this roadblock, I’m going to capture their base."

"Yes, boss!"

Solomon said, a machine gun appearing in his hand.

He ordered the soldiers to take their positions, set up machine guns, and built a more solid defense ring with fixed steel plates.

Meanwhile, Lin Yi drove full speed through the northern forest toward the plunderer base’s location.

It’s located in a large industrial park in the northwest of a nearby city.

This was a rather large gang, with about five hundred people and five second-level mutant creatures.

These plunderers are professionals, constantly committing atrocities, arson, looting, and murder in nearby areas.

On the way to the destination, Lin Yi summoned two dragons as reinforcements.

Their task was to divert the enemy’s attention and destroy the enemy’s main defenses.

Mira’s eyes were burning.

"Can I eat these humans?"

"Aren’t you afraid of choking? They might have hand grenades or swords."

Lin Yi looked earnest...