CHAPTER 260: CHAPTER 258: INCOME AFTER UPGRADING

There was more than one relative who came to find Chen Xin, each with a variety of skills.

Besides the young man who initially studied finance, among the other relatives who came to find Chen Xin, some knew masonry, having worked in construction teams before; some were merely village farmers who knew only farming; others had worked as electricians and understood some electrical technology...

The appearance of these various people somewhat annoyed Chen Xin, but he also got to see the skills of these relatives.

It must be said that the village really had all kinds of people, including even a Taoist priest who usually conducted funeral ceremonies from various villages and towns. This gave Chen Xin a fresh feeling, yet he couldn’t help but feel amused.

Among these people, some were undoubtedly very useful to Chen Xin. Even farmers who only knew how to farm could be extremely valuable in this apocalypse.

Even the one who studied finance before—Chen Xin thought he could put him in the black market that Li Yulong was preparing to open, to work as a salesperson there, making good use of his talents.

However, some people really left Chen Xin unsure about what they could do, such as the profession of a Taoist priest. Although in the past, this profession did indeed have market demand in rural areas, needing someone to play music and chant scriptures when the elderly passed away, now in this apocalypse, the dead are directly taken away to be cremated. Who has the mind to hold a funeral?

Nonetheless, Chen Xin earnestly made a paper record of the relatives who had come to him, intending to discuss with his parents seriously before deciding whether to take some of them back with him.

While Chen Xin was busy dealing with relatives trying to connect with him, his cousin-in-law and second uncle also finally got hold of the supplies he needed, with the list that Chen Xin had reorganized.

"Now it’s better, with these supplies, the related transformations can be carried out." At the warehouse door of the shelter, watching as the second uncle had people move the supplies into the warehouse, Chen Xin nodded in satisfaction and happily told the second uncle.

The second uncle was also very pleased. As the village chief, the pressure on him had actually been very high since the disaster began, as the lives of more than a hundred people in the village were all on his shoulders.

Now that Chen Xin said he could improve the villagers’ living conditions, it finally allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief, feeling much more relaxed.

"So when can you start the renovations, Xin?" This was the question the second uncle was most concerned about.

"Let’s start tomorrow. First, upgrade the circuits, and by the way, I’ll set up the workbench to process these raw materials, so the greenhouse can be transformed next." Chen Xin explained his plan to the second uncle and detailed: "The greenhouse transformation will increase power consumption. After upgrading the heating system, the power consumption will also rise, so we need to upgrade the circuits first, to avoid overload issues in the future."

The second uncle had no objections to Chen Xin’s arrangements, only nodding and continuously agreeing: "You go ahead, Xin, do whatever you think is right. If you need anything, don’t hesitate to ask. If there’s not enough manpower, just use people from the village! If anyone has any issues, let them come to me."

"Don’t worry, second uncle, I know what to do." Chen Xin nodded, indicating that there would be no problems, seeing how supportive the second uncle was.

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With enough materials, upgrading the circuits was no longer as troublesome as before, when they had to find an electrician to connect the batteries to the circuit.

Chen Xin simply had someone move his two newly made Isotope Thermoelectric Batteries to the distribution room, along with a bundle of cables brought by his cousin-in-law and the others, and directly opened the system interface to upgrade them.

While he connected three Isotope Thermoelectric Batteries to the circuit, Chen Xin didn’t allow all three batteries to supply power to the circuit simultaneously.

After all, the total power of the three Isotope Thermoelectric Batteries was as high as 450KW, and this was merely a village-level shelter that didn’t require such a high amount of electricity.

Even if Chen Xin completed the upgrades for the heating system and greenhouse, and combined them with daily household electricity consumption, two batteries would be sufficient. The third battery would only be used as a backup.

Though the setup seemed somewhat wasteful, for Chen Xin, it wasn’t a major investment. Perhaps because he used to favor two-on-one backup plans in past projects, he did it this way naturally.

Upon completing the circuit upgrades, Chen Xin promptly received feedback from the system:

"Improved survival conditions for others’ shelter, earned 5000 survival points."

"Improved survival conditions for others, acquiring +50 survival points daily."

Looking at the system’s prompts, Chen Xin nodded in satisfaction and recalculated how many survival points he could earn if he completed all three upgrade projects.

Before setting out, due to the overall upgrade of his shelter, Chen Xin had almost depleted his survival points. During nearly a month’s journey, gaining over a hundred survival points each day, he managed to accumulate back around three thousand points.

Previously, by helping the village’s shelter restore heating and now upgrading the circuits, Chen Xin had altogether gained a total of ten thousand survival points and a daily increase of 100 survival points.

If he could obtain the maximum survival points after completing the greenhouse and heating system upgrades, Chen Xin could earn a total of twenty thousand points from this hometown shelter, with an additional 200 daily survival points, which would be quite a substantial income.

Calculated in this way, Chen Xin estimated that he would reach a stockpile of around twenty-three thousand survival points, increasing by over three hundred points daily.

This exceeded the total survival points that Chen Xin had accumulated over half a year, transforming his own shelter before.

It made Chen Xin deeply understand that working alone like the Ten-mile Slope Sword God had no future. Actively cooperating with others and helping to improve living conditions in other shelters was the correct way to earn large amounts of survival points.

If he had initially chosen to go and upgrade official shelters, his total survival points could have perhaps exceeded six figures by now.

After all, many projects could be undertaken for shelter upgrades, with electricity and heating projects as unavoidable necessities. Chen Xin could have adopted this strategy in each shelter, earning six figures of survival points after handling seven or eight shelters.

With so many survival points, Chen Xin developed some new ideas about how to use them. Perhaps some original ideas and plans, which had been shelved due to a lack of survival points, could be considered again.

With these thoughts in mind, Chen Xin first set his sights on his vehicle. He had many ideas still unimplemented on this car, and now, with enough survival points, he might allow himself some luxury.