Apocalypse: Hero of Potato Fields-Chapter 380 - 365: Rast’s Emergency Request

Now Matiru has become a truly majestic horse—tall, dignified, and handsome, though its glowing purple eyes are somewhat eerie.

Its tail and mane continue to burn with dark flames made of darkness, but now they are even denser.

"It’s upgraded well."

"It’s not over yet!" The horse announced proudly, then transformed into darkness, enveloping Rein.

When the darkness dissipated, Rein was wearing a black dress, holding a silver bow.

"Can you conjure a sword with the darkness?" Lin Yi’s curiosity was piqued.

Rein thought for a moment, and two long swords appeared in her hands.

"Can they cut things? We’ll test them when we have time. What kind of attribute boost does wearing this gear give you?"

"All physical attributes +14, magic value +24."

"Go have a rest. You saved many lives yesterday by killing so many vampires and chimeras.

Well done. If we had medals, I’d give you one."

"Oh, I don’t need a medal... just want to ask for a small favor..." Rein squeezed out the words with difficulty.

"Oh, really? What kind of favor?"

"I’ll tell you later..." Rein mumbled, then ran off.

Lin Yi just shrugged.

She teleported to the outpost.

The construction of the new city walls is in full swing. At night, a few zombies cause trouble, but they don’t slow down the builders at all.

The outpost has been significantly reinforced.

There are ten teleportation platforms here, and another ten at the military base.

This way, staff and soldiers can teleport back and forth between the two places without Lin Yi’s help.

Another location is the professor’s experimental farm. He insists that Lin Yi should stop by.

"Uh... was this a forest before?" Lin Yi teleported to the western border of the shelter, heading for the experimental site.

He saw a lush green forest, even the grass was green...

He soon reached his destination.

There’s a teleportation platform, a small camp, a few security guards, and someone digging.

"Boss!"

Upon hearing a vehicle approach, the person turned around and saw Lin Yi riding a "Dagger" motorcycle.

"Did you do all this?"

"Yes! The concentration of zombie virus in the soil is unbelievably high. Mushroom trees are growing at an astonishing rate. Look!"

The person pointed at the ground and said, "The grass has started to revive! And there’s no trace of the virus in the soil!"

"...Very interesting... Have you figured out how to remove the virus yet?"

"Not yet, but we want to conduct an experiment on Earth to collect data."

"Earth, right... What about Lille’s platforms? As long as Solomon agrees, you can conduct experiments there?"

"That would be great."

Lin Yi nodded. On the way, he began to ponder how sturdy the mushroom wood is. Can these trees be used for alchemy or craftsmanship?

The next destination in Chen Youyou’s itinerary for him was the material conversion center, on which he spent a lot of money.

It’s a very large building with a massive warehouse.

Upon entering, Lin Yi immediately understood why the building needed to be so large.

Inside are four devices called "industrial material converters."

Immanuel has essentially created an industrial workshop capable of manufacturing more expensive devices.

An industrial converter requires two advanced converters, and each advanced converter costs 500,000 coins in the store.

In addition, it requires forty second-level energy cores and 200,000 coins.

The total cost amounts to 1,200,000 coins and fifty energy cores.

This equipment looks like a high, rectangular cuboid with rounded corners, topped by a truncated cone, made of some stone-like material.

The base of the converter is fifteen meters wide, twenty meters long, and five meters high, with a small control panel and a special hatch for outputting converted materials.

It’s black with green lines forming strange patterns.

The top is made of similar material, but the color is dark gray. The topmost part has an opening for inputting materials.

Interestingly, the converter can access the shelter’s material reserves, including materials from the mines, so they can utilize all stored materials.

This includes ores mined by miner beetles and 1,500 tons of metal waste left by the chimera army, which they plan to turn into high-quality steel.

There are four industrial converters, equipped with conveyors to deliver materials to them. Output materials aren’t equipped with conveyors, as they can be teleported to specific warehouses.

These converters run on magic power and can increase the magic value recovery speed of all items within the building, and its batteries can store up to 10,000 magic value points.

This device is extremely expensive, costing three million coins and four second-level energy cores.

Currently, this industrial workshop can process ten tons of ore per day.

No one knows the maximum processing capacity, which entirely depends on the materials input and output.

While Lin Yi is handling shelter affairs, the army begins clearing the enemy’s Ark.

Since that morning, cannons have gradually turned the enemy’s fortress into a parking lot.

Vampires left a considerable garrison in the fortress in case humans decided to storm it, but unfortunately for them, humans weren’t that foolish.

Their aerial reconnaissance provided the precise coordinates of the enemy, so after losing over seven thousand chimeras, the vampires finally dispatched the remaining troops into the underground catacombs.

Once all enemy forces left the fortress, the shelling ceased, and large and small Faru beasts immediately poured into the fortress, swiftly searching the entire fortress and its ruins.

Next, people with clairvoyance used the intelligence provided by the Faru beasts to find all the hidden tunnels inside and outside the fortress.

They discovered a total of eight passages, it seems the vampires really hoped humans would go down, as their mages were already on guard.

If humans really went down, they might face firepower attacks immediately.

The Shelter Army searched the fortress first, but unsurprisingly, they didn’t find anything of value...

At least according to vampire standards. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

However, humans have different standards.

After all, there is a reason why they didn’t bomb those "noble" vampire mansions.

The mansions were filled with gold, gemstones, paintings, loot, beautiful furniture, tableware, and more.

Vampires, or at least vampire nobles, live in luxury.

Lin Yi even personally visited one of the mansions, compared to these vampires, humans seemed like a bunch of peasants...

They decided to completely rebuild one of the mansions and turn it into a place like a museum, so people could see the lifestyle of vampires...

Including their underground layer where they imprisoned slaves used as food.

The soldiers did not find any system equipment like sails or beacons.

Those types of equipment couldn’t be hidden underground or inside buildings, so they speculated vampires had reverted them into cube forms and taken them away.

Once the chimera army retreated, Lin Yi left a small team of one hundred soldiers and a few tanks on the Ark, so the enemy couldn’t detach from the Shelter and fly away.

The entrance to the underground building complex was soon cleared out.

Then Lin Yi instructed the construction of a reinforced base at the original location of the fortress and installed a First Level outpost, which took 50 minutes synchronously.

He also used the outpost to transfer resources from the Ark to the Shelter.

Materials are never too much, thanks to Hanover, the Shelter now had a large amount of construction equipment.

The soldiers tried not to damage the fields because they wanted to harvest the wheat themselves. And there was a lot of wheat here.

After all, feeding ten to twenty thousand chimeras requires a lot of food, especially for the giant chimeras, which might have an appetite as large as an elephant’s.

The wheat here was much inferior to what they planted at the Shelter but they could always sell it at half price.

According to preliminary calculations, they could harvest 11,000 tons of wheat, but they would first irrigate with spring water to make the wheat mature quicker.

According to the tree spirit Orianna, spring water along with the Faru beasts’ natural magic would help the wheat mature quickly.

Preparation took a whole day.

Meanwhile, Lin Yi installed an energy altar similar to Stonehenge and placed it in the fields.

This equipment could create magical crystals, which could then be used to craft magic storage devices.

The Stonehenge also had a side effect: it could enhance magic recovery speed within a half-kilometer radius, but only for those working outdoors.

He didn’t know what impact this would have on the harvest, but hoped it would be positive.

Lin Yi decided to deal with the Light Altar matter later as Rast Fortress had just sent an urgent request.

Leyhill Fortress was in trouble, Lin Yi might need to go there immediately.

After pushing all less important tasks to his subordinates, Lin Yi teleported to Tilian.

It was just the morning there.

He set off towards the north.

Currently in the mountainous area near Auster Fortress.

Along the way, there was another camp, he planned to stop there first.

He rode his large motorcycle through a once-prosperous-now-ruined world and played some music...

But the fun didn’t last long.

"There’s a battle ahead, boss." Melanie said lazily.

After so many battles, this one in front of her seemed like a school brawl.

"Who’s fighting whom, how many people?" the boss asked curiously.

"It’s the nomads. I can’t see too clearly from here...

But there are dozens of very large vehicles and a few smaller ones. It looks like some cyborg zombies are attacking those large vehicles.

The defenders have a few mechas... I think they’re in a bad situation."

"Show me the route."

The boss followed Melanie’s directions and soon arrived at the destination.

As she said, there were zombies attacking huge vehicles, actually, "huge" wasn’t enough to describe them as they looked like tracked battleships.

The largest vehicle appeared to be at least 100 meters long.

It had many different decks, all covered with half-mechanical people fighting against zombies...

And those zombies were, in fact, also half-mechanical.

The defenders were using laser guns, poker turrets, and melee weapons.

Most of the battle was happening at close range.

But Lin Yi also saw some weapons that looked like throwing spears.

There were exactly twenty-nine vehicles here because the zombies were tearing apart the twentieth vehicle layer by layer.

Only the top deck was still intact but it clearly couldn’t hold out long...