In the living room, Vikram was rubbing his head, looking a bit dejected.

Before he could get up, a comfortable sensation came from his shoulder.

He realized Divya was thoughtfully massaging his shoulders, and the aroma of cooking wafted from the kitchen.

"Don’t keep everything bottled up, why don’t you tell us? Maybe we can help?"

Divya’s hands continued their work as she spoke softly.

As she spoke, she slowly leaned in, resting her head gently on his shoulder.

Looking at the beautiful face so close, Vikram took a deep breath.

At an age full of youthful vigor, he naturally couldn’t resist kissing her on the side of her face.

Divya merely blushed slightly, offering no resistance, allowing Vikram to take what he wanted.

A moment later, they separated.

Divya looked at Vikram and slowly said, "Tell me about this outing."

"Okay," Vikram thought for a moment and didn’t refuse.

He recounted everything that had happened at the Hospital in detail, leaving nothing out.

This included how he had infiltrated the Brown Wood Shelter and encountered the Legendary level Zombie.

"Ah, a zombie with over 100 points in Physique?" Upon hearing about the Legendary Zombie’s Physique, Divya froze in place.

Her startled cry also drew Sophia and Anjali, who was still cooking in the kitchen.

"What’s going on? What happened now?"

After he repeated the story, Sophia and Anjali’s expression also turned grim once she understood the full sequence of events.

In their understanding, Vikram’s physique was already unmatched.

Now, a zombie with twice Vikram’s physique suddenly appeared; how could they not be shocked?

Just as he was about to tell them to relax, that it wouldn’t affect their territory for now, a message suddenly arrived.

The sender was Abhishek.

"It seems that kid still managed to escape," he thought to himself, opening the chat.

[Abhishek: Brother Vikram, what in the world did you do upstairs in the Hospital? You almost got me killed.]

The first message made Vikram frown. He had kindly saved his life, so why was his good intention met with resentment?

"Unless?" Vikram immediately thought of a possibility and sent a message.

[Vikram: Did that super zombie in the Hospital get out?]

This was his guess, which went opposite of his theory, but he hoped he was wrong. If it were true, then the Hospital would not be a ruin. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Fortunately, a message quickly arrived again, and he breathed a sigh of relief in advance.

[Abhishek: What super zombie?]

[Abhishek: Boss, what else did you provoke? Tell me quickly so I can be prepared. I’m still so young, I don’t want to die so soon.]

[Vikram: Stop talking nonsense. I’m asking you, what exactly happened at the Hospital after I left?]

Since it wasn’t about the Legendary-level Zombie, Vikram couldn’t think of any other situation for a moment and asked.

[Abhishek: After you left, the entire Hospital started shaking.]

[Abhishek: At first, I thought the Hospital was going to collapse, but then I turned around and saw a huge horde of zombies pouring out of it.]

Seeing this, Vikram’s confusion grew. Zombies were everywhere in the Wasteland; what difference would a few more make?

Unexpectedly, Abhishek didn’t explain further and directly sent a picture.

Inside, a horde of zombies was clearly attacking their group from the Shelter.

They were densely packed; just from the number captured in the photo, Vikram estimated there were five or six hundred.

It didn’t sound like much, but if these zombies were all concentrated at one resource point, it would be terrifying.

If they were truly surrounded by so many zombies, without enough heavy weapons, he himself would have a hard time breaking through.

[Abhishek: Boss, this time you really messed up the Brown Wood Shelter. Out of the thirty or so people who went out this time, only twelve are left.]

[Abhishek: The most crucial thing is that these zombies are still blocking the area near my shelter. I don’t even dare to go out the door now.]

In the Brown Wood Shelter, Abhishek was on the verge of tears.

This expedition for resources didn’t yield many good things, and he almost lost half his life.

Not to mention, they led the zombies all the way back to the Shelter; the leader of the Shelter would be furious enough to kill them.

Vikram, listening to Abhishek’s complaints, curved his lips into a smile, chuckling softly.

He had been worried that the super zombie would leave the Hospital’s vicinity, but now it seemed Abhishek had no idea about it.

This meant that, apart from the crisis truly caused by the Hospital, there were only those few hundred zombies.

Now that the other party had attracted them all away, there were even fewer worries.

What did the fate of the Brown Wood Shelter have to do with him? If he didn’t join such an organization, there would be no benefits, only more obstacles to his future actions.

With his mood gradually improving, Vikram stood up and ruffled the heads of the three women beside him.

"It’s alright, the Hospital incident won’t affect us for now. Let’s eat first."

After dinner, he took a quick shower.

Logically, killing zombies always left an indelible stench of decaying flesh on one’s body.

But the effect of the disinfection room outside was truly excellent; passing through it ensured that this smell simply couldn’t linger.

This allowed him to easily deal with the zombie smell.

After washing up, Vikram and Divya began to inventory the supplies harvested from this outing under the lamplight.

First were the various medicines he had transported back earlier.

The first thing Vikram did upon getting them was to look for the expiration dates.

He actually didn’t hold out much hope, as even electronics could break, and it was even rarer for medicines, which typically have short shelf lives, not to expire.

But the first box of painkillers he got brought him unexpected joy.

The production date on it was clearly November, and the date on the Survival Platform was only mid-February, so it was perfectly usable.

However, he didn’t rush to put them in storage but first scanned them with the system.

After all, no one knew if the resources provided by the Wasteland World might have been tampered with.

[Painkiller: Blue, powerful pain relief medication, with some anti-inflammatory effects. Not expired, host can use with confidence.]

Looking at the system’s description, he felt much more at ease. He then continued to analyze the boxes of medicine one by one.

Among them, there were indeed some expired medicines, but they had only just expired, making up about one-seventh of the medicines brought back this time.

However, he didn’t plan to throw them away directly. Medicines that had just recently expired had only passed their recommended use date, and their efficacy wasn’t necessarily completely gone.

"If I don’t use them, I’ll just put them up for trade."

The price of medicine in the trading market has always been high.

In this primitive environment, getting sick could truly be life-threatening, so it was certainly valuable.

As for whether selling expired items would lead to discrimination...

So that is not a problem, when he listed the medicine, it would show as an expired item. Those who needed it would come to buy it themselves, so there was no fraud involved.

Glancing at the transactions in the market, it seemed the after-effects of the cancelled supply drop were finally over.

The prices in the market were still generally high, but there were no longer any sellers with chaotic pricing.

Vikram put the expired medicines up for sale, and in no time, many of them were bought.

As for the items received in exchange, they were naturally various metals.

"It shouldn’t be a problem to complete the building construction now, right?"

With the recycled metals and what he brought back from the Hospital, the materials he had on hand now amounted to nearly a thousand units.

Especially iron, the bed frames from the Hospital provided him with a lot.

A smile appeared on his face as he looked at the other supplies.

Most of what remained were broken precision instruments, along with medical tools.

Most of these items were unusable, and Vikram had no use for them, so he pondered for a moment.

He decided to use these materials for his daily item recycling function.

Finally, there were various bedding items taken from the Hospital beds, such as quilts and pillows.

"These are good things; I’ll store them for now."

Speaking of which, the various clothes and bedding in the territory were quite insufficient.

Aside from the set of high-grade bedding the system initially gifted, the sets Vikram used for changing were only those sold in the market.

"After the building is completed, I’ll replace all these ordinary items with high-grade ones."

With that thought, he immediately went outside of Territory 1 to finish his tasks.

The building was not properly stabilized. Only a frame was there.

Now that he had finished exploring Hospital and had enough steel, without any hesitation, he waved his hand, and the system’s light flashed, reinforcing these two layers as well.

Soon all the five building structures were filled with steel.

"It wasn’t easy. After being in the Wasteland World for so long, the underground territory I’ve been longing for is finally taking shape."

With the material flying from his hand, soon the frame of the building changed into a proper building.

It was getting late, and Vikram, with this thought, ended his busy day.

Early the next morning, Vikram climbed out of his comfortable bed.

Immediately, he used the item recycling function to convert some useless supplies into 100 Plant Essence.

With these, he now held a total of 3100 Plant Essence.

He again appeared at the building area. The previous members of Savage Wolf Shelter were surprised to see that Boss again started working.

Vikram didn’t care about it, with his thought, the first building was divided into five floors and each floor had 4 rooms. Each floor was about fifty square meters.

After setting up those building floors, he then moved to the farmland.

Finally, he got the seeds of the fruit trees from the previous trade. He immediately took out various orange, apple, and peach tree seeds from his bag, which he had previously traded for in the market, and planted them.

By then, most of his Plant Essence had been used up.

Looking at the remaining 280 Plant Essence, Vikram pouted.

He had originally thought that he would buy the Medium Primal Evolution Fruit, but with all the preparations for his territory, his Plant Essence kept vanishing.

While thinking about it, he also remembered that he had forgotten to upgrade the Treehouse Core, since he had obtained the Territory Core from the Savage Wolf Shelter.

Without hesitation, he went towards it.

He looked at the Treehouse Core.