Green plants were like hope. Thriving! In the culture, in the refuge, and under the sunlight.

They sprout bearing Su Mo's hopes!

The little hints of green were like detergent, washing away the gloom in Su Mo's heart!

"Hope...As long as people have hope, how can I not carry on in this world!" He scooped out a basin of psychic energy water and watered the entire vegetable field meticulously and gently.

Not knowing if he was hallucinating or not, Su Mo felt that the cabbage stalks shone even more like jade and the garlic sprouts glimmered verdant even more like emeralds when touched by the psychic energy water.

He reached the place where they stored food. After thinking for a bit, Su Mo grabbed a small half portion of biscuits.

First, he prepared two portions of biscuits (crumbs). After he and Oreo each finished a portion, Su Mo brought the leftover biscuits to the dying kobold.

The wounds on the arm that had been pierced by two arrows were already showing signs of decay.

Although the psychic energy water from the day before had stopped the bleeding, the dosage was too little, and it was still inflamed.

The haggard and pathetic-looking kobold opened its eyes. When it saw Su Mo, it once again closed its eyes hopelessly and in despair. It looked as if it was surrendering to its fate.

"Don't pretend to be dead! Get up, come drink some water and eat something. You cannot die today!"

He had brought over Oreo's food dish and crushed some biscuits in it. After adding in some psychic energy water, Su Mo then brought the dish in front of the kobold.

When the kobold that had still looked to have surrendered itself to fate smelled the crispy fragrance of the biscuits and the faint sweetness of the psychic energy water, its eyes immediately sprang open from its desire to live.

"Bark bark bark (Oh oh, smells delicious)!"

The smell of the psychic energy water awakened the kobold's desire to live but the food dish on the floor once again trampled on its dignity.

Would he be like Oreo, lapping up his food from the food dish while lying down on the ground?

Or should he keep his dignity as a half-human and die on his feet rather than live on his knees.

However…

Before Su Mo could even test him, the kobold laid down on the ground and devoured the food in the food dish with terrifying speed, practically not even needing a second to think about it.

Oreo's expression at the side was one of personified disgust, a condescending look on his face.

"Bark!"

Not understanding what Oreo said, the kobold ignored its words but his speed in licking the bowl doubled.

After consuming the psychic energy water, the inflamed and pus-filled wounds on the kobold's two arms visibly recovered. At the very least, it was at a stage where it was not rotting any further.

"Looks like a kobold's physique is not as good as I thought it would be. I reckon everyone would start noticing these half-human creatures within a day or two."

Nodding, Su Mo tamped down on the thought of spreading the news about the kobold.

The current situation was still unclear, and the location of the kobold's nest was still unknown as well. If these half-human creatures only existed around the base, it would be very easy for the others to follow the clues and figure out that the shelter was just around the corner.

In such an apocalyptic world, things would be way too dangerous if the location of the base was revealed to others.

He slowly approached the rumbling generator. It had been operating all night and was already heating up a little. The cooling fan next to the metal cover was buzzing.

He glanced at the oil storage. Roughly 2 to 3 liters of the diesel had been used throughout the night since it was on the lowest power.

The 400 mAh lithium iron phosphate battery was already fully charged, and the indicator of the electrical crossbow had turned from red to green as well.

After cutting the generator exactly as required, Su Mo used a storage space and started to pile the clutter into it.

A light flashed and the blueprint Shen Ke sent appeared in his hand.

He brought it to the table, pulled the lightbulb over, and unfolded the blueprint onto the base. Su Mo then looked through it meticulously.

The blueprint was not complicated. It also was unlike those measurement blueprints that could only be understood by those who had either studied or worked in engineering.

There were a total of two papers. One was a birds-eye view of the shelter the Shen Yitian had designed.

And the other one was crammed with the direction and placement of each room along with some smaller details that Su Mo had mentioned.

However...

Engaging his attention, Su Mo focused his eyes on the blueprint and as expected, elements of the blueprint could be clearly visible in front of the system.

[Underground Shelter Blueprint (Detailed)]

Description: An architectural blueprint designed by the high-level architect, Shen Yitian. The design is clever, detailed, and perfectly incorporates the space fully. However, the grade that was supposed to be one of perfection was downgraded due to the architect's perfectionist tendencies of wanting to utilize every inch of space.

First upgrade option: Reconstruct the layout design, formularize the modification of space utilization, significantly improve the adaptability, significantly improve the disaster resilience, required survival points (225)

Second upgrade option: modify the layout design, rectify the flaws in the layout design, preserve the design concept, further adapt the current needs of the shelter, required survival points (45)

Comment: Comply with the design, all you need is a small grenade placed in a suitable location and your shelter will be in ruins in an instant.

"Sure enough, even Shen Yitian can't be 100% perfect, there are indeed many things to consider, after all…"

"In pursuit of space perfection, is what I would call it…

"But what does the system evaluation mean…"

Seated at the table, Su Mo stared at the system evaluation in a daze. He had not been able to respond to what the system was prompting for a long time.

The greater the doomsday, the greater the wasteland, and the more people would overthink. A sense of futility discomforted Su Mo.

He shook his head to get rid of the feeling.

"This world...it seems that only a few people can be trusted. Maybe as time passes and as the disaster worsens, even these people will ...."

Su Mo's gaze wandered, and he seemed to have seen a black hand shrouded invisibly over the shelter.

The structure of the shelter that looked unusually sturdy collapsed under a small grenade and became a pool of ruins.

In the ruins, there was Su Mo himself, his sister, his parents…

"I need to speed up the development of the shelter. Thankfully, I should still be ahead of everyone."

The more Su Mo thought about the tragedy that could happen in the future, the tighter his fists clenched.

"This human is scary. His aura is even more frightening than the King of kobolds."

The kobold who had been lying on the side slurping on gooey biscuits was so frightened by the sound of the creaking joints that it stopped their actions. Even the atmosphere dared not make a sound.

He continued to inspect the basic structure of the blueprint. After analyzing the problem as much as possible, Su Mo laid both the blueprints flat.

He shook his head, pushing all the messy thoughts at the back of his head.

"I'll go with the second upgrade option!"

Su Mo said in a low voice.

As soon as he said this, a green light shot out from his body and shone onto the blueprint.

The black handwriting on the white paper seemed to come alive and began jittering and dancing on the paper like a lively ink fairy.

After dancing for a few seconds, the handwriting behaved as the green light constrained it. They started to put together a blueprint that looked the same as before but differed greatly in their details.

Even if Su Mo did not know what had been changed at this moment, the lines of the new blueprint were no doubt much smoother than the previous.

"Looks like the power of the system is not at all comparable to that of a high-level architect like Shen Yitian!"

The light flashed again, and the elements of the new blueprint appeared in front of Su Mo's eyes.

[Underground Shelter Blueprint (Perfect)]

Description: A blueprint that has reached perfection. It contains 8 facilities. Built according to the blueprint, medium-grade antiquake, protection, low-level heating, and high-level expandability can be obtained.

Facilities:

Three-levels shelter passageway

Crop culture room (Backdoor)

Master bedroom, second and third bedroom.

Micro-research center

Storage (Living supplies storage, weapon armament storage, miscellaneous goods storage)

Micro-operation commands center

Energy distribution room

Living room

Comment: "Kobold: if I were the architect, I would make the shelter round."

"Why?"

"So that the scary demon can no longer wedge me into a corner… (￣▽￣)~*"