Chapter 90 - 89: A New Way to Obtain Survival Points

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Chapter 90: Chapter 89: A New Way to Obtain Survival PointsAfter having lunch at Mo Qingyan’s place, Chen Xin didn’t linger and drove back to his own shelter. However, along the way, his emotions appeared somewhat excited, and his expression seemed a bit unusual. Returning to the shelter, he parked the car in the maintenance room, closed the doors again, took off his gear, and quickly returned inside, sitting down on the sofa in the living room, calming his excitement from the unexpected gain. "Helped someone improve their shelter’s survival conditions, gained 100 survival points." "First time helping someone improve their shelter’s survival conditions, gained 100 survival points." "Helped 2 people improve their survival conditions, gained +2 daily survival points." The system, which usually didn’t seem to have much presence, suddenly threw three notifications in front of him, making it hard for Chen Xin not to notice them. The sudden increase of two hundred survival points, and +2 survival points daily, was undoubtedly a huge surprise and a significant reward for Chen Xin. He helped Mo Qingyan make an oxygen machine, which only cost a few survival points for material processing fees, yet the gains were equivalent to what he would earn in half a month. Such a generous return made Chen Xin wonder if he should make more oxygen machines for others. After all, apart from "first-time helping someone improve their shelter’s survival conditions," which is an achievement and cannot be repeated, the other two can be obtained repeatedly. "Helping someone improve their shelter’s survival conditions" is a one-time income, but the system didn’t say it could only be done once. Chen Xin isn’t stupid; if oxygen machines can improve survival conditions, then can greenhouses? Ventilation systems? Biogas fuel cells? More robust shelter doors? Improving a shelter’s survival conditions, just like enhancing his own, is a project that can be continuously upgraded. This means he can earn a lot of survival points as long as he is willing to help others improve their survival conditions. And by improving others’ survival conditions, he can earn more daily survival points, significantly increasing his speed of gaining survival points. Through these three prompts, Chen Xin seemed to see a sea of survival points rushing toward him, and the power armor and mecha that he hoped to get when the shelter upgraded seemed to be slowly approaching him, waving at him. "Improve someone’s survival conditions, count by the head, and it’s one more point per person every day. If I could make the official shelter generate such a notification, ten thousand people would mean ten thousand points a day!" Chen Xin excitedly muttered to himself, though this was just his imagination, it didn’t stop him from anticipating a bright future. However, this really has a great possibility; as long as Chen Xin can improve the survival conditions of a large shelter, according to the current system prompts, one person could mean an increase of one daily survival point, enough for him to earn a lot of survival points by headcount. Of course, truly achieving this isn’t easy. Large shelters are different from smaller ones, where any random upgrade can lead to improved survival conditions. For large shelters, improving the overall survival conditions undoubtedly requires upgrading and renovating the entire shelter. This apparently requires a lot more survival points than upgrading smaller shelters to achieve the goal. Just like the official shelter’s oxygen machine, with thousands of bio-panels, it’s not something Chen Xin can currently produce. Even using survival points for upgrades, the survival points consumed by such large devices would probably be enough to upgrade his entire shelter. In short, helping large shelters improve their survival conditions can indeed bring substantial rewards, but it’s not something Chen Xin can afford right now. However, this also gave Chen Xin another thought, if he can’t impact large shelters, there are still small shelters to take advantage of! In the survival group he formed with Mo Qingyan, there are quite a few who built their own shelters. According to post-disaster statistics, there are more than twenty private shelters owned by the group members. Although over the past few months, a small portion of group members, due to lack of preparation or initial plans to just survive the disaster, abandoned their shelters and moved with supplies to the official shelter, there are still nineteen private shelters remaining. Five of them are in Lin City, two are in Three Towns, and excluding Chen Xin’s and Mo Qingyan’s, ten are in this city. In previous routine communications, everyone’s situation was fairly good, without major issues, and the supplies were relatively sufficient. Besides exchanging what they each had, they didn’t even need to trade much. But to Chen Xin now, these ten shelters are just brimming with survival points! He doesn’t even need much; delivering an oxygen machine to each shelter could provide Chen Xin with a thousand survival points, and by gathering some himself, he could use materials to upgrade his entire shelter. Thinking of this excited Chen Xin; he had long witnessed the powerful system upgrade function, and being able to upgrade the entire shelter would undoubtedly bring him better survival conditions, allowing him to survive this apocalypse better. The temperature has already dropped to zero, and it will continue to fall. Without proper preparation, the impending extreme cold is enough to freeze those who aren’t sufficiently prepared. As for why helping others improve their survival conditions can earn survival points, Chen Xin didn’t find it odd. Humans are social creatures; helping others can arguably improve the overall social environment, and once the overall environment is better, individual survival conditions naturally improve as well. After all, in this harsh post-apocalyptic environment, unity and cooperation are clearly more favorable for survival than going it alone. It’s like those surviving shelters in the Ice-Punk Era; without mutual support and help, how could they survive better in the apocalypse? If Chen Xin didn’t have the system, he might be eagerly exchanging supplies with others by now? After all, even though everyone stocked supplies according to the same list, the supplies each person managed to purchase are different, and so are the shelters built. Like him and Mo Qingyan, he has vegetables, and Mo Qingyan has wine and canned meat; their exchanges can achieve resource complementarity to some extent.

Chapter 90 - 89: A New Way to Obtain Survival Points

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