Chapter 162: Chapter 162: Major Expansion of the Sanctuary Town
Inside the shelter.
A cluster of apartment buildings emerged from the ground!
These five-story buildings have four entrances, each leading to an independent section of the building.
Each section has three two-bedroom apartments on each floor.
Apart from these Brezhnev-era style apartment buildings, Lin Yi also constructed a separate building.
This separate building has fifty one-bedroom apartments on each floor, and each apartment has its own small living room and bathroom.
However, since most people living in the shelter are married couples or families, most of the apartment buildings are the larger two-bedroom type.
Just the day before, they conducted a survey and found that many families—
all wanted to have their own kitchen!
In this post-apocalyptic world, being able to cook a homemade meal and live a routine life similar to before is almost like living a normal life again.
And this is the kind of life many people have been longing for and desiring.
Even those who used to dislike cooking and managing daily life now have such thoughts.
Since everyone has this need, Lin Yi made arrangements to satisfy them.
In the middle of the residential area, he built a community center offering various services.
Here, there’s a hair salon, a grocery store where people can freely take food, a warehouse-style store where residents can choose their own furniture, and other facilities.
Everything is free, but many people miss the feeling of shopping before.
The girls even requested a beauty salon, as there were plenty of cosmetics stored in the warehouse.
In his view, these things just take up space.
Thus, he satisfied them, mainly considering the future birth rate of the shelter.
Lin Yi also built a school and a daycare center.
They don’t have enough teachers and textbooks yet, but it’s just a matter of time.
With daycare services, many women can be freed and enter the workforce.
Of course, currently, there are fewer jobs than people... but it’s easy to resolve...
All the constructed living spaces are a bit more than what is currently needed.
There are 5098 people in the shelter, and the apartments he built can accommodate 5500 people.
All buildings are designed to withstand occasional earthquakes due to upgrades, so the cost might be slightly higher than it could have been...
But since the shelter is always summer, there’s no worry about heating issues, saving a lot of money.
The layout of the residential area is typical of most new towns in the Soviet Union.
Four apartment buildings are arranged in a square, with a large courtyard in the middle, and all courtyards have playgrounds, trees, benches, and other facilities.
Roads are also extended, allowing residents and soldiers
to quickly move from one end of the shelter to the other.
On the south side of the residential area, Lin Yi built a hospital with one hundred beds, and in the basement, he constructed a new laboratory for Professor Curie.
This laboratory is ten times larger than the original, capable of accommodating up to thirty people working simultaneously.
On average, the cost of living space per adult is only about one hundred Coins, thanks to the considerable amount of materials they scavenged.
The changes in the industrial area are less significant,
with old buildings being expanded rather than rebuilt.
The meat processing plant can now accommodate one hundred workers and has quadrupled the rabbitry from 50,000 square feet to 220,000 square feet.
This means their daily meat production reaches an astonishing 30 tons.
Apart from meat and hides, the factory has also started producing minced meat and plans to produce sausages, hot dogs, and more in the future.
Lin Yi also built a sewing workshop...
Currently, workers are still manually completing all the work, as are the other factories...
except for the factory producing biofuels from corn!
Immanuel is leading it well there, even achieving some automation.
Flour milling, grain processing, baking, dairy products, all the production facilities in the shelter have been expanded and further optimized.
They have also started producing butter, cheese, and fermented dairy products in the shelter.
Apart from factories, Lin Yi also built a small office building, part of which is used for cable TV.
Some survivors from Valerie’s camp, who were in television work before the apocalypse, still have their equipment, so getting it back into operation was relatively simple.
Valerie plans to install a telephone switchboard in this building in the future, but currently, they don’t have the right equipment and expertise.
Besides cable TV, Valerie also had people install a powerful file-sharing server and a LAN, and plan to install cameras around and connect them to the network.
All these constructions require a massive amount of electricity, so Lin Yi purchased more bioreactors to keep the power running intensely.
There are four carpenters in the shelter, and Lin Yi built a workshop for them where carpenters can make furniture for people based on orders.
Currently, there are no orders, so the carpenters are making spear shafts and throwing spears.
In the bullet manufacturing workshop.
Right now, there’s only equipment set up for producing 9mm shell casings, but the engineers assure that as long as they get the needed resources, everything won’t be a problem.
The auto repair shop, along with the garage, has moved to the industrial area. Now, the soldiers also have their own garage.
The most important is the material processing plant.
Currently, it’s just a building, but Immanuel plans to build a metallurgical plant in the future, preparing to reforge scrap metal.
The agricultural area hasn’t changed much.
Field No. 5 has quadrupled in size, expanding from 200,000 square yards to 800,000 square yards, with wheat production expected to reach thirty tons.
The military base has greatly expanded and been fenced in.
Lin Yi also built a large hangar for military vehicles and a garage for small vehicles.
The training area was expanded many times over, and a new security headquarters was added.
Everyone calls it the "Patrol Headquarters"!
The social area was completely redesigned, with a sports ground, leisure area, cinema, and more.
The central area remained unchanged.
After all, the core members of the shelter are accustomed to and fond of its current state.
Lin Yi felt heavy-hearted and pressed a button—
Confirm construction!
The base began to shake violently...
Old buildings were sucked underground and recycled, and a real town rose from the ground in their place.
Now, after upgrading the planning application, it can actually equip buildings with furniture.
There are many TVs, appliances, and stools in the warehouse, so furnishing the new buildings hardly costs anything, and if people want, they can even renovate or replace appliances.
Lin Yi left the troublesome task of moving into the new homes to Chen Youyou and Blaise.
At this moment, he was more worried about the base’s coin balance...
Building the town cost 719,000 coins, and the vending machines earned him 34,780 coins in the past three days, leaving him with 2,888 coins.
He watched the balance drop to 2,280, then 2,272...
The Weapon Smith and Louis kept using coins to speed up their progress.
Professor Curie also used coins; revealing the hidden attributes of an item cost up to five coins, while the authentication of an item cost half that.
Lin Yi aimed to make their work more efficient.
The professor, Sylvie, and Louis each received a Mage Pendant, which provides +8 magic power and +50% magic value recovery speed,
along with a ring that grants +4 magic power and +4 endurance, and a necklace or chain that adds +4 magic power.
Lin Yi originally planned to install a Space-Time Filter to enhance magic value recovery speed, but decided to discuss this option with the Beastman Race first.
Because such a structure is conspicuous and might increase the chances of being discovered by other Space-Time Fragments.
After doing all of this,
Lin Yi and Immanuel walked around the residential area, nodding with satisfaction.
Everything had become truly remarkable!
Many people were busily moving between the streets and the courtyards. These Soviet-style apartment buildings have spacious courtyards, ample sunlight, and greenery.
This is evidently much more spacious than the closely built houses in Western Europe and East Asia!
This time, a total of four one-bedroom apartment buildings were constructed, ultimately accommodating a thousand people, and 38 two-bedroom apartment buildings for couples and families were built.
Except for those working in the fields or on military missions, everyone else roamed around the town, choosing their new homes.
Lin Yi nodded with satisfaction and headed towards the military district.
The soldiers there were very busy, but most had been given time off to move into their new homes.
Everyone in the base was busy.
So Lin Yi decided to go earn some money.
He remembered the motorcyclists mentioning a town called Laon, located 20 kilometers to the northeast.
They said Laon wanted to buy 10,000 tons of food at the rate of 30 coins per pound, which would mean he could spend 300,000 coins!
One reason Lin Yi wanted to go alone was...
To try out his new motorcycle!
He donned a full set of level 4 armor, looking like a futuristic warrior, and teleported to a recently scavenged, deserted small French town.
He waved his hand, and an equally futuristic-looking motorcycle appeared before him.
Rather than a motorcycle, it was more like a metal monstrosity—
The motorcycle was over 3 meters long, with a very large body, and the entire frame was covered with various silver and black metal components.
The front of the motorcycle was reinforced, looking like it could crash through walls directly.
The motorcycle also had some small weapons.
[Motorcycle: Dagger, Level 4]
A high-tech single-person vehicle with an armored body, retractable front defense system, and a 400-unit energy shield.
- Maximum speed of 360 km/h, acceleration from 0 to 120 km/h in just 0.5 seconds.
Maximum air speed of 120 km/h.
- The "Dagger" is equipped with two built-in machine guns and a ram; its battery has six slots available for installing level 2 Energy Cores, and one for installing a level 3 Energy Core.
[Hidden Attributes Detected]:
- Battery Capacity: 400/400
- Shield Capacity: 400/400
- Attack Power: 30
- Defense: 40
- Mana consumption per shot: 0.01
- Driving consumption: 1 mana per hour
- Flying consumption: 20 mana per hour
[Note: Magic value consumption depends on speed]
Lin Yi looked at the description, dumbfounded.
"... This thing can even fly!?" ...