Chapter 130: Doomsday Base Established

Before the war fortress surrounded by a three-layer defense line in a square shape, Lin An stood with Zhang Tie and others, waiting.

Outside the fortress, all base personnel rushed over; everyone put down what they were doing and curiously gazed at the blue light emanating from inside the fortress.

Spiritual Energy Core construction countdown: 3

2.

1.

Hum—

In an instant, a sky-piercing pillar of spiritual energy shot from inside the fortress, breaking through the clouds and continuing until near low Earth orbit before gradually fading.

Outside the fortress rose a chorus of astonishment; the trainees couldn't help craning their necks to see what was happening inside.

As the light pillar faded.

A dazzling blue light suddenly flared up; the spiritual energy node originally buried in the basement was dragged up by the void and finally hovered slowly inside the fortress.

Like an artificial sun, the blue light sphere lifted by the void seemed bound by an invisible electromagnetic force.

Boom—crack—

Inside the fortress, four tech-savvy mechanical arms extended outward, then dispersed 360° around the light sphere.

As if drawn by suction, once the mechanical arms were in place, the previously scattered spiritual energy nodes began aligning to output energy toward the arms.

Beep, the Spiritual Energy Core construction is complete.

Artificial Intelligence Zhuanxu is ready.

The Doomsday Base Vehicle deployment is ready; shall we construct a base safe zone at the current location?

Note: After selecting the current area for deployment, this point will be designated (3297192 square meters as your territory). Within the territory, spiritual energy buildings can be constructed; all players belonging to the territory gain +1 to all attributes, life, and spirit recovery speed +50%.

This deployment will consume the base vehicle's initial spiritual energy reserve: 100000 points! (Granted)

Please choose the initial deployment site carefully; after deployment, retracting the base vehicle again will not allow the spiritual energy reserve to be refunded.

His heart surging, Lin An slowly nodded after seeing the explanation.

The initial spiritual energy reserve is 100,000 points; it seems the system granted it to me for establishing the base.

He had thought the safe zone would at most cover one-third of the academy in its early stage, but he never expected the base vehicle to be so powerful that it actually covered the whole thing.

Players gain +1 to all attributes on the territory, and the double recovery +50% effect is unheard of.

Just this alone is equivalent to gaining half a level of strength out of thin air.

As for retracting the base vehicle after establishment?

This area was precisely what Lin An had his eye on; it is the best base construction point in the whole vicinity of Linjiang City.

He couldn't think of any reason not to build a city here.

Confirm base deployment!

Command received; the fortress begins to deploy!

At the instant the cold mechanical sound rang out, the ground beneath their feet trembled!

Vast and ocean-like, spiritual energy surged from the fortress core, and sheets of black-gold alloy sprang into being out of nowhere, spreading outward like a wave.

What is this!!

Holy shit!

The alloy ground was laid at breakneck speed; in the blink of an eye it appeared outside the fortress, drawing successive gasps from the trainees.

How come the entire base is paved with metal ground!!

Eyes wide open, mouth agape—just two minutes.

The entire academy, from east to west, top to bottom, was completely paved with alloy ground, like a miracle.

At a glance, the whole base looks like a space base from a sci-fi movie.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A few curious Awakened Ones couldn't help striking the ground with their weapons, only to find the black-gold surface extremely hard, with a dark red, intricate circuit pattern flashing briefly.

Holy shit! Captain Lin!

What the heck is this!

How! How come our base still got floored!!

Zhang Tie stomped hard on the ground with his foot twice, but the rebounding force shook his toes numb, making him click his tongue repeatedly.

Lin An struggled to move his throat, his figure flickering and appearing directly atop the fortress.

Gazing far, the entire base was covered in black-gold metal; if viewed from above, this high-tech area stood out starkly against the surrounding scenery.

Brother Lin, what is this!!

An Jing Tian bent down, unable to resist rubbing the ground with his hand.

The feel was icy cold; faintly he could sense that almost every piece of alloy "flooring" contained the aura of spiritual energy.

This is...

Spiritual Energy Territory!!

Having seen this before, Lin An's inner shock was greater than anyone else's, not smaller.

Spiritual Energy Territory, in his past life also called the core of the safe zone, or... the Land of Rules.

Spiritual energy buildings constructed in this area require no manual labor; with sufficient spiritual energy you can freely build, repair, and upgrade them!

Resting here also allows slow growth of strength!

Such a Land of Rules usually exists only at the core of each safe zone, the size of a hall; normally after building the spiritual energy core there is no room left.

Wanting to upgrade the area is possible, but it requires not only raising the base level, but also a large amount of spiritual energy.

In his past life, the largest Land of Rules Lin An had seen in the channel was the size of a football field.

That was a facility near a large safe zone, sheltering nearly a million people, consuming countless manpower and material resources to meet the upgrade requirements.

Building spiritual energy buildings on non-Rule Land is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and requires a large number of participants.

Just like ordinary building construction, a simple spiritual energy lab takes two to three months.

This is also why, in my past life, the major Safe Zones needed so many non-combat populations.

Obviously, the spiritual energy provided by the spiritual energy core can only support a few players cultivating, but to speed up construction we had to recruit many players as construction workers.

Rule Land, describing it with the phrase 'every inch of land is worth its weight in gold' is already an understatement...

This is damn generous...

Lin An couldn't help stroking the ground beneath his feet; if this thing could be sold in my past life, it'd be hilarious: a 10x10 sized Rule Land could be exchanged for the school belle.

Or a group...

One 1 Fourth Rank Awakened One. Working hard for a year may not even gather enough energy needed for a piece of Rule Land.

In memory, many powerful Awakened Ones would spend a fortune buying a piece of Rule Land inside the Safe Zone as a residence.

Safety can increase strength, and it is also a symbol of great strength.

Damn, as expected of the Savior System, the rewards given each time are so generous they're scary.

Lin An looked with mixed feelings at the Rule Land covering the entire base, while other bases when first built were only the size of a toilet.

His base, just established, covers an area of over three million square meters!

As long as spiritual energy is sufficient, he could even turn the entire base into an impregnable ultimate war fortress overnight!

Originally I wanted to use sand worms to painstakingly dig the foundation, but now it seems unnecessary.

Just dump it outside the base and build a satellite city...

Before Lin An could think further, a pale blue light instantly spread from the core outward, and the patterns on the Rule Land lit up.

"Ding, the Apocalypse base deployment is complete, base coverage finished."

As the system prompt just sounded, all players within the Rule Land instantly felt their physical quality surge, and the fatigue from a day's training vanished.

Before the exclamations could even sound, within a few minutes they were already astonished to the point of numbness.

The next second, the continuous system prompt sounds directly left Lin An stunned on the spot.

"Ding, the war zone system has been activated."

"Ding, the chat channel has been opened."

"Ding, the Safe Zone ranking has been opened."

"Ding, the mission system has been activated."

"Ding, global announcement: Congratulations to Apocalypse player 【Lin An】 for becoming the first player worldwide to establish a Safe Zone. Reputation +100, obtain special reward title."

"Ding, global announcement: Congratulations to Apocalypse player 【Lin An】 for establishing a Safe Zone ahead of schedule; the game progress has been altered. Now the Safe Zone Token mission is opened early, please check mission information."

The world was shocked.