Chapter 99: Base Deployment and Artificial Intelligence [Zhuanxu]

&Lingjiang College Physical Education Institute Teaching Building, in front of the building.

Lin An slowly released his mental power perception, and the crowd following behind him carefully kept quiet, afraid to disturb him.

Not long after, he slowly opened his eyes, the light blue mist in his eyes gradually fading.

"That's right, this is the place."

Myriad thoughts raced through his mind; in his perception, the energy node on the second basement level of the physical education institute was steadily radiating energy outward.

A stable energy node...!

And its strength level has reached rank 3!

This is a huge gain!

In my past life, the strengths of the energy nodes in all major safe zones were strictly kept secret; Lin An only knew that Lingjiang College had a stable node, but he didn't expect its strength to be so high.

A rank 3 stable node means he can continuously rely on this node to mass-produce Awakened Ones!

Until they advance to rank 3, the college's Awakened Ones will not worry about insufficient energy.

Moreover, with ample energy supply, the entire base construction speed will greatly increase!

Indeed, this is the most suitable place in the entire Lingjiang war zone to establish a safe zone.

The crowd behind him was somewhat puzzled, not knowing why Lord Lin An had come early in the morning to inexplicably take on an ordinary Awakened One, and then bring them here to this building.

They looked left and right, but saw nothing special.

"Isn't this the building Li Hua previously occupied alone?"

"My lord, are you trying to see if Li Hua has stored anything here?"

"Shh, don't randomly guess the thoughts of those above."

Ignoring the discussion of the Awakened Ones behind him, Lin An decisively chose to summon the Doomsday Base Vehicle!

"Hum-"

A strong spatial fluctuation flashed and vanished.

In an instant.

Before the open space in front of the teaching building, a heavy armored vehicle entirely made of black alloy, 10 meters long and 5 meters wide and high, appeared before everyone.

"What is this?!"

"Holy shit, it looks like Lord Lin An summoned it!"

The sudden appearance of the Doomsday Base Vehicle truly stunned the crowd; the base vehicle, gleaming with metallic luster, looked full of technological sense, and at a glance, even though the weapon platforms hanging on its armor had not yet been equipped with weapons, it still revealed a hint of ferocity and violent aesthetics.

Mysterious, shocking.

Even before the apocalypse broke out, they had never seen such a thing; the base vehicle, seemingly from an alien civilization, left everyone incredulous.

"Deploy the base!"

"Fuse the energy node!"

According to the base vehicle's instructions, Lin An decisively issued the order.

As the most critical energy node of the entire base, deploying the base vehicle here is most suitable.

Not only can it draw energy in real time, but it also serves to protect the node.

"【Command accepted, Doomsday Base initiates core deployment】"

A cold mechanical synthesized voice suddenly sounded; the black alloy-made base vehicle instantly unfolded, its intricate, futuristic mechanical structure extending outward.

"Boom! Crack!"

The earth trembled.

In just a few seconds, the heavy, massive base vehicle turned into black alloy plates that surrounded the entire building, with even the underground wrapped in the deployed base modules.

Like being devoured, the six-story teaching building was broken down into construction materials, accompanied by continuous, dense building sounds.

After three minutes, the original teaching building had completely disappeared.

As the building's foundation was devoured, the energy node hidden in the second basement level was instantly exposed to everyone's sight.

The blue light sphere, like a gentle sun, emitted strands of pale blue energy outward.

Most of the players present were Awakened Ones, and upon sensing the energy node, everyone was utterly shocked.

"The college actually really has a stable energy node!!"

"My goodness, I can feel that the energy here is stronger than when I awakened!"

"If we could train here..."

Gao Tian's expression was complex, his fists clenched tightly, he silently gazed at the blue light sphere.

That day, he had unintentionally bumped into Li Hua walking out from inside, and he even almost got beaten to death just from sensing a trickle of leaking energy.

For a moment, the crowd seemed to understand something, and many could not help but show looks of resentment.

"I said, why doesn't Li Hua stay in a good place but insist on coming here? Turns out he wanted to monopolize the node for himself."

"No wonder that day Gao Tian was almost killed by him; I didn't expect there to be such a hidden circumstance inside."

The crowd Heart Excited, having an energy node means their stalled strength can be improved.

In the apocalypse, what could be more precious than this?

Moreover, the people present also thought of something.

Lin An unreservedly brought them here on purpose; even at the first meeting, he had An Jing Tian tell everyone that the college had an energy node.

This means Lord Lin An never intended to monopolize it from start to finish!

Compared to that, the original reverence for Lin An deepened further.

Lin An smiled faintly; he indeed had never thought of monopolizing the node.

Because there was simply no need.

Any Awakened One can only absorb a limited amount of energy per day; this energy node can supply at least over 20 people training simultaneously each day!

Li Hua's approach earlier was just self-serving cleverness.

He stayed beside the node, having absorbed enough, but refused to leave—essentially wasting time and spiritual energy.

"Beep, respected commander, the base has deployed, the war fortress is complete, the construction procedure is in place."

"I am the base's artificial intelligence: Zhuanxu."

"You can summon me at any time, and I will assist you in completing the base construction."

As the mechanical synthesized sound rang again, a black, high-tech war fortress sprang up from the original foundation.

After devouring the teaching building, the war fortress's outermost layer is a concrete wall 30 cm thick, rebuilt and recombined, with much steel rebar turned into alloy covering it.

The inner layer is a defensive position made of black alloy plates covered in spiritual energy circuits, while the innermost is the spiritual energy core restrained at the fortress's center.

Three layers of armor protect it; the innermost core area can almost withstand bombardment from any conventional weapon!

"My god..."

Like a dream.

The Awakened Ones present stared in shock at the war fortress springing up; everything before them nearly overturned their cognition.

No engineering machinery, no human labor construction.

A core fortress comparable to a military base suddenly appeared, making them feel as if they were dreaming.

"Is this the safe zone Lord Lin An spoke of?"

"Damn, it's so cool!"

"Too scary..."

The war fortress, filled with violent aesthetics, retained the firepower framework of the base vehicle, with dense launch platforms and fire control systems covering its surface.

Several building-department Awakened Ones couldn't help reaching out to touch the alloy floor; the cold sensation from their fingertips made them accept this reality.

Not only them, Lin An also felt his heart surge.

Looking at the war fortress, though merely a prototype of the safe zone, he could fully imagine that before long the entire academy would be built into a war city!

"This is... my base, my city!"

It was just the prompt from the mechanical synthesized sound earlier that made him a bit doubtful.

"Zhuanxu!? Artificial intelligence?"

"The being called Hei Di in Huaxia mythology?"

Before Lin An could think of anything, the cold mechanical sound rang again.

"Beep, estimated to complete spiritual energy node fusion in 24 hours, the base's spiritual energy building list has been opened!"