Chapter 220: Survival Game System (49)

Just as she finished putting the Magic Jade Leaf Flower into her Storage Space, Xie Yang felt the soil beneath her feet suddenly become soft.

Losing her footing for a moment, she fell down along with the collapsing ground.

She had intended to whip out the Octopus Tentacle Whip to hook onto a nearby fruit tree and pull herself up.

But in a flash, a thought crossed her mind: could the place beneath her be the location of the treasure?

Thinking this, she withdrew her hand, relaxed her strength, and continued to fall along with the momentum.

During the fall, she put on a Miner Hat to protect against impact.

The whip in her hand was also swapped for an Elastic Staff to reduce the impact force upon landing.

She had originally wanted to look for more protective gear, but it was too late!

She fell into an Underground Palace.

The heavy gate of the Underground Palace slammed shut with a "Crack!" before she could react, and she was locked inside.

After a careful inspection, Xie Yang discovered that it was a mechanism door; once closed, it could not be opened from the inside.

Furthermore, it was unaffected by the corrosiveness of the Mutated Octopus Ink.

She logged into the Communication Channel and found there was no signal.

No matter how she called out to Fu Zhangzheng or any other fellow survivor on the Regional Channel, she received no response.

Now she was trapped in the Underground Palace.

Xie Yang rubbed her face, simply switched on her Mining Lamp Hat, and began to explore around the Underground Palace.

This exploration delighted her.

This place might really be the location of the treasure!

Inside, there was actually a Treasure Vault, a Library Vault, and a Seed Vault.

What she found most amazing was the Seed Vault—it wasn't large, yet it stored billions of high-quality seeds that could allow life to continue.

Xie Yang began to calculate the points she had earned in the Survival Game; how many Backpack Slots could she redeem?

At the same time, she logged into the Sub-system to check in, seeing if it had been thirty days; if it had, she could expand by another 10 cubic meters.

Otherwise, her space wouldn't be enough to hold these treasures!

She worried while hoarding, in pain yet happy.

Survival Game System: 【...】

She wasn't even panicked knowing she was trapped in the Underground Palace?

What kind of peerless bug is this!

For the next month or so, Xie Yang remained trapped in the Underground Palace.

But she didn't stay idle; she was either collecting treasures or on her way to collect treasures.

During this period, her Storage Space expanded twice, gaining another 20 cubic meters of storage space.

The points she had saved up previously were also all exchanged for Backpack Slots.

Yet it still wasn't enough to hold everything!

The Library Vault not only had paper books but also scrolls, ancient paintings, parchment rolls, and electronic books full of a technological feel, which took up five or six slots when categorized.

The Treasure Vault was the same; although there were Treasure Chests for storage, the styles and materials of the chests varied—

Copper Treasure Chests held Nutrient Solution;

Silver Treasure Chests held protective gear and medical supplies;

Golden Treasure Chests held high-level liquids like Advanced Nutrient Solution, Mental Power Potion, and Gene Repair Fluid;

The most dazzling Diamond Treasure Chest contained a thick stack of blueprints for Star Interstellar Products.

Using Backpack Slots to carry them required quite a few slots.

The seeds in the Seed Vault, however, were mostly in identical storage boxes, which could be handled with a single Backpack Slot.

Xie Yang took all the food and daily necessities she had previously hoarded in her Storage Space and placed them out, piling them in the spacious hall of the Underground Palace.

In any case, the temperature in the Underground Palace was low, so they wouldn't spoil in the short term.

Besides food and clothing, there were also tents, mattresses, quilts, blankets, various stoves and kitchenware, tables, chairs, benches, pots, bowls, ladles, and basins... all moved outside as well.

The space cleared up was used to store the items from the Library Vault that were fewer in number, as well as the Treasure Chests of different materials.

In short, during the time she was trapped in the Underground Palace, besides exercising, sleeping, and cooking her three daily meals, Xie Yang mainly spent her time moving the supplies in these three vaults.

The Advanced Workbench placed in the corner, except for its cooldown time, worked almost non-stop, clanking away to produce the tool parts she needed.

While studying the various high-tech blueprints in the Diamond Treasure Chest, she discovered the production blueprints for the Energy Cutting Gun and the Universal Crowbar.

These two were the tools most likely to open the gate of the Underground Palace.

Unfortunately, the former could not be made by the Advanced Workbench alone.

The latter, however, was different; the materials required were basically all metal, and non-metal parts could be replaced with metal, and the manufacturing method was also mechanical.

It was just that many of the parts were small and precise, had high production requirements, and took a long time.

That was fine!

As long as it could be produced, what did waiting a few more days matter!

Thus, the Advanced Workbench entered workaholic mode, clanking away at production constantly, except for the cooldown time that human effort could not interfere with.

Survival Game System: 【...】

It could already foresee the scene of the treasure Underground Palace being pried to pieces in a few days.

Perhaps it should just change the parameters of the Underground Palace dungeon and let her out!

However, before it could modify the game data, Xie Yang had already produced the Universal Crowbar.

She held it in her hand and weighed it.

The high-density pure metal rod was exceptionally heavy, even heavier than the Octopus Tentacle Whip she was accustomed to wielding.

Once she had grown used to this weight, Xie Yang took it to test it out.

The door to the Treasure Vault, which she had already cleared out, was completely dismantled in just a few seconds.

The door to the Library Vault, which had also been thoroughly looted, could not escape the same fate of being dismantled.

Arriving at the Seed Vault, she did not dismantle the Seed Vault door, but instead began prying off the wall bricks of the Seed Vault.

She had been curious for a long time—

Why could bricks that looked ordinary and plain, at most having a few fine pores, allow a tiny storeroom to hold tens of thousands of seeds?

Furthermore, even though there were clearly no ventilation or constant temperature devices inside, the temperature and humidity could be kept in an optimal state.

Could it be that these porous bricks had some special properties?

She would pry them off and take them back to study.

If she couldn't figure them out, wasn't there still the state?

With so many scientific researchers and brilliant minds in the state, could they not figure out a single brick by pooling the brains of all their scientists?

Perhaps in the near future, people wouldn't need to carry big bags when traveling, and could travel with just a brick-sized handbag; cramped apartments in big cities could be renovated into large villas; and the state wouldn't need to go to great lengths to mobilize troops to escort and transfer classified military supplies, greatly saving manpower, material resources, and financial resources...

Xie Yang happily fantasized while prying off the bricks.

After prying off the bricks, she also took the opportunity to dismantle the metal walls in the main hall.

The metal on these walls was of an unknown material, but since it was used in the Underground Palace, it must be good stuff; she would dismantle it and take it back first!

Survival Game System: 【...】

If it had been programmed with profanities, it would already be foaming at the mouth and fainting by now.

Was this woman here to restock her inventory?

How detestable!

If it had known this person was such a terrifying bug, it shouldn't have been lazy; it should have moved to modify the capture parameters and blocked her from the Survival Game.

A miscalculation, a grave miscalculation!

Truly, a moment of laziness leads to eternal regret!

The Survival Game System was speechless.

But as things stood, what could it do?

It could only let her dismantle and hoard everything, allowing her to sweep away a wave of supplies beyond the players' rewards.

At this moment, the Survival Game System was even more desperate for the game to end early than those players were.

(End of chapter)