As soon as he thought of this, Xu Zhengyang immediately said to Da Bai, "Da Bai, help me find where I can get enough rubber grass seeds!"
"Okay, Master."
As soon as Da Bai finished speaking, he projected a navigation message onto Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses, saying, "There is a rubber grass ranch here; you can go there, Master!"
"Alright!"
Just as Xu Zhengyang was about to set off, Da Bai suddenly added, "Master, due to the outbreak of the Blood Plague, some undersea cables have been cut.
Additionally, the zombie invasion has caused power plants to stop working.
Now, many areas of the internet have begun to disconnect! According to my model calculations,
in at most a week, as long as the servers of various network nodes shut down, I will no longer be able to leave the control range of the shelter and won't be able to help you anytime and anywhere like before!"
"It seems our troubles are increasing!" Xu Zhengyang said with a headache.
But now was not the time to think about these things.
So Xu Zhengyang said to Da Bai, "Let's solve these problems later! I'll complete this main quest first!
Keep an eye on the house, and make sure no one or any monsters threaten the safety of the shelter!"
"Leave it to me, Master!" Da Bai promised.
"Mm."
Hearing this, Xu Zhengyang nodded and immediately rushed out of the shelter.
Next, Xu Zhengyang took out his Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha from the Dimensional Space Pocket.
After transforming it into FPV drone mode, he flew directly to the location Da Bai had navigated!
...
The destination Da Bai planned for Xu Zhengyang was in Jiang Province.
This is home to the largest rubber grass planting base in our country, and many genetically optimized new varieties of rubber grass have been cultivated in the laboratories here!
It is quite remote.
Without Da Bai's guidance, Xu Zhengyang would have had a hard time finding this place on his own!
After following Da Bai's navigation to reach the destination,
he changed into his portable battle suit and jumped out of the mecha cockpit, saying, "What should I do if the internet disconnects physically in a few days and I want to find something…"
As Xu Zhengyang spoke,
he walked into a laboratory building that Da Bai had marked for him.
Every room in the laboratory was densely packed with rows of hydroponic racks.
Each rack had corresponding labels attached, detailing planting dates, parent plant information, and other necessary information.
If this were before the apocalypse, this would have been a perfectly normal laboratory building.
But now,
due to the power outage and the presence of several Blood Plague Zombies in the laboratory,
the corridors of the building were littered with severed limbs and many coagulated black-red bloodstains…
Although ordinary zombies could not harm Xu Zhengyang at all,
the combination of elements like laboratories, power outages, zombies, and bloodstains still made Xu Zhengyang feel a bit uneasy…
It wasn't until Xu Zhengyang killed a few oblivious zombies with his bare hands that the gloom in his heart dissipated somewhat.
Upon reaching the machine room of the laboratory building,
Xu Zhengyang first took out a diesel generator and a small transformer from his dimensional space.
After making slight modifications to the machine room's wiring and powering it with his diesel generator,
Xu Zhengyang immediately turned on the computer in the machine room and used his phone as a relay.
He instructed Da Bai to hack into the laboratory's computer to help him find information about rubber grass seeds.
After a moment,
Da Bai's voice came to Xu Zhengyang's ear, saying, "Master, follow this route to Seed Bank No. 7.
The rubber grass seeds here have a growth cycle of only 48 days at the shortest, and the rubber output is 16% higher than that of ordinary rubber grass!"
As Da Bai spoke,
he sent the structural diagram of the entire laboratory building to Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses, marking a walking route with a red line.
"Okay!"
Xu Zhengyang nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this, then stopped the diesel generator and stored it back in the Dimensional Space Pocket before heading towards the seed bank.
The seed bank was actually a cold storage facility.
Depending on the storage duration, the temperature and humidity requirements of the seed bank varied.
Generally speaking,
seed storage buildings are divided into five categories.
The seed bank built in this laboratory is the highest specification ultra-long-term storage facility!
The ultra-long-term storage facility requires an internal temperature of -18°C and a relative humidity of around 40%.
Under these preservation conditions,
the storage period of the seeds can reach an astonishing minimum of 50 years! The apocalypse had only just begun a day ago.
So the backup power in the seed bank had not yet run out, and it was still operating normally.
Upon entering the seed bank, Xu Zhengyang wasted no time and directly cleared out the high-quality rubber grass seeds weighing over ten tons!
Immediately after,
Xu Zhengyang also stuffed the hydroponic facilities from other rooms in the laboratory into his Dimensional Space Pocket.
Until his Dimensional Space Pocket was completely full,
Xu Zhengyang reluctantly piloted the FPV drone form of the Hurricane Light Multi-Function Mecha back home.
After returning to the shelter,
Xu Zhengyang had just unloaded his haul and instructed Da Bai to take these items to build the rubber grass production area.
Next,
Xu Zhengyang began designing the modification plan for the general-purpose robot based on the militarized modification knowledge card he had just obtained!
The design blueprints for the general-purpose robot already had plenty of redundant designs.
So it was not difficult for Xu Zhengyang to make militarized modifications based on them.
In just ten minutes,
a combat-type robot named T-800 by Xu Zhengyang was designed! The T-800 was entirely designed for combat! Xu Zhengyang retained the human form for it, allowing the T-800 to perfectly use various human weapons and equipment.
After all, Xu Zhengyang did not need the T-800 to hide among the crowd to carry out secret missions.
So he didn't have to consider the T-800's appearance.
He directly added 9mm steel plates as armor to protect its core components!
After completing the militarized modifications for the T-800, Xu Zhengyang said with some regret, "The T-800 combat robot is great in every way.
The only drawback is that the battery is a bit small; it can only operate for 6 hours under normal conditions.
If it is fully loaded for combat, the power will be exhausted in at most 40 minutes…"
"I can only continue to improve it later!"
As Xu Zhengyang spoke, he issued new instructions to Da Bai, saying, "Da Bai, immediately stop the production of general-purpose robots!
From now on, start full production of T-800 combat-type robots!"
"Understood, Master!"
Da Bai faithfully executed Xu Zhengyang's orders while reminding him, "Master, many survivors in Baicheng have started fleeing towards the northern suburbs.
According to my model calculations,
they will arrive in our control area in at most half an hour. How should we deal with them then?"
(End of Chapter)