Global Wasteland: I Obtained A Top Tier Shelter-Chapter 53: Shortage of Materials? Dishonest Merchants Step In

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Shortage of Materials? Dishonest Merchants Step In

In this world, no one has yet produced items like "pen" and "paper."

At least, according to the chat records and trading mall, as well as the Survival Points Mall, it can be basically confirmed.

Without pen and paper, Lin Yue could only find a piece of ground to use a stick as a pen to write and draw on the ground.

"There cannot be a lack of defensive facilities around the Shelter, like ancient city walls that can resist certain attacks..."

Lin Yue drew a dot in the center of the ground to represent the Shelter, and then drew an open circle around it.

"Well, when building city walls, a certain land area must be ensured. The gate seems to only be a stone gate, but that would only defend against ordinary mutated creatures..."

Walls can’t keep out people.

The most ordinary Survivor could use a ladder to climb over the wall.

Lin Yue looked at the city walls he could currently build, only about three meters high, which would be no challenge for someone with a ladder.

"Then, how about adding another layer of insurance?"

He drew small ×s inside and outside the circle.

The tightly connected small x’s represented traps.

Currently, Lin Yue can make two kinds of traps, the first is ordinary, the second is improved.

The difference is only in the amount of damage; from the appearance, they’re hardly different from the ordinary Desert.

If not, he wouldn’t have had so many harvests.

The traps inside and outside the wall, even if they’re ordinary, could inflict some harm on those so-called "wandering Survivors" who wish to attack, even discourage them.

After thinking about it, it seems this is all that can be done for now.

Indeed, learning to put broken glass on the wall to increase damage, making it hard to climb, could be done.

He does have glass, but it’s thickened acrylic glass that he just brought back from a hotel.

Breaking such a good thing doesn’t seem like a good idea; using it for a better purpose would be wiser.

However, this can only be considered after the next Secret Realm refresh; currently, it’s too dangerous.

"Next, the idea needs to be put into action." Lin Yue stood up, stretched his arms, estimated the distance, and decided to make the city wall’s range within a fifty-meter radius centered on the Shelter.

A fifty-meter radius would allow him to expand the Shelter later or place things like hydroponics or simple plastic greenhouses he obtained at that time, or buildings. Too large would consume more materials, and too small wouldn’t fit everything, so fifty meters seems most fitting.

He tied yarn to the chimney on top of the Shelter and tried to stretch it to fifty meters—this aspect is quite easy for Lin Yue, since by using the method he measured before, it can be done simply.

Even if it’s not exactly accurate, it doesn’t matter; roughly a circle is fine.

Holding the yarn in one hand and the Iron Spear in the other, he quickly drew a fifty-meter radius circle on the ground.

After completing this, he walked towards the stone materials piled beside the Shelter and started putting them piece by piece into Storage Space.

Next comes the tedious process of simply making "stone walls."

Six stone materials can make a stone wall about three meters wide and high, and Lin Yue found he could also bend the walls a bit.

The walls are not thick, only thirty or forty centimeters, but they’re quite sturdy.

According to the formula for the circumference of a circle, circumference L=2πr, the circumference is roughly 314 meters.

Then about 110 pieces of the wall need to be made, consuming about 660 stone materials.

Goodness, after calculating, the demand is really a lot.

Plus, the traps inside and outside the walls require making too...

Wood and Iron Blocks will also consume a lot.

After looking at his raw material reserves, they are indeed lacking, especially stone materials, only over a hundred.

"The task is daunting and the road long."

Lin Yue made dozens of walls with the existing stone materials, placed them in the previously planned locations, and returned to the Shelter.

Bai is still asleep; how can this little fellow sleep so much?

He pushed Bai from the mat inward, "pulling" it to lie on the comfortable bed.

After the snow disaster passed, although there was no more heat from the fireplace, the temperature returned to about thirty degrees, still making Lin Yue feel sweltering.

He opened the game panel, which hadn’t been opened for a long time, and as usual, he first browsed through the group.

"Damn, you all can call me the Emperor of Europe. I just used my last 5 survival points to draw 20L of water! Can you believe it?"

"Great one, awesome!"

"You must be the system’s pet."

"I mean, I threw over a hundred points and got nothing, not even a splash of water!"

"Seeking trade; you can’t drink 20 liters of water by yourself. How about letting me help you solve it?"

"Still want water? Haven’t you noticed that there are more bugs now, even with low chances, you can get some water?"

"Indeed, after my parents came, the system automatically provided 3 liters of water per person. Conserving these 6 liters can sustain us for a while."

"Spread the word, water shopkeeper Lin Yue cried and fainted at the Shelter."

"Spread the word, black-hearted shopkeeper Lin Yue shed tears drinking water until he burst."

"What are you doing? Back when Lin Yue was selling water to sustain your lives, you kept calling him great. Now with some water, you’re like this?"

"That’s right, though not much, Lin Yue wasn’t stingy back then, compared to then selling 15, 20 milliliters for a pile of wood and stone, it’s much more conscientious now."

"Haha, no one leaves here; if I were Lin Yue, I’d blacklist all of you!"

"Oh wow, does Lin have fans now? Do you think that the shopkeeper will look at you more this way? Laughter."

"Lin? Oh, I just blew up hundreds of bugs and got eight wooden chests. Who would go seeking him?"

...

Lin Yue silently observed.

Originally seeing someone discussing lotteries, he had the interest to check, but then these people started talking about him, with someone trying to lead public opinion making his reputation worse.

Reputation is crucial at least when selling things.

Though, he hadn’t expected that now, because the system placed more mutated creatures, even ordinary people can handle those mutated bugs, so as long as enough are blown up, the chance of getting chests increases, making it easier to obtain water.

But this is only temporary.

Each person is another mouth.

Drinking water, eating meals, a person can always manage, but two or three people, especially if there’s someone around who can’t move well and doesn’t help in survival?

When time passes, water would still be lacking, since demand becomes larger. Once accustomed to drinking generously, the real hardship would come when resources become scarcer and tight.

Maybe only those like him living alone won’t worry momentarily.

He glanced at the upper right corner; the group’s count of ten thousand people dropped again, now the number is 9811.

Lin Yue silently blacklisted a few people and looked towards the mall.

He’s no saint; he wouldn’t offer his other cheek to someone who gives him a slap.

Getting benefits while pretending to be innocent, so when the blacklist for trades comes, don’t cry when you have no water.

When you come begging, you’d have to pay a higher price before I agree!

For example...

Now?

[Seller: Lin Yue]

[Auction: 100ml of luxury wine X500]

[Requirement: Timber, Iron Blocks, Stone Material.]

[Seller Note: 500 portions, bids can be multiple, highest bidder wins.]

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