Machines Need Oil

Qin Ai looked at his sister who is getting stronger day by day. He had found someone to get him that willow tree. Just when went to collect it, the person told him that he is not paying as good as the base and just like that, the willow tree was sold to the general office.

He often wonders if he needs to get that plant juice at all. But to ignore the words of a doctor is foolish so he didn't give up. His sister is the most important. In the last life, he doesn't even know what happened to her while he stayed at home to usurp his cousin's position as the head of the family.

He lived a good life on the outside but internally he was seething in anger at his father for sending her away. He regretted going away to the army training very much. His sister was no where to be seen and knowing her weak physic, she had probably suffered.

His father had sent him to train because of his family legacy. The Qin family goes back to the royals of old. The leader of the country is from his family. The army of the country, the real army that will go to war if enemies attacked is in the hands of the Qin family.

In the doomsday, they were the first to move. They took over the capital city of the Western continent. Many prominent families have taken power from the ultimate leader and did as they please with the army in their hands but the Qin family has always upheld the most powerful, numerous army in the country.

They have also never stopped researching the weapons technology because when enemies come it will fall on them, the royals to protect their home from invaders.

When the world became a mess like this, they secured a base of operations and began new systems. They moved factories for weapons, clothes, food, and the facilities with these that are nearest were directly confiscated.

Many business owners who were running food chains have been reduced to mere factory workers. Those with better standing are the army soldiers who were already under the command of the Qin family.

They quickly made a large wall around the city and got normal citizens to work in the assembly line in various facilities. The normal people get food and accommodations but with lack of entertainment and all the luxury good such as alcohol, most people are not living good lives.

The Western continent belongs to the first family in the country and it has always been this way. So they hadn't been oblivious about supernatural powers. The Qin family members are cultivators.

Their manual is obviously rubbish in the face of hidden families but they are gods to normal humans. However, that is under the premise that they succeed when young. This is also how they choose the next family heir.

In the young generation it has to be the most promising one of all the children with the blood of the old Qin regardless of whether they are women or men, if they are born from Qin females, they will be called Qin once they pass the family trial and take over the family power.

In this generation, Qin Ai and another cousin of his were the two most talented. But Qin Ai is not a competition for the other man, therefore his father Qin Jie felt it necessary to kill the man and push his son to the throne.

In the last life the end of the world came right after that cousin died and his grandfather disowned his father but the grandfather was killed suspiciously after and then Qin Ai smoothly became the leader.

He had hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command and many people were even scared to look him in the eyes. However he felt like a puppet under his father's manipulation and slowly became regretful of his decision to go to the family training at that time.

Their father hated weakness do he got rid of Qin Meng his younger daughter. After waking up the memories from the last life, Qin Ai took his men and rushed to his sister's school to take care of her.

Granted, he was not entirely sure of what he was dreaming about at the time but knowing he may never see her again made him come to her no matter if the dream is right or wrong.

His father had used him to stabilize power for himself and then became deranged when he was drunk with power. Qin Ai had to imprison him to ensure stability after that period.

There are several powerful members who didn't support him because of his father's actions. His father would harass anyone regardless of who they are since his son was the king.

Qin Ai sneered thinking about that unreliable father of his. It's a shame he couldn't save the cousin from his father, otherwise he would be assured. That guy may have been cold faced but he was a genius and a true born leader.

Not to mention his high cultivation level that is leagues above his own. Thinking of which, his current base leader is not simple. He can sometimes feel pressure from her body that she releases without meaning to. He had ever only felt such pressure from his grandfather.

It is obvious she is a cultivator and a powerful one at that. She is also the legendary alchemist that he has only read about. She even saved his sister, even though she told him she did it so he would focus on the job she assigned him, he still felt very grateful.

This is a leader who knows how to make people work tirelessly for her. She reminds him of that cousin of his. He could always achieve what he set out to do.

His sister is now able to go and apply for work saying she doesn't want to be a good for nothing. It was fortunate she has plant power and the base wants these powers at the moment.

Qin Ai heard about the restaurant, the bar and the brothel under the control of the base leader. Most leaders would never approve of such a place honestly and above board. They will inject funds in support privately but deny it to people.

This young lady on the other hand built the place, recruited people offering hard to resist payments making people clamor to join. Alchemists can really do anything. Turning 70 years old into a 20 years old is beyond normal people's capacity.

This place is really a paradise compared to the other bases he had seen in both lives. The alcohol in the bar stunned him speechless. He was curious about the expansive wine and bought it. The results were that he orders a bottle to take home.

The shadow guards he had been training have turned into battle shaped soldiers. He would normally take them out to hunt zombies every other day. They alternate between using the skills he taught and the gifts they have.

They use knives and guns on some days and then use their superhuman powers on other days. The progress in their skills is obvious but Qin Ai is a perfectionist, how can he present a half competent army to the base leader?

So he took it upon himself to design a training program that caters for their superhuman abilities as well. Now they can walk around without creating craters on the ground. They can run carrying large fragile mud balls without destroying them with their strength.

They can fight hand to hand without using their abilities in the middle and hurting the sparing partner. The power inside their bodies is a lot so they needed to be taught to use it right.

Weeks later, he can now proudly present them to the girl. He wonders how she will react at that time. To be honest he had done what he set out to do but since the lady is not back he didn't want to be presumptuous.

However, he was approached by one of her assistants she asked if they were ready for assignments, he agreed and then she told them to see her in the hall the next day. Their training is over.

She told him to train more people from the regular base army if he is bored. If he agrees, he can pick fresh cooking ingredients from the upper east side shop from now on free of charge. He will also get a VIP card to enter the arena along with two other people without paying in the future.

When some of his men asked for a discount on visiting the Blossom plaza, the secretary had apologized to disappoint them.

Qin Ai had contemplated going home at this time because the debt he owed can be considered paid. But looking at his sister who is happy to have a job and she even made friends these days with someone named Gu Yan. He doesn't want to take away her stability.

He decided to rotate the base army starting with the nine kings. The base leaders assistant became very happy to hear that he will train the nine kings.

"Thank you Mr. Qin, the base leader said to give you something if you decided to continue working." He had been surprised by that when he saw a small hill appear in front of him.

The hill is made of clothes and what seems to be steel arm and leg bracelets. They seem very simple but when he picked up a vest from the pile, he was almost pulled to the ground by the weight.

"These will replace the steel bars and heavy machines in the gym. They can wear the ankle bracelets and jog, the arm guard covers the upper part of the person's arm and can be adjusted for size.

These are all training clothes. We have long and short training leggings, short sleeves and long sleeves training outfits for winter. The training shoes are just normal shoes don't worry." She had smiled at him.

She then took out several purified crystal nucleus. "You can eat them to increase your strength." His eyes bulged at the clean and shiny crystal nucleus. One purified crystal nuclei is equal to 20 normal ones which is even more exaggerated than the price comparison between level one and level two zombie crystal nuclei.

Sometime ago the base released information about the uses of a crystal nuclei and how to absorb it's energy without being infected by the zombies virus inside. Qin Ai who is more experienced had already known long ago but he has never seen such a pure nuclei.

After eating it, he is shocked by the power of this nuclei. From then on he has been trying to get the assistant to purify his crystal nuclei but the price is not cheap. It is another way Amelia saw to make money.

She left a jar of spirit spring water with the assistants so they can make her more money this way.". The zombies in this region have been target of organized attacks more aggressively these days. The base opened so many places for them to spend crystal nuclei its crazy not to want it.

.....

Amelia used the cabin in the woods where Jack Jack stays to cultivate nicely and safely advanced to the next level in the cultivation of spiritual energy. The refinement of spiritual energy in the second realm is not too easy since it needs to run all over the body several times. Refining and purifying it.

It is when the process has achieved a required degree of body refinement that the level will finally successfully advance.

Because of the excess amount of spiritual energy in her meridians, Amelia had to be very patient because she was advancing three levels. Now she is at level four of second realm.

Her body's peculiar physique had a new feature which is an aromatic flesh. She smells like fresh daisies tinged with morning due, she can smell it even through all impurities. The important thing is that her scent is very alluring. This is probably why people will want to turn her into a cauldron.

It stands to reason that these are all happening because she took care of that virginity earlier and now instead of hurting her, sex will benefit her. Thinking of sex, she remembered that man, she wondered if he is still alive.

Amelia consolidated her power until she is satisfied and then got up. She went to bathe and wash away the impurities on her body. She is becoming very happy with her appearance.

"Jack!" She called out happily but the damn thing didn't come to her. She went to the base. The changes are astonishing.

There is a clear wall on the far side of the old wall. The height can not be compared to the wall Agatha had built but it is very high. 6 points as high as the old one. What surprised her are the methods used to get rid of the plants.

The TLB trucks drove out with sinister looking large metal foshell cutting trees at the lowest part and the workers will then work together to dig out the roots. All the trees are given to the same workers to make lumber. When they dry they can be used for the fire places in the residents. Of course they will be sold at that time.

It seems the wall was just finished, the base has it's space enlarged by a factor of 10. The designs for the new outside city was very ambitious which is why Agatha had snorted poison at that time when she thought Amelia is asking her to build it for her.

Many bases wouldn't be able to pull off the construction of such an enormous structure in such a short time. But then, most bases don't already have such large army made only of supernatural powered people.

The nine kings realized they cannot all go out to practice everyday. So the only take 1000 outside while 500 is training, the rest builds the city. The earth and mud came from the nearby high mountains that have now all been flattened by space blades.

There was really enough cement and tools to make the wall. In the design, there are hundreds of high rise buildings all around and near the old wall. All buildings are in a straight line from very high to only a three story building near the new wall.

When someone enters the new wall gates and walk towards the inner base, they will keep passing by taller and taller buildings. There is a clear distance between each row of buildings for cars to transport items to the very first building.

The plumbing system is in place and the electricity plan is clearly defined. Everyone was impressed by the simple but clean design without many complications.

That is why they decided to put the foundation and build the buildings well into the upcoming said winter.

The wall took a lot of materials but plenty remains however, the base leader has advised to use the earth supernatural powers and convert earth into hard stone.

Of course it couldn't be as flawless as the old one but normal stone buildings will be fine. Especially since she had a plan to use the metal paste.

Amelia can now use a space barrier to lift herself in the air. She stood on the wide area on top of the old wall and watched as her members work tirelessly. The remuneration has been said to be the new and improved crystal nucleus. The people have found it to be very helpful for them compared to the ones outside.

The motivation was enticing enough. She understood that as she gave them almost all the resources necessary to be strong, they might be lazy to work so she enticed them with continuous growth. Humans need motivation just as machines need oil when the gears rust and refuse to move.

The process is going smoothly without her supervision, so another thing is that this new city will have nine equal districts. Their size is as large as a medium size base, with thousands of buildings. Each will belong to each of the nine kings, she told them to change anything on the design to suite their own personality and preferences.

Looking at the buildings foundations below, she knows they didn't change anything. She sighed at their impatience, they must have been excited to be real kings with real armies under their control. She can't blame them too much though, they are young after all.

She flew away from the base. When someone saw her she was already a long distance away. It is shameful that her power is almost at level 9 but she is still trying to understand them.

From the direction she took, she went deep into the untouched forest of the east central continent. The forest is so large that it is reasonable to be mindful of wild beast organized attacks in the future.

However, she is not worried, mutated beasts taste heavenly so her base members will come to hunt and control the population. What she needs to do is put up a formation that will protect the base from the ground just as she did in the main base.

That can still wait a while, for now she is looking for materials so she dropped from the sky and started walking. She searched aimlessly picking up useful plants until she saw a nest of mutated worms.

Not just any worms but silk worms. The place is being attacked by fierce mutated rats which is how she got alert by the fight. There is a larger silk worm protection its tribe. Many worms were dying and the queen became desperate.

Seeing Amelia stands a distance away and watched with no intention of getting involved, it sent out a mental distress signal before passing out bleeding. Amelia got her plea and immediately sliced the rats. There are hundreds of them.

This queen worm is very strong. She took it into her space and made a large area belonging to their remaining hundreds of members before unceremoniously picking up several hundreds kg worth of silk. The colors are dazzling.

She realized the silk is somewhat indestructible. So this is what happens when you stral around a virgin forest? She couldn't wait to find more.

She found the ground materials for making cotton. The plants for making fabrics and the plants for dye and making paint. It has mostly mutated but its more or less the same.

She took back the wild fruits and vegetables and just when she thought she can't get something as good as the silk worm she found a series of resources. Some she couldn't recognize but there are three iron ore mines, a high level spirit mine, a gold mine and this awesome resource called a space stone, she actually found a mine of this staff.

She is so happy she became speechless. Her master didn't lie to her. Learning to make all the things she uses is not a mistake. She took a harvest but is careful not to mine too much. The world is still upgrading, who knows what level will these resources turn into in the future?

She is not too desperate for resources like last time she saw a resource mine she directly confiscated it.

People may think gold is useless now but in truth gold is very useful for her. It is easier turning it into artifacts.

She found a resource useful for forging called Mystic dust. It is a very hard material but when used appropriately it will even make high level artifacts, not to mention forging armor. Since it is not a mine, she decided to plant it in her space.

When she had just come out of a breakthrough she couldn't access the space but now she can enter. It had increased in size but the glaring change is the space water, the spirit qi inside went up several levels.

The plants Mystic harvest increased again. Before, she would only get less than 10%of spirit food, even lesser mutated food but now it has increased to almost half of what is planted. So much spirit food, she will break through again soon.

She put concealment talisman on all the resources she found just so the aliens don't get any designs on her things.

She continued exploring but the forests really big. She turns around and went back to the cabin so she can play with her new toys. She couldn't wait. It's a good thing she visited the storage before seclusion. Otherwise she would have to go get the items she wants to transform.

"You're back." Old Mo looked at her up and down. She gave him a questioning gaze.

"I'm checking for any changes. How are you? Did you grow in power again?" He asked feeling like looking into her eyes is very hard.

"Yes but you seem nervous. What's up?" She asked while taking a seat.

"There have been strange people coming to the base lately. I am worried they want trouble."

She remembers that now she has enough power to make more monitors around the base and connect them to all the screens available. She will get this done and also build a larger monitoring crystal in three offices. She will just need lots of glass.

"Did they say where they come from?" She came back to the topic.

"The G city. They came because the warehouses and factories were emptied when they got there." Mo said.

"They want to steal it back?" She raised an eyebrow.

"I'm afraid that is not all they want. Someone triggered the alarms not long ago. Lights were glaring for two hours while the guards looked through the luggage to find it.

When the source was finally found it was in a Syringe inside a pocket of a suitcase. They probably wanted to create chaos. The problem is they are still lingering in the abandoned villas on the part to the local city.

"The kings wanted to go kill them but because they come from another base, it became a complex issue." He said with a heavy tone.

Amelia rolled her eyes at him. " Next time just kill directly. If they come to fight, let them come. Old guy, this is not a peaceful time. Do you not recognize how ruthless they are to us? Why should we be magnanimous to such trash?" She frowned and her level four refinement realm power surged making old Mo cough blood directly.

"Sorry. You are so old. Are you going to die from this little bit of pressure? Perhaps you should consider increasing your strength." She gave him a handkerchief.

Old Mo took it from her hand roughly in annoyance. She is the one who couldn't control her strength just now, how did it turn to him being too old?

"180 shadow guards are all over the map gathering information and sending it back using the trinket..."

"Talismans." She corrected lightly.

"Right, they use those to send back reports. The video feeds get deleted after a while but I have people typing the contents and saving it in archive." Old Mo said.

"Any surprises?" Amelia folded her hands realized the fingers are longer than before.

Old Mo's expression showed an excited expression. "It's the F city and the Beijing base. They are going to war."