Chapter 20: Upgrade

Night falls and the zombies are unleashed!

Countless people hide in the darkness, trembling with fear.

Jiro's A1 Shelter becomes the only source of light in the city. A large number of spotlights illuminate the night sky and also light up the messy battlefield outside the base.

The bodies of tens of thousands of zombies are unearthed and burned after extracting their crystal cores!

There is an unpleasant smell in the air.

This surprise put Jiro in a good mood.

Because this wave has harvested more than 20,000 crystal cores, with this wealth, his shelter can further improve and evolve.

"Adam, what advice do you have for the next plan to strengthen the shelter?" Jiro asks.

Adam suggests after a small analysis, "Currently, the base's firearms and ammunition reserves are sufficient, which can fully support a series of efficient operations, but the number of soldiers is very insufficient."

"First, you should repair all the android breeding tanks as soon as possible, increase the number of escorts, and strengthen your own military forces."

"Secondly, you can use existing material reserves to vigorously absorb high-quality survivors to live in shelters and recruit survivors to form mercenaries to serve the base."

"Finally, it is recommended to encourage survivors to take risks, search for crystal cores, and continue to strengthen the shelter's equipment."

Adam's eloquent list of suggestions makes Jiro silently nod.

It seems to be the right strategy at present.

The number of 500 people in the escort team is still too low compared to the millions of zombies.

The size of the android soldiers should be increased as soon as possible.

Otherwise, once a large-scale zombie siege is encountered, hundreds of people will die in minutes.

Recruiting high-quality survivors is also something that must be continuously done.

Selecting young adults from survivors as mercenaries can also improve the base's hard power.

In the end, Jiro decides to upgrade the Android base configuration first.

When he clicks on the system panel, he can see that the Android base is currently at the primary level, and upgrading to the intermediate level will require 3000 crystal cores.

"Upgrade!"

Jiro decisively clicks to upgrade.

[Ding! After successfully consuming 3000 crystal cores, the Android base is upgraded to the intermediate level, and currently has 300 breeding warehouses!]

"Upgrade again!"

[Ding! With a consumption of 6000 crystal cores, the Android base has been upgraded to a high level and currently has 500 incubators.]

After two consecutive updates, the Android base on the 36th floor has changed a lot.

The damaged incubator inside has long disappeared.

The entire base is filled with rows of incubators, numbering as many as 500, meaning Jiro can now breed 500 artificial humans every day.

Jiro now only has 35,132 crystal cores left, and the wealth he just gained has quietly been exhausted.

"Adam, initiate the breeding program!" Jiro commands. "Grow all combat-type androids."

"Yes!" Adam agrees.

The breeding program for the 500 incubators has started again.

Another 10,000 cores were consumed.

Immediately after, Jiro decides to upgrade the base signal tower equipment.

This is a wireless signal transmitter and receiver located outside the base.

It is much more technologically advanced than modern base station towers and is currently in a damaged state.

Once upgraded and repaired, the signal tower can emit a strong network signal and build a local area network within a radius of 100 miles, allowing nearby people to communicate wirelessly.

Why did Jiro upgrade the signal tower?

The main reason is that Adam's capacity is limited in case of a power outage.

Secondly, once the network is established, it can not only communicate with the outside world, but it is also very convenient for him to absorb outstanding survivors.

At that time, Jiro only needs to post news about the exchange of materials for crystal cores on the Internet.

More than one million survivors in the city will help him hunt zombies.

A constant stream of crystal cores will fall into his hands, isn't it wonderful?

In addition, the launch of combat aircraft in the future will also require the support of signal towers, otherwise they will lose contact with the base within minutes.

"Just do it!"

Jiro pondered for a moment and decisively clicked to upgrade the signal tower on the system panel.

[Ding! After successfully consuming 3000 crystal cores, your base signal tower has been upgraded to an intermediate level, and the current signal radiation range is 100 miles!]

A burst of light flashes, and the signal tower outside the base suddenly rises a lot.

When the blue lights flash, a powerful signal source is emitted, providing a new signal network for the urban area where the network has been disconnected for many days.

And this signal remains open.

Anyone can log in as long as their phone has power.

However, this does not mean that survivors can go online to entertain themselves. After all, the world is now in chaos. Even if there is a signal and a network, major websites cannot log in.

They can communicate by phone at most or log in to a specific local area network.

"Adam, how is the signal?" Jiro asked.

"The signal source is very powerful!" Adam replied. "Currently, the signal has covered 43% of the urban area, and many places that cannot be monitored due to network disconnection have also been restored to control."

"Um!"

Jiro nodded in satisfaction.

For an artificial intelligence like Adam, there is really a big difference between not having a network and having one.

A strong network signal support is needed before many of its functions can be implemented.

In the next period of time, the urban area may gradually lose power supply, and even some of the stored energy will be consumed, so there will be no signal. The next step is to consider installing cameras in the city.

Of course, all of this is for the future, and there is no need to do it at the moment!

"The signal network has been completed!" Jiro casually ordered. "Let's create an open base chat forum immediately. The forum should have news, chat, and announcements. In the future, it can be used for our external recruitment and mission launch, and nuclear material exchange and other operations."

"At the same time, a brief introduction to the base is published, as well as a registration window for resident recruitment, allowing survivors to apply freely."

"Yes!"

Adam quickly realized Jiro's intentions.

He detected patterns on various online forums by searching.

In just 0.1 seconds, he completed the production of a base forum and also uploaded a large amount of content posts, including a lot of zombie strategies.

This is definitely a very useful forum for many survivors.

After Jiro took out his mobile phone to log into the Internet, the forum automatically appeared.

The most eye-catching thing on the homepage is the graphical and video presentation of Shelter A1, as well as the registration window for resident recruitment. I believe that as people log in to the forum, they will inevitably be attracted.

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