The two cuddled together in the car, enjoying the warmth of the blankets after engaging in some form of exercise. After all, no one wanted to go out in the cold wind now. It was better to snuggle together in the warm blankets and enjoy the warmth.
After the passion, Yue Zheng hugged the person in his arms and gently stroked his hair. “The foundation is almost done. In another two days, we can finish carving the reinforcement patterns, and then we can embed the crystals.”
Xu Song lazily nodded, burying his head into Yue Zheng’s chest. A muffled voice came from his chest, “I’ve calculated it, we have enough crystals. After we install them, we don’t need to lift the foundation from the ground. We can wait until it’s stable enough after testing for a while before starting to build on top of it.”
“Okay.” With that said, Yue Zheng reached out to turn on the radio, which could receive satellite signals. It was New Year’s Day, so they wanted to listen to the festive atmosphere in the base, right?
However, the voices coming from the radio were not the festive programs they expected. Instead, it was the obituary of Wu Lao.
That old man had passed away.
Both of them felt a slight melancholy in their hearts. Although they hadn’t met many times, those few encounters had left a good impression on them. Especially without his openness and flexibility, they wouldn’t be living so comfortably now.
“Sigh… I wonder what will become of the base.” The room fell silent again, and the two quietly prayed for the old man…
As expected, just as the two had worried, before the end of the Lunar New Year, Base B in City B officially split.
The two forces, one wielding military power and organizing the ability users, began to confront each other. Coupled with some forces organized by civilians, the entire Base B was divided into three parts.
Each part of the base was intensifying its construction of defense and offense. Because the base itself couldn’t sustain continuous production very well, the plant ability users who could make plants grow suddenly became highly sought after by everyone. Similarly, earth ability users were in high demand, and the conditions offered to recruit them were so enticing that they made people green with envy.
While listening to the conditions offered by an organization on the radio, Wang An smiled and said, “If Tiancheng and I go back now, we’ll definitely be welcomed by everyone!”
Taking a soil frame handed to him by Xiao Shu, He Nian glanced at him and said, “Then why don’t you go back? Didn’t they say it already? Every Earth ability user is entitled to two accompanying bedmates, male or female, your choice. That sounds great, doesn’t it?”
“I wouldn’t trade it for a hundred celestial beauties!” Wang An quickly expressed his loyalty, helping him lift the soil frame filled with mud. “Having you alone is enough!”
As the base scrambled to recruit all kinds of talents and engage in production and construction, Xu Song and his group were doing the same, striving to build their own fortress.
Yes, a fortress.
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They melted various metals collected and purified them using Xu Song’s newly acquired ability to control the temperature of flames, which he gained at level five. They fused the metals together to form a single “foundation.”
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This newly refined foundation had much greater toughness and hardness than ordinary steel plates. The array depicted on it was meticulously carved by Yue Zheng, who had also just reached level five as an ability user with transformation powers.
Of course, the initial patterns were drawn by Xu Song himself after careful calculation.
After embedding the crystals using a special method, the entire foundation began to operate like a magical array or formation from legends. It could manipulate the energy in the surrounding air, causing the entire foundation to float about ten meters above the ground. It could also utilize the octagram formation at the center of the array to create a defense barrier sustained by energy, capable of resisting attacks from ability users below level three.
Of course, perhaps in the future, after Xu Song conducts research and experiments, he may develop even stronger defense barriers and attack modes, but all of that will have to be taken step by step.
Now, they had completely built the foundation and were transporting soil up to it, constructing their own homeland on top of it. This was far more exciting than decorating a house on wheels! What they were building was a fortress that belonged only to them and their families—a true home!
Xu Song managed to obtain a lot of construction data from the base’s database via satellite transmission. Tiancheng, along with a group of children and Wang An, spent half a day studying it. In the end, they decided, “I want to build treehouses! The kind you see in fairy tales, where you can live in tree hollows! Let’s build many of them!”
Wang An’s eyes were also sparkling. “Villas, estates, European-style buildings, Chinese-style buildings…”
“Hey! How you want to play later is up to you, but at least let’s get our living quarters sorted out first, okay? My wife is about to give birth, and we can’t have her giving birth in the car, can we?” Luo Wen’an and Liu Shishi lived on the second floor of the RV, and it was very inconvenient for them to go downstairs to use the bathroom, you know?!
Amidst the commotion, Xu Song and Yue Zheng couldn’t be bothered with them, and they walked alone around the foundation, which was piled high with heaps of soil.
“The space isn’t small, but it’s not too big either,” Xu Song looked around. Currently, it was still bare, with nothing on it, but it was already quite good.
“We can refer to the methods of those aerial gardens and build this place into a pyramid structure, layer by layer upwards, creating much more space,” Yue Zheng suggested.
Xu Song shook his head with a smile. “That would be too much trouble. Let them fuss about it.”
Two years later, after numerous twists and turns, the B City Base finally settled relatively stable, although still in a state of division, but the various factions had reached a balance.
People had come to fully accept the fact that the apocalypse was not going to leave, and humanity could only adapt to this reality.
In the base, control was now in the hands of Chief Sun, the leader who originally served under Elder Wu, and who controlled the military forces and most of Area A. Before Wu’s death, Chief Sun had inherited almost all of Elder Wu’s legacy. However, at that time, the one who opposed him was none other than his own grandson, a typical second-generation rich kid who had been responsible for Elder Wu’s demise.
Fortunately, after some twists and turns, Chief Sun managed to retain his power. As for that second-generation rich kid? Without the protection of elders and the power in his hands, he was lucky to have his life, and no one paid him any attention.
“Report to the leader, these are today’s satellite photos. The area where the movement was detected last time has indeed moved again!”
“Oh? Let me see.” Chief Sun eagerly took the pictures. There seemed to be some issues with the satellites in the sky, resulting in a ten-day delay in receiving the last batch of satellite photos. And this time, it took half a month to receive the latest photos.
But now, even the United States across the ocean probably couldn’t launch new satellites into the sky anymore.
In the photos, the object that had seemingly moved last time had moved a considerable distance again, this time towards the northwest. Although the area wasn’t large and couldn’t even compare to the smallest city, it had been overlooked before precisely because it was too small. It was only noticed after a considerable amount of time passed between the satellite photos.
Chief Sun furrowed his brows tightly, increasingly puzzled. What exactly was this? The vegetation on top was so lush that it was impossible to see what was underneath.
“After studying it, several experts speculate that this area might be farmland. There are some things resembling rivers under the trees, likely artificial constructions, but…” But they didn’t know who had the ability to create such a thing, and moreover, this thing could… move? “Leader, should we send people to investigate?”
“No need…” Chief Sun leaned back wearily in his chair. Despite all his efforts, all he managed to retain was one-third of the original base territory. But now, someone could create such a thing… Perhaps they were wandering ability users, or perhaps, they were the creation of those mutated fish. But regardless of who they were, Chief Sun currently didn’t have the power to explore further.
The assistant hesitantly whispered, “Some experts speculate that this may be an area carried on the back of a giant mutated turtle…”
“That’s enough, I know.” Chief Sun waved his hand, dismissing the assistant. If only he had the special team that Elder Wu once had in his hands, maybe he could ask them for help in exploring, but now…
…
Xu Song sat at the top of the tree canopy, holding a telescope and gazing into the distance.
“From our current position, we still can’t see the place we want to go. They’re still below the horizon,” Yue Zheng emerged from a nearby tree hollow and watched Xu Song gazing into the distance, unable to help but laugh.
“I know, I’m just looking…” Xu Song put away the telescope, took a big fruit handed to him by Yue Zheng, and took a bite, leaning back leisurely on the soft cushion behind him.
Since Tiancheng said he wanted treehouses, this little guy actually planted a large area of trees… The greenery covered everything, almost blocking the entire moving fortress. If Xu Song and the others hadn’t noticed in time, they wouldn’t have even had enough space for planting.
Wang An woke up and found that his grand mansion was gone. Tears welled up in his eyes as he built one exquisite small house after another among the trees.
Tiancheng found it fun, so he helped out, and in the end, all the doors and windows of all the houses were connected to all the tree hollows, turning the entire moving fortress into a huge maze! Even if Xu Song and the others lived here for a long time, they would occasionally get lost! If an outsider came in… heh, you’d get lost even more easily.
Fortunately, before allowing Tiancheng and Wang An to go all out, Xu Song and the others had already built the underground waterways, sewage pipelines, and underground factories. If they got lost, they could just find an entrance and go down, where it was much more normal than above.
The equipment in the factory had all been dug out from the ruins of the city by everyone, from heavy industrial smelting and casting to light industrial textile production, almost all the equipment had been brought in by everyone.
In addition, they also proudly emptied two entire arms factories, stuffing all the instruments, equipment, and weapons into the fortress.
The second underground floor housed the factory, with various mechanical equipment stored inside. Whether anyone knew how to use them or not, they were placed there for now. As long as they had what they needed, it was fine.
As for the topmost floor? It was a chaotic mix of nature and thermal construction. Besides that, there was also a small pond that Tiancheng insisted Wang An build, located next to the farmland and covered by greenery. In their free time, everyone enjoyed swimming or diving there.
“Our traveling speed is still too slow,” Xu Song complained somewhat discontentedly, taking a big bite of the fruit, his words somewhat muffled.
“We just reinforced the defensive array. Let’s rest for two days before improving the speed,” Yue Zheng smiled, tucking his slightly long hair behind his ears and then leaning down to give Xu Song a light kiss on his face.
Xu Song’s face blushed slightly. Was it because of the sunset? Or was he embarrassed? After all, they had been together for almost four years. Why would he blush because of a light kiss?
“This time when we go to the salt lake in Xinjiang, let’s bring back some salt. Where else do you want to go after that? Luo Wen’an and the others are talking about going to Tibet. What about you?”
“Anywhere is fine.” Xu Song leaned his head on Yue Zheng’s shoulder. “Tibet sounds good too. There are still many animals and places there that are different from elsewhere… By the way, we’ve accumulated so much research data, but now we can’t send it back to the base.”
“It’s okay, the base will merge again sooner or later, even if it’s through cooperation.” Yue Zheng smiled indifferently. That’s how human society is, coming together and drifting apart, quarreling and reconciling. “Let’s keep these data for now; they will definitely be useful in the future.”
Xu Song nodded, still leaning on his shoulder. The Linglan leaf on both of them jingled, and Tianyou’s cheerful voice came out: “Dinner’s ready! Dinner’s ready! In the big house by the pond, for those who are far away, come riding ostriches and giant birds!”
As he spoke, Abu’s cheerful call also emerged.
Yue Zheng and Xu Song smiled at each other, stood up, and called the “Little Eagle” perched on a nearby branch, tightly holding onto the rope already installed on the eagle’s back, and flew towards the pond with outstretched wings…
Wow. Sweet! That’s an amazing end. Thank you for the fabulous translation ❤️❤️❤️
Will miss story! 🤣❤️🤣❤️🌳🦮🦔🦗🐝🐝🐝🐝🦅🥰
The end came so fast! I noticed this is a trend with apocalypse books though. Thank you so much translator, I have enjoyed this book immensel.
They created a floating elvish city! 🌃 😆
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