Chapter 366: Ultimate Architecture |
Chapter 366: Ultimate Building 2
After the meeting ended, Qin Ziwen took a stroll and arrived at the bank of the River of Living Beings. He took out the cards he had recently obtained.
First was the random Level 3 Advanced Building Card obtained last week.
He arrived at the riverbank of the River of Living Beings and used the card.
The card shattered, and a continuous stream of light enveloped the entire riverbank.
The brightness within Home was related to the external environment. Since arriving underground, Home had been shrouded in darkness. Jia Liangcai had people set up braziers, and at regular intervals along the walls, there were also hanging torches. What burned inside them was refined mosasaur oil.
The mosasaur's massive volume meant the amount of fat refined from its body was enormous. This fat had multiple uses.
Fuel was just the most basic; it could also be used to maintain weapons, make leather, and act as a lubricant.
The burning mosasaur fat released a faint animal fat scent into the air, along with a strange, pleasant fragrance.
It was a factory wrapped in gray exterior walls.
The factory's ridge looked like a giant turtle shell, its top covered by a layer of black film.
Its footprint was not small, a full 200 by 300.
Above the main entrance hung a massive horned beast skull.
The rough, primitive style bore some resemblance to the Giant Beast Breeding Center.
[Advanced Building - Level 3 Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant: Level 4 Corpse Decomposition Fungal Carpet, Level 4 Nutrient Processing Fungal Carpet, Level 3 Decay-Resistant Storage Fungal Carpet] (Special Effect: Food produced by the Biological Feed Processing Plant is more conducive to biological growth. Long-term consumption can accelerate physical development speed. The higher the quality of the ingredients, the more pronounced the growth effect.)
After reading the building's effect, Qin Ziwen's first thought was that the food preservation method dominated by salt would become completely obsolete.
In the Qin Alliance from now on, salt's use would be as a seasoning, not as the top-tier preservative.
The demand for salt would drop by at least tenfold.
For those residents in Home whose main source of profit was the Salt Well building, their income would plummet drastically.
What rendered them obsolete was merely a single new building.
Picking up a torch, he entered the processing plant through the main entrance. Inside the building, the air was dry and extremely quiet.
The surrounding ground was cut into neat, square depressions.
At the bottom of these sunken basins grew patches of dark red fungal carpet.
Was this the decomposition carpet or the processing carpet?
He cast Insight.
[Decomposition Fungal Carpet: Fungal carpet within the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant used to decompose corpses. It enjoys decomposing bones, leather, and keratin layers, but it has absolutely no interest in flesh and blood.]
Qin Ziwen followed the path on the ground forward. After walking about one-third of the distance, he discovered the ground ahead sunken and covered with a layer of light yellow fungal carpet.
[Gourmet Fungal Carpet: This is a fungal carpet that pursues deliciousness. It can secrete a special fungal substance that helps remove excess components from raw meat, helping the raw meat "slow-cook." Simultaneously, during this process, substances like salt within the carpet fully permeate the meat, making its flavor savory.]
After walking another seven-eighths of the distance, Qin Ziwen saw some square pits whose bottoms were covered with green fungal carpet.
He guessed those were probably not the decay-resistant storage carpets.
He cast Insight.
[Corrosion Fungal Carpet: Fungal carpet used to clean kitchen waste and excess discarded organic matter. It is not picky, eats everything, and possesses extremely strong corrosive ability.]
Qin Ziwen fell silent. What the hell was this corrosion fungal carpet? Where was his decay-resistant storage carpet?
It wasn't until he was almost leaving the factory that he finally saw many dark red patterns covering the walls.
They looked somewhat familiar.
[(Enchanted) Constant: Within the constant, the decay of all matter will be delayed.]
Interesting.
Qin Ziwen narrowed his eyes, examining these patterns. He felt this enchantment might have uses beyond just within the factory.
There might be other places it could be applied, of course, provided one could master this enchantment.
He could ask Luoen later if it was possible to replicate this enchantment.
Torch in hand, he exited the factory.
He took out the random Level 1 Ultimate Building Card obtained from the map settlement.
It was an orange metal card.
The card was cold to the touch, its surface emitting a faint orange glow. The front bore a question mark.
[Ultimate Building Card] Random Level 1 Ultimate Building.
He crushed the card. A vast, continuous area ahead was enveloped in soft orange light, even covering the original Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant.
[Subordinate associated building detected. Associate?]
"Associate."
As soon as Qin Ziwen finished speaking, the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant ahead and another building behind simultaneously transformed into light.
Both beams of light merged into the orange light ahead.
Qin Ziwen looked back. Judging from the position of the light behind, it should be... the Giant Beast Breeding Center.
Giant Beast Breeding Center. Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant.
Both started with "Giant Beast."
He hadn't realized there was such a connection between the two, that they were part of the same series.
When the soft orange light faded, a sprawling, vast, gigantic structure, crouching in the darkness like a super beast, revealed its cold corner.
The torchlight could only illuminate one corner of it; the rest remained hidden in darkness.
Its exterior was cold and pitch-black.
Like the skin of some giant beast.
There were faint, scale-like textures on it.
Judging by its footprint, it stretched left, right, up, and down, with no end in sight.
Qin Ziwen used Insight on it.
[Ultimate Building - Level 1 Giant Beast Heavy Industry]
[Giant Beast Series Ultimate Building: Giant Beast Breeding Center activated, Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant activated]
[Current State: Dormant]
[Giant Beast Series Bonuses: ① All activated building abilities +1. ② Moderate increase in mutation probability for incubations in the Giant Beast Breeding Center. ③ Long-term consumption of canned food from the Giant Beast Feed Processing Plant has a small probability of causing a physical breakthrough to Superhuman. This breakthrough does not affect the use of Breakthrough Cards.]
[Ultimate Trait: Can forcibly convert any Advanced Building Card into an activated Giant Beast series card.]
[Footprint: 700 * 600 meters]
(Prompt: After the building awakens, internal factories will temporarily cease operation.)
After reading it, Qin Ziwen had just one thought: Please tell me, what the hell does 'dormant' mean?
Can you not sleep?
Can you stand up!?
He thought of the buildings from the Night Elves in Warcraft III he used to play, which could both produce and fight.
Of course, this building was located within Home, so even if it fought, it would only be limited to when external enemies invaded.
Through Insight, he already knew this building's footprint was 700 by 600.
Four hundred and twenty thousand square meters!
Like a giant beast crouching over the river surface, straddling both banks of the River of Living Beings.
This ultimate building itself seemed to have no function. If one ignored its ability to stand up and fight, it was more like the apex of a series of cards, strengthening the advanced buildings below it.
One effect was adding +1 to all abilities of activated buildings. The second was performing an epic-level enhancement on the traits of activated buildings.