Half a month later.
With a series of thunderous roars, another massive ocean liner was thrown by Xu Zhengyang onto the open ground north of his shelter.
There, at least two hundred ocean liners were now piled up. From a distance, it looked like a towering steel mountain, reaching two to three hundred meters high! Such a colossal structure.
On clear days, even with the naked eye, Lin Dayou could see the terrifying steel mountain from the New White City survivor camp.
"What is Mr. Xu planning?" Lin Dayou watched the ever-growing steel mountain with overwhelming astonishment.
...
Xu Zhengyang made no effort to conceal his actions. Because of this, Lin Dayou had known for half a month that Xu Zhengyang was collecting steel on a massive scale.
So, when Xu Zhengyang first started his operation, Lin Dayou even contributed three hundred tons of steel coils from the New White City survivor camp's reserves to Xu Zhengyang.
But when Lin Dayou noticed that Xu Zhengyang simply tossed the steel coils outside his shelter and then brought back an ocean liner to dump beside it, he realized that things were not as simple as he had thought...
"Mr. Xu is collecting so much steel; surely he doesn't intend to build a steel city, does he?" As he spoke, Lin Dayou shook his head, "That would take an enormous amount of effort and time!"
But as soon as Lin Dayou finished speaking, he suddenly noticed that the steel mountain was disappearing at a visible rate! "Huh?"
Lin Dayou was stunned, thinking he was seeing things, and quickly rubbed his eyes.
However, upon confirming that he wasn't mistaken, he immediately grabbed a telescope to look towards Xu Zhengyang's shelter. Through the telescope, Lin Dayou clearly saw that the steel mountain was indeed vanishing at a visible speed!
As the steel mountain disappeared, a dark gray metal fortress suddenly broke through the soil and began to expand and grow in a way that Lin Dayou could not comprehend! "This..."
Seeing this, Lin Dayou was dumbfounded, his jaw nearly dropping to the ground!
All the education Lin Dayou had received since childhood and his years of experience could not explain what he was witnessing now! Lin Dayou pinched himself to ensure that this was indeed happening and not a dream.
He put down the telescope in a daze and murmured, "Is this... a miracle?"
*Expanding the shelter into a mechanical fortress measuring 2 kilometers by 1 kilometer by 0.5 kilometers was not as simple as scaling it up proportionally.
If the stress issues were not properly addressed...
Fortunately, Xu Zhengyang had previously enhanced the overall strength of the shelter by using a cosmic artifact to consume a dragon bone.
Additionally, with Da Bai's help in stress analysis, a new design blueprint was drawn up for Xu Zhengyang.
Thus, Xu Zhengyang only needed to use the "Energy Charge" skill to constantly replenish his Mental Strength.
Then, he could fully utilize the "Magnetic Sense Nerves" skill without any reservations.
He melted all the collected steel into his shelter, gradually transforming it into the form he envisioned!
...
Time passed minute by minute.
After more than twenty hours, Xu Zhengyang completed the task in one go, finally integrating all the steel he and Da Bai had collected over the past half month into the shelter.
Successfully crafted a perfect steel fortress!
At the same time.
A series of system subtitles immediately appeared before Xu Zhengyang's eyes: [Limited-Time Challenge Task: Steel Fortress (Completed)]
[Reward Obtained: Skill Card·Transformation (Unique)]
...
[Skill Card·Transformation (Unique)]
[Effect: Upon use, you will immediately master the skill [Transformation]]
As the system prompt appeared, a card glowing with purple light materialized in Xu Zhengyang's hand! Xu Zhengyang had been working hard for this very moment, so he immediately chose to use it. The skill card transformed into a stream of purple light and surged into his forehead.
Xu Zhengyang immediately lowered his head and used Detection to check the specific description of this skill:
[Transformation: You can merge with the shelter, making the shelter an extension of your body, allowing you to manipulate the shelter to fight enemies]
(Note: In Transformation state, as long as the shelter's control center is not completely destroyed, you will not die!) With the emergence of the skill.
Xu Zhengyang noticed that his shelter also underwent changes accordingly.
Originally, the shelter walls were solid metal blocks, but after Xu Zhengyang acquired the Transformation skill.
Although the overall shape of the metal blocks remained unchanged.
Not a single error, note, or content was missed!
Countless perfectly fitted cracks suddenly appeared between them, turning them into metal blocks composed of tightly interlocked components!
...
This transformation was extremely swift!
In less than ten minutes, this colossal structure, two kilometers long and one kilometer wide, had completed its entire transformation!
Immediately after.
Xu Zhengyang found that the Transformation skill he obtained after completing the task had become available! Seeing his changes.
Xu Zhengyang did not hesitate and immediately shouted, "Transform!"
...
As Xu Zhengyang willed it, all the facilities built within the shelter moved to the core area.
Immediately after.
The cold fusion reactor operated at full capacity!
Xu Zhengyang's shelter, much like the Transformers in movies, extended its head, arms, and legs from the shelter! In just ten seconds.
Xu Zhengyang's shelter had transformed from a long steel fortress into a towering behemoth standing four kilometers tall! Such a transformation.
A surge of pride suddenly welled up in Xu Zhengyang's heart, and he felt there was nothing in this world he couldn't achieve! Now.
If the Blood Plague Mother sent giant beasts to attack his shelter, Xu Zhengyang wouldn't need to go through the trouble of using nuclear bombs.
He only needed to lift his foot slightly to crush any creature into pulp with absolute mass!
"Awesome!"
After maneuvering the transformed shelter for a while, Xu Zhengyang remarked with a slight regret, "The only downside is the lack of suitable weapons.
We still need to install some turrets, bunkers, launch silos, and the like, upgrading the shelter from a steel fortress to a war fortress!"
As he spoke.
Xu Zhengyang deactivated the shelter's transformation, reverting it to its elongated spaceship form.
Immediately after.
Xu Zhengyang confidently asked Da Bai, "Da Bai, how are our underwater robots and torpedoes coming along?
Are they sufficient for a large-scale underwater battle?"
"More than enough, Master!"
Da Bai spoke as he projected an image of the armory onto Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses.
At the same time.
Da Bai also sent a satellite image to Xu Zhengyang's contact lenses, explaining, "Three hours ago,
the Flesh Mothership surfaced here. If nothing unexpected has happened.
The Blood Plague progenitor should still be in this area of the sea!"
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