Global Shelter Game

Ye Yun sat in the main hall, his brow furrowed as he pondered the possible forms the crisis might take.

He knew that each crisis would be more difficult than the last, and their severity would inevitably continue to rise.

He had to be fully prepared to ensure the shelter could safely survive.

Of course, he wasn’t overly worried.

His few encounters with other shelters had already confirmed that his current strength was enough to crush the vast majority of them.

If even someone like him couldn’t survive the third crisis, then it was even more impossible for anyone else.

According to the pattern of the last two times, each crisis wouldn’t be too hard, nor would it be too easy. It would most likely be calibrated just right, pushing the limits of what most people could endure.

It would directly weed out the slackers, the weak, and the unlucky managers like trash.

However, he wouldn’t let his guard down because of this.

Ye Yun silently contemplated the possible scenarios.

After the first two crises, most shelter managers were already somewhat prepared for attacks by mutated creatures.

As long as it wasn’t a massive tide of mutated creatures, an attack from a single one was basically incapable of breaching a shelter’s gate.

Besides, Ye Yun didn’t think the aliens would arrange a crisis similar to the first two.

After all, for shelters like his that had been developing for over twenty days, that kind of crisis didn’t pose a significant threat.

Ye Yun estimated that many shelters had probably started equipping themselves with Blue-grade gear.

As long as they prepared in advance, there shouldn’t be any major danger.

’Aside from mutated creature attacks, could it be a battle between shelters?’

After all, the system added the second shelter function after the second crisis.

’It’s clearly encouraging competition. So, is it possible that the third crisis will involve other shelters attacking one’s own?’

Ye Yun narrowed his eyes. ’That possibility is quite high.’

Judging by the conversations in the public chat and the number of shelters that had disappeared recently, not many had actually been attacked.

None of the seventy million-plus managers who had survived in the wasteland were fools. Even if they didn’t know the 80/20 rule, they understood that the vast majority of managers were roughly equal in strength.

Even if there was some disparity in strength between different shelters, the gap wasn’t large. If they fought each other, the losses would inevitably be catastrophic for both sides.

Therefore, after an initial period of panic, the vast majority of managers temporarily chose cooperation for mutual benefit.

After all, the number of shelters in one’s immediate vicinity was limited. It was impossible to treat everyone else as a potential enemy just for the sake of these few.

The ratio of 6 to 70 million was simply too vast; it would be disregarded by almost everyone.

After all, someone like Ye Yun, whose strength far surpassed other shelters, was extremely rare—definitely a minority of minorities.

So, when most managers established a second shelter, they actually chose to use the coordinates of abandoned shelters they had acquired, rather than attacking other shelters directly.

As a result, although a competitive relationship had formed, large-scale battles had not yet truly broken out.

Most shelters were still in a state of relative peace.

Ye Yun felt that if the third crisis really was about other shelters attacking one another, then the difficulty would be excessive.

However, Ye Yun wasn’t worried.

He had absolute confidence in his own strength.

Even if someone did try to attack his shelter, he was fully confident he could repel them.

Besides, he had the Assessment System as an ace up his sleeve.

As long as he was prepared, he was confident he could repel any attacker.

Ye Yun mulled over the possibilities, but after thinking it over and over, he couldn’t come to a definitive conclusion.

He shook his head, deciding not to dwell on the issue any longer.

He believed that no matter what the third crisis was, as long as he was sufficiently prepared, there shouldn’t be any major problems.

Besides, he still had the Assessment System, his ace up his sleeve, which he could use to formulate countermeasures based on its evaluations.

Suppressing his worries about the third crisis, Ye Yun opened his warehouse.

The haul was massive this time; after all, it was the combined loot of two shelters.

Equipment:

Blue-grade Equipment: 5 pieces

Green-grade Equipment: 23 pieces

White-grade Equipment: several

Components:

Blue-grade Components: 41 pieces

Green-grade Components: 278 pieces

White-grade Components: several

And for Salvage:

Construction Machine Wreckage: 3

Bionic Robot Wreckage: 6

The equipment was mostly trash-tier gear with ordinary stats. Ye Yun had no intention of using it himself and listed it directly on the Exchange.

Ye Yun took out the only item from the warehouse that interested him.

[Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)] x2.

[You have used [Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)].]

[[Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)] successfully used. Intelligence attribute increased, 5 -> 6.]

[[Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)] successfully used. Agility attribute increased, 5 -> 6.]

Name: Ye Yun

ID: 9545

Strength: 6

Perception: 6

Endurance: 6

Charisma: 6

Intelligence: 6

Agility: 6

Luck: 5

Radiation: 0%

Satiety: 50/100

Hydration: 50/100

Seeing his Luck still at 5, Ye Yun frowned slightly.

’Just one more. With just one more [Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)], I can get all my stats to 6.’

Based on his previous speculations, reaching 6 in all stats would definitely trigger some kind of special event.

However, the six shelters around his main shelter had all been conquered. To get another [Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)], he would probably have to travel a long way.

What troubled him even more was that the countdown to the next crisis only had three days left.

Three days wasn’t necessarily enough time for an exploration team to make a round trip.

Even if there was enough time, he was unwilling to do it.

Better to be safe than sorry. What if something unexpected happened?

The exploration team could get stuck in the wasteland, unable to return in time.

Many shelters had been breached during the previous two crises because their exploration teams couldn’t get back in time.

Ye Yun had mocked the foolishness of such people more than once. He had no desire to become the very person he ridiculed.

If his stats were still far from reaching 6 across the board, perhaps he wouldn’t be so anxious.

However, now that he was just one point away from having 6 in everything, he felt a stifling frustration, like being right at the goal line but unable to score.

Ye Yun opened the Exchange again.

However, after a thorough search, he couldn’t find a single [Advanced Bionic Core (Blue)].

Ye Yun closed the Exchange with a sigh of resignation. It was obvious that with such a good item, people had either used it themselves or weren’t willing to sell it cheaply.