Chapter 432 - 226 Gathering
Lin Wu asked, "That middle-aged man, what is the research institute working on now?"
Stone rolled his eyes and said, "Basic botany, increasing the crop yield of the base by 3%, which takes 24 hours. If you ask me, Dawn really deserves to die for this."
After completing the dieting research, Dawn sent a gift package. Upon opening the package, Dawn randomly displayed a skill from the technology tree. The skill was the twelfth level combat skill, named Auto Turret. Once the skill was unlocked, auto turrets could be produced in the crafting room. The auto turrets would attack all non-base and non-ally creatures within range, and players could freely choose to turn them on or off.
The appearance of this skill made Maya’s eyes go wide. Stone strongly opposed researching combat skills. He believed that the base’s combat power was already quite good and that they should focus on survival skills first, followed by life skills.
Maya, on the other hand, thought that if they could build a few auto turrets, the Sawmill, a base that was originally drafty on all sides, would turn into a military fortress.
The most tricky part of the research facility was that it wasn’t possible to research the next skill just by completing prerequisite skills. In order to research a skill, two conditions had to be met: one was the prerequisite skill, and the other was the research skill condition. For example, basic botany required the consumption of seeds from three types of crops and passing an exam with a score of 60 before research could commence. If the exam was failed, you could retake it after an hour. The exam content was related to basic botany, and the questions were quite simple, such as asking what the essential element for plant growth was.
The three leaders represented the three views of Shadow. Maya was naturally from the combat faction, Stone was from the survival faction, and Shana was from the life faction. Each of the three branches of the tech tree corresponded to one of them, providing enough for them to hold meetings about their future upgrade paths.
As the men were chatting idly, Shana and Maya came over. Maya, not being one to small talk, went straight to the point and explained to everyone, "At seven o’clock in the evening, Nightmare contacted me and mentioned the A1 laboratory. I told her the location." Lin Wu had once come close to the A1 laboratory during an NPC Seru quest.