Wasteland Border Inspector

Chapter 20 panel update: Disaster classification!
Upon leaving the store, all contribution points were reset to zero, leaving a balance of 7 points.

Letting the dappled sunlight filtering through the clouds dance on his shoulders, Cheng Ye touched the delivery receipt he had just put in his pocket, his excitement lingering.

In the perilous wasteland, a suitable and handy weapon is essential for survival.

Its significance is no less than that of modern people buying a car or a house.

"I was able to buy my own extraordinary weapon in just two months?"

It's somewhat dreamlike.

Even if behind this weapon, there was a debt of 100 points borrowed from Song Yongfeng and another 7 points owed to the shop.

But when compared to the loans that modern people often take out for at least thirty years, Cheng Ye could only sigh inwardly that he had truly come to a "good" era!

If you were to travel to a wasteland with a radiation background, or a wasteland where you can't even get food and have to compete with zombies for food.

Let alone weapons, given the original owner's physical condition, it's hard to say whether he could have survived to this day.

"Thank you, City of Happiness, at least for this moment, I am truly happy."

Cheng Ye is a very content person.

With his contribution points reset to zero, he immediately abandoned any thought of checking out the firepower weapons.

The prosecutor's standard-issue pistol isn't unusable, and there's no urgent need for the Bison combat pistol when not on field duty.

Furthermore, going to the North and South stations also presents an opportunity to contain infected sources. If you're lucky, you can earn new contribution points after two or three days of duty and save up enough money to buy firearms.

Of course, it's best not to be so "lucky".

The more you understand the special abilities of infected beings, the more you can appreciate the hardships humanity faces in surviving in the wasteland.

In particular, in the case Luo Xiaoxue mentioned last night, a special infected person successfully infiltrated the city and accumulated enough contribution points without being detected, eventually passing through the Happiness Gate to the inner city.

Fortunately, the inner city's surveillance mechanism was very comprehensive. Before the infected organism could accumulate enough power to trigger a secondary infection, it fell into a testing trap and was forced to expose itself.

If it hadn't been discovered, Happiness City would probably be at least half the size it is today.

After boarding the bus to the library, Cheng Ye found a seat in the back and activated the collector.

The watery blue panel is very simple, but its functions are quite comprehensive.

In the upper right corner of the panel, similar to a phone battery level, the current charging progress is displayed.

[lv1.32%]

"I charged it to 26 degrees at home the night before last, and another 23 degrees at the library yesterday. Last night at Brother B's house, I charged it a little less, only 18 degrees."

Cheng Ye pondered this in his heart, unable to hide his joy.

Once you accumulate 50%, you can perform a search. Even though we didn't make full use of every minute yesterday, the energy is accumulating much faster than previously estimated.

At this rate, he might be able to accumulate a search opportunity by tomorrow morning.

Navigate to the collector's personal page.

To Cheng Ye's surprise, despite being starving and unable to sleep all night the day before yesterday, the page data remained completely unchanged.

After a normal rest last night, the page actually updated its data in sync with my sleep.

"Do I need to sleep to update the data?"

With this rule firmly in mind, Cheng Ye looked up and surveyed the scene.

[Collector: Cheng Ye]

[Current Rank: Level 1 Trainee (0.7/100, continue collecting more 'Information' to level up)]

Life Level: 0

[Skills: Basic Power Generation, Beast Instinct, Empty]

[Not yet unlocked.]

[Evaluation: You have escaped the bottom of the food chain, where you are easily hunted by civilized natives, but you are still far from reaching the minimum level of a civilization collector. Focusing on searching for information that can be passed down will allow you to quickly make progress and advance your rank.]

"Okay, at least it's not just some random roadside creature that gets kicked to death by the natives anymore."

Besides the evaluation, Cheng Ye noticed the specific upgrade requirements displayed after the first job title.

The initial 0.7 likely represents the information received regarding two skill feedback points, while the subsequent values ​​indicate the requirements for leaving the probationary period.

"If a single search yields 0.3 points, then 100 points would require over 300 searches."

"It would consume nearly 1.6 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is too difficult. Even without considering the hydropower station's shutdown or price increase during the dry season, it would take me more than half a year to charge it at 50 kilowatt-hours a day."

After careful consideration, Cheng Ye realized that the road ahead was long and arduous, and that getting promoted was much more difficult than becoming a full-fledged probationary prosecutor.

However, he had a feeling that the collector should have other ways of being charged, and not necessarily rely solely on electrical energy.

Unfortunately, in the current environment, the only absorbable energy he can find is electricity.

Only after establishing a foothold in the buffer zone in the future can we find ways to absorb other energy sources that the collector can absorb.

"To increase upgrade speed, we must focus on searching for information that can be passed down, as mentioned in the reviews."

"But what kind of information can be called inherited?"

Cheng Ye pondered to himself.

When the station announcement announced "Library Station has arrived," he had a vague idea in mind, but he needed to search for these ideas several more times to verify whether they were valid.

"Mr. Cheng, you've arrived!"

As Cheng Ye pushed open the door, Gwen, who was nestled on the small bed, looked up and greeted him.

“I’ve already tidied up the book you didn’t finish reading yesterday this morning. It’s on the second desk.” “Thank you, Miss Gwen.”

Cheng Ye nodded and took out a 10-yuan "happiness coin" from his pocket and handed it over.

He paid 20 coins yesterday, but didn't take the remaining 10 coins when he left. Now he's paying these 10 coins as a deposit.

Gwen shook her head, "No need. The deposit is just to screen customers. Your love for books and your reverence for knowledge do not need to be proven by a deposit."

"Oh?"

Cheng Ye chuckled, but didn't take back the coins. "Then please exchange these 10 coins for nutrient solution for me, so I don't have to go out to buy it at noon and waste my reading time."

"Okay, I'll heat it up and bring it over for you at lunchtime."

Although he had only been there for a day, Cheng Ye felt more familiar with the library than with his home.

He was surprised when he saw the reading area after walking past the bookshelves.

No wonder Gwen put the unfinished book on the second desk; apparently, someone was already sitting at the first desk.

She looks like a woman, but her clothing is rather strange.

He wore a large black headscarf, his face was completely covered by a mask, and his lower body was dressed in a scavenger's outfit rarely seen in the buffer zone recently: a tattered animal skin outfit paired with a pair of flat sneakers.

Cheng Ye glanced at the books and noticed that the woman was looking at, as well as several other books on the table, were the same ones that Gwen had introduced yesterday, which contained information about special infected individuals.

"Another bounty hunter looking to make a fortune?"

Cheng Ye was slightly surprised, then looked away, subtly inserted the pendant into the socket, and sat down at the second table to quickly flip through the pages.

Soon, the sound of pages turning filled the air.

The woman frowned and looked over, confirming that Cheng Ye wasn't deliberately making noise to attract her attention, but was engrossed in reading. She could only shake her head helplessly.

One Hundred Ways to Deal with Infectious Bodies

To defeat the infected, just follow these eight steps!

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Sources of Infected Bodies Based on Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Migration, and Reproduction Systems

A must-read for real men: Learn these lessons to save yourself ten years of wasted time in the wasteland.

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For every thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets.

People with different personalities will naturally have very different ways of dealing with infected individuals.

Some people are good at waiting for opportunities to come to them, while others prefer to take the initiative.

Some believe in "never fighting in close combat if you can solve a problem remotely," while others insist that "close combat is more efficient, so as not to lose the ability to adapt by relying on long-range attacks."

Everyone had their own opinion, and these ideas were perfectly reflected in the survival books they wrote.

Cheng Ye adopted an open-minded attitude, frantically absorbing the core information conveyed in each book.

When it comes to diversity of viewpoints, how can the wasteland compare to the modern world?
What are modern people experiencing?
Open a short video app, and you'll be bombarded with a hundred different and novel ways to swipe, going to any lengths to evade censorship.

When discussing shonen manga, even Boruto's reputation has fluctuated wildly, going from being considered unappealing to having viewers who have lost their will to fire.

Therefore, some of the diodes' statements in the book even seem a bit endearingly obsessive to Cheng Ye.

Why should ranged and melee combat be so opposed? Waiting for the enemy to come to you and taking the initiative to attack are not mutually exclusive.

Different scenarios have different solutions, and what he needs to do is to select the optimal solution from all possible solutions.

Before I knew it, the sky was getting dark.

By the time Cheng Ye finished flipping through the last book on the first bookshelf, the wall clock had just struck eight.

Outside the window, a light rain began to fall again.

The woman at table number one had left sometime earlier, and the tabletop was polished by Gwen until it gleamed with a clean, cold light.

"It's raining again."

Cheng Ye stood up, his gaze leisurely, and put all the books he had finished reading back on the bookshelf in order.

Hiding in this quiet little library for two days calmed his restless heart.

But this place is, after all, a wasteland.

According to some books, the scale of infection waves is divided into six levels, from small to large: cluster, wave, plague, disaster, destruction, and extinction.

Since the beginning of the new era, the annihilation wave of infection has not yet occurred; it is only a theoretical definition.

However, there were four devastating waves of infection, each involving millions of infected individuals, with even earthbound spirits from the old era joining in.

There was once a Sanctuary City, several times larger than Happiness City, which was on the path of the devastating infection wave and was planning to withstand it head-on.

The result was predictable: the sheltered city used all available means, but still failed to stop the wave of infection.

In less than half a day, the city was destroyed and people died. Millions of people were contaminated and turned into new infected, almost triggering a 'annihilation' level disaster.

Fortunately, just as they were about to reach the brink of annihilation, the superhumans inside suddenly reached their limit and began to return.

Humanity then seized a respite, gradually breaking down the massive wave of infection into several smaller surges, directing them in different directions, and barely managing to control the spread of the disaster.

"With Happiness City's current strength, let alone stopping a level annihilation cultivator, it would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot even if it encountered a level annihilation cultivator."

"I must accumulate enough strength before the real disaster strikes."

"At least, we can escape!"

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