I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

Sun Yang couldn't quite recall what else was left of Chicago. Perhaps there were survivors, perhaps bandits, or perhaps nothing at all. But he did know that Chicago and Detroit had heavy industrial areas.

He couldn't build the entire country into his base, at least not yet. But he could occupy the industrial areas of two major cities without any problem.

After making up his mind, Sun Yang drove to Chicago, which was relatively close, with the humanoids he had summoned. However, he was wearing a power armor that was too big to fit into the off-road vehicle, so he could only get out of the mecha, put on a coat and a metal helmet that he had bought for free and cleaned in the town, and get into the car.

Although more than a decade had passed, dense grass had grown on the highway. However, perhaps due to the cold climate, the surrounding trees had not grown too wildly, so it was still barely passable for off-road vehicles.

RO drove the SUV over several cracked skeletons, making a creaking sound under the vehicle. Both sides of the road were filled with abandoned vehicles left behind by people who had fled long ago. Sometimes, if the road was too congested, Sun Yang would have to get off and return the abandoned vehicles to his base to clear the way.

"It would be great if there was an internet connection here. It would be much easier to collect data. Our current electronic warfare capabilities are completely useless in this environment." M4 said as he sat in the car, looking at the dilapidated scene outside the window.

"Being able to connect to the internet means order has been restored. There must be enough manpower and armed forces, and perhaps even missiles. I don't intend to fight a serious military organization; I'll definitely get beaten up," Sun Yang said. He sat with an M4 on his left and an AR-15 on his right, looking like a winner.

The road from the small town to Chicago wasn't long, but it was littered with abandoned vehicles, and the road was poor, covered in thick snow. Stopping and starting, Sun Yang finally saw the dilapidated skyscrapers in the distance two days after arriving in this world.

The forest of reinforced concrete was shrouded in thick dark clouds, and the drones above the convoy continued to shoot and scan the surrounding and distant environment.

"Commander, Maimai from Yuntu Base said that a severe snowstorm is expected in three hours. It may last for several days. What should we do?" The RO who was rotated out reported to Sun Yang. She stared out the window and there seemed to be a cyclone spinning in the sky.

"How far is it from the industrial zone?" Sun Yang took out the map and looked at it.

"It's 30 kilometers, but the highway to the city center is blocked by abandoned vehicles." RO handed Sun Yang the tablet with the drone-transmitted images.

Sun Yang took the tablet. Everything on the screen was covered in white. One could barely make out that the highway and nearby overpass were jammed with traffic for several kilometers.

To reach the planned industrial zone outside the city, they had to cross this blocked road. If they didn't take the highway, they would have to go through the forest. Looking at the trees that had grown wildly for more than a decade, Sun Yang had no choice but to give up.

He currently doesn't have a large vehicle that can knock down so many trees to move forward. Even if he did, he could just run over the wreckage of the car.

"Let's find a place to rest. Luckily there is a gas station nearby." Sun Yang looked through the map. The gas station on the highway was not far from here. This kind of gas station serves as both a supermarket and a long-distance rest area.

We cannot advance at the risk of danger. Not to mention Sun Yang, even a humanoid cannot move in a blizzard for too long. The temperature of dozens of degrees below zero will freeze the humanoid to the point of shutdown.

The humanoids got out of the car and continued on foot. Sun Yang also took the armored jeep back to the base. He picked up the wreckage of the car on the road while moving forward in the snow piles more than ten centimeters thick.

Fortunately, the physical strength and endurance of the immortals in extreme environments are much stronger than those of ordinary people. Sun Yang trudged through the bad road for an hour before he saw the gas station covered by snow.

Snowflakes were already falling outside, and the dark clouds overhead had gathered strangely. The snowflakes, carried by the strong wind, turned into a thick gray fog in the air. Sun Yang called on the humanoids to dig away the snow near the gate and hurried into the supermarket.

The supermarket was dark. The figures, armed with independent power lamps, quickly inspected the store. Bare shelves and counters were empty. Of course, the station outside was also out of oil.

Sun Yang used the construction materials in his hand to seal up several broken windows, threw the shelves here back to the base, and cleaned up the place with the humanoids. Then he placed several large beds in the center with thick quilts on them.

Outside, nothing could be seen. A raging gray fog descended, swallowing up any remaining sunlight that had been shimmering through the sky. All that could be heard was the clanging of hailstones and blown debris against building materials and broken glass.

"The indoor temperature is minus 22 degrees Celsius. This house needs heating... Commander, are you okay?" M4 moved his somewhat stiff body. Even if the body can move in extreme environments, it is not a good thing to operate in a low-temperature environment all the time.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. You all go lie in bed to keep warm, I'll prepare the heating equipment and charging equipment. I'll arrange the order of taking turns on guard." Sun Yang moved his body, which was a little cold. The good thing about the body of an immortal is that it is very tough and durable.

After all, undead beings can go up to Molten Iron City and down to Esloyes, so they've seen too many extreme environments. In this kind of sub-zero temperature, it would take several days to freeze them to death. But humanoids can't do that. Frozen humanoids are difficult to repair, so Sun Yang can just pinch a drop of stone.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Commander. Call me when it's my turn. Phew... my joints are freezing, I'm going to call out!" UMP45 chose a bed to lie down on, and pulled UMP9 up with her. 416, standing nearby, threw G11 onto the bed and followed suit.

"Then I'll guard the first shift. You guys go to sleep." Brother 16 stretched his stiff body and then set his eyes on M4 and AR15, who were eager to try. "You don't have any special ideas now, do you?"

Sun Yang, who was taking out a bunch of portable charging stations and heating equipment, paused.

"Of course, there aren't any strangers here, and the heavy snow won't last a long time, will it? Sister 16, you won't object, will you?" AR15 admitted honestly. M4 had already crawled into bed and started warming it.

"I'm telling you, I don't object to you guys hanging out together all day. After all, I know what kind of person the commander is. But this place is unsafe, right? Do you plan to face the danger from the enemy with your bare butts, shivering with cold?" Brother 16 said something very common-sense.

"It's okay. I'll just block the bullets for Ayang. As long as Ayang is alive, everything will be easy. I haven't had a party for several days." AR15 tried to argue.

"No, Team 404 is here too. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to have a party in front of everyone? Gouzi and I are here too..." RO also tried to speak in a common-sense manner.

"It's okay, we've known each other for years. Just drive." UMP45 connected the charging cable that Sun Yang pulled over to herself, and then covered herself with the quilt.

"Hey, when I was wandering the streets, I also saw people going into alleys and starting fights when they had a disagreement. I'm used to it now," UMP9 added.

"Don't be so loud." 416 had already fallen asleep with G11 in his arms.

RO was caught in the delusion that he was the only one who felt out of place in this world. Seeing this, Brother 16 turned his gaze to Sun Yang. Ultimately, the commander had to make the final decision.

"Well...can I join?" Gouzi suddenly asked.

"You haven't even installed the corresponding parts, dog." RO didn't want to complain anymore. If he continued to complain, he felt like he would also want to climb onto the commander's bed.

How could you come with other people? This kind of thing must be one-on-one! RO roared inwardly.

While the humanoids were arguing noisily, Sun Yang finished setting up the heater and power supply.

"Don't make decisions on your own. Just have a good rest these few days. Tell me what you need to pass the time. I plan to take care of the base's affairs during this time." Sun Yang turned on several heaters.

"Well, let's sleep together? We will make you very comfortable." M4 stretched out his hand and waved in the quilt. AR15 had also taken off his clothes and got into the big quilt.

"That's nothing. Do the rest of you need anything else? Brother 16, here's your favorite Jack Daniel's." Sun Yang pulled out two bottles of wine from the base cafe. While you could drag corpses in the game, you couldn't really let Brother 16 starve.

"Thank you, this is exactly what I need. But, Commander, are you really not afraid of losing your health?" Brother 16 unscrewed the bottle, blew on it several times, and then burped happily.

"Burp~~Ah~~I haven't had a drink in a long time. With these two bottles, I can sit here for several days." Brother 16 showed a relieved smile. She asked Sun Yang to rock out a chair and put the two bottles of whiskey there.

As the heater was turned on, the warm light illuminated the supermarket unusually brightly, and the temperature inside was rising little by little.

Finally, Sun Yang and Brother 16 blocked the remaining gap with cloth strips or other building materials, leaving only a small window to monitor the weather conditions outside.

Sun Yang looked back towards the middle of the supermarket, where M4 and AR15 were waving at him from the big bed.

That's right, no problem. Sun Yang took off his clothes and lay down in the warm bed.

Brother 16 looked at the three people with a complicated expression, then looked at RO who closed his eyes but still couldn't fall asleep, took another sip of wine, and looked at the howling blizzard outside the window.

42 This is the answer of the universe

During the blizzard, the humanoids passed the time in their own ways. Sun Yang was also busy making plans. The raw materials accumulated in the two cities should be enough for the development and expansion of the base, but the specific steps still needed to be prepared.

Just after Sun Yang and his colleagues had been rambling for two days, scouts from the base world reported good news: they had found a small group of human-like creatures and deduced that they were a caravan.

Sun Yang paused his endless industrial zone renovation plan and took a look at the footage from the drone. Compared to the Dark Souls or The Last of Us worlds, the world where the base was located was truly important.

If anything happened to the US, the humanoids would just cover the commander and run away. The same thing happened to Dark Souls. If the base world was attacked, Sun Yang would have nowhere to cry.

The drone was flying in the sky at an altitude of several hundred meters. Under the camera, the red barren land and bare trees formed a picture of the earth. Some exposed mineral layers could be seen among the undulating mountains.

On the vast red land, a team of more than 20 people left a long trail of footprints on the ground. Among the team were several large, strange-looking quadrupeds.

It was around 3:00 PM in the base world, and the weather was quite hot. The team members wore a variety of clothing, from cotton short-sleeved shirts to full-body heavy armor, and even their races varied.

But the strange thing is that some of them look like humans, and some of them are similar to humans only in behavior patterns.

"It looks like a caravan. Perhaps contacting them can help us better understand the local situation. What do you think of the host?" said the agent in the video conference.

"..." Sun Yang enlarged the image and looked carefully at the race that appeared in the caravan and the creature that carried the goods like a cow.

Damn, why does it feel like KENSHI? M4, did you scan my computer and console when you pulled me over?

The more Sun Yang looked, the more he thought it looked like this wild group had been having some dispute with their leader. The leader took off his headscarf and wiped his face, giving Sun Yang a good look at the face of this small group.

It had a head like a hammerhead shark, even its eyes were on the sides. It had a skinny, grayish-brown body and slender legs. Such a distinctive species, coupled with the fact that the land was littered with scrap metal and building debris.

It can only be that wasteland-style game, "KENSHI".

He still remembered a bit of the background. It was about a great war that had plowed the entire surface of a planet, and the various humanoid creatures that survived managed to survive in the harsh environment of the land.

However, sometimes survivors can find something from ancient research institutes, so the technology tree of this world is also quite strange.

The base actually ended up in KENSHI's world. I don't know whether to call it good luck or bad luck. Sun Yang's perception of this world is quite complicated.

On the bright side, the world itself was at war, the overall technological level wasn't that high, the environment wasn't peaceful or stable, and productivity wasn't great. Griffin Base and Oasis Base were located in the middle of nowhere, so no one would bother to cause trouble.

To think of the worst, the resources in this world can only be described as scarce. There are few open-pit minerals that are easy to mine, and there are no large-scale industrial facilities. If you want to develop here, you can only start from scratch.

Although Sun Yang had heard of things like the Second Ancient Empire and knew that it contained advanced electronic technology, the humanoids' electronic technology was not weak, and their AI was even more powerful, so Sun Yang didn't really need that technology.

Furthermore, when Sun Yang was playing the game, he only thought about finding a place to hide and level up, and he rarely ventured out. Even before Sun Yang died of anger while fighting the second soul, he was still punching and kicking a dummy somewhere on the map.

To put it bluntly, he knew the basics and some of the memes, but when it came to the specifics, he was completely lost. He had a mod that gave him five times the experience, and he only played for three or four hours.

If we cannot rely on known knowledge to deduce, we can only do things down to earth.

"Well, I have some ideas." Sun Yang summarized his thoughts after thinking for a few minutes.

"What do you mean, master?" Seeing Sun Yang staring at the person in the drone screen for a long time, the agent couldn't help but become serious.

The people at Oasis Base were also rubbing their hands in anticipation. The professor was about to make a big move. Pai Sen even stood up excitedly, as if ready to declare war.

"Stay away from the base and build a market in a place with a lot of traffic. You know what a market is? Build a solid market, exchange supplies, and provide security services. Griffin and the Oasis T-dolls have been holed up in the base for quite some time."

After Sun Yang finished speaking, the figures each showed expressions of what the commander/professor/master was going to do. However, Sun Yang knew exactly what he wanted to do.

If a market is set up, contracts can be signed with larger merchants to regularly send raw ores or roughly processed metals, and the base can exchange them for finely processed cold weapons or other things that the locals do not have.

Another aspect is Sun Yang's attitude towards the world, or rather, his own thoughts. The humanoids are not interested in changing or saving the world; as long as Griffin allows them to move around the base at ease, that's enough.

Honestly, Sun Yang really disliked some organizations in this world, like the slave owners and religious lunatics. Honestly, he wanted to destroy them all, slaughtering all these oppressors from top to bottom, leaving no one alive.

When he was playing games in the past, Sun Yang hated forces or characters that were arrogant, pretentious, and forced others to work.

But even if Sun Yang has a good idea, he cannot implement it rashly.

This world's productivity is not strong, and famine will soon follow a war. If Sun Yang sends his men out to kill all the slave owners and their armed forces, the freed slaves might be attacked by the Hive or Shek tribes who take advantage of the situation.

Sun Yang wasn't about to just kill them all and walk away. He had to find a reliable organization to take over. He couldn't rely on the machines produced at the base to do all the work, could he? If anyone had a bit more brains, they could be dragged to the oasis to study and work for the research department.

After considering this, Sun Yang decided to gather intelligence before taking action. This was the purpose of the market: a natural place for information to flow. Griffin's idle humanoids could also take this opportunity to follow the caravan out for a stroll and see the world.

Sun Yang excitedly shared his thoughts with the humanoids present. The humanoids present just listened to their commander's words silently without rebutting anything.

"Okay, that's all." Sun Yang scratched his head.

"Professor, those damn slave owners you mentioned have nothing to do with us... or do you want us to build a water tower for the people here? And how did you know there is slavery here?" Croki complained.

"The professor recognized the Cordyceps fungus at a glance a few days ago. It's as if he had input a lot of knowledge in advance, which was activated as soon as he arrived at the place. I think it's better for you not to care about this." Pascal smoothed things over.

"It's hard to say. I don't plan to mess with this world too much. Opening some shopping malls and letting the humanoids go out for adventures will be enough. The main thing is that this world has very powerful AI technology and special mechanical limbs." Sun Yang recalled his own play experience.

Pascal's Croce's expression suddenly grew serious. He wondered what they would think when they saw the skeleton.

"There seem to be special crops and textiles. I've always felt there were too few food and drink options at the base..." As Sun Yang spoke, the base's communication traffic rapidly increased. It seemed the eavesdropping humanoids were more interested in the new food than Sun Yang's nonsense.

The humanoids at the Oasis base froze for a few seconds, seemingly processing the situation. They were incredibly enthusiastic, eager to set off immediately.

"No objections, right? Then let's discuss what to do." Sun Yang rubbed his hands. It was time for the much-anticipated infrastructure construction phase.

Maybe they were getting close to the main road, but Griffin's elite scouts, armed with drones and driving iron-framed off-road vehicles, were finding more and more caravans.

These caravans formed the lifeline of this continent, transporting everything from humans to fine porcelain. Sun Yang felt more and more that there was something to be gained.

Although the scouts also found places similar to post stations, they were all built in places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and were usually very small.

Soon, after a brief discussion at the meeting, the location was decided. Sun Yang worked out the specific arrangements, what needed to be sold and exchanged, and the rules and regulations while waiting for the snowstorm in the end of the United States to subside.

43 City Exploration

After two days of discussing the plan, the blizzard outside the house finally stopped. Sun Yang used the magic power he had recovered during these two days to bring two elite tactical humanoid teams over.

These figures have had their arms replaced with modified Rune Limbs. Based on feedback from the M14's use, the Oasis Development Department reduced the weight of the universal limbs and developed derivative versions.

While outwardly invisible, reports from simulated combat show these rune arms to be on par with mechanical arms in terms of power output, yet lighter and less burdensome to the body. Thicker versions offer greater protection, but at a reduced speed.

Also, during electronic warfare, even if the figure itself was affected, its arms could move freely, which was a pleasant surprise.

The construction of the KENSHI world, or base world, takes quite a while. Even with the humanoids' incredible mobility, it's still not easy to create a large enough market on flat ground.

This was mainly because Griffin lacked proper large-scale construction machinery. While building some automated mining equipment and outposts nearby was fine, transporting a large load of equipment dozens of kilometers away was a real challenge. Kroki had managed to help with the design, but it was ultimately a makeshift solution.

Sun Yang needs to find the excavators, tractors, concrete trucks and other things needed for construction.

Outside Chicago, a commotion erupted from a snow-covered gas station. Figures opened the door and stepped out, treading through the snow.

The sky was clear, a brilliant blue, without a single cloud in sight. The sun overhead brought a touch of warmth to this cold world. The snowstorm had stopped.

However, the road outside was covered in nearly a meter of snow. Driving was definitely impossible in this situation. Sun Yang had no choice but to use the helicopter, which he couldn't build yet.

Griffin's specialized transport helicopter can deploy five tactical figures at a time, along with the corresponding puppets and enough supplies to sustain several battles. This is Griffin's most commonly used means of delivery. However, since the puppets and supplies are no longer needed, a lot of space is freed up. With one person in the driver's seat, two chairs inside can still accommodate everyone if you squeeze in.

We had been holed up in a gas station for the past two days due to the strong winds and heavy snow, but now that the weather was so nice, we decided to just fly the distance by helicopter and plan the details.

RO and Gouzi immediately took the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, while the remaining figures climbed into the helicopter. The propellers spun rapidly, stirring up snowflakes. The gas station shrank in their view. In front of the helicopter, deathly still, the city of Chicago, blanketed in a thick blanket of snow, loomed before them.

In this case, it is very difficult to find a building based on the features of the ground. There are buildings covered with snow everywhere, and nothing can be distinguished except some iconic landmarks.

Hateful winter. RO could only rely on the map in hand, using landmarks to roughly circle the area. The helicopter hovered over the vast city. Several tall buildings had collapsed, crushing the roads and buildings below.