C12 A Large-scale Artificial Intelligence controlled Plant Breeding Ground

Ding! You have spent a total of 1,000 survival points to upgrade the research level of the research base. Upgrade successful!

Super study base

Level: 3

Can be leveled up!

Direction: Level 4!

Upgradable: Research level (2,000)

Remaining survival point: 4720

"Upgrading another level requires 2000 survival points... So expensive..."

Ye Liangren clicked his tongue. He originally thought that during the few times in the past as notified on his phone, he had earned a few thousand survival points rewarded from the collection of metallic materials which could be considered a huge sum.

Now, looking at it, he was still far from being able to call the survival points earned as rewards as a large sum of survival points!

His gaze fell upon super study base.

Ye Liangren directly ignored the weapon aspect and looked at the artificial intelligence interface.

Current production series:

Combat Robot (2nd generation): Level 3! Required materials: 50 kg of pure iron, 20 kg of titanium alloy, 1 energy stone!

Transport Robot (2nd generation): Level 3! Materials required: 50 kg of pure iron, 20 kg of titanium alloy, 1 energy stone!

Nuclear drone: Level 3! Required materials: 30 kg of pure iron, 20 kg of titanium alloy, 2 energy stone!

Mobile Mini Mining Base: Level 3! Required materials: 200 kg of pure iron, 100 kg of titanium alloy, 2 energy stone!

Next Unlocked products:

Level 4: omnipotent home-based robot, Mobile Medium Mining Base, Transport Machine (3rd generation)...

Note: Robots below level 5 do not have artificial intelligence. They can only accept basic commands!

Current production of defensive products:

Steel Armor (2nd generation): Level 3! Materials required: 100 kg of pure iron, 50 kg of aluminum alloy, 10 kg of titanium alloy, 2 energy stone!

Exoskeleton armor (2nd generation): Level 3! Required materials: 50 kg of pure iron, 30 kg of aluminum alloy, 5 kg of titanium alloy, 1 energy stone!

Unlocked equipment:

Level 3: Steel Battle Armor (3rd Generation), Exoskeleton Armor (3rd Generation)... Wait a minute.

...

Ye Liangren was stunned.

"The existing or previous generation of robots can't be produced anymore after upgrade???"

Ding! super study base had leveled up to level 3. The first generation robots were considered outdated products and the system has automatically destroyed their production path.

Seeing the notification on the virtual screen, Ye Liangren raised his eyebrows.

"Good fellow, if you fall behind, you will be eliminated and destroyed..."

Ye Liangren shook his head.

"Fortunately, the second generation robot only needs one energy stone. Otherwise, with this meager bit of survival points, I'm afraid that all of it will be gone after creation of the second generation robots!"

"After all, exchanging for one energy stone requires a total of 500 survival points! It's too expensive!"

...

"But the Mobile Mini-scale Mining Base is something that I definitely need. This requires two energy stones."

"The efficiency of a first-generation transport robot can be said to be already very low now. It definitely won't be enough to handle the transportation works in future."

Ye Liangren thought for a while and asked.

"Can the first-generation robot be upgraded to a second-generation robot?"

It can be upgraded! To upgrade a first-generation robot to a second-generation robot, it required 25 kg of pure iron, 10 kg of titanium alloy, and half an energy stone!

Ye Liangren's eyes lit up and he heaved a sigh of relief.

"It's good that they can be leveled up. Although it requires half an energy stone, it's still much cheaper than producing a brand new one!"

"System, exchange for 6 energy stone!"

Ye Liangren immediately said.

Ding! Exchange for 6 energy stone, a total of 3000 survival points. Do you wish to exchange for it?

"Yes!"

3000 survival points...

Ye Liangren felt some pain in his heart, but he still nodded his head.

Ding! Exchange successful!

Remaining survival points: 1720.

Following the notification.

The space in front of Ye Liangren distorted and six black stones appeared.

Ye Liangren threw them into the processing entrance.

Then, a prompt appeared.

Consuming two energy stones, 100 kg of pure iron, 40 kg of titanium alloy, upgrading two transport robots (second generation), two combat robots (second generation), a total of one hour, please wait patiently!

Consuming 4 energy stones, 300 kg of pure iron, 140 kg of titanium alloy, producing a Mobile Mini Mining Base, 2 transport robots (2nd generation), 2 combat robots (2nd generation), a total of 6 hours, please wait patiently!

Ye Liangren took a deep breath and nodded.

Leveling up can still be considered to be fast as only one hour is enough to upgrade the robots to the next level.

Although the production process was relatively slow requiring six hours, by the time it got dark, the production of the robots and Mobile Mini-scale Mining Base would be completed.

But...

You currently have metal supplies:

Pure iron: 700 kg

Titanium Alloy: 720 kg!

Remaining survival point: 1720 kg

Ye Liangren looked at his current inventory and survival points.

Indeed, scientific research was accompanied by a huge expenditure of money!

He only had a little more than a thousand survival points left after the upgrades.

Furthermore, the pure iron and titanium alloys were instantly reduced by quite a bit!

"Pure iron and titanium alloys are still manageable. We can always mine them. The main reason the upgrades and production of the machines and tools from research base are too expensive is because they require the use of energy stones . !"

Every energy stone costs 500 survival points which is quite expensive.Ye Liangren muttered and could not help but ask:

"System, apart from using survival points to exchange for energy stone, is there any other way to obtain it?"

Ding! The energy stones are a product of high energy crystals. There are many places where it might appear. Deep Sea, Mining Cave, Volcanic Cave... However, the naturally born energy stone does not have any energy protection measures. Once the robot touches it, it would automatically absorb it. If the host decided to mine the energy stones, it would be best to mine it manually!

Seeing the prompt in front of him, Ye Liangren was instantly delighted.

In the end, the message that followed after immediately poured a bucket of cold water on Ye Liangren.

The robot could actually absorb it by itself.

It would be best to mine it manually.

"Forget it, that's fine too!"

"To be honest, manually mining, in many ways might be cheaper than mining using robots!"

"In the apocalypse, as long as we can provide food, we can employ as many people as we want!"

"On the other hand, production and use of robots to mine an energy stone worth 500 survival point... is way too expensive!"

Ye Liangren calculated for a while and nodded.

"Furthermore, the eruption of the solar spots is supposed to last for a total of three days only. Today is already the second day. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be over by tomorrow!"

"At that time, the atmosphere will slowly recover and these people will be able to move during the day! Their efficiency will be more than doubled!"

With this thought in mind, Ye Liangren immediately went to the plant culture room.

This was the place he used to cultivate vegetables and rice.

At this moment, many vegetables were about to ripen.

For example: tomatoes, cabbage, eggplants...

Although the area was not large, for him alone, it could be said to be completely self-sufficient!

However, if he wanted to support and feed others, the area and produce of this place was definitely not enough!

Ye Liangren tapped on the plant culture room's attributes.

Plant cultivation room

Area: 200 m²!

Can be upgraded!

Upgradable Direction: Large Universal Nurture Center!

Branch: Intelligence (500), Plant Growth Speed (500), Expanding Nurturing Area (500).

Note: After upgrading Intelligence, the Plant Nurturing Room will enter a fully automated cultivation mode. There is no need for the host to operate it at all. Once it matures, it will automatically be stored in the storage room!

Note: With each upgrade of the Plant Growth Speed, the plant maturing time will be halved, that is, it can mature and be harvested twice! The time of maturation for the second time will be reduced by half from the original base time!

Note: Every time the upgrade increases the area of cultivation, the area of the plant culture room will be increased by 500 square meters!

Ye Liangren hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said:

"System, upgrade all branches of the plant culture room!"