Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 33 The Underwater Mansion

Before starting to explore, Chen Xuan made three grilled fish for lunch.

The whole morning's practice of archery consumed a lot of his physical strength, and he needed to recover first.

After eating and drinking, Chen Xuan was ready to go.

With his current physique and lung capacity, it should be more than enough to quickly and simply browse a floor without wasting time.

It's a pity that he doesn't have any suitable materials, otherwise it would be safer to make a gas tank and bring it with him.

Oxygen tanks need something dense and hard enough.

Otherwise, too light will make diving difficult due to high buoyancy, and too soft will cause the tank to be unable to withstand the water pressure.

There are two ways to get to the lower floors.

One is to explore down the stairs of the safe passage, which is the entrance and exit between the original floors of the building.

The other is to enter the building from the outside underwater, but the glass on the first floor of the underwater building seems to be well preserved, so he needs to break the window.

Chen Xuan is more inclined to the latter.

After all, if you walk from the stairs, it is really inconvenient to go around.

In contrast, the way of violently breaking windows is undoubtedly much more convenient.

However, in order to ensure the firmness of the Times Building, the glass used should be tempered glass, which is not so easy to break from the outside.

Some people have done tests on the Internet, even if they hit hard with a hammer, it is difficult to damage the tempered glass. As the Times Building is a landmark building, the quality of tempered glass must be the highest standard.

The previous survivors should have started from the inside and used some more convenient and ingenious methods, which did not require the use of violent destruction.

Fortunately, tempered glass also has a weakness, which is high temperature.

The iron mouth gun can be attached with flames, and now is a good time to try its power.

Chen Xuan came to the raft, took off his clothes, took the iron gun, and jumped into the water with a "plop".

Now that there is no one in the building, there is no need to wear clothes anymore.

Climbing the building and diving in the water, through the glass, you can see that after the floors below the sea surface are flooded, the things inside are floating everywhere, and it is a mess.

You can see some pots, pans, and scattered rags inside.

Looks like a kitchen.

Soon Chen Xuan found a window with a suitable location. This piece of glass is relatively close to the sea surface, and at the same time there are not too many floating objects near it that will form obstacles.

After confirming the target, he clenched the iron-mouthed gun with both hands, and "raging flames" launched.

In an instant, the iron mouth of the gun head quickly became red and shiny, and at the same time, the sea water around the gun head also made a "sizzling" sound and became boiling.

A little flame suddenly lit up in the sea water.

However, although the seawater is not enough to extinguish the flame of the gun head for the time being, the heat of the gun head is being absorbed by the seawater crazily.

This creates the effect of using "blaze" underwater, requiring more fuel to maintain a stable temperature.

Looking at the rapidly consumed materials, Chen Xuan felt a pain in his flesh, and quickly poked the iron-nosed gun on the glass.

The hot tip of the gun touched the glass and made a sharp noise, but it did not cause any immediate damage to the glass.

The hardness of the tempered glass is completely within Chen Xuan's expectation, and now the stable structure of the tempered glass can only be destroyed by high temperature.

As time passed by every minute and every second, suddenly, there was a "click", and a small crack appeared on the tempered glass, which lifted Chen Xuan's spirit.

Then, the crack spread rapidly and spread to the entire window.

boom!
The entire window burst, but because it was underwater, there was no splash everywhere.

Chen Xuan moved the glass of the window to the side, and cleaned it up briefly, so that he could enter later.

He also tried to absorb these glasses into the system space, but he didn't know why it didn't work.

However, this issue is not urgent to consider for the time being, and we can talk about it later. Right now, we should put the collection of resources in the Exploration Building first.

In addition, it must be noted that it is foreseeable that there must be a lot of good things in the building, but we must not forget that our food reserves are limited and we cannot stay here for too long.

As long as enough resources are collected to meet the advanced conditions of "Kunpeng", he has to set off as soon as possible.

After all, this is a deserted wasteland, so it's better not to stay for a long time.

Four days, this is the time Chen Xuan set for himself.

Chen Xuan returned to the sea to take a breath, and then entered the first floor of the underwater building through the window that was just broken.

Although it was inconvenient to move around with an iron gun, Chen Xuan chose to take it into the water because he could break through the window at any time for convenience.

Exploration officially begins.

After entering the building, the visual effect is not much clearer than what you can see through the glass, and I don't know if it is because something melted and decomposed in the water. The indoor seawater is a bit muddier than the outdoor.

Chen Xuan swam in, using the iron gun to move away some things that blocked his sight, and at the same time carefully looked for useful items.

In addition to the pots and pans seen before, there are some kitchen utensils such as knives and shovels on the ground.

He couldn't put these things into the material space of the system. He didn't know if they could be collected into metal by smelting them later.

However, because things are a bit messy, it is inconvenient to move in your hand.

Anyway, it's not hard to find, you can pick it up on your return trip.

Holding on to the wall, Chen Xuan passed through a door, and a hall appeared in front of him.

In the middle of the hall is a huge column like the top floor, which is used to place elevators and passages to connect the upper and lower floors.

However, there are some more walls to divide the space, so it seems not as empty as the roof.

There are some broken glass lamps on the ceiling, and its former splendor can be vaguely recognized.

There were also some dishes floating around.

There should have been a layer of beautiful wallpaper on the wall, but now it has rotted and broken, exposing the original white wall inside.

Although the scene was a mess, but based on the decoration layout in front of him and the very obvious front desk not far away, he can definitely confirm that this is a restaurant, it should be a sky restaurant specially used for sightseeing.

This also explains why the diary said that after the end of the world, the food reserves in the past few days were very strong.

The ingredients in an entire restaurant are indeed impressive.

However, the food in this floor should have been cleaned up.

Moreover, Chen Xuan could not see tables, chairs and other wooden products.

It was probably also taken by the survivors as a material for making rafts.

According to Chen Xuan's guess, since this is the closest floor to the top floor, there should be almost no resources left that can be used directly.

Even in order to survive, the few floors below should have been cleaned by the survivors, leaving not much for themselves.

There must be no food left for myself.

This time, I may have to return empty-handed.

However, Chen Xuan still intends to fully explore the floors.

There was a wall in front, Chen Xuan supported it with his hands, turned a corner, and entered the other side of the restaurant.

Ok?
Chen Xuan's gaze froze, and he saw that his eyes were locked on the potted plants in front of him. Due to their high density, they did not float.

These potted plants range from large to small. The large ones are as big as buckets and the small ones can be held in one hand.

After being soaked by seawater, due to the lack of oxygen and high concentration of the environment, and there was no mutation among them, the plants in the flower pots had all died and rotted.

Only the soil remained. Although it was soaked by water, it could basically keep the whole body intact.

Those potted plants didn't work for those people, so they didn't take them.

But Chen Xuan feels like a treasure right now.

When the sea floods the world, what is the most precious?
Definitely not food and fresh water.

Nor are weapons and vehicles.

But dirt.

Food, fresh water, weapons, and vehicles are indeed difficult to obtain without tools and materials, but as humans adapt, there are always ways to solve them.

Only soil cannot be regenerated.

To the food-starved survivors, anything that doesn't fill their stomachs is of no value.

But for Chen Xuan, who had plenty of food at the moment, the soil in these potted plants was simply a rare treasure.

Moreover, in his radar perspective, the energy fluctuations of these soils appeared!

(End of this chapter)