Apocalypse: Modifying Everything, Building an Iron Fortress - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: This Girl is Quite Smart, Modifying a Nail Gun!

First Floor!

🎶Ding-a-ling … Ding-a-ling … 🎶

🎶Today is a good day … 🎶

🎶The vast horizon is my love … 🎶

The mobile phones on several zombies near the North Gate started ringing under Jarvis’ control, causing all the surrounding zombies to rush madly towards that direction.

Along the way, the shelves and shopping carts in their path were knocked over and scattered, creating loud crashes, making the already chaotic first floor even more chaotic.

The few zombies with ringing phones were soon surrounded by dozens of other zombies, and were pushed toward the North Gate.

…

“Sir, based on calculations, the zombies on the first floor will reach the North Gate switch in about three minutes!”

Jarvis, who was constantly monitoring the positions of the zombies downstairs through mobile phone tracking, reported immediately after successfully leading the zombies to crowd around the North Gate.

“Good, recalculate the time it will take for those downstairs to reach the second floor,” Jiang Cheng nodded, seeing that everything was proceeding as planned without any unexpected incidents.

“Based on calculations, the survivors moving towards us will reach the second floor in about seventeen minutes at their current speed,” Jarvis reported after a brief pause, quickly recalculating based on the current known situation.

“Very good!”

The timing was about what Jiang Cheng had estimated, everything was going according to plan, and no accidents had occurred.

Jiang Cheng let out a slight sigh of relief and walked to the second-floor window, looking out at the dark street beyond the supermarket.

Perhaps due to the arrival of night, the zombies on the street had become more active. Where there had previously been only a few scattered zombies, now the street was swarming with them!

Who knows where they had been during the day, but now they were all back!

Seeing this, Jiang Cheng frowned slightly, “These zombies aren’t like those in ‘Resident Evil,’ are they? Becoming more excited at night?”

However, this didn’t affect his plan too much, so he didn’t dwell on it and directly instructed Jarvis.

“Jarvis, as soon as the North Gate is opened by the zombies, immediately start the armored vehicle and make as much noise as possible! Keep making noise until most of the zombies on the first floor are drawn out, then drive the vehicle away and hide it!”

“Understood, sir!”

This was the second half of the first step of the plan and also the most critical part. If this step wasn’t done properly, the rest of the plan would be useless.

However, since Jarvis was handling it, Jiang Cheng felt reassured that nothing major would go wrong.

He then gave Jarvis a few more simple instructions about things to watch out for, such as not letting the zombies surround the armored vehicle or letting the vehicle get stuck in a corner.

After giving all the instructions and ensuring there was no possibility of failure, all that was left was to wait for the zombies to reach the North Gate switch.

Just then, a sudden noise of the rolling shutter rising came from downstairs!

“It worked!”

Jiang Cheng immediately ordered, “Jarvis! Start the armored vehicle! Make some noise!”

“Understood, sir!”

Jarvis responded promptly.

The next second, the armored vehicle hidden not far outside the supermarket roared to life, and under Jarvis’ control, it charged out of a small alley.

Boom—

As it burst out, it unhesitatingly crashed into an overturned car on the roadside, using its powerful body and engine to send the car flying, causing a loud bang.

Beep, beep, beep—

The loud bang also triggered the alarms of the nearby parked private cars, further amplifying the noise.

“Jarvis, turn off the mobile phone ringtones!” Jiang Cheng calmly commanded as he watched the scene.

“Understood, sir.”

“Hiss … Hiss …”

As the mobile phone ringtones were turned off, the zombies inside the supermarket were immediately attracted by the noise created by the armored vehicle outside and began pouring out through the North Gate.

“Almost done!”

Seeing that there were no more zombies rushing out from inside the supermarket, Jiang Cheng withdrew his gaze and returned to Liu Yuqing’s side.

By this time, Liu Yuqing had almost finished eating. Seeing Jiang Cheng approaching, she quickly took a few sips of water and stood up, saying, “I’m ready.”

Jiang Cheng raised an eyebrow, and before he could speak, she had already guessed what he was going to say.

This girl is quite smart!

He nodded, “Alright, follow me, and be careful to avoid the surveillance cameras.”

Speaking as he received real-time updates on the camera positions from Jarvis through the Bluetooth earpiece, they both carefully avoided the cameras and made their way to the hardware section.

Seeing this, Liu Yuqing hurried to keep up.

In just a few minutes, the two of them arrived at the hardware section.

Entering a store in the hardware section, Jiang Cheng instructed Liu Yuqing to keep watch at the door, while his gaze fell on the shelves filled with various tools. He frowned slightly and began asking the system in his mind.

“System, what materials and how many points are needed to modify a nail gun?”

“Ding! There are two modification options for the nail gun, each requiring different materials and points.”

The system’s cold voice rang out.

“Two options? What are they?” Jiang Cheng was a bit surprised that there were multiple ways to modify a nail gun.

“Ding! The options are the direct-firing nail gun and the indirect-firing nail gun,” the system replied.

“Direct-firing and indirect-firing? What’s the difference between the two?”

“Ding! the direct-firing nail gun uses gunpowder as the propellant, has an effective range of 30 meters, and can penetrate an 8mm thick iron plate within 3 meters. It requires fifteen materials and 80 points to modify.

“The indirect-firing nail gun uses compressed air as the propellant, has an effective range of 10 meters, and can penetrate an 8mm thick iron plate within 1 meter. It requires six materials and 10 points to modify,” the system explained coldly.

“Can the indirect-firing nail gun be upgraded to a direct-firing nail gun?” After thinking for a few seconds about the pros and cons of both options, Jiang Cheng had an idea and asked again.

“Yes!”

Having received the answer he wanted, Jiang Cheng made up his mind. Without hesitation, he said, “Choose the indirect-firing nail gun option. What materials are needed?”

He didn’t have much time left. According to the system’s description, choosing the direct-firing nail gun option would take too long to gather all the materials.

Since the indirect-firing nail gun could be upgraded to a direct-firing one later, there was no need to hesitate.

Moreover, the indirect-firing nail gun was more suited to his current situation.

“Ding! To modify an indirect-firing nail gun, you need one ordinary nail gun, one steel ruler, twenty iron nails, one roll of tape, two pounds of cast iron, thirty centimeters of plastic pipe, and one aerosol can,” the system responded.

As soon as he heard the materials needed, Jiang Cheng began searching the hardware store for them.

Fortunately, aside from the aerosol can, all the other materials were common items and easy to find.

In less than three minutes, Jiang Cheng had found all the required materials. Finding the aerosol can took a bit of time, but everything else was fairly easy.

Of course, if it weren’t for Jarvis, finding the aerosol can wouldn’t have been so easy, considering he hadn’t seen one before.

“Ding! All materials are ready. Do you want to start the modification now?”

Once all the materials were gathered, the system’s voice rang out again.

“Yes! Start the modification immediately!” Jiang Cheng responded without hesitation.

“Ding! Starting modification of the indirect-firing nail gun!”

As the system’s voice fell, the nail gun placed in front of him began to modify itself at a visible speed. As the nail gun was modified, the materials Jiang Cheng had gathered gradually decreased.