Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 258 Fierce Battle

It was still summer before entering the ice sea area, but now the temperature has dropped a lot, it should be autumn.

Returning to the long-lost warm area, Chen Xuan's mood at the moment is naturally extremely comfortable.

The first thing he did was to jump into the water and swim happily.

On the other hand, he also searched for traces of fluorescent algae and self-explosive fish in the sea.

But after a lap, I found nothing.

Bao Bao had a comfortable meal.

The fish here are abundant, which gave Leopard Bao, who had always eaten polar fish and shrimps, a change of taste.

After Chen Xuan's search was fruitless, he also dropped his fishing net and caught a room full of fish and shrimp.

Not for food, but as biofuel.

After a while, Chen Xuan set off again.

On the way, he continued to release mental power tests, and finally found traces of fluorescent seaweed in a sea area.

This time, Chen Xuan dived directly to the bottom of the sea, and cut off five or six fluorescent seaweeds from their roots.

All the seaweeds add up to several kilometers long, and after some melting, he obtained a total of more than 3000 units of "bioplastics".

Then, he found traces of self-destructing fish in another sea area.

After easily killing more than a dozen self-explosive fish and obtaining enough explosive powder, Chen Xuan immediately activated the "underwater propulsion module".

The effect of the "underwater propulsion module" is to assist diving.

When he tried to use the "underwater propulsion module", he found that he could actually increase his swimming speed with his mind.

This is equivalent to a permanent "speed burst" effect.

And when he accelerates, a trail of bubbles will appear behind him, which looks like a thruster is hung behind him.

The use of the "underwater propulsion module" also requires fuel consumption, but this is simply a piece of cake for the current Chen Xuan.

In this way, all materials have been collected.

Finally, we can start preparing for the advancement of "Kunpeng".

This time the advanced position can only be placed on the current sea, at least it will not attract the attention of other humans because of the strong light emitted by the advanced.

And the shortcomings are also obvious.

The strong light emitted by the "Kunpeng" will inevitably attract all kinds of creatures.

In addition, this time is not like the first time.

At that time, the "Kunpeng" was just a small raft, and the light it emitted only attracted a school of sardines.

This time, during the advancement process, the movement will only be greater, and I am afraid that it will attract more troublesome creatures.

Must be well prepared.

Unfortunately, he couldn't sail the boat into the ice.

Although there are few creatures there and it is relatively safe, the problem is that during the advanced process of "Kunpeng", except for the combat module, most of the functional modules of the cabin are unusable.

The "Environment Adjustment Module" is also listed here.

Without keeping warm, the "Kunpeng" at low temperature was as brittle as paper.

Since it was decided to upgrade on the spot, Chen Xuan immediately submitted the materials and upgraded all parts of the hull first.

There are two important conditions for "Kunpeng" to advance.

The hull area is expanded to 100 square meters.

Vehicle power equipment upgraded to Tier [-].

It didn't take long before the expansion of the ship was completed first.

After the expansion was completed, the area of ​​"Kunpeng" was directly doubled.

This made Chen Xuan very uncomfortable.

The size of the original small room was expanded to nearly three times.

However, after the area of ​​the deck is enlarged, some unusable means can also be used.

Chen Xuan directly activated all the combat forms of "Kunpeng".

"Spurs", "Strikers", "Rappers", "Siege Crossbows", "Arrow Towers" and "Slingshots" all appeared on the "Kunpeng".

Chen Xuan is quite familiar with the first few forms.

The "Arrow Tower" and "Slinger" had previously been unable to be activated due to insufficient deck area.

So this is the first time he has seen these two forms.

The arrow tower rises high on the deck like a tube-shaped bunker, the basic skeleton is made of black metal, and it is filled with sharp wooden arrows at this time, like a hedgehog.

The catapult is a launcher like a giant spoon supported on a metal tripod. Although the structure is simple, its power cannot be underestimated.

Although the size of the catapult in front of him was not comparable to the ones Chen Xuan had seen on the North Wind Plateau, it still had an area of ​​nearly 20 square meters.

The moment he saw these two war machines, he understood why the previous area was always not enough.

too big.

The combination of arrow towers and catapults occupies nearly half of the deck area.

You must know that the deck of the previous "Kunpeng" was only a little over 40 square meters.

The emergence of the two war machines will undoubtedly be a great help to the upcoming battle.

However, both arrow towers and slings need to be loaded with ammunition.

The arrow tower is easy to handle, and we can make do with wood, but what about the catapult?
Where can I go to pull rocks?
And wood cannot replace stone.

Chen Xuan looked at the undulating sea surface, rolled his eyes, and suddenly had some thoughts in his mind.

……

The red light enveloped the "Kunpeng" and lasted for more than half a day before the power upgrade was finally completed.

The number of propellers at the bottom of the ship has also increased from one to two, and the size has also become even larger.

But it's a start.

Looking at the sunset slowly sinking at the end of the sea, Chen Xuan clenched the Snake Tooth Spear in his hand.

"Choose option three and upgrade the vehicle to a "large multipurpose ship"!"

Then, the system prompt sounded.

"Start checking the vehicle condition..."

"The required carrier area is 100㎡, satisfied!"

"Need power level four, satisfied!"

"The demand for [Black Technology Module] Level [-] is met!"

"Demand 'timber' 800 units, satisfied!"

"Requires 'metal' 600 units, satisfied!"

"Need 'Glass' 100 units, fulfilled!"

"The demand for 'Plant Fiber' is 1000 units, satisfied!"

"Need 'bioplastic' 300 units, satisfied!"

"All conditions have been met, the upgrade begins!"

As the system sound fell, a dazzling red light bloomed from the body of the "Kunpeng", wrapping it completely, turning it into a huge ball of light.

In the distance, the blood-red sun completely sank into the bottom of the sea at the same time.

At this moment, the "Kunpeng" is like a rising red sun.

The cool sea breeze was blowing gently, and the strong light of the "Kunpeng" made the stars and the moon in the sky seem to lose their brilliance.

Although it was already night, the sea that should have been quiet continued to resound with the sound of "crash clatter", which sounded quite lively.

This is the movement of those ordinary fish schools and leopard treasures seen at sea during the day.

Now they are all attracted by the strong light and surround the "Kunpeng", while Bao Bao is eating.

For Chen Xuan, this is not a threat.

Although the movement of these fish schools sounds not small, it is only because these fish do not like diving and are more active.

In terms of quantity and scale, it is not as big as the sardine school encountered when the "Kunpeng" first advanced.

With this amount, it is impossible to even make the "Kunpeng" shake.

The real threat is those guys quietly lurking in the sea.

They will suddenly appear and attack you when you are not prepared.

Only then did the battle really begin.

After being lively on the sea for a while, not only did the surrounding schools of fish not disperse, but Chen Xuan ushered in an old friend.

School of sardines.

This time there were more and bigger sardines than the one we saw at Times Tower.

A huge silver streamer emerged from the sea surface, dyeing the surrounding seawater into a piece of silver.

It's just that the "Kunpeng" is no longer the weak little raft it was back then.

Although the sardines turned into a silver torrent and continuously attacked the "Kunpeng", the "Kunpeng" remained unmoving, as if it had taken root.

Time passed by one minute and one second, and two hours passed in a blink of an eye.

Suddenly, Chen Xuan only felt that all the fish schools on the sea became restless for a moment, and they started to flee in all directions.

His heart moved.

coming!

Chen Xuan held his breath and waited for it.

Facing the school of fish fleeing in a hurry, a huge black shadow quickly approached.

Through the perception of mental power, Chen Xuan discovered that it was a giant octopus whose whole body was made of steel.

The size of this octopus is slightly smaller than that of the "Kunpeng", but if he is allowed to collide with the "Kunpeng", it might end up being the same.

Before getting close to the ship, four huge black tentacles suddenly protruded from the sea, and quickly drew towards the "Kunpeng".

However, these menacing tentacles suddenly froze in mid-air, and then drooped powerlessly.

Moments later, a huge corpse floated up from the sea.

Such a guy is the best target for mental obliteration.

The first sea monster that appeared was dealt with lightly by Chen Xuan.

The sea temporarily returned to calm.

It's just that this calmness was broken in just a few minutes.

Dozens of self-destructing fish rushed towards here like cannonballs in the sea water.

I'm dizzy, how come these guys come to join in the fun.

To deal with such a large number of fast-moving guys, mental obliteration cannot be used.

Chen Xuan immediately activated the arrow tower.

Densely packed wooden arrows poured down on the sea like raindrops.

It lived up to his hopes. Although this was only the first time to use the arrow tower, for this group of unintelligent species, they did not know how to retreat even if they were injured, and the heavy rain-like offensive easily stopped them.

After a while, all the self-explosive fish were filled with a bunch of arrows, and their corpses floated on the surface of the sea, looking like red sea urchins.

But Chen Xuan didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief.

Another group of huge guys approached.

This time since it is a group of sharks.

It seems to be an appointment.

Since the first wave and the second wave of sea beasts invaded, other sea beasts began to appear one after another.

Although the size of each shark is not as large as the octopus I saw for the first time, it also has a body nearly 20 meters long.

And there are many before.

Chen Xuan's eyes became serious.

For these guys with rough skin and thick flesh, the wooden arrows released by the arrow tower are not very effective.

Unless it is replaced with metal arrows, but that would be too expensive.

It seems that it is time to activate the big killer.

"boom!"

I saw a crystal streamer flashing past, falling into the water, like a cannonball, hitting a huge splash on the water surface.

And this blow had a remarkable effect.

A shark under the water directly broke half of its body under the impact, and crimson blood gushed out, stimulating the rest of the big sharks to become more violent.

After a while, the ammunition just floated up together with the body of the shark and sea beast.

This is actually... a huge ice cube.

The ice cubes were exactly the ammunition Chen Xuan had prepared for the trebuchet.

Before the "Kunpeng" started to advance, he used the "environment adjustment module" to create an extremely cold environment in advance.

Then, seawater was continuously drawn from the sea to create huge ice cubes one after another.

Although he couldn't find the stone, the power of the ice cube was not much worse than that of the stone, and it also had a cold effect.

However, this bit of chill is negligible compared to the cold air on the ice sea.

The attack power of the catapult is quite terrifying. Basically every catapult attack will take away the life of a shark.

At this time, the surface of the sea was crimson, and it was hard to tell whether it was caused by the red light from the "Kunpeng" or the blood of countless sea beasts.

The strong smell of blood in the air makes people want to vomit.

Although Chen Xuan had maximized the frequency of his catapult, several sharks still took advantage of the interval between his attacks to come to the "Kunpeng".

Nearby is a blind spot that cannot be attacked by a catapult.

Chen Xuan thought about it.

In the next second, the black horns at the bow of the ship lit up, and a huge pillar of flame appeared, pouring into the surrounding sea in an instant.

At this time, Chen Xuan operated the various racket sticks on both sides, and struck violently at the shark in the sea.

The racket rod keeps rising and falling, like a machine running at high speed.

Chen Xuan's eyes were already red, as long as there was any movement, he would command the relevant weapons to launch a violent attack.

The roars and screams of sharks, the slap of the racket, and the smashing of ice cubes were mixed together, making the scene a mess.

Gradually, a ray of dawn tore through the darkness, and time slowly changed from night to day.

However, the advancement of "Kunpeng" is still going on, and the battle still hasn't stopped.

However, the frequency of sea monster attacks has been rapidly decreasing.

From the first 10 minutes when a group came, now one may not come even an hour.

Perhaps because of fear, he ran away.

Or maybe it was because she was born with wisdom and knew that Chen Xuan was not easy to mess with.

Or perhaps, Chen Xuan had already killed most of the sea beasts nearby.

In short, until the evening, Chen Xuan didn't see any sea beasts coming.

He also got a rare respite.

Soon, another night passed, and this night was much calmer than last night.

When the dawn came to this land again, the red light that had been wrapping around the body of the "Kunpeng" also began to slowly restrain itself.

When the red light completely dissipated, a huge monster also appeared in front of Chen Xuan's eyes.

(End of this chapter)