CHAPTER 146: CHAPTER 147: THE PREMATURE DISASTER, SEARCHING FOR SURVIVAL STRATEGIES! (EXTRA UPDATE!)

Acid rain!

Lin Yue immediately felt a sharp pain coming from his palm, and he quickly shook off the water from his hand, pulled up the hood on his clothes, and opened the stone door beside him at the fastest speed!

"Bai! Get in quickly!"

Lin Yue shouted outside, and the raindrops started to fall with a crackling sound.

With a sound of "gawoo", a dark shadow flew directly into the middle of the courtyard from outside and immediately darted through the door Lin Yue had opened.

After Bai placed the Little Ice Lizards he was cradling down on the ground, he lay flat on the ground. Lin Yue also saw the red and swollen marks all over his back.

The Little Ice Lizards seemed to be fine, apparently protected by Bai.

Lin Yue looked at the palm of his left hand and found that it was already swollen with a red bump, and the stinging and numbing sensation kept coming from there.

He immediately took out several bottles of water and a cloth, first cleaning the red spots all over Bai, while the Little Ice Lizards climbed onto Bai, spraying small amounts of icy mist on his red marks.

Only then did Lin Yue rinse his palm with water, and then took out a bottle of iodine from the emergency medical kit, applying it to both Bai and himself.

Although prompt, Lin Yue noticed that Bai seemed to be in considerable pain, lying there for a long time before recovering somewhat.

His symptoms were relatively mild, having been hit by just one drop of rain, and the sensation in his palm had shifted from stinging to a growing numbness, quite uncomfortable.

Could it have started raining acid thirty hours before the disaster officially begins?

Lin Yue wrapped his palm with a bandage and looked out the glass window, noticing that while the rain had been quite intense initially, it seemed less dire now.

The raindrops continued to fall, but they weren’t densely packed.

He looked over at the greenhouse and was surprised to find that it hadn’t been turned into a perforated mess by the rain, still standing firm.

Curious, what kind of rain is this? Harms skin but doesn’t erode structures?

He pulled out a ladder and climbed to the window at the roof, stuffing wool from a Mutant Sheep in every nook and cranny. After confirming there were no leaks, he examined around the roof.

"A solid stone Shelter avoids rain seeping through, but I can’t be careless..."

As Lin Yue spoke, he checked the other three rooms to ensure there were no gaps allowing rain to seep through, then went down to inspect the basement.

The basement was utterly dry, as if the rain had no impact whatsoever.

Nonetheless, Lin Yue still sheared wool from the Mutant Sheep skin and laid it along the edges where there were gaps.

After finishing these tasks, he finally relaxed a bit and returned to Bai.

Bai seemed much better than before, but Lin Yue still didn’t let him stand, since there wasn’t anything he could do even if he got up.

Lin Yue walked to the window and looked outside again.

Raindrops continued to churn up the soil, and the rain gradually increased.

This acid rain disaster was supposed to start at midnight when the forecast says the disaster begins, yet it started almost two days early, similar to the previous snowstorm.

Moreover, like the previous snow, it came with corrosive properties.

However, the corrosiveness is much greater than the snow.

"Kind of like a repeat of the snowstorm?" Lin Yue pondered, recalling how a wall of snow more than three meters high covered the wilderness and Otherworld, turning what began as a simple snowfall into a massive wall of snow.

This time, the disaster is clearly stated by the system as "Acid Rain + Flood." Lin Yue felt the acid rain alone was already a much-enhanced version of the initial snowstorm.

The corrosiveness of the snow from the snowstorm wasn’t as severe as this acid rain, and the snow wall evaporated away after the disaster, almost vanishing entirely.

Floods... even without corrosiveness, a flood just one meter deep would be daunting enough.

That’s without mentioning such a strong corrosiveness.

Wouldn’t a person soaked in such acid rain water quickly meet their end?

As the rain intensified, Lin Yue reopened the system panel and looked to the crafting section.

Soon after entering the Otherworld, he acquired an Umbrella Design Map; just recently, he got a Raincoat Design Map.

There was something Lin Yue was curious about.

Before the disaster begins, the items obtained from loot boxes seemed to relate to disaster preparedness.

Like the Umbrella Design Map, gained before the snowstorm, and the Disaster Relief Tent obtained before the second earthquake, now before this third disaster comes a Raincoat Design Map.

This is not a coincidence.

It seems more like the system is hinting to all survivors that to survive the impending disasters, they must desperately kill mutated creatures.

Killing mutated creatures also makes survivors stronger.

The system’s goal appears unchanged, still "selecting" the most skilled, powerful survivors.

The rain outside grew heavier, prompting Lin Yue to refocus on himself.

Crafting an umbrella requires Iron Blocks X2. Once made, he discovered it was a straightforward structure of an iron rod with a large iron plate.

Calling it an umbrella is a stretch; it’s just a cover, with no way to retract and quite heavy.

As for the raincoat...

[Raincoat: Straw/Iron Block/Plastic Block/Adhesive Tape/Waterproof Cloth/Oxford Cloth/Coated Fabric X2]

My goodness, so many options?

Although there are many material options, Lin Yue had very few of them.

"Then let’s go with plastic first; I have some left." Plastic should be far more sealing than straw and surely better than wearing iron sheets.

With a flash of white light, a plastic raincoat appeared in Lin Yue’s hands!

He looked out the window, noting the plastic greenhouse still standing in the rain.

Surely, this raincoat should be fine too?

Lin Yue put on the raincoat, with only his head and hands exposed, also noticing it had a forward-slanting brim, blocking part of the raindrops.

Opening the stone door, Lin Yue glanced outside.

The ground hadn’t pooled with water yet, so he hurriedly set about finishing the tasks he wasn’t able to complete earlier.

With gloves on, he immediately stepped outside.

Lin Yue quickly built the stone walls, merging them with the stone walls that had been right up against the Shelter, continuously erecting them until only one segment remained, then moved to two greenhouse locations, continuing to place stone walls.

The number of stones in the Storage Space rapidly dwindled until none were left. Determined, Lin Yue pulled down the first layer of the courtyard wall piece by piece, moving them directly around the greenhouses.

Both greenhouses measured eight by thirty meters, too wide, and covering the roof was an exhausting task. Lin Yue retreated into the Shelter and began manufacturing iron wire.

The iron wire quickly formed into wire nets, and under Lin Yue’s assembly, they grew larger and larger.

[You’ve obtained the Large Iron Wire Net (10m X 10m) Design Map!]

This should be enough to serve as a supporting roof.

Next...

Just then, Bai suddenly raised his head beside him and gave a "gawoo," heading straight for the basement!

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