CHAPTER 184: CHAPTER 182: CHOICE OF DEFENSIVE WEAPONS (BONUS UPDATE 4/16)

This bedroom is an expansion from the upgraded room, and it is just as big as Chen Xin’s original bedroom. A white bunk bed leans against the wall, with a clean white sheet and a brown blanket on it, looking very tidy, making one reluctant to mess it up.

This is an upgraded version of the bunk bed Chen Xin made earlier; the material is noticeably no longer steel pipes but something with a hint of metallic texture when touched, and the design also resembles something out of a sci-fi work.

Beyond the bed, there is a desk and a small round table in the room, with the desk and bed at one end of the room, each against a wall corner, while the small round table is at the other end of the room, next to which is an oxygen-producing box for planting greenery.

This is a device that appeared after adding a spare oxygen generator from the warehouse as upgrading material, allowing for planting greenery in the box to provide more oxygen to the bedroom.

However, the oxygen-producing box is currently empty, clearly requiring additional seeds.

Looking at this empty planting box, Chen Xin plans to move some of the herbs he promised Hong Rui to plant over here, increasing oxygen while utilizing the herbs’ natural fragrance to enhance the calming effect.

Besides these, there is also a white radiator beneath the wall where the desk is, connected to a ground-source heat pump, providing sufficient warmth to the bedroom, even though its thermal insulation performance is already sufficient to ensure it is very comfortable.

The light in the room comes from two light strips on the ceiling, with soft warm lighting adding a touch of warmth to the room, making the bedroom more comfortable.

As for the two wardrobes at the foot of the bed and another wall corner, they seem quite ordinary; they’re just regular wardrobes.

However, the wall material caught Chen Xin’s attention; he reached out and felt it, resembling plast-steel, with a matte texture not overly reflective and feeling quite comfortable to the touch.

After inspecting the room and testing the intelligent home and temperature control features mentioned in the system upgrade plan, Chen Xin understood how the technology level +1 and life support level +1 were reflected.

Near the door position in the room, there is a device resembling a touch screen on the wall, which opens to set up the room, and it intelligently adjusts the room’s light, temperature, ventilation according to the settings, monitoring indoor environmental data such as air humidity and comfort level, even being able to play music.

There are several chairs in the room, one being a chair with a backrest in front of the desk, and the other three being low sofas placed next to the small round table, all feeling comfortable upon sitting.

Experiencing the comfort of the room after upgrade, Chen Xin felt immensely satisfied, sincerely thinking that the survival points and resources spent were not wasted, significantly improving his quality of life.

However, after inspecting this bedroom designed as a guest room, Chen Xin needed to check his own bedroom.

After all, Chen Xin has placed many things in his bedroom, and the technology level +1 entry makes him quite eager; he is anxious to see if the things in the bedroom are also able to be covered by this attribute.

However, upon returning to his room, he couldn’t help showing a disappointed expression; the weapon cabinet and laptop, the two items he anticipated most, did not upgrade.

The entire room is like a replica of the next room, except that there is an extra weapon cabinet and workbench beside the desk.

All of Chen Xin’s personal items remain in their original arrangements, even the wine under the bed is put into the upgraded under-bed drawer.

Looking at all this, Chen Xin felt somewhat disappointed but not dissatisfied, as this was his hoped-for upgrade, but these items strictly speaking do not fall within the scope of the bedroom.

No longer dwelling on this, Chen Xin sat at the weapons workbench, deciding to craft several defensive weapons to add to the upgraded door, increasing the door’s defensive capability.

Crossbows were ruled out from the selection of defensive weapons by Chen Xin.

Not that crossbows aren’t useful; the heavy crossbow installed in the corridor is extremely powerful, if someone stands at the door and gets shot, its power wouldn’t be less than that of a large caliber anti-materiel sniper rifle shot at close range.

The key issue is that the materials required for the crossbow arms and strings are very high, and their lifespan will be severely affected by low-temperature cold environments.

Although the weapon cabinet’s attributes include the ability to maintain and preserve weapons, until now, Chen Xin has not used this function, uncertain whether damage to crossbows in cold environments can be repaired using this feature.

Hence, Chen Xin planned to make guns.

Though the system blueprint on the workbench only contained one pistol blueprint, in terms of structural principles, guns are similar in nature, so it’s not impossible to modify a pistol to create more powerful firearms.

Moreover, as a last resort, crafting a pistol and then upgrading to a submachine gun isn’t out of the question.

Besides, Chen Xin’s computer contains various documents, including firearm blueprints, from the oldest flintlock guns to Mauser rifles and Lee-Enfield rifles that saw action in World War I and World War II. Though these weapons were invented decades or even a century ago, no one said old weapons can’t kill; swords and knives have been used by humans for thousands of years, and even today they remain lethal.

Originally, Chen Xin collected these blueprints just to accumulate writing material, also as a personal interest, but undeniable, these blueprints have become a valuable asset to him now, also offering a great help.

Chen Xin did not plan to make rifles, and considering there is a system blueprint for pistols, he is too lazy to search further; what he wants to make is a machine gun.

After all, the old Maxim machine gun, although it was the world’s first truly successful powder automatic weapon, killed sixty thousand people in a day during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Even up until the 1970s, Flame Country was using this old type of firearm, though only equipped for militia units.

If a Maxim machine gun capable of covering the entire doorway is mounted in the observation room above the shelter door, Chen Xin believes that even if a force were to attack his shelter, without heavy weapons, they wouldn’t be able to break in.

As for the Maxim machine gun blueprint, this weapon blueprint that’s been used for over a hundred years is quite easy to find, and its derivative models’ blueprints are numerous. Back when there was an internet, a quick search would bring them up; Chen Xin’s computer contains several different models’ blueprints.

Now all he lacks is to make it.