Mobile Shelter

Chapter 9 Initial Enhancement

Seeing that the snow outside was already more than half a meter high, Dong Qi realized that now was the best time to go to the parking lot.

The car model that Dong Qi's destiny belongs to is the most common white car model, so at this time, you only need to cover the front and rear license plates with snow.

As for the surveillance cameras along the route, with the snow falling so heavily outside, they can't capture the road conditions clearly at all.

If the snow continues to fall overnight, the tire tracks left by vehicles will likely be easily covered up.

To prevent the snow from accumulating further on the roads, Dong Qi immediately took action.

Although the snow on the road was about half a meter deep, it was still relatively soft because it had just snowed and did not significantly affect vehicle movement.

When Dong Qi slowly drove the car to the parking lot, just as he had initially guessed, there was no one in the guard room. He dug out the key buried under the snow and went directly into the parking lot to begin the enhancement process.

Because the consumption was relatively large this time, Dong Qi did not only target the vehicles parked in the old vehicle area, but also those parked in the new vehicle area.

What Dong Qi didn't expect was that even upgrading the vehicle by consuming materials would require consuming his mental energy.

The reason it wasn't discovered last time was because consuming only one car required minimal mental energy.

This time, because of the large amount of materials consumed in a short period of time, the mental energy consumed gradually accumulated, which is why the mental energy consumption was more noticeable.

My specialty: light passenger vehicle.

Rank: Mortal Artifact

Body frame: Basic reinforcement (20%)

Power System: Basic Enhancement (20%)

Electrical equipment: Primary reinforcement (20%)

Other equipment: Unenhanced (0%)

Manifestation of ideas

Number of occurrences: 1

Unknown special energy value: 10.1

(Each manifestation consumes a minimum of 100 energy points, with no maximum limit.)

Dong Qi originally thought that by devouring more than two hundred cars in the parking lot, he could strengthen his natal item twice. However, he did not expect that after his natal item had been strengthened once, the upgrade progress of devouring another car would be reduced by so much.

However, the benefits gained from strengthening his natal item far exceeded Dong Qi's expectations.

First and foremost, after his natal item was upgraded, Dong Qi immediately felt the feedback brought by the Treasure Forging Technique.

If Dong Qi was originally in a sub-healthy state, after this upgrade of his natal artifact, his physical condition has now greatly improved.

If we define the human limit of physical fitness as 100% and normal healthy physical fitness as 60%, then Dong Qi's physical fitness has reached over 85% at this point.

Don't think that a 20% improvement is not much. The closer you get to the limit, the more effort you need to put in to break through every little bit.

At this time, Dong Qi only used less than half a day, even though he had used up nearly two hundred vehicles.

But consider the daily energy expenditure required to maintain the bodies of top athletes. Even if each car costs an average of 200,000, the total cost would only be five or six million. In fact, this cost is not too much.

Besides the reinforcement and strengthening that Dong Qi received from the Forging Treasure Technique, the changes in his natal artifact were also remarkable.

The most obvious thing is the vehicle's outer shell. Originally, the shell was just a thin sheet of iron. Let alone stopping bullets, it could be deformed by just picking up a stone from the roadside.

After this upgrade, the outer shell has reached a basic level of bulletproof protection, although it can only withstand small-caliber firearms.

But it's much better than before, and with all the windows upgraded to bulletproof glass, safety has been greatly improved.

The upgrades to the powertrain are also significant. Not only has the engine been greatly improved, but the tires, which are part of the powertrain, have also been upgraded from ordinary tires to high-temperature resistant, run-flat tires.

In terms of electrical equipment, the upgrades are basically just in functionality and effects, with no significant changes.

Perhaps the data doesn't show any changes after the upgrade, but on the way back, Dong Qi had a concrete experience of the changes after his natal item was upgraded.

Originally, the car's speed did not exceed 20 km/h on the way here, otherwise it would have felt somewhat uncontrollable.

On the return trip, the speed was around 60 km/h and it was not greatly affected. At this time, my vehicle was like a professional snowmobile, and the snow on the road had no effect on it at all.

Just as Dong Qi had guessed, the heavy snow did not stop that night; instead, it snowed even harder.

After several days of heavy snow, the temperature in Pengcheng has not continued to drop, remaining at around minus 20 degrees Celsius, but the snow depth has reached nearly 1.5 meters.

Although there are heavy snowfalls in Pengcheng every year, the snow depth is usually no more than 20 or 30 centimeters. We have never experienced snow depth of 1.5 meters, let alone half a meter.

Putting everything else aside, the 1.5-meter-high snow has completely buried the city's roads.

At this point, let alone ordinary vehicles, even Dong Qi's upgraded and strengthened natal artifact would likely find it extremely difficult to go out.

Fortunately, Dong Qi acted decisively at the time; otherwise, he probably would have missed that opportunity.

With such high snow accumulation, there should have been many casualties in Pengcheng.

Although Pengcheng has centralized heating in winter, living conditions are constantly improving.

Most urban residents no longer stock up on vegetables in advance for winter. Except for a few days before the Spring Festival when they buy more at once, they are used to buying fresh vegetables every day.

Although many people rushed to supermarkets to buy supplies at the beginning of the snowstorm, most people who had not experienced a snowstorm before could only buy enough food to last for a week at most.

However, ten days had passed since the snow disaster first occurred, and most households had already exhausted their food reserves.

At this time, even if they could brave the snow to go to the supermarket, not only are there no supermarkets open as usual, but most of the food in the supermarkets was also bought up during the early stages of the snow disaster.

Just when most people were facing despair, the Pengcheng government began to provide disaster relief.

The government mobilized a large number of bulldozers and trucks, directly transferring a large amount of staple food from the grain station and sending it to various residential areas in the city.

Various staple foods are priced at 200 yuan per bag, based on a standard of 100 jin (50 kg) per bag, with a limit of two bags per household.

Under normal circumstances, 100 kilograms of rice is definitely enough for a family of three to consume for a week.

The standard of two bags per household has essentially eliminated the possibility of people starving to death.

As for the water outage caused by frozen water pipes, and with the snow outside already reaching about 1.5 meters, if someone still dies of thirst at this point, they can't blame anyone else.

Although the government is temporarily unable to take care of the suburbs, the living conditions of most families in the suburbs are actually much better than those in the city.