117: Chapter 117: Creating an S-Class Weapon, the RV Evolves Again!

The Ghost Fortress tore through the night air, its chassis arcs dragging two blue-white trails of light.

Chen Chen held the joystick with one hand while flipping through the supply list in his silver-grade storage ring with the other.

Nuclear reactor, check.

refinery, check.

Memory Damping Alloy, enough.

Mana-Conducting Copper—of the thirty tons he had extorted from Jiang Jiuyou earlier, twenty-two tons remained, which was enough.

Refined High-Carbon Steel—Shen Wanbing had traded pure water and high-grade pork for it on the regional trading channel, totaling five hundred and three tons.

He went over the entire materials list for the S-rank weapon blueprint, the Void Annihilation Matrix, three times in his head.

Everything was ready.

"Sister Bing, has the refinery's startup program been cracked yet?"

"Cracked it fifteen minutes ago."

Shen Wanbing swiped three times on the panel. "I used my Radar Talent to reverse-engineer the underlying protocol of Zhijin's biological code authentication and bypassed it. The refinery can be used directly now."

Chen Chen glanced at her.

The helmsman of a hundred-billion-dollar conglomerate had cracked a military-grade biological lock in fifteen minutes.

"What about the assembly environment? The blueprint requires a high-level industrial workshop."

"Not necessary."

Shen Wanbing switched the holographic projection to the blueprint details page. "What you got is a simplified mass-production scheme; the assembly precision requirements are two levels lower than the original. The expansion bay on the third floor of the Ghost Fortress is large enough. Once the refinery is set up, combined with the system's manufacturing function—"

She paused for a moment.

"It can be completed inside the vehicle."

Chen Chen reduced the engine power from full load to sixty percent, and the vehicle speed dropped from two hundred and fifty to one hundred and twenty.

"Stop the car."

Jiang Yanxue stepped on the brakes, and the Ghost Fortress hovered over a stretch of gravelly Gobi desert.

The mental shielding device operated at maximum power, a purple force field enveloping the vehicle body.

Chen Chen stood up and walked to the expansion bay entrance at the rear of the first floor.

This space had been added after the Ghost Fortress reached Lv.15. It was about thirty square meters with a ceiling height of two point eight meters, and it was originally empty.

He took the refinery out of his silver-grade storage ring.

The half-person-high device appeared out of thin air, its base hitting the metal floor with a dull thud.

The refinery's control panel lit up with a ghostly blue standby light, and the vents exhaled a puff of hot air.

Then came the grade a nuclear reactor.

The two-meter-high dark gray cylinder took up nearly a quarter of the expansion bay's area.

The cooling fins shimmered with a cold light under the lamps.

"Wanxing, come here."

Shen Wanxing bounced up from the sofa, her nude pink high heels clicking on the metal floor as she jogged over.

"What is it?"

"The materials need to pass through your hands."

Chen Chen pulled items out of his silver-grade storage ring one by one.

Damping alloy, Mana-Conducting Copper ingots, Refined High-Carbon Steel blocks—metal raw materials piled up in nearly half the room on the expansion bay floor.

Shen Wanxing obediently squatted down and began touching them, starting with the first piece of Mana-Conducting Copper.

As her fingers made contact—

Hum.

Golden light.

Triple crit.

One piece of purple copper became three.

"Continue."

Second piece, five times.

Third piece, three times.

Seventh piece—ten times.

The moment the golden pillar of light erupted, it illuminated the entire expansion bay. Su Xiaoqi's twin tails fluttered in the light as she leaned against the doorway, cheering loudly.

Shen Wanxing was startled by her own luck and recoiled, her bottom landing on a high-carbon steel ingot, the hem of her silver evening gown spreading across the floor.

"Te-ten times..."

After the ten-fold crit, the Mana-Conducting Copper filled half the expansion bay.

The twenty-two-ton stock had directly multiplied several times over, with the overflowing copper ingots rolling into the first-floor cabin.

Chen Chen checked his attribute panel.

Luck: 14.

With four points of Luck, the resonance with Shen Wanxing's god-tier talent was becoming increasingly obvious.

After all the materials had passed through Shen Wanxing's hands, the total volume had surged to more than double the blueprint's requirements.

"That's enough."

Chen Chen walked to the refinery and opened the system manufacturing function.

S-Rank Weapon Blueprint—Void Annihilation Matrix (Simplified Version).

The manufacturing interface popped up, and the holographic projection unfolded an extremely complex three-dimensional structural diagram in the expansion bay.

An exploded view of hundreds of parts floated in the air, with every connection point labeled with specific material specifications and energy parameters.

The system notification sounded.

[S-Rank weapon blueprint detected. Manufacturing conditions: Met.]

[Begin manufacturing?]

[Estimated time: 4 hours 17 minutes.]

"Begin."

The refinery roared to life.

The temperature inside the furnace soared to over two thousand degrees within three seconds. Orange-red light seeped from the vents, and the temperature in the entire expansion bay rose by five or six degrees.

The first batch of high-carbon steel ingots was grabbed by the system and fed into the refinery.

The metal softened, purified, and recast in the extreme heat.

Mana-Conducting Copper and damping alloy entered the processing sequence in turn.

The grade a nuclear reactor was fixed to the manufacturing table as the power core. After the system scanned its internal structure, it began to gradually connect the energy conduits of the Void Annihilation Matrix.

The entire process was fully automated.

Chen Chen exited the expansion bay and closed the door.

Four hours.

He walked back to the first-floor cabin.

The gazes of the six women all landed on him at once.

"It'll be ready in four hours."

Chen Chen sat down in the co-pilot seat. "During this time, we'll upgrade the Ghost Fortress."

Shen Wanbing immediately pulled up the vehicle panel.

"Current stock of Mid-tier Vehicle Cores—including those looted from Iron Wall, Jiang Jiuyou, and Park Jae-hyun, plus those doubled by Shen Wanxing's crits—totals one hundred and thirty-seven."

"How many levels can that upgrade?"

Shen Wanbing's fingers calculated rapidly on the panel.

"If the goal is Lv.18, we need one hundred and twenty mid-tier cores. The remaining seventeen will be kept as spares."

"Upgrade it."

The second production line of the system manufacturing function started up.

One hundred and twenty Mid-tier Vehicle Cores were consumed one by one. Along with the consumption of each core, dense sounds of metal friction emanated from the shell of the Ghost Fortress.

The armor layers expanded, reorganized, and hardened under the system's modification.

The vehicle body shook three times.

Upgrade notifications rang out in succession—

Lv.16.

Lv.17.

Lv.18.

[Vehicle evolution complete! Ghost Fortress has been upgraded to Lv.18—Mobile War Fortress!]

Brand new vehicle data popped up on the holographic panel.

Shen Wanbing projected the data into the center of the cabin for everyone to see.

—

[Vehicle Name: Ghost Fortress]

[Level: Lv.18 (Mobile War Fortress)]

[Tonnage: 31.2 tons]

[Defense: 12,800 points (Includes Grade A Add-on Armor + Enhanced Heavy Serrated Anti-Collision Horn)]

[Special Defense: 18% Physical Reflection Rate; 72% Kinetic Energy Absorption Rate]

[Magic Resistance: 580 points (Provided by Energy Deflection Shield)]

[Durability: 8800/8800]

[Power System: Grade A Maglev Power Engine (Top Speed: 290km/h; Hover Height Limit: 12m)]

[Weapon System I: c-class twin vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns (30mm Armor-Piercing Incendiary Rounds, Radar auto-lock, 3200 rounds remaining)]

[Weapon System II: Void Annihilation Matrix (In manufacturing, estimated completion in 3 hours 11 minutes)]

[Defense System: Silver-grade High-Frequency Energy Shield + B-Rank Energy Deflection Shield + grade a mental shielding device]

[Vehicle Structure: Four Floors]

[First Floor · Living Cabin: Holographic Projection Command Console, Folding Table, Leather Sofa Set, Advanced Kitchen Module (Includes Grade A Eco-Cycle System), Weapon Rack, Medical Corner]

[Second Floor · Hover Cabin: c-rank mental soothing bed (Military-grade Memory Foam + Micro-Soothing Force Field), One-Way Glass Observation Window, Sniper Position]

[Third Floor · Expansion Bay: Material refinery, Manufacturing Table, Supply Storage Area (Capacity increased by 120%)]

[Fourth Floor · Pilot Tower: 360-Degree Panoramic Observation Window, Auxiliary AI Navigation System, Emergency Escape Pod (New)]

[All-Terrain Scanning Radar: Coverage radius 68km (Can be increased to 120km+ when combined with Shen Wanbing's talent)]

[Additional Modules: Advanced Air Circulation System, Constant Temperature System (24°C), Purple Venom Gland Engine Booster Module (Zero durability loss in toxic environments, Engine explosiveness +30%), Soilless Cultivation Greenhouse (Can grow basic crops), B-Rank Armor Repair Gel Auto-Spray System (New, repairs 120 durability points per hour)]

[Emergency Escape Pod Capacity: 6 people]

[Comprehensive Rating: The ceiling for vehicles in the region. No competitors of the same level.]